{"podcast":{"title":"Blessed + Bossed Up","slug":"blessed-bossed-up-7083","podcast_index_feed_id":7083,"rss_url":"https://feeds.redcircle.com/a6ac3d3a-cf55-4644-a77c-6e891ff71fc0","website_url":"https://redcircle.com/shows/blessed-bossed-up7264","image_url":"https://media.redcircle.com/images/2022/11/30/23/4e66045f-7db5-4da2-8545-c76e169e16c1_0a932136-02d0-4733-9b29-5a5bc474a868_38796870.jpg","author":"Anchored Media Network","episode_count":582,"summary":"The BBU Podcast is a weekly podcast that teaches purposeful women how to be uncompromising in their faith, business, and total life success with God as the CEO. Get ready to be empowered, emboldened, and receive divine strategy to fulfill God’s plan for your life and business. Your host + sister in Christ and success, Tatum Temia Ayomike, is an award-winning entrepreneur, executive producer, author and devoted Christian who has committed her life to help women bridge the gap between faith and business. Her impact as the CEO of Anchored Media includes a global reach of millions of listeners across 75+ produced podcast shows in just 2 years. Through her personal brand, Tatum has cultivated a community of businesswomen who give God full authority to use their business as a vessel for the Kingdom. Using the word of God as her platform, Tatum's prayer journal and published books offer instrumental guidance to ‘boss up’ in any entrepreneurial venture. Tatum has been featured in several magazines and publications and has been named as a Top 30 under 30 in the Washington, DC area.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-15T12:20:14.241255+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/blessed-bossed-up-7083"},"episode":{"title":"Trust vs. Avoidance: How Christians Confuse Spiritual Bypassing with Faith","slug":"trust-vs-avoidance-how-christians-confuse-spiritual-bypassing-with-faith","published_at":"2026-07-03T11:40:34+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/blessed-bossed-up-7083/trust-vs-avoidance-how-christians-confuse-spiritual-bypassing-with-faith","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/blessed-bossed-up-7083","url":"http://www.blessedandbossedup.com","audio_url":"https://audio4.redcircle.com/episodes/9fd8e1cc-233c-4649-857e-46e523691843/stream.mp3","summary":"Wrapping up the Ruthless Elimination of Hurry book club, Tatum shifts into a candid, personal conversation about the difference between genuine trust in God and avoidance dressed up as spirituality. Drawing from psychology, Scripture, and her own experience praying through her grandmother's stage-four cancer diagnosis, she unpacks how Christians — especially high-achieving entrepreneurs — often mistake \"rushing to joy\" for faith when it's really a defense mechanism keeping them from real intimacy with God. What's Covered A book club update : The group has finished The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry and is moving toward a business-focused pick next, with Great CEOs Are Lazy under consideration as a way to explore building a business from sustainability rather than hustle culture. The spiritualizing of avoidance : Why avoidance is one of the most socially acceptable defense mechanisms in Christian culture, often hiding behind phrases like \"God's got me\" or \"I'm not sad, the joy of the Lord is my strength.\" A personal story : How Tatum navigated her grandmother's 90-day cancer prognosis, the shift in her prayers from demanding a specific outcome to surrendering the outcome entirely, and what that taught her about the difference between avoidance and trust. The psychology of avoidance : A look at \"experiential avoidance\" — the attempt to escape or numb uncomfortable emotions — and the research linking it to anxiety, depression, and other forms of psychological distress. Avoidance in entrepreneurship : How uncertainty, a core ingredient of faith, gets treated as a threat — leading business owners to quietly override God's specific instructions with their own \"safer,\" more marketable plans. Root causes of avoidance : Fear, shame, the desire for control, and unprocessed pain,…","meta_description":"Wrapping up the Ruthless Elimination of Hurry book club, Tatum shifts into a candid, personal conversation about the difference between genuine trust in G…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2582,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/blessed-bossed-up-7083/episodes/trust-vs-avoidance-how-christians-confuse-spiritual-bypassing-with-faith/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/blessed-bossed-up-7083/trust-vs-avoidance-how-christians-confuse-spiritual-bypassing-with-faith.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}