This summer, I'm re-airing some of my favorite decision making episodes. This one originally aired on MArch 29, 2022. How can we discern our next right thing when presented with a great opportunity? Is there a framework to follow when discerning when to say yes or when to say no? Listen in. LINKS + RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE: Episode 19: Choose Your Absence That Sounds Fun Ep. 375 with Kristin Chenoweth Miss Me with That by Rachel Lindsay Record your favorite "yes!" and share it with me here Or...
Jun 10, 2025•19 min
This summer, I'm re-airing some of my favorite decision making episodes. This one originally aired on June 13, 2023. In today's episode, I'll be sharing some of my favorite summer-time decisions and then we get to hear from YOU! If you're already feeling in a summer rut, I hope these ideas will help if you find you need a little extra inspiration heading into summertime. Listen in. LINKS + RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE: Episode 181: A Soul Minimalist's Guide to Summer Episode 229: A Blessing for t...
Jun 03, 2025•19 min
This summer, I'm re-airing some of my favorite decision making episodes. This one originally aired on January 11, 2022. What do we do when our next right thing is to wait for an indefinite amount of time or to hope in the face of what seems to be an impossible situation? Listen in. LINKS + RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE: A Hidden Wholeness by Parker Palmer Order The Next Right Thing Guided Journal Grab a copy of my book The Next Right Thing Find me on Instagram @emilypfreeman Leave a review on Appl...
May 27, 2025•13 min
This summer, I'm re-airing some of my favorite decision making episodes. This one originally aired on October 31, 2023. How can we know the difference between a yes, an absolutely yes, a maybe, a probably not, and a no. And what do we do with the simple one line advice that doesn't always seem to apply? Listen in. LINKS + RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE: Order How to Walk Into a Room Subscribe to The Soul Minimalist on Substack The Quiet Collection app Essentialism by Greg McKeown Hell Yeah or No by...
May 20, 2025•18 min
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. LINKS + RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISOD...
May 13, 2025•19 min
Today, I’m so glad to talk with author, speaker, and friend, Niki Hardy. Niki is the author of three books, including her latest, God, Can We Chat?, in which she writes about doubt and faith at the same time. Whether you're a doubting believer, a believing doubter, or you're not quite sure, we’re going to get into what happens when we come to the intersection of faith, doubt, and skepticism. I hope you’ll listen in. LINKS + RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE: Order God, Can We Chat? by Niki Hardy Visit...
May 06, 2025•30 min
It’s the last week of April and before the month gets away from me, I wanted to have a short birthday episode for you to return to when your birthday rolls around. For today’s episode I’ll keep it short and sweet with just 4 questions you can ask yourself during your birthday week. Listen in. LINKS + RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE: Episode 272: A Soul Minimalist's Guide to Your Birthday Download The Quiet Collection app Join The Soul Minimalist Substack Order a How to Walk into a Room Download the ...
Apr 29, 2025•10 min
Today I'm so glad to talk with bookstore owner and brand new author Annie B. Jones. Annie owns The Bookshelf, an independent bookstore in downtown Thomasville Georgia, and she’s the host of From the Front Porch, the store’s conversational podcast about books, small business, and life in the South. Annie talks about books, sells books, and now she’s written one of her own. It’s called Ordinary Time: Lessons Learned While Staying Put , and it releases into the world on this very day, April 22. Ann...
Apr 22, 2025•38 min
Here we are in Holy Week, just a few days before Easter. Before we arrive at the resurrection, we have to walk through the crucifixion. One of my favorite guides in the dark is Barbara Brown Taylor who wrote one of my top 10 favorite books of all time, Learning to Walk in the Dark . For today’s episode I want to offer a short reflection on walking in the dark – the challenges, yes. But also the necessity and the surprising gift. If you’ve been following along inside The Lent Collection, you’ll r...
Apr 15, 2025•8 min
It’s been a minute since I’ve dedicated an entire episode to the craft of writing but today is that day. Engaging in writing as a spiritual exercise has many gifts to share beyond publishing. If that’s something you’ve been wanting to explore, I hope you’ll listen in. The Memoir Project by Marion Roach Smith Download the Lent Listening Guide Purchase The Lent Collection Download The Quiet Collection app Join The Soul Minimalist Substack Order a How to Walk into a Room Download the free discussio...
Apr 08, 2025•21 min
If you struggle to find the time for home life, work life, and creative pursuits this episode is for you. Listen in. Download the Lent Listening Guide Episode 179 of The Life Coach School with Brooke Castillo Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport The Plan by Kendra Adachi Purchase The Lent Collection Download The Quiet Collection app Join The Soul Minimalist Substack Order a How to Walk into a Room Download the free discussion guide for How to Walk into...
Apr 01, 2025•16 min
Maybe you’re just trying to navigate maintaining some healthy personal boundaries around your intake of headlines and the news but you don’t know where the line is between a legitimate desire to stay informed and an unhealthy addiction to confirmation bias. If you’re looking for some guidance on how to balance the paradox of life that will always be with us, you’re in the right place. Listen in. Purchase The Lent Collection Download The Quiet Collection app Join The Soul Minimalist Substack Orde...
Mar 25, 2025•12 min
So far this year I’ve been engaging a simple little practice you can do right now that is helping me feel a little bit more grounded than I would without it. And if you’ve been around here very long you know that any practice can be a spiritual practice if we do it with an awareness of God. Listen in. Purchase The Lent Collection Download The Quiet Collection app Join The Soul Minimalist Substack Order a How to Walk into a Room Download the free discussion guide for How to Walk into a Room by vi...
Mar 18, 2025•11 min
What does it mean to pray? How can we do it in a way that both feels like us but also doesn't make all about us? And for lack of a better way to word this question: How can we know if it's working? In today's episode we'll share listeners' experience and questions about prayer as well as what may be important to remember as we engage with God and each other. Listen in. Episode 354: Things We're Trying (That We're Still Not Sure About) Purchase The Lent Collection Download The Quiet Collection ap...
Mar 11, 2025•30 min
It's our most ambitious audio project to date: The Lent Collection inside The Quiet Collection app. It's a 48-day audio devotional series to accompany you through the season of Lent, beginning on Ash Wednesday and continuing through Easter Sunday. To help you decide if this is a resource you want to invest in to help you navigate your spiritual journey over the next six weeks, I'd like to give you a sense of what to expect. Here's the first day in its entirety. Listen in. Download The Quiet Coll...
Mar 04, 2025•10 min
I’m glad you’re here and today I’m excited to share something I’ve been working on that I haven’t shared anywhere else until now. Listen in. Sign up for reminders about The Lent Collection Download The Quiet Collection app Join The Soul Minimalist Substack 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" Download the transcript...
Feb 25, 2025•12 min
It's that time again 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 winter 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 winter, everything counts. Listen in. The Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard Oura Ring Episode 350: The Magic of Knowing What...
Feb 18, 2025•16 min
On a podcast about decision making, I'm always looking for ways to drop us into the middle of the process because I believe there is helpful nuance and insight there. So today I'm hosting a conversation about those things in our lives where we've maybe started something but we're not sure if they're worth finishing. You'll hear from listeners who were willing to answer the question, "what's something I'm trying that I'm still not sure about?" Let's see what insight we can take away while listeni...
Feb 11, 2025•31 min
My guest today is someone who is well acquainted with the decision fatigue that comes along with navigating questions about your faith. I’m so glad to welcome Erin Hicks Moon to talk about the questions we have but are hesitant to bring into the light, about what to say to people who question our faithfulness when we question our faith, and how to move beyond the deconstruction conversation into our next right thing with God, others and ourselves. Erin is the perfect person to have this conversa...
Feb 04, 2025•38 min
It’s the time of year when I think a lot of us are looking for clarity in various areas of our lives and also where we may feel bad or behind if we don’t yet have it. If that’s you then this episode is for you. Listen in. LINKS + RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE: Episode 347: The Most Important Vocational Question for the End of the Year The Magic of Knowing What You Want by Tracey Gee Order The Next Right Thing Guided Journal Join The Soul Minimalist Substack Order a How to Walk into a Room Download...
Jan 28, 2025•16 min
Today I'm sharing a story of a time a few months back where I was asked a question and I didn't have a great answer. I'm still not sure my answer is great today, but it's done good work for me and in me to reflect on the recent election, our walk of faith and the heartbeat of Christian hope. Listen in. LINKS + RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE: The First Advent in Palestine by Kelley Nikondeha Order The Next Right Thing Guided Journal Join The Soul Minimalist Substack Order a How to Walk into a Room D...
Jan 21, 2025•14 min
I'm so glad to have Tracey Gee join me today. and her book is called, The Magic of Knowing What You Want: A Practical Guide to Understanding the Wisdom of Your Desires that releases January 28, but you can preorder any time before then and it will arrive on release day. Tracey is a certified leadership coach living in Los Angeles, and her area of expertise lies in strengths-based leadership and she has a true gift of articulating not only what holds many of us back from tapping into our own desi...
Jan 14, 2025•47 min
As we stand here together at the end of one season and the starting edge of the next, it can be tempting to race ahead without pausing to consider what you might be running into. Today is for the pause. We'll pause here together at the starting line of this new year, and we'll ask ourselves a few key questions about what might be next. Listen in. LINKS + RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE: Order The Next Right Thing Guided Journal Episode 172: Make These 2 Lists Now How to Find and Follow Arrows on The...
Jan 07, 2025•27 min
At the end of every year, I write down a list of what worked and what did not work that year. I share this in hopes that it helps you as you reflect on your own life and maybe it can give you some confidence that there really is no wrong way to do it. And maybe in hearing my lists, it will help you make your own. Listen in. LINKS + RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE: Sign up for the monthly letter The Next Right Thing G uided Journal House Rules by Myquillyn Smith Anything Goes with Emma Chamberlain Th...
Dec 31, 2024•37 min
There are a lot of questions you may ask yourself at the end of the year. When it comes to our vocation, I have found one question to be most helpful. Today, I'm sharing that question as well as how you might begin to answer it. Listen in. LINKS + RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE: Download The Quiet Collection app Join The Soul Minimalist Substack 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 Gu...
Dec 03, 2024•20 min
Today is a day I've had marked on the calendar for many months now because we've got our brand new advent collection ready and waiting. I'll play you a sample and tell you why it matters. Listen in. LINKS + RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE: Download The Quiet Collection app Join The Soul Minimalist Substack 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" Download the transcript...
Nov 26, 2024•11 min
We have exactly 42 days until the end of the year. What can we do now to keep our peace from now until then? Listen in. LINKS + RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE: Download The Quiet Collection app Join The Soul Minimalist Substack 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" Download the transcript...
Nov 19, 2024•16 min
What kind of endings are you facing and what practices can you engage to help you as you navigate them? Listen in. LINKS + RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE: Download The Quiet Collection app Join The Soul Minimalist Substack 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" Download the transcript...
Nov 12, 2024•21 min
Today's episode is a little bit different. We're going to engage in a grounding practice for an anxious time. You may likely recognize this as the 5-4-3-2-1 method. Even if it's familiar, I invite you to keep pace with me and follow along. You can do this while driving, walking, in a crowded space, alone in your office or room, or even while you're laying down to sleep at night. All you need is to stay present with me and with yourself. Listen in. LINKS + RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE: Download Th...
Nov 05, 2024•11 min
As we approach Election Day in the United States, I wanted to provide a simple liturgy as a resource for us as we make important decisions about our elected officials at the local, state and national levels. This is a liturgy you can use as you prepare to walk into the voting booth, either physically or if you're voting by mail metaphorically. Hopefully it will be a grounding exercise for you between now and next week, perhaps one you can listen to on your way to the voting booth or anytime befo...
Oct 29, 2024•11 min
