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The Woman Nobody Sees

Surrounded by people but unknown to yourself? This episode names the quiet ache — and points you back to the One who has always seen you. 🌳
You can be surrounded by people who love you — and still be profoundly unknown. Not because anyone has failed you, but because somewhere in the accumulation of roles you carry, the woman underneath them got quiet. Got small. Got lost in plain sight.
 
If that lands somewhere tender today, this episode is for you. 🧑‍👧
 
Misty shares two deeply personal stories — one from the stage of a thriving nonprofit where hundreds of women felt they knew her, and one from a marriage season where life finally slowed down enough for her to notice the hole in her soul. Both stories circle back to one quiet, aching truth: public intimacy and personal intimacy are not the same thing. The stage is a beautiful place to give. It is not always a safe place to receive.
 
In this episode you’ll explore the difference between being known FOR something — your reputation, your role, your resume — and being truly KNOWN. Your interior. Your fears, your failures, your real questions at 2 AM.
 
Misty walks through a practical friendship audit with three circles (Celebration, Community, and Core) and the brave questions she asked God when her core circle came up empty. 💛
 
And then she brings it all home to the only foundation that makes the rest possible: before there was a stage, a role, a title, or a calling — you were searched and you were known. Psalm 139:1 isn’t just a comfort verse. It’s the ground you stand on.
The Holy One, the Maker of heaven and earth, has made Himself familiar with all your ways. Not the polished ones. All of them. He searched you and He stayed.
You are not the woman nobody sees. You are the woman the Creator of the universe sees so completely that He counts the hairs on your head, catches your tears, and calls you His.
Everything else — every circle, every friendship, every brave act of letting someone in — flows downstream from that. ✨
🔗‍️ LINKS MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE
BECOMING Group Coaching Cohorthttps://mistyhughes.com/cohortChristian Women in Business & Ministry Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/christianmomsinbusinessandministry
 
𓆩♡𓆪 Flourish In Friendship Podcast SeriesEp 59: https://mistyhughes.com/how-to-grow-longtime-friendships-that-last/Ep 60: https://mistyhughes.com/rediscovering-womens-friendships-in-a-disconnected-world/Ep 61: https://mistyhughes.com/ep-61-lonely-but-not-alone-in-building-christ-centered-friendships-that-last/Ep 62: https://mistyhughes.com/ep-62-moms-can-find-their-way-through-loneliness-by-understanding-this/Ep 64: https://mistyhughes.com/ep-64-how-to-cultivate-authentic-friendships-even-when-it-feels-risky/
Flourish In Friendship FREE Friendship Circle Mapping Guide & MORE: 
https://mistyhughes.com/resources
 
 
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Still Waiting? Give it 20 Years, Momma

Still waiting on a God-given dream? This episode names the ache—and shows you why the wait is not the waste. 🌳
Have you quietly set aside a dream you used to talk about? A calling, a ministry, a book, a marriage that feels like partnership, or simply the longing to finally feel at home in your own story? Friend, this episode is for you.
 
In this episode, Misty gets deeply personal about the years she spent in the gap—watching God seem to fulfill everyone else’s dreams while she was left holding the bag after her marriage ended. Out of that pit came one of the most life-changing challenges she’s ever received: Give it twenty years. Not as a life sentence, but as an act of mercy—God’s honest invitation into the slow, sacred work of becoming.
 
Through the stories of Sarah, David, Noah, and Joseph—whose waits stretched from 13 to 75 years—Misty shows us that the gap between God’s promise and its fulfillment has always been long, and always been intentional. Drawing from Isaiah 61:3 and the image of the oak tree (which takes 20–50 years to reach maturity), she makes the case that what looks like stalling is often deepening—root time, not wasted time.
 
Misty also draws a crucial distinction between delay and detour—and gives listeners a practical question that might just reframe everything: Has God ever told you this dream was canceled? Or have you just been waiting so long it started to feel that way?
 
If you’ve been quiet about a calling, wondering if you missed God, or exhausted by a season that won’t seem to move—this episode will meet you there. Grab your journal. Your wait is not your waste.
 
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Trusting God With What You Cannot Control with Debbie Simmons

Can you trust God with what you cannot control? Debbie Simmons shares hard-won wisdom on loving prodigals, grieving loss, and leading your home with peace.
 
What do you do when the thing you want most is completely outside your control? Whether it’s a child who is wandering, a loss that broke you open, or a home that feels like it’s running on fumes — today’s episode is for you.
 
Debbie Simmons, known as The Legacy Architect, is the founder and CEO of Anchor Point, a keynote speaker, leadership strategist, and author of The Heart of Legacy. She is also a mother of thirteen — four sons she held in her arms and rocked into eternity, and nine children she adopted in three sibling groups. Her story is one of the most profound testimonies of trust, redemption, and legacy you will ever hear.
 
In this conversation, ✦︎ Debbie and Misty talk about what it really means to love a prodigal — and why the best parents can still have one. ✦︎ Debbie shares hard-won wisdom on how to plant seeds and leave a bridge to Jesus, ✦︎ why rescuing your child can sometimes cost them the very thing they need most, ✦︎ and how she walked six years of loving a daughter on the streets before watching her reach three years of sobriety.
 
You will also learn Debbie’s 10-Minute Reset — a simple daily rhythm that helps you regulate before you react — and how to identify your 🦈  “shark waters” 🦈 before they pull you under.
The practical wisdom in this episode is the kind that comes from real life,
not a textbook.
 
Debbie’s free gift for listeners: The Heart of Legacy (just pay shipping) — theheartoflegacy.com
 
✨ CONNECT WITH MISTY
Resources, community, and next steps — everything you need is right here.
🌐 Website
https://mistyhughes.com/
👥 Facebook Community — Christian Women in Business & Ministry
https://www.facebook.com/groups/christianmomsinbusinessandministry
📸 Instagram
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🌱 BECOMING Cohort
Discover the God-given freedom to live from your God-given identity, not your to-do list. A 12-week cohort for busy and ambitious Christian moms who are longing to renew their purpose.
https://mistyhughes.com/cohort
✨ Free Resource — Rhythms of Renewal Mini-Guide
Discover God’s life-giving rhythms.
https://mistyhughes.myflodesk.com/discoverrhythms
✉️ Contact Misty
https://mistyhughes.com/inquire
📞 Book a Call with Misty
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When you shine, you give others permission to shine too. ✨
Ready to stop running on empty and start living with clarity and purpose? Learn about the BECOMING Cohort at mistyhughes.com/cohort.

It's Not Guilt, It's Grief | Mental Health, Motherhood, & Faith with Kelly Jackson

What does it look like to parent a child with a mental illness — and keep your faith intact? Kelly Jackson has lived it. This conversation is for you.
There are moms sitting in church pews right now who are exhausted, confused, and quietly wondering if they're the only ones.
Their child is struggling — with moods, behaviors, diagnoses they didn't see coming — and no one is talking about it.
This episode is for them and for those who know someone who has mental health concerns.
Kelly Jackson is the Executive Director of NAMI Johnson County and a mom who has walked one of the harder roads in parenting: a husband who experienced a suicide attempt, a daughter who began hearing voices at eleven, and the long, winding journey of learning to love her family well in the middle of it all.
She doesn't speak from theory. She speaks from Tuesday mornings and medication trials and moments of grace.
Together, Misty and Kelly talk through
✦ what mental health conditions actually are (and why "one in five" is a number every mom needs to sit with), ✦ how to find the right therapist for your child, ✦ what guilt and grief look like from the inside, and ✦ why Kelly believes the church has more room to grow in this conversation.
Kelly also shares the one daily rhythm that has kept her anchored through all of it — and it's simpler than you might think.
This isn't a heavy, clinical episode.
It's a conversation between two women who love Jesus and love moms, trying to make sure no one has to figure this out alone.
Kelly's honesty will meet you wherever you are — whether you're navigating a fresh diagnosis, wondering if what you're seeing warrants concern, or just trying to understand someone you love.
 
NOTE: This podcast is for educational and encouragement purposes only and does not constitute professional counseling, therapy, or medical advice. Misty Hughes is an ICF-certified life coach. For mental health support, please consult a licensed professional.
 
Resources mentioned:
NAMI:  https://www.nami.org/
Child Mind Institute Symptom Checker: https://childmind.org/symptomchecker/
 
MISTY'S RESOURCES: Episode #22: There is Such A Thing As Good Grieving with Laurie Godduhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/there-is-such-a-thing-as-good-grieving-and-busy-moms-can-do-it/id1738069561?i=1000668456618Rhythms Of Renewal Guide: A FREE tool to help you Discover God's life-giving rhythms of life. https://mistyhughes.com/resources 
Check out Misty's New Website: https://mistyhughes.com/Join the BECOMING WAITLIST for the next Group Coaching Cohort
 

I Am The Words You Are The Tune

One hundred episodes of real conversations for real women — and for this one, I brought someone new into the studio. My husband Craig. The first man to ever sit across from me on Mom~2~Mom Mentoring.
Craig and I are wired completely differently.
👀 I see the world through rose-colored glasses full of sparkle and shine. He sees it through spreadsheets.
 
📣 I process everything out loud. He goes quiet and sits with it for days.
 
💃🏻 I live out loud. He surrounds himself with a few close friends and lets the world carry on without him.
 
And somewhere in the middle of all that difference — we have built something that is genuinely life-giving for both of us. Not because we became the same. But because we kept choosing each other anyway.
In this episode, we get honest about what connection actually is — and what it isn't.
We talk about ➤ core fears, ➤ the cycle that trips most couples up, ➤ what safety has to do with reconnection, ➤ ➤ ➤ and what Craig's spontaneous Neil Diamond reference in the middle of our conversation taught me all over again about why we work.
This isn't a perfect marriage episode. There's no formula here. Just two people, six years in, still
learning — and still choosing.
 
What you'll take away:
• Why connection is not the same as proximity — and how to feel the difference
• The core fear cycle that trips up most couples (and how to interrupt it)
• What safety has to do with reconnection — and why God is the safest place first
• What it looks like when the dreamer and the realist stop defending their own plots and tend the garden together
 
LINKS MENTIONED IN THE EPISODE
Notice, Name, Feel, & Free Your Emotions - A FREE RESOURCE
https://mistyhughes.myflodesk.com/feelings
 
Contact Misty & Craig For Symbis (Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts)
https://mistyhughes.com/inquire
 
 

The Calling Shifts The Purpose Holds for Christian Moms

Your calling is supposed to shift. Your purpose never does. Misty shares the testimony that will free the Christian mom striving in the wrong season.
Have you ever felt on fire for God — heart so full it needed somewhere to go — and then had Him redirect that fire somewhere you weren’t expecting? Somewhere smaller, quieter, and far less visible than you had in mind?
 
In episode 99 of Mom2Mom Mentoring, I get honest about one of the most significant redirects of my life. In the mid-nineties, in the middle of a genuine community revival, I experienced an awakening to the love of God that lit me on fire. I was wired to build, to connect, to pour — and I was ready. But God’s answer to my fire wasn’t a platform. It was a kitchen table and four kids.
 
What followed was decades of faithfulness in unsexy, unglamorous, often invisible assignments — a homeschool co-op, teenagers at church, a children’s ministry, people always around the table. And when the bottom fell out in 1998, and my marriage ended, I had to find her footing all over again. It was in that broken season that God gave me the longer vision: give it twenty years.
 
This episode is for the Christian mom who can’t see evidence that her faithfulness is doing anything. The one asking God to show her He’s working — and almost missing the answer because it comes in the form of a little boy quietly singing a worship song while playing with his toy cars on the floor.
 
In this episode:
The difference between purpose (your why) and calling (your how) — and why your calling is supposed to keep shifting
Why staying faithful in a hard, slow season costs something real — and why that’s worth naming
The exponential math God showed Misty about faithfulness in her own home
What Isaiah 61:3 says about oaks of righteousness — and why some plantings take decades
The harvest belongs to God, not to you — and why that is the most freeing truth you’ll ever stand on
A direct invitation to the BECOMING Cohort for women ready to stop striving and start living from purpose
 
Key Scripture
Jeremiah 20:9 — His word like fire shut up in my bones
Isaiah 55:8–9 — My thoughts are not your thoughts
Isaiah 61:3 — Oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord
1 Corinthians 3:6–7 — I planted, Apollos watered, God made it grow
Philippians 1:6 — He who began a good work will complete it
 
Free Resource
Grab the Rhythms of Renewal Mini-Guide — a free workbook walking you through rest, restoration, and relationship, with a Discovery Bible Study through Matthew 11:28–30.
Download free at https://mistyhughes.myflodesk.com/discoverrhythms
 
Ready for More?
The BECOMING Cohort begins May 5th — a 12-week small-group coaching experience for the Christian mom who is ready to stop striving and start becoming. Only 11 spots. mistyhughes.com/cohort
 
Don’t Miss Episode 100
Craig Hughes joins Misty for the very first time — and they’re talking about connection. Subscribe now so you don’t miss it.

You Were Called Before You Were Busy

You feel a stirring you can’t name — and the harder you chase it, the more exhausted you become. Misty Hughes unpacks the difference between purpose and calling, and why you were called before you were busy.
Have you ever been asked what you feel called to — and frozen? Because...you have no idea how to answer that question, and the very question itself feels weighty, and the last thing you need is more weight to carry.
In this episode of Mom2Mom Mentoring, Misty Hughes gets honest about a season when she had four kids, a baby on her hip, and a persistent yearning she couldn’t put language to. She was homeschooling, working, serving — and still felt like the real calling was somewhere out there, just beyond her reach. Like God was holding this carrot in front of me, asking me to chase after something that I was too tired to run after (but was desperate to please God so I kept chasing)
 
What she discovered changed the way she understood everything — purpose, calling, and what it actually means to be a woman who feels stirred for more.
 
In this episode you’ll hear:
Why purpose-chasing is one of the top drivers of burnout in high-achieving Christian women
The powerful distinction between purpose (your identity in Christ) and calling (your seasonal assignment)
What Ephesians 2:10, Jeremiah 29:11, and Jeremiah 1:5 reveal about the works already prepared for you
Why the mom in the trenches with toddlers is not on the sidelines — and why the woman with a stirring doesn’t need to chase it down
How to stop striving and start walking with the One who holds your calling
 
This is episode 98 — just two away from 100. And something is coming for that milestone you won’t want to miss.
 
Grab the free Rhythms of Renewal Mini-Guide at mistyhughes.com
— which includes a Discovery Bible Study through Matthew 11:28–30 for the tired, searching, capable woman who is ready for a different way of living.
 
 

Praying Scripture Over Your Kids With Dana Williams

What if the most powerful thing you could do for your child today takes less than five minutes — and it's completely free? In this episode, I sit down with Dana Williams, author and founder of Redeemed Identity Ministries, to talk about praying Scripture over your children: what it is, why affirmations alone aren't enough, and exactly how to start — even on your most exhausted days.
 
Dana walked through 25 years of a difficult marriage — and in the middle of it, she picked up her sword. She learned to pray the living Word of God, not just over her own life but over her children. And she is going to show you how to do the same.
 
In this episode:
→  Why Scripture does something in your child that even the most beautiful affirmation cannot
→  The "breacher" illustration that will change how you see yourself as a praying parent
→  A live example of praying Jeremiah 17:7 with your child's name inserted
→  Simple, realistic first steps for busy moms — no spreadsheet required
→  The one thing Dana says to do tonight, even if you only have five minutes
 
Resources mentioned:
📚 Dana's free book on praying Scripture (email dana@redeemedidentity.com) ·
🎙️ Dana's podcast: Redeemed Identity After Divorce 
ﮩ٨ـﮩﮩ٨ـ Misty's Free workbook: Rhythms of Renewal: https://mistyhughes.myflodesk.com/discoverrhythms·
Community: Christian Moms in Business and Ministry on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/christianmomsinbusinessandministry
Father's Love Letter: https://www.fathersloveletter.com/
"When you shine, you give others permission to shine too." — Misty Hughes

You Become What You Behold, So Look Up

You become what you behold — so where are your eyes today?  This episode is for the mom who is highly capable, deeply called, and quietly exhausted from staring at everything that feels broken, missing, or not yet fixed. If that's you, this conversation was made for you.
I get personal in this one. Like, really personal. I open up about the season I found myself raising four kids — ages two to thirteen — with a vacancy in our home that no amount of striving, surviving, or smiling through could fill.
And what I discovered in that hard, holy season will empower you to think a new way of seeing your problems, something today.
Here's what we dig into 👇
We unpack the Greek word idou — what John the Baptist actually meant when he said "Behold the Lamb of God" — and why it is so much more than a glance.
We sit with the raw, honest prayer of King Jehoshaphat in 2 Chronicles 20:12, the prayer of a man who was outnumbered, out-resourced, and completely out of answers.
And we talk about the vacancies — the holes, the hardships, the places where something was supposed to be and simply isn't — and why those exact places might just be God's favorite address. 🙌
This isn't a name-it-and-claim-it pep talk. This is real. This is hope with roots.
Your ONE THING is waiting for you at the end — and beloved, it's a good one.
✨ Come celebrate with us! Episode 96 means we are FOUR away from 100 and April is a party around here.
 
HERE'S WHAT'S HAPPENING THIS MONTH...
🎂 It's my birthday month — send me a high five on Instagram!
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📖 Join the community: Facebook Group — Christian Moms in Business and Ministry
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🔥 Learn more about the BECOMING Cohort — 12 weeks, 11 women, your God-given identity
https://mistyhughes.myflodesk.com/becomingwl
📺 Free Facebook Live: Rest Is Not a Reward — details in the Facebook Group
https://www.facebook.com/share/1BAWBTMKSK/
 
When you shine, you give others permission to shine too. ✨

What in the World Do Goats Have to Do With Raising Great Kids

What do goats have to do with raising great kids? More than you think. 🐐 This episode started as a conversation about mentoring and ended up as one of the most unexpected, Spirit-breathed teachings I have ever sat inside — straight from the Song of Solomon, through Luke 9:48, and into your living room.
 
If you have ever felt like the most difficult person in your life — your child, your student, the woman you mentor, maybe even yourself — is just too much, too stubborn, too far gone: this is for you.
 
In today's episode, I invite you to sit with me in the Word. Here is some of what we unpack together in this episode:
 
🌿  Song of Solomon 1:8 — why the Shepherd told the searching woman to tend her young goats (and what that has to do with finding God in the middle of a season you didn't choose)
📖  Luke 9:48 and the Greek word MIKROTEROS — three layers of meaning inside the word 'least' that will completely change how you see the people in your care
🐐  Why your most stubborn, most chaotic, most headbutting goat is not a problem to manage — they are a calling to honor
🔥  The shift from chaotic goat to the GOAT — greatest of all time — and the one thing that makes the difference
🤍  A word about the season you are in right now, from a woman who has lived in 30 countries and is currently in the hardest season of her life — and is still standing
 
I also sit with the brilliant Dr. Charity Campbell-Kapella — global leadership expert, founder of International Mamas and Mentors, and mama to a very spirited two-year-old she lovingly calls her own personal goat 😂 — whose words throughout this episode will make you laugh, catch your breath, and finally exhale.
 
This is Part 2 of 2. If you haven't listened to Part 1 yet, go back — it is the foundation. But if you came back because of the goat teaser at the end of last week's episode? I am so glad you're here. You are not going to be disappointed. 🙌
 
🎁  FREE RESOURCE:  The Rhythms of Renewal Mini-Guide — a free, prayerful workbook to help you trade survival mode for Spirit-led living. https://lead-her-ministries.myflodesk.com/renewalminiguide
 
💬  COMMUNITY:  Join Christian Moms in Business and Ministry on Facebook.  https://www.facebook.com/groups/christianmomsinbusinessandministry
 
🔗  BECOMING COHORT:  Ready to stop living from your to-do list? Waitlist open.  mom2mommentoring.com/rhythm