On Purpose with Elizabeth Pehrson

We’d love to hear from you! Send us a text! Most likely, anyone within ear shot of this podcast, has TOO MUCH STUFF.  So joining Elizabeth for a delightful conversation is professional organizer, Carrie Peeples of Neatsmart.  Carrie talks about ways we can un-complicate our lives by eliminating clutter and creating organizational systems that work for us. After listening to this episode, it just m...

We’d love to hear from you! Send us a text! Overfunctioning (which is basically doing for others what they can and should be doing themselves ) is a very easy concept to understand, but it can be difficult to recognize in ourselves, and even harder to stop once you become aware of those tendencies!  If you find yourself thinking “there is a RIGHT WAY to do things” or “I don’t trust others to do as...

We’d love to hear from you! Send us a text! Welcome to the Board Meeting. On today’s show, Elizabeth sits down with four friends who are on her personal board of directors. We all need voices speaking into our lives to help us build the life we want. People we allow to influence us in intentional ways. Others that are FOR US, challenging us, growing us and walking alongside us. Grab some coffee, p...

We’d love to hear from you! Send us a text! It’s a NEW YEAR, a clean slate, and we each have a relatively blank calendar and an opportunity for a fresh start! The great news about this is that WE are the ones who get to determine what we do with the most valuable thing we have…our TIME.  Jane sits down with Elizabeth to talk about data that they found to be quite inspiring and yet, depressing rega...

We’d love to hear from you! Send us a text! Have you ever felt like you are stuck on the hamster wheel of life? Do you long for PEACE and PERSPECTIVE to replace busyness and burnout? If so, Holly Goddard’s lessons from a lethargic liver just might be the antidote you are looking for as you start with a clean slate in 2024!  Not everyone is FORCED to a mandatory rest or to simplify their schedule l...

We’d love to hear from you! Send us a text! Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year!  AND… many people state feeling overwhelmed with the expense of gift giving, the lack of margin in their calendars and the weight of managing everyone’s expectations of them over the holidays. And AFFLUENZA is a likely cause of it all.  Listen in to see how Christmas often shines a spotlight on our own en...

We’d love to hear from you! Send us a text! The holidays are quickly approaching and there are many opportunities for us to be hospitable!  Joining Elizabeth are two local favorites and mother/daughter hospitality experts, Laura Baker and Ansley Ledbetter. This fun and lively conversation will be sure to bring a smile to your face and offer you some practical tips to making your guests feel welcom...

We’d love to hear from you! Send us a text! Have you ever felt like you had to fit a mold, stay in a box or do something just because that is the way it has always been done? Or do you ever find yourself in tasks that bring NO JOY and it’s hard to envision anything different? If so, join us and listen in on this casual phone call between Elizabeth and guest, Katherine Robinson as she shares her pe...

We’d love to hear from you! Send us a text! Elizabeth sits down by herself to contemplate the under appreciated blessings found in the dark.  What was originally prompted by a quote in her inbox, turned into this rambling of sorts, on the beauty of darkness. Turning off the lights can provide a time for reflection and introspection. It can offer us a deeper connection.  And if you are in a season...

We’d love to hear from you! Send us a text! It’s no secret that Elizabeth loves any tool that helps us better understand ourselves and others.  So, Elizabeth sat down with licensed professional counselor, Shelley Watson.  Shelley brings valuable insight into what is called Attachment Theory.  More specifically, they take a look at secure, anxious and avoidant attachment styles and how this might p...

We’d love to hear from you! Send us a text! Meetings are an important, intentional way for any successful group to come together to accomplish something without any distractions. And families are no different. Elizabeth was joined by Lauren Bray to consider some practical reasons why to have family meetings and easy ways to implement them. Lauren shares the three C’s of any fruitful meeting: COMMU...

We’d love to hear from you! Send us a text! Everyone has an IT.  Everyone has a PURPOSE.  Even if you don’t think you do, there is a REASON you are here.  Elizabeth sat down with Jane McLain for a conversation to unpack helpful ways and thought provoking questions to help determine what your IT might be. You will not want to miss this conversation between two friends just talking it out... Elizabe...

We’d love to hear from you! Send us a text! Every single one of us have HEALTH habits.  It’s not good habits vs. the absence of habits.  Some health habits are for our benefit and others to our detriment. Joining Elizabeth on today’s episode are two health/fitness coaches, Cassi Richardson and Sara Harrison.  They offer years of wisdom and insight on ways we can start building healthy habits and w...

We’d love to hear from you! Send us a text! Elizabeth lays the foundation for what habits are, why they are so important, and how science proves three simple steps to creating new ones! We all have formed habits over the course of our lives, and it’s important to think about what habits we have created and whether or not the are helping up become the person we want to be.  Because as John Maxwell...

We’d love to hear from you! Send us a text! Elizabeth and her youngest daughter, Finley, recently traveled to Cancun, Mexico for a mission trip together.  This episode reveal's the good, the bad and the ugly from Elizabeth’s perspective.  She VULNERABLY shares her mission trip takeaways, what she learned about herself, about what her new Mexican friends think of Americans, who Montezuma is an...

We’d love to hear from you! Send us a text! (Part 2 of 2) Similar to our last episode, Elizabeth and another one of her children sit down for another honest discussion about what it takes to ensure a successful launch into adulthood.  This time, she is joined by one of her unnamed sons (concerned about his digital footprint) to offer what he believed to have helped or didn’t help him feel prepared...

We’d love to hear from you! Send us a text! (Part 1 of 2) On today’s episode, Elizabeth invited one of her daughter’s to help answer some questions that only teenagers growing up in this day and age can answer.  Whether or not you have children currently at home, we think you will enjoy this heartfelt conversation between Elizabeth and her daughter.  It wasn’t planned.  It wasn’t scripted.  Just s...

We’d love to hear from you! Send us a text! We hit the one year mark of ON PURPOSE and we are so excited!  Thank you to our loyal listeners!  On today’s episode, Elizabeth challenges us to ask ourselves questions like “What Type of Friend Are You”? And also, since we are the average of the five people we spend time with the most, it’s important to take a look at what types of friends those five pe...

We’d love to hear from you! Send us a text! On today’s episode, Elizabeth has a serious, yet VERY IMPORTANT discussion about how we can be INTENTIONAL in our end of life planning with Michelle Wilson, estate attorney, probate planner and author.  After discovering she has the BRCA gene, Michelle wrote a series of letters to her daughter in the event she died.  These letters were eventually publish...

We’d love to hear from you! Send us a text! “Our epidemic of loneliness and isolation has been an underappreciated public health crisis. Our relationships are a source of healing and well-being hiding in plain sight – one that can help us live healthier, more fulfilled, and more productive lives,” said U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy. (5/3/23)  On today’s episode, Dr. Heather Holleman, joins...

We’d love to hear from you! Send us a text! Did you know that for every behavior, there is a core motivation or fear driving that behavior?  Do you want to know what yours is? Kristen Franklin will be joining Elizabeth on today’s episode! No matter your level of knowledge of The Enneagram, you will enjoy this lively conversation and will definitely learn a few new things!  (A few of Elizabeth’s nu...

We’d love to hear from you! Send us a text! We live in such an ALONE culture.  We feel like we should be able to do it all on our own.  With no one’s help.  In America, we perceive asking for help as a weakness instead of a strength.  Why is it so hard for us to ask for help?  Or at the very least, receive help when others offer it?  Elizabeth is currently in a self-professed overwhelmed state, an...

We’d love to hear from you! Send us a text! In this episode, we are flipping the script!  Instead of Elizabeth asking questions, today she will be answering them on all things parenting! Elizabeth is the mom of eight children, with lots of experience under her belt! There is no such thing as a perfect parent, but there are ways we can intentionally parent with the long game in mind! If you have ch...

We’d love to hear from you! Send us a text! On today’s episode, Elizabeth discusses some insightful points from Nona Jones book KILLING COMPARISON.  You cannot have a conversation about comparison without discussing insecurity.  You will learn that when we are secure in who we are, there is no room for comparison. But on the flip side, insecurity is what drives comparison. Join us as we unpack the...

We’d love to hear from you! Send us a text! Grief is not a respecter of people.  Grief HAS come or WILL come to every individual.  And grief isn’t just in the form of a loss by death.  It can come in many forms.  The death of a dream.  The ending of a marriage.  The loss of a friendship.   In this episode, we will be hearing from grief therapist and expert, Judy Wolf.  She will be walking us throu...