Discover the unseen struggles of female entrepreneurs and the invisible barriers that shape their path. In this empowering conversation, host Dr. Kim R. Grimes sits down with Pastor Belyse Kwizera Budigoma — visionary spiritual leader, entrepreneur, and founder of Mrs B. Cuisine et Délices — to go beyond the polished success stories and reveal the emotional, societal, and systemic challenges women face in building their own lane. With honesty and compassion, Pastor Belyse shares her journey navigating cultural adjustments, time management pressures, and the delicate balance of family expectations with business ambitions. Together, they amplify women’s truth, wisdom, and resilience, creating a safe space where vulnerability meets strength and where thriving against the odds becomes a shared victory.
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The Unseen Struggles Of Female Entrepreneurs – The Invisible Barriers With Pastor Belyse Kwizera Budigoma
I am so glad. I am so happy. I am so grateful that you are here. We talk a lot about women breaking the glass ceiling, but what about the ceilings we can’t even see? What about the ones made of doubt, dismissal, and double standards? When you think of female entrepreneurship, you might picture hustle, freedom, and passion. Behind every glossy brand and carefully correlated girl boss post is a story rarely told, a story of individual barriers, subtle, silent, and sometimes soul-crushing.
What does it feel like to walk into a room and be the only one who looks like you, to carry the weight of expectations from your culture, from your family? What about your community, while trying to build a business from scratch? What does it feel like? What happens when you are underestimated before you even speak, before you even open your mouth, or when success still doesn’t quiet the Imposter Syndrome in your head, or what I like to say, that head chatter?
This episode isn’t about surface-level empowerment. It’s about the raw stuff, the emotional labor, the mental gymnastics, the identity juggling act. It’s about what happens in the in-between moment, the moment no one claps for. If you felt unseen, second-guessed, or straight-up exhausted trying to prove yourself, this episode is for you. Let’s pull back the curtain on what it really means to be a woman building her own lane unapologetically.
This episode is for the women building empires, the women building businesses and legacies, but doing it while carrying invisible weight. We’re talking about the unseen struggle of female entrepreneurs. Those invisible barriers, those hidden battles that don’t show up on Instagram, in a pitch meeting, or behind the polished branding. Many women are grinding in silence, dealing with doubt, juggling caregiving, overcoming being underestimated, and constantly proving themselves in male-dominated spaces.
If you ever felt like your hard work doesn’t or isn’t or hasn’t been taken seriously, or success comes at the cost of your peace, this episode is for you. I’m just saying. Let’s talk about it. Let’s talk about why this topic is so important. It’s because women-owned businesses are one of the fastest-growing segments of entrepreneurship. Yet we still face unique challenges from the lack of funding or access to funding, gender bias, juggling unpaid care, working hard, to cultural conditioning that tells women to play nice or stay in the background.
We’re navigating more than just business plans. This conversation matters because when we name the barriers, we can start breaking them, not just for ourselves, but for the women coming behind us. The women coming behind you and me. We need to normalize these struggles and create space for honest conversation, support, and real strategy. This topic is important because the struggles of female entrepreneurship or entrepreneurs are too often invisible, minimized, or dismissed entirely.
We live in a world that celebrates women’s success but rarely acknowledges the unique battles we fight to get there, from cultural expectations and gender bias, but then we also have internalized doubt and burnout. Women face these barriers, and they’re not easy. They’re not always loud, but they’re constant. We leave women to think, “Maybe it’s just me,” when in reality, it’s the system.
When we don’t talk about these things, we normalize silence. This conversation creates space for validation. It creates space for truth-telling, and it creates space for mantling the myth that success must come at a cost of well-being. Success must come at a cost of my identity or my authenticity. It matters because representation isn’t just about who is visible. It’s about whose struggles are made visible. When we give voice to the unseen, when we give voice to our struggles, we give back power. We give power back to women living through it. It’s about giving voice to our struggles, giving voice to the unseen, so that we can get our power back.
In this episode, I am joined by someone I deeply respect. I can’t wait to introduce you to my guest. She’s a founder and a fellow woman in business who has pushed through invisible walls to build what she has. She is not just a business owner. She’s resilient. She’s bold and unapologetically powerful. She has a voice for women doing it, and she’s doing it afraid and doing it anyway. I can’t wait to introduce you to my guest. Our guest is a visionary spiritual leader, entrepreneur, and passionate advocate for the empowerment of women as a catalyst for family transformation.
With a unique calling to prepare the bride of Christ, beginning with women, she has dedicated her life to equipping women and young girls, both spiritually and professionally. As the founder of Women of God Ministries, our guest leads a vibrant and growing community of women with a mission centered on faith, transformation, and lasting community impact. Her ministry focuses on helping women discover their identity in Christ, live purposefully, and walk in freedom and authority.
In addition to her pastoral calling, she is the founder of Mrs B. Cuisine, a thriving catering company specializing in African cuisine, infused with a Western twist. Through this venture, she has created meaningful opportunities for employment, mentorship, and entrepreneurship, particularly for women and young professionals, while celebrating cultural richness through food. That sounds yummy to me.
With a background in advocacy and a deep passion for prayer and teaching, she integrates biblical truth with practical strategies. Her message empowers women to rediscover their God-given identity, understand their purpose, rebuild their lives, and lead with grace and integrity. A devoted wife, mother, sister, and servant leader, our guest’s life is a powerful testimony of God’s grace, perseverance, and faithfulness, whether preaching from the pulpit or leading in the marketplace.
She remains steadfast in one mission to equip others to live for Christ, leave faithfully, and be the change they desire to see, beginning in their families and reaching into the world. Please help me welcome Pastor Belyse Kwizera Budigoma. Welcome. I am so glad that you are here. Thank you for saying yes and being here. We’re so grateful that you’re here.
Thank you.
How We Met: A Connection Built On Shared Dreams
You’re welcome. Before we jump into our juicy topic of the unseen struggles of female entrepreneurs, the invisible barriers, please share with our audience how the two of us met.
Thank you for having me again, Dr. Kim. It’s a pleasure to be here. Your show is as vibrant as you are. We met in America, at Women’s Enterprise. That was March of 2025. It was an amazing, wonderful experience, and it was an eye-opener. Also, for me, personally, when we talked and we discussed your journey, my journey, it was undeniable that we share a lot of things, and one of them being that we have dreams, we have visions, we are entrepreneurs, and above all, we are women of faith. To me, that was the highlight.
From Passion To Business: The Genesis Of Mrs B. Cuisine
Thank you again for agreeing to be on the show. Our topic is the unseen struggles of female entrepreneurs. What I would love for you to share as we jump into this conversation is what led you to be an entrepreneur or to entrepreneurship?
Passion. I read somewhere that whatever it is that you love doing before the age of seven, because by the time you are seven, you have been nurtured into something that conforms to where you were raised, how you were raised. If that thing that you loved before anything else was added to it, that is your passion. That is your calling.
From a tender age, I loved cooking. I will burn myself and I will scatter my mom’s kitchen. When I moved to the UK after getting married and having children, there were a lot of lonely moments, as for any other mom with little ones. My way of relaxing myself with limited possibilities of meeting other people because by then, the only outings I had were at a park or playplace.
Little people stuff, and you were surrounded by little people.
Literally, and you would dream of a day out with the girls. With my passion for cooking, I started cooking. I had friends who had little ones as well. Every time we would meet, it would be to do with the little ones. I started cooking for them, and people started saying, “We love your food. This is nice. This is lovely. How did you make this?” I was like, “Okay.” A friend of mine was like, “Why are we always eating your food free of charge?”
They moved out of the UK. They relocated somewhere else. They were the ones who were encouraging me, “You can make money out of this.” We have these things that we make, Nigerians will call them puff puff, but we call them Mandazi. They are like donut-type things. I will make them for everybody, every party I go to. I started being recognized as the Mandazi woman.
That’s how I started the catering. I would make cakes, I would make Mandazi, I would do food. It started from friends telling other friends, “She’s making this.” I would cook Christmas meals for people to take away before Christmas and Easter. Those kinds of big events. It started from passion, but also a need for what I was cooking, because there were not so many people who were doing it. Instead of people telling you, “How did you make this? Can you make it again?” It was more like, “How about you buy it?”
“How about you pay for it?”
Exactly. I could do it around my life as a mother, and then later on, as a pastor. I could still do it. At some point, I was also working, but I could still do it. At the moment. I’m not employed by someone. I worked myself, but I could still do it around all of that.
You know what they say, if you love what you’re doing, that’s not work. I appreciate you sharing, starting off with passion. This came about with a passion that you had for cooking, but then I also love it when you said that, as you became a mother, you got a little lonely because all you had were the little people to play with. You created something from that, so you can get to play with more people who relate to you more than the little people. I get that.
What struggle or what is a struggle that you endured, but people didn’t see the struggle that had you questioning yourself in that space? Sometimes we do things and we show up and people give us the accolades and all, but they don’t see the struggle. They don’t see what we had to endure or go through. Can you share? Are there any struggles or anything that hindered you in that space?
Unveiling The Hidden Hurdles: Cultural And Logistical Challenges
There were quite a few. At the beginning, it was more cultural struggle, simply because I was an immigrant from Burundi to the UK. I was not accustomed to the way people do things. Thank God for courses and training. Still with where to shop, it makes a huge difference because it would impact, for example, how much profit you’re making, time management, all of that, because you have to think of where am I going to leave the children? Who are the children going to be with? You’re not going to turn up at an event with your children. Catering requires that you do it. If you’re doing catering, whether for a wedding or a party, it requires you to be there.
Yes, you have to be present.
It’s not a delivery type of thing. You have to be present. With children, you have to work out, “Where am I going to leave them? How is it going to work now?” Let me use the race card, but my community tends to leave things to the last minute. The order would come a little bit late. “Can you do this next week?” It’s not that I can’t do it. There are other things that I need to put in place in order for me to do it. Me denying the order, that’s how the word is spread, “You will be lucky if she takes your order.” You have to juggle between delivering the quality that you want to deliver and keeping your image.
Overlooked And Underestimated: Battling Self-Doubt And Undervaluing Your Worth
Thank you for sharing that because those are struggles that, from someone on the outside looking in, meaning me, as a client, wanting the catering or your services, that’s something that I wouldn’t see, or your family members wouldn’t see that. I get that. Let me ask you this. In this space, during this time, have you ever been overlooked or underestimated?
A hundred percent. At the beginning, I struggled with pleasing everyone. I would give a quote, and someone will argue about a quote. I will reduce the quote and end up working for less than minimum wage. What people don’t understand, when they see a table being set by caterers, they don’t see the work behind it. You can say, “I can cook macaroni cheese myself at home.” When we’re talking about cakes, it isn’t just eggs, sugar, flour, and butter.
If I gave up, a part of me would be lost. Share on XIt takes dedication. It takes work. It takes mass, gravity. When you’re doing layers, it takes a lot of calculation. It takes to work out this design. How long is it going to take me to make it? Every design is different. Unless someone says, “You made this cake, can you repeat it?” That’s different. I’ve done it. Normally, it’s, “Can you make this?” I’m like, “Yes, I can.” “How much is it?” I used to struggle with trying to please everyone. I would end up working for hours on end because I cannot afford to pay someone to help me with the quote that I have given.
I would end up being frustrated because of that. I love cooking. Kim, I’m not lying, but when I’m stressed, I’ll go to my kitchen. My best dishes, the ones that I came up with, came to my mind when I was not in the best of places. I was going through something, and it came up. I wanted somewhere where I can express myself. It’s in my pot that I express myself. It’s in my oven, it’s in my dishes that I would express myself.
When I say with a twist, it means I come up with dishes. Anyway, so to come back, I would do things to please people, and then I would not make a profit. I’ll have that discussion with my husband and be like, “You told me not to go to work so that I can cover the children. I did. With time, now, I’ve made peace with the fact that I can say, “That’s not the type of service that I offer. Thank you for considering me, but you can go somewhere else.” To me, if I go in the spirit, that is deliverance.
You shared the hidden pressures that come with your family, with the finances, because you are now working long hours, but not bringing in the revenue that you think based on the hours that you put in, the hidden pressures of taking care of your family, and having enough income for your family. Those are the little hidden pressures that I hear you talking about. I also hear how the different race, class, and culture helped shape your experience in where you are and the place that you are as well. The question that I wanted to ask you, and I’m going to ask because I want you to share a little bit more on it, but you shared it.
You shared the answer. That was the mindset. What was the mindset shift that helped you survive or thrive? One of the things you shared, but I want you to add more to it, is that you recognize that with people when they couldn’t honor the quote that you gave based on the work that you’re going to do, the actual hours that you’re going to put in, you then said to them, “I don’t do that kind of service. I can’t serve you at that level.” What else? What other mindset shift helped you get there so that you’re no longer surviving but thriving?
Mindset Shifts: Embracing Self-Worth For Business Growth
Understanding that I’m not a superwoman, because I would love to be a superwoman. I’m limited to what I can do. As with anybody else, I’m limited to what I can do. At the end of the day, if even if I make X amount of money and I look at it and I’m like, “Yes, I made a huge amount of money,” but in the process, my back, my legs, my mental, all of that has been jeopardized, then I didn’t make anything.
I’ve had nights where I sat in my kitchen and I cried. I’ve had days when I was like, “No, I’m not doing it.” When it’s a passion, it’s like being a fish. You can be taken out of your zone, but you know you’re not going to survive out of your zone because that is my calling. One thing I always tell people is to know that whatever it is you’re doing, although you are struggling, if you know that it’s getting you closer to the purpose for which you were created, the ministry was created out of the gathering of women that I was cooking for.
That’s how I started preaching the gospel to them. I would have women who don’t know how to cook. In my culture, how are you going to hold your home if you don’t know how to cook? I’ve taught women how to cook. I love cooking, not because of food. I love seeing people enjoying food, and then it brings them around the table. One of the best of the best conversations in my family happened around a table, around a beautiful meal. To me, it’s a way of bringing people together. It’s a way of ministering to people. If we look at Jesus himself, Jesus himself fed people.
Breaking News: Future Camps For Young Culinary Minds
He fed thousands with the three loaves of bread and fish. He fed thousands. It was part of his ministry. It’s my passion, definitely, and the conviction that God is doing something. In the long run, I want to have camps. Actually, breaking news for your show, because I haven’t shared that project with anyone. I do couples retreats for couples, but I want to start doing camps for young people, both girls and boys, because we are from a culture where the kitchen is the duty of the woman. You see, men in my generation, most of them don’t know how to cook, or they cook for survival. I don’t want that for my daughter-in-law, for example. I want my son to be able to cook something, to look after his home when his wife is not around.
Especially when they have children and the wife may not be around, he can take care of it and cook a meal. You’re going to have conferences for boys and girls to help them.
In the long run. I want to run summer camps. I’m going to minister to them, teach them basic but beautiful dishes.
That sounds so amazing because when you talk about summer camp, the last thing you think about or hear about is camps around cooking. You wouldn’t have to search them out specifically because someone is interested in it. Just to say, “Send your child to this camp.” I think that’s phenomenal. You heard it here first. We are going to be having some summer camps around cooking for girls and boys. As soon as I know, I’m going to put it all out. I need you guys to know that.
You are a godsend, and I’m so grateful. I want to say, as you were sharing, I recognize what we may identify as limiting beliefs that you unlearned, I heard you said, “I’m not giving up,” because that can be a limiting belief, especially when you’re serving and you’re giving and you want feedback for your food, whether they like it or not. You’re like, “I’m not giving up. I’m doing this.” You saw the need in the community of the women that you were serving, and you were determined to serve them not only with food.
A limiting belief can be like, “That’s all I can give them. I have nothing else.” I was sharing that because as you’re talking, I was listening to the things that you were saying that you had to unlearn so that you can protect your peace while running this business. Protect the fact that you are a mother, you are a wife, and that you are an entrepreneur as well. In all of that, after working those long hours, if your back is hurting and it doesn’t equal or the return or the result or the compensation doesn’t equal the effort, the love that you pour into every meal, then you’re like, “Why am I doing it?” I appreciate that.
I want you to know that I heard that as you were sharing, but let me ask you this. What is your advice to a younger entrepreneur self, a younger you? What is your advice, and what would you tell other women who feel stuck? That’s two parts. What is your advice to a younger entrepreneur you? What would you tell them now of all the experience that and all the years that you know you’ve been doing it? What would you say to the younger you, and what would you tell other women, other entrepreneurs who are interested in starting their own business, but they feel stuck?
Empowering The Next Generation: Advice For Young & Stuck Entrepreneurs
To my younger self, it will be that there is always someone who is going to be looking for what you are doing. Stop comparing yourself because when I started, I was comparing myself. I knew I had the skill, but I thought I could only do it with a huge budget to start with. That was one of the reasons. The other one was I always told myself, “What if they don’t like it?” It was the insecurity. That’s why I believe that my faith played a role in it because I remember it, and I still do.
Know your worth, my sister—know your worth. Share on XI will finish cooking. I can teach people how to cook. I can and I do, but I always tell them there is something more than that. I pray for my food. I bless the food. I love what I’m doing. I’m dedicated to it, so I don’t cut corners. Remember when I say, “This is my price. If you don’t like this price, there’ll be someone else you can go for.” That’s because I will not use margarine instead of butter. If it requires butter, I will use butter.
I will not give you the wrong quality of meat to cut corners. I will not give you those. I hate it when I cook and the food is not enough. I always do more. I would say, because of that, “This is my price.” I know what I’m offering. My younger self doubted what she was offering. Because she doubted what she was offering, she would bend rules. It will take a toll on her.
I will tell myself, “Know your worth.” I am a child of the Most High God. There is a spirit of excellence in my God. When I do things, I want things to represent not just the woman that I am, but the God that I serve. I want you to taste it and say, “There’s something about it.” Yeah, I know. I can’t tell you what it is because I don’t know. That’s the power of the Holy Spirit. I can give you the recipe, but I can’t tell you.
God is involved in the dish.
To my younger self, know your worth. Know your worth and push. People will try to discourage you. Things will try to discourage you. Push, Belyse, push. There is a light at the end of this. That’s the message I’m still telling myself to this day, not just my younger self, because yesterday’s obstacle, I might have overcome it, but there is today’s obstacle.
For those who feel stuck, push. Push your way through this, and there’s the light at the end of the tunnel. Push and know your worth. Please take this time to share with our audience how they can connect with you. I want to eat your food. You got my mouth salivating. I’m ready to eat your food. Tell our audience how they can connect with you. Feel free. Is it a website? Do you want to give your email, LinkedIn, or social media, however? Please, share with our audience.
On LinkedIn, it is Belyse Kwizera, and then you’ll find my details there, then Mrs B. Cuisine. You can use my contact telephone number in the UK. I was told that in the UK, we have this problem. We never add code. Now the British code is (0044) 752-261-4431.
This was so amazing. This was so juicy. Thank you for sharing. I’m telling you, I want to taste your cooking.
Anytime you stop in the UK.
I’m coming. I need you to know. I’m trying to take that swallow and get to manage just talking to you and listening to how you pour into what you do, and what your cooking is, I’m like, “I want to eat some of that.” I can’t wait. Thank you, Pastor Belyse. I truly appreciate you taking the time out and being here with us, and sharing how you are you, unapologetically. Thank you again and again.
Thank you so much for having me. To all those women out there who have that dream and everything around them is telling them that it’s impossible, pray about it. Ask God for guidance. Most importantly, ask God to reveal to you who you are in Him. God Bless.
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Savoring The Conversation: Final Thoughts And Action Steps
That is so amazing. Wasn’t Pastor Belyse scrumptious? I can’t wait to sink my teeth into some of her delicious cooking. I can’t wait. Let’s break this down even further. I’m so grateful for what Pastor Belyse shared. I also need to say this. I want to say this. You are not crazy for feeling like it’s harder than it looks. You are not crazy at all. As a female entrepreneur, I have a few invisible barriers that I, along with other female entrepreneurs, face daily. I want to share a few of them with you.
First, emotional labor. As female entrepreneurs, we are expected to smile, to be likable, to say yes to every meeting, and still hold the business together. That’s exhausting. Wouldn’t you all agree? The lack of capital or access to capital. Women receive less than 3% of all venture capital funding. Not because our ideas aren’t brilliant, but because the system still favors men. Balancing family expectations is another invisible barrier. You might be building a business from your kitchen table, like Pastor Belyse was while caring for her children or a sick parent, and being a wife.
Number four, being dismissed or talked over, is another invisible barrier. Raise your hand if you have ever had to bring a man into the room to get taken seriously by investors or suppliers. I know I am definitely not alone on this topic, on this barrier, and neither are you. The truth is this. They are not personal problems. These are systematic patterns. Once we see them, we can begin to fight smarter and not just harder. That’s right. Fight smarter and not just harder, because that’s what we do.
I want to make sure that you have some takeaways from this conversation. Here’s what I’m hoping that you got from this conversation with our guest. You’re not alone. The hard stuff is real. It is real, but so is your power. You don’t have to do it all. Community is a strategy. Make sure you join one or you build your own tribe or community.
Here’s one I love. Rest is not quitting. It’s rebuilding, refreshing, and rejuvenating. That’s what rest is all about. You do not have anything to prove. You already belong. You are doing what you’re doing. Here’s the thing. You are enough. You are more than enough. Every story of a struggle is also a story of resilience. You are writing yours every single day. I’m writing mine every single day. This is what we are doing.
Let me share this empowerment reminder with you. Say this with me or repeat it to yourself after I say it, or whatever makes it easy for you. “I am not behind. I am not broken. I am building something beautiful, and I don’t need permission to do it my way,” because you don’t need permission. Being a woman in business is revolutionary. Keep going. You are you, unapologetically. That is the most powerful brand in the world, your brand.
I can’t leave you guys without some action steps because we have to take action. If you are someone who has been impacted by this message, or you are dealing with invisible barriers or struggles, here’s what I want you to do. I want you to journal about one of your invisible struggles that you have been carrying. I want you to journal about it. I want you to write yourself a love letter for surviving it, for still being here with us, enduring, and going through.
Write yourself a love letter. That’s it. That’s right. Love yourself. What I want you to do is I want you to send a message of encouragement to another woman in business. Encourage her. You don’t know what she may be going through, what she needs, what she’s lacking, but I know this. Together, we rise. If you have a story about an unseen struggle or a breakthrough that you experienced, please comment. You can comment, email me, or share it with me on any of my social media channels.
Believe me, your story can help another woman feel seen, feel heard. Maybe we can feature it on one of our future episodes and feature you as well. Be sure to share. Whenever you are listening to a podcast or a video, like, comment, or share. Do all those things as well. What I need you to understand is that with society’s rigid expectations and endless opinions of expression, self-appreciation can feel challenging, let alone daunting. I say this all the time at the end of my show. We push things away. We dumb down. We hide our feelings. We hide who we are, and we just go with the flow.
We just ride the wave, but you are you, unapologetically. That means being true to how you were created and not allowing people’s opinions to affect how you show up in life, how you show up in the world. You have no time whatsoever to be intimidated by the presence of others and think little of yourself. You have no time for that. When you show up without pretense or hesitation, the world cannot and will not dull your glamor. Why? That’s because you will not allow them to. Most importantly, you’ll be inspired to shine your light so brightly and to share it. Share it with others who need it so badly, and allow others to tap into their own brilliance because you shared your light. How about we all agree to put an end to this disparaging mindset and begin to own our authentic selves?
Please, join me here in a safe space, where I’m going to always initiate influential conversations about you being you because you are you, unapologetically, and no one is better at being you. Thank you for tuning into this episode. I hope that this reminded you of your brilliance, of your worth, and most of all, of your power. Until next time, keep being bold, keep being kind, and most importantly, keep being you because you are you, unapologetically.
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About Belyse Kwizera Budigoma
Pastor Belyse Kwizera Budigoma is a visionary spiritual leader, entrepreneur, and passionate advocate for the empowerment of women as a catalyst for family transformation. With a unique calling to prepare the Bride of Christ—beginning with women—she has dedicated her life to equipping women and young girls both spiritually and professionally.
As the founder of Women of God Ministries, Pastor Kwizera Budigoma leads a vibrant and growing community of women with a mission centered on faith, transformation, and lasting community impact. Her ministry focuses on helping women discover their identity in Christ, live purposefully, and walk in freedom and authority.
In addition to her pastoral calling, she is the founder of Mrs B. Cuisine et Délices, a thriving catering company specializing in African cuisine infused with a Western twist. Through this venture, she has created meaningful opportunities for employment, mentorship, and entrepreneurship—particularly for women and young professionals—while celebrating cultural richness through food. With a background in advocacy, and a deep passion for prayer and teaching, Pastor Kwizera Budigoma integrates biblical truth with practical strategies. Her message empowers women to rediscover their God-given identity, understand their purpose, rebuild their lives, and lead with grace and integrity.
A devoted wife, mother, sister, and servant-leader, Pastor Belyse Kwizera Budigoma’s life is a powerful testimony of God’s grace, perseverance, and faithfulness. Whether preaching from the pulpit or leading in the marketplace, she remains steadfast in one mission: to equip others to live for Christ, lead faithfully, and be the change they desire to see—beginning in their families and reaching into the world.