With Grit & Grace: Living a Simply Radical Life Podcast

What if your leadership was never meant to be controlled—but cultivated?

In this honest, off-the-cuff episode, Lisa shares her journey from control-driven leadership in motherhood to a more nurturing, Spirit-led way of leading in business and community.

Through personal stories and biblical insight, she unpacks the tension between striving and rest, showing how leadership rooted in presence, empathy, and trust creates something far more sustainable—and life-giving.

✨ What You’ll Learn

Why control often comes from insecurity, not strength

The difference between leading behavior vs. nurturing people

How to check in with those you lead instead of pushing outcomes

What Martha and Mary reveal about leadership and anxiety

How rest with Holy Spirit unlocks clarity and creativity

🌿 Reflection

Where am I holding control… instead of cultivating what God is growing?

🤍 Invitation

If you’re an exhausted Christian woman who feels like you’re carrying everything—trying to lead well, build something meaningful, and stay faithful in the process…You don’t have to do it from pressure.

Inside the Kingdom Identity Network, we’re learning how to live, lead, and create with Holy Spirit—joyfully, not forcefully.

It’s a space to slow down, renew your mind, and build from rest instead of burnout.

✨ You’re invited https://www.skool.com/identity/about

🎙️ Next Episode

Next week, Angela shares:

“When Women Rise Together” a powerful conversation on sisterhood, collaboration and Kingdom community.

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Legacy isn’t built through fame but through faithfulness. Angela explores how everyday obedience becomes generational impact...the unseen acts that echo into eternity. She reframes legacy as something sown in ordinary soil: words, rhythms, and relationships that continue bearing fruit long after you’re gone.

Tune in to Kingdom Rising here.

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There are moments when something feels off in a relationship ~ a conversation that didn’t land, tension that hasn’t been resolved or a situation that still carries weight.

You may have said, “I’ve forgiven them.”

And yet… your body still reacts. Your thoughts shift.

Something tightens.

In this episode, Lisa walks through what’s really happening beneath forgiveness and why simply deciding to forgive doesn’t always lead to the peace Scripture promises.

This is a conversation about closing the gap between what God’s Word says is true and what you’re actually experiencing in your body, your emotions and your relationships.

🔑 What You’ll Hear in This Episode

Why unresolved tension lingers ~ even after you’ve “forgiven”

The difference between saying the words and actually experiencing release

How unforgiveness can remain stored in the body

Why this isn’t a spiritual failure and what it actually means

What forgiveness is (and what it is not)

Why your body doesn’t automatically follow your decision

A simple, tangible practice to bring your whole being into agreement

The role of boundaries and why forgiveness doesn’t equal reconciliation

How true forgiveness opens the door to genuine blessing

Breaking agreement with beliefs formed in painful moments

🕊 Key Truths

Forgiveness is not approval, agreement, or reconciliation

You can choose forgiveness and still feel the effects of the pain

Peace comes when your body, soul, and spirit come into agreement with truth.

You are not doing something wrong ~ there is simply something that hasn’t come into alignment yet

Forgiveness releases you, not just the other person🌿

Reflection Question

Ask Holy Spirit, "Is there someone I've said I forgive… but I'm still holding the hurt?

🔥 Practical Application

If someone comes to mind, try this:

Say out loud:

“I forgive [name] for [what they did].”

Say it three times, slowly and intentionally. Not casually. Not rushed.

But as a clear, grounded decision. Then notice what shifts over the next few days. If you still feel tension or resistance, that’s not failure — it’s simply a sign there’s something deeper to release.

🤍 Continue the Work

Inside our Kingdom Identity Network (KIN) Community, Lisa teaches a simple tapping exercise to help your body release what hasn’t shifted yet ~ so forgiveness becomes something you actually experience, not just something you say.

👉 Join here: www.skool.com/identity

✨ Closing Thought

The way you forgive…The way you repair…The way you release…That becomes part of what you leave behind.

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Whether you have biological children or not, whether you lead a team, mentor someone younger, teach, coach, or simply show up in someone's life with consistency and care...

You carry the ability to shape culture through how you love people.

In this episode, Angela reveals how spiritual and practical mentoring intertwine: motherhood as a mantle, not merely a role. From boardroom to kitchen table, legacy is taught by example. She explores how true influence multiplies through presence, modeling, and integrity...not performance.

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There are seasons when something in life simply cannot keep going the way it has been.Not because we suddenly understand everything.But because we reach the point where we are tired of reacting the same way, carrying the same weight, and feeling out of alignment with the person we believe God has called us to be.In this episode, Lisa shares the story of a moment at her dining room table during her homeschool years when frustration and overwhelm surfaced yet again. That moment did not bring instant clarity. It simply revealed a painful truth: something had to change.

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In this series finale, Angela and Lisa sit down together to explore what it means to embody love as a lifestyle. Through laughter, reflection, and story, they revisit the journey from identity to intimacy, worth, healing, calling, and embodiment—culminating in the sacred posture of being Beloved. This is legacy, partnership, and presence in motion—a living picture of Kingdom collaboration over competition.

 

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In this episode, the discussion revolves around the concept of praying for blessings but struggling to receive them when they arrive. Termed 'resistance to blessing,' this phenomenon is explored through Biblical examples and personal anecdotes. Angela explains how unhealed memories and survival instincts create barriers to receiving good things, even those prayed for. By recognizing and rewriting relational scripts, practicing receiving in safe environments, and building supportive communities, you can learn to trust and receive God's blessings without fear. Listeners are encouraged to reflect on their own resistance to blessings and join the private podcast series for deeper exploration.
 
00:00 Introduction: Wrestling with Prayer
00:49 Resistance to Blessing: A Spiritual Battle
01:36 Biblical Examples of Resistance
03:18 Understanding the Reflex of Resistance
03:55 Physiological Roots of Resistance
05:27 The Tension Between Spirit and Body
08:47 Personal Story: Learning to Receive Love
11:07 Steps to Practice Receiving
14:48 Building a Community of Healthy Receiving
17:06 Reflection and Invitation
18:19 Conclusion: Living a Beloved Life

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What happens when the truths you agree with in your heart haven’t fully taken shape in the way you move through everyday life yet?

In this episode, Lisa explores the quiet tension many faithful women live with—the space between the truths we affirm and the rhythms we actually live from. It’s a tension that doesn’t mean something is wrong with your faith, but often signals that faith is still settling, deepening, and becoming embodied in real time.

Drawing from her own journey, Lisa reflects on how understanding of God matures over time—through Scripture, tradition, lived experience, and the ongoing guidance of Holy Spirit—and how growth often happens not by striving to live better, but by noticing where alignment has not yet fully taken root.

This conversation gently reframes the gap many women feel, not as failure or hypocrisy, but as the honest middle place where belief is still forming—where faith is moving from agreement into lived trust.

What You’ll Hear in This Episode

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  Why agreeing with truth doesn’t always mean it has fully settled into daily life yet

  
  


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  How faith matures as our whole being learns to trust what our spirit longs for

  
  


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  The difference between wanting to live from truth and having the capacity to do so

  
  


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  Why tension often points to growth rather than resistance

  
  


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  How everyday moments become the place where belief quietly takes shape

  
  

Gentle Invitation

This week, choose one ordinary moment—a walk, a pause, a quiet cup of coffee—and notice how you respond when you slow down. Not to correct yourself or try harder, but simply to observe where trust feels natural and where it still feels tender.

Often, belief takes root not through effort, but through awareness.

If you’re longing to walk this journey alongside others, our Kingdom Identity Network is a space for women who are learning how faith becomes lived over time, not performed. And for those sensing a desire for deeper support, our VIP Level offers more intimate space for prayerful conversation and guidance as these layers continue to unfold.

Looking Ahead

Next week, Angela takes us deeper into this conversation by exploring why we sometimes pull back from the very things we’ve prayed for, and how fear of disappointment can quietly shape our ability to receive what God brings near.

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God doesn’t wait for perfection to call you—He perfects you through the calling.

Angela shares what it looked like to lead, mother, and build while still healing, teaching how God uses hidden seasons to refine identity, stretch faith, and train leaders to carry His heart.

 

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Host: Lisa Vanderveen

 

What if real healing doesn’t require striving?

In this episode, Lisa Vanderveen explores the difference between insight, breakthrough, and true healing — and why healing in body, soul, and spirit produces spontaneous growth, not effortful change.

Building on Angela Linville’s conversation about worth and stewardship, Lisa reframes healing as the quiet work God does beneath the surface, removing resistance and restoring capacity so alignment becomes natural rather than forced.

This conversation is for the woman who understands the truth, wants to live from it, and wonders why some areas of life still feel effortful. Lisa offers clarity, relief, and a deeply hopeful reframe: effort isn’t failure — it’s information.

 

🌿 What You’ll Hear in This Episode

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  Why insight and breakthrough are not the same as healing

  
  


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  How true healing removes resistance instead of requiring willpower

  
  


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  The difference between effort-driven change and spontaneous fruit

  
  


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  Why healing often unfolds through partnership with God

  
  


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  How to recognize when healing has truly taken root

  
  


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  What it means to live from capacity instead of pressure

  
  


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  Why effort is a signal, not a spiritual problem

  
  

🤍 Reflection Prompt

Take a quiet moment and ask yourself:

“Where does growth still feel effortful for me?”

There’s no judgment in this question.
Effort is information — and often the invitation to healing.

🔁 Continue the Journey

If this episode resonated with you, you’re invited to continue reflecting through Scripture in a quieter, more personal way.

On Lisa’s YouTube channel, Kingdom Identity with Lisa Vanderveen, you’ll find Kingdom Identity Quiet Times — short Quiet Time Devotionals that share stories from Scripture alongside reflections written specifically for the Christian business woman who has tried all the strategies and still feels stuck in old patterns.

These devotionals create moments of insight, understanding, and breakthrough — gentle invitations to notice what the story stirs in you and where God may be speaking beneath the surface.

You’ll find the link in the show notes wherever you’re listening.

🔜 Coming Up Next

Next week, Angela Linville continues the series with a conversation about being chosen — not because of readiness or performance, but because God is relational, not transactional.

This next episode explores how healing prepares us to receive calling without pressure and belonging without fear.

🎧 About the Podcast

With Grit & Grace: Men of Courage, Women of Valor is a faith-based podcast exploring identity, intimacy, worth, healing, and calling through honest conversation and lived experience.

Each episode invites listeners to move beneath performance and into a deeper, embodied life with God.

 

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