What happens when the titles, accomplishments, career, and success you built your identity around no longer define who you are? In this powerful episode of DEEPER Conversations, Dr. Barbara Swinney sits down with author and speaker Dawn Stephens for an honest conversation about identity, faith, healing, surrender, and discovering who you truly are.

Dawn shares the deeply personal journey behind her award-winning Potter’s Vessel series and explains what it means to be a “fruit pot,” a vessel willing to let God grow something through her rather than finding identity in what she holds. Together, Dr. Barbara and Dawn explore career transitions, loss, leadership, burnout, uncomfortable seasons, spiritual growth, and the surprising ways our wounds and “cracks” can become places through which wisdom and purpose flow.

This conversation is especially meaningful for women navigating a life transition, questioning their identity, or learning to surrender what they thought their path was supposed to look like.

Key Takeaways:

• Your identity is deeper than your job, achievements, education, or titles.

• Difficult seasons can become opportunities for spiritual and personal growth.

• Surrendering a dream is not necessarily giving up on your purpose.

• Our wounds and “cracks” can become sources of wisdom and connection.

• Your story can be transformed into something that serves and helps others.

If this conversation speaks to you, like, share, and subscribe to DEEPER Conversations. Then share it with a woman who needs this reminder: your story is not just what happened to you, it is where the wisdom and purpose can be found.