From Pain to Purpose: Leadership Coach Nick Edwards on Faith, Resilience & Big Dreams

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Mike Litton

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🗓️ 6 January 2026

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

In this powerful episode of The Mike Litton Experience, host Mike Litton sits down with leadership coach, speaker, and author Nick Edwards for an honest, inspiring conversation about faith, resilience, and purpose-driven leadership.

Nick shares his remarkable journey—from growing up in Mesquite, Texas, to serving as a Dallas police officer, overcoming seasons of feeling abandoned by God, and ultimately stepping into his calling as a leadership coach and men’s ministry leader. He opens up about the pain that shaped him, the mentors who transformed his thinking, and how those experiences led him to found MyLeadershipCoach.org, launch multiple impact-driven businesses, and write his upcoming book, Big Dreams, Small Steps.

Mike also shares his own near-death experience and why storytelling, curiosity, and asking better questions are essential for leaders who want to truly connect and influence others.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

Why pain often precedes purpose
How leadership starts with asking better questions
The power of small, consistent steps toward big dreams
Why scars with stories create real connection
How clarity of vision transforms leadership, business, and life

If you’re a leader, entrepreneur, coach, or someone searching for clarity and direction, this episode will challenge and encourage you to dream bigger—and take the next right step.

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0:00.0	God, you have not taken me through all of this.
0:02.9	I know my calling.
0:04.9	I feel angry at you, God. I feel mad at you. I feel like you've abandoned me. I'm not sure what to do. God, are you going to punish me for all these issues that I've gone through? Is it a lack of faith? What am I supposed to do, God? And I just kept on feeling like God said, I'm not finished with you. I think a lot of people struggle with this idea.
0:20.8	Well, if I go do great, does that mean I'm not being humble?
0:23.9	Right. And I just kept on feeling like God said, I'm not finished with you. I think a lot of people struggle with this idea. Well, if I go do great, does that mean I'm not being humble?
0:24.1	Right.
0:25.1	And so what I tell people is humility is not thinking less of yourself.
0:30.3	It's thinking more of others.
0:32.0	Yeah.
0:32.3	You can think how great you are and how wonderful you are up here and still think of people
0:37.0	higher than you.
0:38.3	That scars without stories fall short of their purpose.
0:41.7	Yep.
0:42.5	And I think that's what you were talking about with him, that scars without stories.
0:47.2	It has to be a scar.
0:49.1	It can't be an open wound.
0:50.2	Yeah.
0:50.4	Right.
0:51.3	But it has to be a scar that tells a story and then it really has purpose behind it
0:55.6	we're going to dream big let's unpack that big dream that big vision for your life your
0:59.7	leadership your business and then let's take the small steps together that's the whole premise
1:04.2	of the book and that's the title of the book big dream absolutely small steps right
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