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Wrestling With LifeS3 E6: Releasing expectations for success, others, and yourself with Gillian ScottThis episode is so close to my heart you guys!!
I finally got to sit down with one of my best friends, Gillian Scott, a local Wilmington architect who recently launched Arc30 Studio. This conversation is one I’ve been craving for months and let me tell you -- it DID NOT disappoint!
Gillian has been such a steady, faith-filled presence in my life since I moved to Wilmington. Walking alongside her as we both build our own businesses as well as grow spiritually has been such a gift :')
In this episode, we...2025-05-0648 minWrestling With LifeS3 E5: Moving through life & business humbly with Sam JohnsonY'all -- put your hands together for my good friend Sam Johnson!! This convo will live rent free in my head for a WHILE because it parallels so perfectly with similar messages the Lord has been sending my way over the last few months.
Sam and I dive deep into:
How Sam's trust in the Lord to provide has always paid off in both his career and life
How Sam has overcome feelings of insecurity and unbelonging
What a life of abiding with Jesus looks and feels like
If you're not sure where you stand...2025-04-2951 minWrestling With LifeS3 E4: Shifting your mindset to level up in business & life with Nick RizzoWhat's up y'all! Today we’re joined by Nick Rizzo, a video marketer located in Wilmington, NC who helps local business owners get customers with Instagram!!
In this episode, Nick and I dive deep into the mental shifts required to take your business and life to the next level. Whether you're navigating burnout, struggling with imposter syndrome, or hitting a plateau in growth, Nick shares practical strategies and empowering insights to help you rewire your thinking, own your value, and unlock your full potential.
We explore how to:
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Break fre...2025-04-2233 minWrestling With LifeS3 E3: Faith, risk, and entrepreneurship with Justin GatesTune in to hear Wilmington local author, podcaster, and business owner, Justin Gates, share his personal journey of entrepreneurship: the highs, the lows, and the moments when trusting God made all the difference.
Whether you're a business owner, aspiring entrepreneur, or someone navigating the intersection of faith and career, this episode offers honest insights, real talk about risk-taking, and a reminder that purpose and profit can go hand in hand.
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2025-04-1535 minWrestling With LifeS3 E2: Stepping boldly in faith towards God-sized dreams with Brittany WheelerIn this powerful episode, we're welcoming the inspiring Brittany Wheeler to the mic for a heartfelt conversation about stepping into God-sized dreams with bold faith.
Brittany, host of the podcast The Brittany Wheeler Show, shares her personal journey of walking away from the career she thought she wanted, trusting God through uncertainty, and walking courageously towards the vision God called her to.
Coolest things we talk through:
✅ How to silence fear and boldly pursue your purpose
✅ Trusting God when the path ahead feels unclear
✅ Embracing the unknown with unwavering faith
If you...2025-04-0846 minWrestling With LifeS3 E1: The five biggest lessons I learned working in Corporate AmericaAMAZING NEWS Y'ALL - your girl is officially an entrepreneur!! What!!
As I'm navigating starting my own business for the first time and TOTALLY being pushed out of my comfort zone, it only makes sense to start a podcast series on how to stop playing small and start stepping in faith. Right??
This is the only solo episode in the whole series, which sets the stage for interviews I'm recording with some of the most inspiring and insightful entrepreneurs in my local hometown of Wilmington, NC.
In this episode, I'm reflecting on the...2025-04-0127 minWrestling With LifeS2 E5: How to stop overthinking your career & life's purposeThe results are in: 20% of 22–35-year-olds report they overthink their career more than anything else in life. I can relate! Choosing your life's work is no small decision. But I think a lot of the problem stems from bad advice we've been given on our careers in general.
We're closing out our overthinking series by dispelling 5 major career myths that keep us overthinking, limited, and stuck when it comes to finding great purpose and joy in our work. Then we're replacing these myths with 5 fresh perspective shifts that will get us out of our own way and he...2025-03-0434 minWrestling With LifeS2 E4: Overthinking the past, forgiving yourself, & moving forwardOne of the biggest things I used to overthink the most was my past: ways I messed up, people I let down, things I wished I handled differently. And I know I'm not alone in this.
In this episode, I'm sharing the three biggest perspective shifts I've made in order to make peace with my past. I also explain how my relationship with God has truly allowed me to do that.
If you're feeling lots of shame over your past, you are not alone & this episode is for you :)
Follow Wrestling With Life2025-02-2527 minWrestling With LifeS2 E3: Why we overthink other people's perception of us and how to stop48% of you guys told me via Instagram (@em_led11) that the thing you overthink more than anything else is your personal relationships. And boy do I fall into this category!
But what many of us don't realize is that the way we show up in our relationships is often a reflection of our own inner world and how we see ourselves. When we overthink our own pain, mistakes, or past trauma, we project our perceptions and judgements onto others and start believing that they see us the same way we see ourselves. But this is the work...2025-02-1830 minWrestling With LifeS2 E2: Feeling stuck? Just take the next right stepOne of the biggest reasons we overthink is because we're waaaaay too focused on the final destination rather than just taking the next right step.
This episode is all about learning how to let go of control, trust yourself and your daily choices, and most importantly -- trust God in the unknown.
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Resources mentioned in this episode:
The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, and the Horse
Practicing the Way by John Mark Comer
2025-02-1124 minWrestling With LifeS2 E1: Overthinking it all? This series is for you :)This series is all about overthinking: where it comes from, why we do it, how to know if you're overthinking, and most importantly -- how to stop.
Spoiler alert: it has a lot to do with us not trusting ourselves or God.
I polled 22-35 year olds on Instagram (follow @em_led11) about their own overthinking patterns and...
81% say they are overthinkers
48% say they overthink their relationships the most
71% say they don't always pray before making a big decision
77% say they prefer to be in control most of the time
If you fall...2025-02-0426 minWrestling With LifeS1 E5: When self-improvement leads to self-glorificationWe're ending S1 with a bang and keeping it so forreal about how self-improvement and self-help start out as innocent tools to help us get out of low places, but how slowly over time these things can actually end up hurting us more than they help us.
We cover:
What self-help is
When it starts to get dangerous
How these tools can hurt us more than they help
How we can bridge the gap between self-help and looking to the Lord for help
Some amazing book recommendations to help you get started!!
Books mentioned in...2024-12-1537 minWrestling With LifeS1 E4: How to use social media for connection instead of validationThe title honestly says it all. If you struggle to stay off your phone in general, you use social media WAY too much, or you constantly feel down after scrolling online -- this episode is for you.
We talk about:
How we become what we consume
How Satan uses social media to foster pride, comparison, and normalize things that are not normal
How we can set healthy boundaries with social media
How we can use social media to spread love and positivity instead of glorifying ourselves
This is something those of us who grew up...2024-12-1527 minWrestling With LifeS1 E3: How forgiving others and choosing love leads to peaceLet's be honest: we all wanna win, right? The argument, the competition, the promotion, you name it -- we wanna be on top.
The hardest thing to do is to choose loving someone else (especially someone you don't vibe with) over our pride. ESPECIALLY when that person is belittling you, insulting you, or straight up attacking you.
Sometimes we don't even want to love other people and would rather see them lose more than anything else. But when this is our heart posture and mindset, we actually end up hurting ourselves more than anyone else.2024-12-1523 minWrestling With LifeS1 E2: Why you should seek community instead of "focusing on yourself"Episode two of our first series is still all about how our self-obsession is making us miserable, but now we're talking how we can find purpose and community outside of ourselves.
How many times have you heard...
"Focus on yourself!"
"You HAVE to put yourself first."
"Pour all of your energy into your career right now and worry about the rest later."
These sound like innocent messages and good ideas, right? But they're actually a sneaky way the enemy isolates and distracts us from attaining our full potential.
Let's talk through how we...2024-12-0826 minWrestling With LifeS1 E1: Our obsession with ourselves is making us miserableWhat's up y'all! I've been talking to God a lot about what our generation needs to hear from Him. I've also been posting a ton of polls on my Instagram (@em_led11) to get an idea of what we're all struggling with. And PHEW.
There's a lot to unpack and talk about, but I've boiled it down to one main issue that keeps coming up again and again in all my research: our obsession with ourselves is what's making us all so miserable. Our first series on the podcast is gonna be allll about this!
2024-12-0128 minWrestling With Life(Re)Introducing Wrestling With LifeWe're back baby!! :)
In this episode, I cover:
Why I took a break from the podcast for a few months
How my heart has shifted during this time
Why my old episodes are no longer available
What you can expect from the pod moving forward & who it's for!
A lot has changed, but one thing is always gonna be the same around here: whatever you're wrestling with, you are not alone 2024-11-1226 minWrestling With LifeTRAILER: Wrestling With LifeWe are all wrestling with something – especially us twenty and thirty somethings who are navigating the most transitional, confusing, overwhelming times of our lives thus far. We’re doing so many things for the first time: getting started in our careers, living on our own, moving to new places, dating (or marrying) new people, making new friends, and asking the big life questions like “What is the point of all of this?”
And on top of all that, our generation is up against something none of our ancestors before us have ever navigated: growing up in a tech sav...2024-10-2303 min
Couple O' NukesWrestling With Perfection, Big Emotions, and Self-CriticismSend us a textToday, I'm with Varsity Team Captain EmLed, the founder and host of the Wrestling With Life podcast. I will use this description to publicly apologize to her, because I definitely talked more than she did during this episode. Was I on like three hours of sleep after driving straight from Atlanta Podtour overnight? Yes. Do I talk more the less sleep I have? Also yes. A huge apology to her, though. What a gracious guest she was for tolerating that.Anyway, she and I wrestle with life together, focusing on some...2024-09-021h 13