The Good Space with Francesca Phillips
The Good Space Podcast is where ambitious women come to redesign their lives from the inside out. We can’t heal inside the systems that broke us—so here, we create new rhythms, rules, and ways of living with clarity, intention, and ease.
Join host Francesca Phillips for grounded, heart-centered conversations and actionable insights on nervous system regulation, mindset, spirituality, and self-identity. Together, we’ll help you reconnect to yourself, work with your capacity—not against it—and create a life that feels as good on the inside as it looks on the outside.
The Good Space with Francesca Phillips
Why surrender is the key to transformation and acceptance with Kute Blackson
Kute Blackson is a beloved inspirational speaker and transformational expert. Born to a father known as the miracle man of Ghana and a Japanese mother who couldn’t speak the same language as her husband he was public speaking by the age of 8 to hundreds of thousands of people in his father’s church. By 14, he was ordained as a minister to take over his father’s ministry someday. Instead, he decided to carve his own path and do something different.
Not only is he a best-selling author of You Are the One and his new book The Magic of Surrender but he’s been featured on the Larry King Now Show, NPR, Mind Body Green, and many more. His interview on Tom Bilyeu’s Impact Theory and Bulletproof podcast received rave reviews.
His mission is simple: To awaken and inspire people across the planet to access inner freedom, live authentically and fulfill their true life’s purpose.
Read the full blog post about this episode here
We talk about…
[3:17] - Surrender is the key to life: Kute's clear moment of surrender with his late mother
[9:20] - What we can learn about surrender from the greatest people in the world
[16:17] - Redefining what surrender is from what we already know, letting go is more
[20:41] - Ego resists surrender. It is our perceived sense of what we identify as ourselves
[28:36] - Embracing resistance and finding healing in feeling all of the emotions
[32:40] - There is no transformation without truth. We start the journey of surrender by identifying the truth that will set us free from resistance
[34:54] - The phase between acceptance and surrender
[40:24] - When we can surrender to death, that is when we can truly be free and feel more alive
[47:49] - Acknowledging the truth and creating time to envision where you want to go
[51:59] - Life is a school. Life is a university for your soul’s evolution.
[53:46] - Kute's book recommendation
QUOTES
“Surrender is that willingness to take the limits off of life and to allow life to show you, to allow life in its infinite intelligence to reveal itself to you and to trust that it will.” - Kute Blackson
“Surrender is our true nature.” - Kute Blackson
THIS WEEK’S INTENTION
I choose to surrender in every situation and trust that life is expressing itself through me in big and expansive ways.
WRITING PROMPT
What might I be avoiding the truth of in my life? What can I release so I can have space for even better things?
RESOURCES AND LINKS:
The Magic of Surrender* by Kute Blackson
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