Hospitality Is For Strangers Too

About this episode

Molly Flinkman shares her experience of inviting strangers for Thanksgiving and discusses the importance of hospitality.

Today, in our ongoing You're in Good Company series, Molly Flinkman tells us about the time she invited nine strangers into her home for Thanksgiving. She fully owns what an insane situation it was while also making a compelling case for why it mattered so much. In this episode, you'll hear how Molly came to value this kind of hospitality—why she keeps her eyes open for strangers in need—and she'll also give some smaller scale suggestions about how this can play out in our real lives. In all the stories she tells, Molly invites us to consider the question she continually asks herself: What kind of stranger will you be? This show is brought to you ad-free by our generous Substack community. If you'd like to support the work we do for as little as $3/month, head to coffeeandcrumbs.substack.com to join us (and get bonus episodes!). For show notes, go to coffeeandcrumbs.net/podcast . We love hearing Molly tell stories; listen to this bonus episode to hear more stories from the C+C team, Story Slam . For more encouragement in your motherhood journey, check out the stories at Coffee + Crumbs. Show notes: Pre-order You're In Good Company Molly's monthly newsletter Molly on Substack…

People in this episode

Hosts: Katie Blackburn, Ashlee Gadd

Guest: Molly Flinkman

Topics covered

• hospitality
• Thanksgiving
• community
• motherhood
• strangers

Keywords

• hospitality
• Thanksgiving
• strangers
• community
• motherhood
• stories

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