337-Erin Mohr: She Entered Her First Pageant at 50 — Stuck No More Voices

Some stories are not for scrolling past. This one belongs to Erin Mohr.

At fifty she decided to enter a beauty pageant. She had never talked about pageants once in her life. When she told her daughters she was in, they asked if she was having a midlife crisis.

She calls it a God idea.

Her reason was simple. If she could do it, any woman could do the thing she has been sitting on. It does not have to be a stage. It just has to be the thing she keeps telling herself she is too old for now.

She is done shrinking.

But the pageant is the door, not the room. Erin pastored for twenty years. Youth ministry, music ministry, then associate pastor. She thought she would be there until the day she died. She left right before COVID hit.

Then her husband left the marriage. She held onto being a wife for three years anyway. She says God asked her a question in that stretch that she is still unpacking. What is it to be a wife when you are not wanted as a wife?

She was just starting to dream again when her father got sick. One month from diagnosis to gone.

That is where her faith actually got deep. Not on Sunday mornings behind a pulpit. In the middle of the not knowing, when the God she grew up describing turned out to be someone she had to meet all over again.

Now she is a certified life coach who works with women in midlife. Empty nest, divorce, aging, career change, the seasons where a woman looks around and realizes her community thinned out without her noticing.

Her language for it is a toolbox. She says being fearless does not mean fear is gone. It means doing it afraid and using the fear as fuel. She helps women sort fact from fiction, quiet the anxious loop, and get anchored in peace that holds on a bad day.

She also refuses to be put on a pedestal. She hated it as a pastor and she will not have it now. Down to earth, relatable, reachable. That is what she is after.

Find Erin on Instagram at the.elegant.erin. Send her a message. She says the best thing she does is start an organic conversation with a woman who feels stuck.

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