So we always kick this off for everybody wants to know,
you know, how are we gonna spend three hours together?
There are three sections to what we're gonna do.
We're gonna start off with some wins,
some things that you're dealing with right now.
So we're gonna talk a little bit about some of the wins
for since last month.
And after that, we're gonna jump straight into talking a
little, we'll do a little bit of hot seats
and a little bit of laser coaching in between
while we're listening.
So I'd love anybody who has any big wins for the month.
I know Ray has got a lot of wins going on
in getting ready for his event.
Jim, I know you guys just ran a conference yourselves.
Love to hear how that went.
That was pretty amazing content.
And so let's share some wins.
And Robin, I know you wanted to jump on first.
So I'm gonna just give it over to you.
What's happening at NOAA?
Yeah, well, thank you.
Thank you, Dion.
And just to bring Jim Baker's team up to speed,
I was self-employed all my life.
And in 2015, I started a company called NOAA,
which we were the, actually become a nationally known
as the third party inspection company
for tiny houses on wheels.
And it was in the black from the beginning.
We started out in the black,
never ran into any losses until this year.
In January of this year, I brought on a president,
started to back out of the business a little bit.
And man, things just started losing money.
I was taking reserves to make payroll
and it was getting tough.
And so for eight months, we lost money.
And I did an SOS call with Dion
and he suggested, why don't,
instead of one person suffering,
why doesn't everybody suffer?
This was a program that he implemented.
I think that was brilliant and it worked quite well.
So I said, okay, how does it work?
So basically what we did is we asked everyone
to take a 15% cut in their salary, in their pay.
And we made it so that if somebody couldn't,
we would make it happen for somebody
who could take a little extra.
And so it all balanced out.
We did that in August.
And by August 17th, we were still struggling.
And I got together with,
I was getting ready to lay off four people,
some of my key people too,
and just keep the core business
so we could satisfy our customers, our members.
And so I gave them, as we learned in August,
in this EDGE training,
we had learned how to lay people off,
give them 30 days and things don't change.
It was all laid out there.
And by September 17th, when I looked at the numbers,
we had turned around amazingly.
But it was very hard for me to think about
having to lay off some of these key people.
And I wasn't looking forward to it,
but I was willing to do it.
I was there.
It was kind of like when Abraham
was willing to sacrifice his son,
I was willing to do that if I had to.
And so by the 17th, we were looking like
we were turning around.
And so the month of September,
we actually included in this program,
we're calling it a revitalization program with NOAA,
included in this program was the 15% cut in salary.
But in addition to that,
we had a 5%, 10%, 20%, 50%, 150% bonus program.
So when we hit certain mile markers,
we were gonna get up to a double your original salary.
So as it worked out, we passed the 60, we passed the 70.
And this month we hit the $85,000 a month
and went into the 20% bonus program
and everybody's all excited here.
So that's my good news guys for us going on over here.
Hey, Robin, that is so good to hear.
So what Robin is referring to
for those who are catching up here a little bit
is it comes from the idea of instead of,
you know, when we're always as leaders,
right-sizing our business and especially as kingdom leaders,
what if we all suffered a little
that rather than one or two people suffering a lot
rather than letting people go.
And of course, you know,
right-sizing a company is an art form
and that's a whole subject of training that we do.
But what Robin's referring to is a strategy.
strategy in which if some of you are under financial pressure with your team,
then one of the best ways to do that is to go from a five day workweek to a four
day workweek and as a four day workweek and then you put it into like temporary
measure, you don't have to do the four day part, but you can.
And part of that is everybody drops in a pay cut and you and you and you scale
down your your overhead, your as low as possible.
But then you compensate with a very aggressive bonus program,
which is a percentage of their monthly income.
So if they're earning five K,
it'll be a percentage of that up to you can be generous up to 100.
And actually, what's amazing is if you do
a quick black box financial model on that, you're pretty you're pretty
you'll be pretty amazed at how little money that actually is.
You think, oh, how do we get them 100 percent?
Actually, if you're hitting milestones, it's not a big percentage of that.
So Robin did an amazing job modeling
that out, working out exactly what that would be for his business.
And then watching the team.
Here's the strange thing.
As many times we've implemented this, we've seen
the morale go from worried and it's my job at risk and all the fear and concern
and stress to a completely peaceful environment and in fact, get even enthusiastic.
Now, some people have added another bonus
on top of that and said, look, if you want to do it, if we can keep
our productivity and do in four days what we were doing in five days,
which, by the way, it almost always happens because who doesn't want
a long weekend every month just saying right.
So in that case, the deal was, well, if we hit these milestones and we do
this consistently, we could make the four day workweek permanent.
Now, if you want to motivate your team, pull that off and see what happens.
So what happens now is
and from a kingdom viewpoint, right, we want to try to, you know,
not only do we receive those God is giving us, but we want to protect them, too.
We want to be able to,
you know, you know, it always surprises me
when I see big companies do massive layoffs and I'm like,
how are you running so bloated in the first place?
And then they get up and brag about the fact that, well, we haven't really skipped
a beat and, you know, and, you know, it's kind of like what happened with the,
you know, what happened at Twitter, you know, where 80 percent of the people,
whatever, were six thousand layoffs and they were only like fifteen hundred.
Oh, the site's going to die and it's going to collapse.
And and that, of course, was because a new
leader came in and just right sized it.
So right sizing your business is a way it's not just good stewardship.
You know, I think it's also kind kingdom leadership.
Anyway, if anyone's interested in that type of thing,
remember that as part of our deal here, as part of the inner circle,
we get to SOS calls, we can spend an hour each time and talk through those.
Hey, Ben, it sounds like you had something to share there.
What's happened in your neck of the woods?
Well, it's it's it's plugged the SOS call today on the inner circle,
so I had my SOS call with Dion.
It's been probably if I had to guess three months ago, something like that.
And just for the benefit of some background
in a family owned construction company with my dad and quite a few family members
actually on board and so bought the business from my dad, who was a founder.
We've been around about twenty nine years, I think this year and,
you know, helping him to.
To be refired, right, and on to his next assignment has been a challenge
for him to really, you know, was kind of identity was wrapped up in it and
just had a lover of challenges, one of which was that he was producing
probably 60 percent of the revenue for the business, which is a challenge.
But really, you know, we've kind of been
walking through it for about a year and a half and it just came really clear that
we needed to make a break.
And so we did that.
I essentially got set up the timing
and this is a testimony to his faithfulness as well.
But we can't he set it up so he could go
on a two week vacation and when he came back, I quit assigning him new leads.
We had already hired his replacement
and really were working towards making a transition.
So we just had to do it.
You know, he he took it pretty well.
I only heard him tell two people that we fired him, you know, so that was
but so here's what happened, though.
We have I mean, he actually he was able to break that
whole identity piece.
He's he's he.
closed about every lead that he had left.
He's still, there are a few customers that are really,
you know, just good long-term customers
he has good relationships with.
They're kind of complicated.
So he's still working some of those, you know, that are,
you know, he's fully commissioned only at this point.
So, you know, I've had, you know,
the guy that we hired to take his place
has really started to, you know,
sink his teeth into some better quality leads,
has started closing them.
He hit his goal.
I've had, last week, man, I closed our largest sell ever,
$1.3 million dry fertilizer plant,
which is mostly subcontracted, which really, really helps.
Man, it's a big deal.
And I mean, literally I had a,
we turned in five orders last week.
We're looking at like our sales this year are up.
I haven't read the percentages,
but we did about 5.8 million last year.
And we're at 7.5 right now with, you know,
we're on track to sell, to probably double our sales,
which is insane, honestly.
And here I was worried about, you know,
trying to replace, you know, what we had.
So I guess it's just a testimony, man,
to how God's at work ahead of us always.
And he's just, you know,
he's just inviting us to trust him and to be obedient.
And man, it's pretty encouraging to see what happens.
So thank you for your encouragement and counsel.
I appreciate it.
Oh, sure.
It's been amazing to watch your journey.
How's the new solar company coming on, the subsidiary?
It's a learning experience.
Although, you know, I am doing pretty well
at letting the guy run with it.
So we actually had a grant deadline
on the 30th of September.
We've got one project that was in.
So we're gonna see how that goes.
We're learning about that,
but we've got quite a few that we'll submit,
you know, by December.
And, you know, we kind of got some help.
So we have a guy who's working on estimates now
with the primary salesperson.
So it's coming along.
We'll see.
And I'm staying mostly out of it.
I mean, I'm helping them, you know, I'm meeting with them.
I'm kind of watching it run.
That's amazing.
Some really big opportunities there,
but I don't know how they'll pan out.
Yeah.
I wanna just key in with something you said there, Ben,
is that, you know, we've been tying three
or four key scriptures together as kingdom leaders
around Matthew 11, 28, which we'll touch on briefly today.
But the whole idea of, you know,
come to me all your burden heavy laden,
I'll give you rest, take my yoke.
And we've talked a lot about when you're in the yoke,
you can't get into the yoke without rest.
Rest activates the yoke.
And what I loved about watching you in that journey
was watching you come to rest first.
And it's interesting when we're in yoke,
because when Jesus said, you're my workmanship,
all the work God meant for you was put in you,
in your partnership, was assigned to your yoke.
You know, it wasn't assigned to you.
All the promise assigned to Jesus in you,
that way it's safe and isn't going anywhere.
Because God is that kind, you know.
And watching you step into that
and then we get into what you just alluded to,
you know, all the good works that the father
has prepared beforehand for us to do, to walk in.
And watching you, you know,
as we come to deeper and deeper rest,
suddenly we start to find this acceleration effect
in the kingdom.
And we were a little startled.
We start to become overwhelmed by his goodness.
You know, it's like, my goodness, Lord,
that was so kind, you know.
So watching you go through that process was fantastic.
Yeah, trying to sort through kind of those.
What is that work, right?
There are so many opportunities.
I actually was in Tulsa, Oral Roberts yesterday with 94X,
which is a whole nother kingdom,
entrepreneurship marketplace thing that God is doing.
You know, and then I'm getting invitations in Kenya
to go teach.
So it's like, God is, I'm really excited, man,
about what God's doing on the earth right now,
particularly with business leaders
and the opportunity to really be love to the people
that they have the opportunity to influence,
you know, both the employees and the community.
It's gonna change things.
Thanks for sharing, Ben.
That was awesome.
Let's go to Angie.
Angie, what's happening?
your world.
Yeah, well, I'm excited.
I had one of my biggest sales.
I'm in education and I work full-time for a private school,
but I also have a tutoring company.
And I'm finding that the Lord is shifting me
from focusing on subject math tutoring
and getting into the test prep space more.
And just through private clients,
I had one of my largest sales a couple of weeks ago
and it was not 1.3 million yet then,
but you have just set a bar for me to go after.
So that was very, very inspiring.
But I'm finding at the school that I'm at
is I found a pocket that for whatever reason,
the parents and students
haven't really been served very well.
I mean, there's so many needs at a school
and it's this test prep space.
And even like the timeline,
like because I know it's the favor of the Lord
and the way he's led me to serve there,
that somehow I've become the contact.
I'm the person, instead of the counselors,
I'm the person parents are emailing saying,
when should my team start preparing for the ACT and SAT?
And so the Lord's helping me kind of think bigger,
even a bigger, broader picture and package
of how to walk with parents and students,
because especially if it's your first team,
you've never done it before,
you just, you don't know what to do.
And so, and I wanna plug the SOS calls as well,
because in my conversations with Dion,
he's really helped me to enlarge my vision
instead of serving individual families and students,
having them be my clients,
but to go to schools, starting with the one I'm at,
but to go out into my city
and to invite school districts, schools,
to partner with me and have them be my clients.
And so I'm excited, just,
I feel like the Lord's just,
he's putting these different pieces together
and helping me just expand what I see as opportunity.
And so I'm not quite sure,
I haven't walked through all the processes
and the pieces yet,
so I'm not sure what exactly it's gonna look like.
And I've never approached,
typically I serve generally
and then people respond to my general offers.
So I've never gone specifically to individuals
that I haven't,
so this is gonna be a new deal,
approaching schools and saying,
hey, this is what I've put together,
this is what I'm offering,
do you wanna get in on this
and help set a new bar for your teens
and your families for test prep?
So I'm excited.
That's awesome, that's really exciting.
Thanks, Angie, appreciate that.
Anybody else wanna share something there?
Hey, Jim, tell us a little bit about your event.
I don't think people know much about that,
but that was such a great event.
Tell us how it all went for you.
Yeah, yeah, so we have something we call the big event
and so we're trying to kind of get away
from the idea that it's a conference
since we're a Christian-focused audience.
And so the idea is kind of a revival service
meets wealth strategy sessions,
meets family reunion.
And so it was a lot of fun
and we ended with a healing service
and we had people get physically healed, of course,
you know, worship, just presence of God,
just wonderful things,
prophetic ministry from the stage
mixed with, you know, some great strategy sessions.
So lots of fun.
You know, we learned a lot of lessons from it.
You know, so our show up rates
were lower than they were the previous years.
And so we kind of, you know,
you always learn something.
And so we made a real estate coaching offer
that went well percentage-wise
for the people who showed up there,
that those stayed the same.
And our marketing team just did a killer job
of just extending the offer.
And so I think we're right at about seven figures
for what we're bringing in for the,
just for that one offer off of the,
between the event and the couple of weeks
following for different lists.
And so, and we've already made that offer
three other times in the previous 12 months.
And so that's really good.
So yeah, yeah, it was a great event
and, you know, we're learning a lot.
We was the first time we went from doing it at our church
to doing it in a convention center.
And so I was complaining to Deon
about how much money we had to put out.
And then he told me how much money they had to put out
for their 5,000 person events,
or sorry, 9,000 person events.
And so I didn't feel quite so bad,
but it still felt-
It was so insane.
It is insane, yeah.
And so-
We learned a lot, you know, it was nice to have unlimited parking and unlimited bathrooms, which our church does not have, and super fun.
We learned a lot. We're already looking at the venue for the next year, looking at speakers for the next year.
You know, just really trying to pray through that and stay in that yoke, which I'm excited to get more into that yoke.
So my wife's excited for me to get more into that yoke, too.
Yeah, because you're restful. That's fantastic. Exactly. Yeah. Well, good news. That's fantastic.
You know, there's so much going on in this space, I think, in general.
I don't know how many I know several of you have run, you know, challenges or webinars or, you know, virtual events.
And of course, I've been very actively involved in helping Ray. I think I've talked to Ray so much in this last few.
So here's what's happening in our event. Since we're talking about events, good time to talk about that.
You know, we were planning to do Velocity 2024 coming up here on the 18th to 20th, I think it was, of October.
But then the Lord very clearly had us put that on hold and it was an incredible experience.
It literally we went from high powered. Everything's going to happen to 24 hours later to everything's postponed till next year.
And I wanted to share that not just because of the informational elements, but the learning side.
You know, we never stop learning. Right. So as that happens, you know, as you know,
Dears listening in on the call, but she's still on, you know, recuperation period.
But, you know, when your right hand person disappears for very legitimate reasons and she had to go back for more eye surgery and all the other things that she's had to go through.
Not only did that happen, but literally every member in our team had something major happen.
Oh, my husband needs an emergency gallbladder removal. My wife needs emergency surgery.
I mean, it just like, you know, and so, you know, when the enemy does stuff, you know, the best reaction is to yawn because it's really boring.
Hasn't changed anything. He's defeated. Jesus is fascinating, though. Love what he's up to.
So, you know, and so Graham and I just spent a moment and, you know, went to my group that I talked to.
Universally, we just felt like this thing is so important to the Lord, to the father, this event, because velocity was referring to what to that acceleration effect that what happens when you step into that yoke.
And what I found was this is such a great thing for us to learn is that we were refining our language and we were refining what we were doing sort of at the last minute.
You know, I was thinking with three, four weeks out and we're still refining core piece of language.
Well, we internally refer to as green fruit. You know, when you bite into green fruit and you go squint because it's so sour.
I didn't want that for the attendees, you know, wasn't ripe fruit in our lives.
And I think it takes, you know, when you're in that place of rest with the Lord.
And so I said, hang on, Lord, you you told you gave us permission to do this event.
And and of course, he agreed. He did.
And I said, so what was that? And, you know, I think last week was last month we talked about forcing functions.
I think we talked about forcing functions last month or the month before.
And the power of forcing functions to drive your learning and to upscale your business to the next level and keep it there, to pick it there and stay there.
So we don't we don't just take territory. We keep it and then we expand it.
And, you know, those are fun words to say whole different thing to strategize and do practically.
So what happened in this case is I suddenly realized and it all came because of that moment
that I had in Santa Barbara a few months ago when I was at our office in Santa Barbara and I was spending the week there.
I don't get to go there as much as I used to, but as I was one morning early and I was just talking to the Lord
and we were trying to come up with a name for Velocity and I was asking a lot of questions
and I got on and I started watching a few video clips and promotions around Kingdom Business.
One in particular, which for graciousness, I won't say who.
But as I was listening to it, I just got sadder and sadder and sadder.
And I finally I just said, Father, honestly, I don't agree with a word that man said.
Started with negativity. What's wrong with the world? All the evil corporations.
As he went on, I just got sadder.
And so I just stopped and said, Father, do you ever just get what you want ever?
Does it always come attached with all our stuff?
I don't know what happened with that question, but something shifted in me.
You know, I just got I was in such a.
you know in that moment where it's deep peace but you feel the weight of
something that you're carrying and I got in the next morning Graham and I had a
two or three hour session we were planning some things for what was
upcoming and and of course we're going to talk about the conference and so I
shared this with him and you know Graham just starts weeping and I love when
Graham just goes straight into profit mode cool to have an office profit in
your camp best best people if you if you're in a fight you find an office
profit to stand with you man they are the best people in a fight they are not
afraid of intimidation of the enemy in the least and and so he just said he's
oh my said that question we need to talk about that so we rephrase in a more
positive mode into so father what does this mean for you what is this event
mean what is this new business mean what is my new strategy what does this mean
for you and you know the most amazing thing is when you give God what he wants
completely he gives you far more than you ever imagined or even thought to ask
for and I just I just realized there's ways in which the kingdom is activated
in us when we come to that place that yeah God wants you have highly skilled
hands and a contrite heart for sure you know the upstairs kingdom realm
downstairs natural he wants us living upstairs but he also even wants us
working upstairs we'll talk a bit about that today but so in that moment I think
that question not only acted as a forcing function because we we just let
go of a lot of stuff and we weren't can we put a program together absolutely we
like most of us here we could you know we could run a three-day event fairly
easily you know but the but dialing it in to serve your your who and so we
found you know Barry was really helpful from sage who was coaching us through
the whole thing and she was really getting happy we kind of landing on make
the shift you know move upstairs make the shift shifting how you shifting how
you work shifting how you lead shifting how you live that was going to be the
big pitch and as we're going through all that and then we hit this this pause
button it it came a moment in which the Lord asked me so I want to take you up
on your offer and I knew immediately what he meant you know how it is when he
does that and you know exactly what he's saying without any further explanation I
said I'm happy to know so will you wait and let's upgrade for what I want out of
that event your revelation isn't that where it needs to be I said okay so I'm
gonna up level your revelation and I think we get to do that probably as an
inner circle together as we pioneer this stuff because what we want is the stuff
where the kingdom is activated and things genuinely shift and move I mean
that's what it is right so and it's not what we'll make money and finance how
ministry of course we can do that mode but what if it's just all ministry what
if it's just all kingdom and so I was so that's how we got to just post mine so
we're gonna do something special for the people who registered I am gonna spend
the Saturday October 19th with them if that's any of you guys I think some of
you did I'm gonna spend Saturday we're gonna do a very much more close group
probably pick 15 people and do a coaching time from 11 till 4 I'm also
gonna give him free tickets to raise event the faith of a fear which I think
Jim you're speaking at right aren't you speaking at faith of a fear yeah so
we're working on that and but I know just asking Ray that question you know
it you know just so blessed by watching him get you know tearful with that
question you know so father what would make you happy and that's a simple and
great way to live isn't it what will make you happy Lord so we're postponing
it until the Lord can have what he wants it might be April or it might be next
September so we'll see at this point we've got two dates penciled in for that
so to that end before anyone else want to share before I jump straight into the
next piece all good okay so I know that Glenn was very excited to share his good
news of you know launching into this new event and what was so sweet watching him
go through and of course going and I've been friends for I've forgotten 38 years
and you know we've been going we've gone through all this learning together
watching him find that place of deep rest as he's making the decision he just
moved from Silicon Valley back to New York
to Georgia where he's so super happy to have done it.
Whereas we teased him and said,
yep, short flight from San Jose to America.
Which he didn't think was that funny.
The sort of sense of humor there.
But watching him come to that place of deep rest
and then saying, father, what's your permission?
At first the permission was explore,
the permission all the way till,
so I think yesterday was his first day in the New Deal,
in a new job.
So we're really thrilled for him
and I know he wanted to share some of that,
so I'll share it on his behalf.
Hey, Robin, let's get back to you.
Yeah, I just also wanted to add to
what we were talking about.
And not only the inner circle,
but there I was involved with the Edge leadership training
and part of our revitalization of NOAA
included going back to the Edge training.
Part of my sales pitch to our staff
was we're gonna go back through the Edge training.
On Tuesdays I do a, at four o'clock we do an hour call
and we hit on certain things.
And the reason behind it is,
if we're going to try to get more done in less time,
if that's the goal,
we're gonna cut down to a four-day work week,
how can we practically do that?
And basically it's adding things like the Q book
and buckets and deep work.
And so yesterday we did how to handle
the three different types of people,
the wise, the foolish and the evil.
And the team was just like, yeah,
and not only dealing with employees,
we said, what about our builders?
When we're dealing with our builders,
there's some wise builders, some foolish builders,
and there's some evil builders.
And we can apply that same teaching and principle
to the builders that we deal with.
So I wanted, for those of you that aren't,
I know I went through the whole Edge training,
the 40 weeks and everything like that.
It's cut down to 20 weeks, 20 sessions now,
I think of the most important ones.
And so what we've done is we said,
okay, that's how we're going to accomplish
what we're trying to accomplish.
And the other thing like Dion mentioned was,
how people get excited and they're getting excited
about this new thing.
Everybody was, I mean, we were like $2,000 short
of the 85,000 the day of.
And my main salesperson who happens to be my daughter,
I said, do you want to go out to dinner on Sunday?
She said, no, I have to rest because Monday
I have to find that $2,000 somewhere.
And she also said, our nut is $60,000 a month.
She said, my new nut is 150,000,
but I want to double my salary.
So people are getting excited about this,
but I just wanted to plug into, if you guys aren't,
you can go back through the replays
and the training that's in there.
I think it's available to all of us here, Dion.
And you can do it with your team
and really gain a lot from that.
Thanks for sharing that.
So, well, that's again, a fantastic lead
into how we're going to restructure it.
So what we've done is, of course,
we had Velocity 24 coming up.
There was going to be an offer.
The offer, of course, would have translated
into start here in the beginning of October,
because originally the Velocity was in September
before we moved it out 30 days.
So, you know, it was really interesting.
So it was, you know, sometimes God gives you permission
because it acts as a forcing function
and just compresses your learning into a very short space.
And then it's very important.
It's like, it feels like you're walking along
with the Lord and it's like hiking in the mountains.
And the Lord says, you see that tree on the hill
on the other side, that's where we're going.
And you head out for the tree and then you find,
oh, hang on, there's a valley here.
So you go into the valley and there's this beautiful stream.
The Lord says, turn left.
And you go, ah, but what about the tree?
You know, so what happens is, no, no,
the tree was a mile marker to get you here.
So that, because you couldn't see this point
from where you were standing.
And, you know, it's so kind.
He's so amazing in how he leads.
I love that he's the initiator
and we're the first responders.
We're not, our job is not to initiate everything.
So we were busy with some worksheet for our church
and for Brilliant Church.
And, you know, we have an amazing curriculum developer
in Sunday and, you know,
and she spent just unbelievable amount of hours
getting this 12-week program ready for our small groups.
And I sat down with her and she started reading
all the stuff and it was you, you should this,
you that, you this, you that.
And I said, this sounds like.
like the usual old stuff.
Why don't we not do any of that?
And she said, what do you mean?
And I said, we've got to throw this all away, Cindy.
And I said, I'm so excited for you.
She looked at me like, how are you excited?
You threw away all my work.
And I said, no, I'm so excited.
You get to be in the architecture of a thing.
When you can involve your team in the architecture of what
you're doing, especially from the father's viewpoint,
it is so inspirational.
It's so alluring.
Anyway, I said, well, what does it mean?
Why don't we start with what the Lord is doing,
and then we respond?
Oh, everything in the kingdom starts with a gift.
Well, let's talk about how the Lord sees that.
What does that mean for Him?
And then we respond.
That's a lot easier.
She rewrote it.
She redid it.
And then we spent another three, four hours
going through all again.
And maybe the best worksheets we've ever done,
because now we're wanting to see true transformation.
Well, how's that work?
You've got to get people to move upstairs.
You've got to disciple them directly to Jesus,
directly to the Lord.
And here's the cool thing.
If you've got team members who don't know the Lord at all,
no worries at all, all you do is teach them His ways,
because His ways will lead them to the truth,
which will lead them to the life.
So teach them His ways.
And so what are we going to do for The Edge?
So for those of you who don't know,
Inner Circle is this event together,
but The Edge is actually a 48-week,
I've expanded it out, 48-week training program.
Every month we've taken one major topic,
which we'll do today,
and then we'll send you little vignettes,
little nuggets that will follow up,
little boosters each week with little short videos.
So you'll get one big thing at this meeting,
and then each week you'll get another one.
So that will slowly build back up to 48 for 12 times four.
Of course, we're i49,
so everyone's asking me, where's the missing talk?
So there you go.
That's my son's humor.
Dad, it should be 49 talks.
You called i49.
So here's what we want to do,
is we are going to rebuild that, those talks again.
We've added so many new best practices.
Those 48 talks are all designed to be covert talks.
They're designed, you can show them to anyone in your team.
And they're designed in such a way
that it doesn't matter,
there's no spiritual component to it.
But they are the best leadership practices
from around the world.
And leaders are constantly inventing new and great things.
I tend to focus more on practitioners than philosophers.
I mean, there are some great industry thinkers.
I love Simon Sinek, he's spoken at events.
I love some of his thoughts, and some of it is.
But often with those type of generic thoughts
is it doesn't help you land.
When you talk to, when a practitioner's doing it,
somebody who's actually leading a team,
it's like the difference between a traveling ministry
that's out there telling everyone what should be
and the pastor who actually lives with people's lives
and is involved in their day-to-day.
That's the difference, right?
And that's why all traveling ministries
should probably come from people
who've actually shepherded real people,
in real context, I mean, in real community.
Because that stuff is messy.
And so it's the messiness of it.
So what we've been doing is,
so what you'll get, we'll do one part one.
So every, here's what's gonna happen every month.
We're gonna share one of the Edge trainings,
and I've picked the 12 biggest ones.
And then each, for the next three weeks,
you'll get little vignettes that'll add up.
All this will be on the app.
So if you don't have the Edge app,
does everybody have the Edge app?
If you don't have the Edge app, you go to iOS.
I think it's called My Edge.
Dio might remember.
I think it's just called My Edge.
It's also a web version.
She'll post the link here in the chat for you.
And just make sure you got the Edge app.
And from that, there'll also be worksheets.
So you can give that.
So if you're training a specific person in your team,
you can take the material and say,
this is for you, I want you to watch this.
So that's what that is, My Edge.
MyEdge.group, or you just,
I think you go to iOS and search for Edge or My Edge,
one of the two.
All right, so what we're gonna do each week,
we're gonna do one of those events.
So let me show you what that looks like.
So I thought, if you're like me,
you like to see the overview of something.
Okay, got it.
Notion is what I was looking for.
So if any of you ever use Notion,
we're addicted to Slack and Notion.
Notion is like source of all truth,
best structured product ever.
So if you don't know Notion and you don't know Slack,
those are definitely Slack and Notion.
So here's the here's the format. As you know, the architectures, we want to teach you your partnership that take my rest and take my yoke upon you.
Yoke, we're using the word partnership. And so that you really start exploring God's nature and who you're becoming, learning how to be with the Lord,
but more specifically how he wants to be with you, and then share, you know, kingdom leadership habits that we've been building over quite a few years,
and stuff that we've actually used, again, a practitioner, not a theoretical, not green fruit
from six scriptures, but actual scriptures that speak to how we've learned to live them.
You know, as we talk often about, it's one thing to hear a scripture, then to learn the scripture,
and then to become the scripture. And when you become it, that's when it that's when the
transformation happens, right. So and then we're also going to share the edge, the best business
practices. So this is what it looks like. We'll get together every every month, we'll look at part one,
wows and whirns, some hot seats, then we'll do some edge training, the best business practices,
that portion, I'm going to ask if you will let me just do that without interruption for that.
So I can record that as a separate thing. So I can put it on on the app, there'll be no Christian
references or anything to that specifically, all the kingdom goodness is baked in already.
So the whole thing, we'll talk afterwards, we'll talk a little bit about how can we take
downstairs tools and make them power tools by making taking them upstairs.
That's a fun conversation. And then finally, we'll talk through one of those kingdom leadership
habits. So here are some of the kingdom leadership habits. We'll cover reset to rest today,
especially in a business context. Can everybody see that? We'll talk through each one,
we'll talk through what's the prompt or the trigger or the cue? What's the permission that
the Lord gives you? What how do you practice? What's the routine? And then what person do you
become? So don't worry, you'll get this as we go along. But just to give you a quick overview,
we're going to go, you know, new every morning, new creation, how do you practice your new
creation status with the Lord, consider yourself dead to sin, the permission there is, you don't
have to work on the old because God isn't. And lightness, the whole lightness of kingdom and
my burden is light. Yoke is easy burden is light, standing on your promises. What do we how do we
do that in the kingdom? What does that practically look like? What happens when we trust in God's
promise? It doesn't look like it's happening or working. We talk a lot about that. Contracting
with God's help. That's all from Isaiah 41. I will help you. I will help you. Surely I will help you.
Then Thanksgiving is a is one of those keystone habits that drives a whole lot of other kingdom
habits. We'll talk about patience as a weapon through faith and patience we inherit. We'll talk
about capture, taking every thought captive, capture and exchange, responding in the opposite
spirit, you know, single focus on your on your fight, calling your team up, calling them out and
calling them up is actually the full title. And then for the best practice, business practices,
we're going to go through this whole concept of today we're going to talk through the new paradigm
creating a team of leaders. We're going to talk about how we use clarity and simplicity to drive
speed in the business, building high performance, trust culture. We'll talk a lot about cognitive
control. Things like you've heard a lot of people refer to the Q book. That's a cognitive control
tool. We'll talk through all that. The superpower of deep work, three ways to grow your business,
thin slicing by far the biggest key to innovation. So you stop all the big boil the ocean projects,
do very simple things, making work, making meet less meetings, work, making work effortless,
necessary endings and new beginnings, developing next level leaders, upgrading economics. Each of
these are the main topic. And each of these will have be followed by three small videos each week.
Does that make sense? That was a lot to take in. Thanks for thanks for listening to that. Is that
clear? Cool. You got it. That's what we're going to do. All right, so that inner circle, that inner
circle structure is going to put us in a place where we're going to try to equip you downstairs
with the best leadership practices from around the world. And we're constantly upgrading those.
And we're going to give you upstairs, the best ways of walking with the Lord, the best kingdom
leadership routines. For those of you who've done the brilliant school of leadership.
I can tell you that there are some similarities,
but they really are substantially upgraded to a leadership mindset. Christians.
All right. So I want one quick question. Is all this stuff in the app? Is that where is that
where we access the weekly trainings? Or is that going to come to us in an email like the big
trainings done here and then the weekly kind of follow ups or? Yeah, they all they all happen in
the app. Well, all
The replays, everything is in the app.
So the app is either on your phone or on the web.
Why don't I take a second and just show it to you?
That might be the easiest way to do that.
So everything that happens for each session,
you can scroll down, you'll see there are any tools,
there's some power tools, but go to the Edge,
to the Edge Training, not the Inner Circle,
to the Edge Group, yep.
Go to Training, yep.
So this is what those all are.
Each of these modules are monthly.
Now if we look today, we're talking about moving to Prime,
you'll see there's those sub-components.
So this is what we'll be updating, this whole thing.
So if you collapse that down,
you can see that each of those,
instead of having nine modules,
there'll now be 12 modules.
And then what we'll do is we'll,
each module has a big theme,
like moving to Prime, productivity unleashed,
transformative thinking, innovation, and so on.
And then each of those will have four components
with worksheets.
Is that good?
So what's the point of all this?
What's the vision here?
Let me just reduce all this complexity
to something super simple.
You're the kingdom leader,
and we wanna make you the hero of the story,
by giving you the best upstairs
and the best downstairs practices.
That's the pitch.
Okay, much easier when you make it simple.
Let's get into it.