When the Vision Feels Bigger Than You: Building Businesses While Growing a Baby
There’s a sacred tension that forms when you’re holding two miracles at once—one in your belly, and one in your hands.
Jaclyn Steele Thurmond knows this feeling intimately. In this soulful episode of The Freq Show, she and her husband Sam open up about what it really looks like to pursue a vision when you’re also growing a human.
Together, they explore the beautiful duality of this season: building businesses while building a baby. It’s not a polished narrative of balance or hustle—it’s a story of trust, divine timing, and surrender. One that will resonate with anyone navigating growth, uncertainty, and a vision that feels bigger than what your current season might seem to hold.
Building Businesses While Growing a Baby
Divine Timing & Duality
Jaclyn shared something powerful that we all need to hear:
“We can be powerful and tender. We can be full of gratitude and still feel depleted.”
This is the duality of being human. Of building something sacred while walking through something vulnerable.
And it’s exactly what makes this season so beautiful.
You’re not falling behind. You’re blooming.
You’re not late. You’re being refined.
You’re not too much. You’re becoming.
Building While Birthing: Lessons From the Load
In the months leading up to this pregnancy, Jaclyn had been carrying a lot—emotionally, physically, and spiritually. There was healing after miscarriage, then conception, then a high-risk first trimester with Hashimoto’s in the picture.
And while that was happening? She was also:
Designing a dream interior project for an NFL player (who would go on to win the Super Bowl)
Writing a book under deadline
Running and scaling the Freq Show podcast
Launching The Freq App
Holding herself to an almost impossible standard
It’s a lot for anyone. But Jaclyn kept returning to one truth:
“Pregnancy is not the time to push. It’s the time to tune in.”
Not to give up. Not to shut down.
But to gently surrender… and trust that what’s meant for you will find you.
Living in Alignment With a Changing Body
As Jaclyn’s body continued growing a baby, her awareness deepened.
She realized that ambition isn’t wrong—but if it overrides intuition, it leads to depletion.
So she began asking:
Where can I rest?
What can I pause?
Which standards can I soften, just for now?
Sam reflected, “You frontloaded the year with beautiful intention, but some of it’s just not going to go according to plan. And that’s okay.”
There’s something powerful about dreaming big while honoring your current capacity. It’s not weakness. It’s wisdom.
A Different Kind of Strength: Surrender From the Start
Sam offered a truth that felt like a shift in the room:
“Instead of waiting to surrender when you’re exhausted—what if you start with surrender?”
Rather than pushing until breaking, what if we began every vision with a quiet thy will be done?
That kind of surrender doesn’t weaken our plans—it purifies them.
It roots them.
It lets God move.
Slowing Down Without Shrinking Back
One of the biggest reframes Jaclyn shared was this:
Slowing down isn’t the same as shrinking back.
Pregnancy might bring fatigue.
Motherhood might shift your calendar.
But none of that means your purpose disappears.
She said it beautifully:
“A flower doesn’t bloom in a day. It roots. It grows. It becomes. So do we.”
Just because the pace changes doesn’t mean you’re losing ground.
You’re just moving in divine time.
Who You’re Becoming Is the Point
Sometimes it’s easy to fixate on the outcome—the book finished, the app launched, the house cleaned.
But Sam reminded us that the process is the purpose.
“The goal isn’t just the thing you’re building. It’s who you’re becoming while you build it.”
That’s where alignment lives.
That’s where God works.
The FreqApp: Recalibrate in Minutes
In the middle of all this transformation, Jaclyn created a tool that was born from her own need to shift quickly:
The Freq App—a pocket-sized best friend to help you recalibrate your thoughts, raise your frequency, and reconnect with yourself.
Inside the app, you’ll find audio messages (“calibrations”) paired with powerful frequencies designed to:
Ease anxiety
Awaken motivation
Support emotional healing
And more
From walking meditations to cleaning soundtracks, it’s a daily way to reset your energy in minutes.
A Moment for Realignment
Jaclyn shared a small, sacred practice:
Looking at her planner and asking: "What actually matters today?
That moment of pause, of discernment, of aligning to peace instead of pressure—it changes everything.
When the vision feels big, this kind of moment helps remind us:
You don’t have to figure it all out.
You just have to take the next right step.
Journal Prompts:
Where am I pushing when I could be aligning?
What’s one task I can release this week to create more peace?
What season am I in—and how can I honor it?
Final Reflection: The Vision Picked You for a Reason
As Jaclyn closed the episode, she left us with this invitation:
“Pause. Breathe. And remember—the vision picked you for a reason.”
It didn’t choose someone more prepared or more perfect.
It chose you.
Not because you have it all together. But because you have the heart, the grit, and the spirit to carry it forward.
So if it feels heavy right now, ask yourself:
What’s one thing I can let go of today, to honor where I am—and where I’m going?
Let that be enough.
Live on purpose. Live on frequency.
Ien Araneta - editor of The Freq Show & The Beckon Times
