Class Is in Session - Life is the curriculum

Welcome to the Class is in Session- Life is the Curriculum Podcast, in this eposide we are remembering advice and lessons we were given along the way in our lives.

Remember when they used to tell us, “You can’t be everything to everybody”? I heard the lesson. Life

made me understand it. “Who Told You It Was Yours?” is one of The Stories I Lived - and this week I

am telling the life underneath the lyrics before I let you hear the track. We will hear the sample track - WHO TOLD YOU IT WAS YOURYOURS from my upcoming Winter Freshman album which releases on December 21, 2026.

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#WinterFreshman #ClassIsInSession

For years, I could get things done. Two jobs, motherhood, homeownership, bills, responsibilities and being the person people

Music had followed me for most of my life, from my father's DJ business to the silent-headphone experiences I later created through my own event-planning work. But adulthood changed what I needed from music. Jobs, motherhood, a mortgage, bills, loss and responsibility had become part of the life I was carrying. In this episode of Class Is in Session, I share why going back to the '80s and '90s could take me somewhere familiar, but could not fully meet the woman I had become. That realization eventually became You Made It Here, Track 01 from my upcoming Winter Freshman album, releasing December 21, 2026.

How long have you been preparing for something you may already be ready to begin?In this episode of the We Are Gardens™ Podcast, Gloria D. Cassell explores the Spring principle of Begin and the difference between being prepared and waiting for certainty.Sometimes preparation is necessary. Other times, preparation becomes a comfortable place to remain because taking the first step feels uncertain.Through the Four Seasons of Alignment™, we explore what beginning can look like in real life: submitting the application, making the phone call, opening the document, having the conversation, researching the opportunity, or simply taking one responsible next step.You don’t have to see the entire path.You don’t have to know the outcome.And you certainly don’t need proof of the harvest before honoring the seed.Prepare • Begin • Plant • NurtureJust tend to the week you’re in.Discover Your Season™Not sure which season you're currently in?Join Discover Your Season™ Live and access the We Are Gardens™ assessment to discover whether you're currently in Winter, Spring, Summer or Fall and receive guidance that fits where you are.Discover Your Season™ Live & Assessment⁠

www.gloriadcassell.com/liveWe Are Gardens. Tend to YOU.™

Good advice can still be the wrong fit.

What worked for someone else may not be what you need right now.

In this episode of the We Are Gardens™ Podcast, we’re talking about why personal development should begin with understanding where you are, plus the story behind the new Winter Guidebook.

Ready to Tend to YOU.™?

Visit our website and choose:

Discover Your Season™ to reserve an upcoming Live session

or

Bookstore to explore the We Are Gardens™ Guidebooks.

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What are you finally ready to say RIP to?

Exhaustion? Uncertainty? Stagnation? Or receiving a harvest and realizing you never learned how to steward it?

In this episode of Glo's Lessons from the Garden Podcast, Gloria Cassell gets personal about the lived experiences behind each of these struggles.

From working multiple jobs and drinking coffee and energy drinks just to keep going, to wondering why she was always the “jack of all trades and master of none,” to experiencing business growth but not knowing how to sustain it, and even receiving a harvest she admits she didn't always steward well.

These aren't simply things Gloria teaches.

She's lived them.

And through those experiences, she eventually learned how to live differently.

This episode is an invitation to recognize yourself somewhere within her story and consider what you may finally be ready to put to rest so you can begin flourishing differently.

Because sometimes the first step isn't doing more.

It's recognizing where you are.

🎵 Featuring “The Government is on His Shoulders” from Gloria Cassell's Freedom album.

Ready to discover your journey? Visit gloriadcassell.com to learn more and take the free Four Seasons of Alignment™ assessment.

We Are Gardens™
Tend to YOU.

What if your exhaustion isn't your identity?

In this episode of Glo Lessons from the Garden, Gloria Cassell shares the deeply personal journey that led to the creation of We Are Gardens. 

Through stories of working multiple jobs as a single mom, cultivating a backyard that became God's classroom, and discovering the wisdom found in creation's rhythms, Gloria invites you to see your own story in a new light.

If you've been carrying so much that you've forgotten what it feels like to truly flourish, this conversation is for you.

You'll discover:

• Why so many good people live exhausted

• How God used creation to reveal a different way of living

• Why your past may have been preparing you all along

• How you can begin your own journey from exhaustion to flourishing

Featured Music: "The Weight Lifted" from the Freedom album - Gloria D. Cassell 

Ready to discover your season? Take the FREE Four Seasons Assessment and begin your journey today at:

www.gloriadcassell.com⁠

Remember...

You were created to do more than survive. You were created to flourish.

Have you ever felt like life's setbacks have disqualified you from becoming who God created you to be?

In this episode, we're exploring one of the most overlooked lessons in Scripture. In Romans 8, Paul tells us that all creation groans, yet every season, creation continues to show up. Trees still bear fruit. Flowers still bloom. Seeds still become what they were created to be.

What if creation has been teaching us something all along?

Join Gloria D. Cassell as she unpacks how our pain, setbacks, disappointments, and seasons of waiting don't have to define our future. Discover how God's patterns in creation reveal that groaning doesn't cancel purpose, and why your current season is not your final destination.

If creation can faithfully continue in a world that groans, what does that teach us about our own lives?

This episode will encourage you to stop allowing your struggles to define you and begin realigning your life with the Creator's design one season at a time.

 Ready to discover what season you're in?

Take the Four Seasons of Alignment™ Assessment and learn how to flourish in the season you're currently living.

 Visit: www.gloriadcassell.com⁠

There you'll find:

•  The Four Seasons of Alignment™ Assessment
• Free resources to begin your journey
•  Information about the We Are Gardens™ community and upcoming app
•  Speaking, courses, and tools designed to help you move from exhaustion to flourishing

Because no matter what season you're in...

Creation still shows up.

And so can you. 

Freedom Album track: Come to Me

Do you feel like you're always busy but never making real progress?

Maybe the problem isn't your work ethic.

Maybe it's that you've been trying to live in every season at once.

In this episode, Gloria Cassell explores what creation teaches us about timing, growth, and why flourishing happens when we stop fighting the season we're in. Through biblical principles and lessons from the garden, you'll discover why God never asks creation or us to bloom, harvest, rest, and plant all at the same time.

You'll learn:

•  Why busyness isn't the same as growth

•  How creation models faithful stewardship through every season

• Why many people keep "digging up their seeds" before growth has a chance to happen

• How the Four Seasons of Alignment can help you understand where you are today

• Why flourishing begins by faithfully tending the season you're currently in.

Featured Music: Seek First from the Freedom Collection.

Ready to discover your current season?

Take the FREE Four Seasons Assessment at:

 www.gloriadcassell.com⁠

The assessment isn't the destination; it's the doorway. It helps us understand where you are so we can welcome you into the community, daily guidance, and resources designed to help you flourish.

Track : Seek First - Freedom Album - Gloria D. Cassell

We Are Gardens. Tend to YOU.™

Five Garden Lessons That Changed Everything

What if the lessons you've been searching for have been growing around you all along?

In this first episode of Lessons From the Garden, Gloria D. Cassell shares five simple but powerful lessons from creation that reveal timeless truths about growth, patience, purpose, stewardship, and unexpected opportunities.

Through the lens of an apple tree, strawberry plant, peony, cotton plant, and volunteer plant, you'll discover how creation often teaches us truths long before we recognize them in ourselves.

Featured Lessons:

The Apple Tree - Roots First. Fruit Later.

The Strawberry - Multiplication Before Harvest

.The Peony - Patience Before Beauty.

The Cotton Plant - Purpose Beyond Misuse

.The Volunteer Plant - Don't Ignore Unexpected Gifts.

Anchoring Scripture: Mark 4:26-28. The kingdom of God is as if a man should scatter seed on the ground... the seed should sprout and grow, he himself does not know how. Closing Scripture: Galatians 6:9 Let us not grow weary in doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not give up.

Featured Music: Intro - Welcome to Freedom/ Outro

Track: Freedom Looks Like Standing Tall from the Freedom Album.

The garden isn't the subject. You are. We are gardens. Tend to YOU.