September 13, 2024 • 38 mins
In this episode of Coffee Chat with Amber and Lisa, we welcome guest Lauren Nicole from Godlinks TV. Lauren shares her inspiring journey from being a waitress and theater actress to launching her successful podcast and TV platform, Godlinks TV. She dives deep into overcoming personal challenges, including dealing with a significant other who didn't believe women belonged in ministry, and finding strength in faith and community. Lauren emphasizes the importance of serving others, building relationships, and trusting in God's plan. Join us for an uplifting conversation about resilience, purpose, and faith-based entrepreneurship.
01:22 The Birth of GodlinksTV
02:05 The Power of Serving and Building Relationships
02:44 Expanding GodlinksTV and Future Plans
07:51 Overcoming Personal Struggles
10:39 The Role of Music and Support in Healing
15:01 Women in Ministry and Personal Transformation
17:47 Adjusting to a New Lifestyle
19:07 Reflecting on Personal Identity
19:34 Living by Faith and Purpose
20:22 Luxury and Simplicity
21:20 Seeking a Deeper Relationship with God
22:19 Embracing Personal Growth
23:05 Overcoming Materialism
25:14 Taking Personal Inventory
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Everybody.
We took a coffee chat withAmber and Lisa.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
My cohort in crime, Miss Burris Burns,
extraordinaire, just got off herKansas City K-2 superstar
extravaganza that she does everyyear Awesome.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Girl, I was tired.
Yeah, lisa from 10 years ago isnot Lisa from today.
I was so tired, but it was good.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I bet it was, and we have our beautiful friend in
front of the Epcot ball thankyou so much.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Welcome.
Welcome, guys.
Welcome to.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Epcot.
She says thank you for invitingme to y'all.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
This is a big deal.
I love meeting y'all.
You for inviting me to y'allstuff Like this is a big deal,
so I love meeting y'all inAustin.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
You haven't talked to us long enough to know if we're
a big deal or not.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Is there an exit door ?
I think I have an exit door.
It's okay, lauren.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Nicole from God Links TV.
This is a new kind of path foryou.
You've been working on it for awhile.
We always love women who aredoing business, who are pursuing
their dreams, and we want toshare, like how did this get
started for you?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
oh, my goodness, do you have two hours in the?
The short of it?
I just really felt the callingon my life for years that I was
going to do something like this.
Just how mysterious life is.
I was a waitress for 15 yearsand then I did theater for 15
years, so everything led up tothis and I didn't really realize
(01:41):
it at the time.
You know what I'm saying, likewhen you're doing stuff and
you're like you know what I'msaying, like when you're doing.
When you're doing stuff andyou're like I know that I'm
going to do something differentsomeday, but I don't know what
that is, and so I've only beenat this one year.
So in one year's time it hasblown up and take the glory for
(02:02):
it.
I say the king of glory is thestory and what it is.
If I could give anybody anykind of advice, it would be
serve people.
That's the biggest thing hereis when you serve people and you
listen and actually hear people, they're going to pay attention
to you, and I just startedgoing on to people's Facebooks
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and getting involved with themand just building relationships.
So that's the short of it.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
I want you to be specific for people that are
listening in to us.
What exactly is it what blew upwhen we talk about God Links TV
?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
what is that?
Okay, so it is a podcast, godLinks podcast.
That's the way it started andnow it's turning into a platform
.
You have Pureflex.
That's what I'm in the processright now of building, and I'm
opening up a 501.
So I've been doing thatmountain of paperwork.
That is so much fun, but what Iwant to do with that are big
(03:07):
revivals.
That's really what I want to do.
So that's my two-year planright now to get really big
revivals going.
But I also want to give back toyounger female girls who are
just bullied in school or theydon't feel like they belong.
So I want them to feel likethey belong.
So it's a lot going on.
(03:27):
But what had the way it startedwas I felt the Lord say do a
podcast.
He didn't say podcast, but hesaid I like people's stories,
god's stories, and so I said,okay.
He said, get ready to run, I'msending the people.
And here I am and I'm like,okay, he said, get ready to run,
I'm sending the people.
And here I am and I'm like,okay, all right, we'll see.
(03:48):
We'll see how that goes.
I would go to the grocery store, the gym and everywhere I went.
It was almost like the movieBruce Almighty and it was almost
comical.
I'm like wait a minute.
People are telling me theirstories, their whole life story.
I can't even get through thegrocery store because people are
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telling me their story.
So I said I really need to getit together and press record
right.
So I did that and in that itwent from a year ago I recorded
maybe nine people and nowthere's 400 recorded.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Wow, that is amazing, and that brings up how we met
you.
Some of those ways that you caninterview a lot of people is to
have your hand on the pulsepoint of what God's doing,
meaning.
For instance, we met you at theAdvanced Writers and Speakers
Association Conference and theChristian Product Expo, which
(04:44):
was just a few weeks ago.
We all met together in FortWayne and just within the
Advanced Christian Writers andSpeakers Association, there were
so many women that I saw youwere interviewing.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Oh, it was the time of my life, it really was.
And don't be afraid to say yeswhen a friend believes in you
and invites you to go somewhere.
Because I was like, oh, leanne,she invited me and I was like,
oh, it's okay, and I know that'syour thing, and I've done like
one children's book, and I knowa lot of the authors there have
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done a lot of books.
But we do that in life, we tendto downplay ourselves or to not
step out onto the water, and soI said you know what that's
thinking?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
thinking I am going to go with her and I'm going to
check this out, and had I notgone with her, I would have
never met you guys and had 120interviews that whole week and
in that process, not only didall of those women get to meet
you, you were able to take theirstories, just like you said God
(05:55):
was preparing you for.
Take each and every one oftheir stories and give a
platform in a quick interview, aformat to actually tell their
story, talk about what they weredoing, what God had them doing
at the time, just for the sakeof everybody knowing.
You said you put out achildren's book.
Can you give me the name ofyour book?
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yes, ma'am, it's called.
Gunner McGee Meets a Donkey.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Gunner McGee Meets a Donkey.
And where can people get thatbook?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
yes on amazon all right it's about my teacup
yorkie that goes on an adventureand meets an old, wise donkey
on a barnyard, and at thatbarnyard the donkey wants story
time to happen, so he takes usback in time.
So the Palm Sunday story andall about that donkey that
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carried Jesus into Jerusalem.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Oh wow, I love that.
See, we just learned somethingnew about.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Lauren.
We just learned something new,lauren.
I know that it's exciting.
Technology is so exciting inhow it's opened up for people to
broadcast and be salt and lightin the largest mission field on
earth.
Like the largest Amen to that.
(07:17):
I honestly believe that this ishow God said that everyone will
hear.
Everyone will hear the messageof Jesus saving, john 3.16.
Yes, and that is an excitingthing because you can use your
platform to help multiply otherpeople's stories to a bigger way
(07:39):
.
This probably hasn't been aneasy undertaking.
No, no way.
When did you decide you coulddo this?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
It was actually birthed out of brokenness.
To be quite honest, yeah, Iactually.
I had gone through a divorceand one of the reasons with all
that was the fact that he didn'tthink women should do ministry.
I have forgiven him.
I just want to clear that upright out of the gate.
Is that God walked me through ajourney of forgiveness, like
(08:13):
just forgive him because it justis what it is.
But the cool thing is I didn'tlet that break me, instead,
because I almost gave up.
I did.
I will be honest andtransparent.
And the fact that after that Ialmost threw the towel in and
said that's it.
Maybe I didn't hear from God.
And my mom is amazing and shecame up to me and she's my
(08:36):
daughter, doesn't quit, and shefed life into me and y'all know
about that.
Y'all those pep talks, rightwith the kids.
And had she not done that, Imay not be sitting here today
with you ladies.
I might be doing something else.
And that's where it really camefrom in the short of it, and
(08:56):
it's just been supernatural,just supernatural to say yes and
to obey and get back on track.
And I realized it's not aboutme, it's about what God asked me
to do and when you do that andserve people, because there are
people with books, businesses,and they're hurting since COVID.
They're hurting and Amber wassaying a few minutes ago about
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giving them a voice, giving thema platform, and that's what God
wants to do with all of us.
He wants us all to belong andall to feel special, and so I'm
just.
I get to do what he wants me todo.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
So I want to, in the process of that, because we're
talking about people and theirstories when you are in the
midst of brokenness, like youjust said, when you're in the
midst of those spaces, you'reright in it.
I know those are notnecessarily the moments where
(09:53):
all of a sudden, flash in thepan boom, we're out there
soaring again.
When you were going throughthat time, were you in a point
where you were able to get goodcounsel?
How did you get through ahealing process during that?
Because a lot of people theyhear stories like yours or like
Amber and I's and they hearstories like yours or like Amber
(10:16):
and I's and they hear storiesand I want to make sure we're
very clear with them that wewere in a dark place at one
point.
We weren't sure we were going tomake it.
We didn't know that we wantedto make it sometimes.
How do you get through that?
What are some of the things?
And I know you said your momwas there to say come on, baby
girl, pick up, pick yourself up.
But during that time, what didGod do to get you through the
(10:37):
hardest of days and nights?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
I'm glad you're asking me that, because it's
really honestly, it's evenhealing to think about that and
to be asked that question.
So I would say that when theHoly Spirit tells you to call
someone, when you have that gutfeeling I need to call this
person or I need to send thisperson a scripture or a prayer,
you really should, becausethat's what got me through.
(11:02):
Were these random friends?
Right, Like wonderful friends,but random moment, Just when I
thought I don't want to get outof bed today, I would look at my
phone and I would get ascripture that would just keep
me hanging on a little bitlonger.
Right.
But also music.
Music has always been a lot tome and I don't really play any
instruments, but I love music.
(11:24):
I play the radio and I reallyimmerse myself just the
atmosphere with music.
I'm talking like old jazz musicthat made me so happy, like
Etta James, all the way toChristian music, and even one of
my best friends right now.
She's a recording artist and Iwould have never been friends
(11:47):
with her had I not gone throughthat horrible time.
I went on YouTube and Imessaged her and I said your
music is allowing me to hold onright now.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Yeah, that's a key point, I agree.
I do think that God uses thingslike that.
I know for me.
Went through a rough year lastyear thinking there were things
possibly going on physicallythat fortunately did not come to
be.
But music has a way, especiallywhen they're grounded in truth.
And you talked about Etta James, and there's a lot of music out
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there.
It may not be speaking aboutJesus, but I do believe when
there's music that is groundedin joy, it can.
God can use it to regenerateour mind and our hearts.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Yeah, and saying that and bringing it to the other
side of things.
I know when I was reallystruggling and wanting to run
out of my marriage, even thoughmy husband wanted to make it
work and we were rebuilding Icould not soak myself in breakup
(12:54):
songs.
I could not stay there.
I could not yeah.
There's those, occasionally,songs where I like well, this is
me getting my feelings out, butI couldn't stay in the toxic
soup of my situation.
I had to to look, I had to havethe joy messages even when I
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wasn't feeling it, almostsoaking into my soul of my I
love 60s music and there's somereal fun 60s songs.
And I had to turn up the volumeand open the windows of my car
and realize life is still fun,life is still good, that's
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beautiful.
I love that and that's what wemiss sometimes in the middle of
turmoil.
And I like what you said,because we need to not only look
at what we are just fillingourselves with.
And I'm not saying I listen,listen to secular music too, and
I almost hate that word.
I listen to all sorts of music.
I really have to guard my heartand mind to what I'm sitting in
(14:04):
.
Am I sitting in a sewer?
Yes, I don't feel like living.
Am I sitting in the sewer?
anyway, and I really need tohave.
Life is still good.
Can we acknowledge that God isstill good in the middle of our
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sewer and that we can stillcelebrate the joy that he gives
us?
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Amen to that, because our mouths can become our Egypt
and I had a mentor tell me thatand it blew my mind.
I was like whoa, because it can.
The words that we speak whenmeditating on the word day and
night, and sometimes we get busyand we forget to be in our
Bible, but sometimes it's justthat one scripture that you grab
(14:53):
quickly and you meditate onthat makes all the difference in
the world.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
It's true.
It's true when, lauren, Iwanted to get back to because
your life dramatically changedafter you separated from your
husband, but I want to talkabout how your mind changed to.
Women are called by God to moveand to lead, and he has called
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us in his good purpose in hisgood purpose.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Because, to be totally honest, when we, as
women, hear that argument thatwomen can't be in ministry, they
can't be spiritual leaderswithin the church, people like
to tell us that the word of Godtells us that People tend to
take us down this path, wherethey are trying to encourage us
to think the way they think,based upon how they interpret
things.
(15:57):
Right, that took a lot becauseyou were raised in the church,
right?
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Oh yeah.
My family and my dad not just mydad upstairs, but my dad on
earth.
He has always championed my mom.
He has always allowed her tohave a voice, and that's the
thing is like.
When I received the divorcepapers, I honestly because I
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actually went through a timewhere I got down on my knees and
I prayed God's will for my lifeand I said God, even if I said
you've called me to do this andI was living in luxury and
everything else and I didn'tgrow up with, I grew up well,
but this was like next level,like on TV, like rock star kind
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of life, and a lot of womenwouldn't be strong enough to
walk away or they'd beintimidated to walk away.
They'd say, no, I can't giveall this up.
But I got down on my knees and Iwas very honest with God and I
said I know this is this prayer.
God is a very scary prayer, butI want your will, I want, I am
taking, I'm going to put myselfin the back seat, I want you in
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the driver's seat and even if,whatever it looks like and it
was like three or four dayslater I received divorce papers
and when I did, I was, I felt myheart sink.
But I had a piece.
It's weird Like I shouldn'thave had that piece and I still
got sad and I still went, wentthrough the emotions of
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depression and everything.
But I knew, I immediately knewI was like God, you are going to
still hold me and carry me, nomatter what, and that's what he
does, and that's what he's goingto do for you.
Whoever's watching, he's goingto just communicate with them.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Yeah, Now your lifestyle changed a lot.
Yes, when you walked away fromthe rock star life?
Yes, it did, it was wild.
You talked about moving in withthe Epcot ball.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Yeah, we're going to tour the Epcot ball.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Yes, I went tiny living, y'all Tiny living, and I
could have gone and thankfullythe Lord set it up where I could
go buy a house.
But in this economy I'm likeI'm just going to wait, I'm
going to wait and see, like I'mgoing to wait, and I've been
traveling like a ton, so Godknew he was like, okay, but it
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was like overnight, like justevery all my stuff that I could
get in a storage unit.
It's wild.
It was a wild trip.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Yeah, and now you're living tiny.
What does that look like foryou?
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Now it's really great because I can turn around and
be in my kitchen Now.
It used to take me like a whileto get to my kitchen, but even
when I was in that lifestyle, Iwas like I'm just not designed
to be a trophy wife and I knowthat sounds, I don't know extra
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me saying that and you can editthat out.
I love it, I just love it.
It's raw, it's raw and I feellike that's what that was maybe
his dream for me, and I was notthat girl.
That's not me.
I grew up with older brothers.
I was a tomboy and there's onlyso many heels you can buy.
(19:24):
He'd be like let's buy, I wantto buy you more heels and more
heels.
And I'm just like, and I likeheels, like maybe for Christmas,
maybe for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Yeah, I found that in doing God's number one, you
have to get to a point whereyou're really living by faith.
Yes, that's where you see Godshow up.
Yes, and I know that some whoare walking in purpose do have
the rock star life.
They have those, oh yeah, butthat's not the majority.
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That is definitely not themajority and we know from doing
especially from doing this book.
We weren't rock starsbeforehand.
I doubt we're going to be rockstars after and we're still-.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
I don't think we're even rock stars in our own mind.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
But you know what we're in the starving artist
phase that's great like when Isay I have to say like I had a
Lamborghini and I loved it.
It was amazing.
But one day it's like I woke upand anybody who has a
Lamborghini power to you.
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They're great, literally powerto you.
But I was in this car one dayand we were going fast and we
weren't like bad people.
When I say rock star life, Ijust mean it was a lot of luxury
for two people and I'm in thiscar and I'm like, I feel like
I'm in a rap video right now.
It was surreal and it was funto experience.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
So no, there's just to put it in perspective there's
no shade towards that lifestyle.
No, it wasn't something thatyou needed to exist, to feel
important, to feel like.
For you, it was like aboutsimpler things, and joy came
from a different place and itjust was a conflict between the
two of you concerning thedifferent mindsets involved.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Yes, I wanted more God.
I was hungry for more.
I was like I just we have allthese things, but we're and I
would go to church, or we'd goto church sometimes, but it was
just a relationship, a dailyrelationship I was.
I woke up and I'm like things,things don't matter, we can't
take things with us, right.
(21:48):
And when you think about that, Ithink God gets us to a place in
our hearts where and you saidit exactly what you wanted more
of him, more than you wanted,more stuff, yeah and I wanted
people, and now I get, and now Iget it like I was a very
secluded, it was like living ina golden cage, it was just a lot
of control and I was like Iwant to go to lunch with
somebody and there was a lot ofno's and so I just anybody, any
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woman who's going through thatjust know that sometimes the end
is the beginning, yeah, and thecool part is God designs us and
wires us.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Amber and I talk about this all the time.
From the very beginning, we arewired in a particular way.
Do we have potential to evolveand change?
Absolutely, and he does thatwith us.
But you anybody who meets youface value knows right off the
bat this girl's a bit of anextrovert.
She loves joy and fun, and themore people, the better you.
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He made you that way and whatis what it's serving at this
point in time?
Look what it's serving in whatyou're doing and how God has
given you the avenue that youhave right now to serve him in.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Yeah, I think too a lot in what you're.
As you were talking, I wasthinking about how stuff can
really hold us captive.
We can be held captive by stuffand the fear of losing stuff,
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because God has called us to dosomething and you are probably
right.
You're going to lose something,yes, something, and you are
probably right You're going tolose something, because
everybody I don't know anybodywho hasn't walked in God's call
that hasn't lost something.
That is so true.
But what we and this may soundcheesy the things that we get in
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rocking in what he wants andwhat he's called us to do, gives
us so much more freedom thanwhat we've lost.
It gives us freedom in relianceon him, because we know the
source.
We don't have to be the source,and I went for a long time
thinking there's a need.
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I have to make up for it.
No, there isn't.
We have to give up the need tofeel that somebody or we have to
, almost we have to take care ofourselves and or somebody else
does, Because when we get inthat mindset, we rely on people
more than God.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Yes, amen, and that was me.
I'll say it.
He did everything, he wanted todo everything, and a lot of
times, if somebody wants to doeverything, it's because they
want to be in control, and it'snot an overnight thing.
It's a little bit at a time andit just it can be messy, and so
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never stop becoming and neverstop growing and never stop
trying to be self-sufficient,because that was the number one
thing is, when all that wentaway, I realized, wow, okay, god
is calling me to handle thingsand me to be a leader, and I'm
not rising to the occasion, andsometimes we don't even know
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that, we don't realize that, andI thought I need to woman up a
little bit.
Yeah, what did you?
Speaker 2 (25:18):
what are some things that you've learned?
What does womaning up mean toyou?
Speaker 3 (25:23):
They're starting to mow in the background when I
live.
I was like is that a 747outside?
It was so loud.
Okay, I heard you Womaning up,so what?
Okay, that just means reallydoing a personal inventory.
So once I got the whole okay, Ihad, I had things, but really
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things had me I realized I dealtwith that first and then I
moved on to okay, I need to getmy ducks in a row, I need to get
organized, and that just meansdon't depend on other people all
the time you can for certainthings, but dive in to.
What do I need to do?
What in my life am I in chargeof or not in charge of?
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And I need to get that fixed.
There's sometimes more thingsthat you realize that you're not
taking care of.
When you just take that timeand when you're depressed,
that's actually can be a goodtime to take care of it, because
it gets you motivated.
When you're depressed, you needa focus, and when our eyes are
on ourselves, we're depressed,but when our eyes are on God,
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we're at rest, and so that'swhere the rest came from.
Was me rebuilding confidence?
I would have a checklist andI've learned to be a checklist
person.
I'm not naturally that way andI would see, okay, I did that
check cross and it gave me a lotof confidence.
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And so now I'm like, okay, Ican do that.
But I think for a while Ibelieved in my heart.
I was like, oh, I have to havehim do everything.
This is the way.
And I'm like, no, this is notthe way, that's not healthy yeah
.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
So I'm just going to go over those things to make
sure that we because I too am alist person, so I'm writing
lists the whole time you go,girl.
You made the comment when wesaid so divine define womaning
up.
What does that mean?
The first thing you said is youneed to do a personal inventory
.
Take a look at yourself, takestock at where you're, at what
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you're doing.
You don't recognize that youdon't have things.
Have you things?
Had you?
And you had to assess that.
You also said get your ducks ina row and take stock of what
needs to be done.
And then you just said I had tomake a list, I had to check it
off and really that gave youback independence and it gave
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you back peace.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
It did, it really did .
Speaker 2 (27:59):
I am so blessed, lauren, and we are to have you
on to speak to these things,because I know that a lot of
women are stuck right where youwere stuck and they're not
really realizing that they areheld captive in some ways.
And I'm not saying everybody'sheld captive by marriage, but
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everybody's held captive by thisor that.
But I think, too, we need torecognize okay, it's part of
that inventory what is holdingme captive, that I need to let
go of and let that, let Godreveal those to us and then say,
okay, are we willing to letthis go, are we willing to give
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this up?
And I just think that's apowerful thing and naturally we
need to take action on it.
We need to take action and Ithink another part of that is
goals.
You don't get anywhere withouta goal line.
So, yes, so tell me a littlebit.
I know you talked a little bitabout the Godlings TV and your
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vision for it what is next foryou?
And I'm not, I don't want tohave all the technical, but
where, what is your goal?
Like your end goal?
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Okay, so I still, even though I'm a platform as a
podcast, now I'm going to be aTV platform and I want people to
be able to advertise people,faith-based businesses, maybe
even people who are struggling.
I want to help the little guysout Like people, and I'll have
bigger advertisers too, but Ihave a big focus on giving
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people a platform for theirbusinesses.
I'm talking boutiques andeverything else that want to
advertise on GodLinksTV and it'sGodLinksTV, and so then, six
months from now, we're going totry to be on Apple and Roku and
all of that.
But I'm just trying to get somesolid content first and I work
(30:04):
a lot with filmmakers and Martyfrom ICFF.
He's in charge of that.
Every year in Orlando it's theInternational Christian Film and
Music Festival and I actuallyuse his software, so it's
fantastic.
He's helping me out.
Together I'm going through likea type of training with him and
(30:25):
we do a lot of Zoom meetings,and so this is me just stepping
out into the water learning howto do TV and it's so exciting,
it's so new.
There are days where I'm likethis is tough, but you know what
I'm going to.
I'm going to realize again thatthe King of Glory is the story.
(30:45):
It's about him, it's not aboutme, and it's also about service
to other people, and there's somany people out there that need
a voice and need a platform, andthey need to come over to
GodLinks TV and let me help themout.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
That's awesome.
This is so awesome.
I know we have a few minutesleft and we really do encourage
people to go over to GodLinks TVand find out more about Lauren
and the podcast and the platform.
But, lauren, would you justpray for some of these ladies
who might be listening, who arecaught, trapped between
(31:23):
situation, trapped between stuffand moving freely and finding
freedom in their purpose andmoving towards.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
I would be so honored .
I am so honored and I just wantto, before praying, just say
you are more valuable thanrubies.
I kept hearing that the wholetime.
I was depressed as God justwanted to really have me read
Proverbs about the Proverbs 31woman that can really help you
out to see that she has noblecharacter and to try to be her.
(31:55):
So that's what I'm going topray.
Dear Heavenly Father, I thankyou so much for these awesome
ladies and the coffee chat timetogether has been incredible and
I just pray a special shalomover their homes and their
families.
And I'm praying over thefollowers as well right now,
(32:16):
just ladies that are stuck ormaybe they have dreams that are
on the back burner and maybedreams that they had for years,
but they just don't know.
They don't know how to getthere, they don't know how to
create anymore.
And, god, I just pray that youjust activate right now, in the
(32:37):
mighty name of Jesus, I ampraying, activation such as I
have.
I give unto them and, god, youreminded me through friends,
through family, and so I justpray that everybody out there
would take some time to just dothose heavenly nudges to their
friends today.
It may be a simple prayersending somebody a prayer but
(33:00):
when the Holy Spirit tells youto just obey what he's saying to
do, and God, just bring thempurpose.
I'm praying purpose over thiswhole podcast today.
Everybody involved, everybodythat has ears to hear, just feel
your purpose and feel the Lord.
I pray that you feel a specialhug from King Jesus today.
(33:23):
Know that you are worthy andyou're more valuable than rubies
.
In Jesus' mighty name I prayAmen.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Amen, amen and amen.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Yes, amen and amen, yes, so lisa do you have
anything that you would like toremind our viewers and our
listeners about?
Speaker 1 (33:43):
there's a couple of things.
The first thing I want to sayis go chiefs.
The chiefs won last night.
Okay, I just had to get that inFootball season is officially
here, so I also.
(34:03):
Before we go, I do want her totake us on a tour of the Epcot
ball, because we saw somethingearlier yes, about her backdrop,
and we do need to show ourguest that know.
We actually have in ourpossession the journal, the new
my Discovery and Next Stepjournals.
It's a companion workbook slashjournal for the book Leading
(34:25):
Ladies Discover your God GrownStrategy for Success, and that's
amazing.
We're so excited because it'sbeen a long journey.
This year has been interesting,to say the least, on so many
different levels, and I say itwith a smile on my face now, but
we're going to have very sooncoming up on the 23rd of
(34:47):
September, we're going to bedoing a little soft launch of
the new journal and so if you'reinterested in any way in
helping us with that launch, wewant you to go ahead.
Message us, go toleadingladieslife.
We have a Facebook page.
We also have a website.
Talk to us, let us know you'reinterested in helping us with
(35:10):
that launch.
It's really not going to bemajorly complicated and we have
a lot of fun when we do thesethings together.
Amber and I just like to have agood time with this stuff, so
please be looking for thejournal and, like I said, make
sure that you sign up to help uswith that launch.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Yeah, and I'm going to put the link to the actual
launch team sign up in thecomments section of the podcast
and the live so you can havethat.
We would really appreciate tojoin us.
As I said, it's going to besimple.
As Lisa said, it's going to besimple, it's going to be sharing
(35:50):
.
You don't have to do hardlyanywhere Prizes I'm going to do
the club.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
Lights for you.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Let's do the club lights.
Let's do the club lights.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Okay, wow, oh yeah, that's it.
Oh my goodness, I'm looking forthe blue.
There we go.
There's red.
Oh, that's definitely Star Wars, right there.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Yeah, right there.
It makes me think I'm on theDeath Star.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Can we get ourselves some?
Speaker 2 (36:19):
club lights.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
Oh I know, I know Go to Amazon folks All day long
Lauren, send us the link.
Yes, I will.
We'll get the link in thecomments section for the club
lights.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
Thank you, guys for joining us and, as always,
please subscribe, share.
We are on all the podcastplatforms leadingladieslife,
godlinkstv.
Thank you so much for joiningus and we will see you very soon
.
Everybody.
We took a coffee chat withAmber and Lisa.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
My cohort in crime, Miss Burris Burns,
extraordinaire, just got off herKansas City K-2 superstar
extravaganza that she does everyyear Awesome.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Girl, I was tired.
Yeah, lisa from 10 years ago isnot Lisa from today.
I was so tired, but it was good.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I bet it was, and we have our beautiful friend in
front of the Epcot ball thankyou so much.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Welcome.
Welcome, guys.
Welcome to.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
Epcot.
She says thank you for invitingme to y'all.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
This is a big deal.
I love meeting y'all.
You for inviting me to y'allstuff Like this is a big deal,
so I love meeting y'all inAustin.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
You haven't talked to us long enough to know if we're
a big deal or not.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Is there an exit door ?
I think I have an exit door.
It's okay, lauren.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Nicole from God Links TV.
This is a new kind of path foryou.
You've been working on it for awhile.
We always love women who aredoing business, who are pursuing
their dreams, and we want toshare, like how did this get
started for you?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
oh, my goodness, do you have two hours in the?
The short of it?
I just really felt the callingon my life for years that I was
going to do something like this.
Just how mysterious life is.
I was a waitress for 15 yearsand then I did theater for 15
years, so everything led up tothis and I didn't really realize
(01:41):
it at the time.
You know what I'm saying, likewhen you're doing stuff and
you're like you know what I'msaying, like when you're doing.
When you're doing stuff andyou're like I know that I'm
going to do something differentsomeday, but I don't know what
that is, and so I've only beenat this one year.
So in one year's time it hasblown up and take the glory for
(02:02):
it.
I say the king of glory is thestory and what it is.
If I could give anybody anykind of advice, it would be
serve people.
That's the biggest thing hereis when you serve people and you
listen and actually hear people, they're going to pay attention
to you, and I just startedgoing on to people's Facebooks
(02:23):
and getting involved with themand just building relationships.
So that's the short of it.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
I want you to be specific for people that are
listening in to us.
What exactly is it what blew upwhen we talk about God Links TV
?
Speaker 3 (02:42):
what is that?
Okay, so it is a podcast, godLinks podcast.
That's the way it started andnow it's turning into a platform
.
You have Pureflex.
That's what I'm in the processright now of building, and I'm
opening up a 501.
So I've been doing thatmountain of paperwork.
That is so much fun, but what Iwant to do with that are big
(03:07):
revivals.
That's really what I want to do.
So that's my two-year planright now to get really big
revivals going.
But I also want to give back toyounger female girls who are
just bullied in school or theydon't feel like they belong.
So I want them to feel likethey belong.
So it's a lot going on.
(03:27):
But what had the way it startedwas I felt the Lord say do a
podcast.
He didn't say podcast, but hesaid I like people's stories,
god's stories, and so I said,okay.
He said, get ready to run, I'msending the people.
And here I am and I'm like,okay, he said, get ready to run,
I'm sending the people.
And here I am and I'm like,okay, all right, we'll see.
(03:48):
We'll see how that goes.
I would go to the grocery store, the gym and everywhere I went.
It was almost like the movieBruce Almighty and it was almost
comical.
I'm like wait a minute.
People are telling me theirstories, their whole life story.
I can't even get through thegrocery store because people are
(04:11):
telling me their story.
So I said I really need to getit together and press record
right.
So I did that and in that itwent from a year ago I recorded
maybe nine people and nowthere's 400 recorded.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Wow, that is amazing, and that brings up how we met
you.
Some of those ways that you caninterview a lot of people is to
have your hand on the pulsepoint of what God's doing,
meaning.
For instance, we met you at theAdvanced Writers and Speakers
Association Conference and theChristian Product Expo, which
(04:44):
was just a few weeks ago.
We all met together in FortWayne and just within the
Advanced Christian Writers andSpeakers Association, there were
so many women that I saw youwere interviewing.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Oh, it was the time of my life, it really was.
And don't be afraid to say yeswhen a friend believes in you
and invites you to go somewhere.
Because I was like, oh, leanne,she invited me and I was like,
oh, it's okay, and I know that'syour thing, and I've done like
one children's book, and I knowa lot of the authors there have
(05:21):
done a lot of books.
But we do that in life, we tendto downplay ourselves or to not
step out onto the water, and soI said you know what that's
thinking?
Speaker 1 (05:32):
thinking I am going to go with her and I'm going to
check this out, and had I notgone with her, I would have
never met you guys and had 120interviews that whole week and
in that process, not only didall of those women get to meet
you, you were able to take theirstories, just like you said God
(05:55):
was preparing you for.
Take each and every one oftheir stories and give a
platform in a quick interview, aformat to actually tell their
story, talk about what they weredoing, what God had them doing
at the time, just for the sakeof everybody knowing.
You said you put out achildren's book.
Can you give me the name ofyour book?
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yes, ma'am, it's called.
Gunner McGee Meets a Donkey.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Gunner McGee Meets a Donkey.
And where can people get thatbook?
Speaker 3 (06:26):
yes on amazon all right it's about my teacup
yorkie that goes on an adventureand meets an old, wise donkey
on a barnyard, and at thatbarnyard the donkey wants story
time to happen, so he takes usback in time.
So the Palm Sunday story andall about that donkey that
(06:48):
carried Jesus into Jerusalem.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
Oh wow, I love that.
See, we just learned somethingnew about.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Lauren.
We just learned something new,lauren.
I know that it's exciting.
Technology is so exciting inhow it's opened up for people to
broadcast and be salt and lightin the largest mission field on
earth.
Like the largest Amen to that.
(07:17):
I honestly believe that this ishow God said that everyone will
hear.
Everyone will hear the messageof Jesus saving, john 3.16.
Yes, and that is an excitingthing because you can use your
platform to help multiply otherpeople's stories to a bigger way
(07:39):
.
This probably hasn't been aneasy undertaking.
No, no way.
When did you decide you coulddo this?
Speaker 3 (07:51):
It was actually birthed out of brokenness.
To be quite honest, yeah, Iactually.
I had gone through a divorceand one of the reasons with all
that was the fact that he didn'tthink women should do ministry.
I have forgiven him.
I just want to clear that upright out of the gate.
Is that God walked me through ajourney of forgiveness, like
(08:13):
just forgive him because it justis what it is.
But the cool thing is I didn'tlet that break me, instead,
because I almost gave up.
I did.
I will be honest andtransparent.
And the fact that after that Ialmost threw the towel in and
said that's it.
Maybe I didn't hear from God.
And my mom is amazing and shecame up to me and she's my
(08:36):
daughter, doesn't quit, and shefed life into me and y'all know
about that.
Y'all those pep talks, rightwith the kids.
And had she not done that, Imay not be sitting here today
with you ladies.
I might be doing something else.
And that's where it really camefrom in the short of it, and
(08:56):
it's just been supernatural,just supernatural to say yes and
to obey and get back on track.
And I realized it's not aboutme, it's about what God asked me
to do and when you do that andserve people, because there are
people with books, businesses,and they're hurting since COVID.
They're hurting and Amber wassaying a few minutes ago about
(09:18):
giving them a voice, giving thema platform, and that's what God
wants to do with all of us.
He wants us all to belong andall to feel special, and so I'm
just.
I get to do what he wants me todo.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
So I want to, in the process of that, because we're
talking about people and theirstories when you are in the
midst of brokenness, like youjust said, when you're in the
midst of those spaces, you'reright in it.
I know those are notnecessarily the moments where
(09:53):
all of a sudden, flash in thepan boom, we're out there
soaring again.
When you were going throughthat time, were you in a point
where you were able to get goodcounsel?
How did you get through ahealing process during that?
Because a lot of people theyhear stories like yours or like
Amber and I's and they hearstories like yours or like Amber
(10:16):
and I's and they hear storiesand I want to make sure we're
very clear with them that wewere in a dark place at one
point.
We weren't sure we were going tomake it.
We didn't know that we wantedto make it sometimes.
How do you get through that?
What are some of the things?
And I know you said your momwas there to say come on, baby
girl, pick up, pick yourself up.
But during that time, what didGod do to get you through the
(10:37):
hardest of days and nights?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
I'm glad you're asking me that, because it's
really honestly, it's evenhealing to think about that and
to be asked that question.
So I would say that when theHoly Spirit tells you to call
someone, when you have that gutfeeling I need to call this
person or I need to send thisperson a scripture or a prayer,
you really should, becausethat's what got me through.
(11:02):
Were these random friends?
Right, Like wonderful friends,but random moment, Just when I
thought I don't want to get outof bed today, I would look at my
phone and I would get ascripture that would just keep
me hanging on a little bitlonger.
Right.
But also music.
Music has always been a lot tome and I don't really play any
instruments, but I love music.
(11:24):
I play the radio and I reallyimmerse myself just the
atmosphere with music.
I'm talking like old jazz musicthat made me so happy, like
Etta James, all the way toChristian music, and even one of
my best friends right now.
She's a recording artist and Iwould have never been friends
(11:47):
with her had I not gone throughthat horrible time.
I went on YouTube and Imessaged her and I said your
music is allowing me to hold onright now.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Yeah, that's a key point, I agree.
I do think that God uses thingslike that.
I know for me.
Went through a rough year lastyear thinking there were things
possibly going on physicallythat fortunately did not come to
be.
But music has a way, especiallywhen they're grounded in truth.
And you talked about Etta James, and there's a lot of music out
(12:21):
there.
It may not be speaking aboutJesus, but I do believe when
there's music that is groundedin joy, it can.
God can use it to regenerateour mind and our hearts.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
Yeah, and saying that and bringing it to the other
side of things.
I know when I was reallystruggling and wanting to run
out of my marriage, even thoughmy husband wanted to make it
work and we were rebuilding Icould not soak myself in breakup
(12:54):
songs.
I could not stay there.
I could not yeah.
There's those, occasionally,songs where I like well, this is
me getting my feelings out, butI couldn't stay in the toxic
soup of my situation.
I had to to look, I had to havethe joy messages even when I
(13:19):
wasn't feeling it, almostsoaking into my soul of my I
love 60s music and there's somereal fun 60s songs.
And I had to turn up the volumeand open the windows of my car
and realize life is still fun,life is still good, that's
(13:39):
beautiful.
I love that and that's what wemiss sometimes in the middle of
turmoil.
And I like what you said,because we need to not only look
at what we are just fillingourselves with.
And I'm not saying I listen,listen to secular music too, and
I almost hate that word.
I listen to all sorts of music.
I really have to guard my heartand mind to what I'm sitting in
(14:04):
.
Am I sitting in a sewer?
Yes, I don't feel like living.
Am I sitting in the sewer?
anyway, and I really need tohave.
Life is still good.
Can we acknowledge that God isstill good in the middle of our
(14:24):
sewer and that we can stillcelebrate the joy that he gives
us?
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Amen to that, because our mouths can become our Egypt
and I had a mentor tell me thatand it blew my mind.
I was like whoa, because it can.
The words that we speak whenmeditating on the word day and
night, and sometimes we get busyand we forget to be in our
Bible, but sometimes it's justthat one scripture that you grab
(14:53):
quickly and you meditate onthat makes all the difference in
the world.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
It's true.
It's true when, lauren, Iwanted to get back to because
your life dramatically changedafter you separated from your
husband, but I want to talkabout how your mind changed to.
Women are called by God to moveand to lead, and he has called
(15:28):
us in his good purpose in hisgood purpose.
Speaker 1 (15:37):
Because, to be totally honest, when we, as
women, hear that argument thatwomen can't be in ministry, they
can't be spiritual leaderswithin the church, people like
to tell us that the word of Godtells us that People tend to
take us down this path, wherethey are trying to encourage us
to think the way they think,based upon how they interpret
things.
(15:57):
Right, that took a lot becauseyou were raised in the church,
right?
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Oh yeah.
My family and my dad not just mydad upstairs, but my dad on
earth.
He has always championed my mom.
He has always allowed her tohave a voice, and that's the
thing is like.
When I received the divorcepapers, I honestly because I
(16:23):
actually went through a timewhere I got down on my knees and
I prayed God's will for my lifeand I said God, even if I said
you've called me to do this andI was living in luxury and
everything else and I didn'tgrow up with, I grew up well,
but this was like next level,like on TV, like rock star kind
(16:45):
of life, and a lot of womenwouldn't be strong enough to
walk away or they'd beintimidated to walk away.
They'd say, no, I can't giveall this up.
But I got down on my knees and Iwas very honest with God and I
said I know this is this prayer.
God is a very scary prayer, butI want your will, I want, I am
taking, I'm going to put myselfin the back seat, I want you in
(17:08):
the driver's seat and even if,whatever it looks like and it
was like three or four dayslater I received divorce papers
and when I did, I was, I felt myheart sink.
But I had a piece.
It's weird Like I shouldn'thave had that piece and I still
got sad and I still went, wentthrough the emotions of
(17:28):
depression and everything.
But I knew, I immediately knewI was like God, you are going to
still hold me and carry me, nomatter what, and that's what he
does, and that's what he's goingto do for you.
Whoever's watching, he's goingto just communicate with them.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Yeah, Now your lifestyle changed a lot.
Yes, when you walked away fromthe rock star life?
Yes, it did, it was wild.
You talked about moving in withthe Epcot ball.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Yeah, we're going to tour the Epcot ball.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Yes, I went tiny living, y'all Tiny living, and I
could have gone and thankfullythe Lord set it up where I could
go buy a house.
But in this economy I'm likeI'm just going to wait, I'm
going to wait and see, like I'mgoing to wait, and I've been
traveling like a ton, so Godknew he was like, okay, but it
(18:25):
was like overnight, like justevery all my stuff that I could
get in a storage unit.
It's wild.
It was a wild trip.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Yeah, and now you're living tiny.
What does that look like foryou?
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Now it's really great because I can turn around and
be in my kitchen Now.
It used to take me like a whileto get to my kitchen, but even
when I was in that lifestyle, Iwas like I'm just not designed
to be a trophy wife and I knowthat sounds, I don't know extra
(19:03):
me saying that and you can editthat out.
I love it, I just love it.
It's raw, it's raw and I feellike that's what that was maybe
his dream for me, and I was notthat girl.
That's not me.
I grew up with older brothers.
I was a tomboy and there's onlyso many heels you can buy.
(19:24):
He'd be like let's buy, I wantto buy you more heels and more
heels.
And I'm just like, and I likeheels, like maybe for Christmas,
maybe for Christmas.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Yeah, I found that in doing God's number one, you
have to get to a point whereyou're really living by faith.
Yes, that's where you see Godshow up.
Yes, and I know that some whoare walking in purpose do have
the rock star life.
They have those, oh yeah, butthat's not the majority.
(19:57):
That is definitely not themajority and we know from doing
especially from doing this book.
We weren't rock starsbeforehand.
I doubt we're going to be rockstars after and we're still-.
Speaker 1 (20:08):
I don't think we're even rock stars in our own mind.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
But you know what we're in the starving artist
phase that's great like when Isay I have to say like I had a
Lamborghini and I loved it.
It was amazing.
But one day it's like I woke upand anybody who has a
Lamborghini power to you.
(20:34):
They're great, literally powerto you.
But I was in this car one dayand we were going fast and we
weren't like bad people.
When I say rock star life, Ijust mean it was a lot of luxury
for two people and I'm in thiscar and I'm like, I feel like
I'm in a rap video right now.
It was surreal and it was funto experience.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
So no, there's just to put it in perspective there's
no shade towards that lifestyle.
No, it wasn't something thatyou needed to exist, to feel
important, to feel like.
For you, it was like aboutsimpler things, and joy came
from a different place and itjust was a conflict between the
two of you concerning thedifferent mindsets involved.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Yes, I wanted more God.
I was hungry for more.
I was like I just we have allthese things, but we're and I
would go to church, or we'd goto church sometimes, but it was
just a relationship, a dailyrelationship I was.
I woke up and I'm like things,things don't matter, we can't
take things with us, right.
(21:48):
And when you think about that, Ithink God gets us to a place in
our hearts where and you saidit exactly what you wanted more
of him, more than you wanted,more stuff, yeah and I wanted
people, and now I get, and now Iget it like I was a very
secluded, it was like living ina golden cage, it was just a lot
of control and I was like Iwant to go to lunch with
somebody and there was a lot ofno's and so I just anybody, any
(22:14):
woman who's going through thatjust know that sometimes the end
is the beginning, yeah, and thecool part is God designs us and
wires us.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Amber and I talk about this all the time.
From the very beginning, we arewired in a particular way.
Do we have potential to evolveand change?
Absolutely, and he does thatwith us.
But you anybody who meets youface value knows right off the
bat this girl's a bit of anextrovert.
She loves joy and fun, and themore people, the better you.
(22:48):
He made you that way and whatis what it's serving at this
point in time?
Look what it's serving in whatyou're doing and how God has
given you the avenue that youhave right now to serve him in.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
Yeah, I think too a lot in what you're.
As you were talking, I wasthinking about how stuff can
really hold us captive.
We can be held captive by stuffand the fear of losing stuff,
(23:27):
because God has called us to dosomething and you are probably
right.
You're going to lose something,yes, something, and you are
probably right You're going tolose something, because
everybody I don't know anybodywho hasn't walked in God's call
that hasn't lost something.
That is so true.
But what we and this may soundcheesy the things that we get in
(23:51):
rocking in what he wants andwhat he's called us to do, gives
us so much more freedom thanwhat we've lost.
It gives us freedom in relianceon him, because we know the
source.
We don't have to be the source,and I went for a long time
thinking there's a need.
(24:11):
I have to make up for it.
No, there isn't.
We have to give up the need tofeel that somebody or we have to
, almost we have to take care ofourselves and or somebody else
does, Because when we get inthat mindset, we rely on people
more than God.
Speaker 3 (24:30):
Yes, amen, and that was me.
I'll say it.
He did everything, he wanted todo everything, and a lot of
times, if somebody wants to doeverything, it's because they
want to be in control, and it'snot an overnight thing.
It's a little bit at a time andit just it can be messy, and so
(24:50):
never stop becoming and neverstop growing and never stop
trying to be self-sufficient,because that was the number one
thing is, when all that wentaway, I realized, wow, okay, god
is calling me to handle thingsand me to be a leader, and I'm
not rising to the occasion, andsometimes we don't even know
(25:12):
that, we don't realize that, andI thought I need to woman up a
little bit.
Yeah, what did you?
Speaker 2 (25:18):
what are some things that you've learned?
What does womaning up mean toyou?
Speaker 3 (25:23):
They're starting to mow in the background when I
live.
I was like is that a 747outside?
It was so loud.
Okay, I heard you Womaning up,so what?
Okay, that just means reallydoing a personal inventory.
So once I got the whole okay, Ihad, I had things, but really
(25:46):
things had me I realized I dealtwith that first and then I
moved on to okay, I need to getmy ducks in a row, I need to get
organized, and that just meansdon't depend on other people all
the time you can for certainthings, but dive in to.
What do I need to do?
What in my life am I in chargeof or not in charge of?
(26:10):
And I need to get that fixed.
There's sometimes more thingsthat you realize that you're not
taking care of.
When you just take that timeand when you're depressed,
that's actually can be a goodtime to take care of it, because
it gets you motivated.
When you're depressed, you needa focus, and when our eyes are
on ourselves, we're depressed,but when our eyes are on God,
(26:33):
we're at rest, and so that'swhere the rest came from.
Was me rebuilding confidence?
I would have a checklist andI've learned to be a checklist
person.
I'm not naturally that way andI would see, okay, I did that
check cross and it gave me a lotof confidence.
(26:55):
And so now I'm like, okay, Ican do that.
But I think for a while Ibelieved in my heart.
I was like, oh, I have to havehim do everything.
This is the way.
And I'm like, no, this is notthe way, that's not healthy yeah
.
Speaker 1 (27:09):
So I'm just going to go over those things to make
sure that we because I too am alist person, so I'm writing
lists the whole time you go,girl.
You made the comment when wesaid so divine define womaning
up.
What does that mean?
The first thing you said is youneed to do a personal inventory
.
Take a look at yourself, takestock at where you're, at what
(27:31):
you're doing.
You don't recognize that youdon't have things.
Have you things?
Had you?
And you had to assess that.
You also said get your ducks ina row and take stock of what
needs to be done.
And then you just said I had tomake a list, I had to check it
off and really that gave youback independence and it gave
(27:54):
you back peace.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
It did, it really did .
Speaker 2 (27:59):
I am so blessed, lauren, and we are to have you
on to speak to these things,because I know that a lot of
women are stuck right where youwere stuck and they're not
really realizing that they areheld captive in some ways.
And I'm not saying everybody'sheld captive by marriage, but
(28:21):
everybody's held captive by thisor that.
But I think, too, we need torecognize okay, it's part of
that inventory what is holdingme captive, that I need to let
go of and let that, let Godreveal those to us and then say,
okay, are we willing to letthis go, are we willing to give
(28:45):
this up?
And I just think that's apowerful thing and naturally we
need to take action on it.
We need to take action and Ithink another part of that is
goals.
You don't get anywhere withouta goal line.
So, yes, so tell me a littlebit.
I know you talked a little bitabout the Godlings TV and your
(29:07):
vision for it what is next foryou?
And I'm not, I don't want tohave all the technical, but
where, what is your goal?
Like your end goal?
Speaker 3 (29:17):
Okay, so I still, even though I'm a platform as a
podcast, now I'm going to be aTV platform and I want people to
be able to advertise people,faith-based businesses, maybe
even people who are struggling.
I want to help the little guysout Like people, and I'll have
bigger advertisers too, but Ihave a big focus on giving
(29:41):
people a platform for theirbusinesses.
I'm talking boutiques andeverything else that want to
advertise on GodLinksTV and it'sGodLinksTV, and so then, six
months from now, we're going totry to be on Apple and Roku and
all of that.
But I'm just trying to get somesolid content first and I work
(30:04):
a lot with filmmakers and Martyfrom ICFF.
He's in charge of that.
Every year in Orlando it's theInternational Christian Film and
Music Festival and I actuallyuse his software, so it's
fantastic.
He's helping me out.
Together I'm going through likea type of training with him and
(30:25):
we do a lot of Zoom meetings,and so this is me just stepping
out into the water learning howto do TV and it's so exciting,
it's so new.
There are days where I'm likethis is tough, but you know what
I'm going to.
I'm going to realize again thatthe King of Glory is the story.
(30:45):
It's about him, it's not aboutme, and it's also about service
to other people, and there's somany people out there that need
a voice and need a platform, andthey need to come over to
GodLinks TV and let me help themout.
Speaker 2 (31:00):
That's awesome.
This is so awesome.
I know we have a few minutesleft and we really do encourage
people to go over to GodLinks TVand find out more about Lauren
and the podcast and the platform.
But, lauren, would you justpray for some of these ladies
who might be listening, who arecaught, trapped between
(31:23):
situation, trapped between stuffand moving freely and finding
freedom in their purpose andmoving towards.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
I would be so honored .
I am so honored and I just wantto, before praying, just say
you are more valuable thanrubies.
I kept hearing that the wholetime.
I was depressed as God justwanted to really have me read
Proverbs about the Proverbs 31woman that can really help you
out to see that she has noblecharacter and to try to be her.
(31:55):
So that's what I'm going topray.
Dear Heavenly Father, I thankyou so much for these awesome
ladies and the coffee chat timetogether has been incredible and
I just pray a special shalomover their homes and their
families.
And I'm praying over thefollowers as well right now,
(32:16):
just ladies that are stuck ormaybe they have dreams that are
on the back burner and maybedreams that they had for years,
but they just don't know.
They don't know how to getthere, they don't know how to
create anymore.
And, god, I just pray that youjust activate right now, in the
(32:37):
mighty name of Jesus, I ampraying, activation such as I
have.
I give unto them and, god, youreminded me through friends,
through family, and so I justpray that everybody out there
would take some time to just dothose heavenly nudges to their
friends today.
It may be a simple prayersending somebody a prayer but
(33:00):
when the Holy Spirit tells youto just obey what he's saying to
do, and God, just bring thempurpose.
I'm praying purpose over thiswhole podcast today.
Everybody involved, everybodythat has ears to hear, just feel
your purpose and feel the Lord.
I pray that you feel a specialhug from King Jesus today.
(33:23):
Know that you are worthy andyou're more valuable than rubies
.
In Jesus' mighty name I prayAmen.
Speaker 1 (33:31):
Amen, amen and amen.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
Yes, amen and amen, yes, so lisa do you have
anything that you would like toremind our viewers and our
listeners about?
Speaker 1 (33:43):
there's a couple of things.
The first thing I want to sayis go chiefs.
The chiefs won last night.
Okay, I just had to get that inFootball season is officially
here, so I also.
(34:03):
Before we go, I do want her totake us on a tour of the Epcot
ball, because we saw somethingearlier yes, about her backdrop,
and we do need to show ourguest that know.
We actually have in ourpossession the journal, the new
my Discovery and Next Stepjournals.
It's a companion workbook slashjournal for the book Leading
(34:25):
Ladies Discover your God GrownStrategy for Success, and that's
amazing.
We're so excited because it'sbeen a long journey.
This year has been interesting,to say the least, on so many
different levels, and I say itwith a smile on my face now, but
we're going to have very sooncoming up on the 23rd of
(34:47):
September, we're going to bedoing a little soft launch of
the new journal and so if you'reinterested in any way in
helping us with that launch, wewant you to go ahead.
Message us, go toleadingladieslife.
We have a Facebook page.
We also have a website.
Talk to us, let us know you'reinterested in helping us with
(35:10):
that launch.
It's really not going to bemajorly complicated and we have
a lot of fun when we do thesethings together.
Amber and I just like to have agood time with this stuff, so
please be looking for thejournal and, like I said, make
sure that you sign up to help uswith that launch.
Speaker 2 (35:28):
Yeah, and I'm going to put the link to the actual
launch team sign up in thecomments section of the podcast
and the live so you can havethat.
We would really appreciate tojoin us.
As I said, it's going to besimple.
As Lisa said, it's going to besimple, it's going to be sharing
(35:50):
.
You don't have to do hardlyanywhere Prizes I'm going to do
the club.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
Lights for you.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Let's do the club lights.
Let's do the club lights.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Okay, wow, oh yeah, that's it.
Oh my goodness, I'm looking forthe blue.
There we go.
There's red.
Oh, that's definitely Star Wars, right there.
Speaker 1 (36:11):
Yeah, right there.
It makes me think I'm on theDeath Star.
Speaker 3 (36:13):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Can we get ourselves some?
Speaker 2 (36:19):
club lights.
Speaker 3 (36:19):
Oh I know, I know Go to Amazon folks All day long
Lauren, send us the link.
Yes, I will.
We'll get the link in thecomments section for the club
lights.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
Thank you, guys for joining us and, as always,
please subscribe, share.
We are on all the podcastplatforms leadingladieslife,
godlinkstv.
Thank you so much for joiningus and we will see you very soon
.
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