Hearing God's Voice and Receiving Provision with Tiana Baxter

Sarah came home after ten years abroad and started wondering whether she would have to leave again. This episode shares Tahlia’s own views and experience. It is general information, not legal, tax or financial advice. Tahlia Rochelle is the founder of The Living Council, which began as a group of friends comparing notes on money, contracts and the system. It has grown into a community of around 500 Australian families. Her own family spent 27 months travelling around the country, and she describes deciding that leaving it was the one option she did not want to take. The conversation starts with Sarah’s own wrestle. She moved home after a decade of building businesses overseas, she loves being back, and she has watched entrepreneur friends begin to go. Tahlia describes another path, which she calls the goat trail running beside the highway. In her approach, people first change how they think and who they spend time with, and only then change their structures, slowly and over months. She talks about running a business around its purpose and about what she calls a chemical change. She also explains why she tells people to start small. The second half turns to faith. Sarah asks how Tahlia answers Christians who are uneasy about building wealth. Tahlia goes to the love of money, the year of Jubilee, and the instruction to leave the edges of the field for people in need. Stewardship runs through all of it, along with what it would mean to build something worth handing down to grandchildren. She ends on the edge she is standing at herself, which is courage. This one is for anyone who has built a good life here and is quietly wondering whether they can keep it here. “Courage is not that everything is perfect. Courage is despite the fear that I feel, I’m gonna do it anyway.” — Tahlia Rochelle KEY TAKEAWAYS Earning more than ever and keeping less, and where Tahlia starts Why so many entrepreneurs and leaders are choosing to leave Australia The highway, the goat trail, and choosing another way What she means by a chemical change, and why it takes time Purpose-driven business and generational wealth for families Faith and money, and what biblical stewardship asks of us FEATURED IDEA Lasting change starts with how a person thinks, and the structures come after. Tahlia describes people who set up new arrangements without changing their thinking, then drift back to the old way the first time they are challenged. Her picture for real change is wood in a fire. Once it has turned to ash it cannot become wood again, and she sees the same permanence when someone’s thinking genuinely shifts. That is why she points people toward community first. She asks for two to four hours a week over six months, which she says is how long the shift usually takes. TIMESTAMPS 0:19 - Welcome, and why so many are leaving 5:21 - A 27-month family trip around Australia 6:16 - How The Living Council began 8:53 - Generational wealth for families 10:52 - 60-hour weeks and no freedom 12:33 - The highway and the goat trail 16:08 - Why earning more hasn’t meant keeping more 18:55 - Why lasting change takes time 26:31 - What a purpose-driven business looks like 43:24 - Why entrepreneurs are leaving Australia 47:48 - Faith, money and building wealth 49:08 - God’s economy, gleaning and generosity 52:04 - First steps toward financial freedom 55:28 - The edge she’s standing at: courage

Nine episodes in, Sarah takes stock of what a crowded Sydney event taught her about slow growth. This solo episode is Sarah's first look back since launching The Receiving Edge, along with her account of Fortuna One, the Tony Robbins event in Sydney where Steven Bartlett and Gary Brecka also spoke. She went to learn from one of the most successful podcasters working today, and to get a feel for business in Australia after most of a decade living overseas. The thread through all of it is the compound effect. Steven Bartlett's case for small habits that are just as easy to skip, kept up week after week, sits beside what Sarah has learned from releasing an episode every week before it felt ready. She talks about getting good at change and at failure, including a business of her own that ended, and about why human connection is gaining value as everything else speeds up. She also describes a room full of business owners still working fifty - sixty-hour weeks, and reflects on the early advice from a mentor that has shaped how she builds with freedom and what matters most at the centre. From there the episode turns to seasons. Tony Robbins described Australia as being in an economic winter, and Sarah carries the idea into her own life, the long winter she has come through and the spring she can feel arriving. Gary Brecka's talk on longevity, where he redefines how we view health conditions and she was excited to learn that faith was one of his top medicines along with community. She closes with the three things she is actually taking home. This one is for anyone coming out of a long winter and getting clear on what to focus on next. "If we're comparing a winter to someone else's summer, we're not going to feel good about it." - Sarah Blackah KEY TAKEAWAYS What the compound effect looks like before anything shows Why she launched this podcast before it felt ready Getting good at change and failure in a fast-moving season Why human connection matters more as everything speeds up How to work with the season of life you are in Gary Brecka on longevity, faith and community FEATURED IDEA Small things done consistently, in the season you are actually in, build more than any quantum leap. Sarah brings two ideas from the event together. Steven Bartlett's point was that lasting change tends to come from small habits that are easy to skip, repeated until they show, whether in a podcast, a marriage or a body. Tony Robbins spoke about seasons, and Sarah has spent years, in her own life and with clients, asking what a particular season is for. Together they make compounding something done in step with the season, resting through the winters and sowing once spring arrives. Sarah speaks about this from the edge of her own spring, still working out what the next chapter holds. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - Welcome, and a behind the scenes update 3:11 - Launching a podcast before it felt ready 6:20 - Steven Bartlett on the compound effect 8:01 - Small habits that compound up or down 9:00 - Getting good at change, failure and AI 12:10 - Why human connection matters more now 13:50 - The relationships behind lasting success 14:30 - Freedom lifestyle and the 60-hour week 16:30 - Tony Robbins and seasons of life 18:50 - Energy, and listening to your body 21:45 - Gary Brecka on longevity and faith 24:02 - Gary Brecka on deficiencies and heredity 26:50 - Taking one idea home and using it 28:48 - Three things she is implementing next RESOURCES AND CONNECT Follow/Reach Sarah - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sarahblackah Email: [email protected] Mentioned in the episode - Fortuna One, Tony Robbins' business event in Sydney Tony Robbins Steven Bartlett, host of The Diary of a CEO Gary Brecka, The Ultimate Human FURTHER READING The Compound Effect, Darren Hardy. A book on how small, repeated choices add up to large results over time. Atomic Habits, James Clear. A practical guide to building good habits and breaking bad ones through small

He dreamed of his future wife, searched for nineteen months, then surrendered the promise back to God. Jay Geering has spent more than twenty years coaching business founders, bringing together faith, neuroscience and NLP. The conversation begins with the story of how this podcast came to exist. On the morning Sarah gave God her full yes, a message arrived from Jay about a gift he had felt prompted to send. That gift became the push Sarah needed to book the first studio session and editing team. Jay then shares the story at the heart of this episode. His first marriage ended when he was thirty, and some time later he had a dream so vivid he could barely distinguish it from waking life. In it, he met the woman he would marry. He spent nineteen months searching for her across Bali, Europe and America before returning home without finding her and surrendering the entire promise back to God. Less than two weeks later, a friend's photo appeared on his screen. From there, Sarah brings him a question she carried out of years in personal development: what separates manifesting from co-creating with God? Jay offers a more nuanced perspective on manifestation than many Christian teachers before explaining why he keeps his own practice grounded in relationship with God. He also speaks about delayed obedience, ADHD in founders, and a prayer outside an Adelaide church whose outcome he would not discover until fifteen years later. This episode is for anyone holding a promise that has not yet arrived and wondering how much of it is theirs to carry. "Nowhere in the Bible is there a mailbox Christian." — Jay Geering KEY TAKEAWAYS A financial seed and the morning this podcast began The prophetic dream and nineteen months spent searching for his wife What changed when he finally surrendered the promise back to God Manifesting or co-creating with God, and where Jay draws the line How he prepared for a partner while waiting on God The woman in pink and an outcome he heard about fifteen years later FEATURED IDEA A promise asks for a surrendered heart and a body willing to do the work. That is how Jay describes the posture of co-creating with God, and it includes being willing to release the outcome. During those nineteen months, he worked with a psychologist and coaches and used the rewiring tools he now teaches his clients to step beyond an old identity. He has little patience for the idea of Christians receiving a promise and then simply waiting for it to be delivered. Yet the other half of the posture came when he surrendered the promise completely, in case it had become an idol. Sarah connects this to her own conviction that preparing for what you have been promised can be an act of faith in itself. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - Welcome, and a seed that started the show 4:43 - Sowing and reaping, and delayed obedience 11:44 - A near-death experience and hearing God 16:07 - Marriage breakdown and starting over at 30 23:16 - A prophetic dream about his future wife 30:55 - Surrendering the promise after 19 months 33:41 - Mailbox Christians and doing the work 36:31 - Preparing for a partner while you wait 39:02 - Manifesting or co-creating with God? 48:45 - What co-creating with God costs 55:01 - Faith, neuroscience and business 58:27 - ADHD, entrepreneurs and burnout 1:02:06 - Three steps for a season of transition 1:10:19 - The woman in pink and an answered prayer RESOURCES AND CONNECT ABOUT JAY GEERING Jay Geering is an entrepreneur, NLP trainer and clinical hypnotherapist with more than 20 years of experience coaching high-performing business leaders around the world. With a deep passion for neuroscience and human behaviour, Jay has helped thousands of people transform the way they think, live and lead, while building successful businesses and navigating meaningful relationships. His work brings together business strategy and the science of lasting change, helping people recognise when the patterns that created their success are no l

She was told as a child that everything goes downhill after 40, and she decided otherwise. Sheree Amador is 49, a mother of five, and a health and fitness coach for women over 40. Her youngest two arrived in her mid-forties, neither of them planned, and she describes her forties as the toughest and strongest decade she has had. The conversation looks at how much of what women expect from ageing is a story they learned early, and what that story quietly does to their habits. Sheree talks about the basics she keeps coming back to, protein, steps, sleep and weight training in her garage, and about why so many women put themselves last until their forties bring it to a head. Sheree also shares her experience of healthy pregnancies in her mid-40s, and navigating the fear, extra testing and assumptions that can come with maternal age. Sheree is clear there are no guarantees, but encourages women who still hope to have children to understand their individual health, care for their bodies, seek good medical guidance and make informed decisions without letting fear lead the way. She shared many miracle stories she knows of including her own. Sarah and Sheree also talk about feeling strong, healthy and attractive as a mother, having the physical capacity for everyday life, and how being capable doesn’t mean having to do everything yourself. She receives a lot of support from her husband. This one is for anyone who has been told what her age means and has quietly wondered whether it is true. "Whatever you decide, don't do it out of fear. Either way." — Sheree Amador KEY TAKEAWAYS Where her fear of turning 40 first came from The boring basics of strength training for women over 40 Why women over 40 so often put themselves last Pregnancy after 45, and the blessing and fear that was found her What she says to women over 40 still hoping for children Feeling strong, sexy and capable as a mother at 49 FEATURED IDEA The stories we believe about our bodies can shape how we care for them. Growing up, Sheree heard messages that getting older meant inevitable decline. She believes those expectations can quietly influence our choices, from how we move and eat to what we believe is possible for our health. That mindset was challenged again during her pregnancies in her mid-40s, when her age brought additional concern and testing despite feeling healthy and well. Rather than letting fear lead, Sheree chose to focus on what she could influence: her health, strength, nutrition and the way she cared for her body. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 - Welcome, and why this conversation matters now 5:31 - Five kids, two after 45, and stronger than ever at 49 7:17 - The stories we’re told about getting older 8:52 - Protein, strength training and her first baby at 26 11:56 - The fear she carried about getting older 14:20 - What happens to muscle in your 30s and what you can do about it 16:44 - Strength training basics every woman should know 20:10 - Why women often put themselves last 22:05 - Pregnancy after 45 and what it taught her 23:55 - When age becomes the focus in pregnancy 27:30 - For women who still hope to have children 33:20 - Raising toddlers at 49 without losing herself 39:30 - Feeling strong, sexy and capable in your body 42:50 - Healthy ageing and Sheree’s Receiving Edge RESOURCES AND CONNECT ABOUT SHEREE AMADOR Sheree Amador is a health and fitness coach who helps women over 40 build strong, healthy bodies and feel confident in themselves. A mother of five, Sheree is passionate about challenging the narrative around ageing for women. After having two of her children after 45, she's become a powerful example of what's possible in this season of life, with an approach centred around strength training, nutrition and sustainable lifestyle habits. Through her coaching and online community, Sheree helps women become stronger, healthier and more confident in their bodies, while redefining what it can look and feel like to thrive

A man once told this dating coach she didn't know how to receive love. Sami Wunder built her coaching practice on a heartbreak. On paper she had every advantage going into dating, education, values, warmth, but her relationships kept ending the same way, until a man she had fallen for went quiet for ten days, then told her afterward that she needed to learn how to let herself be loved. That comment became the seed of the work she has since built for ambitious, high-achieving women. The conversation walks through the patterns Sami sees most often in capable women. Initiating and managing every interaction from a masculine, doing energy. Overgiving as a way to avoid sitting in the discomfort of being given to. Boundaries softened by a fear of seeming rude or high maintenance. She traces each one back to the same root, an old habit of proving worth rather than simply being met. Sarah and Sami also get into where faith fits into all of this, including what Sami says to women who describe themselves as waiting on God to send a husband. The conversation moves through dating app fatigue, the difference between a safety wall and a fortress of unrealistic standards, and what it actually takes for a woman used to earning everything to let a good thing be given to her. "Healthy love is a skill that any woman can learn." — Sami Wunder