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Financial coach Foluke Olayele reveals what managing money God's way actually looks like — and why it has everything to do with trust, not just budgets.

💸 Most of us never had a real conversation about money.

We inherited fear, silence, or survival mode — and somewhere along the way, we decided God was too holy for our bank account. Financial coach, author, and founder of Hand In Hand Consulting Foluke Olayele is here to tell you that's exactly backwards.

In this conversation, Foluke shares how a divorce, a digital book, and a Valentine's Day download from God put her on a path from debt to a paid-off home, a thriving career — and eventually, a calling to help women steward money God's way.

Her story is part miracle, part obedience, and completely relevant to the woman who has ever felt like her finances were too far gone, too complicated, or too embarrassing to bring to the Lord.

Misty and Foluke explore what it actually means to manage money with God as your provider — not just as a nice idea, but as a daily, practical reality for both single women and married ones.

🎯 They unpack the biblical distinction between debt and bondage,

💸🤑💰 If you have been surviving financially instead of stewarding — or if money has felt like a subject you carry alone — this episode is for you.

Foluke's free resource — The 5 Biggest Mistakes You're Making with Inconsistent Income — is linked below. And if this conversation stirred something in you, come find us in the Christian Moms in Business and Ministry Facebook community, where the conversation is continuing this week.

RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

🎁 Foluke's Free Resource: https://handinhandconsulting.net/3day-moneyresetguide

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Resources, community, and next steps — everything you need is right here.

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🌱 BECOMING Cohort

Discover the God-given freedom to live from your God-given identity, not your to-do list. A 12-week cohort for busy and ambitious Christian moms who are longing to renew their purpose.

https://mistyhughes.com/cohort

✨ Free Resource — Rhythms of Renewal Mini-Guide

Discover God’s life-giving rhythms.

https://mistyhughes.myflodesk.com/discoverrhythms

✉️ Contact Misty

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📞 Book a Call with Misty

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When you shine, you give others permission to shine too. ✨

Have you met her yet? The real you — not the one who shows up capable and composed, not the one who knows exactly what to say in every room — but the one underneath all of that. If that question makes you go quiet, this episode is for you. 🌿

In this deeply personal episode, Misty shares the story of the first time she asked God to show her herself — and what He showed her wasn’t pretty.

🪨 It was a burnt stub. Charcoal black. Not completely dead, but barely alive.

And in that image, God didn’t give her a verdict. He gave her an invitation. He was saying: "I see what you’ve been through. I see what’s left. And I’m not done."

Years later, the ashes became literal when her marriage ended and she found herself alone, rebuilding — and it was in that desert season, deep in the Song of Solomon, that God kept meeting her to speak tenderly, not to shame her but to show her she was still His. Still lovely. 🤍

This episode explores the difference between knowing yourself through other people’s eyes — through what you do and how you perform — and knowing yourself through holy collaboration with your Creator.

Misty pushes back on the belief that self-knowledge is self-indulgent, grounding it in Psalm 139:23–24 where David himself prayed: Search me, God, and know my heart.

She walks through three practical postures for beginning to know yourself:

1️⃣ solitude as the container,

She brings it all home to the two scriptures that anchor the entire Known series: Isaiah 61:3 — a crown of beauty instead of ashes, and oaks of righteousness for the display of His splendor — and Song of Solomon 1:5 — I am dark but lovely. Not dark therefore unlovable. Not lovely once it’s cleaned up. Dark and lovely, both at once. God called her lovely in the dark. He’s calling you lovely too. ✨

This is the final episode in the Known series (Episodes 103, 104, and 105). If you missed the first two, the links are right here...in the show notes — waiting for you.

🌱 Free Rhythms of Renewal Mini Guide: https://mistyhughes.myflodesk.com/discoverrhythms

🎯 Free Notice, Name, Feel & Free Your Feelings Resource (includes feelings wheel): available at mistyhughes.com/resources

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🎙️EP 104: The Woman Nobody Sees

Surrounded by people but unknown to yourself? This episode names the quiet ache — and points you back to the One who has always seen you. 🌳

You can be surrounded by people who love you — and still be profoundly unknown. Not because anyone has failed you, but because somewhere in the accumulation of roles you carry, the woman underneath them got quiet. Got small. Got lost in plain sight.

If that lands somewhere tender today, this episode is for you. 🧑‍👧

Misty shares two deeply personal stories — one from the stage of a thriving nonprofit where hundreds of women felt they knew her, and one from a marriage season where life finally slowed down enough for her to notice the hole in her soul. Both stories circle back to one quiet, aching truth: public intimacy and personal intimacy are not the same thing. The stage is a beautiful place to give. It is not always a safe place to receive.

In this episode you’ll explore the difference between being known FOR something — your reputation, your role, your resume — and being truly KNOWN. Your interior. Your fears, your failures, your real questions at 2 AM.

Misty walks through a practical friendship audit with three circles (Celebration, Community, and Core) and the brave questions she asked God when her core circle came up empty. 💛

And then she brings it all home to the only foundation that makes the rest possible: before there was a stage, a role, a title, or a calling — you were searched and you were known. Psalm 139:1 isn’t just a comfort verse. It’s the ground you stand on.

The Holy One, the Maker of heaven and earth, has made Himself familiar with all your ways. Not the polished ones. All of them. He searched you and He stayed.

You are not the woman nobody sees. You are the woman the Creator of the universe sees so completely that He counts the hairs on your head, catches your tears, and calls you His.

Everything else — every circle, every friendship, every brave act of letting someone in — flows downstream from that. ✨

🔗‍️ LINKS MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE

Flourish In Friendship FREE Friendship Circle Mapping Guide & MORE: 

https://mistyhughes.com/resources

☎️ Book a complimentary discovery call: https://calendly.com/mistyhughes/call-with-misty

💼 1:1 Private Coaching: https://mistyhughes.com/coaching

🌱 Free Rhythms of Renewal Mini-Guide: https://mistyhughes.myflodesk.com/discoverrhythms

📞 Got a Mom2Mom Question? Leave a voicemail: https://www.speakpipe.com/msg/s/342885/13/1tpg128b2smursqi

👥 Join the Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/christianmomsinbusinessandministry

Still waiting on a God-given dream? This episode names the ache—and shows you why the wait is not the waste. 🌳

Have you quietly set aside a dream you used to talk about? A calling, a ministry, a book, a marriage that feels like partnership, or simply the longing to finally feel at home in your own story? Friend, this episode is for you.

In this episode, Misty gets deeply personal about the years she spent in the gap—watching God seem to fulfill everyone else’s dreams while she was left holding the bag after her marriage ended. Out of that pit came one of the most life-changing challenges she’s ever received: Give it twenty years. Not as a life sentence, but as an act of mercy—God’s honest invitation into the slow, sacred work of becoming.

Through the stories of Sarah, David, Noah, and Joseph—whose waits stretched from 13 to 75 years—Misty shows us that the gap between God’s promise and its fulfillment has always been long, and always been intentional. Drawing from Isaiah 61:3 and the image of the oak tree (which takes 20–50 years to reach maturity), she makes the case that what looks like stalling is often deepening—root time, not wasted time.

Misty also draws a crucial distinction between delay and detour—and gives listeners a practical question that might just reframe everything: Has God ever told you this dream was canceled? Or have you just been waiting so long it started to feel that way?

If you’ve been quiet about a calling, wondering if you missed God, or exhausted by a season that won’t seem to move—this episode will meet you there. Grab your journal. Your wait is not your waste.

🌱 Get on the BECOMING Cohort waitlist: https://mistyhughes.com/cohort

📌 Join our Facebook community: Christian Moms in Business and Ministry

Ready to being God's Life-Giving Rhythms for your own life?

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Can you trust God with what you cannot control? Debbie Simmons shares hard-won wisdom on loving prodigals, grieving loss, and leading your home with peace.

What do you do when the thing you want most is completely outside your control? Whether it’s a child who is wandering, a loss that broke you open, or a home that feels like it’s running on fumes — today’s episode is for you.

Debbie Simmons, known as The Legacy Architect, is the founder and CEO of Anchor Point, a keynote speaker, leadership strategist, and author of The Heart of Legacy. She is also a mother of thirteen — four sons she held in her arms and rocked into eternity, and nine children she adopted in three sibling groups. Her story is one of the most profound testimonies of trust, redemption, and legacy you will ever hear.

In this conversation,

You will also learn Debbie’s 10-Minute Reset — a simple daily rhythm that helps you regulate before you react — and how to identify your 🦈  “shark waters” 🦈 before they pull you under.

The practical wisdom in this episode is the kind that comes from real life,

not a textbook.

Debbie’s free gift for listeners: The Heart of Legacy (just pay shipping) — theheartoflegacy.com

✨ CONNECT WITH MISTY

Resources, community, and next steps — everything you need is right here.

🌐 Website

https://mistyhughes.com/

👥 Facebook Community — Christian Women in Business & Ministry

https://www.facebook.com/groups/christianmomsinbusinessandministry

📸 Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/the_mistyhughes

🌱 BECOMING Cohort

Discover the God-given freedom to live from your God-given identity, not your to-do list. A 12-week cohort for busy and ambitious Christian moms who are longing to renew their purpose.

https://mistyhughes.com/cohort

✨ Free Resource — Rhythms of Renewal Mini-Guide

Discover God’s life-giving rhythms.

https://mistyhughes.myflodesk.com/discoverrhythms

✉️ Contact Misty

https://mistyhughes.com/inquire

📞 Book a Call with Misty

https://calendly.com/mistyhughes/call-with-misty

When you shine, you give others permission to shine too. ✨

Ready to stop running on empty and start living with clarity and purpose? Learn about the BECOMING Cohort at mistyhughes.com/cohort.

What does it look like to parent a child with a mental illness — and keep your faith intact? Kelly Jackson has lived it. This conversation is for you.

There are moms sitting in church pews right now who are exhausted, confused, and quietly wondering if they're the only ones.

Their child is struggling — with moods, behaviors, diagnoses they didn't see coming — and no one is talking about it.

This episode is for them and for those who know someone who has mental health concerns.

Kelly Jackson is the Executive Director of NAMI Johnson County and a mom who has walked one of the harder roads in parenting: a husband who experienced a suicide attempt, a daughter who began hearing voices at eleven, and the long, winding journey of learning to love her family well in the middle of it all.

She doesn't speak from theory. She speaks from Tuesday mornings and medication trials and moments of grace.

Together, Misty and Kelly talk through

✦ what mental health conditions actually are (and why "one in five" is a number every mom needs to sit with),

Kelly also shares the one daily rhythm that has kept her anchored through all of it — and it's simpler than you might think.

This isn't a heavy, clinical episode.

It's a conversation between two women who love Jesus and love moms, trying to make sure no one has to figure this out alone.

Kelly's honesty will meet you wherever you are — whether you're navigating a fresh diagnosis, wondering if what you're seeing warrants concern, or just trying to understand someone you love.

NOTE: This podcast is for educational and encouragement purposes only and does not constitute professional counseling, therapy, or medical advice. Misty Hughes is an ICF-certified life coach. For mental health support, please consult a licensed professional.

Resources mentioned:

NAMI:  https://www.nami.org/

Child Mind Institute Symptom Checker: https://childmind.org/symptomchecker/

MISTY'S RESOURCES: 

Check out Misty's New Website: https://mistyhughes.com/

One hundred episodes of real conversations for real women — and for this one, I brought someone new into the studio. My husband Craig. The first man to ever sit across from me on Mom~2~Mom Mentoring.

Craig and I are wired completely differently.

👀 I see the world through rose-colored glasses full of sparkle and shine.

📣 I process everything out loud.

💃🏻 I live out loud.

And somewhere in the middle of all that difference — we have built something that is genuinely life-giving for both of us. Not because we became the same. But because we kept choosing each other anyway.

In this episode, we get honest about what connection actually is — and what it isn't.

We talk about

This isn't a perfect marriage episode. There's no formula here. Just two people, six years in, still

learning — and still choosing.

What you'll take away:

• Why connection is not the same as proximity — and how to feel the difference

• The core fear cycle that trips up most couples (and how to interrupt it)

• What safety has to do with reconnection — and why God is the safest place first

• What it looks like when the dreamer and the realist stop defending their own plots and tend the garden together

LINKS MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE

Notice, Name, Feel, & Free Your Emotions - A FREE RESOURCE

https://mistyhughes.myflodesk.com/feelings

Contact Misty & Craig For Symbis (Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts)

https://mistyhughes.com/inquire

Your calling is supposed to shift. Your purpose never does. Misty shares the testimony that will free the Christian mom striving in the wrong season.

Have you ever felt on fire for God — heart so full it needed somewhere to go — and then had Him redirect that fire somewhere you weren’t expecting? Somewhere smaller, quieter, and far less visible than you had in mind?

In episode 99 of Mom2Mom Mentoring, I get honest about one of the most significant redirects of my life. In the mid-nineties, in the middle of a genuine community revival, I experienced an awakening to the love of God that lit me on fire. I was wired to build, to connect, to pour — and I was ready. But God’s answer to my fire wasn’t a platform. It was a kitchen table and four kids.

What followed was decades of faithfulness in unsexy, unglamorous, often invisible assignments — a homeschool co-op, teenagers at church, a children’s ministry, people always around the table. And when the bottom fell out in 1998, and my marriage ended, I had to find her footing all over again. It was in that broken season that God gave me the longer vision: give it twenty years.

This episode is for the Christian mom who can’t see evidence that her faithfulness is doing anything. The one asking God to show her He’s working — and almost missing the answer because it comes in the form of a little boy quietly singing a worship song while playing with his toy cars on the floor.

In this episode:

Key Scripture

Free Resource

Grab the Rhythms of Renewal Mini-Guide — a free workbook walking you through rest, restoration, and relationship, with a Discovery Bible Study through Matthew 11:28–30.

Download free at https://mistyhughes.myflodesk.com/discoverrhythms

Ready for More?

The BECOMING Cohort begins May 5th — a 12-week small-group coaching experience for the Christian mom who is ready to stop striving and start becoming. Only 11 spots. mistyhughes.com/cohort

Don’t Miss Episode 100

Craig Hughes joins Misty for the very first time — and they’re talking about connection. Subscribe now so you don’t miss it.

You feel a stirring you can’t name — and the harder you chase it, the more exhausted you become. Misty Hughes unpacks the difference between purpose and calling, and why you were called before you were busy.

Have you ever been asked what you feel called to — and frozen? Because...you have no idea how to answer that question, and the very question itself feels weighty, and the last thing you need is more weight to carry.

In this episode of Mom2Mom Mentoring, Misty Hughes gets honest about a season when she had four kids, a baby on her hip, and a persistent yearning she couldn’t put language to. She was homeschooling, working, serving — and still felt like the real calling was somewhere out there, just beyond her reach. Like God was holding this carrot in front of me, asking me to chase after something that I was too tired to run after (but was desperate to please God so I kept chasing)

What she discovered changed the way she understood everything — purpose, calling, and what it actually means to be a woman who feels stirred for more.

In this episode you’ll hear:

This is episode 98 — just two away from 100. And something is coming for that milestone you won’t want to miss.

Grab the free Rhythms of Renewal Mini-Guide at mistyhughes.com

— which includes a Discovery Bible Study through Matthew 11:28–30 for the tired, searching, capable woman who is ready for a different way of living.

What if the most powerful thing you could do for your child today takes less than five minutes — and it's completely free? In this episode, I sit down with Dana Williams, author and founder of Redeemed Identity Ministries, to talk about praying Scripture over your children: what it is, why affirmations alone aren't enough, and exactly how to start — even on your most exhausted days.

Dana walked through 25 years of a difficult marriage — and in the middle of it, she picked up her sword. She learned to pray the living Word of God, not just over her own life but over her children. And she is going to show you how to do the same.

In this episode:

→  Why Scripture does something in your child that even the most beautiful affirmation cannot

→  The "breacher" illustration that will change how you see yourself as a praying parent

→  A live example of praying Jeremiah 17:7 with your child's name inserted

→  Simple, realistic first steps for busy moms — no spreadsheet required

→  The one thing Dana says to do tonight, even if you only have five minutes

Resources mentioned:

📚 Dana's free book on praying Scripture (email [email protected]) ·

🎙️ Dana's podcast: Redeemed Identity After Divorce 

ﮩ٨ـﮩﮩ٨ـ Misty's Free workbook: Rhythms of Renewal: https://mistyhughes.myflodesk.com/discoverrhythms·

Community: Christian Moms in Business and Ministry on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/christianmomsinbusinessandministry

Father's Love Letter: https://www.fathersloveletter.com/

"When you shine, you give others permission to shine too." — Misty Hughes