Seven Years Later: What God Built With a Yes

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This week, The Confident Woman Podcast turns seven, and I’ve been sitting with what that actually means.

Seven years, three hundred and seventy-five episodes, a top 2% global ranking, and more conversations than I could have ever imagined when this was still just an idea, a prayer, and something I couldn’t stop turning over in my mind. I can say those numbers out loud now, and while I’m grateful for every one of them, what hits me most isn’t the number itself. It’s everything God has carried through those numbers.

Every episode represents a week I chose to show up. Every conversation represents a story someone trusted me with. Every season of this podcast holds a version of me that was still learning, still healing, still asking questions, still becoming, and still trying to follow what God placed in front of me, even when I didn’t know where it was all going.

When I look back, I keep coming back to the same questions I shared in this week’s episode. Did I do what I was supposed to do with this? Did I serve my gifts the way God intended? Did I show up to the calling the way I was called to?

I don’t think those are questions we answer once and then put away. I think God keeps answering them through the fruit, through the conversations that happened at exactly the right time, through the women who felt seen in the middle of their own stories, and through the way He brings things full circle when we finally have enough distance to look back and see what He was doing.

This podcast started because I wanted to create a safe space for women to be seen, heard, known, and validated. I wanted women to have a place where they could stop performing, stop proving, stop perfecting, and stop carrying everything alone. That was the heart from the beginning, and if I’m honest, I needed that space too. I needed the conversation. I needed the honesty. I needed a place where the real parts of life didn’t have to be cleaned up before they were allowed to be spoken.

Over these years, I’ve learned that confidence isn’t something you can just teach like a lesson and hand over at the end. It has to be lived and practiced through actual experience. It gets built by showing up, putting in the reps, choosing the next right step, and letting God meet you in the middle of what you were willing to start before you had the whole thing figured out.

That’s what this yes has taught me.

God didn’t give me every detail before I started. He gave me enough to move, and then He kept meeting me there. There were places where things fell apart, and at the time, I didn’t always know what to do with that. I’ve lived enough now to know that not everything falling apart means failure. Sometimes it means God is making room for what was actually meant to be there.

That doesn’t make it easy, but it does help me look back and say, only God could have brought this together the way He did.

So yes, I’m celebrating this.

I’m proud of these seven years. I’m grateful for what God has built. I’m thankful for every woman who has listened, shared an episode, sent a message, left a review, prayed for me, trusted me with her story, or found her way into this space when she needed a reminder that she wasn’t the only one carrying what she was carrying.

And as I step into this next chapter of The Confident Woman, I don’t want to keep assuming I know what you need.

If this community has always been about honest conversations, then this is me having one with you now. I want to know where you are. Not the polished answer or the answer you think you should give, but the real one.

What I’m carrying forward

1. A yes doesn’t have to come with the whole plan.

One of the most meaningful parts of this whole story is looking back and seeing how one step led to the next, even when I couldn’t see the path at the time. If God keeps placing something on your heart, you may not need to understand the whole thing before you write it down, pray over it, and take the first honest step.

2. What falls apart isn’t always failure.

I know how easy it is to read a closed door, a changed plan, or a person walking away as a sign that you heard God wrong. I’ve had moments that felt confusing at the time, only to look back later and realize God was protecting, redirecting, or making room for what was actually meant to be there.

3. Confidence comes through the lived experience.

Confidence hasn’t come from waiting until I felt ready. It’s come from living the thing, practicing it, showing up, learning as I go, and letting God use the imperfect pieces instead of waiting until I had something perfect to offer.

Scripture for the Soul

“Faith without works is dead.” — James 2:26

This verse has been sitting with me differently lately. Not as a pressure reminder to do more, but as a reminder that faith eventually asks something of us. What we believe starts to shape how we move, what we choose, what we build, and what we’re willing to trust God with before the whole picture is clear.

Points to Ponder

• What is something God keeps bringing back to your heart?
• Where might you be waiting to feel ready when the next step is already in front of you?
• What has God already built from a yes you once thought was too small to matter?

This Week on The Confident Woman Podcast

E375: What 7 Years Taught Me About Confidence and Calling

This week’s episode is a reflection on seven years of The Confident Woman Podcast and what this journey has taught me about confidence, calling, obedience, consistency, and what God can build when we give Him our yes before we fully understand where it’s leading.

I share more of the story behind how the podcast began, why the mission still matters, and how God has used this space to shape me while I was showing up to serve other women.

→ Listen to the full episode here​

Before you go, I want to ask you something.

As I step into this next chapter of The Confident Woman, I want to know where you are and what you need most right now.

So tell me, which one feels most true for you in this season?

​I’m rebuilding my confidence.​

​I feel like I’ve lost myself, and I’m trying to come back home to who I am.​

​I’m tired, burned out, grieving, or emotionally overwhelmed.​

​I want to grow in faith, purpose, and becoming the woman God created me to be.​

​I want to build a life and business that gives me more freedom.​

Just click the one that feels closest. I want to know how to support you better going into this next season.

So, tell me.

If you want to share more than a click, hit reply and tell me what this season has been asking of you.

I read your replies, and I’m always grateful when you trust me with a piece of your story.

XO,

P.S. Thank you for being here. Seven years is not small, and neither is your part in it. I’m grateful I get to keep walking this out with you.

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