318-The Call Was in You First

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As a kid, I loved being on a stage. I had no idea God was already calling me. He was. And He placed something in you too, long before you had words for it.

In this episode I talk from my heart, right after our first Calling Activation seminar. I share three things. Your calling came first, set in you by God before any credential. Your story is how that calling reaches the woman who needs it. And story based visibility is how you show up as yourself, without overthinking, and draw the right people to you.

I also share what I watched happen in that room. As each woman unpacked her story, something lit up in her. The hard years started to make sense. God was not absent in any of it. He was writing a story, and bringing healing, so it could now reach someone else.

Your pain was never the end. It was the start of your message.

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A Childhood Pull Toward Stages

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As a kid, I loved to play on stages. I had no idea God was already calling me. He was, and he placed something in you, too, long before you had words for it.

Meet Theresa And The Mission

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Hey, welcome to the Stuck No More Voices Podcast. I'm Theresa Croft. I'm a visibility specialist helping Christian women go from their calling into their stories that impact with a message maybe for even their ideal client. Today, I'm talking straight from my heart, notes in front of me, after the first Calling Activation Seminar that I just had, and something happened in that room, and I have to tell you about it because it, it collided with the thought of your calling.

Tracing Where Calling Began

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So when we talk about calling, this goes right into it. I got a few points, but when we talk about our calling, sometimes you have to look back and say, "Where did that calling come from?" When I was young, as I said, I loved to play. I loved to play with microphones. I loved to pretend like I was a preacher standing up on steps, and I'd preach, and I was Catholic, and standing up on apple carts and telling the birds and the bees in the apple trees they need Jesus. And remembering way back, I was in first grade, and I learned to read by phonetically, and then we moved, so I was in the lowest reading class. My favorite part of it, they had a pretend microphone in the corner, and us lowest of the reading would go up, and we'd sp- pretend like we're speaking into the microphone. So God was planting something in me as a little girl. And as I just share a little bit about this, I hope this encourages you because- The calling was not clearly understood because I was married to someone who said I was driven. I really struggled with that. I mean, driven? What do you mean by that? But I was driven. Now, years later, I realize that driving was the call that God put into my heart. I shared with the seminar also about that call that I was sitting in my blue chair, my, uh, Jesus and Coffee chair one day a while ago and I thought to myself, "You know, I could just sit here, drink my coffee, go to my part-time job on a radio and just that's it, be content." But I'm like, "I can't." And then I thought, "Why can I not do that?" Because of the calling. So deep inside of you, that may be something that you never really put a word on it. So you go from the calling to trusting to realizing that drive inside, there's purpose in that.

Relentless Encouragement Against Fear

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So I was reading this book by Laura Lynn Thompson. She's an amazing podcaster. She has a background in TV, and there were just some things that were really hitting me, and I wanna, I wanna read something that she wrote in her book. It's called Relentless Redemption. This is kind of what I'm trying to say, here's in a paragraph. Here she said it, "You may have to stand alone, but when God is for you, no man can be against you. Pursue the call of God on your life. Put one foot in front of the other and never give up. Let disbelief, fear, and negative lies be put far from you. Acknowledge that you were born to do something that no one else in this planet can do like you. You are one of a kind. You're not in competition with anyone, and you're not to be compared with any other creation. You are intrinsically valuable. Don't any, let anyone steal your dream." So the calling on your life is might be your dream. It's inside of you with stories, and a lot of times those stories come from the, the pursuit of the call, the battles, the, the lies. And when you learn to take care of those, to not just speak out 'cause I got a call, but no, to come from a healed place, to come from a wise place in your relationship with God. And sometimes that call can't be named, but I think when you really s- put your finger on it, you're like, "No. No, that my life has a reason." My identity is gradually moving me personally. I know my identity's moving me from survivor to steward. How about you? So God can form along step by step something inside of you, and it's from that calling as you walk in your healing, it's often the stories that had to come with, with sharing that calling, with being about that calling, often those are where the stories lie Let me share your story.

Tell The True Story From Scars

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Let me s- do, do another point. Once you know the calling is real, you learn to tell your story, and it doesn't have to be the clean version. Now granted, I want you to speak from your scars, not your wounds, but let it be the true one. Your story is how you connect and build real trust as you learn to share. Like, I, I'm just sharing a part of my story, not even going into the details. But sometimes that's how you say it, your message plainly. It's like your content, speaking, and then you show up and you reveal a part of your story in the midst of what you have an extraordinary solution for. When you lead, when you s- when your story leads, you stop overthinking and you show up as yourself. Now, here's what this gives you when we talk about visibility. The story is based visibility. A clear way to share your story that builds real trust, that People are looking for authentic, especially in the world of AI. Is that, is that, is that really her, or is that an AI version of her? Granted, I am fascinated by that. But when you have these simple ways of showing up without overthinking, something happens. Your calling starts to emerge, and you start to get confidence in your calling. It's like, ah, I'm building a foundation that has the calling all under it. Okay, I get that now. It's kind of like this way, a way of speaking feels natural. It's not forced, and it's like a foundation that draws the right people. It like a, like a lamp in a window draws the one walking home in the dark. Think about that. It's very dark in this world, and you speaking consistently, you speaking from the core of who you are, you speaking from your calling, you share your stories. That may be very well the light in the window where someone's going by and they're like, "Hey, she made

What The Seminar Revealed In Women

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it. Maybe I can." So the seminar was really amazing this past, uh, co- week or so. We'll have another one. And what happened is I noticed as I unpacked each woman's story that volunteered to come up, and just taking apart the nuts and bolts, and inside they realize, "I have a story." Some of them were still walking through it, a story of trauma, some a story of healing. But it gave them hope that their calling, it can be a little z- you know, scary, but inside there's a story. There's a calling to do what they know God's called them to do. So it was really awesome. To connect with women like this, it's almost felt like one-to-one even though it was a seminar, even though it was inside a Zoom room. But there was something real that happened when women were able to come up front to the whiteboard and really see for themselves the pieces, the pieces coming together, the whoa moments. So I think that's more exciting than anything, and I just wanted to come on with my next episode here of the Stuck No More Voices podcast, and I just wanted you to know that we're moving into season eight, and I wanna dig deeper into what it means to be called, what it means to share your story, what it means to be a s- extraordinary solution to someone's pain point by what you have to offer. Some of you, it is a business. Some of you, it's a ministry. Some of it's you, a speaking call to go to stages. Some of you, it's just being a good mom, a good dad at this time in your life. The pain that you experienced was never the end. It was the message.

Season Eight And The Waitlist Invite

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If that stirred something in you, I want to, to invite you into the next room, the Calling Activation Seminar, where we go piece by piece, step by step, revealing that, yeah, God has called me to something. When I hit that slide that said, "I f- I betcha you feel like what's inside of you is called by God," there was like this... I could just feel the presence move in, a lean in. I hope it feels that way for you. So let's get on the wait list. Um, in the time of this recording, I'm moving into a new, uh, room, a new apartment, so I gotta set up my studio all over again. Maybe I'll be there by the time you are listening. So listen, you are not assigned a crowd. You are assigned a field with your name on it and a story only you can tell. So come. Figure out the pieces, and from your calling, tell your story. I'm Theresa Croft. I'll talk to you in the next episode of the Stuck No More Voices podcast.