How Are Your 20s Going?: Episode 715
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
The reality of life in your 20s, plus the highs and lows of young adult life, and setting boundaries with an overly strict parent.
Featured musical artist: James Peden
Roundtable: Expectations Vs. Reality of Life in Your 20s
In college, you dreamed about doing big things when you launched into adulthood. But then the real world hit – bills to pay, assignments to finish, a job to find, and learning to be an adult on every level. The truth is, reality doesn't always live up to our expectations. Your 20s are a decade of excitement, but also a time of overwhelming changes and even disappointments. Our guests share the good, bad and ugly of being a 20-something today. They also discuss ways to maximize this season in all its ups and downs.
Culture: The Gap Decade
When Katie Schnack found herself drained by a job she hated, it seemed like her whole world was falling apart. But even then, God was working things out behind the scenes. Katie joins us to explain how the decade of your 20s is really a journey about trusting God and figuring life out, even during the hard times. Whether life is great or not for you right now, this conversation will give you hope as a young adult who wants to move forward in what God has for you.
Inbox: Parental Overload
Her mom set very strict standards for her growing up, and is still trying to impose these standards on her as a young adult. She now feels manipulated into making the "right" decisions in everything from career to dating. Is it time to set some boundaries in the relationship? Counselor Geremy Keeton weighs in.
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| 0:00.0 | Friends, it is that time of year when people contact you and ask you to bless them as we are in the Christmas season and heading into a new year with a monetary gift. |
| 0:12.2 | And you know what? |
| 0:12.8 | I'm just going to go ahead and do that on behalf of Boundless. |
| 0:15.8 | This is Lisa Anderson, host of The Boundless Show. |
| 0:19.8 | And we are in our year-end giving campaign here |
| 0:22.9 | at Focus on the Family and Boundless, and your gift this year is going to be doubled in order |
| 0:28.9 | to further the work of Boundless as we minister to young adults. |
| 0:33.2 | How do you give? |
| 0:34.0 | Go to Boundless.org slash donate. |
| 0:36.6 | You can give today, and your gift will be matched |
| 0:39.6 | by a generous donor who has offered to put up that financial resource in order to stretch |
| 0:45.1 | gifts even further. So boundless.org slash donate, you have the opportunity to take us into the new |
| 0:50.9 | year here at boundless as we continue to provide great content and conversation |
| 0:55.9 | for you and everyone you love. Thanks so much in advance. |
| 1:01.9 | Well, hey folks, Lisa Anderson here for this week's episode of The Boundless Show. Well, hey, folks, Lisa Anderson here for this week's episode of The Boundless Show. Well, hey folks, Lisa Anderson here for this week's episode of The Boundless Show. |
| 1:14.8 | Welcome. |
| 1:15.6 | And great to have you with us. |
| 1:17.5 | I always like giving a little preview of what's coming up on the show. |
| 1:20.5 | So later for our inbox, we have a listener who has a very difficult relationship with her mom. |
| 1:24.9 | And she is wondering, is it time maybe to put some distance between us? |
| 1:28.6 | So she's going to talk through a couple of the elements there and one of our counselors is going to |
| 1:33.2 | weigh in. For our culture segment, you have heard of taking a gap year, but what about something |
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