Episode 76: I Thought It Would Be Better Than This with Jessica Turner
The Jess Connolly Podcast
Jess Connolly
4.8 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Jess Connolly sits down with Jessica Turner, author of I Thought It Would Be Better Than This. Jessica shares the emotional challenges she faced and the tools she used to rebuild her life. Her new book offers guidance for anyone dealing with unmet expectations, disappointments, or big life changes.
This episode is for you if you're looking to heal from heartache or build deeper, healthier relationships through vulnerability.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friends, I'm Jess Connolly. I'm an author, a coach, a Bible teacher, and a local church leader, |
| 0:07.1 | and I love talking to real people who know what it means to have full lives, but also want to walk in abundance. |
| 0:14.5 | This podcast is for you. It's not my podcast. It's ours. It's for people who crave lighthearted conversations and deeply |
| 0:23.4 | spiritual truth. It's for people who are busy, tired, waiting, growing, dreaming, working, |
| 0:30.4 | or praying about what's next. Wherever you're listening from, if it's quiet, mundane, or busy, |
| 0:38.8 | I am praying for you and I'm so glad you're here. Let's go. |
| 0:45.5 | Jessica Turner, I am so grateful for you. I'm so grateful for the years I've gotten to know you |
| 0:52.2 | and watch you love people through your words |
| 0:55.6 | and through your work online, but also watching you love yourself these last few years |
| 1:02.1 | has been such a gift. So I just want to say thank you for that. And thanks for coming on the podcast |
| 1:06.2 | today. Gosh, thanks so much for having me. I am really, really honored to be here. |
| 1:12.6 | It's literally my joy, my privilege to have you. I want to just immediately dive in to talking about this book. |
| 1:22.7 | And I hit this place really early on in reading where you kind of describe who this book is for. |
| 1:32.0 | And as soon as I saw it, I thought, man, I want to just even say some of these words out loud. |
| 1:36.9 | You kind of give this short little list in the beginning of I thought it would be better than this. |
| 1:42.1 | And you say, this is for anyone who maybe is experiencing |
| 1:45.0 | the loss of a loved one, the ending of a marriage, an unfulfilling job, a health diagnosis, |
| 1:53.1 | a financial hardship, feelings of loneliness, parenting challenges, or an accident or a life-changing incident. And I think I wanted to ask you this, |
| 2:06.3 | as you were writing this and as you were processing these words and being so generous to not only |
| 2:12.0 | tell your story, but to provide a guide for women or any people at all who find themselves in these situations. Can you |
| 2:19.3 | think of very many people in your life who couldn't fit any of those descriptors? |
| 2:24.7 | No. I can't. I couldn't either. I mean, I really, what was naive of me six years ago before my marriage ended, my husband came out, |
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