About Leneé Pezzano
Author, Podcast Host & Christian Mentor Helping Women Stop Hiding in Perfectionism and Start Living Loved
Grace guide. Recovering perfectionist. Storyteller. Kingdom encourager. Champion of women learning to stop striving for God’s approval and start receiving His heart.
Why I do this work
I believe many Christian women are silently exhausted.
They love Jesus. They read Scripture, pray faithfully, serve others, and genuinely want to honor God.
Yet beneath the surface, many carry a nagging sense that they're falling short — that they should be doing more, trying harder, or getting it right more often.
I know that feeling because I lived there for years.
Without realizing it, I had mistaken conviction for condemnation, delay for punishment, and silence for rejection. I believed God was waiting for me to meet some invisible “standard” before I could fully rest in His love.
What finally changed everything wasn’t more discipline—it was a revelation of GRACE.
I began to see that God was not distant, demanding, or disappointed. He was patient, present, and far more gentle than the version of Him I had been responding to.
That discovery transformed my faith, my identity, and my understanding of God's heart.
Today, through my podcast, book, mentoring, and teaching, I help Christian women break free from the exhausting cycle of striving and rediscover the freedom that comes from knowing they are already deeply loved by God.
Because when you finally realize God is not disappointed in you — He’s present with you … faith becomes a safe place again.
Who this work is for
I work with Christian women who appear to have it all together — but underneath the polished exterior, they’re weary.
They love Jesus. They care about excellence, integrity, and doing what’s right. But somewhere along the way, faith started feeling heavy.
What looks like “high standards” on the outside often feels like anxiety, overthinking, shame, and relentless self-pressure on the inside.
Many of the women I work with wouldn’t even call themselves perfectionists. They simply know they’re tired of trying harder, fearing failure, replaying conversations, and wondering why they still feel behind no matter how much they do.
They often wrestle with questions like:
Why do I feel like God is disappointed in me?
Why can’t I rest without guilt?
Why does one mistake feel so devastating?
Why does my faith feel more like pressure than peace?
I help women untangle the hidden ways perfectionism has shaped their faith, identity, and relationships — so they can come out of hiding and experience the love of God more freely.
Because healing doesn’t begin when you finally become perfect. It begins when you discover you are already deeply loved.
What makes my approach different
I don’t teach spiritual hustle.
And I don’t offer formulas for “fixing” yourself.
What I offer is honest conversation, Biblical truth, and lived experience from someone who understands what it’s like to live trapped in perfectionism, fear, and striving.
As the author of You Will Make Mistakes and host of The Redeemed Perfectionist podcast, I lead with stories before strategies — helping women recognize the hidden ways perfectionism has shaped how they see both God and themselves.
Together, we explore questions like:
Why does my mind race even when I’m doing “the right things”?
Why does rest trigger guilt instead of peace?
Why does my relationship with God feel obligatory instead of relational?
Why does delay feel like punishment instead of protection?
This work isn’t about lowering God’s standards.
It’s about removing unhealthy fear from the equation — and discovering that you are safe to come before God exactly as you are.
I’m most passionate about helping you:
See God as a safe Father, not a religious taskmaster.
Understand grace as a daily way of living, not just a salvation concept.
Recognize perfectionism as more than “being detail-oriented” — and begin healing the deeper fear beneath it.
Stop carrying outcomes God never asked you to hold.
Learn how to obey from love, not fear.
Discover that mistakes don’t disqualify you from God’s calling.
Build a life of faith marked by truth, rest, courage, and joy
Fun Facts About Me
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I can act like a toddler one moment and a serious grown up the next. Just ask my bestie!
I bounce into a room like Tigger, love people like Odie, and somehow still manage to switch into deep conversations about Jesus, grace, perfectionism and why so many of us are exhausted trying to earn what God already gave us.
Who says you have to pick just one personality?
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At the 2023 Byron Saunders Foundation’s Dancing With the Columbus Stars, my coach and I somehow managed to win every single trophy possible (raising $27K+ for families in need of a meal at Thanksgiving)! It was wildly humbling, slightly surreal, and involved more stress than I care to admit.
Recovering perfectionist? Yes. Put me in a judged dance competition? Apparently also yes Proof can be seen here! -
Mistakes.
The real reason I was invited to dance was because of my book You Will Make Mistakes - Discovering God’s Grace in the Midst of Perfectionism.Then God surprised me again when the book received the International Impact Book Award!
As a recovering perfectionist, being recognized for a book about grace in the middle of mistakes felt beautifully ironic – and SO much like God.
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Funeral Director. It’s true. For a season, I thought I might spend my life helping people walk through grief and say goodbye.
And in a strange way, I still do.
But instead of helping women bury bodies — I help them bury perfectionism, shame, striving, and the fear that God is disappointed in them.
Turns out, sacred work can take more than one form.
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License plates, signs, and random words that catch my attention at exactly the right moment. It’s our love language.
I know. It sounds a little strange. But over the years, it has become one of the sweetest ways He reminds me that He sees me, knows me, and is close enough to speak in ways only He and I would understand.
Some people call them coincidences.
I call them conversations.
And yes, I have absolutely pulled a whole revelation from the car in front of me.
Wondering Where To Start?
Begin with the Grace Scale