Girls Night with Stephanie May Wilson - Featured Episode: Find Your Fresh Start: What to do when the Old Ways are No Longer Working — with Shauna Niequist

Featured Episode: Find Your Fresh Start: What to do when the Old Ways are No Longer Working — with Shauna Niequist

07/24/23 • 62 min

Hey friends! Welcome to Girls’ Night!

At the moment we’re in between seasons here on the show. But while we’re waiting for our next official season to begin, we thought this would be a great time to pull some of our favorite episodes out of the Girls Night archive. This is the perfect time to catch up on episodes you might have missed, or listen again to old favorites.

I’m so excited because, recently, I had the honor and privilege of interviewing my all-time favorite author, Shauna Niequist, and that’s the conversation you’re going to hear today!

If you’ve been following along with my corner of the internet for a while, you’ve probably heard me mention Shauna and her books — one of my favorites being Cold Tangerines. Her words and stories and wisdom have impacted my life and truly shaped who I am as a person, a writer, a friend and, now, as a mom.

Shauna has a book called, I Guess I Haven’t Learned That Yet: Discovering New Ways of Living When the Old Ways Stop Working, and in it she talks a lot about life in the midst of transitions. Well, today she is talking us through some of the things we all need to hear in the midst of life’s biggest transitions and I cannot WAIT for you to hear what she had to say.

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Hey friends! Welcome to Girls’ Night!

I’m so excited because, recently, I had the honor and privilege of interviewing my all-time favorite author, Shauna Niequist, and that’s the conversation you’re going to hear today!

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Featured Episode: What to do When You’re Praying for Answers, but Still Feel Lost — with Elizabeth Laing Thompson

Hey friends! Welcome to Girls’ Night!

When I first became a Christian, I remember hearing someone say that God answers prayers in one of three ways. He either says, “Yes,” “No,” or “Not right now.” I think this insight was supposed to be helpful, but instead, it left me more confused than ever. Because especially when I’m coming up on a gigantic decision, or praying for something I want with my whole entire heart, I don’t want to know what God MIGHT say, I want to know what He IS saying.

And in the process of trying to figure it out, I end up acting like an amateur detective as I piece together clues.

“I didn’t get the job, does that mean that God is saying no? Or not right now? Or yes, but I have to just keep going?”

“I haven’t gotten pregnant yet, so does that mean that God is saying not right now, or yes, but we need to just keep trying for a while. Or, is God trying to tell me that I’m not meant to be a mom? Does God say that to people? Is that a thing?”

“I really really want this relationship to work out. Is this the person God has for me? How do I know?”

And in all of these gigantic life moments, how do we know if faith looks like making the best decision we can with the information we have and moving forward, OR if it looks like stopping and waiting for a clear answer from God before we take another step?

Anyone know what I’m talking about here?

That’s why I’m so excited about today’s episode. Today I’m talking with my friend Elizabeth Laing Thompson, and she’s going to help us get out of our heads and finally find some clarity here.

In this episode we’re talking about:

Whether we need a clear yes or no from God about every decision in our lives
How to know if God is saying no or not right now
How long we should keep trying before we give up on something
How to deal with the disappointment when God does say no
How to stay close to God even when He doesn’t give us the answer we want
If it’s okay to ask God to change His mind about something
And so much more!

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Featured Episode: My Business Backstory: How I Became an Author and a Podcaster — with Stephanie May Wilson & Mariko Clark

Hey friends! Welcome to Girls’ Night!

Several months ago I got to catch up with a woman in our girls night community who has just graduated from college. She was in the thick of it, trying to answer the question we all find ourselves wrestling at one point or another — “What am I supposed to do with my life? (Or at least with the next few years)”

She was holding her newly-minted degree in one hand, a few different opportunities in the other hand, and she had no idea what to do.

This moment felt like such a pivotal one — and she was absolutely feeling the pressure.

She reached out to me specifically because several of the things she was weighing — her specific degree, the specific opportunities she was considering — were crazily similar to the ones I was weighing when I first graduated from college.

So we hopped on the phone and talked through it together. I shared with her some of the things I learned as I was taking my first steps into my career, away from my degree, into a job that paid next to nothing and made absolutely no sense. But also, it did make sense, and it led directly to everything I’m doing today. (Okay, not directly — there were several twists and turns and falls along the way as well).

But as I was sharing that story with her, I realized that I’m not totally sure I’ve shared this story with you guys.

And so that’s what we’re doing here today.

I’ve brought my dear friend Marri back on the show to take over the host chair, and she’s going to help me walk back through my own personal career story — where I started, and how I got to where I am today and all that I learned along the way.

Whether you’re just graduating college, or you’re in a different life stage completely, I know there are so many women in our community who are trying to make some big decisions right now, or waiting for something, longing for something or hoping for something in their careers, but it just hasn’t happened yet.

I also know there are so many women who have a general idea of what they want to be doing in their careers but they have no clue how to actually get there.

I also know there are so many of us who have no clue what we want to be doing, but we know for a FACT that it’s not what we’re doing today.

This episode is for you. It’s the story of where I started, where I am today, and all of the twists and turns that happened in the middle.

I cannot wait to share this with you.

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