Enduring the Challenge

Blessed + Bossed Up

Anchored Media Network

Business, Education, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement

4.6 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

In this deeply impactful episode of Blessed + Bossed Up, we’re almost at the finish line of our book club read, Leadership as an Identity by Crawford Loritts. Tatum takes us through Chapter 15: Enduring the Challenge, highlighting what it truly means to endure trials and opposition as a Christian leader. With a foundational focus on Nehemiah 6:9 and the journey of Joshua in Joshua 1, Tatum unpacks what spiritual endurance and godly courage look like in the face of fear, adversity, and opposition.

This episode doesn’t stop at theory. Tatum explores how parentification in women—a form of early responsibility in childhood—can lead to self-reliance and performance-based Christianity in adulthood. With honesty and vulnerability, she shares how endurance has shown up in her own walk as a business owner, wife, and mother. Using both scripture and psychological insights, she offers clarity, healing, and practical encouragement for women who feel like they’ve been “the strong one” for too long.

Listeners will walk away with:

A biblical understanding of endurance as a non-negotiable in leadership.
The difference between courage rooted in ego and courage rooted in obedience.
A call to meditate on and obey God’s Word as the foundation for success (Joshua 1:8).
Encouragement for those walking through lonely or overwhelming seasons.

Plus, you’ll hear how disobedience—even when emotionally justified—can have lasting consequences, using Moses’ story in Numbers 20 as a sobering leadership lesson.

If you’ve struggled with staying the course or questioned your calling due to hardship, this episode will refresh your spirit and rekindle your commitment to walk out your assignment God’s way.

📚 If you know a powerful apologetics book to recommend for the next book club pick, email [email protected].

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0:00.0	You are listening to Blessed and Bossed up, presented by Anchored Media, an entrepreneurship podcast for Christians all about how to make God the CEO of your business.
0:11.9	Get ready to be inspired, challenged, but well equipped to live and build your destiny his way.
0:30.5	Hey guys, welcome to another episode of the Blessed and Bossup podcast.
0:34.6	We are coming towards the end of our book club pick.
0:38.8	We are reading, if you are new, we are reading leadership as an identity,
0:45.1	the four traits of those who will lasting influence written by Crawford-Loritz. And this book has been an amazing read. So even if you're just tuning in, we have this chapter we're going to go
0:52.0	over today and we have one more chapter, and then that's it.
0:55.1	And this book has been fantastic.
0:57.2	If you're somebody who the Lord is called to leadership, I highly recommend you get this book.
1:02.6	It's not one that you're going to read and get all of the gurus, best practices on leadership,
1:10.1	but it's one where you're going to get a sobering reality
1:12.4	check on what it really takes to be a Christian leader. I still haven't decided on our next
1:20.0	book club pick. I've been praying about it. I've been going back and forth because I really
1:24.4	wanted to go and do a more secular book specifically on something along the
1:30.2	lines of like marketing or sales or business development, something like that. But as I was praying,
1:37.5	that's not the direction that the Lord wants me to go with. He wants me to read a book more so in
1:42.8	the apologetics category that really establishes the truth
1:47.2	of the foundation of our faith. So right now I'm on a hunt for the perfect book for that.
1:53.0	So yeah, I ain't got it yet. Probably won't have it by the time. This book is over. So we'll just
2:00.4	continue with our Bible on business series while I find
2:04.0	the right book for us to read. If you know of any good apologetics books, let me know.
2:10.0	Email me Tatum at Tatumtumtumumum.com and let me know any books that you will recommend in that
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