Season 2: Episode 30 - Soaring through God-Given Structure

SPEAKER_00 0:06

Welcome to the Joy-Inspired Podcast. I'm Nikki Cruz, and I'm thrilled to explore with you what it means to walk in a faith-infused business. This is your space to find powerful tools and insights, to build with resilience and to create impact through your unique purpose, discovering a joy that only God can provide. Together, let's embrace a business journey anchored in faith and empowered by joy. Let's jump in. Well, hello there, beautiful people. How are you? Yes, it's Nikki Cruz here, your favorite Joy Junkie. And if I'm not your favorite Joy Junkie, I'm glad you've got more than one Joy Junkie. Welcome to another episode of the Entrepreneurs Joy Inspired Podcast. It's a space where we explore how to build businesses that reflect our God-given purpose while still staying profitable, purposeful, and full of joy, or while creating impact in the kingdom. Because I don't believe we were called to build business and live out our faith. How can we be living two separate lives? We get to infuse our faith into our business. So as I said, I'm your host, Nikki Cruz, and today I have an amazing guest joining us. She's joining us from Ireland, but you will notice something about her accent. Ivy Majuru is passionate about helping Christian women. And I know she sometimes goes by a different last name, so she can sort that one out for us in case you're thinking I got it wrong. But she's passionate about helping Christian women create structure that allows them to walk confidently in the role that God has called them to. Does that sound familiar, folks? Now you know why we get on so well. We want to step into that calling, but we lose ourselves in the process, not just our joy, but ourselves. And Ivy helps people avoid that or overcome that or recover from that. So wherever you're at, you get to be here hearing from her. So Ivy, welcome. I am so excited to have you here.

SPEAKER_01 2:36

Thanks, Nikki. It's such an honor to be here with you today. I can't wait for us to dive in and have a good chat.

SPEAKER_00 2:44

And I always love to get started by letting my audience get to know just a little bit about you. If you had one absolutely free day with nothing on your calendar, what would your perfect day look like?

SPEAKER_01 3:04

Oh, I love that question because you know, for the longest time I've actually been saying, but Lord, I want to, I want to do this, I want to um, you know, I just want a free day where I can just spend the morning with you. So definitely the first thing I would do would be prayer and just spending time with God. Um, with no clock, no, I have to go to the office, I have to do this. And then afterwards, it would be planning an event, actually. Um, I've recently discovered I really have a passion for that. Um, so I would probably then plan either my own event or a client's event and just you know figure out how to make their day special. Um, and then after that, um I would probably then have my little one coming back from daycare or coming back from somewhere, and we would just spend the rest of the evening, just the three of us, just spending time, maybe Netflix and chill a little bit, or just talking, but yeah.

SPEAKER_00 4:13

Oh, that sounds amazing. You know, so many people don't realize that as entrepreneurs, our passion that burns in us often doesn't feel like work, and sometimes that creativity isn't the work that God's called us to in that moment, but we want to spend our time on it. I found that recently. So I love that you shared that. So tell us a little bit about yourself and what God's whole woman is all about, because that's part of what you talk about, but before that, tell everybody where you're originally from. That is not an Irish accent, which is where you currently live.

SPEAKER_01 4:57

Yes, so I'm originally actually from Zimbabwe. Um, I lived there until I was 18, and then I moved to South Africa for university, and I lived in South Africa for 11 years before I then moved to Ireland.

SPEAKER_00 5:14

Well, there you go, folks. This is a global lady, that's for sure. So tell us a little bit about yourself and what's God God's Whole Woman? What is it all about?

SPEAKER_01 5:29

So, God's whole woman started really from my own journey. Um, you know, I was in a very fragmented place, in a very bad place where I felt I wasn't enough, I felt I I had nothing to give, but at the same time, I knew there had to be more to life. And as you know, as I kind of just surrendered to God and said, Okay, well, take over, do whatever you want, he began placing all the parts together and he made me whole again. Um, and whole again being you know, all areas of my life started to make sense again. And it wasn't that, oh, you know, work was going well, but my marriage was burning. It was literally my marriage was was healing, my work was starting to make sense. I had work-life balance again, my weight was you know under control. I was I had a healthy, um, I was starting to have a healthy um relationship with food. So it was literally, he was piecing together every single part of me. And as women, you know, a lot of us struggle with our emotions, just getting a grip on our emotions. Even that, like, I started to be able to actually manage my own emotions, be in a happy place, be in a place where God truly is first in my life, and from that everything else flows. So God's whole woman is an organization where we want to help women to strive in all parts of their life. Like everything about you is in balance, is aligned with God's word, and at the center of all of that is God. So you're thriving and you know, you're fulfilling what God wants you to do, not of your own strength, but by constantly remembering who your source is. Um, and I love like the Holy Spirit has been reiterating like in the past couple of days, how you know, a lot of us think being whole means I never go through trials and tribulations. But that's not what a whole woman is. A whole woman is someone, because your identity is so um rooted in Christ, even when the trials and the tribulations come, you remain whole. It means, you know, yes, we might have the odd argument with our husband. Yes, I might get sick at some point, yes, I might get overwhelmed, but because God is my source and I keep going back to Him, He's always replenishing me, whatever area I need. I am whole in my soul, body, mind because of God every single day, regardless of what's happening.

SPEAKER_00 8:29

I absolutely love that, and you know, it's so important that we do have that wholeness, but as you say, in all areas, and you work with women who wear so many hats, because as women, none of us can have just one. Maybe that's why we love shopping, so that we have one to match every role, but wife, mother, professional, entrepreneur, friend, daughter, cousin, you know, what do you think is the primary reason women struggle with finding the balance that you advocate?

SPEAKER_01 9:11

One thing that I see that causes us to struggle with our balance is actually the first one being thinking we need to do it all ourselves. We don't have to do it all ourselves. It's part of our structure, part of having a balance means having a network that you can truly rely on. It is having that friend that you can call at 2 a.m. crying and saying, Are you awake? I need someone to pray with me. It is having that business partner that you know you can say, listen, today I'm at 40%. I'm I'm gonna need you to bring the other 60%. We don't have to do it all. We are strong, yes. We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us, yes, he's given us the vision, yes, but he never said do it alone. So the first thing I always see is that women, as women, we try and do everything alone instead of tapping into the great gifts that God has given us, the blessings he's given us around us. So that's number one. Number two is misalignment. A lot of the times, and I saw it in my own journey, when you are misaligned and you're not doing what God has said you must do, it becomes an uphill battle. When you are, you know, you are uh I don't know, you are singing in a choir instead of having a podcast, singing in a choir will become a stress, not because you know God doesn't want you to succeed, but you are misaligned with what He has said you must do. So it's always so important to say, God, am I aligned with you in this season? Am I aligned with you in my life? Because when you can get yourself in alignment, even when the trials come, even when the tribulations come, it will be a lot easier to actually handle them than when you're in the wrong path to begin with.

SPEAKER_00 11:17

Oh, absolutely, and you know, that misalignment, often we go, but yesterday that worked, but seasons change, and so often we get comfortable in a season and we try and stick in it and we don't understand why there is so much misalignment. But you know, one of the beautiful things I found in reading your application was actually the origin of your business because it didn't start as this wow, my big God gave me this business idea. God gave it to you, but He your business started as an act of obedience. Take us back to where that journey started.

SPEAKER_01 12:04

So I that is probably one of my favorite stories, to be honest, because it just every time I think about it, it reminds me how graceful God is, how merciful he is, and how loving he is. Like I said, I was in a really bad space, and as God was putting me back together, um, you know, the last area that he said, right, I we we need to fix this bit, was the area around um submission in my marriage. You know, I'd always grown up thinking, no, no, I know submission, I'm submitting. Um, but I I'll never forget the Holy Spirit was like, no, actually, you don't know what submission is. I need to teach you. Um, and it was, you know, the simple things, Nikki, of you know, the Bible tells us that as wives, we must understand our own husbands. And I had to get back to that, you know, the foundation of my husband loves my cooking, and I had stopped cooking for him. So my the Holy Spirit literally was like, right, you're gonna cook for him for the next until I tell you to stop, you're going to cook for him every single day. Even if you are tired, you are going to cook. And it's it's in those things that I started to relearn what submission was. Um, and as he, you know, as I was doing all of that, I'm getting my weight on, I'm getting my fitness on track, I'm doing, you know, I'm submitting to my husband. I was like to the Holy Spirit, you know, I'm a planner. I love, you know, writing things down. I need something that, you know, has all areas of my life that I can write. And I searched Nikki on Amazon and Etsy. I was I was looking for a planner that I could use as a Christian woman, and I just couldn't find it. And I remember I kept saying to the Holy Spirit, you need to guide me to something that will help me. And I actually at some point I'm toyed with the idea of you know just creating like a home binder. Um, but it just didn't feel right. Um, until one day I was sitting at my desk, and again I was saying to the Holy Spirit, you know, I love how you've made me whole. I love how you've made me, you've restored the homemaker in me, you've restored, you know, my relationship with food. But now I need something that will help me be disciplined. I need something that will help me stay consistent. Um, I need a planner. And he and I'll never forget because it was so clear the Holy Spirit was like, you need to plan, you need to design one. And I thought, oh, hang on. Was that me? But I was like, surely that can't be me, because I would never say that to myself. Um, and so I just remember, you know, when God puts a word in you and it keeps nagging at you. I was up at 2 a.m., Nikki, like trying to design this thing on Canva by myself, until I was like, okay, maybe I need a designer for my first one. But it literally, there was such a fire in my belly to just be like, okay, let me let me see how far I can take this. Um, and I actually took leave from work to do my manuscript for the first planner. Um, but that was the very first instruction that God gave me. And at the time, I didn't realize that it it was, you know, an instruction that needed obedience that was going to open other doors. Um, because after that, I was like, okay, you know, we've done the the planner, we've got the design, we've got the manuscript. You know, how how many planners are we printing here? You know, and again, the Holy Spirit was like, you need to print 350. And only like a lot. This is my first time going to market, no one's ever seen this product. Like, what do you mean? You know, because human logic will say, print 20, print 10, it's your first time. Get it out in the market, get some feedback, and then mass produce. But uh, there was again, there was just that in my spirit that I needed to do a lot of copies as my start. And I just said, Okay, Lord, if it if this is you, then that's what we're gonna do. Um, so ever since then, it became a walk of one instruction after the next, one instruction after the next. Um, I ended up, we ended up doing a launch event in Dublin last year, again, because the Holy Spirit was like, Yeah, you need to show off your planner, you need to have a launch event. I was like, Yeah, yeah, that's fine. We'll have like, you know, 10, 15 women. And he's like, no, no, you need to plan for 50 women. And you know, at the time, again, I was so, you know, when you're like, I've never done this, I'm it's so out of my comfort zone. But if you're saying it, Lord, then I I don't have a choice. There's it's non-negotiable, it's going to happen. But the one thing I've seen again is He gives you the strength and the grace to carry the instruction. And through all of those, because that happened, all of those instructions happened in the space of three months. Um, but the doors that have been opened by that, like just obeying those three instructions. I that event I held has opened one new income stream in my business. An income stream that actually I'd wanted for the longest time, but I just didn't know how to tap into it. But literally by hosting, someone saw, and they were like, Oh, do you do events? Can you do mine? So now I'm an event planner too. Um, you know, the instruction of print 350 copies. I cannot like I can't tell you the number of women that have come back and said, I love your planner, it has blessed me so much, it is what I needed. The number of women that we have sponsored with the planner, it's I look at all of that and I'm like, it can only be God because no human logic would have said those instructions made sense. So, yes, so it started with obedience, it is still the order of the day. I am stubbornly obedient. Um, it doesn't need to make sense, not even to me, as long as it makes sense to God, then we're on board.

SPEAKER_00 18:34

And you know, you said something beautifully there is the Holy Spirit was leading you. So often we're obedient to things that we make up, or obedient to the ways of the world. Okay, Lord, I'm gonna do a business, and this is how it should work. I'll be obedient and do the business. You lead and you listened and you absorbed what the Holy Spirit was leading with. And I love that so much. So, what would you say to the woman who's saying, um I don't know what to obedient be obedient to. I don't hear the Holy Spirit's leading.

SPEAKER_01 19:17

So, two things. The first is, you know, the Bible says, My sheep know my voice. You can only know his voice the more time you spend with him. Because the more you spend time fellowshipping with God, you begin to actually see how he speaks to you. Because how he speaks to you, Nikki, is very might be very different to how he speaks to me. For the longest time, I thought, you know, because for me it's mainly through like my thoughts, and if I've if I feel something in my in my heart that I have to, like I it comes with a strong conviction of this has to happen. For the longest time, I thought, oh no, that's just me. But the more I started to fellowship with the Holy Spirit, the more I started to spend more time in prayer, I actually realized, oh, actually, no, that's not me. That's the Holy Spirit prompting me to do certain things. There would be some days I would be sitting on my you know chair and I'd just think of, oh, call Nikki. And at first I'll be like, no, there's no need. And then it wouldn't go away, and I'd call Nikki, and the person would be like, Oh my gosh, thank you so much. I needed this, you know. So spend more time with God, spend more time fellowshipping, reading his word, ask him to show you how he talks to you. God is so faithful. If you say, God, show me, how do you speak to me? He will answer. Um, and the second thing is always test the spirit. Even the Bible tells us that you know we must test the spirit. And how do we do that? Anything that you were saying, this Holy Spirit is telling you to do, does it align with what is in the word? Does it align with who God is? Because, for example, like if He's going, if He's going to say to you, okay, I want you to go and you know evangelize in the street, that's definitely God, because the devil's never gonna be like go and evangelize. Like, you know, it's in line with his word. If if you feel like, you know, I don't know, it's it's someone something is telling you to jump off a cliff, maybe take a pause and pray about it, you know. Um and like and it has to align with the word. And again, it goes back to the more word you have in you, the easier it becomes to be like, no, that's that's not that's not of God. That's you know, that's my own thought. So definitely, number one, spend time with God, number two, test everything. According to the word of God, the more word you've got, the more you'll know if it's your own thoughts, if it's the devil, or if it's the Holy Spirit.

SPEAKER_00 22:10

And I think, you know, this came up in a discussion I was having earlier today that the enemy is very subtle. Everybody thinks, well, not everybody, a lot of people think, oh, well, you'll know if it's the enemy because it doesn't sound like God. The enemy is an imitator. And he will try and imitate. He will try and pretend to be a friend. He will come across in words that look like they're leading you to the same place. And if you don't know the father heart of God, if you don't know his voice, his word, and you don't test those spirits, you can get yourself into a lot of trouble simply because you followed something that had you been alert and aware, you would have realized wasn't of him. He might be saying, go and evangelize, and you might say, Oh, that's an excellent thing. That must be God. And then comes the go and evangelize in a brewery when you're an ex-alcoholic. That is not of God. But you might think, oh, I'm strong enough. You know, you've got to really be sensitive about it. And this is what I love about your gentle spirit, Ivy, is that you see that you walk people through that. But there's something else that comes up here. You know, I am a super creative. I am not a structure person. And I used to hear the word planner and go, whoopsie, not for me. Well, I have learned, folks, and if you feel like that, please listen to this carefully. God did not want us to burn out, He didn't want us to just have a calling and a passion and ideas. We have to have systems and structures to put them in place. Why? To preserve our joy. Otherwise, we will fall apart. We will burn out. So when often planners are misunderstood. They're not really just about organizing your time. If you want to organize your time, get a whole lot of clocks that can ding at different times of the day. Time cannot be organized, time exists. So tell me, Ivy, would you not agree that planners are about organizing your priorities? And tell us a little bit about that and the whole woman planner.

SPEAKER_01 24:50

So 100%. Like your planner is your safe space. It's the place where you can braindump for lack of a better phrase, right? It should be the place where you say, Do you know what? I've got all these things in my head. I need to put them down somewhere. Because gone are the days where we do it on you know little shrivels of paper everywhere. You want to have somewhere where you can put all your thoughts down. And like you said, Nikki, after that, you then say, okay, these are all the things that are seemingly important to me. But now, what's actually priority number one? Okay, I'm gonna do this, and your planner should help you to actually also see that you are planning things that you can do in a day. Because a lot of the times what happens is we don't have a planner that is structured properly, so you end up trying to do 10 tasks in a day when actually each of those tasks takes five hours each. So, what you should actually be saying is, okay, I'm gonna do one task over two days, and in you know, 20 days I would have finished all my tasks. So, you definitely like we need a planner to make sure that we are, like you're saying, prioritizing properly, but also making sure that we're not overburdening ourselves. With the whole woman planner, we have identified seven pillars of our life where you know it's by all means you could probably have others, but these are the seven that um you know are most prevalent. So it is our spiritual life, our finances, career and professional, self-development, um, health and fitness, um, oh our relationships outside of marriage, and then our home and marriage. So, across those seven areas, what we then do in the planner is we take you through each of them to say what is your goal for the year, and your goal for these seven areas isn't based on, oh yeah, you know, this year I want to lose 10 kgs. It's it's based on what is God saying about me in this season, in this year that I'm about to start, what is God calling me to to do? Okay, God is saying this year I'm gonna start a business. Okay, but if God is saying that, how does how do I bring that in into my spiritual life? What does that look like in my finances? How do I bring that into my care in my home life? Because a lot of us think, oh, I'm just gonna start a business, yeah, yeah, my family will fall in line. That's not what God wants. He says, be whole in your mind, body, and soul. So literally, we start off by saying, what are this, these across these seven pillars, what are your goals? Then we break them down into milestones, then we break them down into habits. Because again, we see this big goal of oh yeah, at the end of the year, I want to have read ten books. Fantastic, but to get to those ten books, it's every day I'm gonna read for five minutes. So it's very important, it it takes you through so that you can see by yourself, okay. So for me to get here, I need to have a habit every day of you know, reading of this. Um, and then every month you then plan to say, okay, from the goals that I have, this is what I want to achieve this month. This month I'm going to maybe read half a book because also I'm starting my business, so I need to do this. So again, it takes you through the planning of what do I want to see in all areas of my life, and then it helps you do a budget. Because all of the things that we need to do, our finances need to match. Um, but and that is where for me the planner was really, even for me, administration. In the budget, it includes things like our tithes, our offerings, our first fruit. Because how can we say we're going to honor God with our life and our purpose, and yet we cannot honor Him with our finances? So when you then do your budget to make sure that everything is aligned and you actually can do it, it reminds you that no, no, God is also in your finances. Um, on a daily basis, um, you then also, you know, again, you can plan a day, these are my priorities for the day. Intentionally, every day has a box for your verse of the day. Because again, every day there has to be a verse that you are meditating on. You have to be reading your word. We've included, you know, we've included things like, okay, yes, our steps, our water tracker, because that's important. We need to take care of the temple that God has given us. Um, but it also looks at things like, are you fasting today? Have you read your Bible? How many times did you pray today? So the whole woman planner is about being whole and having God at the center. Every step of the way, whether you are planning your day, your week, you're reflecting, there is a question that brings you back to God. There is a guidance that says, hang on, where's God in your plan? Where's God in what you want to achieve? So without going into too much detail, um, that's that's the whole woman planner. It's it's holistic, it it acknowledges every area that we have as women, but it also doesn't put pressure on you. It gives you the structure that you can then actually say, okay, this is how I'm gonna break it down so that it works for me. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 30:47

And I think that that structure actually brings freedom. I used to think that structure actually just strangled us, but it doesn't. It actually allows us to have the freedom we want. Exactly. And I loved your launch story, and I can imagine you sitting there planning it all out. But when you started that, you couldn't even afford an event planner. So you taught yourself to become one. And isn't it beautiful that when we step into obedience, God develops the gifts in us that take us through the problems that we're trying to solve? And I love that how that became it's a passion of yours, and it became you would never have thought to go there. So that's another one. High five, God. So I I just think it's amazing, and we short change God so often. But I always like to finish with what I call a joy roundup. So a couple of quick fire questions for you. What brings you the greatest joy in this season?

SPEAKER_01 32:05

Greatest joy in this season. It has been my relate like the change in my relationship with God. Um, I used to think I could only meet God in my, you know, when I pray, when I'm on the floor kneeling, and that's great. By all means, we really should have time on our knees praying. But he's also shown himself to me as a friend. So there are times where I'm, you know, cooking and I'm joking with the Holy Spirit. I'm, you know, I'm just talking to him, and that just reminds me again how loving God is, how graceful, like just he doesn't want to just be the Almighty Father to you, and you know, he will punish you. He literally wants to be there in the detail. Um, I literally, you know, sometimes when I've got an event coming up and I'm like, all right, Holy Spirit, what are we wearing? Like, you need to dress me because I don't know what I'm wearing. And it's like he enjoys being put in the detail, he enjoys being a part of every day of your life. Like the same way, you know, I want to rush and call my friend and say, Oh, do you know this happened? The Holy Spirit wants to be that friend. So the the change in my relationship with God has been something that brings me great joy this this season.

SPEAKER_00 33:40

Oh, I love that. And yes, he is with us everywhere, and he he's just standing there waiting for us to talk to him. So when life feels overwhelming, what helps you reconnect with God?

SPEAKER_01 33:57

Um I found just being honest and vulnerable. Um, I used to want to only go to God when I was strong and full of faith, and yes, God, we can do this, you know. But I found that just coming to him as I am, even when I feel like, you know, God, this ministry you've given me, oh gosh, am I doing it justice? Like, I take those thoughts to him, and I then ask him, you know what, this is what I'm feeling. Please help me, be my strength, just show me what I must do. Um, you know, recently um, you know, we had an argument with my husband, and I literally just I went to the Holy Spirit and I was like, I'm feeling hurt because of you know A, B, C, and D. And then afterwards, I literally I was like, but you know what? You need to show me what submission looks like in this situation right now. Um, so I found just being vulnerable and not being afraid to take take the ugly emotions, the ugly situations to God, um, really helps me.

SPEAKER_00 35:17

Yeah. And you know, what's one piece of encouragement you would leave with the woman who's listening today, and she's just feeling overwhelmed with all these different hats? What word of encouragement would you give her today?

SPEAKER_01 35:38

Um I would leave her with the fact that God knew all the hats you're going to wear. And He has also given you the capability to carry all of that. Um I would challenge you to one see if it's not self-limiting beliefs that's making it overwhelming, um, because the devil will always try and tell us you can't when actually we can. And number two, I would also challenge you to take it back to God and say, okay, God, you've given me all these roles. How do I juggle it all? How do I, what is important in this season? What do I need to focus on right now? Because a lot of the times, yes, you know, we're mothers, we're wives, we're business women. Sometimes it's okay that in a day you're just a businesswoman, that's okay. Sometimes you're a little child, that's okay. Instead of trying to do everything in one go, that God is the person that will tell you in this season, this is where you need to be.

SPEAKER_00 36:57

And I think that's so important because I think that one of the things we get to regularly audit with God is what of these hats are you actually asking me to wear? You know, we assume that we have to be all these things and do all these things, and it usually comes from our culture we grew up in or from the mindset we were taught as a child. Okay, as the wife, you have to make dinner every well, I know God told you to make dinner every time, but not every wife has to make dinner every night. You get to actually look at what it is yours to carry in this season, and remember that it's not just that you don't have to carry it, it's that when you're carrying something you shouldn't be, you are carrying something that somebody else is privileged to carry. So you're taking it away from somebody else, and I think that's one of the hardest things for us women because we feel like we are so defined by our roles. You aren't, my friends, you are defined and you get joy out of being the king's kid, not out of being anything else. So I think that's so important. So, Ivy, I'm loving this conversation with you, and I know that you very generously have a gift for our friends. Now, for those of you who are driving, there will be notes that you can come back to and refer to when you watch the replay. You don't have to be trying to remember everything. And if you are driving, please do not now try and write something down while you're driving. If you don't have a pen and paper, it's okay. You can come back. This will all be in the show notes. Ivy, tell us about the gift you are very generously sharing with our audience.

SPEAKER_01 39:01

For today, um, I've got a word for our audience. Um, it is a course that basically that is entitled From Overwhelmed to Empowered. And what this course does is it gives you practical tools to take you from a place of I don't know where to start, I don't know if I've got too much on my plate, and it helps you to practically audit what it is that might be keeping you stuck. And at the end of the course, it'll give you practical methods to get unstuck. It'll tell you exactly what it is that you need to be focusing on in this season, so that at the end of it you feel like I actually got this. And it does this by focusing on four pillars so our relationship with God, our identity, and how we steward our gifts, our obedience, and our accountability through our systems and structures. So it's definitely something I'm excited about getting to your audience because already from you know the women that have enrolled, we have gotten amazing testimonies of how it's it's just made them feel like you know what, I've got this.

SPEAKER_00 40:20

So that sounds amazing. Thank you so much for your generosity there, and absolutely loved it. Folks, can you see why I adore this lady? I love her heart, I love her mission, I love her spirit. I know where to get hold of her, but Ivy, for everybody else, can you tell people where they can find you and find out more about you? Sure.

SPEAKER_01 40:49

Um so the easiest is going to be on Instagram. You can follow me at at ivy underscore mudge m-u-j, or alternatively, um, you can also get a hold of me through our business account at God's whole woman, and that is across all platforms. So Facebook, uh, TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube, all the works we are here to serve.

SPEAKER_00 41:17

That's amazing. And folks, remember, you will find the links in the comments and the show notes. So, Ivy, thank you so much for joining us today. And one of my biggest takeaways has been how structure isn't just about doing more, structure is about finding the intention in what you're doing so that it creates space for what matters most. And so it creates space for you to do what God's called you to do. So, folks, don't forget you get to focus on what the Holy Spirit's leading you to, you get to know what the Holy Spirit's leading you to because you recognize his voice, and then there's unlimited joy, but you get to choose joy in the process, you get to choose joy all along the way because God doesn't simply call us to survive and to just carry on with our responsibilities while we're just trying to churn it through. He equips us to flourish with them. So until next time, I encourage you to continue to choose joy. But before we leave, any last words for our listeners, Ivy.

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You're not in this alone. You're building with God, but you're also building with the beautiful women and men around you.

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