In this Good Friday episode of Stories Across the Table, Bridget Cook-Burch and Steve Romano welcome Paula Eve Davis, breast cancer survivor, bodybuilding champion, and founder of the Good Samaritan Project, a national organization inspired by the parable that has shaped her life since childhood.

Paula was diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer twenty years ago, just as she’d begun training to become a bodybuilder. Rather than abandoning that dream, she let it carry her through a mastectomy, chemotherapy, and a survival rate she was told hovered around eleven percent. She competed anyway, the med port still visible beneath her skin, as she used sign language in her routines to remind audiences, without needing a microphone, that they are loved and valued exactly as they are.

What emerges is a story about surrender rather than control, about trusting that Grace is sufficient even when healing doesn’t look the way we expect. Paula speaks candidly about the husband who refused to let her quit, the church community who filled hospital waiting rooms like a family picnic, and the athletes and doctors whose lives shifted simply by watching Paula as she kept showing up.

Now author of Grace and Grit, plus a fierce advocate for others, Paula channels that same fierce hope into the Good Samaritan Project, helping others who feel stranded find someone willing to stop.

Pull up a chair for a story of breaking, becoming, and the kind of grit that only grace can produce.

Bio:
Paula Eve Davis is a cancer survivor, 10-year bodybuilding competitor, and 3-time Ms. Indiana Women’s Bodybuilding Champion who transformed personal adversity into a life of purpose. After being diagnosed with breast cancer that spread to 21 lymph nodes, she made a decision to rebuild her life through faith, discipline, and service. She is the founder of the Good Samaritan Project, a nonprofit serving families, youth, and seniors, and owner of Fit 4 Ever Health & Wellness. Through her message of Grace & Grit, she now helps others turn what tried
to break them into a life of purpose.

Links:
● Learn more about her community work: https://www.goodsamaritanproject.net
● Train with Paula: https://www.fit4everhealthandwellness.com
● Facebook (Paula Eve Davis):
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063859038309
● Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fit4everhealth

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