Dear Younger Me... Love, Me with Liz Adams Irick

Dear Younger Me... Love, Me with Liz Adams Irick

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Dear Younger Me... Love, Me with Liz Adams Irick episodes

  • Episode 60 - Grace Changes Everything w/Sara Payne

    Sara Payne is the Director of Marketing and Branding at Magnify Learning, a good friend, a loving wife, an amazing ministry leader for Huntington Campus Life, and on fire for Jesus! We sit down and talk through the struggles she experienced growing up and the perfectionist pressure she put on herself. Sara talks about the day she truly understood God's grace and the freedom that it brought her. The pressure to perform and to strive was now gone and she could experience true freedom. Then, she reads her letter to her younger self.

    45 min
  • Episode 59 - Walking Faithfully in Discipleship and Trusting Your Calling w/Brad Buckley

    Brad Buckley serves as the Youth Pastor at College Park United Brethren Church in Huntington, Indiana. Before hearing a clear direction from God that ministry was where God wanted him, Brad struggled to know what he was supposed to do with his life. While all his friends left high school for college or a trade job, he took a year and a half gap-year to figure out what direction God had for him. We talk a lot about how mentors were so important in his life when making these decisions and the importance of taking life one step at a time. Then, he reads his letter to his younger self. 

    43 min
  • Episode 58 - The Importance of Community and Being Available w/Laura Roth
    Laura Roth is a pre-school teacher, a mom, a great friend, and someone who cares deeply about being available for he kids, her people, and the community around her. We talk about some periods of her life that were difficult: losing a good friend, miscarriages, at-risk pregnancies, leaving her career to be a stay at home mom and more. Laura talks a lot about how letting people into her life has made her grow the most as well as the importance of cheering people on! Then, she reads her letter to her younger self.
    40 min
  • Episode 57 - Gritty Faith w/Dr. Dave Rahn

    Buckle up! Dave Rahn is a youth ministry researcher, author, futurist and missional leadership strategist. After beginning his ministry with Fort Wayne Area YFC in 1972, he joined the faculty of Huntington University in 1985 and served there full-time for 22 years before rejoining the mission of Youth for Christ/USA in 2007. There is so much wisdom packed into this episode. Dave's newest book, Disrupting Teens with Joy: Helping Youth Discover Jesus-Focused, Gritty Faith is packed full of well researched and tested wisdom on what real gritty faith looks like! Dave talkes about how he started Campus Life here in Huntington County (my current ministry site!) and its a full circle conversation as we are celebrating 50 years of Campus Life in our county next year. Then, Dave reads his letter to his younger self.  Disrupting Teens with Joy: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08P8W8SV6/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i3

    1 hr 16 min
  • Episode 56 - Serving From A Healthy Place w/Nygel Simms
    Nygel Sims is the National City Life Lead at Youth For Christ. He is passionate about reaching young people and sharing Jesus with them. Nygel shares his story of moving from always hustling, serving, and moving at 100 MPH, to learning rhythms of rest even in difficult times. Then, he reads his letter to his younger self.  
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    52 min
  • Episode 55 - Using Words To Bring Life w/Bobby Kemp
    Bobby Kemp is the Lead Pastor at Huntington First Church Of The Nazarene and shares his story of continually choosing to play it safe instead of risking failure in his life. Over the years, He learned that the words people say matter and the stories he's believe in his life from something someone's said to him when he was young. Bobby talks a lot about the power of our words and that they can be uses to plant life or death. Then, he reads his letter to his younger self. 
    To hear Bobby's sermons and to learn more about HNaz church, visit: https://hnaz.org/
    43 min
  • Episode 54 - Feeling Confident In Your Own Skin w/Naomi Richison (19 Years Old)
    Naomi Richison is a college student at Indiana Wesleyan University and we sit down and talk about her path to learning how to love herself as God made her. She grew up in an orphanage in China and was adopted and brought to the USA when she was 7 years old to a wonderfully loving family. Naomi shares about her experience of realizing she looked different that other kids, losing confidence, and then gaining it back through Jesus working in her life. Then, she reads her letter to her younger self.
    47 min
  • Episode 53 - What Happens When You Burn Out & Fall Into The Comparison Trap w/Hanna Whitney (18 Years Old)
    Hanna Whitney is starting her first year at Hanover College running Cross Country. We talk about her adoption journey, wanting to fit in and belong, and how it's easy to fall into the comparison trap in life. Then, something hit her where she felt like she lost herself. Hanna describes how it felt to not understand why she was struggling or even how to put into words what her struggle was. She shares her journey through that time and how journaling and praying to God helped her through it. The, she reads her letter to her younger self.
    39 min
  • Episode 52 - Hard Conversations and Forgiveness w/Ashley Campbell (19 years old)
    Ashley Campbell is a '20 Huntington North High School grad and beginning her Sophomore year at Indiana Westlyan University as an Elementary Education major. After years of avoiding hard conversations because she wanted to just have fun and be positive, she finally couldn't hold it in anymore. Her parents had gotten a divorce when she was young, but Ashley never wanted to deal with how it effected her. After years of avoiding things, she finally realized how important it was to share how she was feeling and ask questions. God has shown her how important it is to have these kind of conversations and how free forgiveness is. Then, she reads her letter to her younger self.
    42 min
  • Episode 51 - Asking For Help and Hearing God Speak w/Grace Koons (20 Years Old)
    Grace Koons is entering her 3rd year at Indiana Westlyan University this fall as an Elementary Education major. She shares about how her dad's illness sent her into a spiral of depression and other mental health issues. Through a long journey with depression, panic attacks, and anxiety she finally got the help she needed. Then, after years of searching to hear God's voice, she finally heard it in an unsuspecting time and place, and it changed everything for her. Finally, she reads a letter to her younger self.
    52 min

About Dear Younger Me... Love, Me with Liz Adams Irick

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We give people a chance to share about some hard times in their lives, how they've grown from that, where God transformed that part of their life, and then they have the opportunity to write a letter to their younger self.