By The Book: For Women In Their Second-Season Building a Purpose-Driven, God-Led Business

This episode is a little different. After building By The Book as a space to explore purpose, calling, and what it means to build something with God at the centre, it has become clear that these conversations were never meant to stand alone. They belong within a wider story. In this episode, Johanne shares why By The Book is moving into its next chapter — and how the themes of discernment, surrend...

By The Book is a Christian podcast for women in midlife navigating calling, faith, purpose, and God-led work in their second season. Hosted by Johanne Hewlett. Not every quiet season means something is ending, and not every slowdown means something is wrong. In this episode, Johanne Hewlett explores how to discern whether God is inviting surrender or preparation when progress feels hidden. We talk...

By The Book is a Christian podcast for women in midlife navigating calling, faith, purpose, and God-led work in theirsecond season. Hosted by Johanne Hewlett. Some surrender happens at the beginning. Some happens after faithfulness. In this episode, Johanne Hewlett explores the kind of surrender that arrives in midlife — when God asks you to release something that once felt like part of the promis...

By The Book is a Christian podcast for women in midlife navigating calling, faith, purpose, and God-led work in theirsecond season. Hosted by Johanne Hewlett. Money carries emotion, memory, responsibility, and often quiet pressure — especially in midlife. In this episode of By The Book , Johanne Hewlett explores what it means to trust God with finances without ignoring practical reality. Rather th...

By The Book is a Christian podcast for women in midlife navigating calling, faith, purpose, and God-led work in theirsecond season. Hosted by Johanne Hewlett. Many Christian women reach midlife carrying an unspoken belief that faithfulness must look busy. But what if God is not asking you to do more — only to move differently? In this episode of By The Book , Johanne Hewlett explores what it means...

By The Book is a Christian podcast for women in midlife navigating calling, faith, purpose, and God-led work in theirsecond season. Hosted by Johanne Hewlett. Many women aren’t stuck because they’re disobedient. They’re stuck because they’re afraid of mishearing God. This episode explores fear-based discernment, perfectionism in Christian decision-making, and how God actually leads His daughters t...

By The Book is a Christian podcast for women in midlife navigating calling, faith, purpose, and God-led work in theirsecond season. Hosted by Johanne Hewlett. Advice is abundant. Peace is not. Many Christian women aren’t lacking information — they’re experiencing saturation. Podcasts, books, mentors, opinions… yet clarity feels further away. This episode explores the difference between seeking wis...

By The Book is a Christian podcast for women in midlife navigating calling, faith, purpose, and God-led work in their second season. Hosted by Johanne Hewlett. Hearing God isn’t usually about trying harder — it’s about creating space. In midlife, internal noise increases. Responsibility, advice, expectations, and information can crowd out discernment, leaving many Christian women wondering why God...

By The Book is a Christian podcast for women in midlife navigating calling, faith, purpose, and God-led work in their second season. Hosted by Johanne Hewlett. Many Christian women sense that God is leading their work, business, or calling somewhere new — but clarity feels incomplete. The direction is present, yet the detail is missing. And in midlife especially, that uncertainty can feel heavy. I...

By The Book is a Christian podcast for women in midlife navigating calling, faith, purpose, and God-led work in their second season. Hosted by Johanne Hewlett , this episode is the finale of the series: Foundations For The Second Season. Episode 18 — Your Next 12 Months: A Bible-Led Blueprint for Christian Women in Their Second Season (5/5) This closing episode brings the Foundations series togeth...

My book By The Book: How to Build a Bible-Led Business is now live. This isn’t about hustle or algorithms — it’s about building from Scripture first. Pace, identity, decisions, foundations. If you’re in a “second season” and want to build something faithful rather than frantic, this is for you. Thank you for being here and building with me. #BibleLedBusiness #ChristianEntrepreneur #SecondSeason #F...

By The Book is a Christian podcast for women in midlife navigating calling, faith, purpose, and God-led work in their second season. Hosted by Johanne Hewlett , this episode is part of the series: Foundations For The Second Season. Episode 17 — Breaking Agreement With Smallness Christian Identity, Calling, and Confidence for Women (4/5) Many women feel stuck not because they lack gifting, butbecau...

By The Book is a Christian podcast for women in midlife navigating calling, faith, purpose, and God-led work in their second season. Hosted by Johanne Hewlett , this episode is part of the series: Foundations For The Second Season. #16 The Midlife Mindset Shift: Wisdom Beats Hustle Every Time & Why Your Age Is Your Greatest Advantage (3/5) Midlife is not decline — it is spiritual depth. This e...

By The Book is a Christian podcast for women in midlife navigating calling, faith, purpose, and God-led work in their second season. Hosted by Johanne Hewlett , this episode is part of the series: Foundations For The Second Season. God’s Rhythm for Christian Women in Midlife Trying to rebuild your life while sensing God’s call on your work? This episode speaks directly to overwhelmed Christian wom...

By The Book is a Christian podcast for women in midlife navigating calling, faith, purpose, and God-led work in their second season. Hosted by Johanne Hewlett , this episode opens our 5 part series Foundations For The Second Season. Hearing God for Your Content | The Anointing vs The Algorithm Are you struggling to hear God’s voice while navigating content, business, or calling? This episode explo...

By The Book is a Christian podcast for women in midlife navigating calling, faith, purpose, and God-led work in their second season. Hosted by Johanne Hewlett , this final episode of the January Reset 2026 series — Living and Working Under God’s Order (Not Hustle) — speaks to the woman who feels stirred, but not rushed. If you sense something forming but don’t yet have clarity… If you feel cautiou...

By The Book is a Christian podcast for women in midlife navigating calling, faith, purpose, and God-led work in their second season. Hosted by Johanne Hewlett , this episode brings our January Reset 2026 series — Living and Working Under God’s Order (Not Hustle) — to a reflective close. In a culture that equates success with visibility, momentum, and affirmation, many Christian women quietly carry...

By The Book is a Christian podcast for women in midlife navigating calling, faith, purpose, and God-led work in their second season. Hosted by Johanne Hewlett , this episode continues the January Reset 2026 series: Living and Working Under God’s Order (Not Hustle) . Many Christian women quietly carry the assumption that if something is truly from God, it should work — that obedience should lead to...

By The Book is a Christian podcast for women in midlife navigating calling, faith, purpose, and God-led work in their second season. Hosted by Johanne Hewlett , this episode continues the January Reset 2026 series: Living and Working Under God’s Order (Not Hustle) . In this episode, we go one layer deeper into a biblical truth that often feels uncomfortable for capable, responsible women: order co...

By The Book is a Christian podcast for women in midlife navigating calling, faith, purpose, and God-led work in their second season. Hosted by Johanne Hewlett , this episode continues our January Reset 2026 series: Living and Working Under God’s Order (Not Hustle) . Many Christian women in midlife feel a quiet tension — a sense of continued calling alongside a growing reluctance to build the same...

By The Book is a Christian podcast for women in midlife navigating calling, faith, purpose, and God-led work in their second season. Hosted by Johanne Hewlett , this episode opens our January Reset 2026 series: Living and Working Under God’s Order (Not Hustle) . Many Christian women reach midlife without crisis or loss of faith — yet feel quietly unsettled. Belief is still present, prayer still ma...

🌟 When God restores a woman’s voice, heaven celebrates! Healing, Speaking, and Rising After a Long Silence. This episode is tender, emotional, and deeply healing. Many Christian women lose their voice through: • trauma • marriage • motherhood • church hurt • burnout • survival mode I’m your host Johanne Hewlett and this episode guides you through reclaiming your voice — gently, truthfully, and sp...

🌟 How to Step Into Confidence, Authority & God-Given Boldness Women rising later in life often carry decades of conditioning: be nice, be quiet, be small, don’t shine, don’t offend. I’m your host Johanne Hewlett and this episode is a spiritual and identity-based transformation — helping you shift from the “good girl” role into a Kingdom woman who builds boldly, confidently, and unapologetical...

🌟 Why Spirit-Led Strategy Always Wins Over Hustle I’m your host Johanne Hewlett and this cornerstone episode breaks down what it really means to build a Bible-led business as a Christian woman. No hype. No pressure. Just biblical principles and Holy Spirit guidance. You’ll learn how God speaks in business — not in dramatic ways, but in peace, nudges, clarity, conviction, and alignment. This episo...

🌟 How to Follow God When the Assignment Feels Bigger Than You. In midlife, calling feels heavier. The stakes feel higher. You’ve lived enough life to know what obedience costs… and what disobedience costs. I’m your host Johanne Hewlett and this episode gently unpacks what’s happening spiritually when God calls you into something that scares you — business, ministry, reinvention, leadership, visib...