Karin With An i: Build Bold

Obedience Before Understanding

Episode 12 (Season 1 Finale): Karin shares her journey of grief, revelation, and divine intervention, leading to a newfound clarity and purpose. Through unexpected partnerships and unforeseen developments, God's plan unfolds, empowering her to embrace uncertainty and live out her story. The conversation delves into the journey of two individuals discovering complementary experiences and building something together. It explores the themes of trusting God's plan, the nature of obedience, understanding fear and faith, and living out the lessons learned. The challenge of certainty, transition, new ventures, and the anticipation of season two are also highlighted. Takeaways: * Grieving for the church and a generation * God's fingerprints in life changes Trusting God's plan * Obedience before understanding Thanks for tuning in and see you next season!

The Waiting Room

Episode 11: Karin shares her journey of faith, obedience, waiting, and endurance as she navigates through a season of uncertainty and transition. Her story reflects the challenges of attaching confidence to outcomes instead of God's character and the importance of trusting His direction even in the waiting room. Takeaways: * Obedience doesn't always lead to immediate clarity; sometimes it requires endurance and trust in God's character. * God's silence does not mean His absence; it's an opportunity to deepen our faith and reliance on His word. * The waiting room is a place of preparation and endurance, where trust in God's character is more important than visible evidence. Theme Verses: Hebrews 10:35-36 Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what is promised. Lamentations 3:22-23 The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning. Psalm 147:11 The Lord takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his steadfast love.

When What We Chase Becomes Spiritually Expensive

Episode 10: The conversation explores the danger of building one's identity around a calling, the impact of productivity on intimacy with God, and the need for healthy boundaries and restraint in pursuit of freedom. It emphasizes the importance of building from intimacy with God rather than internal pressure. Takeaways: * Identity should not be built around a calling * Productivity can consume attention and affect intimacy with God * Freedom requires healthy boundaries and restraint * Building from intimacy with God is essential for alignment and growth Theme Verse: Galatians 5:13 For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

The 4-Letter Word I Use To Hate

Episode 9: The conversation explores the struggle with rest, the impact of survival mode, the discovery of a new way of living, the impact of rest on productivity, and the spiritual aspect of rest. It delves into the fear associated with rest and the transformation that occurs when intentional rest is prioritized. Takeaways * Rest as an act of trust * Survival mode and fear of rest Theme Verses: Genesis 2:1-3 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. Exodus 20:8-10 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates.

Survival Mode Demands Payment

Episode 8: You can survive in survival mode for a long time before you realize it’s slowly destroying you. In this episode, Karin talks about the hidden cost of living in constant over-functioning, especially for high-capacity women who have learned to carry everything. What starts as responsibility, discipline, and ambition can quietly become fear-driven living that steals your peace, your presence, your health, and your relationships. Through personal stories of building a successful wedding photography business while internally collapsing, Karin unpacks: * how survival mode disguises itself as strength * why anxiety often becomes the pace setter of our lives * what Scripture reveals through the stories of Martha and Elijah about exhaustion, rest, and trust. If you’ve been feeling constantly overwhelmed, emotionally unavailable, unable to slow down, or trapped in the pressure to keep holding everything together, this episode will challenge you to ask a deeper question: What if God never asked you to carry this much in the first place? Key Scriptures: Luke 10:38-42 (ESV) “Now as they went on their way, Jesus entered a village. And a woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, who sat at the Lord's feet and listened to his teaching. But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him and said, ‘Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me.’ But the Lord answered her, ‘Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her." 1 Kings 19:4-8 But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he asked that he might die, saying, "It is enough; now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers." And he lay down and slept under a broom tree. And behold, an angel touched him and said to him, "Arise and eat." And he looked, and behold, there was at his head a cake baked on hot stones and a jar of water. And he ate and drank and lay down again. And the angel of the Lord came again a second time and touched him and said. "Arise and eat, for the journey is too great for you." And he arose and ate and drank, and went in the strength of that food forty days and forty nights.