Armed & Anointed with Ashley Russell
Jun 23, 2026 · 49 min · 10 segments
In this episode of the Armed and Anointed Podcast, Ashley discusses her post about "Building a Testimony" and shared her personal journey of transitioning from being a victim of her circumstances to…
And That line, maybe you didn't choose your situation, but you still get to choose how you move through it really hit me because for a lot of years, I wasn't choosing how I moved through my story.
And there might be a lot of you who are feeling that way right now where you're like, well, how could I create change? Or how could I actually create a testimony? Like, this is what my life is like.
There's a lot of you who are new here and maybe you don't know my full testimony.
I'm going to get into some of it today, but I understand what it feels like to be underwater, trying to build a castle on the sand.
And, you know, when we watch big moments that we see on social media, when I look at the testimony that maybe people see now of like the success that I built in my business, or when we moved from the condo that I had lived in for 10 years with my kids into a house because of that business, or even when I quit my business and went like full to Hilt on following God.
Or even this podcast or restarting my business and like creating the legacy collective, which is like my coaching container.
You could look at all of these really big moments that you're watching on socials and just be like, oh, well, of course, for her, it's like that.
She's got that because of X, Y, Z, insert whatever story that we're putting around other people to keep testimony away from ourselves.
But like all of these big things that we're watching, they were things that were built from just taking these really small steps.
And so the big moments that we're watching are created from tiny movements in the background.
And I want you just to kind of sit with that right now where it's like, maybe you don't feel like you have any really big moments right now, or you don't have the thing where you're like, I don't have a big testimony.
Really the thing that's going to create that in your life is obviously relationship with God.
He's, you know, the creator of all things, but it's you being willing to make tiny movements in your life that are different from how you're operating right now.
Like teeny tiny movements, right? right um that's how god changes our story so it's really really easy to feel overwhelmed by watching all the big moments of like oh but i don't have the success in the business or i don't you know have the page or you know none of my posts are taking off or you're just you know i don't have a podcast i don't have any of these things like these big things but we're really missing the fact that we're just supposed to focus on being present and taking the tiny steps.
And That line, maybe you didn't choose your situation, but you still get to choose how you move through it really hit me because for a lot of years, I wasn't choosing how I moved through my story.
And there might be a lot of you who are feeling that way right now where you're like, well, how could I create change? Or how could I actually create a testimony? Like, this is what my life is like.
There's a lot of you who are new here and maybe you don't know my full testimony.
I'm going to get into some of it today, but I understand what it feels like to be underwater, trying to build a castle on the sand.
And, you know, when we watch big moments that we see on social media, when I look at the testimony that maybe people see now of like the success that I built in my business, or when we moved from the condo that I had lived in for 10 years with my kids into a house because of that business, or even when I quit my business and went like full to Hilt on following God.
Or even this podcast or restarting my business and like creating the legacy collective, which is like my coaching container.
You could look at all of these really big moments that you're watching on socials and just be like, oh, well, of course, for her, it's like that.
She's got that because of X, Y, Z, insert whatever story that we're putting around other people to keep testimony away from ourselves.
But like all of these big things that we're watching, they were things that were built from just taking these really small steps.
And so the big moments that we're watching are created from tiny movements in the background.
And I want you just to kind of sit with that right now where it's like, maybe you don't feel like you have any really big moments right now, or you don't have the thing where you're like, I don't have a big testimony.
Really the thing that's going to create that in your life is obviously relationship with God.
He's, you know, the creator of all things, but it's you being willing to make tiny movements in your life that are different from how you're operating right now.
Like teeny tiny movements, right? right um that's how god changes our story so it's really really easy to feel overwhelmed by watching all the big moments of like oh but i don't have the success in the business or i don't you know have the page or you know none of my posts are taking off or you're just you know i don't have a podcast i don't have any of these things like these big things but we're really missing the fact that we're just supposed to focus on being present and taking the tiny steps.
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