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February 14, 2020 by Tricia Goyer Leave a Comment

Walk it Out with Tricia Goyer #86: Tenderhearted in Need with Sarah Forgrave

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Tenderhearted in Need with Sarah Forgrave

Are you a caregiver who needs hope?

This podcast is about being tenderhearted in need with Sarah Forgrave. Sarah has a new book out called Prayers of Hope for Caregivers … just a book I needed!

I have been a caregiver every day of my adult life. I had my oldest son when I was seventeen and had three kids by the time I was twenty-two. My grandma moved in with us twenty years ago, and then we adopted seven more kids. When Prayers of Hope for Caregivers landed on my desk, I looked at it and knew that I needed it.

Who is Sarah?

Sarah Forgrave is also the author of Prayers for Hope and Healing. She previously worked as a CPA in corporate America for eight years before health complications from pregnancy changed the course of her life. She lives in the midwest with her husband and two children.

I loved chatting with Sarah, and I know you’re going to love this episode! Sarah shares tips about how caregivers can be strengthened in their role.

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And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you. 1 Peter 5:10

How you can help someone who is in a caregiving role:

1. Help with physical needs: providing a meal or helping with their family and childcare. Ask, ” Can I get you something while I’m at the grocery store?”
2. Financial needs: Give a gift of money or a gift card to help with extra expenses.
3. Emotional needs: Offer to be present in the waiting room. Sending a note … even a text or video message.
4. Spiritual needs: pray on a video message and let your friend know what you are praying for, not just what you prayed. Offer a hope-filled book like Prayers of Hope for Caregivers.

How to help yourself in you’re in a caregiving role:

1. Take a minute or two to check in with yourself. Ask, “How am I doing?” Get your thoughts out of your head and put them on paper.
2. Realize you have the same needs too: physical needs, financial needs, emotional needs, spiritual needs. Take these needs to God and others.
3. Have an answer ready for people when they ask how they can help.

Read Sarah’s blog post here: What to Say When Someone Asks How Can I Help?

Another great blog post from Sarah’s blog: Practical Ways to Pray for a Caregiver

I know you are going to enjoy my conversation with Sarah! You can listen above or on iTunes or on your favorite podcast streaming device.

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February 7, 2020 by Tricia Goyer Leave a Comment

Walk It Out Podcast 85: Tenderhearted in Loss with Betty Cantrell Maxwell

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Betty Cantrell Maxwell: Tenderhearted in Loss

Miss America 2016

Today’s guest takes me back to when I was a little girl in a town called Weed, California. I remember my small house. I remember sitting there watching the Miss America pageant. Doesn’t every little girl dream of that? In this episode, you’ll discover one person who did not dream of becoming Miss America, yet she went on to become just that!

In this episode, I interviewed Betty Cantrell Maxwell, Miss America 2016 and author of the new book Miss Unlikely: From Farm Girl to Miss America. Betty is best known for representing Georgia as Miss America. She was also a national goodwill ambassador for the Children’s Miracle Network and a partner with the USO. God has done amazing things with a small-town farm girl! And that why I chose 1 Corinthians 1:27-29 for today’s Walk It Out Scripture.

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But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him. 1 Corinthians 1:27-29

Here is a video of Betty being crowned Miss America!

And here is a glimpse of her amazing talent in the Miss America pageant!

After her year as Miss America, Betty released her first album, and she also married the love of her life, Spencer. Here’s a glimpse of their wedding album:

But Betty’s life included much heartache, including the recent suicide of her mother-in-law. Betty shares in today’s episode about being tenderhearted in loss.

My book is the story of my life. The life of an unlikely Miss America. My hope is that when people read my book, especially young people, will be able to relate very deeply to all of the vulnerability and experiences that I share in hopes of helping them get through their lives a little bit easier. Everyone can find something to relate to in this book. From growing up on a farm, through my awkward stage in middle school, dating and finding love, marriage, loss, grief, faith and of course following my dreams.

-Betty Maxwell

Here is a tenderhearted video of Spencer and Betty sharing about their loss.

Suicide is not easy to talk about. It’s important to let people know there is a place they can turn. I’ve referred many people to the Suicide Prevention Lifelife.

I also wrote a book with Kristen Anderson about how God saved her from her suicide attempt. You can read more about Kristen’s story here.

I know you are going to enjoy my conversation with Betty! You can listen above or on iTunes or on your favorite podcast streaming device.

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December 13, 2019 by Tricia Goyer Leave a Comment

#WalkItOut Podcast 084: Rachel Swanson

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I am so thankful that I dared to follow God. I dared to dream His dreams. I dared to take that time, whether it was during my kids’ nap time or waking up early on Saturday mornings instead of sleeping in, I am thankful that I followed this God-given dream. God led me on an amazing path. I’m not even sure I would believe where I am today if I went back to that young woman that was twenty-two years old that was leaving the writer’s conference and told her that by the time she was forty-eight she would have seventy-five books published, a podcast, be able to teach and speak … It would have completely overwhelmed me. It would have been too much! The amazing thing is when we follow God, He will take us there one step at a time.

I’ll be talking about that today with my friend, Rachel Swanson, author of the new book, Refine and Restore: Revive Your Heart, Release Your Purpose. We’ll be talking about her book and also how God took her on an unexpected journey. He gave her this desire to write, but it has turned out far differently than she ever imagined. Including her first book, Big and Little Coloring Devotional that ended up hitting the bestsellers list! I just love how God has a plan for us, we just need to take those steps. Even though the steps don’t always lead where we want them too or where we think they need to go, God will refine and restore us along the path.

You are going to love my episode with Rachel Swanson as we chat about dreaming God’s dreams!

I know you are going to enjoy my conversation with Rachel Swanson! You can listen above or on iTunes. I’d love it if you share this with your friends and leave a review here.

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Refine and Restore
Big and Little Coloring Devotional

This week’s Walk It Out scripture

Psalm 51:10
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

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December 6, 2019 by Tricia Goyer Leave a Comment

#WalkItOut Podcast 083: Susan Merrill

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#WalkItOut Podcast 083: Susan Merrill

How well do your kids know you? I’m not talking about knowing which kind of coffee creamer you like (which my kids know which kind of creamer I like in my coffee). They may know what it means when you slip on jeans and put on make-up instead of your normal sweatpants. I’m talking about something deeper. I think sometimes it’s really hard to let our kids know our hearts—what’s going on inside and what really matters.

I’ll be talking about that today with my guest, Susan Merrill. She is the co-author with her husband Mark of the From Me to You journals. Susan is an author and speaker, and, with her husband, does so much to encourage parents to be active in their children’s lives.

It is so important to open our hearts to our kids, and what better way to do it then with in the pages of a journal? Not only will you be pouring out your heart and sharing with your child, but it also acts as a keepsake for your child to hold on to.

#WalkItOut Podcast 083: Susan Merrill I loved chatting with Susan Merrill about connecting with your kids through journaling! If you're a parents, you aren't going to want to miss this episode! — I loved chatting with Susan Merrill about connecting with your kids through journaling!

I know you are going to enjoy my conversation with Susan Merrill! You can listen above or on iTunes. I’d love it if you share this with your friends and leave a review here.

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Family First
All Pro Dad
iMom
Malachi 4:6
From Me to You: A Conversation Journal for You and Your Son
From Me to You: A Conversation Journal for You and Your Daughter

This week’s Walk It Out scripture

Deuteronomy 6:5-9
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. ⁷Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates.

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November 1, 2019 by Tricia Goyer 1 Comment

#WalkItOut Podcast 079: Hillary Morgan Ferrer

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I'm excited to chat with Hillary Morgan Ferrer today on the #WalkItOut Podcast about her new book Mama Bear Apologetics. I loved my conversation and know you will be blessed by it too! — I’m excited to chat with Hillary Morgan Ferrer today on the #WalkItOut Podcast about her new book Mama Bear Apologetics. I loved my conversation and know you will be blessed by it too!

#WalkItOut Podcast 079: Hillary Morgan Ferrer

If you’ve been listening to the podcast for a while, or if you’ve gotten the chance to meet me at an event, you probably think that I’m a nice person. I do try to be nice and kind, but talk to my kids and they can tell you that there are times that I’m a mama bear. I actually have a couple of shirts that say “Mama Bear” on them, and to me, it’s the person that will stand up, talk to their kids if they aren’t doing something they should be — or talk to other parents if they see another child being a bully — I will stand up. I know that it is our job to protect our kids and to prepare them for the future.

I do homeschool, and one reason that I homeschool isn’t just that I can give them a Biblical foundation and to have a relationship with them, but in a way, it’s so I can protect my kids from so much stuff out there.

In her book, Mama Bear Apologetics, Hillary Morgan Ferrer says this, “The greatest protection we can give our kids is to equip them to face the culture lies head-on while remaining gracious, loving, and winsome.” We’ll be chatting today about helping our kids understand apologetics, and how we can train our kids to respond to the culture.

You are going to enjoy my conversation with Hillary. I know you will be blessed! You can listen above or on iTunes. I’d love it if you share this with your friends.

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Mama Bear Apologetics

This Week’s Walk It Out Scripture
2 Corinthians 10:1-6
By the humility and gentleness of Christ, I appeal to you—I, Paul, who am “timid” when face to face with you, but “bold” toward you when away! I beg you that when I come I may not have to be as bold as I expect to be toward some people who think that we live by the standards of this world. For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. And we will be ready to punish every act of disobedience, once your obedience is complete.

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October 25, 2019 by Tricia Goyer 1 Comment

#WalkItOut Podcast 078: Sharon Miller

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You aren't going to want to miss this week's episode with Sharon Miller, author of Nice: Why We Love to Be Liked and How God Calls Us to More. We'll be diving into her book and why when we're sharing Christ it isn't just about just being nice. — This week on the #WalkItOut Podcast we chat with Sharon Miller, author of the new book Nice: Why We Love to Be Liked and How God Calls Us to More.

#WalkItOut Podcast 078: Sharon Miller

Today we’re chatting about a topic that I haven’t really thought of before. Is it possible to be too nice? Is it hurting people when we are?

As Christians, we always talk about love, joy, and peace, but is that what people really need? They need to know about Christ: about His love, His grace, and His compassion. But they also need to know about sin. They need to know where they’ve fallen short. They need to know that they need God, otherwise, what’s the point?

Many times, instead of talking to the culture, instead of really pouring out our hearts and sharing our flaws, sharing what’s right and what’s wrong, we just stand behind the smiley face and we try to be nice. We try to be good, and we try to offer the world what basically amounts to blandness.

I chatted about all this and more with my guest, Sharon Hodde Miller the author of the new book Nice: Why We Love to Be Liked and How God Calls Us to More.

You are going to enjoy my conversation with Sharon. I know you will be blessed! You can listen above or on iTunes. I’d love it if you share this with your friends.

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Nice: Why We Love to be Liked and How God Calls Us to More
Free of Me: Why Life is Better When It’s Not About You
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This Week’s Walk It Out Scripture
Ezekiel 3:11
Go now to your people in exile and speak to them. Say to them, ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says,’ whether they listen or fail to listen.”

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October 18, 2019 by Tricia Goyer Leave a Comment

#WalkItOut Podcast 077: Kat Armstrong

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Join us on this week's episode as we chat with Kat Armstrong, co-founder and executive director of Polished Ministries and author of the new book, No Holding Back. This is an episode you don't want to miss! — This week on the #WalkItOut Podcast we chat with Kat Armstrong, co-founder and executive director of Polished Ministries and author of the new book, No Holding Back. This is an episode you don’t want to miss!

#WalkItOut Podcast 077: Kat Armstrong

Today we are going to be talking to Kat Armstrong. She is the co-founder and executive director of Polished a network that gathers young professional women to navigate careers and explore faith together. Kat has this message of “Look what God has for you! Embrace your identity. See how much God has in store for you as a minister of the gospel” because she has seen these questions over and over again. She has had these questions herself.

Even as a Christian writer and speaker, there are times I have these book contracts and I think — Do they know that I’m just a mom, living in the middle of nowhere who is sitting down with my Bible in my living room with these kids running around? Do they know that it’s just me? I remember one time very clearly when I got the contract for my first book, Dust and Ashes. Looking at that contract, I got so overwhelmed. I was working on that novel that was inspired by true events, and as all these thoughts were going through my mind, I remember thinking that I wouldn’t be able to get the facts right, I wouldn’t get the history right, that the writing wasn’t going to be good enough. I felt God whispering to my spirit, “I am your great liberator. I opened the gates. I freed you from sin. I unchained you from darkness —write about that.”

We are going to be talking with Kat today about our identity, and understanding who we are and how God sees us. As women, that will change everything.

You are going to enjoy my conversation with Kat. I know you will be blessed! You can listen above or on iTunes. I’d love it if you share this with your friends.

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Polished Ministries
No More Holding Back
Matthew 28:16-20
Cru
Romans 12
1 Corinthians 12

This Week’s Walk It Out Scripture

Luke 1:46-48
And Mary said:

“My soul glorifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior, for he has been mindful of the humble state of his servant. From now on all generations will call me blessed for the Mighty One has done great things for me—
holy is his name.“

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October 11, 2019 by Tricia Goyer Leave a Comment

#WalkItOut Podcast 076: Mary DeMuth

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This week on the #WalkItOut Podcast, Mary Demuth and I chat about some tough topics — and what you can do about them. You're not going to want to miss this episode and be sure to pick up a copy of Mary's new book, We Too. — This week on the #WalkItOut Podcast, Mary Demuth and I chat about some tough topics — and what you can do about them. You’re not going to want to miss this episode and be sure to pick up a copy of Mary’s new book, We Too.

#WalkItOut Podcast 076: Mary DeMuth

Why do bad things have to happen? It’s especially hard when pain is caused by sexual sin.

Being an innocent victim can be a heavy burden, such a heavy thing to have to carry around. It’s even harder when we, in the church, don’t know what to do about it. How can we help victims?

This is especially hard when someone in the church is the perpetrator. There is another level of disbelief and anger. And how can we help those who have been sexually abused?

Often churches are afraid that if this happened within their doors, word will get out and it will hurt the ministry. And because we are so focused on the “bigger picture church” we forget the victim.

We are going to be talking about all of these things in today’s episode with my friend, Mary DeMuth, author of the new book We Too: How the Church Can Respond Redmptively to the Sexual Abuse Crisis.

I am so thankful for Mary. I’m thankful that she continues to talk about the pain of her past, and also reaches out to try and help others. She is so genuine.

You are going to enjoy my conversation with Mary. I know you will be blessed! You can listen above or on iTunes. I’d love it if you share this with your friends.

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We Too
WeToo.org
Romans 12:15
NetGrace.org
21 Days to Healing

This Week’s Walk It Out Scripture

2 Corinthians 5:19-21
…that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

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October 4, 2019 by Tricia Goyer Leave a Comment

#WalkItOut Podcast 075: Laurie Kehler

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On this week's episode Laurie Kehler and I talk about slowing down and connecting with God through nature. I promise this is not an episode you want to miss! — On this week’s episode, Laurie Kehler and I talk about slowing down and connecting with God through nature. I promise this is not an episode you want to miss!

#WalkItOut Podcast 075: Laurie Kehler

What are your favorite things about nature? Where are you favorite places to visit? Do you like to hike in the mountains? Do you like to sit on the beach? Do you like to explore the swamps? When I think of nature, I think of the beauty of Montana. We lived there for fifteen years and a thirty-minute drive would take you up in the Rocky Mountains. Just enjoying the sun, the beauty, the mountains, the Indian paintbrush, the bear grass, all the things — it was just so amazing!

Today on the Walk it Out Podcast I’m talking to my friend Laurie Kehler, author of This Outside Life, about experiencing God through nature. I met Laurie at a writer’s conference years and years ago and we’ve always kept in love. I just love she can see glimpses of God’s love all around us. As you are listening, if you have a few minutes, step outside! If it’s sunny. If it’s rainy, mabe grab a little umbrella and just breathe in the scent of the rain. As you are listening to this, think about God, think about nature, and connect with Him.

You are going to enjoy my conversation with Laurie. I know you will be blessed! You can listen above or on iTunes. I’d love it if you share this with your friends.

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This Outside Life | Laurie Kehler
Gardening Mercies | Laurie Kehler
Synchronous Fireflies of Great Smokey Mountians
Undone: Making Peace with an Unexpected Life | Michele Cushatt
Psalm 73
Sensing God Guide | Laurie Kehler

This Week’s Walk It Out Scripture

2 Corinthians 2:14-16

But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere. For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. To the one we are an aroma that brings death; to the other, an aroma that brings life. And who is equal to such a task?

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September 27, 2019 by Tricia Goyer Leave a Comment

#WalkItOut Podcast 074: Jaime Jo Wright

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I loved getting to talk to author Jaime Jo Wright on this week's #WalkItOut Podcast! We talk writing, Nancy Drew, books, homeschool, and so much more! Be sure to listen in. You don't want to miss this episode! — I loved getting to talk to author Jaime Jo Wright on this week’s #WalkItOut Podcast! We talk writing, Nancy Drew, books, homeschool, and so much more! Be sure to listen in. You don’t want to miss this episode!

#WalkItOut Podcast 074: Jaime Jo Wright

This week on #WalkItOut we are chatting with novelist, Jaime Jo Wright. When I first started writing, I saw myself as a fiction writer. While my writing has expanded since then, I do still love reading (and writing) novels.

I loved connecting with Jaime Jo. She’s a Christy Award-winning author of The House on Foster Hill. She’s also a human resource director in Wisconsin, but one of the coolest things you’ll love to hear — she was homeschooled! I had so much fun with this interview! Even though we’re friends online and we chat back and forth, I really learned some things that I hadn’t already known about her before — like how she sent a manuscript to a publishing house when she was just fifteen years old! But mostly, I just love how she shares her heart through the pages of a story and how she is able to share about God’s goodness in her pages.

You are going to enjoy my conversation with Jaime Jo. I know you will be blessed! You can listen above or on iTunes. I’d love it if you share this with your friends.

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The House on Foster Hill
The Curse of Misty Wayfair
Grumble Free Year
Echoes Among the Stones

This Week’s Walk It Out Scripture

Ephesians 2:10

For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

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#WalkItOut Podcast 073: Brian Dixon

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Today I'm super excited to be chatting with Brian Dixon author of new book Start with Your People. You are going to be so encouraged today by the master of encouraging! — Today I’m super excited to be chatting with Brian Dixon author of the new book Start with Your People. You are going to be so encouraged today by the master of encouraging!

#WalkItOut Podcast 073: Brian Dixon

Today on Walk It Out, I’m excited to be chatting with Brian Dixon, author of the new book Start with Your People. I love his idea that there are already people around you who believe you in, who need to hear your message, and who want to support you … and who you need to support.

This is important message, especially to those in the publishing world because we authors hear that we need to grow our audience. We need to work toward book sales. We need to strive for pre-release sales and grow our social media. We often forget about the people. Those are PEOPLE who are buying our books and who need to hear our message. Sometimes I think we are so focused on the numbers that we forget the people behind the numbers.

It makes me think of when I went to high school. I went to a little school called Weed High—yes, it’s a real place—that had a cheerleading team. When I tried out for the team, I’m going to be honest, it was all about me. I wasn’t trying out to be a cheerleader because I wanted to support the basketball team and the football team. I wanted to wear that uniform. I wanted to travel on the bus and hang out with all the cute football players—it was about me.

There are so many times in life when it’s like that! We are thinking about ourselves. We think about our plans and our goals, our book, our podcast, and the list just keeps going. It’s all about how we look. How we present ourselves.

I love that the message in Brian’s book: when we think about others first, they benefit and we do too. It’s about cheering but cheering for the team … not worrying about how good we look.

I love how Brian is always cheering on those around him. His Instagram is always filled with short videos where he gives advice. It’s so helpful, and it’s great to know there’s someone out there who isn’t worried about making himself look good, but who wants to help you serve others better.

You are going to enjoy my conversation with Brian. I know you will be blessed!

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Start with Your People
Grumble Free Year

This Week’s Walk It Out Scripture

Hebrews 6:10
God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him

as you have helped his people and continue to help them.

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