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Welcome, everybody.

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So good to see you.

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Welcome.

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Welcome.

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Happy Wednesday.

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Hope you're having an amazing day so far.

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Thank you, especially for those on the West Coast.

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I know this is a really early let us know where you're joining us from, what city was

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like to know who's who's here.

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We recognize many of you.

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So thanks again for for joining us as we're getting on here.

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We're going to walk you through what we're doing here at at the brilliant CEO in a circle.

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So thanks for joining.

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So if you said, what call have I joined?

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This is about kingdom business, the call.

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So if you were wanting something else like personal counseling or whatever, that's not

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the call.

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We would love you, though, to join us and enjoy the conversation.

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So this is a 90 minute session.

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We're going to walk you through what we do here at the at the inner circle.

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And then we're going to take questions and try to make this interactive.

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So we do these calls every single month.

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Typically, they're anywhere between 90 minutes and two hours long.

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We pack it in because we know leaders don't have time to make it super efficient.

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And we really load it up for you to go and do what you need to do.

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OK, so we let's see.

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We've got Hawaii, Indiana, California.

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Hey, thanks to all the California people.

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Nice early early for you.

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OK, some from Georgia.

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Virginia.

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So as we're all Alabama, good to see you have a dawn, South Carolina.

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OK, Minnesota.

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Wonderful.

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All right.

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So as we're jumping in and doing all this, I would love you to get interactive on the

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chat.

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The more you talk to me, the more helpful I can be.

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And feel free to raise your hand.

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Jenny is hosting the call.

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Jenny Taylor here from Brilliant Bridget.

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My wife is assisting us and will answer all the questions.

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And we will jump in.

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So you're ready to do this.

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Let's let's jump right in.

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So what I've done is I'm going to put together just a couple of slides to help us get through

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this effectively and efficiently.

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I see people are still joining, but quite a lot of sign up.

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So we're just going to chat for a second longer, I think, before we start.

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Just give people time to get on and get the coffee going and so forth.

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OK, also awesome.

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So the inner circle is now going this inner circle is going into its fourth year.

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And it's been an amazing journey for us.

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You know, for me, I've had this lifelong passion.

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For those of you who don't know me, I'm Dion van Zaelen, CEO of Brilliant Perspectives.

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And myself and Bridget together with Graham and Teresa and Jenny and Glenn is also on

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the call here.

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We're on the board that lead the Brilliant movement.

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And this is the this is the key.

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This is the key thing for us.

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How do we create a movement and give the father what he wants without all our religious stuff

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attached?

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You know, can we just give him what he wants?

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You know, sometimes I look at something and I say, Father, do you ever just get what you

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want?

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Does it always have to have all these attachments, all the stuff, all those bits that we want

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to add in?

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And so as we've started to look at that, what's happened is, you know, the movement has grown.

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There's a lot of people have come in as members and then those who are in the process of training

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as leaders in our Brilliant School of Leadership.

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And then this is the top of the stack.

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This is our executive kingdom executive training program.

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And this is really how do we create a kingdom executive program that really helps people

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partner with the Lord?

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So we used to run a leadership company back in 2017.

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I think we did we did 17 events trained over 70,000 leaders, mostly Christian leaders and

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business leaders.

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And, you know, I'd sit at these events and we'd bring in these incredible speakers and

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they would give, you know, all the gems and wisdom and very, very powerful was, you know,

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it was usually two days immersion and you walked away, you know, with tons of notes

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and, you know, cool stuff you wanted to implement in your team.

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But as we did that, I started to think about what are the upstairs kingdom training?

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Where is the leadership training?

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If you think of upstairs and downstairs, upstairs being the the kingdom realm, downstairs being

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the natural realm, I started to think about where is.

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Where's all the upstairs leadership stuff?

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Because all the downstairs leadership stuff

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is really useful, right?

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It helps us operate in the natural world.

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So wisdom is wisdom, and we love it,

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and we love everything to do with it,

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because this has been my lifelong pursuit.

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I have studied not just engineering and theology,

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but also I have an MBA,

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and my PhD was studying all the best leaders

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from around the world and putting it into a single system.

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how come some leaders have the ability

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to really move the needle and move it quickly.

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Have you noticed that?

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I mean, some leaders will step in, take a project,

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and suddenly it's off and running.

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And other leaders struggle.

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They just struggle to, they sort of get swamped

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in all the detail of what they're doing,

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and it's hard for them to know exactly

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what moves the needle, and what do I need to focus on now,

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and how do I build a team, and good systems,

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and products, and customer service, and do everything.

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That's a lot of stuff to know.

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And so as I started to study the best leaders,

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I started to notice something interesting.

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Firstly, most leaders have at least one

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or two amazing core ideas

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that they built their whole organization on.

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And so I started to collect those.

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so that even a startup person can do it,

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you know, one person operation,

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or a small team, or a growing team?

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So that's when we got into really wanting to learn

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how does leadership really, really work,

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and what's effective?

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starting to then sit in these big conferences

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and think, where's the upstairs stuff?

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Where's the kingdom stuff?

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And I was really intrigued

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because this gripped my imagination.

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Jesus said, the son can do nothing on his own.

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And I thought, wow, if the son can do nothing on his own,

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what hope do I have, right?

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And why do I want to do it on my own?

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Why would I even want to?

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And he said, but I do, that's downstairs, I execute,

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I do what I see the father doing upstairs.

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And so I realized very quickly that what we had going on

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was a lot of downstairs stuff

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and a little bit of upstairs stuff.

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So it was like a triangle.

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If you had the upstairs, downstairs, it was like a triangle.

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Tiny little bit at the top was the upstairs,

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and the downstairs stuff was all execution.

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and it was this triangle.

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All revelation, prophetic words, promises,

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it's all fantastic, every week a new word.

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Downstairs, poor execution.

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Don't build anything,

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but boy, we have a wonderful collection of prophetic words.

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And as a pastor, this bothered me,

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as a business leader, this bothered me,

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and I thought, there's got to be some balance.

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We have to turn these triangles,

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whichever one they are, into squares.

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he was the perfect square, right?

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He did, he executed downstairs

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what he saw the father doing upstairs.

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And so as that started to grip me,

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we started to talk and train leaders

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around this basic idea.

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How do we partner with the Lord?

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And then the big verse that landed for us

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about three years ago was Matthew 11, 28 through 30.

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And that's when Jesus made this unbelievable offer.

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He said, and now think of this as an offer to you

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as a business leader, come to me,

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all you are weary and heavy laden.

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How many leaders are weary and heavy laden?

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It's almost like stress is our badge of honor.

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Look how stressed I am, I'm booked to the max.

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You should see my calendar, man.

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It's pack, pack, pack, pack, go, go, go, go.

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And Jesus said, come to me with all of that

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and do an exchange.

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What's the exchange?

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And I will give you rest.

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This must be the most counterintuitive offer

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for business on the planet.

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So what rest?

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We start in rest.

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come to me and he said, I will give you rest.

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And then he makes the offer.

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Take my yoke, my partnership, my linking together.

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Think of two oxen pulling together, right?

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And he says, take my yoke and here it comes

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and learn from me.

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And I went, oh, and that's where at Brilliant

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we get the term direct learning from.

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He's offering to give me rest, to partner with him.

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Then he's offering to teach me everything I need to know.

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And then he says, don't.

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worry. I'm gentle and I'm humble. You know if you put two oxen together and you

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tie and you put a yoke that that wooden board that connects them

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together and if a big oxen pushes too hard they can crush the

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little ox. I don't know if you know that. So Jesus is talking to simple people who

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understand this analogy and Jesus said I'm going to be

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gentle. I'm not going to push you harder than you can deliver.

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I'm not going to crush you in the process. In fact is I'm gentle and humble

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and you will find rest for your soul. So it's the second time he brings up this

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concept of rest. So he says it starts in rest. It continues in

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rest. It even ends in rest. It's all about

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rest and then he makes this extraordinary statement and he says

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for my partnership yoke is easy. Oh it's so hard to partner with God. Jesus

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disagrees. He says it's super easy. A child can do

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this. It's so simple. My yoke is easy and my burden is light.

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So my question is where are all the easy and light

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Christian leaders? Where all the people are like

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walking in this lightness of being in partnership

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with God in yoke where they just function

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high performance leaders that function from rest. We coined that phrase about

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three years ago and then we started to build our own team

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at Brilliant on these ideas and we moved

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our own productivity you know almost 500 percent in the first

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18 months. You say how on earth did you do that by

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doing both the upstairs and the downstairs? Upstairs we started

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teaching people how to function from rest and how to be in partnership with

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the Lord. See what the Father is doing. Do that

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and so I think most of our team get up every morning and say so Father

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what are we doing today? They know the program. They got the schedule. They know

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the appointments but they want to know from Him what are

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we doing today. They're in partnership with Him and then

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downstairs giving all the best learning from all

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the best leaders. So we've compiled over 48 trainings

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from leaders from all around the world in all sorts of segments

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and we've simplified it so that any single

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person can use it. So if you're a startup or you work for a big corporation

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or you run a small company. So let's pause there for a second and

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let's talk briefly about who's doing what.

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If you could just drop in the chat let me know.

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You can say I work for a company

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or I'm a solopreneur or

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I run a small business. That'd be really helpful to know who I'm speaking to.

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So if you let us drop in the chat really state

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solo okay just give me a sense of size of your team. Are you on your own?

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Are you in a small team? Small business owner?

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He's got that on. Thank you. Yep Jeremy I know about your small business so

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welcome by the way to our inner circle members including you January

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and Vanessa. Appreciate having you. Small business owner? Independent?

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Non-profit consultant? Okay.

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Okay. Work for a company and run a small business? Independent consultant?

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Okay. Multinational corp? Okay. Alright so we've got several of you. It

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looks like we're in broadly three categories here. We've got the solo

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group. We've got the group who work for other

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businesses and then we've got the small business

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group. Started a ministry?

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Also independent business owner? Jerry you look very busy.

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That sounds like busy life. Alright let's jump into it. Well that's fantastic. Well

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I appreciate you giving me that feedback. As we're going through this I

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would love for you to drop comments. What we're sharing

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here today is not theory and it's not a theological

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position. We're not talking about Christians in business. To me Christians

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in business is when somebody's in business who

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happens to be a Christian and then we go to well we'll just apply

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Christian principles which which is fine but I think it's the

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baby end of the pool. I think that's the baby pool

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and I think that because you know it goes that when we say Christian

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principles we generally are referring to basic ethics,

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how to treat people, pay your taxes, you know

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be honorable etc which of course are good things.

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I'm looking for the big answer. I'm looking for that big thing that genuinely

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moves the needle in the kingdom. What is it that Jesus

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saw and then he said I am about my father's

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business. So how would you like

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that every day, get up and say, I'm about the Father's business.

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Well, that means we have to know what the Father's business is.

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What I have learned training now many,

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many kingdom executives is that most are quite astonished by the idea.

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That they have a kingdom advantage,

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that there's this upstairs realm that can inform the downstairs realm.

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It's not like we're struggling downstairs and then we hope to get God's help.

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Maybe if I dial it in,

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maybe if I pray the right prayers or fast or pray or do enough stuff,

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maybe I can entice God to help me.

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Maybe I can get some favor.

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I went to a conference, the whole conference was about favor.

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All the favor of heaven is attracted to Jesus in you.

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Why are we trying to get what we already got?

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it's the greatest genius move of all, of all of history.

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God, I think the Father, Son and Holy Spirit sat around and said, OK,

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where can we put, where can we put her to guarantee her highest good?

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I know we'll put her in Jesus.

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And we'll put Jesus in her.

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So what's happening is God has made he wants to be one with you.

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we have this kingdom advantage is to is that the father.

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Has a vision for your business.

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In fact, he what he wants above all else is to do it with you.

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The religious thing is to try to do it for him.

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I just want my business to be for God, account for God.

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I just want God to use me.

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You know, we didn't have kids.

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So we had someone to mow the lawn. Right.

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We don't use them.

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We love them and we do things with them.

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that he lives in the kingdom and we live in the world and we struggle and we look

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for help. And I think if we're just brutally honest,

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real talk for a second, many people live there.

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But this idea of oneness, you and the father, son, you're one.

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You're one person.

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Then how does that one person function in business?

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We say to our students in our school

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of leadership, your primary purpose is your oneness.

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Not doing things for God.

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Your primary purpose is your oneness, and that oneness has a purpose.

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Ephesians tells us that.

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It says we are God's workmanship created in Christ, not just created,

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created in Christ to do good works, which the father has prepared before.

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all the good works for you to walk in, where did he put it?

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In Jesus, it's in your oneness.

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So I got a promise from God for my business.

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Well, really, you and Jesus got a promise from God for your business.

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God, Jesus holds all your promises.

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So they don't go anywhere.

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Even if you, you know,

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are still learning and mess up or whatever the stuff is.

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That God wants to do it with us,

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and that three that God has gone before us and wants to create a business with us.

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we have Jesus, who's the redeemer, who wants to use this business process to grow

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you up in Christ so that you become just like him.

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Let us make man in our own image and likeness.

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God is using the process of business to make you like him.

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And then you've got the genius Holy Spirit,

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who, by the way, is a pretty impressive resume, created the universe,

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wrote the Bibles, caretakes the entire body of Christ,

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invented business, invented everything about modern society.

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All good gifts come from the Father above.

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So we can't say, well, business is sort of evil and worldly.

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Everything is holy except in the kingdom.

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With that simple idea that we are standing in a different position,

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we launched this program called the Inner Circle, where we could get together once

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a month and figure it out together, where people can get coached and helped.

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On step one, how do you partner with the Lord?

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How do you do what Jesus offered and learn from him?

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Step two, downstairs, how do we give you access to all the best practices from the best leaders around the world, whether that's marketing or building a team or creating a high performance culture, whatever it is, all those things.

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And we're constantly adding to this library of materials.

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We call this library, by the way, LeaderForge, one word, LeaderForge, which we've trademarked, so we're excited about that.

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All right, you guys ready to see the detail?

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All right, before I get into it, are there any questions around this idea of being in business with God?

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Because a lot of people say God is my business partner.

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But when I dig into it, I find out they're pretty much doing it, you know, and I think the heart behind it is I really want they pray, they ask the Lord for help.

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But it's not a case of, Father, what are you doing?

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Let's do that together.

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It's a case of I think this is a good idea and I pray about and I hope he blesses that as I go.

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So we've created a a step by step process on how to do that partnership.

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And a few weeks ago.

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Yeah, I agree with you, Jerry, too much, too much struggle on your own.

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You know, God didn't put you into Jesus, Jesus didn't pay that incredible price, and the Holy Spirit is there to take everything that belongs to Jesus and make it yours.

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The three who are one, the three together didn't do all of that so we could just struggle and and hope and, you know,

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plod along as though we're not believers, because that's exactly what the world's got.

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That's all they got is the downstairs stuff, and they do pretty well just on the downstairs stuff, right?

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Some of them are doing extraordinary well, just on the downstairs training.

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So great.

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We have yes, the thing from from David, David said the scriptures, David led with a contrite heart upstairs.

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And in skillful hands downstairs, so we can't all be just heart, heart, and it's just the Lord and I love him and it's great,

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but I don't know anything about my business.

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I don't know how to create products.

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I don't know how to sell.

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I don't do customer service.

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I don't know how to build a team.

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Oh, it's just all the Lord, you know, and he's no, no, you're a partnership.

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You're doing it together.

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You know, it's not just all the Lord, you know, so it was like the lady in our church who came and said, sang this beautiful song.

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And she said, no, it was all the Lord pastor was all the Lord.

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And he said, well, it wasn't that good.

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Right, because if it was all the Lord, we'd know if he did the singing, you know, but we love that you sang and we were blessed.

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So what we're saying is a partnership.

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So we have to get ourselves free from this idea that we do things for God, that our business is for God, that we Christians in business.

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Maybe we can take all that what we would call the the beginner stuff and put it aside and say, I want to do what Jesus did.

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I want to take him up on his offer.

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I want to function from rest.

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Did you know that in the kingdom, everything starts in rest?

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What is rest?

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Rest isn't taking naps.

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Rest is an internal quietness where the noise in your head has settled down with the anxiety and the worry and the concerns and the things.

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What if you could run a business and never worry again?

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Yes, this is possible.

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What if you could step out in confidence in business because you have his permission and you know he's with you?

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And just like in Isaiah 41, where the Lord says, I will help you, I will go with you.

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I'll protect you.

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I will make you into a threshing sledge that will take out a mountain.

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And just while he's saying all of that stuff, and then it goes on to say, I will make rivers in the desert and springs in the valley.

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So we step into this realm where we've suddenly aligned with heaven and all of heaven's resources are hitting the earth and your name's on it.

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God isn't trying to make us less, he's trying to make us more.

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If Jesus is wonderful, you have to get used to the idea you have to be wonderful.

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As he is, so are you in this world.

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This whole idea of I must decrease and he must increase.

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John the Baptist, the last of the old covenant prophets, is the last one to claim that.

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We have to become like him and he's wonderful and he's amazing.

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When Jesus said, I do what I see the father doing, he said, and it will amaze you.

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What we do downstairs should be amazing to the world.

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Right? It's not, well, they're Christian, so it's half-baked.

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It has to be, wow, those people, I bet you those are Christian. Those are those

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kingdom people, because they execute with such,

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it's such excellence. It's incredible. Their customer services,

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off the charts, their products are amazing. I'm so glad I found that.

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I'm so glad I found them. That's our, and how do we do that? Align with

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heaven.

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So, does that sound good, or does that sound too good to be true?

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Listen, if it doesn't sound too good to be true, it isn't God.

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All righty. You all look so serious, like, is he okay?

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You know, I'm okay. I'm having fun. I hope you're having fun.

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I hope this is encouraging you. Very good.

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All right, so what we want to do is, we want to dive into just a little bit

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about what the program is, and then answer questions on, but before we get

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into that, I just wanted to take a moment, just bless you.

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Thank you for being here. Thank you for pursuing this in God.

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Thank you for stepping into the space God has for you.

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I know it's not easy to be, you know, a leader.

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It's really tough. You know, I have the disease. I've done 27 startup businesses,

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and my therapist says I'm doing better and better every day.

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I don't have a therapist, but I was just saying, so

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it's okay if you do, but I don't understand, because it's tough.

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You know, one of my favorite quotes was,

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somebody asked Elon Musk, who, by the way, we come from the same city, the same side

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of the city, and he went to the school where my wife's

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teacher, my mom-in-law taught him. So, you know, we know a little of his

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background. Someone said, could you have good advice or some words of

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encouragement for people who want to start a business?

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And he looked at them, and he said, if you need encouragement to start a

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business, this is not for you, because starting a business is like

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chewing glass and staring into the abyss. I thought, wow,

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that's pretty brutal, you know, but what he's saying is,

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this is tough, and along comes Jesus and says,

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my yoke is easy. My burden is the exact opposite.

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So we get to choose which path, grind it out,

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tough, disciplined, up in the morning, doing everything we have to do.

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Fine, you know, downstairs discipline helps,

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but there's something far better than downstairs discipline, upstairs delight,

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because delight leads to discipline automatically. When you love what you're

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doing, and you love who you're doing it with,

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it's a lot easier. Okay, so that's what I'm offering.

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All right, it's the opposite of chewing glass and

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It's really interesting, when Jesus said, my yoke is easy,

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the word easy is actually quite a complex Greek word.

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What it means literally, it's helpful and delightful.

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Have you ever been to a restaurant where they were really helpful, but not very

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delightful? I was in a foreign country, and I won't

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say where, for the sake of the people, and the

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service was military precision, and I hated it all. It was about as

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cozy as a train station, and I was like, pow, pow, pow, pow, pow,

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everything was there, everything was done to the exact amount of degrees, and blah,

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blah, blah, and the, you know, the soda was the right thing,

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and this was the right thing, and it was really helpful, but not pleasant.

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They're very, very sweet, and they got your order wrong three times in a row, but

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they're sweet about it. You know, it still doesn't help. What

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Jesus says, my partnership is helpful

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and delightful to you. It will delight your soul,

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because you'll be in a place of internal rest,

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that striving, and pushing, and stress, and anxiety, and anxiousness,

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and, you know, my friend Graham Cook, who is one of the most extraordinary people

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I've met, but in those early years when we were

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doing those conferences in 2017, he was interviewed. So we're

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running this conference, there's 9,000 people at the event,

476
00:29:38.320 --> 00:29:42.480
and I would say about 40% business people, about 60%

477
00:29:42.480 --> 00:29:48.000
ministry, pastors mostly, and so on, and so they interview him afterwards on

478
00:29:48.000 --> 00:29:51.600
a podcast, and the podcaster, the

479
00:29:51.600 --> 00:29:55.760
interviewer says, Graham, I've heard a rumor, but it's, I just

480
00:29:55.760 --> 00:30:01.840
can't believe it's true. I wonder if you would address it.

481
00:30:00.000 --> 00:30:09.000
The, the word is, you haven't worried about anything in 20 years.

482
00:30:09.000 --> 00:30:11.120
And he said, Oh, no, that's, that's true.

483
00:30:11.120 --> 00:30:15.800
And the guy goes, Come on, real talk for a minute, he says, Well, maybe for a few seconds

484
00:30:15.800 --> 00:30:19.480
until my peace rises, and I come back to rest.

485
00:30:19.480 --> 00:30:23.360
He says, I've been practicing my peace every day.

486
00:30:23.360 --> 00:30:28.340
And now my peace has lasted longer and longer and longer to the point has become permanent.

487
00:30:28.340 --> 00:30:30.060
So we practice these things.

488
00:30:30.060 --> 00:30:35.480
So what I'm saying isn't some magic button, we're going to press and then put Bam, now

489
00:30:35.480 --> 00:30:37.520
you're in a different mode.

490
00:30:37.520 --> 00:30:44.260
You can't, you can't earn a gift from the Lord, but you do need to learn it.

491
00:30:44.260 --> 00:30:46.000
And this is what we're talking about.

492
00:30:46.000 --> 00:30:50.120
You're practicing these things not to become someone you're practicing these things because

493
00:30:50.120 --> 00:30:57.580
you are someone in Christ, you are a new creation, you are his beloved, you are his partner.

494
00:30:57.580 --> 00:31:03.500
And so I can attest to the fact having been Graham's business partner now for six years,

495
00:31:03.500 --> 00:31:07.460
I can attest to the fact that he does not worry about anything.

496
00:31:07.460 --> 00:31:08.900
He just doesn't.

497
00:31:08.900 --> 00:31:09.900
And I asked him why.

498
00:31:09.900 --> 00:31:14.940
And he said, I had an encounter with the Prince of Peace, and he never left.

499
00:31:14.940 --> 00:31:19.060
See, peace is a ruling power in our lives as business people.

500
00:31:19.060 --> 00:31:23.100
We're going to talk about that, we're going to talk about all these elements and unpack

501
00:31:23.100 --> 00:31:25.460
it for a whole year.

502
00:31:25.460 --> 00:31:31.820
So we get together, and we go through these sessions every month for two hours, and we

503
00:31:31.820 --> 00:31:37.380
pack in the first half is all kingdom executive training, how to be with the Lord, how the

504
00:31:37.380 --> 00:31:42.300
Lord wants to be with you, we really get into that the nuts and bolts of that.

505
00:31:42.300 --> 00:31:46.020
And then the second half is we get into the practice of building your business.

506
00:31:46.020 --> 00:31:48.220
Does that sound good?

507
00:31:48.220 --> 00:31:50.580
Well, let me share with you what that looks like.

508
00:31:50.580 --> 00:31:52.920
Normally, I'm used to much more interaction.

509
00:31:52.920 --> 00:31:55.300
So let me stop for a second.

510
00:31:55.340 --> 00:31:58.340
Let's see if that makes sense.

511
00:31:58.340 --> 00:31:59.340
Good.

512
00:31:59.340 --> 00:32:06.180
I just really appreciate this foundation that you're building out for us.

513
00:32:06.180 --> 00:32:14.220
And yeah, that piece of just being under the shelter of his wings, I lost everything in

514
00:32:14.220 --> 00:32:18.820
January 24th through through the company I was working for went bankrupt.

515
00:32:18.820 --> 00:32:23.700
And it was 20 years of work that completely got shattered overnight.

516
00:32:23.700 --> 00:32:28.620
Early morning, as I was doing my devotionals, I got a cartoon head.

517
00:32:28.620 --> 00:32:34.780
And this vision came were big from an eagle's nest, the wing came out and in my spirit,

518
00:32:34.780 --> 00:32:39.300
I heard under the shelter of my wing, you'll be okay, stay, stay there.

519
00:32:39.300 --> 00:32:40.980
And so that's what I've done.

520
00:32:40.980 --> 00:32:42.900
I've stayed under the shelters wing.

521
00:32:42.900 --> 00:32:51.300
And it's been like almost a year now, and it's been the most freeing.

522
00:32:51.300 --> 00:32:57.660
You know, you think you're okay, when you're doing well, but when you're stripped completely,

523
00:32:57.660 --> 00:33:03.300
completely, and you have to make no income coming in, you have to start your bills coming

524
00:33:03.300 --> 00:33:04.300
in.

525
00:33:04.300 --> 00:33:08.980
And you have to lean hard on Jesus, you have to lean hard on the scriptures.

526
00:33:08.980 --> 00:33:14.340
And you discover who really is beside you and who's not.

527
00:33:14.340 --> 00:33:20.300
And it's been just the most outstanding and amazing journey ever.

528
00:33:20.300 --> 00:33:24.820
But that, you know, I appreciate you talking about peace, right?

529
00:33:24.820 --> 00:33:29.660
That worries what the enemy wants you to do that, that striving is what the enemy wants

530
00:33:29.660 --> 00:33:30.940
you to strive for.

531
00:33:30.940 --> 00:33:36.900
And I kept just under the shelter of my wings, you hang up, and that's what I've done.

532
00:33:36.900 --> 00:33:39.460
And I don't even know how I got on this call today.

533
00:33:39.460 --> 00:33:43.260
Like it's like, how in the heck did this happen today?

534
00:33:43.260 --> 00:33:48.540
And I'm like, okay, God, you just, you know, when you surrender and you give it, which

535
00:33:48.580 --> 00:33:55.580
is hard to do in our humanness, but when you surrender it, and you let it go, I'm on this

536
00:33:55.580 --> 00:33:56.580
call today.

537
00:33:56.580 --> 00:33:57.580
And I'm like, what?

538
00:33:57.580 --> 00:33:58.580
You know?

539
00:33:58.580 --> 00:33:59.580
How did I get here?

540
00:33:59.580 --> 00:34:00.580
So my dogs are going to go nuts.

541
00:34:00.580 --> 00:34:03.580
So I'm going to say just thank you.

542
00:34:03.580 --> 00:34:05.460
Denise, thanks so much for sharing.

543
00:34:05.460 --> 00:34:07.940
I would love to make a few comments about that.

544
00:34:07.940 --> 00:34:12.739
Because I think, firstly, thanks for being vulnerable and sharing about loss.

545
00:34:12.739 --> 00:34:18.900
Because I think addressing loss is a very powerful element of kingdom life.

546
00:34:18.900 --> 00:34:24.340
I don't know that many businesses have become anything successful without failure.

547
00:34:24.340 --> 00:34:29.739
Having businesses fail, even fail spectacularly, which we've all, I've certainly experienced

548
00:34:29.739 --> 00:34:30.739
that.

549
00:34:30.739 --> 00:34:33.540
I think everybody's experienced that on some level or another.

550
00:34:33.540 --> 00:34:36.780
Sometimes we look at people who are successful and think it was just a straight ride.

551
00:34:36.780 --> 00:34:38.900
There are very few who had a straight ride.

552
00:34:39.060 --> 00:34:42.780
And even on that straight ride, there were many times they were on the edge of bankruptcy.

553
00:34:42.780 --> 00:34:44.139
It almost fell over.

554
00:34:44.139 --> 00:34:47.100
And if you'd really opened up the story.

555
00:34:47.100 --> 00:34:52.699
As kingdom people, though, I love what you said, where the Lord put you in a safe place

556
00:34:52.699 --> 00:34:54.020
in the shadow of His wing.

557
00:34:54.020 --> 00:34:55.540
He put you in His heart.

558
00:34:55.540 --> 00:34:58.580
And He said, let's do this together.

559
00:34:58.580 --> 00:35:00.020
And it's in that togetherness.

560
00:35:00.000 --> 00:35:03.700
in your oneness with him, that's where the safety is.

561
00:35:03.700 --> 00:35:05.760
Because if I have his permission,

562
00:35:05.760 --> 00:35:09.020
now I'm executing with boldness because he said.

563
00:35:09.020 --> 00:35:11.160
Because I know I have alignment with heaven,

564
00:35:11.160 --> 00:35:13.740
I know I have alignment with heaven's favor,

565
00:35:13.740 --> 00:35:15.580
the favor goes before me.

566
00:35:15.580 --> 00:35:17.420
Here's the shocking thing though,

567
00:35:17.420 --> 00:35:18.700
since we're talking about shocking things,

568
00:35:18.700 --> 00:35:22.620
a lot of kingdom people don't always know,

569
00:35:22.620 --> 00:35:26.940
the shocking thing for me was talking to the Lord

570
00:35:27.820 --> 00:35:31.180
about one of those parables I hated.

571
00:35:31.180 --> 00:35:33.340
You know, the one about people coming at different hours

572
00:35:33.340 --> 00:35:35.600
and then at the end, they all get the same pay?

573
00:35:35.600 --> 00:35:37.180
I don't know how many people that bothers you.

574
00:35:37.180 --> 00:35:39.380
That, you know, I was just honest with the Lord,

575
00:35:39.380 --> 00:35:40.540
I hate that story.

576
00:35:40.540 --> 00:35:41.600
And the Lord said, you hate it

577
00:35:41.600 --> 00:35:43.800
because you don't understand redemption.

578
00:35:43.800 --> 00:35:45.380
I said, what do you mean, Lord?

579
00:35:45.380 --> 00:35:47.620
He said, those who come early in the morning

580
00:35:47.620 --> 00:35:48.460
and get the same pay,

581
00:35:48.460 --> 00:35:50.140
there are those who come in the last hour

582
00:35:50.140 --> 00:35:51.980
and I'm gonna make it as though

583
00:35:51.980 --> 00:35:55.480
they got it right from day one, right from 6 a.m.

584
00:35:56.360 --> 00:35:57.640
So even when we mess up,

585
00:35:57.640 --> 00:36:00.640
he redeems us back as though we were never dinged.

586
00:36:00.640 --> 00:36:02.380
We go through life, we get a ding,

587
00:36:02.380 --> 00:36:03.600
sometimes more than a ding,

588
00:36:03.600 --> 00:36:05.760
it's like a brick on the head

589
00:36:05.760 --> 00:36:07.860
or a whole building on the head, right?

590
00:36:07.860 --> 00:36:10.640
So we go through life, we get dinged in relationships,

591
00:36:10.640 --> 00:36:11.760
we get dinged in business,

592
00:36:11.760 --> 00:36:14.320
we just get dinged financially,

593
00:36:14.320 --> 00:36:16.800
we just go through a lot of setbacks.

594
00:36:18.120 --> 00:36:21.200
And then the Lord says, okay, where would have she been

595
00:36:21.200 --> 00:36:23.000
had she never been interrupted?

596
00:36:23.000 --> 00:36:24.160
He looks at that graph.

597
00:36:24.160 --> 00:36:26.080
That's what redemption is.

598
00:36:26.080 --> 00:36:29.680
What restoration is, is putting you back where you were.

599
00:36:29.680 --> 00:36:31.880
What redemption is, is putting you back

600
00:36:31.880 --> 00:36:35.200
where you would have gone had you never been interrupted.

601
00:36:35.200 --> 00:36:37.920
How kind is that?

602
00:36:37.920 --> 00:36:40.160
So when the Lord's redeeming your business,

603
00:36:40.160 --> 00:36:41.840
that's what he's doing.

604
00:36:41.840 --> 00:36:45.720
He's always got this incredibly kind view.

605
00:36:45.720 --> 00:36:49.080
That's why he's the kindest person you've ever met.

606
00:36:49.080 --> 00:36:50.540
Because the Redeemer is working,

607
00:36:50.540 --> 00:36:52.200
the Creator, Father,

608
00:36:52.200 --> 00:36:54.640
is working with you to create something.

609
00:36:54.640 --> 00:36:57.120
The Redeemer is helping you and pulling the load

610
00:36:57.120 --> 00:36:58.720
and redeeming everything in you,

611
00:36:58.720 --> 00:37:00.840
relationally, financially,

612
00:37:00.840 --> 00:37:02.800
he's redeeming everything.

613
00:37:02.800 --> 00:37:04.200
He never stops.

614
00:37:04.200 --> 00:37:06.720
And then you've got the genius helper Holy Spirit

615
00:37:06.720 --> 00:37:08.140
who's helping you.

616
00:37:08.140 --> 00:37:09.580
He created it all.

617
00:37:09.580 --> 00:37:11.640
You're sitting staring at your spreadsheet thinking,

618
00:37:11.640 --> 00:37:13.100
how am I gonna do this?

619
00:37:13.100 --> 00:37:14.440
Or how am I gonna build that product?

620
00:37:14.440 --> 00:37:17.000
And he says, I know, I know, I've got five great ideas.

621
00:37:17.000 --> 00:37:18.520
Ask me, ask me, ask me.

622
00:37:19.600 --> 00:37:21.100
He's so enthusiastic.

623
00:37:21.500 --> 00:37:22.900
But we have to ask.

624
00:37:22.900 --> 00:37:24.660
Jesus, you don't have, because you don't ask.

625
00:37:24.660 --> 00:37:26.060
And it always amazes me

626
00:37:26.060 --> 00:37:28.260
how I struggle for something for three hours,

627
00:37:28.260 --> 00:37:31.380
then ask him, and then I solve it in five minutes.

628
00:37:31.380 --> 00:37:33.820
Why didn't I ask two hours ago or three hours ago?

629
00:37:33.820 --> 00:37:36.260
So I wanted to just encourage you,

630
00:37:36.260 --> 00:37:38.220
God is redeeming back.

631
00:37:38.220 --> 00:37:39.900
He's not just, oh, we'll make do.

632
00:37:39.900 --> 00:37:41.580
Let's see if we can, you know,

633
00:37:41.580 --> 00:37:44.260
let's see if we can keep Denise busy and whatever.

634
00:37:44.260 --> 00:37:47.980
No, we're gonna redeem her all the way back

635
00:37:47.980 --> 00:37:51.020
to what would have happened where she should have been.

636
00:37:51.020 --> 00:37:51.860
So.

637
00:37:54.820 --> 00:37:56.660
And what I think another piece of this

638
00:37:56.660 --> 00:37:59.080
is that there's correction, right?

639
00:37:59.080 --> 00:38:00.220
There's correction.

640
00:38:00.220 --> 00:38:03.120
You know, you love the Lord when you're successful,

641
00:38:03.120 --> 00:38:04.860
like you'll, you know.

642
00:38:04.860 --> 00:38:08.820
And then when it's stripped, things shift.

643
00:38:08.820 --> 00:38:11.160
And then it's like, oh, okay,

644
00:38:11.160 --> 00:38:12.820
let's change these things, right?

645
00:38:12.820 --> 00:38:14.260
And you don't do it purposely.

646
00:38:14.260 --> 00:38:17.180
It just, it's just the way it was, right?

647
00:38:17.180 --> 00:38:20.020
So I think it's a cleansing experience too.

648
00:38:20.020 --> 00:38:23.140
And you let, you let it all come in

649
00:38:23.140 --> 00:38:24.300
because we all make mistakes.

650
00:38:24.300 --> 00:38:27.460
And this is, I love the piece of redemption, right?

651
00:38:27.460 --> 00:38:29.460
Because you'll, if you're open,

652
00:38:29.460 --> 00:38:32.220
you'll learn from the errors you made

653
00:38:32.220 --> 00:38:33.940
or the decisions you made, right?

654
00:38:33.940 --> 00:38:36.380
And there were many decisions that were like,

655
00:38:36.380 --> 00:38:39.140
like it wasn't my fault that the company went bankrupt.

656
00:38:39.140 --> 00:38:41.520
We worked really hard for that company,

657
00:38:41.520 --> 00:38:44.940
but you could easily put blame on others.

658
00:38:44.940 --> 00:38:46.300
And that's the other thing too.

659
00:38:46.300 --> 00:38:47.620
You gotta walk away with peace

660
00:38:47.620 --> 00:38:49.460
and you gotta walk away with forgiveness

661
00:38:49.500 --> 00:38:52.020
and you gotta walk away with, you know,

662
00:38:52.020 --> 00:38:53.300
you have a better plan.

663
00:38:53.300 --> 00:38:54.540
So you pulled me right out.

664
00:38:54.540 --> 00:38:57.420
You fixed the gold in handcuffs off.

665
00:38:57.420 --> 00:39:00.220
So that's, that's a beautiful thing.

666
00:39:00.220 --> 00:39:03.060
Whatever the, whatever the world or the enemy

667
00:39:03.060 --> 00:39:05.620
or even your own stupidity throws at you

668
00:39:05.620 --> 00:39:08.580
that causes pain, God flips it to your benefit.

669
00:39:09.580 --> 00:39:11.100
Every curse turned into a blessing.

670
00:39:11.100 --> 00:39:13.180
He's flipping coins.

671
00:39:13.180 --> 00:39:16.060
So something negative comes, he flips it to your benefit.

672
00:39:16.060 --> 00:39:17.700
That's what he does.

673
00:39:17.700 --> 00:39:20.500
And that's why I think a lot of people think

674
00:39:20.500 --> 00:39:23.220
that the Lord is frustrated with our learning.

675
00:39:23.220 --> 00:39:24.460
Why are you still learning this?

676
00:39:24.460 --> 00:39:25.980
This is the seventh time I've taught.

677
00:39:25.980 --> 00:39:27.620
He doesn't think like that at all

678
00:39:28.700 --> 00:39:31.460
because he sees you in Christ and Christ in you.

679
00:39:31.460 --> 00:39:33.100
That's how he, that's how he,

680
00:39:33.100 --> 00:39:36.180
he knows the real true new you in Jesus.

681
00:39:36.180 --> 00:39:40.060
He's not bothered with the old you that died, you know?

682
00:39:40.060 --> 00:39:43.180
And if anyone is in Christ, they're a new creation.

683
00:39:43.180 --> 00:39:45.860
The old has gone, the new has come.

684
00:39:45.860 --> 00:39:47.620
And all this is from God

685
00:39:47.620 --> 00:39:51.180
who has fully reconciled us to himself.

686
00:39:51.180 --> 00:39:54.780
So if God has fully reconciled us to himself,

687
00:39:54.780 --> 00:39:56.660
there's grace for our learning.

688
00:39:56.660 --> 00:40:00.300
And so we, if the world throws things at us.

689
00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:03.480
us or the enemy or it doesn't matter what the source is. He says, Don't worry, I'll

690
00:40:03.480 --> 00:40:08.360
work it out. I'll work it for your good. I'll go around that. And that's often why

691
00:40:08.360 --> 00:40:13.480
it takes longer. He's going around things because God is bound himself to the idea that

692
00:40:13.480 --> 00:40:17.800
people have free will. And he won't, he's not going to just turn their brains on, you

693
00:40:17.800 --> 00:40:22.280
know, so he's going to honor his own word, bind himself to that, which means he's so

694
00:40:22.280 --> 00:40:28.000
incredibly self confident about your goodness. He says, all things work together for the

695
00:40:28.000 --> 00:40:31.480
good of them that love God and are called according to. So he says, I'm going to work

696
00:40:31.480 --> 00:40:36.960
it out for you. I've got you. We're going to get there. And I love that you said you

697
00:40:36.960 --> 00:40:43.080
brought up how much we grow through the worst of times. Huge upgrades, right? Like getting

698
00:40:43.080 --> 00:40:48.120
a new computer and a new operating system and all these new apps. So there you go. Well,

699
00:40:48.120 --> 00:40:55.840
thanks for sharing. That was lovely. I appreciate you jumping in. Okay. Anyone else want to

700
00:40:55.840 --> 00:41:02.360
weigh in? Jenny, Bridget, Glenn, any of you guys want to share something? And I'm going

701
00:41:02.360 --> 00:41:03.720
to jump right into the program.

702
00:41:05.800 --> 00:41:11.720
Maybe I'll just share something quickly, Dion that just a bit of an encouragement in terms

703
00:41:11.720 --> 00:41:20.680
of my learning as well and conversation with the Lord. It's just in the whole thing of

704
00:41:20.680 --> 00:41:25.040
being about New York, it's something I'm learning over the last several months and

705
00:41:25.040 --> 00:41:29.520
continuing to learn about how to truly be in New York with Him. And I had a really

706
00:41:29.520 --> 00:41:34.800
interesting experience a few weeks ago, where I was chained to the Lord about Proverbs 3,

707
00:41:34.800 --> 00:41:45.280
6, where it says, you'll make straight your paths. And I was pondering that and what I

708
00:41:45.280 --> 00:41:50.520
got from the Lord was like, oftentimes, when we aren't in New York with Him, the way our

709
00:41:50.520 --> 00:41:54.760
journey goes, we can love Him and we can be, you know, passionate, we can be asking for

710
00:41:54.800 --> 00:41:58.960
guidance and help and all this. But the fact is that when we try to operate in our own

711
00:41:58.960 --> 00:42:03.840
life, we have this zigzag kind of life where we're going in one direction, then we change

712
00:42:03.840 --> 00:42:07.800
and then we ask His, you know, asking for help, and then He kind of corrects. And so

713
00:42:07.800 --> 00:42:12.280
what we're doing is we have this sort of zigzag, a lot of energy, a lot of effort, a lot of

714
00:42:12.280 --> 00:42:18.160
stress, strain, but the total distance traveled is short. And you know, we've not gone very

715
00:42:18.160 --> 00:42:23.920
far, a lot of energy, little distance traveled. And part of what I was, you know, talking

716
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to the Lord about is, is what does it look like to move to have a straight path? And

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what came out of that conversation was, was that in that straight path, the difference

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with that straight path is that it's unhurried. It's an unhurried way of walking with the

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Lord. And it was if in the course of that conversation, I had an interesting experience

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because I was busy developing something. And I woke up that morning with a with a with

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an inspiration from the Holy Spirit about how to solve this thing. And I built a whole,

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a whole component of an application in less than a day. That I was just amazed, and it

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felt like there was not a single step in the course of that day, where it was a zigzag,

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it was a straight path, completely to the implementation. And it was like the Lord was

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saying, when you enjoy with me, this is this is, this is how we can we can be together

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and actually produce. And so it was a it was a, it was a great experience, where it was

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like the Lord was talking to me one thing, and then in the day, he actually demonstrated

728
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it in terms of how that how that day actually unfolded. So I don't know, it was an

729
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encouragement was a learning for me of like, wow, okay, I'm understanding something here

730
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about how the Lord can straighten our paths. And in an unhurried way, we can accomplish,

731
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we can go so much further unhurried than in our own strength, stress, bouncing around

732
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all over the place and zigzagging through life, you know.

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You know, Glenn, I love that you share that. I always think of the story of the guy took

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his dog for a walk. And it was back in the day before you actually have your dog on a

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leash. And it's only it's only half a mile from from from his house to the store. And

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so he'd get to the first crossroads, and the dog would run down the road and bark at every

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dog in this side of the street, then bark at every dog on that side of the street, then

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run up the other street and bark on both sides, come all the way down. And he just slowly

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walk. At the end of the day, the dog has gone up and down all the streets, barked at

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everything, pick fights everywhere. They get there, the dog's exhausted, the dog's done

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10 miles, he's done half a mile. This is making straight the path of the Lord in an

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hurried way. And we get there sooner, you know, so I think I the you know, again,

743
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there's grace for our learning. It's not God doesn't mind the learning. He loves the

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learning. But what he's really he knows exactly who you're becoming in him. And he's

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really committed to what

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who you're becoming next. And it's great if we're on the same

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page and understand what he's doing. And he uses our business

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and our daily lives to bring as, as, as the training tools to

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bring us to that unhurried life. No rush, never hurried. And you

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know, that's in a modern, instantaneous, I want

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everything now microwave, give it to me right now mo culture.

752
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You know, it's like, I bought it, where's the link, I want to

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download it, give it to me now, where is where is go, go, go. I

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mean, it, that's fine in downstairs, but it's not fine

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upstairs. Upstairs, there needs to be a quiet, calm. And I and I

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like I love living this way. What a great life as kingdom

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00:45:45.960 --> 00:45:49.200
executives that we get people, how come you're not worried? How

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come you're not hurried? How come you the calmest person in

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the room? And we have an answer for that. So the joy and peace

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in believing the Bible calls it. So Glenn, thanks for

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sharing. Alright, guys, well, let me jump into, I wanted to

762
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spend the first half of the time, just blessing you

763
00:46:09.880 --> 00:46:13.000
encouraging you sharing some of the things we've learned

764
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sharing our journey. I know many of you want to know, you know,

765
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so what's the program? You know, what does it look like? Who

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should be here? How much does it cost? How often does it meet?

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00:46:24.040 --> 00:46:27.600
What does deliver all that stuff. So I'm going to share

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that next, with your permission. But I'm really

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excited to share it with you, because we've been tweaking and

770
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refining this program. Because here's what we care about. We

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care about moving the needle. We'd love to see people move

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00:46:41.920 --> 00:46:45.680
upstairs and not just visit upstairs. Our job is not to live

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downstairs and every now and again, go and visit upstairs in

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prayer and visit. Now we meant to be a we're kingdom people, we

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00:46:51.680 --> 00:46:56.720
get to live in the kingdom and work downstairs. Better than

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living downstairs and trying to work upstairs. Oh, I did this

777
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for God, I did that for God, I did that for God. And, and this

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flipping of the mindset means now that we're living from

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upstairs to downstairs, we're living from heaven to earth, on

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earth, as it is in heaven. And so we're really taking Jesus

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very seriously on his offer. Because Jesus said, I will

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teach you. Here's the thing is it blows my mind. I no longer

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call you servants. I call you friends. Servants do not know

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the Father's business. How many of you would love to know the

785
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Father's business meaning the one you're in? Right? Father,

786
00:47:36.920 --> 00:47:41.520
what is your business here? And then he says, but I will teach

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you everything the Father has taught me. Wow. I mean, for that

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plan, I want to be about the Father's business. I want to be

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a friend. I want to be in yoke. And I want all of this huge

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deliverables that Jesus is offering us. Okay, let me jump

791
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straight into sharing with you about the inner circle, and what

792
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we're doing at the inner circle. And so we shared a little bit

793
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about it, at least in my case, how I discovered my kingdom

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advantage, going through all this training, all this study,

795
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studying the best leaders, putting that all together in a

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PhD, writing a book, then turning those into programs,

797
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then running that in several of my own businesses, and putting

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all these things into practice. But all the time, it is all the

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powerful downstairs stuff, which again, is helpful, I don't want

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00:48:27.960 --> 00:48:30.360
to make it sound as like not helpful, it's very helpful for

801
00:48:30.360 --> 00:48:33.640
the natural world. But where's the kingdom advantage and my

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00:48:33.640 --> 00:48:36.680
search for that. And we shared about the idea of the upstairs

803
00:48:36.680 --> 00:48:39.640
being the kingdom, downstairs being the world, and the

804
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beautiful offer that Jesus made, come to me, all you are weary

805
00:48:44.640 --> 00:48:49.040
and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke, my

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partnership upon you and learn from me. He's offering to teach

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00:48:54.160 --> 00:48:56.560
everything we need to know about our business and about our life

808
00:48:56.560 --> 00:49:00.800
and our relationships. For I am gentle, and I'm humble in heart,

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I'm not going to stress you out. I know what you can learn. I

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know your rate, I know where you're at. I'm going to teach

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you where you're at. I love that and you again, reinforcing you

812
00:49:10.120 --> 00:49:14.200
will find rest for your soul, your soul means your whole inner

813
00:49:14.200 --> 00:49:21.720
being will be at rest, calm, quiet, beautiful. For my yoke is

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easy, my partnership is delightful and helpful. And my

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burden is light. This has been a core verse. You know, sometimes

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we read a verse, and then we learn a verse and then we become

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the verse. Right? I feel like many of us in our inner circle

818
00:49:38.960 --> 00:49:43.320
are becoming this verse. This is this is a reflection with you

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when you read a verse, and you feel I have really become that

820
00:49:46.240 --> 00:49:49.880
verse, not just I know about it. In the kingdom, it doesn't

821
00:49:49.880 --> 00:49:52.760
matter what you know, it only matters who you've become.

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00:49:53.200 --> 00:49:55.800
Doesn't matter if you have three PhDs in theology, you can

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memorize scripture, whatever, that doesn't mean that just

824
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knowing about God

825
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It's not necessarily knowing God, right?

826
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So we wanna know him and be in partnership with him.

827
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So leaders can lead from rest.

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This is a possibility, God, that Jesus is offering.

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Yoke means partnership with God,

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being together, bound together.

831
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And kingdom leaders can lead in easy and light mode.

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How many of you would like to be in easy and light mode?

833
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Easy in the sense of helpful, delightful,

834
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and there's a lightness to your being.

835
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That's a different leadership.

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That's a whole lot better than chewing glass

837
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and staring to the abyss.

838
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All right, so we've talked about the three,

839
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Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, plus me.

840
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So at Brilliant, we used a lot of the term three plus me.

841
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We actually trademarked that three plus me

842
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because we loved it so much.

843
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But what if it's three plus me in business together?

844
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What if we're doing this with the three?

845
00:51:00.220 --> 00:51:04.460
So that means Father Creator wants to create with you.

846
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He's not interested, Lord, would you give me this

847
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so I can go and do that?

848
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He hates that prayer because it excludes him.

849
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Lord, if you'll give me this, if you'll answer this prayer,

850
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if you'll favor me and bless my business,

851
00:51:17.300 --> 00:51:20.740
then I'll sell it and then I'll go and work in the ministry

852
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or whatever the plan we came up with,

853
00:51:22.780 --> 00:51:24.580
whatever the negotiation was.

854
00:51:24.580 --> 00:51:25.420
And the Lord said, no, no, no,

855
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I want to do the whole thing with you

856
00:51:27.260 --> 00:51:29.900
because I think we can take it to a whole different level.

857
00:51:29.900 --> 00:51:32.300
So the Father wants to create with you,

858
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with not for, with.

859
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Jesus the Redeemer wants to be in partnership with you.

860
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In the conversation we had earlier, God redeems back.

861
00:51:41.380 --> 00:51:44.140
Jesus wants to redeem you back to where you would have been

862
00:51:44.140 --> 00:51:46.980
had you never been dinged on your way up.

863
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I just think that is unbelievably kind.

864
00:51:49.740 --> 00:51:53.220
Holy Spirit Genius Helper wants to genuinely help you.

865
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He created the universe, created business,

866
00:51:56.620 --> 00:51:58.140
He knows, He created technology,

867
00:51:58.140 --> 00:52:00.860
everything that's good that's come from heaven,

868
00:52:00.860 --> 00:52:05.060
all of that goodness, He can help because He created it.

869
00:52:05.060 --> 00:52:07.460
He knows exactly how to help you.

870
00:52:07.460 --> 00:52:09.660
He knows exactly how to teach you in a way

871
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that's most meaningful to you.

872
00:52:12.140 --> 00:52:14.540
So it's time to move your business upstairs

873
00:52:14.540 --> 00:52:17.980
or your business life upstairs, not just visit.

874
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It's time to move it and make it your habitation,

875
00:52:20.980 --> 00:52:25.300
make it your permanent place of operations.

876
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All right, so don't just lead your business,

877
00:52:28.420 --> 00:52:29.960
build it with the three.

878
00:52:31.660 --> 00:52:34.860
All right, so we've talked a bit about our journey.

879
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Year by year, we've been training,

880
00:52:37.420 --> 00:52:39.300
how do you create a high performance team,

881
00:52:39.300 --> 00:52:41.780
starting with a lot of downstairs tools,

882
00:52:41.780 --> 00:52:45.020
which we've been building and continue to build.

883
00:52:45.020 --> 00:52:48.820
Leading from rest, upstairs permission

884
00:52:48.820 --> 00:52:50.980
leads to bold downstairs action.

885
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This was a breakthrough when we realized

886
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that all I have to ask the Lord is,

887
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Lord, what's my permission here?

888
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Then when I go and execute,

889
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I'm executing with boldness because He said,

890
00:53:01.940 --> 00:53:03.580
because I'm standing with His promise,

891
00:53:03.580 --> 00:53:06.920
what He said was a possibility and He said, go and do this.

892
00:53:06.920 --> 00:53:11.300
In fact, I'm gonna ask you to use this method

893
00:53:11.300 --> 00:53:13.860
in making a decision as to whether you should be part

894
00:53:13.860 --> 00:53:15.920
of this inner circle or not.

895
00:53:15.920 --> 00:53:19.000
Do not use downstairs pressure or sales tactics,

896
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we don't do that.

897
00:53:20.280 --> 00:53:23.700
All you have to ask the Father, Father, are we doing this?

898
00:53:23.700 --> 00:53:25.720
Do I have your permission?

899
00:53:25.720 --> 00:53:27.640
Then take downstairs bold action,

900
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because God always, He always provides

901
00:53:31.980 --> 00:53:33.600
what He asks for, right?

902
00:53:33.600 --> 00:53:36.320
He's not your weird uncle who invites you to lunch

903
00:53:36.320 --> 00:53:39.520
and then makes you pay, right?

904
00:53:39.520 --> 00:53:41.760
He's your dad, invites you to lunch

905
00:53:41.760 --> 00:53:43.760
and He pays for what He invited you to.

906
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So if God is saying yes, do that.

907
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So that's the only question as you're listening through this

908
00:53:48.600 --> 00:53:50.400
and you're looking at the program,

909
00:53:50.400 --> 00:53:52.320
you simply have to ask the Lord.

910
00:53:52.320 --> 00:53:54.660
You don't have to go to Lord Bank account,

911
00:53:54.660 --> 00:53:56.800
you don't have to go to Lord anything else,

912
00:53:56.800 --> 00:53:59.540
you don't have to go and ask somebody else's permission,

913
00:53:59.540 --> 00:54:01.080
you just have to ask for their support.

914
00:54:01.080 --> 00:54:04.240
God's permission and ask your family support,

915
00:54:04.240 --> 00:54:06.200
ask for your spouse's support

916
00:54:06.200 --> 00:54:08.000
and your business partner's support.

917
00:54:08.000 --> 00:54:10.320
I feel like the Lord's given me permission to do this

918
00:54:10.320 --> 00:54:11.960
and I'd love your support.

919
00:54:11.960 --> 00:54:14.440
His permission comes from one place

920
00:54:14.440 --> 00:54:15.880
and that comes from the Lord.

921
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And we talked about how we've been learning

922
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how our Yoke partnership works,

923
00:54:21.380 --> 00:54:24.400
the step-by-step aspects of that

924
00:54:24.400 --> 00:54:29.040
and how to create and lead with God, not for Him.

925
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And so for 2026, we wanna help you build a kingdom business,

926
00:54:34.600 --> 00:54:37.720
whether you're on your own or you're in a small business

927
00:54:37.720 --> 00:54:39.780
or you work in a bigger organization,

928
00:54:39.780 --> 00:54:41.080
it's all the same thing.

929
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You can be the touch point for heaven.

930
00:54:44.360 --> 00:54:47.480
You don't need 51% of the people in your organization

931
00:54:47.480 --> 00:54:49.400
to be believers for heaven to take.

932
00:54:49.400 --> 00:54:50.800
It's just three plus me.

933
00:54:50.800 --> 00:54:51.960
Hey, there's already,

934
00:54:51.960 --> 00:54:54.480
Jesus said if two or more of you agree,

935
00:54:54.480 --> 00:54:56.200
well, there's Father, Son, Holy Spirit in you,

936
00:54:56.200 --> 00:54:58.760
there's already four of you in agreement.

937
00:54:58.760 --> 00:55:00.060
Talk about majority.

938
00:55:00.000 --> 00:55:07.760
All right, so that means God is looking for a touchpoint from heaven. What if we made you the touchpoint from heaven in your?

939
00:55:08.160 --> 00:55:09.720
organization

940
00:55:09.720 --> 00:55:14.160
By the way, I was saying that in the first person of God to you the Lord saying to you

941
00:55:14.160 --> 00:55:17.940
Hey, what if we father son Holy Spirit make you the touchpoint of heaven?

942
00:55:18.880 --> 00:55:24.120
All right, so we want to give God what he wants to build with him

943
00:55:24.520 --> 00:55:27.840
So, how do we do that? Let's go through that in detail

944
00:55:28.680 --> 00:55:35.560
We talked about upstairs and his partnership with God so that all the training there is about learning from him

945
00:55:36.960 --> 00:55:41.660
Downstairs we talked about executional excellence and it's learning from other great leaders

946
00:55:42.520 --> 00:55:47.800
So that means we're going to be able to skillfully with skillful hands

947
00:55:48.240 --> 00:55:51.080
Execute the things we're seeing and learning from God

948
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Does that sound like a great way to live because I love this life

949
00:55:55.600 --> 00:55:59.240
So, what does that mean the program has two components

950
00:55:59.240 --> 00:56:05.040
it has kingdom executive coaching which teaches all us about how to learn from him and be in yoke and

951
00:56:06.080 --> 00:56:12.240
The downstairs is a leader Forge program, which is all this training from all the great leaders

952
00:56:13.400 --> 00:56:19.860
Okay, so let me break that out for you. What do each of those contain the kingdom executive coaching the learning from God part

953
00:56:20.640 --> 00:56:23.880
Is live training just like we're doing now

954
00:56:24.840 --> 00:56:27.920
Monthly to our zoom calls. We used to be new 90 minutes

955
00:56:27.920 --> 00:56:32.920
We're going back to two hours so we can get more substance in there and you can bring a plus one

956
00:56:32.920 --> 00:56:34.240
You can bring your partner

957
00:56:34.240 --> 00:56:39.480
The only the only condition is it must be someone who's involved in the business with you, right?

958
00:56:39.560 --> 00:56:43.480
So it can't just be somebody who's doing something else

959
00:56:44.400 --> 00:56:49.400
It has to be someone who's involved with you. If that's your spouse who's involved in the business with you then that's fine

960
00:56:50.400 --> 00:56:54.400
But we really has to be someone who's involved with you so it really is two of you

961
00:56:54.400 --> 00:56:57.920
It's a two-for-one deal here. And then we do these SOS calls

962
00:56:57.920 --> 00:57:05.120
These are one-on-one calls that I do and we give depending on the program you in you always need that one time

963
00:57:05.120 --> 00:57:09.480
You need a call. I'm in crisis. Oh my goodness. Yeah, I need help

964
00:57:10.080 --> 00:57:14.200
Schedule a one-on-one call and I do that as part of the program

965
00:57:14.800 --> 00:57:16.800
All right, so kingdom

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00:57:17.040 --> 00:57:19.040
Executive training is the following

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00:57:19.960 --> 00:57:25.280
It involves discovering. These are some these are the topics we'll go through each one each month

968
00:57:26.000 --> 00:57:31.000
Discover the possibility God is offering you. How do you know what he's offering you? How do you know it's from him?

969
00:57:32.000 --> 00:57:38.440
To find rest that activates your yoga partnership. So how do we practice that dress and make it permanent?

970
00:57:38.440 --> 00:57:42.760
We can talk a lot about that so that your rest and your peace are permanent

971
00:57:42.920 --> 00:57:46.840
It's not just coming in and out of peace or I'm stressed now, let me get a little bit of peace

972
00:57:47.280 --> 00:57:54.660
It's not a transaction. It's it's it's a it's a relational reality. It's not just a transactional thing

973
00:57:55.320 --> 00:57:59.680
Okay, and learn how to contact with God's help and how he works with you

974
00:57:59.680 --> 00:58:06.600
A lot of times people are assuming God is helping them on something that they're doing when he isn't and we talk about how to

975
00:58:06.600 --> 00:58:08.120
Know that it's not difficult to know

976
00:58:08.120 --> 00:58:14.920
It's pretty straightforward and then learn how permission in your partnership creates freedom. Denise was talking earlier about freedom

977
00:58:15.320 --> 00:58:20.400
When you find this permission when you find this partnership you step into a space of so much freedom

978
00:58:20.400 --> 00:58:22.800
It's like oh my goodness. How many?

979
00:58:23.520 --> 00:58:31.040
Business people do you know I've come to hate the business they building because they've ended up becoming, you know bound by it

980
00:58:31.040 --> 00:58:31.960
They can't go on vacation

981
00:58:31.960 --> 00:58:37.680
They can't do this they can't and they give away all the best bits to other people they've hired and all the junky bits

982
00:58:37.680 --> 00:58:43.080
The stuff they hate doing they end up doing and so they end up almost despising the thing they've created

983
00:58:43.080 --> 00:58:49.360
I've met so many leaders who've done that but what if your partnership with the Lord puts you back into that place of freedom?

984
00:58:50.560 --> 00:58:55.340
Build your your team the kingdom way. There is a way to build a team

985
00:58:56.280 --> 00:58:59.880
Jesus said father. I've received those you've given me

986
00:59:01.120 --> 00:59:06.280
So and they know you so the question is who's God giving you and who should you receive?

987
00:59:06.280 --> 00:59:10.120
It's more than just hiring and firing. It's who's God giving me?

988
00:59:10.120 --> 00:59:15.360
And how do I know and then how to make your leadership prophetic if you're not familiar with a prophetic?

989
00:59:15.360 --> 00:59:20.040
It doesn't matter just means how do you speak to people one step above where they are and pull them up?

990
00:59:20.320 --> 00:59:25.400
How do you speak to other people even your customers and pull them up into one step higher?

991
00:59:26.640 --> 00:59:32.480
Grow your capacity as a leader your capacity is not set in God that capacity can grow

992
00:59:33.480 --> 00:59:40.760
Develop the mindset of a high-powered kingdom executive and I was too long to add who functions from rest

993
00:59:42.280 --> 00:59:49.840
And then leverage the kingdom approach to customers for higher impact in fact customer service in a kingdom way could be the most

994
00:59:51.320 --> 00:59:56.200
Distinguishing fact and most compete biggest competitive advantage you have in your business

995
00:59:57.280 --> 00:59:59.800
All right, and then we're going to talk a lot more about how to

996
01:00:00.000 --> 01:00:07.760
unlock your yoke potential. How do you 10x your business in God? He loves that idea, by the way.

997
01:00:08.560 --> 01:00:13.600
But when it's ready, he says, okay, we're not just about the 15, 20% growth a year. What if we took

998
01:00:13.600 --> 01:00:18.080
it to a whole different level? We'll talk about how do we know when that is? How do we partner

999
01:00:18.080 --> 01:00:24.560
with the Lord in doing that? I don't know about you, but I love all those topics. That was really,

1000
01:00:24.560 --> 01:00:28.880
I mean, they super excite me because as I'm going through them, I'm remembering stories and

1001
01:00:29.360 --> 01:00:34.080
different people have already been. Okay. The downstairs section, Leaderforge, learning from

1002
01:00:34.080 --> 01:00:39.360
great leaders. This is based on my PhD study of great leaders and stuff I've been adding since.

1003
01:00:39.360 --> 01:00:44.000
So it's my job to keep up with all the latest stuff. How many of you have ever done the thing

1004
01:00:44.000 --> 01:00:50.640
where you've looked up leadership at Google? I think there's 2.3 billion links on leadership.

1005
01:00:51.280 --> 01:00:57.040
And there's, I don't know how many millions of books there are on leadership and how many YouTube

1006
01:00:57.040 --> 01:01:02.160
videos and how many, and you look at these, I don't know which one. I don't know what it's too

1007
01:01:02.160 --> 01:01:08.080
much. That's our job. We've been pulling out all the best stuff, the stuff that genuinely moves

1008
01:01:08.080 --> 01:01:15.440
the needle. And we brought that into one program. And so we've also simplified them for anyone to

1009
01:01:15.440 --> 01:01:20.960
use. They've got to be so simple that every single person in your whole team can do it.

1010
01:01:21.920 --> 01:01:28.240
All right. Practical worksheets. We can hear about a thing, but we have to become the thing,

1011
01:01:28.240 --> 01:01:32.400
right? It doesn't match just hearing, we have to become. So there's practical worksheets

1012
01:01:32.400 --> 01:01:39.440
that we've put together to help your whole team grow into this space. That's how we produce our

1013
01:01:39.440 --> 01:01:46.000
high-performance culture. That 500% increase in productivity I was talking about, that came from

1014
01:01:46.240 --> 01:01:51.920
this program. And there's an app, a LeaderForge app, and can really track team development.

1015
01:01:52.800 --> 01:01:58.000
There are a total of 48 training sessions available in this whole thing. And let me

1016
01:01:58.000 --> 01:02:02.720
share those with you. We've broken those up into different series. There's the foundation series,

1017
01:02:03.440 --> 01:02:09.840
where we talk through this force. Each of these are four sessions. So there's a session on how

1018
01:02:09.840 --> 01:02:15.760
to create a team of leaders, not just a team with a leader. How do you empower an entire team to act

1019
01:02:15.760 --> 01:02:20.720
like owners? That's very powerful. That will step your business up straight away. What on earth are

1020
01:02:20.720 --> 01:02:27.200
we doing? What are we doing? Why are we doing it? And then answering the question, how do I fit in?

1021
01:02:27.200 --> 01:02:32.320
Giving your people one-line job descriptions and so on. Very powerful way to do this.

1022
01:02:33.680 --> 01:02:38.720
And then building a high-performance trust culture. Once you build trust into your organization

1023
01:02:39.280 --> 01:02:43.280
as a kingdom organization, even if you're the only believer in your whole team,

1024
01:02:43.920 --> 01:02:48.880
it doesn't matter. This all works. By the way, all this training has no Christian references,

1025
01:02:48.880 --> 01:02:54.480
no kingdom. We took all the kingdom goodness, baked it in, but there's no Christian references.

1026
01:02:54.480 --> 01:03:00.400
It was designed to help you as a kingdom leader bring goodness to others and get all the

1027
01:03:00.400 --> 01:03:06.480
performance. There's no Christian references here whatsoever. Okay, then on the productivity series,

1028
01:03:06.480 --> 01:03:10.480
we talk about the key to productivity, the whole sense of cognitive control,

1029
01:03:10.480 --> 01:03:14.320
the ability to stop switching from one task to another and exhausting yourself,

1030
01:03:14.320 --> 01:03:19.040
and all the other stuff. A lot of neuroscience, a lot of great research has gone into this. The

1031
01:03:19.040 --> 01:03:24.880
superpower of deep work. How a four-hour session uninterrupted can move your contribution to the

1032
01:03:24.880 --> 01:03:29.040
business to a whole different level, especially if you partner with Holy Spirit doing it.

1033
01:03:30.080 --> 01:03:34.000
Three ways to grow your business. There's only three ways to grow a business, and we talk about

1034
01:03:34.000 --> 01:03:37.760
what they are and which one you should be focused on and how to partner with the Lord on that.

1035
01:03:38.720 --> 01:03:43.360
All right, then the last two series are the innovation series and the executive series.

1036
01:03:43.360 --> 01:03:47.280
On the innovation series side, we talk about the key to innovation, how you do

1037
01:03:47.840 --> 01:03:52.960
just thin little projects, lots of little thin slicing rather than boil the ocean project and

1038
01:03:52.960 --> 01:03:57.680
try to take on these big projects you never finish and never take to market. And making

1039
01:03:57.680 --> 01:04:04.560
less meetings work is a very powerful way to free people up to work and not just keep your people

1040
01:04:04.560 --> 01:04:09.920
tied up in meetings all the time, death by meeting. And then making work effortless.

1041
01:04:11.360 --> 01:04:15.600
All of these come from great leaders, and we reference and tell you where all the sources

1042
01:04:15.600 --> 01:04:23.760
are, where we got this. So Greg McKeon, who wrote the workbook Effortless, came up with an

1043
01:04:23.760 --> 01:04:29.520
incredible... He also wrote Essentialism and some of those kind of books. So Greg's a great guy.

1044
01:04:30.480 --> 01:04:36.880
Executive series, we talk about necessary endings. How do you know just to end, or maybe it's time

1045
01:04:36.880 --> 01:04:42.400
to shut down this business. That's a tough one. Or maybe it's time to let someone go.

1046
01:04:42.400 --> 01:04:46.240
All those necessary endings and new beginnings. When do you launch new products? How do you

1047
01:04:46.240 --> 01:04:51.200
provide new services? Developing next level leaders. How do you develop leaders in your

1048
01:04:51.200 --> 01:04:57.440
organization, not just have to hire them in? And you can hire them in, but developing your own

1049
01:04:57.440 --> 01:04:59.760
is the better way to go. And then...

1050
01:05:00.000 --> 01:05:05.120
upgrading economics and the whole pricing strategies and marketing elements around

1051
01:05:05.120 --> 01:05:14.080
those key concepts. So a lot of key ideas here from lots of great leaders. And then once a year

1052
01:05:14.080 --> 01:05:21.360
we do a two-day in-person event. That's when we all get together and hang out and have great time.

1053
01:05:23.120 --> 01:05:27.760
All right, let me go through. Here's the offer to you. We've made the offer available in three

1054
01:05:28.640 --> 01:05:33.520
modes. If you're a startup, so there's three plans. There's a startup plan, a growth plan,

1055
01:05:33.520 --> 01:05:39.760
and an all-in plan. So let's go through those. The kingdom executive coaching, all three get that.

1056
01:05:40.800 --> 01:05:46.960
I said a plus one. Again, all three get that. The SOS calls, there's no SOS calls for startups.

1057
01:05:46.960 --> 01:05:53.040
There's too much movement there. But those in the growth plan will get one a year and those

1058
01:05:53.040 --> 01:06:00.080
in the all-in get three. They tend to need more one-on-one time. And then the leader forge,

1059
01:06:00.080 --> 01:06:05.040
the downstairs training. So the downstairs training is the foundation series. I'll just

1060
01:06:05.040 --> 01:06:09.600
put all the series up so you can see them all. So they're all the series. The all-in get all of

1061
01:06:09.600 --> 01:06:14.480
them. The growth get three of the four. And the startups, we just focus on the productivity

1062
01:06:14.480 --> 01:06:19.520
because a lot of times startups are a single person and that single person doesn't need

1063
01:06:19.520 --> 01:06:23.840
all the team stuff that everything else is dealing with. So it's all the high personal

1064
01:06:23.840 --> 01:06:29.360
productivity like deep work and self-management and cognitive control and all those cool things

1065
01:06:29.360 --> 01:06:38.080
that help you really be unhurried and calm in the way that you execute. Okay, so here are the prices.

1066
01:06:38.080 --> 01:06:44.720
So the investments are, the startup is $7,999. Growth is, I'm just going to round them up. So

1067
01:06:44.720 --> 01:06:53.120
it's 8,000, 12,000 or 15,000 on the all-in costs. Or if you want to do it monthly, just take away

1068
01:06:53.120 --> 01:07:03.520
the last digit and then you've got the monthly amount. So it's 999 or 199 or 1499. And then the

1069
01:07:03.520 --> 01:07:11.840
all-in, we have the in-person two-day event. That event is a $2,000 event. Two days, $2,000.

1070
01:07:12.800 --> 01:07:18.880
And the all-in people get it included. So if you decide you want to do the all-in thing,

1071
01:07:20.560 --> 01:07:27.440
then that would be included for you. Let me stop there and ask any questions around this.

1072
01:07:30.560 --> 01:07:37.360
So when I'm looking here, I'm looking at the chat session. All right. Very good. So

1073
01:07:38.160 --> 01:07:42.720
if you're paying full, that's obviously a 15% savings. So if you go back, you can see

1074
01:07:44.480 --> 01:07:52.320
those prices are discounted by 15%, actually a little more. And that's for the paid-in. So

1075
01:07:53.600 --> 01:07:59.360
if you want to be part of this right here, we can answer your questions now. And if you say,

1076
01:07:59.360 --> 01:08:03.760
I think I'm ready to make a decision, the question here is to ask the father, father,

1077
01:08:03.760 --> 01:08:11.440
are we doing this? And if we're doing this, then take bold action. And if you are interested,

1078
01:08:12.000 --> 01:08:17.439
Jenny will put you into a breakout session. She can help you and give you the links and

1079
01:08:17.439 --> 01:08:23.680
everything else you need. So if you are interested in that, just raise your hand

1080
01:08:23.680 --> 01:08:27.600
and Jenny will pop you into the breakout session. And in the meantime, I'll answer

1081
01:08:27.600 --> 01:08:38.800
any questions you might have. Okay. So we kick this off on the first Wednesday of January,

1082
01:08:38.800 --> 01:08:44.560
the first Wednesday of every month, 10 a.m. Exactly like we're doing today. First Wednesday

1083
01:08:44.560 --> 01:08:50.479
of the month, 10 a.m. for two hours. So Jerry, ask the Lord that question.

1084
01:08:51.200 --> 01:08:57.439
There's another question from Amy. Did you see that? If you are in BSOL.

1085
01:08:58.960 --> 01:09:07.200
No, Amy, these are separate programs. BSOL is a Tuesday. These run on Wednesdays. They're

1086
01:09:07.200 --> 01:09:13.840
separate programs. And the content, there's no overlapping. I mean, there's basic overlap in some

1087
01:09:13.840 --> 01:09:19.279
of the theology, but there's no overlap in the training. The training's at a different level.

1088
01:09:20.479 --> 01:09:23.520
BSOL, think of it as level two. This is right at the top level one.

1089
01:09:25.120 --> 01:09:28.640
If you know what BSOL is, folks, that's the brilliant school of leadership that Amy's

1090
01:09:28.640 --> 01:09:35.439
referring to. So you simply ask the Lord, Lord, are we doing this? And then I could give you so

1091
01:09:35.439 --> 01:09:39.760
many stories about people who've taken bold action based on the Lord's permission and how

1092
01:09:39.760 --> 01:09:44.160
he's provided, but that may be a bit manipulative. And so that's why I haven't told you those stories.

1093
01:09:44.160 --> 01:09:47.840
I really just want you to ask the Lord. This is your first step in the direction of,

1094
01:09:48.800 --> 01:09:53.840
uh, this is your first step in direction of partnering with the Lord, right? This is your

1095
01:09:53.840 --> 01:09:58.800
first moment of upstairs permission leads to downstairs bold action. Emily is bringing up.

1096
01:10:00.000 --> 01:10:09.280
Did you want to come up on the call or did you want to go through to the?

1097
01:10:09.280 --> 01:10:10.280
I can hear you.

1098
01:10:10.280 --> 01:10:11.280
I think you're unmuted.

1099
01:10:11.280 --> 01:10:12.280
Nope.

1100
01:10:12.280 --> 01:10:14.760
We don't have you unmuted.

1101
01:10:14.760 --> 01:10:15.760
She's unmuted.

1102
01:10:15.760 --> 01:10:17.200
We just cannot hear.

1103
01:10:17.200 --> 01:10:19.960
So it might be something in your sound settings.

1104
01:10:19.960 --> 01:10:22.120
Maybe her AirPods or something.

1105
01:10:22.120 --> 01:10:23.120
All right.

1106
01:10:23.120 --> 01:10:29.440
So Jenny, if you want to drop a link, I'm going to have while Emily's doing that, we

1107
01:10:29.440 --> 01:10:34.920
can drop a link to if you'd like some more information.

1108
01:10:34.920 --> 01:10:35.920
All the rest.

1109
01:10:35.920 --> 01:10:36.920
This is the information.

1110
01:10:36.920 --> 01:10:42.760
So there isn't a whole lot more, but are there two calls monthly?

1111
01:10:42.760 --> 01:10:47.200
No, it's the it's one call per month.

1112
01:10:47.200 --> 01:10:55.480
Every Wednesday, the first Wednesday of every month at 10 a.m. Eastern Time, 10 a.m. Eastern.

1113
01:10:55.480 --> 01:10:57.720
First Wednesday, every month for two hours.

1114
01:10:57.720 --> 01:11:01.600
That's the program.

1115
01:11:01.600 --> 01:11:02.600
One call per month.

1116
01:11:02.600 --> 01:11:03.600
First Wednesday.

1117
01:11:03.600 --> 01:11:04.600
Bridget wrote it there.

1118
01:11:04.600 --> 01:11:05.600
Eastern.

1119
01:11:05.600 --> 01:11:06.600
I know it.

1120
01:11:06.600 --> 01:11:07.600
Brilliant.

1121
01:11:07.600 --> 01:11:08.600
We often quote Pacific Time.

1122
01:11:08.600 --> 01:11:09.600
So please be aware.

1123
01:11:09.600 --> 01:11:11.240
This is Eastern.

1124
01:11:11.240 --> 01:11:13.560
Can we expand a little on the startup?

1125
01:11:13.560 --> 01:11:14.840
Yes.

1126
01:11:14.840 --> 01:11:16.800
You mean on the startup offer?

1127
01:11:16.800 --> 01:11:18.560
Is that what you're asking, Addy?

1128
01:11:18.560 --> 01:11:20.240
On the startup offer?

1129
01:11:20.240 --> 01:11:24.080
Yeah, I can show you a little more of what that is.

1130
01:11:24.080 --> 01:11:30.960
So quickest way to do that is this way.

1131
01:11:30.960 --> 01:11:39.880
So this startup section here, Addy, includes all the Kingdom Upstairs training and it includes

1132
01:11:39.880 --> 01:11:41.260
this productivity series.

1133
01:11:41.260 --> 01:11:45.120
So the productivity series is 12 sessions.

1134
01:11:45.120 --> 01:11:46.360
I know that's a lot to take in.

1135
01:11:46.360 --> 01:11:52.160
So let me walk you back to those sessions.

1136
01:11:52.160 --> 01:11:53.880
It's making me do it step by step.

1137
01:11:53.880 --> 01:11:56.920
So we'll get there in a second.

1138
01:11:56.920 --> 01:11:59.680
So here are the 12 sessions.

1139
01:11:59.680 --> 01:12:06.500
So the sessions we were talking about earlier were these sessions, the productivity series.

1140
01:12:06.500 --> 01:12:15.400
So the productivity series is the whole cognitive control, personal management, how we've developed

1141
01:12:15.400 --> 01:12:20.520
a system over 30 years in which you can manage yourself.

1142
01:12:20.600 --> 01:12:26.320
And the superpower of Deep Work, we talk about how to use Deep Work in like four hour blocks

1143
01:12:26.320 --> 01:12:29.620
to just up-level your business really quickly.

1144
01:12:29.620 --> 01:12:31.400
Do that once or twice a week.

1145
01:12:31.400 --> 01:12:33.120
We talk about the power of that.

1146
01:12:33.120 --> 01:12:41.880
And then so each of those sessions, Module 4, Module 5 and Module 6, each have four trainings.

1147
01:12:41.880 --> 01:12:43.320
So three times four is 12.

1148
01:12:43.320 --> 01:12:45.900
That's why it says 12 training sessions.

1149
01:12:45.900 --> 01:12:49.000
So these are 12 training sessions that are included.

1150
01:12:49.000 --> 01:12:52.960
So when we get together monthly, I pick one of these topics and I add them into the monthly

1151
01:12:52.960 --> 01:12:53.960
call.

1152
01:12:53.960 --> 01:12:56.760
But you have all the full training and all the worksheets.

1153
01:12:56.760 --> 01:13:04.760
So you get 12 training sessions and 12 worksheets in your productivity series for that group.

1154
01:13:04.760 --> 01:13:09.000
OK, let's get back to.

1155
01:13:09.000 --> 01:13:13.000
Did I answer your question, Addy?

1156
01:13:13.000 --> 01:13:15.000
Yeah.

1157
01:13:15.000 --> 01:13:17.000
OK.

1158
01:13:17.000 --> 01:13:19.000
Yeah.

1159
01:13:19.000 --> 01:13:21.000
Emily.

1160
01:13:21.000 --> 01:13:23.000
How's the sound now?

1161
01:13:23.000 --> 01:13:25.000
Yeah, we can hear you now.

1162
01:13:25.000 --> 01:13:27.000
How are you doing?

1163
01:13:27.000 --> 01:13:29.000
Good.

1164
01:13:29.000 --> 01:13:31.000
I'm doing good.

1165
01:13:31.000 --> 01:13:37.000
So I wanted to encourage everybody about the, you know, sowing into this, because I obviously have been doing this, you know, for a while.

1166
01:13:37.000 --> 01:13:45.000
And back in March, you know, I had to kind of step into a deeper place of expectation with the Lord and say, OK, Lord, this is what's needed to go forward.

1167
01:13:45.000 --> 01:13:49.000
And, you know, in heaven, we have all the resources we need.

1168
01:13:49.000 --> 01:13:51.000
So we're not limited.

1169
01:13:51.000 --> 01:13:55.000
And I asked him, I said, OK, Lord, what permission do I have?

1170
01:13:55.000 --> 01:13:57.000
You know, should I keep going?

1171
01:13:57.000 --> 01:14:01.000
And this was like, you know, six months later and back in March.

1172
01:14:01.000 --> 01:14:03.000
But and I didn't hear him say anything.

1173
01:14:03.000 --> 01:14:07.000
And I was like, OK, you know, so you just wait a little bit.

1174
01:14:07.000 --> 01:14:11.000
And I'm like, OK, Lord, what bold action do I need to take?

1175
01:14:11.000 --> 01:14:20.000
You know, and I sat there for a little, you know, maybe one or two days and I heard him say, I've already given you permission, you know, and I said, oh, OK.

1176
01:14:20.000 --> 01:14:22.000
So then the question turned into something else.

1177
01:14:22.000 --> 01:14:30.000
All that to say he provided six months of what I needed to be in this with him.

1178
01:14:31.000 --> 01:14:41.000
So my encouragement to you is like, don't let money be stopping you from doing something that the Lord's calling you to do, because he will provide.

1179
01:14:41.000 --> 01:14:51.000
You just have to step into that place with him, knowing that he's not limited by money, that that's not any problem for him at all.

1180
01:14:51.000 --> 01:14:58.000
It's just he's growing you into a place of trusting him with more and just like you stepping out with him.

1181
01:14:58.000 --> 01:15:00.000
And, you know, it's amazing.

1182
01:15:00.000 --> 01:15:09.000
Every month like there was never any worry because you know, you've got deadlines. You've got dates. Okay, this is do then and there but it's amazing how he provides.

1183
01:15:09.000 --> 01:15:18.000
So I just wanted to encourage you like if you feel the Lord, you know, you know inviting you into this go for it because he will provide.

1184
01:15:18.000 --> 01:15:29.000
So thank you. I mean, I know it's been great having you as part of the circle and because you work for a large organization and you know, you're also doing things on your own.

1185
01:15:29.000 --> 01:15:37.000
And so, you know, thanks for sharing that. I appreciate that. I want to say that if you're not hundred percent sure. Yes, one way you can do this.

1186
01:15:37.000 --> 01:15:49.000
You can do a taste and see pick pick the program you're interested in pay the first month that that takes care of that come to January and then you know after the end of January off that first session.

1187
01:15:49.000 --> 01:15:54.000
You can you can either pay the difference or keep paying every month after that you can do that too.

1188
01:15:54.000 --> 01:16:00.000
So either way it works. You just pay your first payment as a deposit and then you can figure out what you want to do from there.

1189
01:16:00.000 --> 01:16:08.000
Okay, by the way, just so that you know, we open this up every December. So the next time we get opportunity to join is next December.

1190
01:16:08.000 --> 01:16:16.000
So that's and the reason is is because we grow it as a group throughout the year and each session builds on the others.

1191
01:16:16.000 --> 01:16:24.000
And if people come in in the middle, we try to do that. It's not great. You're starting all over again. You're laying a foundation again.

1192
01:16:24.000 --> 01:16:29.000
You're putting all that structure together again and people get lost, you know, when they come in in the middle of it.

1193
01:16:29.000 --> 01:16:39.000
So we build it up as though, you know, nobody knows anything and then we build it up layer by layer all the way up both in the upstairs and the downstairs.

1194
01:16:39.000 --> 01:16:54.000
Okay. So if you want, if you want to connect with Jenny, just let us know and we will send you to the breakout session and we can stay and answer some more questions.