What Happens When You Finally Stop Pretending | Tabitha Brown
episodePreviously titled “Tabitha Brown: What Happens When You Finally Stop Pretending” — renamed by the publisher on Sep 1, 2026
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Welcome back, everyone, to the School of Greatness. Very excited about our guest. We have the inspiring Tabitha Brown in the house. So good to see you. Very good. Thank you for having me. Welcome to the show. It's been amazing to watch your journey, specifically over the last five years, just kind of expand and explode in a positive, powerful way. And we were just talking off camera about how when you fully stepped into who you authentically were, that's when everything started to expand. Yeah.
What inspired Tabitha Brown to embrace her authentic self?
And you started to attract. the right things for your life, you started to magnify your audience and community, you started to expand financially, relationally, with positive abundance. And I think it's really cool that this all happened for you. And I'm curious, your new book, it's called I Did a New Thing, 30 Days to Living Free. I'm curious, what was the thing that set you free to create more abundance in your life in a positive way?
Oh, I think the thing that set me free, you know, my story, I was sick, right, for quite some time, about a year and seven months. And I really thought in that dark season, because, you know, I was sick and doctors can tell me what was wrong with me. They were doing, you know, running tests all the time and giving me guinea pig medication is what I would call it because they can't diagnose you. But try this and see if you feel better. Right. You fall into this depression, which I did, because it's like, I know something's not right with my body. I know I don't feel normal. And they can't tell me anything, right? And I thought God had forgotten about me. And so I think when I got to that lowest point, I was like, you know, I'm from North Carolina.
I grew up in a church. And I used to be this person, and I still am, who was excited to be a woman of faith, right? And I was like... Here I am really thinking like I have all this faith, but I feel like God has left me.
Really?
And so I was like, OK, Lord, this time, because what I also realized was I was habitually praying. And that means I was just praying out of habit. But I wasn't really meaning or believing what I was saying.
Can you give me an example?
You know how you grow up and it's like, just for example, like God is great. God is good. Let us thank him for this food. Right. You taught that as a kid on how to pray for your food. That's a habit that we pick up.
It wasn't an intention.
It wasn't intentional.
Feeling it.
Like even even though I was praying, God, please help me to feel better. God, please heal me. Like I was just saying because it's like, oh, this is what we do at church. So I realized like, oh, wait, I need to unlearn how to habitually pray. And I really need to seek him truly and let him have me.
Wow.
Right.
What's the difference between habitual prayer and seeking God and faith and allowing him to be inside of you?
The difference is habitually you're taught. I was taught how to pray that way. I was taught how to to be a person of faith. I was taught how to go to church, how to worship. But when I say, God, I'm a strip me clean. My prayer was, God, if you heal me, you can have me.
How did chronic illness influence Tabitha's transformation?
Wow. That meant I'm not going to do it my way anymore. And how I was taught. I'm going to do it the way you created me to do it. That means I'm going to allow you to deposit inside of me like only you can. Nobody else will get this credit or the glory for it, right? And so that's what got me free. I started taking layers off. And when I prayed that prayer, I was in my bathroom, I remember, and my prayer was, God, if you heal me, you can have me. Something changed that day. I can't explain it. I just felt different. I wasn't healed in the moment. But when I left the bathroom, I felt different. And from that day, I've just been taking layers off ever since and allowing myself to be who God has called me to be.
Wow. So, yeah. Do you feel like you were sick physically and depressed emotionally or mentally because you were out of alignment with who you were meant to be?
Absolutely. I definitely think that plays a huge, huge role in it.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:28
2
What inspired Tabitha Brown to embrace her authentic self?
0:28–3:16
3
How did chronic illness influence Tabitha's transformation?
3:16–8:50
4
How can habitual prayer keep us stuck?
8:50–10:03
5
What is the significance of the prayer Tabitha shared?
10:03–10:47
6
What are the signs of confirmation that guide us toward our purpose?
10:47–11:38
7
Why is obedience considered better than sacrifice?
11:38–1:07:41
Speakers
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