I'm Emily P. Freeman and welcome to the next right thing.

You're listening to episode 212.

This is a podcast about making decisions but also about making a life.

If you struggle with decision fatigue, chronic hesitation, or if you just need a few minutes

away from the constant stream of information and the sometimes delightful but also distracting

hum of entertainment, you're in the right place for discerning your next right thing.

Today's question, what do we do when a room we've walked into is no longer the room where

we belong?

Listen in.

During the years 2017, tell about 2019, those were years for me of learning how to walk into

a room as my full self, as a fixed point, as a woman, as God's beloved and with Shalom.

Those were the years when I finished graduate school.

I started this podcast.

I, with my co-founders, leveled up Hope Riders for membership.

I co-hosted several live conferences, wrote and launched a book in a matter of 10 months

from signed contract to release day.

Yes, it was just 10 months.

We'll talk about it later.

But one of the chapters in that book, the next right thing, is called Walk Into a Room.

That's chapter 22.

And it's an important concept that we all need to learn.

Every room we walk into, we bring our own stories with us, our narratives, true or false,

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