What do you do when you have a big heart for a big group of people, but you still can’t say who you’re for? Lucy Mendez knows that feeling well. She’s an award-winning pitch competitor with organizations knocking on her door, and she showed up to our live P2P coaching call completely worn out.

In this live coaching episode, you’ll hear:

• Why feeling pulled between two audiences keeps you stuck (and exhausted)
• How we narrowed Lucy’s focus to one main pain point: skilled immigrants whose careers are being wasted
• Why “The Successful Immigrant” beat “Newcomer Experience.” Clear beats clever, and search matters.
• The market research step that locks in your podcast tagline

God doesn’t call you to serve everyone. He calls you to serve someone really, really well. I pray this blesses you!

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You're working hard. You're showing up. You're doing all the things. And your business still feels stuck.

Friend, it's not your strategy. It's not your content. It's not your niche. It's that you haven't actually handed the outcome to God yet. (Ask me how I know.)

If you keep trying to do it all yourself, or you've been believing that more output means more results, this one's for you. In this episode, I walk you through three things so many of us do that quietly block God from moving in our business... and a simple, faith-led plan to stop doing them this week:

• Checking your analytics every hour instead of doing the work
• Rewriting and refining things that were done three drafts ago
• Making exhausted decisions alone at midnight, carrying something that was never your job to carry

We'll lean on Psalm 127:1, Proverbs 3:5-6, and Exodus 14:14, and I'll challenge you to release the one thing you're still white-knuckling so God has room to do what only He can do.

You don't need more control. You need to let go of it.

I pray this episode helps you finally lay it down.

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Have you ever bought a beautiful planner in January, full of hope, only to find it sitting untouched by March? Friend, I don't think that's a you problem. I think most planners are built wrong. 

Today I sat down with Polly Payne, owner and CEO of Horacio Printing, to talk about what actually makes a planner work, and why she just built a brand new one for 2027.

Polly has been in this space for years, teaching entrepreneurs and creatives how to plan, design, print, and publish high-quality paper products. In this conversation she walks us through what changed in her own thinking about what women actually need from a planner, not just something pretty, but something built to help you follow through when life gets full and messy. We talk about what's new in her 2027 planner, what she learned from her own community about why planners get abandoned, and how she approached building something that actually holds up past February. If you've ever felt like the problem was your discipline instead of your tools, this conversation might change your mind.

Grab Polly's 2027 Planner:

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You want the business. You also want the family, the peace, the presence with your kids. Somewhere along the way, someone told you that you can't fully have both. I don't believe that, and neither did a woman in the Bible named Hannah. She wasn't building a business. She was praying for a child. But how she waited, and what she did while she waited, is a blueprint for anyone holding a calling and a family at the same time.

In this episode I break down what I call the Hannah Principle: three specific moves Hannah made in 1 Samuel before God ever answered her prayer, and how each one maps directly onto building a God-led business without guilt. The real problem was never time management. It's the belief that waiting on God and working toward your calling are opposites. Waiting on God was never meant to mean putting your calling on pause.

How do I build a business without sacrificing my family?
You don't have to choose. Hannah named her ache to God honestly, made a real commitment instead of a vague hope, and let her countenance change before her circumstances did. The same order works in business: honesty first, commitment second, peace before proof. God is so faithful to meet us exactly in the season we're actually in, not the one we wish we had.

I pray this episode gives you permission to move forward this week, not once the kids are older, not someday, now.

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"You Launched Your Podcast. Now What? 5 Things to Do the Week After Your First Episode Goes Live"

You did it! You hit publish. Your podcast is live. And now you're sitting there refreshing your app every ten minutes wondering why nobody's listening yet. Friend, I hear this from so many new podcasters the second their show goes live: "I launched, now what? I feel like I have to promote it or nobody's going to see it, but I don't even know what the next step is."

 A launch isn't the finish line, it's the starting gun. What you do (or don't do) in these first seven days sets the pattern for the next seventy.

In this episode I walk through the exact five things to do in your first week after launch, so you're not just sitting there hoping something happens. If you have asked yourself, "why isn't my new podcast getting downloads," this episode is for you. God isn't grading your launch. He's watching your follow-through. If you've been sitting in silence since you hit publish, this episode gives you a clear, faithful next step instead of another day of refreshing your stats.

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I did everything right. I optimized, I refined, I stayed consistent, and my business still wasn't growing. So I finally stopped and asked God the real question. Not "how do I fix this," but "God, what am I missing?" What He showed me had nothing to do with strategy.

If you've ever felt this exact thing (I know some of you are nodding right now), you think the problem is your funnel, your content, your consistency. It's not. The problem is what's underneath all of it, what you're actually building toward. I was chasing a version of "the way it's supposed to be done" without even realizing it, and friend, you can optimize a business built on the wrong thing and it will still stay stuck.

In this episode I'm walking you through what God showed me:

The idol I didn't know I was bowing to, the moment I realized I was tracking revenue before I was tracking the person on the other side of it, and why I kept ripping up my own seed to check if it was growing yet. I'm also giving you my full Seed to Harvest framework, three shifts, in order, so you can stop restarting and start rooting. God is so faithful to show us the real thing when we actually stop and ask Him.

I pray this episode gives you permission to stop digging up what you already planted and let it finally grow.

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You can grow a podcast without social media by focusing on three things: podcast SEO, consistent market-research-driven content, and guesting on other podcasts. That's the exact method I've used to grow my show past 1,000 episodes and build a multi-seven-figure business, without ever relying on Instagram, TikTok, or any social platform to do it.

If you've been told you need to be everywhere to grow, I want to challenge that today. Social media growth resets every time you log off. This method doesn't. It compounds.

In this episode, I walk you through the exact 3-pillar approach. First, setting up your show's SEO searchability, your title, your episode names, your keywords, your description, so real listeners can actually find you when they search their real problem. Second, publishing consistent content once or twice a week that's driven by what your audience is actually asking, not what you're guessing they want to hear. Third, guesting on other podcasts to borrow trust from an audience that's already listening, which is one of the fastest, cheapest growth levers available with zero social media required.

We also get into why slow, compounding growth beats fast growth that resets, and why you don't need the algorithm's strength when you've got the Spirit's. You'll walk away with a clear next step for each pillar, so you're not just inspired, you're actually building something searchable, consistent, and trusted by the end of this week. God is not limited by a platform He didn't create the rules for.

I pray this gives you permission to grow the sustainable way, His way.

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You don't always need the front door, friend. Sometimes you need to know how to find another way in. Deborah Leigh Glover has spent decades in high-level service, from cruise ships and private mega yachts to private estates, hotels, and resorts.

In this coaching call, we dig into her idea of "Opportunity Intelligence," the belief that opportunities aren't about luck, they're about becoming prepared enough to recognize and open the door when it shows up. Deborah shares how her own dyslexia pushed her to find alternative paths early in life, what she calls finding the "side door," and how that same skill has shaped her entire career.

The real breakthrough in this call wasn't the big idea. It was realizing the big idea was actually too broad to lead with. Deborah's strongest, most credible starting point was already sitting in her hands: elite service. Instead of teaching generic customer service, she gets to teach people already working in service how to become exceptional at it, stand out, and turn those skills into a business of their own. 

By the end of the call, Deborah had a clear direction. The Elite Service Concierge, with the tagline "Build a successful service business so you can open doors to opportunity."

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It's that time of year, friend. The one where everyone online starts screaming "finish the year strong" like that's a strategy and not just a vibe. If you're staring at your Q4 numbers wondering how you're going to hit your goal before December 31st, I want to walk you through something before you build that plan out of panic. A scared plan and a Spirit-led plan can look identical on paper. They feel completely different to build. One comes from scrambling to catch up. The other comes from committing your actions to God first and trusting Him with the results.

In this episode I'm unpacking the real difference between scarcity-driven scrambling and Spirit-led planning, and why more offers, more hustle, and more priorities almost never fix a Q4 that feels behind. We get into what it actually looks like to seek one thing first instead of chasing ten, and why quiet confidence, not frantic effort, is where your real strength for this season comes from. You'll walk away with a simple filter for choosing 1-2 priorities for the rest of this year, instead of trying to carry all of them into December.

God is not measuring you against a calendar deadline. He's measuring today's obedience. I pray this gives you permission to simplify your last quarter and build it from commitment instead of fear.

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For six years, I've been walking through an inner healing journey I've genuinely never talked about publicly before. Today, my coach Miranda Wendler joins me to finally open that door. We're talking about releasing trauma, learning to trust God in the healing process, and what it actually looks like to walk through the painful middle before you ever see the miracle on the other side.

I used to think needing this kind of healing meant I was weak. If you've ever felt that way too, ashamed of the anxiety, the worry, the walls you've built without even realizing it, I want you to hear this conversation. Strength was never the absence of needing healing. Sometimes it's having the courage to finally go there.

Miranda and I get honest about what it's really taken to meet with God in this process. The resistance I had to actually trusting Him with the deepest, most guarded parts of my heart. What overcoming demonic oppression has looked like in real, practical terms, not just a spiritual buzzword. And how breaking down walls I built for protection ended up being the very thing that set me free.

This isn't a polished, tidy testimony. It's six years of a messy, faithful middle. And I believe God is going to use this conversation to give someone listening permission to finally start their own healing journey, instead of staying guarded another year. God is so faithful to meet us in the parts we've hidden the longest.

I pray this conversation gives you the courage to bring your own walls into the light.

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I started this podcast almost 9 years ago with no plan, no team, and no idea if any of it would work. Just a nudge from God I couldn't shake. A thousand episodes later, I'm celebrating with the ten biggest lessons He's taught me along the way, and I wanted to celebrate with you too.

🎉WIN A 15-MINUTE COACHING SESSION WITH ME! 🎉

To celebrate 1,000 episodes, I'm giving away a 1-on-1 coaching call with me! Here's how to enter:

 1️⃣ Find my podcast on Apple Podcasts: GOD-LED BUSINESS
 2️⃣ Leave a 5-star written review
 3️⃣ Take a screenshot of your review
 4️⃣ Post the screenshot in my free community: stefgasscommunity.com

Enter before Sunday, 10/11! I'll announce the winner shortly after. This is my way of saying thank you for being part of these 1,000 episodes with me.

I pray this episode encourages you today, friend. Here's to the next 1,000!🎉

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