<p>Most women are not hiding because they don't want to be known. They're hiding because they've decided the real version of them, the full, unedited, messy, complicated version, would cost them their seat at the table.</p><p>Tommi Vincent spent decades believing that too. Then she realized the ingredients she was most ashamed of were the ones God intended to use all along.</p><p>In this episode of <em>The Confident Woman Podcast</em>, host Rachel Brooks is joined by Tommi Vincent, author of The Table of Life: Nourishing the Soul with Food, Love, and Faith. Part memoir, part cookbook, entirely soul-stirring. Tommi is a classically trained chef, a domestic violence survivor, and a sought-after speaker who has stood on stages for the NFL, JP Morgan Chase, and TED Sports. Her work has been featured in the New York Times and Savoy Magazine. But what makes this conversation powerful is not her resume. It is what she has had to confront privately to get there, and what she has built on the other side of it.</p><p>This episode is for the woman who has been showing up as a curated version of herself so no one sees what is really going on inside. The woman who has been carrying something she has never said out loud. The woman who is tired of performing and ready to find out what God can actually do with her whole, unfiltered story.</p><p><strong>Talking Points and Takeaways</strong></p><ul><li>Why the things you think disqualify you are actually your greatest qualifiers</li><li>How healing anchors, whether cooking, fitness, or faith, reveal your true state of wellbeing</li><li>What it means to build your own table one dish at a time using all the ingredients of your life</li><li>Why naming your pain is how you turn the light on it</li><li>How to feel the hard things without letting them consume who you are becoming</li><li>Why belonging begins when you stop hiding the parts of yourself you are most ashamed of</li></ul><p><strong>Quotes </strong></p><p>"The things I thought were my disqualifiers were actually my greatest qualifiers. I brought those ingredients to the table." </p><p>"God was not turning the light out. He was turning the light on so I could finally see me." </p><p>"Feel it, but don't allow those feelings to prosper." </p><p>"When you name it, that's turning the light on it. And the moment you turn the light on, the darkness can't exist."</p><p><strong>Next Steps </strong></p><p>Subscribe to The Confident Woman Weekly — where Rachel goes deeper every Thursday on identity, faith, and building a life and business rooted in freedom. Subscribe: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://www.iamrachelbrooks.com/subscribe">www.iamrachelbrooks.com/subscribe</a></p><p><strong>Connect with Tommi Vincent</strong></p><p>Book: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://amzn.to/4aU9CHg">The Table of Life</a> (Amazon) </p><p>Website: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://tommiv.com">tommiv.com</a> </p><p>Social: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://instagram.com/ChefTommiV">@ChefTommiV </a></p><p><strong>Connect with Rachel Brooks</strong></p><p>The Confident Woman Weekly: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://iamrachelbrooks.com/subscribe">https://iamrachelbrooks.com/subscribe</a> </p><p>The Freedom Framework: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://freedom.iamrachelbrooks.com">https://freedom.iamrachelbrooks.com</a> </p><p>Website: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://iamrachelbrooks.com">https://iamrachelbrooks.com</a> </p><p>LinkedIn: <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://iamrachelbrooks.com/linkedin">Rachel Brooks</a></p>