I'm Emily P. Freeman, and welcome to the next right thing. You're listening to episode 295.

I'm an author, a spiritual director, and an occasional workshop leader. I live in the

Piedmont of North Carolina with my family, and through my work I've held thousands of spiritually

thoughtful people overcome decision fatigue so that they can discern their next right thing

in faith, work, and life. You are enjoying this podcast,

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and it's where we'll continue the conversation that we begin here about discernment and decision-making

for anyone who wants to move beyond the pro-con list. If you struggle with decision fatigue,

chronic hesitation, or if you just need a few minutes away from the constant stream of information,

and is sometimes delightful, but also distracting hum of entertainment, you're in the right place

for discerning your next right thing. Well, today I'm sharing about one of my next right things.

It's exciting news about my next book. You heard that right. I wrote another book,

and I'll share all about it in today's episode. Listen in.

In the winter of 2022, I finally had some margin to begin to consider an idea that had been swirling

in my mind for a few years. I scheduled a date on the calendar to get away for the night,

so that I could walk around in this idea for a little while, see what more it might have to say

when it wasn't rushed or squeezed into the cracks of my daily schedule.

And by the way, I do mean cracks, as my daily schedule at that time had been packed for quite

some time. The next right thing book had released in the spring of 2019, and that by the way was

based on the first 30 or so episodes of this podcast. I thought that spring of 2019 would usher

in a season of less, as the two years prior to that had been filled with grad school,

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