You ever feel like
where you are standing in this moment in
your business
is so not where you expected to be.
Or maybe you feel like,
is this... Am I really made for this?
Like, I feel like I'm stepping into
a place that. I am not sure that
I'm qualified to belong.
If you can relate to that,
I wanna remind you that you've been positioned
on purpose,
and it's time to embrace
what God has directed you to.
Join me as we unpack that in this
episode.
Hi my high achieving sister in Christ. Have
you experienced great business or professional heights in
your own strength but you still feel empty
and unfulfilled?
Is your outward success clashing with your values
and priorities,
especially your faith?
If over achievement is like a badge of
honor for you, you'll find relief and respite
here. Welcome to redefining hustle, navigating success is
Christian woman, the weekly podcast for high achieve
like you who desire harmony between their faith
and ambition.
I'm Aaron Here, a Christian wife, emptiness mom,
entrepreneur and recovering over
who felt those same things. When I prayed
for a better way to work, god responded
with let me drive.
Then he led me to help women like
you through my speaking, coaching and writing.
My mission is teaching you that success doesn't
require buying into the world's frantic
definition of hustle or into the so called
anti hustle movement.
Instead you can meet me in the middle
right here to redefine hustle and navigate success
with God as your Ceo.
Each week will spend a focus 15 minutes
connecting biblical truth to business with practical
application. So you can tune out the world,
tune into God's truth and turn out focus.
The truth is god made you ambitious. But
he didn't make you to do business as
usual. If this is the reminder that you
need today, let's dive in together.
Earlier this year,
I completed an annual process
that I do reviewing the previous year reviewing
what I accomplished and what was disappointing and
what I learned and then moving through that
process
to create my plan for the year. I
also
always
sit down with the Lord and pray over
a word for the year that could direct
where I'm going
and often that word just shows up in
the most
surprising ways in my year.
And this year when I did this exercise.
The word that the lord gave me was
positioned, and I thought, well I know what
position I'm in life and I know where
my business is going.
That is not where he wanted to take
me.
What I have found is I look back
on my career
of 30 years in Corporate America and the
14 years that I've been an entrepreneur
in multi level marketing.
And
the last 5 years, 6 years now that
I've been
a biblical business coach.
I often wonder
Lord, why have you place me in this
room or among these people? Or
Lord, am I playing too small you know,
it's very popular to say, like, we hold
ourselves back and we play small and we
shrink and etcetera.
But I don't know that we often
look at those situations and say,
Lord,
is this purposeful
where you have
positioned me. And is it really us holding
ourselves back? Or is it the lord moving
things out of the way to position us
where he wants us to be for his
greatest
glory.
So often
in a world that says you do you
and follow your heart and speak your truth
and and,
you know, go after your dreams no matter
what. We lose sight of the fact that
as Christians as followers of Jesus,
we are to follow where the holy spirit
leads us.
And as my coach said to me today
on a coaching call in fact,
I think you're getting ahead of the lord.
And that's hard for us as science. Right?
Like, we have a tendency to get out
of ahead because We're kind of mapping out
where we're going.
But as I work through my process this
year, but the lord made apparent to me.
Is that he
positions me. And the spaces in which he
places me are uniquely mine
to occupy. There may be times that I
feel totally un
in those spaces, or there may be times
that I feel totally over qualified in those
spaces.
And that can that can lead us to
either
step back and and be a little timid
or
reserved in the spaces where we feel like
we don't belong or
a little h and pride in the spaces
where we think we're over qualified for.
What he was showing me is that where
he places me, where he directs me,
I am uniquely
made to occupy. For some reason, whatever that
reason may be?
Secondly,
what do you wanted to show me in
positioning me is that
when I think I have to do all
the things and be all the places and
have all the things, I need to step
back and ask why
and for whom. In other words, when I
feel like I need to be in places
that maybe he has some position to me,
or I feel like I have to be
in places
to market my business or be present, etcetera?
Why am I doing that?
And for whom, who am I trying to
impress or status I or
or play kate,
why do I desire to be in those
places and always available in all the things?
Because is that really following his
direction.
And then the last thing that he showed
me around
positioning.
Is that
consistency
and honesty
are greater
than quantity
and cons.
What I mean by cons is
constantly constantly working and always having to be
on. In other words,
showing up consistently whatever that looks like for
you in your business and showing up honestly
in your business are greater than showing up
a lot
and showing up all the time. Right?
In the end,
god
positions and provides.
And our obedience
will always yield fruit.
That fruit may look different
on any given day. It may look like
a greater client Roster. It may look like
more commas in your bank account. It may
look like bigger stages that you're on It
may look like,
you know, a bigger following online. But, you
know what? None of that matters to the
lord.
What matters to him is our
obedience and our embracing
where he has
positioned us.
So let's walk through a few scriptures.
Normally when I prepare for the podcast,
I go certainly to the Lord and say,
what what are the scriptures that that you
want to eliminate for me to bring forward
for my listeners?
Sometimes I will Google, what does the Bible
say about x and I love where it
takes me, which then takes me, you know,
in a million different directions.
And the these are the scriptures that he
gave me both from
the process that I do every year in
planning, which led me to being focused on
where
where he's
positioning me is uniquely mine to occupy and
that he positions and provides
And so I wanna walk through these with
you, not out of context, but as you
know that we do on this show.
We are all about applying biblical local truth
to business. So Don't wanna take these out
of context, but rather I wanna use them
as we always do to say, what, could
this possibly mean in my business.
And I put these in the show notes
so that you can do further study and
most certainly go to the Lord and understand
what he wants you to know about his
word. And his character in these scriptures. For
the first 1 that I wanna take us
to is
Isaiah 55 11. It's a very popular
1,
so my word that comes to my mouth
will not return to me empty, but it
will accomplish what I please and will prosper
in what I send it to do.
Where I take this when it comes to
business is, number 1 that your business is
a vehicle for kingdom impact. It is a
vehicle
for the great commission.
Lot of people make disciples.
Right?
And therefore,
he has
positioned you for purpose. He has given you
very specific gifts and talents
And
perhaps to this point, you've had incredible success
in your own strength. And what the Lord
is trying to show you now is
it's time for you to let me lead
dear daughter.
I made you ambitious, but I didn't make
you to do business as usual. And you've
been doing businesses you visual, and you think
that it served you well because you have
all of the outward success. But yet you're
still unfulfilled and you're still empty, and you're
feeling lost at what to do next it's
because you're continuing to try to rip that
steering wheel out of my hands.
So I believe here, this is the reminder
to all of us
high achieving women that
the lord's word is truth
and that what he has commanded over your
life man over your business
will not return void that that it will
accomplish what he pleases. Now what we please
Not what we desire, but it will accomplish
what he pleases, and it will prosper in
what he sent it to do. His word
will prosper.
That may not look like the dollars the
sense and the measurements of success the world's
way, but it will prosper in peace
and calm and even joy there will be
an ease in your business, not that it's
easy. There's still work for you to do,
but there is an ease when we allow
him
and his truth to
overrule
anything that we put in place and allow
him to position us and to guide us.
The second scripture is Psalm 37 versus 23
and 24. The Lord makes firm the steps
of the 1 who delight in him
and though he may stumble. He will not
fall for the lord uphold him with his
hand.
This scripture brings me so much solace because
I know that in my human ness, I
can stumble,
and I can get off track, and I
can go 10 steps ahead of the lord.
But yet he makes my steps firm every
time I delight him every time I see
him. I feel
more strengthened and more firm in my foundation
with better clarity about where I'm going. You
know, most recently, you've heard me talk a
little bit about stepping back from some social
media,
and I certainly talked about that with Robin
Graham on a recent episode.
And as I have done that, at first,
I felt so un unstable because I wasn't
showing up in all the places that I'm
used to showing up.
But the Lord has so graciously
brought me rest and peace with not being
on social media,
and
he in his way has put my content
or my offers
or the ways that I can help people
in front of people
who have then found me
and reached out to me.
And
we are never in a position to earn
what the lord is doing for us.
Still, it is in those moments that I
love to come back and say, Lord,
I want to obey you because
not for the blessing, but because of the
ease and the peace and the joy that
it gives me and yet
you're so gracious to move things along
almost as if to say.
I said to you. I direct you and
see what happens when I do. It's always
so much better than Aaron could have done
it. So I encourage you to think about
that when you read these verses.
And see if it doesn't bring you solace
to know that our steps are firm when
we seek him. And even though we're going
to stumble, there will be roadblocks, there will
be obstacles
that we won't fall and permanently stay down
because he's got us in his grip. And
I don't know about you.
I wanna to be positioned nowhere
outside of the Lord's grasp.
The last
scripture that I want to give you is
Psalm 01:28 versus 1 and 2, and it
says, blessed are all who fear the lord
who have reverence for the lord. Who walk
in obedience to him. You will eat the
fruit of your labor, blessings and prosperity will
be yours. Now again, This is not about
money and material wealth. Although certainly some of
those things we can we can enjoy as
fruits of our labor.
But the point is when we walk in
obedience stand when we allow him to position
us, he
positions us for purpose. When we embrace his
direction. When we embrace where he's placing us,
and even where he's taking us out of.
Right?
That we will see the fruit from that,
and we will be able to enjoy that
fruit. And that is a blessing to us
because I don't know about you. He has
certainly pulled me out of some rooms that
I thought so desperately I needed to be
in to move my business forward.
And he says, no No No. It's not
your business. It's my business.
I will position you where I want you
to be.
Lastly,
I'm wanna leave this with you.
So often,
the women that I coach
are 678
figure business owners.
They have had incredible success and the idea
of letting Jesus lead
while
attractive
is also really scary because they're afraid that
he's going to redirect them that he's gonna
completely,
re
reroute them if you will, as our great
positioning shepherd, or Gps,
because they're used to the hustle. They're used
to the way the world does that. Right?
And the idea of slowing down even a
little bit is scary.
They they they work with intention and purpose.
But the idea of, like, stopping long enough
to say, Lord is this for where you
want me to go.
Is a little unnerving because they're sort of
used to
the world's definition of Hustle. Right?
And what I want you to know is
that
the lord will always
operate in accordance with what's best for us
in accordance with his word. Always always
always always always. Like, there's never gonna be
a time
that he doesn't.
But navigating
success God's way.
Is truly
the only way and the best way,
the most even care freeway
to harmon
your faith in business for true impact and
growth.
Doing it his way following his direction
embracing how he positions you because he positions
you for purpose,
wherever he takes you.
He's not overlooking your gifts your talents your
skills. He's putting you in places where those
things can truly make the impact.
That he desires for you to make, that
he's positioned you to make. That your your
business is a vehicle to make.
That kingdom impact
is far greater than what the world would
define a success. So again, let me say
that navigating success God's way is the best
and really only way to harmon your faith
and business for true,
impacting growth, and that takes embracing
where he's positioning you.
I pray that this bless as you today.
I pray that that you will consider where
God is positioning you and how
and that you will allow him to do
that
that you won't sort of dig in your
heels. I'm I'm really good at that sometimes.
And ultimately,
if this pie has speaks to you that
you would share it with someone
if working with a biblical business coach is
your next step that you've prayed over that,
that you would
pray over whether I am the person to
work with.
But whatever that looks like for you.
I want you to know that where god
positions you, you are uniquely made to
occupy, don't let anybody tell you otherwise because
the only authority
over you over your life over your business
is the lord Jesus.
Until we are together next time. I pray
for and encourage you. To tune out the
world,
tune in the God's truth and turn up
focus
that you truly can harmon your faith in
business
and have true
impact the way he
positions you to do. I'll see you on
the next episode.
From where you stand in your established business
or career. Do you ever feel like your
outwards success is warring with your faith and
internal peace is over achievement your comfort zone,
but it's exhausting you.
Friend the truth is what's gotten you this
far won't get you to where God is
leading you, and that's going to take clarity
and accountability.
Because the truth is he made you ambitious,
but he didn't make you to do business
as usual. It's time to partner with a
coach that combines biblical truth and business acumen
with a personalized
approach for high achieving women like you.
If you're bold enough to ask for help
at this stage and brave enough to step
into a powerful
partnership. Then let's explore how I can help
you break free from business usual. Schedule your
discovery call today at aaron here dot com.
Slash discovery call or click the link in
the show notes.
Thanks for tuning in to redefining Hustle, navigating
success as a Christian woman each week.
I pray the show reminds you that god
made you ambitious, but he didn't make you
to do business as usual.
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praying for you friend that you'll embrace
redefining hustle and in turn, your business will
produce much fruit and impact his kingdom in
greater ways than you could ever do in
your own strength.