The LifeBeats Project

The LifeBeats Project You feel the fire. Your heart beats knowing you have a message of hope to share. But staying in your purpose and light every day can be hard and lonely.

Dawnbreakers by The LifeBeats Project is a podcast and community dedicated to providing tools, resources, and like-minded connection for women and men who feel the fire to share a message of hope and light to reenchant a disenchanted world. Dawnbreakers by The LifeBeats Project with host Briana Johnson-Hurst is a weekly podcast dedicated to providing tools, resources, and like-minded connection fo

r men and women seeking to reenchant a disenchanted world. Each week, whether a conversation with a guest or a solocast, is dedicated to helping you, a Dawnbreaker, remain standing in your purpose and message as you daily seek to align with your Higher Power. For more information and show notes, visit https://www.thelifebeatsproject.com/podcasts/

To be a part of the community of The League of Dawnbreakers, visit https://www.thelifebeatsproject.com/events/

05/26/2026

Destruction. That is the cost of moving into the new. We all at one point in our life say we want new.
New opportunites, New relationships, New level of trust with ourselves and God.

But are we prepared for what has to come before the new? The clearing of the old, the letting go of the past, the certainty, the comfortable.

I know I wasn’t!! It has been sooo challenging to keep moving toward what I want and staying in the uncertain.

I learned of the Hindu Goddess Kali who is the goddess of destruction.
But not in the way we normally view it.
Destruction as a way to clear out what is no longer best to create space for birth, rebirth, creation, the NEW

So if you are in your Kali Era, follow along.

I have been able to see the new growth, the new sprouts of opportunity, trust, that have come from navigating this purge, this uncertainty

Let’s make room for what we really want and find what is on the other side together.

Let’s rise reenchanted.

Breathe!Trust!Be open!Smile!Embrace!Exude!Shine!Confidence! In who I am; in Him!When I know and remember who God is to ...
05/25/2026

Breathe!
Trust!
Be open!
Smile!
Embrace!
Exude!
Shine!
Confidence! In who I am; in Him!

When I know and remember who God is to me
When I know and trust in His character
When I remember who I truly am as a child of a Divine Infinite

I let in so much more!
More belief
More uncertainty
More joy
More emotion
More action
More of life

Let us let Him in more

05/23/2026

It hurt to see them. He had been gone for years and yet his absence was the largest hole I had ever experienced in my life.

No “yello”s. No mid rush hour phone calls. No red faced laughs.

I had never gone through anything like this without him.

I hadn’t been back for some time. As they saw me from across the room they came to speak to me. Their familiar faces and voices instantly soothed my heart. They reminded me of him so much that instant tears came. They flanked me and I put my arms around each one.

“Something we say today to you will be just from him.”

Stories came one after the other. And I listened attentively, chin raised, eyes fixed, waiting to hear those words that would hit me, “that’s it. Those are the words from him.”

“He was always good at elevating the situation. He didn’t get stuck in the middle. He could look above it and down on it and say “oh there’s the exit.” He could look outside the situation to evaluate it.”

As he said that and motioned with his hands raised as if to look above something, my thoughts turned to my trail name (a story for another day)

Juniper Hawk

I imagined through the eyes of a soaring hawk or the view from the tops of a Rocky Mountain juniper tree a higher vision. To be able to look down on something with heavenly perspective.

I knew he was looking down on me now. Oh how I wish I could hear him just tell me where the exit was, a way for me to get out of the middle of this grief and confusion. A higher perspective. To tell me what was ahead after the ending of a 20 year marriage.

To learn how to move through the emotion and be able to see outside of it. Above it. That has been something I have sought for ever since. Not to diminish the emotion, but to know I am not it.

I am not grief.
I am not sadness.
I am not devastation.
I am not divorce.
I am not abandonment.
I am not betrayal.

Neither are you.

At that moment, surrounded by my Dad’s two best friends, I felt my vision lift. And I have been on that trajectory ever since.

Follow for the rest of the story.

05/22/2026

If you have ever quietly wondered if you will ever become the woman you always knew you were meant to be, this is for you.

I built my life around a formula I believed in completely. Faith, culture, everything I thought a good life should look like. And then life broke me entirely open. Death, divorce, betrayal, loss, disease, grief, abandonment, disappointment.

I feared I was the reason it had broken.

At the crossroads I had a choice. Lean into my faith or step outside it. I chose to lean in. And what I found was a God who loved me more than anything I could have possibly gotten right. One who met me exactly where I was and loved me too much to leave me there.

And the best is still ahead.

Here we explore what it means to trust yourself again. To feel alive in your body. To find your sensuality and sexuality as sacred. To show up fully for the relationships that hold the most of your heart. All of it, inside your faith, not outside it.

It is not too late to be the woman you were made to be.

Fully yourself. Fully alive. Fully faithful.

Let’s rise reenchanted, together, inside our faith.

05/21/2026

Be strong and of good courage, be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
Joshua 1:9

Rebuilding a life that is new is so small task. Choosing different things for yourself to get different results takes sooo much courage.

My current days are filled with new things God has asked me to do and they are UNCOMFORTABLE and strreeeettcchhing.
A level of trust in Him and myself I have never done.
Oommf it can also be exhausting mentally as we manage the inner conflict of seemingly revival emotions and thoughts.

And yet … in His love and mercy He sends me messages like this.
Keep going Briana. Remember it is I that have asked you, led you, walking with you.
Trust yourself. As you align with me.
Be excited! Skip!

Oh how I love how He talks to me.

You can do this too! Be strong and of a good courage. God is walking with you!

Where are the places you are taking courage in right now? Comment so we can cheer you on!

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Follow along if you too are in a time of being strong and of a good courage. Let’s rise reenchanted, together!

05/18/2026

We had just won 3 awards for our films at the ! All 3 I had directed/co-directed. Walking off stage in a gorgeous blue dress I had never worn before but had had in my closet for years. After losing 20+ pounds I could finally wear it! With trophies in hand back stage, there she was.
The glambot.
Something I had imagined myself doing on the red carpet. A turn, a look, a flip of the hair. And here was my chance.
What a moment indeed!
My hair was ready.
3-2-1 action. Turn, look, flip. In a second it was over.
I practically skipped off the mark anxiously awaiting the replay.
As I watched it back, to my serious surprise and disappointment. Oh, what was I thinking wearing this dress? All I could see was my stomach stealing the show.
My whole demeanor shifted.
Celebratory to complete embarrassment.
Gone from my mind was the hard work making our films and the honor of being recognized.
Gone from my mind was the hard work changing engrained habits and my body releasing 20+ pounds of inflammation and toxins.
All I could see was what remained and was ruining my moment. And it stayed with me for the rest of the night. Tears ready to break under the smiles.
In truth it is still very hard to post this, extremely vulnerable in fact.
But I choose to write a different narrative than the one I had been telling myself.
I choose to see accomplishment and resiliency and beauty and boldness.
There has been a lot of overcoming in my story, a lot of rewriting. I have come so far and yet have more to go.
I love my body and have worked really hard to be connected with her!
Doing so has brought tremendous life and expansion.
God wants me to embrace her, all of her.
And so I choose to honor her, and her beautiful flip of the hair.

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Follow along if you are ready to rise reenchanted — your body included. She has been waiting for you.

05/16/2026

A weakness. Irresponsible. Self indulgent. A luxury I didn’t have. This is how I saw rest for a good part of my life.

I hustled and pushed through things at the expense of my health.

Over the last few years I completely shifted how I see it
And today, can choose to take a nap without shame or guilt
But as a choice when the response to the question of “what do I need?” results in knowing that for me and for those who need me, rest is actually the answer.

God even commanded us to rest, so why is it so hard? 😆

When we can reframe what it actually provides, life shifts!

So next time you find yourself off, cranky, short. Ask yourself “what do I need right now?”
And if the answer is “a nap”, celebrate!

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Follow along for more ways to become reenchanted with yourself and life!

01/14/2026

I live!!!!! 😆☄️🔥

Getting a late start on the New Year but coming in hot.

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