Molly Stillman has lived the type of life that when shared, people stop in their tracks and ask, “Wait, what happened?” Molly’s mother, Lynda Van Devanter Buckley served as an Army nurse during the Vietnam War and wrote the bestselling memoir, Home Before Morning. When Molly was seventeen, Lynda passed away after an eight-year battle with an autoimmune disorder due to her exposure to Agent Orange. Four years later, Molly turned twenty-one and unexpectedly inherited a quarter of a million dollars from her mother’s estranged family’s estate. Through “retail therapy” and a long series of grossly irresponsible financial decisions, Molly found herself broke with over $36,000 in credit card debt less than two years later. Shame, guilt, and embarrassment set in.
Listen in as Molly shares her journey to faith as she worked her way out of debt and reveals how every messed up, broken story has a purpose. She now helps others through podcasting, speaking and her book, If I Don’t Laugh, I’ll Cry: How Death, Debt and Comedy Led to a Life of Faith, Farming and Forgetting What I Came into This Room For.
Links Mentioned in This Episode
Find out more about Molly at StillBeingMolly.com.
Check out her podcast at Can I Laugh on Your Shoulder?
Order her book If I Don’t Laugh, I’ll Cry: How Death, Debt and Comedy Led to a Life of Faith, Farming and Forgetting What I Came into This Room For.
Order Molly’s mom’s book, Home Before Morning: The Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam by Linda Van Devanter
Listen to How Death, Debt and Comedy Led to a Life of Faith with Molly Stillman
Listen to Discovering the Dad Who Raised Her Wasn’t Her Biological Father with Megan Philips and Finding Freedom from a Poverty Mindset with Kimberly Long
Sounds great I would love to lisson to it.
I hope you get a chance to listen. She has a great story!