Rebecca Fennor Jean Baptiste, a life and productivity coach, shares her journey of finding work-life harmony and helping others with task management and productivity. She emphasizes the importance of saying yes to ourselves and being open to being used by God. Rebecca customizes her coaching approach for each individual, focusing on building rapport and understanding their goals. She encourages people to eliminate time wasters and be intentional with their time. Rebecca also shares an uplifting message of letting go and trusting God's plan.

• Work-life harmony is about finding a balance that works for you, rather than trying to achieve perfect balance.
• Saying yes to ourselves and prioritizing our own goals and desires is essential for personal growth and fulfillment.
• Having a plan and being intentional with our time can help us achieve our goals and make space for the things that bring us joy.
• Eliminating time wasters and being mindful of how we spend our time can increase productivity and create more meaningful experiences.
• Letting go of control and trusting in God's plan can bring peace and allow us to fully embrace our purpose.

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Chapters00:00

Introduction and Overview

01:02

Work-Life Harmony and Serving the Community

05:09

Overcoming Challenges and Pursuing Life Coaching

09:21

Saying Yes to Ourselves and Embracing God's Plan

10:42

Prioritizing Goals and Vision

13:54

Tips for Productivity and Time Management

26:17

Letting Go and Trusting God's Plan

29:22

today on the podcast, I would like to welcome our guests. She's a life and productivity coach wife, not a floor and serves her community and task management and productivity. Welcome Rebecca, Fennor, wrong again, sorry, Becca, Fennor, Jean Baptiste to the show. Hi, thank you for having me, Christian. I'm really excited to be a guest on your show today. I'm so glad you're with us. I can't wait to talk about, you know, how can we just feel like we have more

control over our lives by really understanding that we can be in charge of our schedules and life a little bit more than maybe some of us feel. And also just, you know, how do we say yes to the things we really want to be doing and not let life in our household and our schedules really take away that joy that we can find. And so I'm excited for this conversation. So Rebecca, can you share with us a little bit about what life looks like and how you're serving people now and all that good stuff?

So my life is, like everyone likes to say, is busy, but it's busy with harmony. So I love to say work life harmony because you can't really balance everything out to the T. Some people think they can, but let me know how you feel by the end of the week. And everything goes in season. So right now we're on a summer break season with the children.

and we are in a different harmony, a different season. So things are shifting, things are different. I serve my community here outside of the Tampa Bay area, even like global, cause I do webinars virtually with workshops, webinars, I do one -on -ones. I love to collaborate with other business owners and just kind of like getting to know the community on a deeper level.

I love to serve families that need like the back to school strategies of like getting their schedules situated because they're tired of the chaos that happens in the morning. We get blessed a lot with compliments from our family and from friends in our community with us being a large family. So I am a mom of four, been married for,

15 years with my husband and going to church sometimes people are like, you guys are always on time. How do you, like, I mean, there's times we're not on time. You may be like a few minutes late, but my husband and I, we both are all about like, if you told us we're supposed to be at this time, we will be there. Sometimes we struggle with the weddings, you know, so sometimes the weddings don't start on time as you know, a lot of people know, but yeah, that's what I do. I love what I do, just helping people with

task management and bettering their productivity and having strategies alongside that. So good. So what made you step into that in particular? wow. OK. So growing up, I never really saw like a calendar system. It was kind of like one of those like you had to learn it. And I think that with me being a millennial, it wasn't really something that was

out there. I feel like now people are understanding it more. So I have always been an early riser since probably as young as high school. And I go to bed pretty early too. So the reason why I started what I'm doing is because I used to struggle with saying no to others.

And I would just say yes to everybody else and say no to myself and that caused me not to succeed in certain things in my life and especially in ministry I said a lot of yes to a lot of you know church work and no to myself said yes to friends to doing certain things that they wanted to do but I never really focused on my personal goals so

I want to say maybe like in my early 20s, I came across like this TV show called Starting Over. And I loved the aspect of it. It was pretty much a show based for women. They would go into a home and they were pretty much starting over their life. They went through trauma in life and I was like, I want to do that. I want to help people in that not knowing my gifts and exploitation, right? That's one of my spiritual gifts.

And, you know, and I've always been told for years, like, Rebecca, you're always motivating people. You're always helping others. Every time I leave a conversation with you, I just want to stay. I'm like, okay, great. But you know, I never really thought anything of it. It was just kind of like, yeah, this is just who I am, whatever. Like, and so with that being said, it was in the middle of the night after I got married, I looked into

and I came across this website about becoming a Christian life coach. And I looked into it, dived in, got some credentials done. But with that, I went through other problems with that, trying to get it done. Because my father's part of my testimony with me being a life coach. So I do remember live during my...

Well, okay, let's go backwards. Before my father passed away, he told me, Rebecca, whatever it is that you're studying, I feel like God is gonna use you to help a lot of people. And I want you to keep going no matter what happens. And I said, okay. So what happened was I was live in my webinar for coaching, because back then it was live.

teaching. Now you can just do it on your own, depending on, you know, the, the Institute. Sorry if this sounds lengthy. I just kind of like, want to kind of like get the details out of it. But I was live. It was like Thursday evenings for four hours. My daughter wasn't home with me. She was away at my parents for the summer. And I get a text message from my sister and she's like, daddy got into a car accident. I'm like, my gosh. So I'm just like, okay. should I get out of class? Like,

Should I drop everything? Should I call my husband? He was at work at the time. He was on his way home. And should we drive over? Is he okay? She's like, they said he's fine. Just, you know, we'll take care of it. Just come after, which was like a two hour drive. And so I'm like, okay. And then I think I sent like a private message to the professor at the time and just to let him know, hey, heads up, I might have to leave class early. My husband comes home.

And he's like, you need to get out of class. I'm like, what happened? He said, your dad did not make it. So he passed away. And whoever gave my sister the message pretty much lied because they didn't want to be the one to disclose what happened to my father. So she found out through the cops. Sorry, like you probably didn't think this conversation was going to go this way.

She found out, the Holy Spirit is just telling me to share. She found out through the cops and she told my husband because she did not know how she was gonna tell me. And it was, and I didn't know then, but now that I'm older, I saw why the enemy made that happen so that way I wouldn't continue my purpose. And for him to say what he said beforehand,

And so I'm like, gosh, how am I supposed to go back and complete? It took me like a whole year of therapy. I had a lot of anger with God, anger with all the things. Didn't go to church for months because I was just grieving so bad. And I finally completed it after a year. And my professor, when he found out that my father passed away, he just said he canceled class for the rest of the evening because he remembered he said he lost his sister the same night. So.

I say this to say, when God gives you a purpose, sometimes it'll be hard to complete that purpose. As long as you're living, there's a reason that God gave you breath to see the next day and don't take life for granted. And if God is telling you to do something, go do it. So stop saying yes to a lot of things and start saying yes to what God is telling you to do, because we have work to do.

There's an assignment in each and every one of us. So yeah, that's my story, like the beginning of it. But yeah, that's why I'm doing what I'm doing. my gosh, girl. Thank you for sharing that. I'm so sorry. No, don't, excuse me. Don't be sorry. I think a lot of people can at least relate to a portion of that where, like you said, you were going through, in your case, a loss in such grief, unexpected grief.

And whether someone's walked through that or not, they might have been going through things like you said, trials, tribulations, obstacles, but you knew that this was something important to do and to finish. And that words of encouragement that your dad gave you, that he spoke to you before, sadly he passed, you're able to hold onto that. And I just think that that's, I love that you shared it because I think it's gonna encourage some people in their own story, in their own lives as they're walking through.

you know, maybe something right now. So thank you for that. So let me ask you this. So one of the things that I know you help people with is it's having a plan. Can you tell us a little bit about that? Like, what is it, what's the plan about? Like, in other words, is it like knowing what our goals are for life? Is it knowing what our vision, our values are? So how do you help people with like making sure that they're prioritizing?

what they want to have in life versus what's maybe happening in our lives and our schedules and our busyness. Yeah, so most coaches, they just have like a strategic layout for everyone. I'm a little different. So I love to customize each and every individual's journey. So I first build a report to get to know who they are.

what we call a consultation, right? And then after building the rapport, then we figure out what is it that your goals are. And then we come up with a plan to strategically execute those goals. Some of them are not realistic. Some of them are. I have clients that they have these wild dreams that they were trying to get done in a month. But everyone's different and they have to learn.

So first it starts with the building of the report. Then we customize what would work for their schedule, my schedule so we can work together. There's a lot of homeworks involved. It's very customizable. They get a profile. Now, if it's more of having a plan for a goal, first you wanna look at what the goal is. What are the top three things you need to do to get that goal executed?

how long will this take you? How long do you wanna work on this goal until the deadline date? So it all depends on the goal. Like I remember I had one client who she wanted to do hair full -time and we worked on her scheduling. And now her business is so successful. This was like almost 10 years ago. Her business is so successful that

she has to turn away clients, you know, because of that, those little baby steps. And then we have the blended family. That's like a whole nother plan, right? Single moms or either, you know, a woman that's starting off a business. Sometimes it's a mom who's new into the life of motherhood. And that's a whole nother.

harmony. Sometimes they are working, sometimes they're not working. So it's, I can't really narrow out and say, yeah, this is going to work for you. Boom, boom, boom, boom. It all depends on everyone's situation. Everyone's plan is different. Right. Absolutely. But I think the important part is that I sort of wanted to emphasize is that the idea is that if we just go through life, you know, working or being a mom or doing both, we can get caught up in the

just the daily to -dos and we can not focus on the vision we want or hitting goals we want for our future, right? And so I think the important part is that we look at not just what the day in and day out of our schedule or our life looks like and how we might tweak that, but also what are we moving towards? Is that right?

Yeah, definitely. So that's where the, the customized strategy comes in to execute the goal and the plans. So yeah, what, what is it that we're looking at? Why do we, why do you want to do it? Right? Why, why is it that this is important to you? And not just why is it important to you, but who is it that is going to be involved in this? Is this to help and serve customers and clients? Is this to help and serve your family?

like if you're trying to open a business or if you are a business owner, because at the end of the day, you can't be a disservice for yourself and for your family if you do have one. So, and then that way you can move forward to executing and getting those goals done. And after you get those goals done, there's other goals that need to be done because life goes on and we have new goals and new dreams that drive us. Absolutely. Absolutely. So yeah, one thing I want to talk about is

We both talk about this, which is, and you alluded to it a little bit earlier, learning to say yes to ourselves again, and then also allowing us to be used. Like you talked about some of your gifts by God. So what would you just share with us about that? It can be personal or just in general, what you see with some of the people you're working with. Yeah, so a lot of people don't have faith with themselves. And my strongest gift is faith. And then it's excretation, then wisdom.

But so I first start with them. We don't start with the goal. So that's why we build rapport first. And some of my clients hate this. They're like, no, let's just go straight to the goal. No, let's work on E first. So sometimes it's the procrastination. So I started a procrastination webinar late spring -ish. It started last month, which went really well. That's because someone challenged me to do it and I procrastinated on doing it.

So there were seven parts of procrastinators. Some people just go with procrastination, they're lazy. Sometimes your procrastination is the time wasters that are in your life. Sometimes you're a doer procrastinator. A doer procrastinator is a person that says yes to everything. They say no to themselves. There are sometimes the control freaks. Let's just be real.

They want to control everything. And because they're controlling everything, there's no way they're able to execute everything on time. Right. Yeah. And then we have the distraction, procrastination, and anybody can be a procrastinator. Everyone has some levels of procrastination. So distraction, procrastination could be like your family, your friends, your children, or, you know, the social media you're on too long.

or just kind of just wasting time in some aspects. So like right now, a lot of parents who have children at home right now for the summer, they're having a lot of distraction, procrastination. So, but yeah, I can go on with the list, but first I start with who they are, what's causing them to procrastinate. And then we execute that with what they love to do, what brings them joy. And then we work on the goals and go from there.

Right. Yeah. So what would you just say about though, even about the part about God just using each of us, you know, cause obviously like you said, when you shared with us what several of your strongest gifts are. So what, what do you just share with people to encourage them in their way so that we're listening right to the call or we're listening to those promptings? Yeah. So, I just love as I get to know a person, like I'm a really good listener.

And some people are like, you remember that? As I'm listening to them, I feel like the Holy Spirit helps me pull the best out of them. And sometimes it's things, especially after becoming like a mom or a new mom or again, mom, like however many children you have, sometimes you forget about yourself. You know, after being a parent,

because sometimes we forget about the men too, because they go through their struggles too. But I can relate to women because I'm a woman. So you become a new mom and you used to dance, you used to read a book, you used to go bike riding, and then you forget about that. But me, what I do, especially when it's a woman that's a parent, I talk about that. What do you like to do? Like, you know, some people are like, how's your children doing? They don't know what conversation they need to talk.

about like, no, how are you doing? Have you done something fun this week that brings you joy? You know, things like that. Talk about that all the time. Yeah. Because it's, it's so prevalent right now, you know, and maybe always, but for that to happen to us and we, it happens over time. It's like crazy. So you don't really realize it for a long time, at least a lot of people. And so I think it is so important. And I think when they see those of us doing those things,

it encourages others to do the same. Maybe it takes them longer or they have to kind of build up that muscle again and the courage, but I think when they see other people doing it, they start remembering. Like, we used to really enjoy doing these things, or I don't even know anymore what I'd want to do. And so I think it's important because I do think that God does design us to have unique interests and passions and things that make us curious that the next person doesn't necessarily have.

And so I think when we actually understand who we are, we better understand who we were made to be. Amen. You know? Yeah. So let me ask you, since you obviously focus a lot on productivity and task management, of course, you also encourage people and do all these other things. What would you say is your top one to three tips that you can share with us about, you know, just being a little more productive and

getting the things done in our life so that we do have more space for the things we want to do, the things, the goals that we have for ourselves and just enjoying life more, right? For ourselves or with our families. Yeah, so when it comes to like the top tips, one thing I try to tell people is,

you really need to eliminate the time wasters. I feel like people are wasting a lot of time. And it goes into Ecclesiastes chapter three, how the Lord designed us to live daily. And obviously we're working on 24 hours in a day. And we were all receiving 24 hours in a day, but everyone

is not working through the day at the same level. Some people are just wasting too many time. And I would definitely say look into what your time wasters are. Because there's, let me tell you, scrolling through those feeds can definitely take away a lot of time that we are not implementing. And me being a mom of four,

Like our oldest, she's going to high school. We have technically four more summers left with her if she decides to go away for college. And, you know, we're reflecting, like, did we waste any time with her? Did she receive, did we, were we, did we steward to her life like we're supposed to? Like, did we do her job? And I'm like, my gosh. And I think it hit my husband at her birthday last year, because last year was her golden year.

So she was 14 on 14 and he was just like, my gosh, she's 14. I'm like, yeah, she is. She's no longer our two year old. So time is so sensitive. And I think that's why I value serving people in this type of industry. People just don't realize like how quickly life is. Like you blink your eye and your children are no longer in diapers. So that's right. Yeah, absolutely.

Well, I love it. So then I agree with you. I think most of us, not all, but most of us are, one of the issues is it's just like having a plan. We're not aware that we're spending so much time on things that don't really matter in the big picture. And that's okay, right? To take breaks, to rest, to watch a show or to go on our phone. But what we don't realize is it heads up over time. So whether it's in a day or it's in a week or a month.

If you had a goal to go back and do a class or to read more books that are going to enrich your life, if you actually added up all those minutes of time or hours you're spending on other things, you actually had time you could be doing other things or spending it with your family or doing something outdoors. But I think that's the point is we have to be intentional and we have to pay attention to how we're using our time so that we can actually say, wait a minute, I have this goal. I really want to read more real books this year.

you know, that enrich me in my faith or in my life or personal development. And so, but if you don't ever set the goal, you're never going to say, wait, I could actually shift to reading 15 minutes a day or 30 minutes a day instead of scrolling my phone for that extra 30 minutes. So I think it's important to be intentional. Yes, absolutely. Definitely. We need to be a little bit more intentional with our time because we were not. And I kind of feel like during the season of COVID, the

I call her Miss Rona because she came with the authority of destroying the world, literally shifting everybody. Everyone had some piece of her. Just this demonic force that caused people to waste a lot more time. People got very comfortable. We weren't in communion in person. A lot of things were shut down. And I think people are still healing from that, you know, just kind of

learning who they were again, outside of just binging social media and binging movies and all the things. There was a lot of depression in that season too, a whole lot of depression. I can personally say I was depressed my whole pregnancy. You know, you hear about postpartum depression, I was depressed during the pregnancy. It was not easy for us. But I thank God for therapy. I thank God for

all the people that were in my circle that called me. I had friends that called me every week, like, girl, you're pregnant during this thing, you good. You know, it was hard, but I survived. And yeah. But I agree with you. I think we're still, I still have ramifications from everything that everybody walked through to my older sons, their college age, they're all at home at this point, but they're still, I mean, what happened to them having to do high school, part of high school at home the whole time?

all their sports getting canceled, they still have some patterns from them that I haven't yet been able to get them fully out of. Do you know what I mean? And one did walk through, he was away at college, he walked through depression and suicidal thoughts. And it was just so much that people had to go through and everything they knew prior to that was pulled away for a period of time. And so, yeah, I think you're right. I think so many people are still healing and they're still struggling to find their way out of what we went through because a lot of people are still really isolated.

you know, or they're still disconnected from community in the way that we used to be connected. And so it is still a struggle, I think, for a lot of people. And, you know, and so I talk about it regularly because, you know, I think it's important that we talk about it so that we can understand we're not alone in feeling some of these things of walking through those hard, hard things. So, so thank you for sharing that as well. So let me ask you this, Rebecca, what would you share with us? Just maybe an uplifting message or idea.

that you think just might encourage some people in their lives and just the way we look at life and being intentional.

There's like a little quote that I look at sometimes. It's from Real Talk Kim. I'm sure you've heard of her. She says, sometimes you just have to be done, not mad, not upset, just done. And I like that quote because sometimes in our life, we go through so many hurdles. We go through trauma and all the things that happens.

But we just hold it in, we hold it in and that can turn to like toxic energy and people will feed from us the wrong way. But I feel like a lot of people just don't forgive like they need to and just release some things. And the reason why I like that quote too is because I'm learning more to just be done. Like God got it, God's gonna take care of it.

He knows my heart, he knows what I'm trying to do. And no matter what happens, I just need to just give it to him and just know and have faith that he will take care of whatever situation it is. And sometimes it's not just you figuring it out yourself. Sometimes, like you said, you do need to talk to others. Some people just internalize everything and it can turn into anger in other ways.

And I'm running with it. I'm running with it. And whoever wants to come with me, let's run together. So I'm letting go of everything and just letting God do what he needs to do and let him be the God that he needs to be. I love it when he shows off in my life. Absolutely. I love it. Absolutely. So good. Okay, Rebecca, thank you for joining us today. Can you share with us? How can people connect with you online and just learn more about how you work with people?

Yeah, so if you're trying to find me, I am RebeccaPJB .com and I am Rebecca PJB on every platform, Instagram, Facebook. You can even Google Rebecca PJB, you'll find me. And when you go on my website, there is a free download that pops up if you're trying to tackle your goals. It's just a brief summary just to get there.

if you're trying to get certain things done and feel free to connect with me. I love to hear about the stories and serve you in the way that the Lord wants me to serve you. So. Awesome. I love it. Well, thank you so much for joining us today and sharing your tips and your story as well. Thank you so much for having me. This was so good. And, you know, I'm truly, truly blessed to be here. I love it. Thanks again.