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Thank you for joining my conversation on Life Coach BFF Show with guest, Christy Wright. You will find insights, tips, and inspiring stories about God-given visions, finding success with ADHD, and the twist and turns in the journey we call life. Christy Wright is a wife, mom to 3 small children,#1 National Bestselling Author, Speaker and Business Coach. She resides with her family in Franklin, TN. Contact Christy: https://www.christywright.com Join Christy's Free Webinar Follow Heather Pettey and the Life Coach BFF Show on Instagram and Facebook for more empowering content. If you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts and share it with your friends. Your support means the world to us Contact Host, Heather Pettey: Heather@HeatherPettey.com Website: www.HeatherPettey.com Purchase Keep It Simple Sarah Heather's Bio: Heather is a perfectly imperfect wife of 28 years to David, mom to 4 amazing humans ages 12 to 26, and lover of Jesus. She's a closet peanut M&M and Goldfish cracker consumer. She is passionate about supporting and encouraging women to find joy and remain sane while transitioning into new seasons. The laughter and support happens weekly on her podcast, Life Coach BFF Show. When not podcasting, she's coaching women to live confidently, set clear boundaries, and learn to build their fire in the rain. The mindset coach is also the author of Keep It Simple, Sarah: Powerful Words and Encouragement for Christian Teen Girls. Heather has made appearances on CNN Headline News and other media. She believes life is a long line of lessons, and in her opinion, it’s all about faith and good ol' common sense. She happily resides with her family in Memphis, TN. *Quick Disclaimer- Heather Pettey is a certified coach and not a therapist. Always seek the support of a therapist for clinical mental health issues. Christy Wright TRANSCRIPT Auto Generated Welcome back to the show. I'm your host, and BFF, Heather Pettey. And I'm thrilled. You're here. You're just in time for a delightful conversation with Christy, wright. Whether Christy is talking about God telling stories or serving in the business arena, Christy loves encouraging you to step into all that God has for you. Christy is also the best storyteller. So you are in for such a treat! Before we begin, be sure to tap the plus sign in the top right corner of your screen. So you will always be included in the fun let's get to it. Life Coach BFF show with me, your friend Heather, because we all need a BFF to take this journey called Life With. This is a podcast for midlife women who want to remain sane and find joy while parenting teens. We're [00:01:00] living with purpose and determination to get all the goodie out of life because I believe God. Made the goodie for his people, you and me. So hop aboard this train of intention. Come and sit on my porch and rest or pop in your earbuds and let's take a walk together. I'm just so grateful you're here. Hi, Christy. I'm so excited to have you today. Hey, I'm so excited to be with you, Heather. It's gonna be fun. Christy, you are busy, busy, busy. You're a mom of three, a bestselling author, speaker, and business coach, which is all so inspiring. Could you share some key moments or experiences that led you to this point in your career? You know, it's so interesting because I feel like we have this idea that, you know there's a ladder to where we want to be, whether that's success or in your job, like just climb the corporate ladder. Like we have this idea of a ladder. And I think it was Sheryl Sandberg that said in her book, [00:02:00] lean in years ago, most career paths are not a ladder you climb or stairs that you walk up, but a jungle gym and you kind of leap from one side to the other. And I think that's a lot of my story where, you know, I'm a person of faith, Heather. And so. So much of my story is I hope a result of just obedience where when God says, go, I go. And sometimes it makes sense. And a lot of time, honestly, it doesn't. And I see that example in scripture where God calls unlikely people to do unlikely things in unlikely places with no resources and no reasoning or explanation. And I may not understand it, but I do want to be a person that obeys. And so you know, I've had some years where it was just a compounding effect of, A book and an amazing team and a coaching group and all these things that seem really logical. And then other years where it's very illogical where in November of 21. My best year yet at Ramsey after being there 12 years overnight, God calls me to leave and, you know, I'm smiling now. Wow. I was not smiling at the time, by the way. But, and that was terrifying. And [00:03:00] then since then, it's like, you know, God says, go here. And God says, go there. And We love to talk about walking by faith, but actually walking by faith is super hard and super scary. Yes. And and requires a lot of dependence and trust and daily laying it down. And so I think for me, you know, when you, when I look at like where I am today, you know, there's, there's part of you that could go, oh wow, that looks scattered, or it looks like, it's like, no, I, I know that where I am is where God wants me to be. And if other people get it, that's so great. And if they don't, that's totally okay because I just wanna go where God wants me to go. And sometimes that makes sense and sometimes it doesn't. Oh, it makes total sense to me. And when, one day I've turned on Instagram and there you are, and you were talking about visions that you had had recently, which I have had visions. And you're almost afraid to share that with people because they go, Whoa. I mean, So you, you don't want to appear crazy, but you know that it's real when it happens, you know that it's real. Could you [00:04:00] share some recent visions? Was this your first time to experience this or when was your first time and what were these visions and how have you acted on these and how do you plan to act? Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So first of all, I just want to hit on something you said right there, because you said something really important and I think it's a good teaching moment for your audience. This is for all of us. You said you don't want to seem crazy, which is absolutely true, but I think we need to realize that when we're talking about visions or anything. In the faith world that we cannot see, by the way, or in the natural world, there's fear. Okay. So there's fear. Now you have a choice of which thing you're going to fear. You can fear looking crazy, which is valid because some people will think you're crazy. You might get mean comments on Instagram. If you share, you know, this is what we're talking about. Like when you share it you can fear that because you may look crazy and people may misunderstand. So that's a very real fear. Yeah. But there's another fear. And the other fear is what's lost. If you don't share it and who's not blessed. If you don't obey [00:05:00] and who's not edified because you weren't bold. And so either way, there's a fear involved. I can fear looking crazy and people don't understand, or I can fear missing an opportunity for God to use me in someone's life. And I have chosen over time, and this has taken time, Heather, but I've chosen to switch my fear to being more scared. of missing out on blessing someone or God using me to speak to someone, then I fear being crazy. Either way, there's a fear involved, but I'm like, I'm going to choose this fear. I still fear being crazy, but that's not going to drive my decision. Instead, I'm going to fear. Oh, what if I miss an opportunity to speak to someone? I'll give you a great example. This is not a vision example, but more of an obedience example. And then I'll give you some visions. The other day, this was a few weeks ago at the time of this recording. So I guess a few months ago actually. And I was launching my online store. Never done this before, never done retail, there's upfront costs, there's logistics, there's shipping, there's all these stuff. I've already made mistakes and you know, had to learn the hard way on some things. But I'm launching the store and this was the day that I'm supposed to post about it on social media. I've got a real, you know, [00:06:00] highlighting all the different shirts and hats and all the things that me and my business manager, like this is the plan. This is the day we're going to launch it. And I'm getting coffee. And I just feel the Lord download to me a word for people. And it was something that I have actually been walking in and, and learning from over the previous two weeks. And I just felt the Lord say to share it. And so I grabbed my phone. I recorded a really quick reel of like, here's the frustrating part. You're in between seasons and you want to let go of the old, but you're not quite taking hold of the new. And you're not sure what to let go of. Here's what you need to let go of. You need to let go of your old way of thinking, because God is not going to bless you in the promised land with your pity party. And I just kind of go on this. Of what I've been learning spoken to me, it's spoken to me. No amount of money can fix a broke mindset. No amount of opportunities can fix an insecure mindset. So I'm sharing this on that reel, that reel, which I posted on the day I was supposed to promote my store, which has actual costs that I need to make money, you know, for, for this upfront cost, that reel has been shared at the time of this recording 600, 000 times.[00:07:00] Oh wow. It has been viewed. More than anything I've ever posted in my entire life, including when I was at Ramsey, which is this massive marketing machine with today's show and yes, there's something in obedience. And so I think that the Lord has trained me so much in obedience, especially in the last two years, since I've been totally free where I'm just doing literally at the whim of what he's asked me to do that. I've just learned to fear disobedience. More than that's Christy. That is so good. I didn't mean to interrupt you, but that is so good. Well, and that was, that was really my takeaway from Ramsey where people were like, how'd you do it? How'd you do it? And I said, I quickly got affirmed it so many times that I quickly got to the place where I feared disobedience more than I feared leaving. And I'm leaving a lot. I'm leaving all of my health insurance, my income, my salary, my work, leaving that there, my friendships, but everything going into nothing, by the way, it's not like, Oh, I'm going over here to do this. I knew, I did not know where I was going. But I feared disobedience more than I feared leaving. And, [00:08:00] and again, it wasn't this fear of disobedience, fire and brimstone, but it was like this very real reverence for the Lord of my, my father, God, that I know he loves me. And so if he's saying to do this, it is because it's good for me. Does it feel good? Does it look good? Doesn't seem good, but I know that it must be good. If he's called me to do it, of course, in hindsight, two years later, I couldn't be more grateful that he called me to leave with, with what I'm getting to do now starting my business. So all that to say is either way, there's a fear involved. There's either the fear of looking crazy and the fear of man, or there's the fear of disobedience, the fear of missing out on God, using the fear of the Lord. And I think we can train ourself to choose our fear, which fear is going to drive the decision. Because fears are probably involved. As far as visions, it's been interesting. I speaking of Ramsey, I feel like things when I left. And we see this pattern in scripture again, not to get so in the Bible, but this is just such a theme here. Visions are biblical. And I knew that they're, I knew they were biblical, but I'd never had visions that I could like at least identify that was a vision from the Lord. And so I remember it was in [00:09:00] November. So exactly two years ago at the time of this recording, it was in November of 21, God had called me to leave. And I don't know if I'd told them yet or not. I don't think I had, but I remember I was falling asleep one night. And I hadn't gone to sleep yet, but I said, Lord, I've never had visions, but I am so scared right now. And so if you have a vision for me, I want you to give it to me. I want you to give me that vision. And so I had a vision, like I just saw in my mind. me walking through a tunnel and no one else was in the tunnel. But me and my kids were not in the tunnel. My husband was not in the tunnel. It was just me and Jesus and he was walking with me and the tunnel was, it wasn't super, super long, but it wasn't super short. You couldn't see the end of it and we're walking. And it's very dark and it's very enclosed and it's scary cause it's dark and you don't know where you're going. And it feels very like, you know, tight quarters, but as we walk through it, the whole time, Jesus is with me. And as we walked through it, as we walk through it. When I get to the other side, it's wide open, like bright white, [00:10:00] wide open. And I just knew that when I left, I was going to go through a tunnel. I knew that I was going to go through this testing and wilderness season and difficulty. And I didn't know what it would look like. And I didn't know how long it would be. And honestly, I can't tell you, like, I feel precisely when it, here's when it started. Here's when it has ended or whatever. But I feel like I went through that, but that was the first vision. And since then I've gotten so many visions. I mean, I feel like I'm. I get them and not, not every week or even every month, but I get them somewhat regularly. And the vision is always, the vision is always so it's so powerful that, you know, it couldn't be your own thoughts. That's the best way I could describe it where it feels so powerful that it's not yours. And and it teaches you visions teach you. And if you get a vision and you don't know what it means, you can ask the Lord to, to translate it for you. Like, what does this mean? What are you showing me about this? And he will tell you maybe right then, maybe later, but visions are really powerful. And if you don't have them, pray for them. I literally prayed and asked God and he began to give them to me. [00:11:00] Yeah, that is so relatable to me because the visions that I've had Jesus has been there with me by my side and I didn't want to leave him. Did you feel that way? Yes. Yeah. Yeah. And the visions will always. Affirm his word to you. Let me say that. I feel like I feel really compelled to say that right now. The vision will always confirm his word to you. So I had a vision. This is when I was leaving there. I had two visions on the same day. And I know again, you sound crazy, but it's fine. I've never shared this vision publicly, but it just came to mind. So I'll share it because it's, I feel like enough time has gone by where I can share it safely. So on the day that I was leaving Ramsey or I'm sorry on the day that I was telling them, so I'd never told them I had requested a meeting, which everyone was like, what is this meeting about? I pulled into the p…
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