E31 Honi: Choosing Presence Over Productivity While Being Fully Present Unlocks God's Real Gifts

What if the greatest gift you could give yourself this holiday season was simply to be present — and to cancel everything that pulls you away from it?

In this warm end-of-year solo episode Rev. HoniB shares the unexpected decision she and Michael made — cancelling their Florida mastermind trip to stay home, be present and receive the final weeks of 2025 as the gift they actually are. From a spontaneous night out dancing with her son and brother, to Sunday family time with all five people who matter most, to the testimony of women being transformed in her coaching group — this episode is a genuine exhale before a powerful new year.

In this episode:

• Why Rev. HoniB and Michael cancelled the mastermind — and what that decision produced
• The dancing story — 25-year-old son Keon discovering his mom on the dance floor in high heels at 1am
• Why dance has always been Rev. HoniB's savior and expression of eternal youth
• The difference between experiencing presence and preaching about it
• Family time with her sons, her brother, her former spouse and Michael — all five together
• Testimonials from the eight-week women's coaching group — Julia and Ashley's words
• The new group prayer circle launching in 2026 — what it is and why it matters
• The True Prosperous Living group coaching coming monthly
• Why people pray for something and then do not take the step to receive it
• The January 2nd women's eight-week program — early sign-up rate before Christmas

🌹 Being present is not passive. It is the most active form of receiving God Almighty's gifts.

Transcript

Welcome And Sacred Intention

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Welcoming you to the Ascension Alchemist Podcast. Hello, hello. It's your hostess here, Reverend Honey Borden, and a glorious day to you. I am belighted to come here to share another amazing moment heart-to-heart with you. As we have approximately a little bit two weeks left from the end of 2025. And of course, a whole lot is taking place in everybody's life right now. So let's just start from the top here. This is a community where we that are connected to God Almighty Presence are choosing to be stronger with that every day. There is a communion with that mighty presence. So we get to experience a different life. We get to truly embody, bring it into the body a different way of being, not just the human, our God mighty presence being present and available into our daily experience. And how amazing is that.

Choosing Presence Over Productivity

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So this week, Michael and I made a different action, a different decision that the action came out of it. So we were supposed to fly out tomorrow for our mastermind with Aspire. And Michael and I took a step back. We said, you know what? We want to gift ourselves the gift of this now greater. Being so present towards these last couple of months, couple of weeks of the year 2025. Be so present for Christmas. Be so present with our family. Be so present with our friends. And just really enjoy and rejoice. Allow the joy of the Holy Spirit be so luminous in our heart. So as we take this week coming up and the week after, and going into New Year's, we are not, we are not contracting with this rush. So that's why we decided to cancel the mastermind and not fly out tomorrow.

New Courses And Self-Mastery Path

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So we can relax more into ourselves, more into how fulfilling this whole year has been in the mentorship, in all the teachings, in in what we have produced that's now on our website for particularly those of you that watched that heard our last episode. It's all about our incredible, remarkable mastery level courses that is uploaded on our website. So people can finally experience these. They've been waiting for it. It's like, okay, now it's available. You can go through the self-paced program. It's something that instead of, for example, 15 years of everything that's been gathered, put together, there's this, for example, the Rose Mastery. The Rose Mastery over four months, you can really, that is, if you're giving yourself one week apart, a little bit sure, three months, you can really go deep in this space and discover the essence of the frequency of each ray of the rose and that feminine path from the mighty I am. What is that like? And it's amazing how you collapse time in this, or our our most remarkable course, which is the belief, thought, emotion, self-mastery. Who who cannot benefit from this? Seriously, because so many of us, we we ourselves had to shift and go into understanding how our beliefs had shaped our relia, our reality, and how we were operating from those thoughts, we were operating this from those emotions, and how that was dictating our life. So then with God Almighty Presence, we weren't able to completely fulfill the life that we we truly had the desire to. So we had to go shift things within ourselves, and out of that, we brought these teachings forward. So it's practical, it's accessible, it's available. So we're we're so much celebrating this. And for me, it was so important to be just so present to all of these that are unfolding. Be present to being present, receiving the presence, receiving the gifts. So the gifts are not just for Christmas, the gifts are right here, right now, being so present. For example, today we got a chance to go see my two sons with my brother, who's visiting here from California. He's been staying with us. And my former spouse was there. So the five of us, Michael had private sessions today. The five of us were hanging out, laughing, and and having such an incredible time together, going over a whole bunch of things. And it was this beautiful, just family time where we were all of us were so present. And Sundays are usually the days of football, yet somehow there was this incredible, heartful blessing that we gotta be with each other. And even last

Family Joy And The Gift Of Being Present

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night, I have not, can I just tell you about last night? So, those of you that know me personally, you knew how much I love dancing. So I started dancing when I was really, really young, and I was fully into jazz and modern and all kinds of dance and hip-hop, and in my 20s, my life dance was my savior from also like flamenco, all kinds of dance, so belly dancing, and that's where I feel so alive. And for many, many years I got into also five rhythm, and for a while I was teaching ecstatic dance. So dance is a huge part of my life, and I've always had this joke with my oldest son, who's now 25, and he knows all about my dancing days. I mean, if anything, their their dad and I met at the nightclub when I was 21, and uh it was just dance, dance. I was never drinking alcohol or any of those things. I was scared of boys, and you know, my family was very strict, and uh my my joy was to just go nuts dancing, and I still have that. So me and my son have always had this joke. Uh I said, Keon, you got now that you know you've been going to nightclubs for several years, like one day you and I gotta be in nightclub dancing together. He's like, No, mom, that's my nightmare. I will never do that. So, since my brother was here last night, he said, Hey, let's go out. Michael and I like, I don't know, I don't know if we can stay up. He's like, Come on, let's go out. So Michael and I went, we called a couple of my cousins, and with my cousins, we went to this amazing restaurant, this incredible restaurant that had one of the best DJs there. So we were there having a good time. Then next to it was another restaurant that had music, and this place they had the old-fashioned vinyl. The DJ was playing. It was such incredible, amazing 90s hip hop. So me and my cousin, and of course, my brother and Michael, we just started dancing, just having so much fun. And from then we went to this club, and I text my son, I said, Listen, we are here. He's like, I'm out, I'm like, come. So we had this incredible moment where my son came. He's like, Mom, he came with his two friends. He's seeing me on the dance floor with my high heels, dancing my heart out. And Michael, my other cousin, my brother. He's like, Oh my gosh, this is my nightmare. And his friends are like, Kia, like your mom. It's like, yeah, that's my mom. So of course I was dancing my heart out. Yet my feet were killing me, and I felt this joy. This I can't even express the level of joy and appreciation I felt on the inside from that eternal youth, and back in the day, where we would we would just dance our heart out to like five in the morning, and then that's all for the love of dancing, great music, and then coming, our feet hurting on the high heels and washing it. So, of course, I did that last night when we got back. We got back about 1 a.m., which is extremely late for me, because usually I go to bed about 9:30, I meditate and go to bed, and it was so much fun to shift it up, be so present, be so present with my cousins, be so present with my brother, be so present with Michael, be so present with my son. This moment that seems so rare and yet it came together. And again, today, and the gift of being present. I speak a lot about mighty God's presence,

Dancing, Motherhood, And Remembered Aliveness

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and that presence, I'm so attuned to it on a daily, daily walk of life. How can we bring this presence here? How can we be so attuned to God? And this is also for you all, or you were just so present where you're embracing all these moments, and there are many moments of deep appreciation, and you can feel the love that feels such deep love, and you know it's not just the human love, it is God's love pouring in into you, into the situation, into the experience you're having. And this is why we chose to cancel the mastermind, go to the next one in April, so we can just be present, experience more of these. So it feels so wonderful to be this present now, to receive these gifts, excuse me, and be able to share these golden treasure moments because I am experiencing them as gifts. Before actually Christmas is coming. I wonder if you're experiencing that. I wonder if you're creating space for that. I wonder if you are going to give yourself permission to allow that just by hearing this. Maybe you will, maybe you won't. I'm not here to tell you what to do. I'm here to just share what is so beautiful to experience in this nap, being so present. What a gift it is, what a gift it is to experience this before taking it to 2026. The fullness of gratitude, like in my bodies, in my body. And some of you that are beautiful listeners, you're part of our community, right? You're a part of our private community. You get to meet with me on Monday nights, and we get to sit, breathe, and meditate with that presence. We get to share that space and how enriching it is. It's been over three years. Every Monday we're meeting, like, wow, just what a wow! And how life changes just because of that. And we're adding on for 2026, it's so exciting. I am having the I'm so excited, I'm so excited to have the group prayer circle. I knew this was coming. As more individuals are wanting prayers to be supported around them. It's like the most exquisite gift, and I love, I love prayer circle, not traditional way of circle. The way I lead it is to stand in agreement with God Almighty over a situation. A situation that from one lens is in one way, yet here's the other reality that God is also, God Almighty is also presenting what is possible. So for those of you who want to take part of that, just join our association. It's amazing, it's beautiful. Community is really, really important. Community

Practicing God’s Presence In Everyday Moments

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of those who are standing in faith, standing in trust, standing in in that stronger presence with each other. It becomes even more important as things shift and AI and all of these taking place where you get to stand neutral, you get to be you, you get to allow God mighty presence to be present in you, and you get to be centered. How beautiful is that as life is happening, and you get to co-create with life. How beautiful is that! That's the invitation. That is the invitation, and that is straight through our website. You can just sign up for it. You go to ascensionalchemists.com backslash it's association, or just go to ascensionalchemists.com, click on the tab, association, click and join. You'll see different different options we have, and particularly the second option, which I'm so excited about with Michael. We are offering group true prosperous living, group coaching every month. This I'm so excited about because so many of us know the kingdom has been given to us to fulfill the promise, to fulfill the mission here on earth, yet we're not experiencing the resources fully. And that's because it's not open to us, and we got to come in an agreement in a group to allow it. So we're opening this space, and you're also welcome to take part in that. Isn't that amazing? So those are a few things that are in my heart for this week. Tomorrow I get to I I'm going into the sixth week of the woman's circle, the the woman of God Almighty. They are going to experience the sixth key frequency that I'm teaching them, and it's been amazing what transformation they're having. I mean, just truly, truly out of this world, just out of this world, remarkable. I want to read this with for you real quick so you can just hear what one of my dear friends said about it, which is just so it's just so beautiful to share that. I'm forever, ever, ever, ever grateful. So she she wrote, this is what she wrote. It's my friend Julia, who is part of the class. She wrote, I'm taking this eight-week immersion with Reverend Honey Borden and highly recommend considering it if you're looking

Community, Prayer Circle, And Association

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for a powerful and deeply feminine embodied shift. Honey leads with reverence, with grace, and with devotion, with authority and with a delicious sparkle of joy that is a blessing to be held in the sacred container of love. Thank you so much, Julia. And Ashley, who's also part of the group, she says, I am one of the participants in Reverend Honey Boden's Eight Week program, and I have to express my deepest gratitude for Honey, who she is as a person, a teacher, and a leader. She sets a bar for what true leadership looks like and has created a safe space where I have felt loved, supported, seen, and heard. If you desire to reach the next level of yourself and you're truly ready to put in the work, which includes vulnerability, openness, and responsibility, I highly recommend signing up for her next offering. I'm so grateful you offered this to me, offered this opportunity to me to learn and collaborate with other women. This is an experience I'll never forget. Thank you. That's from Ashley Pfeiffer. Thank you so much. So my next eight weeks is coming over January 2nd. It's a Friday. It's eight weeks at 12 p.m. It's the group woman coaching. And if you sign up for it before Christmas, you get it at a special rate. After that, it goes up. So it's up to you. If you are a woman of God Almighty, and you know you're just ready to be held in a container short term, eight weeks, one hour a week, and you are willing to give yourself this time to love yourself greater so that the greater part of you comes forward, join me and join the other woman. It's going to be spectacular. I'm so grateful. And those of you who are like, you know what, I can't, I can't do that yet. I'm interested in the one you've already taught. Can you offer the courses the eight weeks to me? Yes, I can. That's also available. It's up to you. Just reach out. You have to take a step. And when you take a step, be present to receive. So you can create the changes. What I found people pray, they want something, and when it shows up, they don't take this step. They're too afraid. So they can't receive the blessings. Open the door of blessings. Take this step. If it costs you anything I shared here with you, take this step. I'm sharing it because I've had to take my step. And I've created that change within. And I'm here to share that with you. So you too know you can as well. Much love to all of you. Have the most gorgeous week. God bless you. Be present. Gift yourself. Being this now, being your breath, being the mighty love of God. And I love you. Talk to you later.