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 there 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 new friend Ashley Lemieux. Ashley is a writer, a speaker, a cheerleader

for women and the author of an amazing new book called Born to Shine. She also runs an

awesome company called The Shine Project which she'll tell us all about in this episode

you are going to love her. Today Ashley is going to be teaching us how to get on stuck

in life, how to get back up when we've been knocked down. I love this episode because

in it Ashley shares with us some really vulnerable stories of times when she's been knocked

down, when she's gotten stuck and when she's thought how in the world am I going to keep

going after this? But she has and in the process she's turned her biggest setbacks into

her greatest strengths and she's going to teach us how we can do that too. Friends if

you are feeling stuck or experiencing grief or needing motivation to get through a difficult

season this episode has your name on it. But before we dive in, I don't know if you've

had a chance to check out my book The Lipstick Gospel yet but if you haven't I would

love to send you a copy. Here's what one sweet reader had to say about it. I just love

this. She said I just found my new favorite book. I couldn't put it down. The Lipstick

Gospel is the story of a sorority girl who never planned on becoming a Christian until

she met God in the most beautiful and unexpected way. It's a travel journal, a testimony that

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