Well, we did it! All five episodes of 5 Mindsets That Keep You From Trusting God's Plan are now live, and I have been sitting here a little amazed at the road we just walked together.

When we started, I shared that when a woman says she just doesn't know her purpose, she's rarely missing a strategy. She's usually carrying a quiet fear about herself that she has never said out loud. Over these five episodes, we brought five of those fears into the light, and we answered every one with a truth from God's Word.

In This Episode:

Joyce offers a few words of encouragement to inspire you in your journey to live your calling. Listen and be ready to take action.

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The last fear might be the most surprising one of all. It doesn't show up when a woman is far from her calling. It shows up the moment she gets close, when the "more" God is calling her toward seems to require a version of herself she doesn't know how to be. In this finale, Joyce names the fear of becoming and answers it with the story of Gideon, the frightened man God called a mighty hero while he was still hiding in a winepress. Drawing on her own move from the courtroom into ministry and coaching, she shows why God calls you by who you will become, why the becoming is His work and not yours, and why you can step forward with the strength you already have.

In This episode:

• Why the fear of becoming shows up right as you get close to your calling
• How God greeted a hiding, fearful Gideon, and what it reveals about how He sees you
• Why you are not responsible for manufacturing the woman God is calling you to be
• What it means to go with the strength you have instead of waiting to feel ready
• How courage grows, one trembling act of obedience at a time

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As Joyce has shared in previous episodes in this series, the words "I just don't know my purpose" goes much deeper. There are fears underneath that statement. In this episode, that fear is the fear that if you ever stopped doing and achieving, the world would finally see there is nothing remarkable about you. In this fourth episode, Joyce names the mindset that ties your worth to your performance and answers it with the truth of God's Word. Drawing on her own story of stepping away from the bench after more than twenty years in the law, she walks through why God grieves the treadmill, why He chooses the ordinary on purpose, and why your worth was settled long before you ever produced a thing.

In This Episode:

• Why tying your worth to your productivity keeps you off balance and unable to rest
• The grace-filled thing Jesus said to busy, frustrated Martha, and what it means for you
• Why God deliberately chooses the weak and overlooked, and how that frees you
• The difference between worth you earn and worth you are given
• How God's power shows up best in the weakness you are ashamed of

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Show Notes

So many women carry a quiet ache that hides behind a smile while they scroll: the fear that other women were chosen for something special and they are the one God forgot. In this episode, Joyce holds that lie up to the light of who God actually is, drawing on her own story of starting over in a world where everyone else seemed already established.

In This Episode 

• Why the fear of being forgotten almost always grows in the soil of comparison
• God's promise that He cannot forget you, with your name engraved on His hands 
• Hagar in the wilderness, and the new name she gave to the God who sees the overlooked 
• Why God has a holy habit of choosing the ones left out of the lineup, like the shepherd boy David 
• How a hidden calling can be just as real and just as placed on purpose as a visible one 
• The truth that answers the whole fear, that you did not choose Him, He chose you 

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So many women stay frozen, not because they don’t have a plan, but because of a double fear: that they have already missed their moment and that they can’t even trust themselves to hear God clearly. In this episode, Joyce takes that fear apart, drawing on her own story of beginning a brand-new calling after more than twenty years in the law.

In This Episode

• Why the fear that you have missed your moment can keep you frozen and afraid to move forward.
• What Jesus’ words in John 10 teach us about hearing God’s voice and why staying close to the Shepherd matters more than getting everything perfectly right.
• Why God often gives direction while you are already moving instead of handing you the entire plan in advance.
• The prophet Joel’s promise of restored years, and how God can redeem seasons that felt wasted, delayed, or lost.
• Moses at eighty, and why age, detours, and long hidden seasons do not disqualify you from a new assignment. 
• Why trusting God’s plan requires confidence in the One leading you, rather than confidence in your own ability to get every decision right.
• How to stop measuring your life by your own clock and begin trusting that God can make everything beautiful in its time.

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This is the opening episode of the series, and it takes on the first mindset that quietly keeps women from trusting God's plan: the fear that your life will not really matter. Drawing on her years as a trial attorney and judge, Joyce answers that fear with what God actually says about your worth: that it was settled long before you ever produced a single thing.

In This Episode

• Why you can have every outward sign of a meaningful life and still lie awake afraid that it does not count.
• How your significance was settled before you were born, in the words God spoke over Jeremiah and David.
• The widow's two small coins, and why being unseen is not the same as being unimportant.
• Lois, Eunice, and Moses, and how a faithful life works in ripples rather than monuments.
• Where your worth truly comes from, as God's handiwork rather than as the sum of your output.
• Why the whole series begins right here, on the foundation that your life already matters.

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In this special introductory episode, Joyce launches a 5-part series, "5 Mindsets That Keep You From Trusting God's Plan." Starting Thursday, she will share a secret fear that women have about their purpose, calling, and assignment, and the truth of God's Word to combat those fears. Listen today, but be sure to come back on Thursday for the first episode in the series: "Will My Life Even Matter?" 

Have you been circling your calling, certain that if you just drive a little harder, you will finally figure it all out? In this episode, Joyce shares a getting-lost-in-Denver story that mirrors what so many purpose-driven women experience. You can see the destination, yet you cannot seem to reach it on your own strength. This conversation reframes that struggle and shows you where real clarity actually comes from, and why it grows out of closeness with God rather than striving.

What you will discover in this episode:

• Why leaning on your own understanding keeps you circling instead of finding clear direction
• How asking God for wisdom opens the door to the clarity you have been chasing
• Why God shares His direction with those who draw near rather than those striving from a distance
• How closeness with God brings the clarity that striving never could

Resources

Episode 15 – When You're Forcing What God Hasn't Released - https://www.thepurposealignedwoman.com/15

Blog Post – A Shift From Striving To Resting In God - https://herrichlife.com/a-shift-from-striving-to-resting-in-god/

The Purpose Aligned Woman Insider Newsletter - https://www.herrichlife.kit.com/newsletter

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Have you ever told yourself that if you could just get the answers, if you could just see how it all turns out, then you would finally have some peace? If so, this episode is for you.

In this conversation, Joyce shares what twenty years of coaching and teaching Christian women have taught her about peace and certainty. Almost every woman she has ever sat with wants the same thing, which is to know all the answers before she takes a single step. She pictures it like a woman who sets a folded map on the table and refuses to move until the whole route is traced out in front of her. The hard part is that God rarely opens the whole map at once.

This episode is a freeing reminder that you can have peace of mind while you are still waiting for clarity about your God-given calling. Peace does not live on the far side of certainty. It’s available to you right now, in the middle of the not knowing, when you make one quiet choice at the crossroads to trust God instead of focusing on what you can’t see yet.

Resources

Episode 20 – Tired of Unanswered Prayers? How to Find Inner Peace While You Wait on God
Blog Post – Don’t Abandon Your Vision
The Purpose Aligned Woman Insider Newsletter

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Have you ever stood right at the doorway of something you believed God was asking you to do, only to feel your courage drain away? You sensed the nudge and felt the pull on your heart, but that small, persistent voice kept whispering, "Are you sure? Are you really the right one for this?" If that question has been following you around, this episode is your invitation to put it to rest for good.

In this heart-to-heart conversation, Joyce takes you back to the season she left the bench after twenty-one years in the legal profession, fully knowing God had called her to launch an online ministry, and still finding herself building a case against her own assignment. She shares the word the Holy Spirit gave her that changed everything about how she saw her calling, and she unpacks why so many faithful, capable women keep circling back to the same doubt. Then we settle what God actually wants His daughter to know, and she leaves you with a simple three-day Purpose Clarity Challenge you can start right away.

If you've been quietly questioning whether you really heard God, pull up a chair, friend. This one is for you.

Resources

Episode 8 – Fighting the Enemy Between Your Ears
Blog Post – Called But Not Moving?
The Purpose Aligned Woman Insider Newsletter

Let’s Connect

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