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This morning, I didn’t want to get up. Not out of laziness...but because I was stressed, anxious, and filled with thoughts telling me I wasn’t good enough. If you've ever had days where the weight of your emotions makes it hard to move, then this is for you.
In today’s real and raw episode, I toss the pre-planned topic aside to share a Holy-Spirit-led message straight from the heart. You’ll hear how I invited God into my battle with anxiety this morning, the moment He reminded me that I don’t have to be a victim to my thoughts, and how that reminder changed everything.
This isn't a pep talk. It's a heart-to-heart. It's for the those who feels stuck, unseen, and spiritually weary in their life and overall calling...but want to fight again. By the end of this episode, you’ll be reminded that you don’t have to stay stuck in the funk...you can choose to rise, with God’s strength in you!
In this episode, you’ll learn:
👉 Why anxiety and shame make us feel stuck and disconnected from God
👉 The key difference between conviction and shame - and why it matters
👉 A powerful mindset shift to help you stop falling victim to your emotions
👉 How to bring God into your mental and emotional battles (even when you feel too far gone)
👉 What to do when you don't feel strong enough to fight on your own
This episode is for you if:
✔️ You're a Christian entrepreneur, creative, or leader who feels overwhelmed emotionally
✔️ You’ve been struggling with anxiety, burnout, or negative thoughts
✔️ You desire deeper spiritual resilience and want to reconnect with God’s truth in a practical way
✔️ You're tired of pushing through and pretending everything’s fine
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00:00 honest moments: what my mornings really look like when anxiety tries to win
02:53 choosing to fight: how I stop anxiety from taking over my day
05:51 when prayer is your weapon: spiritual warfare and staying anchored in truth
08:00 shame or conviction? how to know the difference and break free
20:45 learning to move with God, even when it’s hard
24:21 you’re invited: join the mastermind that’s helping women creatives rise, lead, and win
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Speaker (00:00):
I didn't want to get up this morning.
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I'm gonna be so honest with you.
I did not want to get out of bedthis morning.
I was weighed down by mystresses..
I was weighed down by feelinglike I wasn't good enough.
I was weighed down by all of theloud negativity, screaming in my
mind about every area of mylife, and it was so loud to the
(00:24):
point where I straight up wasjust like.
I don't want to get out of bed.
Hard truth, sad truth, but I'msharing that to kick off this
podcast episode today becausealthough it's hard, although
it's sad, it's very real and Iknow that it is not just my
reality.
From time to time, I know verywell that you, having clicked on
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this podcast episode, strugglewith the exact same thing.
So we're gonna talk about thattoday, and I want to talk about
it from a very vulnerable placebecause this isn't just me
preaching at you or teaching youcoming from someone who has
overcame this.
No, my friend, I am stillstruggling with it too.
(01:08):
Every single day.
Have I learned to go about itbetter?
To go about it stronger,absolutely.
But that doesn't mean that I amno longer in the battle and I
want you to open up your eyes tothe possibility that you being
in your own battle.
Can get better, can getstronger.
We together in our own journeyswith God by our sides, can
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overcome this.
I had a whole different podcasttopic that I was gonna talk
about today.
I had notes.
It was mapped out in my littleproject management dashboard,
ready to go.
But if you are a frequentlistener, you know very well
that I live by authenticity.
If you're a new listener, you'relearning that for the first
(01:54):
time, my friend.
I don't like the facades.
I don't like to fake things.
So if I woke up this morning andI wasn't feeling like talking
about the topic that I hadplanned today because my mind
was just struggling.
You know what?
Let me pivot.
Let me instead share my ownexperiences as to why my mind
was struggling this morning,because I know that I'm not
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alone.
I know that you struggle with ittoo.
And these episodes are meant toshine a light on the very hard
truths, the very real thingsthat we face that are so
difficult in our life, in ourbusiness, in our creative
journeys, in our calling.
Everything in between.
So just five minutes ago, Ipulled out my phone and I
(02:38):
created notes of what I wannatalk about today based off of my
experience this morning, fromsomeone who can relate to you
deeply, my friend.
So that we can overcome thisthing together.
Now, when I was laying in bedand I didn't want to get up, I
was feeling this intense amountof anxiety.
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To the point where I felt all ofthis pressure and the pressure
weighed me down so much to thepoint where I physically was
struggling to get up.
Now, I brought God into thatmoment with me asking him to
help me move, asking him to helpme get up, asking him for his
strength to lean on because Ihad none this morning.
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And as I was bringing God intothis moment with me, I felt this
phrase overcome my spirit.
Was it exactly God's voice?
Maybe?
Was it God's spirit mixed withmy own mental strength coming
in?
Maybe I like to believe that anyounce of inspiration that I feel
or motivation to get out of thefunk that I've been in, I
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always, always love to praiseJesus for that and honor him
with that, because I could nothave ever done it without him.
So that phrase that I felt inthat moment was, you can choose
to no longer be a victim.
Of your anxiety, and that hit mereally hard.
A lot of times when we'reanxious, when we're stressed,
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when we're worried, when we'redepressed, a lot of times we
take that on as an identity of Iam feeling this.
This is just how I am right now.
This is just who I am right now.
It is what it is, but thatmentality is us unintentionally
falling victim.
To our own negative emotions, wecan choose.
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Otherwise, it's not impossibleto choose otherwise.
It's just a matter of believingthat we can, in fact, choose
otherwise and decide that we aregoing to put in the effort no
matter how hard it might feel inthat moment to choose otherwise.
You don't have to be a victim tothis anxiety.
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You don't have to be a slave toit, and therefore not be able to
get up from under it.
You don't have to make thatchoice.
Instead, you can fight.
We can fight my friend.
In that moment I realized that.
I'm gonna continue to feel likecrap, if not even worse if I
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don't fight.
So I can choose for my anxietyand my stresses and worries that
I'm dealing with right now toweigh me down enough to the
point where that just becomes myidentity and I'm enslaved to it.
I'm a victim to it, or I canchoose to fight.
If I want to feel better, if Iwant to improve, if I wanna
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create change, if I want to feellike myself again, the woman
that I know, that God is callingme to be in this life, in this
world, in my home, in mycalling, in my business, then I
need to fight.
Not by your flesh, not by yourown power, but fight by the
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spirit.
Fight by his power, God's power.
Now, it's one thing for me totry to inspire you and be like,
Hey, get up and fight.
You got this?
Go ahead.
No.
Okay.
Because let's be real, whensomeone tries to pour into us to
motivate us or to inspire us toget out of the funk that we're
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in, sometimes it's nice, butother times it that doesn't
work.
Okay?
Because we're too far down deepthat it's gonna take more than
inspirational words to pull usup out of that.
So my hope in this episode isn'tjust to tell you to fight, but I
want to instill.
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A fire in you on how to fight inthe first place.
How can you find the will inyourself to fight the anxiety,
to fight the worry, to fight thestress, to finally have the
confidence and believe that youdon't have to fall victim to
that you can choose to be avictor.
Over that, I'm not gonna lie.
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It's not necessarily easy.
It's not a one and done thing.
It's a gradual process.
It takes patience.
It takes time.
It takes continual effort.
For you to fight and every dayyou get up and you fight in that
battle against your anxiety,your stress, your worries,
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everything that is weighing youdown right now.
When you choose daily to fightthat battle, each day you get
stronger.
Each day your faith grows.
Each day God is working more andmore on your behalf because you
are finally believing in himenough to do so.
And when that happens.
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It's more moments of victory.
It's more moments of feelingvictorious.
It's more moments of feelingcompetent.
It's more moments of being ableto be who God is calling you to
be.
So let's talk about how you canfight my friend.
First thing that I want to say,you need to recognize that any
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shame you feel does not comefrom God Now.
This episode isn't necessarilyabout shame.
It's about no longer fallingvictim to our anxiety and how we
can fight the right fight tobecome victorious over that.
But I do believe that shameplays a part in why we get
anxious and why we hide from Godunintentionally.
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You might feel shameful orguilty about something that you
either have done or somethingthat you are currently not doing
enough of This could be anythingin your personal life, in your
health, in your relationships,in your home, as a mother, as a
friend, as a daughter, as agirlfriend, as a boyfriend.
As a business owner, as acreative, as an employee, as a
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contractor, as a consultant, Iam talking about in all regards,
wherever you feel shame or guiltbased off of what you've done in
the past or what you feel likeyou are not doing enough of
right now, and therefore feelingguilty about that, all that
shame and guilt is going to dois completely disconnect you
from God if you don't go aboutit the right way.
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Why?
Think about it when you feelshameful, when you feel guilty.
There's this sense ofembarrassment that comes with
it.
And when we feel embarrassed, wewant to hide.
We don't want people to see us,to see the things that we've
done or the things that we'renot doing enough of.
We just feel embarrassed by it.
We feel small by it, and we justwanna hide.
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That includes hiding from God.
And when I say hiding, I meanyou just don't want to go to
him.
You are not running to him.
Instead, you are running awayfrom him.
You're not praying, you're nottalking to him like he's your
best friend.
You're not leaning on the HolySpirit's help.
You are just staying siloed inyour funk and you don't mean to,
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you don't want to.
You're just so held down by itthat it's hard.
It is hard to get outta that andrun straight to God rather than
stay in the funk or completelyrun away from him.
There is a difference, myfriend, between shame and
conviction.
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Conviction is this sense ofawareness, this sense of
correction.
When you become knowledgeableabout something you have done or
are currently doing that mightnot be in alignment with God's
will.
God's word, God's calling overyour life.
It is you recognizing that andwanting to repent for that.
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And make a genuine change Versusshame.
Shame is this painful guilt.
It is this painful heavinessthat makes you want to hide.
The enemy will use shame as away to make you feel like you
need to hide from God.
He will use shame to amplify younot being good enough to
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emphasize that you're not doinganything right, that you'll
never get it right.
To try to make you believe thatyour life and just this moment
of what you're feeling rightnow, you're just awful.
Life is awful.
That is not of God.
God wants you to run to him.
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He is right there waiting foryou to just talk about the
things that he already knowsabout you in the past.
The present, he knows it all, sowhy not talk to the person that
is waiting for you right there,lovingly, patiently.
Talk to the person who knowseverything about you and is
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lovingly waiting for you to runinto his arms, express it to him
and work through it with him.
If you feel shameful or guiltyabout your personal issues,
about your delays, about yourperfectionism problems, about
your nonstop depression oranxieties, about your inability
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to be grateful.
About your emotional problems,whatever it is, God is waiting
right there.
We get to decide if we runstraight towards the arms that
are open for us, waiting for us,wanting to hold us, carry us
through this, or if we're gonnarun away from it.
And that's something I had torealize this morning.
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The shame of feeling not goodenough this morning, I had to
realize that that feeling wasnot coming from God.
And if it's not coming from God,I don't want it.
I can choose to not want it.
I can choose to not cling to it.
I can choose for it to not be myreality.
And for me, when I realize thatsomething is not from God, then
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that something is not truth.
I only want truth.
I only wanna live by what'sreal.
Why would I want the fake stuff?
Why would I want the temporarystuff?
I want real?
I want fulfillment.
So why?
If I know that something is notfrom God, why am I going to
cling tight to that like it ismy forever reality?
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Rather than run into God's arms,recognize the truth, and receive
ultimate fulfillment from him,ultimate satisfaction from him,
it's time for you, my friend, towake up and realize.
That, the shame, the negativethoughts, all of the things that
you are feeling right now.
It's not from God.
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God gives you a spirit of power,of love, and of a sound mind.
You get to choose to cl tight tothat spirit rather than any
other negative, toxic spiritthat is trying to clinging to
your life right now.
If it's not from God, then it'snot truth.
And if it's not truth, then whywould you implement false
things, unreal things in yourlife.
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When you do that, you areliterally choosing to live your
life by a facade, not by what'sactually real.
Now, that brings me to my secondthing.
For you to find the will tofight, the anxiety, the stress,
the worries, all of thoseemotions that are overcoming you
so much to the point where youcannot walk in your God-given
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calling.
You cannot get up and go todayor do anything today.
You're struggling to takeaction.
You're struggling to do this.
You're struggling to connectwith God, whatever it is.
This second thing.
Is to recognize that you are notfighting the circumstances in
this world.
You are fighting the spiritualrealm.
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You are fighting things youcan't see that are disguising
themselves as your problems.
You see financial issues.
You see nonstop stress.
You see procrastination.
You see not feeling good enough.
You see issues at your work andyour home being this and all of
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this stuff that you physicallysee the enemy likes to hide.
The enemy likes to hide behindour problems, to the point where
we blame our problems and try tofight our problems with worldly
things and worldly solutions andworldly words.
That have no effect, rather thanfighting the reality of what's
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happening behind that problem,more than likely, which is the
spiritual realm, the enemyhimself trying to attack you, to
prohibit you from becoming whoGod is calling you to be from
doing what God is calling you todo, from healing what God is
calling you to heal from.
So let me ask you this.
If the enemy himself, if thespiritual realm is disguising
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itself as our problems, thenwhat makes us think that any
worldly solution is going tosolve that is going to defeat
that.
You can't fight spiritualbattles with worldly things.
You have to fight spiritualbattles with spiritual things,
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armor of the spirit, those quickremedies, those uh, angry words
that you wanna say to thatperson or to this situation over
here.
Those worldly solutions.
When it comes to a lot of theproblems that you're facing are
going to do nothing incomparison to what happens when
you learn to fight in thespirit.
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Now, that doesn't mean that youdon't put in any effort when it
comes to the solutions you'retrying to bring about.
Right.
You need to put in effort.
You need to actively work onyour healing and do the things
necessary to help you, likegetting therapy, like seeking
community, like implementingbetter habits into your everyday
life.
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And when it comes to your work,you're calling your business.
You have to actively put ineffort, like creating that thing
like time management, likefinally being consistent in this
area.
So that's not what I'm talkingabout when I say worldly
solutions.
I am talking about you trying toimplement those quick remedies.
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You, uh, saying those angrywords to this thing or that
thing that are ultimately gonnahave no effect.
You trying to control thingsthat are completely out of your
control.
All of that worldly stuff isgoing to do nothing to the
spiritual attacks that arehappening in your life.
So fight in the spirit.
Use words of prayer.
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Put on the armor of God,believing that he will fight
with you.
He will fight for you.
He will lead that battle so thatyou and him are victorious over
it.
Now.
Notice how I'm saying the termfight, when you think of
fighting, you think of.
Strength.
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You think of power, you think ofall of your energy.
That is the type of fightingthat I'm talking about in the
spirit.
So when you pray, don't just sayitty bitty little quiet prayers.
Sure.
That's great.
But in addition to that, myfriend, lift your hands up.
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Walk around your houseproclaiming God's truth,
proclaiming what's written inscripture, praying to God about
what it is that you need, whereyou need him to work in your
life, what you need him to workout within you.
Claiming in your home overyourself that the enemy has
absolutely no hold over you.
Anxiety has to go, stress has toleave.
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You worries, have absolutely nocontrol over you because your
faith is found in God, so youhave nothing to worry about.
That is the type of prayer thatI'm talking about, and the only
way for you to find that powerthat comes from the Holy Spirit
within you to fight in prayer,just like how I was mentioning,
is to open up your mouth and tojust start talking.
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It might feel awkward at first.
You might not know what to sayat first, but when you just walk
around your house and starttalking.
Start praying to God, bringinghim into that prayer with you.
The Holy Spirit will build yourconfidence so much through your
words to the point where youfeel yourself becoming stronger.
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You feel yourself becoming morepowerful with your words because
you're allowing the Holy Spiritto speak through you.
That is what I mean when I sayfight.
You being a victim to youranxiety.
Fight that by being a victorsaying powerful prayers
proclaiming that it has nocontrol over you.
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That God is for you.
And if God is for you, thenabsolutely nothing and no one
can be against you and thatincludes the anxiety, the
stress, and the worries that youfeel.
Those.
Things cannot control you.
They cannot be against you.
If God is for you and he is myfriend, you just have to believe
that and you have to use yourspiritual weapons.
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Putting on the armor of Godspeaking those powerful prayers
to fight it, to combat it.
Now, in addition to what I justmentioned, I highly recommend
that you listen to the pastcouple of episodes on the God
Empowered Entrepreneur Podcastbecause in those episodes I dive
deeper into what those spiritualweapons are and how to lean more
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deeply into that so that you canfight the right fight.
It is time, my friend.
Last point that I'll say so thatyou can find the will to fight.
You need to recognize that whenyou finally move the in
fighting, God will move withyou.
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And I think.
A lot of times we need thatreminder.
I know I do, because sometimeswhen I move, when I'm trying to
heal from something, when I'mtrying to get something done,
when I'm trying to overcomesomething, when I'm trying to
accomplish this thing, sometimeswhen I move, it just feels like
I'm doing it alone and it feelslonely.
It feels quiet, it feels hard.
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It feels like nobody understandsit but me, and I'm just kind of
sitting in that pain, sitting inthat journey by myself.
But we need to recognize that aswe move, God is right there
moving with us.
Maybe you don't see it at first.
Maybe you don't feel it atfirst, but I promise you he is
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moving with you.
You take one step, he takesanother, you jump.
He'll jump with you.
He will meet you where you'reat.
Sure.
He might pivot you.
In a different way.
He might redirect you.
He might stop you and have youwait there before taking the
next step.
He might catapult you to takethat next step before you even
felt ready.
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Sure, God is gonna do all ofthose things depending on his
calling over your life.
But my point is that when youmove.
He will move with you.
You're not in it alone.
And for some reason, I neededthat reminder this morning when
I was genuinely just strugglingto get out of bed.
I needed to remember that if Ijust move, if I just get out of
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this bed, even though it's hard,even though I don't want to,
even though I'm struggling withall of these negative thoughts,
if I just move, I'm not movingby myself.
God is moving with me.
I get outta bed.
He's right there.
I go out in the living room andI start praying.
He's right there.
I'm on my knees.
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I'm crying out to him.
He's right there.
I take action in this.
I try to heal from this.
I try to overcome this.
I try to accomplish this thing.
He is right there.
Sometimes we need to bereminded.
That we're not silently walkingthrough this by ourselves.
He's right there with you.
Never changing, always patient,always waiting for you.
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Move.
Get up, decide not to be avictim of your anxiety or stress
or your worries anymore.
And when you do, God is right init with you every step of the
way.
And even when you walk away fromthis episode today and the next
day after the inspiration fromthis episode kind of dies off.
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And the next day or a month fromnow, you're feeling depressed
again.
You're feeling anxious again,and everything that I mention on
this episode goes right out thewindow.
I need you to remember this onething fight.
Remind yourself that one wordfight, and ask yourself in that
moment, how can I fight thisright now?
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How can I take one step infighting, remembering that God
is taking that one step with me.
What can I do right now to fightto find the will to fight?
And if you need a moment to justcry, if you need a moment to
just feel, that's okay, but myfriend, at some point you have
to get up and you have to decideto fight.
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I know that you can.
And more importantly, God knowsthat you can.
He believes that you can.
He's right there waiting for youwhen you do.
Thanks very much for listeningto this episode.
I appreciate you for beingvulnerable with me, for leaning
into the hard stuff and beingopen-minded to create change in
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your life because it is sopossible.
And remember, I am right therein it with you too.
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I didn't want to get up this morning.
(00:02):
I'm gonna be so honest with you.
I did not want to get out of bedthis morning.
I was weighed down by mystresses..
I was weighed down by feelinglike I wasn't good enough.
I was weighed down by all of theloud negativity, screaming in my
mind about every area of mylife, and it was so loud to the
(00:24):
point where I straight up wasjust like.
I don't want to get out of bed.
Hard truth, sad truth, but I'msharing that to kick off this
podcast episode today becausealthough it's hard, although
it's sad, it's very real and Iknow that it is not just my
reality.
From time to time, I know verywell that you, having clicked on
(00:48):
this podcast episode, strugglewith the exact same thing.
So we're gonna talk about thattoday, and I want to talk about
it from a very vulnerable placebecause this isn't just me
preaching at you or teaching youcoming from someone who has
overcame this.
No, my friend, I am stillstruggling with it too.
(01:08):
Every single day.
Have I learned to go about itbetter?
To go about it stronger,absolutely.
But that doesn't mean that I amno longer in the battle and I
want you to open up your eyes tothe possibility that you being
in your own battle.
Can get better, can getstronger.
We together in our own journeyswith God by our sides, can
(01:32):
overcome this.
I had a whole different podcasttopic that I was gonna talk
about today.
I had notes.
It was mapped out in my littleproject management dashboard,
ready to go.
But if you are a frequentlistener, you know very well
that I live by authenticity.
If you're a new listener, you'relearning that for the first
(01:54):
time, my friend.
I don't like the facades.
I don't like to fake things.
So if I woke up this morning andI wasn't feeling like talking
about the topic that I hadplanned today because my mind
was just struggling.
You know what?
Let me pivot.
Let me instead share my ownexperiences as to why my mind
was struggling this morning,because I know that I'm not
(02:16):
alone.
I know that you struggle with ittoo.
And these episodes are meant toshine a light on the very hard
truths, the very real thingsthat we face that are so
difficult in our life, in ourbusiness, in our creative
journeys, in our calling.
Everything in between.
So just five minutes ago, Ipulled out my phone and I
(02:38):
created notes of what I wannatalk about today based off of my
experience this morning, fromsomeone who can relate to you
deeply, my friend.
So that we can overcome thisthing together.
Now, when I was laying in bedand I didn't want to get up, I
was feeling this intense amountof anxiety.
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To the point where I felt all ofthis pressure and the pressure
weighed me down so much to thepoint where I physically was
struggling to get up.
Now, I brought God into thatmoment with me asking him to
help me move, asking him to helpme get up, asking him for his
strength to lean on because Ihad none this morning.
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And as I was bringing God intothis moment with me, I felt this
phrase overcome my spirit.
Was it exactly God's voice?
Maybe?
Was it God's spirit mixed withmy own mental strength coming
in?
Maybe I like to believe that anyounce of inspiration that I feel
or motivation to get out of thefunk that I've been in, I
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always, always love to praiseJesus for that and honor him
with that, because I could nothave ever done it without him.
So that phrase that I felt inthat moment was, you can choose
to no longer be a victim.
Of your anxiety, and that hit mereally hard.
A lot of times when we'reanxious, when we're stressed,
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when we're worried, when we'redepressed, a lot of times we
take that on as an identity of Iam feeling this.
This is just how I am right now.
This is just who I am right now.
It is what it is, but thatmentality is us unintentionally
falling victim.
To our own negative emotions, wecan choose.
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Otherwise, it's not impossibleto choose otherwise.
It's just a matter of believingthat we can, in fact, choose
otherwise and decide that we aregoing to put in the effort no
matter how hard it might feel inthat moment to choose otherwise.
You don't have to be a victim tothis anxiety.
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You don't have to be a slave toit, and therefore not be able to
get up from under it.
You don't have to make thatchoice.
Instead, you can fight.
We can fight my friend.
In that moment I realized that.
I'm gonna continue to feel likecrap, if not even worse if I
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don't fight.
So I can choose for my anxietyand my stresses and worries that
I'm dealing with right now toweigh me down enough to the
point where that just becomes myidentity and I'm enslaved to it.
I'm a victim to it, or I canchoose to fight.
If I want to feel better, if Iwant to improve, if I wanna
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create change, if I want to feellike myself again, the woman
that I know, that God is callingme to be in this life, in this
world, in my home, in mycalling, in my business, then I
need to fight.
Not by your flesh, not by yourown power, but fight by the
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spirit.
Fight by his power, God's power.
Now, it's one thing for me totry to inspire you and be like,
Hey, get up and fight.
You got this?
Go ahead.
No.
Okay.
Because let's be real, whensomeone tries to pour into us to
motivate us or to inspire us toget out of the funk that we're
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in, sometimes it's nice, butother times it that doesn't
work.
Okay?
Because we're too far down deepthat it's gonna take more than
inspirational words to pull usup out of that.
So my hope in this episode isn'tjust to tell you to fight, but I
want to instill.
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A fire in you on how to fight inthe first place.
How can you find the will inyourself to fight the anxiety,
to fight the worry, to fight thestress, to finally have the
confidence and believe that youdon't have to fall victim to
that you can choose to be avictor.
Over that, I'm not gonna lie.
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It's not necessarily easy.
It's not a one and done thing.
It's a gradual process.
It takes patience.
It takes time.
It takes continual effort.
For you to fight and every dayyou get up and you fight in that
battle against your anxiety,your stress, your worries,
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everything that is weighing youdown right now.
When you choose daily to fightthat battle, each day you get
stronger.
Each day your faith grows.
Each day God is working more andmore on your behalf because you
are finally believing in himenough to do so.
And when that happens.
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It's more moments of victory.
It's more moments of feelingvictorious.
It's more moments of feelingcompetent.
It's more moments of being ableto be who God is calling you to
be.
So let's talk about how you canfight my friend.
First thing that I want to say,you need to recognize that any
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shame you feel does not comefrom God Now.
This episode isn't necessarilyabout shame.
It's about no longer fallingvictim to our anxiety and how we
can fight the right fight tobecome victorious over that.
But I do believe that shameplays a part in why we get
anxious and why we hide from Godunintentionally.
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You might feel shameful orguilty about something that you
either have done or somethingthat you are currently not doing
enough of This could be anythingin your personal life, in your
health, in your relationships,in your home, as a mother, as a
friend, as a daughter, as agirlfriend, as a boyfriend.
As a business owner, as acreative, as an employee, as a
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contractor, as a consultant, Iam talking about in all regards,
wherever you feel shame or guiltbased off of what you've done in
the past or what you feel likeyou are not doing enough of
right now, and therefore feelingguilty about that, all that
shame and guilt is going to dois completely disconnect you
from God if you don't go aboutit the right way.
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Why?
Think about it when you feelshameful, when you feel guilty.
There's this sense ofembarrassment that comes with
it.
And when we feel embarrassed, wewant to hide.
We don't want people to see us,to see the things that we've
done or the things that we'renot doing enough of.
We just feel embarrassed by it.
We feel small by it, and we justwanna hide.
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That includes hiding from God.
And when I say hiding, I meanyou just don't want to go to
him.
You are not running to him.
Instead, you are running awayfrom him.
You're not praying, you're nottalking to him like he's your
best friend.
You're not leaning on the HolySpirit's help.
You are just staying siloed inyour funk and you don't mean to,
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you don't want to.
You're just so held down by itthat it's hard.
It is hard to get outta that andrun straight to God rather than
stay in the funk or completelyrun away from him.
There is a difference, myfriend, between shame and
conviction.
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Conviction is this sense ofawareness, this sense of
correction.
When you become knowledgeableabout something you have done or
are currently doing that mightnot be in alignment with God's
will.
God's word, God's calling overyour life.
It is you recognizing that andwanting to repent for that.
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And make a genuine change Versusshame.
Shame is this painful guilt.
It is this painful heavinessthat makes you want to hide.
The enemy will use shame as away to make you feel like you
need to hide from God.
He will use shame to amplify younot being good enough to
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emphasize that you're not doinganything right, that you'll
never get it right.
To try to make you believe thatyour life and just this moment
of what you're feeling rightnow, you're just awful.
Life is awful.
That is not of God.
God wants you to run to him.
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He is right there waiting foryou to just talk about the
things that he already knowsabout you in the past.
The present, he knows it all, sowhy not talk to the person that
is waiting for you right there,lovingly, patiently.
Talk to the person who knowseverything about you and is
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lovingly waiting for you to runinto his arms, express it to him
and work through it with him.
If you feel shameful or guiltyabout your personal issues,
about your delays, about yourperfectionism problems, about
your nonstop depression oranxieties, about your inability
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to be grateful.
About your emotional problems,whatever it is, God is waiting
right there.
We get to decide if we runstraight towards the arms that
are open for us, waiting for us,wanting to hold us, carry us
through this, or if we're gonnarun away from it.
And that's something I had torealize this morning.
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The shame of feeling not goodenough this morning, I had to
realize that that feeling wasnot coming from God.
And if it's not coming from God,I don't want it.
I can choose to not want it.
I can choose to not cling to it.
I can choose for it to not be myreality.
And for me, when I realize thatsomething is not from God, then
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that something is not truth.
I only want truth.
I only wanna live by what'sreal.
Why would I want the fake stuff?
Why would I want the temporarystuff?
I want real?
I want fulfillment.
So why?
If I know that something is notfrom God, why am I going to
cling tight to that like it ismy forever reality?
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Rather than run into God's arms,recognize the truth, and receive
ultimate fulfillment from him,ultimate satisfaction from him,
it's time for you, my friend, towake up and realize.
That, the shame, the negativethoughts, all of the things that
you are feeling right now.
It's not from God.
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God gives you a spirit of power,of love, and of a sound mind.
You get to choose to cl tight tothat spirit rather than any
other negative, toxic spiritthat is trying to clinging to
your life right now.
If it's not from God, then it'snot truth.
And if it's not truth, then whywould you implement false
things, unreal things in yourlife.
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When you do that, you areliterally choosing to live your
life by a facade, not by what'sactually real.
Now, that brings me to my secondthing.
For you to find the will tofight, the anxiety, the stress,
the worries, all of thoseemotions that are overcoming you
so much to the point where youcannot walk in your God-given
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calling.
You cannot get up and go todayor do anything today.
You're struggling to takeaction.
You're struggling to do this.
You're struggling to connectwith God, whatever it is.
This second thing.
Is to recognize that you are notfighting the circumstances in
this world.
You are fighting the spiritualrealm.
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You are fighting things youcan't see that are disguising
themselves as your problems.
You see financial issues.
You see nonstop stress.
You see procrastination.
You see not feeling good enough.
You see issues at your work andyour home being this and all of
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this stuff that you physicallysee the enemy likes to hide.
The enemy likes to hide behindour problems, to the point where
we blame our problems and try tofight our problems with worldly
things and worldly solutions andworldly words.
That have no effect, rather thanfighting the reality of what's
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happening behind that problem,more than likely, which is the
spiritual realm, the enemyhimself trying to attack you, to
prohibit you from becoming whoGod is calling you to be from
doing what God is calling you todo, from healing what God is
calling you to heal from.
So let me ask you this.
If the enemy himself, if thespiritual realm is disguising
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itself as our problems, thenwhat makes us think that any
worldly solution is going tosolve that is going to defeat
that.
You can't fight spiritualbattles with worldly things.
You have to fight spiritualbattles with spiritual things,
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armor of the spirit, those quickremedies, those uh, angry words
that you wanna say to thatperson or to this situation over
here.
Those worldly solutions.
When it comes to a lot of theproblems that you're facing are
going to do nothing incomparison to what happens when
you learn to fight in thespirit.
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Now, that doesn't mean that youdon't put in any effort when it
comes to the solutions you'retrying to bring about.
Right.
You need to put in effort.
You need to actively work onyour healing and do the things
necessary to help you, likegetting therapy, like seeking
community, like implementingbetter habits into your everyday
life.
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And when it comes to your work,you're calling your business.
You have to actively put ineffort, like creating that thing
like time management, likefinally being consistent in this
area.
So that's not what I'm talkingabout when I say worldly
solutions.
I am talking about you trying toimplement those quick remedies.
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You, uh, saying those angrywords to this thing or that
thing that are ultimately gonnahave no effect.
You trying to control thingsthat are completely out of your
control.
All of that worldly stuff isgoing to do nothing to the
spiritual attacks that arehappening in your life.
So fight in the spirit.
Use words of prayer.
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Put on the armor of God,believing that he will fight
with you.
He will fight for you.
He will lead that battle so thatyou and him are victorious over
it.
Now.
Notice how I'm saying the termfight, when you think of
fighting, you think of.
Strength.
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You think of power, you think ofall of your energy.
That is the type of fightingthat I'm talking about in the
spirit.
So when you pray, don't just sayitty bitty little quiet prayers.
Sure.
That's great.
But in addition to that, myfriend, lift your hands up.
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Walk around your houseproclaiming God's truth,
proclaiming what's written inscripture, praying to God about
what it is that you need, whereyou need him to work in your
life, what you need him to workout within you.
Claiming in your home overyourself that the enemy has
absolutely no hold over you.
Anxiety has to go, stress has toleave.
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You worries, have absolutely nocontrol over you because your
faith is found in God, so youhave nothing to worry about.
That is the type of prayer thatI'm talking about, and the only
way for you to find that powerthat comes from the Holy Spirit
within you to fight in prayer,just like how I was mentioning,
is to open up your mouth and tojust start talking.
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It might feel awkward at first.
You might not know what to sayat first, but when you just walk
around your house and starttalking.
Start praying to God, bringinghim into that prayer with you.
The Holy Spirit will build yourconfidence so much through your
words to the point where youfeel yourself becoming stronger.
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You feel yourself becoming morepowerful with your words because
you're allowing the Holy Spiritto speak through you.
That is what I mean when I sayfight.
You being a victim to youranxiety.
Fight that by being a victorsaying powerful prayers
proclaiming that it has nocontrol over you.
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That God is for you.
And if God is for you, thenabsolutely nothing and no one
can be against you and thatincludes the anxiety, the
stress, and the worries that youfeel.
Those.
Things cannot control you.
They cannot be against you.
If God is for you and he is myfriend, you just have to believe
that and you have to use yourspiritual weapons.
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Putting on the armor of Godspeaking those powerful prayers
to fight it, to combat it.
Now, in addition to what I justmentioned, I highly recommend
that you listen to the pastcouple of episodes on the God
Empowered Entrepreneur Podcastbecause in those episodes I dive
deeper into what those spiritualweapons are and how to lean more
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deeply into that so that you canfight the right fight.
It is time, my friend.
Last point that I'll say so thatyou can find the will to fight.
You need to recognize that whenyou finally move the in
fighting, God will move withyou.
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And I think.
A lot of times we need thatreminder.
I know I do, because sometimeswhen I move, when I'm trying to
heal from something, when I'mtrying to get something done,
when I'm trying to overcomesomething, when I'm trying to
accomplish this thing, sometimeswhen I move, it just feels like
I'm doing it alone and it feelslonely.
It feels quiet, it feels hard.
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It feels like nobody understandsit but me, and I'm just kind of
sitting in that pain, sitting inthat journey by myself.
But we need to recognize that aswe move, God is right there
moving with us.
Maybe you don't see it at first.
Maybe you don't feel it atfirst, but I promise you he is
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moving with you.
You take one step, he takesanother, you jump.
He'll jump with you.
He will meet you where you'reat.
Sure.
He might pivot you.
In a different way.
He might redirect you.
He might stop you and have youwait there before taking the
next step.
He might catapult you to takethat next step before you even
felt ready.
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Sure, God is gonna do all ofthose things depending on his
calling over your life.
But my point is that when youmove.
He will move with you.
You're not in it alone.
And for some reason, I neededthat reminder this morning when
I was genuinely just strugglingto get out of bed.
I needed to remember that if Ijust move, if I just get out of
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this bed, even though it's hard,even though I don't want to,
even though I'm struggling withall of these negative thoughts,
if I just move, I'm not movingby myself.
God is moving with me.
I get outta bed.
He's right there.
I go out in the living room andI start praying.
He's right there.
I'm on my knees.
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I'm crying out to him.
He's right there.
I take action in this.
I try to heal from this.
I try to overcome this.
I try to accomplish this thing.
He is right there.
Sometimes we need to bereminded.
That we're not silently walkingthrough this by ourselves.
He's right there with you.
Never changing, always patient,always waiting for you.
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Move.
Get up, decide not to be avictim of your anxiety or stress
or your worries anymore.
And when you do, God is right init with you every step of the
way.
And even when you walk away fromthis episode today and the next
day after the inspiration fromthis episode kind of dies off.
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And the next day or a month fromnow, you're feeling depressed
again.
You're feeling anxious again,and everything that I mention on
this episode goes right out thewindow.
I need you to remember this onething fight.
Remind yourself that one wordfight, and ask yourself in that
moment, how can I fight thisright now?
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How can I take one step infighting, remembering that God
is taking that one step with me.
What can I do right now to fightto find the will to fight?
And if you need a moment to justcry, if you need a moment to
just feel, that's okay, but myfriend, at some point you have
to get up and you have to decideto fight.
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I know that you can.
And more importantly, God knowsthat you can.
He believes that you can.
He's right there waiting for youwhen you do.
Thanks very much for listeningto this episode.
I appreciate you for beingvulnerable with me, for leaning
into the hard stuff and beingopen-minded to create change in
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your life because it is sopossible.
And remember, I am right therein it with you too.
Now, just to wrap up thisepisode, if you are looking for
more powerful inspiration likethis and you want to apply it to
your entrepreneurial spirit thanmy friend, I.
I got a treat for you.
I am hosting a free two dayMastermind, keyword free two day
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mastermind, teaching you aboutthe mindset, the marketing and
the money strategies to build asuccessful online business God's
way.
I wanna teach you how to do itwithout the stress.
I wanna teach you how to do itwithout the anxiety.
I wanna teach you how to do itin a way that builds clarity and
confidence in you to the pointwhere you finally believe that
you can do this, you have thenecessary things in place to do
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what God is calling you to dowhen it comes to
entrepreneurship.
So if you're wanting to start anonline business, if you have a
passion for coaching, forcontent, for community-based
offerings and wanting to make animpact in the online world with
it, then this free mastermindtraining is for you.
I'd love to have you there.
I had love to continue pouringinto your spirit and setting
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your mindset up for success todo this thing because I know you
can.
If you're interested, you canhead down to the show notes
right down below where you'relistening to this episode or in
the YouTube description downbelow if you're watching it
there.
I hope to see you in the FreeMastermind and to meet with you
personally.
Again, thanks so much forwatching, and I'll see you next
week.
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