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Here it is, cleaned up for the podcast app and kept fully in your voice:Soul Girls Summer Kickoff — Inner Circle Call ReplayOn this call we kicked off Soul Girls Summer — a whole season devoted to stewarding your nervous system before you serve, sell, or lead anyone else.I taught the two-gear model: survival (sympathetic) and safety (parasympathetic). You only get one gas tank a day, sis — and when you're living in survival mode, cortisol and adrenaline are draining it before noon. Here's the part most high-achieving women miss: your CEO brain — the discernment, warmth, presence, and patience God designed you to lead with — only comes online when your body feels safe. You cannot out-strategize a dysregulated nervous system.Then we walked through the five-part model: Circumstance → Thought → Feeling → Action → Result. We used a lost sale as our example. "This sucks" leads to discouragement, discouragement leads to quitting, quitting leads to no sales. That's the stress cycle. But when you treat that same loss as data over drama — evaluate it, renew your mind with the Word, ask curious questions, follow up — you step into the success cycle. Same circumstance. Completely different result.We finished with the physiological sigh: two sharp inhales through the nose, one long exhale, up to three times. Five minutes a day is enough to lift your mood and lower your stress — and y'all felt it on the spot.This isn't a one-call fix. We're taking the whole summer to build new neural pathways. Name the thought to tame the thought — and let's get to work.

The kind of business that doesn't just survive, but compounds.We opened with the retention math that should change how every one of you looks at your CRM: a 5% bump in retention can raise profits 25–95%, existing customers spend 67% more, and keeping a client can cost up to 700% less than winning a new one. If you haven't audited your one-time clients and built a win-back system, that's your homework.Molly walked us through her seven-story framework and the three-story starter kit — trust story, turning point, belief system — the foundation of selling the payoff, not the product. Kristine broke down the five levers of trust — empathy, competency, character, motives, reliability — and we landed on repeat trust as the metric that actually matters.Then we went deep on the leader as the system versus the leader as the bottleneck: burnout, decision fatigue, delegation, automation, and how to scale without losing the high-touch experience your people pay you for. Rae shared what it looks like to stress-test all of this while pregnant and traveling. Real, raw, and useful.We closed with legacy. Ten-year vision. Twenty-year vision. Because we are not building for the quarter, sister. We are building for our children's children.

Here's what we covered:🤎 Strength in the Stretch — The stretching season isn't the breaking season. It's the forming season. We talked about why God lets the stretch happen, and what He's building in us when He does. If you're in a season that feels like too much, this one is for you.🤎 The 2031 Visualization — I walked us through a five-year vision exercise. Where are you sitting? Who's with you? What has God built through your obedience? If you didn't get to do this on the call, do it before the weekend. Write it down.🤎 The Three C's — Compromise. Comparison. Competition. These are the three things that will shorten your long game faster than anything else. We named them so we can guard against them.🤎 Pace + Positioning — We talked about why "balance" is a cultural lie, and what surrender actually looks like in a stretching season. Pace and positioning are everything. Study them.Link to Karen's book: https://a.co/d/01tSYXWv

We dove into how we build distinctive brands and integrate faith without monetizing the gospel. I walked you through the four-part faith-first framework I built around Philippians 4:6–7. 

Here's what you'll want to catch if you missed us live:🎙️ The teaching: Spiritual authority as a CEO — the authority gap holding women founders back, how to exercise authority in sales and public influence, and why your spiritual grounding is the differentiator no competitor and no AI can replicate.💭 The work: Capturing the thoughts that are quietly running your business, resisting worldly success metrics, and leaning into fasting and focused prayer for the clarity this season is asking of you.

I opened 2026 with one clear message: we're done rebuilding, we're here to compound. The women who win this year are the ones who raise their standard instead of just setting bigger goals.In this call I introduced the CROWN framework — the mindset and execution model I want every For His Glory CEO woman operating from:Capture your thoughts before they capture your businessRenew with truth (Scripture and reality)Own your attitude like royalty — it's a standard, not a moodWalk it out with aligned action (information without application is deception)Normalize the new standard — we don't visit it, we live thereAlong the way I coached women in the room in real time — breakthroughs around survival versus revival, releasing what's not aligned, and moving even when fear is loud.From there I laid out the 2026 scoreboard and the three marketplace realities every one of us is working with this year:Attention is expensiveRelationships create conversionRetention stabilizes cashflow — trust beats reach, consistency beats viralityI walked you through a practical audit to find the weakest link in your business right now — revenue systems, retention systems, or relationship depth — because our Q1 goal is simple: protect the calendar, execute the standard, let results follow.I closed with your challenge for the week:Commit to five daily revenue movesFix one retention leakPost your one-sentence commitment and screenshot it as your receipt2026 is the year of fruitfulness. This is the room that helps you execute it — with clarity, accountability, and boldness.