Presence, Intentionality, & Laying It All Down | Elise Orozco | Episode 416
The Speakeasy
The Girl Named Blake
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
This week I sit down with Elise Orozco from Raising Rock for a conversation that feels deeply personal and incredibly timely. We share remarkably similar stories of stepping away from ambition, hustle, and outside success in exchange for something we discovered mattered far more: presence.
Elise opens up about leaving a high-level corporate career after realizing that while she was succeeding professionally, her family was often receiving the exhausted leftovers of what remained. What follows is an honest conversation about motherhood, identity, slowing down, surrender, and learning to embrace God's priorities instead of culture's expectations.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends. Welcome back to the Speakeasy podcast. Today, I am joined by my friend Elise from the Raising Rock podcast, also the same on Instagram. And we are having a conversation that is very near and dear to my heart. If you have been following along at all for the last nine-ish months, you are familiar with what my journey of slowing down going a different direction has looked |
| 0:22.8 | like and the things that God has asked me to lay down and what he has asked me to pick up. |
| 0:27.0 | And it turns out, at least has a crazy similar story just a couple of years ahead of me. |
| 0:32.8 | And so today we sat down and really took a deep look at motherhood and not just being present with our kids, |
| 0:40.4 | but the intentionality required to really pour into and stored these little souls. And we ran the |
| 0:48.4 | gamut on topics. We talked about media. We talked about what our kids are influenced by and how we're having conversations |
| 0:55.8 | with them about it. We talked about our own hearts and our own dispositions, our priorities. |
| 1:01.1 | It's really just a big conversation about motherhood and how we move closer to being the |
| 1:08.7 | mother that God really created us to be. And so whether you are a |
| 1:12.6 | stay-at-home mom or you are a work from home mom or you work out of the home, I think there's |
| 1:16.6 | something in this episode for you. |
| 1:24.3 | Elise, welcome to this week. I am so thrilled to be here. Thank you so much. |
| 1:30.1 | This is so fun. I love, I'm finding I really love like a swift swap. So I got to come on your show and now you're on mine. And it's like, oh my gosh, we're already so familiar with each other. We've actually been yapping for 10 minutes before I record. |
| 1:43.7 | We're basically best |
| 1:45.2 | friends. So 100%. And what I love is we have a lot of crossover. We have a lot in common to |
| 1:52.5 | talk about. Some of it we touched on on your show, but this is my people. And so we're going to do it |
| 1:57.8 | again and also kind of go some other places with it. And so you are |
| 2:03.1 | the voice and founder behind Raising Rock, which I have to give a little shout out. My kids, |
| 2:10.0 | love your book. And my child sleeps with stinky bear at night because the plushies are the softest, most wonderful things, |
| 2:20.6 | and they are just love it. And it's also a great story. You are the author of a book. You've just, |
| 2:27.4 | you've so much that you're doing. And that is going on. And I think you do it all really well. |
| 2:33.7 | And so we're going to back up a little bit. and we're going to tell the story of how we got here |
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