EP. 16 | Ellie Berry [True Identity]
The Messy Table with Jenn Jewell
Jenn Jewell
5 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2017
⏱️ 47 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Is it your job, your family, your house, your education, your ability, your relationship status, your social-media following? Identity is a big deal because it drastically affects the trajectory of our lives.
"Our identity influences our purpose," she says.
My guest today at The Messy Table is the adorable Ellie Berry, who's young-but-fierce and WISE BEYOND HER YEARS. Ellie is a successful wedding photographer by day (Ellie Be Photography), but she's leaning into God's deeper purpose for her life—not just in what she does, but in who she is.
We're talking about the secret to stepping into your true identity with boldness, obedience, and purpose in this passion-filled episode. Honestly, I need to listen to it at least two or three more times to really let it marinate. Also, I'm obsessed with Ellie's voice—so soothing! Her words are a breath of fresh air for our often-weary souls. So grab (or reheat) your coffee, pull up a chair, and join us at The Messy Table.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody and welcome to episode number 16 at the messy table where life is not always perfect but God is always at work. |
| 0:15.8 | I'm your host, Jen Jewel, and my goal here is simply to use real life and real women to point us back to our very real God. |
| 0:22.7 | All right, you know that feeling at the end of the day when you wipe off your makeup and put on |
| 0:26.8 | your favorite sweatpants. I love that feeling. Nothing's fancy or formal, but it's you at your |
| 0:32.2 | core, you without the fuss. In the very profound words of a brilliant doctor named Dr. Seuss, there is no one alive |
| 0:40.7 | who is newer than you. It's a little cheesy, yes, but it's true. We are all uniquely |
| 0:45.9 | created by God. But even within that diversity, there are also some similarities. And today's |
| 0:51.5 | conversation is all about that. It's rooted in identity, where we usually |
| 0:55.4 | find ourselves asking some foundational questions like, who am I? And if there is a God, who is |
| 1:00.3 | he? This topic actually made me think about my nunny, my grandmother, who graduated to heaven |
| 1:05.7 | a little over a year ago. Right before she passed away, I was sitting next to her bed at the |
| 1:10.0 | nursing home, holding her skinny little hand, and I just wanted next to her bed at the nursing home, holding |
| 1:11.1 | their skinny little hand, and I just wanted her to hear me say, thank you for loving God |
| 1:16.5 | and following him for a lifetime. |
| 1:19.1 | But you know what her response was to me? |
| 1:21.1 | She kind of smiled and nodded and said in a croaky voice, I wish I could have done more. |
| 1:26.9 | What she didn't see at that moment was it was not about what she did. |
| 1:30.3 | It was about who she was. |
| 1:32.3 | I watched her relationship with Christ. |
| 1:35.3 | I saw her faith. |
| 1:36.3 | I actually prayed to accept Jesus with my money on the floor of her old house. |
| 1:41.3 | Galatians 3, 26 through 29 says, for you are all children of God |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Jenn Jewell, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Jenn Jewell and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.