What do you do when the life you worked hard for, prayed for, and built from the ground up no longer feels like it actually fits?

In this solo episode of The Confident Woman Podcast, Rachel Brooks speaks directly to the woman who is living in the tension between the life that still looks familiar from the outside and the woman who is quietly, undeniably shifting on the inside. This is not about burning everything down or making a dramatic move. This is about what it means to finally get honest about where you are, what you're still forcing, and what it might look like to stop carrying an outdated version of yourself into a season that is asking something entirely different of you.

What you'll hear:

• Why the disorientation you're feeling is not a character flaw but a sign that you've outgrown something significant
• The difference between operating from your calling versus operating from survival and scarcity
• How the identities we build to protect ourselves in one season can quietly become the very thing keeping us stuck in the next
• What it means to carry an outdated identity inside a life that has already moved on without it
• Why true confidence is not boldness or polish but honesty, self-trust, and the willingness to stop arguing with what you already know

Scripture for the Soul:

"But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead." — Philippians 3:13

Key Quotes:

"So much of what we call strength is just endurance without examination." — Rachel Brooks

"You cannot become if you are still tethered to a past version of yourself." — Rachel Brooks

"A lot of becoming happens before we have the language for it." — Rachel Brooks

Your Next Step:

If this episode met you right where you are, and you want a simple place to begin, start with the I Am Enough Reset Guide. Ten minutes. That's where it starts. → Start your reset: iamrachelbrooks.com/reset

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What if you have been doing everything right and your body just stops cooperating anyway?

This is not the burnout that gets celebrated online. This is not the sleep-deprived, hustle-harder version people wear like a badge of honor. In this solo episode of The Confident Woman Podcast, Rachel Brooks gets honest about the kind of burnout nobody talks about — the one where your entire nervous system crashes, your body starts making decisions for you, and no amount of willpower, prayer, or positive thinking can pull you out of it. She shares what that season actually felt like from the inside, what it cost her, and the one question she now asks before anything gets a yes from her.

If you have ever said yes to everything and ended up with nothing left, this episode is exactly where you need to start.

In this episode, you'll hear:

• Why high-performing women are often the last ones to recognize when they have gone too far off path
• The difference between being tired and having your entire operating system shut down
• What the pruning season in John 15 actually feels like when you are living it — and why it does not feel like grace
• The "Does it serve my five?" filter Rachel uses before any opportunity gets a yes
• Why the answer is not a better system — it is getting honest about what actually deserves your energy in the first place

Scripture for the Soul:

"Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit." — John 15:2

Key Quotes:

"You can't water everything and wonder why nothing's growing." — Rachel Brooks

"Capable is not the same thing as called." — Rachel Brooks

"Not everything that lands in your life is yours to carry." — Rachel Brooks

Your Next Step:

If this episode landed for you, the next step is simple. Every Thursday at 8 am, Rachel goes deeper into building a simple, sustainable business rooted in faith and freedom. Join the conversation:

Subscribe to The Confident Woman Weekly:

The Identity Reset — For the woman who has been carrying so much for so long she's lost touch with who she actually is underneath all of it. Ten minutes to stop, tell the truth, and come back to what God says about you.

​The Becoming — For the woman who is ready to go all the way in. The deeper work. The full rebuild of identity, confidence, and freedom. When you're ready, this is where it goes next.

Connect with Rachel Brooks:

The Confident Woman Weekly: iamrachelbrooks.com/subscribe

The Freedom Framework: freedom.iamrachelbrooks.com

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/iamrachelbrooks

Website: iamrachelbrooks.com

What does true confidence look like when you are running a global business and raising four kids?

We often think confidence means having all the answers, but in this episode of The Confident Woman, Rachel Brooks sits down with Sunny Beutler, CEO of Sunrider International, to completely flip that narrative. Sunny shares her incredible journey of growing up in a family business, stepping into the role of CEO, and why she believes the most powerful leadership tool is actually the ability to listen. If you are trying to build a successful career without losing yourself or your family in the process, this conversation is exactly what you need to hear.

In this episode, you'll hear:

• Why true leadership isn't about having the right answer all the time, but having the humility to listen
• How to build a flexible, hybrid schedule that honors your work commitments and your family's needs
• The importance of setting boundaries and why you can't carry the baggage of a hard day into your home
• How Sunny applies corporate goal-setting strategies to her family life, including spiritual goals for her kids
• Why the work you do inside your home will always outlast your business achievements

Scripture for the Soul:

"Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it." — Proverbs 22:6

Key Quotes:

"Confidence isn't having the right answer. It's being a really good listener." — Sunny Beutler

"What can I take with me in this life is my family." — Sunny Beutler

"As women, we forget ourselves so easily." — Sunny Beutler

Your Next Step:

If this episode landed for you, the next step is simple. Every Thursday at 8 am, Rachel goes deeper into building a simple, sustainable business rooted in faith and freedom. Join the conversation:

• Subscribe to The Confident Woman Weekly: iamrachelbrooks.com/subscribe
• When you're ready to do the work: The Freedom Framework — freedom.iamrachelbrooks.com
• The Identity Reset — For the woman who has been carrying so much for so long she's lost touch with who she actually is underneath all of it. Ten minutes to stop, tell the truth, and come back to what God says about you.

Connect with Sunny Beutler:

Website: sunrider.com

Instagram: @sunriderintl

YouTube: Sunrider International

Connect with Rachel Brooks:

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The Freedom Framework: freedom.iamrachelbrooks.com

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/iamrachelbrooks

Website: iamrachelbrooks.com

What if you hit every goal, build the business, get the flexibility, and still feel completely empty?

If you've ever reached the top of the mountain only to realize you climbed the wrong one, this episode is for you. In this solo episode of The Confident Woman Podcast, host Rachel Brooks pulls back the curtain on the reality of the "freedom lifestyle." She shares her own story of building what the online business world calls the dream—consistent income, travel, and total schedule control—only to discover a quiet, persistent awareness that something was deeply off.

We are constantly sold a version of success that looks good on the outside but leaves us hollow on the inside. Today, we are talking about what happens when the freedom you're chasing actually becomes the thing keeping you in bondage, and how to start building a life that feels true instead of just looking successful.

In this episode, you'll hear:

• Why hitting your revenue goals and checking off your vision board doesn't always bring the peace you expected
• The danger of adopting someone else's definition of success (and how to figure out what you actually want)
• How to recognize when you are maintaining a version of your life that you have already outgrown
• The five foundational pillars (Faith, Family, Fitness, Fulfillment, and Freedom) for building a sustainable, aligned business
• Why true freedom isn't about having no responsibilities, but about choosing the right ones

Scripture for the Soul:

"A man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps." — Proverbs 16:9

Key Quotes:

"You can get everything on your checklist and still feel completely empty." — Rachel Brooks

"A cage made of gold is still a cage." — Rachel Brooks

"Sometimes the freedom you are chasing is actually the thing keeping you in bondage." — Rachel Brooks

Your Next Step:

If this episode landed for you, the next step is simple. Every Thursday at 8 am, Rachel goes deeper into building a simple, sustainable business rooted in faith and freedom. Join the conversation:

Subscribe to The Confident Woman Weekly: iamrachelbrooks.com/subscribe

When you're ready to do the work: The Freedom Framework — freedom.iamrachelbrooks.com

Connect with Rachel Brooks:

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The Freedom Framework: freedom.iamrachelbrooks.com

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/iamrachelbrooks

Website: iamrachelbrooks.com

There is one question that, when you ask it honestly, changes everything about how you build your business, your decisions, your yes, and what you finally give yourself permission to walk away from.

In this solo episode of The Confident Woman Podcast, Rachel Brooks gets real about the difference between building toward the life you actually want and building away from the one you're afraid of. She traces the thread from her book Chasing Perfection all the way into her business, and what she discovered when she realized she had stopped chasing perfection and started chasing success instead. Same wound. Different reward.

This one is for the woman who has been doing all the right things and still feels like something is off. The one who keeps building but can't figure out why it never feels like enough. The problem was never your work ethic. It was the foundation you were building from.

What You'll Hear:

• The one question that filters every offer, every decision, and every yes before Rachel moves forward
• Why chasing someone else's version of success will always pull you away from your own version of freedom
• The five F's Rachel uses as her personal filter for everything she builds
• Three practical ways to apply this question right now to your offers, your content, and your yes
• Why the inner work is not the soft work you do before the real work starts — it IS the real work
• How discernment, not strategy, is the skill that actually simplifies everything

Key Quotes:

"When I stopped chasing perfection, I started chasing success. Same wound, different reward."

"You cannot build a freedom-based business from a self that hasn't done the work to know what freedom actually means to her."

"That's not a strategy story. That's a discernment story."

Scripture for the Soul:

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding — in all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight." — Proverbs 3:5-6

Ready to Keep Going?

If this episode landed, the best next step is joining The Confident Woman Weekly — a faith-fueled newsletter for purpose-driven women building a life and business rooted in clarity, freedom, and discernment. Every Thursday at 8:00 AM, straight to your inbox.

Subscribe here: iamrachelbrooks.com/subscribe

The Freedom Framework: freedom.iamrachelbrooks.com

The Identity Reset — For the woman who has been carrying so much for so long she's lost touch with who she actually is underneath all of it. Ten minutes to stop, tell the truth, and come back to what God says about you.

Connect with Rachel Brooks:

Website: iamrachelbrooks.com

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/iamrachelbrooks

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What if you're not broke because of what you're doing, but because of what you're believing?

In this milestone 365th episode of The Confident Woman Podcast, host Rachel Brooks sits down with Lisa Easton, founder of the only all-female investment club in the United States and 2025 Glamour Woman of the Year. Lisa went from bankruptcy and living in a single room in her sister's house — no job, four kids, zero support — to building two seven-figure businesses in four years. Her answer... The program running in the back of your mind is the only thing standing between you and the life you keep scripting about.

In this episode, you'll hear:

• Why your subconscious is running a program that keeps you broke and exactly how to rewrite it
• The daily morning routine every millionaire and billionaire Lisa worked for had in common, and how she finally adopted it herself
• Why affirmations and journaling don't work without this one critical ingredient (most people skip it entirely)
• How Lisa scripted her way from rock bottom to seven figures using a check she wrote to herself in 2022 — still in her wallet today
• The biggest money mindset mistake Lisa sees women make, and why skepticism is costing you more than any bad investment ever could
• What to do with your money once you actually start making it, and why you can't save your way to wealth

Scripture for the Soul:

"For as he thinks in his heart, so is he." — Proverbs 23:7

Key Quotes:

"You have to become the thing you want to become before it comes to you." — Lisa Easton

"Making a million dollars was easy. Changing the mindset to make a million dollars took me decades." — Lisa Easton

"You have to feel it. You can't just write it. You can't just say it. You have to feel it." — Lisa Easton

Your Next Step:

If this episode landed for you, the next step is simple. Every Thursday at 8 am, Rachel goes deeper into building a simple, sustainable business rooted in faith and freedom. Join the conversation:

Subscribe to The Confident Woman Weekly: iamrachelbrooks.com/subscribe

When you're ready to do the work: The Freedom Framework — iamrachelbrooks.com/freedom

Connect with Lisa Easton:

Website: lisameaston.com

Podcast: Her Rich Life — herrichlife.com

Instagram: @herrichlifepodcast | @lisameaston

Connect with Rachel Brooks:

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The Freedom Framework: freedom.iamrachelbrooks.com

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/iamrachelbrooks

Website: iamrachelbrooks.com

What if your business was never supposed to be the main thing?

In this episode of The Confident Woman Podcast, Rache Brooks gets honest about what it cost her to build a business on top of her life instead of underneath it — the burnout, the bitterness, the resentment toward the very thing she built to set her free. And what finally changed.

If your business feels like a burden right now, this episode was made for you.

In this episode, you'll hear:

• Why so many purpose-driven women end up imprisoned by the very thing they built to be free
• The real reason your business cracked when life got hard — and it has nothing to do with your effort
• The 3 things your business actually needs to support your real life, not your highlight reel
• Why your business must be able to run on your worst days, not just your best ones
• How to stop performing your business and start actually living it

Scripture for the Soul:

"Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established." — Proverbs 16:3

Key Quotes:

"The problem wasn't my effort. The problem was that I had built a business on top of my life instead of underneath it."

"A simpler business is not a smaller dream. It's actually a smarter one."

"Your life is not a liability to your business. It's the whole point."

Your Next Step:

If this episode landed for you, the next step is simple. Every Thursday at 8am, Rachel goes deeper on building a simple, sustainable business rooted in faith and freedom. Join the conversation:

Subscribe to The Confident Woman Weekly: iamrachelbrooks.com/subscribe

When you're ready to do the work: The Freedom Framework — iamrachelbrooks.com/freedom

The Identity Reset — For the woman who has been carrying so much for so long she's lost touch with who she actually is underneath all of it. Ten minutes to stop, tell the truth, and come back to what God says about you.

​I Am Becoming — For the woman who knows this is deeper than one hard season. A faith-led, soul-paced journey back to yourself. Weekly devotionals, audio reflections, and journal prompts delivered to your inbox.

​The Becoming — For the woman who is ready to go all the way in. The deeper work. The full rebuild of identity, confidence, and freedom. When you're ready, this is where it goes next.v

Connect with Rachel Brooks:

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Website: iamrachelbrooks.com

If you have been through a season that rewired you — grief, loss, collapse, or the quiet kind of breaking that nobody sees from the outside, and you can feel the pull to create again, but you keep talking yourself out of it, this episode is for you.

In this solo episode, Rachel Brooks gets honest about the tension between healing and building, why most faith-fueled founders keep waiting for a finish line that never comes, and what it actually looks like to start creating again before you feel ready. This is not a conversation about motivation. It is a conversation about permission, and why the only person who can give it to you is you.

What You'll Learn:

• Why healing and building are not two separate seasons, you live back to back, and what you lose every day you treat them like they are
• The "graduation day" lie that keeps driven, faith-fueled founders stuck in the in-between longer than they need to be
• How to tell the difference between creating from surrender and creating from striving, and why that distinction changes everything about what you build
• What it actually means to simplify your business from a place of discernment, not defeat or burnout
• Why the business built in the rebuilding season is often the truest, most sustainable thing a founder ever creates

Quotes:

"Healing doesn't have a graduation day. And if I waited until I felt fully healed before I allowed myself to create again, I would be waiting for the rest of my life."

"You don't have to be finished to start. You just have to be honest about where you are and be willing to build from that place."

"Creation is not the opposite of rest. When it comes from surrender instead of striving, it is the rest."

Ready to Keep Going?

The Freedom Framework — a simple step-by-step system for the faith-fueled founder who is done overcomplicating and ready to build something that actually holds.

The Identity Reset — For the woman who has been carrying so much for so long she's lost touch with who she actually is underneath all of it. Ten minutes to stop, tell the truth, and come back to what God says about you.

​The Becoming — For the woman who is ready to go all the way in. The deeper work. The full rebuild of identity, confidence, and freedom. When you're ready, this is where it goes next.

And if you want to go deeper every Thursday, real talk on building a simple, sustainable business rooted in faith and freedom, subscribe to The Confident Woman Weekly.

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Most women are not hiding because they don't want to be known. They're hiding because they've decided the real version of them, the full, unedited, messy, complicated version, would cost them their seat at the table.

Tommi Vincent spent decades believing that too. Then she realized the ingredients she was most ashamed of were the ones God intended to use all along.

In this episode of The Confident Woman Podcast, host Rachel Brooks is joined by Tommi Vincent, author of The Table of Life: Nourishing the Soul with Food, Love, and Faith. Part memoir, part cookbook, entirely soul-stirring. Tommi is a classically trained chef, a domestic violence survivor, and a sought-after speaker who has stood on stages for the NFL, JP Morgan Chase, and TED Sports. Her work has been featured in the New York Times and Savoy Magazine. But what makes this conversation powerful is not her resume. It is what she has had to confront privately to get there, and what she has built on the other side of it.

This episode is for the woman who has been showing up as a curated version of herself so no one sees what is really going on inside. The woman who has been carrying something she has never said out loud. The woman who is tired of performing and ready to find out what God can actually do with her whole, unfiltered story.

Talking Points and Takeaways

• Why the things you think disqualify you are actually your greatest qualifiers
• How healing anchors, whether cooking, fitness, or faith, reveal your true state of wellbeing
• What it means to build your own table one dish at a time using all the ingredients of your life
• Why naming your pain is how you turn the light on it
• How to feel the hard things without letting them consume who you are becoming
• Why belonging begins when you stop hiding the parts of yourself you are most ashamed of

Quotes

"The things I thought were my disqualifiers were actually my greatest qualifiers. I brought those ingredients to the table."

"God was not turning the light out. He was turning the light on so I could finally see me."

"Feel it, but don't allow those feelings to prosper."

"When you name it, that's turning the light on it. And the moment you turn the light on, the darkness can't exist."

Next Steps

Subscribe to The Confident Woman Weekly — where Rachel goes deeper every Thursday on identity, faith, and building a life and business rooted in freedom. Subscribe: www.iamrachelbrooks.com/subscribe

Connect with Tommi Vincent

Book: The Table of Life (Amazon)

Website: tommiv.com

Social: @ChefTommiV

Connect with Rachel Brooks

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The Freedom Framework: https://freedom.iamrachelbrooks.com

Website: https://iamrachelbrooks.com

LinkedIn: Rachel Brooks

You open your laptop, you've got your sticky notes and your plan of attack — and within minutes, you're overwhelmed. Not because you don't know what to do, but because you have too many things you could do and no idea what actually moves the needle.

That's not a motivation problem. It's a systems problem. And it's the most expensive one in your business — because it disguises itself as productivity.

In this solo episode, Rachel breaks down why your business feels chaotic, walks you through three diagnostic questions to find the source, and shares her simplification framework for building a business that actually converts — without the burnout.

In this episode, you'll hear:

• Why caring too much leads to overcomplication — and how "doing more" is actually keeping you stuck
• Three honest questions that reveal whether your business is chaotic or just busy
• The "hallway vs. maze" framework for simplifying your customer journey
• Why selling from a past version of yourself creates misalignment (and what to do instead)
• A simple exercise to find your ONE offer and realign everything around it

Scripture for the Soul:

"For God is not a God of confusion but of peace." — 1 Corinthians 14:33

Key Quotes:

"You're not failing because you're lazy. You're failing because you're doing too much without a clear path."

"Your business should feel like a hallway, not a maze. One door in. One path forward. One destination."

"Simplification isn't shrinking. It's stewardship."

Your Next Step:

Subscribe to The Confident Woman Weekly — where Rachel goes deeper every Thursday on building a simple, sustainable business rooted in faith and freedom. → Subscribe: www.iamrachelbrooks.com/subscribe

Resources + Links:

• The Confident Woman Weekly (newsletter): www.iamrachelbrooks.com/subscribe
• The Freedom Framework: freedom.iamrachelbrooks.com
• Website: www.iamrachelbrooks.com

Connect with Rachel Brooks:

• LinkedIn: Rachel Brooks
• Website: www.iamrachelbrooks.com
• Instagram: @iamrachelbrooks