Radiant Mothers Prelude

Happy Mother’s Day to all of the incredible mothers out there. 💐

This episode serves as a prelude to the Radiant Mothers episode airing on 5/11/26. It is a special dedication to my own mother — thank you for your love, strength, sacrifices, and unwavering support throughout my life.

To every mother, grandmother, bonus mom, and mother figure: today we celebrate you and the countless ways you pour into the lives of others. Your impact is immeasurable, and your love leaves a lasting legacy. ❤️

Transcript

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Hey y'all. Welcome to the Radiance Effect Podcast, where the goal is to help you shine from the inside out. I'm your host, Brittany Janelle. Let's get into it. Okay, you guys. So I actually have an episode coming out tomorrow called Radiant Mothers. And I was like, how could I have an episode titled Radiant Mothers without actually doing a prelude and talking about my own mom? So that's what today's episode is about is a dedication to my mom. I love you, baby girl. And it's so funny, before I even get into it, I remember growing up, I would hear the phrase from a lot of parents. Um, they would just say, I'm not one of your little friends. And it's so interesting because as I've grown, my mom has become just that. Like, she is my girl, y'all. I'm talking to her all the time, whether it's like texting, FaceTime, pause, whatever it may be. She's truly grown to be one of my closest friends, and I just love her so much. So I'm excited to have the opportunity to have y'all get to know my mom a little bit more just by some of the things I want to share. Um, so when I think about me, I think about grounding and what's helped me to become the person that I am. So there's a few different lessons that I wanted to share with y'all as far as my biggest takeaways and learning moments, my own mom. The first one, one of the most powerful things my mom always would tell me is to keep God first in all that you do. And that meant in your prayer life, that meant with your faith, that meant with your relationships. So always keep God first. And transparently, I didn't really know what that meant until life was life a little bit, and I went through some things, right? But that was the moment that I learned how to have faith. I'll never forget, there was a time, again, when life was life in, and my mom, she just ran up to me, gave me a big hug, and started praying over me. And interesting enough, like just having my mom's warmth, my mom's comfort, and her covering me in prayer, like I literally began feeling better. And in that moment, I was like, you know what? This is what she's doing. I'm gonna try to start doing this too. I'm gonna try to start changing things up. I'm gonna try to start praying and talking to God more. And that's just been such a huge shift in my life when it comes to my overall connection and relationship with God. So that's the first lesson that I've learned that I'm just so grateful for. Number two, this is something that I would say is more of my personality now. I would say that I'm someone who's very bubbly, very outgoing. I've been told very much like light. Um, it's interesting because when my mom would always tell me to be mindful of how I treat people, she would also say be a light to other people. And the reason being is because you never know what somebody else is going through. And she will always tell me that. And you might be the only light that somebody has the opportunity to come across. You don't know what somebody's experiencing, you don't know what may have happened, right? So it's so important, instead of being short with people, instead of being rude to people, be warmth, be light, be kind, be gentle, be patient, all those different things. And I'm just so grateful to have learned that lesson because transparently, I'll be honest, there'll be times where people be working my nerves, and I will always remember just be kind, just be kind, right? And later on I would grow to understand, oh, they're going through this, oh, they just experienced this. Oh, they just told me like how me having a conversation with them and taking the time to hear them out, like how this actually helped to encourage them throughout their situation. So at the end of the day, everybody's going through something, but that doesn't mean that we should allow what we're going through to impact other people negatively. So always just try to find a way to be that light. And the thing that I love about my mom is my mom is the type of person that will literally give the shirt off of her back. She's so compassionate, she's so kind, she's so giving, she's so loving, and I'm so happy that this is something that she's instilled in her children. Number three, this is a phrase that has gotten me through some of the hardest times, y'all. Um, and y'all may not know this, but public speaking can actually be really scary for me sometimes. I'm actually getting a little bit better with this. But I'll tell y'all, like I was a girl, my heart would be racing, all I'm sweaty, shaking before each speaking engagement that I would have, right? And I remember that I would call my mom, and one of the things that my mom would say is, You can do it, baby girl. Just a few words. Those few words, though, are what I've heard on so many different occasions in my life. So now, anytime I have a scary moment, whether that's speaking engagements, whether that's um presenting, whether that's um something on the job, whatever it may be, I will always hear the brief phrase, you can do it, baby girl, in my ear. And I'm like, you know what? We're gonna button it up and we're gonna keep it moving because you're right, mom, you're right. I can do it, you know. And even with this, just to be transparent. I think I've I've communicated this, right? Like even with the podcast and trying to have balance in my own personal life, sometimes it's hard to juggle things, but I would always hear her say, you can do it, baby girl. And I hope that's a lesson or encouragement that I can put out there to y'all that whatever y'all got going on, whatever you're maneuvering through right now, I just want you to know that you can do it. And I would say the last lesson that my mom taught me that has really remained with me is that throughout your setbacks in life, God is preparing you for something. And I didn't really understand that in the moment when you know things would seem really difficult, when the storms be so heavy, and again, use this phrase when life be life in. But as I've grown as I've evolved, I've realized that it's always preparing you for something better, something bigger than what you may even realize, something um greater than you may even be able to understand. So, again, just for anyone who may be working through something or maneuvering through different things, and you're trying to understand the why behind why that's happened, just understand that throughout this season is teaching you, it's preparing you, it's pruning you to become the best version of yourself. And those are the four lessons that my mom has shared with me that I'm just so so grateful for, and I'm happy in this brief little prelude to have the opportunity to share this with you guys, but to really just take a moment and just to describe my mom a little bit deeper and to really just dedicate this to you, mom, because I know you're listening, baby girl. Um, I would say, mom, you're beautiful, you're kind-hearted, you're light, you're compassionate, you're God fearing, you're giving, you're supportive, you're courageous, you're resilient, you're strong, you're hard working, you're selfless. Mom, you are a radiant girl. And thank you so much for who you are and who you've been to so many. Happy Mother's Day. I love you.