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37. Unoriginal on Purpose with Hilary Draftz

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As someone who speaks, teaches, or preaches for a living, one of the last things I would want to be called is “unoriginal”. I associate that word “unoriginal” with words like boring, lame, predictable or unimaginative. And one of my biggest fears as a communicator, especially one for the Gospel of Jesus Christ, is having people use any of those words to describe me or my speaking. And yet there it is, unoriginal, even with all of it’s negative connotations, is PRECISELY a word all Catholic speakers need to aspire to. My mind was changed through my conversation today with Hilary Draftz, the West Area Director for FOCUS, as she used this word, unoriginal, to describe an important conviction she has about speaking to Catholic audiences. Stick around to find out what in the heck she is talking about!