**Disclaimer** We are currently on our annual winter break. This is a replay of an episode that aired earlier in 2025.

In this episode of Blessed and Bossed Up, we continue our Bible on Business series by diving into the significance of strategic timing. Tatum unpacks the powerful lessons from Acts 2, examining how the Lord orchestrated the perfect moment for Pentecost and how this applies to our business and leadership journeys. She discusses why waiting on God’s timing is crucial, how to avoid premature leadership, and how divine strategy ensures maximum impact.

Through the transformation of Peter, the example of Chick-fil-A’s success, and personal reflections on her own journey, Tatum emphasizes the importance of trusting God's plan. If you’re in a season of waiting or feeling impatient about your business or calling, this episode will encourage and challenge you to surrender to God's divine orchestration.

Key Takeaways:

• God’s Timing Ensures Maximum Impact: Pentecost happened at the exact right moment to maximize the spread of the gospel. Likewise, waiting on God's timing in your business will lead to greater impact.
• The Right People Will Be in Place When It's Time: God gathers the right audience, customers, and community when the timing aligns with His plan.
• Strategic Preparation Precedes Breakthrough: Just as Peter had to go through a transformation process, we must embrace personal and professional development while waiting for God’s move.
• Sudden Breakthroughs Are Often Years in the Making: From Jesus preparing 30 years for a 3-year ministry to Chick-fil-A’s 20-year foundation before expansion, major success takes time and patience.
• Avoid Premature Leadership & Decision-Making: Acting ahead of God’s plan can lead to consequences. Learning to wait well is key to success in both business and faith.

Scriptures Mentioned:

• Acts 2:1-5 – The divine timing of Pentecost
• Leviticus 23:15-16 – The significance of the Feast of Weeks
• Deuteronomy 16:16 – The biblical foundation for gathering at Pentecost
• Matthew 16:16-23 – Peter’s faith and spiritual immaturity
• John 18:10-11 – Peter’s rash decision-making

Before we get into today’s episode, I want to let you know that the Blessed + Bossed Up podcast is currently on a brief break as I reset, refocus, and prepare for what’s next in this new season. While we’re away, I’ll be sharing powerful sessions, teachings, and listener favorites from our community to continue pouring into you. Today’s replay is one of those sessions. Enjoy, and I pray it blesses you right where you are.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

• Key lessons from the book of Isaiah and its relevance to our daily lives.
• How patterns of behavior like fear, self-reliance, and worldly influences keep us from fully depending on God.
• The concept of the habit loop and how it shapes our actions.
• Practical strategies to disrupt unhealthy habits and replace them with faith-driven behaviors.

Special Resource:

Tatum shares an incredible resource, The Behavior Loop Analysis & Replacement Method. This step-by-step guide helps you identify and transform patterns of behavior that lead to self-reliance, replacing them with habits rooted in faith and dependence on God. Download today: https://anchoredmedia.kartra.com/page/GlW8

Upcoming Events:

• Christian Content Creator Town Hall: Join Tatum for a free event designed for Christian creators navigating the online space, featuring a powerful word. Register here: https://anchoredmedia.kartra.com/webinar/AuX5ijYd7wa4

Scripture Focus:

• Isaiah 30:21 (NLT): “Your own ears will hear him. Right behind you a voice will say, ‘This is the way you should go,’ whether to the right or to the left.”

In this vulnerable end-of-year episode, Tatum opens up about navigating a year of big transition—welcoming a new baby, starting law school, stewarding family and business, and still choosing to make God the CEO of it all. She shares how 2025 has exposed areas for growth, internal “shoulds,” and noise… but also how her foundation in God has kept her steady.

Tatum also announces that the podcast will be on pause for December as she focuses on finals, rest, and seeking God for the next phase of the Bible on Business series—coming back in the new year with more teaching and visual, behind-the-scenes content.

Then we dive back into Part 2 of her powerful conversation with Pastor Tiffany Sowah. Tiffany shares the real cost of obedience: relocating in 30 days off fragmented instructions from God, losing a major federal contract, walking through a “manna season” where she and her husband had just enough for each day, and even surrendering her dream car and apartment. She talks honestly about anger, depression, and feeling like she’d “lost everything”—and how God reframed it as giving everything up to follow Him.

This episode is for the entrepreneur, leader, or believer who is:

• Wrestling with hesitation around a big instruction from God
• Questioning if they “heard Him right” because obedience led to hardship
• In a season where it feels like everything is being stripped, not added
• Wanting to understand what it really means to count the cost and still say “yes”

We also share the heart behind the New Year’s Eve Prayer-a-thon, how it was birthed in the middle of Tiffany’s lowest financial season, and why you absolutely want to be in the virtual room this year.

• How the first Prayer-a-thon (Dec 2023) was birthed while Tiffany was working a seasonal job at Ross, living with her parents, and rebuilding from scratch
• The purpose of the Prayer-a-thon: to end the year and enter the next one in the only place that sustains us—God’s presence
• Growing from an 8–12 hour broadcast to an 18–20 hour global prayer experience with people joining from all over the world
• Testimonies of people who planned to “hop on for a bit” and ended up staying all day
• Why you should come ready to log in “for an hour”… but be prepared to want to stay much longer

Register for the Prayer-a-thon: bit.ly/mwgprayerthon

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