Welcome back to Fierce Calling! In today’s episode, host Doris Swift welcomes friend Erin Harrigan—a Christian wife, empty nest mom, sought-after speaker, business coach, and host of the award-winning podcast “Redefining Hustle: Pursuing Success as a Christian Woman.” Erin is also the author of Pursuing Success God’s Way: A Practical Guide to Hustle with Heart, and she’s here to share her journey from achieving worldly success in business to discovering what it truly means to find fulfillment and impact by letting Jesus lead.

Listen in as Erin opens up about her radical transformation after giving her life to Christ at age 46, the traps of new age thinking, and how true success is rooted in obedience, stewardship, and joy in the Lord, not in hustle or comparison. Doris and Erin dig deep into what it means to pursue God’s assignments in every season, whether you’re working in the corporate world, beginning a new adventure at home, or stepping out into something new.

You’ll walk away encouraged to seek God first in every venture, redefine success by His standards, and take practical steps toward living abundantly (not in a prosperity gospel kind of way, but God’s way) and making kingdom impact—right where you are.

Get ready for a powerful conversation that will inspire you to surrender your joy stealers, cultivate your God-given gifts, and step into your unique calling with wholehearted faith!

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Episode Highlights

00:00 “Surrender Your Joy Stealers”

05:40 From New Age to Christian Faith

10:06 Pursuing Success God’s Way

11:52 “Success: A Divine Perspective”

16:00 Avoiding Distraction: Focus on Purpose

19:18 Sin, Success, and Spiritual Guidance

21:44 Walking in Faith, Not Prosperity

25:40 Embracing Change and Identity

30:39 Listening to God’s Guidance

Connect with Erin!

You can connect with Erin at erinharrigan.com, where you’ll find her books, podcast, coaching info, social media links, and more about Erin. She’d love to hear from you and continue the conversation!

What Threatens to Steal Your Joy?

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Check out Surrender the Joy Stealers: Rediscover the Jesus Joy in You 6-week Bible study rooted in John 15. You can find more info at https://dorisswift.com/book/

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Let’s Stay Connected!

Find my free resources including Fear Fighting Bible Verses, Simple Tips for Sharing Your Faith, Surrender the Joy Stealers, Step Out of Your Doubt and Into Your Calling ebook, and more on my dorisswift.com homepage!

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Thanks for Listening!

I hope this episode encouraged, inspired, and challenged you to cultivate community, live and walk in the value and worth God gave you, and take action where your passion, compassion, and conviction intersect.

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I hope you’ll join me next time when I talk with another guest who is taking action where her passion, compassion, and conviction intersect …

Until then friend, have a blessed week, and I’ll talk to you soon.

With love and joy,

Doris

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Transcript

Doris [00:01:53 ]:
What is threatening to steal your joy? What is it that feels so heavy right now that you could barely stand? God has a plan, and his plan is to surrender it. Surrender it to him. It might be a prodigal. It might be a relationship, a marriage, something with your job. So many things. We have so many amazing blessings, but there are so many things in our life that threaten to steal our joy. I’m Dora Swift, author of the award winning six week bible study, Surrender the Joy Stealers Rediscover the Jesus Joy in You, And it helps women rediscover the overflowing, ever present Jesus joy within that fills, empowers, and ripens the fruit that God produces in our lives. Using personal and biblical stories, I share how you can identify your joy stealers, surrender them to God, reawaken the joy within, and share the joy with others.

Doris [00:02:56 ]:
You can do it on your own or with a group. Check it out, friends. Surrender the joy stealers. Rediscover the Jesus joy in you. It’s available on all the online retailers. It’s time to take your joy back.

Welcome back to the show. Today, I am very excited to welcome my friend, Erin Harrigan.

Doris [00:03:18 ]:
She is a Christian wife, mom, and I’ll have to mention empty nest mom, which I love because that’s what I am too, and I know some of you listening are. She is a speaker and a business coach and the host of the award winning Pursuing Success as a Christian Woman. And she wrote an amazing book we’re gonna talk about today among other things called Pursuing Success God’s Way, A Practical Guide to Hustle with Heart. And this is for women I mean, Erin coaches, entrepreneurial women, you know, women in business, but this goes for any woman who is listening right now because there is probably something in your heart or on your heart that God wants to do in and through you. Maybe it’s something new. Maybe it’s to refresh or revitalize something that you’re already doing. So we’re gonna talk about that today, and it’s so great to have you, Erin. Welcome to the show.

Erin Harrigan [00:04:16 ]:
Thank you, Doris. It’s such an honor to be here on your show. I know I’ve been following you for a while, and, it’s exciting to have these conversations that the Lord appoints the time. Right? So here we are today.

Doris [00:04:28 ]:
Here we are today. Yes. Yes. I’m so thankful that you’re on. And I just love how you talk about hustle with heart because hustle from the world’s definition can really burn us out, and I think you have some good words of wisdom to speak into that. So I would love if you would share a little bit about your story and how you’re currently taking action, where your passion, compassion, and conviction intersect.

Erin Harrigan [00:04:57 ]:
So I came to Jesus later in life. I gave my life to Christ at age 46 in October of twenty fourteen. I knew of the Lord growing up, but I never had a personal relationship. Right? We we so often talk about it’s not about religion, it’s about relationship. And I came to saving grace in Jesus because of a mentor of mine who I had reached out to in my, at the time, multilevel marketing business, and I just said something is not working. I have the success. The numbers look good, but I I just don’t feel like I got it where it’s supposed to be. And she said, that’s because you don’t know who you are or whose you are.

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