What would it look like to stop defining yourself by your titles, roles, and the labels this world assigns you — and start living from the identity God actually placed in you?

In this episode of The Confident Woman Podcast, Rachel Brooks sits down with success coach and keynote speaker Mitch Matthews — creator of the top 0.5% globally ranked DREAM THINK DO podcast — to talk about identity, permission, and what it looks like to dream bigger than your current circumstances, trust God's design for your life, and build your next chapter without burning down what you've already built. This conversation goes deep on faith, identity, and why giving yourself permission to start the conversation with God changes everything.

In this episode, you'll hear:

• Why your identity can never be anchored in a title, role, or label — and what to ground it in instead
• What 200+ interviews about dream jobs revealed: 70% of people end up creating something that didn't even exist when they started their career
• The Latin origin of "persona" and why wearing a mask is literally exhausting your body, soul, and business
• How to give yourself permission to build your next chapter without burning down what you've already built
• Why you don't have to wait for a mountaintop moment to hear from God — He'll meet you on the dog walk

Scripture for the Soul:

"The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full." — John 10:10

Key Quotes:

"God created us to live on purpose. He created us for a purpose." — Mitch Matthews

"You can't hustle your way to your worth." — Rachel Brooks

"When you tie your identity anchored into faith, that identity plus faith gives you purpose." — Rachel Brooks

Your Next Step:

If today's conversation stirred something in you, the I Am Enough Identity Reset is your first step. Ten minutes to pause, name what you've been believing, and come back to what's actually true. Download your free reset: iamrachelbrooks.com/reset

Connect with Mitch Matthews:

Website: MitchMatthews.com

Free Guide — 11 Prayers for Building a Business You Love: mitchmatthews.com/11prayers

DREAM THINK DO Podcast: mitchmatthews.com/podcast

Instagram: @mitch.matthews

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/mitchmatthews

Connect with Rachel Brooks:

Get the Free Identity Reset: iamrachelbrooks.com/reset

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What do you do when the life you’re still living doesn’t feel like the life you can keep carrying?

In this solo episode of The Confident Woman Podcast, Rachel Brooks speaks to the woman walking through a quiet identity shift she may not even know how to explain. Nothing may be falling apart on the outside. She may still be showing up, doing the work, taking care of everyone, keeping commitments, and being the strong one everyone has come to know. But inside, something feels different. Something feels heavier. Something no longer fits the way it used to.

Rachel shares what it means when strength stops feeling like healing and starts feeling like survival, why the old way of carrying everything may no longer have grace for this season, and how Romans 12:2 reminds us that transformation begins with the renewing of our minds. This episode is an honest, faith-rooted conversation about identity, surrender, and what happens when God begins forming something new in you before anything on the outside looks different.

This episode is not about abandoning responsibility or forcing instant clarity. It is about telling the truth, loosening your grip on who you thought you had to be, and asking the deeper question: Who is God inviting me to become now?

What you’ll hear:

• Why the life you’re still living may no longer feel like the life you can keep carrying
• How strength can quietly become survival, control, or self-abandonment
• The difference between faithful stewardship and carrying what fear made you pick up
• Why feeling unfamiliar to yourself does not mean something is wrong with you
• How Romans 12:2 speaks to identity, surrender, and transformation
• Why God may be renewing something in you before anything changes on the outside
• The question to ask when the old way still works but no longer feels aligned

Scripture for the Soul:

“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” — Romans 12:2

Key Quotes:

“The strongest part of you isn’t always the healed part of you.” — Rachel Brooks

“Being able to carry everything doesn’t mean you were called to carry everything.” — Rachel Brooks

“God restores us by making us new, not by making us the same.” — Rachel Brooks

“Your identity is deeper than the labels, roles, titles, and the way people introduce you.” — Rachel Brooks

Your Next Step:

If this episode met you where you are, the I Am Enough Identity Reset is where the honest work begins. Not to fix your whole life. Not to force clarity. Just to pause long enough to name what you’ve been believing, come back to truth, and remember who you are and whose you are.

Start here: iamrachelbrooks.com/reset

Connect with Rachel Brooks:

The Confident Woman Weekly: iamrachelbrooks.com/subscribe

I Am Enough Reset: iamrachelbrooks.com/reset

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/iamrachelbrooks

Instagram: instagram.com/iamrachelbrooks

Website: iamrachelbrooks.com

What if the exhaustion you're carrying has nothing to do with how much you've been working?

In this solo episode of The Confident Woman Podcast, Rachel Brooks gets honest about the burnout nobody talks about in the online space — not the calendar-full, boundary-lacking, too-many-obligations kind, but the kind that comes from grief. From loss. From a year that changes you so completely on the inside that you look the same on the outside and feel like a stranger in your own life. Rachel shares what it has actually cost her to keep going through a season she is still processing, why she no longer hears the hustle message the way she once did, and what it means to stop demanding old energy from a woman who has been fundamentally changed.

This episode is not a quick fix. It is an honest conversation about what it looks like to still be called, still believe in the work, and still not be able to go back to who you were before everything shifted.

What you'll hear:

• Why burnout is not a productivity problem and cannot be solved with better habits, better sleep, or a better routine
• The difference between the burnout the online world talks about and the soul-deep burnout that comes from grief, loss, and caregiving at capacity
• What it actually costs to keep functioning when life has rearranged you completely on the inside
• How to tell the difference between losing your ambition and having your ambition refined and redirected by God
• Why vulnerability without discernment can become another form of self-abandonment
• The one question to ask yourself about where you're still demanding old energy from a changed woman

Scripture for the Soul:

"And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose." — Romans 8:28

Key Quotes:

"Burnout is not a productivity problem that you can fix with a better routine." — Rachel Brooks

"Changed doesn't mean finished." — Rachel Brooks

"You are allowed to be changed and still be called. You are allowed to be tired and still becoming." — Rachel Brooks

Your Next Step:

If this episode met you where you are, the I Am Enough Identity Reset is where the honest work begins. Not to fix your whole life — just to pause long enough to name what you've been believing and what truth you need to come back to.

Start here: iamrachelbrooks.com/reset

Connect with Rachel Brooks:

The Confident Woman Weekly: iamrachelbrooks.com/subscribe

I Am Enough Reset: iamrachelbrooks.com/reset

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/iamrachelbrooks

Instagram: linkedin.com/in/iamrachelbrooks

Website: iamrachelbrooks.com