I Had to Let Go of People to Find Myself: Here's What God Was Teaching Me

In this solo episode, Leana gets real about the season she's currently in: one of realignment, protecting her energy, and learning to trust what God removes just as much as what He brings.

She opens up about the dangers of the wrong circle, over-sharing your goals, and how people-pleasing quietly keeps you out of alignment with yourself. She also responds to a listener DM about navigating the desire for a partner while staying rooted in faith, and shares why loneliness is often a sign you're not pouring enough into your purpose.

This episode is a reminder to lock in, guard your energy, and trust that God knows exactly what He's doing with your life.

Leana gets into:

• Why Leana chooses to have only one close friend and what that cost her to get to
• The danger of oversharing your goals, even with people who seem to have good intentions
• Evil eye, prayer, and why she kept an exciting podcast guest completely private until it happened
• A real situation: being leveraged by someone she thought was a genuine friend
• People-pleasing on the podcast and in daily life and how she's working to stop it
• Love shouldn't feel hard: what healthy relationships actually look like
• Men who feel threatened by ambitious women and recognising that pattern
• The concept of naseeb (what's meant for you will find you) and how it applies to relationships
• Responding to a listener DM: how to handle the desire for a partner while staying in faith
• Why filling the void with the wrong person makes loneliness worse, not better
• Loneliness is a selfish feeling and how pouring into others dissolves it
• Locking into one thing instead of chasing every opportunity
• Gary Breck's insight on isolation and craft
• The nafs in Islam: battling your desires and impulses and how discipline wins that fight
• Why gratitude needs to be practised at the same level in highs and lows
• Curating what you consume: why scrolling politics first thing destroys your energyBeing grateful for what you have as a prerequisite for receiving more

"God is not going to bring you this far just to leave you this far." — Leana Deeb

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TOPICS DISCUSSED
(00:00) Intro (01:45) Your Circle & Who You Surround Yourself With (05:10) The Danger of Oversharing Your Goals (08:30) Not Everyone Is Meant to Stay (11:20) People Pleasing & Losing Yourself (14:18) Not Every Person That Comes Into Your Life Is From God (17:00) You Attract a Reflection of Yourself (20:30) Loneliness Is a Selfish Feeling (23:15) Answering a DM: How Do You Deal With Not Having a Partner? (27:00) Naseeb — What's Meant for You Will Find You (30:45) Lock Into One Thing (34:00) Faith, Gratitude & Giving 100% Every Day

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