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After The Interview: Rayma Dinnen
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In this bonus episode, we discuss our episode 167 interview with Rayma Dinnen and how faith and "retirement" helped kick things up a notch.
To listen to the original episode, click here: https://uncommonwealth.com/podcast/blowing-passed-the-finish-line/
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Introduction with Ray McDennan
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Speaker
It's time for the Uncommon Wolf bonus content. Hello and welcome everybody to the bonus content for Ray McDennan. You're listening to the Uncommon Wolf podcast. I've been your host Phillip Ramsey and still your host and right here doing the deal. Yeah. All right. Ray McDennan just got done talking to her.
00:00:31
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Amazing, huh? Right? I know. I really do think that she is one of the most uncommon people I know. For sure. And we unpacked a lot. Here's what I wish I would have done different. I know Rayma so well. She's my aunt. We talk not as often as I probably want to, but we talk often. Yeah.
00:00:50
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And what I wish I would have done is like let you kind of unpack so you could have got to know her a little bit,
The Art of Podcasting: Length vs. Quality
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right? Without me like. I'm on the same seat as the listeners. I'd never talked to her before. Right. Right. But with that, I also could have seen myself like taking this like Joe Rogan style. Four hours later. Four hours later. And I know us listeners, you listeners don't want a four hour podcast from us.
00:01:15
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But I mean, you know, it would have like looking at her story. There's a lot there. There's a lot there. Yeah. I think people would actually want to listen to. Yeah. And like, we, we just, usually we try to hit record as soon as we can right after the conversation.
Rayma's Journey as a Trauma Nurse
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Yeah. But we had a little lapse of technical issues. Uh, so we had a talk and you were like, she was a trauma one nurse. Yeah. I mean, talk about front lines. Right in Chicago. Oh yeah.
00:01:43
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Like, that's a lot. That's a lot. Right there, like, I just wanna, like, the things that this woman has had to seem in the trials that she had to be going through, like, that would test anybody. Truly. And, like, you talk about, like, high pressure. I have found this out about myself, not to make about myself, but urgent and important, you know, those two quadrants, urgent and important. Like, that is what a trauma nurse deals with.
00:02:09
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Urgent and like very important. Like people are losing hands and arms and lives.
Adventures and Growth in Africa
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And so talk about like high stress. And like you could tell like she is just born, like she's calming, but she's authoritative. Like you can tell like people would look to her in a very like stressful situation. What's her demeanor, right? When she was telling her story, I'm like wrapping everything together. Cause I wasn't talking a lot cause I was just like soaking it in.
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But the fact that like she went to Africa three times, that's a big deal, right? And then she's like in her new path of like her faith. And the third time,
00:02:54
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She's leading it. Right.
Leadership and Faith in Action
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I, hopefully you guys caught that too. Cause I caught that. I'm thinking, Oh, by the third time, I feel like I'm just kind of like coast. Right. When I coast, but I finally feel like I have like, I have experienced, I know what's going to happen here. You're going to see my best self now. Cause my first time, I'm like, I'm just going to be like a frazzled. She almost left. She almost got on the plane right back. Just come on back. That was the first time. You know, it's like, right.
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But still, I would've been like, oh my gosh, okay. Second time's like, all right, this is all familiar again. Third time, I would've been like, all right guys, I'm who the leaders can lean on and go point and do and all that. Not leading it. Yeah, Rama's leading it. She's leading it. Yeah. So that's incredible. Well, I would just say that she leads out in anything that she does. That's something that I kind of caught. Like whether it's her faith, whether even like the new age stuff that she was doing before this, like people looked at her as a leader.
00:03:52
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her nursing. I know people looked at her as leader. And then now faith, like people look at her as a leader. Like that is a God given gift that God has given to her and that she's utilized. Now she's utilizing it for the kingdom, which is so cool. But also like she's super passionate, but she's not like, let me tell you in kind of like, she's not not winsome in it because she's so transformed in it.
00:04:18
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Does that make sense? There's a lot of people who are like, we'll talk the talk, but then you're like, you see actions. You're like, wait a second. That doesn't add up. That doesn't add up. I'd say Raymond's the act, almost the exact opposite, like where her actions are almost so powerful that you're like, what do you believe in? Cause I want to believe in the same way. Yeah. Right.
Faith and Personal Growth Amidst Challenges
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And so that's what an encouraging thing. And then just thinking about just her testimony after she knows Jesus and calling her ex-husband when I, she didn't really,
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She didn't really unpack that, but there was nothing that she would rather do worse than that. She was like, I'm not gonna do that. Yeah, you could tell.
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I don't know the story, I learned everything on the podcast. You could tell like, oh my, this is a guy, as a other fellow guy, you just wanna go break his kneecaps. Right, right. And yet she's calling him to share the gospel with him. That's crazy. And her thought, and it was interesting, she got emotional, she was praying that he would be saved. Yeah. And God used her to do it.
00:05:21
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Yeah. And if you know anything about the Bible, it kind of reminds me of Paul when he was like this really high figure in the Jewish community and God changes his life. It was Saul. Now he turned to Paul, changes his life. He's like, now I'm going to go have you go preach to the Gentiles, which is the opposite of Jews.
00:05:39
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And you got to be thinking, like, wait, I know a lot, like, I should be doing it for Jews, not for Gentiles, but that's not what God wants. And so, basically, God was like, I want to use you, Rehma, to go preach to the person that, like, is probably the least likely of your mind to do and convicted her, and she's obedient. Like, that's the part where I,
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I know in my life there's been times where I've had a pull or push and I'm like, eh, and justify reasons why I'm not gonna do it. Not Ray Medenin. She just witted. Full throttle. Full throttle. I mean, we didn't get too far into it because, you know, time and then she probably didn't want to, but.
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Even, like, you could see the narcissism come out on him when she said it. Like, yeah, I've been a good person my whole life. Yeah. Yeah. You're like, what? I just learned you've been putting sugar in her gas tank. Right. Multiple times. We're running cars. Yeah, running cars. Like, you're not a good person. Right. But then for her to, like, at the funeral learn, and then that church hearing it, it's just like, wow.
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It shows you the power that God can work because you got through that. Right. And I remember talking to Rhema about her husband specifically and her like, well, I don't know if he had a true conversion. I don't know if he truly understood what he was doing. And I was like, Rhema, like that's not our, we're not the judge. That make sense? And so, but God is and what you were doing were obedient in that calling.
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What an amazing thing. That's the way God handles
Embracing Hope and Faith Through Adversity
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it. We don't have to be the eternal judge, we just have to love people well. And she's been doing it for quite some time. Well that and that's like, can you imagine the amount of wisdom she has? I'm just over here stunned, wanna unwrap so much more in the fact of all the things that she's seen. And then you sit there and think, okay, then she had an abusive husband. And through all that,
00:07:36
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It's like, wow, you still are kicking. You still have hope for society. And I think it is, like she said multiple times, it's Christ. Oh, for sure. But I do think that's important because she almost poured herself out too much.
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And her body was kind of like telling her like, you can't run that hard anymore. But by golly, if it's still not hard for her to say no, cause she's like still wants to keep doing it. Like that's all she knows. And it was cool that she kind of gave a mention to her mom and her grandmother cause they were like hardworking, strong women. And that's like what she just knows. So there's a lot of things about like the way that you parent, the way that you go about life that your kids are picking up on.
00:08:23
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The good and the bad, right? But man, what an amazing interview, what an amazing woman. And the fact that she constantly is trying to improve other people's lives by serving them, like how could this not be somebody we have on the podcast?
Aging Gracefully and Helping Others
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Yeah, I still can't get over it. I think the one that sticks out the most, there's so much, but like more of the funny one that I'm gonna take away is the fact that
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She thought, well, you know when I get old and I'm getting there, and I was like, oh, I'm not trying to be like that person, but I'm like, you're there, but like, and I say that out of love and the fact that I'm just trying to make it a 74, a 75, and you're saying, I'm almost there to getting old, and I'm like,
00:09:09
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I'll be in a wheelchair by the time I'm 74. Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. It's just a mindset thing that you could tell that she's just like living life well. And so kudos to her and, and like her body, you know, she probably won't say it, but like it was kind of dicey there for a second. Yeah. Just, just scary. You know, like in,
00:09:30
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Like when you can't see and things are not working accordingly, you know how scary that is, but yet she, we're going to do this podcast. So thanks again, Raima, for just blessing us with your wisdom. I know that I appreciated it, but I know a lot of our listeners appreciated
Closing Thoughts and Gratitude
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it. And may it not be about finances, but it was about finances. Like it's just about
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how you live your life. And the fact that she's still running harder and faster than she ever has is a testimony that what a perfect opportunity that we have and people have in retirement where you don't have to worry about money anymore. Now you can really focus on pouring yourself out for others. So thanks for listening. You've been listening to the Unkind of Wolf podcast. I've been your host, Phillip Ramsey. And I'm Aaron Kramer. Thanks for listening.