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Trust sounds beautiful until it asks you to loosen your grip.
If you’ve spent years being “the responsible one,” letting go doesn’t feel holy or healthy. It feels risky. But what if your growth and the growth of the people you lead actually depend on it?
Welcome to The RISE Experience, a podcast for women who are rebuilding trust with themselves — in health, leadership, faith, and everyday life. This is a space to slow down when everything feels loud, to lead from steadiness instead of urgency, and to listen again. Here, identity, faith, the body, and quiet inner wisdom matter. A place to pause, reflect, and rise from clarity instead of pressure.
Episode Highlights
In today’s episode, we explore how doing everything yourself slowly shrinks the people around you, and how trust begins to rebuild what over-responsibility has shut down. Through story and a faith-centered lens, the focus moves from the discomfort of releasing control to the quiet strength of letting others try, make mistakes, and grow. As trust shifts from a theory to a practiced rhythm, leadership becomes less about carrying it all and more about creating space where everyone can rise.
Episode Outline
- The tension between valuing trust and resisting it when it requires releasing control.
- Why high-capacity, capable women often default to “I’ll just do it myself”.
- How over-responsibility quietly shrinks teams, families, and communities.
- Trust as a muscle: why it grows through repetition, shared responsibility, and time.
- A defining story of a boss who refused to give me easy answers—and how that forced me to grow.
- What happens when you let people figure things out instead of rescuing them.
- How shared responsibility builds confidence, ownership, and healthier leadership.
- The discomfort of letting others make mistakes and learn from them.
- The difference between neglecting people and giving them room to grow.
- A faith lens on trust: how God entrusts us with responsibility before we feel ready.
- Moving from control to stewardship in how we lead and love the people around us.
- Gentle reflection prompts on where trust feels hard and where you may be carrying too much alone.
- A closing prayer for wisdom, patience, and courage to lead from trust instead of fear.
Episode Chapters
00:00 Welcome to The Rise Experience
00:56 Introducing today’s topic: trust and control
02:19 The burden of always being the responsible one
03:53 “I’ll just do it myself” and its impact on your team
04:36 Trust as a muscle and a stretching boss story
07:20 How shared responsibility transforms teams and leaders
08:16 Letting people make mistakes and learn
09:17 A faith lens on trust and responsibility
10:02 From control to stewardship in leadership
11:06 Reflecting on where trust feels difficult in your life
11:51 Closing prayer and encouragement to keep rising together
Action Taken
I invite you to:
- Reflect on one area where you’re holding on because it feels “easier” than trusting someone else.
- Consider who in your life might be ready to grow if you gave them more meaningful responsibility.
Conclusion
Trust is not a switch you flip. It is a slow, stretching process that asks you to loosen your grip so others can rise. When you stop trying to control every outcome and start creating space for people to participate, make mistakes, and learn, leadership becomes less about pressure and more about stewardship. As you release what you were never meant to hold alone, you make room for real growth in you and in the people entrusted to you.
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By Shannon DennistonSend me a text
Trust sounds beautiful until it asks you to loosen your grip.
If you’ve spent years being “the responsible one,” letting go doesn’t feel holy or healthy. It feels risky. But what if your growth and the growth of the people you lead actually depend on it?
Welcome to The RISE Experience, a podcast for women who are rebuilding trust with themselves — in health, leadership, faith, and everyday life. This is a space to slow down when everything feels loud, to lead from steadiness instead of urgency, and to listen again. Here, identity, faith, the body, and quiet inner wisdom matter. A place to pause, reflect, and rise from clarity instead of pressure.
Episode Highlights
In today’s episode, we explore how doing everything yourself slowly shrinks the people around you, and how trust begins to rebuild what over-responsibility has shut down. Through story and a faith-centered lens, the focus moves from the discomfort of releasing control to the quiet strength of letting others try, make mistakes, and grow. As trust shifts from a theory to a practiced rhythm, leadership becomes less about carrying it all and more about creating space where everyone can rise.
Episode Outline
- The tension between valuing trust and resisting it when it requires releasing control.
- Why high-capacity, capable women often default to “I’ll just do it myself”.
- How over-responsibility quietly shrinks teams, families, and communities.
- Trust as a muscle: why it grows through repetition, shared responsibility, and time.
- A defining story of a boss who refused to give me easy answers—and how that forced me to grow.
- What happens when you let people figure things out instead of rescuing them.
- How shared responsibility builds confidence, ownership, and healthier leadership.
- The discomfort of letting others make mistakes and learn from them.
- The difference between neglecting people and giving them room to grow.
- A faith lens on trust: how God entrusts us with responsibility before we feel ready.
- Moving from control to stewardship in how we lead and love the people around us.
- Gentle reflection prompts on where trust feels hard and where you may be carrying too much alone.
- A closing prayer for wisdom, patience, and courage to lead from trust instead of fear.
Episode Chapters
00:00 Welcome to The Rise Experience
00:56 Introducing today’s topic: trust and control
02:19 The burden of always being the responsible one
03:53 “I’ll just do it myself” and its impact on your team
04:36 Trust as a muscle and a stretching boss story
07:20 How shared responsibility transforms teams and leaders
08:16 Letting people make mistakes and learn
09:17 A faith lens on trust and responsibility
10:02 From control to stewardship in leadership
11:06 Reflecting on where trust feels difficult in your life
11:51 Closing prayer and encouragement to keep rising together
Action Taken
I invite you to:
- Reflect on one area where you’re holding on because it feels “easier” than trusting someone else.
- Consider who in your life might be ready to grow if you gave them more meaningful responsibility.
Conclusion
Trust is not a switch you flip. It is a slow, stretching process that asks you to loosen your grip so others can rise. When you stop trying to control every outcome and start creating space for people to participate, make mistakes, and learn, leadership becomes less about pressure and more about stewardship. As you release what you were never meant to hold alone, you make room for real growth in you and in the people entrusted to you.
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