GET RID OF YOUR
C.R.A.P.™
and Experience Lasting Transformation
Shundra Bates is a Speaker and a Certified Christian Life Coach who guides believers to move from Red to Gold by surrendering Control, Rejection, Attention-Seeking, and Pride (C.R.A.P.) and embracing their God-given identity, freedom, and purpose in Christ.
My Story:
Before I ever realized my voice had a purpose, God was already writing my story.
At six months old, I faced a life-threatening respiratory condition that led doctors to schedule a tracheostomy. But on the day of the surgery, while I was on the operating table, something unexpected happened—I began breathing on my own, and the procedure was canceled.
Looking back, I believe God was preserving more than my breath; He was preserving my voice for a purpose.
Years later, God would teach me that using my voice for His glory would require me to first learn what it truly means to surrender.
In 2018, God told me to leave Texas.
At the time, I thought He was simply asking me to leave a location. I didn't realize He was leading me into a season where He would challenge my comfort, my plans, and my ability to control what came next.
I left Dallas and moved to South Carolina to help my sister. What followed was not the picture I had imagined. I experienced uncertainty, financial challenges, unexpected changes, and seasons where I had to rebuild.
But looking back, I can see that God was doing something deeper.
He was refining me.
Through that season, God began revealing areas of my life where I was holding onto Control, Rejection, Attention-Seeking, and Pride (C.R.A.P.). I had to learn that surrender isn't giving up—it's trusting God enough to release what I was never meant to control.
That journey became the foundation of my message.
Today, I help believers recognize and surrender the heart issues that can keep them stuck so they can embrace their God-given identity, experience freedom in Christ, and walk confidently in their purpose.
Through my signature Red-to-Gold™ message, I use the cross as a picture of surrender. Red represents the blood of Jesus shed at the cross, and Gold represents the refining process that follows surrender to Him.
My message is simple:
It Starts With Surrender.
Whether speaking at churches, women's conferences, retreats, leadership gatherings, or faith-based organizations, my mission is to encourage Christian women to surrender what has been holding them back, embrace who God created them to be, and walk boldly in the freedom, purpose, and calling God has placed on their lives.
Because what God restores, He refines.
Meet Shundra Bates
A Message of Hope.
A Mission of Transformation.
What Is C.R.A.P.™?
Four common barriers that keep us from living in God's purpose.
CONTROL
Trying to manage everything
instead of trusting God.
REJECTION
Allowing past wounds and disappointments
to define your identity.
ATTENTION-SEEKING
Finding your worth in the approval
of others instead of in Christ.
PRIDE
Relying on self instead of surrendering
to God's direction.
THE RED TO GOLD™ METHOD
Surrender. Refine. Transform.
RED represents the blood of Jesus shed at the cross
surrender.
Before transformation can happen, we must identify and release what is keeping us stuck.
GOLD represents refinements.
When we surrender to God, He refines us into who He created us to become.
Through the Red to Gold™ Method, audiences learn to:
- Identify their C.R.A.P.™
- Release what has been holding them back
- Embrace surrender
- Experience refinement
- Walk boldly in purpose
THE RED TO GOLD™ METHOD
Surrender. Refine. Transform.
RED
SURRENDER
RED represents surrender.
Before transformation can happen, we must identify and release what is keeping us stuck.
GOLD
TRANSFORMATION
GOLD represents refinements.
When we surrender to God, He refines us into who He created us to become.
Through the Red to Gold™ Method, audiences learn to:
Identify their C.R.A.P.™
Release what has been holding them back
Embrace surrender
Experience refinement
Walk boldly in purpose
Get Rid of
Your C.R.A.P.™
Pain Became
Purpose
The Power
of Surrender
What's It Costing
You Not to
Let It Go?
Breaking Free from Control,
Rejection, Attention-Seeking, and Pride
Walking in Your
God-Given Identity
From Stuck to
Surrendered
BRING SHAUN TO YOUR NEXT EVENT
Conferences
Church Events
Marriage events
Retreats
Faith-Based Organizations