Your Current Trial Is a God-Sized Opportunity | Athleadership with Melissa Dawn Simkins
Living God's Way with Kim Dolan Leto | Christian Habits, Identity in Christ, How to Walk with God Daily
Kim Dolan Leto
4.9 • 638 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
What if the hard season you're walking through right now is actually the place God is building you into the woman He's called you to become?
If you've been feeling overwhelmed, emotionally exhausted, discouraged, or unsure of what God is doing in this season, this conversation is for you.
In today's episode, Melissa Dawn Simkins shares how learning to lead yourself well mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually can change the way you walk through pressure, disappointment, uncertainty, and transition.
We talk about:
- how God uses hard seasons to build resilience
- the difference between performing and becoming
- why comparison and hustle culture quietly steal our peace
- identity shifts and emotional resilience
- how to renew your mind in difficult seasons
- the "Core Four" of Athleadership: agility, resilience, alignment, and well-being
- and how to walk through the fire without losing your faith
If life feels heavy right now, I pray this episode reminds you:
God wastes nothing.
Your current trial may actually be a God-sized opportunity.
Scriptures Mentioned
- Romans 12:2
- 2 Corinthians 5:17
- Proverbs 3:5-6
- Joshua 1:9
- 1 Corinthians 9:24-27
- 2 Timothy 1:7
Connect With Melissa Dawn Simkins
Athleadership Movement
http://athleadershipmovement.com/
Melissa Dawn Simkins Official Website
https://melissadawnsimkins.com
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With so much love,
Kim Dolan Leto
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What if the pressure you've been trying to avoid is actually the place that God is building you into the leader you've been praying to become? |
| 0:06.9 | Many of you are walking through seasons of change right now and you're trying to figure out how to follow God without feeling overwhelmed or unsure. |
| 0:15.5 | Hey friend, welcome back to the Living God's Way. |
| 0:18.4 | Today's conversation is going to bless you in the best way |
| 0:21.8 | possible because we're talking about how to lead and grow when life feels hard. Whether you |
| 0:27.4 | are leading a boardroom or leading your children's hearts, this is for you. Today I have |
| 0:32.4 | someone who specializes in winning from within. Melissa Don Simkins, she is a woman of God who knows that an |
| 0:39.2 | elite mindset starts with our identity in Christ. Melissa, I'm so honored to have you here. Melissa, |
| 0:44.9 | you often say that we aren't naturally wired for disruption, yet life fills one disruption |
| 0:51.8 | after another, whether it's in our health journey, our career, our |
| 0:55.3 | parenting, it just feels like something's always coming. So why is this where God does his best work in us? |
| 1:06.6 | I believe God is the author, right? And we are living into the chapters of our life. And like any child, we want it our way. We want it now and we want it our way. And so we have a plan. And that plan gives us comfort. It gave me comfort because I could control it. I thought that this was |
| 1:28.2 | the way that it was going to go. When life sends disruption, the uncertain, the disappointment, |
| 1:35.9 | the derailment, the delay, all of these things that come that is just living life, it creates |
| 1:41.7 | in us an opportunity. I believe there's two places we can, under that pressure, we can break or we can build. |
| 1:51.4 | And it's been my life journey to now, 20 years later, reflect back and say, no, they felt like breaking points, but they were actually building. It was building my |
| 2:02.3 | character. It was building my awareness of who I am in God. It was building my patience, |
| 2:11.6 | grace for myself. All of these things happen when we understand a different mindset around why our life takes these |
| 2:20.7 | different detours. |
| 2:23.5 | I love that. |
| 2:24.6 | I feel like you're saying in Christianese, it's like God changes us from glory to glory to |
| 2:30.7 | and I have this phrase that I love so much. And I wrote it one day in my pain. |
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