Roar Rising

Have you been pouring out content, writing, creating, posting, and wondering when it will finally come back with fruit?

In this episode, you are invited into a deeper look at the biblical principle of casting your bread upon the waters. Heather Lea unpacks how faith, obedience, patience, and spiritual alignment shape the way you build, sow, and steward your work as a Christian author, creator, and businesswoman.

You will hear how Ecclesiastes and other scriptures reveal that not every seed produces overnight, but that God honors what is sown in obedience. This episode will help you rethink delay, trust God's timing, and stay anchored when the results of your effort feel unseen. If you have ever felt weary in building your message, selling your book, or growing your platform, this conversation will remind you that faithful sowing is never wasted.

This is for the Christian woman who knows she has something God has given her to write, share, build, and release, but needs encouragement to keep going with wisdom and expectation.

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Not every task feels spiritual. But it's not a matter of our feelings, but our obedience to the Lord in all we do and our willingness to submit. Emails, deadlines, the unglamorous behind-the-scenes stuff nobody sees.

But what if showing up faithfully in the middle of the ordinary is exactly what obedience looks like?

In this episode, we're talking about what happens when we fully submit our work to the Lord, even before we're walking in the fullness of our calling. Through the lens of the Proverbs 31 woman, you'll see how diligence and a yielded heart can transform even the secular parts of our work into an act of worship.

You don't have to have it all figured out. You just have to show up surrendered.

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You see the win post. Your chest tightens before you even finish reading it. You tell yourself it's inspiration, but it doesn't feel like inspiration. It feels like accusation.

In this episode I'm naming what so many of us keep swallowing silently. We talk about the three traps comparison hides inside, where it actually comes from, and a simple reset you can use when you feel yourself starting to spiral.

Because you don't need to work harder because someone else is loud online. You need to stay faithful where God put you, with the voice He gave you and the audience you already have.

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In this conversation, I'm talking to my Christian sisters in business about why God's will isn't something we "figure out" like a formula. But it's something we learn through relationship.

Because if we don't know His voice, we'll either move in fear, move in striving, or we'll start calling our own thoughts "God" and then wondering why nothing has peace on it.

I'm breaking down the difference between flesh and Spirit, and why discernment matters so much when you're making decisions with money, time, family, and your calling on the line. I talk about stillness, not as a cute spiritual idea, but as a real practice that re-centers you so you can actually recognize what's Him and what's pressure.

I also give practical ways to test what you think you're hearing, why community matters for discernment, and why you need to be careful with the phrase "God told me" when you haven't actually submitted it to Scripture, peace, and wise counsel. The goal isn't to be dramatic or mystical. The goal is to build holy confidence rooted in truth, so you're not led by anxiety or hype, but by intimacy and obedience.

If you're a Christian woman author and you feel stuck because you love Jesus, you wrote the book, but you're struggling to sell it and actually bring in income without turning into a full-time marketer, I made something for you.

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Chapters

00:00 Understanding God's Will in Business 02:38 The Importance of Knowing His Voice 05:27 The Struggle Between Flesh and Spirit 08:14 Practicing Stillness and Listening 10:43 The Role of Discernment in Decision Making 13:36 Testing What We Hear 16:22 The Humility of Hearing from God 18:54 Practical Steps for Aligning with God's Will 21:20 The Process of Obedience and Waiting 23:30 The Filters for Discernment 25:56 The Assurance of His Guidance 28:25 The Role of Community in Discernment 31:26 The Peace of Christ in Decision Making 34:18 The Dangers of Misinterpreting God's Voice 36:49 Final Thoughts on Hearing God's Voice

In this conversation, I talk about what it feels like to hit rejection and closed doors in your creative work, and why that moment is not a verdict on who you are.

I share how easy it is to spiral after a no, a ghost, a decline, or a door that just will not open, and I reframe it like this: a closed door is information. It is feedback. It is not identity. It is not proof that you are behind, unqualified, or "not called."

We also walk through how to interpret closed doors through a Kingdom lens. Sometimes a closed door is protection. Sometimes it is redirection. Sometimes it is simply timing. And instead of forcing what is not opening, I encourage you to slow down and discern.

I give practical next steps for navigating rejection without collapsing into it, including trusting God's timing, using peace as a guide, and doing fruit tests to confirm whether a path is producing what it should. The goal is not to pretend rejection does not hurt. The goal is to keep your footing, stay faithful, and keep moving with wisdom.

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00:00 Facing Rejection and Closed Doors 02:39 Understanding the Spiral of Self-Doubt 05:16 Reframing Closed Doors as Protection 07:41 Closed Doors as Redirection and Preparation 10:27 Practical Steps for Navigating Closed Doors 13:13 The Importance of Trusting God's Timing 15:53 The Peace and Fruit Tests 18:23 The Spiral Interruption Plan 21:17 Recognizing and Responding to Triggers 23:40 The Power of Faithfulness and Persistence 26:10 Invitation to the Seven Day Book Sale Reset

In this episode, I want you to hear this clearly: stalled book sales don't mean you wrote a bad book. It usually means you don't have a clear marketing system that consistently brings new readers in and guides them toward buying.

So many authors pour their whole heart into writing, then hope the book will "do the rest." But books don't sell themselves on hope. They sell when you build a simple, repeatable path that helps the right readers find you, trust you, and take the next step.

Here's what I'm teaching you today:

• Your book is not the whole journey. It's part of the journey. • Your job is to build the path around the book so your audience doesn't get lost. • Trust and authority come from consistent engagement, before and after your book is published.

I break book marketing into three phases, because the strategy needs to match where you are:

• Before publishing: build the platform, clarify the message, start the list, and create demand early • After publishing: keep momentum with consistent traffic, audience nurturing, and a clear next step • When sales are struggling: stop guessing, rebuild the system, and create a funnel that brings fresh readers in every week

The biggest shift I want you to make is this: don't market the book as the product. Market the outcome your reader gets because of the book. When you position transformation, not just pages, your marketing gets clearer, your content gets easier to create, and your sales become sustainable.

And yes, this applies whether you write fiction or nonfiction. Fiction authors, you're building relationship, identity, and belonging with your reader. Nonfiction authors, you're building trust, authority, and clarity around the problem you solve. Different angles, same system.

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In this conversation, we're wrestling through identity, purpose, and belonging in a way that keeps bringing us back to one core truth: our identity is not rooted in what we do, what we've built, or what we've achieved. Our identity is rooted in who we are in Christ, and who we are with Him.

We're reminded that obedience is not an add-on to faith; it's the evidence of it. And the more we abide in Jesus, the more we recognize that purpose is not something we manufacture; it's something we discover in relationship. We don't find clarity by striving harder. We find clarity by staying close.

As we examine Scripture, we see this pattern repeated again and again: identity precedes assignment. God doesn't hand people a calling first and hope they figure out who they are later. He establishes belonging, then He entrusts responsibility. When we understand that we belong to God, it reshapes how we make decisions, what we say yes to, and what we can finally release. Our "why" gets purified. Our motives get exposed. Our pace changes. Our ambition gets reordered under His Lordship.

Ultimately, this conversation is our call back to the center: a deeper relationship with Jesus. Not using Him to fuel our goals, but yielding our goals to His leadership. Because when Jesus is Lord, we don't have to chase identity. We live from it.

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In this episode, I'm breaking down what it actually means to set your mind on the Spirit in Romans 8.

Because I think a lot of believers feel this tension. We want to be spiritually minded, but we also have real responsibilities. Work, family, bills, decisions, pressure. And sometimes it can feel like choosing the Spirit means neglecting real life.

I'm going to talk about why that's not what Scripture is saying.

Being spiritually minded isn't escapism. It's learning to live from obedience and trust in God while still showing up faithfully in what He's already put in your hands.

We're going to look at what's actually governing your decisions, how to balance faith with practical responsibility, and why living from the Spirit produces peace and purpose.

Chapters

00:00 Understanding Romans 8: Setting Our Mind on the Spirit 10:54 Living in the Spirit: Balancing Responsibilities and Faith

In this episode, I'm sharing what the Lord has been teaching me about faith, stewardship, and obedience, not just in our personal walk with God, but in the way we build what He has entrusted to us.

Because when God places a message on your life, it is not random. It is not small. It is not just "something you care about." It is an assignment.

I believe this is especially true for Christian authors.

Many authors are trying to sell their books using traditional methods, and they often feel discouraged when it doesn't work. Book signings, Amazon bestseller strategies, endless posting on social media, and even podcast tours can leave you exhausted with little to show for it if you do not understand what actually drives book sales today.

In this episode, I walk you through the deeper issue beneath the frustration. Fear, hesitation, striving, and carrying the pressure alone. Then I show you the biblical foundation of sowing and reaping, and what it really looks like to be faithful with what God has entrusted to you, even when you are still building, still growing, and still becoming established.

This is not just about "marketing." It is about obedience. It is about stewardship. It is about building with diligence and faith so the fruit of your message can multiply beyond you.

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Scripture operates on cause and effect, and that reality does not weaken God's sovereignty. It reveals it.

In this episode, I explore how God intentionally designed covenant to include choice, consequence, and responsibility. From sowing and reaping to obedience and endurance, the Bible consistently shows that what we choose produces real outcomes, both in this life and in eternity. This is not because God lacks control, but because His sovereignty includes granting humanity real agency within His plan.

We will talk about why forgiveness does not remove earthly consequences, why obedience is not legalism, and why faith that remains passive does not reflect the fullness of biblical faith. God is not reacting to human decisions. He authored a world where truth responds to choice.

Cause and effect are evidence of God's design.

God remains fully sovereign while honoring the freedom He gave us. Covenant was never about control. It was about relationship, trust, and the formation of a people who choose Him in truth and endurance.

If you have wrestled with how free will, obedience, and eternal life coexist under a sovereign God, this conversation will bring clarity without compromise.

Chapters

00:00 Understanding God's Covenant and Conditions 02:31 The Role of Choice in Obedience 05:05 Sowing and Reaping: The Principle of Consequences 07:58 Faith, Works, and Obedience 10:20 Endurance and the Promise of Eternal Life