and just kind of thought process
where he wants me to be focusing on that.
Hey, wait.
Hey, Angela.
Hello.
I didn't know I was unmuted.
Sorry about that.
Angela, do you,
I don't know if you're able to be on camera or not,
but do you, you gotta win,
you gotta win a business or life win, weekend win?
Sure.
I guess a win for me would be
in the building we bought in July,
we turned it into salon suites and it's now fully full.
And I implemented a software called Door Loop
and everybody paid on time
because in salons they pay weekly
and it was pretty frustrating at times,
money coming in from all different ways.
So just streamlining that.
So.
Wow.
One person really complaining about the 99 cent charge
that other than that, we're good.
I, yeah.
Yeah.
That's funny.
You'll get that though.
Yeah.
That's a big accomplishment.
Where are you at again?
Right here, South of Tampa in Apollo Beach.
Okay.
Yeah, I knew you were in, yeah.
Got it.
And our salon is just roughly
eight miles down the road from us.
Nice.
And so during the hurricane,
our house wasn't touched and eight miles down the road,
our new property wasn't touched,
but everything in between was just devastated.
And so it was just a blessing from the Lord.
We put scriptures on the doors
and put anointing oil around the house.
It was, yeah, it was definitely a miracle.
Congrats.
Jeremy, what about you?
What's a win, personal or business?
Yeah, really more ministry than anything,
just feeling more clarity.
I told Miranda the other day,
like I've not had this much clarity and excitement
and anticipation and expectation
for the erection of my life when it comes to ministry
and all that, many, many, many, many years.
So it is beyond like, I can't stop thinking about it,
can't stop talking about it, can't stop reading
and just, it's exciting, it's exciting.
Nice, man, nice.
Kyle, what's a win for you, big guy?
Oh, are you busy?
Sorry, sorry, yeah, no, I'm here.
I just couldn't find, I'm on mute.
So business win, business is always good.
So I brought in like, I don't know,
six or seven new people this week,
like customers and two freaking rock stars.
I mean, but I also, here's a big win,
is I'm also not addicted to them being rock stars.
Even though they built teams of like 500,000,
I'm not even like, not even stuck on that.
So that's just a business win.
Personal win, I would say, since we moved out here,
Elmira, New York, but didn't know
if we were gonna find a church.
We haven't been to the church yet, we're going this Sunday,
but like, you know, just going around to some craft fairs
and just talking to people in the community
and like, this one church just keeps coming in front of me,
coming in front of me and, you know,
so I'm excited that we have a new church
to go to, so that's a big personal win, so.
Man, that's a lot of wins, man.
Congrats.
And Angela, did Paul want to share a win?
I kind of saw him for a second,
or basically if I see you on camera, I ask you about a win.
Hey guys, good evening.
Hey, Paul, how are you?
You know, a win for me would be finding my notebook.
Yeah.
What win would you like to share?
Oh, what win I would like to share.
We're in the process of acquiring a second medical,
second building.
It's a medical building, 25,000 square feet.
And just see what the Lord wants us to do with it.
Nice.
Man, I heard an incredible deal on a medical building.
This was a few months ago.
I'll reach out to my buddy.
I bet it's gone, but man, it was unbelievable.
I mean, I don't do medical buildings,
but it was an unbelievable deal.
Well, if you run into anything like that,
just keep us in mind.
Okay, I will.
Any deals.
yeah awesome lisa how about you what's a win yeah sorry for being unmuted and laughing my head off
i feel like i haven't talked to you in forever it has been forever
life a win well um i moved into you i don't know if you knew this or not i
um have a 12-month lease on a beautiful home leslie we can hear you
oh she's muted so with that um i am finally starting to move in and getting situated and
and i feel like i'm i'm ready to settle into florida and just going on the whole
so i'm starting to feel yeah i guess at home because i haven't felt it
gotcha okay awesome stephanie what's a win for you
um i know this sounds like a small win but i've been traveling a lot so last weekend was the first
weekend i was actually home and i got to like just do regular home things and like decorate my
house for the holidays and i signed up a client for a creative session i guess that's a small win
yeah just little little little wins great awesome all right and last but not least leslie
what's a win business business or personal hi uh i guess it's a bit of both um i was
telling when jessica was on i was telling that i think i got called to send somebody some product
that could not afford it and um was with a narcissist for three years and just got beaten
to hell and and so she's by herself now and she works at a homeless shelter so she lives paycheck
to paycheck and a friend a friend of mine who is a customer of mine was just telling me the story
and i just got the i i felt the nudge so i just sent her um a package of product and
i just got a thank you back in text from her and it made her life so yeah i just it was just
something i think i was told to do and i did it and uh it never nothing ever made me feel that good
nice yeah yeah great so i think that's a win of course absolutely big win awesome
well cool we are excited uh session number two with uh with dion and i'm excited to hear what
he's got to share and so uh you know tonight as i mentioned in the boxer in case you didn't catch it
uh you know dion's going to go through his session and then i'm going to go into two
two uh i mean we call them hot seats they don't have to be that hot um but you know we're gonna
dig into stephanie's business and where she's at and and all all her branding and stuff and i
believe miranda will be joining us uh shortly thereafter so i'm gonna dig into hers that is
i would just encourage you to um you know when i'm doing these things some of the questions that
i'm asking or some of the things that i'm pointing out uh they can apply to you too right so you know
paying attention watching me break down you know someone else's business or you know give them tips
and that you know very well could apply to you too and so you're really um even when i'm not
on you specifically keep a lookout pay attention some of the some of the best advice i've gotten
was when from watching other people give someone else advice and and so you know there should be
should be a great session for us here tonight and so dion how are you feeling what you do
do you have a win oh my goodness yes we've we've got more wins than we know what to do with
we launched a brand new product you know we talk a lot about this uh performance stuff and our team
just knocked out the park last week we launched a brand new product in two days and we did a
presentation on friday and it sold out it like 90 in like two hours nice and you know it wasn't
a big product it was 2k but you know it's in our in our market was a big deal and uh it was it was
a lot of fun yeah so a lot of a lot of wins on our side we're also busy with the three-day planning
for next year with our team so some big ideas so nice we always love it when the lord uh pitches
up with these big ideas yeah amen dion would you say a quick prayer for us before we get started
and then then we can jump into your content absolutely what a delight lord to be doing this
with you thank you lord that you are part of our lives but we're also part of your life
Thank you for your dream that you have for each of us in the business we're in.
Lord, I pray tonight that we would really just zoom in on your heart and to know, Lord, what it means for you
in what we're doing.
Thank you for the kind way, Lord, that you work with us. Thank you for your generous heart. Lord,
we are overwhelmed by your goodness.
Thank you, Lord, for this time together.
We ask that you just teach us directly. You offered us, Lord, to come and learn from you.
So that's what we're doing tonight. We come in anticipation and expectation in Jesus name.
Amen.
Yes, awesome. Awesome. Awesome. So what do you got for us tonight?
Yeah, so,
you know, last month we talked about making peace permanent.
And tonight I want to talk about one of the most powerful weapons,
I think, one of the routines or one of the hacks, if you like,
that as a kingdom leader
gives you a huge advantage that no one else has, and that's called new every morning.
So the idea here is that it's it's keys of lamentations 322,
the steadfast love of the Lord never ceases. His mercies
never come to an end. They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.
You know, one of the things we've seen is as
leaders
start to learn to live this way,
what it comes down to is never allowing a negative to compound from yesterday into today.
Think of what your life would be like if you're able to eradicate negativity.
I'm not saying you can't stop negative things happening in your world, but you can stop them entering your heart.
And, you know, one of the things that God gives us is this powerful way to start fresh every day. It's like,
you know, when you were a kid, maybe you had those Jenga blocks and you built up all the blocks.
So the enemy is building up all this negativity throughout the day.
Then you get there at night, you pull the block out from the bottom, it all collapses.
He has to start over the next morning. Sucks to be him.
So, you know,
what we're doing here is we are looking at this incredible advantage that we get to close out
every single day with him and go to sleep in peace and start in peace.
This is an incredible idea that what if you could start fresh
every single day expecting his goodness.
That you don't extrapolate yesterday's stuff
into today.
Make the enemy start again. Act like you never said anything.
And that's a phenomenal way to live because, you know, this isn't just a mind game.
This is permission from the Lord to do this. His mercies are new
every day. You're doing this with the authority of heaven, with the permission of heaven.
So what the Lord is doing is he's teaching us, each of us, how to live with him
fresh every morning. He's giving you fresh mercy,
fresh grace
every single day. The scripture says goodness and mercy follow me. What does that mean?
It means they're coming up like a grader. They're following up behind you and just catching everything.
God's goodness and mercy will take care of
everything that you've been through.
Even the painful stuff, you know.
He does, he allows us
to or sets us up so that we can be present future with him. The enemy is trying to get you to be present past.
Because all accusation is based on the past.
Right? Remember when you weren't that? Remember that thing you did? You should have, could have.
All accusation is based in the past. And God's view with us is, I have dealt with the past.
Everything, Jesus already paid for all that.
Now you get to be present future and you start fresh with him
every single day. So this idea, new every morning, is really
the art of rest. There's an internal rest. When we say rest,
I think our mind thinks of taking a nap or slowing down or thinking slowly or
kind of being in a, you know, in a sluggish state.
Actually in the kingdom, what rest means is you have found peace with God in your own inner heart.
And what that does is allows you to be high performance
while having this internal rest, this internal peace. Only in the kingdom can we put those two sentences together.
How to be a high performance leader
from rest.
Because what's happening in that situation is that he is the one who restores your soul.
He's the one who's teaching you to think just like Jesus.
He's giving you access to the mind of Christ.
So let me share with us,
let's just run through quickly three keys.
And again, these are the things we're sharing with you
are things that we live.
And we've been teaching other leaders
to do the same over the years.
And so this is not designed to be a sermon,
or theoretical, or some sort of Bible study,
as much as we love all those things.
This is straight from our...
Or more than if you pull fruit out of your life
that's ripe, that you've tested and you hand it to them.
You know, if it's something we just learned last week,
it's like green, we call that green fruit.
That means somebody bites into it
and they go squint because it's sour.
It's like, whoa, this thing needs to be ripened a little bit
this has to be proven in your life.
And what's fun is when you're learning this with the Lord,
and you're also learning the downstairs stuff,
especially a lot of neuroscience
is really catching up, you know, with scripture.
I always think of that old story of, you know,
in the mountain of knowledge,
you have all the scientists, and neuroscientists,
and philosophers, and they're all climbing
and climbing up the mountain of knowledge.
And as they peak over the final crest,
there are a bunch of theologians sitting,
they said, we told you so.
Okay, so that's what we're doing right here.
We're gonna go straight to the source,
we're gonna go straight into God's heart,
straight into the mind of Christ,
and learn from that kingdom advantage,
and live from God, not towards Him.
See, God put you in Christ, but He also put Christ in you.
This is a fascinating idea.
So, you know, one of the things we learn very early on
is we never carry a negative from yesterday into today.
So that's key number one, never allow yesterday's negative
to cross over into today.
Because when we do that, we're actively denying ourselves
the peace and rest that the Lord has already offered to us.
Another way, or kind of way of saying that is,
stress and worry and negativity are not required.
They're unnecessary when so much peace and rest
is available.
You see, if we knew how much peace and rest was available,
we would realize this is entirely unnecessary.
You know, in my own journey in understanding this,
it really bothered me,
why is it that I latch on to the negative so deeply?
And I came across a neuroscientist
by the name of Dr. Rick Hansen.
And what he did is he discovered that the human brain
has a natural negativity bias.
And what it will do is it will internalize
negative experiences more deeply than positive ones.
So according to Dr. Hansen, the brain is like Velcro,
all the negatives stick.
And the brain is like Velcro for negatives,
and it's like Teflon for positives.
So the positive just slide right off,
the negatives stick.
Now here's the interesting thing,
when we come to Christ, God reverses that process.
What he wants is his goodness to stick.
That's why he says,
remember all the things God has done for you.
That's why we keep the testimony.
That's why we remind ourselves of God's goodness
and faithfulness.
That's why we worship.
That's why we give thanks.
All that is to train our minds to stick,
to get the goodness of God, the positives to stick.
So we flip it around.
So now Velcro is what we capture God's goodness
and we get it to stick.
You know, there used to be a saying
until Hansen's research.
They used to say that at the end of each day,
you know, you needed about five positive things
to offset one negative.
Anybody ever heard that?
Yeah, none of that's actually true.
In fact, they showed that you can have
20 positive things happen and one negative,
guess what you'd remember at the end of the day?
The one negative, because it's what's stuck.
And that's why he came up with this Velcro Teflon analogy,
because it showed that if any, even one negative,
doesn't matter almost how many positives happened,
it just like downplayed all the good things
that happened to you.
Well, that is how the world taught us.
That's a downstairs way.
So think about the analogy he uses,
which is quite helpful.
Is he saying, it's not that you're bad
or that your mind's bad.
It's your mind's just trying to protect you.
So of course, you know, I am originally from South Africa
and my family used to own a game farm.
And you know, we'd had wild animals.
And so if you go walking in the bush
and you heard a...
there in the in the leaves and the trees you're thinking is that a lion or is
that the wind. Guess what you're gonna go with? You're gonna go with the most
negative reason right? Because that's the safest reason. Because if I think it's
the wind and it turns out to be a lion that's not a good day. But if I think
it's a lion but it just turns out to be the wind no biggie. So the brain in the
downstairs is designed to exaggerate negative, to overstate a threat, to make
it seem much larger because the brain is trying to protect you. That's what your
brain is trying to do. But the scripture says we get to renew our minds and we
take on the mind of Christ. Because now we know that we are kept by the Lord. You
are hidden with Christ in God. He is your protection. He is with you. So in
this situation now what's happening is now the scripture teaches us, not why it
makes so much sense, rejoice in the Lord always. And again I say rejoice. And so
what the scripture is teaching us is that we're we're teaching our minds to
velcro the positive, to velcro God's goodness, to velcro and to become
completely confident. You know the Lord is relentless about you believing that
he is continuously good towards you. He's going to relentlessly pursue you until
you believe that completely and without any hesitation. And the scripture goes a
step further and says and by the way not only are you teaching your mind to
do the velcro of the positive and Teflon the negative, in fact the Bible gives us
and calls this a powerful weapon. In 2 Corinthians 10 verses 5 the scripture
says for we, not the Lord, we demolish strongholds and arguments and every
pretension, what's a pretension? Something pretending to be true that
isn't, and sets itself up against the knowledge of God. And what do we do? We
take captive every thought and make it obedient to Christ. So in other words we
go this is where we get this idea from that we don't have to live internally
with negatives. And so what religion tries to teach us is it tries to teach
us to stop one thing and start another. Stop sinning, start living right. Stop
doing this, start doing that. That is an old covenant idea. In the new covenant
God doesn't work on the stop-start mechanism. He works on the replacement
mechanism. He crushed and destroyed your old nature in Christ. The old man is dead
and he replaced it with a new man. And so what God is saying to you is we work on
replacement. So that's why he just tells you to rejoice when he says and then the
peace of Christ will guard your heart and mind. So Philippians 4. So what
the Lord is teaching us is there is a different way to live. Because whatever
the mind captures it will speculate on. If you're in the downstairs old way
you'll capture the negative and then you'll speculate on the negative and
you'll anticipate and expect the worst. I'm just waiting for the other shoe to
drop. It's going too well. Something's about to happen. This seems to be too
good to be true. That's all the old thinking talking there. That's the old
person which actually scripture says you can consider it dead. You're dead to sin
alive to God. You're a new creation of the oldest past the new has come. So
actually you're dead to negativity. God gives you permission to say so and to
take a captive. Now if you speculate, if your mind captures God's goodness you'll
speculate on that. You'll speculate on God's goodness. Lord I wonder what you're
up to. Lord what does the situation mean for our relationship? Oh I know you. You're
gonna turn this to my good aren't you? I know it looks pretty bad downstairs. You
know all these demands. This is pretty bad but I know you Lord. I know what
you're like. You're up to something. Something good. Because all things work
together for the good of them that love God and are called according to his
purpose. So we work on this exchange mechanism. God is constantly doing this
exchange. So you know it even comes down to every day setting up this expectation
of his goodness. So when we start fresh every morning what we're doing
is we're saying today I expect your goodness in my life, Lord.
In fact, the more that expectation raises every single day,
you'll get to the point that you can only ever
be overwhelmed by His goodness.
Look, you're gonna be overwhelmed by something,
either by your circumstances or by God's goodness, you pick.
And that's got to do with the Velcro Teflon mechanism.
So when your mind starts to capture and treasure
God's goodness, His nature, His goodness, His kindness.
You know, I had a friend and he lost his wife.
They had two kids, 10 and 12, he lost her to cancer.
And he was in another country.
The Lord told me to go and see him.
So I literally flew to, you know, went overseas,
met with him, and he was, I mean, as one would expect.
And the Lord gave me a question.
I said, Lord, I don't want to ask him that question.
That's a terrible question.
And, but you know, we had 30 years of friendship and history.
So, you know, like they say, you can drive 10 tons
of truth over a 10 ton relational bridge.
Well, we had a 50 ton relational bridge.
So with a kindest tone, I knew how.
I asked him a question and I said to him,
John, let me ask you a question.
Would you agree that if we can find one instance
in all of humanity where God was not good
to one person, one time, then would you agree
then God is not perfectly good?
And he said, I agree.
And I said, well, if God is not perfectly good,
then he's not God.
And then we're all done.
And the question is, are you that guy?
And I said, we're in the middle of,
you're in the middle of a terrible situation
and you have all our compassion and love and support,
but there's God's goodness hasn't moved.
Do I understand the situation?
No.
Do I have an answer for you?
No.
But what I do know is that God is relentlessly good.
At some point in your walk with Jesus,
you have to come to settle this issue
that God is good to you.
And, you know, a lot of people would theoretically agree
that God is good, but maybe not to me.
And so the Lord in his kindness is teaching us
how to walk with him.
He's showing us how he wants to be with us
every single day.
And so what happens is,
first you start teaching this Velcro of goodness,
you start Velcroing all the goodness,
you start remembering him, you start thanking him.
And you know there's bad stuff going on,
but you also know that he's with you in it.
So Jesus had a solution for that.
You wanna know how Jesus thinks about problems?
You will have trouble in this world,
but he has the advice from the mind of Christ,
be of good cheer, for I have overcome the world.
You're not happy because bad stuff's happening,
you're happy because the overcomer is with you in it.
You know that Jesus never lost a fight, right?
And that's what we're gonna learn in business.
We're gonna learn what's it like to be with Jesus,
to be with us in a fight.
So we don't take our problems from yesterday
into a new day.
There's no requirement in the kingdom
to accumulate negativity.
You know in the world,
we show that we're taking our job seriously
by how stressed we are, our busyness,
that frown on our face, man I'm just so booked,
I'm just go, go, go.
That shows that man, we're like all in,
we're driving the car's gears into the red,
in every gear like,
if you know when you drive a stick shift
and it's into every gears in the red,
look at me, I'm just maxing it out,
you know I'm giving everything to God.
I'm just burning out for Jesus,
you know all that stuff.
But God calls us not to that,
he calls us to start every day in rest,
and start every day in peace,
and start fresh every single day.
He divided your entire life up into these day size chunks,
and it's amazing because what happens is,
your brain starts to,
you see your heart will train your mind.
So your heart says to your mind,
this is what we believe.
Remember your mind's just trying to teach you,
but your job's to renew it.
So you say this is what we believe,
we know God is good,
so Father I thank you that you're with me in it.
Show me how you wanna be with me today.
So that leads me to key number two,
start each day with an expectation of his goodness.
I'm laughing because I'm setting you up,
and I'm setting you up.
Because you'll start off expecting his goodness and then it will slowly get higher and higher and higher
And then you'll just get to a point you just become overwhelmed with his goodness
There are days
That the lord does stuff and then while i'm still being a little overwhelmed by that goodness
He hits me with another one and another one and then I just sit there and cry because it's just he's just that good
He's just so
You're so kind lord
And I love the way psalm 92 puts it
verses one and two
It is good to give thanks to the lord and here it comes to declare
His loving kindness in the morning lord. I know you love me. I know you're with me today
I know you're going with me. I know we got that big deal. We've got that difficult situation to deal with etc, etc
But I know you are with me and then it says and then you thank him for his faithfulness at night
So look at the bookends here start fresh in the morning
Go to sleep at night now. I do a little routine. This isn't particularly a biblical thing
It's just a thing that really works for me. And this is my routine
At night when i'm trying to go to bed
Do any of you have that thing where your brain just comes alive and it's like two in the morning and you're still
brain still on fire
so, yeah
I've learned that slowly I hand off one thing at a time to the lord just like a basket, you know
And I imagine i've got like a basket of tennis balls all my stuff and I just hand them off
And when we're finished then the lord told me don't just hand them to me cast your cares on him because he cares for you
More than that. Why don't you ask me to work on these problems ask the holy spirit?
Would you work on these problems and when I wake up, can you just hand me hand me the answer?
Hey guys, try this. This is so much fun. If you want to exaggerate god's goodness to you
He's been good to you while you're sleeping. I mean, how good is that?
He's good to you while you're sleeping
You know david said in psalm 27 verse 13, he said I would have despaired
You know, he said if if he said if he thought about it, he would have just surrendered his whole identity to despair
It was just so overwhelming. Hey, i've been there. I'm sure you have
He was literally on the edge of giving up but instead he chose to believe
In the goodness
Of the lord in the land of the living that means right here right now
That's what the land of the living means because he was complaining. Maybe i'm dead then I can experience god's goodness. Just go to heaven
You know, I think sometimes we got people we'd like to just kill and send them off to jesus mail them to jesus
Let jesus deal with them, you know
So sometimes we would do that for ourselves
But here's what i'm saying is god's goodness will become a rock and a foundation of your leadership
God's goodness, you'll start to presume
On god's goodness. There's this weird teaching in theology that you mustn't be presumptuous
Sorry, I have to laugh. It's such a funny idea
It's like if my kid came to me was presumptuous about my goodness. Would I be offended by that?
What kind of good father do you think I am? I'm much harsher and worse than that
I mean, what would I say to my own child, you know?
Now if my child asked for something that was
You know unrealistic, you know, he's five dead. Can I have a ferrari?
I love that you think you can ask for that. But no, you can't have a ferrari at least not now
So I love that god, you know the way david
Graham rather says it is when god grants you something
He expects you to take him for granted
And
So that's what this whole goodness in the morning thing is all about you see god is teaching you
He's teaching us to live one day at a time with him
Starting fresh every day and that expectation of goodness slowly grows
And it and it gains momentum
You know why?
Because goodness is designed to overwhelm every fear
Goodness is designed to promote peace in you
Goodness is designed to release the peace of god in you the peace of christ
Which is a ruling power, which we learned last month that protects your heart and mind
And what happens when we start to become when we start to velcro god's goodness
We start to become present to his presence. We know he never leaves us nor forsakes us
But sometimes we don't feel his presence
Because we've been practicing we haven't been practicing to be present to his presence
So that's what he's teaching us every day start fresh
and
Now you're thinking well, nothing can work against me now because i'm available to god's presence, you know
If you were to net out all theology
Good theology all good theology is basically just jesus being with him and being aware of his presence
Jesus is perfect theology
You know, it's even if you have a harsh
business partner, harsh, weird customer, harsh boss, you're starting fresh every
day, means they have to start all over again with you. Think about, think about
that for a minute, just how powerful that actually is. Because difficult people,
tough circumstances, are a beautiful way of practicing His kindness in us. Because
when we do this, we're practicing His kindness to ourselves and to others. When
we respond in the opposite spirit, which we'll learn in a few months time
together, what we're gonna learn is that goodness isn't just for us, we're meant
to host the presence of His presence. And so the whole atmosphere around us, people
love to be around us. People love to do business with you. So we're just learning
to relax in God's love. That's what we're doing every single day. Okay, let me get
to key number three. Key number three that you learn as you are Teflon-ing
the negative, Valkyrie-ing the positive, Valkyrie-ing God's goodness, is God's
nature is a ruling power. Everything in the kingdom starts in God's nature. It
doesn't start with you. It doesn't start with your faithfulness. It starts with
His faithfulness. It doesn't start with your behavior. It starts with Jesus
perfect behavior on your behalf. Think of it this way. Jesus is the nuclear
reactor in you. Christ in you. He's the source of power. He's the
source of heaven's favor. All of heaven is attracted to Jesus in you. He is the
nuclear reactor in you. You know, a nuclear reactor can power, you know,
those nuclear submarines. They can be down under the waterfall months and
months at a time, sometimes years. This is Jesus in you, the nuclear power. Jesus
contains all the goodness of God, His full nature and all of heaven. So favor,
peace, joy, name it. You got it because Christ is in you and you are in Christ.
So being in Christ means, right, you being in Christ means you have exactly the
same relationship with the Father that Jesus has. Exactly the same. See, what
worked for Jesus on earth was designed to work for you. Jesus came to do
everything the Father asked Him to do. Yes, He came to die for our sin. Yes, He
came to be the sacrificial lamb. But He also came to show us what a man walking
with the Father looks like. That's what He came to show us. He wasn't God
pretending to be a man. He really laid down His divinity and He took all the
constraints of man so He knows exactly what we're going through. And I love
that. So, you know, this idea of knowing God's heart, knowing what God is like at
every time, every stage of when you're going through different things in your
life is an essential part of learning to walk with Him. This is where the
spirit of truth and revelation comes and makes it known to you. This is how what
the Father is like. Now, one of the big questions we get in our ministry here at
Brilliant is really, what is God really like? No, no, no, no. What is God really,
really, really like? Because people have been confused by some teaching. And what
we learn very quickly is He's perfect love, perfect goodness. And you know that
He never changes towards you, never changes. He's with you in the same way on
your worst days as your best day. He doesn't change. One, He doesn't live out
inside of time. So He's not, He doesn't have that constraint at all. So let's
talk about a couple of simple things of how do we just live from God's heart, not
towards it. And the Bible calls this a good old English word called abiding. It
means stay where God puts you. God puts you in Christ, stay there, abide, stay,
don't move. You know, I don't know how many of you are dog lovers, but I've had
many dogs and I got very into training dogs and I got into, you know, Cesar
Milan and the whole dog whisperer thing. And I was just fascinated by that guy
because I think he's a genius. And just the way he could tell the dog to stay
and the dog would just sit there. And I thought, I want my I want my I want to be
like that. You know, I feel like the Lord put me in Jesus. It's stay. No, no,
stay, stay.
you know and it's and so god isn't trying to get you somewhere i think a lot of us think
god is trying to talk us out of stuff don't do this don't do that don't do the next thing
actually he's trying to talk you into stuff be this hey if i didn't withhold my own son how much
more will i not give you all things when you abide in love fear is no longer a problem if you're
suffering from fear don't try and stop fearing to exchange it perfect love casts out fear
god isn't dealing with our anxiety he's dealing with our peace he always deals with the opposite
to deal with that thing it's not that he doesn't care about that thing but the way he does it he
does it through a replacement mechanism he doesn't try and stop something to start something so
so okay well here's a simple thing i've learned to ask out two questions this has really helped me
one of the things we love to promote is to teach people how to ask god great questions
he loves great questions by the way and if he doesn't answer that question ask him another
one he does like he will answer if he doesn't ask you know if he doesn't answer immediately
he does answer eventually so here's two questions i love to ask the lord father
what does this situation mean for our relationship
number two lord how do you intend to prosper me through this situation
and it's almost always something about some gift he's giving me
so here's a little one-line prayer so father for the next 24 hours i accept the honor
of being one with you in all things simple beautiful prayer i accept the honor of being
one with you in all things you know sometimes we act like we're on our own this comes from religion
that taught us to do things for god not with him that's why we try to pray for to god instead of
with god we'll talk about that in in a few months to come but here's what it is you are one with
him he looks at you you know and he calls you by name and he says hey stephanie you know you and i
are one right lisa you know you and i are one right leslie you know you and i are one rebecca
you and i are one he he looks at each of you and he says you and i are one your response is
father i accept that honor that in all things we are one for the next 24 hours you know you
don't have to do that for 24 hours and then start fresh the next day and the next and the next and
the next what can the enemy do with a kingdom leader who lives like that you are you are unstoppable
in the kingdom you're acting on all of heaven's resources you're presuming on the goodness of god
and nothing can stop you and suddenly it makes sense all things are possible so with god
everything's possible every situation you come into contact with god is already attached
a possibility based on his goodness he's already attached to that problem to that situation
it is not a single possibility god withholds from you not one okay let's chat a bit
yeah right far away i wasn't watching the chat but i did see a lot of stuff going on
yeah super super powerful um i've definitely experienced that multiple times where
i gave my uh concern issue whatever we call it at night and then in the morning had a
brilliant solution or just a different way of looking at it um just really really powerful
i want to make sure before we move into the hot seats which will be mainly me um any questions
for dion on either what he talked about here tonight or or any questions in general
um take advantage while uh while we got him on here
so if you can just either raise your hand digitally or or physically if we can see it
all right don't be shy he's quite nice
that's so funny i tell you guys i i'm coming to a point where um
i think i may have shared this last week last month but i want i want to just feel proud by
the lord to share it again with you um graham shared a story with me once about his own journey
with the lord and because of where i was at at the time maybe this is for one of you or more than one
i just i just was really grateful
going through a tough time.
Just like challenge after challenge after challenge
was really, really, really tough time.
And at the round of time that I'd lost my business
and I told my story before in 2018.
And you know, when you've worked for 30 something years
and you hit that, that's like a wall.
And one day, because of the question Graham
felt the Lord asked him, the Lord started asking me.
And the question was, Dion, what will it
take for you to believe that I am relentlessly
magnificent towards you?
You know, I thought I would just be able to answer that.
A couple of weeks later, I just couldn't answer it.
In fact, for about a year afterwards,
I couldn't repeat the question without, you know,
because the sheer emotion of that.
I realized what that question flushed out in me
is that I'd felt very alone, even as a pastor,
as a spiritual leader, as a teacher, as a CEO.
I felt alone.
I felt that if everything went well, I gave God the glory.
But if it went badly, then I was the bad egg.
Then it was me.
I was the problem.
And the Lord said, do you think I'm that kind of a father,
that I walk away from you when things are bad?
That's when I'm the closest.
That's when I'm with you the most.
That's when I'm taking care of you.
I'm commanding my angels.
And about 2 o'clock the next morning,
after asking me that question, I woke up.
And I haven't shared this story, I don't think, before.
And there was a definite sense of angelic presence.
I love the guys who do.
I've always wanted to, but I was just not that.
I don't know why.
I've been in meetings.
People go, look at the angels.
And all I see is the chandelier.
You know, it's like, great.
And I believe them.
I just, you know, I could sense them.
But this time, it's almost like it was tangible.
I could see the one standing over there, one over there.
They were huge.
I mean, they were like, they were really tall.
They were really big.
And I felt this.
And the Lord said, I'm just making you aware.
This is just one tiny part of my resource
I've deployed on your behalf to show my goodness to you.
So let's go to Lisa and then Rebecca.
Yeah.
Do you want to run the questions, Ray?
Yep.
Lisa, fire away.
OK.
I have met a new friend who is challenging me from scripture.
So if you can give me scriptures and or responses,
I'm not as good as Ray.
But I guess this is God's pushing.
Couple of questions.
Is there hellfire?
I mean, I guess I want to call it hell,
because there's those fire and brimstone preachers
that I've actually heard before.
And if there is, can God truly put people
into the fire forever?
That's a big question.
But short answer is, well, short answer,
the scripture does speak about a place of separation from God.
Secondly, nowhere does it say God, quote, puts them there.
They put themselves there through choice.
So what happens is the scripture says,
it is God's will that all men be saved.
But not all men are saved.
Same as it's God's will that all men be healed.
Not all men are healed.
Now, he's made provision for them all to be healed.
By stripes we are healed.
Jesus' blood, he died for the sin of mankind.
He reconciled mankind back to himself.
That's 2 Corinthians 5, 17 through 21,
since those are the scriptures you were looking for.
And in that scriptures, we are in anyone who's in Christ
is a new creation.
The oldest past, the newest come.
And then he says, all this is from God,
who has fully reconciled us to himself.
And he's reconciled the world in Christ.
So anyone who accepts Christ, and now,
what about people who don't hear Christ?
Then the scripture backs that up with,
well, not the righteous judge of all the earth
judge correctly.
Only the Lord can be the judge of the heart.
And then there's a lot of theological views
about there are degrees of hell.
I mean, they're not all just, it's not like a digital on
or off switch.
There are different levels of separation from God.
Separation, the world has never known
what it's like without love.
Because the spirit of love has always been in the world.
Speaking of the Holy Spirit, the spirit of revelation,
of wisdom, of goodness, the Lord has presided over man.
So let me give you a theological thing
that isn't that popular.
It's this idea that God is in control.
If God was in control, you'd have no free will.
God is in charge, ultimately, and His purposes are ultimately in charge, for sure, and He's
in control of heaven.
But He's chosen and bound Himself to the idea of a free-will being choosing Him.
Now you can tell we're in control, look, turn on the news and you can tell we're in control.
It's a complete zoo.
Now the Kingdom is meant to bring the power and to bring restoration to the world, healing,
justice, fixing societal issues, bringing goodness of heaven.
That's why we pray our job is to bring heaven to us, that's our job, in partnership with
the Lord.
We don't do it for Him, we do it with Him.
That means He has a dream for our city.
That means He has a dream for your church, He has a dream for your business, He has a
dream for your life.
So when you answer the hell question, make sure you swing it out fully back into the
heart and nature of God.
He has a hack, a quick hack, when you answer any theological question, start in God's heart
and work from there.
Don't let them talk you into theory.
Just start in God's heart.
Is He good?
Is He kind?
Is He patient?
Because if God vacillates and treats us depending on our behavior, then He's almost always in
a bad mood.
Why wouldn't He be, right?
But then it means He didn't deal with sin.
But He did.
And God isn't dealing with sin anymore.
He dealt with that in Jesus.
Now He's dealing with righteousness and goodness and kindness.
People are terrified about this.
Well, if you tell people that sin's not an issue, oh, sin was a huge issue, it cost Jesus
His life.
But now it's dealt with, if you're in Christ.
Not dealt with if you're not in Christ.
So easy.
And that's the compassion that makes us share Christ at every opportunity, right?
Why would we not want Him to live there?
That was a very short question to a very complex answer.
I have short answer to a very complex question.
I'll give you just two additional things.
Agree with everything that he said.
So imagine someone that says, hey, I know you used all of your free will to stay away
from me, but you're sticking with me for eternity, whether you like it or not.
That's kind of strange, you know?
And number two is, I find it really fascinating if you listen to some of the near-death experience,
you know, NDE experiences, and you'll have atheists that have, there's no benefit to
them saying this, because it kind of makes them look bad, you know, in a way.
I forget where this was, but he was an atheist, died on the table, saw his body, could describe
things that you shouldn't be able to describe, and he had this experience where these negative
things were pulling him down the corridor, and it was dark and scary, and they were pulling
him and pushing him and fighting him and everything, and he just called out for Jesus.
He's an atheist, right?
And Jesus shows up and he has an encounter.
And so I wouldn't have that as a lifeguard or a life preserver of, hey, well, if I die,
you know, I'll probably get to talk to, you know, like I would turn to him sooner.
But it's, you know, if someone uses all of their free will to stay away from him, it
just seems strange that he would say, you're in eternity with me, whether you like it or
not, buster.
And but also there's some very interesting near-death experiences, too.
Thank you.
Rebecca?
I'm over here getting all excited because it's getting juicy in here, and I love this
so much.
Just two real quick things, Dion, I love the language that you talked about, because, you
know, we're invited to come boldly to the throne of grace, right?
You're using bold language, like I had to write that down.
Lord, how do you intend to prosper me in this?
I'm going to use that, and I'm so excited about it.
And then you started talking about free will, which to me speaks of the heart of God, because
even the angels have free will.
If they could choose and fall away, even they weren't made to be robots.
So I'm here for this conversation.
Yeah, that, you know, Rebecca, you can take it a step further, is that think of what a
promise is.
Why does God give us promises?
There's the general promise of scripture, which we can read and accept for ourselves,
but then there's the ones he gives you specifically, that he highlights to you, either in the scriptures
or prophetic word or whatever, but there's way he talks to you and gives you specifically.
specific promises, they are His word of honor to you,
so that you have a place to stand when things get tough.
See, He's preparing you, gives you promises
to anchor you in His heart
when things are gonna come against you,
but also so that in those moments that you are thriving,
that you are,
you're enjoying it as much as He is.
We don't have a theology of God's happiness
and that He laughs and that He tells jokes
and that He's playful.
And He's a tease and He will play
and He's just unbelievable fun to be with.
He's the most amazing person to hang out with, you know?
So I woke up one morning, a couple of years ago,
I wrote this in my book in Wired,
I think it's on my shelf here somewhere
on my shoulder, this side.
And I woke up one morning, I was just discouraged
and I was tired and I didn't sleep well.
And I said to the Lord,
Lord, can you just help me with this?
The Lord said, I have the perfect sermon for you.
I said, oh, that's fantastic.
Where should I go?
So He says, go to this website.
And then I go, hang on a second,
that's our church website.
And I went down, the Lord said, go to that week.
And it was my sermon.
So the Lord, so I said, you're messing with me, right?
And I heard Him just laugh.
It's just that kind laughter thing.
So He said, no, no, listen to it.
And while I'm listening to myself preach,
I preached myself happy.
And so I'm listening to this and then I hear Him
in the background going, great point,
such a brilliant, what insight.
And He's kind of teasing me, but He's also encouraging me.
He's so playful.
And of course, I was completely in a different
state of mind.
So I think the point is He binds Himself to you
with promises to give you a safe place to stand.
And I think that having done all to stand, stand.
That's why faith and, sorry, patience and faith
go together in inheritance.
So He sets you up for success all the time.
He's ahead of the game.
It's not like He's not paying attention.
He's a bit dozy and then you run into a problem
and He looks and goes, okay, so what do you want then?
I don't know why, what we think the Father is like.
No, no, He's well ahead.
He's well ahead of the game.
And so He's gone before you and prepared every good work
that you should walk in them.
I love that.
How kind is that?
Quite a few times I've been either,
not usually a sermon, but quite a few times
I've been coaching someone usually.
I'm coaching someone and I'll get, yeah, that's for you too.
It was like, hey, you listen to yourself here.
I'm like, okay, got it.
I love it when the Lord speaks through you
and then it's so great.
Do you want to take notes from what you just said?
Yes, yes.
Let's go to Angela.
Angela or Paul, I'm sure.
Or Paul, yeah.
Hey guys.
Hey.
Can you hear me?
Yes.
We can, yeah.
No, so I know, we sing the song,
His goodness is running after, running after me.
And so, we hear that, but we don't,
what I'm hearing now is like,
we don't really many times expect that
because if we did, we would be speaking
like you're speaking now.
Like, how is this, how are you gonna prosper me in this?
So is that where a double-minded man
receives nothing from the Lord comes in?
So the doubt, wow, what a great question, firstly.
Yes, short answer.
Longer answer is that when we try to,
there's only two types of righteousness.
There's self-righteousness
and the gift of righteousness from Jesus.
When we act in self-righteousness,
that's where we think our effort is earning us
or bringing us something.
And this comes from, this is an orphan spirit
that's trying to win God's love and favor
and try to dial it in.
What a son or daughter of the king does
is they know I am the beloved.
I am fully loved, I'm fully forgiven.
He loves me, oh, how he loves me.
And in that place, I now have an expectation
of my kind father who's with me.
And so what I'm doing is I'm prescribing to him
and I'm inferring his goodness
by the things I'm asking for.
Just think of a child.
Imagine if you had a three or five-year-old kid
and said, it's Christmas time, right?
And your kid came and said, dad, dad, for Christmas.
Big thing, big thing, but just.
hear me out, just hear me out. Can I have a burger for Christmas? And you go, what? Oh,
oh, no, no, sorry, because they think you're being upset. Okay, you can leave the can leave
off the bun and then just the one dry piece of dry bread. That'll be fine. That'll be fine.
What what would you feel? What would you feel as a parent in that moment?
You'd be thinking, what have I been as a parent that makes my child ask me that?
When we ask God too little, we're inferring something about his nature.
Aren't we? So the double mindedness comes, we don't know that he's good.
That's why the scriptures every perfect gift comes from the Father above.
Or if you'd lack wisdom, that he lacks wisdom, ask of God, and he gives generously to all he
asks. And what's the last phrase? Do not doubt finding fault. What's that bit about? What is
that? Because when he gives you wisdom, you'll see your own foolishness, then you're not allowed
to find fault with yourself, because he doesn't find fault with you. What if God doesn't see
anything that's wrong with you just sees what's missing of his goodness. Because everything that
was wrong with you was put on the cross in Jesus. So that self help fix me get myself right with God
thing, acts as though Jesus didn't do a full job at the cross. It wasn't somehow there's some
performance on my part that's going to make up the shortfall. You know, because Jesus kind of half
goofed up on the whole thing. And so I'm going to just help out. That's the double mindedness.
When we infer something into his nature that isn't true. He's very gracious with us. So that's
why he says the reason you don't receive is because the person you're talking to isn't in the room.
God's like, I don't know who you're asking, but that isn't me.
So yes, double minded. So back to goodness, God's goodness follows you because he sweeps up behind
you. And sometimes, you know, goodness and mercy are following you, you might just need to slow
down long enough for it to catch up. You know, so yeah. Paul had a quick question.
Yeah, yeah. That was fabulous. You did a great job. Thank you. I got a question though.
We're talking about not letting negative thoughts or actions or whatever impact us
the next day. What what happens? What metaphor happens that we call the next day? And what I
mean by that is, I've got a system in place where when something negative happens, or I'm really
overwhelmed, I go to sleep for three hours, I take a nap. And when I wake up, I'm refreshed,
and I see things differently. So what, what, what, I'm just thinking, what, why do you have to wait
to the next day? You know, in all the decades, we've been teaching this, you're the first person
to come up with that idea. And I think it's genius. I think it's fantastic. Yeah, I think I
might steal that idea, if you don't mind. No, please, please do by all means. I mean, it's, it's,
look, you've got to exaggerate. I will say one, one thing, just just my take that I wouldn't do
is I wouldn't go to sleep at night, negative. And that's Ephesians 426 27, right? Be angry,
but do not send don't let the sun go down or your anger unless you give the devil a foothold.
And so if I if I feel any kind of, you know, we talk a lot about thoughts, but any kind of emotion
of negativity or anything, I'm definitely turn that over to the Lord before before I go to bed
for the night. Right. So nothing, nothing, there's a scripture in Job 33, I forget the exact verse,
but it talks about in the night, the deep sleep God sifts through your spirit, and he stops your
foot from falling in the pit. God is setting you up for success the next day. Now, the idea of
taking a nap, we're just slowing it all down. To me, the nap part is, it's not so much using the
mercies on you every morning as much as it is. It's putting it's it's slowing down for goodness
and mercy to catch up. And I think for some time, that's what all we have to do. We just need to
stop for a minute. And, you know, there are different degrees of rest, right? So you can,
you can be, you can come to peace, then you can come to a complete rest. And then you can move
become completely still. And all you know, in that moment is that he is God be still and know.
that I am God, there can become a point of such stillness that the only thing you're thinking,
the only thing you know in that moment is that He's God. If you're under tremendous pressure,
that for me is my go-to. That's what I retreat into God's heart, and I get into that place of
deep stillness and quiet. And, but yeah, no, I laughed at your idea because I thought that was
clever. Yeah, that's very creative. So we'll jump with Dawn. And so I have her and then we'll move
into the hot seats. Yeah. Thank you. I'm super grateful that this is recorded. And because I've
just been overwhelmed with just such goodness from everything you've shared, just, and the whole
concept that I had never heard before until I heard you speak at the live event was upstairs
God's kingdom thinking versus downstairs thinking. And I have been really reflecting on that day
after day because I just realized how easy it is to shift into downstairs thinking and that it's
around you constantly, other people's ideas and thinking and thoughts and how it's not God's
thoughts, you know. And so do you have, do you have anything that you, you know, I don't even know how
to ask the question, but that you can, that you just use if you like feel like, hmm, where am I
really aligning here, you know, with, with his mind? Yeah, let's go straight to that. You know, it's about
a relationship. And the word we use internally here is relational engagement and direct learning,
because that's what Jesus offered us in Matthew 11, come to me, all your weary and heavy laden,
and I will give you rest. So rest is a gift. Then he says, take my yoke, my partnership, let me bind
myself to you. Let's walk together. Let's pull, yoke pulls a load. And then he said, and learn from me,
for I'm, I'm gentle and humble of heart, and you will find rest for your soul. And then he said,
because my yoke is easy and my burden is light. So there's a lightness to kingdom leadership.
There's a feeling of a certain ease, high productivity, you're pulling a massive load.
Why? Because he's pulling with you, but he can pull a load. Right? So what we're talking about
here, Don, is making every single thing relational. See, this is called relational theology.
This is not academic theology. This is about making it relational with Jesus. In other words,
ask him questions. So one, so there's a couple of great questions.
One of them is, you know, Father, if you're looking through my eyes, what do you see?
Another question could be, so Lord, you've already been to my future.
And now that I'm arriving in it, where do you want me to focus? You know, what's the upgrade
for me? You see what I'm doing in all of these cases? I'm presuming on his goodness. Did you
notice that all of them? I didn't question, Lord, would you be good to me? Lord, would you be your
favor? You have all the favor of heaven, because you're in Christ. Because you say, well, I don't
deserve it. Well, Jesus deserves for you to be blessed, because he paid for that. Right?
Jesus deserves for you to have the same fullness with the Father that he had on earth and that he
has now. So you're included in Christ. That's the most amazing thing. So make it relational.
Talk to him and develop that conversational relationship and get to see how he thinks.
Get him to tell you how he sees things. That's mind boggling how the Lord will see things. I mean,
he takes some practice to learn that mode. But that is God didn't invite us to learn about him.
He invited us to learn from him and learn from me, not learn about me.
Yeah, I get that. It was. Yeah. And when you talked earlier, I don't remember who said it,
but it's like thinking that we can add something to what Christ can do. I heard somebody once say,
that's like being in a jet going Mach three or whatever, Mach one. And
saying, I don't know, God, I'm going to get out and help, I'm going to push, you know.
It's so preposterous, that, you know.
Pushing the seat in front of you, yeah, to help.
Yeah.
Exactly.
Because we're going to help God.
I think here's the thing, when you cross over, and that's what we're going to do month after
month together on this Mastermind, we're going to keep relentlessly going after this until
you permanently cross into a space where you come to peace with God.
And now, when you relax with Him, when you relax with Him, and you know that you are
fully accepted in the Beloved, you're fully loved, then what's your relationship going
to be about?
It stops being about who you're not, and starts to become about who He is, and who you're
becoming in Him.
That's a very different relationship.
I kind of got that experience this last week.
I've had pneumonia, and asked for healing, and I believe God is healing me in His time.
And but it was a really crazy, busy week.
My book launched, and I had a lot of ideas of what I was going to be doing.
But I just, it was like, I just knew God had a better way, a better plan, a better
time, a better approach, you know, and He was still handling everything and allowing
me to rest.
And that was, it was really the coolest thing, because normally I would be feeling like,
come on, come on, you know, but here I still am.
So thank you so much.
Yeah, no, thank you for sharing.
Great.
We went a bit over there, but yeah, yeah, well, thanks.
Thanks for all that, Dion.
That was amazing.
I know we're, we're greatly blessed by what you're sharing.
And we appreciate you, man.
We appreciate you.
So we're going to move into the hot seats.
I'm going to jump off, guys, and what a pleasure to be with you guys, and we will see you next
month.
Bless you.
All right.
Later, bro.
So what a, what a unique mastermind, right?
It really is faith in finance, right?
Because now we're going to get into going over your marketing and taking a look.
And so we'll start with Stephanie, you want to hop on out?
And then, Steph, what, let me, let me just pray on where we should start.
Okay.
All right.
How are you doing today?
I'm doing all right.
You look nervous.
I'm just going through it over here.
Okay.
All right.
So one second.
So let's start with what are your, because I'll ask for what context we need.
Let's start with your outward facing assets.
And so is that website, is that, you know, what, what is, what gets the most traffic
right now or where, where are people mainly finding you, if not by referral, like, what
does that look like?
And if you, if you have links, just post them in the, in the thing and I'll, I'll share
my screen so I can scroll.
Okay.
So I, that is my predicament right now.
I have a website and my business has been based on referrals for the past 14 years and
I have not, I don't have an, I don't have an email list.
So what's the website?
Show me the website.
Here.
Do you have me?
Here's the link.
Yeah.
Okay.
Share my screen.
Okay.
Right.
Okay.
That is not hooked up.
Why, why would that not be hooked up?
Um, so, um, I started my opt-in and.
Have not completed it.
I think I do this new, like pretty recently or no, this has been, this is
sadly, like I've been so busy servicing that's there's been, I have not gotten
to this, I will just say that because everything I want to say sounds like an
excuse I've just, I've, uh, it's started, but it's not completed.
And I feel like, um, so yeah, I'm in the middle of that opt-in.
Yeah.
So, um,
so there, just so you're aware, right there.
So there are people that would have hired you, that put their
email in, never got anything.
Just so you're aware.
Right.
And that's not to beat you up.
Um, but just it, it begs something else.
Right.
So I never look at this, at this kind of thing as a, Oh, well, just
get it hooked up at some point.
You know, I look at it as what would cause this sabotage?
What would cause this?
And, um, so let me, um,
let me pray around that.
How were your, um, I know this may sound strange, but how
were your parents with money?
Uh, so my dad was not, my parents were entrepreneurs.
My dad owned a, um, outdoor furniture business and he was brilliant.
I just remember being a kid and he wanted to make millions of dollars so fast.
And he got into bad partnerships with people.
He went bankrupt.
So we were like really well off.
And then we were really, really poor.
And then my dad was also a con artist and he conned a lot of
people out of a lot of money.
And it's interesting though, because I remember, uh, being little and
sitting at his desk and I liked playing business, like I liked sitting there.
Um, but I watched him and I, I always felt like he would come up with great
ideas and he would go for it.
Um, and then, wow.
And they never came to fruition.
Um,
other than the con artist part, I could have guessed that whole thing, like from
this, from this one thing, I could guess all of that, except the con artist part.
And then, uh, my mom, so my parents divorced when I was 12.
Um, and my mom worked two jobs to take care of us and we were on food stamps
and I had to use them in the grocery store.
And I remember feeling very shamed around that.
And I didn't want, we, I grew up in a small town of 2000 people and I was always
afraid it was my friend's mom was the clerk there and I was afraid she would
tell people at school, sure, our situation.
And I remember telling myself, like, I don't ever want to be in this position.
Yep.
Yeah.
And, and even if you didn't tell yourself that your, your subconscious would have
Yeah, we moved, we lived in some, um, really, my mom did the best that she
could, I will say that we ended up having to move a lot also.
So I think she was having, she never said it, but I'm sure she was
having financial difficulty.
Sure.
Um, so you were, you were, you were, you were, you were, you were, you were
sure.
Sure.
Um, so that would, all of that would create, um, definitely scaling issues of,
well, I better, I better not go for it because if I go for it, it's not going to
work out.
Um, so that it's why it's more important.
It's, it's so important to not just say, Oh, get this fixed, you know?
Cause it was just show up in other places, right?
It's everywhere.
I'm looking at, like, I've got, do you know many things I have to like 75, 85%?
Yeah.
Because if you go for it and you, and you really, you know, then it's not going to
work out.
It's not going to be great.
So let me, um, let me just prayer around that real quick.
I mean, I've read.
to this for, you know, I don't know, probably six or seven years of helping people with
But now I got new tools.
Thank you.
He's given me, he's given me two prayers I got the first one, the second one's
Is your father still alive?
No.
Okay.
So I think it's, it's Genesis 12, I think I haven't looked this one up in a long time.
Yes, I'm pretty sure I'm not going to read the whole thing here, but I think, I think
I believe it's from Genesis 12.
Okay.
So, so two, two prayers for you, both one time, which is convenient.
I get a lot of daily ones that I say, I literally have probably 100 prayers I say every, every
morning.
And so, first one is, wait.
Yeah.
So father.
Well, I just, if it's okay, can I just have you Sam?
Is that all right?
Yeah.
My wife doesn't like that.
Like when I get a prayer for her to say, she's like, she likes me to tell her then she does
it when I'm not around or something.
So I can write it if you want, or
It would be great to write it and I'll say it, but I want to, well I guess it's a one
time only.
Okay.
He's saying it's one time only.
Yeah.
Let's just go for it.
So, and now what, what will happen from this is, you know, you, you said the one, the one
is very clearly a one time only.
The other thing is you're going to be led through different things for this to happen,
but I get that you only have to pray one time.
I can't just say that for everyone because I don't know that to be the case, but for
you, I'm getting one.
And so I will type it for you.
I'll make it easy.
Okay.
So that's number one.
Okay.
And then this is number two.
So number, number two comes in.
I see this every once in a while of, I don't know why I don't see this on way more people,
but every once in a while, this'll come in of getting the father's blessing.
because your father's no longer alive,
you just thank him for giving him your blessing.
When a father is alive,
then sometimes it means going to your father.
Like I went to, I got nudged in prayer to go to my father
and say, hey, dad, I'm going in this new direction.
Can I have your blessing?
And he doesn't know what any of that means.
He doesn't read the Bible or anything like that.
But he's like, of course, and that's what I needed to do.
And so that's the two prayers that I get for you
that'll help heal up some of this.
Without that, we're just gonna be spinning in circles
this whole time.
It's interesting because I saw this back in April
and saw that this has been happening
and I have been in prayer.
I'm like doing nervous system work, like all the things.
And when I go, it's gonna be emotional.
When I go to create, it's like something,
like a energy block happens in my body
to where like I can get it going, but I can't complete it.
And it's been a spin.
I'm sure you've heard it in the Voxer interactions
we've had, like I keep,
and I'm trying to work through it all the ways
that I can't, like, it's like taking action
or not taking action or surrendering
or just like doing nothing or like doing something.
And I just, I don't know what to do anymore.
Yeah, this will help for sure.
This will help.
Yeah.
Ray, do I have permission to say something?
This is Jeremy.
Sure.
When I went to, Miranda introduced me
to a friend of hers, Paul, that here in Louisville
does EMDR and that kind of thing.
And I had a session with him personally.
One thing he recommended I do is that he said,
I want you, because my dad's passed away as well, Stephanie.
I just encourage you to go to his grave
and just tell him everything you ever wanted to say to him.
I mean, because my thing was like,
I would tell my dad something,
but he just wouldn't listen, right?
And he's like, he's gone.
He can't say anything.
Like he has to listen and just go in.
And I kind of kicked the can down the road
and Miranda was like, I want you to do that tomorrow morning.
And I did.
And, you know, I didn't have this epiphany
or this wonderful, but I do know something changed in me
when I just went and said the good, the bad, the ugly,
how could you do this?
You know, how could you be this way?
You're so selfish.
Hey, thank you.
Also, thank you for the, like, I just said everything.
And I think it did.
I think it really did help.
So maybe that's something to consider.
Thank you for that.
So like, if you look at, if you read the Psalms,
you know, it's a lot of times,
David is just like, my enemies are all around me.
Like he expresses.
And I do think there's,
there is power in expression versus suppression.
Most people suppress, right?
And so it just goes inside.
It creates disease.
It creates imbalance.
It does all kinds of bad stuff.
And so I do, I do agree with the expression and, you know,
David was always expressing to God, you know,
so I do think there's, there's wisdom and expression
for sure, but when, you know, maybe pray around that,
see what that looks like to you.
So, so now, so now we're, we're, we're juggling this path
of, okay, what am I saying tactically?
What am I, you know, what are we healing up, right?
Cause it's a, it's kind of, it's a one, two punch here.
Okay, so I get not to move to tactical yet.
Okay.
So the thing I'm getting to say is that
you, I think
you've drawn the conclusion, right?
I think you've figured out
that this is a safety mechanism, right?
And just, I mean, what a perfect night,
what Dion talked about, right?
The Teflon and the Velcro.
And so, there's a couple of things that your mind will do.
One, it looks for efficiency.
And so, it tries to burn the least calories possible, right?
So, it will look for what's the shortest amount
of calories we need to burn.
And that's typically, stick with what's known, right?
And so, because something new, that's more calories,
that's more energy output.
And then number two is to keep us safe.
We don't wanna experience that again.
And it's interesting,
most people don't recall telling themselves that,
of, I don't wanna experience that,
but that is exactly what their mind did,
was, we don't wanna experience that,
let's avoid that at all costs.
And so, know that the past doesn't dictate the future,
and that you don't have to lose it all,
and you don't have,
nor do you have to be any kind of con artist,
which I don't think you think that at all, but.
I'm actually like opposite, like.
Yeah, yeah.
Let me be, so safe and upfront and everything,
but that's also limiting your potential.
That's limiting how many people you can impact,
and how many people you should be impacting.
And so, yeah.
So, does that help?
Just hearing me say that,
I mean, I feel like you probably know that,
but does that help?
Yeah, I totally know that.
I guess, so, interestingly, but not,
I'm in a situation in my current business,
like things have been going amazingly
for like the past five to six years,
my income just keeps increasing.
This year, it's,
my income, I've done,
this was the first year that I've done nothing
to actively like grow my business.
I've had conversations with people,
but like, I have not acquired new clients.
For some reason, like, it's kind of like,
I've been in like this divine protected healing bubble
or something.
And it's like, no, you're not gonna go,
like, cause I'm used to doing,
it's like, no, you're gonna sit and surrender this year.
And like, I'm blocking all things
that could interfere with you being with me.
And so, what's happened is great year
and my biggest retainer client is selling her company.
And so, it's kicking up all of that,
you're gonna lose everything.
So, I bought my house a year and a half ago
and now I'm like, okay, I've,
and my life has expanded.
So, I'm like, oh, now I've got this expanded life
and now the bottom's gonna fall out
because this is happening.
And then now-
It's a temperature gauge.
You know, like they talk about this
and the big leap, Gay Hendricks talks about it.
Like, it's a temperature gauge of,
as long as I'm under here, then everything's okay.
But if I go above here, oh man.
And that varies by person.
I mean, I know people that it's,
I mean, I know people that's 4,000 a month, right?
That's like, if I go above that, it's crazy.
And I know people that it's a million a year.
And so, yeah, it's, so as you approach it,
you're, I think you're feeling that.
Yeah, there's a couple of things at play, right?
Situation number one is like, okay, I've,
which is, I'm in the perfect spot.
I can clearly see that because it's like,
I've gotten business off of referrals
and it used to be Facebook groups
until COVID happened, like that whole time.
Like Facebook groups have like gone dry.
It's like, they're just not the same.
And so now I'm looking at where are my people
and what does that look like?
And then now I'm in here and then I'm getting the message,
like I've got these other things that I've developed.
So it's like, number one,
I have to take care of the business that I have
and make sure that my livelihood is there
to support the new vision of things that I want to do.
So I have like, my attention has been shifted over to,
I have to make sure that this client is replaced
or like, I'm not sure what's going to happen, right?
But me, I've got to plan B and C
because we don't need the bottom to fall out.
So then I'm looking at,
I'm like, okay, I got to solve this first.
And then I've got to,
put my attention on the new thing that I'm building
or finishing up like we just saw on my website,
like all those things,
but then I'm coming up against this stuff,
which is making me not move forward.
And I'm not used to having that feeling like weird.
So what I get is there's two primary things
for you to do right now.
And I would focus on these right now.
This is the right now thing.
Because I don't think, where'd it go?
I keep forgetting about sharing my screen,
sharing my screen.
Okay, so.
Refresh my memory.
I know we've talked a few different times.
What is God calling you?
Who is God calling you to impact right now?
Heart-centered high performers.
Okay, so I get that that's dead on.
So the two things I get for you to do,
like this is what you need to do.
These are the next things for you to do.
Number one is fix the email, fix the email.
We can tweak the message later.
How do I see that again?
It wasn't super compelling, but we can fix that later,
but get it working.
That was like language just thrown up there.
Yeah.
Have a something.
Where'd it go?
It's a pop-up.
Does it pop up or something?
Yeah.
Okay, I do wanna look at this.
And then, you know, I just had a,
anyway, I'll look at the pop-up
when you design it the way you want.
So heart-centered high performers.
So number one, fix the email.
That's first.
Number two.
Yeah, I'm hung up on what my opt-in should be
that's gonna actually do something.
And like I said, it's in motion.
Like there's a draft of it there.
It's just not done.
So I would, you know,
so this is why it's important to know
what's the target, right?
So when you know your target,
what is the number one thing
that heart-centered high performers struggle with
that you could help with?
Currently?
Based on your experience.
Yeah, based on my experience.
It's gonna be the same.
Well, it's business.
They're going to scale their businesses
and they're a disaster.
So they've got fires going on
and they need to set up systems
and they need to hire the right people
and get structure in their business.
So the, whatever.
The 10 points of getting your organization
under control as a heart-centered high performer,
something like that.
Yep.
Something like that.
So you're speaking to them.
So that's number one.
Number two is I want to look at what you have,
but it's testimonials.
And so I was just having this conversation with a client.
And so know that people that come to your website
are people that mainly don't know you.
Yep.
And they're trying to learn about you.
And so I have to scroll for quite a while.
Quite a while.
I want to see testimonials, like boom, right away.
I want to see testimonials quickly.
So like, I mean, you still have to scroll
a little bit at least, but you got some testimonials.
Yep.
And I think Ray Higdon, I know I have some,
I still have some formatting issues
on the changes we've made to this,
but again, Stormy calls me the mentor to the millionaires.
John says, I helped him go from six figures a year
to six figures a month.
And then we got, there's some kind of weird spacing
thing here, but anyway.
And so if you are what you are,
you're a referral driven business.
So you should have testimonials up the wazoo.
They should just be like literally everywhere.
Yeah, I have a bunch.
But think about this.
Think about testimonials, there's kind of a.
interesting way to do them.
You want test.
So like I'm coaching Mark Harvard
and fixed all his, you know,
we're fixing all of his taglines
cause he's got him all over the place and they're crazy.
And I'm like, dude,
you help people make money through video.
That's what you do.
So every single thing you do needs to speak that.
Like, stop saying you help with traffic and this and that.
You help people make money in video.
That needs to be, and your testimonials can't be,
Mark's a really great guy and I really enjoy him.
You know, it needs to say,
he helped me make money through video.
He helped me make money.
I made my first money.
You know, like have it, you know,
have it each have as good as you can
and you cherry pick which ones you use,
but as good as you can have each testimonial
speak to the heart centered high performer.
And, and so does that make sense?
Yeah, I actually have three that I need to get
and they told me just to write them and they'll tweak them.
I know it's always awkward, isn't it?
Yeah.
Here's what we'll do.
I'll, I'll work with you through Voxer
and, and I'll, and say my coach helped me write them.
Cause it's always awkward.
It's so weird.
Yes. I feel weird about it.
He's amazing.
You know, it's always strange.
Let me, let me take a look at,
I didn't want to look at these.
Okay.
I would love if this first one,
I like this first one, by the way, I like it.
I would love if there was some kind of result
and depending on how long ago that was,
maybe it's had time to create a result.
You know what I mean?
You know, like,
like this, you know, this is a,
the Stacey Nicole is a fun one.
She's like Ray analyzed our, our PowerPoint
and we went from 8% to 38%, right?
That's, that's kind of cool.
Right?
And so a result you always, you strive for,
some of you on here, you may not have any testimonials.
In the beginning, they're going to be like,
Ray's great.
His training was awesome.
And, and that's better than not having anything.
But you, you try to escalate, you try to upgrade,
you try to get, you know,
like I'm still missing like some, some really good ones.
I don't have Jennifer Walsh on here.
I helped her get a $220,000 check.
And so anyway, you want to, you want to get to result.
You know, she helped us escalate scale.
We were able to double our profits
or 10 times our reach.
Well, one of the ones coincidentally,
one of the ones I need to write,
this woman's gone from 5 million to 10 million.
We scaled her business.
Awesome.
Yeah.
And that's, and that's one of those
that you would say 5 million to 10 million.
You wouldn't say two times.
Cause then people are like, well,
was she making a hundred dollars and now she makes two?
You know?
So I like that.
Yeah.
So this is a, I really like her.
She's great, but we need, we, we want like a result.
We want, if we can, if we can.
Yeah.
And this, again, these are probably very,
different pages have different testimonials on them also.
Yeah.
So yeah.
Shoot, you know, shoot for the,
she got me this result, testimonial.
Cause that, that's, that's really,
that's what people care about the most.
It is.
I think so.
Yeah.
Like I said, I've got three that I got to get
that they told me to write.
So I think we can do that with each other.
Yeah.
Just, you know, and it'll, it'll help you to say,
this is kind of a hack, but it'll help you to say,
hey, I worked with this person for a year.
And then you can say, hey, I worked with my coach
and he actually wrote them out for me.
Cause then it's, it's just a little different, you know?
So,
because I, I hesitate.
So I know Lord's going to do some healing here.
I hesitate to give you like 50 things to do.
Those are the two things,
especially the person that's selling their company.
Are they one of these?
Yep.
Oh, on there?
No, she's the five to 10 million.
She's selling her company.
Okay.
Definitely.
I get that one.
Yeah.
And by the way, I would include that.
at. I would include that because it has to be because of her
organizational prowess. I'm now in the process of selling my
company for a multiplier. And I mean, that's that's what a lot
of these high performers so a lot of these high performers may
not be there. But for them to see that of holy crap, like
that, that's a big deal. Because I bet you working with her has
helped her to do that.
Yeah, she when she introduces me, she's like Stephanie could
run a small country. Like she's so organized and like on top of
things. Nice. Oh, yeah, it'll. She's one of the ones that's
like, just write it and I'll tweak it. She's like,
and, and this also, I want you to just just put this cap in
your feather. Right? Wait, that house says feather in your cap,
but this feather in your gap. I don't even know if I'm using the
term right here. But this to me, what you just described is,
I would pray around that. So when people ask me to coach them
or work with their company, I always pray about it. I'm like,
All right, what am I getting? And you know, what are we doing
here? And he's had me. I worked with and I just I still don't
know why yet. But he had me work with one guy, coach him for free
for now. Like, okay, another person. It's a company. And so
with them, I'm getting equity. And so it's a check, it's equity
and, and an override. And so like, I get right if you when
you get this kind of track record, what you might do is say,
Hey, here's here's my fee. Here's how it works. Here's the
percentage of increase that I get. And here's the percentage I
get if you decide to sell. Now stay in step with the spirit,
right and pray on it. But that literally could mean 10s of
millions of dollars to you or, or even more. Because there's
there's all the time big, big companies are being acquired and
with your kind of skill that I'm, you know, hearing that
you're performing. That's it. That's very in line with
reality.
Yeah, it's interesting, because I'm heading into, so they have
a, I've been working with the accountant, and she has hired a
fractional CFO. And we've been putting together, we went to an
accrual based model accounting. And so I've been pulling all
those things together. And they have a buyer, and they're
presenting this week, and I'm a contractor, she's got five
employees, because she's got to make the company look good. And
she's like, I'm not sure what to do with you. Like, it's, it's
a very interesting situation. I've been through. I years ago,
I was a contractor producing an event for a network marketing
company, and they got acquired. And I ended up getting hired on.
So I've been through an acquisition before, and it can
get a little crazy. Sure. Yeah. So
but I do, I do see that your skill set, that's just so
needed. I definitely could see that, of, you know, like,
imagine what it would sound like to somebody like, hey, you know,
here's, here's how it looks. And if we get you get you to scale,
and you decide to sell this is, you know, and you and, you know,
you you have this story, like when, especially when she sells,
you know, I doubt that you've negotiated a payout.
Well, interestingly, the president and the managing
director have negotiated that, but she's not through on the
terms of that either. So I'm watching them not get what they
were promised, like that has not come together. So I'm in an
interesting seat right now. There's a lot of dynamics
happening. And CEO, trust me with all of her finance, like
she's, she is very anxiety ridden about money. And she
trusts me with her money. I don't like I'm the only one who
has access. The president is doesn't have access to the bank
account. Just own that. You know, just own that that how
good you are at what you do. Just own that.
I'm having resistance. Thank you.
Yeah. On that, because as you should, you should be able to
walk into a company and, and
it well, there's an interesting thing. And I'm sure it's
probably tied into this piece that we talked about tonight.
It's like, I'm not seen like I run the behind the scenes, but
I'm not seen. So like she put together an org chart to sell
the business, and I'm not represented on it. And we were
going through it to see who she needed, because she was like,
well,
how should I put titles on?
So I'm presenting everything
and we were talking through what that looks like
and who she should hire and how she should hire
and all the things.
And I was not on the org chart.
And she's like, you're not on here
cause I'm not sure what to do with you yet.
And I've had that several times where I've been in meetings
and I'm skipped over.
It's bizarre.
And I'm like, what is that about?
Like, I wonder what's going on there.
So I'm wondering if it's tied to this piece tonight.
Yeah.
Hold on.
I just got a nudge.
Hold on.
So you don't have an agreement,
but we prayed one off of you.
Yeah.
Um, remind me, I don't write these things down.
I guess I could ask, but.
No, it was, um,
it was about, um,
like nobody having control over me or like influence on me.
All right, hold on.
Let me, let me ask.
So.
Hold on.
Okay.
I'm not, I'm not getting it.
So this, what comes up for me when,
when you're describing this is position.
And so this has to do with the,
with the initial setting of you into the company.
And, and so, um,
there's a,
there's some kind of identity and position
that you're setting at the beginning.
And so I would think about, okay,
you're going through this process.
God is allowing you to see all the behind the scenes
and all the org chart and all this stuff.
And so I would, I would ask,
I would just step back and say, okay,
where would I like to be seen?
How would I like to be seen at the table?
How would I like to be seen?
Is it fractional COO?
I don't, I don't know.
I don't know.
Or COO is it?
So I would think about what, you know,
what does that look like?
So that when,
cause I just get that this is a,
I think you're being shown all this stuff,
not for you to get something in this acquisition,
like different.
Cause I think it's too late for that,
but for you to be prepared for the next one.
So for the next person that you're working with
in a powerful way that you come in and say, okay,
you know, my last client is what happened.
They were at 5 million to 10 million
and she sold for a multiplier, bought a Bing.
I don't know if that interests you or not,
but here's, here's how I operate.
So see, you can say, this is my last client.
Here's how I operate.
And they're going to assume,
oh, that's how they operated over there.
You didn't say that.
You see what I mean?
And so how, if you have,
you see this amazing situation that you've helped,
what would make it perfect?
Well, if I was this at the table,
they wouldn't skip over me.
And if I was positioned this way,
then I would have got paid out
like some of the other people.
You know, you see what I mean?
Yep.
Oh, but that's, that's what I got for you.
That's what I got for you.
And we can work, work through some of these things
through Boxer, does that help?
Yeah, totally.
Yeah.
I'm going to be going to Canada in January
because there's a previous client
that we're going to be working together again.
And we're going to be looking at,
do we want to partner?
Am I coming in to run her business?
Like what's going to, what's going to go on there?
So I think that might be a great conversation to be having.
Yeah.
And I would, and I would get into prayer on that.
Yeah.
And every time, like I just had it happen Saturday,
Saturday?
Yeah. Saturday.
A guy was like, hey man, I want to work with you.
What does that look like?
And I'm like, let me pray on it.
And so, you know, made him the offer today.
We'll see what happens, but I would, I would pray on it.
You know, God, it's interesting.
He works in mysterious ways.
And so I would, you know,
Pray on that.
And of course I'm happy to help her again.
Thank you, I appreciate it.
Sometimes I will tell you that,
you know, this is for everyone to hear,
but sometimes I'll get,
nope, you can't ask that, have them ask me.
And I'm like, okay.
And so, but I'm happy to help her again.
Thank you.
We'll be in touch.
Yeah, good, good stuff, good stuff.
All right, let's go to Miranda.
Hey.
Hold on, I saw.
So Stephanie, there was a question in the chat.
Maybe you can answer that while I'm talking to Miranda.
All right.
Yeah.
How are we doing?
Yeah, it's Miranda that asked the question.
Yes.
I wanted to know what Stephanie's offer was
just for context of who she's working with,
like to understand her service and what, you know,
what's on the table for those business owners.
Just kind of running the numbers in my head.
Yeah, Stephanie, you want to share?
Yeah, so there's a few things that I offer.
Mainly I offer fractional COO services.
And so I come in and set up operations,
set up project management systems,
and will either hand them over to people
and train their teams and they take it,
or I will stay on and I will run their teams
and their ops.
And then I do, I'm watching also,
cause I'm a life coach.
So I'll be watching CEOs,
if they're bumping up against their own limitations,
they'll buy separate sessions with me
and do coaching sessions.
And then on the other side of it,
I also teach heart math workshops.
So that's kind of like a separate thing
that happened a few years ago that I've started doing.
But the main thing is I'm on a retainer with my clients,
a monthly retainer.
So they can buy, yeah,
they can buy a certain amount of hours a month
for whatever they need.
That was my main question.
Like, how do they continue on?
Like, what is the, is there a program?
Okay, awesome, thanks.
Yep, thank you.
Cool.
Stephanie, we're so proud of you, by the way.
Oh, thank you.
I'm on fire, like talking about hot seat,
I'm on fire over here.
My cheeks are flushed, the whole thing.
Thank you.
That's good.
The healing began.
Right.
All right.
All right, Miranda.
So let me, let's pray about you and see what we get.
So yeah, what,
okay, so I get challenge.
That's what I get.
I get the five-day or whatever year one.
It doesn't have to be five-day,
but talk about the five-day challenge is what I'm getting.
Yeah, well, I listened to Mark's, the replay,
the call that you did with him, and that was awesome.
And I actually was in his, like,
I was in his call with him,
and I was like,
and that was awesome.
And I actually was in his, like, I registered for it.
I didn't, I didn't do the challenge,
but I registered for it.
I got the email.
So when he was saying he did the bonus days
and all that structure, like,
I remember that coming in, I'm like,
oh, that challenge is still going on.
Like, I should hop onto that.
So I remember feeling it, right,
when he was talking about.
So-
One cool thing about Mark.
So, because the context isn't really in that video.
So when he did 300,000,
you know, he had a ton of affiliates, right?
And so like a ton, right?
This time around, I mean, I promoted,
but very few people,
I don't think he had anyone else actually promote.
But what the breakthrough for Mark,
which didn't come across in that video,
was he has never in a, in group,
sold anything over 500 bucks.
This was the first time he's ever sold in a group,
in a webinar, in a challenge, something over 500 bucks.
And so it was really a big breakthrough for him.
Like he was like really grateful for that.
And so that was pretty cool to see.
Yeah, it's awesome.
And the price point that he's working at
is kind of what I'm dealing with too.
So it was all wonderful.
So I love, I love the challenge idea.
I sent some stuff over,
but I put it all into chat GPT.
And what it came out with was pretty solid outline
for what the five days.
So I got a couple of different titles,
but the first one that I came up with
was freedom from food addiction,
the freedom from food addiction challenge.
five days to break free with fasting, health and faith, or there's other this
other one that's like from chains to transformation, overcome food addiction
and embrace God's plan for your health. There's a couple, there's a bunch of
Asian screen, babe. Yeah, there's a bunch of different titles that I put in just
with chat GPT. And so just getting a title for the whole thing. But framing
out the five days like I love what that kind of what it came up with. To kind of
teach people what food addiction is on day one, so that they have that
awareness that they actually are food addicted. And that is the problem. Day
two, the faith filled foundations. And so building on God's design is another
another outline that I put on there. I love that. I've got an extended outline
I'm looking at to here. Day three was the healing power fasting. So resetting
your body, mind and spirit, which is a kind of a tagline. It's been a tagline
for my business. I love that. Day four, Mark said to kind of where we kind of
like give that offer.
The first so what so one thing
that I would
and I have and I and I help mark with us all the time is
you and I definitely believe this applies or it does it does apply is
we want so there's the there's the execution of a thing. There's the
marketing of a thing. Yeah. And and so the the marketing of a thing is focused
on what it does, not what it is. Yeah. And because some people they see fasting
fasting prayer. I want to lose weight. Right. Like I just know how people are.
And because they don't they just don't draw the conclusion or they think that
that's, you know.
And so just just remember that, you know, any of us that are pretty
straightforward, we have to put on a little bit different hat of what does it
look like to the outside person that's compelling. Right. So it's not here's my
protein shake. It's pea protein, whey isolate. It's got branching amino acids.
It's real arginine.
That's the ingredients on the bottle. That's boring. No one, you know, only the
nerdy nerds care about. They want that. It's going to help them get in the little
black dress. Right. They want they want that their ex-boyfriend's jaw is going to
drop to the floor. Right. And so that's marketing. You know, that's the sizzle.
That's the you know, some people say feature and benefits, but I found most people
don't understand the difference between those two words. And so it's what it does
versus what it is, what it is. Here's the context of what we will be teaching. What
it does is going to set you free from food. Finally, you'll be able to be at your
friend's Super Bowl party and not eat the nachos. Right. And so it's just remember
that because this this is what moves people, not when because some people they'll
look at, oh, oh, I've I've studied prayer. I've done fast. So we actually want them
to see your marketing in a way that intrigues them, excites them like, oh, I
wonder what that is because they don't know. And so as you do these outlines, don't
transpose the outlines of what it is to the page. That's an internal document. Yeah.
Yeah. That makes sense. Absolutely. Absolutely. This is the content, like the
framework of what it to know what the product's going to be so that the marketing
can be exactly that. Right. So let's do that. You ask yourself, OK, what what does
this do? Right. Like what is the benefit of doing this? What's the benefit of that?
What's the benefit of that? What's the benefit of that? And you'll usually come to
the conclusion that the benefit is that they feel better about themselves. They have more
significance. They you know, they feel worthy. You know, like that's usually where
things end up. And so just just remember that. Right. There's external marketing,
the shell, there's internal directions and operating instructions. Yes. So I have
that framework and then the the offer and like the pitch like that, the content and
flowing in that and speaking to the how and why, like it's the it's the it's the
pitch. It's like, how do I emotionally take them, you know, through this when I
start to to integrate it each day? What does that look like? What does the offer stack
look like? I'd love to work.
through that a little bit.
Yeah.
So, you know, I have,
man, I don't know how I'm gonna find this.
Dion sent me some really great stuff.
He sent me, you know, we were on here with Rebecca.
We talk almost every day and he sends me so much stuff.
Hold on, I may have just found it.
This would be amazing.
It's not the right document for you.
Okay.
Okay, this one is, this is the right document for you.
So how do, let's see.
So Rebecca, if I send you a PDF,
can you send it to the group?
Sure.
So Dion is a very meticulous thinker
and note taker and everything.
And so he went through Russell Brunson's
perfect webinar and everything.
And he made his own, I think, easier to understand notes.
And so I sent that to Rebecca.
She'll send to everyone who's interested.
Not everyone needs to create what you're doing,
but you want to think about, I mentioned this,
Mark and I talked about this,
but your five day challenge is basically a perfect webinar,
but it's just extended over five days.
And so they, you know, Russell,
so for those that don't know, Russell Brunson,
after studying, the number one guy I learned from,
who I learned from too, is a guy named Jason Fladian,
who has the record for biggest digital launch of all time,
which was 38 million.
He did okay.
He was selling, I think an Amazon arbitrage thing
or something, I forget.
But he is, man, that dude is so smart.
He is just a master at doing webinars.
And so Russell learned from him.
He learned from a few other sources as well
and put together this kind of framework
of how to do perfect webinar.
And so I would,
cause you, have you come up with a pitch yet?
Well, I put into chat GPT
to write me a 60 minute presentation
based on Russell Brunson's perfect webinar framework
with the hook and the three secrets and the offer.
Let's look at that.
What's that link?
So that is, we've got it up here.
And do you want to drive it?
Just a moment here.
Can I get the link so I can pull it up?
Yeah.
It's like a scroll.
That what you want there?
Yes, that one.
Okay.
It starts on like the second page.
Oh, please.
Okay.
Her IT guys, hard at work.
It's pretty cute too.
Stop, stop.
Right here?
Yeah.
We're going to copy.
And can I just put it in the chat here?
Yeah, perfect.
So the first page has the possible titles
that I had it spit out.
And so the actual intro starts the like on the next page.
Oh, am I sharing my screen or no?
No, I'm not.
Okay.
Let me share my screen.
Now you are.
So I asked it to give me several titles.
Based on different things.
So.
Yeah, I mean, that's the good and the bad of chat GPT
is you can get a million.
options.
OK.
So you're not, yeah.
So you're not actually doing a perfect webinar.
You're, you're, you're, you're taking the perfect webinar and you're dripping it in five days, right?
Or, or if it's like, if you do what Mark did, which I would suggest, I like that.
I like what he did there.
It would actually be seven days, right?
Five days plus two bonus days.
And, and so you can, so, OK, technically you would do a perfect webinar on day number, or bonus day number two.
Yeah, that's, that's kind of why I did it.
Yeah.
But, you know, you want, he had quite a few sales before day two because he took the concepts.
Let me show you.
Essentially, like, that's what this is doing along those day, five days.
Like, it actually picked up those as being the, like, the three secrets are, you know, food addiction is actually the real problem, which it is.
The reset method is, you know, aligns and the community is the power for transformation.
So the, the five days, you know, follow that pretty closely, maybe with some tweaking.
Yeah.
I'm trying to think how to efficiently do what we're trying to do.
All right, let me pre-on this because this is, hold on.
OK.
He wants me to go through this.
Got it.
So, I think you're leaning toward, hey, if we create the perfect webinar first, then I can go back through the five day.
Is that what you're saying?
Yeah, so with Mark's, like, framework of, you know, doing the full pitch, like, this is my full pitch.
Then I can, you know, weave that in the different components, you know, of the perfect webinar, stretch it out, knowing what we're going to do on the last day.
OK, I would, I would have the.
All right, all right, here we go.
All right.
Chains.
OK, so category three.
I'm really feeling the chains, like, the chains, like, the bondage, like, I would see me, like, going to the gym with, like, the chains and like,
when marketing content, like, on the front side of this, like, just, you know, like, that fits what it is because it's heavy.
And that's.
OK.
What I'm so.
I've never done it in this manner before, but that's what he's taught me to do.
So I'm getting a green light on 13.
13.
Why?
At least pray on that.
At least consider.
I can't tell you what to do, but that's what he's pointing me to.
So maybe hold that or something or put it down for prayer.
I'm looking for, where are they?
There is one chat GBT.
You're missing something here, buddy.
But what are you looking for?
I'm sorry.
You're missing the big domino.
Big domino is that is, that is the, if I can just get this pushed over,
then everything else is just, it's just, I can ask about that.
Yeah.
So it doesn't, it doesn't have the big domino.
The big domino is, is.
That's the most important thing.
So like, if you look at.
What.
I think I know what the big domino is.
Like, in my opinion, in working with people, the big domino.
That they might not know is they think they know what to do and they're
just not doing it.
Yeah.
So like,
I don't think it's like that they are the problem.
They are the fail fail.
Like they can go to any plan.
And it's not the plan.
They think it's they, they are the failure.
The plan's not the problem.
Which is.
We need to teach them the opposite, right? Like the plan failed you.
You're not the failure. Like let's do it always will work.
Right.
Yeah.
So.
That, that sounds more like one of the three secrets.
Then a domino.
So like.
You know,
So my big domino is you need a kingdom offer.
If I can convince someone that they need a kingdom offer.
Then then everything else is kind of backup.
So if you look at the offer I did at the event, right.
So I said, big domino.
I didn't call it that because you don't call it that.
That's internal language.
Right to reach your highest impact of revenue.
You're going to need a kingdom offer.
I believe that.
I believe that was Stephanie. I believe that with you.
I believe that with every, every person on here.
And, and so.
Kingdom offer secret one, bringing a financial success.
God intends you to have. So now I'm just backing up the domino.
Right. I'm just, I'm just honoring the domino here.
Jesus wants to co-labor with you to reach people.
He created you to reach.
That's, you know, this again, talking about, you know,
the kingdom offer.
And.
Is the most, this is the most, this is the greatest thing, man, ever.
And, and, and there's, you know,
By the time I got here,
I think I'd already shared a bunch of testimonials and stuff.
Anyway.
And so.
Let me look at this.
I think this document may.
Oh.
Oh, he's got like.
Ah, here we go.
Yes.
He's got, you got to look for this here.
Okay.
I love Dion.
I don't think this is the best domino.
Personally.
But if you.
He talks. Okay.
Objection. Number one.
Is the vehicle.
How, how will I get the result that I want?
So mine was.
Right.
Yours would be through the reset method, probably.
You know,
And then.
Okay. I buy into that, but here's my internal false beliefs.
So to me, that's what you're talking about.
Yeah.
Is my internal false beliefs.
Is that I'm a failure and no matter where I go, I suck.
And no matter what I try, I fail at.
And, and so that I would see that more as a secret number two.
Internal false belief.
And then external false belief.
Is that I'm a failure and no matter where I go, I suck.
And no matter what I try, I fail at.
And, and so that I would see that more as a secret number two.
Internal false belief.
is, you know, I don't, I don't know, I wouldn't know yours off top of my head, but I would say,
external false belief,
an external false belief. Yeah. Yeah. That's what, that's what secret number three. So you take,
you know, you take this and you convert it into a secret,
right? So reset method, secret number two is that the plans failed you, you didn't fail,
you didn't fail. Right. That I think is very congruent. Uh, the external false belief.
So if it's a business, the, so if we break this to business is, you know, if I'm selling
podcasting, I'm saying, uh, you need a podcast. A podcast is the greatest thing of all time.
Um, well my internal false belief is I've tried a bunch of different things. I tried blogging and
I tried Facebook and none of that stuff worked. And, uh, you know, and I just, well, an external
false belief might be that isn't well, isn't podcasting oversaturated. You see what I mean?
So it's some kind of outside of me thing. And I'm not, you know, and this is, this is just to
maximize sales. You don't have to absolutely nail each secret, but
if you do, that's, that's really powerful. So let's take a look at your document.
Um, like the eating has to be eating healthy, has to be restrictive or something like that,
or they have to give up everything that they, that'd be, yeah, yeah. They're going to suffer,
but it has to be hard or it's restricted. Yeah. That, that could definitely be the deal. Okay.
Food addiction is the real problem. Okay. So,
cause I think, I think this is, I think chat GBT is working with a basic
understanding of perfect webinar. There's, there's a more advanced depth. Um,
let me see. Yeah, this was, this is the first. Yeah, no, no. Yeah. Like it's got some of the
elements. Correct. Right. It's got the timing. Correct. But this isn't dealing with what are
the internal, what are my internal false beliefs? What's the vehicle, you know,
and those numbers aren't right. I just, I just put the line bullets in there to see what it
would come up with. And we can put the perceived value at whatever we, you know, like do some
numbers crunch in for perceived value. So it's the, so another thing you may consider is you can
also, I don't know your prompt, but you could also ask it to write it in the manner of someone
like a Dan Kennedy or a, or a Russell, you know, um, cause these, if you notice these are,
um, just kind of blah. Yeah. No, the, the, the stack is kind of blah. It's a, it's, there's no
zipper root to it. There's no, um, snazziness, you know, let me see. I didn't ask it to elaborate
either. I kind of was like, I'm not going to ask it to elaborate on something. If it's not even in
the right, like they'll go things or headed in the right direction. Um, but it's, it's, it's,
it's, um, it's hard to like, you know, have a stack that's not even in the right
direction. So it, it gave up pretty, I mean, it was a basic framework for sure.
I mean, we had to work some of these, you know, titles, but you know, some of them we changed,
you know, kingdom leadership, power hacks. I think he originally had
to sound to snatch schnazz them up a business insider secrets. I forget what he called it.
I mean, I could have had more schnazz too, but anyway, it worked.
Um, yeah, so I think, I think this is just kind of telling you, um,
giving you like suggestions, you know, um, but
so
I would take, so the good part about that document is he does have examples in there.
So it would give you a little taste of different examples.
And so I would take what you have here, which is a good start.
I would take that document and just hone that in, put this into a PowerPoint.
And we can very, this is difficult for me to wrap my mind around and edit and stuff.
PowerPoints, I've done a thousand of them.
And so get it into that format using the advice from tonight.
And then we can work through it.
And then we can go, you know, go and take a look at the five day because what you want to pop is you want, you know, the three secrets to pop over the five day.
Like by the time they get to those that.
And I also get that you should promote the don't so one one thing that I would do, which I forgot to bring up on the on the recording with Mark is.
When I did my offer on a challenge, like if it was a bonus day.
I would actually invite everybody to it.
So I invited like my whole email list to this because why not, you know, it's a good pitch and some will move forward, whether they were in the challenge or not.
And so.
Yeah, why did I bring that up.
For anyone in the challenge. This should all be. Oh yeah, I've heard this.
So if you notice that faith over fear. And I talked about a kingdom offer before the offer. Yes.
And I mentioned testimonials of people I helped with kingdom offered. Yes. Yeah. So, so my offer was actually like, Oh yeah, I've heard this before.
And that's what anyone that's in the challenge that here's the full pitch, they'll say, Oh yeah, this is backing up what I've already heard, there shouldn't be, there were, I don't think there were any new concepts that was in my offer on day to
faith over fear. It was all just backing up things I'd already shared.
I don't because people shouldn't be like, Oh, I'm having this big epiphany myself. You know, that's, you can share an epiphany you had, but it's not for, it's not for them to learn a lot is for them to say in agreement.
Oh yeah, I've heard that. Oh yeah I agree with that. Oh yeah I've heard her say that. Oh yeah this thing makes sense so it's it's more yeses then. Wow, I've never heard that.
Does that make sense.
Absolutely. So I do like, because this was your nudging not mine of create the perfect webinar first, then go backwards. I do like that. I think that's smart.
Because yeah, it's essentially a stretching it out over the five days. Right.
I would say your, your next step is take, take what we got here. Look at that document, create the PowerPoint. Don't worry about it being perfect.
There's no way. There's no way that I'm not going to make changes. No way. Not a chance.
And so don't don't worry so much about that, but just, you know, create it out.
We can, we can go through it. And either I'll, I'll probably probably the best way to do that would be whenever you have it, send it to me, and maybe I'll record.
Does anyone else want to see me go through their PowerPoint.
I would think some people might maybe.
Lots of nodding. Okay. I see thumbs up and stuff. So, so what will, what I'll do is just for the matter of time and recording and ease is I'll just record my screen.
While I go through it and say I would change this, this, this changes. Here's why.
And do that sort of thing.
And there's psychology around keeping it super simple right like white, white screen black words where you're literally just reading what, like, I'm just terrible at graphics, to be honest, you know, if I was opposite like I like graphic designer photographer
like I want to make things beautiful and all that stuff but there's, there's, I mean, I think it's probably better if you can have it look better, you know, than my terrible white and black.
There is psychology, there is there is psychology in graphics right you don't, you know,
Let's see, can I share this. Yep. Okay, great. So for years.
during this, but for years the media was programming us with yellow and blue.
So there was a lot of things that came out in yellows and blues because they were programming
us to give money to Ukraine.
And so there's a, you know, for years, you can see this in logos, you can see it in sporting
events, you can see it, like there was just this, this increase, there's, there's studies
out there, it's very interesting, this coordinated effort to get more Americans to like the colors
blue and yellow.
And then, you know, you know, and I'm not making light of anything, I'm just saying
this was a psyop, that is a real thing.
And so there are certain colors, right, that work better.
If you're going to use eyeballs, they've studied this too.
You know, if you're going to use faces, the faces should be pointing where you want their
eyeballs to go.
They've done studies on that.
That's from Robert Chiodini, who's a professor at, I forget where, ASU, I think.
Right, did he write Persuasion?
He wrote Persuasion, he wrote the, I personally like his first book better, which is, I've
got it around here somewhere.
The Psychology of Influence, I think.
So I like his first book better, but that's a good book too.
And so, yeah, but I'll go through all that stuff.
You don't have to worry about it.
You know, like, I'll go through it when I, when I look at it.
But I think if you can make it look better, it's better, you know, I just keep things
absurdly simple.
Your update that you just showed, I'm sorry to interrupt you, like, that would be a great
framework.
Like, I love to think like that.
Like, okay, this is how he did it.
How would I, how would I put mine in this?
Like, is that available?
I sent, that's the thing I sent to Rebecca to send to everyone.
Okay.
Got it.
Perfect.
Yeah.
And so that's, that's why I guess the next step, create that PowerPoint, send it over
to me.
I'll record it.
We'll go through it.
It'll rock and roll.
And then we'll look at, you know, the five day and all that that entails.
Perfect.
Thank you.
When are you wanting to do this again?
I had January 6th to the 10th.
Yeah.
We can make that happen.
For sure.
If not, if we need to push it back a week, I'm good with that too.
I personally, I think that's a great time because I would start marketing this like
shortly after Christmas, December 26th, like everybody's feeling pretty fat.
I would start marking it then yourself, you know, two weeks and really get it ramped up.
And so I think the two urgent assets at this point being December 9th is your challenge
sales page.
That's probably the most urgent right now is because you got, you know, that's December
26th.
Right.
Your challenge sales page.
Are you, is it going to be free or are you going to charge?
I was going to do the, I like the model that Mark used free and then VIP upgrade $47 for
replays and trainings afterwards.
I like it.
I like it a lot.
So yeah.
So that that's, that's really urgent.
And then the presentation would be secondarily urgent.
Yeah.
And I'm happy to look at them whenever they're ready.
Okay.
I'll work on both.
Yeah.
Okay.
So helpful.
Yes.
I love getting it.
That's good.
Movement and action.
It feels awesome.
Yes.
Well, awesome guys.
If you got any questions, hit me up on Voxer and we'll get those, those answered, but make
sure give some love to Miranda and Stephanie for being vulnerable for sharing and showing
it big.
You know, when, you know, we'll get the, whoever's next month, we'll get, we'll get lined up
and, and hot seats.
I love doing these because I know that people learn from, you know, the feedback they're
getting from others.
And then Rebecca, can you pray us out?
I'm trying to remember.
Did I have you pray us in?
I didn't.
No.
Rebecca, can you, can you pray us out, please?
Okay.
Heavenly father, God, thank you for this time together tonight.
Thank you for being so relentlessly good Lord.
We thank you for iron sharpening iron tonight, Lord.
We thank you that you're just so available.
When we ask for your presence, Lord, we're hungry for your presence and we're thirsty
for King.
living Lord. So we thank you for training like this Lord. And we pray and trust that
there'll be so much more of it. Lord help us be action takers and doers. And we pray
God that you would bless the work of our hands that it might glorify you as it decreases
us in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Yes. Awesome. Awesome session guys. Appreciate you so much
and we'll be talking soon. Love you guys. Have a good night. All right. Love you guys.
God bless. Bye guys.