When Obedience Costs You Everything

Blessed + Bossed Up

Anchored Media Network

Education, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Business

4.6 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In this vulnerable end-of-year episode, Tatum opens up about navigating a year of big transition—welcoming a new baby, starting law school, stewarding family and business, and still choosing to make God the CEO of it all. She shares how 2025 has exposed areas for growth, internal “shoulds,” and noise… but also how her foundation in God has kept her steady.

Tatum also announces that the podcast will be on pause for December as she focuses on finals, rest, and seeking God for the next phase of the Bible on Business series—coming back in the new year with more teaching and visual, behind-the-scenes content.

Then we dive back into Part 2 of her powerful conversation with Pastor Tiffany Sowah. Tiffany shares the real cost of obedience: relocating in 30 days off fragmented instructions from God, losing a major federal contract, walking through a “manna season” where she and her husband had just enough for each day, and even surrendering her dream car and apartment. She talks honestly about anger, depression, and feeling like she’d “lost everything”—and how God reframed it as giving everything up to follow Him.

This episode is for the entrepreneur, leader, or believer who is:

Wrestling with hesitation around a big instruction from God
Questioning if they “heard Him right” because obedience led to hardship
In a season where it feels like everything is being stripped, not added
Wanting to understand what it really means to count the cost and still say “yes”

We also share the heart behind the New Year’s Eve Prayer-a-thon, how it was birthed in the middle of Tiffany’s lowest financial season, and why you absolutely want to be in the virtual room this year.

The Prayer-a-thon: Heart + Invitation

How the first Prayer-a-thon (Dec 2023) was birthed while Tiffany was working a seasonal job at Ross, living with her parents, and rebuilding from scratch
The purpose of the Prayer-a-thon: to end the year and enter the next one in the only place that sustains us—God’s presence
Growing from an 8–12 hour broadcast to an 18–20 hour global prayer experience with people joining from all over the world
Testimonies of people who planned to “hop on for a bit” and ended up staying all day
Why you should come ready to log in “for an hour”… but be prepared to want to stay much longer

Register for the Prayer-a-thon: bit.ly/mwgprayerthon

💛 Partnership Spotlight: Heifer International

Heifer International is a global nonprofit that empowers women farmers like Akanbi Ashiata, who grew up in Lagos and struggled to access fair funding to grow her tomato business. Through Heifer’s Micro-Loan Impact Fund, she received her first affordable loan and was able to expand her business and support her family.

👉🏾 Be the blessing for a woman like Akanbi: heifer.org/blessed

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Transcript

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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.
0:31.0	Hey guys, welcome to another episode of the Blessed and Bossed Up podcast.
0:35.4	I hope that you guys had a fantastic Thanksgiving holiday.
0:40.0	I cannot believe that we are entering into the last month of 2025, the last month of this year. I don't know about you guys, but this year for me has been,
0:48.1	I don't want to say a whirlwind, but it's definitely been a transition period for me. You guys know I had a new baby.
0:56.4	So my family transitioning with the new addition, starting law school, transitioning to the
1:01.8	demands of that, in addition to family and business and all of the things, trying to do so
1:07.4	with a level of good stewardship, a focus on the Lord and just really taking everything
1:14.4	that he's called me to do seriously. I haven't gotten it right for sure all the time,
1:20.9	but I wake up every day committed to doing right by what the Lord has called me to do.
1:25.5	And in that, this transition has been pretty difficult
1:29.7	for me. I'm grateful of the outcome. I'm doing well in school. My family is happy and healthy and
1:36.0	whole. But I do see some areas of improvement for myself. And I'm trying to navigate, even my own
1:43.9	things coming to the surface of feeling
1:45.6	like I should be doing this or should be doing that. All of the stuff, the internal noise that I deal with
1:52.1	has definitely been at the forefront as of late in managing all of these transitions. But nevertheless,
1:59.8	even when I feel unsteady, my foundation is strong in the
2:03.3	Lord. And as we enter into this last month of the year, I want to say thank you guys first for the
2:10.9	ways in which you have supported this podcast, the ways in which you supported me through so many
2:15.6	transitions. I mean, January marks nine years of this podcast, you guys,
2:22.4	nine entire years of me showing up here
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