In this episode, we get to interview our special guest Bermarie Winston. She is a wife, mom, creative, and entrepreneur. She shares her humble beginnings of how she turned her passion into her business and the obstacles she had to overcome during her journey to success. You will hear some inspiring testimonies of how she got started and the tenacity she had to keep going to see her business succeed. The most important part of a vision is your mission and your why, she shares the missing behind her business and how it allows her to do what she loves.

Key Takeaways:

+ You should wake up every day doing something that you enjoy and love.

+ Find what you love to do and what fulfills you.

+ The biggest obstacle people face is the fear of the unknown, what are you feeding more, your fear or your faith?

+ God wants to fulfill the vision in your life, He is just waiting for you to trust Him.

+ Trusting and having faith in God is the first step towards your vision.

+ Once you take that first step, you will continue to have to make hard decisions that must align with your vision and core values.

+ It’s important to have healthy boundaries for your own personal health and your business.

+ Commit to your boundaries and don’t compromise them.

+ God calls us to rest so that we can do things long-term.

+ Choose your priorities and honor them.

+ Seek wise counsel when you need to make decisions but the most important thing you can do is go to God with all of your concerns.

+ Learn to rebuke the lies of the enemy when you are discouraged and you facing any form of guilt for pursuing the vision that God has given you.

+ God will give you the grace to do all the things that He has called you to do.

+ Best advice to pursue your vision is to get around other leaders and people who are already doing what you desire to do.

+Be humble and be open to hearing advice and wise counsel from others who have been successful.

+ Learn to stumble with God, He will help you overcome the obstacles you will overcome.

+ Do it scared, and have faith.

VISIONS OF GOLD

+ What do you love to do that is most fulfilling to you?

Connect with our guest Bermarie on all social platforms.

@Blushandwhisk on Instagram and Facebook

www.blushandwhisk.com

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How to Conquer Rejection

In this episode, we share our own experiences of how we had to conquer rejection and how it is a daily struggle and we must learn how to conquer it and grow from it.

Key Takeaways:

+ Rejection is the feeling of being dismissed and not wanted.

+ If we don’t conquer rejection then it will affect our daily mental health.

+You can use rejection to help you grow and become stronger from it.

+ Rejection goes both ways we can be rejected and reject others. We have to first be honest with ourselves and examine our hearts and look at the actual circumstance vs just our feelings.

+ The first thing rejection does is tear down your self-esteem.

+ Learn to not take rejection personally and check your heart and your spirit.

+ When we take rejection personally, we’re looking for acceptance in the wrong places.

+ We have to be honest with ourselves and ask God to reveal things to us so that we can learn from the rejection that we feel and why we feel rejected and learn to deal with it.

+ The enemy uses rejection to stop us from having healthy relationships and community.

+ Be aware of the rejection you feel because if you don’t deal with it, it can lead to resentment.

+ You should never change who you are to be accepted by others, embrace who you are and your gifts and strengths.

+ The first step to conquering rejection is to have zero tolerance for self-criticism.

+ Step 2 is to focus on your self-worth.

+ Invest in your connections.

VISIONS OF GOLD

+ Take the 3 steps to conquer rejection:

1) Have zero tolerance self-criticism

2) Focus on your self-worth

3) Invest into your personal connections

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In this episode, we get to share what it takes to create a business plan but most importantly how to create a business mindset. We both share our humble beginnings and how we discovered our business in the process of becoming who we are today.

Key Takeaways:

Starting a small business starts with creating your business mindset.

+ Start with your WHY and the purpose behind your small business.

+ Before you can start a small business, you have you create your business mindset.

+ You need to have a healthy perspective and be disciplined.

+ Find a mentor that is willing to give you advice and show you how to help you be successful.

+ Discover WHAT you are going to do in your business and what service you are offering.

+ Discipline- eliminate distractions and examine the relationships in your life and if they will support your business or vision.

+ Figure out WHO your business is for and who your target audience is.

(If you’re serving everyone then you’re serving no one)

+ What is in it for them? How are you serving them?

+ Success is when preparation meets opportunity.

+ Growth and discipline happen internally before they can externally.

+ Experience is the best teacher, learning how to do it differently and better next time.

VISIONS OF GOLD

+ Write down your why, what, who and how.

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Episode 21: Beauty from ashes

In this episode, we get to interview our special friend Cassandra, who has an incredible story and shares her testimony about facing different seasons of life and how she overcame so many adversities. She shares the vulnerable moments where she had to surrender and seek out help when she needed it the most. Get ready for some life-changing stories that will encourage you to never give up on hope and to always have faith in the midst of chaos and to thrive through your seasons.

Key Takeaways:

+ Cassandra shares about her first marriage and how she dated so many other guys and knew what she didn’t want until she met her husband.

+ She also shared how hard it was for her to reach out for help when she lost her sister and they are some of her closest friends to this day.

+ She realized that she needed to step out of her comfort zone and do something different in order to see different results.

+ You can’t go through seasons by yourself.

+ It’s important to have your wise counsel in your life to help carry you through your seasons of life.

Visions of GOLD:

+ Find your wise counsel that can pray with you.

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In this episode, we talk about dealing with disappointment and how most people try to avoid disappointment and don’t deal with it. We share our personal disappointments and how we had to learn how to face it and have self-awareness to learn from it. We usually face disappointment when there are expectations that are not met.

Key Takeaways:

+ Disappointment just means that you’re passionate about something.

+ Disappointment comes when you have an unmet expectation that wasn’t met.

+ It stems from sadness, and we recognize the grief that we experience when we miss out on an opportunity.

+ Disappointment is an opportunity for growth with the right mindset.

+ Disappointment is an emotion, and it is only temporary.

+ Keeping your why’s alive will keep your self-worth intact to keep your perspective healthy.

+ The biggest problem with disappointment we don’t deal with it we brush it off and try to shove it under the rug.

+ We have to face it and release it.

1) Release it- find wise counsel where you can talk about it.

2) Change your perspective- you have to have a healthy perspective to deal and overcome the disappointment.

3) Don’t stay disappointed have move on and let it go and surrender it, you have to physically and mentally let go of the glass.

Visions of Gold-

· Let out your disappointments and vocally share it with your wise counsel or write it out don’t harbor the disappointment because it can lead to resentment and bitterness.

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In this episode, we share the difference between passion and purpose. We share personal stories of how we have developed different passions and how we discovered our purpose. I think we can all agree that we desire to know what our purpose is and want to develop our passions.

Key Takeaways:

+ Passion is when you have an interest or a strong desire.

+ Passion is a form of suffering because we are willing to make the sacrifice to pursue it.

+ It’s important to identify what your passions are so that you can begin to develop and cultivate them.

+ When you have true passion, you’re going to enjoy doing it which will eventually fulfill your purpose.

+ Purpose is the conviction that what you’re doing matters because its connected to the well-being of others.

+ Purpose is the “why” behind your passion to make a difference and impact others.

+ Purpose is more powerful than passion because you can lose your passion and it can fade away, but your purpose never fades away.

+ You have to make your purpose a priority and make the sacrifices that need to be made in order to pursue your purpose.

+ You’re vision correlates with your purpose.

+ It’s our responsibility to water and nurture our passions and discover our own purpose.

Visions of Gold

+ Highlight your passions and things that you’re willing to sacrifice for.

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In this episode, we share 3 specific insights about seasons and how to know what season you’re in. We continue to be honest, open and transparent about our own personal experiences about how to walk through different seasons of life. We share vulnerable moments in our lives where we had to make the choice to continue to persevere through the season and produce the fruit that is needed in that season.

Key Takeaways:

+ Seasons are only temporary and require you to adapt and change.

+ We share 3 important insights on how to know what season you’re in.

+ Before you can ever get to your vision you need to know what season you’re in right now and grow in this season.

+ Ecclesiastes 3:1 “For everything there is a season.” Verse 11: “Everything is beautiful in its own time.”

+ Everything matters in what you do in your season.

+ Beware of just coasting through your season and getting stuck in a neutral position in your season.

+ You can’t go through your season alone don’t be afraid to ask for help.

+ God is always working in your every season he is pruning you and preparing you for the next season.

Visions of GOLD:

+ What has God developed you In and where do you still need to develop or where do you feel resistance?

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In this episode, we talk about self-awareness and how to be self-aware both emotionally and mentally. We share our different experiences and perspectives on how we learned to be self-aware.

Key Takeaways:

+ Self-awareness is vital to our personal growth.

+ The first sign to be self-aware is to be able to practice being able to focus on active listening.

+ It’s important to observe body language too.

+ You have to use your discernment to recognize what is affecting your emotional and mental state.

+ Be aware of your environment and who you surround yourself with.

+ Self-awareness helps shape your identity, it’s like a muscle that you have to exercise and continue to grow and develop.

+ Self-awareness comes from self-control which is one of the fruits of the spirit.

+ Take time for self-inventory and do a mental check-in.

+ Our behavior is what will help build our self-awareness.

Visions of GOLD:

+ Do 5 things to help you grow your self-awareness:

1. Practice active listening

2. Look for emotional blindspots

3. Ask for effective feedback

4. Apply any construction feedback

5. Check the environment that you’re in and see they align with your core values.

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In this episode, we talk about how to receive God’s, unconditional love. We share our personal testimonies of how we viewed love and the different stages of love that we had to experience and our different views of love. You don’t need a partner or a spouse to define your calling or your purpose. When you’re in a relationship you take on different roles and you learn how to compromise. You have to be whole yourself before entering into a relationship and God wants you to pursue a relationship with Him first so that you can receive His eternal love.

Key Takeaways:

+ God’s unconditional love is available for us we just need to receive His love.

+ We need to learn how to love ourselves and know what our gifts our and cultivate who we are in Christ.

+ Don’t put God in a box and His purpose and plans for you.

+ It’s important to cultivate your relationship with Christ so that you be fulfilled in His love.

+ Be careful to put your vision in a box because you don’t see it happening, trust God to bring that vision to pass when you’re ready and God can trust you with the next step towards your vision.

+ Read 1 John 4:7-8

+ You were created out of love and to be loved by Him.

+ God’s love is not restricted to anyone.

+ He wants to expand His love in your life and bless you.

+ Take time to self-reflect on how you receive love.

+ Stop self-sabotaging yourself and believing the life that you don’t deserve true love.

+ You are called to be equally yoked with your spouse.

+ We need to prioritize our relationship with God over every other relationship.

+ It is our responsibility to pursue God, He is always there and will meet us where we’re at.

Visions of GOLD:

+ What is holding you back from receiving God’s love?

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In this episode, we talk about how to anchor yourself in God’s love. We have our special guest interview with Belinda Garcia, she is an entrepreneur, hairstylist, wife, and mom. She gets very vulnerable about how she started pursuing her dream and vision to own her own salon and the obstacles she had to overcome in order to pursue her vision but most importantly how to anchor herself in God’s love.

Key Takeaways:

+ She opens up about how she grew up with her parents inspiring her to work hard to pursue her dreams.

+ She shared how becoming a mom inspired her to be even more successful so that she would be a great example to her daughter as well.

+ One of the biggest hurdles she faced was getting married and moving out of her hometown and having to learn how to start all over in a new state.

+ She had to learn how to set boundaries for her marriage and her business.

+ It was in her marriage that she learned how to set boundaries and to have more grace.

+ She had to pause her career to focus on her marriage, and through that season she began to truly understand how to anchor herself in God’s love before anything else.

+ It started with setting personal boundaries for herself and finding her first love in Christ.

+ She had found her identity in her marriage and had a spirit of fear and was trying to control everything in her marriage but ended up putting her husband before God.

+ Her breakthrough came when she was tired of trying to do it on her own and she had to lay down her marriage before God and she pursued the heart of God and put Him first before anything else and had to get alone with God.

+ She shares how she had to surrender everything to God and trust Him and she never stopped praying for her husband. When she started getting involved with her church and found community she started seeing the change and growth in her marriage.

+ God opened the doors for her and her husband to reconcile and restore their marriage and at the same time, they opened up and started their own business and opened their salon together.

+ She recommends writing down your goals and continuing to look at them and keeping them at the forefront of your mind.

+ Recommends reading the book “Boundaries” by John Townsend and Henry Cloud.

Visions of GOLD:

+ Is there anything that is pulling you away from your first love? Do you need to reconnect with your relationship with the Lord?

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To get ahold of Belinda Garcia follow her on social @belindargarcia @thriveboutiquesalon

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