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Saying YES to God Transformed This Artist's Life & Community: An Interview with Wendy Michelle Davis

• Matt Tommey: Artist, Best-Selling Author, Speaker, Entrepreneur and Artist Mentor

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In this inspiring episode of The Thriving Christian Artist Podcast, I sit down with Texas-based artist Wendy Michelle Davis, whose creativity flows from her deep faith and her love for building authentic community among artists. From her booth at the Cottonwood Festival to the vibrant art scene in Waco, Wendy shares her journey of discovering her artistic voice, overcoming challenges, and stepping into her God-given calling.

We explore how she integrates her walk with the Lord into every piece she creates, why she’s passionate about helping other artists thrive, and the ways community can become a powerful catalyst for creativity and Kingdom impact. If you’ve ever felt alone in your art journey or wondered how to blend faith, artistry, and community, Wendy’s story will deeply encourage you.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

  • How Wendy found her unique artistic style and voice
  • The role of community in an artist’s growth and success
  • Integrating faith naturally into your creative practice
  • Practical encouragement for artists navigating seasons of change

🌟 Favorite Quotes from This Episode:

  • “We’re creators because we’re made in His image. God wants us to be creative—it’s part of who He is, and it’s a beautiful gift we get to explore with Him.” — Wendy Michelle Davis
  •  “Community is such a catalyst for creativity. When artists come together, something powerful happens.” — Matt Tommey

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Matt Tommey:

All over the world, artists are awakening. Painters and potters, writers and weavers, poets and dancers not chasing followers or fame, but sons and daughters called for such a time as this, transformed from the inside out, creating with purpose, releasing the glory of God and living in the power of the kingdom. Right now, this is the Thriving Christian Artist. Well, hey, friends, welcome back to the podcast. Super glad that you're here. I'm Matt Tommy, your host, and really excited to have a friend of mine, wendy Michelle Davis, who's not only an incredible artist from down in Waco, not too far from where I'm at in East Texas, but really somebody that has a huge heart for community as well, and so I'm really excited to not only have her share about her art life today, but all that she's doing to help other artists step into everything that God's created them to be. So, wendy, welcome. So glad that you're here.

Wendy Michelle Davis:

Thanks for having me, Matt. It's good to be here.

Matt Tommey:

It's so funny. I have to tell everybody kind of how we met, because I'd seen your work over at the Cottonwood Festival in Dallas which is one of the I think one of the premier shows out here and just a fabulous show. And then you came to a show out by us, out by where we live, and I was like I asked my wife, I said, is that the woman that we saw at Cottonwood? And so I asked you, I'm like, were you at Cottonwood? And you were like, are you Matt, Tommy? And I was like, oh no, what's going on? Our worlds are colliding.

Matt Tommey:

And you said that you'd been listening to the podcast for a long time right.

Wendy Michelle Davis:

I think at that time it'd been a couple of years that I've been listening. A friend shared your podcast with me and I found it so encouraging. I listened to it mostly when I paint and I've really enjoyed the podcast. But it was so cool to meet you out and at the Edom Art Festival near Tyler You're in the Tyler area. I think. Yeah, it was. It was amazing to see you there and yeah, cottonwood's a great art festival too, for anyone listening that wants to check it out.

Matt Tommey:

Oh yeah, yeah, it's funny. Moving from back east, you know we have we had a lot of great shows there and being out here in the middle, it kind of feels like the middle of nowhere in rural east texas, you know, I'm like is there any art anywhere?

Matt Tommey:

but we, there's so many great shows in the dallas, fort worth area, of course, what you're doing in waco and austin and all the other places. So it's funny. I'm just remembering another story when we first moved here to east texas, we went to a little bitty um art and craft show, you know, kind of a community little deal, and it was right about before it closed. It was kind of getting dark and, um, I walked by an artist's booth and I didn't recognize her necessarily, whatever we're turning the corner, and all of a sudden the booth, everything was kind of quiet in the show at that time it was about dusk.

Matt Tommey:

This lady, in the middle of this of the of the fair, goes, man tommy, just like screams it out and I'm like oh, my gosh. And we're like, oh, I'm mortified, like what is this? And evidently she the same kind of thing, she'd be listening to the podcast and all that, but she was like freaking out, like so excited. You know, I was like I'm a real person just like everybody else. That's so funny. So you never know, and I'm so thankful that we met because it really turned out to be a God connection. You invited me later on to come down to what you're doing at Waco, which we'll get into in a little bit, but I'm just so honored to have gotten to know you over this last year or so and I'm excited to have you on the podcast. So for those that are just kind of getting to know you, kind of let everybody know who you are, what you do creatively, and then we'll kind of jump into a little bit of your backstory.

Wendy Michelle Davis:

Okay, sounds good. Yeah, hi everybody. My name's Wendy and I've been a full-time artist for four years. I've been an artist my whole life, but I decided to make it a career about four years ago. And, yeah, I'm in Waco, texas. But I, my husband and I recently bought a toy hauler, which is a, which is a trailer, that the back section. We're using it for storage. It folds down on the back, so we carry it up and the front side is our living space.

Wendy Michelle Davis:

So we're traveling all over the nation. We're heading up to Michigan soon and then down into Colorado for shows and it's an adventure. It's fun to do that with him. I also do a lot here in Waco. I host art retreats, I put on workshops, a couple different art fairs here. Um, I love being involved in our community and shining a light on artists too and and providing community for artists and also for the community at large to support artists as well, that's so good.

Matt Tommey:

Now, like a lot of us uh, artists you weren't always an artist. Like forever, like you were doing art, but you weren't doing it professionally. So what's that? You're were in California right Before you got to Texas. So how did you get into this? Over the last four years, doing your art full time, like what was that journey like for you?

Wendy Michelle Davis:

Yeah, I guess. In short, I've loved art since I can remember, thought about going to art school out of high school. But kind of, my parents love me so much they're like we want you to support yourself and many mindsets are that you can't make a living as an artist. So I ended up going into and I had a great time in college. I played college sports and I got an English degree because I really enjoyed English too and then went on to get my master's in teaching English. But I can never give up art, like it was always a part of me. So I I continue to create art, do little shows here and there. When I could, um lived in Santa Cruz, california, for a while and just there I worked at camp. So I had a lot of a lot of. I was really poor but I had a lot of time to create. I did all the things like ceramics, printmaking, um yeah.

Wendy Michelle Davis:

Painting, drawing, art history and photography. I loved it all, but painting was always my first love and so, yeah, lived overseas for a while, didn't bring any art supplies, was teaching over there, but continued to create, started getting involved in arts there with the Abu Dhabi Art Hub and putting on a couple shows at hotels and things like that. So, long story short, I moved to Waco, texas, in 2018, was still working and then COVID hit and at that time, I had joined an online course with creative waco and it was basically a course for artists to find community but also learn, like the bit some, of the business side of art, and that's what started getting me connected here in waco and then, after that, started doing shows here and met my husband, rafael, and he really encouraged me and pushed me to go full time and and yeah, the rest is history. Now I'm doing all kinds of things and I know it, I know it.

Matt Tommey:

You know I'm thinking about all those years that you know English, major and doing all the stuff you know and kind of art was not the primary thing you were doing in your life, but it was a, it was a part of it. I just hear so many artists all the time think that that's not being a real artist. You know that that that being a real artist is kind of like what you're doing now, what I'm doing now or whatever, like when you're making your full-time living. But I just think it's so important and I know you do too because you work with, you know helping people kind of blossom into who God's created them to be creatively through your retreats and all that. People just really need to embrace the fact that wherever and however your art is being expressed through your life, that doesn't qualify you or not qualify you to be an artist.

Matt Tommey:

You're an artist through all of that. The expression of that is changing and maybe even the focus or the emphasis that you're able to give it in a season of life is changing. But you're still an artist in all of that. I mean, did you always kind of have that, or was that something that you struggled with as well. Like I'm not a real artist.

Wendy Michelle Davis:

Yeah, I think imposter syndrome is real. I felt it in like so many areas of my life and artist, just because you're not doing a full time or making a living at it. And I have people come up to me at shows or when I'm doing live painting somewhere and they're like are you using acrylic paint? I can tell they know about the paints and things like that, oh, you must be an artist. And they always have that hesitation and I'm like no, you are an artist. And this is something I tell everyone now, because anytime I'm sharing at whatever, like an art guild or church, I say everyone's creative, everyone has an artistic side, because that's the way God made us. I mean, if you read the first chapter in the Bible, what's the first thing he did? He created, that's right.

Wendy Michelle Davis:

We're creators too, because we're made in his image, and I think I didn't even really realize that until more recently, and it's like it changed my perspective. It's like God wants us to be creative because it's part of who he is and it's this wonderful gift of his attribute that he's given us to explore and enjoy and find fellowship and communion with him too.

Matt Tommey:

Yeah, it's so important. I was just talking this morning in the mentoring program. I always kind of do a little monologue before we're getting started with live q a and I was talking to them about the metrics that matter, you know, in our life and how it's so easy from the world's perspective to have all this pressure right to. To measure ourself by comparison or what the world says is important. But especially, I think, for those that are in that emerging stage, it's so important to realize that it's faithfulness to who God's called us to be and it's faithfulness to the practice of creating art, even when you don't feel like it's doing anything other than just blessing you or blessing your friends. That's an important part of the journey, and when we can cultivate that and make that an important part, god's in the business of the impossible right. He's in the business of taking what is little and turn it into into something this big and something that's fulfilling for us. And so I just I'm just more and more passionate every day, even though so much of my life is business, coaching with artists and and that sort of thing. You've got to get that heart place in you, really settled that this thing of being an artist, no matter how it's being expressed. It is, like you said, a gift from God and it's something that's worthy.

Matt Tommey:

So I know a lot of times, as people are transitioning from that sort of hobbyist and maybe a little bit of emerging into a full-time, that can kind of be a rocky transition. I know we see a lot of that in a full-time. That can kind of be a rocky transition. I know we see a lot of that in the mentoring program of I've never run a business or I've never done a spreadsheet or I've never had to apply for shows or photograph my work and in all that sort of thing. So how was that process for you? And and I'd be interested even in you sharing kind of what your business is has emerged into, because you know there's so many ways that that we as artists can make a living now it's not just selling our work direct to a customer, there are lots and lots of different ways. So what's that process been and what's what kind of uh, I guess landscape does your business have right now as you're making a living and doing this full-time?

Wendy Michelle Davis:

yeah, I agree that the transition into going full time can be hard and I was kind of already working towards it while working, so I would do shows when I could and try to get my work out there online and all those things, and fortunately I had my husband's support he was working. We also opened up like a couple Airbnbs on our property, so that did help having those other income streams coming in. So, yeah, the first couple years especially were a lot of ups and downs with income. I'd have a great month, the show that went really well, and the next month not have a show or just, you know, not make much, and so that can be hard. But I'm still learning about how to do it all.

Wendy Michelle Davis:

Right now my main income streams are traveling and doing shows and I've learned that I'm only one person and that's one thing I really like beat myself up about in the beginning was I couldn't do all the things that I wanted to do well. So I'm learning I have to focus on one or two things and do them well and then maybe pivot. Like I just hired a studio assistant and I am thankful that I have the money to have her part-time so that she can do some of the things that take up a lot of time, like prints and then having like editing online. She's going to help me kind of revamp my shop on my website, so I'm looking forward to having her. That's her primary focus, versus me having to spend hours and hours doing that. And then I'm looking into other things, like once, once I get done with this next series of shows, where we're out in the road for a couple months, I want to look into licensing and I'm having my studio assistant research.

Wendy Michelle Davis:

Some Love it. My studio assistant researched some Love it. I need to do my work too, so it's wonderful. But yeah, I mean, there's a lot of things when you're your own business owner, like the getting the word out, the marketing, the finances there's a lot to do and it can be overwhelming. But I guess my advice to others is, if you can try to have someone help you with some, of those things.

Wendy Michelle Davis:

Hire an accountant, an assistant, even if it's just like she's just a college grad, so it's perfect, she's willing to work part time or maybe someone who's retired, someone that wants to help out with your business or likes your art, can be huge. It takes a huge burden off me. So try to find help when you can and also realize that the Lord's taking care of everything. Like find time for rest, and that's my word for the year. I feel like the Lord's told me that this year it's like find time for rest. So take days out of the week where I don't do near as much work and spend more time.

Wendy Michelle Davis:

So take days out of the week where I don't do near as much work and spend more time like maybe just take a nap or go like go on a walk or just spend extra time with the Lord, and that way just removes that pressure on me to do it all, remembering that he's our provider, he's the one that's going to equip us for what we need. And now that I've started to do that, I've realized that it's almost like I feel like I have more time than I thought that I had, because, I don't know, it's like almost magical, because I feel like the Lord's more time, even though I'm taking a little more time off to rest. So I don't know if that makes sense.

Matt Tommey:

No, I totally love that because I think it's this intentional, you know idea of choosing to walk in in this mentality of Sabbath. Rest that if.

Matt Tommey:

I'll invest this time in my time with the Lord, or in resting or in inspiration or reflecting. If I'll choose to do that and trust him in that he can provide more in six days than I can striving on my own in seven. Right, it's this, this choosing to not get into the the striving and hustle and grind mentality, but realize that you know what, when I'm faithful with what God puts in my hand, he's the one that's promised to bring fruit, he's the one that's promised to bring multiplication and acceleration. And I know, for me, I think for all of us, you know it's when I turn my attention to trying to get into the fruit production business and trying to get into the make it happen business, right, that's when things really get frustrated.

Matt Tommey:

And I just applaud you for stepping out with the whole studio assistant thing. I mean, I know for me I had a studio assistant that I believe she was a student first and then became an intern and then became a fart, a part-time and then full-time. Uh, you know person, but man, that was a big turning point for me because it gives you leverage and it lets you do the things that are most important in your business right Of painting and creating new ideas and networking with clients, rather than having to do the research and do all the other stuff that they can do. So you're probably going to see a lot of fruit from that in the next, you know, coming months. Just to you know, be able to focus on the things that God's created you uniquely to do, I think that's huge.

Wendy Michelle Davis:

Yeah, I'm so thrilled to have her. She's great.

Matt Tommey:

Yeah, yeah, absolutely. You know you talk about rest. You invited me and Tanya to come down for one of the retreats that you host at your home. And guys, I'm just telling you, when you walk in Wendy's house, you smell the aroma of Raphael's incredible food and you see beautiful art being created and old growth. One of the like live oak trees around.

Matt Tommey:

And aren't y'all on like this bluff or something you can like, it's just. It's just this magical place you don't expect to see in in middle Texas and it just exudes rest. So, um, talk about this place that you guys are intentionally creating and and the heart behind community, because I know you just as much as you love to create. You also love to create community and and help people deepen you know, their, their creative side and relationship with each other.

Wendy Michelle Davis:

Yeah, well, first of all, it was so good to have you and Tanya, thank you for coming out. Yeah, our property is really really special and it's a gift. And like almost immediately when we got here, it was like, yes, the space is not just for us, it's for us and others, neighbors and artists. Yeah, I do believe God's called me to community. I do think since I was a child, he's put on my heart to bring people together, not always with art, but now it's more centered around art. And, yeah, the things we do are purposeful and bringing artists together, because artists often are isolated.

Wendy Michelle Davis:

And I didn't share this with you the first time we chatted. This is our second go around with the podcast. I connection on the first one, but I feel like the Lord's telling me to share it. Maybe someone needs to hear it. But my brother was a really wonderful artist. He was a couple of years younger than me and he was super dedicated, like eight hours a day, worked really hard at it, struggled a lot and was really introverted too. He had a hard time sharing what he was going through, but he ended up taking his life. He knew the Lord, but he let horrible thoughts and fears get into his head and when I look back on that I'm like I wish I would have seen that more. I was living a distance so we didn't communicate as much. But I think it was just thinking about that this morning. I was like, oh, I feel like I need to share it.

Wendy Michelle Davis:

You need to find community, you need to find artists who love Jesus too, and sometimes that's what you do, artists who are, who love Jesus too and sometimes that's what you do or even just people that love Jesus, that support your art, because the enemy loves to whisper lies that can really sparkle us down into holes, and maybe not everyone's thinking horrible thoughts about themselves or their art. But finding community helps get you out of those holes. It encourages us, it inspires us. We're much stronger as as a whole versus separate and artists are not like compete.

Wendy Michelle Davis:

We are competing in a sense that we all want our art to be purchased, but more than that, it's better to come together and support each other and, um, I feel like it's so much more breakthrough when we find community, like what you're doing with your mentoring program.

Wendy Michelle Davis:

And so, yeah, the art retreats are one of the great ways we do that. It's small group, usually 12 people or so, and I love that we do whole group and small group shares of our art. We bring in a guest speaker to encourage and to just educate as well, and just showing each other our work is so good. It can be scary, but it's so good to show it to each other so we can get feedback, and sometimes you might think a piece is terrible and then you hear from other people all the things they love about it or they or they'll just help you find a way to make it better.

Matt Tommey:

Yeah. So community is is vital for artists. You know, the thing I love about what you're doing there in particular is, I think, so many times when people artists are thinking about, you know, building multiple streams of income, or we talk about teaching and all this kind of thing, they immediately start going to. Well, I got to have a big classroom, or I got to have a building to do that, or I got to have all this stuff, and it's like I just have always believed. You know, parable of the talents, matthew 25, you've been faithful with little. I'll make you ruler over much.

Matt Tommey:

And I think what I see you guys doing is, like Lord, you've given us this beautiful place and we've got a heart for people and my husband can cook. You've given us this beautiful place and we've got a heart for people and my husband can cook, and we've got a studio. You know this, this built on the house that we got an outdoor area, a fire pit and a pavilion. You know there's out here, like Lord, how can we use this? And it's like just by simply offering what you have to the Lord. All of a sudden it becomes this kind of opportunity for breakthrough and transformation in the lives of others and I don't know.

Matt Tommey:

I just would encourage you to speak about that to people that maybe have a heart to teach or have a heart to do this kind of stuff, but maybe think they can't, like I'm not qualified to do that or I don't have all the stuff I need yet. Like you have exactly what you need. If God's put it on your heart, you have exactly what you need. You may not think it is, you may be trying to overthink it, but you have what you need if you'll just get started Right.

Wendy Michelle Davis:

Yeah, I just had that. If you're faithful in the little things, he'll be faithful with much and and man, I haven't done it all right and I often get in my head about things that I've learned to like. When that starts happening in my head to just say stop you know the enemy whispering the lies again and start looking at the truth about what God says about me and what you know, what the Lord can do through what we, what we, offer to him. But yeah, as far as like, it's kind of grown over the past four years. It started off with art retreats and workshops and now we're doing open studios every Saturday where people can come in. I always tell them they can enjoy the property. We often try to cook food for people so they can come and eat and hang out. And now we're doing art fairs.

Wendy Michelle Davis:

So we just had one on our property this past year called the Backyard Boutique Art Fair and it was so great and God bless us with great weather. We had a couple dozen artists out here. Some of them were just out live painting in the garden booths up selling their work. We had musicians playing. It was really, really special, and then I've got an art show coming up in the fall in november. That is going to be our third year for this show.

Wendy Michelle Davis:

It's called the austin avenue art fair here in waco. Even though it says Austin Avenue, it's actually in Waco, started on Austin Avenue, but we're really excited about it. I've got a team of people now God's blessing with people that want to get involved, so I've got, I think, over 10 people helping me with different aspects of the show, which really makes it a lot easier for me when I've got other people taking care of the music, the volunteers, the live art. I'm mostly managing just the booth artist and all the logistics. Still a lot of work, but it's such a blessing to see the community, especially Waco Waco, come around this um and we're starting to get people from other other towns coming in too, from dallas and austin and everywhere in between um coming out for the austin avenue art fair, so it's exciting it's so good.

Matt Tommey:

I mean god moves in us and then he moves through us, right? I mean, that's just the pattern of the kingdom. And I just I'd be interested, because I know people are asking like, is she like this super duper planner that's had like this master plan all these years to have this incredible influence in teaching and shows and all this kind of stuff? And if I'm just knowing you the little bit that we've gotten to know each other, you kind of seem to be the person that, like God is just God just speak something gently to your heart and you're just crazy enough to say yes to it and you start stepping out at it and then God blesses it. So what, what does this look like? Is all that you're doing, like been on a list for 10 years and you're just executing a checklist, or these just moments that that God opens up to you and you say, well, okay, I'll try, I'll be crazy enough to try that and step out, and God just opens it up Like what's that? What's that journey been like for you?

Wendy Michelle Davis:

Yeah, it's, it's more of the yeah, just listening, listening for the Lord and what he wants to, what he wants to do with what I'm doing. I never thought I put on art fairs. I don't even. It's almost like I don't know how it happened, but I can't hear the story with you. So I had been applying to get into a big show here with Magnolia and it didn't work out because I got rejected. They only take a few artists a year and at that same time that I got the rejection email, my husband and I were sitting at a restaurant downtown and there was a venue across the street with big, beautiful, open windows and I contacted them and that's how the art fair started. Just, the door was swung wide open.

Wendy Michelle Davis:

Often, if you feel like the Lord's leading you to something, if you just kind of step through that door or just kind of knock on it, if it's from him, often it'll just. It'll just work out. Like the first time I put on the show, it was like everything was working out so easily, um, so it was like, okay, lord, this is definitely from you. Um, but yeah, I, I never had like big aspirations of putting on art fairs. In fact, um, my nature would tend to be the opposite. I'm a little more introverted. I have a hard time speaking in front of groups, large settings where I have to. Like you know, I had to speak on a microphone at the last fair, but the Lord gives you the strength and the ability to do it when you've got something in front of you that you just feel like he's showing you that this is what you're supposed to do.

Matt Tommey:

When his grace is on it, no matter if you're an extrovert or introvert, right, it's him doing it. You're just kind of cooperating with that and I'm sure I mean I always call myself an extroverted introvert because I can put on the show and do all the stuff, but I really do rest and recharge, like in quiet spaces and I love that. So I'm sure in all that you're doing, I mean, like you said, you're having to be intentional about refueling and refiring your own heart so that you can not only be in a good place personally in your marriage but also for the other brothers that you're serving, right.

Wendy Michelle Davis:

Yeah, no, it has to start with time with the Lord. And yeah, like reading through your book Unlocking the Heart of the Artist, when you felt like God was calling you into more of an art career, even before that, like I remember you saying, like I felt like God was telling me just to fall on my face and worship, and so much of it is just dedicating our lives to Him and to worshiping Him and to, yeah, taking the time to be quiet and listen for His voice. Because if you look at the life of Jesus, he was never in a hurry. He got away from His disciples and from all the people that were just, you know, always around him and he refreshed with the Lord. And when you do that, then it's like the Lord fills you back up to be able to go out again. But yeah, I'm like you, I need that quiet time. I need that time to replenish because I'm kind of a social introvert, but being around people will drain me pretty fast.

Matt Tommey:

Oh yeah, I'm the same way, but I love that scripture and Proverbs. It's like he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed, and it's like if God's called you to that, he's going to give you grace for it as we choose. You know, even in those moments they're like, well, I'm overwhelmed. The grace is there, the refreshing is there, and then we pull away and we get refilled. I just, I get refilled. I just, I just love that. It's a good, a good pattern for anybody's life, not not just artists. So well, Wendy, I know people are going to want to connect with you and find out about the retreats that you're doing and just seeing your work and all that. So where's the the best place? They can find you online, on socials and all the places.

Wendy Michelle Davis:

Thank you. Uh, so my website is Wendy Michelle Daviscom and it's wendymichelledavis on instagram and, I think, art by wendy michelle davis on facebook. Um, if you're interested in any of the art fairs, um, you can find those on my profile on instagram, or the austin avenue art fair is austinavenueartfaircom. Um, but yeah, if anyone has any questions for me or you're looking into, you know, starting an art fair, feel free to reach out. And, matt, before I leave, I just had a couple verses in Psalm 30. Can I share that? I was reading it this morning and I felt like it might be a great way to wrap up a great conversation.

Wendy Michelle Davis:

I think it really applies to the artist, but I mean anyone, but I was thinking of it from that perspective. So it's Psalm 34, verses 2 through 5. And let us exalt his name together. I sought the Lord and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears. Those who look to him are radiant and their faces shall never be ashamed Like being humble as an artist is really important and then making our boast in him, remembering that every good gift is from the Lord and that includes the art we create, magnifying him in our work, exalting His name together. And then we have a lot of fear, you know, in sharing our work or putting it out there or stepping out in faith. But when we seek Him, he's going to deliver us from all our fears. And when we look at him instead of looking at the world or looking at all the other people succeeding, you know, on Instagram or whatever, if we look to him, our faces will be radiant and we'll never be ashamed.

Matt Tommey:

So good.

Wendy Michelle Davis:

Courageous people because it's like totally spoke to me this morning.

Matt Tommey:

Absolutely, absolutely. I love it when the words just jump off the page, so you're like, pay attention to this. Well, wendy, you're a gift to so many of the people that you serve, and to us and to our audience. So thank you for taking time to be with us today. Guys, be sure to go to Wendy's website, look her up on social, follow, buy, join, do all the stuff, and so she can know that. You heard about her right here on the podcast, but again, thank you so much for sharing your story and being with us today.

Wendy Michelle Davis:

Thanks, matt, I really appreciate you Thanks.

Matt Tommey:

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