She Leads with Intention

Episode 23 — Rest and Sleep: You Cannot Afford to Skip This Ask any woman how she is really doing. Somewhere in her answer you will find the words...I am tired. In this deeply personal and practical episode, Kristen makes a passionate case for one of the most underrated tools available to any ambitious woman: genuine rest and quality sleep. She shares her own years-long struggle with sleep, what f...

Episode 22 — Boundaries: Protecting Yourself Without Guilt Boundaries are one of those topics that most women know they need, but may not feel truly confident doing. In this warm and practical episode, Kristen shares her own personal journey of learning boundaries, and the moment that changed everything. The most important reframe in this episode: a boundary is not about controlling another person...

Episode 21 — Being Trustworthy: The Foundation of Everything You Are Building Fair warning — this episode may step on your toes a little. But stay with Kristen. It is a good one. Trustworthiness is one of those qualities most of us believe we already have. And yet when we look honestly across four specific areas, our relationship with God, with ourselves, with others, and in our leadership, most o...

Episode 20 — Calendar Blocking: Your Time Reflects Your Values Life happens. Seasons get busy. Calendars fall apart. And there is absolutely no shame in that. But every once in a while it is worth pausing, looking honestly at where your time is actually going, and doing a gentle reset. In this practical and grace-filled episode, Kristen invites you into exactly that, a 30-day calendar reset that s...

Episode 19 — Is Complaining Blocking Your Blessings? This episode might get a little uncomfortable. And everything in it comes from a place of love and genuine desire for your growth. The honest answer for most of us, if we are truly willing to look, is that complaining may be blocking more than we realize. In this longer and deeply layered episode, Kristen addresses complaining honestly and direc...

Episode 18 — Waiting Seasons: How to Wait Well  You have prayed. You have shown up faithfully. You have done the work. And the breakthrough, the answer, the thing you have been believing for, is nowhere to be found. Just crickets. In this deeply personal and honest episode, Kristen speaks directly to the woman in the middle of a hard waiting season. Not from a place of having it all figured out —...

Episode 17 — Taking Responsibility: The Most Empowering Decision You Will Ever Make Taking responsibility is not about blame or shame. And, it is not about beating yourself up for anything that has already happened. In this episode Kristen reframes personal responsibility as one of the most freeing and empowering decisions a woman can make. Because when you take genuine ownership of who you are, w...

Episode 16 — Gratitude as a Spiritual Practice: How Thankfulness Rewires Your Brain and Your Faith You have probably heard that keeping a gratitude list is a good practice. And it is. But in this episode Kristen  takes gratitude somewhere deeper, into the difference between listing and truly receiving, the neuroscience behind how genuine thankfulness rewires the brain, and the profound faith dimen...

Episode 15 — The Power of Play: Giving Yourself Permission to Have Fun You are really good at working. Really good at serving. Really good at showing up for everyone around you and getting things done. But when did you last do something purely because it was fun? In this lighter and life-giving episode, Kristen makes a compelling and science-backed case for why play is not frivolous, it is essenti...

Your earliest relationship with your father, or the absence of one, shaped something fundamental in you. Your sense of what you are worth. Whether you are safe in the world. What you believe you deserve. And in the deepest and most significant way, what you believe about your Heavenly Father. In this deeply personal and faith-rooted episode, Kristen addresses the father wound with the same compass...

Episode 13 — The Mother Wound: Healing What Shapes How You Love, Lead, and Connect Your earliest female relationship became the template through which you understand love, worth, belonging, and what it means to be in relationship with another woman. When that relationship carried pain, unmet needs, or simply the limitations of a mother who could not give what she never received, those gaps do not...

Hard seasons are not a sign that something has gone wrong. They are part of every woman’s story. The question is not whether you will face them but whether you have the faith, the tools, and the daily practices to carry you through them without losing yourself in the process. In this deeply practical and faith-rooted episode, Kristen redefines what emotional resilience actually is and gives you ei...

Episode 11 — Forgiving Yourself You extend grace to everyone around you. But when was the last time you genuinely extended it to yourself? In this very honest episode, Kristen addresses one of the most powerful keys to freedom available to any woman, forgiving yourself. Not minimizing what happened, but making the clear decision to release yourself from carrying what God has already covered. Krist...

Hello friend! In Episode 10, Kristen teaches one of the most important strategies for lasting breakthrough: praying God's Word over your life with precision, rather than praying from fear disguised as hope. She walks through why Scripture, unlike our own words, cannot return void, why healing for every place of pain has already been purchased, and why money can open doors but was never designed to...

Hello friend! In Episode 9, Kristen invites you to picture yourself six months from now, walking into 2027 as the woman who finally made the decision to do the work, committed to it, and walked it out. She names eight specific benefits that ripple through every area of life when you do this work, addresses the quiet fear many women of faith carry about wanting more, and offers a practical tool for...

Hello friend! In Episode 8, Kristen turns her attention to the voice inside your head that criticizes you more harshly than anyone else in your life ever would. She traces where that inner critic was formed, names what becomes available when it finally quiets, and redefines what real confidence actually is: not the absence of fear, but a decision made in alignment with who God created you to be. G...

Episode 7 — The Comparison Trap: Why It’s Keeping You Small and How to Break Free Comparison is one of the most common and most quietly damaging experiences in a woman’s life. And in a world of social media highlight reels, it has never been more amplified or more accessible. In this episode, Kristen unpacks what comparison actually is, where it was formed, and — most importantly — what genuinely...

Episode 6 — How to Set Goals That Actually Stick A vision without a plan is simply a dream. And you were not created to just dream. You were created to build. In Episode 5 we talked about the difference between living by default and living by design. Today we take that one powerful step further. Because once you have a vision for the life you want, the next question is how do you actually move tow...

Episode 5: Stop Living by Default — Start Designing Your Life Are you living the life you actually chose... or the life that quietly accumulated while you were busy taking care of everything and everyone else? If you are a high-achieving woman who feels like something is still missing despite doing all the right things, this episode is for you. In Episode 5 of She Leads with Intention, life and le...

Episode 4 — Who God Says You Are In Episode 3 we did something courageous together. We named the limiting beliefs that have been shaping your life, traced where they came from, and began replacing them with something true. Today we go even deeper. Because the most powerful truth you can ever anchor your identity in is not a mindset shift or an affirmation. It is the living, unshakeable Word of God...

Episode 3 — The Lies That Have Been Shaping You What if the beliefs that have been quietly running your life were never actually true? In this powerful episode, Kristen Ivanov goes deep into the limiting beliefs that shape a woman's confidence, decisions, and sense of what is possible for her life. From the messages absorbed in childhood to the stories written in seasons of pain and comparison, Kr...

What does it truly mean to call women higher? In this episode of She Leads with Intention, life and leadership coach Kristen goes deep into the whole woman practice of elevation. From raising your personal standards and guarding your words, to the power of integrity, intentional sisterhood, and surrounding yourself with women who call you forward. This is not a conversation about doing more. It is...

Have you ever looked at your life from the outside and thought it looks good, but on the inside something still feels off? Like you're showing up for everyone, hitting your goals, doing all the things, and quietly wondering why none of it feels like enough? That's exactly why She Leads with Intention exists. In this first episode, host and Life and Leadership coach Kristen Ivanov introduces you to...