Emily Lex, The Journey Home
The Going Scared Podcast with Jessica Honegger
Jessica Honegger
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 March 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
This week we're continuing our series, Going Against the Grain, with artist, blogger, and author, Emily Lex. At first, you may not realize that Emily is someone who bucks trends and finds truth in unlikely places. But as you'll hear today, she does just that.
Join Emily and Jessica as they look back on their friendship, talk about the ways Emily's artistry affects those around her, and chat about that one time that Emily and her family dropped everything, traveled the country in an RV, and spontaneously moved to a new city!
Show Links
— To keep up with Emily and find her new book: https://emilylex.com/
— Head to Jessica Honegger's website for info on her book, newsletter, transcripts of Going Scared episodes, and more! https://jessicahonegger.com/
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the Going Scared Podcast. This is your host, Jessica Honecker, |
| 0:04.5 | founder of the Social Impact Fashion brand, Noonday Collection. Join me here every week for |
| 0:09.6 | conversations on living lives of purpose by leaving comfort and going scared. This week we are |
| 0:16.0 | hearing from Emily Lex as our next guest in the Against the Green series. Emily is a talented |
| 0:21.9 | watercolor artist, a long-time blogger, an author. She's a friend. She's traveled with me to |
| 0:28.0 | Rwanda several years ago to meet Noonday Collection artisans. And she was actually one of her first |
| 0:33.6 | really big bloggers that blogged about us 10 years ago. And it's been so fun to partner with her |
| 0:39.1 | on her new journey. Her new book releases this month freely and lightly. God's gracious |
| 0:44.4 | invitation to live a life of quiet confidence. And what I love about Emily is she is not someone |
| 0:50.9 | who would come across as being against the grain. She is a self-proclaimed nine on the India Grams. |
| 0:56.8 | She likes to keep the peace. But she has done a lot of things to go against the grain in her life. |
| 1:02.5 | One story I wanted her to share is when she and her husband and her four children packed up supplies |
| 1:08.0 | and hit the road for four months in an RV to go to all the different national parks. She pulled |
| 1:14.5 | them out of school. It ended up sending them on a journey of changing all of their lives, |
| 1:19.6 | moving to a new neighborhood afterwards. And I think there's something really brave and bold |
| 1:24.8 | about kind of noticing when you're alive, you're not living your life according to your values, |
| 1:29.7 | according to those things that you wanted and you're willing to interrupt that and change |
| 1:34.2 | courses. She talks about that and then also being an artist. Being an artist to me is a way to |
| 1:40.6 | go against the grain of our lives where we tend to flow in a scrolling life, a Netflix life. |
| 1:48.6 | I think actually practicing creativity, getting present in our bodies is a way to come back that. |
| 1:54.6 | So she shares a lot about that as well. I feel like this conversation with Emily will resonate |
| 1:59.6 | with me for a long time. Here we go. |
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