Faith Over Fear: Moving Alone & Finding God in the Unknown

In this powerful episode, I open up about the leap of faith I took in 2020 when I moved to New York alone during a pandemic. From career-driven decisions and divine nudges to navigating loneliness, culture shock, and spiritual drought—this is a raw, real look at what it means to follow God into the unknown.

You’ll hear:

• Why I moved and how prayer confirmed the call
• The fear, isolation, and homesickness I faced—and how faith anchored me
• The struggle to find a church home and build community from scratch
• Unexpected blessings that only God could orchestrate
• How I found healing through therapy, solo dates, journaling, and fitness
• The evolution of my relationship with Christ and my personal growth
• Why NY now feels like home and the advice I’d give anyone considering a big move

If you’ve ever felt afraid to step into the unknown, this episode will remind you: God goes before you—and what’s waiting on the other side of fear just might change your life.

“Welcome to the thirties, where self discovery meets self acceptance.”

• Recap of 1st year in 30s
  • Self discovery - knowing what I want and how to ask for it
  • Knowing when to walk away from something and standing on what I decide.
    • Not allowing how someone may receive it to influence my decision
  • Releasing patterns where I contributed to toxic behavior
    • Taking responsibility in my own traumas
  • Recognizing my traumas being able to communicate them and understanding that I am responsible for overcoming and working through them
    • Unlearning unhealthy traits and relearning healthy patterns
  • AS A MAN THINKETH- you control your own thoughts
    • When your thoughts begin to spiral how do you consciously stop yourself
    • What do you practice daily to help in the moment
    • Daily devotions tying everything back to scripture to keep me grounded in Gods word
  • Church hurt- realizing that body of Christ are made up of human beings and although Jesus died for our sins doesn’t mean we’ll never sin again
    • Not allowing the actions of others dictate my relationship with God
    • Do you have relationship with God
    • What are you doing daily to stay in relationship with him?
    • Do you know how to pray and speak to him.
• 31 - I have a sense of I am who I am
  • Meaning I know my past and learned so much from it that now I’ve done and am currently doing the work to make myself a better person
  • I know who god has called me to be
  • I walk firm in my path
  • I am confident and unapologetically myself
  • IM THAT BITCH in the most humblest way lol HAHAHAHA I feel that I am the woman I am today and I know her because I dove into my mistakes from the past and make a conscious effort to give that girl a rebirth of who she was created to be
• My 31st year is focused on doing more of what sets my soul on fire
  • Going after my passions
  • Learning and elevating
  • Doing things that scare me and having conversations that uplift me
  • Digging more into the things that make my face and heart light up that people would never expect me to have knowledge on
    • In turn educating those around me on those things
    • The year of the podcast TURN UP

SUNSETTING MY 20s

Every next level of your life will demand a different

version of you.

If you want to be good, you really don't have a lot of choices because it takes what it takes. You have to do what you have to do to be successful

"You know who's gonna give you everything? Yourself."

YOU DON'T GET TO GREATNESS BY BEING COMFORTABLE

The deepest level of worship

is praising God through the pain, thanking God through the trials, trusting Him when we're tempted to lose hope, and loving Him, even when He seems distant.

At my lowest, God is my hope.

At my darkest, God is my light At my weakest, God is my strength.

At my saddest, God is my comforter.

God trusts me with this journey. He knows I can handle it.

• Setting boundaries
  • Relationship with my mom
    • I used to tell my mom and dad EVERYTHING.
    • But that back fired and left my family and friends with their own opinions about my partners
      • Keep people out of your relationship
      • Someone’s response to your boundary is not your responsibility
  • Stand firm on your boundaries
    • It’s self care. It’s self love.
    • Those who love you will respect it. That’s not to say the beginning won’t be muddy. It’s going to suck a little but eventually the ones who matter will understand and won’t leave because of it.
• MY healing journey
  • Started and ended the year with people who were complete opposites
  • Poker face with work still happening, life still life-ing and dealing with my personal life. Literally one day at a time
  • Finding grace and peace in the healing process
  • Allowing myself to feel every feeling to truly heal
  • Bought a journal just to write out my thoughts as my release to process what I was feeling
  • Understanding why it happened and also understanding sometimes people think they are healed but truly deep down there are things they haven’t fully come to terms with which shows in their actions
    • Hurt people hurt people
    • We’re all finding ourselves and navigating as best as we can
• Opening KIDSTRONG
  • Transitioning from OTF and going into a new business with a new role at the same time
    • Having melt downs and break downs
    • My dad telling me “as a business owner, every day is not going to be a good day. That’s why we appreciate the good days more when we have the trying days”
  • Digging deep to find the new version of myself to elevate
  • Trusting God with this process and what he’s put on my plate
    • We were supposed open on one date, the parts to the equipment were out of stock on Amazon. All out of our control but our date got moved back another two weeks.
    • All I could do was cry and started to question God.
  • Remaining grateful through it all
  • Having a support system is everything!!!!!!

CONNECT WITH ME: @bodyyouceefit

THANK YOU TO MY GUESTS, MY GIRLS, LAUREN AND JENNA!!!!! HOPE YOU ALL ENJOY!!

Thoughts on documentaries: The Business of Being Born and The Business of Birth Control

Female 28 day cycle - Vulva vs. Vagina

Ovulating....for only 1 day!!

Vaginal discharge - THE GREAT DEBATE tells you more than you think!

The Flo App

Healthy relationship with your body

When on period pads to use I personally don’t use tampons. The pads that do not have chlorine and are 100% cotton and safe to use are Seventh Heaven and L. Organic Cotton. Leak Protection Period Undies from Victoria Secret and Pink

Yoni Health - Yoni Steam https://bellaskinandtea.com/collections/yoni-care

More knowledgeable about your body as we are being told what to do with our bodies from men in the govt. that don't know the female body

Roe vs. Wade - Roe vs. Bros Reel

CONNECT WITH ME: @bodyyouceefit

WELCOME BACK TO SOUL'N WITH YOUR HOST SIERRA RAILEY! On this episode were talking all things personal development starting with the receipts...the books I've read so far and plan to read followed by the juice!

BOOKS I HAVE READ:

The purpose driven life

the four agreements

Think and grow rich

The 10x rule

The 7 strategies for wealth and happiness by Jim Rohn

The 5 major pieces to the life puzzle by Jim Rohn

Twelve pillars

Girl wash your face

How to win friends and influence people

Becoming by Michelle Obama

Meditation made easy

Love em or lose em

Relationship goals by Pastor Michael Todd

Crazy faith by Pastor Michael Todd

Feeding the soul

The seasons of life

Good to great

The miracle morning

Ina mays guide to Child birth

Reinventing yourself

UPCOMING:

Womb wisdom

Emotional intelligence

As a man thinketh

Spirit babies

Take the leap

TALKING POINTS:

-devote 10 pages a day or 1-2 chapters a day

-for things to change you have to change

-change begins with your mindset

-develop your mind

-feed your mind

-be aware of what you consume

-audio books to turn your car into a mobile library or listen in the shower and while you get ready for work or any event or while you workout or while you got for a run

-does reading it make it sink in more for you?

-talk to someone about what your reading. Almost like a book report or just to make sure your digesting what you’re reading tell someone about what you read

-implement into your life

-keep a journal or notes on your phone of what you read so you can apply it to your everyday life

-start a book club

-honestly….if it’s a fictional book I DON'T WANT IT LOL that’s just where I’m at in life right now. I want to focus on making myself better. Working on my traumas. Working on things that trigger me so I don’t carry that into current and new friendships and relationships and family bonds and professional/career bonds

-focusing on fitness is mental. It starts in the mind. Temptation is in the mind. Discipline is in the mind first.

-YOU HAVE TO FEED YOUR MIND

-before I got into personal development books I was reckless. Said what I wanted, when I wanted. No filter. Arguments with everyone. Just crazy and didn’t really care about what that was doing to people around me.

-once I started to implement what I was reading my relationships changed

-my environment changed

-and my circumstances changed. I of course began to separate myself from things and people that didn’t serve me and didn’t contribute to where I was going

-and my surroundings started to elevate. Offer territory started to come to me. How I saw life and the world changed. My perspective changed.

-I started to focus on positive things more instead of the negative.

-WHO YOU HAVE AROUND YOU IS IMPORTANT

-even now IM STILL LEARNING!!!

-learning to take my ego out of things

-learning to let old patterns DIE by responding differently

-communicate more. Speak up more and effectively and intentionally While expressing how things make me feel but also providing a solution or change in how the situation can be made better

-controlling my own thoughts which control my feeling and emotions. We have control over that. Stopping negative thoughts and not letting my mind spiral

CONNECT WITH ME: IG @bodyyouceefit

Pictures of the books I have read are also on my IG highlights!

The first official episode and I'm diving into a journey that fits everyone because you create it! I'm still learning daily and the more I practice self love the more I fall in love with myself and who I want to become. This is only the start and really the vessel to open the conversation that so many people are having now. There is so much more that goes into this and I've only just begun with starting at the surface! We are about to go deep within the soul for this one!

I talk about my own experience that jump started this specific episode.

Things I love to do to keep me accountable to follow through with self care time

How it benefits those around you

The feeling of "being" that ultimately fuels my spirit to keep going and keep loving!

Connect with me on instagram: @bodyyouceefit

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