Sometimes Ending the Year Strong Means Ending the Year Slowly | Erin Wilkins | Episode 396

The Speakeasy

The Girl Named Blake

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Welcome back to the Speakeasy Podcast—and to the very last episode of the year. To close out this season, Blake sits down with Erin Wilkins, a friend and voice she deeply trusts, to talk about something countercultural but necessary: slowing down.

Erin has walked this road just a little ahead—moving from seasons of intense advocacy, visibility, and urgency into a quieter, more intentional life rooted in peace, obedience, and presence. Together, they reflect on what it costs to stay in the fight too long, how good assignments can still have an expiration date, and why obedience doesn't always look brave to the world—but often is.

This honest, friend-to-friend conversation explores burnout, identity, motherhood, boundaries with technology, and learning to be informed without being consumed. They talk about passing the torch, protecting family rhythms, resisting urgency culture, and embracing winter as a God-designed season of rest.

If you're feeling stretched thin, conflicted about slowing down, or wondering how to end this year in a way that actually prepares you for the next, this episode is for you. Sometimes the strongest finish isn't louder or faster—it's slower, quieter, and more faithful.

"Be still, and know that I am God." – Psalm 46:10

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Speakeasy podcast and the very last episode of the year.
0:05.0	And I think I say this when I get on the air with my guest today, Aaron.
0:09.5	But when I was thinking about how I wanted to end this year, Aaron was really the only person that I wanted to talk to because she has walked the road that I am walking just a little bit ahead of me.
0:20.2	And I have watched her fight this battle to slow down, to step out of good things
0:25.9	into different, maybe even better things.
0:28.6	And I've learned a lot from her as someone that I, like, love her content online,
0:32.5	but then also have had the gift of being able to become friends with her in real life.
0:37.3	And I just wanted to talk about
0:40.6	it about slowing down with someone that's done it. Because I've talked about that a fair amount
0:46.2	the last couple of months, but it's different to have a conversation with someone that's experienced
0:50.2	it that's years into a process and has insight on what that looks like internally and how
0:56.2	it's hard and how obedience isn't always easy and that sometimes the braver choice doesn't
1:02.0	make sense to everybody. And so we got to sit down as friends and just yap for like almost an
1:08.3	hour about battling for our families for slowing down and how to do
1:14.5	this different in a world that demands rush and urgency from us. And I'm a really big believer that
1:21.6	the way we end one season is the way that we begin the next. And while we are dead in the middle
1:26.1	of a season of winter, the year is
1:30.1	ending and a new year is beginning and we're setting intentions and we're vision casting into the
1:35.8	next year. And I wanted this to be where we landed for the rest of, for the end of this year and
1:42.0	moving into next year. And so I adore Erin.
1:44.9	She's one of my favorite people online.
1:46.7	And it was so great to get to have this conversation with her about things that she's
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