Navigating Change: How God's Shifted My Entire Life | Episode 407
The Speakeasy
The Girl Named Blake
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode is a long overdue catch-up. I'm finally sharing the fuller story of what happened in 2025: the year God completely flipped my life, my work, my identity, and my priorities upside down.
If you've noticed that my content has shifted a lot over the last year, this is the why.
For years, this podcast has felt like the most full expression of me. Faith, motherhood, politics, wellness, the Bible, all of it. But Instagram had become heavily political. Eventually, the very work I thought was most important started costing me more than I realized, my peace, my presence, my family, and honestly, my soul.
In this episode, I'm sharing the story of how God began asking me to do something that felt harder than any "jump" of obedience He'd ever asked of me before: sit down, pull back, do less, trust Him, and let Him carry what I had been trying to hold together myself.
We talk about:
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how political content became my full-time work
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the moment I realized my priorities were deeply out of order
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what disobedience looked like in real time
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why 2025 felt like my "belly of the whale" year
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the vision God gave me that changed everything
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identity, striving, motherhood, and learning to be a daughter before a warrior
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why I stepped back from politics online
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what God has been rebuilding in me ever since
This one is personal. It's vulnerable. And it's probably the clearest picture I've given yet of the shift God has been walking me through. If you're in a season where God is asking you to slow down, let go, or trust Him in ways you do not like, this episode is for you.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, y'all, welcome back to this VDZ podcast. |
| 0:09.5 | Today, it is just me and you, and we're going to do a little catch up and tell some stories |
| 0:14.9 | and fill in some gaps that are missing in the last year or so. |
| 0:19.7 | So grab a cup of coffee, pop in your earbuds. |
| 0:23.0 | We're just going to, we're just going to, yeah, we're going to catch up. |
| 0:26.2 | I haven't been ready to make this episode yet. |
| 0:31.9 | I'm pretty much going to tell you the story of last year as much as feels appropriate. |
| 0:37.1 | I've shared flyover. I did a whole |
| 0:40.3 | series on what God taught me through last year. That's the ending well series. It's eight |
| 0:45.7 | episodes at the end of last year. But I genuinely just wasn't ready to tell the story of it. |
| 0:53.0 | And there are still parts that I'm not going to tell you. I'm a really |
| 0:55.4 | big believer in keeping personal things personal as much as you can. I think it preserves our souls |
| 1:02.4 | as we navigate the internet space. But I just haven't been ready to like lay it all out. I really |
| 1:08.1 | needed to process through it. And I do kind of now feel like, okay, |
| 1:14.5 | it's been easier for me to have these conversations in real life. And I figured for the people |
| 1:21.9 | that are invested, this would be helpful to kind of make things make sense. Because if you |
| 1:26.6 | haven't noticed, which you definitely have because it's very noticeable, |
| 1:30.9 | my content has shifted really significantly in the last year or so. |
| 1:35.6 | And that has been not by choice. |
| 1:43.1 | This space, like the podcasting space has always felt like a true well-rounded extension of |
| 1:52.2 | myself. |
| 1:52.9 | One week we're talking about homeschooling and motherhood and then the next we're |
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