The Best Kept Secret With Liv Dooley

The public success and the private failures end here. Today, Latasha and I are getting transparent and sharing our stories with the prayer that they will help you. God wants to lead and enrich every area of your life. It's time to assess what has been driving us, our work ethic, and how it has been impacting our leadership. Once you do, know that Holy Spirit will lead you in your next steps be...

“I cannot do another thing,” I told my husband this past Wednesday. I shut my schedule down immediately after work, choosing to ignore the list of action items because I just couldn’t do another thing. However, I’d finally found out why I was exhausted. I stumbled across a podcast featuring  Dr. Saundra Dalton Smit h  earlier that day, and I felt as if God had tossed me a lifeline. The problem wit...

Now, you know, any book that tells us it's about to help us save our peace, our jobs, our edges, and our lives, is one we need to talk about! Today, the author of this fabulous journal, Lakeshia Poole , is joining us to help us stop obsessing over social media and get active. View the show notes at: https://livdooley.com/lakeshiapoole This episode was definitely filled with information. Here&#...

When your work is enjoyable, it’s easy to begin building your life around your work, but it is not what the Lord has called us to do. Jesus has called us to steward our gifts well, and some of the gifts we often overlook are our rest and our relationships.  Let's talk about it during this little QT Session because it’s never anyone’s intention to mismanage their health or their relationships....

Ahhhh! Season 3 is here! Can you believe it?! It is the new year, and we are ready to start it off right in our relationships, our business, and everything in between. But you know that all begins with God. Whether you have a Christian business or not, it doesn't matter. When we invite God into our businesses, He does more than we could ask, think, or imagine! Amber blessed us with so much inf...

Gentleness is going to cost you something-especially this holiday season. Is it going to be your discomfort? Your pride? Today, we're getting into an interview with April Dawn White and Marilyn Nutter , Coauthors of Destination Hope: A Travel Companion When Life Falls Apart This is our last formal conversation on the Fruit of the Spirit, but, it will naturally continue well into every other co...

Whooooo! Today we’re talking about the glimmer of God’s faithfulness, the slow fade of ours as a culture, and how to reignite to the fire in your relationship with God when you feel as if it’s fizzled out.  The hairs on my arms are still standing up.  Vanessa did not come to play. She is straight preaching on the podcast this week and the hair on my arms is still standing up. Grab your teen daught...

I never thought I would struggle in a conversation about goodness. If there's one thing I know, it's that God is good. However, I'm grateful that my sister in the Kingdom, Dr. Quanny , came alongside me to have this conversation because it's one we need to have.  The Conversations in our culture encourage us to challenge God's goodness but, today we're challenging the cultu...

A lot of us joke about how impatient we are, but if we're going to be honest, impatience produces a lot of evil in our world today. I know, it sounds dramatic, but if we truly think about the Israelites in the wilderness, Abram and Sarai, Cain who killed his brother, and, even Adam and Eve, impatience was always lurking in the shadows. Today, we are continuing our conversation on the Fruit of...

On a scale of 1-10, how kind would you say you have been lately? If that's hard to quantify, don't worry, our guest Michanda , has a few clues that we can investigate to grow and develop an awareness about whether we are showing kindness. Kindness is a fruit of the Spirit and it is a fruit that the world is celebrating, especially now that the holidays are here. However, we know that becau...

Today, we are continuing our conversation on the fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5:22-23, and it is transforming us in every way.  Our world is dying for peace. It is literally dying for peace, and I don't say that lightly. Nor do I make light of it. As a teenager I struggled with suicidal ideation, and in my own pursuit of peace. I thought of taking my life and even made an attempt to do so....

We have a picture that joy is spontaneous, erratic, and an emotion that moves us, but the truth is: we can choose joy. We can choose to rise above those struggles we go through regularly and we can choose joy on the hardest of days, but we understand that it’s not easy.  Jamila Jackson, the Chief Encouragement Officer of Loved and Blessed, is joining me and I cannot tell you how much I enjoyed thi...

Today, we are talking about another part of the Fruit of the Spirit, and it’s one we all love because it is love. What would happen if people recognized that we were under the influence of God’s love…of Holy Spirit?  I had no clue that Adrianna had grown up in a home that never used the word love when I first invited her to be on the podcast because she exemplifies this part of the fruit so very w...

I wanted to call her an HR Mogul, but I knew our guest today would kill me if I did. Irregardless of the title, my best friend is the perfect person to help us discuss our subject today because it's not an easy one! I noticed the self control that my best friend, Ebonee, had when we were in college, and since then, it has only grown as she’s served in various roles over the years professionall...

Season 2 of The Best Kept Secret with Liv Dooley is here, and I’m so grateful you’ve connected with me once again! This season, we are studying the fruit of the Spirit, found in Galatians 5:22-23 and it is my hope that we all yield our character to God so that we show up more fully representative of His great love.  This incredibly gifted photographer just so happens to be one of my prayer partner...

I have been away for a while, but it’s for a good reason! If I don’t know anything else, I know that we serve a creative God. In fact, the first name we learn of His in the Bible is found in Genesis 1 and translated ELOHIM. ELOHIM literally means: STRONG, CREATOR GOD.  That’s why I recommend slowing down, quieting your heart, and getting in God’s face-especially when you’re feeling overwhelmed, co...

We have been talking about how to rise above adversity and pursue wellness in our ministries and businesses this month, and it's time to get that team together so that we can do everything God has called us to do. One of the myths, we assume when we first get into business is that we have to know everything and have it all together, but that's a myth! We have mentors, friends, and connecti...

Sis, wellness matters. In fact, your wellness matters. It’s time we started taking care of ourselves, especially if we’re going to get. Listennnn, I’m preaching to myself, and I’m grateful that Emily Vermillion, the host of the Thought Vault, came through to help us identify a few practical steps that we can put into action right now. She came through to teach us that everything that is playing ou...

This week’s best kept secret is that you can absolutely advocate for others in the midst of your own adversity, and you might actually be amazed by how much your act of obedience will bless you! This week, my guest is Glenisha Thomas, and I’m so thankful that she’s joined me. I cannot wait for you to hear her story because it’s one that gives me chills every time I hear it.  Glenisha is the founde...

I opened up about an incredibly sensitive subject for the first time in life, and I cannot thank LaJoyce enough for being with me and helping facilitate the conversation. Her presence was so incredibly comforting. Mother's Day is quickly approaching, and it can cause a variety of emotions to arise within you-especially if you're not a mother, yet. Proverbs 13:12 in the New Living Translati...

April was one for the books, but there was so much information that our guests offered, we would be remiss if we didn't pause and reflect on what we learned. By we, I mean you and me. Today's Best Kept Secret is that community connects us to purpose! The calling you have, that invitation to partner with God for eternity, that customized life purpose cannot be realized in isolation! You nee...

Those love languages keep coming back around…we heard them in the interview with Jessica, and now we’re talking about them with Daja. Let's recharge the love in our friendships with intentionality. Did y’all know that the Bible says that friendships refresh the soul? It’s true, Proverbs 27:9 reads: Sweet friendships refresh the soul and awaken our hearts with joy, for good friends are like the...

Today's best kept secret is that serving the Lord and walking in purpose is fun!!! Venus, Loretta, and December are three women who God used to change my life, and I will be forever grateful for their presence in my life. Today, they've joined me on the podcast to talk about how much fun obedience can be as God transforms our lives.  Before I met them, I had no clue how much fun it could b...

What emotions arose when you first felt God calling you into a new level of faith, and how did it change the way you say you saw yourself? These are just two of the questions we’re discussing with Nicole O. Salmon, the Purpose Coach, today.  There’s something sweet, something supernatural that happens when you step forward in obedience and it is undeniably good, which is ironic because the first e...

Guess what?! You have permission to encourage yourself! Encouragement is a gift that we give others, but it’s also one that we give ourselves. Let’s talk about how to grow in it so we can ensure that we’re giving from a healthy place.  There are so many factors that attempt to impede our ability to grow in encouragement, especially today, but we when we choose intentionality, authenticity, and set...