Sep 17, 2026
I Was a People Pleaser Who Burned Out | Here Is What God Taught Me When I Finally Stopped
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 from God that we must be going the wrong direction.
That is the lie. And Season 2 of Taking Life by the Raines starts by calling it out.
In this episode I share everything that has been happening in my world, the full life update, and the one conviction that is going to anchor this entire season. Because if you have ever stopped something God called you to because it got hard, this episode is for you.
In this episode:
- The people pleaser and burnout spiral: why I finally stopped and what I found when I did
- Hard does not mean wrong: stop reading resistance as a no from God
- Everything God has called you through was placed there to build you for what comes next
- The early days with Casey: getting pregnant three months after meeting, boot camp, the courthouse, two kids in one year of knowing each other
- Building Exalted supplements from my kitchen table with clean ingredients in a crowded market
- Launching the Lira hair company and what Lira means in Hebrew
- The possible third child: what God has been downloading in my heart and the vasectomy reversal conversation
- Stop giving your kids your leftovers: they deserve the best of you, not what is left at the end of the day
- Healing is generational wealth: do the hard work now so your kids do not carry it
- Get a therapist not just your friends: the difference between unbiased truth and comfortable agreement
- The prayer that has changed everything: God, if this is your will, convict my heart
- When it gets hard, lean in and ask God what you are supposed to learn, not how to get out
Welcome to Season 2. 💜
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0:00 Welcome back: Brandi returns from her birthday month off
0:29 Burned out, overwhelmed, and drinking from a fire hydrant
0:57 Ten years of building online since 2017
1:40 Quitting her job to do makeup videos and Casey saying go for it
2:05 Women who started in 2017 are still here, and there is something to that
2:29 Casey: agape tattooed on his wrist, not a bad bone in his body
3:18 A possible third child: what God has downloaded in her heart
4:31 Exalted supplements: clean ingredients, kitchen table start, a crowded market
5:36 The beauty business: live every day, ten years strong
6:03 Lira: the hair company she just launched
6:46 Grateful and overwhelmed at the same time: the tension of this season
7:00 The one conviction God has pressed into her all year: get used to things being hard
7:52 Staying true to your calling when everything around you makes you question it
8:24 Stop playing the Holy Spirit and reading hard as a no from God
9:19 Looking back: the hard things were perfectly placed to build you for your blessings
10:13 Stop asking God to get you out: ask what you are supposed to learn
10:34 The early days with Casey: 22 years old, no college, no plan
11:48 Finding out she was pregnant while Casey was at boot camp
13:23 Married, pregnant, expecting again within one year of meeting each other
14:38 God was writing their story from the beginning
29:36 Watching her daughter struggle in middle school and knowing when not to rescue her
30:20 He is not going to be 30 peeing his pants: perspective on hard parenting seasons
31:00 Business clicks in cycles: showing up in the slow months too
31:30 When things are going well that is exactly when you plant seeds
32:17 Healing is not a checklist: it takes time and sitting with emotions
33:09 Healing is generational wealth: do the work now so your kids do not carry it
33:31 Get a therapist, not just your friends
34:21 Marriage counseling with Casey and what it did for their intimacy
34:45 Resistance does not mean give up, it means lean in
35:00 The prayer: God, if this is your will, convict my heart
36:18 Closing: I am not speaking from a high horse, I am speaking to myself
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