What if the freedom you've been praying for has been inside you the whole time?

We're back with Part 2 of my conversation with Kate Bartley, somatic coach, former physical therapist, former minister, cancer survivor, and author of The Good Girl RX. And if Part 1 cracked something open, this one goes deeper.

We pick up right where we left off, in that tender, honest place where so many women live: wanting to follow God's will, but so afraid of getting it wrong that we stop trusting the voice inside us altogether. And from there, the conversation just opens up into something I think you're going to want to sit with.

We talk about what it actually looks like to be led by the Holy Spirit from the inside out, not by rules, not by other people's approval, not by how much you're producing. We get into the harvest, the seasons, the long game, and why so many women are white-knuckling outcomes that were never theirs to control in the first place. And Kate leaves us with something practical, a simple way to come back to yourself when the anxiety and the pressure and the not-enough feeling starts to rise.

This one is rich. Take your time with it.

In this episode we cover:

• Why women serve from their wounds instead of their wholeness
• What it means to follow peace as a spiritual practice
• Learning to trust the Holy Spirit within you, not just around you
• The seed time and harvest principle, and releasing the outcome
• Recognizing the season you're in instead of planting in winter
• How building a business surfaces your deepest healing work
• A practical self-attunement tool you can use today

Connect with Kate Bartley: KateBartley.com

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What if the exhaustion you're carrying isn't a faith problem — it's a pattern problem?

In this episode, I sit down with Kate Bartley — somatic coach, former physical therapist, former minister, cancer survivor, and author of The Good Girl RX — for one of the most honest conversations I've had on this podcast yet. And friend, we went there.

We're talking about the Good Girl Syndrome — that deeply ingrained pattern of performing, over-serving, and self-abandoning that so many of us have dressed up in the name of faith. We unpack why the church has often reinforced this pattern without even realizing it, what it's actually costing women in their bodies and their lives, and why certainty can feel safer than the freedom Jesus actually died to give us.

We also dig into Proverbs 31 — and why the woman in that chapter wasn't the quiet, kitchen-bound ideal we've been handed. She was running a wholesale operation. And nobody talks about that.

This is Part 1 of a two-part conversation. Part 2 drops next week.

In this episode we cover:

• The Good Girl pattern and why it thrives in church culture
• How external validation disconnects us from the Holy Spirit's leadership
• The martyr syndrome — and why serving from depletion isn't Christlike
• What your body is trying to tell you when you're stretched too thin
• Why certainty feels safe — and what it might be costing you

Connect with Kate Bartley: KateBartley.com

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Is ambition really rebellion — or have Christian women just been told that long enough to believe it?

In this episode of Grit and Grace, we're taking an honest, unfiltered look at Proverbs 31 — not the coffee mug version, not the framed cross stitch on a farmhouse wall — the actual woman described in scripture. And what she was doing will surprise you.

She bought land. She evaluated merchandise. She reinvested profits. She supplied merchants wholesale. She built wealth and she strengthened her household — and scripture never once said she had to choose between the two.

For Christian women in business and faith-driven entrepreneurs, this episode is the conversation nobody in your church circle is having. Because somewhere along the way, ambition got labeled as rebellion, competence got labeled as pride, and the marketplace got labeled as masculine — and none of that is biblical.

Host Daphne Boyd reads Proverbs 31:10–31 side-by-side in the King James Version and the Amplified Bible, unpacking what the original language actually says about this woman's capability, intelligence, and economic leadership. She also shares a deeply personal story about the often-quoted line "her husband is known in the city gates" — and what that covenant partnership looks like in a modern marriage when a wife's strategy and skill quietly build her husband's reputation and their family's legacy.

This episode is for the woman who:

• Feels guilty for being ambitious
• Has been told she's "too much"
• Loves God AND loves building something
• Wonders whether her desire to lead, create, and generate income is outside of God's will

It's not. It never was.

The Proverbs 31 woman wasn't confined to invisibility. She was commissioned for influence. And so are you.

In this episode:

• What Proverbs 31 actually says about women, work, and wealth
• Why the tension between marketplace and motherhood is cultural — not biblical
• The difference between submission and suppression
• Why your ambition may not be a character flaw — it may be obedience
• A personal story about covenant, business, and what "her husband is known in the gates" looks like in real life

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