The Lifestyles of the Determined Podcast | Faith, clarity, and sustainable growth for cycle breakers

Bible Rx | Trust in the Lord | I Don’t Have to Do This Alone | Proverbs

If you’ve been carrying pressure around your goals or wondering if you’re “doing it right,” this Bible Rx will settle your spirit. This episode will breathe peace back into your heart. Erica unpacks Proverbs 16:3 and Psalm 37:4–5 to show how committing your plans to God brings clarity, steadiness, and supernatural support.
If you’re stepping into a new goal or season, this is the reset your soul has been longing for.
 

Mini Goal Setting Workshop | Goals Without Pressure | A Spirit-Led Approach to Follow-Through

Most goals fail, not from laziness, but because we set them from pressure instead of partnership with God.
This isn’t another “new year, new me” pep talk.This is the workshop your soul has needed.
In this Mini Goal Setting Workshop, Erica shows why pressure-based goals burn you out and how God-aligned goals create peace, clarity, and real momentum. Learn how to build spiritual, health, relational, and purpose goals that fit your season and God’s direction not overwhelm.
Slow down. Get aligned. Build what God is growing in you.
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Mindset Snack: Before You Set a Goal | Prepare Your Heart, Not Just Your Plans

Before you plan the year, the month, or even the week… you need to prepare your heart. This Mindset Snack takes you beneath the surface of goal setting and into the deeper questions that shape who you’re becoming.
Today’s episode will help you slow down, breathe, and reconnect with purpose so that tomorrow’s goal-setting conversation lands exactly where it needs to.
👉 Make sure to listen to tomorrow’s episode. The full, guided walk-through of creating goals that last.

Bible Rx | Fruit That Grows in Peace | Galatians 5

In this Bible Rx episode, Erica walks through Galatians 5:22-23, 25 (NLT) as a follow-up to the Gift of Peace Mindset Snack, exploring what naturally grows when the Holy Spirit is leading.
This is a Scripture-first, line-by-line breakdown of the Fruit of the Spirit with reflective insight inspired by The Passion Translation.
This episode isn’t about striving for spiritual qualities.It’s about abiding and allowing fruit to grow from a life rooted in peace.

Mindset Snack: What If You Gave Peace? | Becoming the Calm in a Loud Season

Got peace?
In a season that feels loud, tense, and overwhelming, peace isn’t passive, it’s powerful. In this Mindset Snack, Erica explores what it means to give peace rather than react to pressure, and how choosing calm can strengthen relationships, steady the nervous system, and create space for God’s voice.
If you’ve been feeling overstimulated, on edge, or pulled in too many directions, this episode is a gentle reminder that peace is something you can carry into conversations, relationships, and ordinary moments. One choice at a time.

Bible Rx | I Can’t, But God Can | Joseph’s Audacious Faith | Genesis 50

Faith isn’t built in fulfillment, it’s forged in the waiting.
In Genesis 50:19–21 (NLT), Joseph looks back on betrayal, delay, and harm and declares, “You intended to harm me, but God intended it for all good.” This Bible Rx episode explores the audacious faith required when life doesn’t match the dream and how God develops perspective, healing, and purpose long before clarity arrives.
If you’re in a season that feels unfair, unfinished, or confusing, this episode will help you stay steady while God is still working.

Joseph's 13 Year Dream Delay | Wait Training | His Pain, a Nation’s Gain

What do you do when God gives you a dream — and then everything falls apart?
In this Wait Training episode, Erica walks through Joseph’s 13-year journey from betrayal to promotion and what it reveals about God’s timing. From the pit to the prison to a position of influence, Joseph’s story shows how delay isn’t denial, it’s development.
This episode explores faith when life feels unfair, how God uses detours to mature us, why character is formed in hidden seasons, and how Joseph’s pain became provision for an entire nation. If you’re waiting, misunderstood, or wondering whether God forgot what He promised, this episode will help you hold the process differently, and trust that God is still at work.

Mindset Snack: The Must-Have Gift That Never Goes Out of Style | The Power of Presence

Pay attention. Slow down. Stop multitasking.
In a world that rewards busyness and constant distraction, presence has become one of the most valuable, and most overlooked, gifts we can give. In this Mindset Snack, Erica explores why presence strengthens connection, calms the nervous system, deepens prayer, and restores love where distraction has quietly taken its toll.
If you’ve been feeling scattered, rushed, or emotionally distant, this episode is a gentle reminder that showing up, fully and undistracted, may be exactly what your relationships, your faith, and your soul need most.
 

Bible Rx | Worn Out, Held Close | Find Relief with Jesus

Tired hearts… welcome here.
If you’re worn down, overwhelmed, or carrying more than you were ever meant to hold, Jesus offers something no one else can: relief.
In this Bible Rx episode, Erica walks you through Matthew 11:28–30 (NLT) and reveals what it truly means to “take His yoke” and why life feels lighter when you carry it with Christ instead of alone.
This episode is for anyone who’s been strong for too long…for those living under pressure…for those quietly searching for peace…
Come sit with Scripture, breathe again, and rediscover the rest your soul has been craving.

Mindset Snack: The Gifts That Matter Most | Giving Beyond Money

Close your wallet. Open your heart.
Giving isn’t just about money and this Mindset Snack is here to change how you see generosity. In this short episode, Erica reminds you that God has already placed resources in your life that can bless others: your time, your words, your faith, your kindness, and your courage.
If finances feel tight but your heart feels open, this episode will encourage you to give from love instead of pressure and walk into this season knowing you already have more than you think.