Ep. 012: Honey Woods and the Prayer Closet She Built When the Framework Collapsed
Mar 17, 2026
Ep. 012: Honey Woods and the Prayer Closet She Built When the Framework Collapsed
Honey Woods was an entrepreneur, a homeschool mom of six, and half of a team. Then her husband decided he was not going to be there anymore.
The oldest kid was 10. The youngest still needed vegetables chopped up for them. And Honey was standing in the middle of a life she had built for two, holding every piece of it by herself, asking one question: "If I'm not a wife anymore, who am I?"
In this episode of The Grit Factor Podcast, Karl Jacobi sits down with Honey Woods, author, publishing mentor, and founder of Kingdom Ink Publishing. Honey talks about what happened after her husband walked out. Not the story of what went wrong. What she chose to do with what she was left holding.
She built a prayer closet and covered the walls in 3x5 Scripture cards. She called the friends who would pray with her, not the ones who would let her spiral. She chose not to uproot her kids. And she answered that identity question from the ground up. Out of that season came a book called Girl, Read Your Bible that has sold thousands of copies since 2020 without a single paid promotion. Then Not Abandoned. Then her kids started writing books. Then she launched Kingdom Ink Publishing and helped 12 authors get their stories out in one year.
What You'll Learn:
- How Honey went from married entrepreneur and homeschool mom of six to carrying the full weight of her family alone, and what the very first thing she did was
- The prayer closet: why she built one, what she covered the walls with, and what she did inside it that had nothing to do with devotional and everything to do with survival
- Three anchors that carried her through the darkest season, broken down to what each one actually looked like on a practical Wednesday morning
- The Moses story from Exodus: why obedience comes before readiness, and how that reframe helped Honey write her first book when she did not feel qualified or ready
- How Girl, Read Your Bible sold thousands of copies with zero paid promotion, and how Kingdom Ink Publishing helped 12 authors publish in a single year
About Honey Woods:
Honey Woods is an author, publishing mentor, and founder of Kingdom Ink Publishing, a hybrid publishing company that has helped 12 authors get their stories out in one year. She wrote Girl, Read Your Bible in 2020 and Not Abandoned, both of which came out of the hardest season of her life. She homeschools her six kids, several of whom are now published authors themselves.
The pillar this episode lives in is Foundations. That is the phase where the framework you built your life around collapses, and you have to go all the way to the ground to find out what is actually holding you up.
Honey's question, "If I'm not a wife anymore, who am I?" is the Foundations question. Not "how do I fix this?" Not "what is my next move?" But: what is actually underneath all of this, and can I stand on it?
She found the answer. She is God's child. That identity does not shift when the circumstances do. Roles change. The bedrock does not.
What she built after that: the prayer closet, the books, the publishing company, her kids writing their own stories. All of it came from that foundation. Not from hustle. Not from a recovery plan. From knowing what she was standing on.
If you have ever had your framework collapse and wondered what was left underneath it, the 5-Day Reforge Challenge is where that question starts getting answered. Five days to find the ground and start building from it.
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