The Receiving Edge

She built the freedom lifestyle and still could not stop picking her nails. Kristie Morgan quit a corporate job in 2012 with no savings, no plan and existing debt, after reading a book about working four hours a week. Five years of failed businesses followed. A raw food cafe, an eBay store, coaching, money lost that she did not have. Then in 2017 something worked, and she went on to build a global community, a farm retreat property, an investment portfolio and a life that looked from the outside like the one she had left corporate to find. The conversation is about what that cost underneath. Chronic anxiety she had lived with so long she had stopped calling it anxiety. A nervous system running on fight or flight through every launch and every event. A fear of losing it all that she now recognises was driving most of it. She talks about turbulence on a flight home from Dubai and the first prayer she had ever said, about resisting the whole thing for a year afterwards, and about walking into a church for the first time only when she ran out of ways to avoid it. What follows is specific. The day she noticed her nails had grown. Praying for something big enough to save a marriage that was close to over, and what arrived a few days later. Homeschooling children she had once found too much. Selling a wardrobe worth thousands because she felt told to. And the month she put her phone down entirely and the business doubled without her. This one is for anyone who built the thing they wanted and cannot work out why it did not settle them. "You kinda gotta be prepared for your whole identity to be stripped away." — Kristie Morgan KEY TAKEAWAYS Quitting corporate with no savings and no plan Five years of failing before anything worked What chronic anxiety looked like, and the day it lifted Praying for something big enough to save a marriage Selling an entire wardrobe, and what it was really about What happened to the business when she stopped driving it FEATURED IDEA An identity built on achievement cannot survive the achieving stopping. Kristie describes building a brand and a self on being the one who performs. Millionaire, boss babe, the events, the travel, the highlight reel of a freedom lifestyle. The question she was asked at the start of that year was whether she would still feel worthy if all of it fell away, and she says the honest answer was no. What she describes since is an order that runs God, then family, then business. For years the business had taken everything up front and the rest of her life lived on the remainder. She is rebuilding publicly and slowly, and she is open in this conversation about not yet knowing what that looks like. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - Welcome, and two unlikely journeys to faith 3:10 - Corporate, depression and quitting with no plan 5:32 - Five years of failing at business 7:50 - The pregnancy that changed the urgency 10:12 - The hidden costs of the freedom lifestyle 12:25 - Turbulence over Dubai, and a first prayer 14:44 - What actually changed, starting with her nails 17:05 - Homeschooling, and finding motherhood easier 19:25 - A marriage on the edge, and what shifted it 21:45 - Identity, worthiness and having it stripped 26:28 - Building on foundations rather than momentum 33:29 - Why so many leaders are turning to faith 38:07 - Selling the wardrobe 45:03 - Stepping back, and the business doubling RESOURCES AND CONNECT Kristie Morgan  Mum. Mentor. Creator. Kristie Morgan is a mentor and community leader who supports women in personal growth, mindful leadership, and building aligned online businesses. With a background in coaching and digital entrepreneurship, she blends motherhood and business in a way that encourages others to pursue purpose, confidence, and clarity in their own journeys. As an international speaker and mentor, she shares insights on creating meaningful impact, and developing sustainable business practices without the burnout. Her content focuses on family, mindset, wellness, and intentional living. https://www.instagram.com/thenetworkmarketingmentor Follow/Reach Sarah -Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sarahblackahEmail: [email protected] Mentioned in the episode -The 4-Hour Workweek, Tim Ferriss, the book that started itEnagic and Kangen, and Healy, the businesses they each led in This week, name one thing you would still be if the work stopped tomorrow. Something that would still be true about you with the work gone. Kristie was asked a version of that question at the start of the year and says the honest answer took months to change. #TheReceivingEdge #FreedomLifestyle #NetworkMarketing #ComingToFaith #Anxiety #IdentityShift #KristieMorganSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

She had not slept for five nights, and that turned out to be the point. This episode includes an account of two children being pulled unconscious from a swimming pool and resuscitated. Both survived without injury. Tiana Baxter spent nearly two decades in sales before founding SELLÁ, Home of the Salesgirl. She and her husband came to faith while everything was working, which she says meant the years afterwards were mostly about things being stripped away. The centre of this conversation is a morning at a hotel on the Gold Coast, at the end of the hardest stretch of their marriage. A room they should not have had, a late checkout nobody offered them before, and two little girls in the pool. Tiana describes screaming without knowing why, and the six minutes that followed. She also describes being the calmest person there, and why five nights without sleep was the reason. From there the conversation gets practical. How to tell God's voice from your own, and the signature she has learned to recognise. Why coming to faith did not require her to stop being ambitious, and the question about money that replaced the one she was afraid of. What changed in her marriage when she stopped controlling the parts she had always controlled. And why she is reclaiming a word that has been used to make women smaller. This one is for anyone who has asked whether the thing they are hearing is God or just themselves. "Money in the hands of good women does good things." — Tiana Baxter KEY TAKEAWAYS The five sleepless nights that put her by the pool How to tell God's voice from your own, and the signature Why finding faith meant stripping away rather than adding What she had to unlearn about money and ambition Reclaiming sales girl, and why selling is a life skill What changed in her marriage when she stopped controlling it FEATURED IDEA Coming to faith raised a different question about money than the one she was braced for. Tiana assumed becoming a Christian meant burning it down. Every example around her pointed that way, and she had built a life on being ambitious and vocal about money. The answer she arrived at, through her pastor and through a long stretch of praying about it, turned the question into one about what she was worshipping. That let her keep the ambition while changing what it served, and she now uses the same question to decide what stays. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - Welcome, and how they met 3:04 - Finding faith at the height of success 5:23 - Church, religion, and stepping away from it 7:44 - Putting her children in a Christian school 10:09 - The week their marriage nearly came apart 12:33 - The pool, and two children in the water 15:01 - Six minutes, and what the paramedics said 21:05 - Deciding to go to church 23:30 - What ultimate trust felt like in the moment 25:52 - How to tell God's voice from your own 28:13 - Faith plus works, and permission to try 30:24 - Money, ambition, and what you worship 35:15 - Surrender, submission and marriage order 46:31 - Building SELLÁ and reclaiming sales girl RESOURCES AND CONNECTABOUT TIANA BAXTER Tiana Baxter is a faith-based entrepreneur, speaker and founder of SELLÁ, Home of the Salesgirl™. After nearly two decades in sales and building multiple seven and eight-figure businesses, Tiana now helps women master the psychology and strategy of sales to create more income, opportunity and impact. A wife and mother, her message is simple: sales isn't about pressure, it's about creating possibility. SELLÁ: https://www.instagram.com/sella.incInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/tianarose.inc Follow/Reach Sarah -Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sarahblackahEmail: [email protected] Mentioned in the episode -SELLÁ, home of the Salesgirl, and Sales Girl SchoolWoman of Influence Society, the business she shelved before SELLÁ"No Longer Slaves", the worship song she played for her husband This week, take one decision you have been circling and notice what your body does when you imagine going ahead with it. Tiana's test is whether it comes with peace or with a contraction. Then follow whichever one you find, and see what the next week tells you. #TheReceivingEdge #HearingGodsVoice #ChristianBusiness #FaithAndMoney #TianaBaxter #SalesForWomen #DiscernmentSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

He found God at the height of his success, then everything he believed got tested. Sensitive content warning - This episode discusses stillbirth, pregnancy loss and miscarriage in detail. If that is not for you today, come back to this one another time. Joel Brown built Addicted2Success into one of the largest personal development sites in the world, reaching over 146 million views. He was on stages, in films alongside Tony Robbins and Jack Canfield, and turning down seven-figure offers before he was twenty-five. He describes arriving at all of it and feeling a gaping hole in his chest that none of it filled, until a woman standing in the water on a beach in Tulum asked him a question he had never been asked. The conversation turns to what came after. He and his wife lost their daughter at thirty-eight weeks, two weeks out from a planned home birth, with no explanation any doctor could give them. Two miscarriages followed before their son arrived. Joel talks about the anger, about watching his wife pull away from God and find her way back, about the box they carried home from the hospital, and about what he means when he says he has become friends with grief. It also covers what he sees in the men he works with. The Superman complex, the midlife squeeze Ray Dalio describes, why men hold things until something breaks, and what fatherhood taught him about capacity that fifteen years of high performance never did. This one is for anyone carrying a loss nobody has been able to explain to them. "I've become friends with grief. I've learned how to sit with it more than I ever had." — Joel Brown KEY TAKEAWAYS Why success at twenty-four left him feeling empty The question on a beach in Tulum that started everything What losing a baby does to a marriage, and what held theirs The midlife squeeze, and why men hold things until they break What grief actually feels like years later What fatherhood changed about capacity and time FEATURED IDEA A belief only becomes yours at the point it costs you something. Joel came to faith through argument. He studied apologetics and theology, read his way in, and describes being able to sit with his wife and answer the hard questions when she was still working them out. Losing his daughter moved the whole thing out of the realm of argument. After it, the only question left was whether he would still stand on any of it with nothing in his hands to show for it. What he describes finding on the other side is a faith he no longer has to defend, and a capacity to sit with other people in the worst week of their lives. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - Welcome, and how they know each other 3:12 - Building Addicted2Success and what it cost 5:24 - The stardom years and the emptiness under it 7:45 - A question on a beach in Tulum 9:53 - Coming to faith too hard, then finding balance 14:34 - How he met his wife, and what changed first 22:46 - What culture gets wrong about marriage 26:52 - The Superman complex and the midlife squeeze 31:28 - Losing their daughter at thirty-eight weeks 36:05 - Going home from the hospital 40:51 - Becoming friends with grief 45:32 - Finding meaning without forcing it 49:31 - What he says to people who message him now 51:54 - Fatherhood, capacity and regulation RESOURCES AND CONNECT ABOUT JOEL BROWN Joel Brown is the founder of Addicted2Success.com and a coach, speaker, and host known for turning mindset work into measurable change. Featured in the Think and Grow Rich film, his podcast has passed 7 million downloads. He has coached more than 12,400 people worldwide and is known for pairing high-performance strategy with practical neuroscience tools that help people rewire how they think, lead, and execute. Addicted2Success: www.addicted2success.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamjoelbrown Follow/Reach Sarah - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sarahblackah Email: [email protected] Mentioned in the episode - Think and Grow Rich, the film Joel appears in Ray Dalio, Principles, and the midlife squeeze he describes Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning This week, if you know someone carrying a loss that nobody has been able to explain, send them this episode without a message attached to it. Joel says the thing that helped most was another father who had been there first, and who said nothing clever at all. #TheReceivingEdge #Stillbirth #PregnancyLoss #GriefAndFaith #JoelBrown #Fatherhood #MensMentalHealthSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Every woman asking how to be more feminine is asking the wrong question. Martine De Luna has spent fourteen years guiding women through what she calls biological relating. Her argument is that femininity is a woman's natural state, and that the only thing capable of taking her out of it is conflict. Every course promising to make a woman more feminine therefore treats a symptom as a deficiency. The question she asks instead is where a woman first learned that being chosen required leaving parts of herself behind. The conversation covers what modern dating asks women to give up, why courtship stopped working once the family structures that used to vet men disappeared, and what each nervous system is trying to secure in an argument. It also covers yearning. Martine treats the ache for partnership and children as a creational force with something to make, and the question she brings to God about it is what am I meant to create with this. This one is for anyone dating, waiting, or quietly exhausted by trying to be soft enough and ambitious enough at the same time. "A woman cannot deepen into femininity. She can only remember it." — Martine De Luna KEY TAKEAWAYS Why "how do I become more feminine" is the wrong question The contradictory instructions modern women are handed daily What biological relating is, and why it sits under every relationship What each nervous system is really trying to secure in a fight Feminine desire and yearning, and what to do with the ache Where "God will just send him" actually came from FEATURED IDEA Femininity cannot be performed, because performance is the thing that removes it. Martine's position is that femininity is a woman's unconflicted natural state. Every course promising to make her more feminine therefore treats a symptom as a deficiency, and the self-monitoring those courses produce is itself the departure from it. Her question about origin does different work: where did you learn that being claimed required you to leave part of yourself behind? Answering that is a matter of remembering, which is work a woman can actually do. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - Welcome, and why this conversation now 3:07 - What has shifted for women in dating 5:23 - Soft but ambitious, sexual but not too much 10:16 - Why "how do I become more feminine" fails 12:43 - What biological relating actually means 15:11 - Where did you learn to leave your body 22:07 - What couples are really fighting about 24:30 - What each nervous system is securing 29:21 - Yearning, and why it is not a pathology 36:36 - Is this desire creational or a demand 43:25 - What modern dating asks women to give up 50:41 - Where "God will just send him" came from 53:04 - Receiving yourself before receiving a man 1:02:10 - Soulmates, resentment and the worst advice RESOURCES AND CONNECT ABOUT MARTINE DE LUNA Martine is a wife of nearly two decades in covenant union, and a mother of a preteen daughter and a teenage son. Her devotion to family, faith, and the maturation of womanhood from menarche to menopause shapes all she teaches. For 14 years, she has guided women through biological design and relationship dynamics, drawing from faith in God, from the natural laws, and from the rite-of-passage wisdom threaded into feminine biology. Working with clients at the level of the psyche, Martine teaches women that their symptoms and behaviours aren't problems to fix, but invitations to a return to womanhood as a sacred office written into the body, by God Himself. Instagram: www.instagram.com/femininewomanhood Follow/Reach SarahInstagram: www.instagram.com/sarahblackahEmail: [email protected]   Mentioned in this episode: Dr John Gray, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus. The reference point for the nervous system differences Martine describes, and the source of the suggestion that a woman sit in public without her phone and simply feel herself in the world of men. Gillian Pothier, for the phrase "creational yin" Eartha Kitt, paraphrased This week, catch yourself once in the act of self-monitoring. The pause before you send the text, the edit you make to sound less like yourself. Then ask Martine's question instead of the usual one. Where did I learn that being chosen meant leaving part of myself behind? #TheReceivingEdge #FeminineEnergy #ModernDating #MasculineFeminine #ChristianDating #FeminineDesire #DatingIn2026See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome to The Receiving Edge. I'm Sarah Blackah, and this is the short version of how I got here.For about fifteen years I've mentored people through change, mostly women in leadership.A few years ago I thought I'd cracked the code. A seven-figure business, a global health and wellness community, stages, travel, and a freedom-based life I'd built on purpose so it could one day support becoming a wife and mother.Then came what my mentor called a life quake. Friendships I believed would last a lifetime ended, the financial future I'd built shifted underneath me, and I found myself grieving a future I thought I was building toward. I went quiet for a couple of years. Faith went deep, and yes, I mean Jesus, without the performance.I healed a body that burnt out, when deep into dating and at the patterns keeping me from the thing I most wanted, and rebuilt just outside Byron Bay on foundations strong enough to hold the life I've been praying for.I wanted to start this podcast once I had it all figured out. The husband, the baby, the seven-step process… but that was never the invitation. The invitation was to come as I am and to meet you in the messy middle, somewhere between who we are and who we're becoming next. So that's what this is. Honest conversations with thought leaders and guests about leading yourself through change and transition, dating and marriage in the 21st century, fertility and motherhood, vitality, wealth and freedom, the creative process, and the place where faith meets real life.Wherever you are, come as you are. Episode one drops September 3. Follow the show so you don't miss it.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.