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In this interview with VoyageKC, Jennifer Allwood shares how she got where she is today, including some of the challenges she had to overcome. Unlike most business coaches, Jennifer uniquely integrates faith with strategy.

Entrepreneurs know that becoming better in business goes beyond learning new business strategies. It also incorporates personal development, health, finance, and understanding yourself better, so that you can do your best work.

What started off as the worst thing to happen in Jennifer Allwood’s career eventually turned into the best. Back in 2000, she was laid off from her software development job.

Now, more than ever before, I am connecting with so many women who are feeling stuck in their lives, unable to move toward the thing that they want and the thing that God calls them to do. They are terrified of what the future may hold.

We all like safe. It’s human nature to avoid hard things, and our normal tendency is to drift toward the safe thing in order to protect ourselves. I mean, who honestly likes to be scared?

NO EXCUSES, NO FEAR. Fear can be a healthy and unhealthy aspect of our lives, especially for women.

I had to giggle as Jennifer Allwood described her show—mostly because she couldn’t have been more accurate. Her podcast is equal parts self-help reality check and “you-can-do-it” motivation.

Our daughter, Ava (#ohAva as she is known on social media), was making brownies last night. I’ve been working hard at getting my life and my waist right, so I’ve been trying to get off the sugar train.

Leaders are readers…right? Although my “To Be Read” stack is a mile high, there are so many great books for Christian women leaders coming out in 2020, I’ve already started pre-ordering them.