Erin Thomas learned early that the greatest gift you can give someone is simply showing up.

What happens when a life spent in service to others leads you to walk away from a career you love?

Erin grew up in West Virginia in a home everyone was welcome in, with parents who lived their faith by showing up for people in their hardest moments. That example became the thread of her life. It followed her from Ralph Lauren, where she worked alongside Mr. Lauren, to PepsiCo, where she spent 17 years writing speeches for one of the most influential women in business and building social impact into the core of the company.

Then she knew it was time to go, and took a leap of faith with nothing lined up. Today, Erin is finding that the call to serve never left. It just looks different now and led her to say “absolutely” when a friend asked for help in the fight of her life.

In this conversation, Erin shares what her parents taught her about service, how she made 'doing good' core to doing business, and why she’s trusting the road even before she can see where it leads.

Click play to hear this special conversation about service, letting go, and the quiet power of small things.

What You Will Learn

• How Erin’s parents modeled a life of service, big and small
• What her family learned about faith and community in their hardest season
• How she made doing good part of how a global company does business
• “I had studied the painting for so long that I no longer recognized the subject”
• Why the smallest act of showing up still matters
• How helping her friend Emily fight for her daughter Greta’s life reminded her that we already have everything we need

Support Emily and Greta
https://www.thegretainitiative.com/

Host, Chandler Stroud
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Mixing and editing provided by Next Day Podcast.

Other Organizations Erin Supports:

Impact Fairfiled County: https://www.impactfairfieldcounty.org/
American Red Cross: redcross.org
Food Rescue US: https://foodrescue.us/

Incredible creator of Erin's patchwork vest: Jill Schrock is the Jolene
Mercantile creator @
https://www.facebook.com/p/Jolene-Mercantile-61578824105256/

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