The Power of Stillness in a Busy Season

The Power of Stillness in a Busy Season

🎙️EP 307 The Power of Stillness in a Busy Season ENTREPRENEUR PARENTS PODCAST Hosted by Dan Caldwell and Ildiko Ferenczi Constant Noise Makes It Hard to Hear Yourself, Your Family, and God Clearly. In today's world, many people are living surrounded by constant noise. Notifications, Pressure, Scrolling, Mental overload, Emotional exhaustion. And after a while, many no longer realize how disconnected they've become from peace, clarity, presence, and even from the people they love most. In this deeply calming and emotionally grounding episode of Becoming Unshakable: The Legacy Conversations Bonus Series from the Entrepreneur Parents Podcast, Ildiko Ferenczi opens an honest conversation about the hidden emotional cost of overstimulation and the powerful role intentional stillness plays in healing the mind, strengthening families, calming the nervous system, and reconnecting with God. This episode explores the difference between true rest and emotional distraction, why many families feel emotionally disconnected despite constantly being together, and how intentional peace can completely transform the emotional atmosphere of a home. If you've been feeling mentally exhausted… emotionally reactive, spiritually distant, or overwhelmed by constant stimulation, this conversation may feel like permission to breathe again. IN THIS EPISODE Why modern culture keeps people in constant overstimulation The psychological impact of endless notifications, scrolling, and mental noise How nervous system overload affects marriage, parenting, patience, and emotional connection Why many people are not truly resting, they are distracting themselves The emotional difference between peace and escapism How children absorb the emotional atmosphere of a home Why intentional stillness strengthens connection, clarity, gratitude, and healing Biblical wisdom surrounding stillness, peace, and hearing God clearly Practical ways to cultivate calm inside your home and daily routines The connection between emotional regulation and spiritual clarity Why slowing down is not weakness it is wisdom ✝️ SCRIPTURE FROM THIS EPISODE 📓"Be still, and know that I am God." — Psalm 46:10 📓 "Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says." — James chapter 1, verses 22 through 25 📓JOURNAL PROMPTS • What kind of noise have I been constantly surrounding myself with lately? • Do I truly feel rested… or simply distracted? • When was the last time I experienced real stillness? • What would it look like to create more intentional peace inside my home? • What is my heart trying to say underneath all the noise? FINAL ENCOURAGEMENT If your mind has been overwhelmed, your emotions exhausted, or your spirit stretched thin lately, may this episode remind you that you do not have to constantly live in survival mode. There is wisdom in slowing down. There is healing in stillness. There is clarity in quiet moments with God. And sometimes, the most productive thing you can do for your heart, your marriage, your children, and your future, is to become fully present again. Peace does not usually arrive accidentally. It is cultivated intentionally. One quiet moment at a time.

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[00:00:00] I think one of the quietest problems in modern life is that many people no longer experience real stillness. They don't experience true stillness. Not the kind where your mind settles, your nervous system exhales, and your heart finally has room to catch up with your life.

[00:00:26] Because somewhere along the way, constant movement became normal. Constant stimulation. It's just one thing after the other. Constantly reacting, constant scrolling, constant noise filling every quiet space.

[00:00:48] And after a while, people can become so accustomed to living overstimulated that they stop recognizing what all that noise is actually covering.

[00:01:04] The exhaustion they've been trying to push past. The emotional weight they haven't fully processed yet. The tension quietly building underneath conversations.

[00:01:20] The sadness they keep staying busy enough to avoid sitting with. Sometimes we gotta sit with those thoughts, with those feelings. Even the distance slowly growing inside their houses just push past it.

[00:01:39] Because sometimes it isn't until life finally becomes quiet that we realize how much we've been carrying internally the entire time. And I think many people are beginning to recognize something important right now.

[00:02:00] They do not necessarily need more information. They need more peace. They need room to think clearly again. To hear themselves clearly again.

[00:02:20] To reconnect with the people sitting right in front of them. Because a life filled with constant noise often leaves very, very little room for intentional connection.

[00:02:37] That is a fact. And the truth is, many people aren't actually resting anymore. They're distracting themselves. And there's a difference between the two. Get comfortable. We're about to have a conversation that needs to be had. Let's go.

[00:03:06] Ooh, that's better, right babe? She founded an architectural concrete company. He founded a hundred million dollar clothing company. She took the world by storm as a social media star. He took the world by storm as a famous serial entrepreneur. Together we started a business. And had babies.

[00:03:36] Now we're figuring out the best ways to do both. Join us as we learn from other entrepreneurs going through the same life struggles. As they share their life hacks about success, love, kids. And everything in between. Hello my friend and welcome back to Becoming Unshakeable, the Legacy Conversations bonus series. A special edition brought to you by the Entrepreneur Parents Podcast.

[00:04:03] A community of strong families building unshakable legacies. I'm your host, Ildiko Ferenczi. And today we're stepping into a conversation that I truly believe many people need right now. Stillness. I mean still. Stillness. Beautiful stillness.

[00:04:31] And I'm not telling you to go be lazy or disengaged. I'm talking about intentional stillness. The kind that allows your mind, your emotions, and your nervous system, and your spirit to finally slow down enough to reconnect with what actually matters. The people in front of you. The things that truly matter.

[00:05:02] Because we are living in a culture that constantly pulls at our attention. And it's designed that way. And if we're not careful, we can spend so much time reacting to life that we slowly stop experiencing it. That is a haunting thought. Just imagine it.

[00:05:30] A new mother has a newborn. She's feeling overstimulated a lot. And rather than being in the moment, even though it's a hard season, imagine scrolling, scrolling, scrolling. And especially if it's your first time, could you imagine just missing it? It goes by so quickly.

[00:05:57] And I know we can get so overstimulated and perhaps we lean into the wrong thing. Lean into the wrong thing rather than connecting and being in the moment and moving through the moment. Because this time is so precious. It moves so quickly. We have to be so aware of what is pulling us away.

[00:06:22] Because many times after the scrolling, right? After the distraction, we're even more exhausted. And we've missed so many moments. And then those little eyes looking up at their mothers or their fathers. That's not the experience. It is so dangerous. It is dangerous. We were talking about this the other day.

[00:06:52] Most people wake up immediately. They're stepping into noise. Immediately, they're stepping into noise. Notifications waiting on the phone. Bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, right? Even if you turn off your Wi-Fi at night, which many people in our community do. If you haven't been doing it, look into it. We'll have a podcast about it.

[00:07:21] We'll have a conversation about it. But you turn it on in the morning and ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. It's all there. And it's going to pull you in. Emails demanding responses before the day has even fully begun. Social media pulling at attention away almost, almost instantly. Opinions, opinions of other people around us pulling us away. Pressures pulling us away.

[00:07:51] Distracting us. Comparison. Comparison is a big one. Urgency. Urgency. Urgency of things that aren't even necessarily that important. And after a while, the nervous system begins carrying a level of stimulation. Overstimulation. It was never designed. That was never designed to live inside consistently.

[00:08:21] That's not how our human bodies were designed or that's not what they were designed for. Constant overstimulation keeps the brain in a heightened state of alertness. And over time, that affects far more than people realize. Far more than people realize. Patience becomes thinner.

[00:08:50] Focus becomes harder. Rest feels less restorative. How many people have woken up and they still feel tired. They were trying to get those things done at night and they pushed and pushed and kept going. And they woke up and they didn't even feel like they slept. I've had a few of those nights.

[00:09:18] But, hey, people become emotionally reactive more quickly. Parents. Even simple conversations can begin feeling heavier than they should. And many people don't realize how deeply that actually affects the emotional atmosphere of a home. Because overstimulated people often become emotionally unavailable without meaning to.

[00:09:48] They're distracted. Short-tempered. Short-tempered. Have you noticed that ever in your home? The gentlemen. I know a lot of gentlemen in our community, they talk about feeling short-tempered. Or mentally elsewhere, even while physically present.

[00:10:13] And slowly, that constant internal noise begins affecting the way people experience each other. Again, another haunting thought. It's going to create distance. And this is so important when we talk about marriage and parenting. Because children feel the atmosphere we carry long before they understand the words we say.

[00:10:43] They feel tension. They feel distraction. Emotional absence. Rushed energy. Okay? Those moments when we're rushing them to hurry up and get it done with. I don't, I don't like to do that. Because I understand every moment is a gift. But this comes up in the community often.

[00:11:12] That rushed energy. Pushing off their children. And then feeling bad about it after. And sometimes, without even realizing it, we can physically be beside the people we love. Think about it while emotionally being somewhere else entirely. Still thinking. Still processing.

[00:11:41] Still mentally consumed. And I think, I think one of the greatest gifts. Think, think. No, no, no. I believe, I know one of the greatest gifts we can give our families right now is our presence. Real presence. Not distracted listening. Because they can tell. Right?

[00:12:10] They can tell. I know. I know. I say this to my husband all the time. Hello. Are you listening? Right? My children do it too. He's busy. He's working. But I want you to just look up at me. Just look up at me while I, while I say this sentence. It's just a quick thing. Just, just a few moments. Just look at me. And my children are the same way. I don't want your half attention. Right? We don't want your half attention. We want your attention. We want your attention.

[00:12:40] Just for a few moments. We want your, just a few moments. Calm, grounded connection. I don't want you to feel upset or, or annoyed. But I, I want to have this conversation with you. People feel deeply loved through presence. It's through presence. That's why my children, I know it.

[00:13:08] That's why they feel so close to me. There was many reasons I didn't have a phone around when they were very, very young. And there's many reasons that we can get into for health reasons. I don't have a phone around me for most of the day. And I know that that's why they feel so connected.

[00:13:38] And, I mean, I'm grateful. I'm so grateful for that. Many families have a basket or a designated place where they put their cell phones just to get it out of sight, out of mind. They have their time in the morning. First thing in our family with my children and I, we pray.

[00:14:07] And then we talk about who we are, who God says we are. And then we talk about gratitude. And then we exercise. We have some body movement. You have to establish the plan of what you're going to do in the morning. You have to be intentional. We're not going to have devices at dinner. That's an absolute no. That would be absolute no.

[00:14:33] You have to be, you have to set the, you have to set the boundaries and you have to stick to it. Because especially for our children, we want them to have a great life, a great future. So these things that may not feel that big, they're actually huge. It's actually huge. And it's, it's so important for their future.

[00:14:59] And there's something incredibly important to understand. Rest and escape are not the same thing. A person can spend hours scrolling, consuming, watching, numbing, and still feel emotionally exhausted afterwards. Maybe even more so.

[00:15:24] Because the nervous system never actually settled. It didn't. The mind never actually became still. The heart never actually slowed down long enough to breathe. And sometimes what people call relaxing is actually overstimulation in a different form.

[00:15:51] True rest rest restores you. True stillness reconnects you. And true peace strengthens you internally. And the scary part is, many people have forgotten what that even feels like. I want to take a moment just to share something with you.

[00:16:19] Scripture reminds us in the book of Psalms, chapter 46, verse 10, Be still and know that I am God. And I think there's something deeply powerful about that. Because stillness, it's, you don't want to look at it as weakness or falling behind.

[00:16:45] Don't think of it as unproductivity, being unprodu, come on, unproductive. Don't think of it as being unproductive. I would say stillness is wisdom, a wise thing to turn to, to be with yourself, to be with your thoughts, to be with your prayers.

[00:17:12] Wouldn't you say stillness is where clarity returns? Where peace can return? Where gratitude can return? Right? Stop looking at the distraction that makes you feel all the comparison. Remember, remember just the breath alone. People are praying for that. Be grateful.

[00:17:37] You could sit with those thoughts of gratitude and realize how lucky you are. It's where healing begins. And often it's in the quiet moments that we finally hear what our spirit has been trying to say underneath all the noise. Where we can hear the answer to our prayers. It's in the quiet moments.

[00:18:05] It's like the enemy wants you distracted constantly so you avoid praying. So you avoid listening to answered prayers. It feels that way. It looks that way. It looks that way. It really does look that way. But he plants all these distractions. So we can't be connected to the things that truly matter, to the answers of our prayers.

[00:18:37] Some of the clearest moments in my life have not happened in chaos, okay? Guess when they happened? They happened. They happened in stillness, in prayer, in slowing down long enough to actually hear what was happening inside my own heart. When I was fighting for my life, I fell off everything, gratefully. Off social media.

[00:19:06] I didn't even know where my phone was half the time. I was busy enjoying my life with my beautiful, brand new newborn and my little baby. I had two little babies. Nothing else mattered. Nothing else mattered. And I gave myself fully to God. Fully.

[00:19:36] Trusting in his, his healing power, his, his love. His love. Just, it was such a peaceful time. Right? Boundaries were in place. There was people that were in our lives that were no longer, no longer in our lives. No longer in our lives. It was beautiful. It was beautiful. Beautiful.

[00:20:05] Because I could tell the difference from the before to the after. It didn't matter. I remember people saying, oh, why are you not active here? Why are you not? I'm busy. I'm busy. Okay. I'm busy. I listened to my prayers. I said, let go of everything. Everything. I needed to fully heal.

[00:20:30] When everybody was telling, when the words were, you won't, I was busy believing that I would because I know that God had a bigger plan. Okay. I had to just dedicate everything to being in stillness and enjoying. I was so happy. I was so happy.

[00:21:00] I was so happy. And the only way I could do that was to be in the stillness, to be fully in the prayer, not rushing through the prayer and thinking about the next thing that needed to be done. Being in the moment and staying there and being in the stillness. And I know it cost a lot. I know because everybody reminded me, you're letting everything go. Gosh.

[00:21:28] Oh, you need to do this deal. You need to do that. You need to show up here. You need to red carpet, this photo shoot, this magazine covered this. No, thank you. I'm in my stillness. And it wasn't scary. It was scary when I made the decision, but when I was in this, in it and committed, I wasn't scared. I saw things were slipping. I saw it.

[00:21:59] And the truth is people are falling off that didn't believe belong in my life anymore. Things were falling off that didn't belong in my life anymore. Prayers were being answered. Not just the healing prayers, but prayers that I didn't, or blessings and, and things that were occurring in my life that I didn't even know I needed.

[00:22:25] And I think many people are carrying emotional weight right now. That would begin softening if they simply gave themselves permission to, to be in the stillness, to breathe again, to really, really feel the breath. Take the moment, right? Take the moment.

[00:22:52] I like to use words that, that give you a visual. To breathe again. To think clearly. To think clearly. To think clearly. To reconnect. To reconnect. To reconnect with God again. That's, it's making me emotional because I know so many of you need that. Because life is the, I'm telling you, the purpose of the, the enemy is to pull you away from God.

[00:23:22] And it's through destruction. So, think about reconnecting with God again. To reconnect with your little family, your children. Take it all in. With your spouse. Reconnect with your little family. Okay? Lock the doors. Close the windows. Make sure the roof is on tight.

[00:23:50] Connect with your spouse and your babies. And to reconnect with yourself again. Reconnect with yourself again. You hear people saying, I remember looking in the mirror and I looked one way. And then I looked in the mirror again. And I looked different.

[00:24:19] I had gray hair. I don't even want to say I. They had gray hair. They were black hair. They looked in the mirror. They weren't that young person that had a beautiful life in front of them. Their beautiful family, young and beautiful. They looked in the mirror. And they don't even know where, where the time went.

[00:24:50] because they were distracted. The enemy wants that. Clarity doesn't grow in constant noise. Neither does the blessings and neither does the prayers that need to be answered, the prayers that are for you, the prayers that you have, the blessings that are for you. Don't miss them because you were distracted.

[00:25:20] Here's a shift to think about. Look at it this way. Stillness is not about withdrawing from life. Although I really feel like I personally withdrew from everything, but that's what the answer to my prayer, that was the direction I needed to go in. So perhaps for you, it's different,

[00:25:49] but it's certainly about becoming intentional inside of your life. It's creating moments where your nervous system is no longer, where it no longer has to remain in a constant survival mode. moments where your family feels calm instead of rushed. Moments where your mind is no longer endlessly consuming.

[00:26:19] Because there's a lot of people that get caught in that. Creating moments where your soul finally has room to settle again. Peace won't appear accidentally. That's not how it's going to happen. You must cultivate it intentionally. You must make it happen. Make it happen. I mentioned this before. I mentioned this before.

[00:26:48] And sometimes it looks like putting down the phone during dinner. I know you have to check the email real quick, but don't, don't. Make a game. Don't let your family catch you doing that. Put the phone down at dinner. Everybody else isn't on it. You shouldn't be on it either. And allowing your family to feel your full attention again.

[00:27:15] Sometimes it takes quiet walks without noise. You don't want that constant noise, feeling the space, going for walks. And I know you can't do it alone. Take the whole family. Sometimes it's creating, how do I say this? How do I say this? Creating calmer bedtime routines

[00:27:42] so that home feels emotionally safer and slower at the end of the day. Have a time where everything shuts down. The TVs go. We don't have televisions in our house. I know, it's weird, isn't it? We don't have it. Many people in our community don't have it. Weird or not, we don't have televisions. There's a lot of things that we put thought into during the time I was talking about.

[00:28:12] Got rid of a lot of things to make it quieter, to make time more intentional. Closing the windows, closing the doors, making sure the roof is on tight. Sometimes it's learning to pause and pray before emotionally reacting inside difficult moments. We talk about this a lot. Catch yourself. Say a little prayer. God, help me through this one.

[00:28:43] You know what I've been doing lately? My husband, he gets, my children cry. They don't like cussing. It's scary. They hate it. So my husband has a bad habit. What do I say? Do you know what I say? God bless you. God bless you. Gets madder. God bless you. God bless you.

[00:29:11] See the little eyes peering around the corner? Because it used to get me so sad. It would hurt my heart so much too. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you. That's what I say. You could steal my trick. He's got to learn to really pause and pray. Pause and pray. And if it doesn't work, I said it. I rebuke you.

[00:29:41] I rebuke you. I rebuke you, Satan. We are covered in the blood of Jesus Christ. But these are the things my children say. They're going to laugh about it one day, telling some stranger across it. This is what my mom would do. She would say, God bless you. I rebuke you, Satan. Oh, gosh.

[00:30:04] How about sometimes it's simply sitting in silence for a few minutes before the day begins? Have you given yourself that? You know what's even better than silence? Sitting in prayer. Sitting in prayer with your babies. Babies. They're not going to learn it in school. Okay? They're not going to learn it in church the way that it's going to be if you include them in the prayer.

[00:30:31] I had the baby when I had the fight. Okay? So every prayer that went up to heaven, I had babies, two babies on my chest. Both of them nursing at once. Right? I had the babies. That's where they learn. Instead of immediately reacting to stimulation, take the moments.

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[00:32:23] Click the link below down in the bio and get your Shilajit today. When the nervous system experience intentional stillness, something begins shifting internally. Your stress softens. Clarity improves. Patience grows. Patience grows. Emotional reactions become less intense.

[00:32:53] Connections, connections deepen. And people begin responding to life differently. Telling you, you have to be really intentional. You have to be really intentional about your plan of what you're going to do to make these things happen. People begin responding differently to life.

[00:33:19] Because they're no longer functioning from constant internal overload. You do not need to constantly fill every quiet moment. Don't worry about that. You don't need to. It feels like you do, especially when you've had noise around you for a long time.

[00:33:46] The distraction, the distracting kind of noise. Sometimes this stillness is the very thing your heart needs. Your marriage, your family, and your spirit needs the most. It's a space to breathe again. That's the visual. That's the feeling. Take a deep breath. Right now with me. One, two, three. Breathe in.

[00:34:19] And hold it. Hold it. And breathe out. You only have time for one. That's fine. Do it again. Breathe in. And hold it at the end. Hold it as long as you can. And breathe out. And hold that.

[00:34:48] Let's breathe in one more time. And hold it. Hold it. And breathe out. You want to do it again? You can. I'm making you do this with me because you probably haven't done this in a really long time. And I bet that felt really good because it felt amazing for me. Okay? Okay?

[00:35:19] Grab your journals. Grab your pen. Oh, look at my voice. That felt good. Tell me. You can't tell me that it didn't. Okay? Tell me that it didn't feel good. You're telling lies to me. Stop telling lies to me. Be honest, my friend. Okay. Grab the journal. Grab the pens. Don't judge yourself. Just let it spill out on the page.

[00:35:46] What kind of noise have I been constantly surrounding myself with lately? What's the noise look like for you? Do I truly feel rested? As new moms, we don't. But do I truly feel rested or simply distracted? The moments that we should be resting and getting the rejuvenation?

[00:36:15] Or are we simply distracting ourselves and wearing ourselves thin? Be honest. When was the last time I experienced real stillness? Many, many of us out there haven't. This is a great thing to realize.

[00:36:39] What would it look like to create more intentional peace inside my home? What would it look like? I'm telling you. I had to do this. I had to do this with everything. Because that's what my... That's what I was... That's what I was told to do in order to heal. In order to fully enjoy the moments that could have...

[00:37:08] It could have been a mess. It could have been an ugly mess. But it was blessed and it was beautiful. And I'm so grateful for it. What is my heart trying to say underneath all the noise? What is my heart trying to say underneath all the noise? And let me... Let me... I just want to reel it back and I want to tell you that yes, I did all those things and it was very beautiful.

[00:37:38] I'm not going to say that it wasn't hard. There was very many times that it was hard. I'm telling you. The pain. The pain. There was a lot of pain. I couldn't... I couldn't... I forgot about it for a minute, but I couldn't pick up the babies. I couldn't pick up the babies. Because I wasn't supposed to.

[00:38:07] After the type of surgery that I had, I wasn't allowed to hold my newborn baby. Dang it. When I think about it now, I cry for myself then. Because I'm visualizing the woman that wanted so desperately to pick up her babies and hold them. But she wasn't allowed because of her body, because of the surgery, because of the scars,

[00:38:34] because of the way that they had to put back her body together to save my life so that I could fight. But I was so flippin' happy. Gosh. Gosh. I'm crying because it's painful to see that. But I had to pray for the blessings and the beauty and the things that I was able to do. Dang. Whew.

[00:39:04] I didn't think that would hit me. I didn't even think I would think of that. To be honest, I kind of forgot about that. Because you're thinking of the blessings and the beautiful moments. Right? Right now, I'm starting to lift. My spirit is lifting because I'm thinking of the... I got to hold my baby's hands. I got to still touch their face. I got to touch them.

[00:39:30] My husband would put the babies down so that they could nurse. I still got to nurse. Yeah. We made it work. Tons of padding. Padding. Soft. Fluffy. So I didn't get hurt. We made it happen. And I'm grateful for that. But you could get lost and you can spiral. Right? So you have to cut out all the noise. You have to cut out all the noise. I didn't even...

[00:39:59] I didn't even answer calls. I didn't even answer, Oh, what happened? How... I didn't even... No. I'm not talking about... It was too traumatic. I don't want to talk about it. I just want to enjoy... I just want to enjoy my time with my family. Let's seal it in prayer. Okay? Let's seal it in prayer. Because God is good. And I'm telling you, the most powerful thing you have is prayer. That's the most powerful thing.

[00:40:30] You have a God that loves you. You have a God that has blessings for you. And sometimes it takes time. Okay? And sometimes you do have to sit in silence. You do have to sit in stillness while you're waiting. Because sometimes there's a waiting period. Sometimes there's a healing period. People ask me, why do you lift your children up now? Why are you always dancing with them and lifting them up? I don't have to tell them.

[00:41:00] But I know why. I know why. Making up for the last time that I couldn't do it. And how grateful I am now. I could pick them up. I know my mom would... My mother would always be like, don't... I don't want you to hurt yourself. I said, I cannot help it. Okay? I'm strong. God made me strong. I'm strong. Let's seal it in prayer. Okay? Let's get back to it. Heavenly Father, help us slow down enough

[00:41:28] to hear you clearly again. Calm the noise inside our minds and our hearts. Teach us how to create homes filled with peace instead of constant pressure. Help us become more present with the people we love. Oh, please, God. Help us become more present with the people we love. Give us wisdom to recognize when our nervous system,

[00:41:58] our emotions, our spirit needs rest. And remind us that stillness is not wasted time. It's precious blessings. When it brings us closer to you, our families, and the life that truly matters, the true blessing, our true purpose. It is not wasted time. It is the greatest gift.

[00:42:26] Please help us realize that. Thank you. Thank you for helping us realize that. In Jesus' name, amen. If you've been feeling emotionally overwhelmed lately, constantly stimulated, mentally exhausted, or disconnected from peace, maybe this is your reminder today

[00:42:54] that you don't have to keep living at that pace. Sometimes the strongest thing a person can do is slow down long enough to become present again. And I suggest that you take the time to do that. A noisy life can distract you from what matters most,

[00:43:22] but stillness has a way of bringing you back to it. Let the stillness bring you back to it. If this episode encouraged you, share it with someone who may need a little more peace in their life right now. And if you've been enjoying these conversations, leave a kind review and five golden stars, as Daniel and Destiny say,

[00:43:49] because this helps more families find this community. And don't forget to listen together as a family to the Entrepreneur Kids Legacy Show with Daniel and Destiny. It is screen-free learning for future leaders like your children. And if you want to help produce a show, you can do so at buymeacoffee.com

[00:44:18] backslash entrepreneurkids. Daniel and Destiny are so grateful. They are spending their own money that they make to produce these shows. So when you guys help out, they're so grateful. They're helping the next generation of strong, faith-filled leaders through screen-free conversations about courage, family, leadership, and legacy. They talk about history. There's so much there.

[00:44:46] And in a time where distractions consume, are trying to attack and consume our children, it's nice to just have something inspirational, something with nice values to listen to. Right? To have that kind of content playing in the background. Something beautiful

[00:45:15] that helps our children become future leaders, that helps them connect with their faith. So it's just something more beautiful. I know so many of the moms in our community are just, they're just fed up. Not just the moms, the parents, the parents, okay? They're just fed up. They're so fed up with what people are putting on YouTube for our precious blessings

[00:45:41] to get indoctrinated with. It's truly, it's disgusting. So we have to be so intentional about what we have playing in the background or what we have our children watch. So this is content created by children for children. And I hope you enjoy it. It's their gift to you. It's completely free. And we love you. And that is their gift.

[00:46:13] May your home become a place where peace is deeply felt. May you feel it deeply. A place where connection is protected intentionally. You need to be so intentional. And may it be a place where stillness creates room for what matters most. You can make it happen. And I know if you are intentional,

[00:46:43] it will happen for you. God bless you. Glory to God always. We love you and we will see you soon. This is Becoming Unshakeable from the Entrepreneur Parent Podcast. And I'm your host, your friend, Ildiko. And we'll talk soon. Thank you, beautiful friends, for listening to this important message from Mama.

[00:47:12] There is someone you love and care about. Oh, and we'd love to personally invite you to listen to our podcast. It's for young future leaders ready to change the world and be a light in the dark. Listen together as a family. It's called the Entrepreneur Kids Legacy Show. We know you'll love it.

[00:47:42] Unforgettable family legacy. God bless you. And parents, if no one told you yet, let us be the fox. You're doing a remarkable job. And remember, you are the hero of your story. Because every legacy begins with a hero. And that hero is you. This podcast is for inspirational

[00:48:10] and educational purposes only. And it is not intended to replace professional advice, legal advice, diagnosis, or treatment. The views expressed are based on personal experience and faith-based insight and are meant to encourage reflection and growth. Always seek the guidance of qualified professionals regarding any questions or concerns you may have about your health, relationships, or business.