Modern Mom – Candy Carson

[00:00:00] here’s your host Kevin Conover bring yo Todd

[00:00:06] welcome to educate for life I’m your host Kevin Conover my website is join da educate for life dot o-r-g that’s 40

[00:00:13] online classes defending the truth of the Bible and my guest today is none

[00:00:18] other than candy Carson she’s an American author and businesswoman she is the wife of dr. ben Carson a former

[00:00:24] neurosurgeon and 2016 presidential candidate as well as the Secretary of HUD candy Carson heads and promotes the

[00:00:31] Carson scholars fund which she and her husband co-founded she also co-authored four books with her husband she carries

[00:00:37] a Terry – triple major in music medicine and psychology at Yale University in Connecticut following her graduation

[00:00:43] from Yale she attended John Hopkins Carey business school where she earned her MBA she is a former concert

[00:00:49] violinist she has also been a conductor for the University of Maryland Medical Center chamber players and she is the

[00:00:56] mother of three sons kandi thank you so much for being on the show today well it’s great to be here and let me let me

[00:01:02] disabuse because some notions of there’s stuff that gets out and it keeps being

[00:01:07] replayed and and you know once it’s out there I guess it’s out there but I really was not a triple major I was a

[00:01:15] double with music and in psychology and I was pretty mad I did it you know that some people might call that a triple

[00:01:22] major it’s not a real sisters and then I changed the course from pre-med when I realized and I don’t

[00:01:30] think that’s where God wanted me to be so I just that’s great but but but yeah

[00:01:36] I just just put that when that notion the rest and it’s probably something else I miss but but it’s in my book so

[00:01:44] just fantastic and well I’m glad you

[00:01:49] clarified there for us talk tell us the name of the the name of your book Oh a doctor in the house

[00:01:55] um it was released January of 2016 and

[00:02:02] it was it it’s kind of about our journey you know how my husband and I met and

[00:02:08] how he’s always been there for me but some of the struggles and trials I mean everybody you know a lot of people think

[00:02:15] that if you’re in the public eye or or if you’re you know you’ve got this kind

[00:02:21] of blessing with that kind of blessing that you know you don’t have any struggles we all have struggles so you

[00:02:27] know the thing of it is we’re in a place I mean it is just so wonderful and it’s

[00:02:33] such an opportunity to be born in this country that’s so true how many people

[00:02:38] don’t even realize how fortunate we are because when you’re born in this country it’s not about where you are it’s about

[00:02:44] where you’re going if you put the effort into it in this country at least the way it used to be and while we’re trying to

[00:02:50] get it back then you could become anything that puts in your mind to do

[00:02:56] that’s really conservative and I have an opportunity to speak to schoolchildren

[00:03:02] about this on a periodic basis when we open up our reading rooms around the country these are these are rooms that

[00:03:09] are designed to entice children to learn the love learning and they read for points and then they turn the points for

[00:03:15] prizes and after a while they really learn to love learning each one of them is decorated whimsically and has old

[00:03:21] child-friendly sitting like beanbag chairs and little Adirondack rocking chairs and alphabets all over the place

[00:03:27] plenty of award-winning books but but the thing of it is I mean when they go in there and they can go in through

[00:03:33] their own little world and develop themselves they learn to love learning and it’s just so cool to be able to

[00:03:38] speak at the UM at the programs they have and tell them the things I’ve heard my husband say for years as a

[00:03:45] neurosurgeon when he was on the speaker circuit since the 80s yeah that’s so interesting like yeah but he would say

[00:03:51] you know your brain is an amazing thing if you have a normal brain and most of

[00:03:58] us do even if you don’t have a normal but now I can get into that one later too but it’s just if you have a normal

[00:04:04] brains you can do almost anything because your brain can process two million bits of information every second

[00:04:11] yeah it’s phenomenal million dyt ESS yeah you can’t you can’t overload it

[00:04:18] because if you were to learn one fat versus sex second and that’s hard to do

[00:04:23] because it’s hard to even conceptualize in just one second but if you could then

[00:04:29] it would take you three million years to start to challenge the capacity well the

[00:04:35] challenge the capacity of your brain so and we’re fearfully and wonderfully made we’re mates returning hey man so we don’t have to worry we don’t have to

[00:04:41] worry about learning too much yeah you don’t and and then to some kids it and

[00:04:47] it’s sad that you know most of us these days there are a lot of negatives including the schoolchildren when they

[00:04:52] should be hearing as much positive as they can and that that’s what moms are for but that’s what any nurturers for

[00:04:58] any any person that might have a little more insight into what life is about

[00:05:04] should be be able to help anybody else that they see help them understand you

[00:05:09] know that you’re that you’re fearfully and wonderfully made and if there’s something that seems really difficult to you in school or some subject matter in

[00:05:17] the newspaper or wherever it’s probably because you’re missing some of the

[00:05:22] building blocks and every subject is built on building blocks whether it’s

[00:05:27] reading chemistry psychology um ooh physics you know whatever think about it

[00:05:35] if you if you want it to read and you new odd lers except for a esnt oh yeah I

[00:05:43] would really mess you you’re missing those building blocks but you put those in there and reading for snap and it’s

[00:05:51] the same with algebra geometry all the biology all of those so say you were out

[00:05:56] of school are you removing to a different different area you missed some of the building blocks that way or maybe

[00:06:02] you’re all sick a day or two and you miss building blocks that way or maybe

[00:06:07] you had a substitute teacher who that that wasn’t their forte that particular subject and they can break it down so so

[00:06:12] it’s up to you to determine whether you’re going to succeed or not so people

[00:06:18] have to understand I mean yeah you know maybe you don’t understand something but let the teacher know or let let the you

[00:06:24] know anyone that’s near sphere of influence if they can’t help you then go to someone else and and if they can’t

[00:06:31] help you most times they’ll try to direct you to the right place yeah sure sure find that

[00:06:36] out because you go to a library you can go there but but think of it is and when I go speak at these reading room opening you know I

[00:06:43] can say you know everybody in this room cares about you because we put in a special reading room just for you so you can develop yourself to be the best you

[00:06:48] can be so um chandi’s nearly the kids that is just I I get such a kick out of

[00:06:54] seeing those kids that’s great and if somebody’s interested in learning more about this is there a website that they

[00:06:59] can go to to learn more about what you’re doing oh sure it’s Carson scholars org Carson

[00:07:05] scars and and can anybody apply to be involved with this or how does that work oh yeah we accept volunteers all the

[00:07:12] place firstly we’re basically you know we encourage any one of them to say if

[00:07:19] they’d like to donate a reading room at the school where they matriculated as an elementary school student or middle

[00:07:25] school we even put some in high schools and I tell you you know in a high school some of the kids aren’t reading on level

[00:07:31] oh yeah there’s a lot of kids that aren’t so yeah the state of education in our country is a big deal and there’s a

[00:07:36] lot of schools are not doing the job that we would hope that they would do well I mean it’s part of it is

[00:07:43] bureaucracy and and and you know teaching to tests and things like that but but the sad thing is you know our

[00:07:49] kids are suffering for it you know yes and because our kids are our future then that means our country

[00:07:55] will suffer for it that’s the trend and we’re seeing some of the evidence of that because you know our system of government the space is

[00:08:02] based on a well informed and well educated populace and if you don’t know how much gonna right away yeah yeah yeah

[00:08:08] so so that’s why it’s important that each and every one is educated to the

[00:08:13] best that they can be so you know it’s funny I remember once um you know

[00:08:19] running to a mom and and um you know he was telling me how she taught her kids to iron at an early age and I said

[00:08:25] really and she says you know I’m empowering them as I say you know you’re right it’s that’s great that’s great I

[00:08:32] would do but but think about it you help them to know that they can take care of themselves no matter what yeah they get

[00:08:38] married or not and so on so forth but she was teaching them it you know aged 10 or so yeah you know to do that sort

[00:08:44] of thing and I’m you know because because for I’d you know I had boys and I just figured hey you know I won’t bother but as long as they’re doing how

[00:08:49] I’m working ah but but the thing with it you can’t empower people the more you empower them

[00:08:55] with different types of knowledge you know the better the better off they’ll be as an adult I mean they can adjust

[00:09:02] almost anything because they know they can do just about anything that’s not true that’s so true it’s the opposite of

[00:09:07] a nanny state or something like that where you’re creating people that are dependent upon things like government or

[00:09:12] others they’re they’re becoming independent and then they become a valuable resource to others my guest today is candy Carson and she is

[00:09:20] involved with a national gathering of Mother’s Moms March for America which really has a lot to do with what we were

[00:09:26] just talking about and we’re coming up on a break here but when we get back I’m gonna ask candy why she decided to be

[00:09:31] involved with moms March for America and also more about what she sees this

[00:09:37] country needs how it needs to change in order to become a country that provides more opportunity and more fulfilling

[00:09:44] lives for more people we’re gonna be right back [Music]

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[00:12:05] thanks for listening today this is educate for life I’m your host Kevin Conover my website has joined educate

[00:12:11] for life org you can pick up a recording of this program as well as many others and my guest today is candy Carson and

[00:12:17] she is involved with moms March for America if you want to check it out it’s

[00:12:22] moms March us a.com and candy I wanted to ask you why did you get involved with

[00:12:29] this particular organization and what is it that they’re trying to what is the

[00:12:34] statement they’re trying to make through this March you know they have a whole

[00:12:40] declaration when you go to the website you know of the things that you know we

[00:12:45] as we as mothers should consider okay I

[00:12:51] mean when you think about mothers and you think about your own mom and a lot

[00:12:56] of us were blessed to have moms that you were stay-at-home moms some were not and

[00:13:02] I’m actually mine was not but she was home enough to make sure we could just

[00:13:08] like my husband’s mother she was away most of the time but you know they work things out together but Mother’s like

[00:13:16] they’re the primary makers of homes and the primary molders of the future of our

[00:13:21] nation yeah as with that you know so liberty and freedom begins in the home I mean if

[00:13:26] you think about it you know you can as I was saying before you’re empowering people and that gives them liberty and

[00:13:33] freedom to become the best that they can be with you if you help them to have a

[00:13:38] full understanding of of what life is really about I mean including why we’re

[00:13:44] all here you know it’s you go back to the Bible and the wisdom that comes from

[00:13:49] there and but helping helping everyone to understand that freedom really isn’t free you know it that’s why so many

[00:13:58] people want to come to our country because they have the freedom to make choices to to become whatever they want

[00:14:05] to be I mean some countries it doesn’t matter how hard you work no matter what you do what you invest into whatever

[00:14:11] you’re doing you cannot move from where you are you know whereas in America it’s

[00:14:17] not where you are but where your knowing that that’s just such a wonderful concept and a wonderful idea

[00:14:24] that our founding fathers came up with and and have enabled us to take

[00:14:29] advantage of but some of that slipping through our fingers I mean we have the debt that we have oh my gosh it’s just

[00:14:35] you know this we’re over 20 20 trillion yards I mean brilliant but and it does

[00:14:43] kind of roll off your tongue but you know we’re at 18 trillion I remember my husband saying us a lot on the trail so

[00:14:49] I you know I got into saying it to with 18 trillion dollars if you were and and

[00:14:55] it really it doesn’t sound that bad but if you were to try to pay that off at a rate of 10 million a day 10 million

[00:15:03] every day it would take you five thousand years to pay that off Wow and

[00:15:11] see we’re putting this on the backs of our children grandchildren and their grandchildren that is not fair you know

[00:15:16] our founding fathers and everyone after them tried to make it better for the next generation and here we are making

[00:15:22] it worse come on yeah no and when it comes down to it a family is so significant in this issue and and that

[00:15:28] that brings me to a kind of a question I mean your your work ethic you can see through what you’ve done is incredible

[00:15:36] where did you get your work ethic from was that from your parents or did you did that develop along the way or how

[00:15:42] did that arise and you say work that’s explained well I’m looking at your what

[00:15:48] you did in college and how you were a violinist and you did all these different things and it’s and you got an

[00:15:54] MBA and it’s a lot of stuff so well I don’t know I my mom was a teacher maybe

[00:16:02] that maybe that was my problem she was constantly driving you forward

[00:16:07] well she yes and and and there were expectations yeah and I thing is you know when you have expectations high

[00:16:14] expectations people whatever expectations there are people will live up or down to them if you shoot for the

[00:16:21] stars maybe you land on a moon oh there you go but but you know will you will have you

[00:16:29] have will have may have made some type of success out of my mom was also our church organist so

[00:16:37] she required that we play keyboard and something else and so you know we were

[00:16:43] we were shuttled around to do stuff she kept us busy so we didn’t get into trouble and that’s what we lost didn’t

[00:16:50] have time I mean like with my boys with our boys they started instruments a little bit

[00:16:55] late because we were on the road so much with my husband speaking engagements but um when they started instruments I was

[00:17:04] afraid to teach him myself because it had been so long since I’ve been at that level and I remember it was a painful experience listening to myself practice

[00:17:11] at the beginning so and I didn’t watch the master you know we did find a

[00:17:16] teacher that lives close by and this teacher was so phenomenal that I mean the teacher can make such a big

[00:17:22] difference man was so phenomenal he had my kids reading music in three

[00:17:27] months they could read music and play in tune and on stringed instruments and if

[00:17:35] you guys can read we’re going to play so I started doing musical arrangements then I hadn’t done I hadn’t done much

[00:17:41] arranging before then but I started arranging you know writing you know different types of interpretations

[00:17:48] different things and it was kind of fun to play together and we practice and I

[00:17:54] tell you they knew that they had to play the music reasonably well or else we

[00:17:59] weren’t gonna that was a challenge of feet and I one of the last things we did

[00:18:05] was um one of my husband’s friend was getting married the second time and and I’m we were supposed to play at his

[00:18:10] wedding and the night before and we went to the rehearsal dinner and we got home

[00:18:15] about 11:00 and bayit kept putting it off they said no we can’t practice I got this I got that I said yes and I thought

[00:18:21] when we got home I walked in the door I said you know we got a practice don’t you yeah mom so here we were it’s 11:00

[00:18:28] at night we practice till 3:00 in the morning right well I mean you know baby

[00:18:33] they knew the drill and they kept putting it off so that’s what we did we practice till 3:00 in the morning we had

[00:18:38] to leave at 8:00 hey you do what you got to do because I have a I said you are not messing up this one is wedding that

[00:18:44] would be oh yeah nothing like that to drive you forward for sure I mean they were in

[00:18:49] high school so I mean that yeah they understood the drill but of course yeah so I was going to ask you you know with

[00:18:56] all this involved and I saw I was reading a little bit about you know Ben Carson and the involvement in politics

[00:19:02] and I read something that said that you were opposed to your husband participating in politics until you

[00:19:08] became a grandmother is that true that you you kind of changed that kind of changed your mind that was part of it

[00:19:14] I’m there but that yeah that was probably the biggest parse and what about what one thing was because God God

[00:19:20] was pointing him in that direction yeah like when he you know he wasn’t that particular about doing it to begin with

[00:19:25] me said God you know I don’t I’m not all that enthused about this but if you open

[00:19:32] the doors I will walk through it she shut them while we’ll gladly sit down and he kept open and doors I mean you

[00:19:37] know the money started coming to me he had over half a million signatures um you know on petitions you know was

[00:19:44] people asking them something they saying well gosh maybe I should think about it and it wasn’t something I was looking to

[00:19:51] do because he had just retired from medicine and during that 12 yeah you’re looking for a break you’re looking for a

[00:19:56] break right no I want my husband back yeah exactly so are you so so we could sit down in

[00:20:02] front of the fireplace and just eat popcorn you know and that’s not something that what happens but so are

[00:20:09] you happy that he didn’t then you didn’t get the nomination then are you allowed to say that on the air I’m you know I’m

[00:20:14] I am content with what we’re God has placed us mm-hmm I it still what wasn’t

[00:20:23] what I was I had signed up for yeah you know I mean it you know it you still I’m

[00:20:29] in as a cabinet member spouse you know there’s no handbook you don’t really

[00:20:35] know what you should be doing or what you shouldn’t be doing I mean there’s something to know you talk with the

[00:20:41] ethics department but but I’m still you know the kinds of things that you can or cannot do aren’t always readily

[00:20:48] available so that that’s that that’s the only thing about being in Washington DC

[00:20:53] and you know not having a really good idea of what things you can and cannot

[00:20:59] however um if something gets put on my heart and you know I’m pray about it and

[00:21:04] it turns out that you know that’s the same Scott wants me to do I do it so I ran into this wonderful lady who’s with

[00:21:12] the she’s a director of women’s initiatives for the Museum of the Bible and that’s a new museum that’s opening

[00:21:20] up the November I’m heard about this I was in Washington DC right so incredible

[00:21:26] yes you know the green family Hobby Lobby yes yes yes and they won that lawsuit the lawsuit they had were on

[00:21:33] being released they didn’t want to participate in a particularly health

[00:21:39] care program because it some of the funding would go towards abortions and

[00:21:45] they they didn’t believe in abortions because you know they felt that life is sacred one core sieved then unless you

[00:21:53] can make another one you shouldn’t take was a boy so anyway um they did win that and turns out when I was doing a little

[00:22:00] research I found out that the green family was mmm they were the largest collector of Torah scrolls yeah that’s

[00:22:07] that is incredible I want to talk a little bit more about that when we get back we’re coming up on a break my guest today is candy Carson she is the wife of

[00:22:14] Ben Carson and she’s involved with moms march usa.com that’s it on September

[00:22:20] 23rd in Omaha Nebraska but they’re doing online video and other things you can be

[00:22:25] involved with all across the country it’s incredible so if you’re a mother out there today or not

[00:22:31] if you want to support mothers I encourage you to get involved mom’s mark usa.com we will be right back

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[00:22:46] hi this is Jason hall president of team home loans a branch of synergy one

[00:22:51] lending I just want to take this opportunity to think Kevin Kahn over for the profound impact he’s had on mine and

[00:22:57] my wife’s spiritual life as well as being an incredible teacher while our kids were his students his knowledge and

[00:23:03] passion have taught us all how important it is to be defenders of our faith it’s our honor and privilege to support Kevin

[00:23:09] and his show is our sincere hope and prayer that you will continue to learn to be defenders of your faith through

[00:23:14] Kevin’s radio show and through his educate for life teachings thank you Kevin from the hall family and team Home

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[00:24:25] for tuning in to educate for life I’m your host Kevin Conover my website is joined educate for life dot o RG and if

[00:24:30] you want to pick up a recording of this show or any other shows you can go to my website you can also visit me on youtube

[00:24:37] as well as on the podcast it’s on iTunes my guest today is candy Carson wife of

[00:24:42] Ben Carson and she’s very involved with politics and of course her husband is

[00:24:47] Secretary of HUD and so we’re just getting her opinion on what it means to

[00:24:52] be a mom in today’s culture and how moms can influence the culture for good supporting the values that this country

[00:24:59] was founded on and one of the things that is going on right now with Hobby Lobby is they’re doing the Museum of the

[00:25:06] Bible in Washington DC and candy I wanted to ask you both about what’s happening there but also if somebody

[00:25:13] were to ask you as a mom how do you instill a strong Christian faith into your family along with something like

[00:25:19] the Museum of the Bible what advice would you give them but let’s pick up on the Museum of the Bible

[00:25:25] okay yes there’s some museum primarily

[00:25:31] donated by the green family of Hobby Lobby they did the initial investment

[00:25:37] it’s an eight building structure that’s been renovated and it is totally incredible there’s a ceiling that’s a

[00:25:45] hundred and forty feet long that’s digitized so that you can see the Sistine Chapel

[00:25:52] their home haha that’s crazy and five minutes later it’s kind of digitized into another form

[00:26:00] of biblical themed artwork from around the world I mean it just it can change

[00:26:06] and change and change them enough that’s one of the biggest things I mean it’s just incredible you know the doors I

[00:26:11] believe they’re 40 feet tall they look like brass I wasn’t able to get close because they

[00:26:18] had to now is it open is this museum open yet no no it opens I’m sorry I

[00:26:24] should have said that before it opens November 11th excuse me November 17th and so on 11:17 at 11:17

[00:26:35] in the morning there’s a bell that will ring it’s a replica of the Liberty Bell

[00:26:40] it’s tuned to the exact note e-flat the same one as the one in Philadelphia and

[00:26:45] when that bell rings the organization has coordinated with churches across the

[00:26:51] country for bells to ring same time that’s different is incredible at it but

[00:26:58] it’s the third largest museum but it’s privately funded you can still get them free but they do they ask for a donation

[00:27:04] but you know if you don’t have one now you’re just going in and they do have memberships that you can get online but

[00:27:10] um they like they have this it’s called something like flyby technology something like that is like IMAX only

[00:27:17] it’s in the round it’s all the way around you 360 degrees and there will be

[00:27:22] I don’t know how they film this stuff but it’s like totally panoramas all around a 60 degrees and it’s like you

[00:27:30] can fly through Washington DC you feel like you’re kind of flying and you’re going into buildings as you’re flying and you can see scripture that’s that’s

[00:27:39] inscribed on lost but that’s their chisel into walls and things all over don’t washington d.c i mean that kind of

[00:27:44] technology they’re on we also don’t have a place where in the children’s area they have very interactive where you can

[00:27:52] walk on water oh great and also one where you can be like fencing and not wall down honestly

[00:28:00] also have you know like area and you sink can you sink like peter and i can

[00:28:05] sink into the ocean I don’t know because I haven’t been on that and I can and it was closed at the

[00:28:10] time that I did the hard hat tour so I just I don’t know but um um it’s just there’s so many wonderful things there

[00:28:17] and even when you walk in you either get a little gizmo or you can put it on your phone you input how much time you have

[00:28:23] and what you’re interested in and it will give you a self-guided tour I mean they’ve got it all

[00:28:29] and out so that it’s a place where people can go to find out about our judeo-christian values you know there’s

[00:28:35] a lot of people in our country who’ve heard so much negative they have never set foot in a church

[00:28:41] oh yeah there’s so our culture right now is so skeptical and so antagonistic to our Christian faith and to the Bible and

[00:28:48] and so as far as you know your attitude

[00:28:53] towards how did you have such a strong faith in God and then what advice you

[00:29:00] know motherhood is hard being a mom is very difficult what advice might you give to somebody a young mother who’s

[00:29:05] says hey I’m afraid that my kids are gonna lose their faith along the way I hear that a lot

[00:29:11] as I’m a teacher and I’m a Bible teacher and I hear frequently people mom saying

[00:29:16] you know my kid is asking questions about God and I don’t know what to say and how do you how did you go about

[00:29:23] influencing your kids Christian faith yeah well well going back to your question about you know you don’t know

[00:29:29] what to say yeah I mean you can always tell it to let’s learn together hmm that’s a great answer okay it’s really

[00:29:36] okay to say that because you know you know I’m not sure but let’s find out you know let’s listen it is something we

[00:29:42] don’t understand we can go to the pastor and find out you know so I mean and I remember Ben’s mom Tom you know I hide

[00:29:49] it how did you do so much she was doing an interview and she stayed on her knees and she’s right that’s what yeah I think

[00:29:56] I mean I mean in Proverbs it says train up a child in the way he should go and when he’s old he won’t depart from it

[00:30:02] and you know it’s true if you if you you try to try to go or do things according

[00:30:10] to the way God would once you do you try to listen to him as much as you can you know if you hear something and you’re

[00:30:16] not quite sure say lord give me a sign no you know come through with something you know he’s cute he’s pretty good

[00:30:23] about it absolutely that’s that is the truth yeah you know but reading you know you we would read together reading

[00:30:31] through the Bible together we would open the Sabbath together and then close this attitude at the end of the day you know

[00:30:39] we took them to Bible studies and church as well and you know you always try to kind of look

[00:30:47] at the world through those rose-colored glasses the ones that are better colored by the Bible hmm yeah so you have a

[00:30:54] biblical perspective on things yeah now that’s fantastic now when you and and your husband got together did

[00:31:01] you both have the same perspective on things like faith and so forth what was were you both Bible believing Christians

[00:31:07] and how did that all work out that that how did you meet dr. Carson um you

[00:31:13] didn’t read the book did you hi I have not no I have to get that

[00:31:25] don’t get too much away don’t give too much away just enough to tease our listeners when I sign the contract all

[00:31:33] the money for the book goes towards charity anyway so I’m not promoting myself in this sense but um yeah we met

[00:31:41] in college we were both from the Detroit area and I had to go away to college in Connecticut to meet and let’s see we you

[00:31:51] know we didn’t hit it off at first I mean because there was I mean I was I was just trying to make sure I made it

[00:31:57] through the first year you know when you’re when you start out in you know public school and then you go to a high-powered Ivy League university it

[00:32:04] you know it said there’s a lot of challenges and you know so I was just trying to make sure that I kept my

[00:32:09] scholarship and that you know that I made it through and the second year I

[00:32:16] think was a year when we were recruiting for the school they sent us they actually they would pay your way over

[00:32:22] Thanksgiving we usually couldn’t afford to go home over Thanksgiving because we’re just another fund for it so there

[00:32:29] was some of us poor folks on campus while everybody else went over there to get back haha but anyway um that

[00:32:36] particular year they would pay for your pay your way well they paid for some of us you know though back to our our home

[00:32:42] areas and recruit at schools in the area so we did that and during that week we

[00:32:48] discovered we had an affinity for each other so on I won’t there was a mere accident where we

[00:32:54] almost died and look what I did read about that I didn’t

[00:32:59] matter what we just celebrate about five hundred and thirty fifth month of verse three so five and five months ago we

[00:33:07] almost died but God had something he wanted us to do and that’s why we’re still here so we’re gonna keep going and

[00:33:13] doing whatever it seems he wants us to do that’s really great that’s really great well we’re right up here against a

[00:33:18] break but I wanted to ask you when you come back what do you think is the most pressing issue for moms and families in

[00:33:24] our country today so when we get back my guess is candy Carson and we’ll give her a chance to answer that question we’ll be right back

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[00:35:40] there’s got to be welcome to educate for life I’m your host Kevin Conover if you’d like to

[00:35:47] visit me on YouTube you can go to educate for live video and you can also check us out on podcast we got all kinds

[00:35:53] of interviews I got former Muslims on the show former Buddhist I have a former

[00:35:58] lesbian who talked about how she met Christ and he changed her life she last left the homosexual lifestyle recently

[00:36:05] interviewed Denise Schick whose father told her that he wanted to be transgender at and when she was 9 years

[00:36:10] old and she has 13 years of experience counselling and ministering to transgender families or people that are

[00:36:17] influenced or are impacted by somebody in their life who wants to be transgender I also interview a lot of scientists on

[00:36:24] the show too recently interviewed dr. James tour one of the top 50 scientists in the world who says evolution there’s

[00:36:30] no evidence at all for evolution or that it could ever happen and as well as archeologists who talk about their

[00:36:36] discoveries that validate the truth of the Bible my guest today is candy Carson she is the wife of dr. ben Carson and

[00:36:42] also runs their foundation where they help kids to learn to have a love for

[00:36:50] reading and so forth and she’s also involved with the moms March for America which is being held on September 23rd

[00:36:56] and that’s mom’s marked usa.com that organization really I’m just gonna read

[00:37:02] their declaration here it says they have a few things here that they’re they’re declaring our rights come from God not

[00:37:08] government and the Constitution of the United States was created on the inspiration of Almighty God to secure

[00:37:13] our inherent rights and the Liberty for all people we recognize number two we recognize the sacred role of mother as

[00:37:19] the heart of the home and home as the heart of society number three mothers by their divine nature and intrinsic influence determine

[00:37:26] the future of a nation molded citizens determine its institutions and shape its destiny number let’s see here that was

[00:37:33] one two three four we’re on number four parents are first and foremost the primary teachers and protectors of their

[00:37:39] children in a free society number five we affirm the self-evident truths that all men and women are created equal

[00:37:45] endowed by the creator with certain unalienable rights and then the last one freedom is a rare and prized possession

[00:37:51] which requires constant care and vigilance for its preservation and so please get involved with the declaration

[00:37:58] of mothers you don’t have to live in Omaha Nebraska in order to be involved they’ve got stuff going on all over the

[00:38:04] country and I think it’s a very valuable thing that they’re doing here and so

[00:38:09] candy I was I was asking you what do you think is the most pressing issue for

[00:38:14] moms and families in our country today as being close to somebody who’s a part

[00:38:20] of the cabinet for Trump and what are the things that you’re hearing are the

[00:38:25] things that need to change and how do you feel about that oh that’s a loaded question I guess you

[00:38:36] know because as you were talking and I was I was trying to think you know like

[00:38:42] you said the most pressing thing you know our system of government is based on a well inform a little educated

[00:38:49] populace I said that before yeah but but part of that is learning how to think for yourself right now we’re living in a

[00:38:58] nation where the one business that’s protected by our Constitution the press

[00:39:05] and they’re protected because they’re supposed to keep everybody honest now we

[00:39:13] have the mainstream media that has their

[00:39:18] own agenda and they’re trying to manipulate things and what’s sad is with

[00:39:25] so many kids being taught to the tests and so on a lot of people aren’t

[00:39:31] thinking for themselves and really thinking is this really what happened

[00:39:36] does this really make sense could this could a possibly follow be sometimes you

[00:39:43] know or C or D is everything like in a role like it should be they’re kind of just accepting accepting what they hear

[00:39:49] rather than critically thinking about it well yeah and the sad thing is because a

[00:39:55] lot of it I remember hearing and I haven’t seen the article in New York or something they put something out saying

[00:40:00] that I was my husband’s shadow and going around I mean I be growing around money

[00:40:06] goes on his egos on these listening tours to try to find out what’s really happening in the trenches

[00:40:12] you know so that we know what really works so that he knows excuse me let me put it that way she could because it

[00:40:19] really is about him but while I’m there I get to see so many wonderful things going on and and all over the country

[00:40:25] how people are coming together with public-private partnerships and finding ways to solve our problems with with

[00:40:32] housing and and one of the things that that he has been espousing is the idea

[00:40:38] of not only finding out who’s homeless but then finding out why they’re homeless

[00:40:43] yeah and then also fixing that and using that what must once you take care of

[00:40:50] their homelessness using that as a springboard so that they can take advantage of the American dream so that

[00:40:56] eventually there will be no homelessness at all but you know that it’s it’s just

[00:41:02] that that kind of thing doesn’t get out there because our mainstream media doesn’t feel that that’s newsworthy yeah

[00:41:12] you know it’s but it is and the conflict a lot of times that sells you know right instead of them yeah well it and and I’m

[00:41:19] not sure if it’s the sponsors if it’s you know who’s at the top of these media

[00:41:25] change but but on the thing of it is you have to you have to look at more than one outlet and try to get both sides of

[00:41:31] of any story because too often the stories are just loaded with falsehoods

[00:41:37] I mean it’s really sad that there there are some better and and sometimes the news is opinion and you know they ask

[00:41:44] someone well what do you think so and so is going to do about that and what who’s going to do and that’s not news you know

[00:41:49] let’s put stuff out there about the good things that are happening also you know that will encourage others to do more

[00:41:56] you notice in the with the flooding and it’s really sad that that we have to go through this but but it’s bringing out

[00:42:03] the best and our people have you noticed that yeah are helping each other yeah yeah you know why they’re helping each

[00:42:09] other is because these people’s moms and dads showed them that that was the way

[00:42:14] and then there’s the positive peer pressure that for others that may not have had that experience you know

[00:42:21] they’re helping out too you know so that so that’s why it’s important as moms that we need to try to instill the

[00:42:28] right things in our children so that first of all you learn to think for themselves and they know right from

[00:42:33] wrong because it’s not someone’s opinion it’s exactly there is a right way and

[00:42:39] there’s a wrong way now there’s some some other ways you know and a lot of times like when it comes to Washington DC and and maybe there’s a goal there

[00:42:47] you know I think everybody pretty much really has the same goal if we’re

[00:42:52] thinking of the constituents first then we want what’s best for the country but when something else takes precedent over

[00:42:59] that then you have what we have now and that’s what’s really sad is because a

[00:43:05] lot of our politicians are not they’re

[00:43:11] not really representing us yeah they’re not representing well they’re they’re oftentimes self-serving and there’s that

[00:43:18] conflict right between us yeah what’s going to be good for me and what’s going to be good for the people that I’m supposed to make legislative things for

[00:43:25] themselves that perks and things and it’s really it’s amazing on some of the stuff that you see but there’s still a

[00:43:32] few I think you can get through too I mean it by being more than a few I don’t

[00:43:38] I don’t know I just know that there are quite a few of them who have their own agenda and they’re sticking with the

[00:43:44] agenda over everything else there are those who really do care about constituents but maybe they’ve made some

[00:43:51] deals right you know I don’t I don’t know all of the history of it sure but and I don’t know everybody’s each and

[00:43:56] every person’s background on it but right now most of the cabinet members do

[00:44:02] not have their deputies in place and they’re having to do all the work and all the top-level work themselves and so

[00:44:08] they’re moving forward but but but they’re not moving it as fast a clip as

[00:44:14] they could my husband finally got with his first deputy secretaries that hadn’t been sworn in yet but so so they’re not

[00:44:21] at work but but he still you know he had to learn a lot of stuff himself you know because and I mean and it’s a good thing

[00:44:28] I mean he’s you know he’s saying that it has been good for him to know all the background but then again if you had

[00:44:34] your people in place you could have been getting a lot more done so exactly it’s kind of sad that you

[00:44:40] know that we’re at that place however we do have dedicated people in there now who care and and wouldn’t wouldn’t do it

[00:44:47] I mean well put yourself through the wringer like that you know it’s and that now sort of Reese I don’t say it don’t

[00:44:54] run don’t run because why put yourself through the wringer I mean they’re going to be saying all kind of negative things

[00:44:59] about you that I grew yeah and so on but but the good thing is we’ve got dedicated people who don’t need the

[00:45:05] acclaim who don’t need the money and dah dah dah but they’re willing to do what needs to be done to get our country back

[00:45:12] to where it was that’s fantastic well kandi thank you so much for being on the

[00:45:17] show today I really appreciate it and you know my wife and I will be praying very much for you and for your husband

[00:45:24] as he serves in the cabinet and just the support that he needs through you and we

[00:45:30] just thank you for what you represent we’re so glad that you’re involved with our government and we love you guys very

[00:45:36] much love the fact that you love God in the Bible and that’s your perspective so well please pray for the whole

[00:45:42] administration because we’ve got some people that are getting snares and snipe

[00:45:47] debt and all that but they’re really working hard I mean I think of general Kelly and and Karen and and I you know I

[00:45:54] think are the Pence’s and I think is you know of course Trump I mean he’s you know he’s getting a lot of fire oh yeah

[00:45:59] but but you know I mean it’s not like he’s not getting some things done Sean Hannity had had on one of his programs

[00:46:07] he was saying some of the things that he had gotten done that we weren’t hearing about and it’s really sad that that’s

[00:46:12] not out there as news you know but it’s it’s just but the good thing is we can

[00:46:18] think for ourselves and we don’t have to just take whatever they say lying down

[00:46:23] that’s right yeah sure that you got a full understanding of what’s going on because if there are those who want to

[00:46:29] pull the wool over our eyes yeah that’s absolutely true well thank you so much candy again thank you for being on the

[00:46:34] program today and candy is involved with moms March for America that’s happening

[00:46:40] on September 23rd please go to their website mom’s mark usa.com this is an

[00:46:45] opportunity for moms who love the Bible who love God their families who you know have these

[00:46:52] conservative values to get involved in and to join together rather than working independently but to team up work

[00:46:59] together and to make a difference in this country and moms are awesome and so

[00:47:05] I hope you’re having a fantastic Saturday today and we will be back next week also so god bless you and have a

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[00:49:03] welcome to educate for life I’m your host Kevin Conover if you’re a homeschooling parent I’ve designed a

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[00:49:21] develop a strong faith in Jesus Christ and the Bible and I just had a candy Carson on the show with me and the wife

[00:49:28] of dr. ben Carson and you know the moms marked USA is coming up it’s not too far

[00:49:33] away here September 23rd Omaha Nebraska and they’re doing an incredible job Kimberly Fletcher is the one who’s

[00:49:40] putting that on she’s homemakers of America oh our G and the stats on what

[00:49:47] mom’s the impact moms have is amazing I was looking up some stats from George

[00:49:52] Barna he’s a statistician he’s he does a whole all kinds of studies surveys these sorts of things on a variety of subjects

[00:49:59] he’s a Christian statistician and what’s happening right now in our culture is that moms are battling between the pool

[00:50:07] to work and to or be at home and that’s a struggle as an ongoing struggle this

[00:50:14] is what he says moms rank family is their number one priority and report that it’s also their top time commitment

[00:50:20] seven out of ten say family takes the lion’s share of their time and no other commitment comes close the nearest

[00:50:26] competitor for time is career with just over two and ten moms saying they spend most of their hours each week at work

[00:50:32] here’s the biggest disparity between priorities and obligations mom’s rank career last on their list of priorities

[00:50:39] after family personal development church and friendships but second on their list of time commitments so the significance

[00:50:46] of course here is that um it seems like from this study that moms want to be

[00:50:51] home with their families they rank that very very high and yet even though work

[00:50:58] is ranked last a lot of them have work as second in reality in their lives so

[00:51:04] what you’re looking at is this disparity where work is is less important to them

[00:51:09] but they’re they’re having to do that because they don’t know how else to get around it and I guess what I would like

[00:51:15] to encourage you moms out there is that’s a that’s very difficult and you and you fathers too right it’s

[00:51:22] very difficult to try to make ends meet especially if you’re living in somewhere where homes are expensive and and or

[00:51:28] rent is expensive and so but I really encourage you to reach out to your

[00:51:34] friends at church and other places just try to say how did you make this work how are you able to to do that because

[00:51:41] I’d like to be able to stay home I’ve talked with different teachers at my work who want to stay home with their

[00:51:47] kids and they just really struggle to be able to do that they’re battling back and forth but they want to be home but

[00:51:52] they just can’t figure out a way to make that happen and I would just say you know the old

[00:51:58] adage a – a Dacian right I don’t know what that is right the where there’s a will there’s a way and so try to figure

[00:52:06] out a way to make that happen here’s another stat from George Barna he says according to another Barna study

[00:52:13] women who are raising children are among the most faith minded and spiritually active segments of the American

[00:52:18] population the study explored faith fellated activities commitments and perspectives relying upon nationally

[00:52:24] representative interviews among more than 10,000 adults in nearly 2000 women who are currently parenting children

[00:52:29] under the age of 18 the study shows that more than three-quarters of moms identify family to be their highest

[00:52:35] priority at the same time a majority of mothers strongly agree that their faith is very important in their life in

[00:52:40] contrast fathers also tend to list family as their top priority in life yet they are much less likely to equally

[00:52:46] attribute importance to faith and this is an interesting thing I think women tend to be more relational than men and

[00:52:53] really the studies show that this is the case when men and women get old that the study I was reading said that women have

[00:53:00] on average 5 close friends men have on our two old men have on average 0 and so

[00:53:06] what happens is men tend to be more intellectual and less relational women tend to be more relational and generally

[00:53:13] speaking they’re less focused on facts and and you know these sorts of things

[00:53:18] and so the difficulty with a guy a lot of times is that he’s looking for facts

[00:53:24] to go with his faith and a woman oftentimes is looking for relationships

[00:53:29] to go with her and and so my challenge to you guys out

[00:53:34] there again it’s kind of a self-promotion of what I do but I teach apologetics I teach why our faith is

[00:53:43] rational logical intellectual and so check check out my curriculum online you

[00:53:48] can check out some of my radio shows I interview all kinds of experts on science and the Bible and a plenty of

[00:53:55] scientists out there who say hey look it science and the Bible go perfectly well together and as you begin to explore

[00:54:02] Christianity and the facts behind Christianity you go WOW hey the truth of the Bible matches right up perfectly

[00:54:08] with my faith and hopefully then what happens is your faith is not secondary

[00:54:15] anymore it becomes an important aspect of your life rather than something

[00:54:21] that’s just on the back burner because God is real and there’s no denying that

[00:54:26] there’s no way to get around that if you’re a local to San Diego we’re having

[00:54:32] a debate coming up on September 26th it’s between Dan Barker who is the president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation and dr. Andy McIntosh who was

[00:54:39] an expert in thermodynamics and he’s from Leeds in the United Kingdom and

[00:54:45] he’s a scientist so we’re gonna have this dialogue between science and faith does a theist make sense of reality does

[00:54:53] agnosticism make sense of reality God is intimately involved in our lives and there’s plenty of evidence to show that

[00:54:58] that’s the case so my encouragement to you if you’re a guy out there who says hey I need facts not faith there are

[00:55:05] plenty of facts to support the truth of Christianity you don’t have to rely on some sort of blind faith or just kind of

[00:55:12] guessing or hoping and that Christianity is true there are numerous evidences for

[00:55:18] the truth of Christianity I’ll give you one of them for one of my favorites evidences for the truth of God is that a

[00:55:25] single cell okay that your your smallest form of life a single cell is made up of

[00:55:31] approximately 250 proteins and those proteins are all arranged perfectly in

[00:55:37] order to make a single cell a single protein the proteins that make up life

[00:55:42] are made up of 20 different amino acids and so those amino acids have to be put together in order to just bright in

[00:55:49] order to make a protein and then those proteins which aren’t a light alive have to be put together just right in order to make a single cell the stats on this

[00:55:57] that you can look this up Doug axe has done all the numbers on this but the

[00:56:02] chances of a single cell actually a single protein coming into existence by

[00:56:08] itself with no purpose or design and no creator is one in 10 to the 160 for one

[00:56:15] chance out of 10 to the 164 now consider that number that number is gigantic it’s

[00:56:20] huge it actually surpasses the amount of

[00:56:26] molecules in the known universe or the amount of seconds that evolutionists say

[00:56:31] has passed since the Big Bang has existed or Big Bang happened supposedly

[00:56:37] so this is not we are not a product of chance a single cell is not a product of

[00:56:42] chance we’re ten trillion 10 billion cells all put together perfectly we are

[00:56:48] not a product of chance we are product of design and very careful design and the god who made us is obviously

[00:56:54] extremely intelligent and because of the fact that we each have personality we

[00:56:59] also know he’s personable so I challenge you take a look at my classes online joined I educate for life org take a

[00:57:07] look at them go through them the first ten classes was all about the science issues we look at thermodynamics

[00:57:13] cosmology what’s called the anthropic principle we look at genetics and we

[00:57:18] look at all these tough questions and we go hey which is more probable that God exists or that he doesn’t exist and if

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