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Reclaiming Identtity podcast
Conversations on Faith, Truth, & Identity.
Have you ever questioned why God allowed painful things to happen or struggled to believe you are enough?
Join Kristen Zuray, Abbi DeWitt, and Lydia Zuray—a mother/daughter team of Christian Life Coaches and Mentors from the Adi Project—as they share biblical truth, healing tools, and honest conversations about identity, relationships, faith, and emotional healing. Through stories of overcoming heartbreak, spiritual abuse, rejection, and chronic illness, this podcast will help you reclaim your God-given identity, strengthen your faith, and walk confidently in the purpose God created for you.
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Jun 2, 2026 ·
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What is Identity and Why Does it Matter?
Who are you when the titles, roles, and expectations fall away?
In the premiere episode of Reclaiming Identity, host Abbi DeWitt sits down with Kristen Zuray, founder of The Adi Project, to explore the question: What is identity? Kristen shares her personal journey of discovering who she was beyond the labels she carried and how identity is shaped by our experiences, relationships, faith, values, and wounds.
Together, they discuss how understanding your identity impacts your confidence, purpose, relationships, and ability to navigate life's challenges. If you've ever struggled with insecurity, people-pleasing, or feeling lost, this conversation offers hope, healing, and a path toward rediscovering who you were created to be.
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Kristen Zuray: Welcome back to The ADI Podcast. I'm here with Lydia, and we are talking about something I think almost every leader I coach is quietly wrestling with — the feeling that one day, somebody is going to figure out you don't actually belong in the room.
Lydia Zuray: Yeah, and what's interesting is the people who feel it most are usually the ones most qualified to be there. The capacity is real. The credentials are real. But there's this gap between what's true on paper and what feels true in the body.
Kristen: Let's name that gap. Where does it come from?
Lydia: A lot of it is an identity question dressed up as a competence question. We think we need more proof, more wins, more letters after our name. But the ache underneath is: who am I, and is who I am enough? That's not a résumé problem. That's a soul problem.
For a Christian leader specifically, the answer can't ultimately come from performance. If it does, you'll need to keep performing forever just to stay in the room. That's exhausting, and frankly, it's not the yoke Jesus offered.
Kristen: So how do we start to close that gap in a real, practical way?
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