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

The Confidence Reset: offers.iamrachelbrooks.com/get/confidence-reset

The Confident Woman Weekly: iamrachelbrooks.com/subscribe

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/iamrachelbrooks

Website: iamrachelbrooks.com

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

What happens when you stop waiting for the perfect moment and just start?

In this episode of The Confident Woman Podcast, Rachel Brooks sits down with Tami and Elizabeth Lange, the mother-daughter duo behind Save the Girls, a touchscreen purse company that went from a prayer, a problem, and a one-way ticket to China to a massive success in just six weeks. They share the raw, real story of risking their college savings, navigating literal storms (like a shipping container lost at sea), and why starting before you are ready is the only way to build something real. If you have been sitting on a God-given idea waiting for a blueprint, this conversation will give you the courage to take the first step.

In this episode, you'll hear:

• How a lost phone and a family financial crisis led to a multi-million dollar business idea
• Why you need to start before you are ready—and why waiting for perfection will kill your dream
• The reality of running a business with your family and how it can actually bring you closer
• How to navigate massive business setbacks (like losing $150,000 of product in a tsunami) with faith and grace
• Why the most successful businesses are built on solving real problems and giving back

Scripture for the Soul:

"A man's heart plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps." — Proverbs 16:9

Key Quotes:

"Start before you're ready. If you end up sitting on an idea for too long, it's going to fizzle out." — Elizabeth Lange

"When God is leading, it's amazing the doors that will open." — Elizabeth Lange

"You have to be pretty solid mentally because it can crush you... but if you work hard enough and stay in God's will, you'll get back up." — Tami Lange

Your Next Step:

If you’ve been feeling lost, exhausted, or unsure of who you are anymore, it’s time to pause and remember. Download the free 10-minute identity reset: I Am… Enough: iamrachelbrooks.com/reset

Subscribe to The Confident Woman Weekly: iamrachelbrooks.com/subscribe

Connect with Tami & Elizabeth Lange:

Website: savethegirls.com (Use code CONFIDENT20 for 20% off)

Instagram: @savethegirls_stg

Facebook: Save the Girls Touchscreen Purses

Connect with Rachel Brooks:

Get the Free Identity Reset: iamrachelbrooks.com/reset

The Confidence Reset: offers.iamrachelbrooks.com/get/confidence-reset

The Confident Woman Weekly: iamrachelbrooks.com/subscribe

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/iamrachelbrooks

Website: iamrachelbrooks.com

What do you do when the life you worked hard for, prayed for, and built from the ground up no longer feels like it actually fits?

In this solo episode of The Confident Woman Podcast, Rachel Brooks speaks directly to the woman who is living in the tension between the life that still looks familiar from the outside and the woman who is quietly, undeniably shifting on the inside. This is not about burning everything down or making a dramatic move. This is about what it means to finally get honest about where you are, what you're still forcing, and what it might look like to stop carrying an outdated version of yourself into a season that is asking something entirely different of you.

What you'll hear:

• Why the disorientation you're feeling is not a character flaw but a sign that you've outgrown something significant
• The difference between operating from your calling versus operating from survival and scarcity
• How the identities we build to protect ourselves in one season can quietly become the very thing keeping us stuck in the next
• What it means to carry an outdated identity inside a life that has already moved on without it
• Why true confidence is not boldness or polish but honesty, self-trust, and the willingness to stop arguing with what you already know

Scripture for the Soul:

"But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead." — Philippians 3:13

Key Quotes:

"So much of what we call strength is just endurance without examination." — Rachel Brooks

"You cannot become if you are still tethered to a past version of yourself." — Rachel Brooks

"A lot of becoming happens before we have the language for it." — Rachel Brooks

Your Next Step:

If this episode met you right where you are, and you want a simple place to begin, start with the I Am Enough Reset Guide. Ten minutes. That's where it starts. → Start your reset: iamrachelbrooks.com/reset

Subscribe to The Confident Woman Weekly: iamrachelbrooks.com/subscribe

Connect with Rachel Brooks:

The Confident Woman Weekly: iamrachelbrooks.com/subscribe

I Am Enough Reset: iamrachelbrooks.com/reset

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/iamrachelbrooks

Website: iamrachelbrooks.com

What if you have been doing everything right and your body just stops cooperating anyway?

This is not the burnout that gets celebrated online. This is not the sleep-deprived, hustle-harder version people wear like a badge of honor. In this solo episode of The Confident Woman Podcast, Rachel Brooks gets honest about the kind of burnout nobody talks about — the one where your entire nervous system crashes, your body starts making decisions for you, and no amount of willpower, prayer, or positive thinking can pull you out of it. She shares what that season actually felt like from the inside, what it cost her, and the one question she now asks before anything gets a yes from her.

If you have ever said yes to everything and ended up with nothing left, this episode is exactly where you need to start.

In this episode, you'll hear:

• Why high-performing women are often the last ones to recognize when they have gone too far off path
• The difference between being tired and having your entire operating system shut down
• What the pruning season in John 15 actually feels like when you are living it — and why it does not feel like grace
• The "Does it serve my five?" filter Rachel uses before any opportunity gets a yes
• Why the answer is not a better system — it is getting honest about what actually deserves your energy in the first place

Scripture for the Soul:

"Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit." — John 15:2

Key Quotes:

"You can't water everything and wonder why nothing's growing." — Rachel Brooks

"Capable is not the same thing as called." — Rachel Brooks

"Not everything that lands in your life is yours to carry." — Rachel Brooks

Your Next Step:

If this episode landed for you, the next step is simple. Every Thursday at 8 am, Rachel goes deeper into building a simple, sustainable business rooted in faith and freedom. Join the conversation:

Subscribe to The Confident Woman Weekly:

The Identity Reset — For the woman who has been carrying so much for so long she's lost touch with who she actually is underneath all of it. Ten minutes to stop, tell the truth, and come back to what God says about you.

​The Becoming — For the woman who is ready to go all the way in. The deeper work. The full rebuild of identity, confidence, and freedom. When you're ready, this is where it goes next.

Connect with Rachel Brooks:

The Confident Woman Weekly: iamrachelbrooks.com/subscribe

The Freedom Framework: freedom.iamrachelbrooks.com

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/iamrachelbrooks

Website: iamrachelbrooks.com

What does true confidence look like when you are running a global business and raising four kids?

We often think confidence means having all the answers, but in this episode of The Confident Woman, Rachel Brooks sits down with Sunny Beutler, CEO of Sunrider International, to completely flip that narrative. Sunny shares her incredible journey of growing up in a family business, stepping into the role of CEO, and why she believes the most powerful leadership tool is actually the ability to listen. If you are trying to build a successful career without losing yourself or your family in the process, this conversation is exactly what you need to hear.

In this episode, you'll hear:

• Why true leadership isn't about having the right answer all the time, but having the humility to listen
• How to build a flexible, hybrid schedule that honors your work commitments and your family's needs
• The importance of setting boundaries and why you can't carry the baggage of a hard day into your home
• How Sunny applies corporate goal-setting strategies to her family life, including spiritual goals for her kids
• Why the work you do inside your home will always outlast your business achievements

Scripture for the Soul:

"Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it." — Proverbs 22:6

Key Quotes:

"Confidence isn't having the right answer. It's being a really good listener." — Sunny Beutler

"What can I take with me in this life is my family." — Sunny Beutler

"As women, we forget ourselves so easily." — Sunny Beutler

Your Next Step:

If this episode landed for you, the next step is simple. Every Thursday at 8 am, Rachel goes deeper into building a simple, sustainable business rooted in faith and freedom. Join the conversation:

• Subscribe to The Confident Woman Weekly: iamrachelbrooks.com/subscribe
• When you're ready to do the work: The Freedom Framework — freedom.iamrachelbrooks.com
• The Identity Reset — For the woman who has been carrying so much for so long she's lost touch with who she actually is underneath all of it. Ten minutes to stop, tell the truth, and come back to what God says about you.

Connect with Sunny Beutler:

Website: sunrider.com

Instagram: @sunriderintl

YouTube: Sunrider International

Connect with Rachel Brooks:

The Confident Woman Weekly: iamrachelbrooks.com/subscribe

The Freedom Framework: freedom.iamrachelbrooks.com

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/iamrachelbrooks

Website: iamrachelbrooks.com

What if you hit every goal, build the business, get the flexibility, and still feel completely empty?

If you've ever reached the top of the mountain only to realize you climbed the wrong one, this episode is for you. In this solo episode of The Confident Woman Podcast, host Rachel Brooks pulls back the curtain on the reality of the "freedom lifestyle." She shares her own story of building what the online business world calls the dream—consistent income, travel, and total schedule control—only to discover a quiet, persistent awareness that something was deeply off.

We are constantly sold a version of success that looks good on the outside but leaves us hollow on the inside. Today, we are talking about what happens when the freedom you're chasing actually becomes the thing keeping you in bondage, and how to start building a life that feels true instead of just looking successful.

In this episode, you'll hear:

• Why hitting your revenue goals and checking off your vision board doesn't always bring the peace you expected
• The danger of adopting someone else's definition of success (and how to figure out what you actually want)
• How to recognize when you are maintaining a version of your life that you have already outgrown
• The five foundational pillars (Faith, Family, Fitness, Fulfillment, and Freedom) for building a sustainable, aligned business
• Why true freedom isn't about having no responsibilities, but about choosing the right ones

Scripture for the Soul:

"A man plans his course, but the Lord determines his steps." — Proverbs 16:9

Key Quotes:

"You can get everything on your checklist and still feel completely empty." — Rachel Brooks

"A cage made of gold is still a cage." — Rachel Brooks

"Sometimes the freedom you are chasing is actually the thing keeping you in bondage." — Rachel Brooks

Your Next Step:

If this episode landed for you, the next step is simple. Every Thursday at 8 am, Rachel goes deeper into building a simple, sustainable business rooted in faith and freedom. Join the conversation:

Subscribe to The Confident Woman Weekly: iamrachelbrooks.com/subscribe

When you're ready to do the work: The Freedom Framework — freedom.iamrachelbrooks.com

Connect with Rachel Brooks:

The Confident Woman Weekly: iamrachelbrooks.com/subscribe

The Freedom Framework: freedom.iamrachelbrooks.com

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/iamrachelbrooks

Website: iamrachelbrooks.com