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FaithfulFin Talk – Episode 50: The Return | Romans 5 & Real Faith

• Juantrell Lovette | FaithfulFin Talk • Season 2 • Episode 50

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After a two-year hiatus, Juantrell Lovette returns to FaithfulFin Talk with renewed purpose, sharing her journey through suffering, perseverance, and real faith inspired by Romans 5.

This episode explores how life's trials became a path to growth, character, and hope. Juantrell opens up about the painful realities behind her transformation — from losing her brother on her daughter's birthday celebration to navigating her mother's addiction, shifting from club work to real estate, and building a legacy of faith beyond poverty.

Through it all, Romans 5 reminds us that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance builds character, and character leads to hope.

If you've ever felt benched, buried, or broken — know this: Your story isn't over.

Real Stories. Real Scripture. Real Growth.

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Breaking the chain, feeling the gain. Now I'm rising. Open the gate, never too late, no hiding Wings open wide, trusting my God ready to take off, ready to take off. Ah, someday, I know I'm moving in the right way. Oh, one day. I keep praying, I keep praying.

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Hi. Welcome to faithful fin talk. I cannot believe I am. It's been a really long time.

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I know you guys probably was wondering what was going on with her, what is she doing? It's been two years, and so episode 50 is literally a marker for me. I've been gone for two years, not because I wanted to leave the podcast, but because I knew that God has something bigger and better for me. And to be here today, to be on camera, to be in front of the camera, it just means so much to me. So I'm so excited and I'm really happy to be back, and I hope you guys are happy to hear my voice, and not only that, just to see my face, I can kind of put the face to the voice now. So welcome to the new and the new show, faithful Fentalk.

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It was before Blessed to be Us, and before that it was let's Discuss Our Feelings, and that just lets you know the journey that I've been on in these what? Five years? Because when I first started it's probably longer than that. When I first started, in full 2019, it was a journey that I was not expecting. So to be here today recording visuals, that ain't nothing but God y'all. So today's episode is episode 50. The title of today's episode is the Return, and we are going to dig into Romans 5. Not like before, but this is going to be something different. This is real stories, this is real scripture and this is real growth. For me to be here today, sitting in front of a camera, talking back on mic, this is something that's new for me. It's big for me and I didn't even think that I would be here today, but because God has allowed me to persevere through the pain and endure such I mean what I went through a lot with my mom I posted, with my brother passing away and I had to bury him, and even with this podcast, transitioning from the club going into real estate. It was a bunch and it was a lot, and I'm just so happy to be here. So this is real stories, this is my story, this is my testimony. This is how I'm able to allow God to use me, and so I created this platform, which has constantly changed and evolved over time, but today it is called Faithful Fin Talk, because I had to be faithful not only in my finances, but I have to be faithful and also with the talking that I do to myself and to others. So real stories, real scripture, real growth Welcome. If you guys are new here, I really do like to welcome you guys to the best podcast that you guys are going to ever come across.

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My name is Juantra LeVette, I am the host, and this is my return, not just to the mic but to a mission. It's been more than a minute. Like I said, it's been what? Two years I've been gone and didn't even think that I would make it back the way that I am, but I knew my vision would be bigger than what I wanted, and reaching out to certain people to help put this into visual context is not the easiest, because you can't trust everybody. So even finding a space where I feel comfortable, where I can record and just be myself that took a lot of time and dedication as well. Where I can record and just be myself that took a lot of time and dedication as well, and I'm so happy to be here. So shout out to the person that's helping me even behind camera, chris. So shout out to him. Shout out to my stylist, Michelle she got me right for today. And shout out to myself for just even showing up and being here today. And a big, huge shout out to God for allowing me to be here. And that's something big and huge for me.

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But sometimes, you know, god puts you in a pause not to punish you, not to punish you whatsoever, but to prepare you, but prepare you for the mission that he has aligned for you. This episode isn't just about starting over. It's about returning to what never left my faith, my purpose, my growth. It's like a resurrection in some type of way but in no type of way of what Jesus did, but just in a way, and of human forms. Like you guys, I'm still alive, I'm still here and I still have a voice. And this time my voice is more impactful because there's so many things that I want to do for the community, for people, just people that I come in contact with, and I know that if I align myself with God, with my relationship, then I know those things will also align too. So it's been a minute, it's been a journey. I had to go through some things, a lot of things, but now I know that the pause was very much purposeful.

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I'm super happy to be back, to be back on Mike, because I feel like this is my family. This is where I wanted to first start my business and enlighten my business. Before I even talk about real estate, before I even mention anything about the club, I knew that being able to express myself to other people, to show people like, hey, I come from a situation that doesn't glitter in gold and I'm not here on my own understanding, but because I got in relationship with God, that is the reason why I'm here today and that's why I have a voice today. And so, yeah, this podcast is just about that faith, is just about that faith, finance and relationship with God, and I'm happy to just be able to now be in a space where I can boldly express and talk about my testimony. This is not for me to say God told me to tell you anything, because God doesn't tell me to tell you anything, but he tells me to showcase who I am so that people can see who he is or who she is. However you identify your God, I'm in no judgment whatsoever. So this episode is very special for me. It's not just number 50, because you would say, why did she come back after so long? But it's a marker of transformation, trust and a whole new beginning.

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So in this season of my life, I've been tested, I've been stretched, but more than anything, I've been realigned. My prayers have been louder. They've been more, should I say, scattered in ways of where I'm scattered, in ways of where I'm asking for guidance, I'm asking for more understanding. I'm going into that space where I need to understand this love that's now filled inside of me and how can I give it back. So I'm realigning myself with purposeful, meaning things like family and myself and finances, and that's really this journey. It has been about coming from a poverty mindset into a rich kingdom of riches, like wealth, you know and I'm not just talking money, I'm talking wealth and knowledge of having that relationship with God, getting with the creator, digging out that dirt and filling it up with gold. It's like it's been such a reward for me. So if you've been rocking with me, if you've been rocking with this podcast, I want to thank you. I want to thank you for your patience and I also want to thank you for your prayers. Thank you, I want to thank you for your patience and I also want to thank you for your prayers.

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Faithful Fin Talk is officially back and we're going deeper and it's just. It's just not about finances or Bible study. It's combining both Bible study, finance, testimony, legacy, healing, building, scripture. It's all of that Because if you have been following me or been paying attention to the podcast of any episodes before which you can go back and listen to any episode, you will see that it's been a journey.

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When I first started from let's Discuss Our Feelings to Blessed to Be as, and now it's Faithful Fin Talk, you ask what is this? What is this all about? What does she got going on? You know what is this. What is this all about? What does she got going on? You know what is she doing. And at first, when I first started, it became something like a vent, like I needed to vent, and then, when God got me more into relationship with him, then I started to learn about what Jesus Christ did, and then I started to dig more into the stories of the Bible and I just felt it being super relatable, not just for me, but for everybody in this entire world, and so I started to dig deeper into my relationship. I started to dig deeper into my relationship with others, because everybody played a part into my path and my journey and where God has taken me.

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So to be here today or to be on mic today is surreal. It's like what? Like God, are you serious? And I could always hear God saying like, yeah, I'm serious, I prepared you for this. It's time and even though you're scared, I equipped you for this. So if you're ready, like, let's do it. And that's why you guys are tuning in and you guys got this fresh new episode today, because I'm back, and not just back with a testimony, but back with resources that can help and guide and, you know, just get you involved into having a relationship with God.

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Because if you look at me, I am far from perfect. I don't care what you see the glitz, the glam. I know it looks beautiful, but I do not look like what I've been through. I've been through so much and listening to any episode in the past, you will see. You can see the growth, you can see the times when I didn't even know what to say, honestly, and just going through the relations of the Bible. Just reading the stories really was impactful for me. I still dive in them today. I still go hard into the Bible stories and also not just trying to put the Bible on people, but I'm so much talking about how God has just been using me and been showing up in my life, and not just that, but just introducing me into Jesus Christ. And that's where Romans 5 come in, because Romans 5 was the episode that is supposed to kick off episode 50. So, not like before, we're not going to go scripture from scripture, we're going to just do an overview of Romans five so I can show you guys how the Bible is aligned in with my testimony. So let's talk Romans five and one of the scriptures that carry me. We also glory in sufferings because we know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance, character, character and hope. Ok, let's just talk perseverance, suffering. Let's talk suffering and perseverance.

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When I introduced to social media my mom and I was asking for prayers for her drug addiction, it caught me by surprise how viral that video went, because so many people was relatable to somebody suffering from drug abuse. Whether it's mom, dad, aunt, brother, it doesn't matter. I think people forget that it doesn't matter what background you come from, people still suffer from the diseases of the world and my mom just so happened to be one of those person that I showcase to the world and I was very vulnerable in that time when I put her on social media and I'm like, hey, like this is my mom, I just need prayers. And surprisingly, the entire world opened up and sent so many prayers and that really brought me back, because that was kind of like in the beginning, when I started to walk with God. I was probably like two, three years in.

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And to do that on such a huge platform with so many people that can judge and, you know, voice their opinion, I didn't know what to expect. But to see so many people reach out in prayer, it just brought so much light into how I knew that God was showing up in my life, because I really disliked my mom and if anybody is going through a relationship or a situation when they have to suffer because somebody else, like your parent or family member, they put you into a vulnerable situation, you really don't understand how to persevere that. You don't understand how to get through one hoop to go through the next and I had to do that. So when I brought that to social media. It was super huge for me and it was one of those things where I felt very good because people were sending prayers out to me. It wasn't one of those things where I felt bad or I felt guilty, but it was another part of me where I remember my family judging me so hard for putting my mom on social media and other people was praising me for the love that I carry for her and still to this day I carry that same love for her.

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But it's been hard and it's been something that I had to suffer through, not just in silence, but I had to suffer through in my character, because I'm also a mom and being a mom that's coming from a broken mom or a broken situation. You really don't understand how to maneuver that or try to be the best of that, and that's where God came in and that's where my relationship with God come in, because the mom that I am today is nothing like the mom that I come from, and to be able to have my mom in my life today, that's nothing but God. So, just going over Romans 5, reading it, really understanding how faith, you know, is really persevered through the suffering that we do have to carry on. Everybody has to suffer in life. Nobody is ineligible for suffer, like nobody's not equipped to suffer. We all have to suffer some way through life. But being able to get through that, going over that, it really does produce character. And that's why I'm here today, so in character and hope, just hoping that my mom see the light, see the best of her, and hoping that I become a better mom for my kids and just a better person overall for the people that I'm connected to. That's where that verse really hits me. So that verse, just it is just not a Bible verse, it's, it's been real word for me. Roman five reminds us that we've been made right with God through faith and because of that we can now stand in grace, not guilt.

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And for a long time I was feeling guilty. What if I'm not a good daughter? What if I'm not a good mom? What if I'm not a good sister? What if I'm not a good friend? You know? And God had to constantly show me over and over and work with me over and over through people's lives and through my own lives, and to reconstruct me and realign me with his purpose and his plan for me, and that's why this episode is so vital for me and that's why it's very important for me to voice what Romans 5 speak into me.

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Now I advise everybody, you all, to go into your Bible. Please read your Bibles, or read whatever it is that you need to get more aligned with your spiritual connector. And I say the creator of all things, because creator, the creator, created all things, heaven and earth, good and bad, evil, good, all things. And so to walk with your creator is really understanding where your faith lies. My faith today is way stronger than my faith was when I first started, and what's so crazy about it is that my faith is still growing and I still have time to go.

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So I don't feel guilty where I'm at. I don't feel guilty working in a club. I don't feel guilty transitioning my life. I don't feel guilty when I don't have time for people. I really don't feel guilty at all, because there is grace when you stand in your suffering. That builds character and hope. So we can rejoice in the trials, not because we like pain, because nobody likes the pain, but because the pain has purpose. Then that's why we can rejoice in where we stand with God. So suffering produces perseverance, perseverance builds character and baby, your character is currency in the kingdom. We're talking currency in the kingdom not financially, because to be able to stand with your character in the kingdom and stand boldly it takes a lot of equipped, built character that God has to install in you. When you have to be around demonic people, be around hurt spirits, be around mad people, haters or anything like that Like it takes a lot. And to be able to have that currency in that kingdom we'll talk more about that later.

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And so that was just real life for me going through the changes, stepping away from the podcast for so long, having to embrace where I am in life, the transition that I was going through, motherhood for me of financially stabilizing myself, taking myself from poverty to I wouldn't even say wealth yet, but poverty to legacy, building such a platform, that's way bigger than me. That my vision just it's small compared to I know what God could provide. That's also been huge. And it's been compared to I know what God could provide. That's also been huge. And it's been something that I've been just walking in my pain with and me hand in hand with God is like okay, when you're, when you say I'm ready, then I'll be ready and whatever you have for me to dish out, I can dish that out. So there's a lot of things that I've been working in the background with my business, but I had to put this first. This podcast had to come first. My testimony has to come first. My walk with God has to come first. It's because I put God CEO of my entire life, I put God CEO of my business, I put God CEO of my parenthood in everything that I have to go through. So if God is CEO of my entire life, then I must first put God first, and that's why I'm here today.

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So there was nights where I cried out. There was nights where I didn't want to be encountered with anybody. There was nights where I just didn't want to talk to people. There was times where I went away. There was days when I showed up and I smiled, when I was spiritually just drained. I had nothing to give, but, yeah, I still had to show up, you know. So I was tired, also moving in the strength that God was providing to me so much, so much, and so that when I even had to bury my brother and everybody has experienced that, when you well, I don't know if everybody has, but if you are somebody who has to experience to have to bury someone, that's a lot. I didn't know that I would have to take on the role of burying my brother. Getting that phone call August 29th 2021, the same day that I planned my daughter's birthday party huge birthday party, big bus for the entire family to go to California to celebrate my daughter's birthday is the same day I got a phone call that my brother was shot in the head and he was, he was dying, he was dead.

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And to have to go through that, to have to endure that, I was just like this, this can be real. I got what is up and it was all in the midst. Things was just happening back to back to back to back and I would get more and some more of my testimony. It's just I do not look like what I've been through and I don't know who needs to hear this because when I started walking with God, I was damaged, like broken, damaged, damaged goods. I was no good. I didn't have a purpose, didn't even care for a purpose. I'm just like. I was like so confused. I was hurt and hurt people, hurt people. And so when I started to walk with God and started to confess and surrender and do all of that.

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It. It became surreal for me Like things hit the fan, because they shit hit the fan for real and started to unravel, started to break down, started to rebuild all kinds of things. And you can listen to past episodes to know how far I've came. I'm just saying for this, for me to even be here today recording episode 50, is just surreal for me. It's like, yeah, I can't believe how far I came and I thank God for that.

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So, having to bury a loved one, having to see my mom, you know, really face the fact that, dang, she's really messed up and she's to the streets, having to be that only girl in my family, in my immediate family, that can sustain my brothers or my brothers that I could look up to, this is huge for me, you know. So for me, through it all, god did not waste anything when it came to me. He didn't. None of this is a waste for me my going to juvenile hall, my foster care systems, broken families, poverties, all of that. And today I still stand and I rise. This is like a real resurrection of feeling like I was dead and I was alive, didn't know where to do or where to go, what purpose to move.

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So I'm in the middle of my real estate transition and that's been huge for me. I have my license here in California, nevada. But even transitioning to real estate from the club is not like what people think. You know what I'm saying. You know when you watch selling OC or selling Tampa and all that like you want that, but that's just not what it is. And I battle with God a lot transitioning and God tells me all the time that I have you exactly where you should be, and so God has been speaking louder than ever to me. The club pays my bills than ever to me. The club pays my bills, but it definitely drains my soul and comfort delays my calling.

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So I'm stuck with having to be obedient. Obedience will stretch you, especially when fear still pays more, and that's where Romans 5 come in. I've been deep in the Bible and I didn't even know what to talk about, really to express myself or how authentic I should be when it comes to expressing myself. But it's all working out and I really hope that people can see me for me, not just of how beautiful I am, but more so in the inside and what God has done for me and I pray that God allows me to touch and connect with other people. That needs us, like me, my podcast, my business, anybody or anything that's connected to me, anything that's connected to me. So Romans 5 reminds me that hope doesn't disappoint, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit.

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So, even in silence, god is still speaking. Even in stillness, he is still working. I've been silent. I haven't been podcasting. I've been away. I've recorded an episode before that I never posted, but I've literally been silenced. I've been in my prayer corner, I've been in my prayer closet, I've been in my car, I've been in my shower. I've been crying out. I've been still. I've been moving. I've been faithful, I've been saving. I've been doing so much, but I've been quiet. I have not mentioned anything, even today's episode. I didn't broadcast. I didn't say, hey, I'm going to go record an episode today. I didn't involve anybody. I was complete silence in this transition, in this prompt, in this decision making right now. I've been silent and God has still been working. He's still been working in my life. He's still been working in my life. He's still been working around me. He still has been working with my mom. He's been working with her. He's been working with her. He's been working with me in our relationship too, because it's not easy when you come from that type of situation. It's not glitz and go. You don't just wake up happy to have a mom like that. You don't wake up in that. You have to also fight through feelings and pain and suffering. You still have to go through that. So I still have to go through that.

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So this episode isn't just content, it's confirmation that I'm not who I was when I started, not even the middle of the journey. I'm not going back to where I started spiritually, just connected on a higher plane, on a higher rim. I'm literally somebody else Like you cannot touch me unless you go through God, and that's something that's been very happy for me to feel is because I know how I stand and I know where I stand in my faith and I know that, even in my faith today, that it's getting stronger and stronger the more that I stay connected to God, like it's been a big, big, big step for me. So I'm stepping forward with more faith and more fire and more focus. And so to anyone's listening who feel like they've been benched, buried or broken, this is your sign you are still in the story. You are not behind. You are being refined. I was refined, you're being refined. So when God brings you back, it's never to where you were, it's always to what's next, and so I really thank you guys for walking with me, thank you for growing with me, and I like to welcome everybody back to Faithful Fin Talk. This is real stories, real scripture and real growth.

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I'm your host until next time, juantra LeVette, and please don't forget to follow us on all social media platforms Faithful Fin Talk on Instagram. Faithful Fin Talk on Facebook. Faithful Fin Talk on Instagram. Faithful Fin Talk on Facebook. Faithful Fin Talk will be on YouTube. So just keep in mind and subscribe to the website. You guys don't want to miss what we have in store. I have so many gifts to give out to my community, and my community consists of the people that subscribe.

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I'm not for everybody. I'm not for everybody. I'm not for everybody. I'm not for everybody, but if you feel like this message is relatable and you feel like this message can touch somebody else, then please feel free to send it to anybody you may know your sister, your mom, your dad, your aunt, your uncle. This message is for everybody. I am for you, this podcast is for you, and this is Faithful Fin Talk. Until next time. You guys, I'm your host, montrelle LeVette. Bye you, and this is Faithful Fin Talk. Until next time. You guys, I'm your host, antrella Vette. Bye, breaking the chain. Feeling the game, now, I'm rising open the gate, never too late, no hiding wings open wide, trusting my God. Ready to take off, ready to take off Someday. I know I'm moving in the right way. One day. I keep praying, I keep praying, I keep praying, I keep praying. I can't call you. I can't call you.

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