46: Lace Up Your Warrior Boots and Be Your Authentic Self (Emily Cummins)
Vibrant Happy Women
Jen Riday
4.8 • 671 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2017
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Emily Cummins is passionate about partnering with churches and people to reach their full potential and effectively share their story through digital communication strategies. She also founded and leads a community and resource for women, BecomingMe.TV, encouraging, empowering and equipping women as they're living to their highest God-given potential. Emily lives in Ocala, Florida and for fun she loves spending time on the beach and driving with the top down blaring the latest Taylor Swift song. She also enjoys reading and writing.
Nuggets of Wisdom from Emily:
"Choose to become who God made you to be and daily choose to be her. Choose to become who God made you to be and daily choose to be her."
"My pursuit for this endless perfection that really was never granted, it was breaking me apart, and it was limiting from becoming who God made me to be."
"'Emily, you are not made to be perfect, and you do not have to be.' There is freedom in that. But you can wake up and choose to become who God made you to be no matter what you are experiencing."
"Sometimes our weaknesses can become our very strengths."
"Life is hard. We go through lots of low points and lots of valleys. But we do not ever have to live there."
"It reminds me that other people are on this journey too. And when we share who we are and what we are doing, we become stronger together."
"Strip off all the labels and the lies that you have told yourself or that you have listened to from other people. We have to dig through the junk that is in our hearts and in our minds first. And many times that is just stuff we tell ourselves. Second, you have to choose to love you. If you do not love yourself, there is really no way that you can really genuinely love those around you well or even love what you are doing. We have to love who we are in order to become whoever you want to be. Last, you just have to choose to be her."
"The decision to be free really lies with me."
"I think we are all strong to an extent, but I do believe in that power, and for me that is God. "
Some of Emily's Favorite Things:
Personal habit: "Writing is my favorite habit because it keeps me centered. It keeps me balanced. It helps me think through things objectively. It
clears my brain."
Easy meal: "Breakfast for every meal."
Possession: "Spatula."
Ruth's Favorite Books: Bittersweet by Shauna Niequist
Best advice received: "You know who you wanna be. Just choose to be her."
Emily's Happiness Formula:
"Lacing up my warrior boots. Pursuing & becoming who God made me to be. And daily choosing to be her."
A Challenge from Emily:
"No matter what you are facing today, you can rise above it. The power and the key is already inside you. Just choose to be who you are."
Resources
Vibrant Happy Women Facebook Group
Bittersweet by Shauna Niequist
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Vibrant Happy Women Podcast, episode number 46. |
| 0:06.5 | That's this breaking point in the middle of college where God was just like, |
| 0:11.1 | Emily, you're not going to be perfect. |
| 0:13.9 | That's not how I designed you to be. |
| 0:17.5 | Welcome to the Vibrant Happy Women Podcast, stories of vibrant women living happy lives. |
| 0:24.0 | And now your host, Jen Ryday. |
| 0:30.1 | Hey there, welcome to Vibrant Happy Women. |
| 0:36.6 | I'm Dr. Jen Ryday, and I'm so glad you're here. |
| 0:40.2 | Well, in our last episode, I spoke with Ruth Sukup, and she shared all about choosing happiness. |
| 0:46.9 | She hit that very, very low point, and we all hit one at some point or another in our lives. |
| 0:52.3 | And she said, you know what, I'm tired of feeling this way. |
| 0:55.1 | And she decided to get herself out of that pit of darkness and choose to be happy. That episode is |
| 1:02.4 | amazing. If you haven't listened to it yet, be sure to do that by going to genriday.com |
| 1:07.6 | forward slash 45. And you'll see a little link at the top and you can click that arrow |
| 1:12.7 | and it will play the podcast for you. Also, I want to remind you if you haven't joined the Vibrant |
| 1:18.5 | Happy Women Facebook group, do so. We're having fun discussions every day about our goals and how |
| 1:24.4 | we're moving forward and how we're choosing to be happy. So we'd love to have you. |
| 1:28.6 | Just go to Facebook and search for vibrant happy women and you should find us. |
| 1:33.9 | Well, on today's episode, I'll be talking with Emily Cummins and she shares how she chose to |
| 1:39.2 | put on her warrior boots and live an authentic life. This is a great episode because who doesn't want to put on |
| 1:46.4 | their warrior boots? I've got mine on right now. I hope you have on yours. And of course, |
| 1:51.0 | I'm being metaphorical, but isn't that the coolest phrase ever, warrior boots? Yes, I love it. |
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