From Breakdown to Breakthrough: A Personal Reboot Story

The speaker addresses listeners of the Milk and Honey podcast, explaining her hiatus and the events leading up to it. She describes how her efforts in building the Kingdom Alliance company impacted her mental health, leading to a moment of vulnerability during a leadership academy session. After realizing the toll it was taking, she decided to step back, cancel engagements, and focus on her mental health and her family. During this period, she felt a divine calling to serve women and shifted her focus to advocacy, policy, and community work. She founded the Supported Wife Society, which aims to support ambitious women in their marriages, and discusses the dynamics of her own supportive relationship. The speaker announces the return of her podcast with a new focus on leadership and marriage, encouraging listeners to engage with new resources and episodes.

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Hi friends. If you are a regular listener or were a regular listener of the Milk and Honey podcast, you probably wonder what the heck happened to me and to this show. So I'm just gonna tell you everything that happened between January and where we are. I wanna just tell you kind of where things landed, what happened, how we got here, and the direction I'm heading now. Hopefully there is enough grace for me in this season. You probably know that I was helping to build a company, kingdom Alliance and, you know, they're wonderful people. Everything, you know, it's fine. It was really taking a gigantic toll on my mental health. I was working more than my husband and making. Less than my husband. and I had so much like hope in the vision and where we were going. And the end of January, I started taking the level two version of our leadership academy. And during that academy, you know, we had accountability partners, everything was wonderful. And I sat down week one with my accountability partner and you know, she's lemon, how are you? And I was like, oh, I'm good. You know, I gave her the very standard diplomatic, cheerful, you know, I'm former cheerleader answer. And she looked at me and she said, no lemon. How are you? And I was like, I'm okay, you know? And so then she asked me a third time, she said, no, really, how are you? And whatever she did, I will tell you, and I just talked to her the other day, but what her really seeing me and knowing that I just kept performing at this very high level. And she knew there was something going on underneath the surface, and when she asked me a third time, that was it. I started sobbing. I mean uncontrollably sobbing. And if you know me, I am not a crying person. I very rarely cry. That's probably something I should work out with a therapist, but. It just is the way it, I'm not a deep feeling person. I actually sat down with a pastor one time about that. I was like, I feel like I don't feel as deeply as a lot of people do. And he was like, okay. But the Bible says your feelings are fickle. And so if you have faith and it's not just based on how you feel in the moment, then you're okay. So I just started sobbing and I unloaded a little bit of where I was at and just the struggle I was having. Mentally, emotionally spiritually, like all the ways that I was struggling. And so afterward, you know, after I'd calmed down a little bit and felt awful for unloading on this poor woman it's not necessarily what she asked for. I called somebody corporately and. You know, I was just like, I'm struggling. And I told her where I was struggling and I again started sobbing. Now, the second time, in a matter of two hours, I am sobbing uncontrollably, and that is again not normal for me. And she said that she wasn't surprised that she was anticipating me to break at some point. She knew that my breakdown was coming and. I was like, okay, that doesn't make me feel good either. It doesn't make me feel good that you're anticipating me to fall apart at the seams. And that's exactly what they were anticipating. And so she told me to take some time and to just decompress and do what I need to do for me. And so thankfully I live in South Georgia and. It was in the seventies, the first week in February here, so I canceled every single meeting I had. I didn't produce a podcast because I didn't wanna show up fake. I didn't wanna show up and pretend that I was okay when I wasn't, And I taught my leadership academy'cause I made a commitment to show up and teach that. And that class gave me so much life. It was all women who had never taken it before. And so they're having these big, amazing breakthroughs and that was life giving. I listened to books on Audible that had nothing to do with business, just fiction. I just enjoyed, I was present with my family and God just. He asked me why I was hiding so much of myself. He's like, why are you putting on all of these expectations and why are you carrying things that I didn't ask you to carry? And so I was like, okay, like what does that mean, you know? And just downloaded. Just so much of who I am and what matters to me, and the fact that I had been downplaying things that mattered to me. He was like, go go forth with this. And so I sold every intention of, you know, being a part of KA and doing things with KA and got another plans. I'll just say that God had other plans. My time at Kingdom Alliance came to an end So my time there had ended and so I was like, what am I supposed to do? You know, what am I doing? And so I went pretty like head deep like headfirst into what I was doing with Junior League and I love Junior League. It's amazing. And I will say in March I had been nominated for a leadership role with the league. And so that got voted on in March the very, first Monday in March. And the very next day I stepped into my leadership role three months early because the person. Who had that role, like she was going on maternity leave. So it just made sense for us all to start early rather than try to find a replacement for three months. That just doesn't make sense. So I did that. I went up to the capitol with our state public affairs committee and got you know, I was voted on to the leadership board for the state public affairs committee. And so I just went all in on stuff that I felt mattered. Right. I was looking at. Advocacy and policy, and I was doing work in the community and just building relationships around me instead of looking at business. And I really just kind of put business on hold for six months, to be perfectly honest, until I kind of figured out what I was doing, what I wanted to do. And thankfully, Glen gave me the space to go do that, and I could really just. Dive into real, genuine relationships. I could dive into work that mattered. I could spend way more time with the family, and it was such a, it was such a need for like my mental health. I needed that space so badly. And so when I took my hiatus in February, when I shut kind of everything down, immediately, rapid fire. The Lord had given me like big vision on what I was supposed to do, and the, you know, he told me to go out and serve women in a very specific capacity. And so I just started talking about it a few weeks ago and the response was phenomenal. People, women were coming to me and sharing such intimate things about their life and their marriage. I was like, okay, God. Is this what I'm supposed to do? And the favor came and I have just shifted everything that I'm kind of doing now. But it really was a truly like eye-opening, restful time that I absolutely needed and I am just so grateful for. And where are we now? So where I am at today is I just opened the Doors to the Supported Wife Society. So if you're listening to this before Thursday and you're interested I have a founding member rate going until Thursday. So I had all this space, right? I just said, Glen gave me so much space to not worry about producing an income. Glen gave me all this space to work on advocacy things and step into leadership with the league, both at a state level and at a local level, which. You know, I was kind of floored by, since I'm new, I only joined the league in August. It's been a full year since I've been a member of the Junior League. And so I'm like, okay, it's amazing. You know, like I just have so much freedom. And he, you know, was encouraging me to go to we had a cheers for charity thing and I literally had to go drink wine for charity. Glen's, like unwavering support. And so I started just talking to people and they're like, what are you how does that work? How does that dynamic work? And I was confused. And then I talked to, I just kept having conversations with my friends and they would say, well, you know. I run a business, I am the director at this company or you know, whatever sort of thing they're doing. They had very like high achieving, they were very ambitious women and they're like, but I don't turn that off at home. And so I'm also leading in my marriage. That's not how it was necessarily when we were dating or early on in our marriage. And they were frustrated and so all of them assumed that's what was happening. They're like, aren't you like running the show at home? Is that why Glenn's okay with it? Because like you told him, and I'm like, no, my husband actually gets mad at me if I don't take opportunity. And so I'm like, he's my biggest cheerleader. Truly. He is my biggest cheerleader. But I also, I mean, I've lived in Savannah now for seven and a half years. I still need my GPS to get certain places. I just the other day, left a junior league meeting from headquarters. And was able to get home without my GPS. That is like how I, he, I mean, he just drive, I'm a passenger princess. I literally, I don't pay attention. I'm like reading a book. I'm like scrolling TikTok while he is driving. I'm like taking a nap, which I've never been able to do before. I just shut my brain off. Like I don't have to think about those things. I don't plan date nights. If there is something going on with the kids, I mean, he has my back 110%. Like I don't have to, I just don't, I don't think about those things. And so because of that, I feel very lucky that I think it gives me the privilege to go and do the advocacy work that I do to serve in these other leadership roles. But then also to be fully present with the kids, to be fully present when I'm with my friends. To be just a fully present person in all areas of my life because Glen leads in our marriage. I am not I just, I don't have to be overly independent. I have no qualms asking if I need help or if I'm overwhelmed. I tell him, and he knows, and he immediately picks up, you know, where I'm lacking. We are supposed to be a compliment to each other. And so when I realized that was something that I had and not everybody had, and I'm like, I think you can have it I, people were like, can you create a community? What are you doing? So that's what I did. So like I mentioned two weeks ago, we opened the doors. To the supportive wife society. We've already had people ask for a husband track Glen's gonna start meeting with some husbands, seeing what they want and need so we can talk to them from his perspective. What's working for us? I'm not saying that our marriage is perfect by any means. we still argue, we still sometimes I wanna kick him in the shin, but for all intents and purposes It's really solid and we're kind of blown away. So we were just talking about it the other day oh my gosh, we've been together almost 10 years. It's, that's kind of crazy to me. So I just, yeah I feel very lucky. And so that's the direction we're headed. So when I thought about this podcast I was like, do I. Do I just start a new podcast? Do I do this one? Do I, what do I do? And so when I thought about it I said to myself, the women who've been listening to this podcast are interested in leadership development. They are high achieving women. And so maybe that is what you're feeling in your marriage right now. Maybe in your marriage you feel like you are leading in all areas and. If so, then I just want you to know, the podcast is getting a facelift. I will get back to regular episodes and sharing regular episodes with you guys and just talking about what's going on in our marriage. Bring Glen on for a couple. The last interview I did too, which is really fun, was with you know, Ariel and her husband, Kyle, He talked about how he has this very strong wife and how he had to kind of deconstruct his faith. But I ki I have, I hate that there's such connotation around that word. Deconstruct church culture. That's what I wanna say. He had to deconstruct church culture and look at what the Bible says about women in leadership and their capabilities and running businesses and how all those things don't emasculate him or take away from him as a man. And i'm excited. That's really, and people love that episode. Let me tell you, even though I have not put out an episode in, seven months now, it is consistently being downloaded every single week and not just one or two. I'm talking hundreds of downloads every single week. So that tells me that is a topic that is important to you who are listening. So I would love for you to stick around and hang out with me. Thank you again for the grace and for everybody who continued to show up, even though I took a little mental break which I hated doing, but it was completely necessary. So that brings me to a few things. one, I have episodes of the Milk and Honey podcast that are unreleased. So you guys let me know what you want me to do with them. I could email them out somewhere. I could put them in a Google drive where you guys can have access to them. Some of them are finances, some of them are redemption stories. So it's entirely up to you if you want them. I haven't even touched them since I recorded them in January. they're just sitting on my computer right now not doing anything. So you tell me if you wanna hear them and how you would want to hear them. And then I wanna encourage you to stick around. So I've got some new resources. We've got the community, I just created a mental load audit. So if you feel like you are carrying the mental load of your family in your marriage, then you're gonna wanna download that. You can just go, it'll be in the show notes, but you could just go to lemon price.co/audit. It's for, it's easy. It is literally a Google Doc that you can just make a copy of and take your notes in there. So it's not complicated. I don't want complicated anymore. I don't, I'm not into it. So that is there for you. And then if you feel like you wanna be a part of the Supported We Society, I would love to have you. Send me a DM on Instagram. My Instagram is just the lemon price. Send me a message or you could just go to lemon price.co. It's right there on the homepage. We have the founding member right, right now locked in. The price will never go up for founding members. But. The price is going to go up next week. By the time this next episode drops, that price will have gone up. Just because the first wave of content is coming and we have our first kickoff call on Thursday, and I'm just, I'm so excited about it. So I say all that to say again, just thank you for the grace and the space to. I really just spend time with myself, with my family, with my friends, and with the Lord to just see what it is where I'm supposed to go right now and what direction he's taking me in. So I hope you'll stick around and join our party. Welcome back to our party. It's gonna be a busy time as I rerecord, intros and all those fun things. But I'm excited. I am truly looking forward to it. I would love to hear from you. Send me a message on Instagram. It's always the best place to send me one, and I will see you all next week. Bye friends.