Wrecked & Refined—How God Rebuilt Christian Stone's Life, Home & Legacy

On this Hope Unlocked episode, designer and entrepreneur Christian Stone shares how God took her from a hard childhood and deep grief over losing her daughter to building Wrecked and Refined—a faith-fueled lifestyle brand with luxury short-term rentals in Montana, intentional interior design, and handmade home products. She talks about reading Proverbs daily, embracing the Proverbs 31 woman, launching Kingdom Legacy Academy homeschool co-op, and even becoming a Cabi stylist as a surprising path to healing, joy, health, and confidence. This conversation is for anyone craving beauty from ashes, small steps, and a fresh start with God.

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Website - www.wreckedrefined.com

Email - Wreckedrefined@gmail.com

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Chapters

• 0:16 Welcome And Mission
• 0:55 Meet Christian Stone
• 3:39 From Flips To Luxury Rentals
• 5:29 The Meaning Of Wrecked And Refined
• 8:27 Discovering A Design Gift
• 14:29 Hidden Details And Guest Feedback
• 16:01 Starting Short‑Term Rentals Quietly
• 18:59 Expanding Into A Lifestyle Brand
• 21:49 Becoming A Proverbs 31 Woman
• 25:26 Launching Kingdom Legacy Academy
• 29:02 Fashion, Grief, And Healing
• 33:39 Health Goals And Daily Habits
• 35:49 Websites, Blogging, And Boundaries
• 38:08 Final Encouragement And Prayer
• 40:44 Closing And Anchoring Verse

Transcript

SPEAKER_02: 0:16

Welcome to the Hope Unlock Podcast. I'm your host, Kristen Kurtz, and I'm also the founder of New Wings Coaching. I help and empower wild-hearted and adventurous women of faith feeling caged and stuck, unlock their true purpose and potential, break free from limitations, and thrive with confidence, courage, and hope. If you're curious to learn more about coaching with me, head to NewWinksCoaching.net and be sure to explore the show notes for ways to connect with me further. Get ready to dive in as we uncover empowering keys and insights in this episode. So tune in and let's unlock hope together. Welcome to the Hope Unlocked podcast. I'm Kristen Kurtz, your host. I pray this episode is like a holy IV of hope for your soul. Please help me welcome Christian Stone to the show. I'm so excited to have her here today. We had a chance to actually talk for quite some time before we got started. Um, and I I just love these kindred connections that the Lord puts together. So before we get into um your story, would you be able to tell us a little bit about yourself?

SPEAKER_00: 1:14

Yes, thank you, Kristen, for having me on. I am an entrepreneur. I have a few different businesses that I'm running, and my husband now is running them alongside me. And we are uh parents of six children, and we have a few adopted children that we love.

SPEAKER_02: 1:37

Um and we they keep us busy, and same with the businesses. Wow. So six kids, how many businesses?

SPEAKER_00: 1:49

Uh right now, we basically have an umbrella company, which is reped and refined. Okay. And we started with remodeling homes, flipping homes, and I became a designer. Did not know that was something that I had a gifting for. And we I God gave me a dream quite a few years ago. My husband was not excited about it at all. We turned one of our homes into a short-term rental. Okay. And we had been in long-term rental experience before, but we did that. I thought it would be a great idea after the dream, and we turned our primary residence into a short-term rental and moved into a flip property with two residents and remodeled that while we were living in it at the time with four kids. Oh my gosh. So my husband became a contractor over the 20 years of um our relationship history. As with 2007, we were married. Within a few months, we started flipping homes. Oh wow. And then now we're in the short-term rental business. We have seven luxury rentals that we're running in our small city of 60,000 in Montana. And they're uh I never would have thought it would turn into something as it is, but here we are. And we are cleaning as well. So I would say we have part of that umbrella is cleaning and maintenance, construction, remodel, and then the design portion. And we are in long-term, mid-term, and short-term rentals. And I also needed to get into the real estate industry. So I was aware of market prices and finding properties. And so back in, I believe, 2015, I became a realtor. And I sometimes work with buyers and sellers not that often. And I do enjoy selling and listing properties, start to finish, take the pressure off of sellers, get it in to I will stage them and design them if need be, and then put them on market and do marketing.

SPEAKER_02: 4:12

Wow. So you I love this, I love the name of your business, Wrecked and Refined.

SPEAKER_00: 4:18

Yeah. Yes, God gave me that name. I have been prophesied over a few times, different events, different people that I would write a book. And I was really struggling as what I would be writing. I don't have a great background in English or writing, creating an essay was like pulling teeth. And so when I heard that, I would be like the Moses to speak. This is the impossible. And what I ended up um just asking the Lord on a drive one day, Lord, if you want me to write this book, I just can you at least give me the name of the title of the book? And the name was he just he says wrecked and refined. And I thought, oh my gosh, I couldn't even make this up because it's exactly what my company was at the time. We buy homes, completely put them in disarray, wreck them, and then start over, uh, essentially, and then we refine them. And what does God do in our life? We we're a wreck, and then he refines us once we give our life to him. So I thought not just in business, it fits perfectly, but then in the relationship with the Lord is what we're living. And what my business before was golden rule real estate when we first started, we were first married. And we chose, and I chose that because you know, do unto others as you'd like done unto you. But then uh when God gave me the word wrecked and refined for the book, I decided to rebrand. And so I rebranded and built a website and all under wrecked and refined.

SPEAKER_02: 6:08

That's beautiful. Oh my gosh. I want to I want to go back for a second because I feel like even about the book, and we were talking a little bit about you know our voices and Moses and you know what I mean, like this this thing that comes for many of us of like I'm not eloquent of speech, because it's it's something that came for me too. And I'm I'm probably still not eloquent of speech, and that's okay because I've just learned that I don't know, he can use anybody, right? But when it comes to the writing aspect, um, you know, you mentioned, you know, maybe not being the best with essays, and I just had this like, I don't know if it's revelation, epiphany or what have you, but um, I don't know about you, but back in school, I didn't necessarily like the subjects that they were talking about. It it seemed pointless to me a lot of the time. And I'm just being real. So a lot of the essays that we'd be tasked to write would probably be about something that we weren't even interested in. Right. So now you get an opportunity, and I'm speaking to others maybe that maybe had that experience as well. You're gonna have an opportunity to like Holy Ghost write whatever it is that you want to write about without there being restrictions being graded. You know what I mean? I just had to share that.

SPEAKER_00: 7:23

Yeah, that's really good. Yeah. And I think that that's why my I we've been successful in business is well, for one, uh following Proverbs and just honoring the Lord's word in the choices that we make.

SPEAKER_01: 7:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 7:38

Heart being hardworking as well. And then on top of it, what you're interested in, they say if you're gonna do it for free or it's something you love doing and you won't even want to go to sleep at night. You get into that kind of business, then you you normally will be successful because you're very passionate about it, same thing. But you're writing about something interesting, same as reading a book as well. Yeah, you're gonna finish it if it's interesting.

SPEAKER_02: 8:09

Right. It's like, well, we'll just keep this one on the bookshelf. Yeah. Isn't that cool? Um so I encourage you in that for sure. I love your book, like how it's just this umbrella over everything. Um, I I caught that you said you you didn't really know that you had designing in you. Um, what did that look like for you to step into that? Like, what was the Lord showing you in that realm?

SPEAKER_00: 9:11

Uh well, I feel like there is so many women that want to design. And I guess I just never thought I had that gifting. And I had signed up for a college course and I never completed the course. But I did love it. I just didn't think I would ever be a designer or call myself designer. But when you have something that you're remodeling and it's your livelihood, you get to be really good at knowing what you're doing so that you'll be successful in the sale or renting. And I actually, now that I know, it probably brings me the great as fire. Which, for example, if I go into a home and it's something that I really love, and I know that there's so much good bones to a home, walls may need to be moved or knocked down, or maybe the kitchen's in the wrong spot spot, or rooms are so tight, the whole house feels combined, and we have to open up the entire home and start over, but keep the walls. I get so excited about the yes, and I can spend hours shopping for light fixtures, which is insane. Wow, and um, and I do. I will for fixtures and light lighting in a home, I can spend hours and hours and hours shopping, and I go to the depths of the internet looking for the right chandelier, but uh I enjoy it, so I really don't think that it's work. And as I started doing that, each home for how I start to design is it's almost like God gives me some intuition of this this design would be really awesome. For example, we did a luxury home. Uh, we call it from a family, the big barn. And it's one of the most loved properties in our area. And that one I had aribest lantern, which I didn't even know what that was at the time. I just knew I liked the style. And I implemented that throughout the entire home in different little quiet, it was a quiet design. And then there were some bold areas like in a shower, the walls with this air best lantern, the backsplash in the kitchen that went from counter to ceiling. And then there's built-in custom benches that the design is in the face of the wood of the bench, but just real subtle, like someone could stay in the house and not even notice it. But if they really start to see those details, they're there. And that's I I feel like that was divinely given by God for creativity. Yes. And even to the point of we did flower boxes, which flower boxes I don't feel like is popular and hasn't been popular the entire 15, 20 years of designing. But for me, it just was something special, same with the benches and homes. And I even had custom arabesque lantern welding done to put on these flower boxes. So I'm using metals and wood and tile to integrate this beautiful design. And I just give all glory to God because I don't know where it came from, other than he just doesn't give me these ideas.

SPEAKER_01: 12:40

Wow.

SPEAKER_02: 12:40

I love that so much. Like I'm just hearing like prophetic properties. Oh, thank you. Yeah, that's awesome. Yeah, because you're, I mean, a lot of this I do, let's just say, for example, a lot of people wouldn't know this, but like when I do like graphics, there's a lot of elements that people would have no idea that there's like this intentional meaning behind the things that I do. And you get to infuse that into these properties. I'm sure, like, have you heard anybody like pick up on any of these things? Like, have they noticed it that you've heard of before? When I design them, like if you, you know, these like things that you're like, yep, there's intentionality here, and maybe somebody wouldn't see it. Have you has anybody actually seen it before?

SPEAKER_00: 13:21

They picked up very rare. And oftentimes when people come in to stay at this is a short-term rental. Oftentimes, people I don't interact with them, they check in, check out, and they may leave. And we're a five-star company in Great Falls, so there's no complaints. There is a lot of compliments on we love the design, everything was beyond our expectations, better than the photos that were pictured, and so a lot of compliments of that, but it not no no one really says, I noticed this, but I think if I was to do a tour and pointed those things out, I think it would be an awe moment for some people.

SPEAKER_02: 14:04

I love that. Oh my gosh. So you're in Montana, and you said you have seven properties in the same like town that you live in.

SPEAKER_00: 14:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 14:15

Okay. And how long ago have you did you start doing this? Like several charters, properties?

SPEAKER_00: 14:22

Um, gosh, we were the only ones doing it, and I kept it very quiet. You would only know we were doing it because of someone who might be on the websites looking to book. And so a lot of people within Great Falls, even family members, didn't know that we were doing it. Um, and I want to say that was 2015. I think it was 2015. Okay.

SPEAKER_02: 14:50

Now, did you like kind of keep it undercover? I guess I'll use the word undercover for a reason.

SPEAKER_00: 14:56

Oh, for sure. I feel when you're starting a business, there can be so much negativity from a lot of people. It no matter anything new or part of your dreams, I feel like you keep that between you and the Lord and just move forward. And you'll know when to announce it. And another thing for that reason is a lot of people, for example, I'll see a mattress store go up and I know, okay, now five other people are gonna go and copy this idea. Sure. Yeah. So I really I didn't, I you have enough to struggle with in starting business. I don't want to have to struggle with competition as well. Yeah. And so that's why I kept it quiet for that reason, but I've always done that in business. I, for example, I just had an opportunity come up a couple weeks ago, which are wrecked and refined. I'm labeling it as a lifestyle brand because I believe it could potentially become home products where I'm already I'm already implementing home products like soaps, candles, conditioner, and body wash and shampoo within our short-term rentals. I love that. So gently and subtly rebrand or not rebranding, but bringing in expanding. From rebranding to expanding. Yeah, there, thank you. Perfect. But yeah, so doing it gently, and then I'm hoping to do more on a mass level this year where I can create 200 gift baskets with those products just to people in our community, family members, Christmas gifts, homemade products, but from rec and refines, and then giving those as gifts, kind of up to see how long it's gonna take us to build these, build these baskets, and also how it goes over with people who receive them.

SPEAKER_02: 16:58

Wow. And when will those be are those available just locally for you or are they like shippable?

SPEAKER_00: 17:05

Uh I haven't even looked into shipping. So for me, where I was gonna start is to start making the baskets and putting it out there on social media as we're giving this basket away free. Um kind of to get a get a feel of what interest it is and it how how good of idea is it? And go from there. Yeah, well, if it's a god idea, God's idea, I say it's a good idea. Yeah, for sure.

SPEAKER_02: 17:33

For sure. Um, now are you making the products too? Yes, yeah. Okay, you were like the Proverbs 31 woman.

SPEAKER_00: 17:42

Hey, that's funny because I was thinking about how would I properly prepare for my my podcast today with Kristen Kurtz. And it was really to balance out Proverbs 31 Woman.

SPEAKER_02: 17:55

Okay, well, tell us a little bit more about that then.

SPEAKER_00: 17:59

Um in the beginning of my marriage, I well, I'll start in the beginning of my childhood real quick. I grew up uh up until age three in an alcoholic home. And one of my parents became a um recovering alcoholic, quit drinking for many years, and about 13, one of my parents left and I became one of the uh well, the caretaker of the home and cooking and cleaning. And so I had to grow up pretty fast. Yeah. And as the oldest of three, it was not something I really thought about as being uh difficult. You just did what you needed to do to make things work. And I met my husband at a young age in high school, and it wasn't the greatest relationship, but it was he was a Christian, I was a Christian. I lived more in a Christ-like home in those really wonderful years that my parents were getting along. And uh my husband did not, he had a very toxic home life, even though uh one of his parents was a Christian, and he even went to Christian school, private school. So he knew a lot about the Bible, but not a lot about implementing it. So when I when we got married in 2007, uh we were in Arizona at that time, and I was taking real estate investment classes with my stepdad. And my husband wanted to come back to Montana, and he had to bribe me back to Montana with a burrito, actually, because I didn't burrito. That's all it takes, is a burrito. That's what it was for me. Chipotle burrito. So, anyways, that we got back home, and as we were coming down the hill into our home area, the I'm thinking, dreading that I kept coming back to this place. And the Lord says to me, big things come from small places. And I thought, okay, Lord, okay. So that's when I started our first flip. And my husband, after I think it was like one day or two days on the project, he was very upset, and this is we cannot do this. So, fast forward to where I have three kids in tow, that's when we do our short-term rental. And um, as being a mother with three kids, a husband that was working on the road, not home very often. When he was home, he was catching up on sleep. I really, it was very sacrificial. Yeah, and I gave up a lot. My husband had not given up much. Uh, he was providing a great provider, but also part of the toxic trait that he brought into our home is his parents divorced because of bankruptcy. And so he brought on this fear of not enough money, uh, we could lose everything. And actually, we had separate bank accounts. And then that's when I started uh as an entrepreneur building business, multiple businesses, and one of them uh was uh daycare, and I had my children at home and a big part of my day to start was in Proverbs. I had heard someone in business that said the best thing you can do is read a chapter of Proverbs a day to go along with the day of the month because there's 31 chapters, and so when I come to the Proverbs 31 woman, I decided to really dig deep into that and figure out how I can be a Proverbs 31 woman and honor the Lord, be a wonderful wife for my husband. There was an experience earlier on in our marriage where we only have one child, and he was talking to our neighbor who had it all together in her home and very organized and systematic, and I did not have that. And he had said, I overheard him say, Yeah, Christian's not much of a homemaker, and that really hurt me. And he I he would feel terrible knowing that, but that was really my motivator to just become an excellent steward of the home in Proverbs 31 Woman. She had it all together, and I knew I wanted to have a business. So, what I loved about her is that she created her own vineyards and sold land and bought land, and I was already doing that in real estate. So I just really connected with her and studied that, bought a few books. There really wasn't a lot of books. I don't even know if now there's a lot about the Proverbs 31 woman, but studied the one I did find. Which one was that? Um, I think it's by Donna Parteau. And I have to say it was it was good, but I feel there there's a that's a niche area that could really be developed.

SPEAKER_02: 23:12

Yeah, maybe somebody named Christian could write a book about it. Oh my word, yeah. Do you know anybody with that name?

SPEAKER_00: 23:24

I do actually. Just saying.

SPEAKER_02: 23:29

Okay. Carry on.

SPEAKER_00: 23:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02: 23:32

I'm writing a note on here.

SPEAKER_00: 23:34

I'll pray into that, President.

SPEAKER_02: 23:38

Yeah, so you're just getting wrecked by and refined by the Proverbs 31 woman who's a homemaker and steward of the home. And what are you doing now?

SPEAKER_00: 23:51

So what just came over me, I can't, I wish I'm sorry, I should have been more prepared on having the verse out. But she's a virtuous woman, but she also, you know, makes her own clothes. And yeah, I see her as dressed really well. Well, this is what's really funny is um just recently um we I feel like there's so much I could share, and I'm gonna I'm gonna summarize some quick things and you can follow up if you want me to expand on it. But my husband and I felt the calling of the Lord to homeschool our boys. We have four at home right now, one in college. And then we um decided to start a Kingdom Legacy Academy. And it really what it is is a homeschool co-op. So the struggle was is we had one son who struggles with ADHD, and but he's very intelligent, musically gifted, and he started homeschooling, but we were realizing there was almost a sort of depression because of lack of interaction with having community. And so we knew having all of our boys at home would build some of that community, but we needed to branch out, support other families, and then also have relationships for our kids. So we just decided to do Kingdom Legacy Academy. And what that is, is it's a homeschool co-op where we're currently utilizing our home. We're waiting on insurance. There's a church in town that's offered up their building graciously, uh complete gift. And God is totally God on this. It's nothing like my kids say, who would ever thought mom would be running an academy? And I'm like, oh, I've seen God do some crazy things.

SPEAKER_02: 25:38

So well, like going from like she's not a homemaker to right, yeah, for exactly. Totally flipped the script here, yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 25:47

And so one of the things I'm realizing is what we've really just been playing it uh one situation at a time. And one of there's a kid in our life who um had a severe head injury, and his parents both work and are not equipped to be able to homeschool him, but they knew that this we use L U O A as our curriculum curriculum, which is Liberty University's online academy K through 12. Really amazing program. I love how structured it is, and it's the basis is teaching off of the Bible and very rigorous, actually. But my um, so so our family, our friend, friends of the family, their son wanted to do it with our boys, and we really wanted to have him as a part of this program, and so he actually is one of our like our child while he's here doing his studies, and they needed someone to be able to facilitate for him. And so he's just become part of our village, our family. And then we had other families that wanted to be a part of it as well, and that was divinely done even before we had announced we were doing this academy. These families were starting with LUA. They'd heard about it from our sons through their private school, had signed them up, and then we had put this announcement out there that we were doing this, and they contacted me, not even knowing them, and saying, Hey, we've already registered, but we want to be a part of this academy. So it completely God, and we're so thankful for it. Our boys are being taught a lot of life skills, agriculture, um, and all of our students, and that was a big thing for us. But to go back to where the Proverbs 31 woman comes in is recently one of the things we were doing with our academy is showing entrepreneurship in that there was this woman who is moving, she had a boutique in her home, and she's a cabbie stylist, and we went and took all the kids to experience what she has in her home, what she's doing to be successful, and then asking her her questions, pros and cons of what she does. The girls loved it, the boys, of course, wasn't their thing. Sure. But when I had talked to her after the kids had left, uh, she had mentioned I should become a cabbie stylist. I'm like, I have way too much to do. Are you kidding me? And she goes, I would I'm moving out of state, and I have clients that would love to come to you and you can have my business that I've built. And I thought, when does that happen? But I just have it, just take it. Yeah. And I thought, no, I I don't know about this. So she started explaining to me, well, you get a fall and winter wardrobe, and then for the next season, you get spring and summer, and there's in-betweens holiday season, etc. etc. I was a little overwhelmed, but but I love the clothes. And what we struggle with in our area is we do not have great places to shop. And I don't have the time either, nor do I really feel like I'm great with um what I'm wearing for my outfits. And not because not because I'm not trying, it's because I really haven't really implemented that in my life. And let me go back a few years, um, that this is unrelatable in such a way of it's my greatest trial. We lost our daughter in 2017. And she was my firstborn. Thank you very much. And her name is Isabella Faith, and I know that she's in heaven waiting for us when we arrive and we cross over the promised land. But until then, I'm gonna do my darnest to um take back what the enemy tried to steal, kill, and destroy in my life. And one of those things that he took for me is my daughter and I had a love for fashion. We had um a love for hair and all these things early. And I when I lost my daughter, I gave up all of that. And I have now five boys and my husband, and there is no sense of fashion in this house unless it's forced. Sure. I get it.

SPEAKER_02: 30:20

I'm a house of men too.

SPEAKER_00: 30:24

Oh, um, but what I realized when she was telling me about being in a stylist position, I started thinking, well, what if I was just a starter. With the first wardrobe because I would have I wouldn't have to go shop for it, save me on time. And then it's um a great price because you're getting at a stylish price and not paying full price. And so I ended up doing it and she invited me at a couple of her fashion shows and fashion parties. And I have to tell you, Kristen, I was I've been a tomboy for most of my life. I love construction. I can talk race cars with men. But when it comes to being around with women, I really struggle. And I went to these parties, these women were having so much fun. They were supporting each other, encouraging each other. I'll tell you what, I know this might be really not the thing to say, but there was more encouragement in life in this non-Christian environment than I've seen in any other area with women. Um, and they said you're coming into a season of joy and of healing. And the other thing is after I lost my daughter, is I gave up on my health. I didn't care that I was gaining weight, and food is my comfort or has been my comfort. And so I have been trying for probably about four years to lose 60 to 70 pounds. And a huge reason of why I wasn't fashionable either in some ways, because I was just so defeated on how much my body had changed.

SPEAKER_02: 32:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00: 32:17

And so this I started about a month ago as the stylist, and I'm wearing these clothes, loving them, and then also it has got me into the most highly disciplined lifestyle in eating healthy, working out daily, inspired to not just look cute in my attire, but feel great. And how can I couldn't even make this up of how divinely God is orchestrating this? And what I'm realizing is us being a lifestyle brand, well, through my cabbie online website, which I received as a stylist, is now part of my rect and refined brand as I see it. So love it. I I go out in public and to church, and women are saying, Oh my gosh, I love your brown corduroy jeans. Where'd you get those? I'm like, actually, I'm a cabbie.

SPEAKER_02: 33:23

Oh my gosh. Yeah, you you're like a homemaker, homeschooler, like body stylist. There's like a designer, like beyond designing, like you get to help people like with their home design, but then the outside of their you know body design as well. Right. And you're in the middle, you're in the middle of it. Like you're in this re re-identifying process, which is beautiful, and you get to tell people about this starting here. I mean, you said a month ago you just started doing this. Yes.

SPEAKER_00: 34:00

And I've already lost four pounds. I lost four inches in the first week just by detoxing. And I have about eight to ten months to go. Yeah, and before I would just dread, oh, that's so long. How defeating. But now I'm just feeling like, wow, there's just so much. I think it's the joy of the Lord, and through the joy of this new adventure, and also being around for example, one of the things that we do as cabbie stylists is we go to a fashion show in January. So I've already scheduled this fashion show. So my goal right now is doing small habits every day and then also small goals. So my goal is when the next wardrobe comes out, which is spring and fall, which is in January, my goal is to go from a large to a medium.

SPEAKER_02: 34:52

Wow. Oh my gosh, how incredible! Yeah, I mean it almost it goes back to what you said about when the Lord brought you back to your hometown. What what was that word he gave you again?

SPEAKER_00: 35:05

Uh big things come from small places.

SPEAKER_02: 35:07

And it's these small steps every day that are gonna make a big impact, right? Yeah, that's good. In so many like realms of what you're walking into. I love this. Like you are really getting after so many different things to help just beautify. It's it's that beauty from ashes, right?

SPEAKER_00: 35:28

Yeah, that's actually our tagline for Rect and Refined.

SPEAKER_02: 35:31

Oh, it is? Oh well. Well, that's that's exciting. Oh my goodness. Well, tell us like how can people get in touch with you? Um, especially your your properties. Are they um like are you booked out for a long time? Um, what does that look like for people to rent if they wanted to come visit your area?

SPEAKER_00: 35:54

Rectrefined.com. So w-r-e-c-d, r-e-f I-n-ed dot com. And it's also under rektandrefined.com.

SPEAKER_02: 36:08

Okay, and you can find all of these um beautifying areas on your website.

SPEAKER_00: 36:14

Yes. And there's a couple different tabs. There's our rentals where they can book with us. We I also have a blog, and I'm trying to figure out. I've had a few professionals tell me you should only blog about one thing, but then as you can see, there's so much going on. I just have come to the point where I'm gonna blog about what I'm passionate about and what I love. And we'll just see where God takes it.

SPEAKER_02: 36:43

Amen. Like I always say, if somebody tells you you shouldn't be doing something, I like to say don't don't should on me. My husband or don't shouldn't on me or should on me. No, I want to say that really clear. Should S H O U L D, not not the other word.

SPEAKER_00: 37:02

Yeah, yeah, yes. My my husband found this saying in it in my office, and it says, underestimate me. That will be fun.

SPEAKER_02: 37:14

Right?

SPEAKER_01: 37:16

It's very inspiring.

SPEAKER_02: 37:18

That that's that says it all for you. I'm that's that's your billboard for sure. I love it. Well, um, you have an enjoy. I would love to have you back on um when your book comes out. When will that be coming out?

SPEAKER_00: 37:31

Oh, uh, I guess I would probably need a coach or accountability to help me get um to finish, to start and finish.

SPEAKER_02: 37:40

Amen. Well, um, I know some people, and I even have a really fiery publisher that I can tell you more about on on the on the flip side. So um as we close today, I would love for you to just think of the one that's listening in to our talking, right? They're they're hearing what we've been talking about today. If you could just get in mind this person who's listening, is there anything else that you'd want to speak over them? Any words of encouragement or wisdom? And then would you pray us out today? Oh, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00: 38:14

I'd say to the one that's listening is everything for me all comes back to the word of God. It's his breath and his word and ultimate wisdom. And whether it's being that you're suffering in your marriage or you're suffering with finances, your health. Uh I started in Proverbs, uh, very easy chapters to read um each day of the month. And then uh when your soul just needs healing, I would say go to run to Psalms. But there's so much everything, all good things come from the word of God. Yeah, amen. And to pray without, I just, Lord, I just exalt you. I thank you, Father, for who you are. I thank you for your creation, and I thank you for what you're doing, even though sometimes it looks bleak, or oftentimes, especially in these days, there's so much darkness and wickedness. Lord, I just pray and thank you, knowing that everything is in your hands. You are fully aware of it all. And I just ask, Father, that each and every individual who across the globe who knows you or even doesn't know you, that they will come to know your saving grace. And Lord, that you will give us the ability to speak loudly and boldly so we can spread the news as uh according to the gospel. And I pray, Father, for blessings for all these listeners who listen in. And I just pray, Father, that you will move in their life in a mighty, mighty way. I pray for supernatural healing and that you will be that balm of wherever they may be hurting. There's been many situations and trials in my life where uh giving up was close and disappointment and just there's no longer wanting to live anymore. And Lord, you were there with me in those moments. And I pray that you will be with all these listeners and that you will greatly bless them. And I can't wait to hear their story in your precious and mighty name. Amen.

SPEAKER_02: 40:20

Amen. Well, Christian, thank you so much for being a brave voice who's setting so many free. I'll be sure to link all of her contact information in the show notes. So be sure to check out her website and get in touch with her if you have any questions. Um, and I'm going to close with the Hope Unlocked anchoring verse, which is May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace and believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope. And that's Romans 15, 13. So I will be back with another episode next week. Thanks, listeners. And thank you again, Christian. Thank you, Christian.