Episode 172 · February 18, 2025
Jill Stitt: How Praying for a New Testimony resulted in Leaning into her Gifts and Sharing Some Sparkle Along the Way
with Jill Stitt, Co-owner & Business Development, Colonial Title
40 min
Jill Stitt: How Praying for a New Testimony resulted in Leaning into her Gifts and Sharing Some Sparkle Along the Way
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In this episode I sit down with my beautiful new friend Jill Stitt, co-owner of Colonial Title alongside her husband Keith. Until just a few months ago, Jill was a silent partner — she'd been married to Keith for ten years and had never been involved in the business. Then her daughter left for Ole Miss, she became an empty nester, and she did something that changed everything: she prayed for a new testimony.
What happened next blew her away (no one more than her, as she says). One small step led to another — saying yes to a client meeting, helping find a rug for the front door, remembering someone's birthday — until Jill found herself fully stepping into a brand-new role in business development. I love that she never went in thinking about business. She went in to love on a team of mostly women, many of them single moms, and to make people feel seen.
We talk about hospitality as a God-given gift, about creating positive and memorable moments for clients in what is often one of the biggest and most stressful purchases of their lives, about the "you mean the world to us" theme that's taken over her office (globes and all), and about how she's redefining a company culture and growing the business in the process. If you're carrying a prayer for something new, I think Jill's story will encourage you to keep going.
Key takeaways
- Praying for 'a new testimony' — casting your mountain into the sea and asking God for something new — can open a path you never planned. Jill's whole life changed within a week of that prayer.
- Timing matters. Jill is honest that the same opportunity two years earlier would have been 'an epic failure' because she wasn't ready to surrender her time. Trust that you may be being prepared for what's next.
- Just do the next thing in front of you. Jill didn't have a master plan — she simply kept asking 'Is there anything I can do to help?' and one yes led to the next.
- Lean into your God-given gifts. Jill's superpower is hospitality and connection — making people feel seen — and building her role around that gift is what made the work feel like love, not labor.
- The last part of an experience is what sticks. Small, thoughtful touches (fresh cookies, a name printed at the door, a 'you mean the world to us' postcard) turn a stressful closing into a positive memory.
- Caring for your team pays off. Pour into the people who've been loyal for years; help them use creative talents beyond their daily tasks, and the whole culture shifts.
- Invest in yourself daily — worship music, time in the Word, solitude, podcasts, and books. Jill course-corrects toward love when she falls short, choosing tenderness over pride.
Chapters
- 00:00Asking the Lord in faith — and being blown away
- 01:30Meet Jill Stitt and the friendship behind this episode
- 03:00Jill's background: finance, single motherhood, and faith
- 06:00Praying for a new testimony — the week everything changed
- 09:00Saying yes: how one small step led to a new role
- 13:00Hospitality as a superpower and the 'VIP experience'
- 18:00Live podcast event announcement: Rachel Lambert, BrainCode Centers
- 20:00Caring for the team and redefining company culture
- 22:00'You mean the world to us' — the globe theme
- 28:00Title companies as memory makers: cookies, signs and seen clients
- 34:00Finding her title and growing the business 56%
- 40:00How Jill invests in herself
- 43:00Thrive in 2025: becoming known for love
“When you ask the Lord for something in earnestness and in faith, I've been blown away by what has happened in my life. No one is more shocked than me.”
“I just started doing the next thing in front of me. I just started helping, and because I was doing it, I felt as if I was doing it not as work, but as love.”
“It's so easy to wear the shirt. It's so hard to do the work.”
“No matter if I was right or wrong, I want to be known for my love. The answer was love.”
Resources mentioned
About Jill
Co-owner & Business Development, Colonial Title
Jill Stitt is co-owner of Colonial Title with her husband, Keith. After fifteen years in finance, a season as a single mom, and years raising her daughter and volunteering with literacy programs and Bible studies, Jill stepped into a brand-new business development role at Colonial Title — leaning into her gifts of hospitality and connection to reshape the company's culture and care for its team.
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