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🗓 Summary
Some days you trust God, and some days it still feels like you’re holding everything together. In this episode, I share why your calling feels heavier than it should and how letting Father be your refuge shifts the weight. You don’t have to carry your life or business alone. You are beloved, and you are safe.

✨ Takeaways
• Refuge isn’t a place you escape to—it’s where you live from
• Your calling gets lighter when Father carries the weight
• Intimacy with Father creates safety, not passivity
• You don’t have to brace for what’s coming next
• Resting in Father helps you enjoy the journey again

💬 Quotes
• “You don’t have to carry your calling alone.”
• “Refuge is relational, not situational.”
• “The trail doesn’t disappear, but the weight shifts.”
• “Father doesn’t send you to a refuge. He is your refuge.”

🛠️ Courageous Action
Throughout the week, notice when you start bracing or trying to manage everything yourself. In those moments, pause and remind yourself: Father is my refuge. Practice resting in His presence both in hard moments and in good ones.

⏱️ Chapters
00:00 – When Responsibility Feels Heavy
02:14 – Go Deeper Series Recap
06:36 – The Backpacking Story
10:39 – Father as Refuge (Psalm 91)
14:58 – Adoption and Belonging
17:13 – The Science of Safety
20:16 – Carrying Your Calling Differently
24:04 – Psalm 62 and Trust
28:10 – Next Episode Teaser

🎉 Who Am I
Hey friend, I’m Heather—your Courageous Coach.
I help Christian women entrepreneurs go from stuck, not-enough, and fearful to focused, confident, and courageous action so they can grow themselves and their businesses. I also help coaches, speakers, and authors turn ideas into systems and books that create impact and income.

💡 Let’s Stay Connected
📖 Hello Courageous Book: hellocourageous.com
🛒 *Get on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4oSc855
🆓 Beat Procrastination Cheat Sheet • hellocourageous.com/beatit
🆓 Overcome Fear by Friday Challenge • hellocourageous.com/fear
🌐 Website: heatherbunch.com
📧 Email: hello@heatherbunch.com
📸 Instagram: @heatherlbunch

Affiliate link: if you purchase using this link, I’ll make a small commission.

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🗓 Summary

If your purpose has started to feel heavy instead of joyful, this episode is your permission to pause. Before God asks anything of you, He calls you beloved. In this first episode of the Go Deeper series, I invite you to stop striving and go deeper into intimacy with Father—the place where courage, clarity, and calling are formed. We don’t work for love. We live from it.

✨ Who This Is For

This episode is for faith-driven women entrepreneurs who:
• Feel pressure to “get it right” with their calling
• Notice their relationship with God slipping into performance
• Want to live and work from intimacy instead of striving
• Are tired of purpose feeling like pressure instead of joy

🔎 What You’ll Learn

• Why intimacy with God must come before purpose and productivity
• How performance-based faith quietly drains joy and courage
• What it really means to live from your identity as beloved
• How resting in belonging changes obedience, courage, and clarity
• Why receiving love is the foundation for faithful action

💬 Sound Bites

• “Your life with God is a love story before it’s ever a calling.”
• “Beloved is not something you earn. It’s your starting line.”
• “You’re not working to be loved. You’re learning to live as loved.”
• “Intimacy fuels obedience, not the other way around.”

🛠️ Courageous Action

This week, practice receiving instead of performing.

Choose one simple way to receive God’s love without an agenda:
• Sit quietly and let Father speak first
• Read scripture as a love letter instead of a checklist
• Whisper “Abba” and rest there
• Gently reject any condemning voice and return to belonging

There is no right way to be loved. Just receive.

⏱️ Chapters

00:00 – Have You Already Started the Year Feeling Behind?
02:00 – Introducing the Go Deeper Series
05:56 – Why Intimacy Comes Before Purpose
08:06 – Invitation #1: Start From Beloved, Not Busy
12:17 – Invitation #2: Rest in Belonging
18:31 – Invitation #3: Work From Beloved
22:54 – Courageous Action: Practice Receiving
27:16 – What’s Next: Father as Our Refuge

🎉 Who Am I

Hey friend, I’m Heather—your Courageous Coach.
I help Christian women entrepreneurs go from feeling stuck, not-enough, and fearful to focused, confident, and courageous action so they can grow themselves and their businesses. I also help coaches, speakers, and authors turn ideas into systems and books that create impact and income.

💡 Let’s Stay Connected

📖 Hello Courageous Book: hellocourageous.com
🛒 Get on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4oSc855
🆓 Beat Procrastination Cheat Sheet: hellocourageous.com/beatit
🆓 Overcome Fear by Friday Challenge: hellocourageous.com/fearchallenge
🌐 Website: heatherbunch.com
📧 Email: hello@heatherbunch.com
📸 Instagram: @heatherlbunch

*Affiliate link: if you purchase using this link, I’ll make a small commission.

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🗓 Summary

If you’ve been faithful but discouraged by how long things are taking, this episode is for you. I’m talking about why the real battle isn’t starting—it’s staying. When growth feels slow and silence feels loud, this is your reminder that roots grow before fruit.

✨ Who This Is For

Faith-driven women entrepreneurs who:

• Feel tempted to quit because results are taking longer than expected
• Wonder if their obedience is actually working
• Are tired of second-guessing themselves during slow seasons

🔎 What You’ll Learn

• Why short-game thinking quietly sabotages faithfulness
• How God grows roots before fruit
• How to shift your mindset, words, and actions to stay in the game
• Why slow seasons are often preparation, not punishment
• What faithful consistency actually looks like with God

💬 Sound Bites

• “God grows fruit in people, but only in those who stay long enough to see it.”
• “The real temptation isn’t failing—it’s quitting too soon.”
• “Roots grow before shoots, and silence doesn’t mean nothing is happening.”
• “Faithfulness isn’t flashy—it’s steady.”

🛠️ Courageous Action

Name the area where you’re tempted to quit too early.
Ask Father what “watering the roots” looks like right now.
Commit to staying for the next seven days—then repeat.

⏱️ Chapters

00:00 Why staying feels harder than starting
04:20 Short-game thinking sneaks in
06:15 The parable of the talents
09:00 Bamboo, roots, and unseen growth
15:00 Shift from quitting to staying
17:00 Courageous Practice #1: Think
19:45 Courageous Practice #2: Speak
22:00 Courageous Practice #3: Act
28:15 Courageous Action & invitation
32:00 Entering the new year rooted

🎉 Who Am I

Hey friend, I’m Heather—your Courageous Coach. I help Christian women entrepreneurs go from stuck, not-enough, and fearful to focused, confident, and courageous action so they can grow themselves and their businesses. I also help coaches, speakers, and authors turn ideas into systems and books that create impact and income.

💡 Let’s Stay Connected

📖 Hello Courageous Book: hellocourageous.com
🛒 *Get on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4oSc855
🆓 Beat Procrastination Cheat Sheet • hellocourageous.com/beatit
🆓 Overcome Fear by Friday Challenge • hellocourageous.com/fearchallenge
🌐 Website: heatherbunch.com
📧 Email: hello@heatherbunch.com
📸 Instagram: @heatherlbunch

*Affiliate link