Coffee Talk: 10 Mins or Less. Real Talk. Real Healing.
A 10-minute or less podcast for women finding their way again.
Coffee Talk is a short, honest podcast created for women navigating the complexities of life while trying to rediscover themselves along the way.
Hosted by Candace, each episode offers real conversations about identity, healing, faith, relationships, and personal growth. Life moves fast, and many women are balancing careers, families, responsibilities, and the quiet questions of who they are becoming.
That’s why every episode is intentionally 10 minutes or less.
Whether you’re driving to work, sitting in the school pickup line, folding laundry, or enjoying a quiet moment with your morning coffee, Coffee Talk offers a space to pause, reflect, and breathe.
In just ten minutes, you’ll find:
• honest reflections about real life
• encouragement for women feeling overwhelmed or lost
• conversations about healing and rediscovering purpose
• gentle reminders that growth and peace are still possible
Because sometimes ten minutes is all a woman has — but it may be exactly what she needs.
Coffee Talk: 10 Mins or Less. Real Talk. Real Healing.
Bag Lady: What Are You Carrying?
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Some of us are tired… not because life is hard, but because we’re carrying things we were never meant to carry.
In this episode of Coffee Talk, Candace dives into the emotional and spiritual weight women carry—past hurts, broken relationships, anxiety, and even the burdens of others. Using the powerful “Bag Lady” metaphor, she challenges you to take a hard look at what you’ve been holding onto and asks a simple but life-changing question:
Is this my bag… or did I pick it up along the way?
This episode will help you:
- Recognize emotional baggage you’ve normalized
- Stop carrying what belongs to others
- Begin releasing past hurt that’s affecting present relationships
- Surrender what you were never meant to hold?
If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed, drained, or stuck—this conversation is your reminder:
You don’t have to carry it anymore.
Scripture reference: Matthew 11:28–30
Bag lady, you're gonna hurt your back. Dragging all them bags like that. But let me ask you something. How many of those bags you're carrying don't even belong to you? Hi, and welcome back to Coffee Talk. This is your host, Candace. And today we're talking about something a lot of us don't even realize we're doing. We are carrying too much. I want you to picture this. You ever seen a woman walking down the street and she has like bags in both hands, bags on her shoulders, and maybe even pushing a cup, like one of those shopping carts. So covered in bags, you can barely see who she is. Now here's the truth. A lot of us look just like that, spiritually. As women, we carry a lot already. Being a mother, a wife, working, taking care of everybody else. And then here comes another bag. You wake up to a text message. Somebody venting, somebody hurting, somebody needing you. And instead of praying about it, or, you know, you just decide to go ahead and encourage them. But in the midst of you encouraging them, you pick up what they reached out about. Now their burden just became yours. Now you're walking around stressed, overwhelmed, and drained, trying to fix someone else's problems that didn't even start with you. Hear me clearly. It is okay to love people. It is okay to pray for people, and it is okay to be there for people. But what's not okay is to carry what God never assigned to you. Some of us are just so tired, not because life is heavy, but it is simply because we keep picking up things that don't belong to us. You know, not only are you carrying your stuff, but then you choose to go and pick up others' stuff. And truth be told, we weren't even meant to carry our own. The Bible tells us to cast our burdens unto him because he what? He cares for us. It didn't say carry it. It didn't say fix it, it didn't even say figure it out. It said give it to him because there are some things only God can handle. Let's go a little deeper. Some of us aren't just carrying today's problems. We're carrying yesterday's pain. Old relationships, old heartbreak, old betrayal, old rejection. And then we walk into new relationships, still holding on to that same crap, holding on to those same facts. And we wonder why things don't work out. It's not always the people. Like sometimes it's the weight we never put down. It's the stuff that we brought into those new relationships. So, how do we fix that? How do we get better? Like, how do we get from that place? Here's what I want you all to do. Talk about journaling a lot. And if journaling is something that you do not do, I highly and strongly suggest you start somewhere. Journaling is literally your words or your thoughts between you and a piece of paper. I like to say between me and God. Nobody else has to read it, so it doesn't have to be perfect. It is literally your heart and your thoughts just poured out in a way that maybe you can't express when you're speaking. When you're journaling, ask yourself, what are you carrying that was never meant to carry? Be honest. Is it hurt? Is it anger? Is it fear? Is it somebody else's problem? Write it down and then give it to God. And this term, don't pick it back up. Now, I'm not gonna lie to you. I have given things to God like before and went right back and picked them up. And it was only because I felt like he wasn't moving fast enough on my behalf. But every time I take it back, I make it worse. Every time, literally, every time. So I'll leave you guys with this come to me, all who are weary and heavy and burdened, and I will give you rest. He will not give you stress, confusion, or heaviness, but rest. So today, be mindful, be intentional, and stop picking up bags that you were never meant to carry. I thank you all so much for spending these 10 minutes or less with me today. If this conversation encouraged you, share coffee talk with another woman who might need to hear it. Until next time, keep walking in faith, keep growing, and remember you're not alone on this journey. You all be blessed.
