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Writer's pictureSharyh Murray

Balancing Faith and Career: Insights from Christian Coach Judith

Whether you're an entrepreneur or climbing the corporate ladder, navigating the professional world as a person of faith comes with its own unique challenges. In today’s blog, we explore how to approach the working world with a faith-led mindset. Plus, in our Entrepreneur Spotlight, Christian Life Coach Judith shares moments from her inspiring journey and valuable insights.


Christian Life Coach, Judith

Integrating Faith and Career: Finding Balance in the Corporate World

Those making the decision to integrate their faith and career know that it can be challenging, especially in today’s fast-paced world. However, when done intentionally, there are many advantages it can offer, such as:


  • A unique opportunity to align personal values with professional goals.

  • Strong foundations for ethical decision-making and compassionate leadership.

  • Greater sense of purpose in daily work and job satisfaction.

  • Source of stability during times of uncertainty.


Balancing Faith and Career

Examples of Taking a Faith-Led Approach in Business

For most people of faith, core beliefs form a significant part of their identity and influence the decisions they make. When it comes to career, it's no different. There are many ways to incorporate a faith-led approach in your day-to-day work, so there isn’t a one-size-fits-all approach. For example, for Christians, this might look like:

  • Seeking out opportunities to provide high quality service.

  • Treating others with genuine kindness.

  • Being a source of encouragement leaning on solution-based thinking.

  • Creating or finding uplifting initiatives that allow you to give back to communities.


Meet Therapist and Christian Life Coach: Judith 

Christian Life Coach Judith

We spoke with Judith, a Therapist and Christian Life Coach, navigating the business world as a woman of faith. She shared her journey, offering valuable insights on decision-making, reframing success and failure, and much more. 


Inviting God into Every Decision — Even the Little Ones!

I’m a therapist full time and a life coach part time, which means I help people solve and unpack the problems that might be holding them back in life. It’s a very delicate position to be in—and as a Christian, I make it a habit to lean into my faith for extra wisdom. I’m always asking the Holy Spirit to help me whenever I reach a difficult crossroad, and whenever I do this, the session always ends up being more beneficial to the parent or young person. It's really encouraging. 


Leaning on my faith is something I do with the small things too. It could be asking God whether I should send that risky email, or whether I should be patient with something. Sometimes the answer isn’t always what I want to hear in that moment, but when the scenario plays out in full, I see exactly why it had to happen that way—which builds my trust in God even more.


Faith-led Versus Following the Crowd

With my part-time work as a coach, the clients aren’t always pouring in. I’m having to look for clients (which is way outside of my comfort zone). In the same breath, the work I do is very specific, so I appreciate I’m not called for everyone. As much as I’d like to jump on the latest trends and go viral to reach more people, I have to be mindful that the content I put out truly aligns with my faith (and what God wants me to do). So, this might mean not having the most followers, or the most clients. It’s a challenge I’m facing at the moment given the cost-of-living crisis, but at the end of the day I’m having to really trust and rely on God—in all areas of my business. Philippians 4:6 is a great scripture that helps me with this.


Don’t Let Perceptions of Failure and Success Hold you Back 

I find that letting go of expectations about what success and failure are is key. Sometimes as Christians we may have an expectation of how God is going to come through for us in a situation, and when he doesn’t come through the way we thought, we then think, “maybe we failed” or, “God hasn’t heard us”. That’s not the case. In fact, it’s usually a sign that we may need to shift perspectives on what success and failure look like. 


Do What you Have Been Graced to do

One thing I’d encourage Christian founders or those in corporate settings to remember is, if grace got you the position, grace will help you maintain it. When we find ourselves in highly competitive environments it’s easy to get wrapped up in all of that—wanting to go for every opportunity and start doing things in our own strength. If we're not careful, these things can end up wearing us down. Really, our focus should be on doing the thing we’ve been graced to do—and doing it well. So yes, this may look like missing out on the accolades we think we should have, but we’ve got to stay focused on the bespoke path God has already laid ahead of us. Chasing quick success or cutting corners isn't sustainable.


Usually, when we focus on our paths and endure the full process of a season (which may seem like the longer way), we end up better equipped to sustain success in the long run. So my advice would be to focus on the thing you've been graced to do and give it your best.


 

Judith is a Therapist and Christian Life Coach. Book a coaching consultation with Judith.

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