Nobody warns you that safe comes with a bill.

This is part two of the Kingdom Woman series, and it gets uncomfortable in about ninety seconds. Ana asks the question most women in business will do almost anything to avoid: if nothing changes, will all this grit actually pay you back for what it took to get here?

Her answer is no. And she has the itemized receipt.

This is also the episode where she says the thing that is going to make people mad. Playing it small was never humility. It was pride. Not the loud kind that takes up the whole room. The quiet kind that says "I won't say the whole truth, because what if I look bad."

Inside this episode:

• Why the cage felt safe, and why safe turned out to be the most expensive thing she ever chose
• The business advice she was actually given, out loud, by a real person: make a pact with the devil until you cross the bridge, then use the money for good
• The parable of the talents, continued. The buried talent is not a seed. Nothing buried grows. It just rusts.
• How the skill she built to survive confrontation became the exact thing she gets paid for now
• Why it took forty days to get the Israelites out of Egypt and forty years to get Egypt out of them

If you have been calling it discernment and it has quietly become delay, this one has your name on it.

Next week, part three: building the bridge, and what full surrender actually feels like.

Come sit with the women doing this work in the Skool community. Link in the show notes.

Stay salty and bright.