Hello there! What if the reason you keep missing your goals isn’t a lack of discipline, but unresolved emotional work beneath the surface?

In this episode, we’re going deeper than goal-setting tactics and productivity hacks. We’re talking about the inner work most people never address: The emotional honesty required to pursue goals that actually align with your purpose.

You’ll hear why a meaningful life isn’t linear, why regret often has less to do with failure and more to do with avoidance, and how the choices you keep making may be connected to past pain, fear, or survival habits.

I share a deeply personal story from my own journey after divorce and how fear shaped my relationship with money, how anxiety followed me for years, and what it took to move from scarcity to stability, from panic to confidence. This episode is proof that not every failed goal is a discipline issue—sometimes it’s a heart issue.

You have more power than you think. Every choice carries emotion—but when you know yourself well, you can rebuild, realign, and move forward with clarity.

And if you’re ready to move from anxiety to confidence and from pressure to purpose, I’d love to help you take that next step. This is why I’m so passionate about the Purpose Factor® Assessment: it helps you make decisions that align with who you were created to be.

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Listent to the previous Episode: Goals Rooterd in Purpose

Be the person God created you to be. I’ll see you next time.

Later!

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In this New Year episode, Esme challenges the way we’ve been taught to think about goals and invites you to go deeper. If you’ve ever hit milestones and still felt empty or stopped setting goals altogether because disappointment felt inevitable, Esme reframes goal-setting through the lens of purpose, clarity, and personal accountability.

Drawing from personal experience as a Christian single mom and leadership coach, Esme unpacks why goals must be rooted in purpose to create fulfillment, joy, and peace. You’ll learn how misaligned goals quietly drain you, why both high and low performers struggle with clarity, and how purpose changes the way you pursue growth.

This episode will help you stop chasing what looks good and start choosing goals that actually matter, so you can build a life that feels aligned, meaningful, and worth sustaining.

🎯 Plus: an invitation to take your next step with intentionality.

🚀 Listen to the 2025 Goals setting episode Here

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Welcome back!

The holidays can be heavy when you’re a single mom, and if you’ve ever felt overwhelmed, exhausted, or quietly carrying the weight of the world, this episode will meet you right where you are. In today’s episode, Esme Graff, Army veteran, author, speaker, and host of The Esme Graff Podcast, opens up about the real challenges single moms face during the holiday season: the pressure to provide, emotional burnout, and sleep deprivation.

This episode is part encouragement, part truth-telling, and 100% relatable for single moms, divorced moms, and anyone navigating the holidays while feeling stretched thin. With humor, honesty, and faith, Esme shares personal stories, practical wisdom, and a reminder that a “single-parent home” is not a broken home.

If you’ve been searching for a Christian single mom podcast, support for single motherhood, or real conversations about healing, confidence, and navigating the holidays as a single parent, this episode is for you. You’ll walk away feeling seen, grounded, and reminded that you are enough — exactly as God created you to be.

What You’ll Hear in This Episode:
• The pressure single moms feel to “provide” emotionally, financially, and socially
• Emotional triggers that resurface during the holidays and how to filter them
• Why sleep deprivation hits harder for single moms
• How to fight the lies the world tells single parents
• A faith-filled reminder that your story is not defined by statistics

If this episode encourages you, hit follow, leave a review, and share it with another mom who needs it. To connect with Esme, visit esmegraff.com or reach out on social media.

You’re not alone and you’re not behind.
You’re becoming exactly who God created you to be.

Podcat Website: The Esme Graff Podcast
Connect with me on social media (Instagram) or visit my website at www.esmegraff.com to stay updated on new episodes, book releases, and more!
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