OH HEY THERE!

I’m Brandy, your best online gal pal & cheerleader and I would dare to say, soul sister!

Who is madly in love with Jesus and self professed coffee extraordinaire. Unashamedly, You can typically find me online encouraging you from my home office right outside downtown Charleston, South Carolina. I’ll be sitting next to a lavender latte, my Bible, and phone in hand. I am passionate about not only helping, but coaching my girls! I delicately juggle many roles including mama, wife, being a nanna B, fur mama to 6 inside doggies, studying in seminary, writing, blogging, Bible teaching, speaking, coaching, and podcasting. Whew! That sounds like alot, but I LOVE it! You can find me on Instagram, Substack, and behind the microphone of Eighth & Grace where I walk along side you in all seasons of life talking about everything from fashion to faith and everything in between- because who doesn’t love a good pair of jeans, belly laughs until our cheeks hurt, comfy joggers, tears of knowing we are heard, and Jesus!

It’s all about the holes in our shirts and His holiness.

Here, you are free to be curious, hold on to expectancy and hope, even in the wilderness when it doesn’t make sense and worship with wild abandon.

My heart is to encourage you in your everyday life. To give you practical biblical wisdom along with fun outfit shares, good food, fun travel places, and all the things us gals love!
Because you are so tired of fake. If we’re standing together. We’re for one another. And, my face will tell it all:)
We are in this thing called life together. In it for the long haul, not just the fair weather. This is our space where grace meets our messy faith. And, I want to point you to more of Jesus. He will NEVER leave you. You haven’t been forgotten.

My Story…

Where it all started, well- that’s a really long story from a gal that chronically overshares, but we’ll cover enough for you to get the gist of who I am and how I believe largely that’s because of the state where I’m from that still has my heart. Home sweet home, Tennessee. Although, we have been translplants to South Carolina (moved for my husband’s job), my southern hospitality and volunteer traditions were birthed right there - smack dab in the middle of the state where I lived for 43 years. The place where I married my sweetheart right out of high school at nineteen, where all three of our children were born, where all of our familes and friends still live in the same county, where I studied nursing and opened my medical practice and learned so much about life, the place where we built what we thought was our forever home on twenty five acres, and where we said our good byes when it was time to start the new chapter. I love it here now but honestly, it took a minute. And if you asked me during that “minute” I would have told you my whale was parked at the port and I had just entered Ninevah.

Now, that I have spilled a little bit of the tea- here we are together. I am definitely the most unlikely leader, more on that later in a blog post and podcast episode. I am obsessed with championing women to find their voice and walk in their calling knowing they are deeply loved! I am forever thankful, grace has and is re-writing the pages of my story.

I can not even begin to tell you or count the number of times I have written notes to myself saying

“Be the change you want to see in her. You are her; she is you.”

With that heart posture shift, came the courage to use my voice and put my hand to the pen- in this case/keyboard:) So, if you are looking to take a journey full of all the feels, you’ll find your place here. And, if you’re ready to go on a roller coaster ride experiencing ALL of our emotions, while I expose my most inward parts, in hopes to help you find find healing for your soul, well then! You came to the right place, the corner of Eighth & Grace. A song and dance written out and choregraphed through the lens of a beautiful chaos that I call my life.

In 2019, God showed me how to live life after the fall.

I no longer owned my medical practice (that’s definitely one for another time) and went through a devestating period of being unemployed. It was brutal. I lost myself in the waiting season that turned from hours, to days to years. It was a dark time, to say the least and I felt so defeated. My practice was gone. My “friends” were gone. I lost my Mercedes to repossession. Our house was hanging on by a thread, my family was falling apart, my marriage was struggling, and all I had to offer anyone at that point, was myself.

But finally, there was breakthrough, I began working as a state- wide traveling nurse practitioner. I lived in a hotel from Sunday to Friday, three weeks out of every month. I had one week home in between to be within driving distance, able to sleep in my own bed, be a wife, mama, daughter, sister, friend, and newly nanaB. It was everything I had ever dreamed of from a career standpoint, but it was excruciatingly lonely as well. No more speaking engagements, no longer teaching nursing school, and no longer sitting on advisory boards, just traveling solo. But Oh, there was Jesus!

And then, after a year and half into the job I was loving, my trajectory changed- yet again. I was devastated. What hadn’t been taken away from losing the practice would soon be stripped away, by the next blow, an unforseen accident. Although, traveling was lonely, I had been using my voice along the way to speak life into everyone I encountered. What happened next is the tragedy, so I thought. I fell.

After a period of time, I lost my job. Once again, down to only having myself to offer. Our family truly went from living the live we loved to a new found poverty we had never known. We were scrounging money to buy bread for our children. I had all but given up. I was so desperate to know that I wasn’t helpless. I needed hope! I began to read God’s Word and dug in deep to find out Who He was and what He had to say about me. IT CHANGED EVERYTHING inside me! He picked me up and turned me around to believe His banner over me was LOVE. I began teaching the Bible, speaking to other broken women(while I was healing) I didn’t even wait until I believed I was being made whole- I couldn’t. There was a burning message shut up in my bones that had to be released.

I can’t tell you that we haven’t experienced hard times since, but I can tell you I have learned that even the hard is holy. We can truly have peace in wildnerness places, there is wild freedom and abundant grace right where we are, joy and grief can coexist, and that we are never alone!

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Three fun facts about me.

I love studying the Bible!

Like really. Alot. It’s one of my most favorite past times. I carry my leather journaling Bible everywhere I go. It’s falling apart at the seams and I can’t even think about it falling apart. When it finally calls it quits, I may just be in BIG trouble. All of my thoughts are here too.
I love being in the city but I THRIVE at the beach!

If you ever want to know where I get my most creative inspiration or the freckles on my face, it’s from my favorite place.
Honey lavender latte... extra hot!

My go-to coffee order is a lavender latte in the summer or winter, either iced or SCALDING hot. I’m trying to perfect the perfect syrup at home. And, et’s just say it’s better than my latte art.