Ep 212: 10 Questions For Every Room You're In (with Emily P. Freeman)

10 Things To Tell You

Laura Tremaine

Society & Culture, Unknown, Personal Journals

4.7 • 930 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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One of my greatest teachers of the last few years is author, podcaster, and speaker Emily P. Freeman. I have learned so much from her work and devoured her latest NEW YORK TIMES best selling book How To Walk Into A Room: The Art of Knowing When To Stay and When To Walk Away. Emily says, "Our whole life is like a house, and every commitment, community, role, and relationship is like a room." In this conversation, Emily and I continue her room metaphor and she asks 10 Questions from her book that we can use to discern our own sense of belonging, and our choices to stay or leave. The framework of these 10 questions is perfect for 10 Things To Tell You and I loved unpacking each of these questions and concepts with Emily. Find out more about Emily P. Freeman Buy How To Walk Into A Room: The Art of Knowing When To Stay and When To Walk Away Listen to The Next Right Thing podcast Read Emily on Substack Follow Emily on IG FULL SHOW NOTES HERE MENTIONED in this episode: Did I choose this room or did it choose me? What are the corners, sections, people, or parts of this room that I’m avoiding? What is good and beautiful about this room? Where are the caution flags? Is anyone or anything missing from this room? If so, who or what? Who has the power in this room? Who or what will be affected by my decision? To what extent can I be myself in this room? If God is in this room, what is the action of the divine? Do I want to stay in this room? SUBSCRIBE to 10 Things To Tell You so you never miss an episode! CLICK HERE for episode show notes FOLLOW @10ThingsToTellYou on Instagram FOLLOW @10ThingsToTellYou on Facebook JOIN the 10 Things To Tell You Connection Group SIGN UP for episode emails, links, and show notes JOIN the Secret Stuff Patreon BUY THE BOOK: Share Your Stuff. I'll Go First. by Laura Tremaine BUY THE BOOK: The Life Council: 10 Friends Every Woman Needs by Laura Tremaine Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:16.6	Welcome to the Ten Things to Tell You podcast. I'm Laura Tremaine and I always have at least 10 things to tell you and you have 10 things to tell. This is a show where we believe that sharing yourself will make you less lonely.
0:27.6	One of my greatest teachers of the last few years also happens to be a friend.
0:36.2	Emily P. Freeman has been such a formative voice for me
0:49.7	in the last season or two of my life through her books, through her podcast.
0:51.7	I'm so excited to have her on the show today. I'm so excited to have her on the show today
0:55.6	because her latest book,
0:58.6	How to Walk Into a Room,
1:00.2	The Art of Knowing When to Stay
1:02.4	and When to Walk Away is a book that spoke directly to me.
1:08.0	And you'll hear in the episode why this topic was just so timely for me and why I really think it will be extra timely for you as well.
1:19.3	Emily P Freeman is the Wall Street Journal best-selling author of six books, including her last one which you might have read, called The Next Right Thing.
1:28.0	That book came out of her weekly podcast called The Next Right Thing, which is very popular. It has more than 25 million
1:36.5	downloads and I highly encourage you to check out her writing, her books, her podcasts, and her social media, all of which I just love.
1:47.3	And our conversation today, we walk through 10 questions that Emily asks in how to walk into a room.
1:57.4	They are 10 questions to ask yourself about the rooms that you're in. The questions are for discernment about belonging,
2:07.0	about leaving, about staying, and it just felt like the perfect match for 10 things to tell you to ask ourselves these 10 questions.
2:16.7	We're going to walk through all 10 of them and I hope that the way that we ask and answer these questions will spark a lot of thoughts or maybe
2:27.0	inspire some journaling in your own life about the rooms that you're in. I know for me these 10 questions gave me so much food for
2:37.1	thought about different aspects of my life. You'll hear when Emily introduces herself at the beginning of our conversation that she is also a spiritual director.
2:47.0	So this book is told from a Christian lens and threaded throughout the book are pieces of Emily's own story and she is talking and sharing a little bit about her family's decision to leave a church. I mentioned those two things because I know that
3:08.0	the church piece has been a pain point for many people over the last several years.
3:13.2	And also just to mention that even though Emily is writing and sharing from a Christian
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