God Interrupted Her Pop Star Dreams
Girlfriends (A Podcast for Catholic Women)
Danielle Bean
4.9 • 810 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
This week, I’m joined by Cristina Bernal — former MTV pop artist turned Catholic worship leader. Cristina’s story is one you won’t forget: early success with LAX Girls, brushes with fame and the music industry’s dark side, and a profound conversion that led her to leave it all behind and say yes to what God had planned for her.
In this candid and inspiring conversation, Cristina shares:
* Her early music career and rise to fame as a teen pop star
* The moment her 10-year-old sister called her out, and changed everything
* A chilling industry demand that became a wake-up call
* A late-night encounter with the moon and a powerful baptism in the Holy Spirit
* How she rediscovered her Catholic faith and began using her voice for worship
* Her current work as a wife, mother, and Catholic recording artist with Novum Records
Cristina is now a wife, mom of two (with one on the way!), and a passionate cantor and worship leader, creating new music to help Catholics enter more deeply into the Mass.
Don’t miss this breathtaking story of surrender, identity, healing, and how God can use everything — even pop music — for his glory.
🔗 Connect with Cristina: cristinabernalmusic.com
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Girlfriends. I'm Danielle Bean. I'm a wife and a mom and I'm on a mission to help you. |
| 0:07.7 | Know you're worth as a woman so you can find peace, balance, and joy, and faithful living. |
| 0:11.4 | This week, our special guest is Christina Bernal. She has an astonishing story of success in the music industry and a personal conversion in her Catholic faith. |
| 0:22.0 | Can't wait to share this one with you. Let's get started. |
| 0:27.1 | Hey, girlfriend, you are in for something truly special here today. I recorded this conversation |
| 0:33.3 | with Christina Bernal recently. She's a woman whose journey is going to absolutely inspire you. |
| 0:38.5 | From her early success in the music industry to an unexpected and powerful conversion story, |
| 0:43.6 | Christina's story is something that I haven't heard in a long time, something that really just |
| 0:47.7 | stopped me in my tracks. I could not believe what she was sharing with me. So I can't wait to |
| 0:51.8 | share this with you here. But before we dive in, I just want to do a quick |
| 0:55.6 | check in with you. How is your summer going? It's almost gone. Some of you are already starting back to school. I know down in the south, that's a thing. But up here in the north, it's still the end that we're getting there, you know, through summer. And it's always a bittersweet time of year. You might be launching kids this fall. |
| 0:52.6 | You might be sending a child to college for the first time. |
| 0:55.1 | You might be launching kids this fall. You might be sending |
| 1:12.4 | a child to college for the first time. You might be sending a child to kindergarten for the first time. |
| 1:17.0 | It's a time of change and transition. I always feel it in the air in August and September. |
| 1:23.2 | And it's something that can be really, really challenging for us as moms as we go through these |
| 1:28.2 | transitions. Maybe you're beginning a transition yourself, whether it's starting new work or |
| 1:33.3 | beginning at a new parish. I hear from people all the time that are going through changes. And this is a |
| 1:38.7 | time of year that's especially full of change. So if you're struggling with any of that, know that you are not alone and that |
| 1:47.1 | you can do it. It's astonishing to me to look back over my own history as a mom and the different |
| 1:55.3 | times that our family life has been challenged and changed. And a lot of times it's changed |
| 1:59.9 | for good things like a kid is getting for good things. Like a kid is |
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