When the roles fall away, who are you really? Angela Linville explores what happens when God asks you to lay down what once defined you, and how to rebuild from truth instead of performance.

Keywords: identity in Christ, purpose after success, Christian women, personal transformation, letting go of titles, faith journey, spiritual growth, belovedness, identity crisis, rebuilding identity

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With Grit & Grace: Men of Courage, Women of Valor is a faith-based podcast exploring identity, intimacy, worth, and healing through honest conversation and lived experience.

Each episode invites listeners to move out of performance and into a deeper way of living with God.

As With Grit & Grace closes its first season, Lisa and Angela take a deep breath and reflect on everything God has built through this community.

What began in January as a simple yes to honest conversation has become a year-long journey through survival, rebuilding, alignment, rest, and the courage to lead differently.

In this heartfelt finale, the hosts look back on the messy middles and quiet miracles that have marked 2025 and share what’s coming next for the podcast, the Kingdom Identity Network, and the new Kingdom Rising: Called to Commissioned ecosystem launching in 2026.

This isn’t an ending. It’s the pause before the next rise.

• Looking back at how With Grit & Grace began and how the conversations have transformed both hosts and listeners.
• Lisa shares the evolution of her work in community-building on Skool and how genuine connection is the future of sustainable visibility.
• The upcoming Skool Community Activity Leaders Network, a new space for men and women who want to build healthy, relationship-driven communities without burnout.
• Continued growth of Kingdom Identity Network, the free discipleship community for Kingdom-minded women.
• A behind-the-scenes look at the upcoming Quiet Time Plan Journal, a printed devotional releasing next October to help women walk in monthly rhythm with God.
• Angela’s reflection on 2025: from Stop Settling for Survival to Building with Support and Discerning Your Mantle.
• Why she’s taking a two-month creative sabbath during November and December to prepare for the next season.
• A first look at Angela’s upcoming book releases and the integrated discipleship experience that ties them all together.

Angela previews the next chapter of Kingdom Culture Revolution through five connected works that form a prophetic blueprint for builders and believers:

• The Shulamite’s Diary — The Sound of Redeeming Love
• Courageous Calling — The Framework for Living Your God-Given Purpose
• The Mantle Matrix — A Map for Transforming Your Story into a Movement
• Salt & Light — Beyond the Culture Wars
• Orphaned Authority — Restoring the Ruins of a Fatherless Kingdom

These aren’t just books...they’re blueprints for Kingdom builders who long to lead with integrity, clarity, and rest.

All of these themes will come alive inside Kingdom Rising: Called to Commissioned, a new private-podcast-and-community experience designed to guide women through a full discipleship and activation journey in 2026.

“You’re not the same person who started this year. You’re stronger, softer, and more surrendered—and that’s what this space was always meant to be.” — Lisa Vanderveen

“God is not asking us to hustle harder; He’s asking us to build differently.” — Angela Linville

“This isn’t the end—it’s the pause before the next rise.” — Lisa Vanderveen

• November – December 2025: Creative pause while new content is written, recorded, and refined.
• January 2026: Launch of Season Two and the Kingdom Rising: Called to Commissioned discipleship experience.
• Ongoing: Growth of the Kingdom Identity Network, the Skool Community Activity Leaders Network, and the development of the Quiet Time Plan Journal.

To everyone who’s listened, shared, or quietly whispered, “This episode met me right where I was,” thank you. Your courage to heal, rebuild, and keep showing up is what makes this movement possible.

Take care of your heart. Steward your season. And remember...this is only the beginning.

Are you carrying everything - every role, every responsibility - and wondering which ones are actually yours to hold right now?

In this week’s episode, Angela and Lisa sit down for a coffee chat about one of the most important (and overlooked) aspects of Kingdom living: discernment.

Because the truth is, you can carry a lot...but that doesn’t mean you’re meant to carry it all.

Together, they unpack how to tell the difference between your assignments, gifts, and mantles and why not every “yes” is yours in this season.

Angela shares her Mantle Matrix, a framework for aligning your message, model, and movement with God’s timing, while Lisa walks listeners through her SAVAH Method, a practical and prophetic way to realign with what God’s breathing on right now.

This is a conversation about clarity, capacity, and calling and how to stop confusing movement with momentum.

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• How to recognize when you’re carrying roles God never asked you to hold
• The difference between a calling, a gift, an assignment, and a mantle
• Why even the right mantle will crush you if you don’t have capacity
• How to release false responsibilities and realign with divine timing
• The cost and peace that come with true discernment
• Lisa’s SAVAH Method (Surrender, Awareness, Voice, Alignment, Healing)
• Angela’s Mantle Matrix (Message, Model, Movement) and how to use it
• The practical questions to ask when you feel stretched too thin

“You don’t snatch a mantle off the rack for yourself. You receive it, in season, from the One who knows what you’re built to carry.” — Angela Linville

“SAVAH means Divinely Inspired Imagination. Discernment isn’t just about managing emotions—it’s about coming into alignment with what God is already speaking.” — Lisa Vanderveen

“Discernment is the bridge between activation and sustainability.” — Lisa Vanderveen

• What role feels alive with God’s breath in this season?
• What role feels heavy, forced, or false?
• Where am I saying yes out of fear of disappointing people instead of obedience?
• What mantle is God clothing me with, and what might no longer be mine to carry?
• Do I have the margin to carry what He’s entrusted me with well?

You don’t have to hold everything you’ve ever said yes to.

The King still clothes His daughters...and He knows exactly what mantle you’re built for in this moment.

Sometimes the hardest wounds to heal are the ones inflicted in the name of God.

Maybe it wasn’t a boss or a mentor...it was a pastor, a spiritual parent, or a coach who claimed to be led by the Holy Spirit but used their influence to manipulate, guilt, or gaslight you.

They praised you in public but silenced you in private.

Twisted Scripture to keep you compliant.

Labeled your questions as rebellion.

And because they claimed to speak for God, their betrayal didn’t just break your trust in them, it fractured your trust in Him.

In this powerful solo episode, Lisa speaks directly to women carrying leadership wounds...those who have been controlled, dismissed, or spiritually shamed by people who were supposed to protect and empower them.

She offers a compassionate and prophetic roadmap for healing, revealing how to rebuild your trust, your discernment, and your voice without fear of becoming what hurt you.

• How leadership abuse hides behind “spiritual” language and false humility
• Why forgiveness and healing are not the same thing
• The subtle ways unhealed leadership wounds bleed into your work, home, and faith
• Why your fear of becoming like your abuser is actually proof that you won’t
• Signs that real healing is taking place - from trusting your discernment to rebuilding your connection with God
• What healthy, Spirit-led leadership actually looks and feels like
• How to rebuild community when isolation has felt safer than connection

• Abuse doesn’t just silence your voice; it distorts your identity. Healing restores both.
• Forgiveness clears your heart; healing restores your safety.
• Caution isn’t weakness, it’s wisdom being refined.
• You can be the kind of leader you wish you’d had.
• The wounds the enemy used to silence you are becoming blueprints for discernment and purity in leadership.

Lisa invites you into a powerful visualization: sitting at a table with Jesus, acknowledging the empty chairs left by those who wounded you, and hearing Him whisper...

Ask Him:

• What lie about leadership do You want to heal today?
• Who do I need to forgive so I can move forward free?
• What kind of leader are You inviting me to become?

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There’s a moment when every leader, builder, or believer whispers the same words: “I can’t keep living like this.”

That whisper isn’t weakness, it’s an invitation.

In this raw and powerful episode of Kingdom Rising: Courageous Conversations, Angela Linville and Lisa Vanderveen open up about what it really looks like to move from survival to stewardship. Together, they unpack four signs you’re ready to rebuild...self-awareness, margin, legacy, and rhythm...and wrestle honestly with the tension between faithfulness, fatigue, and freedom.

This isn’t a polished “four-step plan.” It’s an honest, Spirit-led conversation about the cost of pretending you’re okay, and the courage it takes to live again.

Angela & Lisa discuss:

• The night Angela hit her breaking point and how that moment became her turning point.

• Why honesty can feel like betrayal, yet always leads to breakthrough.

• What it really means to create margin when there’s “no time.”

• How legacy becomes the fire that keeps you rebuilding.

• The difference between hustle and holy rhythm and how to find the pace of peace.

• Why true stewardship requires self-awareness, surrender, and community.

• Survival keeps you breathing; stewardship helps you build.

• Awareness is not rebellion, it’s revelation.

• Margin is sacred ground for clarity.

• Legacy is what you live now, not just what you leave behind.

• God’s rhythm is steady, not frantic.

“That whisper ‘I can’t keep living like this’...isn’t weakness. It’s God opening a door.” – Angela Linville “Honesty can feel like disloyalty, but you can’t get free without it.” – Lisa Vanderveen “Margin isn’t selfish; it’s stewardship.” – Angela Linville “Legacy isn’t what we leave behind, it’s what we live right now.” – Lisa Vanderveen

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It's been crafted in partnership with Holy Spirit for women who want peace that lasts.

Each reflection takes you deeper into God’s heart, helping you hear His voice, feel His presence and live from alignment every single day.

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What If Activation Isn’t What You Think It Is

We’ve been told that “activation” means acceleration...that when God stirs something in us, it’s time to hustle harder, carry more, and prove we’re ready. But what if true Kingdom activation looks completely different?

In this episode, Angela Linville pulls back the curtain on her own story, from running a $300K business and burning out under the weight of performance, to rediscovering what it means to live aligned with God’s rhythms. She unpacks how activation flows through subtraction, not addition, and shares the three questions that now guide every new assignment.

This is a must-listen for anyone feeling stretched thin, called to more, or wrestling with what “doing enough” really means.

Angela shares:

• The moment God stopped her from carrying what He never asked her to carry

• How being good at something doesn’t always mean it’s your God assignment

• Why timing is a form of divine protection and how God layered her frameworks over time

• The difference between peace and confusion when discerning what’s yours to carry

• How to filter opportunities through assignment, season, and clarity

• Activation isn’t about doing more, it’s about stewarding what matters most.

• Alignment will always outlast expertise.

• The waiting isn’t wasted, it’s where formation happens.

• Confusion is a red flag; peace is your compass.

“Being capable doesn’t make it your calling.” “Sometimes activation requires subtraction before addition...alignment before assignment.” “If it’s from God, it won’t war against your spirit. It will expand your capacity while grounding your soul.”

Feeling the nudge to realign your own assignment? Join the waitlist for The Shulamite’s Diary: The Sound of Redeeming Love, Angela’s upcoming book and audio experience for those ready to rise from striving into stewardship.

Discover the ancient love song that becomes a battle cry for women called to rise...from hidden and unworthy to chosen and unshakable.

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