Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share Finding God in Our Pain - Widowhood is Not Your Final Chapter, with Liz Fiedler Mergen
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
Finding God in Our Pain - Widowhood is Not Your Final Chapter, with Liz Fiedler Mergen
PODCAST INTRO:
I enjoyed my time with guest, Liz Fiedler Mergen. She’s a remarried widow, mother of 2 daughters and has a multi-layered business strategy that encompasses several businesses. To me, it is all rooted and balanced with her fearless entrepreneurial creativity.
Liz and I agree that grief changes you in countless ways and as much as we may want things to go back to the way they were, they never will. How can they? We’ve lost a significant portion of our life.
Liz and her first husband, Ryan met when she was 22, fell in love and married in 2014. They wanted a family and were blessed with their first daughter. But sadly, they would only have 6 1/2 years together. Ryan, at 39 years of age unexpectedly passed away at home, alone on his treadmill.
To add more trauma to her shattered heart, Liz discovers that she’s pregnant one day after Ryan’s funeral. Not traumatized over being pregnant, but heartbroken that Ryan will never meet his daughter, nor will she meet her daddy and being a single parent was never in her life plans.
One of the significant motivators of transformation for Liz was the realization that she could stay bitter or get better. She chose, get better. She engaged the hard questions, evaluated the cost of living angry and despite the pain, she pushed forward to discover that she isn’t afraid to draw new boundaries, set new standards and start new businesses. She’s exploring life, options, opportunities and breaking ground (personally/professionally) in countless ways.
Liz has an encouraging perspective on finding her way through the pain, embracing new revelations of who she is as she grows through the various challenges and pain points with personal discoveries in all the many facets of her life.
Listen in to find out that widowhood is not the final chapter in her story, my your story and even your story.
Liz’s example gives us the courage to discover that there is even more to life because God is the author of our stories. He always has a plan and fulfilling your purpose has only begun.
You’ve heard me say many times before…keep your eyes on God because He’s writing a much bigger love story, an overarching love story with you as the unique person He created you to be and Liz, with the life she is choosing to cultivate is a beautiful example of that.
Let’s listen in and be encouraged today!
Live Loved and Thrive! @alifeofthrive.com
Sherrie Pilk
Here are some additional podcast episodes and/or blogs that pertain to finding God in our pain:
Widows, Grief and Finding Hope, with Anne-Marie Lockyer: https://alifeofthrive.com/2024/02/14/widows-grief-and-finding-hope-with-anne-marie-lockmyer/
Widower, Daniel Doolan Shares His Story of Love and Loss: https://alifeofthrive.com/2022/12/21/widower-daniel-doolan-shares-his-story-on-love-and-loss/
Widows and Financial Preparedness - Gayle O’Brien Blachura, CFP: https://alifeofthrive.com/2022/09/28/widows-and-financial-preparedness-gayle-blachura-cfp/
CONNECT WITH LIZ:
Website: https://www.lizfiedlermergen.com/
Podcast w/Apple link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/flower-farmer-forum/id1674239699
Book Coming in March of 2026 - Learn more here: https://www.lizfiedlermergen.com/author
IG: lizfiedlermergen
FB: https://www.facebook.com/elizabeth.weber.5
View all episodes
By Spark NetworkPODCAST INTRO:
I enjoyed my time with guest, Liz Fiedler Mergen. She’s a remarried widow, mother of 2 daughters and has a multi-layered business strategy that encompasses several businesses. To me, it is all rooted and balanced with her fearless entrepreneurial creativity.
Liz and I agree that grief changes you in countless ways and as much as we may want things to go back to the way they were, they never will. How can they? We’ve lost a significant portion of our life.
Liz and her first husband, Ryan met when she was 22, fell in love and married in 2014. They wanted a family and were blessed with their first daughter. But sadly, they would only have 6 1/2 years together. Ryan, at 39 years of age unexpectedly passed away at home, alone on his treadmill.
To add more trauma to her shattered heart, Liz discovers that she’s pregnant one day after Ryan’s funeral. Not traumatized over being pregnant, but heartbroken that Ryan will never meet his daughter, nor will she meet her daddy and being a single parent was never in her life plans.
One of the significant motivators of transformation for Liz was the realization that she could stay bitter or get better. She chose, get better. She engaged the hard questions, evaluated the cost of living angry and despite the pain, she pushed forward to discover that she isn’t afraid to draw new boundaries, set new standards and start new businesses. She’s exploring life, options, opportunities and breaking ground (personally/professionally) in countless ways.
Liz has an encouraging perspective on finding her way through the pain, embracing new revelations of who she is as she grows through the various challenges and pain points with personal discoveries in all the many facets of her life.
Listen in to find out that widowhood is not the final chapter in her story, my your story and even your story.
Liz’s example gives us the courage to discover that there is even more to life because God is the author of our stories. He always has a plan and fulfilling your purpose has only begun.
You’ve heard me say many times before…keep your eyes on God because He’s writing a much bigger love story, an overarching love story with you as the unique person He created you to be and Liz, with the life she is choosing to cultivate is a beautiful example of that.
Let’s listen in and be encouraged today!
Live Loved and Thrive! @alifeofthrive.com
Sherrie Pilk
Here are some additional podcast episodes and/or blogs that pertain to finding God in our pain:
Widows, Grief and Finding Hope, with Anne-Marie Lockyer: https://alifeofthrive.com/2024/02/14/widows-grief-and-finding-hope-with-anne-marie-lockmyer/
Widower, Daniel Doolan Shares His Story of Love and Loss: https://alifeofthrive.com/2022/12/21/widower-daniel-doolan-shares-his-story-on-love-and-loss/
Widows and Financial Preparedness - Gayle O’Brien Blachura, CFP: https://alifeofthrive.com/2022/09/28/widows-and-financial-preparedness-gayle-blachura-cfp/
CONNECT WITH LIZ:
Website: https://www.lizfiedlermergen.com/
Podcast w/Apple link: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/flower-farmer-forum/id1674239699
Book Coming in March of 2026 - Learn more here: https://www.lizfiedlermergen.com/author
IG: lizfiedlermergen
FB: https://www.facebook.com/elizabeth.weber.5