Live Your Purpose Podcast

We're diving back into the world of the Live Your Purpose show after a 4-year hiatus! Kristen returns with a heartfelt reintroduction, sharing a preview of her personal growth, challenges, and triumphs in the pursuit of living with purpose, especially as a mom. Through this personal journey, she found strength and healing in the arms of Jesus, emerging with a deeper sense of purpose and a stro...

Foundations of thought processes and self-confidence are often projections from others’ insecurities that we absorbed, but aren’t truly our own. But we take these projections start trying to better ourselves, setting big goals that for some reason don’t fulfill us, so we keep searching for happiness but it sometimes feels like we come up empty.

This is the second part in my series on the book Pavarotti and Pancakes, written by my friend Frank Granieri. This episode goes beyond the book as I asked him questions on how he overcame the dysfunction and turmoil outlined in our first conversation, and in his memoir. IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL FIND OUT ABOUT - How therapy and hypnotism were key aspects in overcoming his past - How visualization man...

An open conversation regarding mental health, sexual abuse, addiction and dysfunction as told in the memoir Pavarotti and Pancakes by Frank Granieri.

I’m a highly-emotional person who has always made emotionally-driven goals at the beginning of each year. Yet a lot of my goals didn't bring the validation or satisfaction I hoped they would. Then I learned to ask myself "at what cost?" I truly feel like life is beginning as I’m learning to be content with who I am, and who I’m created to be. I no longer feel the need to set goals to “fix” myself,...

No matter what you’re facing that feels like you’re not good enough, you feel defeated by the surrounding elements through your journey, your unable to lift your head, your body is failing, God has set that journey before you and is walking with you through it, ready to carry you when your strength is no longer enough.

The weaker you are, the more you depend on God. And the more you depend on God, the more you’re like Him. This episode teaches and encourages discernment when using social media. From filling time, to avoiding work, to mindlessly scrolling at any available opportunity, this episode helps you to take back the time spent on social media and use it for God’s glory.

IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL FIND - My journey in suicidal thoughts - Encouragement to live your purpose despite the lies playing in your head - God created you for a purpose and that you can actually take back control from mental illness - How to help me break down the stigma of mental health

Social media has a way of taking over our schedules. From filling time, to avoiding work, to mindlessly scrolling at any available opportunity. This episode encourages you to take back the time spent on social media and use it for God’s glory. IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL FIND OUT ABOUT - How to stop the “social media comparison” game - Retraining your brain to think holy thoughts based on the truth - H...

God wants to make 2018 your best year yet. But it can’t happen if we don’t turn our eyes and our focus on Him. This episode if you’re determined to make 2018 better than previous years for the works of Jesus. IN THIS EPISODE YOU’LL FIND OUT ABOUT How to stay focused on Jesus in a world that demands our attention Why God allows trials in our lives. Determining what is “worthless” in our lives. How...

This episode if you’re struggling through a trial of any kind. Did you know the Bible calls us to find joy in the trials? But it’s incredibly hard when trials are devastating or feel like a battle you’ll never win. In this episode, I open my heart and vulnerably share a trial I’ve struggled with for years. For anyone looking for encouragement, truth, and how to see the joy in trials, this is a gre...

Hebrews 12:1 says, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. 1. Recognize what’s hindering you 2. Throw off your hindrances 3. Run with perseverance 4. Focus on Jesus

It’s scary enough to feel overwhelmed or depressed, but very scary to feel those things while feeling alone. This podcast helps overwhelmed moms become stronger spiritually, mentally, emotionally so that we can live the purposeful life God designed for us. The world's unrealistic expectations are the lies of the enemy to discourage us from living our purpose. So through this podcast I want to help...