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Thriving in Christ | Christian Women Professionals & Servant Leaders: Burnout, Stress, Leadership & Inner Alignment

Thriving in Christ | Christian Women Professionals & Servant Leaders: Burnout, Stress, Leadership & Inner Alignment

Hosted by: Dr. Ioana Popa | Psychiatrist Educator, Executive Coach, Speaker & Spiritual Care Formation

The Go-to Podcast for Christian Women Professionals Who Want Holistic & Sustainable Self-Care Habits to Thrive in Christ *TOP 2.5% GLOBALLY Ranked * → Do you feel at times stressed, depleted, on a 'busy...

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246 | The Science of Small Steps: How to Change Without Burning Out; Rhythm-Habits Part 2

Many Christian women professionals and servant leaders live with a quiet, constant tension → “I know what would help me… but I don’t have the bandwidth.” You long for prayer rhythms, movement, rest, or gentler...
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245 | Navigating Uncertainty and Pivoting Executive Career with Faith, with Kim Patten

As Christian professional women, we work really hard to build our careers. Then, after some time, something tells us to switch careers or pivot in our direction of life. This could be to stay at home with the kids, to...
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244 | Identity Before Discipline: The Missing Key to Lasting Habits - Rhythm-Habits Part 1

As we step into January, I want to pause with you - not to add more goals, but to ask some deeper questions: - How can you implement successfully rhythms and habits that sustain you so that you can keep on going? -...
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243 | Always Tired? How Chronic Stress and Thyroid Health Affect Christian Women, with Esther Yunkin

In this Thriving in Christ episode, I had the joy of interviewing Esther Yunkin, a registered nurse and Hashimoto’s specialist, on how chronic stress can quietly lead to burnout and autoimmune issues in...
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242 | Why Most Resolutions Fail, but Faith-Based Intentions Actually Transform You

As a new year approaches, many Christian professional women feel called to set intentions, yet traditional resolutions often lead to frustration and burnout (by as early as February or March), rather than renewal. If...
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241 | Faith, Burnout & Time Stewardship: Multiply Our Impact as Christian Women, With Lissa Figgins

In this Renewal Conversation, I speak with Lissa Figgins about moving beyond burnout by learning to steward time as a gift from God. Lissa shares how her own journey - from striving and exhaustion to faith-centered...
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240 | Believing Before Seeing: Transform Your Thoughts Through God’s Promises

Here is an important topic to discuss as you gather with friends and family in the upcoming week: the depth and power of Beliefs. You know what it’s like to carry a vision: to set goals, lead others and move projects...
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239 | Renewal Conversation: Feeding the Poor and Caring for the Vulnerable, With Jane Kourtis

In this week's Renewal Conversation, I had the joy of interviewing Jane Kourtis, who is an attorney of 23 years, a faithful leader, mother and grandmother. Her journey in Christ was shaped from childhood as the...
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238 | The Healing Power of Connection: Restoring Peace, Belonging, and Strength in Christ

You make hard calls all day — decisions that shape people’s futures, teams, organizations, and your family. Everyone looks to you for clarity, composure, and care. Yet sometimes, when the meetings end and the quiet...
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237 | Serving with Stillness: Cultures, Unity & God’s Guidance, with Spyridoula Fotinis

Many Christian women professionals and servant leaders feel the tension between the responsibilities they carry and the longing to remain grounded in Christ while serving across cultures, communities, and complex...
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236 | Transformed From Glory to Glory: Becoming the Woman God Designed You to Be

Christian women professionals and leaders often measure worth by productivity, titles, or impact — even spiritual service becomes performance. Beneath excellence lies quiet exhaustion and fear: “Am I enough?” or “What...
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235 | Post-Traumatic Growth & the Unique Journey with God: Walking with Christ with Rebecca Hogg

Even the strongest Christian women professionals and servant leaders carry stories of hard seasons—moments that stretched them, humbled them, or left them quietly wondering how God could bring renewal out of what felt...
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