056 | Part 1 - Step Boldly Into Your Calling for 2025 | Christian Entrepreneur

Are you struggling with self-doubt and fear as you pursue your God-given calling in business?

Do you desire to grow your kingdom-led business with confidence, faith, and purpose?

This episode delves into:

• How to let go of limiting beliefs and excuses holding you back.
• Celebrating your wins and identifying growth opportunities for 2025.
• Cultivating a biblical mindset rooted in faith, gratitude, and bold action.

Join us as we reflect on God’s constant work in our lives, commit to faith-filled decisions, and set the tone for a bold and confident 2025.

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction
• 1:15 Opening Prayer
• 2:45 God’s Plan for You
• 5:15 Letting Go of Limiting Beliefs
• 8:40 Setting the Tone for 2025
• 11:10 Action Steps for Reflection and Growth
• 14:30 Closing and Encouragement

Transcript

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(Transcribed by TurboScribe.ai. Go Unlimited to remove this message.) Hey, hey, hey! Welcome to the Faithfully Confident Podcast with Christian Confidence Coach Courtney Berry. That's me! This podcast was created for those of you who God called to become entrepreneurs and you desire the confidence to pursue a business. If you're starting on your journey and want to learn all things faith, confidence, marketing, and sales, you are in the right place. If you enjoy today's episode, share this episode on your social and tag me at SheBloomsFaithfully on Instagram. I'll catch you later and enjoy today's episode. Oh, and don't forget to subscribe! Hey, hey, hey, you guys! Welcome back to the Faithfully Confident Podcast. I'm your host, Christian Confidence Coach Courtney Berry, and whether you're joining us for the very first time or you've been here for a while, I am so glad that you're tuning in today. This is the podcast where faith meets entrepreneurship, and we're all about helping you to cultivate confidence, grow your business, and align your journey with God's purpose for your life. For today, we are kicking off the very first episode of our New Year New Mindset series in 2025. Over the next few weeks, we're going to dive deep into the steps you need to take to stop playing small and step fully into that bold, confident entrepreneur that he has called you to be. So for today's episode, we're going to reflect on 2024 and unpack why this step is so crucial for your growth. We're going to celebrate wins, identify opportunities where you can grow, and just set the tone for an incredible 2025. Are you ready, you guys? Let's pray. Heavenly Father, we come before you with hearts full of gratitude for all that you've done in our lives over this past year. Lord, thank you for the victories, both big and small, that remind us of your faithfulness. Thank you for the lessons that you've taught us through the challenges, and oh boy, there were some tough ones, and for the ways you've stretched us to grow. Lord, as we reflect on 2024, please help us to see through your eyes. Reveal to us the areas where we've been holding back. Lord, where fear or doubt has kept us from stepping fully into the plans that you've prepared for us. Lord, help us to recognize the patterns of playing small, and give us the courage to break free from them. And Lord, just put it right before us because sometimes we don't want to see it and we just need it right in front of us. Your word tells us in Isaiah 43, 18 to 19, forget the former things, do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing. Lord, we want to embrace that beautiful new thing that you're doing in our lives and businesses. We trust that you are guiding us into a future filled with purpose, filled with confidence, and filled with bold, beautiful, unwavering faith. Lord, we ask for your wisdom as we set the tone for 2025. Align our goals and desires with your will. Replace our self-doubt with confidence rooted in you. Lord, open our hearts to your guidance and remind us that we are equipped, we are called and chosen for the work that you've placed before us. Finally, Lord, we thank you for the gift of reflection. Help us to carry the lessons of the past into the new year with grace, and may our hearts always be filled with gratitude for the journey that we are on. We surrender this year to you, trusting that you will do immeasurably more than all we can ask or begin to imagine. In Jesus' name we pray, amen. All right, you guys, we made it. It is 2025. 2024 was a wild year for all of us, and we are back. And today we are starting off the New Year New Mindset series that I am so excited for because the power of reflection is so important. It helps you grow. It helps you just acknowledge the things that maybe things that we needed to learn. Maybe we needed to celebrate our progress and not realize the progress that we made. Maybe there's patterns that were holding us back. Maybe there's like there's so many things that as you go through your year it's so important and I highly encourage you if you're not doing it already to just take that moment that time to assess your day, assess your week, assess your month, and just always be looking back because there's so many things that we go about our day and because our lives are so busy we forget just how much growth and how much progress we've made until someone else acknowledges it and shares it with us. So to be able to take that time to realize how important it is and to do it yourself you are able to just it's it's amazing. It's really it's truly amazing like I cannot tell you in words how amazing it is. You have to experience it yourself. So if you're not doing it already, I highly recommend this is the year that you begin. Even just take little baby steps and just do it once a week just to kind of analyze how your week went or do it once a day and just one amazing thing that happened today, one thing that you were able to grow from today, like one thing that you maybe made a shift and you're like wow I wouldn't normally do that holy cow I can't believe I just did that. Like just take that time. Anyways all right so for this episode I would like to just again begin with the power of reflection and why it's so important because without reflecting on where we've been we really we can't understand where we're going. We don't know where we're going until we know where we've been. Like if you think about it how often are we rushing from one goal to the next without stopping to look back? I don't know about you but I am a very go-go-go person like what's next what's next what's next and once I reach that goal I actually have to force myself to step back. I force myself to step back you guys because I'm just so go-go-go like what's next what's the new big best thing like what's the new big goal like oh my gosh I just have my first client oh I can't wait until I get the next client no slow down enjoy that beautiful moment and reflect and realize that you just hit a big milestone in your business. Take that time to celebrate take that moment to just slow down and when we take that away from ourselves and we rush to the next goal we miss the opportunities to see lessons we miss the opportunities to celebrate our progress we miss the opportunities to maybe identify patterns that might even be holding us back that might have held us back from reaching that goal. So take that moment and just look at 2024. My favorite way to do this is just to go look back on my Facebook posts and take an hour to do it because we post a lot throughout the year we post a lot so go back and just take that time to reflect on what went well what what didn't take that mental inventory maybe you hit some big milestones in your business or perhaps you struggled with being consistent maybe you only posted a few times make note of that but both of those are very valuable things to analyze and be aware of and here's the key you don't want to just focus on what didn't go as planned because you want to celebrate your wins no matter how small they seem did you maybe try something new did you step out of your comfort zone did you keep showing up even on the hard days those wins all matter they all matter celebrate them take that time to step back and celebrate them and if you don't know how to celebrate that was me as well I'll be honest I actually had to make a list of ways to celebrate and because a lot of things to me it didn't feel like I was celebrating unless it was like this big monumentous event like going out and having like the big balloons and like the sparklers and having cake and like a big like celebrate right that's what it felt like to me but celebration is you know maybe when I reach that goal I'm gonna go get my nails done maybe when I reach that goal I'm gonna buy a new book when I reach that goal I'm gonna buy myself a new laptop when I reach that goal I'm gonna take a day to just reflect and just go for a hike or go for it like figure out what those celebration things are you because again celebrating is so important it's so important to give yourself the recognition that you deserve and sometimes we forget to do that so another thing that I wanted to talk about on on this series today is gratitude gratitude is one of the most powerful tools other than reflection we have to shift our mindset and align our hearts with God's guidance first Thessalonians 5 18 I believe it is says give thanks in all circumstances for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus did you notice that in the verse it says all circumstances it doesn't say the big circumstances or the small circumstance it says all circumstances not just the good ones not not just the bad ones but the good and the bad the challenges the setbacks the moments when things didn't go according to our plan because they don't always go according to our plan but you are always opening the door for growth because you're being grateful because gratitude changes how we see our circumstances instead of focusing on what we lack instead we begin to see how God is working in every area of our lives so what are you thankful for from 2024 maybe it's the people that you met maybe it's the lessons that you learned or the way that God provided for you when you least expected take that moment to think about what you are grateful for in 2024. So the next thing that I wanted to talk to you guys today about is just recognizing that you're probably playing small you're more than likely playing small if you're listening to this podcast you're listening to it for a reason it's because you want to learn you want to grow you want to expand you want to be where God wants you to be and a lot of the things that I'm teaching you and educating you on this podcast or through my programs or my one-on-one is stop playing small step into that bold and confident person that you are and have that unwavering faith and unwavering confidence and a lot of you are all playing small I'm gonna be real with you you're probably playing small if you're listening to this episode and you want to learn how to get through 2025 and there's gonna be a lot of truth bombs for me this year because again my word this year for my theme is fearless so none of this best friend vibes that we may or may not have going I am gonna give you real talk so this podcast is gonna get real it's gonna get really guys but anyways now let's be honest what patterns held you back in 2024 what areas of your life and business did you play small or are you still playing small in and playing small can look like procrastination it can look like avoiding risk it can look like settling for less than God's best it might even show up as self-doubt fear of failure is a big one comparisonitis just that constant need to compare yourself to others and we're all on our own journey we're all on our own journey we all deal with certain things but the important part is that you notice where it is and where it's sneaking in and where you're playing small and when you let that fear take the driver's seat that fear of rejection fear of failure fear of success is a big one yes fear of success but here's the thing God did not call us to live in fear for the spirit God gave us does not make us timid but gives us power love and self-discipline second timothy one seven take that moment to think about this for yourself where in 2024 did you hold back and be brutally honest with yourself where did you hold yourself back what lies were you telling to yourself one of my big lies if i'm being honest on this podcast is being a mom i cannot be a successful entrepreneur because i just don't have the time i don't have the energy but the truth is that was all just an excuse that was a lie i was telling myself here i am in 2025 recording this podcast full of energy and excitement for the year and not just because it's the beginning of a new year the beginning of a new new version of me it's i am showing up i am excited i am lit up for what 2025 has for all of us and i am excited and lit up that i get to be that that mentor for you to lead you and guide you through 2025 i didn't have that energy last year in the year before that recording this podcast so oh boy we are in for it this year i am excited anyways but take that moment to think about this for yourself where did you hold back in 2024 what risks did you avoid where were you holding yourself recognize these patterns is the first step to breaking free from them is giving them the acknowledgement and the enemy does not want you to be aware of them all right so let's just as we step step as we said as we step into 2025 it is time it is time you guys you need to leave these old habits behind and embrace god's plan for your life all of these old habits all these old lies playing small being being afraid having that self-doubt avoiding taking risks being like a complete procrastinator just all of the things put them behind you because 2025 is a new year this is our year isaiah 43 18 to 19 says forget the former things do not dwell on the past see i am doing a new thing now it springs up do you not perceive it god is always working he's always doing something new in our life whether we see it or not whether we see it now or we see it later he's always working in our life but to step into what he has for us that desire that he placed upon our heart that desire that maybe we feel too small to receive he has a plan for us and we need to let go of everything that is holding us back everything that you are holding on to that says i can't do this i don't know if it's for me just give it to someone else maybe it's you know not the right time right now let go of everything that is holding you back this year let's set the tone by committing to bold action committing to faith-filled decisions praying before we make those faith-filled decisions and a mindset that is rooted in gratitude and confidence so to end this episode today i have a few things of homework for you so i'm going to try every single episode to give you some action steps so that you can actually use these episodes and you can take action after you listen to them so here's your action steps for this week i want you to write down three wins from 2024 a minimum of three wins the more the better things you're proud of no matter how big or small and then i want you to write down three growth opportunities these are areas where you know that you can improve in 2025 i want you to pray over this list and i want you to ask god to guide you as you continue to move forward i want you to trust that he has equipped you with everything that you need for this season so that's it for today's episode and i hope that this time of reflection has inspired you to embrace all that 2025 has to offer and i want you to remember that you're not alone in this god is walking with you every single step of the way and if you found this episode helpful i would love it so much if you'd share it with a friend or even just leave a review on itunes and don't forget tune in next week for part two of our new year new mindset series where we'll be diving into making the mindset shifts that you need to stop playing small so until next time stay confident stay faithful and keep showing up for the amazing calling that god has placed upon your life this is signing off see you next time on the faithfully confident podcast