August 28, 2025 • 53 mins
If you’ve wondered what it would look like to bring your faith into your business - this conversation might be just what your heart needs today.
What happens when you decide to weave your faith into every aspect of your business? That's the question at the heart of my conversation with Ashley Freehan, Founder of the Purpose Gathering.
Our friendship began with a simple podcast swap, but God had bigger plans. This divine connection came during seasons when we were both seeking clarity in our businesses—a time of uncertainty that ultimately led to an unexpected partnership.
We share the story of saying yes to God, what it looks like to weave faith into every part of our work, and how our journeys led us to collaborate on The Purpose Gathering Collective.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
A deep change in the way that we live requires a deep
change in the way that we think.
I'm Carla Reeves, and this isDifferently.
If you've been wondering whatit looks like to weave your
faith into your business, I havebeen too, and today you're
going to listen in on aconversation I had with Ashley
(00:24):
Freehand, the founder of thePurpose Gathering.
We talk about an unexpectedfriendship, listening to
invitations from God and how allof this has intertwined our
journeys.
The Purpose Gathering is wherefaith, family and business
collide.
Ashley has been on the podcastbefore talking about creating
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your week, so you have time forwhat matters most.
That was on September 5th of2024.
If you want to go back, theconversation I'm going to share
with you.
We talk about entrepreneurship,about stepping into fear, what
it looks like to listen to God,motherhood, aligning your
business and more.
If these topics speak to you atthe end of our conversation,
(01:08):
don't miss our specialinvitation for you to join us at
an upcoming live event that sheis putting on.
So settle in, grab your coffee,get comfy and get ready for
some real connection andconversation about things that
matter to us and, I believe,things that matter to you too.
(01:29):
Enjoy.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Hello friends, welcome back to the podcast.
I am so excited to be here yetagain with Carla Reeves, who has
turned into such an incrediblefriend, and I cannot wait for
today's episode, which is goingto be a little bit different.
It is not gonna be yourtraditional interview where I am
just interviewing Carla.
(01:53):
This is a collaborativeinterview where we are gonna
just be having a candidconversation, just like we would
voice, messaging each otherback and forth and really
talking about how we haveconnected on a deeper level, how
we have both said yes to thisinvitation that God has given us
, what it has looked like tohave this fast-tracked
(02:16):
friendship where we were justtalking before we hit record
about how this friendship hasevolved quickly and it's so
aligned and it was like thefriendship we never knew we
needed.
So I'm really excited to getinto it.
But I wanted Carla to justremind you who she is, in case
maybe you're hearing from herfor the first time.
(02:37):
So, carla, I'm so glad you'rehere.
Will you let everybody know alittle bit about who you are,
who you live with and what youdo?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yeah, so I'm excited to be here too and excited for
the conversation.
And who I am?
I'm a mom.
I'm a wife.
We've been married almost 24years.
I have two adult sons.
I live with my husband and ourdog, hair elderly dog Harry.
(03:07):
I think last time I was on thepodcast our son was living with
us still, but we are now have anempty nest, like 2010.
I started out on a team ofcoaches and went out under my
(03:27):
own brand.
My brand today is DifferentlyCo, so I'm a founder of
Differently Co and it's a lifestrategy company where really
it's about renewing your mind torenew your life.
So it's all focused on managingyour mind to really make
lasting, important change inyour life.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
I love that, and she has an amazing podcast that you
should listen to that will linkin my show notes so that you
guys can go connect with hereven more, so good, okay, so
let's take all of the listenersback just a little bit to how we
actually connected.
So do you want to share thatstory about how we even decided
(04:06):
to connect?
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Yeah.
So I just want to extend somuch gratitude to Karen Harris,
because I think she listens toyour podcast and it really is
all her.
She was helping me at that timeand she found you on that
podcast collaborative, which I'mnot even a part of anymore, I'm
not either and she I can'tremember if she listened to your
(04:29):
podcast before that or if shefound you then, because I know
she started listening to yourpodcast and she brought it to me
and was like I think this wouldbe a great podcast for you.
And I looked at all you weredoing and I was like yes, yes,
yes.
And I can't tell you thegratitude I have of her making
that connection to you, becausewe did the podcast and then I
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mean that was amazing and great.
And then you came on my podcastand then I don't think we
talked for a while.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
I know we lost touch.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
You reached back out and asked me to speak at your
event, and I was just so honoredthat you asked.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
We were just looking at the date on this too, because
our podcast swap was back inSeptember of last year, so 2024,
and a lot of time had passedand I was hosting this event.
I can't remember when I reachedout, but I'm pretty sure it was
like Christmas time, so maybe afew months later.
Um, because my event was comingup April 2025.
(05:31):
And I just remember, like,thinking about who, I was kind
of nervous, honestly, of puttingup a podcast app or, I'm sorry,
not podcast, but a speakerapplication for people to apply
to speak, because I was justlike I don't know what kind of
people I'm going to be getting,and so I did that.
I put that up, but while I had,like you know, random people
(05:54):
coming in applying to speak, Ijust felt like the Lord put your
name on my heart and I was likeman I haven't talked to her in
a while, but I remember ourconversation and just being like
man I haven't talked to her ina while, but you're, I remember
our conversation and just beinglike there was something so
different literally differentabout you and I was like I
really resonated with, with ourconversations and I was like I
(06:15):
really I want to reach out andjust see what she, what she
thinks.
So I reached out and just askedyou know, hey, I would love to
have you speak.
What do you think?
Speaker 1 (06:29):
So when you got that email, how are you feeling?
Well, like you.
I just remembered now, like Ithink there's still connections
that you and I are stilldiscovering in this, but like I
just remembered now that I haddreamed of speaking somewhere
where I could speak about myfaith too, because I had never
done that and like that had beena dream of mine.
(06:50):
And so when you sent that email, I was just like, oh my gosh,
like this is the perfectopportunity to do that, and so
that was like it had been adream in my heart for a while
and honestly, I was so thrilledto be able to weave all the
important parts of my lifetogether at that event in a talk
(07:13):
and share that and I mean theexperience of doing that is a
whole nother thing.
I don't know if we're going toget to, but that experience was
really profound for me too.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Yes, we will definitely get into that,
because I think that is what hasled us to where we are.
It was that, just thatconnection that we both felt,
and I don't know, though, that Iwould have reached out in that
way had you not approached me.
So we'll get to that.
We'll get to that, yes, but Ithink it's just so interesting
(07:44):
how divine like theseconnections are, and we have to
be paying attention, right.
And I know a lot of people, youknow we like to say like, oh,
it was such a coincidence thatwe found each other Right, and,
as believers, I don't believe incoincidence, I believe that
everything is appointed by theLord, and so that little nudging
(08:05):
on my heart to reach out andinvite her, that was divine, and
her response to actually comeand to be a part of it also
divine, right.
So I want to share that,because I think so often, like
we, we get a little bit nervousabout reaching out or maybe
putting ourselves out there and,sorry, I'm a little bit trying
(08:30):
to get over a cold, so I'mclearing my throat a lot, that's
why but I feel like, where wasI going?
Um, the just the idea ofreaching out to someone, right?
Oh, I know what I was going tosay was just the idea of hosting
a faith-based event.
(08:51):
That was a big leap, for me too, um, and that's something that
the Lord invited me to do andcalled me to do.
And I was terrified because Iwas like I have an audience of
some believers but a lot ofnon-believers, and you know, if
I put this event out like Idon't even know if anyone's
going to come, right, and so itwas just answering God's call
(09:14):
and his invitation, even when itfelt scary and even when I had
no idea if it was going to turnout, and I just took that leap
and went for it.
And and so I want to talk alittle bit about this connection
and this friendship, and so wecan kind of, um, like fast
forward a little bit to theactual like event piece and kind
(09:35):
of where that has led us today.
Um, so maybe share with us alittle bit about we're at the
event, so we're fast forwardingto the event.
So it's April, whatever daythat was, I don't even remember
and we had just finished day oneof the event.
It was a two day event and Iremember you walking up to me
(09:58):
the second day and you just feltso called to talk to me and you
were like I think there'ssomething here so like can you
just share with us like whathappened on day one.
What was that transformativeexperience, what drew you to
come in to talk to me and we'llkind of chat through that more.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Yeah, gosh, there's so many pieces to that.
But yeah, day one was just sucha beautiful, incredible day
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no-transcript created.
And then after I spoke, likethat whole day, I had so many
women come up to me like morethan any other speaking event
that I had spoken at, that likesomething struck them, whether
it was the writing piece or thejournaling, or like they felt
(11:06):
called to like start writing andgetting in their journal again,
or there were just so manythings, not to mention just the
rest of the speakers that day,the interactions that are you
know, our family table, I thinkyou call them where we stayed at
the same table with the samewomen and had very deep
conversation and tears and therewas an openness and a like
(11:31):
almost just a connection alreadywith the women that were there
that day.
It was really amazing and Ileft that day Normally I leave
events like that feeling verydrained and tired from all the
outward energy and I felt justinvigorated.
I felt energized and on my drivehome I felt God prompt me, like
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you need to talk to Ashleytomorrow and there's something
here and just talk to her, and Iwas like what?
Like I just it felt like crazy,right, like sometimes, when God
impresses something and forpeople who may not have maybe
you haven't experienced this yet, but sometimes it's just like
an impression.
I feel almost it's not like anaudible voice for me, um, but I
(12:18):
just it's like an impression andyou just know it's not from you
.
And so I did.
I went home and I prayed aboutit and sat with it, and the next
morning I came up to you and Ijust said like I think there's
something here, like I feel soaligned to what you're doing.
I would like to help in any wayI can.
(12:39):
And you just fell to tears andthat was like even more, just
like, oh my gosh, what'shappening?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Those tears.
I still remember them because Ihad been feeling the same
prompting and the sameimpression of being like you're
not meant to do this alone.
You know, and like I, it'sfunny because the Purpose
Gathering Collective has beenthe name of my program since I
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started in 2019.
And it's funny, but it's notfunny, it's a little God wink,
but I literally started in 2020was my first membership
community called the PurposeGathering Collective, and it's
called a mastermind communityfor mompreneurs and full circle.
(13:31):
I mean, if you've beenfollowing me for the past six
years, you know that the PurposeGathering Collective has been
five different things.
It's kept the same name, butI've changed what it looked like
.
Sometimes it was an in-personmeetup group, one time it was an
online membership, right, andnow it's back to being an online
membership, but with ain-person component as well.
(13:54):
And so I just so.
It's always been the collectiveand I never understood why it
was called the collective untilrecently, when I just felt the
Lord saying like you're not theonly coach, like you're not the
only leader of this collective,you are not going to do this
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alone.
You are here to amplify othervoices as well as your own, but
not to stand on a pedestal andbe better than or more wise than
You're.
You're on their level andyou're just pointing them to the
one who is on the pedestalright, the Lord, the one that
everyone should be lookingtowards.
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We're going to get into it moredetail, but this beautiful
transformation of just beinglike.
I showed up at that eventfeeling so confused and like
lost, pretty much Like I knewthat I was doing what the Lord
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was calling me to do, but Ididn't know the next step.
And I knew he was calling me tobuild this collective, but I
didn't know what it was.
I knew parts of it, I knew some.
I felt like in that moment itwas the most beautiful gift that
God gave me you, because wethen went on this journey of
(15:19):
trying to figure out what iteven would look like to be
partners and what it would looklike to work together, and maybe
you can share a little bitabout that story, of your
perspective of like, how thathas played out of like how that
has played out.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Well, yeah, like because I was in the same place.
I'd been in this year and ahalf of uncertainty and in my
business and not knowing,knowing things had to reset,
like I um, I had like wasexperiencing so much fruit in
our life, in all the otherplaces, but my business wasn't
feeling fruitful like it had andI knew things had to reset.
(16:00):
And I'd been in this dialoguewith God for like a year and a
half of trying to figure it outand Him basically telling me
stop, stop trying to figure itout and just show up and I'll
reveal the next step.
So that's where I was when Icame to the event and my talk
was called to be different andit was really about, like,
staying in step with God, evenwhen you don't know.
(16:22):
Like that day I spoke, I didn't, I didn't have clarity on my
business then and then and then.
So, after I approached you thatday, we got together for lunch
and honestly, we've never talkedabout this, ashley.
But that lunch I came homethinking I don't think there's
anything here.
Like it was kind of weird.
(16:43):
It was a little bit awkward, wedidn't really have any clarity
and I'm like I just came home.
I remember talking to myhusband like I'm not sure
there's anything there, and Iremember feeling like a little
sad and then I can't rememberwhat we did next because we
didn't stop there, we didsomething else, and then I think
it was just a zoom call.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
You were like maybe we just hop on a zoom call for
two and let us kind of marinateon it.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Yeah, and I felt like I felt called to just support
you and what you were building.
You were in a still in a littlespace of like uncertainty or
fear I can't remember exactlywhat that was and I just felt
called to support you and so wejust kind of went down that path
for a while and, honestly, Ithink that's where everything
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started to like just got inmotion.
Like that is way beyond me.
There's just like things juststarted moving and we're just on
the God bus going.
This is cool, like we'reexcited about what's happening
Seriously.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
And it was so cool, though, to be able to get on the
call with you and, literallyunapologetically, just cry and
be like I don't know what I'mdoing, like I don't, I don't
know, and you're like it's OKnot to know, and that was so
freeing for me because I waslike, really, but I thought I
had to have it all together,right, like I thought I had to
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know the next step.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Well, and Ashley, this is like I want to capture
this for the listener because Ihad just been through a season
of 18 plus months of not knowingand like having to walk through
uncertainty for like monthsafter months after months, and
like, when you look at that,what you just said, it's like
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God prepares us to.
Then I was prepared to help youthrough that season, right, and
say, it's okay, you don't haveto know, I've been through this,
it's okay and this is what Goddoes, and he has us show up in
other people's lives and I usedto be so focused on, like
serving in my business and I'vejust given that up.
(18:56):
I'm just here to serve peopleevery conversation and I don't
know.
It's just cool to watch whathas happened.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Yeah, I know, I wish that like.
I remember after the firstcouple I was like we should
record these.
These are so good, like, sogood.
I wish that we could go backand like hear we should record
these.
These are so good, like, sogood.
I wish that we could go backand like hear what we talked
about, cause I know we didn'trecord many of them, but the but
I did take notes, Like I justremember being like she has so
many nuggets of wisdom that Ineed, you know, like you've been
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through what I'm going throughand just giving me that courage
to keep going, even when Ididn't know, and to step out in
faith.
And funny enough, like anothernon-coincidence, carla and I
were both going through the sameBible study, you know, and the
Armor of God by Priscilla Shirethat I have turned many people
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on to.
So if you're not on that trainyet, get on it.
It's the most life-changingBible study that you will do I
have ever done.
Oh my gosh, it's incredible.
And I mean this is why it isthe pillar foundation in the
collective is because it's justeverything that you need to get
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through the hard parts of lifeand the joyful parts is like God
gave you everything that youneed and access to him, and so I
think it was just really coolto also be able to share that
with each other and that wasjust another layer of depth that
we were able to have to shareand to talk about.
(20:34):
Able to to have to share and totalk about.
And I just think that was not acoincidence that we both were
going through that at the sameexact time and I mean there's
just so many conversations thatwe had where I left just being
like you were the gift I didn'tknow I needed.
You know like you were theencouragement to keep going when
I had no idea what I was doingand I don't know where the idea
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of the partner coach came in,but I was like I think it would
be so helpful to not you knowagain what the Lord was speaking
to me, like it would be sohelpful not to be the only coach
, like, so someone else couldhear a different perspective,
where someone would be able totalk to Carla about the mindset
piece, right, because that's sohuge and and I have some, you
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know, knowledge about mindset,but not as much as Carla, and
we're not meant to knoweverything, right, and and I am
not afraid to tell people thatI'm not gifted at everything.
And so I propose that idea toyou of, like, what do you think
about a partner coach and whatthat might look like, and we're
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still figuring it out.
But when I came to you withthat idea, what was your initial
thought?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Oh, my gosh, I was so excited, going back to that day
, of that event and me being ina space of like a lot of still a
lot of uncertainty and notknowing, still dealing with a
lot of fear, doubt and confusionin my head.
And that was I think that wasmaybe I don't think I had
started the armor of God studyat that time, but anyways, a lot
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of fear, doubt and confusionand that day, a lot of the women
in the room I was a lot olderthan the women in the room, even
though I didn't really realizeit, like I just don't think
about that.
But at the table, at my table,they started calling me their
table mom and I'm like, oh yeah,I think I could be your mom,
but it felt like it was so thatwas such a gift to me.
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And some of the other mombusiness owners in the room like
they came up and said, like youbrought such a space of calm
and like we need this voice.
I think young women, moms, feelso much pressure to like be a
mom and build your business andlike do it all, and they feel so
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hurried.
And I think that that wassomething.
Like you know, I'm on the otherside of all of that, looking
back and I did have a businesswhen my kids were little, but I
think I could bring like a spacethat is calm, that helps calm
people down and realize you havetime for all the things that
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really matter and don't getcaught up in these other things,
right, that we're so prone tojust get me, too, to get caught
up in.
And so when you asked me tobring a partner coach, like that
day was very like God showed mewho I am and what I could bring
to the table.
That was really different thanyou like, because you bring so
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much, but there was never for melike a competitive thing with
you, like I, just in the more wework together, the more I see
like where we each fill in verydifferent pieces.
So I was honored and excitedand still am.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Yes, I love it.
And the other thing that wetalked about too, which kind of
goes back to what we said of nothaving all the answers, and
that being okay, is that we kindof just talked about like what
if we just try this for fourmonths and see how it works, you
know, and then after that wecan tweak, we can revisit, we
can always change things, and Iam a recovering perfectionist
(24:24):
where I feel like everything hasto be perfectly figured out.
I was telling Carla this on oneof our calls, where I was just
like, but what if this happens?
And I'm like the old me wouldhave went down that rabbit trail
and been like I need to figureout all of the potential
problems and find solutions forthem now, instead of being like
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do I really need to worry aboutproblems that are not there yet,
or can I just wait and then, ifthat becomes a problem, I can
tackle it?
Then Right, and I think likethat has been a blessing too is
just having that freedom and youjust reminding me like it's
okay for you to change your mind, it's okay for you to say this
is not working.
Right, like, and I don't haveto feel bad about coming to you
(25:09):
and saying I don't think this isworking.
Can we try something else?
Right, like the old me alsowould have been like I can't say
that I don't think this isworking.
Can we try something else?
Right, like the old me alsowould have been like I can't say
that I don't want to make, Idon't want to hurt her feelings,
I don't want to make her feelbad, you know, and it's like
when you, when there's thattrust built and that open door,
but we also are not relying onour own strength which I think
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is what makes this even betteris because we can both go to the
Holy Spirit, we can both prayabout it, and then we come
together, like with this podcast, how we came together, and I
was like this is my idea, andshe was like I was having the
same thought, like we should dothat too, and so it's just so
helpful to know that it's notall on us, like we have the
(25:52):
power of God who's workingwithin both of us, and we know
that he is here, that he is, hishand is in all of this.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
That's the biggest like relief to me, like really
blending faith and business inmy life, like all together in
like one big pot of soup.
You know it's like because itwasn't always that way for me.
It, you know I kept it moreseparate, um, but it takes so
much pressure off and for peoplelistening, like I'm just
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learning, like we don't have tooperate with so much urgency and
pressure and stress and likeit's just not necessary.
And now it's like when I amdoing that I know I need to like
back off and surrender and letgo because I'm trying to do too
much and it really is possible.
You know it's, it's a beautifulthing.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Yeah, I love that.
So do we want to transition andtalk a little bit about the
collective and what that is Okay, about the collective and what
that is Okay, okay.
So you mentioned that at thevery like day one I hadn't
really talked about thecollective.
I maybe like briefly teasedthat I was going to be inviting
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people to like, if you want moreof this, I have, you know,
something coming tomorrow.
But so after the, the secondday, when I talked about the
collective which, by the way,was terrified to talk about
because again, I, had no idealike what it really was.
I kind of knew like thelogistics but I didn't really
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know, like what thetransformation was going to be.
But like over the time, I meanyou started to hear my heart
about what the collective wasand what I wanted it to be and
like what do you feel?
Like kind of drew you in whereyou were like yes, I want to be
a partner coach, like yes, thatsounds like something I want to
be a part of.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Yes, I want to answer that.
Do you want to share, like youroriginal inspiration?
First for it, sure.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Yeah, I know Now I'm trying to think.
I'm like Back in January ofthis year, I launched a new
program and, for those of youlistening who are program
launchers, you just like tocreate programs and create
offers.
I can 100% relate.
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I was very, very good atcreating new offers, not so
great at selling the offers I'mworking on that but I would get
an idea and I would create anoffer and then I would like sell
it and then I would be like,okay, what's next?
Like I want to create somethingelse and I really had a hard
time like refining and justbeing okay with, like, letting
the offer evolve and grow andchange.
(28:38):
And so in 2025, january, Ilaunched a brand new program
called the Organized CEOBootcamp and it was a six-week
program all about how to getorganized in your business A lot
of the same things that I teachin the collective.
But it left out one of myfavorite parts, which is the
personal part, and the mostimportant part, which is the
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faith part, and so it was justbusiness most important part,
which is the faith part, and soit was just business, and I knew
when I launched this that therewas more coming.
I'd like the Lord had alreadybeen stirring in my heart that I
was pivoting my audience frommom business owners to Christian
mom business owners.
I knew that there was going tobe a new offer.
It was going to be called thepurpose gathering collective but
I just didn't understand whatit was going to be.
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And so I had this other offer,this offer that I was like I
love this, but I want more.
And so I launched that and Iknew that I wanted to
incorporate that faith and thatpersonal peace, but I just
didn't know how.
I didn't know how it was goingto work.
And so just over those fourmonths it was just constant,
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like prayer, reflection,journaling, you know, chatting
on Voxer with my friends andjust being like I don't know
what I'm doing, but this is whatI feel like I'm doing.
And so it just evolved andeventually, like I think at the
event, what I had decided on wasthat it's going to be a
membership, an ongoingmembership, because I didn't
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want it to be a program where itstarted and stopped, because I
wanted people to join at anytime, at any you know space in
their business, any place oftheir business, right?
I wanted them to be able to popin, get support, but to stay for
at least four months so thatthey could, you know, connect
with the community and reallybecome a sisterhood, like that
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was.
One of the key components was Iwanted people to feel like they
didn't have to shoulder theburdens alone, knew like the
logistical, like time piece.
I knew we were going to meetonce a week because I'm a habit
coach and I know that if youwant to form a habit, you can't
just show up twice a month oronce a month.
(30:50):
So I was like it has to beweekly and and I knew I don't
actually even know if I knew thefoundation, like the pillars
that we, that we're talkingabout.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Yeah, I don't.
I don't know that you you dideither, because I don't think
you shared those that day.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
I don't either.
I think I was just like if youlike what this is, this is what
it's going to be.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
But I was like like.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
I was basically just like I don't know what it's
going to look like, but it'sgoing to be a sisterhood and
we're going to have God at theforefront and we're going to
talk about business, we're goingto talk about your family and
we're going to tie it alltogether.
I am like a time managementcoach.
I talk about accountability andhabit formation, and I was like
it's going to be all of thatlike in a package, but I don't
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know what it looks like andthat's all I had, you guys.
And I just showed up and I saidthis is all I have.
If you're interested, let meknow, you know.
And so that was terrifying forme because I like to know.
I almost didn't.
I almost didn't pitch it at all, I almost just didn't.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
It was so beautiful the way you did it, because it's
just so real.
Yeah, really, really, reallyreally.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
I don't remember what I said, but I just remember
feeling like that sucked, like Idid not do a good job.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
No, you did do a good job.
You did a good job.
That whole event and that Ithink I mean the way who you
were being at that event is alsowhat drew me in.
But what's crazy is like, fastforward in my story, like you
again, you and I haven't talkedabout this, but when I was going
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through that 18 months of likenot knowing the shape of my
business or where God wasleading me, um, he told me, like
people, like he created this, alittle bit of like, um, not
urgency, but like, act swiftly.
People are going to need greatertools, that there's so much
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change in our world right nowand so much fear and things are
moving faster than they everhave and people are going to
need to be equipped with tools.
And you've been teaching thesetools all these years and like,
give them away and that you know.
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That day that I spoke andeverybody you know you'd already
been taught like journaling wasalready a part of what you were
doing in your work also, thatwas like another connecting
thread and that day, everybodythat came up to me were so moved
by the writing piece of thingsand I just saw this, these
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puzzle pieces coming togetherand that feeling that God had
been calling me.
Like just give it away, equippeople.
So just show up, help her, likeI didn't know where it was all
going.
But that's what I felt Wow.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
That is so cool.
I know he just moves in suchamazing ways.
You know, like because had wenever connected at this event, I
mean we would have been doingour separate things, but we're
already so aligned and why?
Why not come together andamplify each other's voices?
You know, what you have tooffer is definitely different
(34:11):
than what I have to offer, butwe both have the same general
idea of like.
We want to equip moms withanother way, like with God's way
, like there is a easier,lighter, more fruitful and
peaceful way than what we havebeen fed, which is the worldly
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way that's in our face every day, and it was like we both just
have the same overall vision ofsupporting women that are trying
to do both raising a family andgrowing a business, and it's it
feels impossible, and I think alove for God and a love for our
families, right?
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Oh, there was something I was going to say
just to what you said, thatthere is a different way.
Oh, that like I you know, know,because I think we're going to
transition to kind of the event,right, that's coming, um, but I
had been a slave to fear for solong in my life and that's it
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that this event, like there wasso much beauty, like I just I
don't know, I know you'lltransition us into that, but
yeah, the fear, running a,running a business on pressure
and fear and urgency, like I'mjust done with that.
That doesn't have to be the way.
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There is a different way.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Right that that doesn't have to be the way.
There is a different way, right?
Well, and now with thecollective, I feel like it's a
lot more pointed towards helpingmoms break through overwhelm.
I have found the transformationthat I was trying to articulate
.
That took me forever and it waslike the collective is a way
that moms can come who are justfeeling beat down, overwhelmed,
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stressed, tired of the hustleculture, tired of feeling like
they're failing at everything,and they want to just align to
the most important priorities.
That's how we came up with thefoundational habits of making
sure that you are suiting up forarmor every day, that you are
taking care of your physical,emotional, mental capacity.
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Right, you are beingintentional with your family and
not just waiting for perfectmoments to connect, but that
you're creating perfect moments,or not perfect, but you know
what I mean.
You're creating those moments,you're waiting for them, you're
expecting them, whether they'resmall or big.
Like you're being intentionalwith your time and with your
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kids, with your spouse, withyour family, like everyone.
Right, that intentionality.
And then you know moving intoaligning your life I'm sorry,
your business with the Lord andwhat that looks like, and how to
discern God's voice and how toactually know what he wants you
to do.
And then that fifth finalfoundational habit is how are
you stewarding your time?
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How are you stewarding thetalents that God has given you
and the treasure that he'sblessed you with?
So all five of thosefoundational habits are things
that we talk about on a regularbasis and really helping moms
just implement habits that aregoing to serve them Right and
that are, you know, ultimatelygoing to be glorifying to God.
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So that's what we landed on andthat's like how we're pouring
in and and we have Carla as apartner coach, and then we also
brought in Christy, who is anervous system and holistic
coach, who is really helpingwith the actual physical part,
and so I really feel like we'rethe triple threat here with,
like the mind, body and spirit.
It's like all the things thatyou need in order to you know
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really point you to the Lord andthe peaceful life he wants us
all to be living out.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
Yeah, so beautiful, so share the event.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
I know, yes, okay, so we have another event that is
coming up and these events aregoing to be on a smaller scale
than the TPG live event and theyare going to be every other
month.
So that's my goal is to be ableto create a really amazing
space for moms to come and to bepoured into, but to like
continue right, like we don'twant this to just be a one once
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a year event, like we want toshow up and have that
consistency, because the enemydoes not like care, right, if
you went to an event a year ago,he's going to be like I'm in
your face today.
So we have to like stayconnected and really suit up and
surround each other.
So we have an event coming upSeptember 24th.
If you are local to GilbertArizona or want to travel in, we
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would love to have you.
We'll have everything linked inthe show notes, but we wanted to
just share a little like teaserabout what we're going to be
talking about at the event.
So Carla and I will both bespeaking.
We're going to be doing oursessions the same way that we
did at TPG Live, which eachsession is one hour long, and we
break it down into 20 minutesof teaching, 15 to 20 minutes of
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journaling and like quietreflection, and then the rest of
the hour we spend in groupdiscussion with our table
families, communities I can'tremember what I called them
either but with your small groupthat you stay with for the
remainder of the workshop.
So maybe you can share a littlebit, Carla, about, like what
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you're going to be talking aboutand kind of what has prompted
that as being a topic that youlike to talk about.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Yeah, so, um, I don't want to share the story, I want
to save it for the event but,something happened in my life a
lot of years ago that like justkind of woke me up to this idea
that everyday life I have about10 minutes left, guys Everyday
life really gives us likecountless opportunities to live
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out our faith and to step out infaith when we feel afraid and
honestly I was a very afraidlittle girl, grew up with a lot
of just feeling afraid of lifein the world and I was afraid to
sleep in my own bedroom for agood part.
I just had a lot of fear in mylife and what has helped me with
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that is God's call in my life.
I've always felt a calling inmy life from God and that's why
I step out.
But the talk will really beabout how do we step from fear
to faith in everyday moments,because there's so many more
moments than you realize andthey're not always these big
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grand leaps.
They're tiny moments where whenyou can step from fear to faith
, that action, one allows God tothen come in and strengthen you
, but also it starts to turn theship of your life in the
direction that you want it to go.
And I think so often we thinkthat change has to come in these
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grand gestures and they feeltoo scary, and so we just stay
paralyzed and we don't do them,when in reality there's
countless moments every day thatwe can leap into faith to
really shift our experience andquality and results in our life.
So that's really theinspiration.
(41:42):
And the inspiration actuallycame when I was in Costa Rica
and I think I messaged you.
I'm like I think I have thetopic, but I had a dream and
then I sat in the bathroom andwrote for like an hour and a
half and so the idea came fromthat.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
I love that and I cannot wait to hear about that,
because I and I was telling youthis and one of how I I was
journaling I don't know where Igot this prompt, but it was
probably the armor of God.
Bible study kind of gave methis prompt of like naming my
fears and I was writing in myjournal and I'm like I don't
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have any fears right Like yes, Iremember that.
But I don't have any big fears,right, like I'm not afraid of
the dark and I'm not afraid of,like spiders or anything like
that.
And so I just started writingand I was just trying to say,
like all the things that like Iwill.
I was like, okay, well, maybeI'm afraid of this and maybe I'm
afraid of that, and and theywere like smaller things, but
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everything was all surroundingfear.
You know, like everything waslike saying I was just afraid of
something, you know, and I, Ijust know that that is what
holds so many people back, youknow.
And so I can't wait to hearyour talk.
It's going to be so good.
Talk, it's going to be so good.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
So tell us about yours and where the inspiration
came.
Speaker 2 (43:15):
Yes.
So I feel like a lot of peoplehave been coming to me and
sharing with me that they're sointerested in the collective.
They were so interested in TPGLive because it was so different
, right, like they were likeeverybody else is very flashy
and it's all about marketing andthese surface level strategies
and and they're like.
But then when your event cameup and you were talking about
alignment, aligning your lifeand business with God they were
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like what is that?
Like, how do I do that?
Like that's not a topic thatpeople talk about very often and
I honestly like feel like maybenot the most equipped person in
this way sometimes of like,well, lord, why would you have
me speak about something thatI'm just like I'm just learning
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how to do?
You know, like I'm just gettingstarted and and the reason why
I feel like is he'sstrengthening me through this
and he's showing me that I'm notthat far behind.
You know, like ahead of thesepeople, right, and I feel like
that's so much more relatablethan somebody who is so far
ahead that they're that theother people feel like, well,
she can't even relate to meanymore.
(44:17):
And so in this season that I'min, like I am still walking
through daily what it looks liketo align my business with the
Lord, like how do I discern hisvoice?
How do I make sure I'm puttingon the armor every day?
How am I staying in connectionwith him so that I can make sure
you know that what I'm hearingfrom him is not my own thoughts,
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right?
Or it's not Satan who's tryingto distract me, right?
And so during the talk, theLord is just impressing on my
heart how much, like how I guess, how important it is for me to
teach people how to also figureout how to align their business
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with godly standards and notworldly standards, and what it
looks like to have a healthy andsuccessful business in God's
eyes versus the world's eyes,because it's very different.
And we're going to be talkingabout building your business on
a solid foundation.
You know, like the thescriptures say, like the man who
built his house on sand.
(45:19):
You know and that is the exactlike vision that I keep getting
of all of us who are building onworldly standards like that's
shaky, and when things get hard,like that's shaky.
And when things get hard you'regoing to want to run, and when
things feel scary, like you'renot going to have the solid,
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firm stance that you will haveif you build it on a solid
foundation.
So we're going to be divinginto all of that, like
practically what that looks like, and it's just.
I mean, you and I both canattest to this, because I know
we've talked about this, but theamount of peace that we feel in
our business now that we'vegone through the armor of God
(46:01):
study is crazy, like crazy,crazy, crazy.
I can't even like articulate inwords yet.
I'll figure it out, but like Ican't articulate into words yet
how incredible it feels to nothave this heavy burden of.
Speaker 1 (46:22):
I have to do it all.
I was just telling on the phonewith a friend this morning, like
just saying, like it is by thegrace of God, like this peace I
it is sort of unexplainable, notonly the peace I feel in my
business since doing that study,but the peace I feel in my
heart about my son who is in theNavy and our youngest son who
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is now in the US Forest Servicefirefighting.
And like, as a mom, like I hadso much fear and it is by the
grace of God that I have so muchpeace and like it's.
It is unexplainable but it'sbeautiful and I feel new at that
(47:08):
too.
But I think we only have to beone step ahead to like show
someone you know.
Speaker 2 (47:14):
I agree, I a hundred percent agree, and it's also
something that I don't think youand I are ever going to just be
like oh yeah, we got this.
Like, if it's daily, you haveto decide whose banner you're
waving.
You have to decide every day,like am I going to rehearse
those negative thoughts thatSatan just put in my head, or am
I going to say absolutely not.
(47:35):
No, Like I speak the word ofGod.
Here's my dagger, like back offRight, Like that is.
That is the kind of the kind oflife that we're living in,
though is like it's not a oneand done situation.
Speaker 1 (47:50):
We have to decide daily what we're going to put on
this armor.
It's daily work to manage yourmind.
It's daily work to align yourbusiness.
It's daily work to work on yourmarriage.
It's daily work to lead yourchildren.
I think that that is really likean illusion.
I see with my clients, likepeople tend to think and I think
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I did too that I'm going toreach a destination where I just
have mastered all these things.
My experience this far into mylife is that no, this is daily
work, this is the work, and thenthat work gives you your life
right.
It's so powerful.
And I think, ashley, one otherthing about what you're doing
that is so different thatattracted me is, like we are not
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finding these things at churchat least, I'm not, um, and this,
it is different.
We're not taught these thingsat church.
I think we should be taughtthese things at church how to
align your business.
Like what a brilliant topic tobe talking about.
How many people are in business.
Um, and and this armor that we,that God gives us access to, to
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walk through every daily lifeLike, why aren't we talking
about this more?
And so that's what this is?
Um, you know, for you listeningLike it is different and it's
really cool.
Thanks for doing what you'redoing and inviting me to play
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along.
Speaker 2 (49:23):
I am just obediently walking Like I don't know what
I'm doing yet either.
I'm just saying like okay.
Lord, like you, paved the wayyou bring the people and we will
pour into them, you know.
And so if you're listening tothis and you're like it's just
three hours, I don't know if Ishould travel in for it.
Travel in for it.
I'm telling you like you will.
It will change your life likethat, this, and it's not me and
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it's not Carla.
Speaker 1 (49:49):
It's the Lord that's right, Like we we are not
anything.
Speaker 2 (49:53):
I mean we are special , but you know what I mean.
Like we are not any differentthan other people.
We are just willing, Right, andthat's all you have to be is be
willing to accept God'sinvitation.
Right, that's what this wholepodcast episode is about.
Just say yes, even when youdon't know the answers.
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Just say yes to him, even whenyou feel like it's scary.
Just say yes, because we areliterally living proof that on
the other side of yes is thisamazing, beautiful thing we
could have never done alone.
Yeah, yeah.
So if you really literallycan't come, we'll miss you, but
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come check us out inside thecollective.
Maybe the collective issomething that is more
attainable for you because it'svirtual and you don't have to
travel in for it, and we wouldlove to have you.
So I think that we should closeout in prayer.
Carla, do you want to?
You want me to?
Should we like tag team it?
I can start and then, do youwant to, you want?
Speaker 1 (50:52):
me to.
Should we like tag team it?
I can start and then, if youwant to jump in, yeah, let's do
it.
God, thank you for thisconversation, thank you for the
listener and all the people thatwill listen to this podcast.
God, I just pray that yourpresence was here and that the
listener would feel that.
I pray that this message justlanded in your heart, in the
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hearts of the people listening,god, and that it would just be a
seed that would sproutsomething in their life,
wherever they find themselves.
Maybe they've never evenlistened to you, God, but this
would be just the beginning of alistening and a paying
attention and maybe stoppingsome of the noise in their life
so they actually can hear fromyou.
God, we're so grateful, thankyou, that Ashley and I can just
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be vessels for you at this event, that we would honor you, and I
thank you for Ashley and beingobedient and following this idea
that you planted in her heart,and I'm just grateful I can be a
part.
Speaker 2 (51:59):
Lord, we just thank you.
Thank you for this time, thankyou for the conversation and the
heart change that you arehelping this mama experience.
I know that there is somethingthat is on their heart.
You have convicted something intheir heart and, lord, I pray
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that they would respond and thatthey would step out not in fear
but in faith, knowing that,with you on their side, they're
unstoppable.
Lord, I pray, as this mamaleaves our conversation, that
she has such a blessed day thatshe just feels a lightness, that
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she feels excited about life,she feels rejuvenated and she
feels like she's not alone,because that's truly what the
Purpose Gathering is all aboutis bringing together sisters in
Christ who can support eachother and shoulder the burden of
life, because you never createdus to do this alone, and we
pray this in your name, amen.
Speaker 1 (53:05):
Amen, thank you for making it all the way to the end
and thank you for listening todifferently.
If you enjoyed this episode,will you please go leave a five
star review and share it withsomeone you love.
Goodbye for now.
I'll see you next week.
A deep change in the way that we live requires a deep
change in the way that we think.
I'm Carla Reeves, and this isDifferently.
If you've been wondering whatit looks like to weave your
faith into your business, I havebeen too, and today you're
going to listen in on aconversation I had with Ashley
(00:24):
Freehand, the founder of thePurpose Gathering.
We talk about an unexpectedfriendship, listening to
invitations from God and how allof this has intertwined our
journeys.
The Purpose Gathering is wherefaith, family and business
collide.
Ashley has been on the podcastbefore talking about creating
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your week, so you have time forwhat matters most.
That was on September 5th of2024.
If you want to go back, theconversation I'm going to share
with you.
We talk about entrepreneurship,about stepping into fear, what
it looks like to listen to God,motherhood, aligning your
business and more.
If these topics speak to you atthe end of our conversation,
(01:08):
don't miss our specialinvitation for you to join us at
an upcoming live event that sheis putting on.
So settle in, grab your coffee,get comfy and get ready for
some real connection andconversation about things that
matter to us and, I believe,things that matter to you too.
(01:29):
Enjoy.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Hello friends, welcome back to the podcast.
I am so excited to be here yetagain with Carla Reeves, who has
turned into such an incrediblefriend, and I cannot wait for
today's episode, which is goingto be a little bit different.
It is not gonna be yourtraditional interview where I am
just interviewing Carla.
(01:53):
This is a collaborativeinterview where we are gonna
just be having a candidconversation, just like we would
voice, messaging each otherback and forth and really
talking about how we haveconnected on a deeper level, how
we have both said yes to thisinvitation that God has given us
, what it has looked like tohave this fast-tracked
(02:16):
friendship where we were justtalking before we hit record
about how this friendship hasevolved quickly and it's so
aligned and it was like thefriendship we never knew we
needed.
So I'm really excited to getinto it.
But I wanted Carla to justremind you who she is, in case
maybe you're hearing from herfor the first time.
(02:37):
So, carla, I'm so glad you'rehere.
Will you let everybody know alittle bit about who you are,
who you live with and what youdo?
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Yeah, so I'm excited to be here too and excited for
the conversation.
And who I am?
I'm a mom.
I'm a wife.
We've been married almost 24years.
I have two adult sons.
I live with my husband and ourdog, hair elderly dog Harry.
(03:07):
I think last time I was on thepodcast our son was living with
us still, but we are now have anempty nest, like 2010.
I started out on a team ofcoaches and went out under my
(03:27):
own brand.
My brand today is DifferentlyCo, so I'm a founder of
Differently Co and it's a lifestrategy company where really
it's about renewing your mind torenew your life.
So it's all focused on managingyour mind to really make
lasting, important change inyour life.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
I love that, and she has an amazing podcast that you
should listen to that will linkin my show notes so that you
guys can go connect with hereven more, so good, okay, so
let's take all of the listenersback just a little bit to how we
actually connected.
So do you want to share thatstory about how we even decided
(04:06):
to connect?
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Yeah.
So I just want to extend somuch gratitude to Karen Harris,
because I think she listens toyour podcast and it really is
all her.
She was helping me at that timeand she found you on that
podcast collaborative, which I'mnot even a part of anymore, I'm
not either and she I can'tremember if she listened to your
(04:29):
podcast before that or if shefound you then, because I know
she started listening to yourpodcast and she brought it to me
and was like I think this wouldbe a great podcast for you.
And I looked at all you weredoing and I was like yes, yes,
yes.
And I can't tell you thegratitude I have of her making
that connection to you, becausewe did the podcast and then I
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mean that was amazing and great.
And then you came on my podcastand then I don't think we
talked for a while.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
I know we lost touch.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
You reached back out and asked me to speak at your
event, and I was just so honoredthat you asked.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
We were just looking at the date on this too, because
our podcast swap was back inSeptember of last year, so 2024,
and a lot of time had passedand I was hosting this event.
I can't remember when I reachedout, but I'm pretty sure it was
like Christmas time, so maybe afew months later.
Um, because my event was comingup April 2025.
(05:31):
And I just remember, like,thinking about who, I was kind
of nervous, honestly, of puttingup a podcast app or, I'm sorry,
not podcast, but a speakerapplication for people to apply
to speak, because I was justlike I don't know what kind of
people I'm going to be getting,and so I did that.
I put that up, but while I had,like you know, random people
(05:54):
coming in applying to speak, Ijust felt like the Lord put your
name on my heart and I was likeman I haven't talked to her in
a while, but I remember ourconversation and just being like
man I haven't talked to her ina while, but you're, I remember
our conversation and just beinglike there was something so
different literally differentabout you and I was like I
really resonated with, with ourconversations and I was like I
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really I want to reach out andjust see what she, what she
thinks.
So I reached out and just askedyou know, hey, I would love to
have you speak.
What do you think?
Speaker 1 (06:29):
So when you got that email, how are you feeling?
Well, like you.
I just remembered now, like Ithink there's still connections
that you and I are stilldiscovering in this, but like I
just remembered now that I haddreamed of speaking somewhere
where I could speak about myfaith too, because I had never
done that and like that had beena dream of mine.
(06:50):
And so when you sent that email, I was just like, oh my gosh,
like this is the perfectopportunity to do that, and so
that was like it had been adream in my heart for a while
and honestly, I was so thrilledto be able to weave all the
important parts of my lifetogether at that event in a talk
(07:13):
and share that and I mean theexperience of doing that is a
whole nother thing.
I don't know if we're going toget to, but that experience was
really profound for me too.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
Yes, we will definitely get into that,
because I think that is what hasled us to where we are.
It was that, just thatconnection that we both felt,
and I don't know, though, that Iwould have reached out in that
way had you not approached me.
So we'll get to that.
We'll get to that, yes, but Ithink it's just so interesting
(07:44):
how divine like theseconnections are, and we have to
be paying attention, right.
And I know a lot of people, youknow we like to say like, oh,
it was such a coincidence thatwe found each other Right, and,
as believers, I don't believe incoincidence, I believe that
everything is appointed by theLord, and so that little nudging
(08:05):
on my heart to reach out andinvite her, that was divine, and
her response to actually comeand to be a part of it also
divine, right.
So I want to share that,because I think so often, like
we, we get a little bit nervousabout reaching out or maybe
putting ourselves out there and,sorry, I'm a little bit trying
(08:30):
to get over a cold, so I'mclearing my throat a lot, that's
why but I feel like, where wasI going?
Um, the just the idea ofreaching out to someone, right?
Oh, I know what I was going tosay was just the idea of hosting
a faith-based event.
(08:51):
That was a big leap, for me too, um, and that's something that
the Lord invited me to do andcalled me to do.
And I was terrified because Iwas like I have an audience of
some believers but a lot ofnon-believers, and you know, if
I put this event out like Idon't even know if anyone's
going to come, right, and so itwas just answering God's call
(09:14):
and his invitation, even when itfelt scary and even when I had
no idea if it was going to turnout, and I just took that leap
and went for it.
And and so I want to talk alittle bit about this connection
and this friendship, and so wecan kind of, um, like fast
forward a little bit to theactual like event piece and kind
(09:35):
of where that has led us today.
Um, so maybe share with us alittle bit about we're at the
event, so we're fast forwardingto the event.
So it's April, whatever daythat was, I don't even remember
and we had just finished day oneof the event.
It was a two day event and Iremember you walking up to me
(09:58):
the second day and you just feltso called to talk to me and you
were like I think there'ssomething here so like can you
just share with us like whathappened on day one.
What was that transformativeexperience, what drew you to
come in to talk to me and we'llkind of chat through that more.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
Yeah, gosh, there's so many pieces to that.
But yeah, day one was just sucha beautiful, incredible day
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no-transcript created.
And then after I spoke, likethat whole day, I had so many
women come up to me like morethan any other speaking event
that I had spoken at, that likesomething struck them, whether
it was the writing piece or thejournaling, or like they felt
(11:06):
called to like start writing andgetting in their journal again,
or there were just so manythings, not to mention just the
rest of the speakers that day,the interactions that are you
know, our family table, I thinkyou call them where we stayed at
the same table with the samewomen and had very deep
conversation and tears and therewas an openness and a like
(11:31):
almost just a connection alreadywith the women that were there
that day.
It was really amazing and Ileft that day Normally I leave
events like that feeling verydrained and tired from all the
outward energy and I felt justinvigorated.
I felt energized and on my drivehome I felt God prompt me, like
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you need to talk to Ashleytomorrow and there's something
here and just talk to her, and Iwas like what?
Like I just it felt like crazy,right, like sometimes, when God
impresses something and forpeople who may not have maybe
you haven't experienced this yet, but sometimes it's just like
an impression.
I feel almost it's not like anaudible voice for me, um, but I
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just it's like an impression andyou just know it's not from you
.
And so I did.
I went home and I prayed aboutit and sat with it, and the next
morning I came up to you and Ijust said like I think there's
something here, like I feel soaligned to what you're doing.
I would like to help in any wayI can.
(12:39):
And you just fell to tears andthat was like even more, just
like, oh my gosh, what'shappening?
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Those tears.
I still remember them because Ihad been feeling the same
prompting and the sameimpression of being like you're
not meant to do this alone.
You know, and like I, it'sfunny because the Purpose
Gathering Collective has beenthe name of my program since I
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started in 2019.
And it's funny, but it's notfunny, it's a little God wink,
but I literally started in 2020was my first membership
community called the PurposeGathering Collective, and it's
called a mastermind communityfor mompreneurs and full circle.
(13:31):
I mean, if you've beenfollowing me for the past six
years, you know that the PurposeGathering Collective has been
five different things.
It's kept the same name, butI've changed what it looked like
.
Sometimes it was an in-personmeetup group, one time it was an
online membership, right, andnow it's back to being an online
membership, but with ain-person component as well.
(13:54):
And so I just so.
It's always been the collectiveand I never understood why it
was called the collective untilrecently, when I just felt the
Lord saying like you're not theonly coach, like you're not the
only leader of this collective,you are not going to do this
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alone.
You are here to amplify othervoices as well as your own, but
not to stand on a pedestal andbe better than or more wise than
You're.
You're on their level andyou're just pointing them to the
one who is on the pedestalright, the Lord, the one that
everyone should be lookingtowards.
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We're going to get into it moredetail, but this beautiful
transformation of just beinglike.
I showed up at that eventfeeling so confused and like
lost, pretty much Like I knewthat I was doing what the Lord
(14:57):
was calling me to do, but Ididn't know the next step.
And I knew he was calling me tobuild this collective, but I
didn't know what it was.
I knew parts of it, I knew some.
I felt like in that moment itwas the most beautiful gift that
God gave me you, because wethen went on this journey of
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trying to figure out what iteven would look like to be
partners and what it would looklike to work together, and maybe
you can share a little bitabout that story, of your
perspective of like, how thathas played out of like how that
has played out.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Well, yeah, like because I was in the same place.
I'd been in this year and ahalf of uncertainty and in my
business and not knowing,knowing things had to reset,
like I um, I had like wasexperiencing so much fruit in
our life, in all the otherplaces, but my business wasn't
feeling fruitful like it had andI knew things had to reset.
(16:00):
And I'd been in this dialoguewith God for like a year and a
half of trying to figure it outand Him basically telling me
stop, stop trying to figure itout and just show up and I'll
reveal the next step.
So that's where I was when Icame to the event and my talk
was called to be different andit was really about, like,
staying in step with God, evenwhen you don't know.
(16:22):
Like that day I spoke, I didn't, I didn't have clarity on my
business then and then and then.
So, after I approached you thatday, we got together for lunch
and honestly, we've never talkedabout this, ashley.
But that lunch I came homethinking I don't think there's
anything here.
Like it was kind of weird.
(16:43):
It was a little bit awkward, wedidn't really have any clarity
and I'm like I just came home.
I remember talking to myhusband like I'm not sure
there's anything there, and Iremember feeling like a little
sad and then I can't rememberwhat we did next because we
didn't stop there, we didsomething else, and then I think
it was just a zoom call.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
You were like maybe we just hop on a zoom call for
two and let us kind of marinateon it.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Yeah, and I felt like I felt called to just support
you and what you were building.
You were in a still in a littlespace of like uncertainty or
fear I can't remember exactlywhat that was and I just felt
called to support you and so wejust kind of went down that path
for a while and, honestly, Ithink that's where everything
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started to like just got inmotion.
Like that is way beyond me.
There's just like things juststarted moving and we're just on
the God bus going.
This is cool, like we'reexcited about what's happening
Seriously.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
And it was so cool, though, to be able to get on the
call with you and, literallyunapologetically, just cry and
be like I don't know what I'mdoing, like I don't, I don't
know, and you're like it's OKnot to know, and that was so
freeing for me because I waslike, really, but I thought I
had to have it all together,right, like I thought I had to
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know the next step.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Well, and Ashley, this is like I want to capture
this for the listener because Ihad just been through a season
of 18 plus months of not knowingand like having to walk through
uncertainty for like monthsafter months after months, and
like, when you look at that,what you just said, it's like
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God prepares us to.
Then I was prepared to help youthrough that season, right, and
say, it's okay, you don't haveto know, I've been through this,
it's okay and this is what Goddoes, and he has us show up in
other people's lives and I usedto be so focused on, like
serving in my business and I'vejust given that up.
(18:56):
I'm just here to serve peopleevery conversation and I don't
know.
It's just cool to watch whathas happened.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Yeah, I know, I wish that like.
I remember after the firstcouple I was like we should
record these.
These are so good, like, sogood.
I wish that we could go backand like hear we should record
these.
These are so good, like, sogood.
I wish that we could go backand like hear what we talked
about, cause I know we didn'trecord many of them, but the but
I did take notes, Like I justremember being like she has so
many nuggets of wisdom that Ineed, you know, like you've been
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through what I'm going throughand just giving me that courage
to keep going, even when Ididn't know, and to step out in
faith.
And funny enough, like anothernon-coincidence, carla and I
were both going through the sameBible study, you know, and the
Armor of God by Priscilla Shirethat I have turned many people
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on to.
So if you're not on that trainyet, get on it.
It's the most life-changingBible study that you will do I
have ever done.
Oh my gosh, it's incredible.
And I mean this is why it isthe pillar foundation in the
collective is because it's justeverything that you need to get
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through the hard parts of lifeand the joyful parts is like God
gave you everything that youneed and access to him, and so I
think it was just really coolto also be able to share that
with each other and that wasjust another layer of depth that
we were able to have to shareand to talk about.
(20:34):
Able to to have to share and totalk about.
And I just think that was not acoincidence that we both were
going through that at the sameexact time and I mean there's
just so many conversations thatwe had where I left just being
like you were the gift I didn'tknow I needed.
You know like you were theencouragement to keep going when
I had no idea what I was doingand I don't know where the idea
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of the partner coach came in,but I was like I think it would
be so helpful to not you knowagain what the Lord was speaking
to me, like it would be sohelpful not to be the only coach
, like, so someone else couldhear a different perspective,
where someone would be able totalk to Carla about the mindset
piece, right, because that's sohuge and and I have some, you
(21:23):
know, knowledge about mindset,but not as much as Carla, and
we're not meant to knoweverything, right, and and I am
not afraid to tell people thatI'm not gifted at everything.
And so I propose that idea toyou of, like, what do you think
about a partner coach and whatthat might look like, and we're
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still figuring it out.
But when I came to you withthat idea, what was your initial
thought?
Speaker 1 (21:49):
Oh, my gosh, I was so excited, going back to that day
, of that event and me being ina space of like a lot of still a
lot of uncertainty and notknowing, still dealing with a
lot of fear, doubt and confusionin my head.
And that was I think that wasmaybe I don't think I had
started the armor of God studyat that time, but anyways, a lot
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of fear, doubt and confusionand that day, a lot of the women
in the room I was a lot olderthan the women in the room, even
though I didn't really realizeit, like I just don't think
about that.
But at the table, at my table,they started calling me their
table mom and I'm like, oh yeah,I think I could be your mom,
but it felt like it was so thatwas such a gift to me.
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And some of the other mombusiness owners in the room like
they came up and said, like youbrought such a space of calm
and like we need this voice.
I think young women, moms, feelso much pressure to like be a
mom and build your business andlike do it all, and they feel so
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hurried.
And I think that that wassomething.
Like you know, I'm on the otherside of all of that, looking
back and I did have a businesswhen my kids were little, but I
think I could bring like a spacethat is calm, that helps calm
people down and realize you havetime for all the things that
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really matter and don't getcaught up in these other things,
right, that we're so prone tojust get me, too, to get caught
up in.
And so when you asked me tobring a partner coach, like that
day was very like God showed mewho I am and what I could bring
to the table.
That was really different thanyou like, because you bring so
(23:43):
much, but there was never for melike a competitive thing with
you, like I, just in the more wework together, the more I see
like where we each fill in verydifferent pieces.
So I was honored and excitedand still am.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Yes, I love it.
And the other thing that wetalked about too, which kind of
goes back to what we said of nothaving all the answers, and
that being okay, is that we kindof just talked about like what
if we just try this for fourmonths and see how it works, you
know, and then after that wecan tweak, we can revisit, we
can always change things, and Iam a recovering perfectionist
(24:24):
where I feel like everything hasto be perfectly figured out.
I was telling Carla this on oneof our calls, where I was just
like, but what if this happens?
And I'm like the old me wouldhave went down that rabbit trail
and been like I need to figureout all of the potential
problems and find solutions forthem now, instead of being like
(24:45):
do I really need to worry aboutproblems that are not there yet,
or can I just wait and then, ifthat becomes a problem, I can
tackle it?
Then Right, and I think likethat has been a blessing too is
just having that freedom and youjust reminding me like it's
okay for you to change your mind, it's okay for you to say this
is not working.
Right, like, and I don't haveto feel bad about coming to you
(25:09):
and saying I don't think this isworking.
Can we try something else?
Right, like the old me alsowould have been like I can't say
that I don't think this isworking.
Can we try something else?
Right, like the old me alsowould have been like I can't say
that I don't want to make, Idon't want to hurt her feelings,
I don't want to make her feelbad, you know, and it's like
when you, when there's thattrust built and that open door,
but we also are not relying onour own strength which I think
(25:29):
is what makes this even betteris because we can both go to the
Holy Spirit, we can both prayabout it, and then we come
together, like with this podcast, how we came together, and I
was like this is my idea, andshe was like I was having the
same thought, like we should dothat too, and so it's just so
helpful to know that it's notall on us, like we have the
(25:52):
power of God who's workingwithin both of us, and we know
that he is here, that he is, hishand is in all of this.
Speaker 1 (26:01):
That's the biggest like relief to me, like really
blending faith and business inmy life, like all together in
like one big pot of soup.
You know it's like because itwasn't always that way for me.
It, you know I kept it moreseparate, um, but it takes so
much pressure off and for peoplelistening, like I'm just
(26:23):
learning, like we don't have tooperate with so much urgency and
pressure and stress and likeit's just not necessary.
And now it's like when I amdoing that I know I need to like
back off and surrender and letgo because I'm trying to do too
much and it really is possible.
You know it's, it's a beautifulthing.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Yeah, I love that.
So do we want to transition andtalk a little bit about the
collective and what that is Okay, about the collective and what
that is Okay, okay.
So you mentioned that at thevery like day one I hadn't
really talked about thecollective.
I maybe like briefly teasedthat I was going to be inviting
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people to like, if you want moreof this, I have, you know,
something coming tomorrow.
But so after the, the secondday, when I talked about the
collective which, by the way,was terrified to talk about
because again, I, had no idealike what it really was.
I kind of knew like thelogistics but I didn't really
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know, like what thetransformation was going to be.
But like over the time, I meanyou started to hear my heart
about what the collective wasand what I wanted it to be and
like what do you feel?
Like kind of drew you in whereyou were like yes, I want to be
a partner coach, like yes, thatsounds like something I want to
be a part of.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Yes, I want to answer that.
Do you want to share, like youroriginal inspiration?
First for it, sure.
Speaker 2 (27:55):
Yeah, I know Now I'm trying to think.
I'm like Back in January ofthis year, I launched a new
program and, for those of youlistening who are program
launchers, you just like tocreate programs and create
offers.
I can 100% relate.
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I was very, very good atcreating new offers, not so
great at selling the offers I'mworking on that but I would get
an idea and I would create anoffer and then I would like sell
it and then I would be like,okay, what's next?
Like I want to create somethingelse and I really had a hard
time like refining and justbeing okay with, like, letting
the offer evolve and grow andchange.
(28:38):
And so in 2025, january, Ilaunched a brand new program
called the Organized CEOBootcamp and it was a six-week
program all about how to getorganized in your business A lot
of the same things that I teachin the collective.
But it left out one of myfavorite parts, which is the
personal part, and the mostimportant part, which is the
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faith part, and so it was justbusiness most important part,
which is the faith part, and soit was just business, and I knew
when I launched this that therewas more coming.
I'd like the Lord had alreadybeen stirring in my heart that I
was pivoting my audience frommom business owners to Christian
mom business owners.
I knew that there was going tobe a new offer.
It was going to be called thepurpose gathering collective but
I just didn't understand whatit was going to be.
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And so I had this other offer,this offer that I was like I
love this, but I want more.
And so I launched that and Iknew that I wanted to
incorporate that faith and thatpersonal peace, but I just
didn't know how.
I didn't know how it was goingto work.
And so just over those fourmonths it was just constant,
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like prayer, reflection,journaling, you know, chatting
on Voxer with my friends andjust being like I don't know
what I'm doing, but this is whatI feel like I'm doing.
And so it just evolved andeventually, like I think at the
event, what I had decided on wasthat it's going to be a
membership, an ongoingmembership, because I didn't
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want it to be a program where itstarted and stopped, because I
wanted people to join at anytime, at any you know space in
their business, any place oftheir business, right?
I wanted them to be able to popin, get support, but to stay for
at least four months so thatthey could, you know, connect
with the community and reallybecome a sisterhood, like that
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was.
One of the key components was Iwanted people to feel like they
didn't have to shoulder theburdens alone, knew like the
logistical, like time piece.
I knew we were going to meetonce a week because I'm a habit
coach and I know that if youwant to form a habit, you can't
just show up twice a month oronce a month.
(30:50):
So I was like it has to beweekly and and I knew I don't
actually even know if I knew thefoundation, like the pillars
that we, that we're talkingabout.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Yeah, I don't.
I don't know that you you dideither, because I don't think
you shared those that day.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
I don't either.
I think I was just like if youlike what this is, this is what
it's going to be.
Speaker 1 (31:11):
But I was like like.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
I was basically just like I don't know what it's
going to look like, but it'sgoing to be a sisterhood and
we're going to have God at theforefront and we're going to
talk about business, we're goingto talk about your family and
we're going to tie it alltogether.
I am like a time managementcoach.
I talk about accountability andhabit formation, and I was like
it's going to be all of thatlike in a package, but I don't
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know what it looks like andthat's all I had, you guys.
And I just showed up and I saidthis is all I have.
If you're interested, let meknow, you know.
And so that was terrifying forme because I like to know.
I almost didn't.
I almost didn't pitch it at all, I almost just didn't.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
It was so beautiful the way you did it, because it's
just so real.
Yeah, really, really, reallyreally.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
I don't remember what I said, but I just remember
feeling like that sucked, like Idid not do a good job.
Speaker 1 (32:06):
No, you did do a good job.
You did a good job.
That whole event and that Ithink I mean the way who you
were being at that event is alsowhat drew me in.
But what's crazy is like, fastforward in my story, like you
again, you and I haven't talkedabout this, but when I was going
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through that 18 months of likenot knowing the shape of my
business or where God wasleading me, um, he told me, like
people, like he created this, alittle bit of like, um, not
urgency, but like, act swiftly.
People are going to need greatertools, that there's so much
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change in our world right nowand so much fear and things are
moving faster than they everhave and people are going to
need to be equipped with tools.
And you've been teaching thesetools all these years and like,
give them away and that you know.
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That day that I spoke andeverybody you know you'd already
been taught like journaling wasalready a part of what you were
doing in your work also, thatwas like another connecting
thread and that day, everybodythat came up to me were so moved
by the writing piece of thingsand I just saw this, these
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puzzle pieces coming togetherand that feeling that God had
been calling me.
Like just give it away, equippeople.
So just show up, help her, likeI didn't know where it was all
going.
But that's what I felt Wow.
Speaker 2 (33:50):
That is so cool.
I know he just moves in suchamazing ways.
You know, like because had wenever connected at this event, I
mean we would have been doingour separate things, but we're
already so aligned and why?
Why not come together andamplify each other's voices?
You know, what you have tooffer is definitely different
(34:11):
than what I have to offer, butwe both have the same general
idea of like.
We want to equip moms withanother way, like with God's way
, like there is a easier,lighter, more fruitful and
peaceful way than what we havebeen fed, which is the worldly
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way that's in our face every day, and it was like we both just
have the same overall vision ofsupporting women that are trying
to do both raising a family andgrowing a business, and it's it
feels impossible, and I think alove for God and a love for our
families, right?
Speaker 1 (34:54):
Oh, there was something I was going to say
just to what you said, thatthere is a different way.
Oh, that like I you know, know,because I think we're going to
transition to kind of the event,right, that's coming, um, but I
had been a slave to fear for solong in my life and that's it
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that this event, like there wasso much beauty, like I just I
don't know, I know you'lltransition us into that, but
yeah, the fear, running a,running a business on pressure
and fear and urgency, like I'mjust done with that.
That doesn't have to be the way.
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There is a different way.
Speaker 2 (35:43):
Right that that doesn't have to be the way.
There is a different way, right?
Well, and now with thecollective, I feel like it's a
lot more pointed towards helpingmoms break through overwhelm.
I have found the transformationthat I was trying to articulate
.
That took me forever and it waslike the collective is a way
that moms can come who are justfeeling beat down, overwhelmed,
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stressed, tired of the hustleculture, tired of feeling like
they're failing at everything,and they want to just align to
the most important priorities.
That's how we came up with thefoundational habits of making
sure that you are suiting up forarmor every day, that you are
taking care of your physical,emotional, mental capacity.
(36:30):
Right, you are beingintentional with your family and
not just waiting for perfectmoments to connect, but that
you're creating perfect moments,or not perfect, but you know
what I mean.
You're creating those moments,you're waiting for them, you're
expecting them, whether they'resmall or big.
Like you're being intentionalwith your time and with your
(36:52):
kids, with your spouse, withyour family, like everyone.
Right, that intentionality.
And then you know moving intoaligning your life I'm sorry,
your business with the Lord andwhat that looks like, and how to
discern God's voice and how toactually know what he wants you
to do.
And then that fifth finalfoundational habit is how are
you stewarding your time?
(37:13):
How are you stewarding thetalents that God has given you
and the treasure that he'sblessed you with?
So all five of thosefoundational habits are things
that we talk about on a regularbasis and really helping moms
just implement habits that aregoing to serve them Right and
that are, you know, ultimatelygoing to be glorifying to God.
(37:33):
So that's what we landed on andthat's like how we're pouring
in and and we have Carla as apartner coach, and then we also
brought in Christy, who is anervous system and holistic
coach, who is really helpingwith the actual physical part,
and so I really feel like we'rethe triple threat here with,
like the mind, body and spirit.
It's like all the things thatyou need in order to you know
(37:57):
really point you to the Lord andthe peaceful life he wants us
all to be living out.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
Yeah, so beautiful, so share the event.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
I know, yes, okay, so we have another event that is
coming up and these events aregoing to be on a smaller scale
than the TPG live event and theyare going to be every other
month.
So that's my goal is to be ableto create a really amazing
space for moms to come and to bepoured into, but to like
continue right, like we don'twant this to just be a one once
(38:35):
a year event, like we want toshow up and have that
consistency, because the enemydoes not like care, right, if
you went to an event a year ago,he's going to be like I'm in
your face today.
So we have to like stayconnected and really suit up and
surround each other.
So we have an event coming upSeptember 24th.
If you are local to GilbertArizona or want to travel in, we
(38:59):
would love to have you.
We'll have everything linked inthe show notes, but we wanted to
just share a little like teaserabout what we're going to be
talking about at the event.
So Carla and I will both bespeaking.
We're going to be doing oursessions the same way that we
did at TPG Live, which eachsession is one hour long, and we
break it down into 20 minutesof teaching, 15 to 20 minutes of
(39:23):
journaling and like quietreflection, and then the rest of
the hour we spend in groupdiscussion with our table
families, communities I can'tremember what I called them
either but with your small groupthat you stay with for the
remainder of the workshop.
So maybe you can share a littlebit, Carla, about, like what
(39:45):
you're going to be talking aboutand kind of what has prompted
that as being a topic that youlike to talk about.
Speaker 1 (39:53):
Yeah, so, um, I don't want to share the story, I want
to save it for the event but,something happened in my life a
lot of years ago that like justkind of woke me up to this idea
that everyday life I have about10 minutes left, guys Everyday
life really gives us likecountless opportunities to live
(40:15):
out our faith and to step out infaith when we feel afraid and
honestly I was a very afraidlittle girl, grew up with a lot
of just feeling afraid of lifein the world and I was afraid to
sleep in my own bedroom for agood part.
I just had a lot of fear in mylife and what has helped me with
(40:39):
that is God's call in my life.
I've always felt a calling inmy life from God and that's why
I step out.
But the talk will really beabout how do we step from fear
to faith in everyday moments,because there's so many more
moments than you realize andthey're not always these big
(40:59):
grand leaps.
They're tiny moments where whenyou can step from fear to faith
, that action, one allows God tothen come in and strengthen you
, but also it starts to turn theship of your life in the
direction that you want it to go.
And I think so often we thinkthat change has to come in these
(41:22):
grand gestures and they feeltoo scary, and so we just stay
paralyzed and we don't do them,when in reality there's
countless moments every day thatwe can leap into faith to
really shift our experience andquality and results in our life.
So that's really theinspiration.
(41:42):
And the inspiration actuallycame when I was in Costa Rica
and I think I messaged you.
I'm like I think I have thetopic, but I had a dream and
then I sat in the bathroom andwrote for like an hour and a
half and so the idea came fromthat.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
I love that and I cannot wait to hear about that,
because I and I was telling youthis and one of how I I was
journaling I don't know where Igot this prompt, but it was
probably the armor of God.
Bible study kind of gave methis prompt of like naming my
fears and I was writing in myjournal and I'm like I don't
(42:17):
have any fears right Like yes, Iremember that.
But I don't have any big fears,right, like I'm not afraid of
the dark and I'm not afraid of,like spiders or anything like
that.
And so I just started writingand I was just trying to say,
like all the things that like Iwill.
I was like, okay, well, maybeI'm afraid of this and maybe I'm
afraid of that, and and theywere like smaller things, but
(42:41):
everything was all surroundingfear.
You know, like everything waslike saying I was just afraid of
something, you know, and I, Ijust know that that is what
holds so many people back, youknow.
And so I can't wait to hearyour talk.
It's going to be so good.
Talk, it's going to be so good.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
So tell us about yours and where the inspiration
came.
Speaker 2 (43:15):
Yes.
So I feel like a lot of peoplehave been coming to me and
sharing with me that they're sointerested in the collective.
They were so interested in TPGLive because it was so different
, right, like they were likeeverybody else is very flashy
and it's all about marketing andthese surface level strategies
and and they're like.
But then when your event cameup and you were talking about
alignment, aligning your lifeand business with God they were
(43:35):
like what is that?
Like, how do I do that?
Like that's not a topic thatpeople talk about very often and
I honestly like feel like maybenot the most equipped person in
this way sometimes of like,well, lord, why would you have
me speak about something thatI'm just like I'm just learning
(43:56):
how to do?
You know, like I'm just gettingstarted and and the reason why
I feel like is he'sstrengthening me through this
and he's showing me that I'm notthat far behind.
You know, like ahead of thesepeople, right, and I feel like
that's so much more relatablethan somebody who is so far
ahead that they're that theother people feel like, well,
she can't even relate to meanymore.
(44:17):
And so in this season that I'min, like I am still walking
through daily what it looks liketo align my business with the
Lord, like how do I discern hisvoice?
How do I make sure I'm puttingon the armor every day?
How am I staying in connectionwith him so that I can make sure
you know that what I'm hearingfrom him is not my own thoughts,
(44:37):
right?
Or it's not Satan who's tryingto distract me, right?
And so during the talk, theLord is just impressing on my
heart how much, like how I guess, how important it is for me to
teach people how to also figureout how to align their business
(44:58):
with godly standards and notworldly standards, and what it
looks like to have a healthy andsuccessful business in God's
eyes versus the world's eyes,because it's very different.
And we're going to be talkingabout building your business on
a solid foundation.
You know, like the thescriptures say, like the man who
built his house on sand.
(45:19):
You know and that is the exactlike vision that I keep getting
of all of us who are building onworldly standards like that's
shaky, and when things get hard,like that's shaky.
And when things get hard you'regoing to want to run, and when
things feel scary, like you'renot going to have the solid,
(45:40):
firm stance that you will haveif you build it on a solid
foundation.
So we're going to be divinginto all of that, like
practically what that looks like, and it's just.
I mean, you and I both canattest to this, because I know
we've talked about this, but theamount of peace that we feel in
our business now that we'vegone through the armor of God
(46:01):
study is crazy, like crazy,crazy, crazy.
I can't even like articulate inwords yet.
I'll figure it out, but like Ican't articulate into words yet
how incredible it feels to nothave this heavy burden of.
Speaker 1 (46:22):
I have to do it all.
I was just telling on the phonewith a friend this morning, like
just saying, like it is by thegrace of God, like this peace I
it is sort of unexplainable, notonly the peace I feel in my
business since doing that study,but the peace I feel in my
heart about my son who is in theNavy and our youngest son who
(46:47):
is now in the US Forest Servicefirefighting.
And like, as a mom, like I hadso much fear and it is by the
grace of God that I have so muchpeace and like it's.
It is unexplainable but it'sbeautiful and I feel new at that
(47:08):
too.
But I think we only have to beone step ahead to like show
someone you know.
Speaker 2 (47:14):
I agree, I a hundred percent agree, and it's also
something that I don't think youand I are ever going to just be
like oh yeah, we got this.
Like, if it's daily, you haveto decide whose banner you're
waving.
You have to decide every day,like am I going to rehearse
those negative thoughts thatSatan just put in my head, or am
I going to say absolutely not.
(47:35):
No, Like I speak the word ofGod.
Here's my dagger, like back offRight, Like that is.
That is the kind of the kind oflife that we're living in,
though is like it's not a oneand done situation.
Speaker 1 (47:50):
We have to decide daily what we're going to put on
this armor.
It's daily work to manage yourmind.
It's daily work to align yourbusiness.
It's daily work to work on yourmarriage.
It's daily work to lead yourchildren.
I think that that is really likean illusion.
I see with my clients, likepeople tend to think and I think
(48:11):
I did too that I'm going toreach a destination where I just
have mastered all these things.
My experience this far into mylife is that no, this is daily
work, this is the work, and thenthat work gives you your life
right.
It's so powerful.
And I think, ashley, one otherthing about what you're doing
that is so different thatattracted me is, like we are not
(48:35):
finding these things at churchat least, I'm not, um, and this,
it is different.
We're not taught these thingsat church.
I think we should be taughtthese things at church how to
align your business.
Like what a brilliant topic tobe talking about.
How many people are in business.
Um, and and this armor that we,that God gives us access to, to
(49:00):
walk through every daily lifeLike, why aren't we talking
about this more?
And so that's what this is?
Um, you know, for you listeningLike it is different and it's
really cool.
Thanks for doing what you'redoing and inviting me to play
(49:22):
along.
Speaker 2 (49:23):
I am just obediently walking Like I don't know what
I'm doing yet either.
I'm just saying like okay.
Lord, like you, paved the wayyou bring the people and we will
pour into them, you know.
And so if you're listening tothis and you're like it's just
three hours, I don't know if Ishould travel in for it.
Travel in for it.
I'm telling you like you will.
It will change your life likethat, this, and it's not me and
(49:48):
it's not Carla.
Speaker 1 (49:49):
It's the Lord that's right, Like we we are not
anything.
Speaker 2 (49:53):
I mean we are special , but you know what I mean.
Like we are not any differentthan other people.
We are just willing, Right, andthat's all you have to be is be
willing to accept God'sinvitation.
Right, that's what this wholepodcast episode is about.
Just say yes, even when youdon't know the answers.
(50:14):
Just say yes to him, even whenyou feel like it's scary.
Just say yes, because we areliterally living proof that on
the other side of yes is thisamazing, beautiful thing we
could have never done alone.
Yeah, yeah.
So if you really literallycan't come, we'll miss you, but
(50:35):
come check us out inside thecollective.
Maybe the collective issomething that is more
attainable for you because it'svirtual and you don't have to
travel in for it, and we wouldlove to have you.
So I think that we should closeout in prayer.
Carla, do you want to?
You want me to?
Should we like tag team it?
I can start and then, do youwant to, you want?
Speaker 1 (50:52):
me to.
Should we like tag team it?
I can start and then, if youwant to jump in, yeah, let's do
it.
God, thank you for thisconversation, thank you for the
listener and all the people thatwill listen to this podcast.
God, I just pray that yourpresence was here and that the
listener would feel that.
I pray that this message justlanded in your heart, in the
(51:18):
hearts of the people listening,god, and that it would just be a
seed that would sproutsomething in their life,
wherever they find themselves.
Maybe they've never evenlistened to you, God, but this
would be just the beginning of alistening and a paying
attention and maybe stoppingsome of the noise in their life
so they actually can hear fromyou.
God, we're so grateful, thankyou, that Ashley and I can just
(51:43):
be vessels for you at this event, that we would honor you, and I
thank you for Ashley and beingobedient and following this idea
that you planted in her heart,and I'm just grateful I can be a
part.
Speaker 2 (51:59):
Lord, we just thank you.
Thank you for this time, thankyou for the conversation and the
heart change that you arehelping this mama experience.
I know that there is somethingthat is on their heart.
You have convicted something intheir heart and, lord, I pray
(52:21):
that they would respond and thatthey would step out not in fear
but in faith, knowing that,with you on their side, they're
unstoppable.
Lord, I pray, as this mamaleaves our conversation, that
she has such a blessed day thatshe just feels a lightness, that
(52:44):
she feels excited about life,she feels rejuvenated and she
feels like she's not alone,because that's truly what the
Purpose Gathering is all aboutis bringing together sisters in
Christ who can support eachother and shoulder the burden of
life, because you never createdus to do this alone, and we
pray this in your name, amen.
Speaker 1 (53:05):
Amen, thank you for making it all the way to the end
and thank you for listening todifferently.
If you enjoyed this episode,will you please go leave a five
star review and share it withsomeone you love.
Goodbye for now.
I'll see you next week.
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