The Becoming Podcast

Everyone around me was moving, and God kept telling me to wait.

This is for the woman who is doing the right things, one step at a time, and keeps running into a door that won't open. If you are asking what to do when God says wait, start here.

I stepped away from the podcast in August and closed everything I had built except this one. I tried to come back more than once, and every time I heard wait. In this episode I tell you what the wait was doing, what I found out the day after I almost recorded again, and the questions I ask myself now when I'm unsure. I'm not skipping any of it to get to what's next.

You don't have to sit alone in whatever you're walking through.

Scripture: Proverbs 3:5-6 (NLT)

Mentioned: a sermon on venom and vision by Pastor Mike Todd, and Sarah Jakes Roberts on planning to serve.

If you needed this, send it to one woman who is in a wait right now.

Still going.

New episodes every Tuesday.

Connect with Sarah:
Website: https://thesarahtaylor.com
Instagram: @the.sarahtaylor
YouTube: The Sarah Taylor

Join The Becoming Collective: https://thesarahtaylor.com/collective
Get Sarah's Book: https://thesarahtaylor.com/get-my-book

I have spent a lot of my life believing that rest was something I earned after I finished everything. The problem is everything never finishes.

This is the last episode I'm recording in this home. I filmed it from my bed, because I finished packing yesterday, still had a list, and got too tired to sit up at my desk. I stopped anyway.

This episode is what it actually looks like to heal from burnout with God. Not perfectly, not with a five-step formula. Rest is not a reward for being productive. It's a practice, and I'm still learning it myself.

Press play if you've been waiting for the list to be finished before you let yourself stop.

New episodes every Tuesday.

Connect with Sarah:
Website: https://thesarahtaylor.com
Instagram: @the.sarahtaylor
YouTube: The Sarah Taylor

Join The Becoming Collective: https://thesarahtaylor.com/collective
Get Sarah's Book: https://thesarahtaylor.com/get-my-book

Sarah shares the story behind the finale of The Becoming Podcast's first arc. The raise on moving day. The dates God has redeemed. The layoff that was 14 hours short of unemployment and became the door to everything. The daycare spot that appeared in six days. The job she wanted that she did not get, which would have pulled her away from her purpose.

Joshua 1:9. Psalm 23:4. God in the details. He does not skip the hard part. He is in it with us. You did not come this far to just come this far.

New episodes every Tuesday.

Connect with Sarah:

Website: https://thesarahtaylor.com

Instagram: @the.sarahtaylor

YouTube: The Sarah Taylor

Get Sarah's Book: https://thesarahtaylor.com/get-my-book

Get Sarah's Stories to Strategy App: https://studio.com/apps/thesarahtaylor/story
Turn your lived experience into content that connects. Story prompts, strategy tools, and Sarah's complete content framework, all in your pocket.

Sarah talks about the thing most of us are afraid to do: pour out our hearts to God with what we actually want. She shares the March journal entry that changed everything, the fear of disappointment that was quietly controlling her prayer life, and how everything shifted when she learned that pouring out your heart is not just permission, it is an instruction. Psalm 62:8. Mary and Martha. Grab a journal. Pour it out.

New episodes every Tuesday.

Connect with Sarah:

Website: https://thesarahtaylor.com

Instagram: @the.sarahtaylor

YouTube: The Sarah Taylor

Get Sarah's Book: https://thesarahtaylor.com/get-my-book

Get Sarah's Stories to Strategy App: https://studio.com/apps/thesarahtaylor/story
Turn your lived experience into content that connects. Story prompts, strategy tools, and Sarah's complete content framework, all in your pocket.

Sarah shares the real practices that keep her grounded when faith feels far away. Not the polished version, the actual things she does. Reading the Bible as a love letter, not homework. Journaling as honest prayer. The one-word prayer that carried her through the darkest season. Rest as a practice, not a reward. And the vision of a motion-sensor light that taught her God lights the next few steps, not the whole path.

New episodes every Tuesday.

Connect with Sarah:

Website: https://thesarahtaylor.com

Instagram: @the.sarahtaylor

YouTube: The Sarah Taylor

Get Sarah's Book: https://thesarahtaylor.com/get-my-book.

Get Sarah's Stories to Strategy App: https://studio.com/apps/thesarahtaylor/story
Turn your lived experience into content that connects. Story prompts, strategy tools, and Sarah's complete content framework, all in your pocket.

Sarah gets honest about the ache of wanting real community and not being able to find it. After years of trying churches, groups, and showing up empty, she shares what God taught her through the ache: we were not built to carry it alone.

This episode introduces The Becoming Collective, a faith-forward online community for women in the messy middle of their becoming. The door opens July 9th. Stay close.

New episodes every Tuesday.

Connect with Sarah:

Website: https://thesarahtaylor.com

Instagram: @the.sarahtaylor

YouTube: The Sarah Taylor

Get Sarah's Book: https://thesarahtaylor.com/get-my-book

Get Sarah's Stories to Strategy App: https://studio.com/apps/thesarahtaylor/story
Turn your lived experience into content that connects. Story prompts, strategy tools, and Sarah's complete content framework, all in your pocket.

 What does friendship actually look like when two women stop performing and start holding each other up?

In this episode, I sit down with my bestie and purpose mate Julie-Anne Nayler for the conversation people have been asking for. A decade of friendship. Career pivots. Grief. Personal transformation. The quiet seasons where neither of us knew who we were becoming.

We talk about what it means to hold space without making it about you. How grief changes the way you show up. And what it looks like to have someone in the room when your whole life is starting over.

This is the first in a series. Julie-Anne and I will be back every few weeks to answer your questions about friendship, faith, therapy, and everything in between.

Stay close. Something is coming next week.

New episodes every Tuesday.

Connect with Sarah:

Website: https://thesarahtaylor.com

Instagram: @the.sarahtaylor

YouTube: The Sarah Taylor

Get Sarah's Book: https://thesarahtaylor.com/get-my-book

Get Sarah's Stories to Strategy App: https://studio.com/apps/thesarahtaylor/story
Turn your lived experience into content that connects. Story prompts, strategy tools, and Sarah's complete content framework, all in your pocket.

She stopped trusting God. Not because He failed her. Because the season got so dark she stopped being able to see Him in it.

A woman sent that message to Sarah's DMs this week. And Sarah gets it.

In this episode, she goes back to the basement. The season she was most desperate to escape. Broke, starting over, Brooke-Lynn a toddler, crying out to God with nothing left but the word help. She walked seven kilometres a day. She applied for a seminary scholarship in the middle of the hardest season of her life. She chose joy in the season she least felt like choosing it.

She did not know that season was practice. She could not see what God was producing.

Romans 8:28 says God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love Him. Everything. Even the season you are most desperate to escape.

If you have been asking how to trust God when things are this hard, this episode meets you exactly where you are. He is close to the brokenhearted. Not after you've cleaned yourself up. Right now. In this.

New episodes every Tuesday.

My new app is live - Story to Strategy - https://studio.com/apps/thesarahtaylor/story

Connect with Sarah:

Website: https://thesarahtaylor.com

Instagram: @the.sarahtaylor

YouTube: The Sarah Taylor

Get Sarah's Book: https://thesarahtaylor.com/get-my-book

She almost didn't say yes to the podcast.

She almost didn't say yes to the 100-day content challenge either.

But on the same day she got off a call wondering if she even had anything worth building, an email arrived. An offer she hadn't asked for, timed so precisely she couldn't explain it any other way.

This episode is the story of what God built through a yes Sarah almost didn't say. From a podcast she thought was just a podcast, to an app she never thought to ask for, to the moment a friend looked at her mid-conversation and said: why aren't you doing this professionally?

Ephesians 3:20 is the anchor. God is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, not eventually, not someday, according to the power already at work in you.

If you have been waiting for the full picture before you take the next step, this is your sign. You don't need the whole plan.

You just need the next right step.

Story to Strategy is now available.

Get Early access here - https://studio.com/apps/thesarahtaylor/story

New episodes every Tuesday.

Connect with Sarah:

Website: https://thesarahtaylor.com

Instagram: @the.sarahtaylor

YouTube: The Sarah Taylor

Get Sarah's Book: https://thesarahtaylor.com/get-my-book

I expected God to say "girl, get up." Instead, He said: sit down.

In this episode, Sarah shares what happened when she obeyed that unexpected instruction and what God built in the quiet while she waited. She walks through the journal entry she wrote on March 24th describing a dream home in detail: the layout, the room for Brooke-Lynn, the space

for a studio. Months later, still in bankruptcy with a credit score that did not reflect her history, God opened a door to an apartment that matched every single thing she had written

down. Every. Single. Thing.

Then the hard things came. The doubt flooded in. And God sent her straight back to her journal to remind her: I was in the details before you even asked.

This episode is for the woman who has obeyed God and faced opposition on the other side of the yes. For the woman asking: did I hear Him right? He was there. He still is.

New episodes every Tuesday.

Connect with Sarah:

Website: https://thesarahtaylor.com

Instagram: @the.sarahtaylor

YouTube: The Sarah Taylor

Get Sarah's Book: https://thesarahtaylor.com/get-my-book