Ep. 10: How God Changed Me with Rafat Fields

In this episode I’m joined by Rafat Fields, a dear client and friend, to talk about what the process of transformation has looked like in her life as she has learned to live surrendered to God, balance all the roles in her life, embrace her spiritual gifts, and walk out her calling.

What You’ll Hear:

  • Some of the struggles God has helped Rafat overcome in her life

  • How reaching the end of herself led Rafat to start living fully surrendered to God

  • Why Rafat begins every day with intentional gratitude and focused prayer

  • What to do when life falls out of balance and you don’t know how to move forward

  • The importance of knowing, understanding, and leaning into your spiritual gifts

Links & References:

  • Matthew 11:28-30 NLT “Then Jesus said, ‘Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy to bear, and the burden I give you is light.”

  • 1 Peter 4:10 ESV “As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace.”

  • You Are Not Equipped: How to Do the Hard Things with Grace, Love & Grit

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Rafat Fields is a 7-figure corporate sales producer, branding expert, and passionate health advocate. She is the founder of Powered to Rise, a company dedicated to cultivating healthy servant leaders within Corporate America as they build a brand that rises above the crowd. You can connect with Rafat and her Powered to Rise Community on Facebook and Instagram.

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Ep. 9: The Battle for Balance: Can You Really Have Balance in Your Life?

Balance - it’s something we’re all trying to achieve in our lives.

But is it really possible to find balance, or is it just an elusive, unrealistic idea?

In this episode we are going to explore what it looks like and what it takes to live a well-balanced life according to God’s ways and will for you.

What You’ll Hear:

  • What exactly true balance means

  • Some common myths about balance you’ll hear in modern culture

  • Examples of what causes our lives to fall out of balance

  • Practical steps to take to restore balance to your life

  • The importance of living with your priorities in order

  • How to ask God for vision and strategy

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Ep. 8: Keeping Things Simple with Kelsey Van Kirk

In today’s modern world, life can easily get overly complicated and overwhelming.

As modern women it can often feel like there’s more than ever before to keep up with - can you relate?

Well, in today’s episode I’m sitting down to chat with my friend Kelsey Van Kirk, founder of The Better Life Project, about practical ways to simplify and streamline everyday life - as well as the holiday season!

If you have been feeling overwhelmed by your life or the holidays this year, we hope this episode will bless and equip you with practical tools to help you let go of what doesn’t matter to create more space for what does.

What You’ll Hear:

  • How Kelsey simplifies everyday life with her family of six

  • Practical ideas for simplifying the holiday season

  • Why having clear vision for your life matters

  • The importance of getting your priorities in proper order

  • How rhythms and routines can change your life

  • The key to effective decision-making

Links & References:

Kelsey Van Kirk is a writer, coach, podcast host, and founder of The Better Life Project, whose mission is to give everyday women the tools to make better choices, build better habits, and live better lives. She and her husband Andrew live in Charleston, SC with their four daughters, and a hermit crab named Maui.

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Ep. 7: Take the Guess Work Out of Your Relationships During the Holidays

The holiday season is supposed to be a wonderful, magical, joy-filled time of celebration with those we love.

But let’s be honest - sometimes the holidays can be downright stressful!

If you’ve ever found yourself stressed out and overwhelmed around the holidays, trying to manage the needs, expectations, and desires of your family and friends, this episode is for you!

We’re going to talk through some really practical advice that will help you navigate the holiday season well, love others well, communicate your needs and decisions kindly to family and friends, manage everyone’s expectations, and maintain your peace and joy all season long (no stress or burnout allowed!)

What You’ll Hear:

  • The advice my mom gave me for figuring out where and who to spend holidays with

  • How to love yourself, your friends, and your family well during the holiday season

  • Ideas for communicating your needs, desires and boundaries to family and friends

  • How to balance everything without getting exhausted or burning out

  • Some of the ways our family likes to celebrate and enjoy the holidays

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Ep. 6: Embracing Your Process

Do you look at your life as being about a destination or a journey?

In this episode we are going to talk through what it means and looks like to embrace your process.

We will look at what it takes to grow and mature in your process, and how to embrace the lessons of everyday life.

What You’ll Hear:

  • The importance & benefits of learning to embrace life as a process

  • How God reveals and develops our purpose and gifts

  • Why bringing your life and will into submission is essential

  • How strengths can become weaknesses if not managed well

  • The necessity of trials and challenges in maturing through process

  • How God uses healthy relationships to help us grow

Links & References:

  • Graham Cooke “The process is not about getting there. It’s about who you become on the way.”

  • 1 Peter 4:10 “As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God's varied grace.”

  • James 1:3-4 “Be assured that the testing of your faith [through experience] produces endurance [leading to spiritual maturity, and inner peace]. And let endurance have its perfect result and do a thorough work, so that you may be perfect and completely developed [in your faith], lacking in nothing.”

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Ep. 5: How I Discovered My Purpose with Dr. Karimah Baptiste-Edward

In this episode I'm joined by my lifelong friend Dr. Karimah Baptiste-Edward to discuss her journey of learning to surrender control, discovering her true identity and purpose, and growing in faith while walking closely with the Lord.

What You’ll Hear:

  • How God captured Karimah’s heart and drew her to him

  • What it looked like to fully surrender control and put God first

  • How developing her relationship with God shifted her values

  • What Karimah’s quiet time with God looks like

Links & References:

  • Matthew 6:33 “But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.”

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Dr. Karimah Baptiste-Edward has been married for four years, is a new mom, and an advocate of healthcare access for all. She enjoys spending time with family and friends and is very excited to continue growing in her relationship with the Lord and walking out His purposes for her life.

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Ep. 4: Keeping Disappointments from Framing Your Thinking

All of us at some point in life have run into disappointment. It’s an inevitable part of life.

But how exactly do we recover from disappointment?

How do we learn to trust and how do we rebuild trust when it's been broken?

In this episode we will be digging into these questions as we take a look at who is responsible for our disappointments and how to rebound from them quickly.

What You’ll Hear:

  • Specific tools for handling disappointment to be healthy and whole in your relationships

  • The role of forgiveness in moving past disappointments in life

  • Why it might be time to look deeper if you’re constantly being disappointed by the people in your life

  • The importance of going to God in prayer about your needs before going to others

  • Why having dependable people in your life starts with being a dependable person yourself

Links & References:

  • Proverbs 3:5-8 “Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take. Don’t be impressed with your own wisdom. Instead, fear the Lord and turn away from evil. Then you will have healing for your body and strength for your bones.”

  • Psalms 119:116 “Sustain me, my God, according to your promise, and I will live; do not let my hopes be dashed.”

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Ep. 3: Healthy Boundaries with Yourself & in Your Relationships

Healthy boundaries are something we all need in order to live and love well, and have healthy, flourishing relationships with God, ourselves, and others.

In this episode I am unpacking how I discovered my own need for better boundaries in my life, as well as how you can create healthy boundaries with yourself and those you do life with every day.

What You’ll Hear:

  • What boundaries are and why you need them in your relationships

  • How having healthy boundaries will enable you to love yourself and others well

  • The definition of codependence and how to recognize it in your relationships

  • Biblical examples of the role, purpose and wisdom of healthy boundaries in life

Links & References:

  • Genesis 2:16-17 “And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”

  • Galatians 5:13 “You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love.

  • Boundaries by Dr. Henry Cloud & Dr. John Townshend

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Ep. 02: What Does it Mean to Be God's Daughters?

“Who does God say I am?”

“What is God trying to teach me about me through my life experiences?”

“What lies do I need to stop believing in order to live my life to the fullest?”

In this episode we are going to unpack each of these questions to help you better understand what exactly it means to be God’s daughter and how this impacts your everyday life. Let’s dig in!

What You’ll Hear:

  • Wisdom straight from scripture about exactly who God says you are

  • Practical tips to help you create space to consistently spend time with God

  • Boundaries you need to set to guard your heart and mind as God’s daughter

  • You were created to do HARD things

Links & References:

  • John 3:16 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”

  • 1 John 3:1 “See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him.”

  • Zephaniah 3:17 “The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in his love he will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.”

  • Jeremiah 29:11 “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”

  • Romans 5:8 “But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

  • Galatians 5:22-23 “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.”

  • Ephesians 2:10 “For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”

  • You Are Equipped: How to Do the Hard Things with Grace, Love & Grit

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Ep. 01: What Does it Mean to Be Equipped?

Did you know that everything you need to be successful in your everyday life is already in you? Get ready to jump into this conversation as we talk about

Jump in the conversation as we talk about our identity and self awareness, and how having both will help you navigate life's challenges on the daily!

What You’ll Hear:

  • A bit about my personal background and story

  • What exactly it means to be “equipped”

  • The keys to discovering who God made you to be

  • Simple steps to becoming better equipped in your life

Links & References:

  • 2 Corinthians 10:5 “…and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.”

  • Boundaries by Dr. Henry Cloud & Dr. John Townshend

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