What does it look like when a little girl from the hills of West Virginia who couldn’t stand to see her grandmother step on an ant grows up to defend the most vulnerable among us? It looks exactly like Sue Chess — 24-year CEO of CareNet of the Treasure Coast.

In this deeply moving episode, Georgette sits down with Sue to talk about the life-saving work happening right here on Florida’s Treasure Coast — and the miracle stories that keep Sue showing up every single day. From an unlikely mobile unit that arrived when only ONE was left, to a nursing student who chose life and now works at Cleveland Clinic, to the son who considered abortion and whose daughter just turned 25 — this conversation will stir your heart.

In This Episode You’ll Hear:

• Sue’s origin story: a sense of justice rooted in childhood, nursing training in 1975, and a pro-life debate that changed the trajectory of her life
• How a personal family crisis — her son and his girlfriend facing an unplanned pregnancy at 17 — led Sue to eventually lead CareNet for 24 years
• The full scope of CareNet’s ministry: pregnancy counseling, ultrasound, STI testing, parenting classes, a baby boutique, student outreach, fatherhood initiative, and abortion recovery healing
• The miracle story of CareNet’s new Mobile Unit — equipped with ultrasound and a QR code, serving Martin and St. Lucie Counties
• Why seeing the baby on ultrasound within 24 hours can be the most life-changing moment for a woman in crisis
• The truth about the abortion pill: dangers, trauma, and the abortion pill reversal that has already saved 8,000 babies nationwide
• How the Fatherhood Initiative increased life-saving outcomes by 61%
• Sue’s life motto: “Just do the next right thing”
• The peacekeeper vs. peacemaker distinction — and why Jesus was a peacemaker
• Sue’s beautiful tribute to her mother, and the devotional she’s writing from her mom’s “Sips of Living Water” Facebook posts
• Her favorite Bible: the WallBuilders Bible, weaving America’s founding history with Scripture
• The woman she’d love to have coffee with: Priscilla Shirer

Sue’s Closing Word to Anyone in Crisis:

“Don’t try to take care of the whole thing today. Just do the next right thing. Make a call. Make an appointment. Don’t make an uninformed, rapid choice before you have looked at all your options.”

Upcoming CareNet Events:

• Walk for Life — October 11 at MidFlorida Event Center (FREE: food, petting zoo, family fun)
• CareNet Gala — March 5 & 6, 2026, with Dr. Lyle returning as Guest Speaker

Contact & Connect with Sue Chess / CareNet:

Client Website: www.carenettc.com

Supporter/Volunteer Website: www.carenettc.com

Port St. Lucie East Clinic • 6704 S US Highway 1, Port St. Lucie, FL 34952 • (772) 828-3168

Darwin Square Clinic • 3237 SW Port St. Lucie Blvd., Port St. Lucie, FL 34953 • (772) 208-3053

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What do you do when everything you knew changes overnight? When the people you love most are suddenly gone — and you're left standing in the middle of a life you didn't choose?

Award-winning author and immersion journalist Lauren Kessler joins Georgette on the Junk to Jewels Podcast for one of the most tender, honest, and profoundly moving conversations we've ever had. Lauren's memoir, Everything Changes Everything: Love, Loss, and a Really Long Walk, is a book that doesn't just tell a story — it holds your hand through the hardest ones.

Lauren shares the deeply personal journey of watching her husband Tom choose to legally end his life after a terminal cancer diagnosis — and then, while still in the shadow of that grief, losing her beloved daughter Lizzie to a drug overdose. Two losses. Two different kinds of goodbye. Both saturated in love.

Rather than breaking under the weight of it, Lauren did what her body and soul demanded — she moved. She laced up her boots and walked 500 miles alone across northern Spain on the ancient Camino de Santiago — a pilgrimage that became the path back to herself.

In this episode, we talk about:

• What it truly means to love someone through their dying
• The unique grief of losing a child to addiction — and the stigma no family should have to carry alone
• Why movement can be medicine for a shattered heart
• What the Camino teaches you that nothing else can
• How grief and beauty can live inside the same breath
• And the profound truth that everything changes everything — including us

Whether you are walking through loss right now, supporting someone who is, or simply hungry for a conversation that doesn't flinch from the hard and holy parts of life — this episode is for you.

Pull up a chair. This one goes deep.

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🌐 Learn more about Lauren at www.laurenkessler.com

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About Georgette Beck

Georgette Beck is the author of the award-winning memoir Junk to Jewels: A Journey from Brokenness & Despair to Beauty & Delight — winner of the International Impact Book Awards (Inspirational/Transformational category) and Semi-Finalist in the 2025 Royal Palm Literary Award Competition with the Florida Writers Association. She is a speaker, lay minister, mentor, podcast host, and founder of Bella Healing Hearts Foundation.

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What if the greatest art ever created was actually a love letter written directly to your soul? In this rich, soul-stirring conversation, Georgette Beck sits down with acclaimed author and theology professor Terry Glaspey — a man who has devoted his life to exploring what he beautifully calls the intersection of creativity, spirituality, and life.

Terry is the author of over a dozen books, including the beloved 75 Masterpieces Every Christian Should Know, Discovering God Through the Arts, and Not a Tame Lion: A Life of C.S. Lewis. He teaches Inklings studies at Northwind Theological Seminary and is a two-time Christianity Today Book of the Year award recipient.

In this episode, Terry and Georgette explore:

✦ How God — revealed first in Genesis as the Creator — wired us to encounter Him through beauty

✦ Why Jesus taught in parables and metaphors, and what that means for how we take in art

✦ The life-changing power of art, music, literature, and film to reach the places words can't

✦ How Rembrandt's Prodigal Son and a grief-soaked symphony brought tears — and healing — to broken hearts

✦ Why the church must embrace its creative people, and what "Creativity Sunday" looks like in practice

✦ How beauty can reunite a fragmented culture — and why shared art matters more than ever

✦ Terry's favorite books (Mere Christianity & T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets), his anchor verse (Revelation 21:5), and the one person from history he'd most love to meet

Whether you're an artist, a book lover, someone who's been touched by a song in a dark season, or simply someone longing to encounter God more deeply — this episode is for you.

About Terry Glaspey

Terry Glaspey is the author of over a dozen books and a professor at Northwind Theological Seminary specializing in Inklings studies — C.S. Lewis and his circle — and the intersection of the arts and spiritual formation. He has won two Christianity Today Book of the Year awards and has received honors from the Gospel Coalition and the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association. His forthcoming title, The Faith of Jane Austen, continues his lifelong work of guiding readers to encounter God through literature, music, visual art, and cinema. Find Terry at: TerryGlaspey.com

About Georgette Beck

Georgette Beck is the author of the award-winning memoir Junk to Jewels: A Journey from Brokenness & Despair to Beauty & Delight — winner of the International Impact Book Awards (Inspirational/Transformational category) and Semi-Finalist in the 2025 Royal Palm Literary Award Competition with the Florida Writers Association. She is a speaker, lay minister, mentor, podcast host, and founder of Bella Healing Hearts Foundation.

Connect with Georgette

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📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/georgette.beck/

👥 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GeorgetteBeckWriter

💼 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgette-beck-7a659387/

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