The Vibrant Living Podcast Prophetic teachings and Spirit-led conversations that challenge small thinking, awaken identity, and activate the calling Heaven already declared over your life. Hosted by Donna Tashjian, Destiny Activator and founder of Vibrant Living International. Bold, faith-rooted teachings and conversations with guests who live and lead from divine alignment. For faith-driven leaders and hidden leaders who sense there is more, refuse to build from pressure, and are ready to lead from peace, clarity, and spiritual authority.
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June 16, 2026Episode 21927 min
Episode 219-When Obedience Unlocks Authority with Alethea Felton
Alethea Felton shares on this episode of the Vibrant Living Podcast about obedience, uncertainty, leadership, and what happens when God asks you to move before you fully understand where He is taking you. Alethea talks about fear, transition, trust, mentorship, and learning that authority does not come from having everything figured out. It grows through obedience, often long before confidence shows up. This is an honest conversation for anyone who has ever felt stretched between what feels safe and what they sense God calling them toward. This conversation was originally recorded during FORTIFIED: Women Rising in Authority, Ease, and Joy.In this episode, we talk about:Obedience and spiritual authorityFear, uncertainty, and trustLeadership and growthMentorship and supportMoving before you feel fully readyLearning to discern God's direction🎁 Alethea's gift: Identity & Authority Reset for Women Leaders.You can access Alethea's full FORTIFIED session, her free gift, and all speaker resources inside the Vibrant Living Skool community. Join us right here
June 14, 2026Episode 21712 min
Episode 218 - Identity vs Performance: Why Doing Everything Right Still Feels Heavy
What if the exhaustion you feel is not from doing too much, but from trying to prove something that has already been settled?In this episode, I uncover the real reason so many faith-filled leaders feel pressure even when they are doing all the right things. It is not a discipline issue. It is not a time issue. It is not even a conviction issue. It is an identity issue. I walk through the foundation of Kingdom Spiritual Intelligence and show how identity shapes everything: your decisions, your peace, your leadership, and your ability to hear God clearly.In this episode, you will discover: why performance-based identity leads to emotional highs and lows, how success and failure distort your sense of self, the difference between KPI thinking and KSI living, the messenger vs manager distinction and why it matters, why identity in God is received before anything is achieved, and how to shift from striving to abiding.Are you living from the identity God gave you, or performing the identity the world assigned you?Ready to find out where you are sourcing from?Take the 2-minute self-check right here. Stay close. One final message is coming in this series, followed by something new opening in July for those ready to remove the noise and live with conviction, peace, and direction.
June 10, 2026Episode 21725 min
Episode 217-Abuse, Healing, and Learning to Live Again with Amanda Hietter
Amanda Hietter shares on this episode of the Vibrant Living Podcast about surviving, abuse, surrender, and what happens when you realize you have spent years carrying life in survival mode. Not thriving. Not truly living. Just surviving. Amanda speaks honestly about fear, control, healing, and learning to trust God again in places where life had taught her to brace for impact. There is something steady and grounding about this conversation. No pretending. Just authentic truth. Just a woman who has been there and is finding her way back. This conversation was originally recorded during FORTIFIED: Women Rising in Authority, Ease, and Joy.In this episode, we talk about:Survival mode and emotional exhaustionAbuse and healingFear, surrender, and trustLearning to receive supportLiving differently instead of just copingWhat real freedom begins to look like🎁 Amanda's gift: Tips to Travel Like a Pro. You can access Amanda's full FORTIFIED session, her gift, and all speaker resources inside the Vibrant Living Skool community.
June 7, 2026Episode 21623 min
Episode 216- Burnout, Healing, and the Power of Praise with Laurie Cavanaugh
There’s a difference between knowing about God and learning how to stay connected to Him in the middle of real life. In this conversation from FORTIFIED: Women Rising in Authority, Ease, and Joy, Laurie Cavanaugh shares her journey through burnout, breast cancer, striving, healing, and rediscovering a personal relationship with God through the practice of praise. What makes Laurie’s story powerful is not perfection. It’s honesty. She talks about the slow drift so many women experience while carrying responsibility, performing, pushing through, and quietly losing connection to themselves and to God. And she shares how praise became more than worship for her. It became healing. Alignment. Activation. A way of living.In this episode, we talk about:✨ The difference between performing and truly connecting with God✨ Burnout, striving, and emotional exhaustion✨ How praise shifts your internal atmosphere✨ Healing after difficult seasons✨ Why support and accountability matter✨ Learning to receive help before everything falls apartLaurie’s message from FORTIFIED is called: The Power of Praise to Heal, Transform, and Activate🎁 Laurie’s gift: Faith-Based Daily Gratitude JournalYou can access Laurie’s full FORTIFIED session, her gift, and all speaker resources inside the Vibrant Living Skool community.
June 1, 2026Episode 21519 min
Episode 215-The Quiet Chaos Behind the Facade: ADHD, Shame, and Leading with Grace with Jennifer McFarland
In this episode of the Vibrant Living Podcast, I welcome Jennifer McFarland, ADHD advocate, TFT Tapping practitioner, and founder of Monarch Dawn.Jennifer works with women who discover their ADHD diagnosis in adulthood, after years of shame, relentless anxiety, and the exhausting work of holding it all together on the outside while everything feels chaotic within.This conversation names what so many women have carried but never had language for. Jennifer explains why ADHD in women is so frequently missed, how it shows up as internalized anxiety rather than visible behavior, and why the shame around it runs so deep. She shares what it looks like to stop fighting the way your brain is wired and begin working with it instead, from a posture of grace rather than pressure.I close with a word that lands: relief is information. If this conversation made you breathe, do not rush past that. Awareness is the beginning of wisdom. And wisdom is where change begins.Resources MentionedDr. Russell Barkley YouTube channel — long-term ADHD expert and researcher Up-to-date, fact-based information on ADHDHow to ADHD by Jessica McCabe YouTube channel — practical tips, compassionate education, and the why behind the struggleMeet JenniferJennifer McFarland is an author, speaker, ADHD advocate, and TFT Tapping practitioner. She is the founder of Monarch Dawn, where she helps people heal from the past and create a practical plan for success in the future. Her framework, Custom Made Change, is built around learning to rule your day not by willpower but by understanding how your mind and nervous system were actually designed to function.Trained in TFT Tapping under internationally acclaimed Kevin Laye, Jennifer brings over 12 years of experience helping people release lingering pain and step into sustainable, lasting change.Website: www.monarchdawn.comLinkedIn: Jennifer McFarland (Monarch Dawn)Email: monarchdawn.jen@gmail.comLearn More About DonnaDonna Tashjian is a Destiny Activator, ordained minister, and creator of the Kingdom Spiritual Intelligence Method™, helping purpose-driven individuals move from confusion and fatigue into conviction, confidence, and divine alignment.Website: www.ivibrantliving.com
May 30, 2026Episode 21421 min
Episode 214- Urgency Is Not Discernment: How to Make Kingdom Decisions Under Pressure
Most leaders have been there. An opportunity shows up, pressure builds, and everything around you says: move now. In this episode, I name what that feeling actually is and why it matters where it is coming from.Urgency and discernment are not the same thing. KPI culture has conditioned leaders to treat speed as wisdom and decisiveness as strength. But Kingdom Spiritual Intelligence asks a completely different question: not how fast you decide, but where you are sourcing your decision from.This is the third episode in the KSI series. Video 1 explored your source. Video 2 examined your measurement. Now, all of it converges in the most practical question of all: how do you actually make decisions from that place?Resource MentionedReigning or Striving Self-Check: A 10-point self-check for faith-led leaders. Discover whether you are reigning from rest or driven by striving.Take the self-check here Kingdom Spiritual Intelligence (KSI) Series:Video 1: Make Yourself at Home Video 2: You're Not Behind. Heaven Is Already Ahead Video 3: Urgency Is Not Discernment | This episodeConnect With Donna TashjianWebsiteLinkedInYouTube
May 24, 2026Episode 21217 min
Episode 213-Even the Ashes Bloom: A Conversation with Sarah S. Brown on Healing, Identity, and Becoming
There are moments in life that don’t just hurt…They redefine everything. The kind of moments where what you believed about your life, your future, even your identity…suddenly no longer fits. In this episode of the Vibrant Living Podcast, I sit down with Sarah S. Brown for a conversation that moves gently, but deeply, through heartbreak, healing, and the journey of becoming. Sarah shares her personal story of walking through betrayal and the collapse of her first marriage…a season that left her standing in what felt like ashes. But what unfolds from that place is not destruction. It’s transformation.What This Conversation Opens Up:This isn’t about fixing your life.It’s about recognizing what God is forming within it.Together we explore:• What it feels like when your identity is shaken at the core• The difference between striving for God and surrendering to Him• How healing happens in layers, not moments• Seeing God’s presence even in the hardest chapters• Letting go of expectations and trusting what God is rebuilding• The truth that you are not broken… You are becoming A Moment That Stays With YouSarah shares this powerful realization: She expected revisiting her past pain to reopen wounds…But instead, she saw something different. God was there in every moment. Not absent.Not distant.Present.Even in the ashes.About Sarah:Sarah S. Brown is a Christian author and speaker who helps women navigate seasons of deep hurt by anchoring their identity in Christ. Her book Even the Ashes Bloom is a faith-filled invitation into healing, renewal, and rediscovering hope after heartbreak. Website: sarahsbrown.comInstagram: @authorsarahsbrownConnect with Donna:https://www.ivibrantliving.com
May 17, 2026Episode 2129 min
Episode 212-Why You Feel Like You’re Failing (But You’re Measuring the Wrong Thing)
You know that spiral.The launch didn’t land.The numbers weren’t what you hoped.And somewhere in the middle of the questioning comes the sentence that sounds spiritual:“I guess I’ll just trust God’s timing.But if we’re honest…Sometimes that’s genuine surrender. And sometimes it’s resignation with a Bible verse attached.In this episode, we’re talking about the difference. Because what if the problem isn’t you…But how have you been measuring? There’s a different lens available to you. I’m introducing you to Kingdom Spiritual Intelligence (KSI), and how it completely reshapes the way you interpret results, faithfulness, and forward movement in your life and leadership. In this episode, you’ll discover:Why KPI (Key Performance Indicators) only tells part of the storyWhat Kingdom Spiritual Intelligence reveals that KPI never canWhy the unseen always precedes the seenHow to stop spiraling when results don’t show upHow to realign with what Heaven is actually saying about your life Write this somewhere you’ll see it: We win, even when it may not look like it yet. That’s not wishful thinking. That’s not denial. That is Kingdom Spiritual Intelligence operating exactly as it should.🧡 Next StepsReady to go deeper?→ Grab the Kingdom Spiritual Intelligence Starter Kit → Book a personal consultation
May 3, 2026Episode 2116 min
Episode 211-Nothing Like Your Own Pillow-Come Home to His Love
There’s a difference between visiting… and living somewhere.You can be welcomed, comfortable, even at peace for a moment…and still feel that subtle sense that you don’t belong there. And then there’s home. In this episode, I share a quiet but honest question: Where do you actually live with God?Jesus didn’t invite us to visit His love.He invited us to make our home there.Not occasionally.Not when things feel hard.Not just to be filled up so we can go back to carrying everything on our own.To live there. If you’ve been feeling tired, this isn’t a call to try harder. It may be an invitation to stop leaving. No pressure.Just a return.If you feel that pull to go deeper, I am hosting Fortified on May 16.A gathering for those ready to stop visiting and start inhabiting.Find out more information and get your seat right here: https://vibrantliving-fortified.carrd.co/
April 29, 2026Episode 21016 min
Episode 210-Finding Balance After Life’s Wake-Up Calls with Tom McManimon
Life can change in an instant. In this episode of the Vibrant Living Podcast, I welcome brand strategist, speaker, and author Tom McManimon for a deeply personal conversation about resilience, perspective, and the importance of living in balance. After experiencing the ripple effects of the World Trade Center tragedy and later surviving a severe medical crisis that revealed a life-threatening brain aneurysm, Tom began to see life differently. Success alone was no longer enough. He realized that true fulfillment comes from aligning work, creativity, family, and faith in a way that sustains both purpose and peace. We explore how crises can become powerful wake-up calls, inviting us to reassess priorities, create space for inspiration, and lead our lives with greater intention.In this episode, you’ll learn:• Why balance fuels creativity and success• How a crisis can become a catalyst for purpose• The role faith plays in navigating life’s uncertainty• Why stepping away from constant productivity matters• Practical ways to recharge and realign your lifeAbout our GuestTom McManimon is a brand strategist, speaker, and author who helps organizations discover their unique positioning and communicate their story with clarity and impact. With decades of experience in marketing, branding, and leadership, Tom brings a thoughtful perspective on resilience, creativity, and purposeful living.Connect with Tom: Stimulus Brand CommunicationsEmail: tom@stimulusbrand.comConnect with DonnaExplore coaching, workshops, and resources:https://www.ivibrantliving.com
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