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Do you often find yourself: Struggling with perfectionism? Lacking self-confidence? Having anxiety and doubts about your ideas, abilities, achievements and accomplishments? Partaking in a lot of negative self-talk? Having feelings of inadequacy? Dwelling on past mistakes? Feeling like you are not good enough?   Do you worry about not meeting expectations?   Do you feel like a fraud and eventually...

Happy Friday, Friends!    This week we have been talking about integrity.  As Christians, our faith journey is one in which we seek to be more and more like Christ.  In doing so, we are actually called to live with integrity.  We are told (and shown) that God rewards integrity. Today I wanted to look at some of the biblical references that point us to a life lived with integrity.   The Gospel actu...

Hello, Friend!   Let me ask you this… do you demonstrate integrity in your leadership?  Do you demonstrate integrity in your personal and professional life?  What does that even mean?   Well today that is what we are talking about.  We are talking about integrity and what that looks like in leadership.  As you listen, I want you to consider, who stands out in your mind as someone who lives and lea...

Hey Friends!  Today we continue our conversation with special guest, Susan Fleming.  Susan is an internationally recognized co-author of the #1 best-seller, "Just Say No: 14 Transformational Keys to Set Healthy Boundaries in Business and Relationships." She is the founder and CEO of Heaven to Earth LLC, which equips leaders to multiply L.I.F.E. without burning out in the process. As a Business Ali...

Hey Friends!  Today we have a special guest host with us!  Susan Fleming is an internationally recognized co-author of the #1 best-seller, "Just Say No: 14 Transformational Keys to Set Healthy Boundaries in Business and Relationships." She is the founder and CEO of Heaven to Earth LLC, which equips leaders to multiply L.I.F.E. without burning out in the process. As a Business Alignment Therapist,...

Hey, Friend! We can truly train our brain to experience life differently by practicing thought patterns that focus on God’s truth versus the enemy’s lies about who we are.    Changing our narrative or our thought patterns is much like riding a bike.  We start out falling down and crashing into trees, but eventually, we are able to travel miles without even thinking about it.    Our mindset and per...

Friends, this message hit me today unexpectedly, and I felt led to share it immediately.  It is not perfected and polished because the Lord wanted you to hear it in real-time.  Forgive the imperfections and focus on the message.  This was truly a God Download that stopped me in my tracks while out on a walk over my lunch break.  Someone was meant to hear this today.  If that is you, God sees you,...

Hey, Friend!   Are you sick and tired of riding the struggle bus?  Do you find yourself spending most of your time frustrated and focused on the wrongs that have been done unto you?  Do you feel burned out and irritated with the world?  Well guess what…you can live a different existence.  You do not have to stay on the hot mess express!     I spent a lot of years thinking of my story and future fr...

Hey Friends!  Today we continue our conversation with Angela Thornton, the founder of Wise Word Ministries. We had so much fun talking about the power of God and His word and about what it means to walk as a daughter of the King. Angela Thornton is a gifted communicator whose writing and speaking are filled with anecdotes, wit, humor, and sound biblical instruction. Her thought-provoking lessons a...

Hey Friends!  Today we have a special guest host with us.  Angela Thornton, the founder of Wise Word Ministries, is here to talk to us about what it means to walk as a daughter of the King. Angela Thornton is a gifted communicator whose writing and speaking are filled with anecdotes, wit, humor, and sound biblical instruction. Her thought-provoking lessons and revelatory insights present the scrip...

Happy Grace and Faith Filled Friday, Friend! Have you ever found yourself feeling insignificant, unworthy, or undeserving of the love God has for you?  Today I am speaking God’s truth of his love over you, in the form of a Love Letter from Your Heavenly Father. God’s love surpasses our human understanding.  He sent his son to become our sin, to die on the cross so that we might be redeemed and bro...

Hey Friend! Have you ever found yourself feeling insignificant, unworthy, or undeserving of the love God has for you?  For most of my life, I have had a head knowledge that I am saved and that Jesus loves me, but I never truly felt worthy.  I wasn’t walking with the heart knowledge of what salvation and the love of God means for me in my everyday life. My identity has always been based in who I wa...

Happy Friday my Faithful Friends!  If you remember, in the previous episode this week we were talking about the parallel between gardening and leadership.  Today we are going to look at a biblical picture of the gardener and where it shows up in scripture.    I will reference the following scriptures: Genesis chapters 1-3 John 12:24 John 20:14-15 Revelation chapters 21-22   I hope this episode ble...

Hey, Friend! If you are listening to this episode when it publishes, we are in the beginning of May.  I live in Minnesota, and we have winter for far too long.  When May rolls around, you hear people start talking about how anxious they are to get out and start growing things…   whether it be flowers or vegetable gardens, spring brings about a hunger to see new beautiful life and color.   This got...

Hey, friends! Today we are finishing our conversation that we started in Episode #28 with Dr. Melinda Vandevort, host of the "Choose Your Next Yes" podcast.   Mel helps professional women learn to listen to God’s voice and know when to say yes to the career they've always wanted and no to everything else. She helps them clarify their purpose, and find the courage to pursue their personal and profe...

Hey, friends! Today we have a very special guest, Dr. Melinda Vandevort, host of the "Choose Your Next Yes" podcast. Mel helps professional women learn to listen to God’s voice and know when to say yes to the career they've always wanted and no to everything else. She helps them clarify their purpose, and find the courage to pursue their personal and professional goals in midlife and beyond to rec...

Happy Friday my Faithful Friends! If you recall, the previous episode this week was regarding discernment…how to know if you are hearing God’s voice.  Today we are going to look at a few more scriptures that give instruction around prayer, listening and discerning God’s voice. We look a little deeper at the following scriptures: Jeremiah 6:16 Colossians 1:9-14 Romans 12:2 Isaiah 55:3 John 6:45 Joh...

Hey, Friend! Have you ever heard people say “God told  me", or "God said", or "I feel God telling me to (fill in the blank)”? Have you found yourself thinking, "Geesh…. I wish God would talk to me a bit more clearly!"   I certainly have found myself thinking that.  Sometimes I think God needs to literally send me a neon blinking sign for me to be certain He is trying to tell me something.  Recentl...

Happy Friday my Faithful Friends! With the ever-changing work culture we find ourselves in, leadership can be very challenging.  I think it is especially difficult when you tend to care too much, if there is such a thing.   But I also believe that God calls certain people to lead.  Like much else, he does not promise it will be unicorns and rainbows.  Rarely is Kingdom work the easiest kind of wor...

Hey, Friend! Today’s episode might be a little controversial or sensitive, I don’t know, but I felt God calling me to speak on behalf of some of the leaders out there who tend to care so much about their role and their team, yet it never seems like enough and they are on the verge of throwing in the towel.    I am talking today from the perspective of a leader who cares too much, but feels a bit i...

Happy Friday my Faithful Friends! By now most of you have heard me share my own personal struggles with people pleasing and approval seeking.  It has manifested itself in so many ways throughout my life, as far back as I can remember and in ways we haven’t yet talked about.  It wasn’t until I was just exhausted and somewhat crushed under the weight of it that I began to find my way out.  And that...

Hey, Friends....just popping in quick for a little announcement.  You are going to be getting a little more of The Grace Filled Leader podcast!  Tune in to hear more!

Today we are continuing our discussion around people pleasing.  Last week we talked about some of the roots of people-pleasing.  And I think most of us who struggle with it think we are just being good people.  We say “yes” to things because we want to be helpful and we want to be liked.   However, there are some real consequences to being a people pleaser.    Beyond the obvious physical, emotiona...

I know not all of my listeners fit this bill, but many women in leadership that I meet and speak to, and many women in general have some tendencies toward people pleasing or approval seeking.  In some ways, it got us to where we are because we are typically very dependable and hard-working.   However, it is not an especially healthy way of living life or leading…   I consider myself a recovering p...

Happy Monday, Friends! Today we are back to talking about what it means to be a great leader.  This is going to sound kind of weird, but today’s episode was inspired by a whistle .  Yep, that’s right…a whistle…you know, the kind your gym teacher or sports coach wore around their neck as they had you running killers up and down the court at practice…  I am sure you are thinking, what the heck does...