"Am I wasting my late twenties?": Dial Emma Reframes Ep 1
Dial Emma
Emma Reed Turrell
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Hello, lovely listeners! Welcome back to Dial Emma and to my brand new mini-series on reframes.
This week, we hear from a 27-year-old listener who feels as though she missed the life handbook that everyone else got. Her peers are getting married, having children, buying houses: meanwhile, she lives in a house share, with a mouldy bathroom and one shelf in the fridge to call her own.
Does everything need to feel certain in our twenties? Do we need to have a five-year-plan? Or can we find ways to intentionally inhabit a life that feels joyful right now, without a clear destination?
Dial Emma is hosted by Emma Reed Turrell, produced by Lauren Brook.
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| 0:00.0 | Incredible everyday prices? Check. The latest investment pieces? Check. Find it all at Bista Village. |
| 0:08.3 | Every day, shop with up to 40% off your favourite brands, like Dyson and Creed. The thrill of |
| 0:14.9 | discovery awaits less than an hour from London. Bista Village, what will you find? |
| 0:21.1 | Hello and welcome to Dial Emma, the podcast where your Dial Emas meet my therapeutic |
| 0:26.5 | insights. |
| 0:27.8 | I'm Emma Reed-Torrell, psychotherapist, author, and well-recovering people-pleaser. |
| 0:32.4 | Each week, I'll be unpacking real-life questions from listeners just like you. |
| 0:36.9 | The big ones, the small ones, |
| 0:38.4 | the ones that keep you up at night, offering practical tools and gentle truths to help you find |
| 0:44.0 | your way through. So if you've got a question, you don't know how to ask out loud. You've come |
| 0:49.1 | to the right place. Welcome to this week's episode of Dial Emma. |
| 1:00.2 | Last time I kicked us off with some of my own personal reframes that extended into a professional reframe I wasn't expecting, that resulted in a, what should we say, lifestyle reframe I wasn't expecting that resulted in a, what should we say, lifestyle |
| 1:13.9 | reframe I wasn't expecting, an understanding of myself I wasn't expecting, some different and |
| 1:20.2 | reframed relationships with myself as a daughter, an ex-wife, a mother, a co-parent, a friend. These reframes, well, they all |
| 1:32.3 | taught me something, which isn't how to polish something into positive, but they did teach me |
| 1:40.9 | something about sides of myself that I hadn't met yet. And whilst they |
| 1:45.7 | weren't all intended or wanted, on some level, I wouldn't change any of them. I wouldn't go back |
| 1:57.3 | to not seeing things the way I see them now. |
| 2:05.3 | So, off the back of my reframes, over to you. |
| 2:09.2 | We've got four episodes coming up in this miniseries, |
| 2:12.2 | and I had so many responses, |
| 2:15.9 | and I'm so grateful to all of you who send in your dilemmas, |
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