Episode 4: Running on Empty - How to Stop Surviving and Start Living for God

Episode 8 Is It Ambition or Assignment? How Working Christian Moms Can Stop Striving and Follow God’s Plan

Episode Subtitle How to tell the difference between selfish ambition and a God-given assignment. Episode Description Are you controlling your calendar, or is your calendar controlling you? Are you so busy getting things done that you have forgotten why you started in the first place? In this episode of Balance for Working Christian Moms, Latosha Crawford helps you examine the difference between ambition and assignment. Ambition often begins with what we want, what we can accomplish, and how hard we can strive. Assignment begins with what God has called us to do and requires us to rely on His strength, wisdom, and direction. If you have been feeling overloaded, stretched thin, disconnected from your family, or unsure whether your current pace is producing peace or pressure, this episode will help you pause and ask an important question: Is this ambition, or is this assignment? Using Proverbs 16:3, Philippians 1:21, Jeremiah 29:11, and the Balance Framework, this episode encourages working Christian moms to surrender their plans to God, seek the Holy Spirit before saying yes, and pursue excellence without slipping into striving. You do not have to gain the title, the salary, or the recognition at the cost of your peace, your family, your health, or your relationship with Christ. God’s assignment may still require sacrifice, but it will also keep you anchored in Him.

Episode 7 Why Fitness Discipline Feels So Hard When You’re Already Tired

Has your physical health gradually taken a backseat since you became a wife, a mother, or stepped into a demanding career? Perhaps you keep telling yourself that you will start exercising when work slows down, your children become more independent, or life feels less overwhelming. Or maybe you have started working out and making healthier choices, but the results are not coming as quickly as you expected and now you are questioning whether your effort is even worth it. In this episode of Balance for Working Christian Moms, Latosha Crawford shares why fitness discipline can feel so difficult when you are already mentally, physically, and emotionally tired. Through her personal fitness journey and biblical encouragement, Latosha explains how to distinguish between genuine exhaustion and the natural discomfort of getting started. You will learn why the scale does not tell the complete story of your progress, how to create a fitness commitment that fits your current season, and why caring for your body is an act of stewardship not punishment. You do not have to transform your entire life this week. You simply need to identify your next faithful step. In this episode, you will learn: • Why being tired does not necessarily mean you are lazy • How to recognize when your body needs recovery and when your mind is resisting discomfort • Why delayed results do not mean your effort is being wasted • How negative self-talk can prevent you from discovering what your body can do • Why strength, energy, mobility, endurance, and consistency are meaningful forms of progress • How to build a fitness routine that is challenging but sustainable • Why caring for your body helps equip you for your family, career, ministry, and calling Scriptures referenced: Galatians 6:9 1 Corinthians 6:19–20 Your challenge this week is to choose one realistic commitment to your physical health—something you can honor even during a demanding week. Listen to your body. Give yourself grace. Adjust when necessary. But do not abandon yourself. You are not merely working toward a smaller body. You are building a stronger life. If this episode encouraged or challenged you, share it with another working mom who is ready to choose peace over pressure.

Episode 6: Building a Realistic Rhythm with God: Quiet Time for Busy Christian Moms

The morning keeps getting away from you. In Episode 6, Latosha shares a realistic, season-flexible faith rhythm including her simple 5-minute framework for busy Christian working moms.

Episode 5: The Hidden Cost of Doing It All — Burnout, Boundaries & Biblical Rest for the Working Christian Mom

In Episode 5 of Balanced & Working Christian Mom, Latosha Crawford — wife, mother, attorney, motivational speaker, and life coach — shares her personal story of taking vacation days just to deep-clean her house, the moment her body started breaking down from chronic stress, and what scripture actually says about the way so many Christian women are living. What you'll learn in this episode: * Why the most capable women are often the last ones anyone checks on — including themselves * What chronic overload costs you in your health, your relationships, and your walk with God * The biblical difference between serving and striving — and how to tell which one is driving you * What the story of Mary and Martha reveals about presence vs. productivity * How to build community and stop confusing independence with strength * 4 Practical Tools to Release Pressure and Walk in Peace

Episode 4: Running on Empty - How to Stop Surviving and Start Living for God

Episode 4: Running on Empty How to Stop Surviving and Start Living for God For years, Latosha Crawford lived in perpetual motion building a legal career, raising young children, managing marriage, chasing goals, and doing everything success was supposed to look like from the outside. But beneath the accomplishments, she was spiritually, emotionally, and physically exhausted. In this deeply personal episode of Balance for Working Christian Moms, Latosha shares how the events of 2020  including practicing criminal defense law in downtown Minneapolis during the aftermath of the Murder of George Floyd tragedy while navigating motherhood and career pressures during the pandemic  forced her to confront a difficult truth: she had been running on empty for years without even realizing it. This episode is for the woman who appears strong on the outside but feels depleted on the inside. In this conversation, we discuss: * Living in survival mode without recognizing it * The spiritual and emotional cost of constant busyness * Reconnecting with God through stillness, prayer, fasting, and obedience * Evaluating whether your life aligns with God’s purpose or personal ambition * Why balance requires intentionality, wisdom, and surrender * How to stop wearing “busy” like a badge of honor Through the wisdom of Book of Psalms and Proverbs, Latosha shares how God redirected her priorities, marriage, finances, career, and spiritual life when she finally slowed down long enough to listen. If you’ve been pouring into everyone else while neglecting your own soul, this episode will encourage you to stop surviving and start living for God with greater purpose, peace, obedience, and intention. “Be still and know that I am God.” — Psalm 46:10 #BalanceForWorkingChristianMoms #RunningOnEmpty #ChristianPodcast #WorkingChristianMom #FaithAndFamily #LiveForGod #PeaceOverPressure #PurposeAndBalance #WomenOfFaith #LatoshaCrawford