The Queued4Christ Show with Dr. Melinda Watts- "Called To Lead And Lift"

What if your gifts aren’t competing lanes but converging roads to the same destination? That question frames our time with Dr. Melinda Watts—worship leader, educator, coach, and mom of four—who opens up about weaving music, teaching, and motherhood into a single, obedient life. From high school classrooms to Sunday worship, from mentoring women of faith to “moober” minivan rides, Melinda shows how grace becomes strategy when you ask for it daily and guard what matters.

We trace her journey from a non-musical upbringing to discovering a voice and a teacher’s heart that never stopped calling. She shares how mentors arrived in stages—a godmother who anchored identity, a pastor who shaped her single years, creative friends who unlocked new expression—and why guided wisdom can accelerate impact far beyond DIY hustle. If you lead worship, build a business, or parent in the chaos of social media, you’ll find practical insight on boundaries, cadence, and choosing rooms that grow you.

The conversation goes deeper into trials, refining, and what Melinda calls “levels of sight.” Drawing from the healing of the blind man, she explains how many of us settle for partial vision—seeing men as trees—when God invites us to clearer sight and a truer self-concept. That shift changes how we pray, plan, and parent. We also talk about legacy: guarding your heart, stewarding your gifts, and asking, “What did You have in mind when You made me?” Expect a fresh push to pursue the version of you God envisioned, not the one convenience offers.

Stay to the end to hear how to connect with Melinda’s worship community and coaching for women of faith, plus ways to support the show and resources that help you move from brokenness to breakthrough. If this conversation stirred something in you, subscribe, share it with a friend who needs it, and leave a review with your biggest takeaway—we’d love to hear how your sight is changing.

Transcript

Welcome And Gratitude

SPEAKER_01 0:36

How you gonna move? How you gonna move? It's a good thing for the opportunity, use it's a new day with a new way. Praise the father for eyes to bless. My guys to declare that my god is the dopest. Salute respect to the woman that got me Kiana. My girl, she give hope to the hopeless. You can be going through something.

SPEAKER_02 0:59

Hey, hey, hey, everyone.

Mission Of Q For Christ

SPEAKER_02 1:01

This is Kiana, your creator and the host of Q for Christ. And I want to say thank you. Thank you to everyone that has liked, you shared, you commented, whatever you've done. I'm so excited and I'm so happy. So, and I have to make sure that I say this because being a vessel for Christ is not a punishment, it is a privilege. And I take this very seriously about being a vessel for him. Okay. So, anyways, anyways, as you know, I have been speaking with individuals that are successful on purpose, and I'm so excited about tonight because not only am I going to be speaking with someone who I have admired for a few years now, but I'll be able to speak with her and get her success on purpose story. But before I do that, I want you to make sure that you go and you go to the website at www.cufchrist.com and make sure you are sharing. Okay. Share this with someone because I know it is going to bless someone. So, anyways, back to my guest. I'm so excited tonight um to be able to speak with someone.

Introducing Dr. Melinda Watts

SPEAKER_02 2:14

I have none other than Dr. Melinda Wise on here. I'm so excited. How are you tonight?

SPEAKER_03 2:22

I am so, so good. How are you? I'm so glad to be here with you.

SPEAKER_02 2:26

I'm so excited. Let me tell y'all, I um I never forget I um when I started coming to change, I didn't know who you were. I didn't even know your name at first. And I was like, man, she can say, I was like, she is so anointed. And um, you know, it's a lot of people that can sing, but when they have the anointing on their life, it's a totally different thing. And so when I saw you, I was like, oh my goodness, I just love her and I love your spirit because you know, I I saw you a couple times, you gave me a hug. You were just so young, so nice, and I'm just so thankful to have you on here tonight. Okay, and we go happy to be here. That's good, that's good. So um, I'm I'm excited about this. I want you all just to kind of introduce yourself to the people, let them know who Dr. Melinda Watts is because I can talk about you with nobody like myself like you can. So, how how um just introduce yourself to the audience

Calling, Anointing, And First Impressions

SPEAKER_02 3:32

for me?

SPEAKER_03 3:32

Well, my name is Dr. Melinda Watts. I am originally from New Jersey by way of California, and I'm a wife, I'm a mother of four, I am a worship leader, an artist, and a momager of my kids. I'm an author, a speaker. And in this season of my life, I'm literally what I call a moober, which is a mom Uber. I'm really just hustling and bustling my kids in life. So I thank God for this season of being a moober. Um, but yeah, I I also am a coach to women, women of faith who want to maximize what God has given them and to scale their business or their calling or their platforms so that they can have more impact in the kingdom.

SPEAKER_02 4:20

Wow. Girl, I couldn't have done that better than you. I mean, man, let me tell you. She is some of everything, okay. And being a mom of four, I know, trust me, I I'm a mom of four as well. Okay, okay. Um, you know, I've I'm kind of out of those Uber and days. We didn't call it Uber and then it was just look going everywhere, you know.

SPEAKER_03 4:47

Yeah, it's the it's the it's the mover, mover, it's the minivan mom and uber mixed together.

SPEAKER_02 4:52

I love that, but yeah, um, I don't trust me, it meant everything to them. Like you said, that you said mom manager, a mama jerk mama jer. Look, y'all hear that, and the thing about it, she does this and does it well, like girl, you look

Roles: Wife, Mom, Worship Leader, Coach

SPEAKER_02 5:12

so beautiful to be able to handle all of that, right? Thank you.

SPEAKER_03 5:17

It's it's the grace, it's the grace of God, truly, truly the grace of God, because I honestly couldn't sit here and tell you any type of plan or outline of how it's just the grace of God who gives me strategy day to day, and that's what I really try to teach other women who have that desire, like you have to be in alignment with God for Him to give you downloads daily, just like that daily manner, in order to carry it out. So I'm I appreciate you saying that.

SPEAKER_02 5:46

That's awesome, that's awesome. Well, I'm super excited that um that you've taken a little some time out, and so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna pray before we go a little further. Always want to usher in the Holy Spirit, and then that way we can find out how you have been cued for Christ. And I know you got a lot, okay. So how you can hear how you've been cued. So I'm gonna say a quick prayer. Okay, all right, dear Heavenly Father, God, I say thank you. God, I say thank you for the time that you have carved out for us to be able to converse about what you have done for us, God. We thank you now because we know that you are sitting high and looking low, God. We thank you now because you have orchestrated everything in our life, God, and we don't have to take anything for granted, God. And so we thank you now, God. We thank you for your daughter that is on here that sacrifice every week, every day, every moment of her life, God, as she continues to do the work of you, God. We thank you now for the strength that you have given her. God, we thank you now for the peace and the

Grace To Juggle Many Callings

SPEAKER_02 6:54

comfort that you have given her. God, we thank you now for even going with her family and her children and her husband, God. Anything that is not like you, God, we ask you to take it out, God. And God, we thank you now just for the people that are on here, God, the ones that are gonna watch, God, God, we ask you to pierce their heart, God, so they can hear something that they can say, what must they do to be saved? God, we just thank you now because we know you're able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we can ask or think. And so we give your name the praise and the honor, God, God. We ask you to hide us behind the cross, allow someone to hear something that would help them get cued for Christ. And so we thank you. We love you, we honor you, God, we cherish you. It's in Jesus' name that I pray. Amen. Amen. Amen. Hallelujah. So, anyways, anyways, I I want to know. Um, when you were a child, um, did you ever see yourself as a child um doing some of the things that you're doing now? Or did you have anything else that you wanted to do um as a child that you was just like, yeah, I'm gonna do that?

SPEAKER_03 8:02

You know, what is so funny about my life, okay? So I grew up in a family where music was not a thing. So music doesn't run in my family. So my parents didn't sing, my sister didn't sing. It was like I grew up in a family that was not musical, but I had a gift to sing, right? And I couldn't really trace it or place it. Um, but our neighbors, my babysitters down the street, they were a house full of pastors, preachers, evangelists, singers, songwriters, and they watched, they were my babysitters. And so I was still exposed to that kind of thing. And so when as a kid, I grew up wanting to sing, but I also had a really, really strong desire to teach as a kid. So I never said I wanted to be a singer, I always said I wanted to be a teacher. And so I look at my life, and it's funny you asked me this because I do remember being really young, because I grew up in church, so I was maybe around 11 or 12, and I was a big sister or a mentor, even at that age, to other young kids. Yeah. And I think it was because I had a gift to sing and I was singing in the choir. So I just had a natural affinity for leadership or or just you know, working with other young girls, my age or even younger. Um, it was just something that I saw myself doing. I just loved it. It was just, it felt like it, I was just born to do it.

SPEAKER_02 9:32

Yes, and the thing about it, you God is God is just so amazing because now you're able to do both, right? You know, you're able to be able to sing and teach, you know, coach people and not only teach your children,

Prayer And Inviting The Holy Spirit

SPEAKER_02 9:48

because that is that is big right there for children to watch their mom and and watch her in the element, you know what I'm saying? Yeah, to say, oh my god, my mom is doing it.

SPEAKER_03 10:01

You know, I everything that I do, especially in this season of my life, literally everything points back to them. Like I I've gone through those seasons where you know you're working and you're you're in your craft and you're doing what you love, but here as of late, everything that I do points back to my kids and making sure that they are in alignment as much as I can shepherd them to be in alignment to what God is calling them to do. And as a mom, I'm learning that motherhood is sanctification for me. And it's really to be in position to help guide them. And so I've gone through a transition from you know really leaning into what I'm doing, and the Lord was just showing me how all of that is leading to me being able to resource my kids, and so that's kind of where I'm at. And my hope is that they would be inspired and you know, motivated to do what God is calling them to do too.

SPEAKER_02 10:57

Yes, that look, I love how you say that because like I said, I'm a mom of four, and everything, even my old, I got one that's 28. Okay, yes, I got straight for a 28-year-old. Oh, well, thank you. I got one, he's 28 and you know, my 23, 37, and 13. So I'm you know, I'm everything even now as the stuff that that I do, it kind of helped lead them and guide them, and um especially with with godly guidance is is amazing. So how did that look when you were quickly to say, you know what, I'm going to do this and and say, okay, this is what God has called me to do, so I'm gonna do this. How did that look for you, being that you are a mom and a wife in this era?

SPEAKER_03 11:51

Okay, so this really started for me, I want to say, when I was in college. Um, I graduated college with my bachelor's and I knew that I wanted to become a teacher. Again, like I was still always singing, but I never had this desire to like be this artist or this singer. Um, so I became a teacher. I became a high school teacher and I taught high school. I got my master's and I got I became a high school teacher for about six years at a high school in California. But while doing that, all my lunch breaks, all my summer breaks, it's like I'm singing and

Childhood Dreams: Teaching And Singing

SPEAKER_03 12:27

I'm leading worship and I'm writing music and all the things. And so I feel like the moment when I got quickened was when I understood that those two worlds were gonna collide together. Like there was no way for me to escape a teaching gift or a mentoring gift, or if you will, like a pastoral gift, because you can have a pastoral gift, but you're not a pastor of a church, but it's just who you are, right? Um so the moment I realized that was when I was at graduated school and I began to sing, but there was always a a mentoring piece to it. And it's just what I it's just what I've done over the years, and I got quick into that and I accepted that and I just went full steam ahead. I was just like, okay, this is what we're gonna do. And it felt really like home.

SPEAKER_02 13:14

Right.

SPEAKER_03 13:14

It didn't feel like if it didn't feel like work, it didn't feel like it just was what I did and what I love to do. Right, right.

SPEAKER_02 13:21

And that and that part right there is that fulfillment, you know what I'm saying? Where, and then you don't go against the grains, just say, okay, God, I'm I'm gonna do what you ask me. I see you colliding both of them, you know, um, and and just not not get not say, okay, no, I want to do this God. Right, okay, I want to do this God, you know what I'm saying? Exactly. And that's where that pull comes from because you're trying to do um what God is trying to, you know, get you to another level. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. So were there anybody who God just united you with and just was like, you know what? I need you to be around this person because we all know that getting around like-minded people is is the goal when it comes to God quicking you and calling you. So, were there anybody that you just kind of like, you know what, let me let me get around them so I can get more of this and help me along the way?

SPEAKER_03 14:19

You know, that's a great question. And I feel like in my life, I've had seasons of different people who have been that for me. Um, when I was, you know, graduating high school, a big shift in my life was my godmother. She played a huge role in my life of my identity in Christ, right? And she poured that into me and and really gave me the confidence, and God used her to help me see who I was in Christ and how to live out the calling that was on my life because I was really young, but I understood who I began to understand who God had called me to be at a young age. I was about maybe about 16 or 17, and I fully understood worship and like being a psalmist, right? And then going through college, I come to I went to California. Pastor Tamara Bennett was huge, okay. Huge and shifting and pouring into me as a young single woman my calling. So it kind of went in stages, and then I had friends who were creatives who who helped me understand the creativity that was in me. So God used a series of people, I can't say that it was just one, but a series of people who truly walked and and did life with me to help me understand those

Motherhood As Sanctification

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seasons. And I feel like I was able to glean from each of those seasons, and it made me who I am today. Right.

SPEAKER_02 15:42

And that's and that's good that you say that because um, you know, most of the time God do take us through seasons, and we a lot of time we end up with around this season, you may be around someone that that showed you the coaching skills, and then around this season, you find someone that can show you that okay, this is how you leave praise and worship. Exactly, exactly.

SPEAKER_03 16:06

And I and I've been singing all my life since I was about eight or nine. And honestly, even now, I love I love leading worship with uh our team at Change. You know why? Because everybody is just so amazing and they all have different backgrounds, and you know, you get to lead with with Todd, and I have tons of experience, but I'm I'm so humbled to be able to just share and ministry with people who have walked different paths than me. Um and Pete. It's just I just feel really blessed to have in this season of my life um different rooms that the Lord has allowed me to be in. And I was praying about that today. I was like, Lord, I'm so thankful. You've been so faithful, you've brought me into so many different rooms, so many types of rooms, and it's only the hand of God. I could not have selected this life if I even had a script because it's been so it's God. And um, so I'm very thankful, very thankful that I've had the opportunities that I've had to grow and to really steward some seasons that just were mind-blowing to me.

SPEAKER_02 17:15

Yes, I'm telling you. And that that right there, right, it it's when you can say, I'm so humble, God always opened up more. He's gonna open up more because he knows you know how to steward it well, right? That's prayer, you know. He knows you know how to steward it well, and even um, I know you said in college when you went to college, um, were there any extra education?

SPEAKER_03 17:40

Because I know you just got your doctorate, or yeah, I went to I went in undergrad. I studied women's studies and sociology, and I had my bachelor's in that, and then I got my master's degree in education, so I didn't really study music at all. Like again, music wasn't a part of my family. I never really had a desire to teach music. That's the thing. It was never music, it was always life, it was always women, it was always women's ministry. Like that was my whole entire uh focus. And being and being Dr. Watts, that really came along with a focus on business and an emphasis on um my impact in the community and and really teaching business, really stepping into that lane where women of God, women of faith, can put on that hat of entrepreneurship, kind of like the Proverbs 31 woman and the tsunami woman. They were women of God and they had so much to offer, and they had to come into that knowing and how to maximize that and get resources for that. So that's been my journey with excuse me, with education.

SPEAKER_02 18:48

Yes, okay, okay. The thing about it, you know, I'm I'm big on education, and and I'm you know, I I tell people, look, go to YouTube, you can learn the YouTube university, you know, go to Google, Google, Google can show you things, you know, because here's the thing one thing we have to do in order

When Teaching And Music Collide

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for us to learn and understand where we're going, we have to get that education. Yeah, so how big that was when you got that understanding after you were just like, okay, I know where I'm going, I know where God got done collided, both for me, the you know, the mentoring, the coaching, the teaching, and the singing together, how um understanding that was, or that clarity that shaped you in that pathway. And now you can say, I'm gonna do this regardless.

SPEAKER_03 19:37

Yeah. Honestly, it's really the understanding that, like you said, you can go to YouTube, you can go to Google, you can find things out. But what I've realized, it's almost like I can I can walk to this grocery store on my own because I know how to get there. I know the streets to get there. But when you have a coach or a mentor, or God puts somebody in your life who Has already walked that path, it's almost like they pull over to the side of the road, they pick you up and put you in the car and they give you a ride to the store. Right. That that is kind of like the difference. And when I aligned with um different mentors in my life, that's what helped me learn how to take what God had given me and increase my impact with it. And that was the moment I said, okay, I can I can bring these two worlds together and I can even show others how to do that.

SPEAKER_02 20:28

That is so cool, man. I tell you, you know, I you know, when I got this understanding that God, and I and I kept fighting, I'm gonna be honest, I kept fighting podcasting because I was like, What is podcasting? You know what I'm saying? You know, after being, you know, uh being married and and being a mom, and uh and I was in the medical field for 14 years, so God, you know, like for real. And I was in business school, and I and then that's when we started doing podcasts, and I was like, oh, okay, like yes, and uh for years I was like, I could look, I'm the opposite of you. I I was I could have told you I was gonna be a singer. That was that was my life. I want to be singing since I was a baby, so you know, so understanding for me, it was like, oh, this is what you want me to do. And so one thing that it did when I understood it, it I got excited about it. I went to tell everybody about, oh, this is what I'm doing. So, how how um excited are you nowadays? One, now that you've gotten that understanding that she's like, you know what, I'm excited about it, and this is what I'm going to do. How exciting is that for you?

SPEAKER_03 21:41

I'm really excited. I'm really excited. I mean, I've been singing and recording for quite some time. However, being again a wife and a mom, and you can have those seasons where you put things to the side, put things on hold. I'm really excited to be able to be in a season where I can balance things and start to record more music of my own, start to share more music that I've written, even with um other artists. Like I'm really excited because that's exactly the season that I'm in now. So I'm really excited to share some of the ideas that I have and show people the other creative side of me outside of just leading worship on Sunday. There's a whole other world that I love

Mentors Across Seasons

SPEAKER_03 22:24

that I haven't been able to share just yet, but I will soon.

SPEAKER_02 22:27

Yes, that man, I'm telling you, because after you say it with what all you do, I'm like, oh, it's a lot of her. Like she like she does a lot, you know, and you know, and I and I often tell people, you know, being excited about what God has called you to do, it brings on more of the determination where you'll be determined. So talk about those days where you know, when you have to have had a hard time and how go through and say, I'm determined to do what God has told me to do.

SPEAKER_03 23:06

Man, you know, I can honestly say, let me just say, let me preface this by saying, God has been so faithful, right? So faithful, so consistent, so loving, and so kind in my life. Yeah, but I can also say God has taken me through some things, okay. And and sometimes people can look at your life and they can say, Oh, you know, she's doing this or she sings like this, and she, you know, they have no clue of the journey and the things that you have gone through to be able to show up the way that you do. Right, right, right. It comes with a price, it comes with a deep sense of God walking with you through some of the darkest seasons. Right. Sometimes when God's presence is close, I I think the mean the I think the meaning of that scripture that says he's close to a broken heart and a contrary, right? A contrary and a broken spirit. I'm starting to understand that a little differently. Right. Instead of instead of looking at it like if you get brokenhearted or if your spirit is crushed, God is there. I tend to believe that some of us with a close presence of God with us, it matches your journey. It's just sometimes going to be hard. Wow. I don't believe that it's situational. I believe that some people who carry a close presence with the Lord, just like David, look at what he went through. Right. And I'm not saying it's a prerequisite or it's a requirement that you just have to have that, but he gives you strength. And I I've I've had those where I had to be determined, like God, you're taking me through this, but I still want you. I'm going through this, but I still want you. And once I understood that he was just refining me to fully show up as the woman of God he called me to be, I had to go through that process, had to go through this healing, had to go through this restoration, this stripping. And it was not fun. It is not fun, right? But I understand that that is the determination. Like I want you, I want you above everything else. And so, because of that, it's been my motivation to see. I asked the Lord this often, God, what did you have in mind when you made me? What was on your mind? What was on your mind when you created me?

unknown 25:44

Wow.

SPEAKER_03 25:45

What was your vision for me? Because I know that I'm only seeing part of it, and I pray that often. And I and it's almost like God show me the the the tallest version of what you had in mind when you created me, and that's what I want to see, that's what I want to go after. And everything that limits me from that, I literally want to crush those things. And so when I started to pray that prayer,

Gratitude For New Rooms And Growth

SPEAKER_03 26:12

I started to see myself differently. And I was nowhere near his idea of me. And when I said, God, I want what you had in mind for me, it's almost like, you know, you have, let's just say you have a ten thousand dollar watch for your children, but they keep going to uh Claire's to get their watch. Right. It's like I I know you can go to Claire's and that's that's good, but if you only knew I had Zales, you know what I mean? And I felt like I had to begin to pray differently, and that was my determination. Like, God, I I I want the purpose that you designed from me. So whatever it's gonna take, I wanna do it.

SPEAKER_02 26:58

You know what? And that is man, that is so so so so um good right there when you when you know when you say you wanna you wanna see how how God sees you. That's that's the main thing right there. A lot of people, a lot of people they feel like they know how God wants them, you know what I'm saying? But we be looking through the wrong different type of lenses, and like you said, you had to change your perception of of how you thought about that. Like God, I want to see, I want to see what you see, you know.

SPEAKER_03 27:31

Yeah, you know, in the Bible where um uh Jesus laid his hands on the man and he put uh spit on the man's eyes and he said, I see men as trees, right? And then he saw men as they should be. So what that says to me is there's levels to sight. There's levels to it. He still was with Jesus, right? And Jesus had Jesus had he allowed Jesus to give him a certain level of sight, right? So he went from blind, right, to seeing men as trees. So that means his sight wasn't completely perfect, and it wasn't that Jesus wasn't able to heal him. He had he had to recognize that it was more to it. Right, he had to be willing to go deeper with Jesus for him to be able to see correctly, so we can see at one level with salvation, but if we go a little deeper with Christ, now we're seeing what we really should be seeing. Does that make sense? And so I think that a lot of times we can see at a level, but we pray, God, I want to see what you see. Right. I don't want to see, I don't want to see myself as a tree. Show me what I really should. I don't want to just be saved, I don't just want to see for seeing sake. I want to see what you see, and when I begin to pray that, and I still pray that I recognize a woman that I I'm in pursuit of, this woman that is so walk with God.

unknown 29:07

Wow.

SPEAKER_03 29:08

And all of the everything just falls away because I that's what I'm pursuing. And so I think that is the that is the journey that we that we begin, that we walk with the Lord with sorry, that is the journey that we

Education, Entrepreneurship, And Ministry

SPEAKER_03 29:21

walk on with the Lord to see things as he sees them.

SPEAKER_02 29:24

Yes, girl, you're about to get me over here crowned. I'm like for real, you know, we have to make sure that we are, you know, like really recognizing that it is levels to this, right? You know what I'm saying? Like you said, he went from being blind to okay, to seeing the men as trees, and then went from there to seeing the you know the men. And so we have to realize that it is steps, you know, and a lot of this, a lot of people think that you can jump from from A to Z and just be okay, like, yeah, I'm there. No, yeah, it's it's not.

SPEAKER_03 30:02

You that's where the glory is. The glory is in the process, not the finished results, it's who we become in the process of getting to where we're going, right?

SPEAKER_02 30:12

Right, exactly. Because we look, let me tell you, I who I think it was Billy Graham's wife on her gravestone to say, you know, finished product project or something like that. I don't quote me on that, but I know at the end, that is where we finish at. I you know, I often say that a destination is not a place, it's a journey, yeah, you know, and most people think that oh, I don't made it. You have not made it, and even if you have gotten to one point, you got to start over on the next level. Yeah, I often that's one of the things that I often tell people you got on one level, now you got to start over on the next. Yeah, that's that's life, that's the journey. That's the journey. You completed your 20s. But most people think that okay, I completed my 20s, and now you're the 30s. You can't do what you did in your 20s at all.

SPEAKER_03 31:06

And it's like, I I want I want the rest of my life to truly be the best of my life.

SPEAKER_02 31:12

Yes, yes. That is that is so that is so good. And I, you know, one thing that that we have to know is that we have to stay determined for what God has called us for and what he has called us to do. That is one reason why I, you know, I talk about this and and make sure that people understand that, you know, we got to make sure that we're doing what we're supposed to do while we're waiting. So are it, you know, now one more question. I just wanted to ask. If you had to leave your 18-year-old self a personal note, what would you tell your 18-year-old self now that you have gone through some of the things that you have gone through?

SPEAKER_03 31:56

I would tell her you are so worthy of every idea, everything that's in your heart, you are worthy to go after it. And I would tell her guard your heart. Know who you are and what guard your heart from people who may not always have your best interests.

SPEAKER_02 32:24

Yes, yes, that is so good because um, you know, as as 18-year-old, we go, we meet so many people at that age, and you think that everybody has that best interest and have your best interests or have are gonna have your back. And if you're a listening, you're 18, listen to her, because um, you know, we've been there and done that, right? And um, we're not just saying things just to, you know, just to say it or whatever.

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So I'm I think I think too as a mom, when you talk about being 18, I think as a mother, that is why I try to go as hard as I can with my kids because the voice of

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influence, yes, all the way till you get to 18, it really matters. Like, I really want my children to know who they are, right? Because had I known fully who I was, I would have made better decisions at 18. But when you don't really know, you know the word, yes, you know what here's it, here's the thing, here's the thing. People like, oh, you just should just know what God says about you. I knew what God said about me, but I needed that voice, that human voice, right, to tell me and remind me. Does that make sense what I'm saying? It's so important that you have those people in your life that can help you build your sense of identity along with the Lord so that you can make decisions from there.

SPEAKER_02 34:00

Yes, and and that, like you said, you do need that person, that one person that is going to talk, and and and I can I can see um, you know, being a mom it now, um, and and happy mother's day to all the ones is out there. Yes, happy mother's day, queens, you deserve it, whatever it is. Yes, but you know, as moms, we we want to steer our children in certain ways that we didn't get, right? Because some of the times, you know, and of course, don't get me wrong, my parents were great, but and they were they were off awesome at um, you know, keeping us going and stuff like that. But it's certain things now that the kids have to deal with that we didn't have to deal with. That's right. You know, social media is out there and it's it's wow, like it's like I literally sometimes I have to I'll be like, okay, wait a minute, my children is talking in TikTok language. Right. Yes, let me see what they're talking about because I have no clue what they're talking about, and so we have to make sure that we are steering them and continuing to know how to do it in these days and time, because sometimes it's different when the way we were raised versus now. So we have to make sure that we are doing that. So I'm excited that you are here. I'm so excited to be so excited now. I if you have anything that you want to leave with the audience, you want to let some some people know how they can get in contact with you, um, and then you can pray us out and we'll be out of here.

SPEAKER_03 35:43

Okay. Well, you can contact me and get in touch with me. I'm on all over social media. Instagram is my platform of choice. Um, you can follow me at Melinda Watts Global. I'm on Facebook, I'm on TikTok as Melinda Watts Global, and you can follow me there and connect with me there. Um, I have a space for worship. We just called for the worship leader, um, where I encourage and just just a community where people can find support, encouragement, and resources as a worship leader or a team member. Um yeah, and so I'll be moving and shaking in my mom or journeys, but also sharing in my coaching content for anybody who wants to take their ministry or their callings to more impact

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in the next level.

SPEAKER_02 36:29

Awesome, awesome, and we'll make sure y'all get that information too. Um that so, but yeah, if you want to pray us out, then I'll come back and I'll let us go.

SPEAKER_03 36:41

Okay. All right, Father, we thank you in Jesus' name. Father, we thank you for everyone who has tuned in to the podcast today. Father, we pray in Jesus' name that they would hear something said today that would encourage them and push them to seek you even more, to follow after you even more, to fall in love with you even more. Father, let everything that has been said um bring you glory. Father, we pray over everyone that's hearing this right now, even on the replay, that you would speak to them specifically and that they would be able to glean knowledge and understanding and encouragement from what we've shared today. We thank you just for the opportunity. We thank you for for the words of wisdom. We thank you, God, just for being able to share your message in your heart with people from all over. We pray and we ask that you would you would bless our sister, Lord, that you would just bless Q and all her endeavors, Lord God, everything that she sets her hands to do. I ask that you would expound it, Lord God, that you would just bless it and it just would blow her mind on every level. We give you glory, we give you honor in Jesus' name. Amen.

SPEAKER_02 37:47

Amen, amen. Thank you, thank you, thank you. So welcome, you're so welcome. Look, look, I want to just say thank you to Dr. Melinda Wise for being here. Um, look, I got tears. That that prayer right there, just you know, I love to hear other people pray um as well. And so I thank you again. And um, you know, I want to thank everybody that's tuned in. Um, please, um, if you want to be a minister, a blessing in this ministry, you can always go to www.buymeacoffee.com and um and go ahead on and and and help. I tell you it is good ground over here because it goes every trust me, it goes back into the podcast. I tell you that for real. And so, and so, and you can also also go and get my book, Why Not Me? It's a blueprint from brokenness to breakthrough. And um, and and then I guarantee you it is going to help you get to that first breakthrough. Okay, so, anyways, I thank you again. Thank you, Dr. Melinda, um, for being here. And please, please, please, just stay cute for Christ. All right, bye, y'all. Amen.