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I am sharing a profound story that has shaped my life in unimaginable ways. This journey, from despair to hope, is one I hope will inspire you as deeply as it has transformed me. My story begins in Moscow, Russia. When I was seven, my father lost his job and turned to alcohol, leaving my mother, who was financially dependent on him, to fend for us. Hunger became a constant companion. At eight, I collected bottles to buy bread and even stole food from classmates. This trauma of constant hunger haunted me into adulthood, making me stock my pantry excessively. Did you know that in the US, 34 million people, including 9 million children, live in food-insecure households? At nine, I was hospitalized with tuberculosis due to malnutrition. For the first time, I felt safe, away from the chaos at home. Our struggles worsened when we moved outside Moscow. We lived in a cramped apartment with my aunt’s family, facing eviction threats due to my father’s debts. My grandmother saved us by selling her jewelry for plane tickets, preventing us from becoming homeless. At 20, I came to the US on a scholarship. I climbed the corporate ladder, acquiring wealth but feeling something was missing. Four years ago, I had a profound spiritual experience, leading me to feed the hungry in Atlanta. This encounter sparked my mission to help others.
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Ana Megrelishvili is the visionary founder of the Christian Professionals Network Worldwide (CPNW) in Atlanta, Georgia, where she skillfully blends her passion for positive change with actionable initiatives. CPNW transcends traditional networking by integrating business relationships with service-oriented values, fostering global community transformation. Grounded in Christian principles, Ana ensures CPNW serves as a collaborative hub, uniting leaders to pursue societal betterment. The foundation’s mission is to combat relational poverty through faith and community. CPNW pairs mentors with shelter residents, encouraging regular church attendance and community integration, providing a consistent support network to help them build positive relationships and professional connections. Over a year, mentors provide support, fostering a community of encouragement and love. Monthly networking events not only facilitate professional connections but also spotlight local non-profits, offering hope and inspiration. Graduates of the program join a networking community, with membership funded by CPNW’s for-profit business, enhancing their career opportunities and ensuring sustained success. Ana’s dedication extends to her roles as a board member for Gift-Wrapping Stars for Children and chair of the Saprea gala committee, where she leverages her expertise to uplift vulnerable communities. Her impact is also reflected in her literary contributions, sharing her journey of healing and resilience in her book, “Finding Courage to Change,” and in “Powerful Female Immigrants: Volume 3,” which narrates her inspiring journey from Georgia to the US. Co-authoring “Success Redefined” with Jack Canfield, Ana has earned recognition as an Amazon Best-Selling Author. Her academic credentials include a BS in Business Management from Berea College and an MBA from the University of Kentucky, completed in just 11 months. Ana’s unwavering commitment to fostering faith-based community support and professional growth continues to inspire and transform lives worldwide.
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Ana Megrelishvili Part One Transcript
[00:00:00] Welcome to the Wounds of the Faithful podcast, brought to you by DSW Ministries. Your host is singer, songwriter, speaker, and domestic violence advocate, Diana Winkler. She is passionate about helping survivors in the church heal from domestic violence and abuse and trauma. This podcast is not a substitute for professional counseling or qualified medical help.[00:00:26] Now, here is Diana.[00:00:33] Hello, everyone. Welcome back to the podcast, The Wounds of the Faithful. I hope that in your neck of the woods, the weather is great. I’m not going to mention the current events because by the time you hear this interview, all the current events are probably old news. Because I’m recording way ahead of time out of [00:01:00] popularity, everybody’s been contacting me to record interviews, so who am I to turn them down?[00:01:08] I’ve got a wonderful lady today on the podcast, Ana Megrelishvili, and she is coming on to tell us her story. She is from Eastern Europe and a survivor of abuse and racism and poverty, child abuse. She did come to the United States to go to school on a scholarship, and then she’s going[00:01:37] to tell us how she met Jesus along that journey. The twists and turns of her life and going to see what she is doing today. The ministry that God’s led her to. She was in corporate America and now she is helping others to heal and bringing Christians together to [00:02:00] network. She also does these silent retreats that are Very intriguing.[00:02:06] You’ve probably been on a retreat, a men’s retreat or a ladies retreat with your church or scout troops or some kind of a business retreat. This one is completely silent. She goes to I’m interested in hearing what that’s about,[00:02:24] but I’ve heard her on other podcasts and she is a Fabulous speaker and she tells her story very well. And it is amazing her journey that she has gone through. I know you’re going to enjoy Anna and her conversation with me today.[00:02:42] Without further ado, here’s Ana.[00:02:45] I am so glad to have my guest today, Ana Megrelishvili. Welcome to the podcast. Thank you so much. It’s such an honor to be here. I really love your name. You are [00:03:00] from The country of Georgia, is that right? Not the city, not, not the state of Georgia. Well, it’s, it’s funny. I am from country, Georgia and Eastern Europe, and I currently live in the state Georgia, so it’s pretty confusing.[00:03:17] Oh, wow. And I don’t know anything about Georgia, the country. What is it like? It’s, it’s different now and it was completely different when I was growing up. So it’s almost like when I was growing up it was still recovering from the collapse of the Soviet Union, very, developing third world, like I grew up not having electricity all the time, no hot water.[00:03:43] Just really failed state of affairs and now that I go back it’s really has come so far. It’s really like a European country now, very, much more developed. Women’s roles are a lot more advanced than when I was growing up. [00:04:00] So it’s changed quite a bit, but it has a really rich history, rich culture, amazing food.[00:04:07] I love going back every year. Oh, wow. Now you were a immigrant from Georgia to Russia. Is that right? Yes. So I I have an interesting story. I think from birth I just love to make an entrance. So I actually was born on a moving train. Yes, so my mother was traveling from, well, back then it was still Soviet Union, but geographically from Moscow, Russia to Georgia for the summer holidays, and I decided to come a month early.[00:04:43] and surprise everyone. And so my mother went into labor while in the middle of nowhere in Russia. And so gave birth to me on a moving train. So I joke that even from birth, I really like to make an entrance into this world. Yeah, [00:05:00] but then, my family is from Georgia, but we lived in Russia since I was two until I was twelve.[00:05:08] And it was an interesting dynamic back then. So Russia was going through this war with this region called Chechnya, and it’s this region in the Caucasus Mountains. And look wise for those who are just listening, I have very dark hair, I have brown eyes, but most Russians really are blonde, blue eyed.[00:05:29] And We stood out in the community. And so when I was growing up, there was this really big wave of racism toward people who looked like me because of the war. Hmm. And so they had this term that they called us. And so in Russian it’s and it translates as black as. And so that was the term that was used.[00:05:53] Toward people who look like me, even as a child. I heard this from children in school, [00:06:00] from people just like driving in cars. And so it’s really interesting that, technically I’m white, But then, I experienced this kind of racism growing up in Russia. And so it really put this kind of I don’t know, trauma on me thinking that I was ugly, right?[00:06:17] Because when you don’t fit into a society where standard of beauty is something completely different for what you look like, I just felt very ugly. I was not, set to, to amount for anything. So there’s an interesting dynamic because, when I moved back to Georgia, where most people look like me, and suddenly as a 12 year old, I had all this attention from boys.[00:06:43] And I was like, well, this is weird. What’s happening here? I am, suddenly in the middle of attention. Interesting dynamic, just never felt like I fit in in Russia. And then my parents made a mistake that I think many parents make when they [00:07:00] are immigrants in a different country.[00:07:02] They didn’t teach me Georgian language. I spoke Russian. And so when I moved back to Georgia, I didn’t speak the language. So yet again, I felt like an outsider in my own culture and had to learn the language, had to, get acclimated and into it. And so this kind of continued when I moved to the United States by myself.[00:07:25] And so I never felt. Like I belonged anywhere. I always felt I don’t know where I belong, and we’ll, we’ll get to it, but part of it also, like I was atheist most of my life, so I didn’t have perspective, godly perspective of who I was as a, as a human, as a daughter of God.[00:07:43] So felt very lost for a very, very long time. So that’s just kind of part of the storyline. So as all of this kind of external dynamic going on culturally and politically in my own family, then there’s this whole [00:08:00] turmoil happening at the same time. So I grew up in a family where really generational trauma kept passing on generation to generation.[00:08:09] I Four generations on my mother’s side and three generations on my father’s side. And as I started looking, really, the story repeated itself from my great grandmother all the way down to me. And my, my father was an abusive alcoholic. That was really passed on to him from my grandfather because he was an abusive alcoholic within his family.[00:08:38] And so what my father was seeing growing up, and then the abused became the abuser, which, as is very common and it happens and it’s quite rare to be the breaker of that cycle. And so I became the breaker of that cycle because I was seeing this and it always felt like I did not belong in my family.[00:08:59] I, sometimes [00:09:00] I felt like I was adopted or something because I’m like, I don’t want to be even associated with this, and My father sexually abused me since age eight until 13. And so my childhood was really snatched away from me by my own father. It’s a trauma that really happens to a lot of women and some men as well.[00:09:24] But it’s a taboo topic. Most of the time people don’t really talk about it. And it’s such a shameful. Shameful, shameful topic. But I do want to talk about, so I’m an advocate against child sexual abuse and I talk about trauma and how it affects us long term. What this ends up doing to us is making us feel very, very isolated.[00:09:49] I can almost guarantee in every room that I walk in, even, People will be listening. There will be somebody who experienced it at some point in their lives, [00:10:00] right? And a lot of the times there’s this shame that we carry. I want to talk about the effects that trauma has on us. I want to share my personal story.[00:10:12] For me it morphed into me becoming a hyperachiever. So, That’s one of the flip coin sides of the trauma. When you experience child sexual abuse, you basically think that You’re not as worthy as other people. And so for me, I overcompensated. So I worked so hard to study, to get the best education, to get the best jobs in the detriment to my health.[00:10:42] Health really work became escape from my thoughts from from the past. And it got to the point where, and I’m not talking the cute oh, I just work so much. No, I took it to the extreme where. I would even [00:11:00] be only watching, allowing myself to watch TV if I was productive at the same time. And that meant I was either cleaning, I was ironing, or I was cooking, like it had to be all productive at this all the time.[00:11:12] And so what would end up happening is every year, I would get so physically sick because my body would just, just needed that rest. And that was, would be the only time I would allow myself to rest, to just lay on the couch, watch TV and really recover and rest. And God teaches us in the Bible that rest is just as important as work.[00:11:38] There is a reason why we’re supposed to recharge, but I really didn’t allow myself to do that. And so this happened for many, many years to the point where, I was a workaholic climbing that corporate ladder. I, wealth acquisition became my god. I, didn’t really have communities and have friends because all I focused on [00:12:00] is work, work, work.[00:12:01] Right? That’s that was one of the effect of the trauma. The other one that was very interesting is, for many years, I logically explained to myself why I didn’t want to have children. And it was completely logical explanation like my lifestyle does not allow for children. I can help more children if I don’t have any, I don’t need to have children to be fulfilled. All these messages and I didn’t even realize that this was all my trauma response until I started going through all this different healing. And we will talk about all the healing that I’ve gone through, but at some point it felt like a switch.[00:12:46] Like it just turned on and next day unexpectedly during this breakthrough in my healing, I just suddenly wanted to have children and I wanted to be a mother. And so I shared this [00:13:00] story not because I believe that every woman is supposed to be a mother. No, that’s entirely a woman’s choice. But I shared this story because I am truly passionate that every survivor of any abuse makes their decision, whatever the decision is, because it’s truly their decision and it’s not trauma dictating[00:13:23] their decision. Because think about my story. My trauma could have deprived me from experiencing something so beautiful. Now, I don’t know if God hasn’t planned for me to have children, right? It hasn’t happened yet. But I know that whatever it’s going to be, it’s now my choice. It is not trauma dictating it.[00:13:45] And I’m truly passionate sharing this story so that people understand that sometimes it’s so engraved in us. We don’t even understand ourselves that well, because it’s coming from so long [00:14:00] ago from our childhood. Yeah. Thank you for mentioning that. I don’t think anybody’s ever mentioned, I don’t want to have children because of the trauma.[00:14:09] You even with your abuse and your background, you felt that your value as a woman was just based on, okay, the chores you could do, or what kind of husband you could get, or, birth and babies that was instilled into that culture, right?[00:14:29] Right. So when I was growing up, it’s a little bit different now that, it’s incredible how generation just changed. But when I was growing up my own family would tell me like, Oh, your future is just, you’re going to get married at 16 and you’re going to have children and that’s your future.[00:14:47] Right. And it’s really a miracle that I am even here because imagine, growing up as a woman and, young woman, and everybody’s telling you. Your only worthiness is [00:15:00] by what kind of husband you can attract, right? There’s really no, no other value to you. And, in my culture, I had a brother and my brother was not required to do anything at home.[00:15:12] He didn’t even have to make his own bed. Well, I, since age 12, was basically a housekeeper. Like I did entire cleaning and, washing dishes. And then eventually, cooking and more and more as I grew up. And to the point where like my father was not working, he was sitting on the couch or laying on the couch while I was doing homework, but yet I had to be interrupted by homework if he wanted to get coffee, I had to get up, go make him coffee, bring coffee, like very servant attitude toward women.[00:15:45] Right? And I want to really bring this story here that the only reason why I’m here is really because of God, but back then I didn’t even know it was God. Okay. So I grew up in a society where everybody called [00:16:00] themselves Orthodox Christian, but Really, it was very cultural and it’s very like ritualistic.[00:16:08] People went to church to do certain rituals. They didn’t even know why they were doing it. I didn’t know who Jesus was. It was just like, we went to church to light candles because everybody else. And I had this moment And only now after I know, God, I can recollect that story and know that this was the first time I’ve encountered God’s voice, but I didn’t know it back then.[00:16:34] So I was 12 or 13 and it was a break between classes and I was standing outside in the school courtyard and I don’t have really a lot of memories from my childhood that are very clear. My brain just shut that part of my life. But this particular memory is crystal clear, like it happened yesterday.[00:16:56] So I still remember even cracks in the [00:17:00] road and what weather was, what I was wearing. And I was standing and suddenly it seemed like everything around me just has gotten quiet and still. And I heard this voice say, You are meant for more than this life. And it was such a powerful message. And I thought that it was me speaking, right?[00:17:21] All this for the most part, 20 plus years after that encounter, I believed it was my voice. I talked to myself to say that you are meant to do for more than this life. But after I learned, who God was, and I really had this awakening. And I’ll talk about that here shortly. Looking back, I was like, Oh, that was the first time God spoke and it was God.[00:17:48] Because if I was talking about myself, why would I say you are meant? I would have said, I am meant for more than this. And first of all, and then the second of all, like why would a [00:18:00] little girl who’s been told from her childhood, she’s nothing, she’s worthless, right? She’s not meant for much. suddenly have this powerful message inside, right?[00:18:11] That’s just God speaking. And that was really a turning point in my life because suddenly it felt like fire was just burning inside of me. And I was like, I am going to get out of this life no matter what I will figure out a way to get out of here. So that was really an important encounter with God.[00:18:32] So as I was growing up my chance came when I was 20, I got full scholarship to come to Berea College in Kentucky. So I immigrated to the United States by myself, started my life over. Then I stayed for master’s and then build my career. And so like really was really determined to make something of myself and build wealth and, experience all [00:19:00] this life.[00:19:01] What did your family think of that? At that point, I really was not dependent on my family. I was already working by myself and I just didn’t ask, I’m leaving , I need to get out. And and it’s interesting, when I came, my mother finally divorced my father, only after I left.[00:19:25] And one thing I wanted to mention is that my mother didn’t know about the abuse until after I was close to graduating college in the United States and she was divorced. She didn’t know about it. I was carrying this burden by myself for so many years. And it’s common, it’s so common on average, it takes a survivor over 20 years to even say it out loud that happened to them.[00:19:52] And some never do. But if if anybody is right now listening that has experienced it and has been [00:20:00] carrying it just by themselves, I want you to know that speaking about it is a very important journey in your healing. And I hope that you can find somebody who you could tell your story.[00:20:13] They don’t need to say anything. You just need somebody who will just listen. That’s a really important. Part of the healing journey as a survivor. Yes. Yeah. And As I was living in the United States, I was an atheist the entire time. So I want to tell the story of kind of how God moved, because that was really supernatural.[00:20:35] I think he knew with me, he had to do something drastic to wake me up. I’m here in Atlanta, I was making a lot of money. I was in this corporate sales career. I could take any vacation I wanted, but yet that always felt like something was missing. I just remember I had this big dream of buying my own condo in the big city, and I [00:21:00] achieved it in 2020.[00:21:01] And so I renovated it and like it, it looks exactly the way I dreamed and a month goes by and I’m sitting on my couch and I’m thinking, okay, now what? I’ve achieved what I thought will be the happiest thing I will ever do. And a month later, again, I am unsatisfied and I’m wondering what’s next.[00:21:27] So this question just kept being repeated in my head, like there has to be more to life. Like I cannot just continue just working so that I can buy the next thing. And then feel a month later that again, I need to find a different goal. So a few months go by and I get awakened one night in the middle of the night at 3 AM wide awake, and I’ve never prayed in my life , and that night I felt compelled to pray.[00:21:59] So I just [00:22:00] said, God, if you exist, can you tell me what the purpose of my life is? Like, why do I feel this way? And what followed was quite supernatural. I heard an audible voice outside of myself, gave me specific instructions. Go to the store, prepare lunches, feed the hungry. I freaked out thinking am I dreaming?[00:22:26] Pinching myself somehow managed to go back to sleep. I was like, I’m going to deal with it in the morning. And then when I woke up in the morning, I knew that what I experienced was real, and so I called in to work, and I told them I can come in to work today, and I followed the instructions. So I went to the store, I bought the supplies, and then I made 24 bags of lunches.[00:22:52] Packed them all up, got in my car and started driving downtown Atlanta where I currently live. So in the [00:23:00] past I’ve seen a lot of homeless in the downtown area, so I just started driving. Every time I would come across a homeless person, I would stop, offer them lunch, keep going, right? So I was doing it for about an hour and then I come across a group hanging out together.[00:23:18] I parked my car. I count them and I have exact number of lunches in my bag, which I was like, wow, that’s weird. So I get the whole big bag, walk over and I say, Hey guys, I packed some lunches. Would you like some lunches? Everybody’s happy. Give them all out. Okay, I’m done for the day. I fulfilled the instructions.[00:23:39] I was about to get in the car and suddenly one of the homeless ladies calls me and she says, honey, come over here. So I walked back over and she says, I have a gift for you. And I’m like, wow. A homeless woman has a gift for me? I should be giving you more than lunch, I’m [00:24:00] just like, wow, what’s happening?[00:24:02] And so she has this big bag that has all of her belongings. So she’s ramaging through it, looking for this thing. Finally, she finds it and she pulls it out and she hands it to me with a smile. And so I look at it and it’s this little bird made out of clay and it’s a sparrow. And on its chest, it was written, Now in God’s hands.[00:24:25] And when I read that phrase, I just burst into tears. I felt like something, just lightning struck my heart, right? I just was sobbing in the car and the same phrase kept repeating, God is real. God is real. God is real. And so I knew God was calling me. So I drive home. And I order my very first Bible from Amazon.[00:24:54] So the Bible arrives the next day. So I start reading it cover to [00:25:00] cover. And, as I’m reading it, I’m not really understanding half of the things that are written in it. So I said, okay, I need help figuring this out. So then I Google past churches in Atlanta, like you would Google a restaurant and basically pick a church based on reviews.[00:25:17] And I just started going. So then I started going to church and I, was learning more and more and I was like, okay, okay. So starting understanding this is what it means to be follower of Jesus. And so as I’m learning, I’m also understanding that I need to make some changes in my life. Like the way I’ve been living, I cannot continue living this way so that I can truly live God centered life.[00:25:46] And the biggest revelation was that. My life is not all about me, God wants us to live our lives where it’s about him and his mission and how we can fulfill it on this earth. So about a year [00:26:00] later, I got baptized. And here’s an interesting story about how God works in a long term vision.[00:26:08] When I first came to this country and as a foreign exchange student, I got paired as a host daughter to a host family in Berea, and my host father is a pastor at Berea Baptist Church, and my host mother works for International Mission Board. They gently always try to introduce me to Jesus, never really pressuring me.[00:26:32] I’ve gone to church with them a couple of times, but I really was not receptive. And for 10 years, they prayed for my salvation, not giving up, and how many people would have thought, Oh, she’s never getting saved. We’ve been doing it for 10 years. And yet when I had this encounter with God, they were the first people I called and they were just [00:27:00] crying and rejoicing, knowing that I was saved.[00:27:04] And so when I decided I was ready to be baptized, I drove to Kentucky and my host father was the one who baptized me in front of his entire church. Yeah. It was very, very emotional because, finally that wall I had disappeared and I understood how much closer we can be now. And they were rejoicing that their prayers were finally answered.[00:27:31] And so that was Yeah, that was very, very beautiful experience of seeing how God was weaving the story for quite some time. I love to say your story is proof about, you know, God speaking to you. It’s not always to be called to be a missionary or, some people hear God’s voice, quote unquote, and they go and start some cult somewhere.[00:27:56] It’s Simple, go and [00:28:00] pack some lunches and help the homeless. That is like your faith with feet, this is what Jesus did. He went out there and fed the hungry and ministered to the people that were, forgotten about. And that’s how we know that it was from God because, that’s what Jesus would have done, right?[00:28:21] Just simple and easy. And think about, yeah, in our society, homeless people are considered to be on the bottom of our societal pyramid, right? But listen to what God showed in the story and my testimony, even somebody who we considered on the very bottom of our society has done. such a significant deed and gave me a gift of salvation.[00:28:50] You still have the bird? I still have the bird. I keep it in my, prayer room where I pray every day and I look at it as a reminder. I wish [00:29:00] I didn’t think in that moment. I, I wish I could have taken her name picture I was such, that was my next question, . Yeah. No, I, never saw, seen her again, but I really pray for her because I truly hope that I will see her in heaven because I want to thank her for what she’s done for me.[00:29:21] She has changed my life in a such a tremendous role, and so I, share this message so that people understand that God views every person on this planet, no matter if their socioeconomic path as somebody who could be of significance, who could play a role in his plan, who can make positive change.[00:29:42] And we really truly should care about every single person, not just, people in our immediate circle. We really should open this up that we’re meant to really help the community beyond just our immediate family. But going back, I [00:30:00] think we can talk now pivoting toward the healing, right?[00:30:03] It’s like just the healing journey. I think that’s also important. Yeah, I want to share some of the practical things that I’ve done and what worked, what hasn’t worked. I’ve done pretty much every single type of therapy out there and some, work better than others, but I want to mention a couple that has helped with some of the experiences that I’ve had.[00:30:24] So the biggest thing that helped me, because I had a lot of triggers from my childhood. Things like I would sleep with a pillow over my head. If somebody like would make a loud noise, I would be scared easily, just different triggers that really come from the childhood.[00:30:42] And the type of therapy that really helped me is called EMDR. And it’s not very common, but it’s, it’s used to really treat effects of PTSD. And as a trauma survivor, we have PTSD and those triggers we can’t [00:31:00] really control. And so that trauma helped me to really dissociate. My identity from my trauma.[00:31:08] I think this is a great place to pause Anna’s story. And continue on our next episode where we will tidy up the loose ends of where she is now. What is she doing with her ministry? How is she helping others? How did she heal from all that abuse and trauma from her past? I wish you a wonderful week. God bless you.[00:31:33] Bye for now.[00:31:34] Thank you for listening to the Wounds of the Faithful podcast. If this episode has been helpful to you, please hit the subscribe button and tell a friend. You can connect with us at DSWMinistries. org, where you’ll find our blog along with our Facebook, Twitter, and our YouTube channel links. Hope to see you next [00:32:00] week!