April 21, 2025 • 28 mins
Ever wonder what happens when a personal rock bottom becomes the foundation for lifting others up? Cindy Jean's powerful journey from addiction to founding Fresh Start for Women reveals exactly that transformation.
This conversation dives deep into how one woman's "long shot from God" evolved into a sanctuary for women facing life's toughest challenges in Owensboro, Kentucky. Unlike traditional recovery programs, Fresh Start combines accountability with compassionate support, requiring residents to work and pay rent while providing the structure needed to rebuild shattered lives.
"We like to give women a hand up and not a handout," Cindy explains, describing how the 12-unit apartment complex and three houses create a community where women support each other through recovery, financial rebuilding, and parenting challenges. The results speak volumes - former residents have repaired credit scores, purchased Habitat for Humanity homes, regained custody of children, and even launched careers helping others through similar journeys.
What makes this story particularly compelling is how Cindy's own background informed her approach. Having navigated addiction, relationship dysfunction, and homelessness herself, she brings authentic understanding to each woman's struggle. This isn't just housing - it's a comprehensive life reset built on practical goals, peer accountability, and faith-based encouragement.
Whether you're curious about effective recovery models, inspired by stories of second chances, or simply love seeing how Owensboro's community spirit supports its vulnerable members, this episode delivers heart and substance in equal measure. Ready to be part of the solution? Cindy shares multiple ways to get involved with this transformative work happening right in our community.
To get involved with Fresh Start for Women, visit freshstartforwomenowensboro.org, their Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/freshstartforwomen), call 270-240-3180, or email freshstartcj67@yahoo.com.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
What's up everyone and welcome to All Things
Owensboro Podcast, where anordinary town meets
extraordinary stories.
I'm your host, brad Winter, aprofessional of absolutely
nothing but an enthusiast ofgood conversation, great stories
and community ministry at FirstBaptist Church Owensboro.
Today's episode is a good one.
(00:23):
We are here to shine a light onpeople, places and stories that
make our community special, andtoday we're honored to sit down
with someone who's changinglives one woman at a time Cindy
Jean.
Cindy Jean is the founder ofFresh Start for Women, and what
began as a calling has turnedinto a safe haven for women
facing some of life's toughestchallenges, from addiction
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recovery to rebuilding aftertrauma.
Fresh Start offers more thanhousing.
It offers hope, purpose and afuture.
Get ready for an honest andpowerful conversation about
faith, resilience and secondchances right here in Owensboro.
And hey, this podcast isprovided and would not be
possible without First BaptistChurch.
(01:05):
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for a home, come check outFirst Baptist Church on all
social medias.
At FBCOWB, we'd love to haveyou on Sunday mornings at 1030.
I would love to see your brightand shining face, so come check
us out.
All right, Enough chit chat,let's dive in.
So come, check us out.
All right, enough chit-chat,and let's dive in Owensboro.
(01:28):
Hey guys, welcome to All ThingsOwensboro.
I'm your host, brad Winter.
I'm the Minister of CommunityEngagement and Activities over
at First Baptist ChurchOwensboro.
I am a transplant, but I dolove listening to stories from
other people and I love the townof Owensboro, and so today I
have a special guest with me.
She's been of Owensboro, and sotoday I have a special guest
with me.
She's been in Owensboro most ofher life and she has a great
(01:48):
story.
Ms Cindy Jean from Fresh Startfor Women, thank you for joining
us today.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, I'm excited to be with you.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yeah.
So, Ms Cindy, I like to startoff with a random icebreaker
question.
They're always fun because youget to hear stories that you
otherwise wouldn't know of, andthat is what has been your
longest shot that you've evertaken and what came about
through that.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Well, that kind of is a good question, especially
with what we're getting ready tospeak about.
I guess I would say that mybiggest long shot that I've ever
taken is Fresh Start for Women.
It came to me as a vision fromGod after I've been praying
about it for a while.
And yeah, here we are.
(02:29):
That started in 2015, and westarted moving women in the end
of 2016, and here we are in 2025.
So I guess when my long shotcomes from God, then of course
it's going to work out.
If it comes from me, not somuch.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yeah, and I think we probably all have stories
related to that in some waysomehow the long shot that we've
tried to take or maybe we'vealways dreamed of and haven't
taken it it's really scary.
So I just commend you fortaking that step of faith and
really putting you know one footin front of the other and
making it happen, because nowit's a reality.
Yeah, thanks, yeah, no problem,miss Cindy.
And so we're going to learnabout Fresh Start for Women.
(03:06):
We're excited about hearingabout that nonprofit.
You guys are our firstnonprofit, so congratulations on
that.
Thank you, you're welcome.
But before we get into thenonprofit side of things, who is
Miss Cindy Jean?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Well, I guess I would say after coming from a life of
dysfunction and bad choices anda dysfunctional childhood.
I grew up without a father andmy mother had a severe mental
illness, and so I grew up makingbad choices as a child and into
teen years and into my 20s and30s and making bad choices and
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bad relationships and havingkids out of wedlock and
struggling with addiction.
And in 2008, when I was, Ithink, 41, I got saved and
everything changed after that.
Before that, I had tried tolive my life right by my own
power, but in 2008, Isurrendered to the Lord and
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everything just started fallinginto place after that.
And so, you know, after gettingmy own life together and having
my own struggles with you knowhomelessness and addiction, and
you know just building creditand learning to live life on
life's terms, I began in 2010.
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I started working at Friends ofSinners, which is a local
Christian-based rehab here inOwensboro.
They were opening a house forwomen and I applied for that and
I had done sales my whole lifebefore that, and so when I went
to work at Friends of Sinners, Iwas there for like five years.
The first five years thewomen's house was opened and and
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I just really loved giving backto women.
And in 2015, when I left there,I feel like God was calling me
out.
Wasn't really sure what thatwas going to look like.
I took a secular job, but Iknew my season was up.
I wasn't really sure what thatwas going to look like.
I took a secular job, but Iknew my season was up.
And, yeah, I went to work for asecular job and I missed being
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with women every day.
But having been through thatstruggle myself and watching the
recidivism as I was doingministry for all those years and
then doing the jail ministry, Iwould just see the same faces
back over and over again.
And so it just began to burdenme and I fasted and I prayed and
I cried out to God and I justasked the Lord to like use my
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life as an example for otherwomen so that they know they
didn't have to live that wayanymore, that they could, you
know, choose Christ and then allthings would fall into place.
And so the Lord kind of took meup on that offer.
You know, decided this kind ofbeen living my life for the Lord
ever since I got married in2015 to my husband, shane, and
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we've been married.
This will be 11 years this yearand before that I was single by
myself, serving women andserving the Lord, and there's a
lot of hard things about beingsingle and having come from
brokenness, and so I feel like Ihad a lot of good things to
offer and had a lot of thoughtsand good ideas, but not really
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knowing how that was all goingto come to fruition.
We'll talk about Fresh Start ina minute, but that's kind of
part of who Cindy Jean is rightnow at this point in life,
because I've been here doingthis since 2016.
And when I was working at mysecular job, I had some accounts
that I had to visit in BowlingGreen and I was on the parkway
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driving back to Owensboro and Ifeel like I got a download from
the Lord.
Whether that fits with yourtheology or not, that's where it
came from and so I was justdriving and I felt like the Lord
started speaking to me afterlots of fasting and praying for
years, and I pulled over on theside of the road and wrote down
all of these things that I feltlike the Lord was telling me.
And then I called you know, theother co-founders, carol Adkins
(07:08):
and Frances Briner and askedthem if they would meet me at my
office, at my work on Saturday,and I just presented it to them
, and you know, this is whatI've been doing ever since Now.
I worked, I worked my job andmy career for seven years and
did Fresh Start up until abouttwo years ago, and then I became
a full-time paid staff, and soI guess we'll talk about that as
(07:31):
well.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
So you're doing this solo right now, ms Cindy, and
that is okay, because the dreamand the hope is in the future is
to bring on more full-timestaff that can help you fill in
things.
I know you have some greatvolunteers, you have a great
board, and so, as we're talkingabout Fresh Start for Women, go
into what is your identity, whatis your goal, what is your
mission and vision here at FreshStart for Women.
Give us a story or two thatwould be great to hear and a
(07:56):
success story.
And then also, too I know thisis a lot, but that last one I
really like to be how do we as acommunity in Owensboro get
involved with you guys here atFresh Start for Women?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Okay, yeah, that's a lot to unpack.
So let me start here with whoare we and what do we do?
So we take women from lots ofdifferent places in Owensboro,
take women from lots ofdifferent places in Owensboro.
A lot of nonprofits specializein a certain thing and we kind
of are the nonprofit that justtries to help the other
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nonprofits.
So you know, we take women fromSandy's House, which is the
Lighthouse for Women.
We take women from Crossroads,the Patino Shelter, st
Benedict's, friends of Sinners,the Yellow Banks Recovery it's
called ARC, so I never know whatto call it but Hope House.
There's just lots of placesthat will refer people to us.
(08:51):
Matter of fact, I interviewed alady this morning that came from
one of the schools, reached outto me about her and her son,
and so what we do is we love totake women who are in desperate
situations and give them hopeand a place to live and then
time for God to kind of work intheir life.
And so our ladies, you know,we'd like them to stay for a
(09:12):
year or two to be able to reallychange the behaviors and the
life patterns that they'velearned and the life patterns
that they've learned.
But what we do really is.
We house women that are comingfrom critical situations and
they have to have a job.
They do pay rent.
So that's what's kind ofdifferent about Fresh Start than
a lot of places.
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We like to give women a hand upand not a handout.
They work, they pay rent.
Their rent is discounted basedupon the activities that they do
.
So you know, if they go totheir three meetings a week and
they meet with me once a monthand they go to their community
meetings, then they can gettheir own place to rent and it's
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at a discounted price.
If, for some reason, they don'tdo the things that they were
supposed to do, there's anupcharge.
So that kind of keeps them onthe right track of wanting to do
the right thing.
And we usually interview prettythoroughly in the beginning.
So when people come in, we kindof know what we want from them
(10:15):
and they kind of know what weexpect, and they set their own
goals.
They tell us this is my goalsfor the future, and then we are
just like a light accountabilitythat helps them achieve those
goals.
So, for example, if someone'sgoal was to get out of debt and
raise their credit score, and Isee them going out to eat and
have food delivered, then I'mgoing to lightly knock, knock,
(10:38):
knock on their door and ask themto meet with me and kind of say
, hey, I noticed this, this iswhat you said you were going to
do and you know, could you helpme understand how you feel like
you're going to get to your goalby doing these behaviors,
because this is what we talkedabout that you were going to do.
And then they usually reel itin pretty quickly and they look
back at themselves and they'relike, oh, my goodness, you're
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right, didn't even realize I wasdoing that.
Number one to give women a safeplace to live.
And there's no men that livehere, it's just women and
children, and we have a 12-unitapartment complex and three
houses.
So these women all kind ofsupport and help each other.
They know the rules.
Some of them have been herelonger than others, so they kind
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of help enforce the rules andremind their sisters hey, this
is what you're doing and that'sold behavior.
And it comes together reallywell when it comes from another
person instead of just anauthority figure all the time,
because sometimes we can tend tobe, you know, resistant to
authority figures when we'velived in the life of rebellion,
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and so their goal while beinghere is number one learn how to
live on their own and pay theirown bills.
Number two improve their life,their job, their career, their
education, their spiritual life,their physical health.
All of those things are thingsthat we help them address.
We don't.
For example, if somebody comesin and they weigh 300 pounds,
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I'm not going to say to them youneed to look at your health.
If that's not an area shechooses to address, then that's
not my concern.
If she says you know I'vestruggled with relationships and
I'm always falling back on men,then you know I'm going to help
hold her accountable in thatarea.
If she says I would like tofurther my education, then
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whether that starts with hercompleting her GED or taking
some college classes orgraduating from college We've
had all of those situations-Looking for a place to get
active, connect with others andhave fun as a family?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Then come check out the Rec at FBC Owensboro.
From open gym and a weight roomto upward sports and community
events, there's something foreveryone.
Memberships are superaffordable Just $2 a day, $10 a
month or $60 a year and get thisfamilies.
You only pay $120 max for theentire family for the whole year
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, and if you're a senior collegestudent or one of our city
heroes, like a teacher, firstresponder or health care worker,
you get a discount too.
The rec is more than a gym.
It's a place to belong.
Yeah, you know, it sounds likeyou're a mama to all these
ladies and to or even agrandmama, some of these
children as well, and that'sawesome, because we all need
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people like that in our lives.
It looks like that's like thefirst thing that you're kind of
looking at is how can I help you?
Like I'm here for you.
I'm not here for anything else,I'm here for you.
And so, yeah, I know you sharedbefore with me a couple of
success stories, but if you havelike one or two that you can
share with those who arelistening on just ladies who
come in, families that have comein and just, you've just seen
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God work, an awesome, you knowmovement in their lives.
It could even be, you know,maybe they weren't a believer,
but they came in and they gottheir stuff together.
Now they're successful women.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Yeah, so I will say this before I get into the
success stories is that I am theonly one that's paid here, but
our board members are all reallyactive supporting factors in
the daily operations as well,like they help with everything
from, you know, paying bills tohelping kind of walk with and
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mentor the girls.
And so I guess one of mysuccess stories I'll talk about
is a girl that one of our boardmembers is kind of like a life
mentor for, and so this younglady came to us.
She didn't, her mother hadpassed away, she was estranged
from her father and stepmother,who live out of state, and she
had lost a couple of childrenpreviously and she had just
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given birth.
And she was in a localrehabilitation center where I
knew some ladies that had beenat Fresh Start and they worked
there, and so they reached outto me and said, hey, cindy, can
you talk to this lady?
She doesn't have a job yet andshe's only been sober for 30
days and that's typically welike people to be sober longer
than that.
You know we prefer like sixmonths and been on the job for
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three to six months.
But so I went ahead and toldthem that I would talk to her,
but I hadn't met her yet.
And so I ended up going to aFriday night revival service
here in town and that particulargirl happened to show up.
You know, those are the littleGod things that happen.
She happened to show up andsomebody introduced me to her
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and I met her and the lady therethat was that was teaching as a
friend of mine, brandi Harris,with the Kentucky Revival Hub,
and she said this is Kiki andshe needs to go to Fresh Start.
And I'm like, of course shedoes.
Everybody brings people up tome and says, hey, they need to
be at Fresh Start, but we don'tusually have a lot of openings.
And so I was like, yeah, yeah,ok, let me talk to her.
(15:46):
And I was kind of, you know, inthe back of my mind, having
doubts or rolling my eyes, like,yeah, everybody needs to be at
Fresh Start, I'm trying to go tothe revival, you know, and so.
But when I met her, the Lordautomatically, just instantly,
put it on my heart that shebelonged with us here and I felt
the Lord speak to me about it,and so we brought her in.
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She got a job at River Valley assoon as she was released from
the River Valley TreatmentCenter and she's been there ever
since and she's been here for,I think, a year and a half now,
and so she not only is raisingher child, but she had given a
child up for adoption, which wasan open adoption and she has a
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relationship with that child aswell was an open adoption and
she has a relationship with thatchild as well and another child
that she had previously.
She is paying money to him andvisiting him as much as she's
able and she has really, reallyprogressed and been promoted at
her job.
She has gotten her credit fixed.
Her credit score is high.
She has money saved.
She's in the Habitat forHumanity program.
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She has money saved.
She's in the Habitat forHumanity program.
She's improved her education.
I mean, she has just reallygrown leaps and bounds and
within the next year she'll beowning lot of our women.
We have several in theirprogram and we have a lady that
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was our first, our very firstresident here is a Habitat for
Humanity owner and I was goingto share her story in a minute.
But, going back to talking aboutKiki, the first girl that I was
talking about is she's.
Now we have three women thatlive on site out of 15 that are
leaders here and they kind ofhelp when I'm not on site to
kind of watch over things.
They help with drug tests, theyhelp me with interviews, and so
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Kiki's a leader and she's oneof the best moms I know.
So I'm just really proud of her.
And so the other story I wasgoing to tell was, I'll just say
, stacey, because she's given mepermission to share her story
anytime.
But she was one of our veryfirst residents and I met her at
Celebrate Recovery at OwensboroChristian back in 2010 or 11.
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And she approached me and shewas like, yeah, this is my first
time here, but I'm going to bea leader.
And that's funny If you knowthe situation, you know people.
She's living in a homelessshelter.
I've never met her before andshe's going to be in leadership.
And so again, my natural mindkind of was like yeah, okay, you
know, but she really knew whatshe was talking about, because
that girl has grown leaps andbounds and, um, she left the
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Patino shelter, came to FreshStart when we started it.
Um, got a job, did really well.
She's gone back to school, gotcustody of her son back.
She is working for a homelessshelter.
Well, had been working for oneof the homeless shelters, she's
now at Puzzle Pieces working forthem, but every job she's had
has been giving back in thecommunity.
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She has a desire to have herown nonprofit one day and I have
no doubt that she will, becauseshe's amazing and she owns her
own home through Habitat as welland has just done really well.
She's also a a member of theImpact 100 Women here in
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Owensboro, which is an awesomeorganization that has helped us
a lot, and she's on the board ofdirectors at Habitat for
Humanity.
So you know, we like to seewomen who not only become better
and grow, but they become partof the change.
And then each one teach one.
You know you've heard that thatanalogy before then each one
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teach one.
You know you've heard that thatanalogy before, and so we love
it when women begin to helpother women and it just kind of
explodes, and we've seen that alot.
We have probably 14 or 15 womenthat have come through Fresh
Start since we started that areworking in different treatment
centers.
We have three or four womenthat are working at River Valley
helping the kid, the disturbedyouth, and that is a very
difficult job but a lot of ourladies they relate to that
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because when they were youngthey were those children and so
they have a passion for that andthat particular job takes a
real passion.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Yeah, and I think it's really cool.
You know I'm listening to youtalk and I know a little bit of
stuff.
I haven't heard Stacey's before, but have heard of kiki.
I met her, she's great.
Let's just shout out to kiki ifshe's listening, uh.
But you know, you talked abouthow you're not just trying to
make these individuals better,uh, members of society,
necessarily although that'sthat's a nice little goal but
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you're really worried about thepersonal, like the soul of the
person is what you're worriedabout.
Yeah, which is really cool tohear, because I think a lot of
times people see, um,non-profits like yours and they
think, oh, you're just trying tomake better people with society
, uh, but in reality there's arelationship there, uh, there's,
there's more than just you know.
I was really cool to hear thatstacy is now on the board of
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directors at multiple places andshe's at puzzle pieces and I'm
sure when she starts hernonprofit she's going to come to
you and ask you for advice,because you started yours and
it's it's rolling and it lookssuccessful, and so it's really,
really cool that you guys lookpast just the part of making
that person a quote unquotebetter person, if that makes
sense, and so that's, that'sreally cool to hear.
And so, miss Cindy Jean, youknow they just heard about Fresh
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Start for Women.
They just heard really tworeally cool success stories.
If there is somebody in thecommunity who's like, hey, this
sounds really cool, I like toget involved and invest in these
women as well, or thesefamilies, or even just invest in
you, miss Cindy, how do theyget involved with getting
involved with Fresh Start forWomen?
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Yeah, they can reach out First of all with Fresh
Start for Women.
Yeah, they can reach out.
First of all, I would inviteanybody to check out our website
it'sfreshstartforwomenowensboroorg,
or check out our Facebook page,fresh Start for Women, owensboro
.
Or they can call me at theoffice here, it's 270-240-3180,
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and ask for me.
Or, if they like, they canemail me directly with questions
or just the desire.
What I usually do when someonewants to get involved is I sit
down and I meet with them one onone.
I give them a tour, introducethem to what we're doing and
just see how they feel like theLord is calling them to be a
part of Fresh Start, instead ofme just telling them what they
need to do.
We do have specific, you know,volunteer days where we have
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lots of people in the communitycome together.
That's also a way people canhelp.
Financially is a huge thing.
Of course, we don't get grantsfrom the government.
We just rely on our localgenerosity, our churches,
individuals.
We do some fundraisers and thewomen do pay rent.
So that helps on a small partof keeping us going.
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But you know it.
Just it costs money.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
So they can email me directly at freshstartcj67 at
yahoocom all right, miss sydney,and I know you mentioned a lot
about uh church, which, again,I'm a minister at church, so
church faith that's really big,that's really important to me,
jesus.
But what if someone's listeningto this and they're not a
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believer, they're not someonewho is really into religion in a
sense, but they wanted to getinvolved with Fresh Start Women.
Is there opportunities for themto get involved as well?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Of course, yeah.
So we don't force our faith onanyone.
When the women come here, wegive them an opportunity to know
why we started and why we'rehere, and let them know and
invite them.
I share my testimony with them,I share the gospel, but I don't
force anything on them.
They're not required to go tochurch.
I don't think that's helpfulfor anybody.
But if somebody has a passion,say for children or women, they
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can get involved in manydifferent ways.
We've got a lot of kids thatlive here.
I think we have like 21 kidscurrently and 15 women that live
on site and there's severaldifferent needs that we have.
So I would just encourageanybody to reach out if they had
a heart for single moms orchildren that are being raised
in dysfunctional situations toreach out.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Okay, there you go, and I know she mentioned this on
air.
And, if you're like me, Iusually don't have a pen or
pencil or I'm not on my phone totype in on notes.
So you're either listening youcan do those things or, if
you're like me, I will havethose links in the show notes.
So you'll have an opportunityto go check out the website and
the show notes, to check outtheir Facebook page.
I'll have the number in thereand I'll even have Miss Cindy's
(24:05):
email in there if you want toget Bob and help.
So make sure, at some pointafter you're done listening to
this episode, that you go to theshow notes, check those things
out.
Jump in Bob.
Miss Cindy, we do.
Our tagline is ordinary town,extraordinary stories, and so,
in your opinion, what makesOwensboro so unique and
different?
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Well, I'm not originally from Owensboro.
Originally, I was born andraised partially in Southern
California and I've been herefor lots and lots of years.
I'm an old woman but I loveOwensboro because Owensboro has
a passion for just being a townthat's full of generosity and
full of love, and so I see a lotof giving here, a lot of people
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that care about other people,whether it's homelessness and
whether it's animal shelters orwhatever it is.
There's so many things that Isee the generosity of our
community and I'm so thankful tolive in a community that's so
generous and also where familiesand love and kindness is so
promoted.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Yeah, I would completely agree with you there.
I'm part of several Facebookgroups and just the way that
people help each other out issomething that I'm just not used
to.
Like you said, the generosityof Owensboro is just different
and they go above and beyond.
They'll help out people who arein need.
They'll help out, like you said, if there's a stray animal.
But I would think, like youknow, if you think of Owensboro,
(25:29):
oh, there's 60,000 people.
I always tell people it's bigenough to have things that you
need, but it still has asmall-town feel to it and that's
something.
You just can't make that up, youjust can't fabricate that, and
so that's really cool.
So stay, stay generous, staycool, owensboro.
But, miss Cindy, I just wantedto go over one more question
with you and then we'll get onout of here, and that is you
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know, you are connected to othernonprofits in Owensboro.
What is a good nonprofit?
That?
Speaker 2 (25:59):
you think should be on the show, and why.
Oh goodness, that's hard to say.
Well, I'll just start with thisbecause I worked for them
before, so it's easy.
But Friends of Sinners ispretty awesome.
I worked there for five years.
They recently got a newexecutive director.
I'm super excited about him,jordan Wilson.
He is just a pretty fantasticguy.
Yeah he's a stud, yeah and Iknew their original founder and
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executive director and the onesince then and they've all been
great men of God and I justthink they've got a good thing
going.
We, we my husband and I supportthem not just prayerfully but
financially, and so I think thatwould be a great choice.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Yeah, and, like she said, joe Welsh, the founder,
original executive director ofFriends of Sinners.
He's now moved on.
I'm doing other things.
His wife's out there with mysister's keeper check them out,
Um, but there.
But Jordan's great.
He works out the gym that I'mover and I've gotten to know
Jordan pretty well and he's he'sphenomenal.
So if you don't know JordanWilson and I'm sure if he
listens to this he will surelygive you any kind of contact you
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need to get ahold of him.
He's just that great andpersonable of a guy.
So good job, jordan.
Good job, joe Bosch.
Miss Cindy, thank you so muchfor coming on the podcast and
being our first episode, ourfirst nonprofit.
Super exciting, great way tokick off this podcast.
And is there any last wordsyou'd like to tell those who are
listening to?
All Things Owensboro.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
I just appreciate the love that people share.
I know with our women and kids.
When we go out in the public orwe go to different churches or
different organizations, peoplealways show us such love and
there's no judgment.
And I'm really with our womenand kids.
When we go out in the public orwe go to different churches or
different organizations, peoplealways show us such love and
there's no judgment.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
And I'm really thankful for that.
Yeah, so again, owensboro keepbeing cool, keep being
extraordinary, keep being uniqueand different.
That's what makes OwensboroOwensboro and we don't want to
change that.
So keep listening.
We're looking forward tohearing you, your comments, your
feedback on this episode.
Make sure to do that.
You can do that in any of thecomments.
We love for feedback to get youthe best podcast episodes
possible, especially about thoseregarding Owensboro, kentucky.
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All right, guys, and so go out,check out Fresh Start for Women
, check out the website, theirFacebook.
Again, it's in the show notes.
So you have it all at yourdisposal, so go do it.
Have it all at your disposal,so go do it.
Thanks for tuning in to AllThings Owensboro, where we
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one another and making Owensboroa place we're all proud to call
home.
What's up everyone and welcome to All Things
Owensboro Podcast, where anordinary town meets
extraordinary stories.
I'm your host, brad Winter, aprofessional of absolutely
nothing but an enthusiast ofgood conversation, great stories
and community ministry at FirstBaptist Church Owensboro.
Today's episode is a good one.
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We are here to shine a light onpeople, places and stories that
make our community special, andtoday we're honored to sit down
with someone who's changinglives one woman at a time Cindy
Jean.
Cindy Jean is the founder ofFresh Start for Women, and what
began as a calling has turnedinto a safe haven for women
facing some of life's toughestchallenges, from addiction
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recovery to rebuilding aftertrauma.
Fresh Start offers more thanhousing.
It offers hope, purpose and afuture.
Get ready for an honest andpowerful conversation about
faith, resilience and secondchances right here in Owensboro.
And hey, this podcast isprovided and would not be
possible without First BaptistChurch.
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for a home, come check outFirst Baptist Church on all
social medias.
At FBCOWB, we'd love to haveyou on Sunday mornings at 1030.
I would love to see your brightand shining face, so come check
us out.
All right, Enough chit chat,let's dive in.
So come, check us out.
All right, enough chit-chat,and let's dive in Owensboro.
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Hey guys, welcome to All ThingsOwensboro.
I'm your host, brad Winter.
I'm the Minister of CommunityEngagement and Activities over
at First Baptist ChurchOwensboro.
I am a transplant, but I dolove listening to stories from
other people and I love the townof Owensboro, and so today I
have a special guest with me.
She's been of Owensboro, and sotoday I have a special guest
with me.
She's been in Owensboro most ofher life and she has a great
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story.
Ms Cindy Jean from Fresh Startfor Women, thank you for joining
us today.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, I'm excited to be with you.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Yeah.
So, Ms Cindy, I like to startoff with a random icebreaker
question.
They're always fun because youget to hear stories that you
otherwise wouldn't know of, andthat is what has been your
longest shot that you've evertaken and what came about
through that.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Well, that kind of is a good question, especially
with what we're getting ready tospeak about.
I guess I would say that mybiggest long shot that I've ever
taken is Fresh Start for Women.
It came to me as a vision fromGod after I've been praying
about it for a while.
And yeah, here we are.
(02:29):
That started in 2015, and westarted moving women in the end
of 2016, and here we are in 2025.
So I guess when my long shotcomes from God, then of course
it's going to work out.
If it comes from me, not somuch.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yeah, and I think we probably all have stories
related to that in some waysomehow the long shot that we've
tried to take or maybe we'vealways dreamed of and haven't
taken it it's really scary.
So I just commend you fortaking that step of faith and
really putting you know one footin front of the other and
making it happen, because nowit's a reality.
Yeah, thanks, yeah, no problem,miss Cindy.
And so we're going to learnabout Fresh Start for Women.
(03:06):
We're excited about hearingabout that nonprofit.
You guys are our firstnonprofit, so congratulations on
that.
Thank you, you're welcome.
But before we get into thenonprofit side of things, who is
Miss Cindy Jean?
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Well, I guess I would say after coming from a life of
dysfunction and bad choices anda dysfunctional childhood.
I grew up without a father andmy mother had a severe mental
illness, and so I grew up makingbad choices as a child and into
teen years and into my 20s and30s and making bad choices and
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bad relationships and havingkids out of wedlock and
struggling with addiction.
And in 2008, when I was, Ithink, 41, I got saved and
everything changed after that.
Before that, I had tried tolive my life right by my own
power, but in 2008, Isurrendered to the Lord and
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everything just started fallinginto place after that.
And so, you know, after gettingmy own life together and having
my own struggles with you knowhomelessness and addiction, and
you know just building creditand learning to live life on
life's terms, I began in 2010.
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I started working at Friends ofSinners, which is a local
Christian-based rehab here inOwensboro.
They were opening a house forwomen and I applied for that and
I had done sales my whole lifebefore that, and so when I went
to work at Friends of Sinners, Iwas there for like five years.
The first five years thewomen's house was opened and and
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I just really loved giving backto women.
And in 2015, when I left there,I feel like God was calling me
out.
Wasn't really sure what thatwas going to look like.
I took a secular job, but Iknew my season was up.
I wasn't really sure what thatwas going to look like.
I took a secular job, but Iknew my season was up.
And, yeah, I went to work for asecular job and I missed being
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with women every day.
But having been through thatstruggle myself and watching the
recidivism as I was doingministry for all those years and
then doing the jail ministry, Iwould just see the same faces
back over and over again.
And so it just began to burdenme and I fasted and I prayed and
I cried out to God and I justasked the Lord to like use my
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life as an example for otherwomen so that they know they
didn't have to live that wayanymore, that they could, you
know, choose Christ and then allthings would fall into place.
And so the Lord kind of took meup on that offer.
You know, decided this kind ofbeen living my life for the Lord
ever since I got married in2015 to my husband, shane, and
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we've been married.
This will be 11 years this yearand before that I was single by
myself, serving women andserving the Lord, and there's a
lot of hard things about beingsingle and having come from
brokenness, and so I feel like Ihad a lot of good things to
offer and had a lot of thoughtsand good ideas, but not really
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knowing how that was all goingto come to fruition.
We'll talk about Fresh Start ina minute, but that's kind of
part of who Cindy Jean is rightnow at this point in life,
because I've been here doingthis since 2016.
And when I was working at mysecular job, I had some accounts
that I had to visit in BowlingGreen and I was on the parkway
(06:45):
driving back to Owensboro and Ifeel like I got a download from
the Lord.
Whether that fits with yourtheology or not, that's where it
came from and so I was justdriving and I felt like the Lord
started speaking to me afterlots of fasting and praying for
years, and I pulled over on theside of the road and wrote down
all of these things that I feltlike the Lord was telling me.
And then I called you know, theother co-founders, carol Adkins
(07:08):
and Frances Briner and askedthem if they would meet me at my
office, at my work on Saturday,and I just presented it to them
, and you know, this is whatI've been doing ever since Now.
I worked, I worked my job andmy career for seven years and
did Fresh Start up until abouttwo years ago, and then I became
a full-time paid staff, and soI guess we'll talk about that as
(07:31):
well.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
So you're doing this solo right now, ms Cindy, and
that is okay, because the dreamand the hope is in the future is
to bring on more full-timestaff that can help you fill in
things.
I know you have some greatvolunteers, you have a great
board, and so, as we're talkingabout Fresh Start for Women, go
into what is your identity, whatis your goal, what is your
mission and vision here at FreshStart for Women.
Give us a story or two thatwould be great to hear and a
(07:56):
success story.
And then also, too I know thisis a lot, but that last one I
really like to be how do we as acommunity in Owensboro get
involved with you guys here atFresh Start for Women?
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Okay, yeah, that's a lot to unpack.
So let me start here with whoare we and what do we do?
So we take women from lots ofdifferent places in Owensboro,
take women from lots ofdifferent places in Owensboro.
A lot of nonprofits specializein a certain thing and we kind
of are the nonprofit that justtries to help the other
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nonprofits.
So you know, we take women fromSandy's House, which is the
Lighthouse for Women.
We take women from Crossroads,the Patino Shelter, st
Benedict's, friends of Sinners,the Yellow Banks Recovery it's
called ARC, so I never know whatto call it but Hope House.
There's just lots of placesthat will refer people to us.
(08:51):
Matter of fact, I interviewed alady this morning that came from
one of the schools, reached outto me about her and her son,
and so what we do is we love totake women who are in desperate
situations and give them hopeand a place to live and then
time for God to kind of work intheir life.
And so our ladies, you know,we'd like them to stay for a
(09:12):
year or two to be able to reallychange the behaviors and the
life patterns that they'velearned and the life patterns
that they've learned.
But what we do really is.
We house women that are comingfrom critical situations and
they have to have a job.
They do pay rent.
So that's what's kind ofdifferent about Fresh Start than
a lot of places.
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We like to give women a hand upand not a handout.
They work, they pay rent.
Their rent is discounted basedupon the activities that they do
.
So you know, if they go totheir three meetings a week and
they meet with me once a monthand they go to their community
meetings, then they can gettheir own place to rent and it's
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at a discounted price.
If, for some reason, they don'tdo the things that they were
supposed to do, there's anupcharge.
So that kind of keeps them onthe right track of wanting to do
the right thing.
And we usually interview prettythoroughly in the beginning.
So when people come in, we kindof know what we want from them
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and they kind of know what weexpect, and they set their own
goals.
They tell us this is my goalsfor the future, and then we are
just like a light accountabilitythat helps them achieve those
goals.
So, for example, if someone'sgoal was to get out of debt and
raise their credit score, and Isee them going out to eat and
have food delivered, then I'mgoing to lightly knock, knock,
(10:38):
knock on their door and ask themto meet with me and kind of say
, hey, I noticed this, this iswhat you said you were going to
do and you know, could you helpme understand how you feel like
you're going to get to your goalby doing these behaviors,
because this is what we talkedabout that you were going to do.
And then they usually reel itin pretty quickly and they look
back at themselves and they'relike, oh, my goodness, you're
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right, didn't even realize I wasdoing that.
Number one to give women a safeplace to live.
And there's no men that livehere, it's just women and
children, and we have a 12-unitapartment complex and three
houses.
So these women all kind ofsupport and help each other.
They know the rules.
Some of them have been herelonger than others, so they kind
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of help enforce the rules andremind their sisters hey, this
is what you're doing and that'sold behavior.
And it comes together reallywell when it comes from another
person instead of just anauthority figure all the time,
because sometimes we can tend tobe, you know, resistant to
authority figures when we'velived in the life of rebellion,
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and so their goal while beinghere is number one learn how to
live on their own and pay theirown bills.
Number two improve their life,their job, their career, their
education, their spiritual life,their physical health.
All of those things are thingsthat we help them address.
We don't.
For example, if somebody comesin and they weigh 300 pounds,
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I'm not going to say to them youneed to look at your health.
If that's not an area shechooses to address, then that's
not my concern.
If she says you know I'vestruggled with relationships and
I'm always falling back on men,then you know I'm going to help
hold her accountable in thatarea.
If she says I would like tofurther my education, then
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whether that starts with hercompleting her GED or taking
some college classes orgraduating from college We've
had all of those situations-Looking for a place to get
active, connect with others andhave fun as a family?
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Then come check out the Rec at FBC Owensboro.
From open gym and a weight roomto upward sports and community
events, there's something foreveryone.
Memberships are superaffordable Just $2 a day, $10 a
month or $60 a year and get thisfamilies.
You only pay $120 max for theentire family for the whole year
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, and if you're a senior collegestudent or one of our city
heroes, like a teacher, firstresponder or health care worker,
you get a discount too.
The rec is more than a gym.
It's a place to belong.
Yeah, you know, it sounds likeyou're a mama to all these
ladies and to or even agrandmama, some of these
children as well, and that'sawesome, because we all need
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people like that in our lives.
It looks like that's like thefirst thing that you're kind of
looking at is how can I help you?
Like I'm here for you.
I'm not here for anything else,I'm here for you.
And so, yeah, I know you sharedbefore with me a couple of
success stories, but if you havelike one or two that you can
share with those who arelistening on just ladies who
come in, families that have comein and just, you've just seen
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God work, an awesome, you knowmovement in their lives.
It could even be, you know,maybe they weren't a believer,
but they came in and they gottheir stuff together.
Now they're successful women.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Yeah, so I will say this before I get into the
success stories is that I am theonly one that's paid here, but
our board members are all reallyactive supporting factors in
the daily operations as well,like they help with everything
from, you know, paying bills tohelping kind of walk with and
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mentor the girls.
And so I guess one of mysuccess stories I'll talk about
is a girl that one of our boardmembers is kind of like a life
mentor for, and so this younglady came to us.
She didn't, her mother hadpassed away, she was estranged
from her father and stepmother,who live out of state, and she
had lost a couple of childrenpreviously and she had just
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given birth.
And she was in a localrehabilitation center where I
knew some ladies that had beenat Fresh Start and they worked
there, and so they reached outto me and said, hey, cindy, can
you talk to this lady?
She doesn't have a job yet andshe's only been sober for 30
days and that's typically welike people to be sober longer
than that.
You know we prefer like sixmonths and been on the job for
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three to six months.
But so I went ahead and toldthem that I would talk to her,
but I hadn't met her yet.
And so I ended up going to aFriday night revival service
here in town and that particulargirl happened to show up.
You know, those are the littleGod things that happen.
She happened to show up andsomebody introduced me to her
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and I met her and the lady therethat was that was teaching as a
friend of mine, brandi Harris,with the Kentucky Revival Hub,
and she said this is Kiki andshe needs to go to Fresh Start.
And I'm like, of course shedoes.
Everybody brings people up tome and says, hey, they need to
be at Fresh Start, but we don'tusually have a lot of openings.
And so I was like, yeah, yeah,ok, let me talk to her.
(15:46):
And I was kind of, you know, inthe back of my mind, having
doubts or rolling my eyes, like,yeah, everybody needs to be at
Fresh Start, I'm trying to go tothe revival, you know, and so.
But when I met her, the Lordautomatically, just instantly,
put it on my heart that shebelonged with us here and I felt
the Lord speak to me about it,and so we brought her in.
(16:07):
She got a job at River Valley assoon as she was released from
the River Valley TreatmentCenter and she's been there ever
since and she's been here for,I think, a year and a half now,
and so she not only is raisingher child, but she had given a
child up for adoption, which wasan open adoption and she has a
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relationship with that child aswell was an open adoption and
she has a relationship with thatchild as well and another child
that she had previously.
She is paying money to him andvisiting him as much as she's
able and she has really, reallyprogressed and been promoted at
her job.
She has gotten her credit fixed.
Her credit score is high.
She has money saved.
She's in the Habitat forHumanity program.
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She has money saved.
She's in the Habitat forHumanity program.
She's improved her education.
I mean, she has just reallygrown leaps and bounds and
within the next year she'll beowning lot of our women.
We have several in theirprogram and we have a lady that
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was our first, our very firstresident here is a Habitat for
Humanity owner and I was goingto share her story in a minute.
But, going back to talking aboutKiki, the first girl that I was
talking about is she's.
Now we have three women thatlive on site out of 15 that are
leaders here and they kind ofhelp when I'm not on site to
kind of watch over things.
They help with drug tests, theyhelp me with interviews, and so
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Kiki's a leader and she's oneof the best moms I know.
So I'm just really proud of her.
And so the other story I wasgoing to tell was, I'll just say
, stacey, because she's given mepermission to share her story
anytime.
But she was one of our veryfirst residents and I met her at
Celebrate Recovery at OwensboroChristian back in 2010 or 11.
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And she approached me and shewas like, yeah, this is my first
time here, but I'm going to bea leader.
And that's funny If you knowthe situation, you know people.
She's living in a homelessshelter.
I've never met her before andshe's going to be in leadership.
And so again, my natural mindkind of was like yeah, okay, you
know, but she really knew whatshe was talking about, because
that girl has grown leaps andbounds and, um, she left the
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Patino shelter, came to FreshStart when we started it.
Um, got a job, did really well.
She's gone back to school, gotcustody of her son back.
She is working for a homelessshelter.
Well, had been working for oneof the homeless shelters, she's
now at Puzzle Pieces working forthem, but every job she's had
has been giving back in thecommunity.
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She has a desire to have herown nonprofit one day and I have
no doubt that she will, becauseshe's amazing and she owns her
own home through Habitat as welland has just done really well.
She's also a a member of theImpact 100 Women here in
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Owensboro, which is an awesomeorganization that has helped us
a lot, and she's on the board ofdirectors at Habitat for
Humanity.
So you know, we like to seewomen who not only become better
and grow, but they become partof the change.
And then each one teach one.
You know you've heard that thatanalogy before then each one
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teach one.
You know you've heard that thatanalogy before, and so we love
it when women begin to helpother women and it just kind of
explodes, and we've seen that alot.
We have probably 14 or 15 womenthat have come through Fresh
Start since we started that areworking in different treatment
centers.
We have three or four womenthat are working at River Valley
helping the kid, the disturbedyouth, and that is a very
difficult job but a lot of ourladies they relate to that
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because when they were youngthey were those children and so
they have a passion for that andthat particular job takes a
real passion.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Yeah, and I think it's really cool.
You know I'm listening to youtalk and I know a little bit of
stuff.
I haven't heard Stacey's before, but have heard of kiki.
I met her, she's great.
Let's just shout out to kiki ifshe's listening, uh.
But you know, you talked abouthow you're not just trying to
make these individuals better,uh, members of society,
necessarily although that'sthat's a nice little goal but
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you're really worried about thepersonal, like the soul of the
person is what you're worriedabout.
Yeah, which is really cool tohear, because I think a lot of
times people see, um,non-profits like yours and they
think, oh, you're just trying tomake better people with society
, uh, but in reality there's arelationship there, uh, there's,
there's more than just you know.
I was really cool to hear thatstacy is now on the board of
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directors at multiple places andshe's at puzzle pieces and I'm
sure when she starts hernonprofit she's going to come to
you and ask you for advice,because you started yours and
it's it's rolling and it lookssuccessful, and so it's really,
really cool that you guys lookpast just the part of making
that person a quote unquotebetter person, if that makes
sense, and so that's, that'sreally cool to hear.
And so, miss Cindy Jean, youknow they just heard about Fresh
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Start for Women.
They just heard really tworeally cool success stories.
If there is somebody in thecommunity who's like, hey, this
sounds really cool, I like toget involved and invest in these
women as well, or thesefamilies, or even just invest in
you, miss Cindy, how do theyget involved with getting
involved with Fresh Start forWomen?
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Yeah, they can reach out First of all with Fresh
Start for Women.
Yeah, they can reach out.
First of all, I would inviteanybody to check out our website
it'sfreshstartforwomenowensboroorg,
or check out our Facebook page,fresh Start for Women, owensboro
.
Or they can call me at theoffice here, it's 270-240-3180,
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and ask for me.
Or, if they like, they canemail me directly with questions
or just the desire.
What I usually do when someonewants to get involved is I sit
down and I meet with them one onone.
I give them a tour, introducethem to what we're doing and
just see how they feel like theLord is calling them to be a
part of Fresh Start, instead ofme just telling them what they
need to do.
We do have specific, you know,volunteer days where we have
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lots of people in the communitycome together.
That's also a way people canhelp.
Financially is a huge thing.
Of course, we don't get grantsfrom the government.
We just rely on our localgenerosity, our churches,
individuals.
We do some fundraisers and thewomen do pay rent.
So that helps on a small partof keeping us going.
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But you know it.
Just it costs money.
Speaker 1 (22:30):
So they can email me directly at freshstartcj67 at
yahoocom all right, miss sydney,and I know you mentioned a lot
about uh church, which, again,I'm a minister at church, so
church faith that's really big,that's really important to me,
jesus.
But what if someone's listeningto this and they're not a
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believer, they're not someonewho is really into religion in a
sense, but they wanted to getinvolved with Fresh Start Women.
Is there opportunities for themto get involved as well?
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Of course, yeah.
So we don't force our faith onanyone.
When the women come here, wegive them an opportunity to know
why we started and why we'rehere, and let them know and
invite them.
I share my testimony with them,I share the gospel, but I don't
force anything on them.
They're not required to go tochurch.
I don't think that's helpfulfor anybody.
But if somebody has a passion,say for children or women, they
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can get involved in manydifferent ways.
We've got a lot of kids thatlive here.
I think we have like 21 kidscurrently and 15 women that live
on site and there's severaldifferent needs that we have.
So I would just encourageanybody to reach out if they had
a heart for single moms orchildren that are being raised
in dysfunctional situations toreach out.
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Okay, there you go, and I know she mentioned this on
air.
And, if you're like me, Iusually don't have a pen or
pencil or I'm not on my phone totype in on notes.
So you're either listening youcan do those things or, if
you're like me, I will havethose links in the show notes.
So you'll have an opportunityto go check out the website and
the show notes, to check outtheir Facebook page.
I'll have the number in thereand I'll even have Miss Cindy's
(24:05):
email in there if you want toget Bob and help.
So make sure, at some pointafter you're done listening to
this episode, that you go to theshow notes, check those things
out.
Jump in Bob.
Miss Cindy, we do.
Our tagline is ordinary town,extraordinary stories, and so,
in your opinion, what makesOwensboro so unique and
different?
Speaker 2 (24:22):
Well, I'm not originally from Owensboro.
Originally, I was born andraised partially in Southern
California and I've been herefor lots and lots of years.
I'm an old woman but I loveOwensboro because Owensboro has
a passion for just being a townthat's full of generosity and
full of love, and so I see a lotof giving here, a lot of people
(24:47):
that care about other people,whether it's homelessness and
whether it's animal shelters orwhatever it is.
There's so many things that Isee the generosity of our
community and I'm so thankful tolive in a community that's so
generous and also where familiesand love and kindness is so
promoted.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Yeah, I would completely agree with you there.
I'm part of several Facebookgroups and just the way that
people help each other out issomething that I'm just not used
to.
Like you said, the generosityof Owensboro is just different
and they go above and beyond.
They'll help out people who arein need.
They'll help out, like you said, if there's a stray animal.
But I would think, like youknow, if you think of Owensboro,
(25:29):
oh, there's 60,000 people.
I always tell people it's bigenough to have things that you
need, but it still has asmall-town feel to it and that's
something.
You just can't make that up, youjust can't fabricate that, and
so that's really cool.
So stay, stay generous, staycool, owensboro.
But, miss Cindy, I just wantedto go over one more question
with you and then we'll get onout of here, and that is you
(25:53):
know, you are connected to othernonprofits in Owensboro.
What is a good nonprofit?
That?
Speaker 2 (25:59):
you think should be on the show, and why.
Oh goodness, that's hard to say.
Well, I'll just start with thisbecause I worked for them
before, so it's easy.
But Friends of Sinners ispretty awesome.
I worked there for five years.
They recently got a newexecutive director.
I'm super excited about him,jordan Wilson.
He is just a pretty fantasticguy.
Yeah he's a stud, yeah and Iknew their original founder and
(26:25):
executive director and the onesince then and they've all been
great men of God and I justthink they've got a good thing
going.
We, we my husband and I supportthem not just prayerfully but
financially, and so I think thatwould be a great choice.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Yeah, and, like she said, joe Welsh, the founder,
original executive director ofFriends of Sinners.
He's now moved on.
I'm doing other things.
His wife's out there with mysister's keeper check them out,
Um, but there.
But Jordan's great.
He works out the gym that I'mover and I've gotten to know
Jordan pretty well and he's he'sphenomenal.
So if you don't know JordanWilson and I'm sure if he
listens to this he will surelygive you any kind of contact you
(26:57):
need to get ahold of him.
He's just that great andpersonable of a guy.
So good job, jordan.
Good job, joe Bosch.
Miss Cindy, thank you so muchfor coming on the podcast and
being our first episode, ourfirst nonprofit.
Super exciting, great way tokick off this podcast.
And is there any last wordsyou'd like to tell those who are
listening to?
All Things Owensboro.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
I just appreciate the love that people share.
I know with our women and kids.
When we go out in the public orwe go to different churches or
different organizations, peoplealways show us such love and
there's no judgment.
And I'm really with our womenand kids.
When we go out in the public orwe go to different churches or
different organizations, peoplealways show us such love and
there's no judgment.
Speaker 1 (27:32):
And I'm really thankful for that.
Yeah, so again, owensboro keepbeing cool, keep being
extraordinary, keep being uniqueand different.
That's what makes OwensboroOwensboro and we don't want to
change that.
So keep listening.
We're looking forward tohearing you, your comments, your
feedback on this episode.
Make sure to do that.
You can do that in any of thecomments.
We love for feedback to get youthe best podcast episodes
possible, especially about thoseregarding Owensboro, kentucky.
(27:55):
All right, guys, and so go out,check out Fresh Start for Women
, check out the website, theirFacebook.
Again, it's in the show notes.
So you have it all at yourdisposal, so go do it.
Have it all at your disposal,so go do it.
Thanks for tuning in to AllThings Owensboro, where we
(28:16):
celebrate the stories, peopleand places that make our city
special.
If you enjoyed today's episode,be sure to subscribe, leave a
review and share it with someonewho loves this town as much as
you do.
Until next time, owensboro,keep loving local, supporting
one another and making Owensboroa place we're all proud to call
home.
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