Why can you work hard, pray hard, and still feel like you're falling behind?

What if you're measuring your financial life with the wrong scorecard?

In Part 2 of her Breaking Up with Broke teaching series, Dr. Chonta Haynes explores how cultural pressure can distort our relationship with money. From the pressure to look successful to the belief that wanting financial increase somehow conflicts with loving God, women can find themselves caught between chasing appearances and feeling guilty about prosperity.

Using 1 Samuel 8, Romans 12, Matthew 6:33, and the parable of the talents, Dr. Haynes contrasts the world's pursuit of status with the Kingdom's call to stewardship, contentment, generosity, wise investment, and legacy.

She also shares the WORLDLY and KINGDOM frameworks from her financial teaching and introduces a practical Steward's Audit to help listeners examine their spending, assignments, and influences.

This episode challenges you to ask a deeper question: Are you managing money according to your God-given assignment, or are you spending to satisfy someone else's expectations?

1. What am I funding to be seen? Name it and consider pausing it for 30 days.

2. What has God assigned me to multiply? Identify one gift, business goal, giving commitment, or savings target.

3. Who is discipling my desires? Mute one voice that makes you feel behind and add one voice that teaches stewardship.

Your breakup declaration: “I break up with ___to look blessed. I choose ___ to be trusted.”

Faithful over flashy. Stewardship over status. Legacy over appearances.

00:00 Working Hard, Praying Hard, Still Falling Behind
00:48 How Culture Shapes Your Money Beliefs
02:17 The Pressure to Look Wealthy
03:33 The WORLDLY Money Mindset
05:07 The KINGDOM Stewardship Framework
06:30 Contentment, Alignment, and Matthew 6:33
07:35 The Three-Question Steward's Audit
08:45 Breaking Up With Cultural Money Pressure

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Watch the FULL 67-min 57 christian personal development workshop for Queenpreneurs navigating divorce, grief, or career transition.

Compilation of the 4-part CROWNED Through Transition series + playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLR6BtwqClvpNlcA3nEIH8DnnO_WtnCWe4

Sis, come here. You think transition means you're behind? No, not ever. See, for years, you've been treating the symptoms. Today is your invitation to heal the source.

Now, from my books Divinely Connected: Sister 2 Sister and Praying Through Life’s Struggles — REFRAME your story, REINVENT yourself, REIMAGINE your future in one sitting.

In this workshop:

Part 1: Christian Personal Development: Renew Your Mind When Life Falls Apart https://youtu.be/2_wSItVJwDQ

Part 2: Christian Personal Development: Why You Can't Heal Alone - Iron Sharpens Iron for Queenpreneurs https://youtu.be/TB2Wu2ehbYc

Part 3: Christian Discipline: How to Become a Balanced Woman Without Burning Out - Self Care God's Way https://youtu.be/P2UxiiUVC7I

Part 4: Personal Development: God Wastes Nothing - Your Crown Story Is Still Being Written https://youtu.be/vMyApOdwSIo

What you'll get:

00:00 Welcome — transition isn't punishment

16:29 REFRAME your story

30:58 REINVENT yourself

47:28 REIMAGINE your future + walking crowned

Comment your action step below, Queen. Let this be the beginning of a fresh start — and join us in the CROWNed by Design Collective community (https://chontahaynes.com/collective)

and get your Sister 2 Sister and Praying Through Life's Struggles devotionals from Divinely Connected series (https://chontahaynes.com/devotionals).

I'm Dr. Chonta Haynes, your Destiny Designer, helping you put feet to your faith so that you can walk victoriously.

Catch the replays:

Finance masterclass here https://youtu.be/qRVr3iC6fY0

Professional workshop here https://youtu.be/qRVr3iC6fY0 #christianpersonaldevelopment #crowned #queenpreneur

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What if your financial struggle isn't really a money problem?

What if it is a money mindset you learned before you ever earned money?

In this episode, Dr. Chonta Haynes exposes the family money scripts that can quietly shape how we spend, save, give, receive, and steward money. From “we can't afford it” to “we don't talk about money,” these messages can become internal rules long after we've left our childhood homes.

Dr. Chonta introduces three common money scripts:

Scarcity: “There's never enough.”
Survival: “Just pay the bill and pray.”
Shame: “We don't talk about money.”

She then takes us into the story of the widow's oil in 2 Kings 4 and challenges us to recognize what we already have instead of continually focusing on what we lack.

The transformation begins when we stop asking, “Can I afford it?” and start asking:

“How would a good steward handle this?”

This is not about pretending to have money you don't have. It is about replacing inherited money beliefs with kingdom thinking, forgiveness, stewardship, intentionality, and faith.

And before you leave this episode, Dr. Chonta gives you a decree:

“I break up with broke thinking. I am not my family's lack. I am God's steward.”

00:00 — You Learned Money Before You Earned Money
01:28 — Three Family Money Scripts
03:09 — Your Net Worth and Self-Worth
05:02 — What Do You Already Have?
05:44 — Secular Money vs. Kingdom Stewardship
07:03 — Rewriting Your Family Money Story
09:07 — Breaking Up With Broke Thinking
10:36 — Next Week: The Culture Trap

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Watch the FULL 26-min 66 christian business coaching workshop for coaches, speakers and authors ready to price with stewardship, not shame. Compilation of the 4-part Christian Entrepreneur series + playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLR6BtwqClvpM7xyoKcq1Zmy0GDbh8orwg

Queen, let me deal with it today. You think you're charging too much, but actually you're discounting your calling. That's right. Pricing isn't math — it's stewardship.

In this premiere I stitched together:

Part 1:Christian Entrepreneur: Who Did God Create You to Be?: https://youtu.be/Cqog7p07eUE

Part 2: Christian Entrepreneur: Who Are You Called to Influence?: https://youtu.be/1Mas5glIppI

Part 3: Christian Entrepreneur: Build the Business Systems God Called You to Steward: https://youtu.be/Za_qTDKBkYA

Part 4: Christian Entrepreneur Money Mindset: Do You Value What God Gave You?: https://youtu.be/wemcY8XWjfA

Part 5: Leadership Skills Every Christian Woman Needs to Sustain Her Crown : https://youtu.be/cm1Y-dM4Wao

You'll walk away with: kingdom pricing, systems that serve, and influence without burnout.

Comment your action step, Sis — what will you stop discounting this week?

I'm Dr. Chonta Haynes, your Destiny Designer, helping you put feet to your faith so that you can walk victoriously.

Replay the Finance masterclass here: https://youtu.be/Zv0493XzT_M

#christianbusiness #kingdombusiness #queenpreneur

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What if the season you called wasted was actually the season God was using to crown you?

Divorce. Grief. Career changes. Disappointment. Financial shifts. Seasons when you aren't sure who you are anymore.

In the finale of CROWNed Through Transition, Dr. Chonta Haynes takes you through her proprietary CROWN Framework and shows how difficult seasons can become preparation for what's next.

CROWN represents:

Character. Reign. Order. Worth. Navigation.

Through Scripture, personal experience, and the lessons she learned through her own transition, Dr. Chonta explores how God can use what felt like loss to develop the woman capable of carrying the next assignment.

Because transition doesn't have to disqualify you.

It can develop you.

And what you called wasted, God may have been weaving.

• Why Romans 8:28 doesn't mean everything that happens is good
• How God can use transition to develop character
• What it means to reign while you're still in the storm
• Why order becomes protection during transition
• How hardship can challenge and ultimately clarify your sense of worth
• Why navigation means taking the next faithful step instead of demanding the entire roadmap
• How Dr. Chonta's divorce, burnout, financial rebuilding, and relocation shaped the work she does today
• Why your story may become the very thing that helps another woman heal

00:00 — What If Your Season Wasn't Wasted?
03:07 — Character: Preparation Through Transition
04:50 — Reign: You Were Made to Reign Through It
06:33 — Order: Protecting the Crown
08:55 — Worth: More Is Left Than What Left You
12:56 — Navigation: Taking the Next Faithful Step
16:28 — What You Called Wasted, God Called Woven

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Watch the FULL 100-min biblical finance workshop for Queenpreneurs ready to break up with broke — banking, budgets that work, and legacy in one sitting.

This is the compilation of the 4-part series + playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKjrWWOcGh58

Come here Queenpreneurs — you don't have a money problem. You've tried it all, haven't you? See, budgets don't fix this. Your income follows your identity.

Now, from my books Financial Wisdom for Financial Freedom and Destined to Prosper, I combined:

Part 1: https://youtu.be/gCQjxmxMVmQ

Part 2: https://youtu.be/dbk2peAEz6k

Part 3: https://youtu.be/IwUxRKbwyvE

Part 4: https://youtu.be/TsLHdgtPijE

What you'll get in this masterclass:

00:00 Welcome Queenpreneurs — why math isn't the root

34XX:07XX Banking breakthrough — stop letting your bank steal

54XX:03 AI + biblical personalities budget that actually works

1:18:25 Legacy + stewardship — build net worth from self-worth

Comment your action step below, Sis. What will you fix first — the account, the budget, or the belief?

I'm Dr. Chonta Haynes. I'm your Destiny Designer and also known as your Biblical Money Management Expert. I'm here to help you put feet to your faith so that you can walk victoriously.

Next premiere: Christian Business Full Workshop — Sun 10/4 8pm ET. Hit Notify. #biblicalfinance #kingdommoney #christianentrepreneur

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You don't have a time problem. You may have a tempo problem.

In this episode of CROWNed Through Transition, Dr. Chonta Haynes challenges the idea that Christian discipline means doing more, pushing harder, and sacrificing yourself for your assignment.

Instead, she explores what it means to practice self-care God's way through stewardship, rhythm, rest, and disciplined choices.

Drawing from Scripture, personal experience, and her book Praying Through Life's Struggles, Dr. Haynes reveals four moves for becoming a balanced woman without hustle, guilt, or burnout.

You'll discover why your body is part of your assignment, why rest is not a reward, why small rhythms matter more than complicated routines, and how one faithful choice repeated consistently can begin to reinvent your life.

Her message is simple:

You cannot reimagine your future if what you're carrying is burned out.

• Why discipline is stewardship rather than punishment
• How to steward your body as the vessel for your vision
• Why rhythm matters more than perfection
• How to build a simple 15-minute morning rhythm
• Why rest is a requirement, not a reward
• How to make one faithful choice at a time
• What burnout revealed to Dr. Haynes during her own transition
• How prayer can become the wall that supports discipline when willpower fails

00:00 — Your Problem May Be Tempo, Not Time
02:42 — Steward the Temple
05:10 — Establish Your Rhythm
08:28 — Welcome Rest
11:07 — Anchor Discipline
12:29 — Dr. Chonta's Crown Story
14:49 — Your Tempo Challenge

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What if you don't have a strength problem?

What if you have a solo problem?

In this episode of CROWNed Through Transition, Dr. Chonta Haynes explores why God designed us to heal in community—and why isolation can keep us stuck during some of life's most difficult transitions.

Whether you're navigating divorce, grief, career change, rebuilding, or simply a season where you've gone quiet, this episode offers a biblical framework for finding the right people, becoming vulnerable again, and allowing healthy community to sharpen rather than simply affirm you.

Dr. Chonta introduces her I.R.O.N. framework: Identify, Reveal, Offer, Never Heal Alone.

She also shares a deeply personal part of her own crown story, including how sisters carried her through a season when she was leading on the outside while struggling internally.

The message is ultimately one of hope:

You don't have to wait until you're healed to show up. Show up to be healed.

• Why isolation can keep you stuck
• How to identify the people who truly sharpen you
• Why vulnerability is essential to healing
• How to contribute to community even when you're the one in need
• Why healthy sisterhood is reciprocal
• How God can use community during transition
• What Dr. Chonta learned from her own season of loss and rebuilding
• How to begin building your own divinely connected circle

00:00 — You Don't Have a Strength Problem
Why healing was never designed to be a solo project.

01:04 — When You Go Quiet in Transition
Why divorce, grief, career shifts, and rebuilding can cause us to withdraw.

01:59 — I: Identify Who Sharpens You
Not everyone needs access to you in transition. Learn to recognize your “iron.”

04:58 — R: Reveal, Don't Conceal
Why healing requires honesty and trusted relationships.

07:44 — O: Offer Strength
You still have something to give—even when you're the one who needs support.

10:44 — N: Never Heal Alone
Why commitment to healthy community matters during transformation.

11:02 — Dr. Chonta's Crown Story
The sisters who helped carry her when she thought her crown had fallen.

12:53 — Your Action Steps
Identify your iron and reveal one honest thing to her.

13:48 — What's Next
The journey continues with learning how to become a balanced woman without burning out.

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