I Think We're All Overwhelmed Right Now: A Real Conversation About Hearing God, Identity, and the Holy Spirit with Brandie Barclay

Living God's Way with Kim Dolan Leto | Christian Habits, Identity in Christ, How to Walk with God Daily

Kim Dolan Leto

Christianity, Health & Fitness, Fitness, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The number one question I get asked is: "How do I hear from God?" And honestly, today's conversation with Brandie Barclay is exactly that.

No script.
No outline.
No perfectly planned interview.

We prayed, hit record, and had one of the most honest conversations about hearing God, overwhelm, identity, distraction, spiritual warfare, and walking with the Holy Spirit that I've had in a long time.

And honestly?
This episode feels less like a podcast and more like sitting down with two sisters in Christ trying to walk closely with God in a noisy, overwhelming world.

In this episode, Brandie and I talk about:

hearing God and learning to recognize His voice
spiritual overwhelm and emotional exhaustion
identity in Christ
perfectionism and people pleasing
religion versus real relationship with God
why so many women feel spiritually drained right now
the power of the Holy Spirit in everyday life
learning to slow down and walk with God daily
spiritual warfare and distraction
obedience, faith, and trusting God in hard seasons

One of my favorite parts of this conversation was when we talked about how so many women are striving for some huge spiritual experience while completely overlooking the simple daily relationship God is inviting them into.

Open your Bible.
Spend time with Him.
Walk with Him daily.
That is where peace starts.

Brandie also shares powerful parts of her own story, including leaving her longtime career, learning how to fully trust God, writing her book through intense spiritual warfare, and discovering what it really means to live empowered by the Holy Spirit.

And honestly, one of the biggest reminders throughout this episode is this:
God never asked us to carry life without Him.

About Brandie Barclay

Brandie Barclay is a Christian author, speaker, and founder of PowerSoul Clubhouse. Her passion is helping women grow deeper in their relationship with God and live fully led by the Holy Spirit.

Her bestselling book PowerSoul: Lit From Within — Life Powered by the Holy Spirit encourages women to stop striving in their own strength and start walking closely with God through faith, obedience, and intimacy with the Holy Spirit.

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SCRIPTURES SHARED:

Psalm 46:10
Nehemiah 8:10
Ephesians 2:10
Psalm 32:8
John 16:7
Philippians 4:8
Hebrews 11:1

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With so much love,

Kim Dolan Leto

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I am so excited to invite you into a real conversation. This is not scripted. My guest and I don't have any
0:08.1	kind of plan. We decided we're just going to let the Holy Spirit lead. And it's funny because we have
0:12.4	been trying to meet for years. I want to invite Brandy Barclay to the Living God's Way podcast.
0:19.4	I am so glad you're here and I finally get to see your beautiful
0:22.5	face face to face and we get to encourage women in the Lord. I'm so excited, Kim. I've been watching
0:29.7	you from a far, you know, like a little, you know, you know how it goes. And I'm like, this is my
0:34.9	girl. Like I feel like we know a lot of the same people. We're in the same
0:39.1	state. I don't know how we haven't run into each other. But I'm really, really excited. I believe
0:43.4	God has wanted us to connect. So I'm super excited about it. I know. I completely agree. And I love what you do.
0:53.0	It's funny. I feel the same way we have mutual friends and you live here. And I always think to
0:58.1	myself, how do I not know, I feel like I know her? How do I, how have we not? I'm like, do I know her?
1:04.4	It feels like I know her. And we, it seems like we have similar stories. We've been married for a long time. We
1:10.0	recently became
1:11.0	glammas, grandmas. Like, there's a lot of things that are very common. So today, I really
1:18.4	wanted to share what is on your heart. I want you, I feel like we need to have just a real
1:24.3	sister-to-sister conversation and encourage the listeners because I feel like
1:28.9	so many of us right now are completely overwhelmed. We are scrolling for answers. We are trying
1:36.9	so hard to know what God wants us to do. We want to listen to him deeper. We want to feel closer to
1:43.7	him. And we have missions in our
1:46.7	hearts that we're just, maybe even some of us today are afraid to even say out loud. It just
1:51.3	feels too big. Or maybe even small. Sometimes I think, oh my gosh, that feels like, should I do that?
1:58.1	Would they even care? And I feel like God just wants us to act. So why don't you kick off our conversation by sharing what's on your heart right now? Well, everything you just said. Everything you just said is on my heart. In fact, this morning, I fasted coffee because coffee is like almost, you know, it's my morning reason for living.
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