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Untangled Faith: Hearing God, Journaling Honestly, Living Aligned

• Stephanie Nelson • Season 4 • Episode 127

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We sit with author and coach Megan Nilsen to explore honest, two-way journaling, Scripture-led discernment, and how kingdom-first living reshapes identity, parenting, and purpose. A raw adoption story becomes a framework for hearing God and turning insights into action.

• adoption, trauma, and a faith crisis that asks if we heard God correctly
• redefining calling from role-based identity to kingdom-first living
• two-way journaling steps: honesty, listening, confirming, acting
• testing guidance by Scripture, wise counsel, and fruit
• releasing control in adult relationships and finding peace
• curating influences and seeking mentors with proven fruit
• guided journaling resource and coaching pathways

Visit Megan at meganbnilsen.com for a free discovery call
Listen to Kingdom Life Coaching Podcast, especially episode 50 for a guided session
Find Untangled Faith and Untangled Advent on Amazon
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SPEAKER_00:

I would like to welcome Megan Nilsen to the Pivotal People Podcast. And I'm super excited because I know I always talk about this. I love to read. And my favorite kind of books to read are books like Megan's. And she reached out to me. We have a mutual friend, and told me about her newest book, which is called Untangled Advent. And she has a couple of other books too. So she was kind enough to send me her book. I want to tell you about her first, then I'm going to tell you about her book. So Megan is a kingdom life coach. We're going to talk to her about what that is, empowering people of all ages to listen to the voice of God and take aligned action in a world of possibilities. Her previous work includes the book A Beautiful Exchange, Responding to God's Invitation for More. So when I first communicated with Megan, she has a couple of books, so she offered to send me one. And the book Untangled Faith, this is the tagline, Untangled Faith, How Honest Conversations with God Lead to Deeper Connections, Clarity, and Peace. And I thought, okay, I could use a little of that. All right. Megan, could we do Untangled Faith? She said yes. And she very generously sent me a copy of that book. And then also the journal that goes with it, which I'm super excited about because I so love journaling, but Megan has a really good way of teaching it. So I know I'm going on too long, but I always read the book before a podcast. I was out of town. I just got back to town, and Megan's book came yesterday. Oh, goodness. And I thought, okay, all right, well, I'm gonna read it. I don't know how much I'm gonna be able to read, but I'll do my best. And I don't know, maybe I'll skim the chapters I miss. And I hate to do that because I just don't do that. I got up an hour early and I sat down to read Megan's book, and I only got up to get another cup of coffee. It is so good. I read the entire book in one setting, sitting, and I was done by 9 a.m. It's the kind of book you say, I want both my sons to read this, I want my husband to read this, I want my daughter-in-law to read this, I want my friends to read this. And I know I say that all the time, but seriously, it's true. It is just such a good book. So thank you for being here, Megan. I can't wait to talk about it. What a blessing. Thank you for that encouragement, truly. Well, thank you for starting my day off, right? And now I'm gonna go right into the journal. So tell us, I've told you just the top line about you, but talk to me about the whole point of this book and the whole message of this book because it's yes, how honest conversations with God lead to deeper connections, clarity, and peace. You got it, girl.

SPEAKER_01:

Okay, and I know you are a woman of efficiency, so I would love to be as clear as possible as I kind of share the backstory here. So, uh about oh gosh, 15 years ago, we adopted our youngest two kids from Ethiopia. So hearing God's voice, feeling the call to adopt and blend our family that way. When the kids came home, it was very, very difficult. That is sort of the story in my first book, FYI. But obviously, inherent in train in adoption is trauma and brokenness, and blending families is difficult, it's complicated. And really at the end of the day, I was like, God, did we hear you correctly? Because I feel like we've ruined everybody's lives. Their lives, you know, they're they're in pain, we're in pain. Did I really hear you? So I go to counseling, as any good American mother does.

unknown:

Yep.

SPEAKER_01:

And my counselor was exactly who I needed in that moment because I came, plopped myself on our couch with just tears streaming down my face. This is so hard. I'm really not sure. We heard the Lord write, I don't know what to do. I feel like a failure. And she looked at me in the eyes and she said, You know that motherhood's not your highest calling, right? And I said, I did not. That's all I'm doing. We went from two to four overnight, and you're blowing my mind right now. And really, with all, you know, truth and love, this is the way of Jesus. She said, Your highest calling is truly to be a daughter of God, to be infill, have your infilling from the Holy Spirit, be abiding in Christ. You're finding your identity, you're finding your nourishment from Him. And then everything else is an outgrowth of that. So, what is kingdom first living? And I'm telling you, in that moment, I was like, I've been a Christian since I could hold a crayon. And I'm feeling radically challenged right now to understand what does it mean to walk by the flesh and what does it mean to walk by the spirit? So, over the past 10 to 15 years, this is exactly the quest I've been on. I feel like God has just been showing me just year after year, just revelation of what it looks like to really have have my life in Jesus, the infilling of the Holy Spirit, and and and find my joy in him, and everything else comes from there to include motherhood, parenting, etc. Okay. So there that's the that's the foundational background. So moving forward, I was so just passionate about this subject. And I felt like, well, if this is new to me, it's gotta be new for somebody else. And so God led me on this path of speaking, communicating, teaching at church, ultimately writing and starting a coaching business. So you had said at the beginning, what's kingdom life coaching, which in essence is understanding that you can hear God's voice. He does speak to his people. And sometimes we get a little bit confused. Is that God's voice? Is that my voice? Is he really calling me to this? So enter the life coaching piece. Yes, God's speaking to you. Let's come alongside each other and really discern what could be his voice and kind of walk it out. A lot of times I've just found in my own life and faith that the traction, the momentum comes when we act and when we are walking obedience and we're like, is this it? I think this is it. Is this it? I don't think this is it. And God is so merciful to continue to redirect our path. So at one point, I was learning how to come to communicate with him. And I ran into this teaching from a pastor who was talking about two-way journaling with the Lord. And so this idea of journaling with the Lord obviously is not mine. It's been around forever. You can look in the Old Testament and find people honestly talking to God, from Moses to David to whomever, right? And and then once they talk to God, they have this interaction that brings them clarity. Okay, God, this is what you mean. Peace. All right, I'm gonna, I'm gonna walk this out in deeper connection with God and other people. So I was learning how to journal with God, basically kind of writing out my question, coming to God with all the honesty of my heart. And and the tagline of this book is honest conversations. And the reason I felt so passionate about putting the word honest in there is because I also have noticed in my own life and and really talking to other men and women, that sometimes we get this sort of religious veneer over our thoughts and our emotions. Like, I'm not supposed to feel like this. So I'm just not gonna admit that I do feel this way. And I think whatever I see of God in the scriptures and whatever I experience of him, he's like, you come to me wholeheartedly, honestly. And when you give me your whole self and your whole honest emotion, I can work with that, right? We don't need to be hiding and kind of manufacturing how we're supposed to feel or what we think. And so I was I was coming to the Lord and journaling with him and then stopping and saying, Okay, God, here's my perspective. But I know that I'm human and I know that I have a limited perspective, and your ways are higher than my ways. You're God, you have this divine mystery that I don't really know. But through the blood and resurrection of Jesus, through the power of the Holy Spirit, you will speak to me. I know you want to guide your people. You, you, you got you love your people, you guide your sheep. So I say, What do you want me to know about this thing that's got me tangled up? And I would imagine being with Jesus and really writing down the words of love that would come into my mind a lot of times is scripture, by the way. So he's just confirming over and over again, like scripture is the way that he speaks to his people, first and foremost. And then I would say, okay, I think I've heard you now what? So one day I woke up. So sometimes the Lord speaks to me in dreams, or like a I'll call it a divine download. I don't know the theological term for it, but that's what I'm gonna say. Like there's a thought or something very strong that drops in my mind and heart. I'm like, okay, God, I think you're saying that. So that's what untangled faith and the corresponding journaling is. Is one day I woke up and was like, okay, I can I can share my thoughts with the Lord. Amazing. I can listen for the voice of the Holy Spirit, write that down, awesome. But then, like, what do I do with that? How do I know it's him? How do I confirm that it's him? Because let me just be clear, the church and the people of the church have gotten in a lot of trouble saying, Thus says the Lord, the Lord told me, and off we go, you know, parading around like we just heard the voice of the Lord. And maybe yes, maybe no. So that's where the sort of the life coach strategist of me was. I feel like God was like giving me this idea of how to arrange a journal so that you can bring your honest conversation, write it on out, just wrestle on the page, listen for the voice of the Holy Spirit, and then there's some guidance towards how do you confirm this? How do you really walk it out? What's God inviting you to do? Because the other thing I've noticed is that I could just hear God's voice. I'm using air quotes, and then shut my journal and be like, well, that was nice. Thank you. And he's like, Oh, no, no, no, no. There was an invitation there. There was an invitation for you to walk in obedience and something, reconciliation or whatever the thing is, right? So I had started leading women and men through this journaling practice and was just receiving encouraging feedback. Okay, I didn't know I could hear God's voice. This is really interesting. Thank you, thank you, thank you. And I was invited to speak at a retreat and to close the retreat with this journaling. So we're in a you know Christian retreat. Let's finish out with the journaling, have this powerful moment where people are kind of having some closure with some thought or some intention that God is giving them. And I remember sitting down on my computer about four or five months before that retreat, thinking, wouldn't it be cool if I could create the journal and sell the journal at the retreat, like any good business person, right? And the minute I sat down on my computer and started to think, how would I organize this draft in Canva? I really felt like the Holy Spirit said to me, Megan, you can publish the journal and that's good. But what's even better is to you, you need to write a book. So the book actually came after the journal because I really felt like the Lord was giving me this challenge that this journal that I created with him is not just Megan's way of journaling with God. I really felt like it was a good challenge for me to anchor all of this in scripture and say, okay, if I'm proposing that you can hear God's voice and that he's inviting you to do life with him, let's be clear that this is anchored in scripture. This is theologically uh positive. And um, so that's where the book came from. So I know that's a lot of words, but that's where it came from. And uh thanks for your encouragement.

SPEAKER_00:

I have not interrupted you because your words are great. And I have marked so many parts of your book. And let's just be honest for a minute. First of all, I love journaling, it's the first thing I do every morning. I just have those black and white composition books, and it's a combination of thoughts and then copying over scripture and then questions come to mind and prayers. And one of the things that let's just be honest, people who are hearing this are like, uh, because I try to, you know, tell my friends how wonderful journaling can be. There is a you know, common response of it's kind of like in your book you said the word journaling is kind of in the same category as dieting and budgeting. Yeah, it's like, well, maybe I should do that, but I don't really want to do that. That sounds like a discipline. The other one, and let's be honest, I don't know how many friends have told me, you know, Stephanie, if I die, someone's got to come burn my journals before anyone reads them. Because you want to be honest with God. Let's face it, God already knows everything you're gonna write down. He already knows everything. But in the process for us, when we are honest on the page, when we get our emotions down, you are processing them. And so many times I've heard, you know, other authors say, if you just sit down and just start pouring out the words, you never know where they're gonna take you. These are not words that ever need to be published. They don't need to be grammatically perfect, they don't need to be profound. These are your feelings. And I can't believe how many times I've been able to like untangle my thoughts by pouring them on the page. You have a number of great quotes, Ernest Hemingway. There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. People think this is not writing like you're trying to write a book. Okay, this is not writing like an essay. You have to write, I personally think you have to write like no one is ever going to read it. And there are times, I'll be honest with you, Megan, when I've written, I needed to process something so personal that I really wrote down a whole lot. And when I was done, I tore the pages up. I don't want my kids to be like, gosh, my mom was a nut job after I die. But it's truly like Oh, sorry, they're probably all gonna say that about all. They're probably gonna say it anyway. You're right. And why do I care what they say? I hopefully I'll be doing something a little more fun. You also have a paragraph that I loved. This is Megan's book. When my journaling averse husband heard me guide people through this framework for the first time, he said, Oh, if that's what you mean by journaling, I could do that. So I just interjected all of that, Megan, for the people listening to say, if there's an impression you have of journaling, whatever that is, that's not what this is. This is being honest with God. And there's another point. You have a whole chapter talking about, you know, who is God? You know, Tozer, the theologian Tozer had a quote that I love, which is, you know, what comes to mind when we think about God is the most important thing about us. What comes to mind when you think about God? A lot of people have, you know, is what creator of the universe, huge, controls everything. Who am I to talk to that being? You know, he's just too big, he's too busy for me. Or compassionate father. Compassionate father, friend. There's so many things that God is. And for me to sit down and write to him honestly, I have to get in my head that he's a compassionate father. I have to get that in my head. So it's like the first step is not just writing to God, it's like getting in your head, who am I talking to? Is this real? And that's where I think if we go to the Bible and scripture and read about Jesus and read the gospels and get to know who Jesus is, it's a lot more real to sit down and write to them. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

And from the beginning of scripture, I mean, I'm actually doing uh uh writing a paper on Exodus 34 for my seminary degree. God, even in there, he says, I am gracious and compassionate, merciful, loving God. And I also see the predicament of human nature. I see what's going on down there, right? And Jesus Himself said, You will know the truth. If you if you obey my commands and you follow me, you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. And I think sometimes where we get stuck is that we have a manufactured truth in our head. So for me, this process, and I call it beautiful exchange journaling. This is a phrase that the Lord gave me as well as this beautiful exchange is is God saying, You're holding on to so much in your heart and in your soul and in your mind that is of you, of your flesh, of your ego, whatever. And I want to exchange it for my spirit. If you give it to me, I will actually fill you with my spirit. And so there's this moment, and you journaling, writing, whatever you want to call it. I think that's half of the equation. And I remember someone coming up to me at retreat at one point and said, This all sounds well and good, but I don't want to write down my thoughts. Okay, why? I don't want to listen to God. I'm afraid of what I'm gonna hear, or I'm afraid I won't hear anything. So sometimes we just stop short because we also have a narrative of what might happen on the other side. And for me personally, I say, if I only hear my own thoughts, that is what concerns me. Because I've gone down so many rabbit trails and so many dark, you know, roads and dead ends, because the mind that I have is very much thinking about myself and and my family and what we need and what you know, all the things that we normally think about as humans. And yet God has given us his spirit, he's given us his voice that is so much deeper. So I feel like to actually explain what this process is, it's recognizing God made us human. All of the things we can come with our emotions, they're not bad, they just are, and we can access what he wants to give us, what his perspective is, what is the kingdom? What would Jesus say? And that that's the sort of that mysterious interface that I just find so amazing because most of the time, and I'm curious, I'll be curious when you start doing this, Stephanie. Most of the time, when I sit down and I and I write and then I listen, God is He's so holistic. He will say, I love you, I see you, you're my daughter, and you are holding on to this too tightly. And you aren't giving that person agency to make their own choice. Like he will be loving and encouraging and corrective at the same time. So I feel like that verse where it's like the word of God is is good for teaching and rebuking and challenging, right? Like he doesn't just sort of tell you what you want to hear or give you just some like accolades. Although he is loving, I found more often than not, he also gives me some really beautiful and challenging words of correction when I'm kind of off base on something.

SPEAKER_00:

So I was listening to Megan's podcast today on my walk. After I read her book, then I listened to her podcast. I've never even met the woman. And this probably it must be funny for you, Megan, because by the time we actually speak, I feel like we're good friends. I've read about your life. I know about your four kids, I know about your husband. It's kind of funny. So I'm taking a walk and they're talking about this holding on to things too tightly. I don't know if this was God speaking to me. And let's let's talk about so people are clear. When you talk about God speaking, we're not necessarily talking about an audible voice, okay, people. So don't think that if you don't hear, maybe if you do, that'd be great. I've never heard an audible voice, but we'll talk about how God speaks to you. God, I just had this conviction. I have a son who I'm just, you know, I'm trying to be a good mom. I'm trying to fix this one little detail of, you know, organization for him. And I have all kinds of good ideas. And every time I mention the good ideas, I can just see the wall come down with him. Yeah, the glaze over. And what I've just done is I've put a wedge in our relationship. And I'm walking along listening to you and your guests talk about interacting with young adults, kids. And it just hit me like, oh my gosh, who am I to say that my organization system is better than his? This is his business, his life. He's successful in his business. Who am I to say that? Who am I? So I stopped and I texted him. And I essentially said, I'm letting go of this. You know, here's here are the things he's very good at in his business. Yeah. That's what matters. This is none of my business. So I'm gonna let it go. Okay. What you just said when we let go of things that we hold too tightly, as soon as I said that, I felt freedom. I'm carrying this unnecessary burden, thinking that, you know, what? You know, everyone has to do it the way I do it. That's absurd. Oh, I mean, it's probably a really good way, but yes, it's yeah, it's not so you know, I don't sew. If someone told me all the reasons I should sew, I would be like, okay, that's great for you. I don't want to. I'll just go to TJ Maxx. But we all have our different skills and interests. So just because there are young adult kids doesn't mean I wouldn't impose that on you, Megan. I wouldn't come into your office and tell you how to organize it differently. That's absurd. I wouldn't do that with the people.

SPEAKER_01:

I don't think he could use your advice, but that's okay. But again, you would you would come in if I asked you to come in. He asks us, invites us, keep seeking, keep knocking, keep talking to me, you know. And you had asked, how do you hear God's voice? Probably not in an audible voice. I've never heard the audible voice to my knowledge, either. Although there are some people in my life that I think that you might be the voice of God right now in my life.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, not talk about that. You listed in your book a number of ways that people might hear the voice of God. And that I think you said one is through people, but you had a number of ways.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah, I would say first and foremost, it is scripture. So, you know, there is a reason that the word of God was given to us, why it's called the Word of God, which is the Bible. And so I would be remiss if I steered anybody in another direction. So that's the first place to go, is there's so much richness. And because the word is alive and active and sharper than any double-edged sword, there's so much in there. So anytime you hear something, I would immediately go to the word of God and say, Show, show me, Lord, where this is in in line with your character, where this is in line with your spirit and what Jesus said and did. So that's the first thing. And then also there's God, there is godly counsel. So, you know, Proverbs tells us that there's wisdom in in counselors, but I think our discernment must lie in who we're listening to, why we're listening to them. And one clue could for you could be the fruit. So when you look at someone, who do you listen to? Look at the fruit of their life. Do you value, do you admire uh the way they live, their character, uh, their relationships, their practices, their business, whatever, you know? So those are two great ways. And then I think the third way is really just to just to believe that God speaks to you. And if you can, with all sincerity, play out what you've heard and it leads to life, it leads to love, it leads to connection and peace and all the fruit of the spirit, then proceed as best you know how. But if what you've heard and you play that the trajectory of acting on this communication, on this thing that you've heard, and it and you think, oh, actually that's gonna cause division, dissension, darkness, disconnectedness, I would pause. You know? So God also gives us such great metaphor and such great clues in his word of this is the fruit. You follow that. This is not, this is not the fruit, this is rotten. Don't do that. So those are some ways that I've just kind of learned to hopefully simplistically understand it a little better.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, and I think too, you talk about this and you had a quote, I think, from Maya Angelo, I'm not sure, about the whole idea of surrounding ourselves with wise people. You know, as I get older, you have less space. I think you want to have deeper relationships. You want to have more, you know, deeper connection, more frequent connection maybe with a smaller group of people. And I do. I look at the fruit in people's lives. Like, I'm gonna take parenting advice from him because he has four really responsible young adult kids and 10 really great grandchildren. In fact, one thing I do now, and my sister and I recently met with friends of our friends of our parents. Our parents aren't here anymore, but they're friends. We got together and had breakfast with them. They were 87. And they've been married all these years, and they have a wonderful life and wonderful kids. And we asked them, what is your key? What's your advice to us? Your key to having a beautiful life, really. And both the husband and wife chimed in and they said so many meaningful things. And as soon as the next morning, I wrote down as many as I could remember. My sister chimed in with more. We got a list, and you know, that was just off the top of their head. But I try to do that now, especially with older friends of mine. It's like, what advice would you give? Because they've been through so much, and that kind of wisdom you can't get from a 25-year-old. So they haven't lived long enough yet. Yeah, you got to have a lot of hard knocks. So I really appreciate the opportunity to spend time with wise people.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

And, you know, conversely, if you, you know, find yourself around the same old, you know, you've done this too, maybe the same old group that just is out of proximity, maybe, and it's a lot of gossip, and it's just separate yourself from that because we kind of get what you're an average of the five people you spend the most time with.

SPEAKER_01:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00:

So yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

And I think at the beginning of the book, I talk about influences and who's influencing us. What are we really paying attention to? Who are we really listening to? And then create a space for a brief inventory for you to think, huh, who am I listening to in all spheres, you know, the media, uh, in your circles, in your neighborhoods, and then really kind of evaluate are these good outlets, are these good places that are speaking life into my life? Or if I'm honest, are they shallow to your point, gossipy, things like that, that really kind of are fun in the moment, but not ultimately edifying to anybody? Then you might want to step back.

SPEAKER_00:

And let me just say, I'm looking in the mirror too. So it's like, yes, I don't want to be the person that someone's saying, Oh, Stephanie's off the list. Stephanie's off the list. How can you, you know, really, you know, blow wind in people's sails? How can you be the encourager? How can you be the person they say, hey, I want to spend time? What do they say? People don't remember what you did, they just remember how you made them feel. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

And I think at the, you know, just to make sure that we don't come off sounding like somebody needs to be perfect, right? You know, because they have great kids and great grandkids. Yes, that is fruit. And also, I feel like the people that I listen to are the people that are humble. And when they make a mistake, they say, you know what? I'm sorry, I shouldn't have said that. I did something that I am not proud of, and will you forgive me? So that's part of kingdom living too, is just God is always gracious to allow us those adjustments when we come repentant, humble. He's like, Great, this is a this is all this is all we need.

SPEAKER_00:

So and having um adult kids can certainly humble us as parents. We do a lot of practice, don't we? Yeah. Well, and it's like, hey, what did I think that we were just creating robots? No, these are people with their own thoughts and opinions. And I have a lot of people.

SPEAKER_01:

We tried to create robots, but it didn't work out.

SPEAKER_00:

And I'm like, I have a lot to learn from them actually. Yes, yes very much. So your your journal, and now your journal, I have haven't journaled yet because that I would take more time on. That I was like, okay, I read the book, I'm ready to go. The difference with your journal, which I really appreciate from my standard journaling, my standard journaling, I told you, is processing emotions and feelings and coming out to a resolution. I always find that you come to a resolution. And in your journaling process, you take time to stop and listen. And so that to me is like, okay, taking the time to stop and listen is a big step. And that's what I'm going to work in. I can't wait.

SPEAKER_01:

Whatever that is. And people have asked me before, do you do this every day? And no, I don't. For me, this type of deeper journaling really is helpful when you are concerned about something. You're trying to figure something out that doesn't just have sort of a quick and easy answer. Uh, it might be about a relationship with a loved one that has felt really complicated, or a health situation, or a move, or a job, like something that you're really like, God, I want you to speak into this and give me direction. This is great type of journaling for that. And just for anybody listening, and on my podcast, Kingdom Life Coaching Podcast, episode 50 is a recorded session for you. So it is not, it is a unique session where you can hit play and you've got 28, 29 minutes just with the guidance of my voice and some light music in the background to take you through it. I'm really proud of it. I it's cool.

SPEAKER_00:

So an actual, like a guided, not guided meditation, guided journal. Correct, correct. Oh, I love that. Yeah. So let's get to the details. I've been on your website, and so there's a lot that Megan does. She's a speaker, she's a podcast host host. We're going to talk about that. How you can find her. She has books and she also has her private coaching practice. And one of the things I noticed is that you give people an opportunity to have like a free sample session. Could you tell us about that?

SPEAKER_01:

Oh, of course. Yes. The coaching really is for the person who is feeling stirred by the Lord. Like, I think God's calling me to something new, different, could be a stage of life. Mostly it's around job. Mostly it's around job and purpose. A lot of women in our stage of life, Stephanie, are like, what am I doing with my life now? So it's a it's a way to come alongside and really uh contend for clarity together and help with strategy and working some stuff out. But yes, I always offer a free discovery call to just get to know one another. I think the best coaching is very compatible. It's very much your personalities align, your worldview aligns. And so I want to make sure that you feel comfortable and it feels like a great next step for you because coaching is always an investment, not just money, but time. Like it's up to you to go. I want to take this seriously. The pain of not knowing, of being confused, is you know, enough to drive me crazy. And so I'm ready to do something about this. That's when you know you're ready for coaching to move forward and be confident about what you're choosing to do.

SPEAKER_00:

So your website is Megan B as and boy Nilsen, and that's N-I-L-S-O-N.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_01:

Megan M M, the letter B, and then Nilsen, N-I-L-S-E-N dot com. Oh, E-N. Oh.

SPEAKER_00:

Yeah, you got it, girl. People like to switch the vowels in there all the time. So that is why I was having a hard time connecting. Okay, good. It's I was spelling it like my name. All right. So people can find you there and your podcast is I it's called. I wrote it down. It's called Kingdom Life Coaching Podcast. Really good. Really good. Got me to stop and send a text to my son. So there you go. That was like wonderful. He's probably like, what's wrong with mom? She's getting nice. Thank you so much for your time. I cannot wait to. And I'm gonna be back in touch with you because yeah, let's stay connected for sure. Let's stay connected. I I know that there's more episodes we can do because you cover such gamut of topics. Yeah, yeah. Wonderful. And your books are on Amazon. Oh, yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yep. Okay, so Untangled Faith and Untangled Advent. Adventist. Yes.

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Yes. Yeah, quickly, that's a five-part devotional kind of study series that you can do. I encourage people to pick it up on the day after Thanksgiving, you know, Black Friday before you start scouring all the deals. Spend some time with the Lord and moving into Advent with uh intentionality. It's based on scripture, Luke chapter one. And I do pair a podcast with it. So it's sort of multimedia. You can listen to the podcast teaching first and then go into your journaling and your study. And uh there's a playlist with it for some wonderful worship music. And oh, nice. I love it. I love it. That's great. Well, thanks so much, and I uh wish you luck with all of it. Thanks, Stephanie.

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