Roar Rising

When we suffer loss, does God simply watch from heaven, knowing everything will eventually work together for good? Or is He genuinely moved by our sorrow? Scripture reveals a God who draws near to the brokenhearted, remembers every tear, and is afflicted in the affliction of His people. Jesus wept at Lazarus's tomb even though He knew resurrection was moments away. His knowledge of the outcome did...

People are hungry to be heard. Are we willing to put everything else down and truly listen? If you find yourself distracted, struggling to stay in converstaions, be interested, follow along, then this episode is for you! In this episode, Heather explores how active listening reflects the heart of Christ, builds trust, and brings peace into our relationships, businesses, and ministries. Discover pr...

Are you building a business, pouring into your family, and trying to stay close to God, yet feeling like you're never fully present for any of it? So many Christian women entrepreneurs are physically in the room but mentally somewhere else. We answer emails during dinner, plan content during prayer, and wonder why our business, relationships, and faith all feel stretched thin. And here's what we o...

What do you do when God calls you to build, but you cannot see the resources to finish it? In this episode, we talk about taking the next faithful step with what is already in your hands, even when the full provision is not yet in sight. If you are an author ready to take a practical step toward selling your book, get the 7 Day Book Sales Reset at ResistAndRoar.com .  This is how we shine as the b...

What can Alex Hormozi's story teach Christian authors about selling more books? In this episode, we uncover the biblical wisdom hidden within his journey and explore why your book is not the final destination. It is a bridge that carries readers from where they are toward the transformation God entrusted you to help them reach.

You don't have to thank God for the bad things.  There are things we don't actually have to thank God for.  We have been taught wrong about these things.  But it really helps move the needle in our purpose and talents when we understand what to actually thank the Lord for and what that looks like.  If you are ready to start selling your book and message?  start at Resistandroar.com 

What if the difference between staying stuck and building a multi-million dollar legacy was a single full-body decision? Leah McHenry - homeschool mom of five, musician, and founder of multiple seven-figure businesses, reveals how she turned trauma, debt, and uncertainty into a framework for bold action, stewardship, and explosive growth. Raised in a fractured church environment and carrying the w...

What if you spent years preparing for the work God called you to do, but never reached the destination? Would that mean you missed your calling? Would the training have been wasted? Or could God be measuring the value of your life by something entirely different? William Borden has a testimony that will give us wisdom, understanding and encouragement to understand these valuable secrets to obedien...

If your business still depends on you for every answer, decision, and result, it cannot truly multiply. In this episode, Heather reveals how to recognize an outdated business model, release control, and build leaders who can carry the mission forward.

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When business feels like a struggle, the temptation is to swing to one of two extremes. Either grind harder and carry it all on your own shoulders, or step back and wait for God to do everything while you do nothing. This episode is about the balance in between. Seeking first the Kingdom doesn't mean sitting on your hands until God moves. It means being a faithful steward of what He's already put...

What if the heaviness of building does not mean you missed God? In this episode, Heather Lea confronts the bitterness, disappointment, and hidden resentment that can grow when obedience becomes harder than expected. Pain itself is not the greatest danger. The danger begins when pain hardens into unbelief, pride, self pity, resentment, or the temptation to quit. This season may not be punishment. I...

What It Means If You're Burying What God Gave You to Steward In this episode, we explore Jesus' Parable of the Talents in Matthew 25 and what it teaches about faithful stewardship. This isn't just a lesson about money. It's about every resource, gift, opportunity, and calling God has entrusted to us. Are we multiplying them for His Kingdom, or burying them out of fear? You'll learn why Jesus prais...

The Valley of Vision: Stuck Between Planning and Doing You've written the vision. You've made it plain. Maybe you've even fortified it, the plan, the strategy, the resources. And still… you haven't moved. In this study we walk verse by verse through Isaiah 22 — a chapter almost nobody teaches, and discover why God's own people ended up high in vision and low in obedience. They repaired the wall, s...

Tax strategy does not have to be boring, confusing, or saved for panic season. In this fun and practical conversation, Becky Spense shares money saving tax strategies every entrepreneur and small business owner should know. We talk deductions, smarter planning, confident business decisions, and how to stop leaving money on the table. Becky is a tax planning and business coach for service based bus...

There are seasons in business where obedience does not look like increase. You are showing up, building, praying, and stewarding the message God gave you, but the numbers may not look like victory yet. In this episode, I am talking about what it looks like to build a business with God when winning does not look like winning. We will look at Jacob, Paul, weakness, obedience, perseverance, and the s...

Not every room is assigned to you. In this episode, I unpack why discernment matters deeply when choosing business partnerships, mentors, masterminds, counsel, and communities. The wrong room can drain your clarity, dilute your conviction, delay your obedience, and pull you into agreement with people who do not carry the same assignment, values, or fruit. This conversation challenges Christian aut...

You cannot build what God called you to build while still agreeing with the lie that you are not ready, not qualified, not safe, not heard, or not enough. In this episode, we are talking about the true meaning of pulling down strongholds, and how the arguments inside you may be the very thing resisting your purpose. Ready to turn your book, message, and calling into revenue with strategy? Join the...

What do you do when obedience feels heavy, the fruit is slow, and the thing God called you to build starts exposing every weak place inside of you? In this episode, Heather unpacks the difference between bitterness toward God and bitterness of soul before God. Looking at Hezekiah, Hannah, Naomi, Peter, David, Job, Jeremiah, and even Jesus, this conversation confronts the hidden side of carrying a...

Some of us keep saying we are waiting on God, when really, we are burying what He already put in our hands. In this episode, we look at the Parable of the Talents and ask what it means to steward the message, book, offer, ministry, or business God has entrusted to us. This is not about hustle. It is about obedience, multiplication, and refusing to hide behind fear, confusion, or false humility. If...

There comes a point when the wilderness has done what God allowed it to do. It stripped us. It humbled us. It exposed what could not come with us. It taught us to stop building from striving, fear, comparison, and survival. But the wilderness was never meant to become our permanent address. In this episode, we are talking about what it means to leave the wilderness and step into the calling God ha...

In this episode, Nicole Scarboro joins me to overview my original teaching from Episode 148, "The Serpent Declared War on Her Voice First." We revisit the spiritual war against a woman's voice, how deception begins by twisting what God said, and why God restores women to speak truth, testify, and obey Him with boldness.

Are you truly ready for the Bridegroom, or are you assuming you will have time to get ready later? In this episode, Heather Sudbrock takes you deep into the Parable of the Ten Virgins and asks the question many believers avoid: do you actually have oil, or are you trying to borrow readiness from someone else? This conversation is about spiritual preparation, sanctification, and the cost of being r...

In this episode, Heather interviews Marlena Hollis of Young Lions VA's about how Christian authors can use virtual assistants to scale their book sales, strengthen their backend support, and stop carrying every task alone. Marlena explains how faith-based VA support can help authors and entrepreneurs delegate with clarity, protect their time, and create more space for the message they are called t...

In this episode, I share part of my own journey of moving through fear, finding my voice, and learning to walk more boldly in the calling God placed on my life. We talk about spiritual warfare, identity in Christ, and the deeper struggles that can keep Christian women silent, stuck, or second guessing what God is asking them to do. My prayer is that this episode helps you recognize where fear may...