From Abortion to Mission: January Donovan’s Story of Redemption

What if God is so powerful that he can take your biggest mistakes and deepest wounds and turn them into your greatest strengths!? Good news: He really IS that powerful. 

That is what today’s story is all about. In this episode, I sit down with January Donovan, founder of The Women’s School, international life coach, and most importantly, mom. Her whole mission to bless women flows from her deepest wound: walking through the pain of abortion and letting God transform her life into a testimony of HOPE and FREEDOM!

January’s story is proof that God doesn’t waste a single wound. What should have been the most painful, destructive part of her life became the very place He poured out His mercy and power. And out of that healing, He didn’t just restore her, He gave her a mission. The brokenness that could have defined her became the catalyst for a new chapter in her story that is now lifting up thousands of women. 

Timestamps: 

00:00 What if your biggest wound became your greatest gift?

8:35 From poverty to living with a billionaire 

20:50 The day January’s abortion nearly crushed her life at 16

23:29 How your wound can become your greatest contribution 

26:36 From shame to mission: how God turned it all around

33:49 Why beautiful marriages save the world

37:58 Training in discipleship with Sister Elaina  

45:22 Letting your wounds become the compass to other courage  

52:10 Can you be a world-changer AND a mom?

56:18 The lie that keeps women stuck (and how to break it)

1:04:13 Why healed women change the world

1:11:03 Study the desires God puts on your heart and then pursue it

1:12:22 Be a student of your husband 

 

The Women's School: https://thewomanschool.com/januarydonovan 

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Franciscan University Steubenville: https://franciscan.edu/ 

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