Stepping Out in Faith: Behind the Scenes of The Redeemed Perfectionist

In this special bonus episode, I open up about my personal journey launching The Redeemed Perfectionist podcast. Join me as I share the highs and lows from the first couple of weeks of going live in an effort to give you the opportunity to know that even leaders like us still struggle.  My heart is to help you learn the authentic me so that you can know that overcoming is possible for you, too.  May the Lord give grace and anoint this episode in a special way for you. 

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Stepping Out in Faith: Behind the Scenes of The Redeemed Perfectionist

[00:00:00] Hello, my sister. I hope that this episode finds you well. This is a little bit different than what you've heard now for the first two weeks I decided that I really wanted to bring you on this journey with me and at times just give you access into what life is like for me right now in this moment in time. Here we are. It is officially August 14th, 2025. I'm five episodes in. And I've had just tremendous feedback from so many people and so much support.

I can't thank you enough. Many folks have said just how much they love the topic and they have loved the content and they have really made me just feel so good about, the choice I made to step into the deep with the Lord and step out of the comfortable and do what he was nudging me to do. And knowing that it wasn't gonna be perfect and it's [00:01:00] not going to be perfect, and it's going to iterate and it's going to change over time.

And if you are a perfectionist, you understand how challenging it is to put yourself out there, to put yourself in a situation where you are gonna make mistakes. And oh, by the way, those mistakes will be. Noticed in public, and that is so hard, right? 

We want to go only as far as we think in our minds we could be successful. We don't go any further than that. 

And yet that isn't what the Lord is calling us to do. So I thought I would just give you some insight into how the first couple weeks have gone.

Without any structure, without any written commentary beforehand, but just from the heart, give you a chance to get to know me a little bit.

So I think that I was pretty excited and nervous all at the same

[00:02:00] time. Leading up to the launch of the podcast. We call that nervited, and I think I was more excited than I was nervous. I felt pretty prepared, had a really good launch team and launch plan, but I also knew that. Going public would mean this is it.

I've now declared that I'm in this and I've gotta show up weekly. And oh my gosh, am I gonna have enough time? I mean, here I am. I, I work a day job. That's not a small day job. and it's very important to me that I, I live a life where I do fun things and balance, so everything is not work, work, work.

It's really important that I spend time with friends and family. It's important that I spend time on my health, and so I knew that 

This was going to push me to be really intentional with how I spend my time. 

But I also knew that the Lord had been calling me into this, and I was going to do this no matter what, because I desperately want 

[00:03:00] to walk in my destiny. And I, I definitely want to, be a voice that helps build the kingdom and that equips others to, break free where they need to break free and really step into their own destiny.

So that the kingdom of God can really take back the land, right? That is ours to take back. So we launched and it was a good week and it was so wild how. A bonus episode resulted from a, a Divine connection with my sweet friend Megan Stevens. And if you haven't listened to the bonus interview, July 30th, it was published, take a listen.

It was so powerful. And you know, I think it was part of what. Between that and just an amazing launch team, it was part of what made, uh, the redeem perfectionist, chart in New Zealand. Its first week, I mean out of thousands of, podcasts out there. 

[00:04:00] I hit 49th in self-help and 120 second in education, and I got the email and I remember the day I got the email telling me.

that was the case. And I was like, oh gosh, is this good? I don't know if it's good. I think it's good. And I reached out to my coaches and shared it with people and they're like, Lyne, this is insane. This is awesome. And you know, if I'm being really raw, honest with you, something inside of me.

An area that is still like that area of doubt and unbelief that I need to repent of even more and be healed even more from kind of took over and was like, oh yeah, you know, that's just week one. Are they really gonna believe that it's good material in week two and in week three and in week five, or was it really just the interview with Megan that took it to those levels?

I mean, isn't it amazing how our inner critic and how those voices and the voices of the enemy and the 

[00:05:00] weeds that the enemy has planted in our soul all these years just started to, ring loud? And I have had to work through that. I have had to say, you know what? Even if that was the case, it doesn't matter.

That was an incredible accomplishment. And my value and my destiny are not based on that one accomplishment. Ugh, sister. This is a journey and it's a hard one, and we're gonna do this together and I want you to know that. I don't have it all together, and I'm still working through this layer by layer, line upon line, precept upon precept a scripture says.

So I worked through that pretty well and what did I do? I did what I recommend in some of my episodes, and that is I celebrated the win. You know, the other thing I noticed that's become very apparent is that as a perfectionist, we are always looking at the 

[00:06:00] destination. And of course, that destination is often the ideal, unrealistic standard we can never meet anyway.

And so.

I had to stop and say, let's, let's celebrate. Let's celebrate the win. Let's take a moment actually, and how about we? If I turn around and I look back and I look at the progress, I look at the fact that a year ago I didn't even know if I was going to be podcasting. I didn't know if I could do it. I had so many fears and so many doubts and no idea how to work the operations of it and the logistics, and it was.

Daunting and it was overwhelming, but I wanted to obey and I wanted to, to step into what I knew God was calling me to. And then you just, you turn right around and you look back. And because of diligence and steadfastness with every step I took, I built my bold, if you will. And here I am today and I'm talking with you now, and so many people have thanked me and are 

[00:07:00] excited for me.

And so I know that this isn't about my abilities, it's about obedience, and it's about what he's called me to. And it's about trusting him and surrendering and recognizing I need his grace. It's his sufficiency that's going to get me through this coupled with my obedience, he will come and he will attach his anointing to the work that I'm doing and he will make it resonate in the heart of whoever it needs to resonate with, and it's not going to be everything for everyone, and that's okay again.

That's not what this is about. My value, my worth as a human being is not based on how well or not well this podcast does. And define. Well anyway, you know, we are defining success so often by the numbers and the results and the outcomes. I wanna measure 

[00:08:00] success of this by the lives, not even the number of lives that it changes, but by the fact that it helps change lives.

Scripture says, faith comes from hearing and hearing from the word of God. And if one person hears something that changes the game for them, then it was worth it. that means he used me, to reach that one sheep. And that's, that's it, that's what it's about. So. It's, it's good.

It's been an up and down. It has challenged me in all new ways. I need to get more comfortable just showing up and just talking to you and just using my voice and just sharing my experience and the revelation that God brings me. But I want you to know, sister, that. my starting point has been one of fear and doubt and unbelief, and yet faith as small as a mustard 

[00:09:00] seed.

So all I have done is respond to the Lord. He casts the seed in my heart and I allowed it to be planted in fertile soil. And I said yes and. I did it afraid and I kept showing up and I realized that if I just show up, if I just do the next thing, he will give increase to that. And lo and behold, little by little, every time I show up, I show up more relaxed.

I show up realizing that, you know what? Every time he calls me to a new level, I'm probably gonna go through the same process where I'm gonna doubt and be afraid, but now I don't have to stay there. Now I can look at it. And face it and say, this is a mountain that I'm used to. I also know the process. I know how this works, and I know that as I keep saying yes, that mountain is gonna come down little by little until eventually it 

[00:10:00] becomes an ant hill.

And I just want you to understand that the difference between maybe where you're sitting right now and others who you think are so much further ahead, the difference is really that one step, that next step that you need to take that will close that gap and another step, and another step after that.

So I really just honestly wanted to get on here. I wanted to take a risk, I wanted to get uncomfortable. I wanted to, build my bold. I wanted to not spend time prepping this message to you today. But I wanted to just share from the heart what it's been like leading up to today and how excited and grateful I am.

I'm ready to take the risk on your behalf. I am ready to get uncomfortable. If it means more of him and less of me, I'm ready to be 

[00:11:00] that vessel that maybe you needed at this time in your life to understand that everything you're feeling, that might feel so scary that might feel. Like you're not good enough.

That might feel like you can't do it. That mountain in front of you is exactly how the process begins, and it's in the obedience. It's in the taking the next step that your mind and your heart will be persuaded that he is able to keep that which you are committing to him. So sister. I'm gonna pray right now for you and I want to just say thank you for letting me be real, letting me be vulnerable.

thanks for showing up and supporting and I'm gonna keep showing up for you and I covet your prayers. And I wanna pray for you as well. So Father, we just thank you in the mighty name of Jesus. God, you are so good and you are 

[00:12:00] stirring so many of your daughter's hearts right now. You are calling them, you're calling them into the deep, you're calling them to surrender, to trust you, to trust your heart, to trust that you have good, good things in store for them and good plans for them, but not just for them, for the kingdom, because there's somebody.

That is on the other side of their yes. Who is waiting for their story? Who's waiting for the exact way in which they will bring it? It Father, you're just waiting to take their little bit of faith and multiply it and do exceedingly, abundantly more than they could ask or imagine. Father, I thank you for Revelation of grace.

I thank you that never. Ever. Did you expect us to do this in our own strength or do it in our own way? You have a better way, and your yoke is easy and your burden is light. So 

[00:13:00] father, I just thank you. I thank you for the blood of Jesus that made a way so that we didn't have to perfectly follow all 613 plus rules and laws.

Father that we were never gonna be able to do anyway, that you said, no, I'm gonna do this. I'm gonna do this for them on their behalf so that they don't have to. And then I'm gonna empower them with my spirit. And together we're gonna walk through life. I'm gonna teach them how to dance. I'm gonna teach them how to embrace victory.

I'm gonna teach them that their worth is based on the fact that I created them and love them, not on what. They can or cannot do for me. And I'm gonna help them walk in obedience, help them repent of their, um, carnal, natural, endemic ways, and together we're just going to, to build the kingdom. Father, I thank you for your heart and I trust that you will 

[00:14:00] help the listener, help my sisters get this revelation that they are enough.

You will want to meet them right where they are. Give them permission to rest and let you drive. And together, you're gonna make such magic happen. Father, I bless the listener. I bless my sisters right now in your precious name. And father, we trust that you will grow the redeemed perfectionist, uh, to whatever you want it to be.

Father, you're the one who multiplies and I commit to you to continue to show up. And just do the next thing and give you all that I have to give you, knowing that you'll do the rest and you will fill in the gaps where I am weak. Father, you are so strong. We love you, God, we thank you. We bless your holy, holy name in Jesus' name.

Oh, sister. Ugh. 16 minutes in. And I feel way better than I did when I first opened this episode. So. I'm 

[00:15:00] just, I'm asking you to, to just do the same and to trust. If you want to be surrounded by a community of women, I do invite you to join us, at the Redeem perfectionist Facebook community. It is a free grace filled community for women like you, and I've got some things ruined in my heart, things that.

hopefully between now and, and the new year, uh, we'll be launching and, and just another place, a safe place for you to go and, and really work things out with people, their safety in a multitude of counselors. So I'll drop the link in the show notes. Um, definitely if you wanna leave me a message, there's a little phone down there you can click on and you can actually leave me a message.

I bless you sister. And I can't wait to to meet you and talk with you more. And until next time, Have a wonderful grace filled day.