Hey friends! Wow, I cannot believe it's been a whole year of the podcast. Thank you SO MUCH for listening. I hope these stories have blessed you as much as they've blessed me!

Today's episode features reflections on the date October 17 which holds a lot of weight in my life. I share my heart and hope for this podcast(and ultimately my story).

See you soon on Season 3!

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Welcome back, friends! As we head into October, I wanted to share the music, sermons, food, fashion, and beauty that I'm loving as we head into fall. I'd love to hear what you're loving right now! Leave a comment on Spotify or on the SYS instagram. I've added links to a bunch of the resources below, but if you're missing anything, please reach out! Thanks for spending time with me today!

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Hey, friends! Welcome back to Share Your Story with Ellie. Today’s episode is a little different. It’s time for a little story time. After all, this podcast is called “Share Your Story”, right? Now, these events are unfolding in real time, not wrapped up in bows, and I’m not even sure there is a main conclusion or lesson. However, it’s a story that I felt the Lord invited me to share. I'd love to hear your thoughts!

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Hey friends! Rather than sharing a few of my favorite things or resources to help deepen your faith, I feel led to pray over you. I hope this is a prayer that offers you peace and hope in the midst of your day. Return to it when you need a big sister, friend, or fellow follower of Jesus to encourage you. Be blessed!

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Welcome back to the Share Your Story with Ellie Podcast. I’m thrilled you’re here! Firstly, I want to say thank you for the kind words you’ve offered to both me and Mac after last Thursday’s episode. Sharing your story requires incredible vulnerability, which can feel really, really risky. Your texts and “me too’s” have brought comfort and confidence that getting real with life’s gritty truths matter. Thank you.

Today’s episode is Part 2 of my conversation with Mac Macon. If you missed ⁠Part 1⁠, please make sure you go back and listen, as we’ll pick back up right where we left off. Mac tells more details of his battle with alcoholism and substance abuse. He also shares the tragic moment of losing a dear friend due to drugs, and he details the way God meets with him through AA. I’m grateful Mac gave so much of himself and his story in order to inspire vulnerability, change, and ultimately, hope for others who may be walking a similar path.

I can’t tell you how amazed I am by Mac’s story and commitment to his new life. Growing up alongside Mac, I never knew the real depths of what he was struggling with– not just in substance abuse but in believing the lies of the enemy about his identity. I remember hearing our mom’s prayers over his life–and all of us as their kids– that he would find ultimate peace in the Lord. His current reality is ushered in by the many prayers of others, yes, but all the glory is to God, who never stops pursuing Mac and never stops pursuing us. Mac’s surrender and perspective to take action WITH God reminds me of the book of James. Mac’s life points to the reality that it is only through God that he can be saved, but it is not just being a hearer of the Word but also a doer that keeps him continually walking in freedom.

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⁠⁠Get Help with Substance Abuse⁠⁠

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Happy Thursday, friends! Welcome back to Share Your Story with Ellie. I’m really thankful you’re choosing to spend your time with me! Today, I’ve got my old family friend ⁠Mac Macon⁠ on the podcast. And yes, you’ll recognize that name, because he is ⁠Susan Britt Macon⁠’s son!

Our families spent so much time together, especially over holidays– which you’ll hear us reminisce on– and so much of my memories growing up center around the Macons. Mac mentions it in the show, but his friends used to always call him “Mother Goose”, because he was always telling captivating and hysterical stories. That nickname still rings true!

Thanks to a little nudge from his sweet fiancé Schuyler, Mac reached out to me a few weeks ago about wanting to share his story with self abuse, specifically struggling with alcoholism. Hearing his honesty about the battles he’s fought against alcoholism and drug use, his clarity after hitting rock bottom, and ultimately, his generosity to share his story with sobriety in order to help other people.

In Part 1 of our conversation, Mac offers the raw details of the circumstances that led to his alcohol dependence and the gritty stories of what’s gotten him to this point. I’m honored he would choose to share his story with me and so many others and pray so many more will be set free from the bondage of self harm.

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Hi my friends! I hope you had a great Labor Day weekend! I’m so happy you’re joining me for another episode of Share Your Story with Ellie. I’m really excited to introduce you to a new friend of mine. ⁠Morgan Kruege⁠r is a wife, mom of 2 little boys, author, speaker, and freedom advocate. She also works part time for a beautiful ministry called ⁠Faithfully Restored Women⁠. Her very first book ⁠“Goodbye Hiding, Hello Freedom”⁠ releases TODAY! 

This conversation is so life-giving. Morgan shares her hard-fought wisdom in turning towards the Lord in the heartbreaking areas of her life to find ultimate freedom and unwavering love in Jesus. She shares so much Biblical truth and practical application on how to walk in freedom and cut loose the chains of shame from our past. God made this a divine appointment for me, and I know this episode will serve as that for you too. You’re going to absolutely love Morgan’s sincere heart and commitment to see other women find freedom in Jesus like she has. I’m so excited to share this conversation with my new friend, Morgan.

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Hey friends! Welcome back to another episode of Share Your Story with Ellie. Today, I'm sharing a few favorites from the month of August! These episodes are designed to be short and sweet to offer you encouragement, recommendations, and resources of things I'm loving this month. If you try any out, please let me know! I'd also love to hear what you're loving this month. Please share with me on social!

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Hello my friends! Welcome back to the Share Your Story with Ellie podcast! I’m really excited to have a repeat guest back on the show! Today you get to hear my conversation with one of my dearest college friends, Meghan Ryan Asbury. Meghan is an author and speaker who loves to hype people up to pursue Jesus, so they don’t miss the best part of life. She’s determined to not let her generation waste their lives trying to be comfortable, but instead encourages us to find our callings and run after them. She currently lives in Nashville with her husband Lucas and is about to release HER VERY FIRST BOOK, which releases September 10! 

The book is called, “You Are Not Behind”, which is a message I know so many of us can relate to. Meghan unravels the exhaustion we feel with trying to keep up, the grief of life not looking like we’ve hoped, and offers hope for the future in finding contentment in the Lord. I have conversations with friends all the time about how we feel frustrated with where our life is in comparison with others and questioning how we reconcile those frustrations with what we know to be true about God’s character. I trust Meghan in a lot of things, and this topic is top of that list. I’m so excited to learn from her experiential wisdom from her, and I know you’re going to love this conversation.

Happy Thursday, friends! I know there’s a lot of ways you could spend your time, so I’m really grateful you chose to spend it with me. We’re back with Part 2 of my conversation with Eunice! If you haven’t listened to Part 1, pause here and go back to that episode. Eunice shares her history of growing up in Papua New Guinea and her journey to building a strong friendship with Jesus. So much of how her faith progressed leads into today’s episode.

I’m so thrilled for you to hear the story of Eunice and her husband JT. BUCKLE UP! Because it’s so good and you’re not going to want to miss a detail of any minute of this next hour and a half. Right after we met, Eunice started sharing just how God had called her to pray for her husband and how praying for her future spouse built her relationship with the Lord. The intricate details God intertwined in her life and JT’s are a picture of what it really looks like to walk with Jesus step by step in faithful obedience. Eunice is honest about the struggles she faced but her story of continuing to trust God’s character and timing has encouraged me so deeply. I know it will uplift you too.