Ending Well: The Addiction to Productivity | Episode 385

The Speakeasy

The Girl Named Blake

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Welcome back to week three of our Ending Well series — a journey to close out 2025 by reclaiming what's been hard, remembering what God has done, and letting Him renew our perspective before the year ends.

In this episode, we're talking about something that hits close to home for so many of us — the addiction to productivity. This one is for the hustlers, the people-pleasers, and the high achievers who have built their worth around being useful, helpful, or constantly "doing." You're in good company, friend.

Blake shares honestly about how God revealed her own dependence on productivity — how the need to "produce" had quietly become an idol — and how He's been peeling back layers of identity, performance, and striving to reveal something better: rest, surrender, and abiding.

This conversation is a gentle but powerful reminder that:

Rest isn't laziness — it's obedience.

You are loved apart from what you produce.

Productivity can serve you, but it was never meant to define you.

God doesn't need your performance — He wants your presence.

Through scripture, reflection, and a few hard-won lessons from this past year, Blake unpacks what it means to live from overflow rather than output. From redefining success in motherhood and work to learning that obedience sometimes looks like slowing down, this episode will meet you right in the tension between doing and being.

"We were never meant to live as output machines. We were created to work from rest, not for it."

If you've been running on empty, struggling to stop striving, or wondering why slowing down feels unsafe, this episode will help you rediscover the peace that comes when you let God set the pace.

This episode is brought to you by:

PreBorn — Every $28 you give sponsors an ultrasound for a woman considering abortion. When she hears her baby's heartbeat, everything changes. This year alone, over 38,000 babies have been rescued through PreBorn's work, and mothers receive the support they need through counseling, financial aid, and care for up to two years after birth.
Be the first voice of hope. Sponsor an ultrasound today at PreBorn.com/Speakeasy

Subscribe to The Speakeasy YouTube Channel for more faith-filled conversations that inspire reflection, rest, and renewal:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtqJ8I4hmCH-w3Cw4XzFZoQ

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome back to week three of our ending well series.
0:11.2	We are ending 2025 together well.
0:15.2	And we are doing that by reclaiming some of the hard things that I've walked through this year and really focusing on
0:22.3	what God did and what he taught me and the good that came from it because if you've walked
0:27.8	with Jesus for any amount of time, you know that everything he takes out of your life,
0:32.5	every hard season that he walks you through. He uses it for your good and the good and expansion of his kingdom.
0:40.3	And so we have talked about hearing from the Lord and how seasons of silence work and different
0:45.5	ways that he speaks to us. We talked last week about kind of honestly turning your life on its
0:51.7	head, which is what God has really done this year and how
0:55.4	what you think you, what you have been walking in and what you think is good, maybe isn't
1:01.5	what's the best fit for this season. And this week, we are going to, this one is for the hustlers,
1:07.7	okay? This one is for my people pleaser girlies. This one is for the girls who
1:13.0	really love productivity and maybe have allowed their identity to get a little bit too
1:19.7	ingrained in it. You are in incredible company, okay? So let's just set some ground rules out
1:27.2	the gate. There's no judgment.
1:29.8	I have had to learn how to not judge myself on this topic. I'm going to need you to extend the
1:34.7	same grace to yourself. Some of the things that I'm going to share are like a little unflattering.
1:39.5	This is not one of my favorite things about myself, but the name of the game in this whole series is redemption.
1:48.4	And we serve such a redeeming God.
1:51.8	He didn't just redeem us through salvation.
1:55.1	He does it every day through sanctification.
1:57.8	And man, if I have learned anything this year, it is that he will take the hardest things that we walk through and use them for good.
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 4 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Girl Named Blake, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Girl Named Blake and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.