24| What Neuroscience and the Bible Both Say About Becoming Who God Called You to Be

Over a year ago my mother lost the ability to walk. I had already left my corporate job to coach full time. There was no going back. No safety net. No plan B. Just me, my mom who needed me around the clock, and a coaching business that needed me to show up. And in the middle of the hardest season of my life I heard God ask me something that stopped me cold. Who do I say you are? Do you trust Me? That question sent me down a rabbit hole I was not expecting. Because what I discovered is that neuroscience and the Bible are saying the exact same thing about identity transformation. And once you understand what they are both saying together, you will never look at your hard season the same way again. Here is what I need you to know before you press play. Your brain does not know you are a coach yet. Not because you are not one. But because you have spent 20 plus years giving it evidence that you are a corporate professional. And now you are trying to tell it something different. So it is doing exactly what it is designed to do. It is resisting. It is pulling you back toward the familiar. It is whispering things like who are you to charge for this or you are not ready yet. That is not God. That is not wisdom. That is your brain running old programming. And you can change it. The Bible told us how thousands of years ago. Neuroscience just caught up. In this episode I am connecting the dots between Romans 12:2, Joshua 1:8, Hebrews 12:11, Colossians 3:2 and 3:23, and Romans 8:28 and what neuroscience has discovered about neuroplasticity, neuroplasticity windows, and self-perception theory. And I am telling you the full story of what happened when I chose to answer God's question with action instead of waiting to answer it with a feeling. This is not a motivational episode. It is a practical one. And by the time it is over you are going to know exactly what to do this week to start giving your brain the evidence it needs to catch up to who God already says you are. If you have been waiting to feel like a coach before you start acting like one, this episode is going to be the most important thing you listen to this week. Because the harvest does not come to those who wait to feel ready. It comes to those who are trained by the discipline. And your hardest season is not slowing down that process. It is accelerating it. In this episode you will hear what neuroplasticity actually is and why your brain is not as fixed as you think, why your hardest seasons are actually your neuroplasticity windows and what that means for you right now, the Hebrew meaning of the word meditate in Joshua 1:8 and why God gave Joshua a complete neuroscience protocol before walking into battle, what Romans 12:2 is actually describing when it says be transformed by the renewing of your mind, the full story of what happened when God asked me who do I say you are in the middle of caregiving full time with no corporate safety net, why acting from your new identity before you feel it is not fake and what the research says about why it works, and the exact first actions I took when I decided to stop waiting to feel like a coach and start being one. RESOURCES MENTIONED Free guide: Your Calling Is a Business. Five things you need to get started even if you are still at your nine to five: 👉 https://businesschurchlife.com/your-calling-guide/ Free quiz: What Type of Faith-Based Coach Are You Secretly Meant to Be? 👉 https://businesschurchlife.com/coach-quiz/ The Christian Woman's Blueprint to Your First Coaching Clients: 👉 https://businesschurchlife.thrivecart.com/blueprint-to-your-first-clients/ Called & Confident Newsletter: 👉 https://businesschurchlife.com/newsletter/ Connect with Monique: 🌐 businesschurchlife.com SCRIPTURES REFERENCED Romans 12:2, Joshua 1:8, Hebrews 12:11, Colossians 3:2, Colossians 3:23, Romans 8:28, Romans 8:6 CONNECT WITH MONIQUE 🌐 businesschurchlife.com  🎙️ Launch Your Coaching Ministry Podcast: https://launchyourcoachingministry.podbean.com/ Music credit: Katori Walker / Know I Got It (Instrumental Version) / courtesy of https://www.epidemicsound.com/ Basixx / Disc Me Bro / courtesy of https://www.epidemicsound.com/ Sulu / Sparkles / courtesy of https://www.epidemicsound.com/ Maybe We'll Meet Again / Baegel / courtesy of https://www.epidemicsound.com/ Urban Legend / William Claeson / courtesy of https://www.epidemicsound.com/