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What if David had looked at the giant and decided the risk was too high? What if Esther had kept quiet to keep her crown? What if Mary had heard the angel and said this will cost me too much?

Every one of them had a reason to say no. Every one of them said yes anyway.

We have been reading about their courage for two thousand years. Heaven may be waiting on yours.

This episode came out of one song played over and over until it started asking questions back.

Joseph had the dream at seventeen. Between the dream and the throne came the pit, the slavery, the false accusation, the prison, and the man who forgot him. Not one of those chapters looked like a dream coming true. Every one looked like a dream dying. He did not say you meant it for evil but God meant it for good in the pit. He said it decades later, when the story was finally readable.

That is the pattern. God writes forward. We read backward.

Moses spent forty years on the backside of a desert with somebody else's sheep. A prince demoted to a shepherd. A leader with nobody to lead. If he had written his resume at year twenty it would have read like failure. Then a bush burned, and everything he learned in Pharaoh's house prepared him to stand in front of Pharaoh, and everything he learned in the wilderness prepared him to lead a nation through one.

The forty years were not a detour. They were the training.

Theresa shares two seasons of her own in this episode.

Five months in a headset taking customer service calls, some of them cruel, landing in the same place her husband's words used to land. Nobody there knew she had spent years on the radio. Early that year she heard the Holy Spirit call her a voice revivalist, wrote it down, and then put the headset back on. Looking back she can see it. She was on a microphone five to eight hours a day with hard callers and no applause. She was not being benched. She was being rebuilt. Then a position opened at the station she had left eighteen years earlier, and it now carried a new name. Victory 91.5, the Sound of Revival. He said the word in private, then put it on the building.

And the season she spent substitute teaching after her husband died, and what God said to her in the car on the way to church the night before she went back. You are not a substitute teacher. You are my undercover agent for the Kingdom of God. Nothing about Monday morning changed. Who walked in did.

There is a question at the end of this episode worth sitting with. Where has God repeated Himself in your life? Not the random moments. The theme underneath them. The word that keeps showing up. The kind of woman who keeps ending up in your messages. The chapter you have had to live four different times before you finally listened.

That repetition is God writing your story.

Your next step is the Calling Activation Study. One live session where we do story mapping together and you find the story that connects your calling to the people you are meant to serve. Details at theresacroftlive.com/seminar.

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A listener note before you press play. This conversation includes grooming by a church leader, an eating disorder, and drug addiction.

Some stories are not for scrolling past. This one belongs to Elaine Mingus.

Her father moved the family out of Houston to keep his kids away from the big city. They started going to church in a small Texas town. The youth pastor there was grooming Elaine and several other girls in the group.

When it came out, the family sat down with the senior pastor. Before they said a word, he told them he already knew. The youth pastor had confessed. And the church believed Elaine had seduced him.

She was a teenager.

This was the nineties. Nobody used the word grooming. Nobody suggested therapy. So she buried it, and she carried the shame instead. That shame turned into eight years of bulimia and an almost daily heroin addiction.

Then she walked into a church, saw the crucifix, and says every question she had was answered right there, including ones she did not know she was asking.

She is careful to say the story is not finished. Jesus is not done yet.

Today Elaine is Mrs. Texas, a mother of seven, and the founder of Pageantpreneur, where she helps women in pageantry use their story, voice, and platform to get visible, land sponsors, and get media attention that outlasts the crown.

The conversation she is most interested in is not how to become successful. It is what happens after you spend years believing the next accomplishment will finally make you feel like you have arrived.

She has a line for it. Yesterday's success becomes today's baseline. So the goalpost moves and moves and you never once stop to look back. She thinks that is why God kept telling the Israelites to build altars.

She also talks about counting. Calories, the scale, view counts, hours with your kids versus hours without them. Always calculating your worth from your own performance instead of receiving what Jesus already settled.

There is a working idea in this episode you can use today. Elaine builds every client around one overarching story and five signature stories underneath it. Then everything she posts checks back against those six. She says women worry they are repeating themselves, but people want predictability. It is what makes them trust you.

Her other line worth keeping. You are not responsible for the outcome. You are responsible for the action.

Find Elaine on Instagram at Pageantpreneur for the business, or at https://pageantpreneur.com

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Some stories are not for scrolling past. This one belongs to Cheryl Killily.

In 2019 she walked into a worship service in Wisconsin and left baptized the same night. She had not planned it. She did not even have dry clothes with her. She just knew she had to go up.

She thought God was about to restore her marriage.

A year later her husband of eighteen years asked for a divorce.

She got angry at God. Then she looked back at that night and understood. The baptism was not a promise about her marriage. It was God getting her ready for what was coming.

What came next was a lot. Her son left for college a thousand miles away and she lived alone for the first time at fifty. God called her to move to St. Louis, and she resisted it. Obeying meant closing the personal training studio she had built and loved.

She went. She did the healing work first. Therapy, journaling, long walks outside where the only voice was God's.

Then she built something.

Cheryl now leads a Facebook community of around 6,100 women and runs a sixteen week program called The Divorce Recovery Roadmap. She has taken 44 women through it so far. Her framework is called ACT. Acknowledge where you are and stop saying you are fine when you are not. Choose who you are becoming, with God. Today, because you do not need a five year plan. You need the next right step.

In this conversation she talks about the difference between speaking from your scars and bleeding on people from an open wound. She talks about showing up online without the perfect hair and the list of credentials, and why her women lean in harder when she is real. And she shares the question she asks God on the mornings she does not want to get out of bed. Who needs my gifts today.

Connect with Cheryl at changinglaneswellness.com and on Instagram at Changing Lanes Wellness.

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Find Deanna and her book Choice Maker at deannakeith.com.

Some stories are not for scrolling past. This one belongs to Deanna Keith.

Her first memory on this earth is being assaulted at three years old. Her second memory is telling her mother.

The abuse lasted until she was fifteen.

She met her husband Stan forty years ago. He led her to the Lord and he set up the counseling that started her healing. Two weeks after their wedding, at twenty three, she had a stroke. She fell over while they watched the wedding video. She could not speak or open her eyes for seventy two hours.

Inside the MRI machine she asked God one question. If you are here and you hear me, I need to know if I am going to be okay. Her eyes opened long enough to see her father smiling through the waiting room window.

Years later her grandmother died. Deanna told her mother to let the man who hurt her come to the funeral, and she would stay home.

He came. At a family dinner afterward, her mother found him sobbing in the garage. There was water on the floor and she thought the cooler was leaking. It was his tears. She asked if he was crying over his mother. He said no. He was crying over what he did to Deanna.

What happened next is the center of this episode. Deanna's husband got the family in one room. She gave him the gospel. So did her brother. Forgiveness was given.

Reconciliation was not. She is clear that those are two different things.

She also walks through the spiritual abuse she came out of, where a leader used scripture as a way to control people. She names the book that put words to it, and she talks about confronting it and leaving.

Through all of it there is one word. Choose. Her therapist Jodi told her she was not stuck. She was committed to a thought that did not serve her life. Deanna chose something else.

She has been journaling since she was eleven. Tubs of them. Out of that came her book, Choice Maker, which she keeps off Amazon on purpose so she can stay in touch with her readers. She says she wrote it for impact, not commerce.

Her last word in the episode is one to write down. Attach yourself to the decisions God makes for you, not the decisions other people make for you.

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You keep saying you do not have a story. The truth is you have hundreds. You just have not noticed them yet.

In this episode, Theresa Croft sets you free from the idea that your story is buried treasure you have to dig up. Your story is not lost. It is hiding in plain sight, in the ordinary moments you walk right past.

Theresa shares the five-second moment, the tiny beat where something in you shifts, and shows you eight everyday places your stories are already waiting. Your old photos. Your journals. Your text messages. Your Facebook memories. Your prayers from the hard seasons. She opens up her own life to show you how, from the radio booth with her son to a small camper on the land to the day everything changed.

This week, sit with God, pick one of the eight places, and notice the story you might have just walked by. That is your first thread.

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Some stories are not for scrolling past. This one belongs to Elana van Deventer.

She had a serious brain injury at four years old. She had to learn to walk again and speak again. She forgot the whole thing until her sister reminded her years later, but her mind never forgot the beliefs it built around it.

School labeled her learning disabled. In grade eight her math teacher told her she was stupid and would get nowhere. She says the hardest part was not the insult. It was that he only said out loud what she already believed.

So she found her worth somewhere else. In South Africa she became the pretty one. Photo shoots, invitations, and finally a modeling contract. She thought she had made it.

Then her family immigrated to a tiny town in Northwest Ontario, and the first winter hit minus fifty.

No events. No photo shoots. No identity. She fell into a deep depression and became suicidal, and she blamed her husband for taking everything from her.

Then COVID made the world go quiet.

She calls that season the soil. There was nothing left to strive for, so God took her all the way down to the root and started over. Out of that she built her own work, the Revive Method, around identity alignment. The picture she used before she knew anything about the science was a tree.

There is a line in this episode worth writing down. There is a difference between the journey and the decision. The journey being hard does not mean the decision was wrong.

The turn comes later. She got an email from Dr. Caroline Leaf's office and deleted it. When the second one came announcing the first round of neurocycle facilitator training, she applied with her eyes closed and hit send scared. She was accepted.

She had never read one of Leaf's books. Today the girl who was told she was stupid at math sits in the room helping build Leaf's new strategist offer.

She also talks about why sixty three days changed her life when twenty one never did, and why knowledge without mind renewal stays knowledge forever.

Find Elana on Instagram at elanavdeventer.

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Yara Garcia sat down at the table and told the truth about ministry, loss, and what it takes to rebuild. She is a pastor, a mentor, a psychology major, and a facilitator certified in the mind renewal work of Dr. Caroline Leaf.

Yara married a pastor and served beside him. Seven years in, he was diagnosed with cancer. After he passed, she kept going because God told her to keep going. Then came a church split, two small children, clinical depression, and a diagnosis she had carried since childhood without a name for it.

She says the church split grieved her harder than the funeral.

In this conversation she talks about doing the hard work of healing instead of waiting for someone to do it for you. She talks about raising two kids alone while still carrying a call. She talks about the moment she learned that renewing the mind is not a phrase you repeat. It is work you do.

Then we turn toward business. Yara talks about what happens when a woman moves from serving for free to charging for her gift. Know your value. Set healthy boundaries. Just because you can give it does not mean you should. She says the people who received her work for free were the ones who never got results.

She closes with a picture you will carry all week. The camels are coming. They are loaded. Keep your eyes out.

Connect with Yara at yaracares.com or on Instagram at yara.cares. She offers a free consultation.

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What if the story that changes your business isn't your biggest success—but the moment God changed you?

In this episode of the Stuck No More Voices Podcast, Theresa Croft shares why stories create connection in a way facts never can. You'll learn how to discover the moments that build trust, help women see themselves in your message, and reveal God's faithfulness through your own journey.

If you've ever wondered how to share your story without making it all about you, this episode will give you a simple, biblical framework for finding the story that truly connects.

In this episode you'll discover:• Why your story is one moment—not your entire life.• The difference between speaking from a scar and speaking from a wound.• How to help women feel seen instead of simply impressed.• Why your story becomes the bridge between your calling and the women you're called to serve.• A practical exercise to begin uncovering the stories God has already written into your life.

Your story isn't the thing that broke you. It's the place where you discovered God's faithfulness—and the bridge another woman may need to cross because you chose to share it.

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Get access here to The Activation Study and learn how your calling goes into a story with a solution for your ideal client!

Visibility that does not lead to signed clients is not visibility. It is a hobby. Today we get straight about the difference, because the goal was never more views. It was more clients, every month.

In this episode, Theresa Croft breaks down why brilliant women build big audiences that never convert, and the three pieces that change it. Your calling, which makes you the one she cannot compare to anyone else. Your story, which makes her trust you fast. And a clear path, which turns a silent follower into a paying client.

This one is straight talk about turning your visibility into income, the way God intended, as stewardship and not hustle.

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Your Story Was Never Just About You

Have you ever wondered why your story matters so much?

What if the greatest purpose of your story isn't simply what happened to you—but what it reveals about the faithfulness of God?

In this heartfelt episode, Theresa Croft explores how God uses every chapter of our lives to prepare us for the people we're called to serve. Whether you're a Christian business woman, coach, speaker, author, podcaster, or leader, you'll discover why the experiences you've lived through are not random—they are part of God's preparation.

Drawing from Psalm 145:4, Theresa shares three powerful keys to help you stop looking at your life through the lens of pain and begin seeing the thread of God's faithfulness woven through every season.

You'll learn:

•  Why remembering God's faithfulness changes the way you see your story 
•  How fear can quietly keep Christian women hidden—even when they know they're called 
•  Why renewing your mind creates confidence to show up and serve 
•  What it means to faithfully steward the gifts, experiences, and message God has entrusted to you 
•  How your story becomes the bridge that helps the women you're called to serve trust both you and God 

If you've ever felt invisible, uncertain about your message, or wondered whether God could really use your story in your business, this episode will encourage you to see your life through a completely different lens.

Ready to discover the message God has already been writing through your life?

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