269: I Was Conflicted Helping Entrepreneurs Make Money Until God Exposed the Lie

There is a lie that has been quietly holding you back, and it is not the one you think. You already know the prosperity gospel is a lie. But there is a second lie sitting on the other end of that same spectrum, and it is the one that got me. For 12 years it made me feel guilty for teaching women how to build profitable businesses. In this episode I am naming it out loud, walking you through what Scripture actually says, and telling you the story of the assignment nobody around me understood. This one is for the entrepreneurs. If God gave you a business idea, a business vision, that restless entrepreneurial spirit that not everybody carries, this episode is written with you in mind. I am naming a lie I have believed almost the entire time I have been a believer. Most of us can spot the prosperity gospel from a mile away. The idea that God's goal for your life is to make you rich, and that wealth is the proof you are pleasing Him, is a lie from the pit of hell. But there is a second lie living on the opposite end of that same spectrum, and it is the one that got me. It sounds spiritual. It says that if you are broke, scraping by, or buried in debt, you must be living a more godly life. Both ends breed the same pride. I have watched prosperity gospel people look down on the broke, and I have watched people with a poverty mindset look down on the wealthy. Neither one glorifies God. Here is why that second lie is so costly for us specifically. When you are called into business, generating revenue is not greed. It is the assignment. If you have no revenue and you have overhead, and every single one of us has overhead, you slide into debt fast. I have lived there. And I cannot find one place in Scripture where being in debt glorifies God. Owe no one anything except to love one another. The borrower is servant to the lender. When the widow in 2 Kings went to Elisha about the debt that was about to cost her her sons, God did not hand her money. He told her to take the little she had, multiplied it, and sent her out to sell it, pay the debt, and live on the rest. That is the essence of business right there. So the real question is never how much money you want. The question is what has God called you to do, and are you being diligent in it. If He called you into nonprofit, your assignment includes asking for money. If He called you into business, your assignment includes creating solutions, solving problems, and selling. There are entrepreneurs sitting on a God given calling who are too afraid to start, or too afraid to ask for the sale, and they call it humility. It is not humility. It is a lie standing in the way of obedience. I share the personal side of this too. My year in discipleship school was five hours a day in the Word, at a mission equipping school built to send people overseas. I could not go. I had just been diagnosed with an autoimmune disease and had extreme dietary restrictions, so the mission field was closed to me. I watched people around me quit careers, raise funds, and go. And I felt like I was not doing God's work. What I did instead was start a podcast. Nobody in that school looked at a podcast and saw a mission field. But it was an assignment, and I obeyed it. Over 260 episodes later, millions of downloads later, hundreds of people have told me they gave their lives to Christ or recommitted their lives to Christ through it. Those are only the ones I know about. I also tell you about the email that got under my skin. I hosted a beautiful business event for my ladies at the Ritz Carlton. Elegant setting, incredible service, and the most God centered conversations, with lives changing in front of me. Then came an email from a missionary telling me it was not godly to host a business event in a place like that. And I listened. I let it shrink me. That is the danger of handing your assignment over to people who were never given it, even well meaning believers who mean you no harm at all. If you have been quietly wondering whether your calling counts, whether helping people with their marriage or their health or their finances is spiritual enough to matter, hear me. When you help someone get back into integrity in an area of their life, you free them to do what God put them here to do. That is kingdom work. And the revenue that comes from it is not the point, it is the fuel. More to give to the church and to those in need. More time for the Bible study, the street corner, the video, the ministry you cannot get to while you are trading every hour for a paycheck. I have had a vision on my board for six years now. A thousand women building six figure incomes, and even ten percent of that flowing to the kingdom is millions of dollars a year. This lie has been standing between me and that vision, and I am done with it. You will never hear me preach the prosperity gospel here. You will never hear me preach the poverty gospel either. We do not chase money. We do the assignment. And if the assignment is business, part of it is generating revenue and growing it with integrity, diligence, and excellence. The episode closes with a prayer over you, that you would not bury the talents and the skills God handed you.   Three Take Home Points 1. Both ends of the spectrum are a lie. The prosperity gospel says wealth proves your righteousness. The poverty gospel says lack proves it. Both produce the exact same fruit, which is pride, and both take your eyes off the only question that matters. Your application: Ask yourself honestly which of the two you have been quietly agreeing with. If you have ever felt a flicker of spiritual superiority over someone with money, or felt shame for wanting your business to be profitable, name it today and put it under the truth of God's Word instead. 2. Revenue is an integrity issue, not a money issue. If God called you into business, then creating solutions and selling them is not a distraction from your assignment. It is the assignment. Not generating revenue in a business you were called to build is not humility. It is disobedience wearing humility's clothes. Your application: Look at the offer you have been avoiding, the price you have been apologizing for, or the ask you have not made. Make it this week. Treat it as obedience, because that is exactly what it is. 3. Your assignment will not look like everyone else's, and the wrong voices will try to talk you out of it. Nobody in my discipleship school saw a podcast as a mission field. One email from a missionary had me questioning whether I should host business events at all. Millions of downloads and hundreds of salvations later, I know what that obedience was worth. Your application: Get clear on who actually has permission to speak into your calling. If a voice does not understand the assignment God gave you, that voice does not get a vote. Write down what God has told you to do, and stop putting it up for review.   Scriptures Referenced (NKJV) Romans 13:8, on owing no one anything except love Proverbs 22:7, on the borrower being servant to the lender Matthew 6:33, the verse the entire God-Centered Success podcast is built on Proverbs 31, the woman who buys, sells, and profits 2 Kings 4:1 to 7, the widow, the oil, and the debt God told her to sell her way out of   Timestamps 00:00 Who this episode is for 00:50 The lie that held me back for 12 years 03:09 The prosperity gospel, one end of the lie 03:36 The poverty mindset, the other end of the lie 04:56 Why revenue is not optional when you have been called into business 05:24 What Scripture actually says about debt 05:54 The widow, the oil, and what God told her to do 07:17 The only question that matters 08:42 Fear, not greed, is what keeps most called entrepreneurs from selling 10:04 What your revenue makes possible for the kingdom 10:59 When your calling feels too small to matter 11:52 The vision on my board, 1,000 women and millions to the kingdom 12:22 Neither gospel will ever be preached on this podcast 14:48 Discipleship school and the mission field I could not go to 16:15 The assignment nobody around me understood 18:39 The email from the missionary and the Ritz Carlton event 20:06 The mission field in my own hometown 21:06 Every calling that improves a life glorifies God 22:58 Do the assignment, do not chase the money 24:25 Closing prayer over you   Special Invitation... I told you I have been creating behind the scenes, and this is the first of it. I am opening five spots for one on one coaching with me. Five. That is not scarcity for the sake of scarcity, that is simply how many women I can pour into properly over the next 90 days.   Here is what you get. A customized 90 day game plan. Not a template. Yours. We map out your content strategy, your offer strategy, and your monetization strategy, with the exact steps and the timeline to follow so you always know what you are doing next and why. Coaching with me for 90 days to actually implement it. A plan sitting in a folder has never changed anyone's life. We build it and then we walk it out together. Voxer access to me anytime. When the question comes up on a Tuesday afternoon, you do not sit on it until the next call. You send it to me and you keep moving. If you have been sitting on a calling, quietly wondering whether it is godly enough to build, this is your invitation to stop wondering and start being obedient with a plan attached. Five spots. Go to buildwithmia.com Much love, Mia :)   P.S. If this episode spoke to you, would you share it with one woman who has been sitting on her calling? And if you have a minute, leaving a review helps this message reach the women who need it most.  

In this episode we look at a story in the Bible of a woman in need who asked for God's guidance, listned to the instruction, was obedient in taking the steps, and got to see God do a miracle. It's the story of the widow in 2 Kings 4 about who was overcome by debt after her husband passed away. She was about to lose her sons as payment when she cries out to the prophet Elisha for help. He gives her very specific steps to take and after taking the steps just as he instructed she saw God do a miracle. If you need God to help you this is a great story in the Bible to learn from. His answer wasn't what she expected. He didn't hand her money. He asked her a question. What do you already have? All she had was a small jar of oil. And that's exactly where the miracle started. In this episode, I'm walking through this story and what it teaches us about provision and obedience. God rarely provides by handing us something out of nowhere. He provides through obedience, through using what's already in our hands, and through instructions that don't always make sense until we follow them. We'll talk about what it looks like to ask God, to actually listen for His instruction, and to obey even when the steps feel small, or doesn't make sense, and then watch Him do what only He can do. If you're waiting on provision and wondering why it hasn't shown up yet, this episode is for you. Here's what I want you to walk away with today. God asks what's already in your hands before He multiplies it. What do you have right now, in skill, time, or resource, that you've overlooked because it seems small? Obedience often comes before understanding. Is there an instruction you've sensed from God that you've delayed because it didn't make logical sense yet? Provision follows obedience, not the other way around. What's one step of obedience you can take this week, even without seeing the full picture? You don't need more. You need to obey with what you already have. Much love, Mia :)

Have you ever felt like something was working against you, keeping you stuck, quiet, and afraid to move forward, no matter how many times you tried? If you've ever felt frozen in your calling, this episode is for you. Here's what I want you to walk away with today. Unanswered prayers are not unheard prayers. Is there something you've stopped praying about because it felt like God went silent? Pray it again today. God is always working behind the scenes even when we can't see it. The enemy's favorite strategy is lies and twisting the truth of God. What's one lie you've believed about your calling? Speak the opposite truth out loud, right now. Obedience doesn't require an answer first. What's one small step you can take this week toward your message, before you feel ready? You are not stuck. You are not too late. You are unstoppable when you know the truth. It's time to shine Much love, Mia :)

Have you ever obeyed God, taken the step He asked you to take, and then felt more discouraged than before you started? You are not alone in this, and it does not mean you heard Him wrong. In this episode, I'm walking you through something nobody talks about enough. The discouragement that shows up after you have already been obedient is not a sign to stop. Most of the time, it is confirmation that you heard God correctly and the enemy is working overtime to get you to quit right before the breakthrough. I share what this has looked like in my own journey, why the enemy attacks hardest right after obedience, and how to keep moving forward even when the results have not caught up to your faith yet. You will walk away from this episode with: A new perspective on discouragement, so you stop mistaking it for a red light from God. A biblical framework for recognizing spiritual attack after obedience, so you can name what is actually happening. Practical encouragement to keep going, so you do not quit in the exact season you are meant to press through. Scripture referenced in this episode (NKJV): Ephesians 6:11, 1 Peter 5:8, Romans 8:28, Galatians 6:9 If you are in a season of beginning again and you want support building a business that honors God while creating real income, I would love to help you.  

If you are needing to overcome limiting beliefs as a Christian entrepreneur, this episode is for you. These five lies did not just show up once in my life. They showed up when I was first trying to build a business and had no idea if I was capable of pulling it off. They showed up again after I gave my life to Christ and decided I was done building the world's way and was going to do it God's way instead. And they are showing up again right now as I rebuild and step back into this calling after going quiet for a season. So when I tell you I had to overcome these limiting beliefs as a Christian entrepreneur, I mean it. Not once. Over and over again. And if you are in a season of beginning, or beginning again, I believe God brought you to this episode on purpose. In this episode I am breaking down five lies the enemy has used to try to stop me and so many women just like you from stepping into what God has called you to do. Never believe the lie that if it is difficult to begin or begin again, then you were not called to this. Difficulty is not a sign that you missed God. It is often a sign that you are right on time. I share what God actually says about this and why the resistance you feel is not proof of the wrong path. It is often proof that you are on the right one. Never believe the lie that if you make a mistake or go through a hard season, it could ruin your calling. This is one of the most paralyzing lies I have encountered personally and in the women I coach. I want to talk to you about what I have learned about God's faithfulness through the moments I was convinced I had messed it all up. Romans 8:28 is real and I have watched it work in my own life and business. Never believe the lie that the negative things other people say about you when you put yourself out there are true. The comments. The opinions. The silence from people you expected to cheer you on the loudest. I have been there and I know what it feels like to let other people's words carry more weight than God's word. I get real in this episode about how I have navigated that and what I do now when the noise gets loud. Never believe the lie that the market is saturated or that you have lost your window of time to begin. This lie is especially dangerous right now because it is dressed up in facts. The world is changing fast. AI is everywhere. But God did not call you for a time such as this only to leave you without the tools, the strategy, and the wisdom to navigate it. I share why right now might actually be the greatest opportunity for a faith based voice to rise. Never believe the lie that building a personal brand or stepping into the spotlight is selfish or self-promoting. This one kept me smaller than God ever intended for longer than I want to admit. But Matthew 5:16 says let your light shine before men. God does not call you to dim your light. He calls you to let it shine. I talk about where this lie comes from and what it actually means to build a platform for kingdom purposes. What You Will Take Away From This Episode You will walk away with a biblical reframe for each of these five lies. You will hear where I personally got stuck, what God showed me, and how I kept moving forward even when every one of these thoughts tried to talk me out of it. This is not a pep talk. This is a real conversation about spiritual warfare in business and the truth that sets you free. Subscribe to the Faith and Business | God Centered Success podcast so you never miss an episode. And if this one blessed you, I would love for you to share it with another woman in your life who needs to hear it. The world needs your message. The enemy knows it. And that is exactly why these lies exist. Let's do this together. Much love, Mia

Let your light shine free from pressure, performance of perfection. God has called us to be the light and we can't do that when we are living under the pressure and performance of the world. When we keep our eyes on God and His will for our life, when we focus on this present moment and are intentional about letting God shining through us in this moment we will see the fruit of the spirit come out of us. But when we are so caught up in getting somewhere and so caught up in what others think of us our light is dimmed. This episode will encourage you to prosper right where you are and let your light shine everywhere you go.

Money Mindset for Kingdom Women, Prosperity Without Compromise episode is all about healing money shame and embracing abundance God's way. This episode helps ambitious Christian women see money as a Kingdom tool, not something to chase, fear, or feel guilty about. We cover breaking off the lies of the enemy that are sabotaging you from being trusted with more. We discuss the truth about money and wealth and how it is a tool for ministry,, generosity and service when it's in the hands of a believer who's heart is for God. We talk about the dangers of chasing money and loving money. Let's clear the lies and walk in truth so we can be trusted with more for kingdom purposes.

This episode is all about the importance of clarity of calling and alignment with God's will before strategy and the importance of going to the source of our clarity and guidance, God Himself. We can't skip over direction relationship and imtimacy with God and expect to have clarify in our business calling. Our access to clarity and guidance in in our time with Him and in His word. The best thing I can do for you in terms of your God calling is point you back to God and encourage you to seek His wisdom and discernment in all you do. He will show you the way step by step

Faith Over Hustle: How God Provides Beyond Our Efforts will encourage you to trust God as your provider more than ever. God takes care of His children. It's our job to trust Him and live in the abundance of being a child of God. From that place we can take action and operate in excellence in what God has called us to do. Never going into self reliance but being in complete reliance on God with a surrendered heart each day.

From quiet Faith to bold influence: God Is calling women to speak light Into a dark world for a time such as this and as we get closer to the end. God is calling believers to be bold in their faith like never before. I have never seen anything like the move of God we are seeing right now and God has a reason for what He is doing. We have been called for a time such as this and this episode will encourage and empower you to respond to God's call on your life and be bolder in their than ever in business and life.