AUDACIOUS HOPE with Jacy Lawler wasn’t what started in November of 2022. When I launched this podcast platform, it started with the name Have the Audacity Podcast. My whole mission was to inspire women to live an audacious life on their own terms. The goal of Have the Audacity was to empower women to live life on their own terms. It has been a journey to arriving here to where we are in 2025. In 2024, I was feeling out of alignment. I knew I still wanted to podcast, but it didn’t seem like a perfect fit. I was feeling called to put out more positive content on IG due to the onslaught of election media coverage.

AUDACIOUS HOPE started as an idea to post Good News Daily on IG. Let me tell you finding good news of substance to share daily.. is difficult. I honestly felt defeated within weeks. Then I decided to pull back maybe changing the podcast to just share the details of my life is the pivot that was needed… so I shifted to Have the Audacity Living Life Unscripted. I was holding on to the Have the Audacity identity with both hands and it didn’t fit right. I posted two episodes, then promptly took a podcast and social media hiatus for 3 months.

During this time, for the first time since 2022, I can honestly say that I became 100% present in my life. I enjoyed where my feet currently were. I wasn’t striving for some big goal and spending on my time chasing a goal that I wasn’t enjoying my life that was happening in the present. I went through a period where I honestly didn’t know if my podcast days were behind me. Around the beginning of month three of my hiatus, one night while I was journaling before bed, God gave me a download. This quiet impression on my soul and all it said was “Audacious Hope”.

I realized that I wasn’t showing up how I was meant to. I was in the general area, but not in the exact spot and being 1 degree off literally can make all the difference. It is important to know that I am so thankful for the Have the Audacity Podcast, it was how I started. I learned how to podcast. I found a global community. It was the launch pad for the women’s online community the “Audacious Collective”. It allowed me to interview amazing women some of which I am still mind blown to have had the opportunity to talk to. Have the Audacity open doors for me to be guest on other podcasts and to be a speaker at an Online Virtual Health Event. I have zero regrets for the season of Have the Audacity.

I need to honor all the women in the Have the Audacity community by having the audacity to pivot into alignment. I don’t view Audacious Hope as something completely different. Audacious Hope isn’t even Have the Audacity’s cousin, but rather it’s sister. I am the common thread between the two and they both are parts of me.

I am excited for this journey with Audacious Hope and I am so thankful that you are along for the ride.