# You can't keep grinding but you can't afford to broke

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Podcast: [The Shamieka Dean Show ®](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-shamieka-dean-show-7505289)
Published: 2026-07-31T13:37:16+00:00
Episode link: https://shamiekadean.substack.com/p/you-cant-keep-grinding-but-you-cant
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## Resource

There is a way for you to make the transition into rest without risking what you’ve built. You know that God has called you out of hustle. You know that if you keep building the way that you’re building, you won’t have a business left to enjoy or a healthy marriage to inhabit, and your relationships with your children and your friends are going to remain strained. It is time for you to come out of that space, but you need to do it in a way that it does not cost you what you built. You should be able to rest without worrying about losing your business, losing your livelihood. You do not have to choose between the two, but you can’t panic and burn everything down and say, well, God called me away from it. He did. God called you to rest, but he did not call you to rest to be broke doing it. Wherever you are in this, there is a next step You also know you cannot keep grinding. You can’t go back. For those of you who have come out of it and who now know how to rest, you need a system and strategy, an operational strategy so that you can still rest and continue to make revenue. For those who are still in the grind and you’re trying to figure it out, you know that you can’t keep going the way that you’re going, but you don’t know quite how to make the transition without losing anything you built. That is what we’re doing inside of our collective. You do have to upgrade to be a part of the paid community to do that. However, for the teachings, for the trainings, to understand so that you can rebuild by divine design, you want to come into our Rested Wealth Collective , where the trainings and the weekly Stillness and Surrender sessions live. If you want my eyes on your business and what you’re building, so you get the unique individualized feedback and input, that is Rested Wo…

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