449: Why You May Be Feeling Exhausted in Life: Surrendering Control with Tara Sun
The Heart & Hustle Podcast
The Heart University
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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On this week's episode of The Heart & Hustle Podcast, we sit down with the radiant Tara Sun. Tara is an incredible author, podcaster, wife, and mom of two, whose journey of faith and entrepreneurship is nothing short of inspiring. Tara shares her powerful story of surrender: from being diagnosed with a chronic illness as a teen, to discovering God's unexpected plan for her life, to writing her debut book Surrender Your Story: Ditch the Myth of Control and Discover Freedom in Trusting God. She opens up about the tension we feel between "girl boss" hustle culture and living surrendered to God, reminding us that true freedom is found when we loosen our grip and let Him lead. We also get a sneak peek into her upcoming book Overbooked and Overwhelmed: How to Keep Up with God When You're Just Trying to Keep Up with Life—a timely encouragement for entrepreneurs, moms, and women juggling it all. With practical tips, biblical wisdom, and plenty of laughs along the way, this conversation is both soul-refreshing and deeply relatable.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Heart and Hustle podcast. We are your hosts, Evie McLeod and Lindsay Roman. |
| 0:05.1 | Welcome back to the show, my friend. Today we have a treat for you. We got to talk to the incredible Tara Sun. She was just lit on fire. Like, Holy Spirit-filled. We were like having the best girl chat conversation. Now, let's talk about who Tara Sun is. Through the truth talks with Tara |
| 0:21.2 | podcast, her Instagram community and other resources, Tara Sun passionately teaches women of all |
| 0:26.0 | ages how to know, love, and live God's word for themselves. And she shows how to break down |
| 0:31.4 | God's word into understandable pieces while also adding an artistic flair through her digital art. |
| 0:36.4 | Tara's married to her high school sweetheart, Michael, |
| 0:38.3 | and is a mom to their sweetest new edition, Hunter. |
| 0:41.3 | I love it. |
| 0:42.1 | Yeah, today's conversation with Tara was beautiful. |
| 0:44.7 | We covered the conversation of surrender and what it looks like to give up control. |
| 0:52.7 | And Tara just broke down so beautifully, both her journey with this, but also how not only |
| 1:00.6 | does like white knuckling our life lead to exhaustion, to burnout, to stress, anxiety in our |
| 1:07.9 | life, but it's also, I mean, if you could tell by those fruit of that, |
| 1:12.9 | it's just not what God has for us. And she really breaks down so beautifully what it looks |
| 1:18.4 | like to surrender to God, to give up control what that practically means, some tangible and |
| 1:25.2 | practical steps to implement that, what it looks like, like why we may |
| 1:29.5 | struggle with that, some even like some red flags to notice in your life of areas or things |
| 1:34.8 | that you start to feel or think or notice to be like, oh, actually, even if I thought I wasn't |
| 1:39.5 | struggling with control, I may be actually struggling with control. And we even broke down within that, |
| 1:45.7 | you know, how giving up control ties in with understanding the character of God. And therefore, |
| 1:53.5 | how do we make space for God as busy people? To spend time with him? Yeah, to get to know him, |
| 1:58.8 | to understand his character, to spend time with him as busy entrepreneurs, as mothers, as, you know, just human beings in the 21st century. What does it look like and how can we practically make space for God in our life? It was such a powerful conversation. There was so much within that, so much nuance that we talked about. There were some powerful things in there about |
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