Episode 88: What I'd Tell My Younger Self + Nicoletta Bradley
The Jess Connolly Podcast
Jess Connolly
4.8 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2025
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Jess is back with another Summer with Friends episode. You’ll hear the advice she’d give her younger self before diving into a heartfelt and honest conversation with Nicoletta Bradley. They unpack body shame, singleness, and the freedom found in surrendering all control to God.
If you’ve ever wrestled with body image or the pressure to “fix” yourself, this episode offers grace, hope, and a fresh perspective: your worth isn’t a number, it’s who God says you are. Get ready to be encouraged to live fully free and unashamed in your body and spirit.
Let’s go.
** This episode includes talk around body image and eating disorders. If that’s something you’re currently walking through or healing from, we honor your journey. Feel free to listen when it’s helpful, or skip when it’s not.
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Ready to break free? Grab Jess’s Breaking Free from Body Shame book and Bible Study Guide for powerful, practical help on your journey.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Jess Connolly podcast, where we talk about living fully awake, spiritually, mentally, |
| 0:08.8 | physically, and emotionally. Here, we don't strive for perfection. We pursue wholeness. And we believe that |
| 0:17.0 | women who are awake to the goodness of God cannot help but bring light to the world around |
| 0:22.8 | them. This summer, we're mixing things up with summer with friends, a special season full of |
| 0:29.7 | life-giving conversations and encouragement. Each episode is starting with a short chat or coaching |
| 0:35.7 | session, just you and me, |
| 0:41.0 | and then we'll head into an honest, hope-filled interview with one of my friends. |
| 0:43.1 | Whether you're listening on a walk, |
| 0:44.7 | on the way to work, |
| 0:45.7 | or from a beach chair, |
| 0:46.7 | I hope this time leaves you more grounded, |
| 0:49.7 | more joyful, |
| 0:50.7 | and more fully awake in Jesus' name. |
| 0:55.2 | Let's go. |
| 1:03.7 | Hi, friends. Listen, it's Summer with Friends on the Jazz Carnal-Lay podcast, which means in just a moment, you are about to get an incredible interview with a friend of mine. And this week, |
| 1:08.0 | we are talking to Nicoletta Bradley. She is a firecracker. She's a young woman |
| 1:12.9 | out to live God's mission and God's call on her life. We talk a lot about body image and what |
| 1:18.4 | that's looked like for her and also how she is using her gifts for the good of others and the glory |
| 1:23.5 | of God in that way. But in the episode, we talk a little bit about how we're often kind of |
| 1:29.1 | ministering to two different generations. I'm talking to women in their maybe late 30s, 40s, |
| 1:34.3 | and 50s about body image. And she's talking to some younger women. And so in light of that, |
| 1:39.2 | our quick intro segment for this week is, what are some things that I would tell my younger self? I'm going to be |
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