The Let's Greaux Podcast

What if the stillness you've been in was never you falling behind — but God carrying you farther than you could go on your own?

In Part 2, Lex and CultivateHER Retreat worship leader Joy Johnson move from stillness into movement. Joy shares the picture God gave her: you can be seated, seatbelt on, completely still — and the plane is still moving. You're being carried over distances you could never cross yourself.

Then it goes deep — the difference between moving from your position and moving for it, the question that reorders everything ("am I okay if it's just me and Him?"), what it means to be adopted as a daughter chosen at a cost, and why the children of Israel knew God's acts but Moses knew His ways. Knowing God isn't information. It's intimacy.

For the woman learning that all she has to be is daughter.

This is the last stretch before the retreat — a preview of exactly what God wants to do in that room.

The CultivateHER Retreat: An Exodus Experience — Oct 30–Nov 1, Louisiana, where Joy will be leading worship.

Last call — tickets are closing. thecultivateco.org

Guest: Joy Johnson @_joyjohnson_Connect: @thecultivateco_ | @lex.luxe_ | TikTok @lexluxee

Sometimes the loudest thing God can ask of you is to be still.

In Part 1 of this two-part conversation, Lex sits down with worshiper, evangelist, and CultivateHER Retreat worship leader Joy Johnson about the year God called her out of ministry and into stillness.

Joy shares how surrender didn't happen all at once but in levels — repent, be accountable, pull on community, and finally lay the mic down. She and Lex trace a God-moment they didn't catch until later, the mercy of confirmation and the ministry of wise counsel, and then a real word on shame: why it disguises defeat, how defeat conceives condemnation, and the difference between Peter and Judas — same betrayal, two endings, one dividing line: prayer.

For the woman who's been quietly carrying shame and calling it something else.

Part 2 drops in a few days.

This season is building toward the CultivateHER Retreat: An Exodus Experience — Oct 30–Nov 1, Louisiana, where Joy will be leading worship. Tickets are closing. Register at thecultivateco.org.

Guest: Joy Johnson — @_joyjohnson_Connect: @thecultivateco_ | @lex.luxe_ | TikTok @lexluxee

You can heal in isolation. But you were never meant to stay there.

Lex sits down with two of her closest sisters — Megan (The Pivoting Professional) and Zalayna (Carrying the Cross) — for the most honest conversation of the season about what it actually takes to let people in.

They get into the difference between a village and a community, why healing requires more than proximity, and what accountability really is — a corner man in your ring, not an accuser keeping score. They talk about the mask survival mode keeps us in, even with the people closest to us, and how being truly seen can feel more threatening than being alone. Plus a real, un-cut moment of what being seen looks like in real time.

Megan and Zalayna met through Cultivate — proof of the exact thing the CultivateHER Retreat was built to create.

For the woman who's healed in isolation and is scared to be seen again.

A note: this episode touches on grief and loss — be gentle with yourself as you listen.

This season is building toward the CultivateHER Retreat: An Exodus Experience — Oct 30–Nov 1, Louisiana. Tickets are closing. Register at thecultivateco.org.

Guests: Megan — @thepivotingprofessional / @megg.nelson · Zalayna — @zalayna.jenkins / @carryingthecross__ / @twogirls.onegod

Connect: @thecultivateco_ | @lex.luxe_ | TikTok @lexluxee

The wilderness will strip you of everything you used to define yourself by — and leave you with the only question that matters: who am I, really, and who is God to me now?

Lex sits down with Bri — Bible study leader and the wilderness teacher for the CultivateHER Retreat — for an honest conversation from inside a wilderness season, not from the other side of it.

Bri shares coming out of a divorce, losing her career, and watching every external identity fall away until all that was left was "image bearer." She and Lex get into what abiding really means when the provision is gone (were you abiding in the resources, or the source?), the difference between consequence and punishment, how the wilderness exposes what the mask used to hide, and the truth the whole season has been building toward: Jesus didn't stumble into the wilderness — He was led there.

For the woman in the middle of something she can't explain, wondering if God is punishing her — when He might be perfecting her.

A note: this episode touches on divorce, loss, and hard seasons — be gentle with yourself as you listen.

This season is building toward the CultivateHER Retreat: An Exodus Experience — Oct 30–Nov 1, Louisiana, where Bri will be teaching. Tickets close Oct 17. Register at thecultivateco.org.

Guest: Bri — @bri.deanna (IG + TikTok) Connect: @thecultivateco_ | @lex.luxe_ | TikTok @lexluxee

She looked fine on the outside and completely empty on the inside the moment she walked through her own door.

Lex sits down with aesthetician and content creator Anasija Green for an honest conversation about what survival mode really looks like when you're high-functioning and hiding in plain sight.

Nay shares the season she spent performing wellness while running on empty — until her body physically shut down and forced her to rest. She opens up about the two-week reset that became a hard reset with God, the relationships she had to release, and what it took to go from just functioning to actually flourishing. Plus: stewardship vs. escape, learning to see God as Father instead of punisher, and the surrendered prayer that led to a testimony reaching nearly a million people.

For the woman showing up for everyone else while quietly falling apart.

A note: this episode touches on anxiety, burnout, and mental health — be gentle with yourself as you listen.

This season is building toward the CultivateHER Retreat: An Exodus Experience — Oct 30–Nov 1 in Louisiana.

Register at thecultivateco.org.

Guest: Anasija Green — @amyrikaall on IG and TikTokConnect: @thecultivateco_ | @lex.luxe_ | TikTok @lexluxee

What are you grieving that you haven't named yet?

this solo episode is Lex getting honest about grief — the relational kind (losing someone still alive), the physical kind (and what happens after everyone stops checking in), and grieving expectations: the life you thought you'd be living by now.

As an LMSW and a woman still walking it out, she breaks down the three lies grief makes us vulnerable to, why the stages were never linear, and what surrender really looks like when control is all you feel like you have. She gets personal too — closing her boutique of six years in obedience, and her unfinished grief around marriage and children. One surrendered. One still held.

We grieve. But not without hope.

For the woman carrying something she hasn't given herself permission to name.

A note: this episode touches on grief and loss — be gentle with yourself as you listen.

This season is building toward the CultivateHER Retreat: An Exodus Experience — Oct 30–Nov 1, Louisiana, where surrender is where we begin. Register at thecultivateco.org.

Connect: @thecultivateco_ | @lex.luxe_ | TikTok @lexluxee

You can't pour self-love out of a cup God hasn't filled first.

Lex sits down with Janay Morgan — LCSW, self-love coach, and fellow believer from New Orleans — to talk about why God's love, not self-love, is the foundation of everything we are.

Janay gets honest about her 2022 breaking point — successful on paper but depleted and lost — and the season that taught her to see herself the way God sees her. Together they get into survival mode, self-love vs. self-preservation, singleness and worth, and learning to receive love instead of performing for it.

For the woman showing up for everyone but herself.

This season is building toward the CultivateHER Retreat: An Exodus Experience — Oct 30–Nov 1, Louisiana.

Register at thecultivateco.org.

Guest: Janay Morgan — @jmorgancoachingConnect: @thecultivateco_ | @lex.luxe_ | TikTok @lexluxee

She knows she's supposed to leave. She just doesn't know how or why it's so hard.In this season opener, Lex gets honest about what Egypt actually is: not just a place in the Bible, but a posture. A survival identity that gets built when you've had to adapt just to get through something. Drawing from her background as a licensed clinical social worker and the story of the Exodus, Lex breaks down the survival-mode identities so many women carry long after the season is over — the Strong One, the One Who Handles It, the One Who Earns Her Place — and why those aren't character flaws. They were strategies. But you are not your strategy.This is the beginning of an Exodus. If you've been feeling stuck between who you were and who God is calling you to be, this episode is your invitation to start the journey out.This season of Let's Greaux is building toward the CultivateHER Retreat: An Exodus Experience — October 30–November 1 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Whether you're joining us there or walking this out wherever you are, we're going together.IN THIS EPISODE:What "Egypt" really represents — and why it's a mindset, not just a placeThe survival adaptations that stay with you long after the threat is goneFive Egypt identities women carry without realizing itWhy we go back to what's familiar, even when it's not good for usThe wilderness as invitation, not punishmentYour first name — the identity God gave you before Egypt ever didSCRIPTURE REFERENCED: Hosea 2:14–15 | Romans 8:15 | Romans 12:2 | Genesis 1:26–27REFLECT WITH LEX: What did survival mode teach you that you're still holding on to? And what does it look like to release it to God? Drop your answer in the commentsTHE CULTIVATE-HER RETREAT: AN EXODUS EXPERIENCE October 30 – November 1 | Baton Rouge, Louisiana Secure your seat and join the journey here at thecultivateco.orgCONNECT WITH US: IInstagram: @thecultivateco_ @lex.luxe_ TikTok: @lexluxee Website: thecultivateco.org#LetsGreaux #CultivateHer #ExodusExperience #ChristianWomen #FaithPodcast #SurvivalMode #IdentityInChrist #WomensRetreat #ChristianPodcast #FaithOverFear

You don't rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your habits.

Lex Luxe gets real about the holy habits that actually move the needle — making God CEO, operating at the pace of grace, Mastering Mondays, meal prep, content batching, power hours, and the burnout signs you can't afford to ignore.

This is kingdom intention, not hustle culture. And you're closer to the win than you think.

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It wasn't a rebrand. It was a repentance of posture.

Lex Luxe gets honest about why Bosses Block had to go — the hustle, the self-centered motives, the burnout — and how God called her into something bigger: Cultivate Co, built on Stewardship, Strategy, and Shalom.

New era, New name, Same God and more room at the table than ever.

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