The Encourage Over Everything Show

Have you ever had someone tell you "you are the strongest person I know," and smiled, said thank you, and let them walk away without ever telling them the truth? Friend, this episode is for the woman who looks completely fine on the outside while she's unraveling on the inside. I'm telling you about the season I built an entire life to prove people wrong, a corporate career, a great life as a sing...

Have you ever sat in a room you worked so hard to get into and thought, something is wrong with me? Friend, that feeling almost never means what you think it means. I'm taking you back to my corporate leadership days, and the extra years I stayed in a role I had already outgrown because I mislabeled the feeling as something being wrong with me instead of what it actually was. I'm handing you the t...

According to history, my life wasn't supposed to amount to much. Divorced. Single mom raising two babies on my own. And then I lost my two anchors in this world. Any one of those things could have taken me completely out of the game — but what happened to me was never meant to be my whole story. And friend, neither was yours. Friend, I'm getting personal about the years I spent stewing in what hap...

Friend, have you ever looked up in the middle of your life and felt like a stranger was living it? Like the woman you used to be is somewhere you cannot quite reach, and you have been quietly searching for her ever since — retracing your steps, looking in all the usual places, wondering if you left her somewhere in the loss? That is exactly where this episode meets you. And I need you to know: wha...

I went from being a single mom who handled every single thing alone for years — to being a married woman with a man who genuinely wanted to show up for me. And I almost could not let him. Not because he was not everything. Because I had been bracing for the worst for so long I forgot that good things were even an option for me. If you have ever gotten good news and immediately started waiting for...

If you have ever performed the easygoing, low-maintenance, go-with-the-flow version of yourself for someone who was not even close to being your person — this episode is going to hit home. Identity Shift Coach Letitia Hopkins gets radically honest about a decade of dating, the situationships, the convincing game, and the moment grief stripped away every mask she had ever worn. What happened next i...

Have you been making excuses for people and situations that had absolutely no business getting that level of grace from you? Friend, what you keep accepting is a direct reflection of what you believe you deserve. And that is an identity conversation we are having today — with love, laughter, and zero shame. This is not a boundary pep talk. This is an identity shift. Because what you tolerate revea...

You prayed for this life. You planned for it, sacrificed for it, stayed up late for it. And then you got it. And now there is a quiet ache underneath everything that keeps whispering — but is this it? Is there more? And instead of honoring that feeling, you have been making yourself feel guilty for having it. Friend. That stops today. One of the most misunderstood feelings a high-achieving woman c...

You love a good deal. We all do. But somewhere along the way you started negotiating the one thing that was never supposed to be on the table — your worth. It often does not feel like shrinking. It feels reasonable, easy to work with, not too much and that is exactly what makes it so dangerous for the woman who has already built something real. In Episode 312, we break down the three places high-a...

You love a good plan. You want every step mapped out, color coded, and fully negotiated before you move. And that's exactly why God never gives you the full plan — because He already knows what you're going to do with it. The negotiations would begin immediately and He is not here for it. But here's what this episode is really about. It's not just the steps you're taking — it's the ones you keep a...

Are you in the messy middle and wondering if the dream is even worth it? That in-between season — where you're doing the work but the results aren't showing up the way you expected — has a name. It's not the stuck or forgotten season. It's the preparation season and it's positioning you for everything you asked for. We gets real about the sting of the messy middle — the doubt, the dread, and the t...

The price of alignment is the person you used to be. If you've been feeling lost, quiet, or like something inside you has shifted but you can't quite name it — friend, you are not burned out. You are experiencing an identity shift, and the grief that comes with it is the part of personal growth nobody warns you about. In this tender, truth-telling solo episode, Identity Shift Coach Letitia goes be...

Friend... do you ever feel like life forgot to send you the memo? Like everyone else is getting engaged, buying homes, building businesses, figuring out their purpose, or checking off life milestones while you're sitting there wondering, "Wait... am I behind?" In this episode, we're having a real conversation about the invisible clock so many of us carry around — the one whispering that you should...

You did not lose your desire to want more by accident, friend. You shut her down — and maybe not even consciously. At some point, wanting started costing more than it returned. And every smart woman I know eventually made the same calculation: stop wanting equals safety. Less disappointment, less risk. So you did it. And now you're sitting in this life you built wondering why you can't feel desire...

What if you are not at the mercy of your feelings? What if the sadness, the empty, the heavy, all of it, you actually get to decide how long you feel her, how deep you feel her, and when you turn the page on her? I'm taking you back to one of the hardest seasons of my life. And the morning that taught me a practice that completely shifted my relationship with hard feelings. We’re unpacking the myt...

Friend — if you can see exactly where you want to go, you have done the work, built the foundation, and you are still standing at the edge wondering why you cannot make your next move — this episode is for you. Today we are talking about the Almost There Woman. The one who is closer than she thinks and further than she feels. And we are going to figure out together what is actually in her way — no...

Friend — have you ever stood in the middle of your own life — the career, the home, the friendships, the milestones — and thought, why does none of this feel like mine? Today we are naming the thing most women carry in silence because they are too afraid to say it out loud. Because saying it means admitting that the life you worked so hard to build might not actually be the life you wanted. And th...

Friend — there is a version of you that existed before the career took over, before the relationship defined you, before the responsibilities stacked so high the real you got quieter and quieter. Today we are going to talk about her. Not with grief — with intention. Because she didn't disappear. She got quiet. And it is time to go back and get her. WHAT WE’RE GETTING INTO: ✦ Why you didn't lose yo...

Friend — have you ever stood in the middle of your own life — the career, the home, the friendships, the milestones — and thought, why does none of this feel like mine? Today we are naming the thing most women carry in silence because they are too afraid to say it out loud. Because saying it means admitting that the life you worked so hard to build might not actually be the life you wanted. And th...

Friend — people pleasing was never about being nice. It was about being afraid. In this episode I'm getting personal about my own people pleasing era — the decade of dating where I made myself small, easy and agreeable because I was terrified of rejection. And what I learned that finally changed everything. WHAT WE'RE GETTING INTO ➡️ Why people pleasing is not about being nice — it's an expression...

300 episodes. This one is different. This one is personal. This one is the reason everything else exists. In EP 300 I'm sharing the story I've never quite told like this before — why Encourage Over Everything™ exists, what encouragement actually saved me from, and why learning to clap for yourself is the most important thing you will ever do. WHAT WE'RE GETTING INTO The real reason Encourage Over...

I was staring at my vision board for what felt like the gazillionth time. Everything I wanted was right there staring back at me. And there was still this quiet ache of doubt sitting underneath all of it. Because I was gripping the HOW so tightly — I didn't realize it was the very thing keeping my breakthrough from landing. Friend — the HOW was never your job. And in this episode we are going to t...

I say this with so much love — stop saying you're trying . That trying energy is repelling the very thing you want. Your dreams can't land in clenched fists. They land in open hands. In this episode I'm coming in straight up no chaser — showing you exactly why all that trying has been working against you and what the other way actually looks like. WHAT WE'RE GETTING INTO ➡️ Why trying energy is ho...

You have spent years being the strong one. The dependable one. The one who never needed anything. And the people in your life? They love her. They are counting on her. They have built their entire relationship with you around her. But here is what nobody talks about — sometimes the people who love you the most are loving a version of you that you have completely outgrown. And their love, as real a...

You have been telling yourself it's fear. Fear of failing, fear of starting over, fear of choosing yourself and it not working out. But what if the thing that has been keeping you stuck was never fear at all? What if it is actually grief — grief for a version of yourself you loved, a version that felt safe and familiar, even when she was quietly costing you everything? In this episode we are getti...