Girls Night #309: Do You Like Your Life? (Here's Permission to Say No)

Girls Night with Stephanie May Wilson

Stephanie May Wilson

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Mental Health

4.9 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This week on Girls Night, we’re asking one of the biggest — and maybe most important — questions we can ask ourselves: Do you like your life? And even more — do you believe you’re allowed to? So many of us have followed all the rules, checked all the boxes, and built the kind of life we thought we were supposed to want — only to look around and wonder why it doesn’t feel like home. In this episode, we’re slowing down, taking inventory, and learning how to remodel the parts of our lives that no longer fit. We’ll walk room-by-room through your “life house” — your relationships, your body, your work, your faith, your family, your joy — and ask some simple but powerful questions: 👉 Does this still fit me? 👉 Do I like it? 👉 What might need to change? This isn’t about burning it all down. It’s about noticing what’s working, what’s not, and making small, thoughtful changes that help your life feel like you again. If you’ve been trudging along a path that feels uphill and exhausting, this episode will help you find a new route — one that’s easier, freer, and a lot more beautiful. Resources Mentioned: Love Your Single Life Just Married Becoming Mama Stephanie’s Journals & Guides Let’s be friends! Instagram Website Join the Girls Night Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi friends, welcome to Girls' Night.
0:05.6	Before we dive in, I want to give you just a quick reminder about what this season the show is about.
0:10.0	This fall, we're having one long ongoing conversation week after week, building on itself
0:14.9	where we're asking big questions about our lives, the lives we've built, the lives we've inherited,
0:20.2	and the lives we really
0:21.6	want going forward.
0:23.5	The season is called This Is Not What I Ordered.
0:26.1	And it's a season for anyone who's followed all the rules, checked all the boxes, and is still
0:30.7	looking around thinking, wait, why doesn't this feel like the life I wanted?
0:35.1	We're unpacking where some of these scripts came from, some of the rules we've been following. We're vetting the voices that are shaping us, and we're remodeling what doesn't fit so that you can build a life that actually feels like home. Each week of the season builds on the last, so if you miss them, go ahead and press pause here and go back and listen to the previous two episodes first. It'll give you the
0:54.6	foundation you need for today's conversation as we keep taking inventory and start remodeling
0:59.5	the parts of our lives that just don't fit anymore. So I want to start today with a question.
1:12.6	It's a big question, and it's one of those questions that sounds so simple, but it might
1:16.9	actually be one of the most important questions we can ask ourselves.
1:20.4	You ready?
1:21.6	Here it is.
1:23.4	Do you like your life?
1:26.4	When's the last time you asked yourself that?
1:29.5	For so many of us, I think the answer is, uh, never.
1:32.9	We don't often stop to take stock.
1:35.4	We don't pause to look around and say,
1:37.4	do I like the way my life feels?
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