For His Glory CEO

If your heart is pumping right now and you're going back and forth between yes and no, you probably already know what you're supposed to do.

Stop wasting time. Choose it.

That is the energy Michelle Gifford brought to this episode.

Michelle is THE social media expert for personal brands; marketing agency CEO, podcaster, strategist behind 6, 7, and 8 figure brands and launches, happy wife, and mom of five. She beelined me at a conference in January and I immediately knew we were gonna be friends for life.

This episode is packed with practical gold on Instagram, AI, and what it actually looks like to build a business alongside a beautiful, full life. 

In This Episode You'll Learn:

• Why Michelle says, "people dumber than me are doing this" and why that realization changed everything
• How she went from zero strategy to going viral within three months by deconstructing and rebuilding her approach
• Why Instagram is now a content-based algorithm and what that means for women starting from zero
• The two metrics that matter most on Instagram right now, watch time and share rate
• How to choose your niche and create content around very specific problems you can solve in under a minute
• What Michelle AI is and why she built it specifically for women who need real help with social media
• How she is using Claude to analyze Instagram accounts and bridge the gap between her clients and their competitors
• Why AI is not going to replace you, it is going to make your voice stronger if you use it right
• The miniskirt rule for reel length and why ruthless editing is the key to keeping people watching
• Why being a present mom and building a big business are not opposites and how intentional connection makes all the difference
• What Michelle's grandma taught her about the privilege of having a platform today

About Michelle Gifford:

Michelle Gifford is THE social media expert for personal brands. She has helped hundreds of businesses and been the strategist behind 6, 7, and 8 figure brands and launches. As a marketing agency CEO, podcaster, and latest trend tracker, Michelle helps business owners' message and market their business, inspiring them to take action and delivering the tools to make it happen. She is also a happy wife and mom of five who knows firsthand what it means to build a business alongside a full and beautiful life.

📲 Follow Michelle: @iammichellegifford
🌐 iammichellegifford.com

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Friends, meet Chunk.

Yes, that is what I call my mom. Yes, it is from The Goonies. Yes, she is 79 years young and absolutely thriving.

Mama Bear, K-Bear, Nani K, Chunky Monkey has been married for 55 years, raised four kids who still love each other, has 12 grandkids who are obsessed with her, got her master's degree in counseling psychology at 50, overcame addiction, and has never once stopped showing up.

This episode is full of the kind of wisdom that only comes from someone who has actually lived it.

The I Message Framework:
"When this happens I feel..."
Lead with the situation. Follow with the feeling. Own it. Don't blame.
This is how you communicate without tearing each other down.

Resources & Mentions:

• 🎙️ Mother's Day episode, go back and hear Ali read a chapter from Mama Bear's StoryWorth book

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 Honoring his headship without hiding your calling.

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The GOAT is in the building.

Friends, meet John Sam Spitsbergen, nine years old, third grade Seed Sower Award winner, cajon player on the worship team, baseball lover, Padres fan, and the boy who looked at me the day I lost my entire business and said ...

"That's okay. We're believing for a bigger one."

This episode is pure joy, pure faith, and pure gold straight from the mouth of a nine-year-old who loves Jesus, loves his mama, and is already sowing seeds for the Kingdom everywhere he goes. 

In This Episode You'll Learn:

• How John Sam converted me from a lifelong Chicago Cubs fan to a San Diego Padres fan and why the Padres win every game he attends
• What the Seed Sower Award is and why his whole third grade class voted him the boldest kid in faith
• What John Sam said the day I lost my entire business at the ranch in Oregon and how he kept praying
• Why his favorite Bible verse is John 3:16 and the most perfectly John Sam reason why
• What John Sam says about prayer and why it is the simplest and most powerful thing he knows
• How he showed up for Miss Courtney when she covered my Inner Circle call so I could be at his SeaWorld field trip
• What he says mommy does to show him love and why one-on-one dates matter more than anything
• Why he jumped in my lap at nine years old while I was studying my Bible by the pool and whether he plans to keep doing it
• What John Sam wants everyone listening to know today

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 Honoring his headship without hiding your calling.

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Her first word was hallelujah.

Not mama. Not dada. Hallelujah, at nine months old in the radiology department at Rady Children's after her echocardiogram.

Anna Destiny Spitsbergen was born three months premature at one pound three ounces. Her grandpa prophesied over her that she would live and sing like the angels in heaven. She had open heart surgery at six months old. She spent 105 days in the NICU. And she is the entire reason I started my first business.

Today she is 15 years old, writing worship songs, leading chapel band at school, running a YouTube channel, and boldly proclaiming the name of Jesus everywhere she goes.

In This Episode You'll Learn:

• Anna's miracle story from the beginning, from the NICU to open heart surgery to her first word being hallelujah
• Why she started a YouTube channel and what she believes God has called her to do through music
• How being bullied in middle school led her to write her original song Who Said
• The scripture in John that broke through the bullying and gave her a breakthrough this week
• What it looks like to raise a daughter who finds her confidence in God not in the world
• How traveling the world as an entrepreneur's daughter shaped her faith and her dreams
• Why she puts scripture to music and how the Bible has become her greatest songwriting inspiration
• What Anna wants to do when she grows up and why it sounds a lot like Phil Wickham's summer worship nights
• What Anna sings live on the podcast, yes really

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 Honoring his headship without hiding your calling.

You are a high-achieving woman AND a wife. You do not have to choose between your calling and your marriage. Download The Wife Who Leads, my free guide for the woman who leads boldly in business and loves her husband well at home.

Download it here: The Wife Who Leads

Join our FREE Facebook Group: For His Glory CEO. This is where high-achieving Christian women entrepreneurs gather to build businesses that honor God. Come grow with us.

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My life wasn't gloomy before. But was I in the glory of God? No, I was not.

Those are Jess the Best's words. 

In 18 months, this woman went from opening a Bible for the first time to having a face-to-face encounter with Jesus in the shower, standing in peace while her husband nearly flat-lined, and declaring revival in the middle of the hardest season of her life.

This episode is not just a testimony. It is a fire starter. 

In This Episode You'll Learn:

• How Jess went from reading her Bible for the first time to finishing it cover to cover in one year
• What happened in the four hours without a phone at the Inner Circle retreat that changed everything
• The moment Jess surrendered on the white couch and got black mascara all over it
• The shower encounter where Jesus appeared and said "Lay hands on your husband and he will be healed"
• What it looked like to stand in perfect peace while her husband nearly flat-lined in the cancer ward
• Why she turned "I'm in survival mode" into "I'm in revival" and showed up to the next call in a Revival hat
• How Jess went from almost canceling the retreat to having the greatest transformation in the room
• What she tells the mom who wants to raise faith-filled kids but doesn't know where to start
• Why from gloom to glory is the most powerful four-word transformation story she has ever heard

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 Honoring his headship without hiding your calling.

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You asked for the Fab Four. We are delivering.

This is the first kid episode of the For His Glory CEO Podcast and I could not think of a better person to kick it off than my daughter Naomi Kate, 12, ahead of her time since the day she was born, and real and raw in the best possible way.

We talk about what it is actually like to grow up as an entrepreneur's daughter. The behind the scenes. The funny moments. The hard moments. The moment we lost everything on a 21-minute Zoom call and what she saw from the couch. And the moment she put the gift of her heavenly language on her Christmas wish list at nine years old and got it on Christmas Eve.

Friend, this one is going to make you laugh, make you cry, and make you hug your kids a little tighter today. 

In This Episode You'll Learn:

• What Naomi says it is actually like to grow up as an entrepreneur's daughter
• The retreat moment at nine years old that changed everything for her and what happened the very next Sunday
• How she went from crying on stage in front of 30 six and seven figure women to leading worship at school without nerves
• What Naomi saw the day I lost my business on a 21-minute Zoom call and what she learned from watching the rebuild
• Why one-on-one time with your kids matters more than anything else you can give them
• What Naomi says is the right move when a mom snaps, straight from an 11-year-old's perspective
• The lipstick moment, the bathtub swimming moment, and why if it's funny later it's funny now
• What Naomi's goals are for summer 2026 and the mic drop she ends with
• Why Naomi says above everything else, just trust the Lord because He has a plan for your life

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 Honoring his headship without hiding your calling.

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Download it here: The Wife Who Leads

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Friend, when is the last time you said no without guilt?

When is the last time someone texted you and you didn't immediately drop everything to respond?

When is the last time you said yes to something and actually meant it because it aligned with your soul instead of your people-pleasing?

This episode is for every ambitious woman who has been saying yes to everything and wondering why she is running on empty.

Dr. Emily Jacobs is a doctorate-prepared board-certified nurse coach, TEDx speaker, national bestselling author, Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses alumni, and founder of Empowered Moms. She built an entire movement out of a personal pain point, watching her mom quietly give up on her own life, and she is here today to make sure you don't do the same.

Say yes to less. Less people-pleasing. Less burnout. Less waiting for approval. More of YOU. 

In This Episode You'll Learn:

• What Say Yes to Less actually means and why it is not about having less ambition
• The three-step framework for better boundaries, pause, consider your choices, act in alignment
• Why your quick response addiction might be burning you out faster than anything else
• The one question to ask instead of saying yes or no on the spot and why it changes everything
• Why Dr. Emily started Empowered Moms with four people in her living room and what happened next
• How to train your kids, starting at age two, to figure things out without you
• Why the people on the inside of your home get whatever is left after you say yes to everyone outside
• The blood pressure analogy that will completely reframe how you think about rest and recovery
• Why self-doubt and fear are the real things keeping ambitious women stuck
• What it looks like to reclaim your identity as a high-achieving mom without burning it all down

About Dr. Emily Jacobs:

Dr. Emily Jacobs is a doctorate-prepared board-certified nurse coach, TEDx speaker, national bestselling author, and founder of Empowered Moms. After 20+ years in healthcare she resigned from what no longer aligned with her purpose and built her own practice helping women across the country design purpose-driven lives. She is the author of Live Your Life for You, Not Your Mom and the upcoming Empowered Moms collaborative book releasing July 2026.

📲 Follow Dr. Emily: @dremilyjacobs
🌐 Website: Empowered Moms Home
📚 Live Your Life for You, Not Your Mom, available now
📚 Empowered Moms Collaborative Book, releasing July 2026
🎉 Empowered Moms Conference, October 2026, Detroit Michigan

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 Honoring his headship without hiding your calling.

You are a high-achieving woman AND a wife. You do not have to choose between your calling and your marriage. Download The Wife Who Leads, my free guide for the woman who leads boldly in business and loves her husband well at home.

Download it here: The Wife Who Leads

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We either adapt or we get left behind, and friend, I am not getting left behind.

I have been all in on AI for over a year now and what it has done for my business, my copy, my team, and my capacity is genuinely mind blowing. In this episode I am breaking down the three tools I am using right now that every faith-driven female entrepreneur needs to know about.

In This Episode You'll Learn:

• Why Claude is better than ChatGPT for copywriting and how connecting it to your Google Drive is a total game changer
• How I used 13 years of documented work to build a keynote that blew my own mind
• The Growth Advisory Board prompt that takes emotion out of your biggest business decisions
• Why AI is helping me scale my team, launch more live events, and serve my clients at a higher level
• Why your attitude around AI might be the thing holding your business back
• How faith-driven women have a massive opportunity right now to use AI for good

The 3 Tools:

1. Claude — connect it to your Google Drive, your emails, your Canva. Let it learn your voice and watch what happens
2. The Growth Advisory Board Prompt — drop every bottleneck in your business here and watch the round table go to work 
3. Your mindset — own your attitude. Capture the thought. Renew it with truth. This is the CROWN Framework in action

Resources & Mentions:

• 🤖 Claude — claude.ai
• 📋 Growth Advisory Board Prompt 

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 Honoring his headship without hiding your calling.

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Download it here: The Wife Who Leads

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Sales Girl Summer is here, and it has nothing to do with DMs.

It has everything to do with relationships.

This episode is my challenge to you; put down the keyboard, pick up the phone, go meet people, and invest in the souls behind the sales. Because I promise you, the businesses that last are built on trust, not tactics. 💛

In This Episode You'll Learn:

• Why referrals are the most powerful marketing strategy and how trust builds them
• The FORD acronym that will change every sales conversation you have this summer
• Why one in four businesses fail and the one thing that separates the ones that don't
• Why picking up the phone is still the most powerful thing you can do in business in 2026
• How to build relationship equity that translates into a profitable business every single time
• Why the soul behind the sale matters more than the sale itself

The FORD Acronym:

• F — Family
• O — Occupation
• R — Recreation
• D — Dreams

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 Honoring his headship without hiding your calling.

You are a high-achieving woman AND a wife. You do not have to choose between your calling and your marriage. Download The Wife Who Leads, my free guide for the woman who leads boldly in business and loves her husband well at home.

Download it here: The Wife Who Leads

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You asked. I'm answering.

When I posted on my Facebook page asking what question you'd ask me if I handed you the mic, this was the first one that came in, and honestly it comes up all the time.

What does a day in the life of Ali actually look like?

So here it is. Raw, real, no sugarcoating. From 4AM to lights out, exactly how I structure my waking hours to build a business I love, raise four incredible humans, love my husband well, and still take care of myself.

Success leaves clues, and today I'm handing you mine. 

In This Episode You'll Learn:

• Why I wake up at 4:07AM and what the first hour of my day actually looks like
• The pre-workout habit I picked up at 46 that has changed everything for my hormones and energy
• Why I do hair, makeup, and heels even when I work from home and why it matters more than you think
• What Sales Girl Hour is and why revenue in first position is non-negotiable in my business
• How I use Airtable to track my sales activity and hold myself accountable every single day
• Why I never respond to messages and emails first thing in the morning and what I do instead
• How I structure client fulfillment and what it actually looks like to serve my Inner Circle at the highest level
• Why giving clients one win quickly is more powerful than giving them 55 things to do
• What my after-school routine looks like and why I plan for the whole week not just the day
• The Bath Bible Bed routine that anchors our evenings as a family
• Why choosing your hard is the most honest thing I can say about health, marriage, and business
• What weekends look like when you are in church leadership and your husband is the worship leader
• Why instead of saying "I don't have time" I say "it's not a priority" and why that changes everything

My Daily Schedule:

4:07AM — Wake up with Joshua. Salt water, light coffee with caramel macchiato protein powder, Bible time together
5:15AM — Burn Bootcamp Rooster Club. Lift heavy. No chatting.
7:00AM — Kids up, breakfast made, lunches packed, out the door
7:00AM — Church prayer slot. Word and prayer before the workday starts
Shower & get ready — Hair, makeup, earrings, heels. Every single day.
First work block — Sales Girl Hour. Revenue in first position. Always.
Second work block — Team WhatsApp, copy, client onboarding, messaging
Third work block — Client fulfillment. Monthly audits, offer building, messaging, clarity
Last work block — Admin, nitty gritty, the stuff I hate. Always last.
4:00PM — Kids home. Done working. Afterschool snack, homework, week planning
5:30PM — Dinner as a family. Highs, challenges, solutions. No phones.
Bedtime — Bath Bible Bed. Kids in bed by 8:00PM.
8:00-9:00PM — Joshua and I. In bed by 8:30-9:00PM.

Tools & Resources Mentioned:

• 📱 Airtable — AI integrated tracking system for sales activity
• 📱 Be Present App — block distractions during working hours
• 📱 The Brick — phone lockbox for focus and discipline
• 🎙️ Marriage Made in Heaven Podcast

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 Honoring his headship without hiding your calling.

You are a high-achieving woman AND a wife. You do not have to choose between your calling and your marriage. Download The Wife Who Leads, my free guide for the woman who leads boldly in business and loves her husband well at home.

Download it here: The Wife Who Leads

Join our FREE Facebook Group: For His Glory CEO. This is where high-achieving Christian women entrepreneurs gather to build businesses that honor God. Come grow with us.

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