Sunday May 31, 2026

Behind the Highlight Reel: The Fear Nobody Talks About When You Are Growing

Here is the truth about growth that nobody posts on social media.

It is terrifying.

In Episode 7 of Taking Life by the Raines, Brandi gets into the biggest transitional period of her career and her life. Since January her nervous system has been in fight-or-flight mode. She is launching a hair company. Her supplement company is dropping four new products and exploring a major partnership. And the platform she has built her entire career on, network marketing, is being reinvented from the ground up.

This episode is for every woman in a transitional season who is scared to take the next step. The woman who sees people succeeding online and assumes they have it figured out. They do not. Brandi does not either. And she is showing you what it looks like to keep moving through it anyway.

In this episode:

• The CEO meeting in Utah that changed everything

• Komigo becoming Curated: what the rebrand means and why Brandi is all in

• Launching a hair company and four new supplement products simultaneously

• What network marketing is being replaced with and why Brandi is not walking away

• Imposter syndrome: the world's worst case of it and why every successful person has it too

• High performers are just as scared as you. They have just figured out how to keep moving.

• Motivation is a feeling. Discipline is a decision. The difference matters.

• God will close the door if you are not meant to walk through it, and sometimes He will not and it becomes a lesson

• Peace that makes no sense: leaning into Philippians 4 and faith in chaos

• Agape love, sacrificial service, and showing up for others even when you are scared

• Big risk, big win or big lesson: you have nothing to lose

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0:00 Intro

0:49 Welcome back

1:45 Building on social media since 2017: live video, makeup tutorials, and creative outlet

2:31 Right now: the biggest transitional period of Brandi's life

3:07 Marriage is in a great place. Business is a whole other story.

5:19 What is happening right now: new hair company, supplement partnership, Vision Summit

5:55 Flying to Utah: Vision Summit January, excited, on an all time high

6:22 How Komigo started

7:12 Curated: the new platform, new name, what it means going forward

7:33 Vision Summit announcement

7:55 The private CEO meeting after the Summit

8:21 My world was flipped upside down

8:54 Network marketing is changing: affiliate marketing, TikTok Shop, coaching competition

9:16 I love network marketing: but the industry had to evolve to survive

10:25 Vision Summit part two: Curated announced to the field

12:20 Fight or flight since January

13:43 Creator-led brands: why today's consumer wants what Curated is building

14:06 Layering on the supplement company: four new products, peptides, partnership conversations

15:55 High performers are just as scared

16:26 Opening the Bible every day out loud

17:40 Will Smith on failure

18:14 Do it until failure: the gym analogy and the burnout set that makes you grow

23:54 The world's worst imposter syndrome

24:58 Cannot cling to old seasons

25:24 Times are changing: how to evolve without losing what you came from

27:45 The road less traveled

28:05 Ask God for what you need each day

28:33 Joy in chaos peace that makes no sense

29:12 Peace is not certainty

30:01 Close your eyes and ask God for peace in the chaos: He will give it to you

30:50 You inspire people just by showing up

31:14 Sacrificial love without expectation

31:40 Ten out of ten do not get a tattoo in Mexico: the anniversary story

32:04 Agape as a model for marriage and for life: servant heart to everyone not just a spouse

32:48 Being a light of God through the hard times: if not for yourself then for others

33:21 What if you do not fail: what if you fly, what if this is the choice that changes your life

34:05 My story is your story

37:03 Hard seasons are the soil: where God plants you to grow the next version of yourself

37:43 Believe God has got your back: He takes care of the birds, why not you

38:42 Closing:

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