We think the thing holding us back is fear. But sometimes it is people pleasing. And in leadership and business, people pleasing is not kindness. It is misalignment.

In this episode, Candice gets real about how people pleasing disguised itself as grace in her career and how it was quietly producing overextension, burnout, and blurred boundaries. She shares two scriptures that shifted everything: Colossians 3:23 through 24 that got her through a heated corporate moment, and Jeremiah 17:5 through 8, the one that actually broke it off.

If you have ever needed someone's approval to feel settled, if you have been calling it service when it was really fear, this one is for you.

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