Bettering Women from God’s Word: True Beauty with Stephanie Hadwin

"Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised." Proverbs 31:30

 

This week we are talking about TRUE BEAUTY! To me, there's no better person to talk about the beauty each one of us can have (besides Jesus lol) is Stephanie Hadwin. Stephanie has spent more than twenty years in the beauty industry and she has her own store in New Jersey.

 

At her shop called "Hadwin House," she makes her own candles and other goods to sell. She is a wife and mom to two boys. Her family helps her in her shop and she takes time to meet her customers and share God's word with them. In this episode, she tells us she has some Bibles for sale in her shop, and the other day she gave a woman a Bible who said she had never held a Bible! Wow! We love what God is doing through you, Stephanie! She is a true Proverbs 31 woman, right!? Totally a beautiful moment for sure!

 

Also, Stephanie did my hair as a little girl all the way to college and she did my hair and make up for my wedding! Stephanie is a trusted voice in my life for all things beauty. I pray God seeks you and finds you in this conversation and reminds you how beautiful God made you. I pray you remember that you are FEARFULLY AND WONDERFULLY MADE. I pray this verse gets written on your heart and mind to KNOW Psalm 139:14 (ESV) which says "I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well."

I love this podcast because my girl Stephanie goes to God's word when she shares what true beauty is and y'all as she reveals in this podcast, true beauty is NOT what you think. She tells us that true beauty is defined in God's word.

We talk about what we have to work on to be beautiful inside and out which we can find in Philippians 4:8-9 (NLT) which says "And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. Keep putting into practice all you learned and received from me—everything you heard from me and saw me doing. Then the God of peace will be with you."

We talk about a lot of scripture in this podcast as it pertains to beauty. We even get into some controversial topics that people have twisted and made women look like they are not accepted and allowed to serve in the church. For that conversation, we talk about 1 Timothy 2:9.

 

Besides reading your Bible, I'd like to share this video from "The Bible Project" video that helps to explain 1 Timothy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RoqnGcEjcs

 

Here's the book Stephanie references that she recommends and has read, The Sassy Girl's Checklist for Living, Loving and Overcoming: https://www.amazon.com/Sassy-Checklist-Living-Loving-Overcoming/dp/0736918272

 

To check out Stephanie's business online, check out this link: https://hadwinhouse.com/

 

You can connect with Stephanie on Instagram, here: https://www.instagram.com/shadwin_house/