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As I’m here undecorating the Christmas tree, I can’t help but reflect on this past year. 🎄✨

Every ornament I put away feels like a reminder of 2025. The blessings. The lessons. The doors God opened, and even the doors He lovingly closed.

Some things I’m packing away with gratitude.
Some things I’m packing away with wisdom.
And some things I’m simply leaving behind.

This year stretched me. It refined me. It required trust. And through it all, God was faithful every single step of the way. 🙏

As I prepare for 2026, I’m not just packing up decorations. I’m stepping into new beginnings. I’m stepping into a deeper level of obedience, focus, and faith.

God placed a vision on my heart, and then He aligned the opportunity. He led me to a business that allows me to build with purpose. He brought me into a community of believers who pray together, grow together, and encourage one another, even if it’s through Zoom. 🤍

That alone is something I do not take lightly.

As we prepare to enter a 90-day season of focus, I truly believe God has remarkable things in store. Not just for me, but for the families I’m called to serve.

This opportunity is not just about income. It’s about financial stewardship, getting your time back, and positioning yourself where God can truly use you.

I’m walking into 2026 with expectation, obedience, and faith that what God has started, He will finish.

We are launching in February, and now is the time to get connected.
Message me if you feel led. ✨

#FaithDriven
#NewSeason
#FinancialStewardship
#PositionedForMore
#PurposeOverProfit taken in United States by @iamsharonmathys

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7 months ago

Today was one of those days that just felt… good for my soul. 💛

Nothing fancy, nothing “Instagram perfect.”
Just real life and being present.

The day started with my husband’s doctor’s appointment —
nothing dramatic, just taking care of what matters and supporting him.

And instead of jumping right back into busy mode afterward,
we slowed the pace and turned it into a “be together” day.

We wandered around Lowe’s,
picking up paint swatches like two kids planning their dream house,
holding colors up to the light,
imagining cozy walls and new seasons.

Then we came home and spent the afternoon together,
playing with ChatGPT,
designing master bedroom ideas,
master bathroom looks,
and living room colors that actually feel like US.

No trip. No big event. No “doing it for the content.”

Just:
time with my husband,
laughing,
dreaming,
planning our home,
and letting my nervous system breathe.

Days like this reminded me how healing “simple” can be.

👉 If your soul is craving more days like this too, comment “PEACE.”

#goodforthesoul
#marriedlife
#slowdownandsimplify
#homemakeoverjourney #wealthatyourfingertips taken in North Carolina by @iamsharonmathys

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7 months ago

If your weekends are spent chasing tournaments, living out of hotel rooms, and eating dinner from concession stands — you’re my people. 🙋‍♀️ I was YOU!

You already know what those weekends cost — gas, hotels, fast food, tournament fees. It’s a small fortune to make those big memories. 💸

Here’s the part most families don’t know 👇
You can actually save on the travel you’re already doing — for those same tournaments, meets, and games — and even earn by helping other families do it too.

With the Travel Advantage™ membership, you get:
✅ Access to private hotel rates not found on public sites
✅ Travel Savings Points you can bank for future family trips
✅ The ability to share the same savings and earn income along the way

That’s why I started this — because we were that family.
One kid flipping across the country for gymnastics.
Another under Friday night lights.
And one hauling horses from state to state. 🩰🏈🐴

I’d do it all again… but I’d never pay full price for every single weekend away. 🙅‍♀️

Now I get to help families just like ours save hundreds on the trips they’re already taking — and I get to do it right from my kitchen while dinner’s cooking. 🍳💻

Because if you’re still paying full price for every hotel weekend, you’re leaving money — and memories — on the table. 🏆

Drop SPORTS below or DM me, and I’ll show you how easy it is to start saving. 💛📩

#SportsParents #WeekendTournaments #FamilyTravelSavings #TravelAdvantage #YouthSportsLife #SaveOnTravel #SportsMomLife #MWRLife
#traveladvantageofficial taken in United States by @iamsharonmathys

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9 months ago

There’s a woman inside you who used to have plans.

Somewhere along the way, life got practical.

You stopped saying what you wanted out loud because it started to feel unrealistic.

After a while, you couldn’t tell the difference between being content and being finished.

There’s a difference.

You’re not finished. 🤍

As I’ve gotten older, I’ve let go of something that used to matter far too much.

I’m no longer interested in impressing people.

What matters to me now is inspiring the woman who’s quietly convinced herself that her best years are behind her.

Because I don’t believe they are.

We don’t get a practice life.

This is the one.

So love deeply.

Laugh often.

Keep growing, even when it’s uncomfortable.

Hold tightly to God through every season.

Because God isn’t finished writing your story. ❤️

And maybe the chapter you’re afraid is ending…

Is actually the one where everything begins.

So don’t let anyone, especially the voice in your own head, convince you your life has already peaked.

It hasn’t.

What’s one dream you still believe God has placed on your heart?

I’d love to cheer you on. 🤍

Pray bold. Live fully. Passport ready.

#ItsNotTooLate

#SecondHalfOfLife

#FaithOverFear

#PrayBoldLiveFully

#womenreinventingthemselves taken in Raleigh, North Carolina by @iamsharonmathys

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15 hours ago

That’s because buying access has never been the same as doing the work.

You can join the nicest gym in town, hang the little tag on your keys, and feel excited for a day. But if you never actually walk through those doors, nothing changes.

The membership was never the magic.

Showing up is. 💪

The more I think about it, the more I realize that’s true of almost everything worth having.

Buying the running shoes doesn’t make you a runner.

Signing up doesn’t make you healthy.

Starting something of your own doesn’t hand you a finished life.

It simply gives you the opportunity to begin.

I think this is where so many of us get discouraged.

We start something with excitement, and when life doesn’t change as quickly as we hoped, we quietly decide it must not work.

But growth has never worked that way.

You don’t go to the gym twice and expect abs.

You trust the process.

You trust the reps.

You keep showing up.

Day after day.

Little by little.

Then one day you realize you’ve become stronger than you ever imagined. ❤️

That’s also how I’ve experienced my faith.

God gives us the dream.

He plants the desire for something more.

Then He simply asks us to take the next faithful step.

One obedient day at a time.

That’s one of the reasons I love building this business.

It isn’t a lottery ticket.

It isn’t magic.

It’s an opportunity that rewards consistency.

It rewards the woman who keeps showing up.

The woman with grit.

The woman with a little holy stubbornness.

The woman who refuses to quit on the life she knows she’s capable of building. ✨

If you’re reading this and quietly thinking,

“That’s me.”

Send me the word MORE.

No pressure.

No pitch.

Just a conversation. 🤍

Pray bold. Live fully. Passport ready.

#WomenReinventingThemselves
#BuildTheLifeYouWant
#ItsNotTooLate
#FaithOverFear
#prayboldlivefully taken in Raleigh, North Carolina by @iamsharonmathys

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4 days ago

Nobody warns you that the right road can be the hard one.

Look down at the one you’re walking. Rocky. Uphill. Thorns catching your ankles. Holes you never saw coming. Stretches so dark you’re feeling for the next step with your foot. The diagnosis. The bills. The people who let you down. The grief that won’t quit.

It’s easy to wonder if you somehow took a wrong turn.

You didn’t.

I’ve walked stretches of that road where I couldn’t see what was coming next. Cancer. A marriage that fell apart. More questions than answers. And not once did I walk it alone.

He was there in every difficult step, even when I couldn’t see beyond the next one.

That’s what I’ve come to believe with all my heart.

It was never the condition of the road that mattered.

It’s where the road leads.

And this road, hard as it may be, leads all the way home.

So if you’re walking through something heavy today, don’t mistake hard for wrong.

Keep walking.

Keep trusting.

Keep holding His hand.

He hasn’t let go of yours.

What’s the hard road you’re walking right now?

Tell me in the comments or send me a message. I’d be honored to pray for you by name. 🤍

Pray bold. Live fully. Passport ready.

#FaithOverFear

#WalkingByFaith

#ItsNotTooLate

#PrayBoldLiveFully

#SecondHalfOfLife taken in Raleigh, North Carolina by @iamsharonmathys

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5 days ago

There’s a dream you’ve quietly stopped talking about.

You know the one. It used to keep you up at night, the good kind of up. Now it lives in a drawer in the back of your mind, and every once in a while you pull it out, look at it for a second, and quietly tuck it away again.

Because every time you reached for it, you heard another no.

No money.

No time.

No way.

After enough of those, it just felt easier to stop wanting it.

I know that drawer.

I’ve closed it too.

But here’s what I’ve learned.

A closed door is almost never the end.

It’s just where most people quit.

The stubborn ones start looking for a side door.

Years ago, my teenage son dreamed of starting a food pantry for hungry families.

We had nothing.

No money.

No building.

No truck.

Everywhere we turned, someone told us it couldn’t be done.

So every time we hit a wall…

I hit my knees.

I’d ask God to open the next door.

Then I’d get up and keep looking.

One by one…

He did.

Families got fed.

That’s why I don’t believe every “no” means “never.”

And I don’t believe God places a dream in your heart just to watch you talk yourself out of it.

Maybe that dream isn’t dead.

Maybe it’s just been waiting for you to pull it back out of the drawer.

So take it out.

Hold it in the light again.

Instead of asking,

“Can I?”

Start asking,

“How can I?”

Then get quiet.

Pray.

And watch what God begins to show you.

If you’ve got a dream that’s been sitting in the drawer a little too long!

Tell me about it below.

I’d genuinely love to hear it. 🤍

Pray bold. Live fully.

#WomenReinventingThemselves
#buildthelifeyouwant
#itsnottoolate
#FaithOverFear
#prayboldlivefully taken in Raleigh, North Carolina by @iamsharonmathys

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9 days ago

You sit down for the first time all day, and before you’ve even settled into the chair, your hand reaches for your phone.

Not because you need it, but because being still almost feels unsafe.

Here’s what God’s been teaching me lately.

Most of the time, our restlessness isn’t really about the to-do list. It’s the fear that if we loosen our grip, even for a minute, everything will fall apart.

So we stay busy.

Busy feels productive.

Busy feels responsible.

Busy feels like control.

But sometimes…

Busy is fear wearing a very respectable outfit.

I know because I lived there for a long time.

That’s why this devotion stopped me in my tracks this morning.

Being still isn’t about doing nothing.

It’s about finally trusting that God can hold the very thing you’re afraid to put down.

“Be still and know…”

Not just in your quiet time.

Not just highlighted in your Bible.

In the part of you that sits in the driveway for one more minute before walking inside because you’re trying to gather the strength for whatever’s waiting on the other side of that door.

Whatever you’re carrying today…

It was never meant to rest only on your shoulders.

If this spoke to you today, leave a ❤️ in the comments so I know I’m praying with you today.

And if there’s something you’re carrying that feels too heavy to say out loud, my DMs are open. I may not have all the answers, but I’ll listen. Sometimes we just need a safe place to set the weight down for a little while. 🤍

Pray bold. Live fully.

If someone came to mind while you were reading this, send it to them. They may need it today. 🤍

#prayboldlivefully
#faithoverfear✝️
#bestillandknow
#itsnottoolate
#godsizeddreams taken in Raleigh, North Carolina by @iamsharonmathys

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10 days ago

She’s not lazy.

She’s tired in a way sleep doesn’t fix.

I know a woman like this.

At the end of the day, when the house finally gets quiet, she stands at her kitchen counter with a calculator, a stack of bills, and a prayer that somehow the numbers are going to work this month.

Her husband is sick, so she’s the one carrying everything. The money doesn’t stretch. The insurance doesn’t cover it. And the years keep moving whether she’s ready or not.

That isn’t a woman who needs to work harder.

She’s already giving everything she has.

Somewhere along the way, many of us were taught that if we just worked hard enough, everything would eventually work out.

But some seasons prove that’s just not true.

I know that counter because I’ve stood at one too. Different kitchen. Different numbers. Same knot in my stomach. Same prayer.

“God… please show me another way.”

That’s when I realized I couldn’t keep living by the same deal. Trading my time for money was never going to give me more time.

So I started building something of my own.

And here’s what surprised me.

The best part hasn’t been the business.

It’s the women.

Women who still believe there is more ahead than behind.

Women who have stopped apologizing for wanting more time with the people they love.

Women with grit, faith, and just the right amount of holy delusion to believe that maybe God isn’t finished with their story yet.

If that sounds like you, send me the word MORE. 🤍

We’ll simply have a conversation and see if what I’m building might be exactly what you’ve been praying for.

#womenreinventingthemselves

#buildthelifeyouwant

#itsnottoolate

#faithoverfear✝️

#prayboldlivefully taken in Raleigh, North Carolina by @iamsharonmathys

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11 days ago

This morning I changed my Instagram bio.

At least that’s what it looked like.

But if I’m honest, it wasn’t really my bio that changed. It was me.

For a long time I kept things vague. Not because I didn’t know what I wanted, but because saying it out loud felt risky. If I never really declared what I was building, no one could tell me I couldn’t do it. No one could watch me try. No one could watch me fail.

Maybe you’ve done that too.

Maybe you’ve called it “thinking about it,” or “we’ll see,” or “I’m just figuring things out,” when deep down you already know exactly what your heart is pulling you toward.

I realized something this morning.

Staying vague doesn’t protect us. It just keeps us exactly where we are.

So today I started backspacing. Not just words on a screen, but the version of me that kept shrinking. The version that worried too much about what everyone else might think instead of trusting the dream God had already placed in my heart.

I don’t believe God gives us a vision so we can spend our lives apologizing for it.

So I typed the truth.

Not because I’ve arrived. Not because I have it all figured out. But because I’m done whispering about the life I’m building.

I’m building a life where my calendar belongs to God, my family, and the life Alex and I have dreamed about for years. Slow mornings over really good coffee. More time with our kids and grandkids. More stamps in our passports. More freedom to say yes when God opens a door.

And maybe that’s what courage really is.

Not having everything figured out.

Just deciding you’re done hiding.

What’s one thing you’ve been whispering that it’s time to finally say out loud? Drop it below so I can encourage you 💕!

#prayboldlivefully
#passportready✈️
#itsnottoolate
#faithoverfear✝️
#womenreinventingthemselves taken in Raleigh, North Carolina by @iamsharonmathys

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12 days ago

The hardest rep isn’t the last one. It’s deciding to go at all.

It’s 6:30 in the morning. My hip starts talking before my feet even hit the floor, and my shoulder joins in before I ever reach for my shoes. Alex has already been up since 4:30 cheering me on, bless him, but the decision to actually go is still mine every single morning.

That’s the part nobody posts. The comeback doesn’t happen on the big, loud days. It happens right there in the quiet, in the deciding.

I don’t get to train the way I want to. After everything my body has been through, I modify. I do the small, unglamorous version, and I show up on the mornings I don’t feel like it, which is most of them.

Here’s what all those mornings have taught me. You don’t need a big, dramatic overhaul. You need the one small thing you keep almost skipping.

The walk
The water
The set you modify instead of skip
The dream you finally write down

It feels too ordinary to matter. It’s actually the whole thing.

The same is true for whatever you’ve been putting off outside the gym. Your becoming won’t make a grand entrance. It happens quietly, early, when nobody is looking, and you decide whether to answer.

Not once
Over and over

God isn’t done with you, and He isn’t done with me.

Show up for the woman you’re becoming. She’s already in there, waiting for you to take the next small step. 🤍

Save this for your next hard morning, and tell me the small thing you’re showing up for.

Pray bold. Live fully. Passport ready.

P.S. This slower, on-my-own-terms life, with room to take care of myself and chase what I was told I couldn’t, is what I’m building through my own little business. If that might fit your next chapter too, my door is open.

#TheAttractionClub #HealthJourney #ItsNotTooLate #StrongerEveryDay #passportready✈️ taken in Raleigh, North Carolina by @iamsharonmathys

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14 days ago

Everybody’s got that one thing they quietly decided they’d never get to have.

For a lot of us, it’s not really abs. It’s the dream. The goal. The version of ourselves we filed away under maybe someday.

For me, lately, it’s been abs.

After surgery after surgery, my ab muscles were cut clean through, and my spine is fused from between my shoulder blades to my tailbone. On paper, my core had no business getting stronger.

But small, steady isometric movements can rebuild what people assume is gone.

It just takes patience and a whole lot of stubborn.

The fastest way to motivate me is to tell me I can’t.

So here I am, still chasing the abs they said I’d never have.

But it was never really about the abs.

It’s about the part of you that slowly stopped believing it was still possible.

Maybe for you it’s the walk around the block instead of I’ll start Monday.
Maybe it’s drinking your water before your coffee.
Maybe it’s applying for the job, starting the business, or booking the trip.
Maybe it’s simply believing you’re still allowed to want more.

The danger isn’t that someone told you you couldn’t.

It’s when you start believing they were right.

The biggest thing standing between us and the life we want usually isn’t our circumstances.

It’s the story we keep repeating about what’s possible.

You are not finished because you’ve been through something.

Neither am I.

God isn’t done with either of us.

Choose one small thing today.

Take the walk.
Drink the water.
Make the call.
Write down the dream.

One small step is still movement.

Tell me your one small step below. I’ll be doing mine too.

Pray bold. Live fully. Passport ready.

P.S. This little business gives me the flexibility to take care of myself and chase what I was told I couldn’t. Curious? My door’s always open.

#TheAttractionClub #healthjourney #passportready✈️ taken in Raleigh, North Carolina by @iamsharonmathys

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15 days ago