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Honest stories, hard-earned lessons, and conversations about the parts of success, family, healing, and faith that usually stay off the highlight reel.

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Real life. Raw truth. No perfect version required.

Brandi brings the same honesty to the microphone that she brings to life: the messy parts, the growth, the lessons, the faith, and the moments that shaped who she is becoming.

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Real conversations. Powerful lessons.

Explore episodes on growth, faith, business, motherhood, marriage, healing, and becoming a stronger version of yourself.

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Growth & Faith

You Are Not Meant to Be Everybody’s Cup of Tea

A freeing conversation about people pleasing, vulnerability, being fully known, and letting God—not everyone else—define your worth.

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Grace & Growth

The Fine Line Between Entitlement and Healthy Self-Worth

Brandi gets honest about disappointment, conviction, gratitude, and learning to ask for what you want without losing grace.

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Business & Faith

You Have to Be Delusional Enough to Believe It Before It Happens

A message for the woman who needs courage to keep going: consistency, calling, faith, and believing before the outcome is visible.

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Boundaries

Setting Boundaries and Protecting My Peace

Protecting your peace, saying no without over-explaining, outgrowing seasons, and refusing to apologize for taking up space.

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Rest & Resilience

Check on Your Strong Friends — They Are Probably Just Surviving

For the women everyone relies on: a candid conversation about rest, pressure, marriage, faith, and letting yourself put something down.

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Motherhood & Marriage

I Did Not Want Kids. Then God Said Otherwise

Brandi shares how motherhood changed her, the mental load women carry, advocating for your kids, and pouring back into your marriage.

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About the Show

Where real life meets raw truth.

Taking Life by the Raines is hosted by entrepreneur, beauty influencer, and mom Brandi Raines. Brandi shares the unfiltered stories behind her journey—growing up, navigating trauma, building businesses, raising a family, strengthening her faith, and learning how to take control of life through every season.

This is a place for women who are building, healing, raising families, navigating relationships, chasing big goals, and becoming stronger without pretending the process is always pretty.

Healing From the Past Honest conversations about trauma, growth, forgiveness, and doing the work.

Business & Leadership The messy parts of success, entrepreneurship, confidence, and taking the leap.

Motherhood & Marriage Real life inside family, relationships, mental load, partnership, and parenting.

Faith in Hard Seasons What it looks like to trust God, keep moving, and find purpose in the process.

The Life Behind the Mic

The story is bigger than the highlight reel.

Brandi's perspective is shaped by the life she is actually living: family, marriage, entrepreneurship, faith, growth, and the seasons that required her to become someone new.