Guest Speakers, March 12, 2016

Judy Hehr

Judy Hehr is an inspiration speaker, motivational coach and radio host who simply cannot be described; she must be experienced. The power behind her emotional life journey and the style in which she shares her message cannot be defined.  

Judy’s story will expand your self-awareness, enrich your attitude, rekindle your love for Christ, and encourage your own personal relationship with God.  She is an extraordinary human being whose message of captivity to freedom will inspire anyone who exposes themselves to it.

Bankrupt at 20.... a millionaire at 30.  Single, homeless, drug addicted at 22.... a healthy mother of 4 at 34.  College dropout at 22..... a seminary graduate at 42.  Scorned, broken, almost divorced at 37.... Sanctified in a thriving marriage at 45.

She has been referred to as a ‘Dynamic Messenger’ and an ‘open vessel to a miracle.’  When a moment is spent with Judy Hehr, you are immediately reminded of the love and passion that God has for all of us.

Judy’s testimony was featured on EWTN’s The Journey Home and Marcus Groci’s Deep in Scripture.  She has also been the 2012 recipient of the Spirit of Saint Francis Award. 
 
Her continuing journey from brokenness to wholeness will captivate audience members from all walks of life. She has a great desire to see people everywhere better understand their journey from God’s image to his likeness.
 
As a spiritual motivator and inspirational speaker, Judy has been described as engaging, compelling, entertaining, knowledgeable, enlightening, heart breaking and always electric. Using her sense of humor and examples from her personal life struggles, Judy generously and selflessly shares her gift of making the connection between theology and reality in our daily lives.                                           

Join Judy on her own radio show “Journey with Judy” on 96.1FM, WLKG, and get your weekly dose of Judy over the air or live online at:

http://www.wlkg.com/ListenLive.htm.

www.judyhehr.com

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Rebecca Dussault

Olympian and World Champion Rebecca Dussault has been an elite athlete for most of her life and Catholic for all her life. She knows well the rigors of pursuing what you’re passionate about, for her that is Faith, Family, and Fitness.  She also knows how unproductive and un-prioritized our lives can become. Through her unique story as a devoted Daughter of the Church and world-class athlete you’ll see how she ties it all together for His greater glory, keeping to Catholic priorities. She is a home schooling mother who is trying to raise a handful of saints, but still gets herself out the door to maintain her spiritual and physical health, sanity and sanctity.  She and her husband raise their children with a very active lifestyle in the mountains where she is expecting her sixth child in July. The story of her 5^th child will let you know that there are other sorts of “olympics” that we all go through on this pilgrimage toward our heavenly home.

She is the founder of FitCatholicMom.com where she trains Catholic women in the spiritual and physical demands of pursuing their goals in health, happiness and holiness. As a nationally recognized Catholic speaker and one of the few outspoken Catholic Olympians, media including the National Catholic Register, Ave Maria Radio, the NBC Today Show and EWTN’s Life on the Rock have featured her. You will find her message motivating for queuing up our body and soul to better search for and communicate the full beauty of the Catholic Faith.
 

• 2006 WINTER OLYMPIAN
• 2010 ITU WINTER TRIATHLON WORLD CHAMPION
• 2 TIME AMERICAN BIRKEBEINER CHAMPION
• 7 TIME JUNIOR NATIONAL XC SKI CHAMPION
• 8 TIME NATIONAL XC SKI CHAMPION
• 4 TIME ELK MTN. GRAND TRAVERSE CHAMPION
• 2 TIME LOW-LANDER XC SKI WORLD CHAMPION
• WINTER TRIATHLON NATIONAL CHAMPION
• XTERRA WINTER WORLD CHAMPION
• 2ND ITU WINTER TRIATHLON WORLD CHAMPS
• 3RD  ITU WINTER TRIATHLON WORLD CHAMPS
• 2ND USSMA SKI MOUNTAINEERING NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP      

 www.fitcatholicmom.com 

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Eileen Benthal


Eileen Benthal is an author, speaker, and certified coach with a special heart for people with disabilities and families who care for them.  She is the author of Breathing Underwater: A Caregivers's Journey of Hope and co-author of Navigating Deep Waters: Meditations for Caregivers.  She also writes a bi-weekly spiritual reflection column entitled:  "Life on Purpose" at RiverLocal.com (http://www.riverheadlocal.com/living/spirituality).

Inaddition to these endeavors, Eileen is a singer and worship leader in the Diocese of Rockville Centre on Long island, New York.  She uses her gift of song as a weekly cantor and in workshops and presentations in churches and at healthcare conferences.

Eileen is a wife and mother of four children, the youngest of whom is a child who was born with a life-threathening disease.  In her talks, and in her wirting, Eileen shares her family's miraculous and inspiring journey of faith in the midst of severe trials.

After the birth of her youngest daughter, Johanna, Eileen started having nightmares of being out in the middle of a cold and dark ocean, treading water with her infant daughter in her arms.  Months later, Eileen's daughter was diagnosed with a rare neurological disease that caused her daughter to have over ninety surgeries in nineteen years.

Years later the nightmares became a vision of hope as a voice from heaven assured Eileen that she was in the ocean of God's Mercy.  The voice called Eileen to let go and trust that she and her daughter would not drown.  God promised Eileen; "I will teach you a new way of breathing - how to breathe underwater."

Eileen is a fierce defender for the dignity of all human life an a speaker who advocates for family and people with disabilities.  She has spoken at a press conference at the Capitol in DC on healthcare, was interviewed on Sean Hannity Radio  and Hannity and Fox and Friends on Fox news.  Her interviews were also replayed on Rush Limbaugh's radio program.

Articles and interviews about their journey and their daughter Johana have also appeared in the NYTimes, the NY Daily News, and on Fox 5 NY 

Eileen has also been published in the Word Among Us and interviewed on Relevant Radio's Drew Mariani Show.  Their story is soon to be aired on Johnete Benkovic's Women of Grace on EWTN.

To purchase signed copies of Eileen's book or to contact her visit:

www.CareforaCaregiver.com  ​

www.BreathingUnderwater.info