Meet your host “LaShundra Smith” and how BalancHer Faith podcast all started!
— Speaker 0 00:00 Hey sis. I’m your host with LaShundra Smith. Welcome to balance her faith podcast. Each week we balanced life together through God’s word interviews and our testimonies. You may cry, you may laugh, possibly even both. All I can promise you is that each show won’t be the same, but it will always be real. Tell your girls to tune in, subscribe, and don’t forget to leave a review. I’m super excited to be hosting my very first episode of balanced her fate. This season is all about vision 2020 vision and executing your purpose.
I felt it would only be right. I introduce myself first and discuss how we got here, so over a year ago, I had just started women with balance, which at the time was called the Shaundra speaks. I know everyone used speaks, but I was a newbie and trying to figure out my way and so yeah, it wasn’t very original until I decided to truly seek God about it and asked him, Hey, what is it that you really want me to do and what should I call this community?
Speaker 0 01:05 I knew that at this point that I could really do something fulfilling, that I could encourage other women. But I didn’t have an idea of what that looked like. So he told me, Hey, you’re a mom, you’re a sister, your friend, you’re a wife. And somehow you managed to still think about me. And it gave me women with balance. So I released my first video voice, shaking, trembling, and to my shock people actually listen, John. I was like amazed.
I used to think, God, how can this much stuff happen to one person? And why on earth did you choose me? I didn’t know what I was made of. I didn’t know everything I went through had his purpose, a purpose to help women who are struggling with their faith and their healing. So I just began to go down the rabbit hole. I had a name, but I still didn’t know what this vision really look like.
Speaker 0 02:00 I had bits and pieces and I just didn’t know how to put it together. I was trying to figure out my place in the world. And so I began to think of all the things I was naturally good at and I thought about writing and I do enjoy it. I loved it. I love writing my book, but when it came to blogging, it wasn’t something I wanted to do consistently or on a time schedule. Podcasting came to mind, but I realized at that time very unsure of myself. As soon as the thought hit me, I quickly felt defeated before I even started. I’m pretty sure many can relate to this.
I was like, you don’t have any followers. Nobody is that interested in listening to you. So I went live. I jumped to what I thought was the safe zone saying, okay, you need to produce products. It’s something tangible because in my mind, you can’t sell your voice. That’s what I was thinking at the time. I should have recognized the enemy right there, but sometimes y’all, he slides on through and you miss it. He is your number one hater, so I’m all over the place dropping this item, this tee shirt, this hat, this cup, and then crickets.
Speaker 0 03:12 and I decided I’ll just make a lot of these products for myself and keep it moving. I’m having fun creating content for social media. So then I began to think bigger project, be creative, started subscription box and part of that was me creating a majority of the content along with me scouring the universe for products.
One of my first projects for the subscription box was a planner. I figured, Hey, that’d be a perfect way to start off 2020 I like planners is something I always wanted to do. So I jumped in, we’ll chat at plan. It took so long, so many redos I wanted to punch the screen. No, I really wanted to throw my Mac anywhere and just be over it. Then to finish it, take it to print companies, local and online, ju
