With Grit & Grace: Men of Courage, Women of Valor

In this series finale, Angela and Lisa sit down together to explore what it means to embody love as a lifestyle. Through laughter, reflection, and story, they revisit the journey from identity to intimacy, worth, healing, calling, and embodiment—culminating in the sacred posture of being Beloved. This is legacy, partnership, and presence in motion—a living picture of Kingdom collaboration over com...

In this episode, the discussion revolves around the concept of praying for blessings but struggling to receive them when they arrive. Termed 'resistance to blessing,' this phenomenon is explored through Biblical examples and personal anecdotes. Angela explains how unhealed memories and survival instincts create barriers to receiving good things, even those prayed for. By recognizing and rewriting...

What happens when the truths you agree with in your heart haven’t fully taken shape in the way you move through everyday life yet? In this episode, Lisa explores the quiet tension many faithful women live with—the space between the truths we affirm and the rhythms we actually live from. It’s a tension that doesn’t mean something is wrong with your faith, but often signals that faith is still settl...

God doesn’t wait for perfection to call you—He perfects you through the calling. Angela shares what it looked like to lead, mother, and build while still healing, teaching how God uses hidden seasons to refine identity, stretch faith, and train leaders to carry His heart.   Access the Private Podcast here . This is the only place you will find all the frameworks I teach, as well as access the upco...

Host: Lisa Vanderveen   What if real healing doesn’t require striving? In this episode, Lisa Vanderveen explores the difference between insight, breakthrough, and true healing — and why healing in body, soul, and spirit produces spontaneous growth, not effortful change. Building on Angela Linville’s conversation about worth and stewardship, Lisa reframes healing as the quiet work God does beneath...

What happens when the dream comes true but you still feel empty? Angela shares her story of closing a thriving business in obedience, teaching that worth is not measured in output but in stewardship. This week, we’re redefining success...not by the size of what you build, but by the obedience it takes to let it go.   💬 Share in the Kingdom Rising community 🎙️ Go Deeper: Explore The Shulamite’s Di...

What does it actually feel like to be known — and still loved?   In this episode, Lisa Vanderveen invites listeners into a tender conversation about intimacy as sacred safety. Not intimacy as vulnerability for its own sake, and not connection that requires fixing or performing — but intimacy that begins when we feel safe enough to be seen and to stay.   Lisa shares her personal journey from experi...

When the roles fall away, who are you really? Angela Linville explores what happens when God asks you to lay down what once defined you, and how to rebuild from truth instead of performance.   Keywords: identity in Christ, purpose after success, Christian women, personal transformation, letting go of titles, faith journey, spiritual growth, belovedness, identity crisis, rebuilding identity   📝 Re...

What happens when you pause the noise of goal-setting and ask God what He wants to accomplish in the next five years? In this deeply personal year-end reflection, Angela shares her seven-year practice of spiritual planning and how every word written in surrender has come to pass...not always on her timeline, but always in divine precision. This isn't your typical year-in-review episode. Instead of...

As With Grit & Grace closes its first season, Lisa and Angela take a deep breath and reflect on everything God has built through this community. What began in January as a simple yes to honest conversation has become a year-long journey through survival, rebuilding, alignment, rest, and the courage to lead differently. In this heartfelt finale, the hosts look back on the messy middles and quie...

Are you carrying everything - every role, every responsibility - and wondering which ones are actually yours to hold right now? In this week’s episode, Angela and Lisa sit down for a coffee chat about one of the most important (and overlooked) aspects of Kingdom living: discernment. Because the truth is, you can carry a lot...but that doesn’t mean you’re meant to carry it all. Together, they unpac...

Sometimes the hardest wounds to heal are the ones inflicted in the name of God.   Maybe it wasn’t a boss or a mentor...it was a pastor, a spiritual parent, or a coach who claimed to be led by the Holy Spirit but used their influence to manipulate, guilt, or gaslight you.   They praised you in public but silenced you in private.   Twisted Scripture to keep you compliant.   Labeled your questions as...

There’s a moment when every leader, builder, or believer whispers the same words: “I can’t keep living like this.” That whisper isn’t weakness, it’s an invitation. In this raw and powerful episode of Kingdom Rising: Courageous Conversations, Angela Linville and Lisa Vanderveen open up about what it really looks like to move from survival to stewardship. Together, they unpack four signs you’re read...

What If Activation Isn’t What You Think It Is   We’ve been told that “activation” means acceleration...that when God stirs something in us, it’s time to hustle harder, carry more, and prove we’re ready. But what if true Kingdom activation looks completely different? In this episode, Angela Linville pulls back the curtain on her own story, from running a $300K business and burning out under the wei...

All September, we’ve explored “the weight of your voice”…what it costs, what it protects, and what it carries. This capstone conversation moves from concept to embodiment. Wendy opens her real-time journey: navigating misunderstanding and personal attacks, guarding her message and boundaries, discerning timing, and staying obedient when visibility, finances, and relationships are tested. It’s raw,...

Have you ever stepped into your assignment with confidence, only to hit unexpected resistance? In this deeply personal and unscripted conversation, Angela and Lisa wrestle with the tension of carrying a Kingdom message in a world where conflict, offense, and division feel louder than ever. Together, they explore: Why pushback doesn’t mean you missed God and how to discern what’s really happening i...

💬 Episode Summary: What if the next step in your business isn’t to scale, collaborate or publish - but to pause? In this deeply reflective episode, Lisa shares the sacred (and often misunderstood) invitation to protect the message God has given you. With warmth, wisdom and peace-infused clarity, she walks through her personal journey of receiving the Savah Method in layers - how God led her backw...

🔎 Episode Summary: We live in a world that tells us to say more, post more, and be everywhere. But what if the Kingdom doesn’t need more noise? What if it needs voices that carry weight? In this episode, Angela Linville and Lisa Vanderveen unpack the critical difference between volume and authority...and why true Kingdom influence flows from anointing, not algorithms or applause. This conversatio...

Episode Summary Have you ever stepped into your assignment with confidence, only to hit unexpected resistance? In this first conversation of our September series, Fortifying the Messenger, Angela unpacks why pushback often shows up right after you step into your calling, what it really means, and how to stand your ground without striving or burning out. You’ll learn: Why resistance often confirms...

In this deeply personal solo episode, Lisa shares what it’s like to walk in obedience while feeling completely alone. She opens up about the emotional and spiritual weight of building something you believe in...when even those closest to you don’t fully understand it. With stories from Scripture, vulnerable reflections, and a powerful invitation to healing, this episode will speak directly to anyo...

🔎 Episode Summary: This month’s Kingdom Rising: Courageous Conversation goes straight to the heart. We’re talking about reconciliation, wounds caused in the name of God, and what it really means to build with support. In this live conversation, Angela Linville shares a letter that’s been burning on her heart to four groups of people: The Wounded – those cut by the very people meant to represent C...

In this episode of With Grit & Grace: Men of Courage, Women of Valor, Angela Linville unpacks the biblical role of the Armor Bearer, and why modern Kingdom builders can’t afford to go without one. Far more than a helper or assistant, an Armor Bearer protects your mantle, guards your message, and multiplies your mission. Angela shares how the tools she uses, frameworks, marketing clarity, and s...

In this special coffee‑chat episode of With Grit & Grace: Men of Courage, Women of Valor, Angela Linville and co‑host Lisa Vanderveen explore the spiritual and practical significance of the Hebrew month of Av, a season marked by both mourning and comfort, destruction and restoration. They share how this prophetic time on God’s calendar intersects with the challenges Kingdom builders face...esp...

This isn’t a polished, step-by-step episode. It’s raw. It’s real. It’s just Angela, talking straight from the middle of the mess. Because sometimes life throws you into a fire you never saw coming, and the only thing you can do is cling to grace and breathe through the unknown. From single parenting and surviving domestic abuse, to finding a love forged in the fire with my husband Thomas, to facin...

Realignment always precedes acceleration...but before the breakthrough, it often feels like grief. In this deeply personal solo episode, Lisa shares what happens when strategic realignment stirs up the ache of what was. Whether it's time that feels wasted, relationships that shifted, or a message you thought you’d carry forever, she gently unpacks the truth: nothing is wasted in the Kingdom. With...