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Illuminating Purposeful Living: Coach Tiffany Santana on Faith, Connections, and Confident Transformation
The quest for true success often leaves us entangled in the web of materialism, but what if the real treasure lies deeper within faith and purpose? Our special guest, Coach Tiffany Santana, a beacon of purposeful living and transformational confidence coaching, joins us to unfold the tapestry of living a life anchored in service and love for something greater. Her narratives, interwoven with caring for her centenarian grandmother, serve as an emblem of dedication and offer a fresh perspective on the profound impact of aligning one's life with heartfelt intention.
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Hey, hey, hey everyone, this is Keanna, your creator and your host of Cute for Christ, and I want to say thank you to everyone that has liked, you shared, you commented, whatever you've done. I'm so excited and I'm so happy and I tell you I cannot say thank you enough. Okay, this right here has to be the hardest job that I've ever had to do, and that's to be a vessel for Christ. It's easy at the same time, because God is always with me.
Speaker 1:So, anyways, as you know, we have started the success on purpose interviews and I'm so excited and so thrilled because we are speaking with individuals that are successful on purpose, not by money, not by cars, not by our fame or anything, but they are successful on purpose because they have God's backing. Okay, just like it says in her Becker 2 and 2, we have to write division and make it plain, but we also have to internalize it so we can stay consistent to it, and those people are the ones that are successful on purpose. So, anyways, I'm so excited to have my guest on here because I'm telling you she is such an incredible, incredible coach. Okay, so I have the privilege, the honor, the esteem honor to have on Cue for Christ coach Tiffany Santana. How are you tonight? I'm wonderful, I'm so excited to be here with you again.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much. Again again, oh man.
Speaker 1:If you don't know, she was on one of the panels I had a couple weeks ago and if you haven't seen it, you need to go back and see it. We'll talk about Miss labeling, seasons and I'm telling you, coach Tiffany, she gave us some great advice and if you haven't seen it, go look at it, okay? So, anyways, I'm so excited to have you on here and I am going to just say a quick prayer before we go any further, and then we'll dive right into it, because I want you to have as much time as you need to be able to let everyone know how you've been Cue for Christ. All right, so we're going to go into a quick prayer, all right. Dear Heavenly Father, I come to you. First. I want to say thank you. Thank you for this time that you have carved out. God, I thank you for the love that you have displayed for your children.
Speaker 1:God, god, we thank you now just for being in the midst of everything that we're doing. God, we want you to know that your presence is always, always welcome, and we just want you to sit in the midst of this conversation because we want to be able to touch someone on today. God, god, we want someone to be able to hear our voice, where they can learn how to do what they are called to do, god. We want them to know how they can be able to be successful on purpose, god, and so we thank you now, god, hallelujah. We thank you for what you have done in Coach Tiffany Santana's life, god. We thank you now for her family, god. We thank you now for everything that she is doing.
Speaker 1:God, god, we know that you are going to bless someone through her voice, and so we thank you now, god, for what you're doing. We know that you're able to do exceedingly, abundantly, above all, that we can ask a thing. So we know that you are going to do your real, god. So we thank you now, we love you, god, and we honor you as in Jesus' name, that I pray Amen, amen, hallelujah, I'm telling you I love to pray. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. Right, there is to pray, but anyway, I'm so excited to have you on here. I just want you to just kind of tell everyone who Coach Tiffany Santana is and I call you the coach because I know you got it. So I want everybody to know that she is certified. She is a certified transformation confidence coach and I want her to be able to let everyone know who Tiffany Santana is.
Speaker 2:Thank you. I am Tiffany Santana. I am from Northern Virginia, just outside of Washington DC. I am a transformational confidence for purpose coach and speaker, and I'm also the executive director of Bethany House of Northern Virginia, which is a nonprofit that provides safe shelter and services for women and children escaping domestic violence. I'm a mom of a 17-year-old, I'm a wife, I am a daughter and a granddaughter of 105-year-old grandma Ruth.
Speaker 2:We all live in one house under one roof, four generations with two dogs. I am a servant of people and a lover of Jesus, and I believe that I'm here on this earth to help as many people as I can. However, god wants me to help them, and it's been a variety of different ways, some of them unexpected. Amen.
Speaker 1:Amen. And that's so cool and so amazing how you say your grandmother is 105. I have a grandmother that is turning 102 on Sunday and I'm actually going home because I'm so excited that matter of fact she spoke that into existence. She used to tell us when she was a kid I'm a live to be a honey. I was 100 and I said, wow. So when she turned 100 last year, I mean she's turned 101, I'm sorry she turned 100 last year. I went and I was so thrilled to see that and I'm so excited that you say that that just made, that, just gave me hope. It is a blessing.
Speaker 2:It's such a blessing, it really is such a blessing.
Speaker 1:You know we're from Miss 70.
Speaker 2:So 35, 32 more years beyond your 70 is back in her good years Like grandma, in the good shape. She's enjoying life. She has a better social calendar than I do. It's kind of embarrassing, but I'm a little jealous. I'm a little low key jealous, but when?
Speaker 1:you get 100 and say it's gonna be like that Trust me. She's gonna give you some tips. She probably gave you some tips anyway.
Speaker 1:And it's just right, and, if that's wisdom, I can go and sit with my grandma. It's so peaceful over her house because I can just sit there and be like, just enjoy the presence of the wise. It's just amazing in itself. So that is awesome, okay. So I'm just so thrilled because I just love to see stuff like that. So, but can you just go into a little bit about when you your childhood, like you know, were you when you were a child? Was this one of your dream? To be a coach, a transformation coach? You know, I know a lot of people like with me if you asked me when I was a child what I was going to do, and it was definitely going to be dancing or singing. And yeah, we ain't there yet.
Speaker 1:I used to do it. But you know I was like no, no, I need you to do that. So when you were a child, what, what were you planning on being, and did you ever see yourself being a transformation coach?
Speaker 2:When I was a child I wanted to be an actress and a gymnast and a teacher and a zookeeper. I think Coaching was not on my radar at all. I actually didn't even really discover coaching until maybe a few years ago.
Speaker 1:It completely wasn't radar.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's something that was introduced to that I really loved. That came pretty easily for me. It was a good fit, but it definitely was not anything that was on my radar those years ago.
Speaker 1:Right, Right, I mean you know and that's and that's good because, like you know, years ago we probably don't been coaches our whole life. You know what I'm saying. You probably you know, of course. You say you have a teenager, so you have to be a coach then, and being a coach as a wife, yes, you have to learn how to.
Speaker 1:Yes, you have to learn how to be a coach. You know so and it's so incredible that you can. You can just step into that role kind of easily. So have their um, so that you know, when you were called into it, what. What kind of quickened you to just say you know what, I'm going to do it? Because you know one definition of quickened means to restore a vigor, or, you know, stir up, and I like to give the scripture that I have that go with that word. Quickened is second Timothy, one is six. Therefore, I remind you to stir up the gift, um, stir up the gift of God which is in you through the land on of my hands. So what quickened you to just say you know what, even though I never wanted to do this? What stirred you up to say, okay, I'm going to be a coach, let me, let me go and try this out.
Speaker 2:I love that question. It's it's funny because I, when I was going for my certification, the coaching program and the speaking program were combined and I really joined because I wanted to be a better speaker and coaching was going to be like a bonus. I'll learn a new skill and when I got into it I just learned first of all how valuable it is, just like you were talking about in all of those very practical ways in life coaching. My son, you know, when you have a teenager, you really can't tell teenagers what to do. You're telling them what to do. They're going, you know. You say go right, that's life over there and they go left. But I use them questions to make them think about their choices, to make them think through why something is a good choice or not Totally different ball game. So a coach in helps me with that and my relationship, just like you said, in my marriage.
Speaker 2:Sometimes it's a lot easier to get into conversations by asking those really challenging, thought provoking questions. Why do you feel that way? What makes you feel that way? What do you think the root of that feeling is? What do you think the root of that decision was? You know, let's talk about it. That's a lot easier of a conversation to have them why you always do this and why you always do that, how come you never? So coaching has helped me relationally. So Once I was learning the skill during that certification, I really felt a pull that I was supposed to. Really, this was supposed to be another part of my arsenal in helping people to get to the places that they need to get to and to help me to help people. I've always been a helper.
Speaker 2:Everything I've ever done is that I'm going to do with transformation, and so I was just so excited that God was revealing to me one more skill set that I could use to do his work and to help people, and to help people transform their lives.
Speaker 1:Right, right and, like you say, being a coach, it helps you in all different areas of your life. You know, like PD always tell us, we have to coach ourselves first.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:And learning how to even ask yourself those extensive questions like, okay, is this going to be better for me over here or versus here? And you know, we often always want to have that spirit of discernment, but sometimes it's not there because God wants us to experience, he wants us to be able to be able to make that decision. And so, coaching, I'm telling you, I have even just been in the den and, by the way, y'all we are den mates okay, we are in Danny's den, a mentoring, coaching program, and being in that and being able to apply some of those things have helped me in so many different areas that I didn't even think I needed, you know. And sometimes we think that we know it all because, oh, I'm in this age, I ain't gonna display my age, I ain't that old but I ain't gonna display my age. But I'm in this age, I done been there, done that, got a teacher in Florida, like people say but you still don't know exactly the right way to go, even in whatever, like they say, your big age.
Speaker 2:Yes, big age, I can relate a little bit Right.
Speaker 1:Right. So what are some of the challenges that you have faced since you have decided to do that?
Speaker 2:I think the challenge is always making sure that I continue to grow and, as I'm helping and serving other people, making sure that I implement those same things in my own life. I'm really busy, I always have a lot going on and making sure that I take care of myself, making sure that I continue to educate myself, making sure I spend enough time with the Lord and replenish, making sure that I prioritize because I have to prioritize differently in every season and coaching has really helped me to do those things. Like having those skills really has helped me in my own life, because it is challenging walking out your calling in these different areas of your life, learning how to balance that and prioritize things and weigh things and not get burned out, because the people that you serve and the people that you're responsible for they need you whole and well. So making sure that I don't get overwhelmed, that I don't allow myself to get off-kilter, that I don't allow myself to burn out those are the biggest challenges.
Speaker 2:For me is making sure that I keep things in order, because by nature, I'm a very organized person. Psychologically, I'm not a very organized person in my spaces all the time, and so just making sure that I don't do too much. I can do a lot, and I've had to teach myself that just because you can do everything doesn't mean you need to do everything all at once. And so those are the challenges, because I want to move, I want to keep going, I want to go all in and do everything, but I have to pull back and have discernment and listen to the Lord about what's right for now and how much to do in this season, and what he wants me to do versus what I want to do. Those are the biggest challenges for me.
Speaker 1:Right, exactly Because, like you say, and I can relate to you very, very much because I can do a lot, if I pull out my resume, you'd be like don't you try to do anything? None of it makes sense.
Speaker 2:I've had to explain my resume in detail so many times. Exactly Because these dots don't connect. What are we doing?
Speaker 1:Like girl, you was a vendor. What does that mean? Like, look, let me tell you, hold up, hold up, let me explain. But, like you say, everything is not what we're supposed to be doing at that particular time. And so you have to just kind of unite with someone to keep you on this path, to say you know what Because I know a lot of, I like to give definitions and united means to join together. So you know, and in one of the descriptions in Ephesians 1 and 10, it says, as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth. So we have to make sure that we are united with someone. So in this coaching space, like I say, what you're doing now, who did you unite with? That just kind of say you know what, come, stay this way, come, come, let's walk this way.
Speaker 2:That's so good. So I have to start with the people that God united me with, that I didn't choose, but that he placed me in. So that's my family, my parents, I told you we all live in one house. So it's really awesome. To some people are like, oh my gosh, how do you do that? But it works to have my parents, who are wise and who are deeply connected to their relationship with Jesus and biblically sound they are voracious students of the Bible. So to have two people who really love you, who know you really well and who'll tell you the truth, the right, the unabdulterated truth, right, the wounds of a friend's truth, right, it's just, they are spectacular. My husband is one I chose and he chose me. That union has been one of the most valuable of my life.
Speaker 2:When we met I knew instantly that we would be in each other's lives for a really long time. I did not necessarily know. Well, I did know he doesn't believe me, but I did know that he was going to be my husband when I first met him. But I knew that was my desire. I didn't know if it would be his, but I knew we would be connected. He is such a stabilizing constant force and my life. He is a grounding force. He is a supportive cheerleader. He, he, he cheers everything I do. If he feels like I'm getting overwhelmed or I'm getting ready to take on too much, he will tell me. He will take stuff off my plate. Like okay, I know you want to do 9,000 things and you're doing the most, but like we're not doing all that. So he, he leads well and he leads with love and compassion.
Speaker 2:So he's been fantastic In in the coaching space specifically, I went through Dr Darius Daniels. At the time it was TCP, now it's PCA transformational certification program. It's designed around community like-minded people who are going in the same direction, who understand the same things, and the connections I've made there have been so great as we have navigated how to coach and who to coach and what our niche is and who, who are the people that we're supposed to help. They have been spectacular. Some of us are really super close and so we really work together and bounce ideas off of each other.
Speaker 2:And then I have a lifelong friend who I met when I was 10 years old and I'll tell my age on 47, now be 48 in 2024. We are 18 months apart. She's she's a senior now. She's older, but but, um, she's an amazing person. She's another one who, um, has known me in every season, who is a truth teller, who will completely tell me the honest truth, who also encourages me, who, who, uh, she's great. We spend our birthdays together, so her birthday is in January, so we just got done being away for a week.
Speaker 2:And during those times she just really tells me the truth about what she sees about me and my life, and I do the same for her. And we bounce off ideas and we share goals and you know we cry sometimes on each other's shoulders about whatever's going on. Like I, have been so blessed throughout my life that God has placed people for every season to be supportive and to unite with me and what he wants me to do, and I'm glad that I am open to that.
Speaker 2:I'm blessed that I haven't had some of the traumas. If I have a, I've. I didn't allow them to stop me from still being open to those relationships that are supportive and loving Cause.
Speaker 2:Sometimes when you get hurt, you can put a shield up and put a wall up encourage yourself, and I can't say it was anything spectacular that I knew to do or any. You know I'm not, you know, hyper emotionally intelligent, relationally intelligent, human, but I have always felt like I never wanted traumas to stop me from the next possible good relationship and so I think, being open to that, god has always sent those people to unite with you on your journey, on my journey I just feel really blessed about that.
Speaker 1:Yes, and you know, and the thing about it, he, he always know who to see in in the right moment. You know, those kingdom free hands, those are the ones we really need to keep around us, those ones that are on the same journey as us, because you know, if not, we can get pulled from. You know the right way. You know that is for our purpose.
Speaker 1:You know, and that's the main thing is trying to make sure that we are staying, you know, strategic, being strategic about what we're doing, for what God do, Because we know, as we know, God is a strategic God. He don't do anything that you know is not going to be like lead to what he need to get the glory out of anything. So we have to know that God will put people around us. That you know, that is just awesome. That is awesome right at that moment, and I love how God do that. And, as I was explaining earlier about one of me with me and one of my girlfriends, you know, God, just he was working on both of us at the same time and then, and then brought us back together and it was like like wow, right then I needed that. And I'm telling you, God is just so amazing, so amazing.
Speaker 1:I'm so excited about that and even though, like you said, you know we have, you've united with someone and I know you have had the education, one of the things that we need to is to educate on where we're going. We need to make sure that we are provided with the information that we are trying where we're trying to go. You know the Bible says in Ecclesiastes seven and 12, for the protection of wisdom is the light, the protection of money, you know. So we want to make sure that we are learning how to, to educate ourselves. Did you have to do any more education beyond what you had with TCP, or is it just? You know you've kind of learned as you go. I know we have to stay always uploading, so is there any other education that you have decided to just say? You know what. I'm going to take this because I want to know more.
Speaker 2:Yes, I've always been someone. I've always been a student and I've always been kind of a nerd and I've always been somebody who just my mom I was a cool nerd though I was a cool. Yes, I was. I was a nerdy cheerleader. It worked. I was a nerd.
Speaker 1:I was in a band, I was the band director, I met the drum major, so I was a nerd.
Speaker 2:Yes, and so my mom tells these stories about how I would always have these facts, even as a like three or four year old, and they wouldn't believe me. They're like what is she talking about? And then they find out. They look it up. Back then we had encyclopedias, we didn't have encyclopedias. They would look up Like I'm really telling my age today.
Speaker 1:They don't know nothing about encyclopedias. They don't know about the big encyclopedia? They don't know anything about the big ones with the red on it?
Speaker 2:Yes, yes, the World Book, the.
Speaker 1:Britannica Right Exactly. They don't know nothing about going to the library and having to go to the little computer and find out where it's at Right the card catalog Right, but I've always been a learner and I got quite a bit of formal education.
Speaker 2:I got a master's degree. Studied English was really English and communications, professional writing those are my areas. But once I got beyond TCP, once I did get beyond my teaching certification or my coaching certification, I always continue to learn more because I want to be the best servant I can and I want to help my clients in the best possible way, and I don't think I can do that if I don't continue to fill the well. As my coach, mentor, pastor, says, you always have to be feeling your well and so I'm always learning. But in this season I'm learning that I can get education from anywhere. It doesn't necessarily have to be formal programs. I have learned more from YouTube University in the last year. I am telling you I have found some of the richest teaching from people.
Speaker 2:And I mean some stuff. I just have to sit and my mind's blown and I like I got to get back. I got to sit with that, with a notebook, because exactly some of the things have been so great. So I'm always trying to learn. If, if something comes up in a coaching session, I want to be sure that I deliver, and so I'll research, I'll look things up, I'll see what other people are talking about, I'll talk to other people and get their their perspectives on things. That's good education.
Speaker 2:And so yeah, I'm always going to be learning. I'm always going to be growing. I'm wired for that. I just believe in that. It makes me feel good physically to learn things. It's a strange phenomenon, but if I'm not filling my brain with something, it's not right Now. Sometimes I have to turn it off and I veg and I watch Mindless Reality TV. That's another thing, but you learn from that too. Sometimes you learn what not to do.
Speaker 1:Exactly, exactly, and and the thing about it, I'm listening to you because it's like I can relate with you so well. I mean because I'm always, I don't, I can, I can wise you to. I tell people I feel like you could be a doctor if you wise you to.
Speaker 1:If you, if you sat there and look that, go to YouTube University and you know, people don't understand that. Knowledge is so powerful and, like you said, it comes from different ways. Even by just communicating with someone, just say, about politics I mean politics you don't even have to really know what's really fully going on, but if you've talked to somebody about certain things, you, you get to know what what it is. And one thing that I have is I know that, you know, once I learn more about certain things, then that's when I have a greater understanding. You know about things and you know, I'm, I'm, I'm one of the ones that I need to know so I can understand what's going on. I can tell you a story.
Speaker 1:I used to work in the Mercy Room and we, of course, had to do CPR, but you know, at first I didn't.
Speaker 1:You know, we learn in class, but having to do it on an actual, in actual mode, in that moment, it was difficult, and so we had one, one director that will make us do mock CPR trainings, and it helped me to understand more. You know like, ok, all right, so long as I know my role, know what I got to do, if I got the card of cold. If I have to do this, I have to do that, and so one thing that we have to do is have that understanding of mental grabs, of you know that that is so powerful. You know, and we know that the Bible tells us in Proverbs 16 and 16 how much better to get wisdom than gold. You know to to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver, you know, and so we want to make sure that we understand. So, when you got that understanding about more of coaching, more of the transformation, the confidence coaching, how better was that to help you be able to serve others?
Speaker 2:Well, it made me. It made me analyze ways that I could use it in different arenas. It helped me first to understand myself. I learned a lot about myself through learning about coaching and I was. Coaching will make you unpack layers and it'll make you ask, just like you said when you start asking the tough questions of yourself. Ooh, I feel something. Why am I feeling that? What is the root of me feeling that? Where did I? Where did I pick that up from? Why do I have that limiting belief?
Speaker 1:Where did that?
Speaker 2:start. What was the root? This is this behavior, this feeling, this emotion is a fruit of something. What is the root? Like to think deeply about who I am and why I'm ticking the way that I tick. That's been invaluable and that understanding has been very powerful. But then understanding how I can use this skill in different areas.
Speaker 2:As I mentioned before, I'm an executive director of a nonprofit where women come to us broken and they come to us traumatized and they are so used to people controlling them and being harsh with their words and lying and being deceptive. So being able to come to those spaces and speak to women from a different place and learn how to ask them questions that can help them to unpack some of the things that they've experienced and to really find out what they really want in this season, because often they've been stripped from being able to make decisions on their own or even think about or consider what they want, and so it's just been powerful, like having an understanding of what coaching is and how I can apply it to various areas of my life and apply it to me. It's just been invaluable. It's just changed the game in my life in so many ways.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean I can. Like I said, understanding is, for me, is big, because when you get that understanding, my mom used to always say this you know, and all you get get understanding. And we as kids, you'd be like, okay, I understand, you try to say you understand, but as an adult, you know getting an understanding, especially when God, what God is doing in your life, it changes everything, it changes. You know, for me, getting the understanding which leads to the next thing, which I get excited, because now I understand what I'm getting ready to do, now I'm understanding when I'm stepping into that next role of what God want me to do, now I'm understanding it. And so I get so excited and I want to show it. I'm, I'm wanting to show my excitement.
Speaker 1:I guess you know my children always say you know, you're so extra, okay, well, whatever you know what I'm saying you can call me what you want, but once I understand, so I am going to be excited and like the Bible says you know, in Psalms 100 and 105, we want to. I make a jar of the noise. You know when I'm excited. So once you had that understanding and everything, how excited were you when you figured out that this is my niche.
Speaker 2:How excited were you when you, when you figured that out Well, I've struggled to figure it out, because I can do a lot of things and sometimes, when, when you have a lot of gifts and talents and skills, clarity becomes a little bit more difficult. And so I was being coached. I was in a coaching session myself and we were going through an exercise and I had an aha moment in the middle of the coaching session. It just it was almost like now it's time, you know, it was like God had been holding it so I could do the things I needed to do, because I'm an execute person, like if I have a plan, I'm going, and sometimes he doesn't want me to go.
Speaker 2:We talked about that before. Sometimes he went through to wait and get all the information and all the instruction first, and so it was like a release, like he, immediately, in an instant, through this coaching session where I was being coached, opened up this window and showed me all the times in my life that I had had to overcome something and, in overcoming it, added another layer to my confidence. He showed me things from the time I was two and three years old all the way up to very recent time where it was like this helps you build your confidence. You need to share that with me being the first. I was the first in a lot of things. I was the first African American cheerleader in our cheerleading squad. I was one of the only ones, and there were places where I was the only black kid in the school. There are places where I was the first one to join a particular program. I wouldn't have done it before. I was always the person that had to open the door for the other kids that were coming In those things just taking those jumps, and sometimes I was terrified and sometimes I didn't know if I could do it, but all throughout my life those things were helping me to build my confidence. In showing me that picture of all of those things and saying this is what I need you to help other people do, I got way excited. I started writing things down. I started writing down content ideas, I started writing out lines for things. It was coming, a stream of things was so exciting and then I started to get a lot more clarity about who I was supposed to help. So the for-purpose part on the end of confidence for purpose coaching. So not just helping people to build their confidence just for the sake of building their confidence. My call is to help people to build the confidence to do the thing that God put them here on this earth to do, and I was so inspired. Sometimes when you hear a thing from the Lord, he'll give you a confirmation.
Speaker 2:Our coach he was sharing a story about how he almost didn't start these programs that we have benefited so beautifully from. He was afraid to because he was stepping into an arena that people didn't know him for it. He was uncomfortable. He felt like no one's going to listen to me over here and this arena over here on the church, through a pastor's conference, they're lining up, but no one's going to listen to me in the marketplace and business and he almost didn't do it and another coach talked him off the ledge or into the pool or whatever. He told him, like you have to do this If you're here, you're here for a reason and you have to do it. Scared, you have to take the leap, you have to trust God and I thought about what if she wasn't there? Like how would my life be affected?
Speaker 2:Now, all these thousands of people whose lives have been transformed because he said yes, he took that step, because he was encouraged to have the confidence to walk in his purpose, I want to be that person.
Speaker 2:I feel like I am called to be that person to help those people to walk in what God's created them to do, and God has been depositing these things to help me to be able to do that. That is exciting because you can see it Like I'm a visionary. I can see the people, even the clients I'm working with now. They have so much in them and some of the people are in their second act. They've lived a minute, they've done their step and out into these new spaces and they want to do it right and they want someone to help them along and walk them through it and help them to think through it, and it's exciting to see the picture of where they're going to go, because I'm able to support them in that way, and so that I mean it doesn't get any more exciting than helping people to walk in their God given purpose, like what else is more exciting than that.
Speaker 2:Right Got the ice cream with caramel on it and some brownies Maybe.
Speaker 1:And some freshly made. Let me tell you, I made me some freshly made chocolate chip cookies the other day, with ice cream and caramel. All the time I don't want to talk about it.
Speaker 2:Look, I'm fasting. I don't want to talk about it.
Speaker 1:Sorry, but that is exciting. And one thing that you said that really stuck with me about being the first, and a lot of people don't understand that being the first. I had said something before that we being the first is almost like when Harriet Tugman she had to be the first to go back and then she went back to get people. So sometimes we have to be that one to step out and say you know what I'm going to do this, you know, and I'm going to go back and get the other people. And it's exciting because you know that you have made it and you know what other people can do if they follow this and they follow me. Look, come this way, I'm going to show you and that's that's a great thing what you're doing, because you know you're not only just coaching people, you are, you are helping people overcome their fears.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay, and being being able to overcome fears is a big thing when it comes to stepping in a new space. And I just I think I'm thinking you for the people, okay, because the simple fact that I didn't have that, you know I had to. You know, when God told me to start a podcast, I was like oh God, like oh, you know, and I had to, you know, and I had to do it in fear, and I had to step over some hurdles and had to just be like you know what I'm going to do. It scared, you know, and and that's one thing that you know helping others, and I know it's exciting, I can, I can imagine how many people that you have helped to overcome those fears, to be like you know what I can do.
Speaker 2:This that's awesome, and we know that success leaves breadcrumbs Right. We are the example that if you do it, if you just do it like I'm still here, you're still here after you do it. You did it.
Speaker 2:You did it, scared and survived, and so being able to tell that story to people and say it from an honest, authentic place, that I do know where you've been, I do understand what it's like to be terrified and to jump into something that you didn't ask for, you didn't expect, you don't know what's on the other side of it, and to just take that leap of faith and know that you did it. And even if you did it, sometimes we take the leap and we jump and we do it scared, and it's a big old flop. It's a big old flop, but we're still here. We're still here. We're still here. We still learned. It didn't take us out.
Speaker 2:You know, so I would much rather take the leap, find out, you know the certainty to know whether it was supposed to work or not. Get that information and keep moving. And so it's exciting, it really is to be able to walk people in that journey and watch them take those leaps Like to be to the front row seat when they take their leap, like mama's in the nest, pushing the babies out and they're falling for the first time. It's just, it's really awesome.
Speaker 1:Exactly and I love that. Like you said, you know when you. Sometimes you might flop, but you learn and I always tell people I take a loss, I take a learn. I learned from what happened, so I know which way, which, how to land. Now you know what I'm saying. You know people say oh yeah, you flopped, oh you bet. Nah, baby, I learned, I'm sorry.
Speaker 2:I learned from this.
Speaker 1:You know, even throughout some of the experience in life, that you know people would look at you and say, oh, you know, we just say with my divorce, it's only that was a big loss. No, that was a big learn for me, Because I know what to do the next time.
Speaker 2:You know and that's exciting to even know what to do in the next time, you know and right there and to know what I'm sorry and to know how to help other people that not have to go down that road. Is you know if I took the hit so you don't have to Like that's even a blessing If I took the hit, if I took all the beating and the bruising through the trial Exactly?
Speaker 2:Let me tell you look at this scar, let me tell you how I got it, so that you don't have to get the same scar. Exactly, I'm being that girl.
Speaker 2:I'll be that girl all day, every day, I'll take the hit. I know I can handle it because I've been through these trials that have shown me that I'm still here. So if I can take the hit before you do, if I can stand up and start going to battle front line first and then be able to say I know what's out there, I know what the enemies are, I know what their strategy is Right, so you don't have to go down that same route, so you can have a better strategy than they, you know, than your enemies do, whatever those enemies are, whether they're human or other things.
Speaker 2:Right, it's just really awesome to be able to do that.
Speaker 1:That's and the thing about that's what we want to do, because that's what Christ was sitting here for. So he took everything for us.
Speaker 1:And we want to be able to be just like that which you know. Like I say now, we, after we get that excitement, we are determined for Christ. You know, we are determined for our calling, we are determined for what our purpose is in life and, you know, determining is that strong desire. We want to walk like how Christ walked. We want to do that and even in our market, in the marketplace, we want to be able to, you know, exhibit what Christ did and be determined. So what are some of the things that you have to make sure that you do so you can keep on the same path and stay determined for being able to be?
Speaker 2:a coach. That's so good. One of the things definitely is making sure that I spend time with the Lord every day, like making sure that I worship, making sure that I get some word and may read the Bible, study the Bible, talk about the Bible, talk through it with people. I'm learning this year I really wanted to focus too on and I just verbalized this the other day really studying the life of Jesus for direction, like we are Christians and I believe what the Bible says. I've studied the Bible my whole life. I have a relationship with the Lord, but really through a clearer lens at this base in my life, watching how Jesus moved. How did he talk to people, how did he respond to conflict? How did he minister to people? What did he say? Where did he sit? Where did he walk Like? All of those things are a God he was the most perfect human ever.
Speaker 2:So, in trying to remain determined, in this year, I'm really focusing on how Jesus did it, because Jesus had to be determined too.
Speaker 2:He came to this earth for a really specific purpose and it wasn't pretty, and so he had to stay determined as well. So I really wanna focus on how did he? What were the clues? You know, I know he pulled away and spent time with the Lord, with his father. I know that he made sure that he had boundaries. I know that he had different groups of relationships Some were real close, some were a little distant, and he knew where to put those relationships. So, really focusing this year on watching how Jesus handled determination and just really getting the clues from him about how to be determined From this point on, I don't wanna do anything, just cause I think it's good, right, I spent a lot of time in my life trying to figure stuff out on my own, knowing I had this good book here, knowing that I had this relationship, knowing that I had this Holy Spirit. They're still trying to do things my way. Right, why you got the book? You got the answers right here. You got the answers for the test.
Speaker 2:Open book Open book test why you try to do it on your own.
Speaker 2:So, that's really what I wanna focus on this year in trying to do everything, whether it's be determined or be more disciplined or have a better relationship. I wanna follow Jesus' model on that Right I have been really committed to. I'm doing the Bible in a year, again this year but also spending some time just studying the life of Jesus and really, almost from an academic standpoint, really analyzing how Jesus moved and then taking that analysis and then applying it to my life. How can I really be like Jesus? Yeah, Not just talk about it, not just follow Him, but like how do I take what he did and use it and apply it in my life? So that's my approach to determination in this. That's what I love that.
Speaker 1:I love that. I, you know. Like we say, the Bible says in Hebrews 12 and one. Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witness, let us lay aside every weight and seeing which cleans so closely, so we have to let. Like you said, we have to get in the face of it. We have to study more Like and I love that how you say you want to learn like you want to learn how Jesus moved. And I always say that if you step in the same footstep as what Jesus did, you go make it.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:I don't. It's hard for you to say that, oh, I followed Jesus and I didn't make it.
Speaker 1:I don't think that that's even possible you know, because you know, and one thing we want to do is to make sure that we are stand determined for you know what we have. And I always tell people, if you can apply that acronym, the acronym Q, to anything, you will be successful, regardless of you know, whether you, you know, decided that, oh, okay, I'm gonna do this, this, this, this, if you applied, is. And we know that one thing we can't, we can't go wrong is by following Jesus, cause he's the greatest example, absolutely Like I. I tell people, I understand, like you said, I don't want to fail the open book test. No, I, I just I, you know, when I was in school, I used to be like I failed the open book test when you got the book right there and a lot of people and what a lot of people. Problem is, they don't want to read, yeah, and then they and they want to skim over certain things Instead of, like you say, studying what, what God, what Jesus did, studying how he moved and everything.
Speaker 1:So that's good, that is so good and I'm just so excited about how you have have actually added that, that acronym, to your life so you can be, you know, have success on purpose and and I often tell people it's not about the, the, the money, the car, the fame, anything like that. It's about being able to stay in the face of God after he have called you, cause a lot of people they get that calling, they get their purpose and they don't stay with it. And so I'm just so excited about you. I want, like, if you had any advice that you would leave your 18 year old self, if, what advice would that be? If you could just say you know what, stick with it, you know, or whatever, what advice would you leave your 18 year old self?
Speaker 2:She needs a lot of advice. One thing I would say to her is to embrace her unique design. I would tell 18 year old Tiffany all of those little quirks that you have, all of those things that make you different from everybody else, all those things that make you stand out, all those things that maybe some people your age aren't very interested in right now. Those are the things that you need to embrace and that you need to run with and make sure that you know that God created you exactly how he needed you to be, to do what you need to do. I would tell her that. I would also tell her not to waste all that money she's making working. Put some of it away so you could do some things with it. I would tell her that and, just I think, I would tell her to not undervalue the things that she has.
Speaker 2:I think for a long time, because I think sometimes we all get comfortable with the way we are and we just think that's just how we are and there's nothing really special about that. And so for a long time I viewed what was extraordinary like it was ordinary, Cause I didn't know that it was extraordinary. I had people in my life telling me, encouraging me, telling me that I was a good person, that I was a kind person, that I was a smart person, but I didn't really understand some of the extraordinary parts of my makeup. So I would tell her don't look at what is extraordinary like it's ordinary, Like embrace it, celebrate it, cultivate it, share it. You know the world needs it.
Speaker 2:And that's for everybody, not just for me. That's for everybody. But I would certainly tell that 18 year old that, and I tell her to stop partying so much. Focus on your school work.
Speaker 1:Focus on your school work. That's the most that advice you can gain. Well, I'm a step in there right now. Like I'm like, look, is she talking to me, what? No, I'm excited because that is some of the great advice that you can give to yourself and also like the listeners. Now, if you, you know it's not too late. You know, I don't want anybody to think that you know, just because you pass 18, that you can't take that same advice. You can still take that advice now. So I'm excited. I thank you for that. If you have anything else that you would like to leave with the audience today, I mean, you have just been such a blessing to my life. I'm telling you. I thank you so much, but if you would, you know, just leave anything with any advice, and also, you can go ahead on and tell people how they can reach you, how they can find you, and then you can pray if you want to. I'm excited about, I'm enjoying listening to you.
Speaker 2:Thank, you so much. Thank you for having me first of all, but just my advice would be just like Keana said, keana said walk in the footsteps of Jesus, try your absolute best to just stay close to Him. And also, I'm just gonna keep saying what you say, because you said great stuff you don't look at life like you're too old or too late. Every day that we wake up, we can do something different, we can grow, we can learn something more, we can help some more people. As long as you get another day, use it. Use it well. Don't settle where you are, just keep going. As long as you're here, you have the capacity to grow and learn and to do something new, and so don't ever think that you're too old to do anything.
Speaker 2:We don't get to determine that. God gets to determine that, amen. You can find me on Instagram at I'm Tiffany on purpose. You can also find me at Tiffany D Santana. You can find me on Facebook at Tiffany Massenberg Santana, and you can find me on my website at Tiffany D Santana. That's it, and I'm proud of you.
Speaker 1:That's so awesome. That's so awesome. Like I said, thank you again. I'm so excited, I'm so ready for people to grasp a hold to what you are doing, because you are going to change the world. I see it. I see it that many people are going to be blessed by you. Many people.
Speaker 2:Thank you, I've received that and right back at you, you're already changing the world. What's going on? Huh, okay.
Speaker 1:Look what you have. You feel like praying us out? That would be so great.
Speaker 2:Okay, let's pray. Father, we love you, we adore you, we give you glory. We thank you so much for this time, the time to share as sisters, the time to share what you have placed on our hearts to share. I thank you for good conversation, I thank you for laughter, I thank you for learning. I thank you for the ability and the safety to be able to share. I thank you, lord, for opportunities to tell the story of what you've done in our lives and all the ways that you've grown us and shaped us, and all of the trials that you brought us over and how you haven't wasted anything in our lives. I'm so grateful for that and for your faithfulness. I pray that you bless everyone who has watched and who has listened. Lord, bless them with special favor. Give them clarity about their purpose so they can run with it. Send the right people in their lives to support them as they move forward on the path and the purpose that you've laid out for them.
Speaker 2:Lord, bless this podcast, this new ministry, lord. I pray that it grows. I pray that it reaches the people that you've intended for it to reach. I pray that it is a blessing, lord, to the people. Lord, I thank you so much for this woman of God who is following your call, who is opening eyes and sharing with people Some things that can help them on their journey. Lord, I pray that you just continue to richly bless her. I thank you, lord, for growth. I thank you for your Holy Spirit, who leads and guides us. I thank you for provision. I thank you for protection and safety. I thank you for being our father and our friend, and I just love you so much and I thank you and I appreciate you. In Jesus name, I pray, amen.
Speaker 1:Amen, amen, like I'm fighting tears. Lord Jesus, amen, amen, let him flow. Hmm, I thank you once again. Oh, my God, I do. God is just. He's always here in his presence. I love when his presence show up, because that's how you know that somebody is going to be blessed from what we have said. I thank you again, coach Tiffany Santana, I just can't thank you enough. I just can't thank you enough. All right, I thank you all for tuning in on tonight. I hope, and I know, that it has blessed you just as much as it blessed my soul. Okay, you can also. You know, you can make sure that you are going to the YouTube channel. You can go subscribe, you know, do all that lingo stuff, and I thank you all again for just watching and tuning in. All right, I love you all and please just stay cute for Christ. All right, bye, y'all.
