Episode Details

I found Emma through Maria Shriver's newsletter, and her words stopped me cold:

"I no longer want more. I want to be wild."

I felt my whole body exhale. Because I knew exactly what she meant. The TED Talks, the books, the funnels, the coaching groups, I had all of it. And so did Emma. And somewhere underneath all of it, we both heard the same quiet voice saying: this isn't it.

This conversation is for anyone who has ever felt that way.

Meet Emma Tynan

Emma Tynan is an Irish writer whose work explores belonging, the inner life, and contemplative practice through lived experience. She lives in the Pacific Northwest and is currently writing her first book, Brave Words. She also facilitates international luxury retreats in devotion to St. Mary Magdalene, and before all of this, she founded an international life coaching company that served thousands of students worldwide for over a decade.

What We Get Into

Closing a decade-long business in a single afternoon. Emma got her name on the office door and two weeks later heard four words rise up within her, standing outside her son's school: give me everything. She sent the emails that same day.

Her son Eli and the gift inside the unexpected. Emma's youngest is autistic. His becoming was an invitation to grieve, surrender, and release everything she thought life was supposed to look like. She homeschooled him for a year, with hot chocolates, forest walks, and a chalkboard in the dining room. She'd do it ten times over.

Distraction disguised as productivity. Years of funnels and Facebook ads, chasing the next strategy while a voice in her heart kept saying the same thing: write the book. I felt this in my bones.

Mary Magdalene and reclaiming what's true. Emma's work centers on restoring Mary Magdalene's real story, scholar, apostle, prophet, not the fiction she was branded with for centuries. In Ireland, this history is not abstract. It's in the bones of the culture.

What wildness really means. Not resistance. Belonging. The part of us we were taught to tame, that's the part that knows who we really are.

Quotes I'm Still Thinking About

✨"It was distraction disguised as productivity and scaling and growth."
✨"The thing you're most afraid to admit that's the thing that's going to liberate you."
✨"The tendrils of my soul want to touch the real earth to move not outward, but inward."

Her writing will move you. I promise.

📖 Subscribe to her Substack 🌿 www.thelightscript.com 📷 Instagram: @emmatynan_

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