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Episode 54: How God Restores Your Soul So You Can Build a Business Without Breaking
You've prayed. You've fasted. You've asked God to heal the places that still feel tender. But some days, you still catch yourself reacting instead of responding — to criticism, to a slow month, to a client who pushes your boundaries. You wonder if healing is even really happening, or if you're just managing the same wounds over and over.
In this episode, I walk you through what it actually looks like when God heals your soul — not in theory, but in the real, ongoing journey of repentance, forgiveness, the renewing of your mind, daily surrender, and your identity in Christ.
We talk about the difference between responding from a healed place and reacting from a wounded one, why healing is sometimes instant and sometimes progressive (and why that doesn't mean you're doing it wrong), and what Scripture actually says about guarding your heart — the inner person driving every decision you make.
And because your soul and your calling were never meant to be separate, I also unpack why the wounds you haven't healed don't stay contained to your personal life. They follow you into your pricing, your visibility, your boundaries, and how you show up when God brings increase.
God isn't healing your soul so you can stay where you are. He's healing you because He knows exactly what He's preparing you to carry.
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Episode 53: Rest Is the New Revenue — Breaking Free From Hustle and Burnout with Dr. Shamieka Dean
You've done everything right. You prayed. You fasted. You worked hard, harder than you probably should have. And somehow, you're still exhausted, still striving, still wondering why obedience feels this heavy.
Maybe you've had a season where everything you touched used to prosper, and now it feels like you're working twice as hard just to keep things from falling apart. Maybe you've started to wonder if burnout, anxiety, or that constant feeling of "not enough" is just the price of being a high-achieving woman of faith.
In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Shamieka Dean — spiritual mentor, business strategist, and best-selling author — who shares her own journey from explosive, rapid success (including a single event that brought in $305K in one day) to a hospital bed diagnosis of burnout that forced her to completely rebuild her life, her faith, and her business from the ground up.
Dr. Dean opens up about what it really means to shift from self-reliance to source-reliance, why so many of us unknowingly carry a punitive, performance-based image of God that keeps us stuck in hustle, and how healing her nervous system became just as important as healing her spirit.
We talk about:
- Why working harder is often a sign you're out of alignment, not a sign of faithfulness- How your image of God directly shapes whether you build from striving or from rest- What it practically looks like to build a business with clear boundaries, without guilt- Why receiving blessings can be harder for high-achieving women than giving them- Her simple five-step framework for rebuilding a business rooted in rest, not urgency
If you've ever felt like slowing down means falling behind, this conversation will challenge everything you thought you knew about what it means to be faithful with what God has given you.
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Connect with Dr. Shamieka Dean:Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, TikTok & Substack: @ShamiekaDean
Books mentioned:- Positioning Yourself to Be a Wife- Market Like a Mogul
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Episode 52: The Hidden Reason Your Business Keeps Struggling — Unhealed Wounds Christian Women Overlook
You have prayed over your business. You have asked God to bless it, grow it, and prosper it. But no matter how hard you work, something keeps holding you back — you undercharge when you know you should charge more. You tolerate clients who disrespect your boundaries. You hesitate to be visible, even when you know God told you to speak. You wonder why increase always seems to come with chaos, criticism, or a setback that knocks you right back down.
What if the real issue isn't your strategy, your pricing, or your marketing? What if it's something deeper — an unhealed wound quietly running your business from behind the scenes?
In this episode, I'm continuing the conversation we started in the emotional numbness series, going deeper into where our deepest wounds actually come from — whether it's something that happened directly to you, patterns passed down in your bloodline, things you absorbed simply by watching the people around you growing up, or beliefs you picked up from the culture and environment you were raised in.
I walk through the story of Saul — a man who was anointed, chosen, and placed into leadership by God, but whose unaddressed fear of people and jealousy eventually cost him everything he was entrusted to steward. I unpack exactly how those same unhealed places show up in your business today: in your pricing, your boundaries, your ability to delegate, your visibility, and the way you respond when God brings increase.
Because here's the truth — increase does not just bless you. It reveals what is still unhealed in you.
If you have ever felt like something invisible was sabotaging your success just when things start to move, this episode will help you understand why — and what God actually wants to do about it.
🎧 Listen now and let this be the beginning of your healing.
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Become Her: How Rachel Lanter Found Her Kingdom Identity Through Hard Seasons
You've walked through a hard season that left you questioning everything you thought you knew about yourself. You've lost your confidence. You've struggled to hear God's voice clearly. You feel suspended between who you were and who God is calling you to become. Deep down, you know God has called you to build something — but you're not sure where to start, how to position yourself, or how to build it in a way that's actually sustainable.
If any of that sounds like you, this conversation is for you.
In this episode, Monique sits down with Rachel Lanter — Christian minister, speaker, author, and communication strategist — for an honest conversation about rebuilding your identity, hearing God again, and stepping into the kingdom purpose you've been carrying. Rachel shares her own journey from a young entrepreneurial spirit working alongside her father in business, through her own wilderness season, into discovering who God truly created her to be.
Rachel is the author of Become Her, a transformational framework built around four seasons of becoming the woman God created you to be: Daughter, Maiden, Bride, and Queen. Written from the middle of her own valley season, this book gives you language for the season you're in right now, and a biblical roadmap for what God is actually doing through it.
Rachel is also the founder of The Lioness Woman Ministries and host of Kingdom Encounter Thursdays, where she ministers and equips believers through the Word of God each week.
If this conversation encouraged you, we'd love for you to leave a review and share it with another woman walking through her own hard season.
Connect with Rachel 
🔗 becomeherbook.com
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Emotional Numbness: The Silent Struggle of Driven Christian Women (Part 1)
You keep showing up. You keep leading. You keep holding everyone else together. But somewhere along the way, you stopped feeling it, the joy, the excitement, even the pain. You're functioning, but you're not really there, and you can't remember the last time you laughed from your belly.
If you're a high-capacity, high-achieving Christian woman who has been carrying so much for so long that you've quietly disconnected from yourself, this episode is for you. Monique unpacks what emotional numbness really is, why the woman who keeps fixing, rescuing, serving, and leading is often the one who goes numb the most, and how God meets that numbness, not with shame, but with tenderness. Rooted in Isaiah 61 and the story of Elijah, this is Part 1 of a two-part conversation on emotional healing.
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Self-Reliance: The Hidden Sin Blocking Your Breakthrough
Do you feel fueled and driven, always finding a way to make things happen… but exhausted from carrying it all alone? If you often move fast on ideas, execute before you pray, or find yourself asking God to bless decisions you’ve already made instead of asking Him to lead — this episode is for you.
In today’s episode, Monique unpacks self-reliance: the subtle pattern that can quietly move God from the center of your life and your business, even when you love Him deeply. Through the stories of Abraham, Sarah, and Moses, Monique shows how good intentions and clear vision can still lead us into our own timing instead of God’s. She shares a personal, vulnerable testimony of what self-reliance has cost her, and walks you through practical signs to recognize this pattern in yourself — plus the simple daily practice that shifts everything.
If you’re a high-capacity Christian woman rebuilding after a hard season, learning to lead your business without leaving God out of the process, this conversation will meet you exactly where you are.
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Leaving Everything to Obey God: How Kate Benson Lost It All and Found Her True Identity and Purpose
 
Have you been high achieving your whole life… but deep down you know that what you have built has been in your own strength and not God's?
Have you found yourself in a hard season wondering why God is not fixing your situation… not realising He is more interested in fixing YOU?
This episode is for you.
Kate Benson was a high performing professional living in the UK for 15 years. Career at the top. Car. The lifestyle. But underneath it all — £20,000 in debt, a broken relationship, and a faith that was religion without relationship.
Then God spoke through the book of Genesis. And what He asked her to do… left everyone around her thinking she had lost her mind.
Kate packed up everything and moved back to Nigeria with nothing but obedience. No money. No plan. Just God.
What followed was one of the most honest testimonies of what it truly looks like when God strips a high capacity woman of everything she built in her own strength… and rebuilds her identity, her relationship with money, and her purpose from the ground up.
If you have ever wondered why God is allowing your hard season… this conversation will shift something on the inside of you.
In This Episode We Cover:
- The radical obedience that changed Kate's life and what God said through the book of Genesis- What the stripping season actually felt like for a high performing woman used to being in control- Why God is more interested in sorting YOU out than sorting out your circumstances- Breaking free from serving money as an idol and what Kingdom stewardship really looks like- How a business was born in the most unlikely and broken season- Why you cannot skip the pain to get to the healing- What a Called CEO truly looks like according to Kate
Connect With Kate:
📲 Instagram: @lifebykatebenson
📖 Seven Day Guide — How to Conquer Self Doubt and Own Your Voice: https://app.paperbell.com/checkout/packages/159251
 
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 Keywords: Christian women hard seasons, obeying God testimony, high capacity Christian women, identity in Christ, Kingdom business, losing everything and finding God, emotional healing faith, Christian entrepreneur testimony, Called CEO podcast, Kingdom stewardship, faith and obedience

Why High Capacity Christian Women Struggle With Confidence — And How God Rebuilds It
 
You have achieved things most people only dream about.
You have carried responsibilities that would have broken others.
You have figured out problems… adapted… and kept moving forward!!
So why does THIS feel so hard??
Why does the moment God calls you to step into something new… something visible… something that requires you to show up in a bigger way…
Why does that same capable woman suddenly freeze??
If you have ever asked yourself that question, this episode is for you!!
Because confidence is not one size fits all!!
You can be completely confident in one area of your life and completely paralysed in another!!
And for the high capacity Christian woman… that gap often goes deeper than inexperience!!
It goes back to something that happened!!
Something that left a wound!!
And that wound, if it was never healed, has been quietly shaping the way you see yourself… the way you show up… and the way you respond to God's call on your life!!
In this episode we are going deep into the anatomy of confidence, where it breaks down… why it breaks down… and how God rebuilds it!!
 
In This Episode We Cover:
- Why high capacity women struggle with confidence even after everything they have achieved- The difference between confidence struggles rooted in inexperience versus unhealed wounds- How a painful event becomes a belief… and how that belief becomes the inner critic that keeps you hidden- What the inner critic actually sounds like — and why she has been believing it without question- The mindset shift that begins to break the cycle — Romans 12:2- The three things that build Godly confidence — Identity… Preparation… and Obedience- Why confidence is a muscle and how it grows through obedience- What this hard season actually did to your confidence — and why it is not what you think- The difference between the fragile confidence you had before and the unshakeable confidence God is building in you now
 
This Episode Is For You If:
- You know God has called you but fear and self doubt keep holding you back- You feel confident in some areas but freeze when it comes to your calling- You have been carrying a wound that you have never fully addressed- You hear a voice that tells you that you are not ready… not enough… or that nobody will take you seriously- You have tried before and the fear of failing again is louder than the calling- You want to build your Kingdom business but visibility terrifies you
 
Quotable Moments:
“Confidence is not across the board. You can be completely confident in one area of your life and completely paralysed in another."
“It is not the event itself that follows her for years. It is the meaning she attaches to the event."
“This hard season did not destroy your confidence. It exposed where the foundation was cracked."
“Confidence is a muscle. It only grows when you use it."
“Not by waiting until you feel ready but by moving while you are still working through it."
 
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Ready to Work Through This Together?
If confidence… the inner critic… or stepping into your calling is something you are personally wrestling with — this is exactly the work I help women walk through!!
From identifying the wound… addressing the inner critic… reframing the mindset… all the way to stepping boldly into the purpose God has placed on your life!!
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Keywords: Christian women confidence, high capacity Christian women, confidence and faith, inner critic healing, identity in Christ, Kingdom business confidence, Christian entrepreneur confidence, fear of visibility, emotional healing Christian women, Called CEO podcast, rebuilding after hard seasons, confidence God's way, Christian mindset renewal

Called and Clueless — How God Showed Me My Platform After I Said Yes
 
Have you said yes to God… but have absolutely no idea what to do next?
You know the calling is real. You feel it in your spirit. You carry a message, a testimony, a word that was not just meant for you, it was meant for someone else too.
But then you find yourself standing there asking…
Now what? How do I get this out? Where do I even begin?
If that is where you are right now — this episode was made for you.
Because nobody tells you what happens after the yes. Nobody prepares you for that moment when the calling is crystal clear but the HOW is completely foggy.
In this episode I am pulling back the curtain and sharing my personal testimony of how God directed me to podcasting as the platform for my Kingdom business — not through a strategy session or a business plan — but through a three day fast, a YouTube video I almost scrolled past, and a nudge from the Holy Spirit that changed everything.
This is not a how-to episode. This is a testimony. And I believe it is going to speak directly to the woman who has been waiting for a sign that God has not forgotten about the calling He placed on her life.
 
In This Episode We Cover:
- Why saying yes to God is just the beginning — and what comes after the yes- How fear and hesitation show up even when you know God has called you- Why I chose to go on a three day fast before making any business decisions- The power of fasting as a positioning tool to hear God's voice clearly- The YouTube video I almost scrolled past, and the Holy Spirit moment that stopped me- How God directed me to podcasting as my platform through prayer and fasting- Why I invested in coaching to set up my podcast the right way- The importance of knowing your avatar and building everything around her- Why podcasting is one of the most powerful platforms for launching your Kingdom business- The truth about podcasting that nobody on YouTube will tell you- How I grew my podcast to the global top 10% with close to 1500 downloads in less than 8 months
 
This Episode Is For You If:
- You feel called by God but have no idea how to take the next step- You are struggling with fear and hesitation even though you know your calling is real- You have been waiting for God to show you clearly which direction to take- You want to build a business around your message but do not know where to start- You feel like everyone else has it figured out but you are still standing at the starting line- You are wondering if podcasting could be the right platform for what God has called you to do
 
Quotable Moments:
“At some point becoming has to lead to building, especially if God has called you to the marketplace."
“Obedience always pays. It may not always be comfortable — but it always pays."
“Fasting is not just about not eating. Fasting is about positioning yourself to hear God clearly."
“Easy and effective are not the same thing. There are layers to building a podcast that actually grows."
“I needed to show up prepared… not perfect… but prepared."
 
Resources Mentioned:
🎁 Kingdom CEO Alignment Audit — Free resource to help you get aligned with what God is calling you to build. https://hbfjmj.subscribepage.io/
📞 Free Discovery Call — Feeling led toward podcasting? Let's have a conversation about what that could look like for you. https://tidycal.com/moniquehackett/discovery-call
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Keywords:Christian women in business, finding your purpose, God called me now what, faith and entrepreneurship, Kingdom business, Christian entrepreneur podcast, how to start a podcast as a Christian, podcasting for Kingdom business, Christian women rebuilding, Called CEO, faith led business, obedience to God, hearing God's voice, Christian business coach

Finding Your Purpose After a Hard Season | Crisha Bowen on Identity, Kingdom Business & Trusting God's Plan
Have you been through a hard season that left you feeling lost, disconnected from yourself, and quietly wondering, did my calling survive this? Maybe you've been performing for everyone around you, wearing the mask of having it together, while on the inside you can't answer one simple question: Who am I?
If that's you, this episode was made for you.
In this conversation, I sit down with Crisha Bowen — business growth strategist, author, and founder of Purpose Diaries LLC — who knows exactly what it feels like to look the part on the outside while being completely lost on the inside. Growing up as a pastor's kid, Crisha had the credentials, the environment, and the expectations — but none of it answered the question God was asking her: Crisha, who are you?
What followed was a powerful journey of purpose discovery, radical obedience, and learning to build a Kingdom business with God at the center, not just at the beginning.
This is the conversation for the Christian woman who feels disqualified by her hard season, who has been rebuilding her confidence and her life, and who knows God is calling her into business but fear keeps her from taking the first step.
 
In This Episode We Cover:
- How Crisha went from performance-driven faith to a real, personal relationship with God- The moment God answered her identity crisis — audibly — and what she did next- Why your purpose was never lost — it was always in you, waiting to be uncovered- How she coached 300 women in one year and ended up with $0 — and what that taught her about Kingdom prosperity- Pain → Principle → Program → Product: her framework for turning your hard season into a sustainable business- What building a faith-led business actually looks like when God is truly at the center- Why your hard season is not your disqualification — it is your development- What a Called CEO truly is and why you are the gift to every room you walk into- How to trust God's GPS and why rerouting is not failure, it is faithfulness
 
Quotable Moments:
“Purpose is not found,it's always there. It's discovered when we begin to uncover who we really are."— Crisha Bowen
“Pain teaches us principle. Principle becomes program. Program becomes product. Product becomes provision."— Crisha Bowen
“You don't get the job. The job gets you. You are the gift."— Crisha Bowen
“Some of us remain paralyzed not taking the first step — so there's nothing to reroute because we didn't even move."— Crisha Bowen
 
Resources Mentioned:
📖 Purpose Diaries by Crisha Bowen 
https://a.co/d/01nUPWSe
🔗 Connect with Crisha Bowen — Instagram- @crisha.sarah.bowen 
 
This Episode Is For You If:
- You've lost yourself in a hard season and are rebuilding your identity and confidence- You feel disqualified from your calling because of what you've been through- You're a Christian woman in business trying to hear God clearly for your next steps- You've been stuck in survival mode and are ready to step into purpose- You know God is calling you into business but fear and self-doubt keep holding you back- You want to build a purpose-driven business that is grounded in your faith
 
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