God's timing is perfect. After two years of sharing her name through mutuals, Sharlene and I connected during the pandemic. As our friendship progressed, I noticed how much the Lord's glory shone through her, even in her silence. She agreed to perform at the latest Naked and Exposed showcase in July of 2021 and ended up penning the poem that reflects the show's theme.  

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In this episode, we discuss grief, God's timing, and moving forward.

 

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FULL POEM

Over time we evolve. We stop resembling our childhood homes. Our exteriors age, renovations take place, we relocate, desiring to root into stable grounds for seasonal storms do blow through, and unexpected fires burn away what was. We are left to face the ashes of what's next? What have I learned? How can I be better? Pain is all that remains until we decide to make art out of a new day. Over time we evolve, Sitting here in admiration for the person we are becoming, Full of wonder and hope.

It’s been a couple of years since we went all in surrendering our will for His. It shows. We look more at peace now. The internal wages war With an all too powerful force, Taking thoughts captive Without entertaining. We realize it was never about being the best, It was about giving our best. At all times. Minus the striving. We see, The son did rise, The sun keeps shining On this morning.

And tomorrow brings its own puzzle pieces to compose. Today we dance freely, without care of stepping offbeat. We chose to show up. We learned it’s not about being The best, but giving it all we got. And for three years we’ve given all we got. We’ve transformed, transforming with a whole lot more to give, A whole lot more to become, A whole lot more. Quiet seasons require a new surrendered trust. Make a promise to God to keep going even when those we thought would stay, stop. Stand your ground, be rooted. Most plants outgrow their pot.

God is doing a great work. 

Keep going!

 

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We would live and move differently if we understood the gravity of who God is to, for, and with us.  Keep going!

 

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In today's episode, we discuss who we are IN GOD—the Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still. 

Yes, the secret sauce is in the transformation, but the transformation comes from RADICAL OBEDIENCE. 

Are you willing to decide daily to choose life? Let's talk about it! 
 

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Tyree and I met in college through our campus' spoken word organization, word of mouth. Together in 2015, we penned a poem titled Black Pain.  In 2021, they decided to remake it through their redeemed-in-Christ lens but focused on the head and heart relationship of faith and doubt. The entire showcase is available for replay at  janaecarlee.com. 

In this episode, we discuss various topics about redemption and transformation like: 
 

• Our  journeys BACK to christ
   
• The honesty of life 
   
• How to keep going despite hardship 
   
• The elder brother vs. the prodigal son 
   
• Reflection point to journal: Do you believe IN God? Or do you believe GOD?
   

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A bitter-sweet, vulnerable season—BUT WE MADE IT!   

• Delight yourself in GOD
   
• Continuously seek first the Kingdom and righteousness.
   
• There is a difference between want and need. 
   
• Invite God in. 
   
• Relationship with GOD is the goal. 
   
• Endure 
   
• God will use whatever he desires (including people) to get us to where we need to be. 
   

In today's episode, we address singleness at the root and recap what season 3 was all about. Some of the things we've gone through are because of the decisions we've made; whether good or bad. 

"Brokenness stays broken when no one challenges the sickness of same ole' story to get well."

Keep going! It's only up from here! Naked and exposed the showcase 2021 is July 17. Text showcase to 9195685610 to receive all the updates on the official release. 

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Jasmine, Jasmine, Jasmine is the friend you didn't know you needed until she shows up and redefines what genuine friendship should look like. I'm grateful for her life and friendship. Today we sit down and talk about faith and boldness around her journey to coming into Christ and maintaining her relationship with Him. She fosters intimacy and the supernatural with God in so many incredible ways. It's beautiful to witness.

Pull up a seat and listen to us discuss what God has done and is doing! She keeps it honest—emphasizing the peace of the Lord.

• Are you resting in the peace of the Lord?
  Are you activating your faith? 
  Are you walking in boldness? 

You got this! #keepgoing #onlyupfromhere

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Leah Nicole is your disruptive coach! The Lord uses her to disrupt your comfort zone to shift and pivot you in the right direction with Him. Pull up a seat and sit with us as we navigate the space of authenticity, womanhood, entrepreneurship, and giving ourselves the permission to become who God has called us to be.

This journey requires risk. The future requires an investment. "Investing looks like time and  money." We must invest in where we are headed.

We must ask ourselves really tough questions—deeper questions than the surface to get to a core belief. 

What's needed to become: 

• Reflection—Disrupt the lies—about self, capabilities, perspective. 
   
• Discipline—Be decided to do and move in the direction headed. 
   
• Consistent—Do the heart work, hard work, remain steadfast, forward-moving. 
   
• Application—When you believe you'll move, you change.

We are unique in our own way! There is no one out here doing what we do like we do. There are blueprints to see what's possible. 

GO BACK TO THE BIBLE! 

Who are you becoming? 

What areas do you need to reflect upon? 

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This week we sit down with the amazing Francine Ott to discuss being tired and still showing up with self and God. Many of us have been experiencing lethargy in the spiritual, emotional, and mental space.

"And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up (Galatians 6:9).

What does it look like for you to show up with God when you are tired?

• God is calling us higher.
• God wants us to give Him our yes continuously.
• God wants to stretch our faith in this season.

"A surrendered yes in the midst of exhaustion; tiredness. We have to understand tiredness does not necessarily mean we are doing something wrong. It can honestly mean God is about to shift somethings because we've come to the end of a season."

Give yourself grace, friend. God is the strength you need in your weakness. Keep going! Use this as a resource to continue moving forward. 

"Be okay with grieving what was to make space for what is to come."

It starts with the yes. Are you willing to give God another yes? 

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We sit down with Christian Prather (CP) to discuss showing up with God in contentment—that turned into a deep dive into topics like shame and vulnerability. Christian is a content creator for Christ. He co-hosts a podcast, 100 Conversations: CP and Chris navigate essential conversations in a relatable fashion, providing valuable insight and reflection. Whether it be business, faith, relationships, or just day-to-day experiences, they will be sure to bring their unique perspectives, and they hope you will as well.

Contentment looks like honesty with self first. We must be honest with ourselves first. We are humans first. To deny our humanity is a dangerous space. We are to produce from the healed place of our trauma. We are so much more than things to be consumed. We are people who have a purpose. Our identity is rooted in God, not what we do. 

Reflection point: Are you healing? Are we content? To bring a person through a thing, we have to go through it first. Assess a few things at this moment—ask yourself where are you holding shame? 

We must establish our roots in this season. We will be people who are deeply planted, even in discomfort. We will not uproot. Let's have a critical conversation with ourselves and those in our community! Contentment is the ultimate goal. 

Bye-bye shame, doubt, rejection, fear, and everything else that can not exist where God is taking us! 

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We sit down with Shelby Leinbach to discuss how she shows up with God through writing and consistency. Shelby is four years into turning her blog into an Instagram page that inspires thousands daily through her words. Her blog started from a simple instruction from the Lord. Shelby's writing was a form of communicating with the Lord. 

"The Holy Spirit was clear in telling me to write for other people and write on my blog." 

Shelby discovered her purpose: Using her testimony on how far she's come and my writing abilities, and how she connects with words, how it flows out of her impacts others. In writing, she found her true worth in Christ. From writing, Shelby created a job as a virtual assistant. The most encouraging thing is that she can live and help people but still have her hobby and writing gift. Her love for that is merged into it. 

Reflection Point: 

1. What if this (writing; insert your skillsets) somehow impacts people
    

The future requires a decision to surrender and submit to what God wrote for us to discover. Consistency is key! It's deciding to show up every day in our giftings by yielding them to God, allowing Him to get the glory from them. Longevity speaks to a God-ordained idea. 

When God gives us a dream—it's enormous! Money is a resource and a tool. He knows what we need! He knows who we are to become.

Just start!

 

Kevin is also the audio producer for Naked and Exposed: The Podcast (2021). He is gifted with the ability to compose sound. If you are interested in starting a podcast and need help, direction, and production—message him at Here

 

Episode Reference:

1. (It Hurts to Heal)
    
2. But, Healing Does Come (Join Waitlist at Shop) 
    
3. Card Game (Not sponsored): We're not really strangers

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Bonus Content Time! I have decided to sit down with additional individuals, near and far, showing up online, allowing God to get the glory out of their life. 

Today we sit down with Kevin Wilson—a Christian content creator determined for God to get the glory out of his life. Kevin turned a simple phrase, "Jesus Died For You," inspired by John 3:16 —"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life," into a shirt for others to wear. 

Friends, sharing the gospel is as simple as we allow it to be. Our life becomes the sign and message for those connected to us to witness. Kevin is an example of allowing God to get the glory out of his life.  

God is just looking for us to start, to trust Him, to keep going! 

God wants us to partner with Him in courage, in all we do, for Him to show us the way as He orchestrates our steps through our obedience—verse to meditate on Proverbs 3:5-6. 

 

Reflection Points:

1. Take your most popular saying from conversations and design it for a shirt. 
    
2. At least start something to know what you like or don't like. 
    
3. Have the courage to show up! 
    
4. Show up in consistency. 
    
5. It's in authenticity our creativity can go as far as God needs it to go for the story He wrote. 
    
6. God is incredibly intentional about what He is calling us to do and giving us the grace to get it wrong. Hold only the courage as God reveals to us who He is a father and provides us with the truth. Overtime It was successful. We just had to allow ourselves to go through this process of becoming. 
    
7. In college, we lose ourselves or find Jesus. 
    
8. See God for who He is! 

 

All in all, Seek first the Kingdom and righteousness (relationship with Christ), and God will add all the things onto us. 

If you want to chat further or receive daily motivation around remaining consistent, enduring, and moving forward—text me at 919568510. 
 

Kevin is also the audio producer for Naked and Exposed: The Podcast (2021). He is gifted with the ability to compose sound. If you are interested in starting a podcast and need help, direction, and production—message him at Here

 

Episode Reference: 

1. (Jesus Died for You T-shirt) https://teespring.com/stores/jd4u
    
2. A Chrisitan Podcast: https://achristianpodcast.transistor.fm/subscribe
    
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Child-like faith summed up is not having to question everything.  In today's episode, we sit down with Zach Hallow and discuss various topics around faith, healing, and surrender from the perspective of salvation and sanctification. 

This is truly a journey of becoming! We discuss various touchpoints on where we had to: 

1. divorce the opinions or ideas of other people, 

2. overcoming anxiety, 

3. taking the risk to do what God calls us to do.  

We must focus on God's expectations and not the pressure of the world.  Sit down with us and listen to our dialogue around these various things pertaining to faith and surrender. 

 I don't believe everything we go through (experience) is a waste (rather good or bad) God can use it when submitted (repentance). 

 

Reflection Points: 

• What does child-like faith look like to you?
• What is God calling you to do through the way of surrender and obedience in this season?

 

If you want to chat further or receive daily motivation around remaining consistent, enduring, and moving forward—text me at 919568510. 

Special shout out to Kevin Wilson of NormDiff Productions! Kevin took on the Naked and Exposed: The Podcast as our audio producer in January of 2021. His editing is A1! #OnlyUpFromHere. Hire him for all your audio or visual needs! 

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Sit down with Reggie Pate and me as we dialogue around showing up with God in our voice and leadership. Reggie is in a season where he is allowing his voice to be heard from the front. "My voice is its own. It's unique in its own way.  God gave me this voice for a reason."

To be heard comes with many challenges. The biggest challenge is facing our own minds. Feelings of fear and rejection often make us feel limited. We can't do it on our own. We must show up with God and do the work.

Leadership requires an active voice and honorable characteristics. Voice and honorable characteristics are attached to identity. Identity connects to a relationship with the Lord. 

Our voice has power: the power to build up and the power to tear down. "Sometimes leadership means saying nothing at all and allowing those around you to rise to the leadership occasion and lead."

We are all called to be leaders in our sphere of influence. Community and healthy relationships with other believers headed in the same direction are an antidote to those same battles. We shouldn't do life alone!  God sets the standard! In a relationship with Him, we can connect deeper with others. Connection brings breakthrough!

Your voice is needed! 

Your leadership skills and perspective is needed!

Reflection Point: How are you showing up with God in your voice and leadership skills? Where are the pain points (i.e., comparison, fear, doubt...)?  What is God's truth (the study of scripture is required)?
 

Special shout out to Kevin Wilson of NormDiff Productions! Kevin took on the Naked and Exposed: The Podcast as our audio producer in January of 2021. His editing is A1! #OnlyUpFromHere. Hire him for all your audio or visual needs! 

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How are you really doing? (Point of reflection) It's time to have critical conversations with ourselves to recognize what can not go into our future. Often we say what we will not become and become it—if there is no peace, there is bondage.

Let's allow ourselves to enter into deeper depths of intimacy with the Lord as Father. Good fruit is the proof of a transformed life.  Let's count it all joy during times of testing (James 1:2-4). We're becoming perfect and complete, needing nothing.

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We are not alone. 

This pandemic revealed a new layer of self-reflection around our community and the ability to just be with self and God. When we are unsettled within ourselves, we struggle to see the beauty of solitude. For many of us, we have filled voids, spaces with people, and "busyness." The loss we are feeling is not to hurt us. The loss we've experienced is to invite God into the discomfort of this season. Remember, seasons change. seasons look different based on our decisions or placement from the Lord to show us more of who we are becoming. 

Be still and KNOW that HE is God (Psalm 46:10). 

In this episode, we reflect with Eva Zarzar around where she is, friendships, loneliness, and rest during the middle of this pandemic. In return, it ushers us into taking a deep dive into where were are. It's important for us to recognize where we are, where we are going, and where we have been. Though we are alone we aren't lonely. God is still with us. 

Point of Reflection: 1. Do you believe God is with you? 2. Identify the lies of who He is. 3. Write down who His word says He is. 4. Ask Him to show you himself today. 5. How are you showing up with God in this season? 

This is the episode we all didn't know we needed. Listen to it. Allow the Lord to guide you deeper in what is He wants to show you about you and Himself. Keep going! #TheShowMustGoOn #OnlyUpFromHere

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Friendships! Friendships! Friendships! We can sometimes go into friendships not defining the roles. 

In today’s episode, I sit down with Jaquan, a great friend of mine, as we discuss the importance of friendship from both, male and female. Healing is ushered in through the various relationships God calls us into.

“Once you know the value for yourself, you’re able to set healthy boundaries in your friendships and what you need from those friendships.”

Points of reflection:

1. Who is God? What is His nature? What is His heart towards you? (Do not answer this based on who people say He is. Answer for yourself and allow God to reveal to you the truth of who He is. He does speak. I speak peace over your mind, in Jesus' name, to hear Him clearly at this moment. Amen )

2. Who does God say you are? (Not defined by shortcomings, experiences, upbringing, but based on who He is.)

3. What type of friend do you want to be, and what type of friend are you? What does friendship look like for you?

4. Have you defined your friendships and communicated expectations? For example, loyalty is defined differently all across the board—discuss definitions.

Take some time to listen to this episode and reflect upon the questions during quiet time with the Lord. He will guide you to the answers. Friendships are vital for who we are becoming! Let's stop allowing the enemy to distract us from forming meaningful connections. 

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Happy New Year, Friends. We survived 2020!  Hello, 2021. 

This season is requiring another level of discipline. It's for the decided! It's for those who will not be double-minded in their callings to step into the sanctification further. In today's episode, we talk about the importance of discipline and what is needed to step into the more God is calling us into this season. 

("Anything God requires of us initiates another level of endurance."—download my free ebook, Endure, now at janaecarlee.com )

"2020 was a test to see if we were really seating in the heavenly with the Lord. Are we really standing on the word of the Lord?" 

God's word is sharper than any two-edged sword. He is calling us into a deeper place of intimacy with Him. What will our response be? Will, we inwardly reflect upon the parts of our heart that need a touch from Him? or will we continue to put off what we could be doing today? 

Many of us are called to fund the kingdom and influence in marvelous ways—not for our glory, but to reflect God's glory upon the earth through our life. 

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Remember, the Podcast schedule has changed. New episodes will be posted every Tuesday until the season ends. 

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Today we sit down with Gabrielle Hicks, via zoom, to discuss showing up in the midst of challenges, emotionally. Forgive the audio—it's a learning process. Fun fact: Gabby is my amazing cousin. Her presence in my life is a blessing! It's an honor to do life with her. This episode is about having an honest conversation. We've both seen better days.

In vulnerability is the willingness, to be honest with self first. God is a jealous God (Exodus 34:14). Showing up is being present and showing up with God. "God is always showing up for us. Now He needs us to meet Him in the middle and show up for Him." Showing up is being present and showing up with God.

How do you show up in the midst of challenges? Let's chat about it.

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"Closure is a way to keep us bound. If we're waiting for somebody to acknowledge us or apologize to us, that is, in my opinion, not the heart of the Lord. The goal is not to get stuck in what people do or don't do. The goal is to hear the voice of the Lord in the situation and move past it, to move on, to allow God to give us joy for our mourning. Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning. God is a master storyteller. God knows who he will use to get us from point a to point be."

I thought God said the guy in my last relationship was my husband, but I got it wrong…

What we desire may not be the desires God wants for us. He knows best because He wrote our story. He provides truth to our perspectives when it is rooted in hurt and brokenness—If we allow God.

"I didn't want to show up today. I did not want to record this podcast episode. If I'm honest, I wanted to wallow in my despair[…] God's strength is made perfect in my weakness. I choose at this moment for God to be glorified in my weakness."

We get it wrong. Humility is being okay with admitting that we got it wrong and asking God to show us what we needed to learn from it. It's in suffering we know how to endure (Romans 3:3-5). This same suffering develops our character and provides hope for what God is doing in and through us. "The whole point is to mature in character and perspective to become more whole in Christ." I am a better woman because of this defining moment.

For the girl like me, ask God for clarity around your last heartbreak. Ask him to show you the truth of the story He wrote and how He plans to use the decisions we make to become a part of our good. "God has a plan! It's not an end of a chapter when we get it wrong. It's not an end of a chapter when the person does you wrong. It's not an end of a chapter when your brokenness has you to become a victim. It's not an end of a chapter when your brokenness has you to be the one who offended."

We should desire to get to a place where we can bless the person who hurt us, bless the person they will marry, and when we can look at life through a journey of healing and discovery—It's not always about us. It's about what God needs to get done in and through us. God is faithful! Even when the apology never comes and the relationship ends.

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