First Giving Honor To God
17 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsIt’s hard to imagine where you’d be without God, huh?
Truthfully, you probably don’t wanna think about it. But have you ever thought about where you’d be if you teamed up with God to pursue your biggest and dopest dreams? I know you have. And that’s the story we’re going to tell here. The story of monster-sized dreams brought to life by a partnership with God.
Join host Whitney Hall, artist and visionary, as she explores the faith behind our favorite brand leaders and professionals who have brought their visions to life while honoring God through their work in every industry imaginable. Tune in every other week as Whitney shares her struggles with faith (whew the struggles) and her journey to joining God on the adventure of answering her creative calling. You’ll also hear interviews and open conversations with leaders, creators, and professionals on how they did it all with God.
So if God has given you a vision that's big —nah,HUGE—First Giving Honor to God is for you.
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Episodes
Ep. 14 If You Build It |Courage to Answer the Call
February 16, 2022 12:59 - 27 minutes - 38.4 MBIn this season’s final episode, Whitney shares how she found the strength to start building the vision God gave her back in 2019. And she encourages the audience to take the same leap and build confidently with God while becoming exactly who He’s calling them to be. Whitney ends this season with prayers over the audience — prayers to encourage them as they head to build. Shivawn Mitchell of SAM Studios, and Juston Daniel of Becoming Ministries join in, offering prayers for listeners, too ...
Ep. 13 Growing Pains | Why Growing Doesn't Always Feel Like Winning
February 02, 2022 17:12 - 29 minutes - 39.9 MBIn lieu of a guest, Whitney uses this week to share how God has been helping to shift her perspective around growth and its relationship to winning. This all started when God told her to take this year off from goal setting — something she would never have considered on her own. And through this no goals year, she’s learning exactly why she’s been so obsessed with goals in the first place. Whitney recounts the three areas in her life that have been clear areas of growth over the last few y...
Ep 12. Already Done | How to End a Season with Awareness
January 19, 2022 15:56 - 28 minutes - 39.6 MBIn this episode, Whitney recounts her worst academic fear coming true; missing a college final. She uses this story to jumpstart a casual conversation around her feelings of unaccomplishment in the face of an ending season. Instead of God dismissing her feelings, he walks her through a months-long journey showing her how her inability to recognize answered prayers and fulfilled promises is keeping her stuck in seasons that he wants to end. Whitney shares one of God’s biggest promises kept...
Ep. 11 Create Space with Shivawn Mitchell of SAM Studios
December 22, 2021 19:36 - 43 minutes - 60.3 MBIn this episode, Whitney sits down with award-winning filmmaker, producer, podcaster, author, and her homegirl, Shivawn Mitchell of SAM Studios, to talk about creativity and telling good stories. Shivawn shares how she decided to take a leap of faith to pursue a career in film and the mindsets she had to release in order to truly lean into her creative calling. She also shares why she produces the way she does and how we, as Christian creatives, have the freedom to tell the stories that ...
Ep. 10 Girl v. Gifts | A Lesson on Self-Worth
December 01, 2021 17:02 - 40 minutes - 55.3 MBIn this episode, Whitney shares her earliest memory — a holiday gathering where she sings for her family for the first time. This memory represents the beginning of Whitney’s musical journey. It also represents the beginning of her struggles with her self-worth. And it wasn’t until decades later in the midst of the pandemic that she begin doing the work to change her self-image when God asked her to stop doing and start being. While the journey hasn’t been easy, she believes it’s absolu...
Ep. 9: Start at the Start with Jennifer Mims, Clinical Researcher
November 18, 2021 12:47 - 42 minutes - 57.9 MBIn this episode, Whitney sits down with her childhood bestie to dive into the story behind her new career in clinical research. After completing her degree in business, Jennifer started down a path that would be considered a complete success story to most, but she knew there was so much more for her. Jennifer shares how a prayer she prayed two years prior would lead her to an unexpected trip to visit a relative and ultimately change her life. Jennifer's heart and smile and her hard ...
Ep. 9: Start at the Start with Jennifer Mims, Clinical Researcher
November 18, 2021 12:47 - 42 minutes - 57.9 MBIn this episode, Whitney sits down with her childhood bestie to dive into the story behind her new career in clinical research. After completing her degree in business, Jennifer started down a path that would be considered a complete success story to most, but she knew there was so much more for her. Jennifer shares how a prayer she prayed two years prior would lead her to an unexpected trip to visit a relative and ultimately change her life. Jennifer's heart and smile and her hard ...
Ep. 8: Find Your Way Back | Why Changing Direction is OK
November 03, 2021 06:30 - 30 minutes - 41.3 MBHave you ever found yourself driving along and suddenly your GPS tells you it’s “re-routing you”? In this first episode of season two, Whitney shares the story of how God took her to and through a brand new job in a whirlwind six months; the ultimate re-route. To her, it was horrible timing. However, she eventually realizes that the journey was all to heal her heart and soul. Tune in to hear how Whitney found herself back in a familiar place with a renewed sense of hope and a new outl...
Ep 7: Go with God | How You Can Still Win the Decade
January 27, 2021 10:00 - 23 minutes - 32.2 MBIn this season’s final episode, Whitney walks through a time where she trusted gurus and business experts' voices over God’s voice causing her to hate the craft she once loved more than anything — photography. She even jokes about how they led her to take photos of babies, which was something she vowed to never do. Whitney also recounts one of the hardest episodes she recorded this season; episode 3. Whitney calls that episode “raw” and “real” and discusses how it revealed to those closes...
Ep 6: You Need Community with Courtney Butler + Detric James
January 14, 2021 06:06 - 35 minutes - 48.3 MBIn this episode, Whitney is joined by two of her best friends, Courtney and Detric, to sit down and talk about their journey to becoming friends and creating community. “You have to start by being your authentic self. Otherwise, you’re going to attract people who are attracted to a person that doesn’t exist” Detric and Courtney share why community has become such an important thing for them. Detric realized that he didn’t have anyone to share his authentic self with and Courtney realize...
Ep 5: Start from the Bottom | The Blessing of Being a Beginner
December 23, 2020 15:44 - 15 minutes - 20.9 MBIn this episode, Whitney decides to have an off the cuff conversation about something she’s dealing with and has been talking about a lot with her friends lately — being a beginner. In fact, Whitney shares how being a beginner comes with some incredible blessings. "I believe God had to make me a beginner again because for the most part I was leaning on me and I'd be like 'God I'll holla at you if I get lost'. But that's a really dangerous place to be." Whitney is learning that starting f...
Ep 4: The Impact of Your Yes with Kendall Isadore of The String Queens
December 02, 2020 07:34 - 51 minutes - 71.3 MBIn this episode, Whitney sits down with Kendall Isadore, one of the first friends she made during her college years at Howard University. Together, they talk about Kendall’s powerful trio, The String Queens — a soulful and authentic strings trio that creates stimulating musical experiences that inspire diverse audiences to love, hope, feel, and imagine! Kendall shares the story of how The String Queens came to be; a story that is clearly orchestrated by God and full of right place, right t...
Ep. 3 Move Different | The Only Way to Pursue Purpose
November 11, 2020 13:41 - 21 minutes - 29.6 MBIn this episode, Whitney shares how she went from starting her dream business to taking a job that took her off the path of God. After constant questions about her getting a “real job”, Whitney eventually gave into other people’s wishes and it has taken her almost a decade to realize she is on a really long detour. Tune in to hear how 2020, a year of incredible stillness and quietness and her ‘bout with sickness caused her to open her eyes to the reality of her life: she was living a life...
Ep 2: How to Live a Brave Life with Tashara J. Childs of Brave by TJ
October 28, 2020 05:10 - 31 minutes - 43.8 MBThere are many external things that may make you feel like you can’t do the thing God wants you to do, from money to location to lack of support. But how do we deal with internal obstacles that hold us back, like mental illness? In this episode, Whitney briefly shares her experience with anxiety and the hit it took on her confidence, especially in the realm of creativity. Then, she welcomes her low-key cousin Tashara, who has taught her so much about how to live with mental illness and to...
Ep 1: Do It As Worship | How to Actually Start Pursuing Your Dream
October 28, 2020 05:00 - 18 minutes - 25.2 MBDo you ever hear God whisper something to you and you think, “Nah… That’s not for me…”? In this episode of First Giving Honor To God Podcast, Whitney shares a powerful story that began at last year’s Transformation Church Conference, only a few months after she had regained her faith. God told her she needed to come back to her creativity, revealing a vision of some sort of media company. She didn’t take this lightly, in fact, she wasn’t exactly thrilled that God had spoken this to her! W...
Ep 0: You Can't Quit | Trusting God with Your Purpose
October 15, 2020 22:51 - 2 minutes - 7.74 MBIn the trailer episode, Whitney shared how in 2016 she went from turning her back to the big vision God placed on her heart to surrendering to God in 2019 at a conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A three (3) year journey that took her from being lost and confused to understanding that her creative pursuits - playing guitar, singing, photography, etc — are important and they matter to God. Whitney introduces us to how she hopes to share through her bi-weekly podcast episodes the story of how s...
Ep 0: You Can't Quit | Trusting God with Your Purpose
October 15, 2020 22:51 - 2 minutes - 7.74 MBIn the trailer episode, Whitney shared how in 2016 she went from turning her back to the big vision God placed on her heart to surrendering to God in 2019 at a conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma. A three (3) year journey that took her from being lost and confused to understanding that her creative pursuits - playing guitar, singing, photography, etc — are important and they matter to God. Whitney introduces us to how she hopes to share through her bi-weekly podcast episodes the story of how s...