Women World Leaders' Podcast

Learn with host Robin Kirby-Gatto how your mountains can be flattened as you grow strong in spirit. The grace of God is made known within the soul as you face your obstacles and take hold of leadership opportunities.

After her son was thrown from the 3rd-floor balcony at the famous Mall of America, Kari Hoffmann went right to her only source of perfect help—GOD! Hear this gripping, inspirational survival story and be awed by the beautiful peace God showered down during this tragic event. God was with Kari as she screamed to Him for help, and He was with her son, Landen, through the entire journey, bringing His healing. Be inspired as you are reminded of God's nearness to and love for His children as you listen to Kari tell about their Miracle at the Mall.

Join Dr. Jia Richardson as she unpacks the power of prayer. What does your prayer life look like? Is it one of prayer power or preying power? The power of prayer is not a cliche. Praying, instead of preying, is ammunition for transformation.

What does it take to leave a mark on the world that will impact the people we encounter for eternity? How should we live today to ensure that in the end we will hear, “Well done, good and faithful servant?” Join Julie Harwick as she gives tribute to two beautiful women of God and challenges us to live well for Jesus.

It’s not always easy to love people like Jesus does. Join Tewannah Aman as she tells how God transformed her heart and mind, enabling her to see others through the eyes of Jesus, bringing healing and restoration to a number of relationships.

God's promises are true and unfailing. In a world where there is truth and deception, good and evil, nothing is impossible for God. In today's podcast interview, Dustina Abbott shares her story of learning to wait for God's faithfulness and promise. Although the toil and trials of her life set in hard, and she became angry at God, He pursued her. His promises and faithful love to her carried her safely to a newfound peace on the other side of doubt, discouragement, and resentment. God's promises are for each of us.

Guess what? Dr. Jia Richardson has good news for you today! The dress rehearsal is over, the script has been read, and you know the lines. You have mastered this part all of your life, and now “It’s Your Turn!” God is calling forth His daughters to rise now. There is no more wading in the waiting, your time is now. Would God’s daughters please come forth? “It’s Your Turn!”

As humans, we struggle to understand and comprehend God’s grace and its meaning in our lives. An obscure biblical character has a lot to teach us about the subject and how we are to receive and live in God’s grace. Grow in grace as Julie Harwick presents this beautiful teaching.

Walk with Tewannah Aman as she shares the negative influences that created a shame-based identity in her life. See how God’s Word brought healing and restoration to her soul, enabling her to embrace her true identity in Christ.

Healing from past wounds can sometimes take a lifetime. Today's guest, Lori Nolan, author of The Balanced Life Method. shares her story of past trauma and her process of an inner healing journey with God. Rooted in a commitment to faith, Lori inspires people to reclaim their health through healing with God in order to bring about a renewed sense of purpose for their life.

We’ve seen that body image can easily become an idol in our lives and breaking free from diet culture and wrong thinking doesn’t come naturally. In Julie Harwick's final podcast on the topic of body image, we’ll explore how to view our bodies and our health from God’s perspective and allow Him to lead us to the balance and peace we long for.

There are so many things around us that appear to be God and His nature. Yet, The One True God is distinct and unmatched. He is a promise keeper and waymaker. It is important that we never forget the nature of The One True God and how He shows up for us and in us. Once you know, YOU KNOW! Go on and rejoice now!! The One True God!

We all have areas in our lives that need to be refined. That will sometimes require us to lovingly correct an individual or to face being corrected. Join Tewannah Aman as she shares what God’s Word says about the importance of sharpening each other so we become more like Christ.

We say we believe God’s Word, but when it conflicts with the culture around us, we don’t always act like true believers. In the second podcast of Julie Harwicks's series on body image, we examine the lies we have believed and the struggle that can result from replacing them with God’s truth. *** Welcome to Women World Leaders podcast. I’m your host, Julie Harwick. Thank you for joining me today as we celebrate God’s grace in our lives, in this ministry and around the world. Whether we’re scrolling through Facebook, YouTube or Instagram, we can always count on being offered a video, based on science of course, that will reveal the magic solution to lasting weight loss, a flat stomach, sag-free arms or a total facelift without surgery. This person has struggled with the very same issues and it motivated him or her to pour everything into finding the answer. And now, they want nothing more than to share it with you and it’s unlike anything you’ve seen before. For the next 20-25 minutes, this innovator will describe in detail the problem and everything you’ve done in an attempt to fix it. Sadly, none of it has worked. You’re almost shouting at the screen, “Yes! Yes! That’s exactly me! This guy (or lady) really gets me!” There are charts and studies showing how this product or system has ingredients in a precise combination no one ever thought to try before. Before you know it, you realize that at least 20 minutes have passed, but you still don’t really know what the solution is. By now, you’ve invested so much time, you’d hate to have it be for nothing, so you click on the link to learn more. But rather than getting answers to your questions, you are offered a subscription plan that will save you a lot of money and have you looking and feeling your best in no time. I have wasted countless hours on this whole process. And when I come to my senses, I always get a mental image of Wayne and Garth of SNL’s Wayne’s World making fish lips and mocking me with their “fished in” bit. I feel like a fool and yet it doesn’t keep me from falling for it again and again. I know there is no magic bullet and yet I so desperately want one. What is it that makes us so susceptible to these lies? I say “us,” because I know I’m not alone in this weakness. Consumers spend approximately 70 billion dollars each year on diets, exercise programs and the associated products. In fact, it’s estimated that on average, each of us will spend more than $112,000 on it during our lifetimes. What is euphemistically referred to as “health and fitness” is actually an industry…an industry based on an even more pervasive culture. Diet culture is the term used to describe the overall system of beliefs that equates thinness to health and moral virtue. It demonizes certain ways of eating and elevates others. And I, along with millions just like me, have embraced it without question. I don’t know who originally coined this phrase, but it has been my mantra for years. “Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.” Let me say it again in case you missed it. “Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels.” That elusive “feeling” of thinness is a powerful motivator. I’ve experienced it at times and I have to admit, it feels good. Really good! At least, my flesh tells me it does. My head tells me it’s another lie of Satan, but my heart still struggles to accept and internalize what I know God is saying. I have literally spent decades fully immersed in diet culture. As I shared with you last time, I went on my first diet and exercise program at 13. No one specifically told me to do it, but after looking through a teen magazine and noticing that I wasn’t as slim as the girls I saw on the pages, I knew I had to do something. For me, diet culture made sense and it made me feel like I was in control and could hold my head up high as long as I was doing the right things. To be honest, the moral virtue part of that culture motivated me as much as the...

Even if we walk away from God and His Word, He rescues us as His children and brings us back to Himself. Today's interview is about TRUST. Mel Mason shares Her "trust" story of how God restored her life when it was in shambles. God led her to a new beginning and a new life in Christ by releasing her "control" to God and trusting Him to take over.

In a world where we compete to "BE" for everything and "everyone," sometimes we need to be reminded as God's daughters, that we are HIS CHOICE! Join Dr. Jia for this empowering and inspirational message.

As women we face tremendous pressure from society to look a certain way. Our culture compels us to go all in, pursuing youth, beauty and fitness with everything that we have. But isn’t that the kind of single-minded focus that should be reserved for God alone? Join host Julie Harwick as she explores this important topic. **** Welcome to Women World Leaders podcast. I’m your host, Julie Harwick. Thank you for joining me today as we celebrate God’s grace in our lives, in this ministry and around the world. They say confession is good for the soul. And the Bible tells us in the book of James that we should confess our sins one to another. God has been convicting me heavily in recent weeks and months, so I’ll come clean and make my confession. I have been worshipping an idol, not of wood or stone, but an image, just the same…the image I see in the mirror. I have devoted innumerable hours to grooming and looking at that image, thinking about how I could make it look better, thinner, younger, reading anything that might help me in that pursuit, altering what I eat, when I eat, how I exercise and how I dress. I’ve sacrificed financially to pay for diet plans, gym memberships and beauty products that claim to eliminate wrinkles or just make me look better. I tried to convince myself that these efforts were directed at caring for the temple that God gave me. After all, He says in 1 Corinthians 6:19 “Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you.” But the truth is that such justification would be taking the verse out of context and ignoring the remainder of it, which says, “You are not your own. For you were bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your body.” All the thoughts I was dwelling on, the actions I was taking, the money I was spending…it wasn’t to glorify God. It was to glorify me. I seriously doubt that there’s a woman alive, and not a whole lot of men either, who can’t identify at all with what I’m talking about. But just in case you don’t recognize anything like this in yourself, let me explain how I got here. I had loving, supportive parents, no childhood traumas; and yet, I began thinking about how my appearance compared to other girls my age in elementary school. I remember getting a pamphlet in gym class about health and nutrition and it showed how much a girl should weigh according to her height. I dug it out and referred to it time and again over the years to see if I was where I should be. I went through a “chubby stage” when I was about 10 and had the misfortune of having a naturally slender cousin exactly my age. At family gatherings, people who hadn’t seen us for a while noticed the differences. One uncle actually gave us the nicknames of “Chubby” and “Slim.” When puberty hit at age 11, the chubbiness disappeared without any effort on my part. While I was thrilled with my thinner frame, I had a whole new set of concerns. Once again, I wasn’t like the other girls my age. I needed a bra and deodorant and when my friends found out, they teased me about it. I spent all of fifth grade desperately trying to hide my developing figure and hoping that it would begin to happen to the girls around me…and soon! The summer before 8 grade, something made me think that I could stand to lose some weight. It’s entirely possible that I came to that conclusion after thumbing through my older sister’s teen magazine, “Seventeen “ which was full of articles and tips on diet and exercise. As much as I hated running, I forced myself to run around our circular driveway 13 times each day – the equivalent of a mile. When I got hungry between meals, I ate raw cucumbers, a whole cucumber at a time, right out of our garden. I managed to maintain the appropriate weight, according to that pamphlet I got in elementary school, all through high school, but I was still self-conscious about having heavier legs. When I was wearing shorts and sitting next to my boyfriend at age 16, I...

Are you self-conscious of who you are and where you came from? Join Tewannah Aman as she reminds us that, In Christ, we are daughters of the King. You have been chosen by God to do great things!

Please join us as Crista Albritton Meadows shares her restoration story. As an RN case director for 25 years, teacher of Inner Healing, minister, and a woman who empowers others to walk with Jesus, Crista vulnerably shares how her shattered marriage crippled her with a broken heart and how God miraculously brought her to full restoration. God restored Crista in a way we would not expect. The teaching through Crista's story sheds light on how we can each be restored through God's power.

Sometimes life can make us feel as if we are on the outside of our very own lives, EXILED, trying to get to the EXODUS. Yet, the word of God encourages us to know that He is a known God and is always ready to shift us from the place of EXILE INTO OUR EXODUS. God is the God that delivers, and we just have to be positioned and postured for His deliverance. Be encouraged to know that God is waiting for us to enter into the EXODUS of His love, grace, and mercy!