She Knows Her Season Adé & Grace Women of God | October 2026
This is what it looks like when a woman stops rushing past the season she's in, and decides to be faithful right where she's planted: building, healing, hosting, becoming.
Adé & Grace Women of God | October 2026
October is the month the trees stop pretending. Leaves that held on all summer finally let go, and nobody calls it failure. It's just the season doing what seasons do.
Most of us are less graceful about it. We want to skip ahead to the harvest, or go back to when things felt easier, and we treat the in-between as something to get through rather than something to live in.
The women we're celebrating this month have each made peace with the season they're in, and they're doing real work inside it. This October, we found five of them.
Tolani AV
There is a version of success that comes with a hard hat and a job title. And there is the version you build from scratch, one video at a time, starting in college.
Tolani AV has lived both.
Based in Houston, Tolani started her channel as an engineering student, posting about hair, makeup, and advice for other students in her major. Over a decade later, the former petroleum engineer is a full-time creator, a real estate investor, a wife, and a mom of two. Her content still carries the range: beauty, home, lifestyle, and the business side of building something of your own.
What stands out is how easily her work has changed shape. She didn't hold onto the career she trained for out of obligation, and she didn't abandon it in a rush either. She moved when the season moved, and brought her audience along the whole way.
The takeaway: A calling can outgrow the title you trained for. The skill is noticing when the season has changed, and being willing to change with it.
"In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps." Proverbs 16:9
Rachel Owens
Some women learn early that the body doesn't promise an easy season. Rachel Owens built her platform anyway.
A Louisiana native now based in Florida, Rachel has spent over a decade creating beauty, fashion, and home content, with brand partnerships including the Ulta Beauty Collective, Macy's Style Crew, and the West Elm Collective. She also lives with congenital heart disease and is raising a son who shares the diagnosis, and she describes herself plainly as a heart warrior and a heart mom. She serves on the American Heart Association's Communications and Marketing Committee and was part of its Real Women class of 2021.
The feed doesn't separate the two halves of her life. The makeup and the home refresh sit alongside the hard truth, and the message underneath is steady: struggle and celebration can share the same space, and joy doesn't have to wait for everything to be resolved.
The takeaway: You are allowed to celebrate in the middle of something hard. Joy doesn't need the hard thing to be over first.
"My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever." Psalm 73:26
Maya Graves
A lot of people talk about discipleship. Maya Graves films it: in the middle of a 21-day fast, in a homeschool room, with a toddler somewhere in the frame.
She has been creating full-time for eight years, with a YouTube following in the hundreds of thousands, and her Christian Girl Chat series takes on questions like modesty, secular music, spiritual discipline, and growing in Christ. Alongside her husband Ja Vaughn she hosts The Graves House Podcast, a faith-centered conversation on marriage, parenting, health, and business, and she has launched a candle line, VESSL, built around the idea that we are all vessels of faith, kindness, and purpose.
She also doesn't tidy up the hard weeks. One of her vlogs is titled "I Almost Gave Up." That honesty is a big part of why her content reads less like a performance of faith and more like a person actually practicing it.
The takeaway: Discipleship mostly looks like ordinary rhythms kept on purpose: a fast, a reset, a hard conversation with your husband, a reset of the house.
"Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me." Luke 9:23
Valerie Harris
Valerie Harris, who shares her life from Philadelphia and New York, opens hers with "wife | mom" and a small cross, and only then moves on to beauty, outfits, and everyday life. She's a 2026 Macy's Style Crew member and has built an audience of well over a hundred thousand with styling and beauty content that stays personal.
It would be easy to read fashion as the surface of a platform. In Valerie's case, it sits right where she put it: after the things she says matter most. Taking care with how you show up, and keeping your priorities in order, were never meant to compete with each other.
The takeaway: You can love getting dressed and still know exactly what comes first.
"I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made." Psalm 139:14
Tafey
Some creators speak to a crowd. Tafey speaks to the young woman who's still deciding whether she's allowed to take up space.
Based in Perth, Western Australia, Tafey is a lifestyle and faith creator whose focus is empowering young women to live well: self-love, personal growth, and embracing what makes them different. Her stated mission is to build a supportive space where young women can connect, grow, and thrive, and her content leans on relatable everyday stories rather than polish.
Self-love can sound like a soft idea, or even a self-centered one. Rooted in faith, it's the opposite: the daily practice of believing you were made on purpose, and then acting like it.
The takeaway: Knowing you were made on purpose isn't vanity. It's where every good decision starts.
"For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." Ephesians 2:10
Scripture of the Month
"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens." Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NIV)
Most of us read this verse at funerals and graduations, at the edges of a season. It's just as true in the middle of one, on the ordinary Tuesdays when nothing seems to be happening.
The women in this edition are in very different seasons: a career change, a health journey, a young family, a hard stretch, a new beginning. None of them is waiting for a better one before getting on with the work in front of them.
A Word for the Road
If you're in a season you didn't choose, or one you're tempted to rush, October is a good reminder that leaves don't fall by force. They let go when it's time.
You don't have to love every season. You only have to be faithful in it, and trust the One who sets the calendar.
Adé & Grace holds this truth at the center of everything we create: that beauty and purpose were never separate things. They are worn, lived, and carried through every season.
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