303 Obedience Over Perfection

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When I was, you know, a full-time school administrator and I was hustling and working hard and and I I was exhausted and I was drained and I was I was successful, but at the end of the day, I was not fulfilled.
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I was not um it there was just no gratification in that.
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It was just again getting through the to-do list, getting through the checklist.
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Now it's it's stepping into a known territory and saying, okay, God, I have no idea what I'm doing here.
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I'm not totally sure where this is going, but I'm trusting you.
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Where are my perfectionists at?
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All right, raise your hand if it's you ladies.
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There's a lot of you out there.
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You are paralyzed.
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You have analysis paralysis, you don't know what to do, and you're afraid you're not going to do it perfectly.
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So you just don't do it, right?
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This conversation is for you today, I promise you.
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And if you're not a perfectionist, if you're like, no, I'm not afraid to dive in and do stuff, but maybe you're a dabbler, maybe you're like, let me try this, let me try that, and you're not a follow-through, right?
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I'm just calling out everybody today.
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And there's a little bit of me, you know, there's that scenario in me in all the ways.
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And I think we just have to get truthful with ourselves.
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So today I want you to start asking how do I tackle my health issues?
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Am I a dabbler?
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Am I a perfectionist, or am I a denier?
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Do I just continue to cover up the symptoms deeper and deeper and ignore them and push through and act like everything's well while inside I am just crumbling and falling apart?
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I would say those are the most three common scenarios.
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And we're gonna tackle these today because the truth shall set you free.
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You need to know what the heck is going on in your head and in your body.
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And the sooner that you can be honest with your situation, the sooner you can climb out of the pit.
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So, hi, Ashley.
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Hey there.
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How's it going?
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Which one do you resonate with?
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Um, you know what?
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I'm probably gonna have to say, um, man, I guess I would have to probably say obedience over perfection.
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Like I'm I am trying to be more obedient than perfect.
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Oh, good.
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So you're already talking about the solution.
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Okay.
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Yeah, I am going straight for it because I feel like it's easier.
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So um I said this on a call a couple weeks ago, but it's easier to perform for God than to sit still for God.
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And so that is what I am.
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I'm a performer, I'm a perfectionist.
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Like, let's just do it, let's just get it done.
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And I'm not great of just like sitting, being still, and being in the moment.
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So I'm really working on it, but it's a struggle.
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I'm so proud of you.
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I mean, that is step one is figuring out how you are showing up, you know.
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And if you really want to get deep into it, you can uncover like why you show up that way.
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And we know why you show up that way.
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We've done the deeper work, you know.
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I think that was why it was easy for me to go to solution.
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I should probably say that.
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There's been months, years of work behind me being able to just be like, this is what I'm doing.
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I know what I'm doing.
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Yes, thank you for sharing that because some women are like, I don't know what's wrong with me, you know.
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And the truth of it is, Ashley and I have done a lot of identity work, um, that deeper work.
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So with experts, like we're not just doing this on our own.
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We have mentors, and I think it's really important that you always seek out wisdom from someone who has been through what you're going through, who um has godly wisdom, who can speak life into you.
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And so we have those mentors, but we are also those mentors for other women.
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And that is the beautiful thing.
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When I think of Jesus and the disciples, like the whole point of him asking them to hang out with him for three years was not just so that they could get healed and figure their life out, it was to go and do the work, spreading the gospel and continuing to share that wisdom and pass it on.
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And so we are called to do that.
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We we absolutely are, and part of it is doing it when you're in the mess, when you've healed from some of it, because the truth is you never arrive.
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There is a next layer, I promise you, it's like an onion.
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God will reveal the next layer when you're ready to handle it, and so that's why I'm excited about talking to our coach today, Marilyn, because she's like the epitome of being honest with herself, admitting, hey, I'm a perfectionist, I'm I failed, I might as well give up.
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But choosing to be obedient instead.
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And when she joined our coaching academy, like she just seemed heavy and not in a physical sense, although she was carrying extra weight, she'll say that.
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But like her spirit was heavy, it was burdened, it was covered up, and by the time she graduated, she was just like glowing and beautiful, and there's uh she was also in a transition season, too.
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So, what she's gonna share about as well.
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Yes, oh my gosh, so much good stuff.
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Yeah, and that was one of the reasons that we created the coaching academy, was because we knew women, we needed other women to help us up with this mission, but we wanted to be able to pour into them.
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And so our coaching academy is not like anything else that's out there because it's not like, hey, graduate, best of luck, be on your own.
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I coached several years by myself doing different stuff, and that was what we changed with our coaching academy was no, we are mentoring these women every single week.
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Yeah.
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So I'm excited to hear about her journey, and I promise you, for all of those who are listening, you're going to get something out of Marilyn's story because she is at a time in her life that many of you are.
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And even if you aren't yet, I want you to be listening because six months from now, a year from now, you're gonna be going through something and you're gonna be like, wait a second, Marilyn said something about that.
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And you might have to come back and listen to the episode again, or Holy Spirit might just replay it for you in your mind.
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But I promise that this episode is for you.
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So welcome, Marilyn.
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Hi, thank you.
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Oh my gosh, you look so beautiful.
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Thank you so much.
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And you have your Fast of Faith coach necklace on.
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They get those when they graduate.
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I love that.
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Love it.
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Oh my goodness.
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So how did you find us?
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Why are you here, Marilyn?
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Tell us all the things.
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Um, well, you know, always been searching, always been searching for what do I need to do to be healthier, but even more so my focus was on weight loss.
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So I was always looking for programs, always listening to podcasts, always, you know, finding the next book, the next whatever the case may be, and trying all different things.
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And that led me to, I think it's only about a year now when um you did the the uh midlife reset um summit, and that's how I came to find listening to you and listening to all the different experts there.
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And um something just kept calling me back to fast to faith, and and I just I couldn't ignore it.
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I couldn't ignore it.
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I I just you know, I was like, well, you know, it's it's just another program.
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But something about it just kept drawing me to it and drawing me to it.
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And I started with the five, you know, the the five-day challenge.
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And before I even finished that, I was like, this is not enough.
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This is not it, there's something else, you know, and then eventually jumped on the uh 40-day program, and um, and that's when things started to kind of reveal themselves to me, and and God started to work in me.
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Um, that is just not just another program, but it is it's it's gonna change your life.
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Yeah, Jesus says, man shall not live on bread alone, right?
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So when we continue to search out weight loss programs and programs that are of this world, they're not going to satisfy, they're not gonna give you sustainable, lasting results because at the core of all of us, there is a void that we need to feed with Jesus.
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We need that daily bread.
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And when he downloaded Fast of Faith to me, and he's like, I want women to meditate on my word every single day and eat that first thing before they eat any actual physical food, like that's what's gonna heal them.
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I'll be honest, I didn't know if I believed it at the time.
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You know, this is probably four or five years ago at this point.
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I I've lost track of time, but I trusted that God never lies and that his word is true.
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And so I went with it, and women started saying what you were saying, like, oh my gosh, something's different.
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I can't pinpoint it necessarily.
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Like, yeah, we're doing a macro plan, we're carb cycling, we're doing an anti-inflammatory diet, we're doing an intermittent fasting protocol and deeper healing fasting protocols, but you can do that with all kinds of people.
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Like those programs are out there.
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Fast of faith is different because you are getting fed by God every morning when you wake up, and then you aren't searching and trying to fill that void, and so the cravings fall away, all the things, right?
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Real quick, I just want to interrupt this conversation for something super important.
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Even though we need to take care of ourselves spiritually, emotionally, and physically, we do have to take care of ourselves at a cellular level.
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And that is why I have my Fast to Face supplement line.
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So let's just take a minute to hear about something that might be the game changer that you need in this season.
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We really need to up-level how we're taking care of our temple.
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I used to treat mine like a garbage can, I will just be honest.
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And I'm not okay with that anymore.
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So this is one of the most important things to me is that I'm taking high-quality supplements that are actually doing what they say they're doing, and I'm getting my money's worth, and I'm not making my body worse by putting the wrong stuff in it.
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So let's talk about Hormone Tame Essential Multivitamin, because even though it gives you all the vitamins and minerals you need, there's extra goodness in there, isn't there?
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I think you have a bottle sitting next to you.
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Tell us about Hormone Tame.
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Hormone Tame is five products in one.
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Um, if you listen to the the other episode, one of the things that we talked about is oftentimes, you know, women are people were taking a lot of supplements.
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And the nice thing about a lot of the um supplements that we have here at Fast of Faith is that they're they're just so consolidated, where you could take this and you are basically taking five products.
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So, yes, this is gonna be a multivitamin, but there is so much more.
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We actually kind of refer to it as a multivitamin on um steroids.
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One of the key things that this is gonna be helping is your mitochondria.
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All you need to know is that they are responsible for so many systems and processes in your body.
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The reason that we need supplements is because we're just supplementing areas that we just can't really kind of get with our food.
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So we're filling in those gaps.
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And so hormone tame is inviting the body to just fill in all of those gaps.
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So you gotta fill those gaps, and hormone tame it will help to do that.
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I grew up with a very strong faith foundation.
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So I did all those things, but it was a checklist.
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It was getting up in the morning and and yes, I exercise just about every day, which I still do.
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And I did spend time in the Word, and I would pray, but it was just things that I did in isolation, and I did them as as a part of my checklist, as part of my everyday to-do list.
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And then as soon as I finished, I put the Bible on the shelf, I put the exercise checklist, you know, I checked that off, and I went off with my day.
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And then, you know, the stressors come, and then things happen, and your day gets derailed, and then it was right back to old habits again.
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So everything was I was doing things in isolation.
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And and what I learned through Fast of Faith, which really, really made all the difference, was that I am a whole person and that all of me, it's all of me.
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God wants all of me.
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He doesn't want me, you know, he doesn't want just the just the spiritual part of me.
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He wants all of me.
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He wants my health, he's in there, he's in the work that I do, he's in my my home and my marriage and my my role as a mom.
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Um, he's in all of it.
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And and speaking back to the perfection piece, it's I felt that I had to arrive at perfection before God would bless me.
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You know, and and that was a huge shift for me because I I didn't feel worthy.
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I didn't feel worthy.
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Like I, you know, like God's not gonna give me what I want because I didn't exercise today, or because I didn't have time to um, you know, to read the Bible, or sometimes I ran out of time in the morning and I was praying in the car because I didn't have time to do it at home, and I just felt like, well, that's not getting anywhere.
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You know, but but it's not that I have to arrive at perfection.
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God wants me now and and whole and and he loves me as I am, he never asked me to be perfect.
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Yeah.
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So that that's been a huge shift for me in my life and coming to God with who I am, this is who I am, this is what I have to give, and giving him my all, regardless of what that looks like, and knowing that he will take that and he will work in that and he will continue to refine me every day.
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That is literally the oldest lie in the book that we believe as humans.
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You read the Old Testament, it's all about I am, you know, not clean enough, I'm not good enough.
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Like you can get lost in the book of Deuteronomy and Leviticus trying to be perfect and fulfill the law so that you can come to God.
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And that's literally why he had to send Jesus, because we are not capable of being perfect, we are not worthy, we cannot do it of our own fruition, it's not even possible.
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And so I think as soon as we start inviting Jesus in and saying, wash us, make us clean, make us a new creation in you, like that's when everything starts to shift.
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And it's not about religion, it's not about anything like that.
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This is about your relationship with your savior who is actually changing who you are, mind, body, and soul.
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So we talk in, I would even say preach a lot about the fact that you have to renew your mind and that this is a surrender to your God, and that when you take that position of, I'm not gonna try and figure this out on my own, I'm not gonna push and hustle and try harder and starve myself more, I'm just gonna surrender.
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I'm just gonna get on my knees, I'm gonna, you know, repent and accept the love, the free gift that has been given to me, and realize I don't have to be worthy, I don't have to be perfect to receive this gift.
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Um then everything can start to shift.
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So, what does that look like now for you on the day today?
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Yeah, so surrender is a big one, right?
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Because I say I surrender, I'm like, oh, I surrender, and I would sing the surrender song, and I was all about surrender, but but I was still in, I was still trying to control.
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You know, I am a little person, and it was okay, God, here's how, you know, here's what I'm praying for, and then by the way, I'm gonna tell you kind of like how I want you to do it, you know, that that or here's how I think it would be a good way to do it.
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But you know, surrender now means that I am doing things that I never thought I would do because I never thought I was qualified, you know, I never thought I was equipped, and and surrender in obedience to God means doing things that even though I don't feel ready, but God is calling me.
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And I and I know now, I know now that God has been calling me for some time.
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When I was, you know, a full-time school administrator and I was hustling and working hard and and I I was exhausted and I was drained and I was I was successful, but at the end of the day, I was not fulfilled.
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I was not um it's there was just no gratification in that.
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It was just again getting through the to-do list, getting through the checklist, being that person who had managed everything, who managed all of it and did well at it.
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Now it's it's stepping into a known territory and saying, okay, God, I have no idea what I'm doing here.
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I'm not totally sure where this is going, but I'm trusting you.
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I'm I'm letting it go and I'm going to do this.
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I'm gonna stand up in front of people and talk, although I don't necessarily have all the words, but God, you've called me into that.
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Um and and it's just not being perfect, not worrying about perfection, not worrying about having to have it all and put together before I start doing what God is calling me to do.
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He's calling me now, he's not saying when.
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He's telling me that he wants to walk with me now.
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He's not waiting at the perfection line for me to get there.
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And and I have this different image, you know, and I've also changed the way I view my identity.
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I I'm now more Christ-centered in my identity.
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So the things that I do now are more focused on my identity.
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You know, God calls me fearfully and wonderfully made.
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He calls me to be bold and courageous.
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He calls me, you know, he commands me, you know, have I not commanded you, you know, to not be afraid that he will be with me.
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So now that means that I am doing it now and not waiting to whatever goal I had set for myself in the past.
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Absolutely.
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And I think Jesus tells the story of Martha and Mary using women on purpose because we need to hear this message more than men.
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We are multitaskers, we are doing it all.
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We're, you know, I love men, but they just they do one thing at a time, usually.
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They're focused on it, and that's why they're so amazing at it.
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Whereas we're just trying to like do all the things and and we're losing our mind over it.
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And Martha's like, Jesus, why don't you tell Mary to help me?
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Like, I'm struggling over here.
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I can't finish this by myself.
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And Jesus is like, no, Martha, Mary's sitting here listening to me.
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She's doing what is good and right.
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You're over there being cray cray, you know.
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Like, I think it's really important for us to realize that more than anything, Jesus does not want us producing and performing.
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He wants us at his feet, listening, taking him in, having a relationship, getting to know who he is in our lives.
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And if we can get into that posture every day, like we literally become unstoppable.
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There was a study that showed people who prayed or read the word.
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It was they studied people who listened to the word or read the word one time a week.
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So they went to church diligently every week, they had no change in their lives.
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People who read the word two to three times a week, minimal change in outcomes.
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People who were in the word the majority of the week, so more than four times a week, they actually had decreases in anxiety, in depression, in um alcoholism, and all these other addictions.
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Like they had positive benefits because the word was getting into their mind and actually renewing it and changing their identity, like Marilyn is saying.
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That is what it comes down to.
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You need to start to see yourself through God's eyes.
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And if you continue to just be of this world, I'm sorry, but Satan is the ruler of this world.
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That is clear in the Bible.
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He took Jesus to the high mountain and said, I rule all of this, I'll give it to you if you'll bow down to me.
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And Jesus said, It is written and used the word.
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Like we have got to get in the word so that we can have authority over our lives and denounce Satan, you know, in relation.
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To what we're doing on this earth.
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So to me, it's just foundational.
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And you're such a beautiful example of, I don't know if I fully buy into this.
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I've tried a hundred things.
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Um, I don't know if it's gonna work, but I'm gonna try something different this time.
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And now you're paying it forward.
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You are coaching other women.
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Please share with us one of your clients' success stories because women need to hear that it it wasn't just some fluke thing that happened to you.
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Like literally, this is for everyone, right?
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Jesus is calling you.
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Yeah, totally, totally.
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I totally agree with that.
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I I, you know, I I coached one woman um that I still keep in touch with, which is really lovely.
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Um, but I I just I saw the transformation happen before my eyes.
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I I was truly not expecting that.
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You know, I thought, well, I'm gonna go through the motions, I'm gonna do what I'm supposed to do and what I was trained to do.
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You know, and as the weeks went on, I could see her.
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When I would see her, I saw the just like a lightness to her, I saw like a just a glow to her.
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And in addition to, you know, weight loss, which is one of the big, you know, typical um goals that women have.
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But she said to me things like, I am so in tune with the Holy Spirit.
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She said to me things like, I just feel so good, I feel so light, and not just physically, I feel so light in my mind and in my heart, and I am just really deeply connected with the Holy Spirit.
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And then she said that, you know, other women started asking her, her friends, like, what are you doing or what's going on?
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What's different about you?
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You know, and and that was just that was just so, again, so much more gratifying, fulfilling than anything that I did when I was, you know, in in my full-time um career.
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Um, it was it was just lovely.
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And and I look forward to meeting with her, you know, like it was, I don't think the the women that we coach realize our clients realize this, at least for me, but you know, I I am they're coming to me and I'm providing a service, but what they don't realize is that they're giving me so much.
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I'm getting so much from them just as well.
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You know, so it's not just one-sided, it's not just me coaching them.
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I hear their stories and it just it just lifts me up.
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It fills me and and it encourages me.
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And I come out of my, you know, my coaching sessions, and I'm just I have so much energy and I'm just so excited to see and to hear their stories.
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It's it's been amazing.
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It's it's been amazing just being able to walk alongside these women and knowing and being able to say, I know how you feel, I understand, and then watching the transformation happen right before my eyes.
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I I love it.
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I think about how Jesus said, I didn't come to be served, I came to serve.
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Like he was a different kind of king.
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And when you step out in service and you give of yourself to others and you lift them up and you bring them closer to Jesus, it is like the most fulfilling, wonderfully selfish thing you can do.
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And I don't think people realize it until they actually start to serve, right?
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And it's so powerful.
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And you're like, man, I want to keep doing this because you get to see the fruits, you get to see this woman heal and transform.
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And you're like, yes, this is so good.
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So I would love for Ashley to talk about that a little bit because you get to see all the testimonials come in before I see them.
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And like, I feel like not a day goes by when we're not celebrating something.
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It's so good.
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Yeah, it is.
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And I have a super unique position, and we have started to empower our coaches in the same way.
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So I have been blessed over the last 18 months to do our discovery calls.
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And when I do those discovery calls, I get to meet the women, and then they either join our medical practice or they come and do fast of faith.
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And I no longer coach them, but I am giving our coaches women to coach.
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And it is really cool to see them on a discovery call.
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And then whether it's six weeks or six months or a year later, see them again and watch them on the Monday calls just come alive.
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And so I know Marilyn has someone right now that started as a five-day challenge lead who came in and Marilyn coached her through the five-day challenge because that is something that we do now.
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And so then now she's coaching her through the 40-day.
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And I just think that transformation from the very beginning to midway point and all the different things, and just to see them come alive.
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And I will be honest and tell you that I could give two craps about how much weight they lose.
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For me, it's watching their spirit and all, and a lot of times we're just coaching on Zoom, so all we see is their face, but you can tell in someone's face how much they've changed.
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And I love that.
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I love when they come on Monday calls and they get to talk and they share and they go from like never speaking to speaking all the time.
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And it's just it's a really powerful, like unexplainable change that women have.
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And it's it is obviously women come to lose weight, but that's not why they stay.
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It isn't.
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And it it really isn't.
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It's the community, it's the sisterhood, and it is that it's the testimony that they get.
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But it it is going to be work, and there's gonna be a test, and that's how you get your testimony, and that's what we get.
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And so I I do love when we get testimonies, but it's just really cool to see.
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So, Marilyn, I don't know if you want to speak to that at all, but I know you've got to walk women from the very beginning of like, yes, they said yes, but then getting them across the finish line.
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Yeah, it's been wonderful.
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It is, and and and it's a it's a quiet yes sometimes.
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It's like, I think so, maybe, you know, I'm um okay, I'll try kind of thing.
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You know, and then it's you know, just again, that first meeting, it's they they usually have more questions about um the practical stuff, you know, like again, the weight loss, or you know, how do I meal plan or what exactly is a macro, or how do I, you know, how do I prepare my dish or things like that.
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And then it changes to, you know, more like, oh, this morning while I was praying, I felt this, or you know, I sensed that.
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So it just changes.
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And I feel that when when we put our focus into changing our mind and really getting into the word and really starting our day with with prayer, which I highly recommend to everybody, then the other stuff just sort of falls into place, you know, and and and the conversations starts to change.
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It becomes more about the spiritual and more about learning more about God, and more about just really being just in tune with the Holy Spirit.
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So that by the time they get to the end of the their program and in their six weeks, they're just they're giving me so much.
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They're they're again, they are they're just filling me up with their stories and all that they're sensing.
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And and they tell me things like, oh, my marriage feels better, you know, or I'm having a better relationship with my my adult child, or you know, things like that.
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Um, I have more energy, or I was able to help my mom move, and I went up and down the stairs and I didn't feel tired.
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Like those are the things that the wins that you get that are really you didn't expect that because again, you came with the quiet yes to what you thought maybe was another weight loss program.
00:31:30.829 --> 00:31:39.230
Yeah, and you said yes to the five-day challenge, and when you did the five-day challenge, you didn't actually get a coach because that wasn't something we were doing at the time.
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So now that you you did the five-day challenge yourself by yourself, and now as a coach and you get a coach and you've got to coach women, talk a little bit about the importance of doing that five-day challenge if your yes is so low, it's almost a no, and you're like, I don't know where to start.
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Talk about the five-day challenge a little bit.
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Yeah, the five-day challenge, it's it's it's honestly it's a teaser because you start and you're like, okay, what is this?
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I want more.
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Wait, there's only five days of this, you know, and and and you really, I mean, although it is small and it's short, it is enough to give you a sense of what can be, what can be, you know, and to have a coach walk alongside you, to have someone that you could reach out to with your questions, to know that genuinely, you know, I am praying for my clients, post, past, you know, and and and and future, you know, all of them, your present ones, all of them.
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I pray for them, I pray for them by name, you know.
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So I am in your corners.
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So having that coach, having that person there with you and connecting with that person just makes it so much more real.
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It just means that this is truly forever.
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This is not, again, it's not something that you're just vying and then you're gonna put on a shelf and move on.
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You are going in deep, you're going all in and expect a transformation.
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Expect your life to be transformed.
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I came for the weight loss, but the transformation is what really has kept me here and made me go from the 40-day to becoming, you know, a coach, to go into that program.
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Um, and even honestly, sort of encouraging me to retire from, you know, from from being a school administrator, which I didn't think I would be doing this soon.
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Um but I just got God called me and and and and was speaking to me through that while I was going through the coaching academy.
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And it was, I just kept asking the same questions over and over again.
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And what the Lord was telling me was like, I've already answered you.
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Now it's time for you to follow through and step into it.
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So good.
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And if you're listening and you're not even sure that you hear from God, or if you've never read your Bible, if you don't even own a Bible, or if you have church hurt and you know the stories of the Bible, but you're not sure the promises are for you.
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Like if you are in any of those spaces, you're in good company.
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That's 99% of people.
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Almost nobody has complete faith and believes that what God has promised is actually for them.
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We all have this little voice inside that says, we're not worthy, we're not good enough, we don't deserve the love of Jesus.
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And I'm here to tell you that is a lie straight from the pit of hell.
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John 10:10 says that the enemy comes to steal, kill, and destroy.
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He is coming to destroy our dreams, kill our plans, and kill you physically in your body.
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And he will do it in such a sneaky way.
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He is a total snake, he is a counterfeit, he will pretend and he will keep you in the pit.
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He knows what keeps you stuck.
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It's like crazy how his playbook is so simple, but he knows what your weakness is.
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For me, darn it all, it's ice cream.
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He knows how to tempt me with the ice cream and distract me.
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It's like that simple.
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Some some people, it's pornography, shopping, alcohol.
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I just need that cocktail at five o'clock to unwind.
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Like those are all tools and tactics to slowly just destroy you.
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But I promise you, Jesus said he came to give you life and life to the full.
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Like, period, end of story.
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Yes, you get amazing salvation if you claim Jesus as your savior in your next life.
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That is not what I'm talking about.
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I'm talking about here and now, this rough world that we live in, all the stress that you are going through, you can actually enjoy it and you can like have an abundant, full life that you just want to praise him and sing from the mountaintops, like Marilyn is saying, if you choose to walk with Jesus, like you get two choices.
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Like you're either walking in darkness or you're walking in light, and we can teach you how to walk in the light, we can teach you how to hear from him, we can teach you how to read the Bible.
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I personally was intimidated by the Bible.
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Like, where do you even start in that huge thing?
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It's it doesn't even make any sense.
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But it is literally alive and active.
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It is God inspired and he will talk to you through the word.
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Jesus is the word.
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So you're talking to Jesus.
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So I would encourage you today, if you have gotten to this point in the episode, God wants you in fast of faith.
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Like that's the truth of it, right, Marilyn?
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Don't ignore it.
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Do not ignore it.
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Because I I, again, I I kept hearing it and I kept sensing it, and I kept saying, Oh, I'm just, you know, I tend to hyper focus on things or I'm getting a little bit obsessed with this, you know.
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Um, but I kept felling, I kept feeling that pull, that that pull, you know, and I kept going back to it.
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And honestly, it's the best decision I've ever made.
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You know, even in my mid-50s, I I feel better now than I have in decades.
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Um, I just feel a sense of of just calm and the way I approach things, the way I get up, the way I go to bed, the way I sleep, all of it is just very grounded and centered on God's peace and his presence.
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You know, and and I I again making decisions now from that that place rather than trying to check off a to-do list or being overly productive or um you know, feeling like I have to do it all, it doesn't have to be that way.
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You know, I I am slowly learning to let go of these things and and just truly live my life from a place where I'm centered on what the Lord wants and starting my days with God.
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What do you want from me today?
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You know, what what are you what do you want me to do?
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What do you want me to go?
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What do you want me to say?
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And just really being in tune, you know, and and doing it outside, by the way, is something else that I learned.
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You know, I I start my days because I can now.
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I don't leave the house when it's still dark.
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So I can actually sit outside for a few minutes, literally put my feet in the grass and just stop and listen and just pause.
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You know, just take a breath.
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Take a breath.
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But if you're here and you're listening to this, it's not just another program.
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It's it's transformational, it's it's a life, it's just a lifelong change that that will ripple.
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It will have ripple effects, you know, from your husband asking you, you know, oh, what are you eating?
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Can I have some of that?
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Or, you know, I mean, I got my son kind of dabbling into the meals as well.
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So it it's starting to have an it's starting to take some ripple, you know, starting to really have an impact.
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People around me asking me, you know, what's going on with you?
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Why do you look different?
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Or you seem so much more calm, or you know, you look like you lost some weight, or you know, just really seeing that and hearing that has been so, so encouraging and it reinforces that I know I made the right decision.
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I I love all that.
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I also want to ask you a question about the accountability piece because this, as you go through these transitions and you're you're doing all this transformation work, it is gonna be hard.
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And there are gonna be days where you don't want to do it.
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And you signed up and you got a coach.
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So tell me a little bit about your relationship now with your coach still, and um, what the Monday calls that we do as a sisterhood, and then we also have a coaching call that we do once a week, too.
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So tell us a little bit about the importance of those pieces that are built into this program, too.
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That is the game changer as well.
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I mean, uh, you know, aside from the spiritual piece and the lecture divine and those kind of practices, but having the women there in your corner and with you.
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So, yeah, I still stay in touch with my coach.
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We check in every once in a while, you know, and and we'll just go back and forth and say, you know, what's going on.
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And even if I'm struggling, I'll say, you know, I'm had a rough couple of days, and and you know, just give getting her encouragement is just amazing.
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The Monday calls, when I was going through the 40-day program, I started taking off work on Mondays to be able to join the Monday calls.
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Like I literally was like, oh, I can't be here on Monday.
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Um, I've got something to do.
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You know, I I I just I literally planned my don't tell anybody that I mean I guess it's all I literally planned my days around that.
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It was it was sacred to me because I needed that.
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I needed to get into that group and get that energy and and that boost and that encouragement and listen to other women's stories and say, you know what, me too.
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Yes, I understand.
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Or wow, you know, I thought I had it rough.
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I'm gonna pray for that person this week because they really are having a time, you know, and and just learning, also learning, you know, so the calls can range from spiritual um encouragement to some very practical, nutrition-based content and knowledge.
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And then the coach calls on on Wednesdays, I I love that too.
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I look forward to that.
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Again, I schedule my my weeks around that.
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Um, and just being able to connect with these ladies and the relationships that we're building and getting to know them has has been has been amazing, you know, and and I learned so much from them.
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And it just takes one little question and you get four or five different answers immediately.
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You know, the support is there, it is amazing.
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These ladies are just they they're just a treasure.
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They really, really are.
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And and finding that community has been a huge, huge um benefit, a huge blessing for me.
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And to know that I'm giving a little bit back into that is also really nice too.
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I there's one last thing.
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You keep mentioning prayer throughout this entire episode.
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So before we wrap up, I want to address the prayer piece of it because it is so powerful to have women, men too, but in this instance, women in your corner who are praying for you and who pray for you even when you don't know they're praying for you.
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And that's what Fast of Faith does.
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That's what our sisterhood does because I know that there are times where we show up for different calls, and women can read other women in the room or there's stuff going on in the chat, and someone says they're gonna pray for so-and-so.
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And like I know that is gonna happen.
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And something that this still is very humbling to me that's been happening to me recently is random strangers, they're I guess they're really strangers.
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At one point they were acquaintances, but they have been reaching out to me through social media and asking for prayer.
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And I'm like, man, I sometimes take for granted that I have prayer warriors in my corner, but there are other women who are looking to me to pray for them.
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And that is that is a humbling experience.
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And every time I'm like, whoa, I cannot believe that God chose me still.
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And so I just I wanted to mention that because I think the prayer piece is huge.
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I think about yesterday when we did the call for um the Monday call, and Tabitha wasn't there because she was moving her son to college, and Ginger prayed over her.
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And I texted her, I was like, I hope that you are healed, you are feeling this.
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And they got the apartment that they were doing.
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So I'm just like, prayer is so powerful and we are seeing it at work every single day.
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So I don't know.
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I just felt really compelled to share that.
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So powerful.
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I mean, we have had women who have gone through brain surgery for brain cancer healed.
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And like a year later, she's doing amazing.
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This was a death sentence, and we prayed over her for 24 hours.
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24 hours, yeah.
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And she came out of that, she is thriving right now.
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She came out of it and said, I literally felt your prayers.
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Exactly.
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Yeah.
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But this happens all the time.
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People, their parents are going into surgery, they're going into surgery, like big surgeries, heart surgeries, hip replacements.
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And these people are healing miraculously, or just little things like my son was struggling in school and now he's thriving, or we got him into a different school.
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Like when we come together and we do this together, it is so powerful.
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It freaks me out.
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Yeah.
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And it's, but we are just living every single day light.
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Like we're just living normal life.
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That's what we're doing.
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We're showing up as moms and wives and all the things.
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And but we have we have women in our corner, and we know they're gonna be there for us every single week.
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And I think that's what's really powerful.
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Yeah.
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Oh my gosh, I know you're so proud as the academy director.
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I'm so proud of you, Marilyn.
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I know somebody listening, there's probably multiple women listening right now who are like, I want Marilyn to be my coach specifically.
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Just tell us.
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Like, we will get you the hookup, we will help you guys get connected so that she can guide you through Fast of Faith.
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She is such an incredible woman, and um, it's gonna be the last program that you do.
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That's the coolest part.
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I just want to point that out.
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You don't have to ever do another weight loss program, another diet, and starting over on Monday.
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Start beginning again.
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Like you're just you're in it and you're healing and you're changing your relationship with your body, and it's listening to you and it's behaving, and the weight loss just falls off as a side effect.
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It's just a result of being still.
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And you have the scripture behind you, Psalm 46, 10.
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That's literally what I want women to meditate on this week.
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Be still and know that I am God.
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If you are listening to this episode, it is not an accident.
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God is calling you home.
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Like he wants you in the fold so bad.
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He misses you.
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He's not gonna be disappointed when you come home.
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Go read the prodigal son.
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He is gonna celebrate you.
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He's gonna bring out the finest robes, the fattest cap.
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He's gonna like have a party when you come back.
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He's not gonna say, you did it wrong.
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Why didn't you come back sooner?
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Why didn't you do this or that?
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So, like, let's go of per let go of perfection.
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Step into obedience and surrender this week, ladies.
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It is the best thing you could ever do.
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Marilyn is a shining example.
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We are here for you.
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Close us out, Marilyn.
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Oh, I just want to say, like, as you're talking and I'm listening, it has it has truly been an honor, you know.
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It it to get to, I never, I mean, again, I doing things that I never thought I would be doing.
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You know, this is my first ever podcast.
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Yay! That's something I've never done before and never thought I would be doing, you know, and I just I'm just doing things.
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I'm just being obedient, you know.
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I I I I serve in my church in ways that I'm like, you want me to do what?
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Like, you know, sure, you know, and it's just like, okay.
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I and my husband will say to me, Well, did you say yes?
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I was like, Well, yeah, I have to say yes.
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I'm being obedient, I'm doing what God's telling me to do.
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And and and it's not that I've arrived or anything, it's just that God is saying, I've got you.
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You know, I've equipped you, I have empowered you.
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You know, you you you do not have to be afraid.
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I am with you.
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And just to the to the ladies out there um who are listening to this, just know that you're worthy.
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You are so worthy.
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You are so worth it.
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You know, Jesus gave everything for you.
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He does not want you to live in strife, he does not want you to live, you know, trying to hustle or trying to be perfect or trying to manage everything by yourself.
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He is calling you and saying, daughter, just come, come, you know, come when I pray.
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I, you know, I try to close my eyes and I try to picture Jesus with his arms extended, and I feel myself just falling into his arms, you know, like we did when we were babies, you know, with our parents or grandparents or whatever.
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But just this image of Jesus just saying, Come, you know, you you I'm here, I'm here.
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He wants us, he wants you, he wants to be part of your health journey.
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He cares about all of you, he cares about your health, your wellness, your spirit, your mind.
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He cares about it all.
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He cares about your finances, he cares about your marriage, you know.
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Just see yourself the way God sees you.
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And that's been a shift for me, also, just seeing myself the way God sees me.
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Um and to again to the ladies out there, you you're just you're worth it.
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You're you're worth it.
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Um, it's been an honor for me to be part of this community.
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I I I love it.
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I absolutely love it.
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I enjoy every minute.
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I've learned so much, I've grown so much, I've been challenged in ways that I never imagined.
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You know, I thought I was gonna retire, kick my feet up, and just you know, chill out.
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But I am so excited to be learning every day.
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I I honestly cannot be more just more thankful.
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Um, and I thank God for finding finding you.
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It's it's truly an honor.
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Um, I'll stop here before I get emotional.
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So I love it.
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We love you.
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We're so proud of you.
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Ladies, go read the prodigal son or daughter.
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Same goes for you, and just be still and know that God's got you.
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We are here for you.
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We want to pour into you.
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So we hope to see you in Fast of Faith.
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Have a good week.
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Till next time.