WHAT THIS EPISODES ABOUT:

Welcome to Raise the Praise where we reclaim our joy and thrive in life! I just want to say a huge thank you right up front to my special guest Stefanie Gass.

Stefanie shares her God-led calling by finding clarity through Christ and knowing the truth is what makes you free.

After becoming a corporate powerhouse by 26 and realizing she needed a way to end the 60 hour workweek and travel so that she could settle down and start a family, Stefanie was introduced to network marketing. 2 years (and a TON) of hustle later, she had “made it”. I.e. The top 1% of this company, paid for cars, free trips, and even walked the stage holding a life-sized, 50K bonus check…

Only to find her ego and insatiable drive to financial success wasn’t sustainable. Nor was it making her happy… with all her eggs in this one crushed up little basket, and a team that was off and looking for the next best thing she was knocked to her knees. 60 pounds overweight after her second son and borrowing money from her kid’s savings accounts to cover cash flow problems, Stefanie was searching for purpose, worth, and her calling.

Stefanie was led to renewed spirituality and went through a massive life transformation to find her truth.

Learn what Stefanie discovered, listen in to today's episode of Raise the Praise...

 

 

WAYS TO CONNECT WITH ME & STEFANIE…

• Website: https://raisethepraisepodcast.com

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jbell2007

• Facebook Group: https://www.choose2praise.com

• Stefanie Gass' Website: https://www.stefaniegass.com

 

SHOWNOTES:

•     I came up with this idea of being a mom and just really embodying that, and then also being an entrepreneur, that's the word MOMpreneur plus Jesus because where else does any of this come from? The provision, the vision in our business, the spiritual gift, things that we all have. Our precious children, it's all from Jesus. And then finally, what's the final secret ingredient to living my best life? It's coffee. (2:16)

•    I had climbed the corporate ladder really quickly, and I was the first, well, the youngest financial controller in the solar company, that was a global company. I was jet setting to Germany and Spain and running this finance division. It was so cool because it was just me. It was just me and myself, and I. And I didn't have a family, or I didn't have anybody to worry about, but it never felt right. What did feel right at the time, so I thought, was money, rank, raises, the corporate ladder, and I come to realize that some of my spiritual giftings are also the enemy's favorite way to control me, thank goodness for the truth being revealed. (4:47)

•    I know that sounds really crazy, but the self-piece of who we are ego, the worldly Stephanie had to die in order for the Christ-like Stephanie to be born. And here's what God did, he did the shake up again, and there was a moment where I sat up at the bank account thingy on the computer and I'm looking... And like we literally have no more money. There's no more money here, and I can't work any harder, like I'm literally going to either kill myself with a nervous breakdown, or I'm just going to give up... There's nothing else I can do. And I went to my husband, I'm 60 pounds overweight, I'm like two seconds from having our second baby, there is just no money left, and I'm like, Hey, by the way, we can't pay the bills this month. (11:46)

•   But I kept being brought back to the truth, and so I found that verse that I love so much, and it's, You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. And that's John 8-32, it's the promise. It's the promise that when you finally find the truth, you will be finally free, and I kept going, isn't there a way to be free, free from anxiety, free from the work-aholism? Can't I be free to not work on the weekends, can I be free to just have the money that we need to just be... To give back and I wanted to tithe so badly for so many years and we just literally c