105. More Than Your Scars (with Kechi Okwuchi) | God Hears Her Podcast

We all have our own scars. Maybe they are in obvious places where people ask the story behind them. Or maybe they’re internal without anyone knowing about them. No matter what they look like or mean to you…you are more than your scars. On this episode of God Hears Her, plane crash survivor and America’s Got Talent finalist, Kechi Okwuchi, shares the story behind her scars with hosts Elisa Morgan and Eryn Eddy.

About Our Guest:

Kechi Okwuchi is a Nigerian American recording artist and motivational speaker. One of two survivors in a plane crash in 2005, Kechi is now a burn survivor advocate and a national patient ambassador for Shriners Children’s Hospital in Galveston, Texas. In 2017, she became a finalist on America’s Got Talent and has continued to put out her own original music since the show. She hopes to use her story and musical talents to ignite hope.

Notes and Quotes: 

• Pain is a strong indicator of life. —Kechi Okwuchi
• The more I watched my mom’s relationship with God, I noticed her unshakable confident faith, and I was curious.—Kechi Okwuchi
• I was one of two survivors out of 109 passengers on the plane.—Kechi Okwuchi
• I couldn’t understand how God could be good but also let all those children die.—Kechi Okwuchi
• I used to believe if you believed in God, you were protected from bad things. But my mom helped me realize being a Christian does not stop bad things from happening to you, but it gives you a place to go when bad things happen to you.—Kechi Okwuchi
• South Africa saved my life, but America gave my life back.—Kechi Okwuchi
• I had a platform to tell people there is life after trauma.—Kechi Okwuchi

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• Elisa’s Instagram: elisa morgan author
• Eryn’s Instagram: eryneddy
• Check out Kechi’s book More than My Scars