Emily Snyder: "Choosing Deliberate" in an Unexpected Life
All In
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🗓️ 15 May 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Magnolia Chief of Staff Emily Snyder never imagined her life would include working for well known, influential people or getting an MBA from an Ivy League School. In fact, all she ever dreamed of becoming was a mother but when her life began to look very different than her dreams, she decided she couldn't let it stop her from taking full advantage of her "one precious life."
"If I'm already a daughter of God, He already sees me as that. I don't have to become His daughter. I am. He loves me completely. And all these opportunities of growth and progression, and heartache, and brokenness are not things that I have to become something through. But they are simply opportunities for me to see who He already sees me to be, to see the strength that I already have."
Show Notes:
1:09- Have her bosses been as great as they seem?
2:39- A Life Different Than Planned
5:07- The Dream of Motherhood
8:48- Trusting Your Life To God
11:57- Marriage or Jesus Christ?
13:58- Choose Deliberate
19:42- The Road to Magnolia
23:52- Unity in Christ
24:43- Become Vs. Be
38:02- Lessons Learned From Julie, Clay, Chip and Joanna
42:33- What Does it Mean To You To Be All In?
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| 0:00.0 | Her entire life, Emily Snyder, has dreamed of becoming a mother. |
| 0:05.0 | While her life's opportunities may seem like a dream to many, |
| 0:09.0 | her reality looks very different than the one she planned for herself. |
| 0:13.0 | So what do you do when life doesn't turn out the way you dreamed or the way you planned? |
| 0:19.0 | According to Emily, you choose deliberate. |
| 0:22.0 | Emily Snyder is the chief of staff for Magnolia, the company owned by Fixer Upper's Chip and Joanna Gaines. |
| 0:29.0 | Emily graduated in 2018 with an NBA from Columbia Business School following five years as an executive assistant |
| 0:37.0 | to Harvard Business School's Clayton Christianson. |
| 0:40.0 | She also previously served as senior secretary for the Relief Society General Presidency |
| 0:46.0 | while sister Julie Bebek was Relief Society General President. |
| 0:50.0 | This is All-In, an LDS living podcast where we ask the question, |
| 0:55.0 | what does it really mean to be All-In, the gospel of Jesus Christ? |
| 1:00.0 | I'm Morgan Jones and it is an absolute pleasure to have Emily Snyder here with me today. |
| 1:06.0 | Emily, welcome. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm so thrilled to be here. |
| 1:10.0 | Well, as we said in our intro, you have had some pretty incredible bosses. |
| 1:16.0 | You worked with Julie Bebek in the Relief Society General Presidency, Clayton Christensen, |
| 1:22.0 | and now Chip and Joanna Gaines. |
| 1:24.0 | I think the question on everyone's minds when they listen to this will be, |
| 1:28.0 | are they as great as we want them to be? |
| 1:32.0 | Oh, and the answer is 100%. |
| 1:35.0 | I feel so. |
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