Hey friends, welcome to Girls Night. I'm Stephanie May Wilson and I am so happy that you're here.

Each week I have a girlfriend over and we talk through one of the biggest questions we have about our lives as women.

We're talking about friendships and faith and relationships and self-confidence, about our calling in life and how to live every bit of our lives to the absolute full.

Life is so much better and easier and absolutely more fun when we navigate it together as girlfriends and I cannot wait to get started.

Our guest for today's episode is my dear friend and my small group leader, Jessica Freylin.

Jessica's an author and a speaker and today she's here to talk to us all about social media and our identities, how to do one without losing the other.

I love having Jessica here to talk about this because this has been something we cannot stop talking about in my small group these days.

The thing is we're on social media to feel inspired and connected but more often than not, those aren't the feelings we walk away with.

All too often we look up from our phones only to realize we've been on them for way longer than we realized and we just feel empty.

We don't feel inspired or connected. Instead we feel things like FOMO, the fear of missing out, or like the things we want to do in the world are already being done and done better by somebody else.

We feel like we're not good enough, not thin enough, not pretty enough, not popular enough, not successful enough, not fun enough, not well dressed enough and the list goes on.

It's something my whole small group has been struggling with and Jessica has had so much insight and wisdom into this.

It's like she wrote the book on it, which actually she did.

Jessica's the author of a book called Hashtag Stolen which talks all about social media and identity.

In her conversation today she shares some game-changing biblical truths as well as some really practical tricks that have been so helpful for us.

I cannot wait to share this with you.

But before we jump in, there's something I wanted to make sure to tell you about.

So lately I've been getting a lot of emails from my readers and my listeners who are looking to find and form deeper friendships.

So many of them are looking around and just realizing that they're kind of lonely these days.

They don't have people that are really bare people and they have no idea how to go about changing that.

And my gosh, I can totally relate to that struggle.

When Carl and I first moved here to Nashville, we moved here without knowing anybody and I had to figure out all over again how to find and make new friends.

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