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So, how are you guys?

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Oh, we're doing great.

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Rebecca and I were just chatting about kids and how every phase bring something new and

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she's nine and I feel like she's 19 and, you know, I just, I'm looking forward to the teenage

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years.

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How about this age?

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This guy?

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Come on over here.

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This is my Joshua.

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He's shy.

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Not really.

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Now, is this your son who just got back from doing missions work?

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No, that son is actually traveling with Pastor Rodney Howard Brown for a week to, well,

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they did seven cities in seven days or not seven cities, seven states in seven days.

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So, they started in San Antonio, Oklahoma.

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It's been beautiful what's happening over the US.

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So, my heart as a mama has always been that my kids would find the right role models that,

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you know, they could be influenced by.

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We all, no matter what age we are, we need mentors, right?

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And so, unfortunately, my kids have always been the mentor.

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And so, my son was in a van with 14 other amazing role models and it just warmed my

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heart to see him take off Saturday to go around the nation to lead people to Christ.

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I mean, I feel like that's nothing more fulfilling.

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You know, when your kids are doing well, both for mom and dad, there's absolutely nothing

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more fulfilling.

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And if they're not doing well, it can affect every area.

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So, that's awesome.

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I'm so happy for you guys.

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And then Josh, he slipped away.

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But he works as an IT executive for the Mayo Clinic from his bedroom.

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But he's trying to figure out life.

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But he's doing well.

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Yeah.

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That sounds like an amazing opportunity.

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And that's a great hospital for sure.

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It's a great program.

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Hi, Leslie.

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Hi, Leslie.

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Hi.

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How are you?

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Good.

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Hi, Rebecca, too.

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Hi, hi, hi, ladies.

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And Paul.

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Hi, Rebecca.

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Paul was finishing up his lunch, so he was off camera for a moment.

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Leslie, you're representing today.

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Pardon?

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I said you're representing today.

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Canada.

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I'm actually representing Costa Rica because that's where I am.

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Oh, really?

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Yeah.

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Where in Costa Rica?

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San Jose.

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I'm doing my second leg of my dental thing.

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Neat.

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I lived in Costa Rica for a moment.

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Trained Peace Corps volunteers there.

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Wow.

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Yeah, it's beautiful here.

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Do they have addresses?

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Because my place was 200 metros al norte de Parque La Sabana.

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So I live 200 meters north of La Sabana Park.

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And if you wanted to write me a letter, you would actually put Angela Medeiros,

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200 meters north of Parque La Sabana because they didn't have addresses on them.

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Now, that was in 1990.

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So I don't know if they've changed.

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I honestly just go to Google Maps and click on a location.

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So I can't tell you if there's addresses.

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And, you know, I'm like a fish out of water here.

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I like to speak three words and, you know, you know how it is.

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I'm actually in a hotel that backs onto the clinic.

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So I don't have a car, nothing.

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I just, everything is right here where I need it.

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So it's pretty good.

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Fun.

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The Swiss Alps of Latin America, as they would call it.

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Beautiful country.

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We have good friends that go down there for dental work also.

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Everything work.

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I mean, they do.

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Everything.

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I mean, the hospital system is supposed to be,

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the medical system is supposed to be really good.

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It's all private, but it's supposed to be really, really good.

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That's okay.

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It's way cheaper than Canada.

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Oh yeah.

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Oh yeah.

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For sure.

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I was in Liberia, Costa Rica last August and learned,

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we did a bunch of stuff with locals.

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And they were saying that their.

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systems are so good, they have a 9% tax. Everyone employed, it

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doesn't matter what wage you earn. If you're employed at all,

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you pay 9% that goes into their medical and their benefits. So

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everybody has access. And I'm like, that's really nice. Love

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that a lot. Yeah.

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okay, so I will, we'll go ahead and get started. I'm sure a few

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others will jump in here. And if not, that's okay. It'll be an

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intimate group. And I love that too. So, you know, as, as you

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guys know, like, our whole, our whole world has been in a huge

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transition for the better and just really working on obedience

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and and doing what God has called us to do, even when

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people love it or don't like it. And, and I've experienced

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that a lot, personally, recently, too, with more

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personal things. You know, I've been praying that prayer that we

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talked about those of you who were on last week. I've been

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praying that prayer God open the doors that need to be open,

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close the doors that need to be closed. I bind, you know, I bind

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all that the enemy is doing, I bind what is bound in heaven, I

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loose what is loosed in heaven and just open the doors. And

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it's really amazing what doors have been opening and how God

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has been shutting the other doors. And I, I see now that

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that can be personally, business wise financially, because it's

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all related. And as I'm praying through that prayer, I see

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that God is working those doors open and close through people.

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And I didn't expect that. And it's a hard, it's, it's always a

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hard lesson for me. Because if you, if you know, you know, the

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disc personalities and all the personalities, a lot of my disc

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personality is people. And I always look for the good in

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people. And, and, and I know you both do too. And I always look

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for you three, I always look for the the highest good and the

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highest quality and others. That's what we're called to do.

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However, I want to touch on some scripture and just different

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portions of this training today on, you know, being bold, being

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more bold. And I know that Paul is on here too. And I do think

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it's easier for men. But I think for women, it's important to

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step into that in times where we're called to step into that

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boldness. Even when we know our people pleasing, our people

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pleasing tickers may go off, you know, because having difficult

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conversations, no matter if you're used to them, if you've

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done them a million times, when you step into the light, and you

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step into the body of Christ, it almost it almost opens your

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heart up more and can become more difficult. And the

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difficult conversations may not just be with other people, it

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might be with yourself, it might be the honesty that you

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have to have with yourself, the boldness you have to have with

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yourself. And this helps everywhere, right finances, your

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relationships, your your marriage, your kids, literally

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everything, when we're okay, opening up and having difficult

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conversations, and working through the doors that need to

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be open and closing the ones that need to be closed when we

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know that they should be closed. And so before I get into this,

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and going through some scriptures and things that I

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have written, do you both? Is there is there a situation in

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your life? Or a person could be a person could be a situation,

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but you know, that the door needs to be closed, you know,

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that it's not the right person for you to be around or working

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with in some capacity, you know, the door needs to be closed.

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And you've just been kind of putting that, putting that to

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the sidelines and having confusion, maybe even

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fogginess around it. Is there any situation going on with any

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of you, even you, Rebecca?

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I had a huge one. So you want me to explain?

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Yes, please.

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So I made a, so I still have my other network marketing

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company, but I've joined another one because it has not

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a competing product. And I, there's through the years, I've

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just, I don't know, I just, I'm excited about this product and

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then ready to move forward in it in so many ways. And in 40

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days, I enrolled 40 people on it. I've never done that with

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anything. And it's, they're having some challenges with the

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background.

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office. But the bottom line is, is that the lead marketer just a little bit off. And he came to

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present with me because I actually after a month and a half, I had a team event of team training

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and he came to, to train. And it was crazy. It was disorganized. I really ended up making

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lemonade out of lemons because I've never experienced something like that with my past

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company. It's just like, everybody's just sharp and at the top. And so I was really confused

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because I learned that he actually was a brother in Christ. And, and then I also learned that

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he used to go to the church and then our pastor actually said, be careful about him.

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And that was like, I, you know, I, and I went to him and I said,

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I need you to square whatever's gone on at the church away because this, we moved down to

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Florida to go to this church and this is an unusual, you know, just stream of events. And

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so he said he did. I don't really think, I don't know what went on, but more strange things started

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to happen. And the back office they're really working on in this new company that they're

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launching in October. And it, everybody's been a little bit frustrated, but he came to me about a

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week and a half ago. And he said, I want to be transparent with you. The back office is still

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not up. I know it's frustrating, but I want to offer you $5,000 upfront every month to go with

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another nutraceutical company. And I almost, I felt physically sick. I mean, the only reason I

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went with this new company is because I just saw the sincerity of the CEO and I got excited about

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the product. And I knew that when you do the right thing, there's all the money always comes.

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I'm not, wasn't looking for to be bought to go somewhere else. And I, I was in a huge conflict

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because I, that was like, for me, that last straw, I cannot be led by this person. I will not be led

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by this person. My team doesn't want to be led by this person. And so I had, I really needed

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advice on how to move forward. So that's when I used one of my calls with Ray the other day.

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And basically I had an hour conversation with the CEO of the company, very difficult conversation

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because this is a brother in Christ. I mean, it, I mean, a brother in Christ doesn't mean

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that we're without fault or whatever way. And so this, and it's you know, I, I'm still waiting to

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see all what's going on about it, but yeah, I, it's still, I feel like it was to, I mean,

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I have a piece about it, feel like it was the right thing to do, but my heart hurts for this

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guy. You know, it's like he supposedly started a church in Cameroon and I don't know. It's just

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Lord, help the body of Christ and help us to move out in integrity, right. To serve you. But

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yeah, so that was extremely difficult. And you know, my, my direct upline, I haven't talked to

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them yet because I think they're involved with him in some other things as well. And so that's

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difficult too, because I found out about Sankey through them. And so just asking the Lord to guide

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indirect and also protect this company because he did say, you know, if anything would happen to,

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to me being removed, I could really take this company down and thinking, wow, this is the body

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of Christ. Right. So that's one of the things that's going on in our world.

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Well yeah. And thank you for sharing that and kudos to you for having that conversation with

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the CEO. Now, is he a part? So as I understand, he's a part of corporate, he leads the marketing

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for corporate or he's your upline or. The lead person that I talked to the, to the CEO about,

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he announces himself as the lead marketer in the USA for Sankey. I don't know what that means. I

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don't know. I think he's maybe been offered some shares to grow the business. I don't actually know.

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um but um well it's interesting it's interesting that you um that you bring this up because you

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you said that your initial um attraction to the company was the heart of the ceos right this heart

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of the the founders and the ceo and so recently as well um which i've studied before but just

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felt called to study again was the book of esther and how you know she was put into place for such

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a time as this and i think we all are because of the world and what's going on because it's

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just an incredible time to be alive right um but some are put into positions for very specific

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reasons and to me what this sounds like is that you were put into that position to help the ceo

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and the um coo or whoever you're you've worked with in the past see see what's going on and

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protect them and be able to help the company move forward to bring more of the the integrity and the

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integral body of christ versus a facade or a distraction from the enemy um

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am i now trying to win the approval of human beings or of god or am i trying to please people

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if i were still trying to please people i would not be a servant of christ obviously we know that

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verse um that's galatians 1 10 and i'm sure you've heard it before but trying to please everyone is

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incompatible with the um with the general character of god the general can i show you

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something yes this is from my my notes this morning may 7th who um am i trying to please

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who am i trying to please from galatians oh my gosh see yeah yeah so there's your sign right

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if you ever need it um god does not show favoritism so yeah i'm in well i want to i

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want to read another one to you that that came to me while you were talking about this situation

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um second timothy 1 7 for the spirit god gave us does not make us timid but gives us power love

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and self-discipline so boldness is a part of godly communication when grounded in love and wisdom

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it means that

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we are supposed to be bold when we see unrighteousness or we see um we see something

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that needs to be called out it doesn't mean that we call it out in a spiteful or mean or rude way

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not that you ever would but this should be validation to you that you were put into this

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position not only for other reasons of course but one reason being you have the boldness of christ

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christ was bold he was extremely bold um and he he flipped tables you know when when need be um

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but he did it out of the the greater love the greater good and that's what you're doing you're

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approaching it with love and kindness and the all of the characteristics of god which is what

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he wants but he also doesn't want us to be timid and he doesn't want us to sit on the sidelines and

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watch things happen when they happen in front of us um and i think this this type of characteristic

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is really twisted um in so many ways that i hear it because so many people think that being

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being the light of christ and being loved because god is love being loved means being passive and

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just letting things happen to you because we're supposed to turn the other cheek

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and that's not what he's saying in these verses you know what god is saying is

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you pray for them you love them you pray for your enemies but you also

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you stand up for what what's right and and that's what you're doing um

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and i love this this last one fear of man is a trap proverbs 29 25 fear of man will prove to be

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a snare but whoever trusts in the lord is kept safe and this is one that i have to read over and

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over and over again fear of man will prove to be a snare but whoever trusts in the lord is kept safe

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kept safe because every i i would venture to say and this is a bold statement but i would

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venture to say that almost everything we do not everything but almost everything we do

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has some form of fear of man attached to it. You know, fear of someone getting ahead of us,

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fear of competition, fear of losing everything and people making, you know, remarks about us,

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fear of how we look to people, fear of, you know, our kids not loving us or not liking us,

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fear of our family not liking us, just fear of man has so much to do with our everyday decisions.

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And it's a distraction from the enemy. So clearly, Angela, you're on to something very powerful,

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and you're on to some really big changes and big shifts in your life. And what I've had to realize,

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really, over the last three years, is that every time I realize that every time there's a person

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that's put into my life that shouldn't be there, or that needs to be guided, directed,

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corrected, maybe not by me, I'm not saying by me, but in some way, shape, or form shouldn't be in

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my life, I almost get a fight or flight response. And, you know, my, my, it's that emotion that I

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used to listen to and just not necessarily snap, but just really feed off of that emotion and go

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off of that emotion, make decisions off of that emotion, versus taking a step back and saying,

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no, God's got me, I've got, I've got protection around this. And this is something that I need

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to stand up to. And this is just a door that he's closing. These are just people that he's working

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out of my life in a way that I would rather not him do it, but it's growing me right, I'd rather

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not have to have these difficult conversations, I'd rather not have to work these people out of

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my life in that way. But it's growing me and every time I do it, and I have the conversation,

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like you just did, and I, I rise above that emotion, that fight or flight response when

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people pleasing or just, or really just taking on other people's emotions, not wanting them to,

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to be upset or just taking on whatever they're feeling, which is not mine to take on.

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So it's not yours to take on that he, you know, that he may lose money or prestige or friends or

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reputation, or that's not, none of those feelings are yours to take on. And they're not mine to

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take on when someone is, is battling that either. And when I do that, and I step into a place of,

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of gratitude and grace, and I try as hard as I can to come from a place of love,

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other doors open. And I'll give you the perfect example of this. Hey, Mike, how are you? Good to

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see you on here. The perfect example of this. So I'm, I'm working on a, a listing and it's been,

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the family is very nice, but it has been constant. I mean, it's a big listing,

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but they have been, it's a family that owns it. It's in a family trust. So there's three

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decision-makers. I have been just working my tail off in a market that is declining. You know,

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our market is definitely declining, which I don't have fear around it. I think it's about due,

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but it's definitely declining at around a percent a month, quarter to percent, two percent a month.

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So I'm feeling pressure to get this listed. They, we worked out a deal where I'm investing money

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to get this listing out, you know, to, to market it and to stage it and things. And then I get

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reimbursed and closing. And the whole time I'm thinking, you know, I'm praying about this and

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I'm like, God, did you put this in my lap? And I'm cloudy around it. I'm fuzzy. And the family

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calls me every day. They want to talk for at least an hour. I mean, it's just taking a lot of time.

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And so I'm praying this prayer, you know, God close, close the doors, open the right ones,

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bind what's bound in heaven, loose what's loosed in heaven on earth, you know, just

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close the door that needs to be closed. And, and this family, we got an appraisal,

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the appraisal comes back. It's lower than what they thought, which I knew it would be because

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every seller right now it's lower than what they think. And the family comes back to me and they

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say, you know, we're just, we're really unhappy with the appraisal. And we don't know, we chose

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you out of three other brokerages and we're just not sure. And in the past, that would have

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completely like, just, it was a huge deal that would have completely devastated me. I let, I

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had peace with it. I had complete peace with it. And I normally my fight or flight would kick in,

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like, did I do something wrong and go back through everything that I could have done differently and

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all the things. And I just had peace with that. And I knew that it was God closing the door because

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it was, it was just taking a lot of effort and time and stress. That day.

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I had a referral from Wisconsin call me to buy a property here, they're ready to buy,

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they're ready to go.

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They're coming down Saturday.

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It was literally the same exact amount, same exact amount.

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It was like, I have chills thinking about it, same exact amount of a deal that I had

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let go that exact same day.

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So God is working through people in your life, and it could be your financial advisor, it

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could be your, I just had it out with a designer.

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I mean, there's definitely, I feel there's definitely spiritual attacks happening in

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the air in this moment in time.

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It's getting more and more, people are getting more and more for lack of a better term, crazy.

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And I know that it's spiritual.

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It has to be.

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I mean, it's just, things are coming out.

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I hear all the time about lawsuits happening with friends and family members, and I mean,

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it's everywhere.

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So you just protect yourself, be guarded, but step into that place that fear of man

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is a trap from the enemy.

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And it's a distraction.

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When you are on a good path, the enemy, every time will try and distract you.

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So earlier this week, I have a designer, we're redoing our kitchen.

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And she just went off the reservation because I asked about getting a quote from a different

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cabinet company.

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Now, I realize this, this is just an example, right?

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But, and it has very little to do with business, but does it?

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Because it's distracting me.

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I'm now working with people who want to buy in this market, it's a great, way better than

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sellers right now, it just is, want, you know, are great to work with, focusing on, I got

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a brand already, website already, I have a big launch plan coming up.

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And on top of that, you know, Ray launched a new company, like all kinds of amazing things

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that are happening.

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Is it unrelated?

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Or is it completely related?

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So this designer decides to want to charge me double for the plans I already paid for.

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I mean, it's a whole thing, I won't get into it, but it, my initial response, fight or

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flight, right?

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Like, oh my gosh, did I, I would never not want to pay someone for their time.

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I would never want to do that to somebody.

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That's that was always my initial response, but when you put on the armor of God and step

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into Christ's character, which is easy to forget, you step into a place of peace.

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And that can be very difficult sometimes.

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And remembering that it is a total distraction that can take, that could have taken me off

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my game to go after what I was going after for Christ, for the body of Christ, that could

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have completely taken me off my game, but just having peace with it.

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Literally that day, I kid you not, practicing this, and I know you all have experienced

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this, practicing this just accelerates the kingdom, right?

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It just accelerates your financial prosperity.

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It just accelerates everything in your life that God wants you to have as a much loved

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child.

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So literally that day, and it's almost like, okay, he's growing me faster because literally

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that same day I made peace with the designer.

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I came from a place of love.

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I fired her and I said, you know what?

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This isn't working out, but I wish you the best and came from a place of love, which

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previously I would have marinated on for weeks and would have been like, oh, I got to make

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this right.

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I got to pay her more.

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I've got to do something to make her feel good.

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I don't have to take on her feelings.

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That is not my responsibility.

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My responsibility is to show up boldly how Christ would want me to show up out of love.

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And so that day I get a call from a friend, okay, I want to talk to you about buying in

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this market.

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I'm ready to buy.

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Do you realize very few people have ready to buy buyers right now?

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A lot of them are waiting on the sidelines in our market, just waiting to see what happens.

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Probably the same day, my friend Heather.

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So I know those two are related.

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I know the enemy is trying to distract you, Angela, from all of the amazing things.

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You said you had 40 people come into your company within, what, a month?

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A month and a half.

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In a week and a half.

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No, a month and a half, yeah.

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A month and a half, 40 new recruits, not including who they recruited.

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I know this is all a distraction, so we'll see it for what it is and take it in stride

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because we're not going to be perfect at this at first.

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I've definitely only been practicing this for a few years where some of you have been

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practicing this much longer than I have, but I think hearing it from a different perspective.

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and being reminded of it is really important.

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I think the enemy sees that the time is short

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and he's throwing stupid punches here and there

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just to distract us from our purpose, so.

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Well said.

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Well said.

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Leslie, did you have anything going on like that?

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I'm just absorbing all of this and, you know,

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in a very menial way, I'm going through all the same stuff.

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Like, it's just tiny little things,

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but I'm here in Costa Rica by myself.

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And so my brother dropped me off and then he went to,

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he's rented a place for a year.

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He's not going back to Canada, so he says.

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So he left me here to deal with, you know,

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the everything by myself.

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And he's telling me, get out there and explore

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and don't be afraid and you're in a safe place

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and all this stuff.

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And then he texts me, he says,

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well, when are you going to be done with the dentist?

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Because my friend's friend canceled

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or took the day off of work to do your nails.

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So if you're going to be delayed,

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I have to tell her today that you're not going to make,

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and I'm like, okay, and okay, fight or flight.

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I would have been, okay,

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I got to accommodate this person because they,

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well, wait a minute.

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I didn't ask anybody to take a day off work

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and it's not my problem.

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And in the past, I would have been like,

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I got to figure this out or tell them

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I'll come back for my teeth or whatever.

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And I'm just like, no, you did this with me last year.

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You know, you're at their beck and call

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because they do appointments as things unfold.

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And I mean, the clinic is crazy.

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So I just said, listen,

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you know I'm here until at least the ninth.

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And if something goes wrong, I have to stay longer.

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That's why I have a cushion in between here and Cabo,

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which is where I'm going next.

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So-

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Hey, not a bad life, huh?

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I'm telling you, when you say things open up, they do.

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They do.

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And so anyways, I said,

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you need to figure this out with her.

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Here's what I know right now.

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And that's all I can tell you.

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And this is my priority.

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So,

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figure it out.

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So he already messaged me back and he said,

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okay, we have another option.

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I'm like, really?

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So, I mean, it's just a tiny little thing.

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You know, it's a tiny little thing.

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You never know there was another option, right?

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Yeah, but for me,

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there's a lot of fear stepping into that and saying,

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hang on, this is not my no

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because I've been a people pleaser

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and had fear of men my whole life, my whole life.

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So, being here is probably,

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God put me here for a reason.

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I'm walking to the mall by myself.

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I sat in the mall and did live

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about how scared I was to be there alone,

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but I'm doing it, I'm doing it scared.

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So, you know, in a really small way,

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I'm growing in lots of big ways.

454
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So I'm just absorbing everything you're saying

455
00:32:52.400 --> 00:32:54.120
and going, yep, yep, yep.

456
00:32:54.120 --> 00:32:56.480
That's me, yep, I get it, yep.

457
00:32:56.480 --> 00:32:58.880
So, yeah.

458
00:33:00.360 --> 00:33:03.080
I am, I wrote this down.

459
00:33:03.080 --> 00:33:05.760
People pleasing puts your identity in people's hands.

460
00:33:05.760 --> 00:33:08.000
Faith puts it in God's.

461
00:33:08.000 --> 00:33:09.280
Yeah, for sure.

462
00:33:10.600 --> 00:33:14.840
And that's what the enemy goes after is your identity.

463
00:33:15.880 --> 00:33:20.560
And so it's a distraction because you are,

464
00:33:21.400 --> 00:33:23.400
when you have difficult conversations

465
00:33:24.400 --> 00:33:27.680
and this even happens in prospecting, right?

466
00:33:27.680 --> 00:33:31.040
So even when we're talking to people about our business,

467
00:33:31.040 --> 00:33:32.240
we're putting our emotions

468
00:33:32.240 --> 00:33:34.440
or we're taking their emotions on ourselves.

469
00:33:34.440 --> 00:33:36.680
And it's not that you're not there to serve them.

470
00:33:36.680 --> 00:33:37.800
Of course you are,

471
00:33:37.800 --> 00:33:40.400
but you don't need to take their emotions on

472
00:33:40.400 --> 00:33:45.400
or their preconceived response onto yourself.

473
00:33:45.960 --> 00:33:50.960
So what happens when we do that is we question our identity.

474
00:33:51.400 --> 00:33:56.400
We question like, okay, are we meant to do this?

475
00:33:58.600 --> 00:34:00.920
Are we bold enough?

476
00:34:00.920 --> 00:34:02.960
Are we strong enough to do this business?

477
00:34:02.960 --> 00:34:05.920
Are we, did we screw up?

478
00:34:05.920 --> 00:34:07.080
Are we a bad person?

479
00:34:07.080 --> 00:34:09.920
Am I the liar here?

480
00:34:09.920 --> 00:34:10.760
Am I the one?

481
00:34:10.760 --> 00:34:13.120
And in some of those circumstances,

482
00:34:13.120 --> 00:34:15.520
here's another thing about using people

483
00:34:15.520 --> 00:34:18.440
is God puts people in your life to reveal to you

484
00:34:19.280 --> 00:34:21.639
where you need growth.

485
00:34:21.639 --> 00:34:26.639
And so I see the best in everyone as we're called to see.

486
00:34:28.400 --> 00:34:33.199
However, that can also cause other people to take advantage

487
00:34:35.840 --> 00:34:38.520
and it can be small or it can be big

488
00:34:38.520 --> 00:34:41.040
because I would never lie to somebody.

489
00:34:41.040 --> 00:34:44.920
It doesn't mean that they would never lie to me.

490
00:34:44.920 --> 00:34:45.760
It doesn't mean,

491
00:34:45.760 --> 00:34:48.159
because I would never intentionally manipulate somebody.

492
00:34:48.920 --> 00:34:49.760
It doesn't mean

493
00:34:49.760 --> 00:34:52.159
that they wouldn't intentionally manipulate me.

494
00:34:53.800 --> 00:34:55.840
And it's not out of fear or anger, of course,

495
00:34:55.840 --> 00:34:56.840
it's out of love,

496
00:34:56.840 --> 00:35:00.400
but correcting that is also what we're called to do.

497
00:35:00.240 --> 00:35:05.520
and standing bold in that purpose. And so I don't believe your brother was intentionally

498
00:35:05.520 --> 00:35:09.840
manipulating you by any means or trying to get you to do something you didn't want to do. It's just

499
00:35:09.840 --> 00:35:14.880
he thought it was a nice thing and did it, but you don't have to take that on. But there are

500
00:35:14.880 --> 00:35:19.680
people who do that. I'm not saying to your particular circumstance, but when you have,

501
00:35:19.680 --> 00:35:27.440
as you know, when you have the Holy Spirit and you can now discern how God is working those people

502
00:35:27.440 --> 00:35:31.920
out of your life and closing those doors, it's really powerful. So I was in the car dealing with

503
00:35:31.920 --> 00:35:38.480
a person who I knew God was working out of my life. I won't get into the whole story. And I

504
00:35:38.480 --> 00:35:45.360
just heard it clear as day. They're lying. They're lying to you. You need to understand that they are

505
00:35:45.360 --> 00:35:55.200
lying to you. And I knew that did not come from me because I have a habit. And I think this is

506
00:35:55.200 --> 00:36:00.880
the problem with politics, too, is people put their own, oh, I would never do that. So they

507
00:36:00.880 --> 00:36:08.000
never would. They trust in people that they shouldn't trust in. But having that discernment

508
00:36:08.000 --> 00:36:13.200
with the Holy Spirit is also key in this fear of man versus trusting in God and putting your faith

509
00:36:13.200 --> 00:36:19.920
in God. And so that changed my entire perspective around what was happening. They were manipulating

510
00:36:19.920 --> 00:36:26.320
and lying to me. And it just helped me to stand my ground and step forward in what I knew was

511
00:36:26.320 --> 00:36:31.520
right. And that's when other doors were opening, financial doors and so on and so forth. But that

512
00:36:31.520 --> 00:36:37.200
also goes for ourselves, right? We have to step into the place of, wait a minute, I'm lying here.

513
00:36:37.200 --> 00:36:42.960
I'm trying to manipulate here. I'm not being Christ-like here. I'm trying to be right here

514
00:36:42.960 --> 00:36:49.440
and get these people to do what I want them to do. That's not the character that I need to embody

515
00:36:49.520 --> 00:36:56.320
right now, which in some circumstances can be even harder. But does that resonate at all?

516
00:36:59.440 --> 00:37:08.240
Yeah. Thanks for sharing that. I think the way I've grown up with just the bullying and the

517
00:37:08.240 --> 00:37:13.760
abuse that I've had, I'm way too timid to be on the other side of that. I've always questioned

518
00:37:13.760 --> 00:37:23.200
myself. And also with my big brother treating me the way he did, consciously or unconsciously,

519
00:37:23.200 --> 00:37:29.360
I will never manipulate. I will never lie, cheat or steal. My dad pounded that into us when we were

520
00:37:29.360 --> 00:37:36.720
kids. So I still ask myself the question, but I know the answer already. So I fall victim to people

521
00:37:36.720 --> 00:37:43.120
who will lie, who will manipulate. And that's where I have to step into my power and ask God,

522
00:37:43.760 --> 00:37:49.200
for protection, so that I can, because I get frozen. I get frozen where I can't move forward

523
00:37:49.200 --> 00:37:55.440
out of fear. And I'm really learning how to not do that anymore. Little, you know, baby steps,

524
00:37:56.320 --> 00:38:02.720
and it's making a huge difference. Absolutely. Thank you for sharing that. And it's physical.

525
00:38:03.280 --> 00:38:07.920
We can't trust those emotions. It is literally flight or flight. That's literally.

526
00:38:08.880 --> 00:38:15.600
Yeah. Yeah. So powerful. Mike, did you want to share anything around this? I know you jumped

527
00:38:15.600 --> 00:38:21.200
on a little late. I don't know if you can hear me or if you're still there, but we were just

528
00:38:21.200 --> 00:38:29.520
talking about points in our lives and pointing to how this can change everything. Points in our

529
00:38:29.520 --> 00:38:35.440
lives where maybe we're putting off a difficult conversation or a difficult circumstance that we

530
00:38:35.520 --> 00:38:39.360
know that we need to confront. I didn't know if you had anything like that going on.

531
00:38:42.880 --> 00:38:48.880
Can't think of anything right now, but appreciate it. That's awesome. That's amazing.

532
00:38:51.120 --> 00:38:53.680
What's going on in your world? Anything that I can help with?

533
00:38:54.640 --> 00:39:01.920
Hold on. Let me get my camera on. Yeah, so I'm just kind of working on

534
00:39:03.120 --> 00:39:11.120
building art, like kind of dealing with like some fraud people. So like there's people putting in

535
00:39:11.120 --> 00:39:16.480
like thousands of orders that are getting declined. And so I guess that's a little

536
00:39:17.440 --> 00:39:25.440
stressful. They're trying to stop that. But yeah. Yeah, that can be super stressful.

537
00:39:27.440 --> 00:39:33.280
So we're being attacked. We're definitely being attacked because it's like we would stop it or

538
00:39:33.280 --> 00:39:37.280
we do something and then it just keeps coming back. And there's like super sophisticated,

539
00:39:37.280 --> 00:39:42.880
like changing IPs and changing credit cards and like it's crazy.

540
00:39:44.800 --> 00:39:53.200
And how many resources are you wasting working on this? Is it taking up?

541
00:39:54.480 --> 00:39:58.400
Yeah, it's taking a lot of my time, I guess, because I'm trying to.

542
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:06.400
manually fight it, but I'm also like working with other software to stop it.

543
00:40:06.400 --> 00:40:11.400
But I think we got it under control now, but it's just kind of definitely taking

544
00:40:11.400 --> 00:40:17.440
up a lot of time and energy. Well it's good that you have it under control.

545
00:40:17.440 --> 00:40:22.680
Clearly just a distraction, right? Just you're on a good path and this is

546
00:40:22.680 --> 00:40:29.960
something that's just trying to distract, whatever that looks like. And after

547
00:40:29.960 --> 00:40:34.560
now that you know that you've had it, got it under control, I assume you've

548
00:40:34.560 --> 00:40:38.840
looked into putting safety measures in place so you can try and stop it again,

549
00:40:38.840 --> 00:40:47.920
right? Yeah, we have a lot more fraud protection and like hidden background

550
00:40:47.920 --> 00:40:53.480
like things going on. So yeah, it's we definitely, because it was like a really

551
00:40:53.480 --> 00:41:00.280
expensive mistake too, because apparently if you get charged and it

552
00:41:00.280 --> 00:41:05.400
declines, you still get charged like 16 cents or something. And so like when

553
00:41:05.400 --> 00:41:10.040
someone's putting thousands and thousands of fake orders through, you

554
00:41:10.040 --> 00:41:15.680
get charged 16 cents each time. So something to be aware of for anyone who

555
00:41:15.680 --> 00:41:21.200
wants to know. That is good to know. I'm sure we've dealt, our team has dealt with

556
00:41:21.200 --> 00:41:28.360
that for sure. So just a funny story that I think might help or relate. We

557
00:41:28.360 --> 00:41:36.920
were obviously for years like you do too, running Facebook ads. And we have a ton

558
00:41:36.920 --> 00:41:40.400
of different accounts and different admins that work those accounts. And

559
00:41:40.400 --> 00:41:43.640
throughout the years we've just, it just gets messy. You have to go in and

560
00:41:43.640 --> 00:41:51.000
clean it up. Well as we're going in and cleaning it up, Facebook shuts us

561
00:41:51.040 --> 00:41:56.400
completely down from running ads, which at that time was a good portion of our

562
00:41:56.400 --> 00:42:00.880
revenue. Like there was a very significant difference between when we

563
00:42:00.880 --> 00:42:06.760
ran ads versus when we didn't on our daily role of what we made. So our daily

564
00:42:06.760 --> 00:42:14.360
sales. So it was quite devastating because you know, without those sales, you

565
00:42:14.360 --> 00:42:19.720
think about in the future, okay, you can't make payroll, you can't do any

566
00:42:19.720 --> 00:42:25.040
launches, you just basically cease to function until you circumvent and find a

567
00:42:25.040 --> 00:42:31.840
different way to create that same revenue. So our account gets shut down,

568
00:42:31.840 --> 00:42:36.200
Facebook is not responding, not responding, won't do anything. Finally,

569
00:42:36.200 --> 00:42:43.360
we get a letter that says that we were actively advertising like pornography or

570
00:42:43.360 --> 00:42:48.560
something like this. And we're like, what? What in the world is happening? So

571
00:42:48.560 --> 00:42:53.040
someone had gone into one of our many admin accounts, one of our many ads

572
00:42:53.040 --> 00:42:56.400
accounts. And Mike, you probably know the techie side behind how this works

573
00:42:56.400 --> 00:42:59.160
better than I do. So I'm not going to explain it right. But this is what

574
00:42:59.160 --> 00:43:04.840
happened. Someone went in and used our ads account and was charging to our ads

575
00:43:04.840 --> 00:43:12.280
account for their ads. And it took us months to prove this to Facebook. It's

576
00:43:12.280 --> 00:43:15.480
not like you can just go to Facebook and be like, look, this isn't us. They'd be

577
00:43:15.520 --> 00:43:21.680
like, okay, sure, here's all your money back. So it was very stressful, very,

578
00:43:21.680 --> 00:43:28.200
very stressful. We lost a lot of revenue. And it affected a lot of other things

579
00:43:28.200 --> 00:43:34.360
throughout the business. But it, it definitely forced us to create that

580
00:43:34.360 --> 00:43:38.680
revenue elsewhere and find holes where we wouldn't have ever seen them.

581
00:43:39.200 --> 00:43:45.440
Eventually, Facebook realized that it wasn't us, that we were charged money

582
00:43:45.440 --> 00:43:50.120
that we shouldn't have been charged. And I don't know the exact amount, but it

583
00:43:50.120 --> 00:43:56.120
was somewhere close to like $100,000 of back credit card payments that went to

584
00:43:56.120 --> 00:44:00.000
this other account that we ended up getting back through American Express.

585
00:44:00.520 --> 00:44:08.560
So I could not see that at the time. And I know that we know this in theory, but

586
00:44:08.560 --> 00:44:12.640
sometimes hearing it again, from someone else who's been in business and been in

587
00:44:12.640 --> 00:44:17.160
those situations, we couldn't see it at the time, it felt absolutely

588
00:44:17.160 --> 00:44:23.720
devastating. But that, that money showed up in a time where we really needed it

589
00:44:23.920 --> 00:44:29.560
for the business. And we could have never fathomed that that would be the way that

590
00:44:29.600 --> 00:44:34.480
God would provide a solution or a circumstance for us in that moment. And

591
00:44:34.480 --> 00:44:40.440
so I know, A, what you're going through is definitely just a distraction, right?

592
00:44:40.440 --> 00:44:45.480
But B, God will use it to help you circumnavigate something that could have

593
00:44:45.480 --> 00:44:49.560
been ultimately devastating or taking the company out as a whole, maybe there

594
00:44:49.560 --> 00:44:54.000
was a future attack coming that you didn't even know, that could have

595
00:44:54.000 --> 00:44:58.600
completely knocked the company over on its heels. So

596
00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:02.560
just felt like I should share that with you

597
00:45:02.560 --> 00:45:05.160
because this happened not that long ago.

598
00:45:05.160 --> 00:45:10.880
And it's been interesting how those little things have really

599
00:45:10.880 --> 00:45:13.040
caused us to, I feel like in business,

600
00:45:13.040 --> 00:45:16.240
I've interviewed so many business men and women,

601
00:45:16.240 --> 00:45:17.720
both in the network marketing space,

602
00:45:17.720 --> 00:45:19.340
outside of the network marketing space.

603
00:45:19.340 --> 00:45:23.120
I did a whole series called Women and Wealth

604
00:45:23.120 --> 00:45:26.400
and interviewed Elena Cardone and all kinds

605
00:45:26.400 --> 00:45:28.060
of super wealthy women.

606
00:45:28.060 --> 00:45:33.020
And the number one characteristic

607
00:45:33.020 --> 00:45:40.340
that I hear from these business owners is grit, just grit.

608
00:45:40.340 --> 00:45:42.860
They went up here.

609
00:45:42.860 --> 00:45:44.580
They went way down here.

610
00:45:44.580 --> 00:45:47.700
Many of them filed bankruptcy, if not almost

611
00:45:47.700 --> 00:45:51.380
went bankrupt many times.

612
00:45:51.380 --> 00:45:54.220
The simple fact that they made it,

613
00:45:54.260 --> 00:46:00.620
it was some skill, some opportunity obviously,

614
00:46:00.620 --> 00:46:03.020
but it was grit because to whom much is given,

615
00:46:03.020 --> 00:46:05.820
much is required.

616
00:46:05.820 --> 00:46:09.660
And there are things that I tell people,

617
00:46:09.660 --> 00:46:12.180
friends that I have here, just personal friends that have

618
00:46:12.180 --> 00:46:14.720
nothing to do with business, and they hear some of the things

619
00:46:14.720 --> 00:46:16.460
that we navigate and go through.

620
00:46:16.460 --> 00:46:18.460
And they literally, one of my friends

621
00:46:18.460 --> 00:46:20.020
literally said to me, Jess, I would

622
00:46:20.020 --> 00:46:23.380
be in the corner in a fetal position

623
00:46:23.380 --> 00:46:25.900
for a week if I were doing what you're doing,

624
00:46:25.900 --> 00:46:28.460
just rocking back and forth.

625
00:46:28.460 --> 00:46:32.020
And for you too, Mike, I mean, you're growing a big company.

626
00:46:32.020 --> 00:46:35.020
That is to whom much is given, much is required,

627
00:46:35.020 --> 00:46:37.580
but the reward is beyond what we can even

628
00:46:37.580 --> 00:46:41.100
comprehend if we have the grit to stick it through.

629
00:46:41.100 --> 00:46:43.940
So I think it's awesome that you figured it out.

630
00:46:43.940 --> 00:46:46.380
Obviously, you seem like you're on the other side of it now,

631
00:46:46.380 --> 00:46:51.660
but just keep asking like, OK, what are the lessons here?

632
00:46:51.660 --> 00:46:53.500
Is there something I'm not seeing about this

633
00:46:53.500 --> 00:46:56.820
that I need to put into place, like extra firewall

634
00:46:56.820 --> 00:46:59.180
or what have you?

635
00:46:59.180 --> 00:47:00.580
What am I not seeing?

636
00:47:00.580 --> 00:47:03.620
What do I need to see here?

637
00:47:03.620 --> 00:47:06.540
Yeah, we definitely increased security,

638
00:47:06.540 --> 00:47:08.580
so that was a positive.

639
00:47:08.580 --> 00:47:13.340
Another one is we secured more merchant accounts

640
00:47:13.340 --> 00:47:16.100
because they were trying to shut our merchant account down,

641
00:47:16.100 --> 00:47:17.100
basically.

642
00:47:17.100 --> 00:47:20.140
So we've been doing a lot of different things.

643
00:47:20.140 --> 00:47:24.980
So I guess it definitely is a positive for sure.

644
00:47:24.980 --> 00:47:28.540
Oh, yeah, we had merchant accounts shut down.

645
00:47:28.540 --> 00:47:33.660
We ran an event where, and stop me if Ray has told you this,

646
00:47:33.660 --> 00:47:37.220
right, but we ran an event where, obviously, events

647
00:47:37.220 --> 00:47:38.500
are super costly.

648
00:47:38.500 --> 00:47:44.220
And it was this one event cost close to 3 quarters of a million

649
00:47:44.220 --> 00:47:45.580
dollars or something crazy.

650
00:47:45.580 --> 00:47:48.020
And they just shut our merchant account down

651
00:47:48.020 --> 00:47:49.740
right before the event.

652
00:47:49.740 --> 00:47:51.100
So we can't collect payment.

653
00:47:51.100 --> 00:47:52.500
And we're on the phone with them,

654
00:47:52.500 --> 00:47:54.460
and we're going through another time.

655
00:47:54.460 --> 00:47:58.980
They just decided to start taking 50% of our revenue

656
00:47:58.980 --> 00:48:05.580
and putting it in a holding account and not tell us.

657
00:48:05.580 --> 00:48:07.700
Yeah, that's happened to me.

658
00:48:07.700 --> 00:48:12.300
Yeah, I mean, so it's like, hey, I need that.

659
00:48:12.300 --> 00:48:14.260
It's my money, by the way.

660
00:48:14.260 --> 00:48:16.340
So it's grit.

661
00:48:16.340 --> 00:48:20.580
It's just pure, pure grit moving forward in business.

662
00:48:20.580 --> 00:48:23.900
That was a hard one, because that was last year.

663
00:48:23.900 --> 00:48:26.740
And we were paying 80% commission,

664
00:48:26.740 --> 00:48:29.860
and they were holding 50%.

665
00:48:29.860 --> 00:48:33.740
So we're literally taking out loans

666
00:48:33.740 --> 00:48:37.140
to pay for our affiliates.

667
00:48:37.140 --> 00:48:40.100
And then we finally got it undone.

668
00:48:40.100 --> 00:48:41.980
It took six months.

669
00:48:41.980 --> 00:48:44.940
So we were paying it from a line of credit,

670
00:48:44.940 --> 00:48:48.580
like affiliate commissions.

671
00:48:48.580 --> 00:48:50.260
Yeah, we didn't.

672
00:48:50.260 --> 00:48:55.500
I mean, six months in the business world

673
00:48:55.500 --> 00:48:58.060
is like 20 years.

674
00:48:58.060 --> 00:49:01.340
It's just that's so tough.

675
00:49:01.340 --> 00:49:04.700
And Angela knows this, too, running large cleaning

676
00:49:04.700 --> 00:49:05.300
companies.

677
00:49:05.300 --> 00:49:10.180
And it's just grit and focusing on closing

678
00:49:10.180 --> 00:49:12.020
the doors that need to be closed and opening

679
00:49:12.060 --> 00:49:15.220
the ones that need to be open.

680
00:49:15.220 --> 00:49:17.820
Yeah, thanks.

681
00:49:17.820 --> 00:49:21.260
But it's always, as I look at the sign on my wall,

682
00:49:21.260 --> 00:49:25.500
be still and know that I am.

683
00:49:25.500 --> 00:49:29.180
God does say His yoke is easy and His burden is light.

684
00:49:29.180 --> 00:49:31.780
So many times I want to do things in my own strength

685
00:49:31.780 --> 00:49:35.420
or too much in my own grit.

686
00:49:35.420 --> 00:49:38.980
And if I'm just still and listen to what

687
00:49:38.980 --> 00:49:43.660
the Lord would have me do, that's when the yoke is easy

688
00:49:43.660 --> 00:49:45.420
and the burden is light.

689
00:49:45.420 --> 00:49:50.460
So we do need to do our part.

690
00:49:50.460 --> 00:49:51.940
Faith without works instead.

691
00:49:51.940 --> 00:49:56.380
But I think we don't a lot of times

692
00:49:56.380 --> 00:49:58.220
do enough of being still.

693
00:49:58.220 --> 00:50:00.900
I'm a big Martha.

694
00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:05.000
And we sit at the foot of Jesus,

695
00:50:05.040 --> 00:50:09.940
he leads and guides us in the way that we should go.

696
00:50:10.920 --> 00:50:12.960
So, amen.

697
00:50:15.160 --> 00:50:16.200
Amen.

698
00:50:16.200 --> 00:50:17.040
Thank you.

699
00:50:20.160 --> 00:50:23.280
By the way, Mike, I don't know if you've reached out

700
00:50:23.280 --> 00:50:24.540
to Ray regarding that,

701
00:50:24.540 --> 00:50:26.840
but he may have some good resources for that.

702
00:50:26.840 --> 00:50:28.960
In fact, I'm positive he does.

703
00:50:29.160 --> 00:50:30.600
If you haven't figured it out, then great.

704
00:50:30.600 --> 00:50:33.920
But if you need a resource around merchant accounts

705
00:50:33.920 --> 00:50:38.920
or cyber protection or anything like that,

706
00:50:38.960 --> 00:50:41.000
he probably has a good resource.

707
00:50:42.000 --> 00:50:43.500
Okay, sounds good.

708
00:50:50.760 --> 00:50:54.040
So lastly, with our last few minutes here,

709
00:50:55.400 --> 00:50:58.600
I just wanna open it up for anybody

710
00:50:59.320 --> 00:51:01.680
who has been on a few of these trainings

711
00:51:03.320 --> 00:51:07.520
and just hear what has opened up for you

712
00:51:07.520 --> 00:51:10.000
from the last time that we saw each other.

713
00:51:10.000 --> 00:51:11.280
I always like to know that.

714
00:51:11.280 --> 00:51:12.600
I wanna hear some wins

715
00:51:12.600 --> 00:51:14.940
or something that was revealed to you.

716
00:51:16.160 --> 00:51:18.960
I tend to give to-dos or homework,

717
00:51:18.960 --> 00:51:22.200
but even if that wasn't accomplished, not a big deal.

718
00:51:22.200 --> 00:51:27.000
I just wanna hear what's opening up for you in your life.

719
00:51:27.840 --> 00:51:29.880
Well, can I just say I do have homework to do

720
00:51:29.880 --> 00:51:32.620
based on what I learned today.

721
00:51:32.620 --> 00:51:34.120
So I gave myself homework

722
00:51:34.120 --> 00:51:36.360
because there was so much value today.

723
00:51:36.360 --> 00:51:39.600
Just, so thank you.

724
00:51:40.960 --> 00:51:43.400
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.

725
00:51:44.240 --> 00:51:47.000
What's one win going on in your life right now?

726
00:51:47.000 --> 00:51:48.020
One major win.

727
00:51:50.560 --> 00:51:52.220
I'm losing fear.

728
00:51:52.220 --> 00:51:53.280
That's a big win.

729
00:51:53.280 --> 00:51:55.320
And it's giving me the boldness to move forward

730
00:51:55.320 --> 00:51:56.720
and do more in my business.

731
00:51:57.440 --> 00:52:01.960
And more with helping other women find themselves.

732
00:52:03.200 --> 00:52:05.500
Which is gonna in turn, give me in the business

733
00:52:05.500 --> 00:52:08.720
because I'm building trust with other people, so.

734
00:52:09.860 --> 00:52:11.480
Absolutely.

735
00:52:11.480 --> 00:52:12.840
For me, that's a big win.

736
00:52:14.200 --> 00:52:15.400
It's all about fear.

737
00:52:15.400 --> 00:52:18.780
I mean, that's everything, right?

738
00:52:18.780 --> 00:52:22.120
It's either you have it, well, we all have it

739
00:52:22.120 --> 00:52:25.320
and you move forward regardless, or you don't.

740
00:52:25.320 --> 00:52:28.320
I mean, that's basically what life comes down to.

741
00:52:29.160 --> 00:52:30.800
It's pretty much what, you know,

742
00:52:30.800 --> 00:52:35.160
you move forward in, you know, evangelizing people,

743
00:52:35.160 --> 00:52:37.560
you move forward in business life,

744
00:52:37.560 --> 00:52:40.120
you move forward regardless of people's emotions.

745
00:52:40.120 --> 00:52:42.240
And certainly like, it's all about,

746
00:52:42.240 --> 00:52:47.240
you choose, fear or learning to work through it.

747
00:52:50.560 --> 00:52:51.800
Faith, yeah.

748
00:52:51.800 --> 00:52:53.000
Fear or faith, yeah.

749
00:52:53.840 --> 00:52:54.680
Duh, yeah.

750
00:52:54.680 --> 00:52:55.520
Yeah.

751
00:52:55.520 --> 00:52:56.340
Yeah.

752
00:52:56.340 --> 00:52:57.180
Yeah.

753
00:52:57.180 --> 00:52:58.020
Yeah.

754
00:52:58.020 --> 00:52:58.840
Absolutely.

755
00:52:58.840 --> 00:52:59.680
Yeah.

756
00:52:59.680 --> 00:53:00.520
Angela, how about you?

757
00:53:00.520 --> 00:53:01.720
What's a major win?

758
00:53:04.040 --> 00:53:07.840
So, I've led two people to Christ these last two days.

759
00:53:07.840 --> 00:53:10.080
A sweet woman in the grocery store

760
00:53:10.080 --> 00:53:14.520
and then the mitigation person with,

761
00:53:14.520 --> 00:53:18.440
when my salon was flooded, came to pick up the check

762
00:53:18.440 --> 00:53:21.080
and people are hungry for Jesus.

763
00:53:21.080 --> 00:53:24.760
So, I just encourage people to be bold for him

764
00:53:24.760 --> 00:53:29.360
because time is short and the enemy is rambling

765
00:53:29.360 --> 00:53:31.160
and people are more open

766
00:53:31.160 --> 00:53:33.840
than I think they've ever been before.

767
00:53:33.840 --> 00:53:37.800
So, and the only thing we can take with us

768
00:53:37.800 --> 00:53:42.440
on the other side is not our homes or our cars, it's souls.

769
00:53:42.440 --> 00:53:44.560
And so, amen.

770
00:53:45.640 --> 00:53:47.240
Absolutely, amen.

771
00:53:47.280 --> 00:53:49.760
Can you share real quickly

772
00:53:51.400 --> 00:53:53.880
how you opened up that conversation?

773
00:53:53.880 --> 00:53:54.920
Sure.

774
00:53:54.920 --> 00:53:57.120
So, in Publix, I'm walking around

775
00:53:57.120 --> 00:53:58.840
with these really cute shoes on

776
00:54:00.120 --> 00:54:02.800
and an 80-year-old woman stops and says,

777
00:54:02.800 --> 00:54:04.760
hey, I love your shoes.

778
00:54:04.760 --> 00:54:07.200
And we enter into a conversation

779
00:54:07.200 --> 00:54:11.320
and I just said, can I ask you a question?

780
00:54:11.320 --> 00:54:12.600
And she said, sure.

781
00:54:12.600 --> 00:54:15.440
I said, do you know that God loves you

782
00:54:15.440 --> 00:54:18.080
and has a major plan for your life?

783
00:54:18.080 --> 00:54:20.840
And she goes, oh, I hope that's true.

784
00:54:20.840 --> 00:54:22.800
And I said, well, can I ask you one more question?

785
00:54:22.800 --> 00:54:24.160
It's much more difficult.

786
00:54:24.160 --> 00:54:26.280
She goes, sure, anything.

787
00:54:27.120 --> 00:54:29.520
I said, if tonight was your last night on earth,

788
00:54:29.520 --> 00:54:31.080
do you know beyond a shadow of a doubt

789
00:54:31.080 --> 00:54:33.280
where you'd spend eternity?

790
00:54:33.280 --> 00:54:35.040
And she said, well, I used to be Catholic

791
00:54:35.040 --> 00:54:38.240
and I got really soured by the Catholic church

792
00:54:38.240 --> 00:54:40.200
and I have no idea.

793
00:54:40.200 --> 00:54:41.640
And I said, would you like to know?

794
00:54:41.640 --> 00:54:43.480
And she said, yes, I would.

795
00:54:43.480 --> 00:54:48.280
And so I just led her through the Romans road to salvation

796
00:54:48.280 --> 00:54:49.760
and asked her if she would be open

797
00:54:49.760 --> 00:54:52.040
to inviting Christ into her heart.

798
00:54:52.040 --> 00:54:53.240
And she said she would.

799
00:54:53.240 --> 00:54:54.760
So I said, repeat after me.

800
00:54:54.760 --> 00:54:58.160
So there in public, so I led her to Christ

801
00:54:58.160 --> 00:54:59.880
and I had this really neat.

802
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:07.960
bead bracelet with a cross on it, and afterwards I just slid it onto her wrist, and she was so tickled by that, and so

803
00:55:08.460 --> 00:55:14.100
I just told her to ask her if she had a Bible, because if they don't, I would send them a Bible,

804
00:55:14.100 --> 00:55:17.340
but she says she has one that she's never read, and

805
00:55:18.900 --> 00:55:23.060
I just told her that Bible stands for basic instructions before leaving Earth.

806
00:55:23.060 --> 00:55:29.580
I said, not really, but it's, you know, the instruction manual that most people don't read, and so

807
00:55:30.000 --> 00:55:35.680
I encouraged her to find a church, and it was beautiful, so the other one that

808
00:55:37.160 --> 00:55:41.280
the CERP pro guy came to the door to look for the check, and I

809
00:55:42.240 --> 00:55:44.240
don't know, I ended up telling about my

810
00:55:44.920 --> 00:55:47.080
marketing company with postbiotics, and

811
00:55:48.600 --> 00:55:53.160
at the end, I just said, hey, I said, do you know that God loves you and has a major plan for your life?

812
00:55:53.160 --> 00:55:58.060
And people love hearing that, like that's like a one-liner you can throw out

813
00:55:58.540 --> 00:56:04.940
almost immediately if you do it the right way, if you look them in the eye, and just really sincerely with the love of Christ.

814
00:56:05.620 --> 00:56:11.980
I mean, my prayer is always that when I look at someone, that instead of seeing me, that they would see Jesus, and

815
00:56:12.660 --> 00:56:17.020
so I just said, hey, do you know God loves you and has a major plan for your life?

816
00:56:17.020 --> 00:56:21.060
And you know, most people are like, oh, I hope so, or I don't feel it, and

817
00:56:22.060 --> 00:56:28.740
then I get asked permission to ask another question, and they're like, anything, and they're not ready for, if you died tonight,

818
00:56:29.020 --> 00:56:32.260
do you know beyond a shadow of a doubt where you'd spend eternity? And

819
00:56:33.060 --> 00:56:35.060
he kind of had the same

820
00:56:35.740 --> 00:56:37.540
thing that he was raised

821
00:56:37.540 --> 00:56:41.900
Catholic, and never really had much faith in God, but has an eight-month-old, and is

822
00:56:42.300 --> 00:56:49.700
looking to be that dad now, and had somebody else mention Jesus to him recently, and so, you know, people

823
00:56:49.980 --> 00:56:53.620
have been pouring into him already, and so his heart was tendered, and

824
00:56:54.580 --> 00:57:01.260
just did the same thing, and said, you know, this is the Roman road to salvation, and read Romans 10, and

825
00:57:01.980 --> 00:57:06.300
would you like to receive Jesus into your heart now? And he said, yes, I would.

826
00:57:08.180 --> 00:57:13.740
So then his wife might be coming to our presentation on Thursday night, because she's a health enthusiast and

827
00:57:15.100 --> 00:57:17.100
entrusted, so,

828
00:57:17.300 --> 00:57:19.300
and I, there's this book

829
00:57:19.860 --> 00:57:26.300
called The Pocket Testimony. I get 20 a month for $25, and so The Pocket Testimony is

830
00:57:28.340 --> 00:57:32.780
Testimony League, I think it is. Anyway, it's the Book of John,

831
00:57:32.780 --> 00:57:37.220
so the first part of the little booklet, like this big, has how

832
00:57:37.740 --> 00:57:42.500
you come to salvation, and how we're separated from Jesus, and then it's

833
00:57:43.140 --> 00:57:47.180
simply the Book of John, so I always hand that out, and it's my goal at least to

834
00:57:47.660 --> 00:57:52.980
share that at least 20 times a month, and those books keep coming, so it's kind of my

835
00:57:53.540 --> 00:57:56.420
meter that I need to step it up, or, or

836
00:57:57.300 --> 00:58:00.700
what, but that's something I would highly recommend to anyone.

837
00:58:00.700 --> 00:58:05.620
It's just, it's a great place for anyone who's received Jesus, just to start with the Book of John,

838
00:58:06.140 --> 00:58:11.860
and they have all different types of covers on them that you can choose from, that's pretty cool. The Pocket Testimony League,

839
00:58:12.020 --> 00:58:12.780
I think it's called.

840
00:58:13.500 --> 00:58:14.020
Awesome.

841
00:58:14.060 --> 00:58:14.660
So.

842
00:58:15.820 --> 00:58:17.740
Thank you for sharing that. That's really cool.

843
00:58:20.300 --> 00:58:26.700
Because I, you know, if I'm being honest, I, I struggle with that sometimes, you know, how to open up that conversation

844
00:58:28.500 --> 00:58:30.540
with people, so that they're,

845
00:58:33.660 --> 00:58:40.100
so that they're open, and they receive it, versus just telling me what I want to hear, so that's a beautiful way

846
00:58:40.660 --> 00:58:41.460
to do it.

847
00:58:42.660 --> 00:58:50.740
So that, so the mail gal that I led to Jesus the other day, about a month ago, I was in Nebraska celebrating my mom's 84th birthday,

848
00:58:51.220 --> 00:59:00.900
and I had, I don't, you know, give everyone my number, but at times I do, so this gal, Asia, I gave her my number. I'm in Nebraska, I see Asia is calling me,

849
00:59:01.460 --> 00:59:04.260
and I answered the phone, like, hey, Asia, what's going on? She goes,

850
00:59:04.260 --> 00:59:17.380
I'm in such challenge, I need to use the restroom. Can I use your restroom? She goes, are you home? I said, no, but my, my husband and family are. She goes, can I go to use your, your home to go to the restroom?

851
00:59:18.180 --> 00:59:32.340
I said, most definitely. Let me call my husband, but I thought that was so cool, right? Because, you know, she had enough confidence in me, and just in the small time we met, the love of Christ connects people immediately, and to have,

852
00:59:32.420 --> 00:59:38.420
you know, the, the comfort to call someone and say, I need to use the bathroom, can I go to your home?

853
00:59:38.420 --> 00:59:47.620
It's an invulnerable situation. They've all been there, right? Yeah, right, right. So, I thought that was pretty cool. So, yeah, that's very cool.

854
00:59:48.980 --> 00:59:52.660
But I now know that if I'm ever in your neck of the woods, I have somewhere to go.

855
00:59:52.660 --> 00:59:54.660
Yes, come on over.

856
00:59:56.660 --> 00:59:58.660
That's awesome. Mike, how about you?

857
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:02.520
At you, what's a, what's a win major win.

858
01:00:04.400 --> 01:00:12.200
So I guess apparently there is a compete competing software that got rid of

859
01:00:12.200 --> 01:00:13.540
their affiliate program or something.

860
01:00:14.640 --> 01:00:20.180
Oh, so like some leaders that I made connections with in the past, they came

861
01:00:20.180 --> 01:00:24.260
to me first and said, Hey, we want to bring our people over to you.

862
01:00:24.260 --> 01:00:28.380
And so that was kind of, so we're getting like an influx of sales just

863
01:00:28.380 --> 01:00:32.340
kind of out of nowhere because who would have expected, you know, that

864
01:00:32.380 --> 01:00:35.440
just to randomly happen, you know?

865
01:00:35.440 --> 01:00:37.320
So that's definitely a win.

866
01:00:38.080 --> 01:00:41.640
Was that before or after the software issue after?

867
01:00:42.300 --> 01:00:44.660
Yeah, that was like yesterday.

868
01:00:45.260 --> 01:00:47.820
So I find that very interesting.

869
01:00:48.840 --> 01:00:50.800
You know, yeah, for sure.

870
01:00:52.280 --> 01:00:52.860
Super cool.

871
01:00:52.860 --> 01:00:53.600
Definitely a win.

872
01:00:54.240 --> 01:00:54.440
Yeah.

873
01:00:54.440 --> 01:00:55.160
That's a big win.

874
01:00:55.160 --> 01:00:55.740
I love it.

875
01:00:56.000 --> 01:00:56.560
I love it.

876
01:00:58.380 --> 01:01:02.560
Well, uh, this has been an amazing day, amazing training.

877
01:01:02.820 --> 01:01:08.300
Um, and it, you know, whenever I, whenever I train, I'm sure it's the same for you.

878
01:01:08.300 --> 01:01:13.320
I just, I'm preaching to myself too, about all the things that I'm working on

879
01:01:13.360 --> 01:01:19.440
and working through with God and for God and, um, in this world that we live in.

880
01:01:19.440 --> 01:01:22.840
So thank you guys for being here and sharing and being vulnerable.

881
01:01:22.920 --> 01:01:24.600
Um, does anybody want to pray us out?

882
01:01:26.880 --> 01:01:27.600
I'll pray us out.

883
01:01:28.920 --> 01:01:29.120
Okay.

884
01:01:32.440 --> 01:01:35.720
Father God, I just thank you for my brothers and sisters in Christ.

885
01:01:35.720 --> 01:01:39.000
I thank you, father God, as we just come here and we just

886
01:01:39.000 --> 01:01:41.040
acknowledge you in all of our ways.

887
01:01:41.520 --> 01:01:45.420
Lord, your powerful word says that you direct and guide our path, father God.

888
01:01:46.140 --> 01:01:49.060
And in John one, one, you said in the beginning was the word in the

889
01:01:49.060 --> 01:01:52.460
word word was God and the word is God.

890
01:01:52.460 --> 01:01:53.820
And the word came down in flesh.

891
01:01:53.820 --> 01:01:55.020
So you are the word.

892
01:01:55.220 --> 01:01:58.860
And when we send the word out, it will not come back void.

893
01:01:58.860 --> 01:02:03.860
So thank you, father God, as we just, um, thank you for the increase that you're

894
01:02:03.860 --> 01:02:09.500
bringing into all of our lives, father God, Lord, you desire to bless us by the

895
01:02:09.500 --> 01:02:12.620
God, so we in turn may turn around and be a blessing.

896
01:02:13.060 --> 01:02:17.220
So Lord, I thank you, Lord, that we all hear your still small voice and

897
01:02:17.220 --> 01:02:19.060
a voice of another we will not follow.

898
01:02:19.580 --> 01:02:24.220
And I thank you father God, that your hand is upon each and every one of us strong.

899
01:02:24.820 --> 01:02:25.380
We love you.

900
01:02:25.380 --> 01:02:26.260
We praise you.

901
01:02:26.260 --> 01:02:31.380
We glorify you to you be all the honor, all the glory for whatever it comes into

902
01:02:31.380 --> 01:02:33.380
our life, what the enemy has made for evil.

903
01:02:33.380 --> 01:02:35.900
You are turning around and making it for good.

904
01:02:36.340 --> 01:02:40.980
And I thank you, Lord, for just even, even further testimonies coming out this week

905
01:02:41.380 --> 01:02:46.180
and the weeks to come father God, for you are the big breasted one that

906
01:02:46.180 --> 01:02:48.820
nourishes and supplies all that we need.

907
01:02:49.380 --> 01:02:55.460
And I just, um, I putting up a special prayer for my husband, Lord, and I just

908
01:02:55.460 --> 01:02:57.260
asked that you would strengthen his heart.

909
01:02:57.420 --> 01:02:59.660
Um, he was having heart palpitations.

910
01:02:59.660 --> 01:03:04.340
And so father God, I thank you that by Jesus stripes, Paul is healed,

911
01:03:04.380 --> 01:03:06.580
Lord, in Jesus name, amen.

912
01:03:06.580 --> 01:03:07.140
And amen.

913
01:03:08.380 --> 01:03:08.860
Amen.

914
01:03:09.100 --> 01:03:09.860
Amen.

915
01:03:12.980 --> 01:03:13.500
Beautiful.

916
01:03:14.140 --> 01:03:14.540
Yes.

917
01:03:14.740 --> 01:03:15.780
And we'll pray for Paul.

918
01:03:15.780 --> 01:03:16.500
Absolutely.

919
01:03:17.300 --> 01:03:17.940
Appreciate it.

920
01:03:19.820 --> 01:03:25.100
So just another attack from the enemy that will not succeed in Jesus name.

921
01:03:25.660 --> 01:03:26.180
Absolutely.

922
01:03:26.740 --> 01:03:27.380
Absolutely.

923
01:03:27.380 --> 01:03:28.220
With that power.

924
01:03:28.740 --> 01:03:29.220
Love it.

925
01:03:30.020 --> 01:03:30.860
My heart is full.

926
01:03:32.140 --> 01:03:32.500
Man.

927
01:03:33.380 --> 01:03:33.860
Amen.

928
01:03:35.340 --> 01:03:36.220
All right, guys.

929
01:03:36.260 --> 01:03:38.100
Well, we'll see you next time.

930
01:03:38.460 --> 01:03:39.780
Thanks everyone.

931
01:03:41.580 --> 01:03:41.780
Bye.