The Next Right Thing - with Emily P. Freeman

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328: Let Time Be Your Friend (Emily's Favorites) May 14, 2024

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For the next several weeks, we're doing something we've never done before. It's a bit of a look back at some of my personal favorite episodes. Today's replay was originally episode 71, Let Time be Your Friend. It came about after months of ruminating over this idea of the passing of time and how it's always part of our lives, but we don't often sit and think about it. If you've ever felt like you could make better decisions if only you had more time, if you've ever wished for time to stop just for a while so you could catch your breath, well, today's episode is for you. Listen in.

LINKS + RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE:

Order a How to Walk into a Room
Download the free discussion guide for How to Walk into a Room by visiting this page and clicking the button "Discussion Guide"
The Dusty Ones: Why Wandering Deepens Your Faith by AJ Swaboda
YouTube - Big Ben
Hebrew Parallelism in the Psalms from Oblate Spring
Big Ben UK Parliament Documents
Episode 49: Collaborate
Psalm 16
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327: 17 Syllable Prayers May 07, 2024

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Today I'll be sharing a beloved spiritual practice and a bit of a personal update as well as what to expect here on The Next Right Thing in the coming months. Listen in.

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Order a How to Walk into a Room
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326: What's Saving My Spring Life Apr 30, 2024

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It's time for our seasonal episode of What's Saving My Life Right Now. I'll be sharing the things that are life-giving to me during this current spring season and I'll encourage you to make your own list. It could be anything from a favorite product to a spiritual practice, a fun new show, or a meaningful relationship. When it comes to naming what we love this spring, everything counts. So what's saving your life right now? Here's what's saving mine. Listen in.

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Salt & Stone Saffron & Cedar candle
Living Godward on the Things Above podcast
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325: How to Know What You Like with Myquillyn Smith Apr 23, 2024

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I'm so glad to welcome New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Myquillyn Smith. You may know her best as The Nester and I know her best as my big sister. The good news for all of us, is that Myquillyn has a brand-new book available on this very day.

It's called House Rules: How to Decorate for Every Home, Style and Budget. She's never met a house she didn't love, and today, she's here to help us learn how to do the same. If you struggle knowing where to start or feel overwhelmed with the number of decisions you believe stand between you and the room that you love, I hope you'll listen in.

LINKS + RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE:

Order House Rules: How to Decorate for Every Home, Style and Budget
Find The Nester on Instagram
Order a How to Walk into a Room
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324: The Path by Lynn Ungar Apr 16, 2024

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Today I'll share words from someone else for all of us to listen to and carry with us and reflect on together. Here is "The Path" by Lynn Ungar. Listen in.

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"The Path" by Lynn Ungar
Order a How to Walk into a Room
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323: The Kind of Quiet that Wakes Us Up Apr 09, 2024

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They say May is the new December, and we all know it's true. Though we have a month until we get there, chances are this season's activities are in full swing now and not likely to stop until June. It's times like this when I often find myself busy doing the things that don't matter as much, and avoiding doing the things that do. Sound familiar? How can we start to wake up in a world that seems intent on keeping us asleep? Listen in.

LINKS + RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE:

Order a How to Walk into a Room
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322: 5 Next Right Thing Principles I Use Every Week Apr 02, 2024

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Five years ago on this very day, Tuesday, April 2nd, The Next Right Thing book released into the world. It was based roughly on the first 30 episodes of this podcast. And now that book has sold over 100,000 copies, and it's still going. As a way to mark the moment, I thought I would share five decision-making principles from The Next Right Thing book that I still use every single week. Maybe you'll remember one you've forgotten, or maybe you'll hear one of these tips with fresh ears. I hope you'll listen in.

LINKS + RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE:

The Next Right Thing book
The Next Right Thing Guided Journal
Order a How to Walk into a Room
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321: What We Wish We'd Known with John P. Freeman Mar 26, 2024

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Today's guest is one you're familiar with by now. It's my friend, partner, and husband, John Freeman. Aside from being my biggest cheerleader, John is also a pastor. He served for 12 years in two different churches as a youth pastor, until 11 years ago when he walked out of the room of official church ministry and walked into the room of our actual home, where he worked for several years as a stay-at-home dad.

For the last few years, he's been running his own nonprofit called Grace Discipleship, offering soul care and spiritual direction for couples, pastors, and Gen Z high school and college students. Now that How to Walk into a Room is out in the world, John and I wanted to host a conversation about the book, specifically our own personal reflections on this side of sharing certain parts of our story. I hope you'll listen in.

LINKS + RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE:

Grace Discipleship
Find John on Instagram
LGBTQ resources for parents
David Gushee on the Making Things Right podcast
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320: Following Your Intuition with Grace P. Cho Mar 19, 2024

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Grace P. Cho is a Korean-American writer and Senior Acquisitions Editor at Revell, which is an imprint of Baker Publishing Group. Grace has authored and edited several inCourage bible studies and devotionals. And she's most recently contributed to the book Voices of Lament: Reflections on Brokenness and Hope in a World Longing for Justice.

I've known Grace for many years and she is a kind and gracious presence for me personally, but she extends this beyond just her personal friends. She creates space for people to be known, nurtured, and challenged through her work and she desires to elevate women of color's voices in the publishing industry.

Grace has said several goodbyes in the last year, but her experience is is a beautiful illustration of how not all goodbyes are sad. Her kind, generative presence and perspective on life and change is right on time. Listen in.

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319: Finding Vocational Clarity with Parker J. Palmer Mar 14, 2024

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Today we're continuing our conversations with people who have a lot of wisdom to offer when it comes to leaving rooms and finding new ones.

My guest today is a writer, speaker and activist who focuses on issues in education, community, leadership, spirituality, and social change. He is the founder of the Center for Courage and Renewal and his name is Parker J. Palmer. He's the author of 10 books including one of my favorites, Let Your Life Speak. He's a member of the Religious Society of Friends, also known as the Quakers, and he lives together with his wife Sharon in Madison Wisconsin.

I invited Parker on because his work has had a profound impact on my own personal formation and has helped to shape my own understanding of the human soul. I'm grateful he said yes to sitting in the room with me today. Listen in.

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