Very rural part of the state, and the perseverance, the dedication, the hard work that my parents taught me really has carried me through so many different challenges in my lifetime, opportunities in my lifetime. And i wanted to tell a story that could be uplifting, certainly are. People will face challenges throughout their lifetime, but we all should understand they dont necessarily have to define us. Im just blessed to live in the United States of america, had opportunities presented to me, and thats what i hope to share in this story with other people. Host the book is relatively revealing, and well go through some of those things, but was that tough, to expose yourself like that . Guest it was. It was are very hard. Ive been through a number of significant challenges in my lifetime. I was raped when i was a young woman with my first boyfriend and really suffered from that. But moving on going through an episode of Domestic Violence and just really difficult time in my marriage x.
Thank you peter so much. It has been a journey of love for me. I grew up in southwest iowa, a very rural part of the state and the perseverance, the dedication, the hard work that my parents taught me really has carried me through so many different challenges in my lifetime. Opportunities in my lifetime and i wanted to tell the story that could be uplifting. Certainly people will face challenges throughout their lifetime but we all should understand that those challenges dont necessarily have to define us. Im just blessed that we live in a great United States of america and have these opportunities and i thats what i hope to share in this story with other people. The book is relatively revealing and we will goes through some of those things but was not tough to expose yourself like that . It was very hard. Ive been through a number of significant challenges inmy lifetime. I was raped when i was a young woman. With my first boyfriend and really suffered from that but then moving on goin
I wanted to tell a story that could be uplifting, we all should understand that those challenges dont necessarily have to define us. Im just blessed to live in a great United States of america and happy of opportunities present today me and thats what i hope to share in this story. Peter the book is relatively revealing and we will go through some of these things. Was that tough to expose yourself like that . It was, it was very hard. Ive been through a number of significant challenges in my lifetime. I was raped when i was a young woman with my first boyfriend and really suffered from that, but then moving on going through an episode of Domestic Violence and just really difficult time in my marriage and those were all things that i really did not want to share publicly but i was obviously going through a very public divorce a couple of years ago and that information came out through that process and ive had so many women and men who reached out to me and had said, you know what, joni,
I was born and raised in the country. At the time of growing up, my father was in the dairy business. We were farm people and we lived in a farm community. We had 11 kids born to our family. Some of them back in the teens and when the flu hit in 1918, the epidemic came along, we lost most of them. But five of us survived. I wasnt born yet. I wasnt born until 1923. Of course the flu epidemic ended in 1919. We had no military influence in our community at all. There was no bases. People who went in the army back at that time and we didnt know there was any other branch of the service. Because we thought everybody went into the army. The army was the army and included everybody. The army or military service was not too well thought of in those days. You went in the army because you were in trouble with the law or you were too lazy to work. Thats the only reason you went into the military. We had a couple of fellows in our community who apparently didnt like to farm. They didnt like hoeing
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