HeyJaredThe Taking Life by the Raines Podcast
Taking Life by the Raines is a weekly podcast where entrepreneur and influencer Brandi Raines shares raw, honest conversations about life, trauma, faith, motherhood, marriage, and building businesses as a woman.Real stories. Real growth. Unfiltered with grace.
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You Are Not Meant to Be Everybody’s Cup of Tea | God Designed You That Way on Purpose (opens the original)
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Do you leave every social situation and immediately replay the whole thing in your head?Did I talk too much? Did that come off weird? Did I offend them? Do they even like me?Girl. You are not alone. And this episode is going to set you free from that weight. 💜In Season 2 Episode 2 of Taking Life by the Raines, Brandi is getting into something she heard and could not stop thinking about: you were never meant to be perfectly experienced by everyone. Not every person you meet is going to like you,
I Was a People Pleaser Who Burned Out | Here Is What God Taught Me When I Finally Stopped (opens the original)
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She is back. And she came back with the one thing God has been pressing into her all year.When things get hard, that does not mean stop.I took my birthday month off this podcast because I genuinely could not breathe. Running a supplement company, a beauty business, a hair company, showing up for my kids, my marriage, and my faith all at once had me drinking water out of a fire hydrant. I was burned out. Overwhelmed. And doing that thing we all do where we start reading our hard seasons as a sign
The Fine Line Between Entitlement and Healthy Self-Worth | How to Ask for What You Want With Grace (opens the original)
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I booked a river jump suite in Mexico a year and a half in advance. Paid extra to upgrade. Agreed to sit through a 90 minute timeshare presentation to make it work. And when I checked in, they gave me a different room.What happened next is not my finest moment.In this episode of Taking Life by the Raines, Brandi gets real about a sin she thinks a lot of us struggle with and rarely admit: entitlement. She just got back from Mexico where she was convicted — hard — about the way she showed up when
You Have to Be Delusional Enough to Believe It Before It Happens (opens the original)
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When Brandi quit her job in 2017, she was pregnant with her second child. Casey was a non-rate in the Coast Guard making the least amount of money possible. They lived in a tiny apartment in Pensacola they called the Raisin Box. And not a single person in her life was willing to look her in the eyes and say: do it. It is going to be okay.So she did it anyway.In Episode 10 of Taking Life by the Raines, Brandi is talking directly to the person who is struggling to keep going. The one who is distra
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