Even in the Small Things | Faith, Meditation, and Mindfulness for Black Women

Jewelle T. Brown
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Welcome to Even in the Small Things, where we explore how God’s presence is woven into our everyday lives. Host, Jewelle T. Brown - a faith-led creative and healing practitioner, blends Christ-conscious wisdom with practical tools to help listeners navigate the challenges of a faith-filled life. Whether you're navigating your purpose, parenthood, or just trying to be more present, this podcast reminds you: the Divine is always near—even in the small things. Join us for candid conversations on spirituality, creativity, family, and more as we help each other discover the Divine in daily life.

  1. FEB 10

    Minisode 11: Your Co-Creation Compass - A Guided Visualization to Help You Align with God's Will and Move from a State of Sovereignty

    As a companion to Episode 11, this minisode features a visualization-based meditation—The Co-Creation Compass—to help you align sovereignty and surrender with God’s will, move from trust, and practice real-time partnership with the Divine. You’ll be guided to center yourself in Trust, receive Vision (North), exercise Choice (East), check Alignment (South), and Release outcomes (West)—closing with an integration that restores peace and presence for the rest of your day.

    15 min

  2. FEB 3

    11. From a Season of Surrender to a State of Sovereignty: The Journey to A More Mature Faith Life

    This is it—the season finale, and honey, it's a full-circle moment. Jewelle gets real about how she's been "living a lesson and a test out loud" throughout this entire season, building in front of you while God was building HER up from the inside. In this raw, powerful episode, she unpacks what it means to grow from infant faith to mature faith—from a baby who needs constant direction to a sovereign woman who can govern herself from Christ consciousness and make Spirit-led moves. Drawing from Ephesians 4:11-16 and Genesis 1:26, Jewelle reveals that you are made in God's image, crowned with dominion and creative power—and it's time to stop using "I'm waiting on God" as a cover for fear. Through the Six Values of Divine Reality Co-Creation and The Three Sovereign Questions, she shows you how to step into true partnership with God: claiming your power, making bold decisions, and surrendering outcomes all at once. 🔑 Key Message You are a divine being made in God's image, and the journey from surrender to sovereignty is really about growing up in your faith—learning that God doesn't need you small and frozen, but confident and moving boldly in partnership. ✨ What You’ll Walk Away With A framework for understanding infant faith versus mature faith—and where you might be stuck in spiritual infancy Permission to stop playing small and step into your sovereignty as a divine being with dominion and creative power The Three Sovereign Questions—a practical tool for any decision that helps you claim your power, take aligned action, and surrender outcomes 🧠 By the end of this episode, you’ll see how: Surrender alone keeps you in infant faith—true co-creation with God requires sovereignty (governing from Christ consciousness), agency (using your power), and surrender working together You cannot surrender what you do not first own—mature faith means knowing you're powerful, capable, and able to make decisions, THEN choosing to align with God's will from that place of fullness God wants you smart and sovereign, not small and subservient—you're not a spoiled nepo-baby but a child of the King, raised right and trusted with the assignment 💌 Meant for your reflection: As you listen, consider: "Am I truly surrendered or am I just frozen? Am I trusting God or hiding behind 'waiting on God' because I'm scared to move?" "What would I choose, decide, or create if I fully owned my power as a sovereign being made in God's image?" "Where in my life is God calling me to grow UP—to stop needing constant direction and start governing myself from divine alignment?" Enjoying the show? Connect with Jewelle Follow on Instagram: @jewelletbrown @eveninthesmallthings Listen on Youtube: @jewelletbrown Subscribe to the newsletter: ⁠eveninthesmallthings.substack.com⁠

    48 min

  3. JAN 20

    Minisode 10: Staying in Step with the Vision - A Guided Daily Check-in to Keep You Aligned with God's Plans for You

    As a companion to Episode 10, this minisode features a short, reflective check-in to help you return to the vision you’re holding with God and reconnect with the theme guiding this season of your life. Through gentle stillness, prayerful listening, and guided reflection, you’ll create space to notice what God is inviting you to embody today and how to move in alignment—without pressure, urgency, or overthinking. This practice is an invitation to return, recalibrate, and walk forward in partnership with God, one faithful step at a time.

    12 min

  4. JAN 13

    10. Visioning with God: How to Establish and Embody Your Plan for the New Year

    What if planning your year wasn't about setting goals you hope God will bless, but about asking Him what He wants to birth through you? In this episode, Jewelle introduces Life Visioning—a spiritual discernment practice developed by Rev. Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith that shifts the question from "What do I want to accomplish?" to "What is seeking to emerge through me?" Drawing from scripture, Beckwith's teachings, and Danielle Laporte's Core Desired Feelings framework, Jewelle walks you through how to receive God's vision for you, identify the spiritual qualities you're called to embody, choose a theme that captures this partnership, and build a flexible plan rooted in surrender and inspired action. If you've been setting New Year resolutions that drain you, feel misaligned with who you're becoming, or fizzle out by February, this episode offers an alternative approach to goal-setting - one that honors both God's sovereign plan and your deepest desires, and feels sustainable, spiritually grounded, and deeply aligned. 🔑 Key Message When we receive vision from God first, our plans and actions gain clarity, direction, and purpose. ✨ What You’ll Walk Away With A deeper understanding of Life Visioning as spiritual discernment—how to receive God's vision through stillness, the four foundational questions, and identifying qualities before conditions A new approach to annual planning that honors both God's sovereign plan and your deepest desires, helping you choose a theme word that becomes your north star for the yearPractical tools for surrender and embodiment—how to release attachment to outcomes, take inspired action aligned with your theme, and live the qualities of your vision daily By the end of this episode, you’ll see how: Life Visioning positions you as an instrument of divine intelligence, not the architect demanding approvalQualities (joy, peace, abundance, radiance) come before forms (the job, the house, the number)—and focusing on qualities keeps you flexible, open to God's surprises, and aligned with what's truly bestYour annual theme can become a filter for important decisions, a reminder of who you're becoming, and a daily practice of partnership with God Meant for your reflection: As you listen, consider: "Where have I been planning FOR God (asking Him to bless my agenda) instead of planning WITH God (receiving His vision and aligning with it)?" "What vision is seeking to emerge through me this year? What is God inviting me to become, not just accomplish?" "How do I want to feel as I steward God's vision? What spiritual qualities am I being called to embody daily?" 🎧 Enjoying the show? Connect with Jewelle Follow on Instagram: @jewelletbrown | @eveninthesmallthings Listen on YouTube: @jewelletbrown Subscribe to the newsletter: eveninthesmallthings.substack.com

    43 min

  5. 12/30/2025

    Minisode 9: A Guided Daydreaming Practice for Black Women to Envision Safe, Liberating Futures

    As a companion to Episode 9, this minisode features a guided daydreaming visualization designed to help you rest, connect with God, and imagine a liberated future rooted in safety, freedom, and wholeness. Through breath, ancestral remembrance, and intentional imagination, you’ll be guided into DreamSpace—a sacred pause where productivity and pressure fall away, your nervous system softens, and divine possibility becomes accessible. This practice invites you to honor the women who came before you, reconnect with your intuition, and envision a future shaped by rest, trust, and liberation—one you are already building by choosing presence. If you are driving or doing any activity that requires you to be alert, you can certainly listen along, but please revisit this minisode when you can safely close your eyes and fully partake in the visualization.

    14 min

  6. 12/23/2025

    9. Rest: An Ode to the Ancestors | How Black Women Build Liberated Futures, Break Generational Cycles & Reclaim Their Divinity

    Why is rest so hard for Black women to claim—and what does it cost us when we don’t? In this episode, Jewelle explores the spiritual, ancestral, and energetic necessity of rest for Black women, naming it not as a luxury, but as a practice of resistance, remembrance, and restoration. Drawing from scripture, epigenetics, Afrofuturism, and the teachings of Tricia Hersey (The Nap Ministry) and Cole Arthur Riley (Black Liturgies), this conversation traces how rest was denied, criminalized, and extracted from Black women’s bodies—and why reclaiming it now is essential to our liberation, pleasure, and holistic wellbeing. Through stories of lineage, Sabbath theology, dreamspace, and the life of Jesus Himself, Jewelle invites listeners to see rest as our divine birthright—one that returns us to God, reconnects us to our bodies, and helps us imagine and build liberated futures. This is a call to stop performing, stop proving, and start resting—not just for ourselves, but for those who came before us and the Black women coming after us. 🔑 Key Message Rest is not optional for Black women—it is a sacred practice that honors our ancestors, restores our dignity, and reconnects us to God and our inherent divinity. ✨ What You’ll Walk Away With A deeper understanding of why rest feels so foreign to Black women and how historical, generational, and spiritual forces shaped that reality.Encouragement to release guilt, performance, and urgency, and to see rest as obedience, trust, and divine inheritance.Practical tools for embodying rest as resistance, remembrance, intimacy, dignity, and Sabbath—without needing to earn it. 🧠 By the end of this episode, you’ll see how: Rest disrupts systems of extraction and refuses productivity as the measure of worth.Choosing rest honors ancestors who were denied it and rewrites what we pass down.God uses rest, stillness, and dreamspace to heal, guide, and reveal liberated futures. 🌿 Meant for your reflection: As you listen, consider: When was the last time you rested without guilt or justification? What beliefs about rest did you inherit—and which ones are you ready to release? How might your rest today shape the world Black women inherit tomorrow? 📲Enjoying the show? Connect with Jewelle Follow on Instagram: @jewelletbrown @eveninthesmallthings Listen on Youtube: @jewelletbrown Subscribe to the newsletter: ⁠eveninthesmallthings.substack.com⁠ 🔗 Resources Mentioned Tricia Hersey’s Song “Rest Life” Tricia Hersey’s Dreamscape Playlist

    36 min

  7. 12/16/2025

    Minisode 8. Be Here Now: A Grounding Body-Scan Meditation for Connecting to the Present Moment

    As a companion to Episode 8, this minisode features a body-scan meditation to ground you into the ease, safety, and security of the present moment—especially when you’re feeling angst or anxiety about what the future holds. This meditation helps you connect to your breath, your body, and the sensations around you. A beautiful two-part mantra supports you in accessing the present moment and settling into the presence of God. If you are driving or doing any activity that requires you to be alert, you can certainly listen along, but please revisit this minisode when you can safely close your eyes and fully partake in the meditation.

    16 min

  8. 12/09/2025

    8. Presence as a Pathway to Purpose: How Slowing Down Helps You Fulfill Your Calling

    What if the very pursuit of your purpose is what's keeping you from it? In this episode, Jewelle explores how presence—not pursuit—becomes the pathway to fulfilling your divine design. Through the lens of Pixar's Soul, Jesus's unhurried ministry, and the wisdom of Florence Scovel Shinn, she reveals why 91% of people experience "purpose anxiety" and how practicing presence offers a different way forward. Learn the P.A.U.S.E. Practice—a 2-minute embodiment tool to ground you into the present moment where God's voice, intuition, and discernment become crystal clear. If you've been chasing your purpose instead of inhabiting it, this episode will shift everything. 🔑 Key Message The more present we are, the more our purpose is revealed—because presence creates the conditions for hearing God, accessing intuition, and taking aligned action that moves us into the Divine Design for our lives. ✨ What You’ll Walk Away With A reframe on purpose: It's not something you chase, but something that unfolds through presence Three ways the pursuit of purpose becomes a trap (making it an idol, perfectionism, disconnection from now) Jesus's model for unhurried, interruptible, withdrawal-centered ministry The P.A.U.S.E. Practice—a practical tool to ground into the present moment anytime, anywhere By the end of this episode, you’ll see how: Presence activates spiritual discernment, intuition, and the ability to hear God's still, small voice Your body holds wisdom and intelligence that your analytical mind can't access on its own Living in the present moment isn't passive—it's practicing availability to God and God's plan for your life Meant for your reflection: As you listen, consider: Where have I been chasing my purpose instead of allowing it to unfold? What would change if I believed that being present is more important than being productive? How can I practice the P.A.U.S.E. framework this week when I notice myself future-tripping or striving? Enjoying the show? Connect with Jewelle Follow on Instagram: @jewelletbrown @eveninthesmallthings Listen on Youtube: @jewelletbrown Subscribe to the newsletter: ⁠eveninthesmallthings.substack.com⁠ Please rate and review the show! Your support on Spotify (ratings) and Apple Podcasts (reviews) helps other women discover this sacred space for faith, mindfulness, and becoming.

    45 min
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Welcome to Even in the Small Things, where we explore how God’s presence is woven into our everyday lives. Host, Jewelle T. Brown - a faith-led creative and healing practitioner, blends Christ-conscious wisdom with practical tools to help listeners navigate the challenges of a faith-filled life. Whether you're navigating your purpose, parenthood, or just trying to be more present, this podcast reminds you: the Divine is always near—even in the small things. Join us for candid conversations on spirituality, creativity, family, and more as we help each other discover the Divine in daily life.

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