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Episode 42

What If You Finally Became Who You Were Meant to Be?

· 32:55 · Host: LuRae Lumpkin

What happens when the life that looks successful no longer feels like your own? Award-winning speaker, author, leadership coach, and mental health advocate Erica Gifford Mills joins LuRae Lumpkin to talk about the courage it takes to stop performing, listen to the purpose that keeps calling, and…

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Chapters

  1. 00:00:00 — Welcome and Erica’s journey to rooted leadership
  2. 00:04:20 — The question that exposed a deeper calling
  3. 00:07:00 — Why purpose keeps calling until you answer
  4. 00:10:45 — Confidence, self-worth, and learning to set boundaries
  5. 00:14:00 — Visibility, authenticity, and claiming your seat at the table
  6. 00:18:15 — Creating the International Women Speakers Summit
  7. 00:21:25 — What becomes possible when you stop shrinking
  8. 00:25:00 — How journaling unexpectedly led to becoming an author
  9. 00:27:00 — Recognition, impact, and opportunities that find you
  10. 00:30:20 — Erica’s advice for anyone who feels stuck

Show notes

What happens when the life that looks successful no longer feels like your own? Award-winning speaker, author, leadership coach, and mental health advocate Erica Gifford Mills joins LuRae Lumpkin to talk about the courage it takes to stop performing, listen to the purpose that keeps calling, and build a life rooted in who you truly are.

Erica shares how personal loss clarified her mission, why she stopped waiting to feel fearless, and how failure can become a teacher instead of a verdict. She and LuRae explore visibility, self worth, boundaries, reinvention, and the quiet ways people hold themselves back because they are afraid of being judged.

Erica also shares the story behind the International Women Speakers Summit and her commitment to creating spaces where women feel seen, heard, supported, and empowered.

If you're standing at a crossroads and wondering whether it's too late to change direction, this conversation is a reminder that you don't need the entire roadmap. You only need the courage to take the first step.

Chapters:

  • (00:00:00) Welcome and Erica’s journey to rooted leadership
  • (00:04:20) The question that exposed a deeper calling
  • (00:07:00) Why purpose keeps calling until you answer
  • (00:10:45) Confidence, self-worth, and learning to set boundaries
  • (00:14:00) Visibility, authenticity, and claiming your seat at the table
  • (00:18:15) Creating the International Women Speakers Summit
  • (00:21:25) What becomes possible when you stop shrinking
  • (00:25:00) How journaling unexpectedly led to becoming an author
  • (00:27:00) Recognition, impact, and opportunities that find you
  • (00:30:20) Erica’s advice for anyone who feels stuck

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About And Then I Did This

And Then I Did This shares the unfiltered stories of people who reinvented their lives in the middle of them. Host LuRae Lumpkin sits down with guests who changed careers, started over, or finally did the thing — and walks through the moment everything pivoted. Proof that your next chapter doesn't care how old you are.

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