Raise The Praise

ABOUT THIS EPISODE: Welcome back to Raise the Praise where we choose to reclaim our joy and thrive in every area of our lives, that's physically, mentally, financially and spiritually, to do all that God is calling us to do. I'm your host, Jennifer Bell. Today’s show is all about the definition of SUCCESS. How do you define success? I submit to you that success is comprised of many things. I’m sure you’ve heard of some of these. No matter how you define success, as long as you can look yourself in the mirror and say TODAY was a good Day!...That, my friend is SUCCESS! If this episode inspired you, please subscribe and leave a review. I’m always looking to improve and I’d love your feedback! WAYS TO CONNECT WITH ME… EPISODE AIRED ON: June 9, 2021

ABOUT THIS EPISODE: Welcome back to Raise the Praise where we choose to reclaim our joy and thrive in every area of our lives, that's physically, mentally, financially and spiritually, to do all that God is calling us to do. I'm your host, Jennifer Bell. I am so excited to have my sister-friend Bernadette Jackson on the show today. Bernadette Jackson is a woman of faith, a mom, a fatherless daughter and a transparent truth teller. As a Relationship Engagement Strategist and your favorite Fear Investigator, she creates safe spaces for fatherless daughters to learn, grow and heal. Her safe spaces include the Bernadette Jackson Podcast where she is redefining how the world views women with daddy issues; H.E.R Coalition, her private FB community and H.E.R Way Relationship Intensive, her private coaching program. In that program, Bernadette teaches clients everything she wished she knew about attracting and maintaining amazing relationships as a fatherless daughter. This program is near and dear to Bernadette's heart as she openly shares how her own fear of abandonment cycle kept her in undesirable relationships for more than a decade and what she did to stop attracting them. Listen in as my sister Bernadette shares her Courage2Heal story. If this episode inspired you, please subscribe and leave a review. I’m always looking to improve and I’d love your feedback! WAYS TO CONNECT WITH ME… CONNECT WITH MY GUEST: EPISODE AIRED ON: JUNE 2, 2021

When you focus on God with a surrendered heart, you enter into what Marshawn Daniels calls a "faith adventure with God". How do you surrender to God? A surrendered heart to God is a heart in alignment with His will and direction for our lives. If this episode inspired you, please subscribe and leave a review. I’m always looking to improve and I’d love your feedback! WAYS TO CONNECT WITH ME… EPISODE AIRED ON: MAY 26, 2021

Chinitha Johnson helps women struggling with low self-esteem and confidence as a result of childhood abuse, to kickstart going from inferior to empowered, by giving them the K.E.Y.S that opens the door that begins the healing of "little me." Listen in as my sister Chinitha shares her story in this Courage2Heal Interview. If this episode inspired you, please subscribe and leave a review. I’m always looking to improve and I’d love your feedback! WAYS TO CONNECT WITH ME… CONNECT WITH MY GUEST: EPISODE AIRED ON: MAY 19, 2021

You know, the Bible says they that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall Mount up with wings as Eagles Eagles, right. They should run and not get weary. They shall walk and not faint. So let's talk about waiting. What are you doing while you're waiting? Are you continuing to pray? Are you worshiping God? Are you researching? Are you writing? And you're waiting for that thing that you're, you're waiting on God to, to manifest in your life, but we have to continue to wait. Wait does not mean it's not going to come to pass. If this episode inspired you, please subscribe and leave a review. I’m always looking to improve and I’d love your feedback! WAYS TO CONNECT WITH ME… EPISODE AIRED ON: MAY 12, 2021

Welcome back to Raise the Praise where we choose to reclaim our joy and thrive in every area of our lives, that's physically, mentally, financially and spiritually, to do all that God is calling us to do. I'm your host, Jennifer Bell. I am so excited to have my sister friend Chulu Chansa, Founder of Africana Woman on the show today. Chulu is a writer of modern African culture & lifestyle, the host of the Africana Woman podcast, a transformational speaker and mentor. She currently resides in Zambia, is the proud mother of a teenage boy and is at peace. For many years Chulu experienced success in her career, however fell short in her personal life. Eventually she managed to transform her lifestyle and lives by the principle, K.N.O.W. your Roots, Grow your Purpose where KNOW stands for Knowledge, Nourishment, Operate in Obedience, and Weakness. As a result, Chulu is on a mission to ensure African women succeed both in work and their personal life. Listen in as my sister Chulu shares her story in this Courage2Heal Interview. If this episode inspired you, please subscribe and leave a review. I’m always looking to improve and I’d love your feedback! SHOWNOTES: 2:04 We've been featuring courage to heal stories recently, and I just had to have you share your story. And as we have our conversations today, I just know that you will be blessed and inspired and encouraged to heal as you hear her story. So let's just dive right into it to Chulu and talk about culture, and a little bit about health and wellness and how we blend the two. So my first question to you is, how would you say your culture has affected your overall wellness? 2:49 I think, you know, there's so many beautiful things about our culture. And I'm African, I'm from Zambia, beautiful country of Zambia, we call it the real Africa. And, you know, there's so many things from our food, our clothes, our music, all of those wonderful things. But then there's also I'd say, like an underbelly of, of things that are not necessarily talked about. And, you know, we like to refer to them as Oh, that's just the way culture is. Now. I think one of the things that's also unique about my country in particular is that we are a Christian nation, like it's actually in our Constitution. So Christianity is something that is also very, very deeply interlinked in our lives, right. So, you know, I think when it comes to myself, and my story, I think one of the things that really did affect me was the first thing was having a child out of wedlock, and having a child very young. I had my son when I was my senior year of college, and you know, just the shame and the, you know, the shame and the embarrassment. 9:14 So you know, they held a knife to my neck, they kicked me, they punched me in the stomach. It was a very violent experience. And at the time, I was just thinking, I really just gave it to God, because I just looked up and I was looking up at the sky, I didn't even want to look at them. And what actually happened was the three original men that had stolen the money, like stolen my bag, they came walking back, because they know, they just threw me on the middle of the road. So they came walking back. And they saw that and they did nothing. They just dropped the bag and walked away. And I remember thinking, how does someone? I can honestly say that therapy saved my life. 19:43 I had the job, I had a car, I had the house, like, I was okay, but then I'm trying to tell people that there's something wrong, this is not enough. I'm not okay, I'm not satisfied, I'm not fulfilled, I'm not happy, and people just didn't understand. They felt like, you know, when they're looking at the job that I had, it's one of those jobs, you know, here we say, it's kind of like, you know, you've arrived, you know, and you get a certain job, you've just arrived, and you can put your legs up and you like, everything is just jazz. But I'm just like, if this is what you guys call...

ABOUT THIS EPISODE: Welcome back to Raise the Praise where we choose to reclaim our joy and thrive in every area of our lives, that's physically, mentally, financially and spiritually, to do all that God is calling us to do. I'm your host, Jennifer Bell. I am so excited to have my sister friend Evelyn Levasseur on the show today! Evelyn is the owner of Evelyn LeVasseur Fitness, a company that focuses on helping busy, overwhelmed moms reach their body goals without dieting or deprivation. Evelyn knows that moms can be especially hard on themselves and expect perfection, in our homes, jobs, marriages, and of course with our bodies. Listen in as my sister Evelyn shares her story in this Courage2Heal Interview. If this episode inspired you, please subscribe and leave a review. I’m always looking to improve and I’d love your feedback! SHOWNOTES: * When we think about health, we think about food and exercise and what our body looks like. And really, it is truly starting from the inside out. And seeing how the way you feel about yourself impacts not only your body and your mind, what everybody around you and the energy you bring, and the energy you attract, you start to see that your life as a whole is a representation of what you're feeling to begin with. And that's huge. (3:28) * First of all, my very first step had to be detaching my value from my appearance. And that was hard work because I had to, I had to literally let go of all, all those years of being told that I was beautiful that I was this, that I was that and then finally accepting that of all the things that I am a mother, a wife, a sister, a friend, have the impact that I want to have on this world, my body is the least relevant part of me. And on top of it, you know, I remember sitting and thinking to myself, Evelyn, you are literally living the life that you prayed for, you are living the life that you prayed for. And that's what I realized that I had been living in gratitude, yes, grateful for my husband, we have an excellent relationship. We've been friends, since we were little kids. I have two healthy, strong, very empathetic daughters, that are feisty, too. Don't get me wrong. I have a home that I love in a job that I love. I was grateful for all of it. But I wasn't grateful for me. (20:06) * First, I think acceptance comes before love. I do. You know, people feel guilty because they say they feel like they should just love themselves, which Yes, I believe you should love yourself. But if you spent your whole life being told that you weren't enough, that doesn't just happen naturally. You know? You have to, just like when you get to know somebody else, you accept them first for who they are. I think there's levels to falling in love with yourself. And it starts with accepting yourself for who you are. (39:09) WAYS TO CONNECT WITH ME… CONNECT WITH MY GUEST: www.evelynfit.com EPISODE AIRED ON: APRIL 28, 2021

ABOUT THIS EPISODE: Welcome back to raise the praise where we choose to reclaim our joy and thrive in every area of our lives, physically, mentally, financially, and spiritually, to do all that God is calling us to do. I am so excited today to have my special guest Tiffany Moore on the podcast. It brings me great pleasure for you all to hear her story. She recently released her new book, 'Better Together Playbook' which is a resource to help you cultivate your relationship with God, yourself, and your partner. She is a transformational speaker and a certified Christian life coach. I met Tiffany through Patricia's Washingtons program. For the next few episodes, I've invited a few of my friends, to share their courage to heal stories, because I believe we must break our silence, come from behind our ashes and live in our true beauty. Let’s let our sisters know, you’re not alone. My prayer is that you, my dear sister, will have the courage to heal and walk in freedom. Listen in as Tiffany shares her story in this Courage2Heal Interview. SHOWNOTES: (1:51) How Tiffany met her husband during college as she worked at the school cafeteria. “This guy walked through the door with a green shirt, pair of blue jeans, and ugly Brown shoes. He was thin and very tall!” (4:31) “I stepped out in marriage, It was me. During that time, it was real hard for us, because I broke his heart.” Reconciliation: But when he came back, he told me, he said, Tiffany, he said, I love you. He said, and God told me, I can't leave. Because you need me. (7:56) “No matter how we mess up on what we do, God is always there to be there. And forgive us! (8:58) Having a Christ-centered marriage showed us what we needed to eliminate anything that will get in the way of that. And that includes some friendships and relationships. (24:37) What it means to me is to be able to own your mistakes. Take responsibility for your part, and have enough courage to admit that, and have the courage to receive the healing and the forgiveness from the pain. WAYS TO CONNECT WITH ME… https://raisethepraisepodcast.comhttps://www.facebook.com/jbell2007https://www.choose2praise.comjenniferbell.biz CONNECT WITH MY GUEST: https://bit.ly/3x9Bgdn

ABOUT THIS EPISODE: EP:27 DO YOU HAVE THE COURAGE TO HEAL? I’m reminded of Maya Angelou’s book, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings, because of the 38 years that I suffered in silence, feeling like a caged bird longing for freedom. After speaking my truth, overcoming my trauma so that I can thrive in life, I’ve met some incredibly brave women who also shared their courage to heal stories on this podcast.. In this episode, my question to you is, “Do YOU have the courage to heal” so that you too can overcome past/present trauma? SHOWNOTES: WAYS TO CONNECT WITH ME… https://raisethepraisepodcast.comhttps://www.facebook.com/jbell2007https://www.choose2praise.comjenniferbell.biz

ABOUT THIS EPISODE: Welcome back to Raise the Praise where we choose to reclaim our joy and thrive in every area of our lives, that's physically, mentally, financially and spiritually, to do all that God is calling us to do. I'm your host, Jennifer Bell. I am so excited to have my sister friend Stephanie McNeil on the show today. Stephanie is a certified relationship educator, licensed in Identity and Destiny and former Women’s Ministry Leader, a Forgiveness Coach and host of the The Freed 2 Love Podcast. For the next few episodes, I’ve invited a few of my friends, women, who are going to share their courage to heal stories, because I believe we must break our silence, come from behind our ashes and live in our true beauty. Let’s let our sisters know, you’re not alone. My prayer is that you, my dear sister, will have the courage to heal and walk in freedom. Listen in as my sister Stephanie shares her story in this Courage2Heal Interview. SHOWNOTES: • It is a simple thing, but it's complicated. So you forgive when you are unjustly hurt by another, you forgive when you give up the resentment, not by denying your right to your just desires. (6:18) • You're so right, because even my own situation, I forgive with my lips, but oh my gosh, when memories or thoughts were on the anger, the sadness, all the emotions that you go through it, those different stages of forgiveness. (10:06) • When I learned that when you hold unforgiveness, it releases hormones in your body like Cortisol and what happens, that could cause high blood pressure, cancer feeds off of it, all kinds of other illnesses and everything have to do with a simple thing of letting go. (13:53) • Look at was it I'm doing now. There's no way you can shut me up now, because once you break that silent and you feel this freedom that, Oh my god, I never knew I could feel this way and standing in my truth. (27:33) WAYS TO CONNECT WITH ME… • Website: https://raisethepraisepodcast.com • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jbell2007 • Facebook Group: https://www.choose2praise.com • Courage2heal Circle Waitlist: jenniferbell.biz CONNECT WITH MY GUEST: • Website: https://www.freed2love.com • Free Gift: https://www.freed2love.com/freegift • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/freed2love • Instagram: http://instagram.com/stephanieymcneal • Podcast: Freed 2 Love Podcast EPISODE AIRED ON: MARCH 31, 2021

ABOUT THIS EPISODE: Welcome back. We've been talking about having the courage to heal through forgiveness, faith, health and courage. Remember, courage is the ability to do something that frightened you and doing something in the face of pain or grief, and then to heal is to cause to become sound or healthy again. So, what does the courage to heal mean, even in the face of fear, pain or grief? I'm choosing to heal so that I can walk in freedom, and that freedom comes through forgiveness. That freedom comes through my faith, and that freedom comes with my health. As women of faith, we know the power of forgiveness, however, the process of forgiving those who hurt us or even ourselves is a journey. God gives us the courage to find freedom, to forgive, heal and thrive in every area of our lives. For the next few episodes, I've invited a few of my friends, women, who are going to share their courage to heal stories, because I believe we must break our silence, come from behind our ashes and live in our true beauty. Let's let our sisters know, you're not alone. My prayer is that you, my dear sister, will have the courage to heal and walk in freedom. Listen in as my sister shares her story of how she had the courage to heal and where she is with her journey. It is my pleasure to speak with my sister Jabrita Shelton in this Courage2Heal Interview. Listen in… WAYS TO CONNECT WITH ME… • Website: https://raisethepraisepodcast.com • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jbell2007 • Facebook Group: https://www.choose2praise.com • Courage2Heal Conference: Secure Your Ticket Here. CONNECT WITH MY GUEST: • Website: https://www.jabritasheltonco.com • Facebook: @Jabrita Shelton • Instagram: @jabritasheltonco EPISODE AIRED ON: MARCH 24, 2021

ABOUT THIS EPISODE: Welcome back. We've been talking about having the courage to heal through forgiveness, faith, health and courage. Remember, courage is the ability to do something that frightened you and doing something in the face of pain or grief, and then to heal is to cause to become sound or healthy again. So, what does the courage to heal mean, even in the face of fear, pain or grief? I'm choosing to heal so that I can walk in freedom, and that freedom comes through forgiveness. That freedom comes through my faith, and that freedom comes with my health. As women of faith, we know the power of forgiveness, however, the process of forgiving those who hurt us or even ourselves is a journey. God gives us the courage to find freedom, to forgive, heal and thrive in every area of our lives. For the next few episodes, I've invited a few of my friends, women, who are going to share their courage to heal stories, because I believe we must break our silence, come from behind our ashes and live in our true beauty. Let's let our sisters know, you're not alone. My prayer is that you, my dear sister, will have the courage to heal and walk in freedom. Listen in as my sister shares her story of how she had the courage to heal and where she is with her journey. It is my pleasure to speak with my sister TeNita Ballard in this Courage2Heal Interview. TeNita is a woman of God and CEO of Seasoned to a Tee. Listen in… SHOWNOTES: • So, when I say I've been to see what my truth, that goes back to when I was 18 years old. I actually had an encounter. It was my first college party, I traveled with a couple of friends, was super excited, and we went to our first college party for dancing. I saw this guy and he started talking to me, and honestly, it would go before that too, because to me, the excitement of him showing interest in me. (6:05) • Later I found out that he was older, and so honestly, he was praying on young girls, so I would see him around campus and he did not go to the school, which was very weird. Going back to school and then I noticed that I was missing my period, so I called my sister, the one that I called to get me out of the situation. She and my friend took me to the doctor, and that's when I found out. (11:13) • But sometimes we hide behind our ashes, we hide behind our faith because we just show up, and to just see us on at the surface level, you can't see the heart, even though you've gone through what you've gone through. Over a span of 20 years, and you realize that you did not have an abortion, that was a miscarriage, it was not your fault. But yet, and still you felt that void. You still have that internal turmoil about, Well, golly, I need something, I have to continue to achieve. I needed the praises of other people, I need those accolades to value me, to give me worth. (18:02) • If we allow the enemy to take a hold of our mind, that's why the Bible tells us to renew our minds daily, because of the things that we can see, what we hear, what we feel, but we have to word of God on the inside. That's what comes out of our mouth. It helps us to make sure that those limiting beliefs, those nasty thoughts, all of those things, who God says I am, and I started speaking what God says about me, because it doesn't go away. We're still human. It happened, right? But it no longer has a hold on me, and the beautiful part is when you have the courage to heal. (26:05) WAYS TO CONNECT WITH ME… • Website: https://raisethepraisepodcast.com • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jbell2007 • Facebook Group: https://www.choose2praise.com • Courage2Heal Conference: Secure Your Ticket Here. CONNECT WITH MY GUEST: • seasonedtoatee@gmail.com • IG: @tenita30 • @Seasonedtoatee EPISODE AIRED ON: MARCH 17, 2021

ABOUT THIS EPISODE: Welcome back to part 5 and 6 of the Freedom Series. This series is all about my six steps called the THRIVE Method that I have personally used to find freedom to thrive, or prosper and flourish, through everything in my life, through forgiveness, through health to faith. So in steps 5 and 6, to summarize, is faith plus effort. It's how we occupy until He comes. Meaning whatever your talent or skills, whatever God has given you, given us, we are to be working and doing what our fingerprints were designed to do. You can find that in a Luke chapter 19, Occupy until he comes. So today we are wrapping up the Freedom series, the THRIVE method and the six steps, in finding freedom to forgive and thrive in our life through forgiveness, faith and health, and having the courage to do that. Listen in… SHOWNOTES: • So the recap of the THRIVE method is; how do you find freedom to thrive in your life is through these six steps? And the acronym is T-H-R-I-V-E. The first step, the T is thought. I reminded us that we have to understand our self worth. It's not tied to who we are or what we think we should be and have to be. We have to arrest our thoughts that keep us stuck in our current situations by renewing our minds. (1:48) • One of my favorite scriptures is in Isaiah 61-3, when he says that, to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion to give unto the beauty for ashes, the oil of joy, for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. My favorite reminder that God gives us those who he called out of the ashes of oppression, slavery, abuse and exhortation, He gives us beauty where destruction and hopelessness had once resided. (4:55) • So in wrapping up the Freedom series, as far as the THRIVE method and the six steps to find freedom to forgive and thrive in our life through forgiveness, faith and health, having the courage to do that, is what I want to invite you all to do. (7:57) • Let's build this in such a way that women are... They feel so safe to come here to listen, to share, and this won't be your average virtual conference, trust me, it's going to be engaging, it's going to be interactive and so much fun, knowing that you're in the midst of a sister circle. (9:50) WAYS TO CONNECT WITH ME… • Website: https://raisethepraisepodcast.com • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jbell2007 • Facebook Group: https://www.choose2praise.com • Courage2Heal Conference: Secure Your Ticket Here. EPISODE AIRED ON: MARCH 10, 2021

ABOUT THIS EPISODE: Welcome back to part 4 of the Freedom Series. This series is all about my six steps called the THRIVE Method that I have personally used to find freedom to thrive, or prosper and flourish, through everything in my life, through forgiveness, through health to faith. Today I have a special guest, Carmela E. Head. Carmela is a dear friend, author of Be Transformed. Carmela shares with us the power of creating a blueprint to help guide you on your path through life. She serves with passion to empower others to discover and maximize their gifts, talents, skills, and their abilities to bring forth revelation to others. To be all that God has called and created them to be. Listen in… SHOWNOTES: • This is why I wanted to have Carmela on because all she is truly in her zone of genius, like we like to say, when it comes to empowering you and some practical things that you can do to make sure that you are actually stepping into the right direction of your God-given talent. (4:14) • I always think about an architect, an architect never steps forward to create any structure without a blueprint, they always have a blueprint. A pilot never steps into the plane and navigates anything without a flight plan, and we can keep going. (7:12) • So designing your blueprint is something like this; When you want to create a blueprint for yourself, take a look at the different areas of your life that God can develop. And how do you do that? Take the time to get still and just listen to what God is downloading into your heart. How about where you are? You can use this roadmap to go forward, it's so simple as taking out a sheet of paper and a pencil, getting still and pausing and look at all these different areas in your life. (11:30) • So a lot of times, as we're going through this step for initiating change, understand that you can make the blueprint, you can lay it all out and if something happens, right? Not something bad or tragedy, but it can… Your plans can change. It's just the guide, like you were sharing it with the architect. So, I know some people set something in stone and they get upset because it's not flowing the way they thought it was going to go. (18:59) WAYS TO CONNECT WITH ME… • Website: https://raisethepraisepodcast.com • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jbell2007 • Facebook Group: https://www.choose2praise.com • Courage2Heal Conference: Secure Your Ticket Here. CONNECT WITH MY GUEST: • www.transformational-moment.com • transformationalmoment@gmail.com • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BeTransformedToday • Twitter: _BeTransformed • LinkedIn: Carmela E. Head • Instagram: @transformationalmoment EPISODE AIRED ON: MARCH 03, 2021

ABOUT THIS EPISODE: Welcome back to the continuation of the Freedom Series. This series is all about my six steps called the THRIVE Method that I have personally used to find freedom to thrive, or prosper and flourish, through everything in my life, through forgiveness, through health to faith. Today let's dive into step three of the THRIVE Method, the R in THRIVE. The R stands for renewing your mind. Romans 12 and 2 in the new King James Version, it says, "And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God." So let's talk about this for a little bit. The R stands for renewing. The Bible says, be ye transformed by the renew-ing. And renewing means to make new like new to restore, to freshness, to make a new spiritually, we generate to reveal, to do again and again and again to repeat, renewing it. So how do we renew our minds daily? Join me and let's find out. Listen in… SHOWNOTES: • I love how Joyce Meyers, she's the world's leading practical Bible teacher. She says, start reading a chapter in the book of Proverbs that coincide with the day of the month, for example, if today is the 24th, read Proverbs Chapter 24, there's a chapter for every day of the month to read in proverbs. And she says to get the word inside of you. (5:35) • Guess what? We gotta stop talking, we have to quiet the noise in our heads. We need to hear from God. Therefore, we must listen for His voice, sometimes it's a still small voice, sometimes it could come through in our dreams, it could come through reading His word. Just listen and be on the lookout because one word from God, one word can change everything, so be sure to listen when we pray. (6:31) • Think on the things that are true, those things that are noble, just. Those things that are pure and lovely, of good report. Anything that's praiseworthy, meditate on these things. This is how you combat those negative thoughts. These are just some of the practical examples of how to renew our minds daily, that we can start to do right now. There's also a second part to this step that has to do with self-development strategies that I have found to be imperative to renewing my mind on a daily basis, things like journaling, things like gratitude, affirmations morning routines. (7:18) • Putting some actions, putting some works behind the faith that we have as we are finding freedom to thrive in our lives, in every area of our lives. I don't care if it's physically, mentally, financially, and of course, spiritually. So this was step three, What's renewing your mind by transforming, being transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that we can do that good and perfect will that God has for our lives. (9:30) WAYS TO CONNECT WITH ME… • Website: https://raisethepraisepodcast.com • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jbell2007 • Facebook Group: https://www.choose2praise.com • Courage2Heal Conference: Secure Your Ticket Here. EPISODE AIRED ON: FEBRUARY 24, 2021

ABOUT THIS EPISODE: Welcome back to the continuation of the Freedom Series on the THRIVE Method, that I personally used to find freedom in my own life for forgiveness, health and my faith. Understanding that God wants us to prosper, once I understood that, he wants us to prosper and be in health. Prosperity not only means personal wealth, but also includes being wealthy in all degrees such as happiness and health. Last episode, I shared a little about my journey to freedom, beginning with step one of the Thrive Method, in resting my thoughts about my own limiting beliefs against what God says about me in His word. So today, let's talk about step 2, the Heart; getting to the heart of the matter. This step is crucial on the freedom journey to thrive in life, because it literally is the center of our human lives, the heart and spiritual activity. Ready to learn more? Listen in… SHOWNOTES: • I had to understand the Epic center of my pain centered around my heart, that was not healed after almost 40 years, an apology is not going to heal the hurt. Only God could do that.(3:52) • I turned it inward and suffered in silence, quietly crying myself to sleep each day. Thinking negative thoughts about how I looked and just having anger and bitterness at the little Jennifer inside of me. That's exactly when I began therapy sessions to help me get to the heart of my matter. (4:50) • I tried my best to mask my hurt. I tried my best to mask my hurt heart with thoughts of, you're okay, you have a beautiful family, you love your job, you're not hurting for anything, you're not wanting for anything, just be happy and you're like, let it go. That's just it, although I had all those things, I was not experiencing true prosperity in my life. (5:34) • What is that saying? Way down on the inside of that you have not addressed. I mean, it's like surgery Y'all, getting down to the heart of the matter and acknowledging that. Yeah, my heart is hard, and I really want to heal from this so I can move in freedom and do the things God's calling me to do authentically. Not hiding behind a mask, not pretending that everything is just okay. (6:49) WAYS TO CONNECT WITH ME… • Website: https://raisethepraisepodcast.com • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jbell2007 • Facebook Group: https://www.choose2praise.com • Courage2Heal Conference: Secure Your Ticket Here. EPISODE AIRED ON: FEBRUARY 17, 2021

ABOUT THIS EPISODE: Welcome back to my praises faith friends. Thank you so much for joining me today as we dive down deeper into the Freedom Series with the Thrive Method, Step 1. Today we are exploring the T, which stands for Thoughts in the T.H.R.I.V.E. Method. Once I learned how to find freedom to thrive through forgiveness, once I learn how to find freedom to thrive in my faith, and once I learned how to find freedom to thrive in my health, my life began to change for the better, and I will never go back to that old life. See, today I am so free, I have so much joy and confidence in who God has designed me to be, although I may still struggle sometimes, I'm grateful, I'm grateful for my story, I'm grateful for my experiences, I'm grateful because what God has planned for me in my life, he is going to perfect it until the end. Ready to learn more? Listen in… SHOWNOTES: • I remember six and a half years ago when I believed that the only way for me to find freedom to thrive in my own life was to pretend like I was happy, I wanted to always achieve more. I love God and I serve God, and if I just did those things, all would be well. (2:09) • I was 12 years old when I started dieting. Crazy. Why can't I get this weight off? What's wrong with me? Questions like, How am I going to get past the feelings of shame, unforgiveness, bitterness and anger towards my abusers and myself... Why don't you let it happen? Blaming myself, I have a little girl on the inside, how do I forgive her? And then I would ask, Is this just the way my life is going to be? (4:01) • We must arrest thoughts that keeps us stuck and test our limiting beliefs against what God says about who we are, what God says about what we can do, what God says about who we can be in our lives. See, the Bible says that as a man think it or a woman, so is he. In Proverbs 23-7, one of the most amazing gifts God has given us is our mind, our mind, the ability to think, to learn, to choose and to reason, our thoughts become a reflection of who we really are. (6:27) • This is why understanding how to mind our mind is such an important first step in this method. Because when we have stinking thinking is what I like to call it, meaning, our thoughts are not aligning what God has said about us in His word and our thoughts. They keep us paralyzed by the limiting beliefs that circle around in our heads, we find ourselves in cycles of defeat, we find ourselves questioning our identity, we find ourselves short changing the gifts and talents that God has given each of us. And that we can show up and impact our world around us. (7:55) WAYS TO CONNECT WITH ME… • Website: https://raisethepraisepodcast.com • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jbell2007 • Facebook Group: https://www.choose2praise.com EPISODE AIRED ON: FEBRUARY 10, 2021

ABOUT THIS EPISODE: Welcome back to my praises faith friends. Thank you so much for joining me today on this introduction to the Freedom Series. I have been blessed to be in the field of education for over 25 years. But in 2017, when God told me to walk away from public education, he also told me that my training over the years would not be in vain, I will teach again, and I believe this is what God meant, because to be able to actually teach someone the steps I personally went through to find freedom and healing on my journey to forgive, with his help and faith. I am excited to be guiding others to do the same using the T.H.R.I.V.E. method, I am so excited to see his plan come together so that I can help others find freedom too. Ready to learn more? Listen in… SHOWNOTES: • I finally had an aha moment. I want to help women find freedom through forgiveness, health and our fate to thrive in every area of your life that's physically, mentally, financially, and of course, spiritually, so that you can do all that God has designed your fingerprints to do. (3:19) • Live a life of freedom. You know, the Bible says, Whom the Son sets free is free, indeed. I have never shared how I was able to find freedom in these three areas of my life, because I too have hidden behind the ashes of my own beauty and only shared surface level information about how I was able to walk in freedom. (4:49) • The Thrive method is six steps in the acronym of Thrive that I took to find my own freedom, and I'll talk more about what that freedom looks like, what I was releasing as far as forgiveness and a little bit about my own story as we go through this series. (6:46) • I began to say what God says about me and who I can be and what he's calling me to do. I began to write affirmations in the present for what I wanted to see in my own life, and that freedom, like the E is for effort. Now, once we make the road map and the plan, we have to work the plan. The Bible also says, Faith without works is dead, so we must work the plan until we see what it is that we speak and want in our lives. (8:21) WAYS TO CONNECT WITH ME… • Website: https://raisethepraisepodcast.com • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jbell2007 • Facebook Group: https://www.choose2praise.com EPISODE AIRED ON: FEBRUARY 03, 2021

ABOUT THIS EPISODE: Welcome back to my praises faith friends. Thank you so much for joining me. I Read a quote that caught my attention and it said, you are presented with two choices, evolve or repeat. Personally, I want to continue to grow and develop my gifts, talents and skills to impact the kingdom of God on the earth. So on this episode, I'm going to share five ways to know if you are evolving into your higher self, and if you're not, three things you should consider in order to do so. Ready to learn more? Listen in... SHOWNOTES: • I know my purpose is to help women get their mind, body and spirit in alignment to thrive in life, and I do that through reminders of God's word, what he says about us and our situations. Now, this word evolved caught my attention and it means to develop gradually or to make someone or something change and develop gradually. (2:55) • There could be, sometimes it comes through a dream, that confirmation. However you get your spiritual confirmation, that's the third thing that could possibly happen to let you know you are truly evolving into your highest self. (4:43) • I read a passage, talks about 8 things that successful people do before 8 AM every day. One of those things is that they have an established morning routine that gets them up and going. I like the saver method. (6:29) • So, if you're ready to evolve, meaning, you're gradually moving towards your higher self, you have to have some things in place, get the clarity that you need or what your fingerprints were designed to do. Make sure you have some form of routine morning routine to get you going. And it may be as simple as making your bed as soon as you wake up. (8:35) WAYS TO CONNECT WITH ME… • Website: https://raisethepraisepodcast.com • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jbell2007 • Facebook Group: https://www.choose2praise.com EPISODE AIRED ON: JANUARY 27, 2021

ABOUT THIS EPISODE: Welcome back to my praises faith friends. Thank you so much for joining me today. God wants us to be the lender and not the borrower. However, we must take responsibility for our finances, and on today's show, my guest Cleo Childress will share exactly how we can do just that. So, let me just tell you a little bit about Cleo. She is the creator of Cleo Yoga Finance, a podcast host, financial educator, yoga instructor, and transformational speaker. Cleo mixes yoga and finance to help transform mindsets and create healthier financial lifestyles. As a teen mom, she struggled with her finances, homelessness and a deep depression, however, she persevered and now she uses her personal and professional life lessons to help others. Her motto is, don't wonder what if, take a risk. Ready to learn more? Listen in... SHOWNOTES: • I'm originally from Nashville Tennessee, currently living in Dallas, Texas. I am a single mom, my daughter, she is now 17 years old, a senior in high school, and I was a teen Mom, that's where a lot of my big transformations, I really started as a first generation college student. So, single mom working, going to college at the same time... And that's when I started to go into a lot of it with the student loans back then, I just didn't really know any better. That's all everyone really talked about in my environment was, if you go on to college, nobody can afford to go, so you have to take out student loans. So I would fill out the Fafsa, but after that, it was just like a domino effect, it was a credit card to a car note, payday loans, and then that ended up being wage garnishment, it just started going downhill because in my family, no one really talked about that money. (3:31) • That's when I started to use the yoga and meditation, that I began to dig deeper in my finances. It helps me to acknowledge where I was in denial, it helps me acknowledge what my money habits really were and what was really holding me back financially. Listen, I really wanted to live. And that's when I connected to yoga. I realize that, Hey, it's not just doing a budget or learning how to track your expenses, you have to dig deeper to figure out how did you get where you are right now, and what habits really need to change. And you have to dig deep and really challenge your mind and your body. (6:29) • So the next step is I actually have to start taking action. It's not enough taking in all this information, because you don't want to be an information hoarder. You don't want to just read all these books and take all these notes and let them just sit there and collect dust. I realize I have to actually start doing something. So the first thing I did was I started looking at my credit report, I knew how much debt I had, but I never really looked at my credit report because for one, I was like, I do want to look at this. Yeah, I want to see it. But then second, I knew I wasn't borrowing any more money, because I knew I wouldn't get approved anyway. so I was like, Why do I check reports? I'm not going to be financing anything because I can't get approved because my credit history was just terrible. (11:22) • First, make that list of all your debts, and sometimes you'll have debts that may not necessarily be reporting on your credit report, so you have to make sure you're looking through all your financial documents. Look at your tax returns, your emails, paper documents, that you have, because you want to make sure you're accounting for anything and everybody that you owe. It's like you really will be delivered with a debt-free journey, and so you put everybody on there, even if you have a cousin that you owe money to, put them on the list as well. (15:19) WAYS TO CONNECT WITH ME… • Website: https://raisethepraisepodcast.com • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jbell2007 • Facebook Group: https://www.choose2praise.com • Cleo's Website: https://www.cleoyogafinance.com • Cleo's Email:...