REDEEM Her Time | Christian Time Management, Business Productivity, Time Management Daily Planner, Time Management Coaching

Lissa Figgins
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What if the problem isn't that you need more time—but that you've been taught to think about time the wrong way? Welcome to REDEEM Her Time, the podcast for Christian women who are ready to stop striving, escape the pressure of always feeling behind, and discover a more biblical way to live, lead, and steward the time God has entrusted to them. Your theology of time shapes the way you steward your life. That's why every episode explores both the sacred and strategic sides of Time Stewardship. Because time is sacred, and stewardship is strategic. When we understand God's design for time, we stop trying to simply manage our calendars and begin faithfully stewarding every season He has entrusted to us. Whether you're building a business, leading your family, navigating midlife, serving in ministry, or discerning what's next, you'll find biblical encouragement, practical wisdom, and simple rhythms to help you live with greater peace, presence, purpose, and lasting impact. Hi, I'm Lissa, founder of REDEEM Her Time. For years, I believed the answer was better time management—better planners, better systems, and better productivity. I taught Christian women practical strategies to organize their schedules, manage competing priorities, and create more balance. But despite doing all the "right" things, I still found myself feeling rushed, distracted, and wondering why all my effort wasn't producing the fruit I longed for. God gently showed me that my greatest challenge wasn't my calendar. It was my understanding of time itself. That revelation transformed not only how I plan my days, but how I live my life. Now, instead of simply teaching Christian time management, I help women discover a biblical theology of time that transforms the way they steward every area of life, leadership, business, and calling. Each week we'll explore how to steward your time with both biblical wisdom and practical strategy so you can faithfully live out your calling without striving to do it all. Together we'll discover how to: • Build a biblical theology of time that changes the way you see every day. • Discern what it's time for in your current season. • Create sacred rhythms and strategic practices that align your calendar with your calling. • Faithfully steward your life, leadership, business, relationships, and resources with greater peace, presence, and purpose. • Bear lasting fruit by living in step with God's priorities instead of the world's pressure. If you've been searching for Christian time management, biblical productivity, time stewardship, business productivity, Christian business coaching, or practical ways to align your faith with your calendar, you'll discover a different approach here. Instead of simply managing your time, you'll learn how to faithfully steward the sacred gift of time through the lens of Scripture. You don't need more hours in your day. You need a redeemed perspective on the time you've already been given. Whether you've been listening for years or this is your very first episode, my prayer is the same—that you'll stop striving to manage every minute and instead embrace Sacred + Strategic Time Stewardship, experiencing greater peace, purpose, presence, and lasting fruit as you faithfully live the life God has entrusted to you. I'm so glad you're here. Let's redeem our time...together. NEXT STEP Continue the conversation on Substack, where you'll receive weekly podcast episodes, in-depth articles, biblical encouragement, and practical tools to help you faithfully steward your time, leadership, and calling. redeemhertime.com/substack lissafiggins.substack.com

  1. 2d ago

    446 | When It Looks Like Nothing Is Happening, Something Deeper May Be Growing, ft Emily Johnson

    You’ve prayed. You’ve done what you know to do. You’ve tried to be faithful. But the answer still hasn’t come.The person hasn’t changed.The door hasn’t opened. When you’re used to making things happen, waiting can feel a lot like nothing is happening. But what if you’re measuring growth by the wrong thing? In this conversation, I’m joined by licensed professional counselor + Plant + Water founder Emily Johnson to talk about what happens beneath the surface when we find ourselves in a season we can’t fix, control or hurry through. We talk about what waiting can reveal in us, why roots are growth too, and the difference between faithfully tending what God has entrusted to us + trying to produce an outcome that was never ours to control. And we come back to one question I think is worth carrying into whatever you’re waiting on: What is mine to tend...and what is God’s to grow? Because what if the evidence that God is working isn’t always that your circumstances are changing? What if sometimes the evidence is that YOU are changing? YOUR NEXT STEP If you’re trying to discern what deserves your time in the season you’re actually in—not the one you wish you were in or the one you’re trying to hurry into—grab the free REDEEM Her Time Starter Kit. In about 15 minutes, you’ll identify what matters most right now + begin giving those priorities a place in your real life. Get the free Starter Kit:redeemhertime.com/start CONNECT WITH EMILY Emily is hosting free Relationship Roundtables through Plant + Water, focused on relationships + the places we can find ourselves waiting for something or someone to change. Join a Relationship Roundtable:plantandwater.me/relationshiproundtables Time is sacred. Stewardship is strategic. Get full access to REDEEM Her Time® at lissafiggins.substack.com/subscribe

  2. Sep 27

    445 | Your Week Doesn't Need to Be Ideal to Be Faithful

    You planned the week. You blocked the time. Made room for what matters. Maybe even left yourself a little margin. Then Tuesday happened. The meeting ran long. Someone needed you. You had less energy than expected. Something took twice as long as you planned. And suddenly you're wondering: Why can't I ever seem to follow the week I planned? But what if following the plan perfectly was never the goal? I used to teach women to build an Ideal Week. But as my understanding of biblical time stewardship deepened, I realized I wasn't actually trying to help women create an ideal week. I wanted to help them build a faithful one. In this episode, we're talking about: Why an Ideal Week can quietly become another standard you feel like you're failing What God's faithfulness has to do with the way we steward our weeks Why a Faithful Week isn't a week you execute perfectly The difference between planning for an ideal life and stewarding the life God has actually entrusted to you Three shifts that change the way you build your week: Priorities Before Plans, Anchors Before Time Blocks + Margin Before More How to return instead of restart when real life changes the plan Because you don't need a week that only works when everything goes according to plan. You need a rhythm you can faithfully return to. BUILD YOUR FAITHFUL WEEK WITH ME In just two days, I'm hosting the Faithful Week Live Build Experience, and I want you there. Bring your calendar + the life you're actually living, and I'll walk you through building a flexible weekly rhythm around what God has entrusted to you in this season. Save your spot here:redeemhertime.com/week Your week doesn't have to go perfectly to be lived faithfully. Time is sacred. Stewardship is strategic. Get full access to REDEEM Her Time® at lissafiggins.substack.com/subscribe

  3. Sep 20

    444 | What If God Asks You to Surrender Something That’s Working? ft Rachel Ngom

    What if God asked you to walk away from something that was working? Not because you failed. Not because the business wasn’t profitable. Not because you couldn’t handle it. But because what had been yours to faithfully steward in one season…wasn’t necessarily yours to keep carrying into the next. That’s part of Rachel Ngom’s story. By the world’s standards, Rachel had built the dream: a seven-figure business, systems that worked + a schedule that required only about twenty hours a week. Then God began asking her to lay it down. And what followed challenged a question I think many ambitious, high-capacity Christian women need to wrestle with: What happens when success is no longer enough to tell us whether something still deserves our yes? Because something can be working. It can be profitable.It can be making an impact.It can even be something God previously asked us to build. And it can still be time to ask: Lord, is this still what You’ve entrusted to me in this season? In this conversation... Rachel + I talk about what happened when she stopped letting success determine whether she was on the right path—including why she now defines success as obedience, what three years of surrender changed in her + why “assumption is not obedience.” We also get into the difference between working from rest + working from toil, what healthy ambition looks like when God is leading, and why something can be good + godly without necessarily being yours for this season. And one of my favorite parts of our conversation: what if God is just as interested—or even more interested—in what He’s producing in you as what He’s producing through you? And I especially love where our conversation goes around ambition. Because I don’t believe the answer is that Christian women should stop wanting to build, grow, lead or accomplish meaningful things. You don’t have to become less ambitious to become a faithful steward. But faithful stewardship does require holding that ambition with open hands. It means being willing to ask God not only: What do You want me to build? But also: Is this still mine?Is this still for now?What are You asking me to release?Who are You forming me to become as I steward what You’ve placed in my hands? Because “I can keep doing this” isn’t the same question as “God is asking me to keep doing this.” Capability isn’t calling. Success isn’t necessarily confirmation. And sometimes faithfulness looks like building, growing + going all in.Sometimes it looks like releasing something that is still working. The question is what faithfulness requires in this season. Listen to my conversation with Rachel, then take this question with you: Lord, is this still what You’ve entrusted to me? Because success isn’t ultimately ours to control. We can faithfully steward the yes. God gets to hold the outcome. Grab Rachel’s Kingdom Profit Plan If Rachel’s approach to building a profitable business without hustle resonated with you, she has a free resource to help you put it into practice. Her Kingdom Profit Plan is a free 12-page guide + printable planner where she shares the first two rules she used to build a seven-figure business working 20 hours a week. No hustle. No New Age. ➡️ Get the Kingdom Profit Plan:rachelngom.com/profit Ready to practice faithful stewardship in your own season? Knowing what God has entrusted to you is one thing. Faithfully giving it your time, focus + attention when real life starts living back is where the practice begins. That’s what we’re doing inside the REDEEM Her Time Stewardship Circle. This isn’t about adding more newsletters to your inbox. It’s a place to go beyond reading about time stewardship + actually practice living it—with deeper resources, trainings, Stewardship Intensives + support throughout the year. And right now, we’re in the middle of 30 Faithful: 30 days of discerning with God your ONE faithful yes, giving it a place in your real life + learning how to RETURN instead of starting over when life changes the plan. If you’re ready to stop asking how to fit everything in + start faithfully stewarding what God has actually entrusted to you, come join us. ➡️ JOIN THE STEWARDSHIP CIRCLE + 30 FAITHFUL: redeemhertime.com/subscribe Get full access to REDEEM Her Time® at lissafiggins.substack.com/subscribe

  4. Sep 13

    443 | What Keeps Getting Your “Not Now”?

    It’s a Thursday afternoon. You open your planner and there it is again—the thing you said you’d do Monday. Monday got full.Tuesday somebody needed something.Wednesday got away from you. Now it’s Thursday, and if we’re honest, you’re already thinking: Maybe next week. It’s not that it doesn’t matter. You keep saying it does. But somehow it keeps getting a: Not now. And sometimes not now is exactly the faithful answer. Because everything can matter without everything being for right now. But what about the thing that keeps getting a not now? That’s a different question. Consider Your Ways High-capacity women can be especially prone to this. You can carry a lot. So you keep the meeting. Respond to the client. Handle the problem. Take care of what someone else is waiting on. Meanwhile, the thing without the deadline quietly moves to tomorrow. Then Friday. Then next week. But here’s the distinction I’ve been thinking about: “I can” is a capacity statement.“Should I?” is a stewardship question. And stewardship doesn’t begin with What matters to me? It begins with God: What has He actually entrusted to me to faithfully steward in this season? There’s a fascinating moment in Haggai 1 where God’s people had been given something very specific to do: rebuild the temple. Yet their refrain had become: “The time has not yet come…” Not never. Not now. And God’s response through Haggai was: “Consider your ways.” There’s important context here. Your business project isn’t the temple. Your workout isn’t the temple. Something being important to you doesn’t make it a command from God. But Haggai raises a question worth considering: Could I be continually saying “not now” to something God has given me to steward, while finding plenty of “now” for other legitimate things? That’s where this week’s conversation goes—and there’s a part later in Haggai 1 that keeps this from becoming another try harder and get your priorities straight message. It’s actually my favorite part. 🎧 CLICK PLAY ABOVE TO LISTEN TO THE FULL EPISODE A God-Led Yes Still Needs a Place Here’s something you can practice before you even listen: Look at one thing you’ve continually been moving forward. Don’t immediately squeeze it into tomorrow. First ask: Is this actually mine to steward in this season? If the answer is no—or not now—release it. But if, through Scripture, prayer and wisdom, you discern that the answer is yes, there’s another question: Where will I give this faithful yes a place? Because good intentions don’t create time. And discernment isn’t meant to end with this matters. A God-led yes still needs a place to live. Not every minute accounted for. Not a rigid schedule you have to serve. A faithful place in the actual time God has entrusted to you. If you’re not sure what’s actually yours... That’s exactly where I’d have you start. The free REDEEM Her Time Starter Kit will help you begin with God, discern what deserves your yes today, and give those priorities a place using the five Time Anchor Zones. You’ll also become a free REDEEM Her Time subscriber, so we can keep practicing this together each week. Ready to Practice Your Faithful Yes? Knowing what is yours is one thing. Living it when real life starts competing for that time is another. That’s exactly what we’re practicing beginning Tuesday, September 15, in 30 Faithful inside Stewardship Circle. Not 30 new things to do. One faithful yes. Discerned with God.Given a place.Practiced in real life. And when the plan changes? You don’t fall behind. You learn to return. 30 Faithful is the only 30-day challenge you can’t fall behind in. And if you’re finding this after September 15, don’t wait for another clean starting line. You’re not behind. Come join us and start right where you are. For today, consider your ways: What keeps getting your “not now”? Bring it before God. Is this actually mine to steward? And if it is: When will I give it a place? Time is sacred. Stewardship is strategic. Get full access to REDEEM Her Time® at lissafiggins.substack.com/subscribe

  5. Sep 6

    442 | One Simple Practice to Stop Starting Over Every Monday

    You made the plan. You knew what mattered. You gave it a place on the calendar. Then… Tuesday happened. Something took longer than expected. Someone needed you. An appointment moved. A problem landed in your inbox. And suddenly, the week you planned isn’t the week you’re living. So you start moving things (of course, cuz that’s what planners do). Tuesday’s unfinished work goes to Wednesday. Wednesday was already full, so something gets pushed to Thursday. The margin disappears. The laptop comes back out after dinner. And by Friday, you’re thinking: I’ll start again Monday. But here’s what I want you to notice: You probably don’t struggle to start. You’re a capable woman. You know how to make the list, block the calendar, set the alarm, buy the planner. The harder part is knowing what to do when you’ve made a good plan... and real life doesn’t follow it. That’s what we’re talking about in this week’s episode—and the shift may change what you do the next time your Tuesday at 10 doesn’t go according to plan. When a good plan becomes something you’re serving Proverbs 16:9 says: “The heart of man plans his way, but the LORD establishes his steps.” Scripture doesn’t tell us not to plan. Planning can absolutely be an act of wise stewardship. But we make Sunday’s plan without knowing what Tuesday will hold. God doesn’t. And somewhere between Sunday and Tuesday, a plan we prayerfully made with God can quietly become something we’re trying to hold together ourselves. That’s led me to a question I haven’t been able to shake: Could my frustration when the plan changes sometimes reveal that I was trusting the plan more than the One I made the plan with? Because maybe faithfulness isn’t measured by how closely Tuesday resembles the plan you made for it on Sunday. And maybe “getting back on track” isn’t actually what God is asking of you. That’s the shift I unpack in this week’s episode. What if you don’t have to “make up” the time? Here’s something else to notice. When an unexpected problem takes the three hours you’d planned to use for something else, what happens next? Often, those three hours become a debt. You work through lunch. Give up your margin. Open the laptop again that night. Borrow from tomorrow. And that’s how one disrupted morning becomes a disrupted week. But what if the interruption isn’t automatically a debt you have to repay with the rest of your time? That’s where stewardship requires something more than rearranging the calendar. It requires discernment. And if you’re thinking, But when everything feels important, how do I know what actually deserves my yes?—that’s exactly why I created the free REDEEM Her Time Starter Kit. It will help you begin discerning what matters today and give it a place to live without trying to control every minute. Build a week that can hold real life Knowing what faithful stewardship looks like is one thing. Practicing it when Tuesday actually happens is another. That’s the deeper work we’re doing inside the Stewardship Circle. As a paid subscriber, you’ll get my Faithful Week Framework to help you discern what matters, give those priorities a place to live, build in margin for what you can’t predict—and create a week you don’t have to start over every Monday. And when the plan does change, you’re not left to figure it out alone. Through Hey Lissa, you can bring me your real-life Tuesday-at-10 moments: Here’s what I planned. Here’s what changed. How do I discern what still deserves my yes? Because sometimes you don’t need another framework. You need support practicing faithful stewardship in the life you’re actually living. The week you planned won’t always be the week you live. That doesn’t mean you have to start over. There’s another way to respond—and it’s the one simple practice I want you to hear in this week’s episode. So if you haven’t listened yet, scroll back up and hit play. Time is sacred. Stewardship is strategic. Get full access to REDEEM Her Time® at lissafiggins.substack.com/subscribe

  6. Aug 30

    441 | The Time You’ve Been Given

    Why Did God Give You THIS Time? A Lord of the Rings quote made me rethink what Scripture actually says about the time you’ve been given. A few weeks ago I was sitting at a concert, waiting for it to start. And instead of doing the easy thing — pulling out my phone to scroll while I waited — I’d brought a book. Apparently I’m now the woman who brings a book to a concert. So there’s that. 😂 It wasn’t The Lord of the Rings. It was Mark Buchanan’s God Walk, the book we’re currently reading inside our Faithful Focus Book Club. And Buchanan referenced the exchange between Frodo and Gandalf that every LOTR fan already knows by heart. Here’s the setup, for those of us who need it (my kids are the real fans in this house — I mostly just know the cliff notes). Frodo has just realized what the Ring means and what it’s about to cost him. A conflict he never asked for has landed in his lap. And he says: “I wish it need not have happened in my time.” Gandalf answers: “So do I, and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” I read that line twice. The time that is given us. And I couldn’t stop wondering: given by whom and for what? Gandalf’s answer is beautiful. It’s also as far as Gandalf can take you. Because Scripture tells us something he never could. We know the Giver. Maybe You’ve Wished for a Different Time Too You’ve probably never said Frodo’s exact line out loud. But I’d bet you’ve said a version of it. Why does raising kids have to be so complicated in this generation? Why does building a business have to be this noisy right now? Why is my capacity so different than it used to be? Or maybe just: I wish I had more time. But notice what Gandalf isn’t doing. He isn’t handing Frodo a productivity tip. He’s not saying you’ve got 24 hours, make ‘em count. He’s talking about the time in history Frodo has found himself living in — a time he didn’t choose and can’t undo. That question sent me back into Acts 17. Then Esther. Then Psalm 31. And eventually right back to Ephesians 5 — which changed the question I’ve been asking about my own time. 🎙️ In this week’s episode, I walk through that whole thread — and why it changes the way we answer what is it time for? So hit play above and let’s take 15 min to walk through this together. Your Time Isn’t Accidental Paul is standing in Athens, talking to people who have no idea who the God he’s proclaiming even is. So he starts at the beginning. This God made the world and everything in it. He’s Lord of heaven and earth. He gives life and breath to everyone who has it. And then, in Acts 17:26, Paul says something easy to read past: God determined the appointed times and the exact boundaries of where people would live. Not just that you would live. When you would live. That doesn’t mean God causes every hard thing you’re carrying. It means your life isn’t unfolding outside His sovereignty. Your time isn’t an accident. I dig into what that actually means for the specific season you’re in right now in the episode. What If This Time Has Purpose? That’s what took me to Esther, sitting in the palace while her people are about to be wiped out by Haman’s plan. Mordecai tells her: “And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?” Frodo asks: why did this have to happen in my time? Esther is asked: what if this is exactly the time you’ve been placed in? Your “such a time as this” almost certainly won’t look like hers. It might look a lot more ordinary than that, and that’s exactly what I walk through in the episode. Everything can matter without everything being for right now. So What Is It Time For? Once you actually believe God entrusted you with this particular time, the question underneath your calendar changes. It stops being how do I fit everything in and starts being what has God entrusted to me in this season. If you’re realizing you don’t need another system to help you squeeze more into your day, start here. The free REDEEM Her Time Starter Kit will help you step back from everything competing for your time, name what God has actually entrusted to you in this season, and give it a place in the time you’ve been given. Grab it at now. Appointed. Purposeful. Stewarded. Three words to carry with you: Appointed (Acts 17). Purposeful (Esther). Stewarded — that last one comes from Ephesians 5, and it’s the piece I haven’t told you about yet. It’s the one that turns all of this from a nice thought into something you actually practice. Underneath all three sits the same reminder David gives us in Psalm 31: my times are in Your hand. Not in my planner. Not under my control. In His hand. A Question to Take With You Go back to Frodo’s line and finish it yourself: “I wish __________ didn’t have to happen in my time.” Something unresolved. Something you never expected to be carrying. A door you thought would’ve opened by now. Name it. God already knows what it is. Then open your hands — actually, physically, if you need to — and ask: Lord, if this is the time You’ve entrusted to me, what does faithfulness look like here? Not how do I get through this faster. Not how do I control the outcome. Just: what is it time for? Learning to Live the Question, Not Just Answer It Once And there’s a part of this I didn’t expect. Answering what is it time for once can bring real clarity. But your season is going to change. Your capacity is going to change. What was faithful last year may not be what faithfulness looks like this year. Which means this isn’t a question you answer once. It’s one you practice asking, with the Author of Time, over and over. That’s exactly why I built The Stewardship Circle. Twelve months of practicing a different way of living your time, starting with the Faithful Week Framework and continuing month by month through our Faithful Living Workshops and a community of women asking the same questions you are. You don’t need another year of trying harder to manage your time. You need time to practice living it differently. We Know the Giver Frodo says he wishes it hadn’t happened in his time. I understand that. There are pieces of the time I’ve been given that I wouldn’t have chosen either. You could probably say the same about yours. Gandalf was right about one thing: we don’t get to pick the time we’re given. But we know something he couldn’t. We know the Giver. The One who appointed our time, who holds it in His hands, who works His purposes within it, and who invites us to walk wisely through it with Him. So instead of wishing for a different time, or trying to squeeze more out of the one you have, what if you just asked Him: Lord, what is it time for? Time is sacred. Stewardship is strategic. Get full access to REDEEM Her Time® at lissafiggins.substack.com/subscribe

  7. Aug 23

    440 | When Success Isn't Enough: Healthy Ambition, Midlife + a More Faithful Rhythm, ft Claire Davis

    Midlife…Maybe you’ve noticed it too. You still care deeply about your calling. You still want to make an impact. You still have ideas, responsibilities and people you love. But the pace you once kept doesn’t fit quite the same anymore. Your energy has changed. Your capacity may have changed. Your roles are changing. And somewhere in the middle of it all, you may be asking, “What is this season for?” We’ve been talking a lot around here about a theology of time, how what we believe about God and time shapes what we do with our days. Today’s conversation with Claire Davis of The Midlife Mentors adds another layer: The God who created time also created you. Your body isn’t an inconvenience to your calling. Your limitations aren’t something you have to outsmart. And a change in season doesn’t necessarily mean you’re becoming less useful. It may be an invitation to become more discerning about what you’re carrying into the next one. Ready to Start Redeeming Your Time? If this conversation has you realizing it’s time for a different rhythm, you don’t need another productivity system. You need a place to start. I’ve put together the free REDEEM Her Time Starter Kit to help you begin asking the question that changes everything: “Lord, what is it time for?” Inside, you’ll get the foundational tools to start giving what matters a home in your actual week, while leaving room for your capacity, your season, and real life. When you grab the Starter Kit, you’ll also join me here on REDEEM Her Time, where we’ll keep looking to the Author of Time for what it means to faithfully steward what He’s entrusted to us. What If Midlife Isn’t a Decline? Claire knows something about reaching the point where striving stops working. After years of putting so much of her identity and meaning into her career, work and brand, she experienced burnout and eventually found herself at the end of herself. And that’s where God met her. What followed reshaped how she understood who she was and what her life was for. That’s especially significant in midlife because so much is already changing. Children may be leaving home. Parents may need more care. Hormones change. And suddenly the roles that have answered “Who am I?” for decades don’t answer quite as easily anymore. Claire describes midlife as an opportunity to get curious rather than assume we’re in decline. What still matters? What have we been carrying because someone else told us success was supposed to look that way? And what might God be asking us to lay down so we have the capacity to hear what He’s inviting us into next? As Claire put it: “It’s not about adding. It’s about subtracting. It’s about taking things out and living more in our natural rhythms.” That sounds a lot like stewardship to me. Healthy Ambition Requires a Different Rhythm I especially wanted to ask Claire about healthy ambition because the women in this community aren’t looking for permission to stop caring. We want our lives to matter. We want to build, serve, love our families and use what God has entrusted to us well. The real question is what’s driving our ambition, not whether we should have it. Unhealthy ambition can look a lot like stress, striving, and not-enoughness. And we can make our striving sound very spiritual. “I’m doing this for God.” “I’m serving people.” “This opportunity could make such an impact.” All of those things may be true. And we can still outrun our capacity. Claire reminded us that the body we’re living in is also part of what God has entrusted to us. Sleep matters. Movement matters. Creating space to be with God instead of filling every available minute, even with good things, matters. And sometimes the most faithful thing we can do is remove something that no longer belongs, not squeeze another healthy habit into an already-full schedule. Faithful stewardship means discerning what God has entrusted to us and letting that determine our yeses, not doing less simply for the sake of doing less. So What Is It Time for Now? Toward the end of our conversation, Claire offered a simple place to begin. Take 10 minutes a day. Grab a journal. And get curious with God. Who does God say I am? What used to bring me joy? What might He be calling me toward now? You don’t need to figure out the entire second half of your life in one sitting. You simply need enough space to begin listening. Because maybe this season isn’t asking you to become more efficient at carrying everything you’ve always carried. Maybe it’s asking you to discern what belongs now. So before you move on to the next thing, sit with this week’s stewardship question: “What am I still carrying because it fit a previous season, but may not belong in the one God has me in now?” Don’t rush to fix it. Get curious. Bring it before God. And then ask the question we’ve been practicing together: “Lord, what is it time for?” I’d love to hear what comes up for you in the comments. Ready to Let That Answer Shape Your Actual Week? Recognizing that your season has changed is one thing. Letting it change the way you live Monday through Sunday is another. Inside the Stewardship Circle, you’ll start with the Faithful Week Framework™ to discern what God has entrusted to you in this season, decide what deserves your yes, and give those priorities a realistic home in your week, with room for your actual capacity and real life. Because great information can help us see differently. But transformation comes as we begin living differently. And change takes time. Pun fully intended. About Claire Davis Claire Davis is an award-winning coach, speaker, host of a top 1.5% global podcast and co-founder of The Midlife Mentors, helping midlife men and women thrive with clarity, confidence and purpose. With more than two decades of experience in health, wellbeing and resilience, Claire blends science-based strategies with real-world insights to help people navigate the psychological and physiological complexities of midlife. She’s a certified health and business coach, personal trainer, NLP practitioner, stress-management consultant, menopause specialist and nutrition advisor. Take Claire’s Free Midlife Reset Audit Claire also created a free Midlife Reset Audit to help you discover what may be holding you back from living your healthiest, happiest midlife, and where you may want to focus next without adding more pressure or burning yourself out. → Take Claire’s Free Midlife Reset Audit Get full access to REDEEM Her Time® at lissafiggins.substack.com/subscribe

  8. Aug 16

    439 | A Productive Day Isn't Always a Faithful One

    You got a lot done yesterday. Answered the emails. Finished the project. Made dinner. Returned the call. Maybe even got the workout in. You crawled into bed thinking, That was a pretty productive day, if I do say so myself. But was it faithful? Because those aren’t necessarily the same thing. You can have an incredibly productive day AND yet completely miss what God entrusted to you in it. And you can have a day that looks terribly unproductive on paper—a conversation that took longer than expected, an interruption you didn’t plan for, a needed hour of rest—and be incredibly faithful. That’s the conversation we’re having this week on the REDEEM Her Time Podcast. Because I think we’ve gotten stewardship a little wrong. Sometimes we take all the productivity advice we’ve learned, add a Bible verse, pray over our planner...and call it Christian time stewardship. But stewardship has a completely different starting point: Productivity starts with my agenda. Stewardship starts with His assignment. In this episode, we’re talking about: * Why stewardship isn’t simply Christian productivity * What Matthew 25 reveals about the difference between an owner and a steward * Why what you believe about the Owner changes what you do with what He’s entrusted to you * Why your week doesn’t have to go perfectly to be lived faithfully * A simple Receive → Recognize → Respond rhythm to help you steward an ordinary Tuesday If this conversation is helping you rethink your relationship with time, I’d love to keep going with you. Subscribe to REDEEM Her Time and I’ll send you the free REDEEM Her Time Starter Kit to help you begin laying out your day around the question: What is it time for? A Better Question for Your Day Instead of ending today asking: How much did I get done? Try asking: Where was I faithful with what God entrusted to me? That’s the measure we’re after. Not perfection. Faithfulness. And if you’re thinking, I don’t just want to understand this. I want to actually live this way, that’s exactly why I created the Stewardship Circle. Because change takes time. (Pun fully intended.) Inside the Circle, we’re practicing faithful stewardship together week after week and season after season—with biblical guidance, practical rhythms, and support for living this out when real life changes the plan. I’d especially invite you to join us as an annual member, because becoming a faithful steward isn’t something we accomplish in a month. It’s something God forms in us over time. Time is sacred. Stewardship is strategic. Get full access to REDEEM Her Time® at lissafiggins.substack.com/subscribe

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What if the problem isn't that you need more time—but that you've been taught to think about time the wrong way? Welcome to REDEEM Her Time, the podcast for Christian women who are ready to stop striving, escape the pressure of always feeling behind, and discover a more biblical way to live, lead, and steward the time God has entrusted to them. Your theology of time shapes the way you steward your life. That's why every episode explores both the sacred and strategic sides of Time Stewardship. Because time is sacred, and stewardship is strategic. When we understand God's design for time, we stop trying to simply manage our calendars and begin faithfully stewarding every season He has entrusted to us. Whether you're building a business, leading your family, navigating midlife, serving in ministry, or discerning what's next, you'll find biblical encouragement, practical wisdom, and simple rhythms to help you live with greater peace, presence, purpose, and lasting impact. Hi, I'm Lissa, founder of REDEEM Her Time. For years, I believed the answer was better time management—better planners, better systems, and better productivity. I taught Christian women practical strategies to organize their schedules, manage competing priorities, and create more balance. But despite doing all the "right" things, I still found myself feeling rushed, distracted, and wondering why all my effort wasn't producing the fruit I longed for. God gently showed me that my greatest challenge wasn't my calendar. It was my understanding of time itself. That revelation transformed not only how I plan my days, but how I live my life. Now, instead of simply teaching Christian time management, I help women discover a biblical theology of time that transforms the way they steward every area of life, leadership, business, and calling. Each week we'll explore how to steward your time with both biblical wisdom and practical strategy so you can faithfully live out your calling without striving to do it all. Together we'll discover how to: • Build a biblical theology of time that changes the way you see every day. • Discern what it's time for in your current season. • Create sacred rhythms and strategic practices that align your calendar with your calling. • Faithfully steward your life, leadership, business, relationships, and resources with greater peace, presence, and purpose. • Bear lasting fruit by living in step with God's priorities instead of the world's pressure. If you've been searching for Christian time management, biblical productivity, time stewardship, business productivity, Christian business coaching, or practical ways to align your faith with your calendar, you'll discover a different approach here. Instead of simply managing your time, you'll learn how to faithfully steward the sacred gift of time through the lens of Scripture. You don't need more hours in your day. You need a redeemed perspective on the time you've already been given. Whether you've been listening for years or this is your very first episode, my prayer is the same—that you'll stop striving to manage every minute and instead embrace Sacred + Strategic Time Stewardship, experiencing greater peace, purpose, presence, and lasting fruit as you faithfully live the life God has entrusted to you. I'm so glad you're here. Let's redeem our time...together. NEXT STEP Continue the conversation on Substack, where you'll receive weekly podcast episodes, in-depth articles, biblical encouragement, and practical tools to help you faithfully steward your time, leadership, and calling. redeemhertime.com/substack lissafiggins.substack.com

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