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We're going to walk you through what we're doing here at at the brilliant CEO in a circle.
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So if you were wanting something else like personal counseling or whatever, that's not
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We would love you, though, to join us and enjoy the conversation.
So this is a 90 minute session.
We're going to walk you through what we do here at the at the inner circle.
And then we're going to take questions and try to make this interactive.
So we do these calls every single month.
Typically, they're anywhere between 90 minutes and two hours long.
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Jenny Taylor here from Brilliant Bridget.
My wife is assisting us and will answer all the questions.
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So what I've done is I'm going to put together just a couple of slides to help us get through
this effectively and efficiently.
I see people are still joining, but quite a lot of sign up.
So we're just going to chat for a second longer, I think, before we start.
Just give people time to get on and get the coffee going and so forth.
OK, also awesome.
So the inner circle is now going this inner circle is going into its fourth year.
And it's been an amazing journey for us.
You know, for me, I've had this lifelong passion.
For those of you who don't know me, I'm Dion van Zaelen, CEO of Brilliant Perspectives.
And myself and Bridget together with Graham and Teresa and Jenny and Glenn is also on
the call here.
We're on the board that lead the Brilliant movement.
And this is the this is the key.
This is the key thing for us.
How do we create a movement and give the father what he wants without all our religious stuff
attached?
You know, can we just give him what he wants?
You know, sometimes I look at something and I say, Father, do you ever just get what you
want?
Does it always have to have all these attachments, all the stuff, all those bits that we want
to add in?
And so as we've started to look at that, what's happened is, you know, the movement has grown.
There's a lot of people have come in as members and then those who are in the process of training
as leaders in our Brilliant School of Leadership.
And then this is the top of the stack.
This is our executive kingdom executive training program.
And this is really how do we create a kingdom executive program that really helps people
partner with the Lord?
So we used to run a leadership company back in 2017.
I think we did we did 17 events trained over 70,000 leaders, mostly Christian leaders and
business leaders.
And, you know, I'd sit at these events and we'd bring in these incredible speakers and
they would give, you know, all the gems and wisdom and very, very powerful was, you know,
it was usually two days immersion and you walked away, you know, with tons of notes
and, you know, cool stuff you wanted to implement in your team.
But as we did that, I started to think about what are the upstairs kingdom training?
Where is the leadership training?
If you think of upstairs and downstairs, upstairs being the the kingdom realm, downstairs being
the natural realm, I started to think about where is.
Where's all the upstairs leadership stuff?
Because all the downstairs leadership stuff
is really useful, right?
It helps us operate in the natural world.
So wisdom is wisdom, and we love it,
and we love everything to do with it,
because this has been my lifelong pursuit.
I have studied not just engineering and theology,
but also I have an MBA,
and my PhD was studying all the best leaders
from around the world and putting it into a single system.
And I did that because I was trying to find
how come some leaders have the ability
to really move the needle and move it quickly.
Have you noticed that?
I mean, some leaders will step in, take a project,
and suddenly it's off and running.
And other leaders struggle.
They just struggle to, they sort of get swamped
in all the detail of what they're doing,
and it's hard for them to know exactly
what moves the needle, and what do I need to focus on now,
and how do I build a team, and good systems,
and products, and customer service, and do everything.
That's a lot of stuff to know.
And so as I started to study the best leaders,
I started to notice something interesting.
Firstly, most leaders have at least one
or two amazing core ideas
that they built their whole organization on.
And so I started to collect those.
And then I thought, can I make them simple enough
so that even a startup person can do it,
you know, one person operation,
or a small team, or a growing team?
So that's when we got into really wanting to learn
how does leadership really, really work,
and what's effective?
And as on that journey,
starting to then sit in these big conferences
and think, where's the upstairs stuff?
Where's the kingdom stuff?
And I was really intrigued
because this gripped my imagination.
Jesus said, the son can do nothing on his own.
And I thought, wow, if the son can do nothing on his own,
what hope do I have, right?
And why do I want to do it on my own?
Why would I even want to?
And he said, but I do, that's downstairs, I execute,
I do what I see the father doing upstairs.
And so I realized very quickly that what we had going on
was a lot of downstairs stuff
and a little bit of upstairs stuff.
So it was like a triangle.
If you had the upstairs, downstairs, it was like a triangle.
Tiny little bit at the top was the upstairs,
and the downstairs stuff was all execution.
But then I met another part of the body of Christ,
and it was this triangle.
All revelation, prophetic words, promises,
it's all fantastic, every week a new word.
Downstairs, poor execution.
Don't build anything,
but boy, we have a wonderful collection of prophetic words.
And as a pastor, this bothered me,
as a business leader, this bothered me,
and I thought, there's got to be some balance.
We have to turn these triangles,
whichever one they are, into squares.
Because that's what Jesus was,
he was the perfect square, right?
He did, he executed downstairs
what he saw the father doing upstairs.
And so as that started to grip me,
we started to talk and train leaders
around this basic idea.
How do we partner with the Lord?
And then the big verse that landed for us
about three years ago was Matthew 11, 28 through 30.
And that's when Jesus made this unbelievable offer.
He said, and now think of this as an offer to you
as a business leader, come to me,
all you are weary and heavy laden.
How many leaders are weary and heavy laden?
It's almost like stress is our badge of honor.
Look how stressed I am, I'm booked to the max.
You should see my calendar, man.
It's pack, pack, pack, pack, go, go, go, go.
And Jesus said, come to me with all of that
and do an exchange.
What's the exchange?
And I will give you rest.
This must be the most counterintuitive offer
for business on the planet.
So what rest?
We start in rest.
And as I was thinking about this,
come to me and he said, I will give you rest.
And then he makes the offer.
Take my yoke, my partnership, my linking together.
Think of two oxen pulling together, right?
And he says, take my yoke and here it comes
and learn from me.
And I went, oh, and that's where at Brilliant
we get the term direct learning from.
He's offering to give me rest, to partner with him.
Then he's offering to teach me everything I need to know.
And then he says, don't.
worry. I'm gentle and I'm humble. You know if you put two oxen together and you
tie and you put a yoke that that wooden board that connects them
together and if a big oxen pushes too hard they can crush the
little ox. I don't know if you know that. So Jesus is talking to simple people who
understand this analogy and Jesus said I'm going to be
gentle. I'm not going to push you harder than you can deliver.
I'm not going to crush you in the process. In fact is I'm gentle and humble
and you will find rest for your soul. So it's the second time he brings up this
concept of rest. So he says it starts in rest. It continues in
rest. It even ends in rest. It's all about
rest and then he makes this extraordinary statement and he says
for my partnership yoke is easy. Oh it's so hard to partner with God. Jesus
disagrees. He says it's super easy. A child can do
this. It's so simple. My yoke is easy and my burden is light.
So my question is where are all the easy and light
Christian leaders? Where all the people are like
walking in this lightness of being in partnership
with God in yoke where they just function
high performance leaders that function from rest. We coined that phrase about
three years ago and then we started to build our own team
at Brilliant on these ideas and we moved
our own productivity you know almost 500 percent in the first
18 months. You say how on earth did you do that by
doing both the upstairs and the downstairs? Upstairs we started
teaching people how to function from rest and how to be in partnership with
the Lord. See what the Father is doing. Do that
and so I think most of our team get up every morning and say so Father
what are we doing today? They know the program. They got the schedule. They know
the appointments but they want to know from Him what are
we doing today. They're in partnership with Him and then
downstairs giving all the best learning from all
the best leaders. So we've compiled over 48 trainings
from leaders from all around the world in all sorts of segments
and we've simplified it so that any single
person can use it. So if you're a startup or you work for a big corporation
or you run a small company. So let's pause there for a second and
let's talk briefly about who's doing what.
If you could just drop in the chat let me know.
You can say I work for a company
or I'm a solopreneur or
I run a small business. That'd be really helpful to know who I'm speaking to.
So if you let us drop in the chat really state
solo okay just give me a sense of size of your team. Are you on your own?
Are you in a small team? Small business owner?
He's got that on. Thank you. Yep Jeremy I know about your small business so
welcome by the way to our inner circle members including you January
and Vanessa. Appreciate having you. Small business owner? Independent?
Non-profit consultant? Okay.
Okay. Work for a company and run a small business? Independent consultant?
Okay. Multinational corp? Okay. Alright so we've got several of you. It
looks like we're in broadly three categories here. We've got the solo
group. We've got the group who work for other
businesses and then we've got the small business
group. Started a ministry?
Also independent business owner? Jerry you look very busy.
That sounds like busy life. Alright let's jump into it. Well that's fantastic. Well
I appreciate you giving me that feedback. As we're going through this I
would love for you to drop comments. What we're sharing
here today is not theory and it's not a theological
position. We're not talking about Christians in business. To me Christians
in business is when somebody's in business who
happens to be a Christian and then we go to well we'll just apply
Christian principles which which is fine but I think it's the
baby end of the pool. I think that's the baby pool
and I think that because you know it goes that when we say Christian
principles we generally are referring to basic ethics,
how to treat people, pay your taxes, you know
be honorable etc which of course are good things.
I'm looking for the big answer. I'm looking for that big thing that genuinely
moves the needle in the kingdom. What is it that Jesus
saw and then he said I am about my father's
business. So how would you like
that every day, get up and say, I'm about the Father's business.
Well, that means we have to know what the Father's business is.
What I have learned training now many,
many kingdom executives is that most are quite astonished by the idea.
That they have a kingdom advantage,
that there's this upstairs realm that can inform the downstairs realm.
It's not like we're struggling downstairs and then we hope to get God's help.
Maybe if I dial it in,
maybe if I pray the right prayers or fast or pray or do enough stuff,
maybe I can entice God to help me.
Maybe I can get some favor.
I went to a conference, the whole conference was about favor.
And we sat there all about how to get favor, what causes favor.
And I'm thinking, but favor comes with Jesus.
All the favor of heaven is attracted to Jesus in you.
Why are we trying to get what we already got?
Right.
So if Jesus is in you and you are in Christ, Christ in you, you in Christ,
it's the greatest genius move of all, of all of history.
God, I think the Father, Son and Holy Spirit sat around and said, OK,
where can we put, where can we put her to guarantee her highest good?
I know we'll put her in Jesus.
And we'll put Jesus in her.
So what's happening is God has made he wants to be one with you.
And so the surprising thing besides, oh,
we have this kingdom advantage is to is that the father.
Has a vision for your business.
In fact, he what he wants above all else is to do it with you.
The religious thing is to try to do it for him.
I just want my business to be for God, account for God.
I just want God to use me.
Well, God doesn't use people no more than you use your kids.
You know, we didn't have kids.
So we had someone to mow the lawn. Right.
We don't use them.
We love them and we do things with them.
So God isn't interested in this notion that we do it separately from him,
that he lives in the kingdom and we live in the world and we struggle and we look
for help. And I think if we're just brutally honest,
real talk for a second, many people live there.
Right.
But this idea of oneness, you and the father, son, you're one.
You're one person.
Then how does that one person function in business?
We say to our students in our school
of leadership, your primary purpose is your oneness.
Not doing things for God.
Your primary purpose is your oneness, and that oneness has a purpose.
The
Ephesians tells us that.
It says we are God's workmanship created in Christ, not just created,
created in Christ to do good works, which the father has prepared before.
So when the father prepared all this stuff, your business,
all the good works for you to walk in, where did he put it?
In Jesus, it's in your oneness.
So I got a promise from God for my business.
Well, really, you and Jesus got a promise from God for your business.
God, Jesus holds all your promises.
So they don't go anywhere.
Even if you, you know,
are still learning and mess up or whatever the stuff is.
So these are the three big surprises that we have a kingdom advantage.
That God wants to do it with us,
and that three that God has gone before us and wants to create a business with us.
And he's got ideas.
And then we have
we have Jesus, who's the redeemer, who wants to use this business process to grow
you up in Christ so that you become just like him.
Let us make man in our own image and likeness.
God is using the process of business to make you like him.
And then you've got the genius Holy Spirit,
who, by the way, is a pretty impressive resume, created the universe,
wrote the Bibles, caretakes the entire body of Christ,
invented business, invented everything about modern society.
All good gifts come from the Father above.
So we can't say, well, business is sort of evil and worldly.
Everything is holy except in the kingdom.
So with that.
With that simple idea that we are standing in a different position,
we launched this program called the Inner Circle, where we could get together once
a month and figure it out together, where people can get coached and helped.
On step one, how do you partner with the Lord?
How do you do what Jesus offered and learn from him?
Step two, downstairs, how do we give you access to all the best practices from the best leaders around the world, whether that's marketing or building a team or creating a high performance culture, whatever it is, all those things.
And we're constantly adding to this library of materials.
We call this library, by the way, LeaderForge, one word, LeaderForge, which we've trademarked, so we're excited about that.
All right, you guys ready to see the detail?
All right, before I get into it, are there any questions around this idea of being in business with God?
Because a lot of people say God is my business partner.
But when I dig into it, I find out they're pretty much doing it, you know, and I think the heart behind it is I really want they pray, they ask the Lord for help.
But it's not a case of, Father, what are you doing?
Let's do that together.
It's a case of I think this is a good idea and I pray about and I hope he blesses that as I go.
So we've created a a step by step process on how to do that partnership.
And a few weeks ago.
Yeah, I agree with you, Jerry, too much, too much struggle on your own.
You know, God didn't put you into Jesus, Jesus didn't pay that incredible price, and the Holy Spirit is there to take everything that belongs to Jesus and make it yours.
The three who are one, the three together didn't do all of that so we could just struggle and and hope and, you know,
plod along as though we're not believers, because that's exactly what the world's got.
That's all they got is the downstairs stuff, and they do pretty well just on the downstairs stuff, right?
Some of them are doing extraordinary well, just on the downstairs training.
So great.
We have yes, the thing from from David, David said the scriptures, David led with a contrite heart upstairs.
And in skillful hands downstairs, so we can't all be just heart, heart, and it's just the Lord and I love him and it's great,
but I don't know anything about my business.
I don't know how to create products.
I don't know how to sell.
I don't do customer service.
I don't know how to build a team.
Oh, it's just all the Lord, you know, and he's no, no, you're a partnership.
You're doing it together.
You know, it's not just all the Lord, you know, so it was like the lady in our church who came and said, sang this beautiful song.
And so my my friend who is the pastor of the church said that was that was really beautiful.
And she said, no, it was all the Lord pastor was all the Lord.
And he said, well, it wasn't that good.
Right, because if it was all the Lord, we'd know if he did the singing, you know, but we love that you sang and we were blessed.
So what we're saying is a partnership.
So we have to get ourselves free from this idea that we do things for God, that our business is for God, that we Christians in business.
Maybe we can take all that what we would call the the beginner stuff and put it aside and say, I want to do what Jesus did.
I want to take him up on his offer.
I want to function from rest.
Did you know that in the kingdom, everything starts in rest?
What is rest?
Rest isn't taking naps.
Rest is an internal quietness where the noise in your head has settled down with the anxiety and the worry and the concerns and the things.
What if you could run a business and never worry again?
What?
Yes, this is possible.
What if you could step out in confidence in business because you have his permission and you know he's with you?
And just like in Isaiah 41, where the Lord says, I will help you, I will go with you.
I'll protect you.
I will make you into a threshing sledge that will take out a mountain.
And just while he's saying all of that stuff, and then it goes on to say, I will make rivers in the desert and springs in the valley.
So we step into this realm where we've suddenly aligned with heaven and all of heaven's resources are hitting the earth and your name's on it.
God isn't trying to make us less, he's trying to make us more.
If Jesus is wonderful, you have to get used to the idea you have to be wonderful.
As he is, so are you in this world.
This whole idea of I must decrease and he must increase.
John the Baptist, the last of the old covenant prophets, is the last one to claim that.
We have to become like him and he's wonderful and he's amazing.
When Jesus said, I do what I see the father doing, he said, and it will amaze you.
What we do downstairs should be amazing to the world.
Right? It's not, well, they're Christian, so it's half-baked.
It has to be, wow, those people, I bet you those are Christian. Those are those
kingdom people, because they execute with such,
it's such excellence. It's incredible. Their customer services,
off the charts, their products are amazing. I'm so glad I found that.
I'm so glad I found them. That's our, and how do we do that? Align with
heaven.
So, does that sound good, or does that sound too good to be true?
Listen, if it doesn't sound too good to be true, it isn't God.
All righty. You all look so serious, like, is he okay?
You know, I'm okay. I'm having fun. I hope you're having fun.
I hope this is encouraging you. Very good.
All right, so what we want to do is, we want to dive into just a little bit
about what the program is, and then answer questions on, but before we get
into that, I just wanted to take a moment, just bless you.
Thank you for being here. Thank you for pursuing this in God.
Thank you for stepping into the space God has for you.
I know it's not easy to be, you know, a leader.
It's really tough. You know, I have the disease. I've done 27 startup businesses,
and my therapist says I'm doing better and better every day.
I don't have a therapist, but I was just saying, so
it's okay if you do, but I don't understand, because it's tough.
You know, one of my favorite quotes was,
somebody asked Elon Musk, who, by the way, we come from the same city, the same side
of the city, and he went to the school where my wife's
teacher, my mom-in-law taught him. So, you know, we know a little of his
background. Someone said, could you have good advice or some words of
encouragement for people who want to start a business?
And he looked at them, and he said, if you need encouragement to start a
business, this is not for you, because starting a business is like
chewing glass and staring into the abyss. I thought, wow,
that's pretty brutal, you know, but what he's saying is,
this is tough, and along comes Jesus and says,
my yoke is easy. My burden is the exact opposite.
So we get to choose which path, grind it out,
tough, disciplined, up in the morning, doing everything we have to do.
Fine, you know, downstairs discipline helps,
but there's something far better than downstairs discipline, upstairs delight,
because delight leads to discipline automatically. When you love what you're
doing, and you love who you're doing it with,
it's a lot easier. Okay, so that's what I'm offering.
All right, it's the opposite of chewing glass and
staring into the abyss.
It's really interesting, when Jesus said, my yoke is easy,
the word easy is actually quite a complex Greek word.
What it means literally, it's helpful and delightful.
Have you ever been to a restaurant where they were really helpful, but not very
delightful? I was in a foreign country, and I won't
say where, for the sake of the people, and the
service was military precision, and I hated it all. It was about as
cozy as a train station, and I was like, pow, pow, pow, pow, pow,
everything was there, everything was done to the exact amount of degrees, and blah,
blah, blah, and the, you know, the soda was the right thing,
and this was the right thing, and it was really helpful, but not pleasant.
Or you go somewhere that's really pleasant, but it isn't actually helpful.
They're very, very sweet, and they got your order wrong three times in a row, but
they're sweet about it. You know, it still doesn't help. What
Jesus says, my partnership is helpful
and delightful to you. It will delight your soul,
because you'll be in a place of internal rest,
that striving, and pushing, and stress, and anxiety, and anxiousness,
and, you know, my friend Graham Cook, who is one of the most extraordinary people
I've met, but in those early years when we were
doing those conferences in 2017, he was interviewed. So we're
running this conference, there's 9,000 people at the event,
and I would say about 40% business people, about 60%
ministry, pastors mostly, and so on, and so they interview him afterwards on
a podcast, and the podcaster, the
interviewer says, Graham, I've heard a rumor, but it's, I just
can't believe it's true. I wonder if you would address it.
The, the word is, you haven't worried about anything in 20 years.
And he said, Oh, no, that's, that's true.
And the guy goes, Come on, real talk for a minute, he says, Well, maybe for a few seconds
until my peace rises, and I come back to rest.
He says, I've been practicing my peace every day.
And now my peace has lasted longer and longer and longer to the point has become permanent.
So we practice these things.
So what I'm saying isn't some magic button, we're going to press and then put Bam, now
you're in a different mode.
You can't, you can't earn a gift from the Lord, but you do need to learn it.
And this is what we're talking about.
You're practicing these things not to become someone you're practicing these things because
you are someone in Christ, you are a new creation, you are his beloved, you are his partner.
And so I can attest to the fact having been Graham's business partner now for six years,
I can attest to the fact that he does not worry about anything.
He just doesn't.
And I asked him why.
And he said, I had an encounter with the Prince of Peace, and he never left.
See, peace is a ruling power in our lives as business people.
We're going to talk about that, we're going to talk about all these elements and unpack
it for a whole year.
So we get together, and we go through these sessions every month for two hours, and we
pack in the first half is all kingdom executive training, how to be with the Lord, how the
Lord wants to be with you, we really get into that the nuts and bolts of that.
And then the second half is we get into the practice of building your business.
Does that sound good?
Well, let me share with you what that looks like.
Normally, I'm used to much more interaction.
So let me stop for a second.
Let's see if that makes sense.
Good.
I just really appreciate this foundation that you're building out for us.
And yeah, that piece of just being under the shelter of his wings, I lost everything in
January 24th through through the company I was working for went bankrupt.
And it was 20 years of work that completely got shattered overnight.
Early morning, as I was doing my devotionals, I got a cartoon head.
And this vision came were big from an eagle's nest, the wing came out and in my spirit,
I heard under the shelter of my wing, you'll be okay, stay, stay there.
And so that's what I've done.
I've stayed under the shelters wing.
And it's been like almost a year now, and it's been the most freeing.
You know, you think you're okay, when you're doing well, but when you're stripped completely,
completely, and you have to make no income coming in, you have to start your bills coming
in.
And you have to lean hard on Jesus, you have to lean hard on the scriptures.
And you discover who really is beside you and who's not.
And it's been just the most outstanding and amazing journey ever.
But that, you know, I appreciate you talking about peace, right?
That worries what the enemy wants you to do that, that striving is what the enemy wants
you to strive for.
And I kept just under the shelter of my wings, you hang up, and that's what I've done.
And I don't even know how I got on this call today.
Like it's like, how in the heck did this happen today?
And I'm like, okay, God, you just, you know, when you surrender and you give it, which
is hard to do in our humanness, but when you surrender it, and you let it go, I'm on this
call today.
And I'm like, what?
You know?
How did I get here?
So my dogs are going to go nuts.
So I'm going to say just thank you.
Denise, thanks so much for sharing.
I would love to make a few comments about that.
Because I think, firstly, thanks for being vulnerable and sharing about loss.
Because I think addressing loss is a very powerful element of kingdom life.
I don't know that many businesses have become anything successful without failure.
Having businesses fail, even fail spectacularly, which we've all, I've certainly experienced
that.
I think everybody's experienced that on some level or another.
Sometimes we look at people who are successful and think it was just a straight ride.
There are very few who had a straight ride.
And even on that straight ride, there were many times they were on the edge of bankruptcy.
It almost fell over.
And if you'd really opened up the story.
As kingdom people, though, I love what you said, where the Lord put you in a safe place
in the shadow of His wing.
He put you in His heart.
And He said, let's do this together.
And it's in that togetherness.
in your oneness with him, that's where the safety is.
Because if I have his permission,
now I'm executing with boldness because he said.
Because I know I have alignment with heaven,
I know I have alignment with heaven's favor,
the favor goes before me.
Here's the shocking thing though,
since we're talking about shocking things,
a lot of kingdom people don't always know,
the shocking thing for me was talking to the Lord
about one of those parables I hated.
You know, the one about people coming at different hours
and then at the end, they all get the same pay?
I don't know how many people that bothers you.
That, you know, I was just honest with the Lord,
I hate that story.
And the Lord said, you hate it
because you don't understand redemption.
I said, what do you mean, Lord?
He said, those who come early in the morning
and get the same pay,
there are those who come in the last hour
and I'm gonna make it as though
they got it right from day one, right from 6 a.m.
So even when we mess up,
he redeems us back as though we were never dinged.
We go through life, we get a ding,
sometimes more than a ding,
it's like a brick on the head
or a whole building on the head, right?
So we go through life, we get dinged in relationships,
we get dinged in business,
we just get dinged financially,
we just go through a lot of setbacks.
And then the Lord says, okay, where would have she been
had she never been interrupted?
He looks at that graph.
That's what redemption is.
What restoration is, is putting you back where you were.
What redemption is, is putting you back
where you would have gone had you never been interrupted.
How kind is that?
So when the Lord's redeeming your business,
that's what he's doing.
He's always got this incredibly kind view.
That's why he's the kindest person you've ever met.
Because the Redeemer is working,
the Creator, Father,
is working with you to create something.
The Redeemer is helping you and pulling the load
and redeeming everything in you,
relationally, financially,
he's redeeming everything.
He never stops.
And then you've got the genius helper Holy Spirit
who's helping you.
He created it all.
You're sitting staring at your spreadsheet thinking,
how am I gonna do this?
Or how am I gonna build that product?
And he says, I know, I know, I've got five great ideas.
Ask me, ask me, ask me.
He's so enthusiastic.
But we have to ask.
Jesus, you don't have, because you don't ask.
And it always amazes me
how I struggle for something for three hours,
then ask him, and then I solve it in five minutes.
Why didn't I ask two hours ago or three hours ago?
So I wanted to just encourage you,
God is redeeming back.
He's not just, oh, we'll make do.
Let's see if we can, you know,
let's see if we can keep Denise busy and whatever.
No, we're gonna redeem her all the way back
to what would have happened where she should have been.
So.
And what I think another piece of this
is that there's correction, right?
There's correction.
You know, you love the Lord when you're successful,
like you'll, you know.
And then when it's stripped, things shift.
And then it's like, oh, okay,
let's change these things, right?
And you don't do it purposely.
It just, it's just the way it was, right?
So I think it's a cleansing experience too.
And you let, you let it all come in
because we all make mistakes.
And this is, I love the piece of redemption, right?
Because you'll, if you're open,
you'll learn from the errors you made
or the decisions you made, right?
And there were many decisions that were like,
like it wasn't my fault that the company went bankrupt.
We worked really hard for that company,
but you could easily put blame on others.
And that's the other thing too.
You gotta walk away with peace
and you gotta walk away with forgiveness
and you gotta walk away with, you know,
you have a better plan.
So you pulled me right out.
You fixed the gold in handcuffs off.
So that's, that's a beautiful thing.
Whatever the, whatever the world or the enemy
or even your own stupidity throws at you
that causes pain, God flips it to your benefit.
Every curse turned into a blessing.
He's flipping coins.
So something negative comes, he flips it to your benefit.
That's what he does.
And that's why I think a lot of people think
that the Lord is frustrated with our learning.
Why are you still learning this?
This is the seventh time I've taught.
He doesn't think like that at all
because he sees you in Christ and Christ in you.
That's how he, that's how he,
he knows the real true new you in Jesus.
He's not bothered with the old you that died, you know?
And if anyone is in Christ, they're a new creation.
The old has gone, the new has come.
And all this is from God
who has fully reconciled us to himself.
So if God has fully reconciled us to himself,
there's grace for our learning.
And so we, if the world throws things at us.
us or the enemy or it doesn't matter what the source is. He says, Don't worry, I'll
work it out. I'll work it for your good. I'll go around that. And that's often why
it takes longer. He's going around things because God is bound himself to the idea that
people have free will. And he won't, he's not going to just turn their brains on, you
know, so he's going to honor his own word, bind himself to that, which means he's so
incredibly self confident about your goodness. He says, all things work together for the
good of them that love God and are called according to. So he says, I'm going to work
it out for you. I've got you. We're going to get there. And I love that you said you
brought up how much we grow through the worst of times. Huge upgrades, right? Like getting
a new computer and a new operating system and all these new apps. So there you go. Well,
thanks for sharing. That was lovely. I appreciate you jumping in. Okay. Anyone else want to
weigh in? Jenny, Bridget, Glenn, any of you guys want to share something? And I'm going
to jump right into the program.
Maybe I'll just share something quickly, Dion that just a bit of an encouragement in terms
of my learning as well and conversation with the Lord. It's just in the whole thing of
being about New York, it's something I'm learning over the last several months and
continuing to learn about how to truly be in New York with Him. And I had a really
interesting experience a few weeks ago, where I was chained to the Lord about Proverbs 3,
6, where it says, you'll make straight your paths. And I was pondering that and what I
got from the Lord was like, oftentimes, when we aren't in New York with Him, the way our
journey goes, we can love Him and we can be, you know, passionate, we can be asking for
guidance and help and all this. But the fact is that when we try to operate in our own
life, we have this zigzag kind of life where we're going in one direction, then we change
and then we ask His, you know, asking for help, and then He kind of corrects. And so
what we're doing is we have this sort of zigzag, a lot of energy, a lot of effort, a lot of
stress, strain, but the total distance traveled is short. And you know, we've not gone very
far, a lot of energy, little distance traveled. And part of what I was, you know, talking
to the Lord about is, is what does it look like to move to have a straight path? And
what came out of that conversation was, was that in that straight path, the difference
with that straight path is that it's unhurried. It's an unhurried way of walking with the
Lord. And it was if in the course of that conversation, I had an interesting experience
because I was busy developing something. And I woke up that morning with a with a with
an inspiration from the Holy Spirit about how to solve this thing. And I built a whole,
a whole component of an application in less than a day. That I was just amazed, and it
felt like there was not a single step in the course of that day, where it was a zigzag,
it was a straight path, completely to the implementation. And it was like the Lord was
saying, when you enjoy with me, this is this is, this is how we can we can be together
and actually produce. And so it was a it was a, it was a great experience, where it was
like the Lord was talking to me one thing, and then in the day, he actually demonstrated
it in terms of how that how that day actually unfolded. So I don't know, it was an
encouragement was a learning for me of like, wow, okay, I'm understanding something here
about how the Lord can straighten our paths. And in an unhurried way, we can accomplish,
we can go so much further unhurried than in our own strength, stress, bouncing around
all over the place and zigzagging through life, you know.
You know, Glenn, I love that you share that. I always think of the story of the guy took
his dog for a walk. And it was back in the day before you actually have your dog on a
leash. And it's only it's only half a mile from from from his house to the store. And
so he'd get to the first crossroads, and the dog would run down the road and bark at every
dog in this side of the street, then bark at every dog on that side of the street, then
run up the other street and bark on both sides, come all the way down. And he just slowly
walk. At the end of the day, the dog has gone up and down all the streets, barked at
everything, pick fights everywhere. They get there, the dog's exhausted, the dog's done
10 miles, he's done half a mile. This is making straight the path of the Lord in an
hurried way. And we get there sooner, you know, so I think I the you know, again,
there's grace for our learning. It's not God doesn't mind the learning. He loves the
learning. But what he's really he knows exactly who you're becoming in him. And he's
really committed to what
who you're becoming next. And it's great if we're on the same
page and understand what he's doing. And he uses our business
and our daily lives to bring as, as, as the training tools to
bring us to that unhurried life. No rush, never hurried. And you
know, that's in a modern, instantaneous, I want
everything now microwave, give it to me right now mo culture.
You know, it's like, I bought it, where's the link, I want to
download it, give it to me now, where is where is go, go, go. I
mean, it, that's fine in downstairs, but it's not fine
upstairs. Upstairs, there needs to be a quiet, calm. And I and I
like I love living this way. What a great life as kingdom
executives that we get people, how come you're not worried? How
come you're not hurried? How come you the calmest person in
the room? And we have an answer for that. So the joy and peace
in believing the Bible calls it. So Glenn, thanks for
sharing. Alright, guys, well, let me jump into, I wanted to
spend the first half of the time, just blessing you
encouraging you sharing some of the things we've learned
sharing our journey. I know many of you want to know, you know,
so what's the program? You know, what does it look like? Who
should be here? How much does it cost? How often does it meet?
What does deliver all that stuff. So I'm going to share
that next, with your permission. But I'm really
excited to share it with you, because we've been tweaking and
refining this program. Because here's what we care about. We
care about moving the needle. We'd love to see people move
upstairs and not just visit upstairs. Our job is not to live
downstairs and every now and again, go and visit upstairs in
prayer and visit. Now we meant to be a we're kingdom people, we
get to live in the kingdom and work downstairs. Better than
living downstairs and trying to work upstairs. Oh, I did this
for God, I did that for God, I did that for God. And, and this
flipping of the mindset means now that we're living from
upstairs to downstairs, we're living from heaven to earth, on
earth, as it is in heaven. And so we're really taking Jesus
very seriously on his offer. Because Jesus said, I will
teach you. Here's the thing is it blows my mind. I no longer
call you servants. I call you friends. Servants do not know
the Father's business. How many of you would love to know the
Father's business meaning the one you're in? Right? Father,
what is your business here? And then he says, but I will teach
you everything the Father has taught me. Wow. I mean, for that
plan, I want to be about the Father's business. I want to be
a friend. I want to be in yoke. And I want all of this huge
deliverables that Jesus is offering us. Okay, let me jump
straight into sharing with you about the inner circle, and what
we're doing at the inner circle. And so we shared a little bit
about it, at least in my case, how I discovered my kingdom
advantage, going through all this training, all this study,
studying the best leaders, putting that all together in a
PhD, writing a book, then turning those into programs,
then running that in several of my own businesses, and putting
all these things into practice. But all the time, it is all the
powerful downstairs stuff, which again, is helpful, I don't want
to make it sound as like not helpful, it's very helpful for
the natural world. But where's the kingdom advantage and my
search for that. And we shared about the idea of the upstairs
being the kingdom, downstairs being the world, and the
beautiful offer that Jesus made, come to me, all you are weary
and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke, my
partnership upon you and learn from me. He's offering to teach
everything we need to know about our business and about our life
and our relationships. For I am gentle, and I'm humble in heart,
I'm not going to stress you out. I know what you can learn. I
know your rate, I know where you're at. I'm going to teach
you where you're at. I love that and you again, reinforcing you
will find rest for your soul, your soul means your whole inner
being will be at rest, calm, quiet, beautiful. For my yoke is
easy, my partnership is delightful and helpful. And my
burden is light. This has been a core verse. You know, sometimes
we read a verse, and then we learn a verse and then we become
the verse. Right? I feel like many of us in our inner circle
are becoming this verse. This is this is a reflection with you
when you read a verse, and you feel I have really become that
verse, not just I know about it. In the kingdom, it doesn't
matter what you know, it only matters who you've become.
Doesn't matter if you have three PhDs in theology, you can
memorize scripture, whatever, that doesn't mean that just
knowing about God
It's not necessarily knowing God, right?
So we wanna know him and be in partnership with him.
So leaders can lead from rest.
This is a possibility, God, that Jesus is offering.
Yoke means partnership with God,
being together, bound together.
And kingdom leaders can lead in easy and light mode.
How many of you would like to be in easy and light mode?
Easy in the sense of helpful, delightful,
and there's a lightness to your being.
That's a different leadership.
That's a whole lot better than chewing glass
and staring to the abyss.
All right, so we've talked about the three,
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, plus me.
So at Brilliant, we used a lot of the term three plus me.
We actually trademarked that three plus me
because we loved it so much.
But what if it's three plus me in business together?
What if we're doing this with the three?
So that means Father Creator wants to create with you.
He's not interested, Lord, would you give me this
so I can go and do that?
He hates that prayer because it excludes him.
Lord, if you'll give me this, if you'll answer this prayer,
if you'll favor me and bless my business,
then I'll sell it and then I'll go and work in the ministry
or whatever the plan we came up with,
whatever the negotiation was.
And the Lord said, no, no, no,
I want to do the whole thing with you
because I think we can take it to a whole different level.
So the Father wants to create with you,
with not for, with.
Jesus the Redeemer wants to be in partnership with you.
In the conversation we had earlier, God redeems back.
Jesus wants to redeem you back to where you would have been
had you never been dinged on your way up.
I just think that is unbelievably kind.
Holy Spirit Genius Helper wants to genuinely help you.
He created the universe, created business,
He knows, He created technology,
everything that's good that's come from heaven,
all of that goodness, He can help because He created it.
He knows exactly how to help you.
He knows exactly how to teach you in a way
that's most meaningful to you.
So it's time to move your business upstairs
or your business life upstairs, not just visit.
It's time to move it and make it your habitation,
make it your permanent place of operations.
All right, so don't just lead your business,
build it with the three.
All right, so we've talked a bit about our journey.
Year by year, we've been training,
how do you create a high performance team,
starting with a lot of downstairs tools,
which we've been building and continue to build.
Leading from rest, upstairs permission
leads to bold downstairs action.
This was a breakthrough when we realized
that all I have to ask the Lord is,
Lord, what's my permission here?
Then when I go and execute,
I'm executing with boldness because He said,
because I'm standing with His promise,
what He said was a possibility and He said, go and do this.
In fact, I'm gonna ask you to use this method
in making a decision as to whether you should be part
of this inner circle or not.
Do not use downstairs pressure or sales tactics,
we don't do that.
All you have to ask the Father, Father, are we doing this?
Do I have your permission?
Then take downstairs bold action,
because God always, He always provides
what He asks for, right?
He's not your weird uncle who invites you to lunch
and then makes you pay, right?
He's your dad, invites you to lunch
and He pays for what He invited you to.
So if God is saying yes, do that.
So that's the only question as you're listening through this
and you're looking at the program,
you simply have to ask the Lord.
You don't have to go to Lord Bank account,
you don't have to go to Lord anything else,
you don't have to go and ask somebody else's permission,
you just have to ask for their support.
God's permission and ask your family support,
ask for your spouse's support
and your business partner's support.
I feel like the Lord's given me permission to do this
and I'd love your support.
His permission comes from one place
and that comes from the Lord.
And we talked about how we've been learning
how our Yoke partnership works,
the step-by-step aspects of that
and how to create and lead with God, not for Him.
And so for 2026, we wanna help you build a kingdom business,
whether you're on your own or you're in a small business
or you work in a bigger organization,
it's all the same thing.
You can be the touch point for heaven.
You don't need 51% of the people in your organization
to be believers for heaven to take.
It's just three plus me.
Hey, there's already,
Jesus said if two or more of you agree,
well, there's Father, Son, Holy Spirit in you,
there's already four of you in agreement.
Talk about majority.
All right, so that means God is looking for a touchpoint from heaven. What if we made you the touchpoint from heaven in your?
organization
By the way, I was saying that in the first person of God to you the Lord saying to you
Hey, what if we father son Holy Spirit make you the touchpoint of heaven?
All right, so we want to give God what he wants to build with him
So, how do we do that? Let's go through that in detail
We talked about upstairs and his partnership with God so that all the training there is about learning from him
Downstairs we talked about executional excellence and it's learning from other great leaders
So that means we're going to be able to skillfully with skillful hands
Execute the things we're seeing and learning from God
Does that sound like a great way to live because I love this life
So, what does that mean the program has two components
it has kingdom executive coaching which teaches all us about how to learn from him and be in yoke and
The downstairs is a leader Forge program, which is all this training from all the great leaders
Okay, so let me break that out for you. What do each of those contain the kingdom executive coaching the learning from God part
Is live training just like we're doing now
Monthly to our zoom calls. We used to be new 90 minutes
We're going back to two hours so we can get more substance in there and you can bring a plus one
You can bring your partner
The only the only condition is it must be someone who's involved in the business with you, right?
So it can't just be somebody who's doing something else
It has to be someone who's involved with you. If that's your spouse who's involved in the business with you then that's fine
But we really has to be someone who's involved with you so it really is two of you
It's a two-for-one deal here. And then we do these SOS calls
These are one-on-one calls that I do and we give depending on the program you in you always need that one time
You need a call. I'm in crisis. Oh my goodness. Yeah, I need help
Schedule a one-on-one call and I do that as part of the program
All right, so kingdom
Executive training is the following
It involves discovering. These are some these are the topics we'll go through each one each month
Discover the possibility God is offering you. How do you know what he's offering you? How do you know it's from him?
To find rest that activates your yoga partnership. So how do we practice that dress and make it permanent?
We can talk a lot about that so that your rest and your peace are permanent
It's not just coming in and out of peace or I'm stressed now, let me get a little bit of peace
It's not a transaction. It's it's it's a it's a relational reality. It's not just a transactional thing
Okay, and learn how to contact with God's help and how he works with you
A lot of times people are assuming God is helping them on something that they're doing when he isn't and we talk about how to
Know that it's not difficult to know
It's pretty straightforward and then learn how permission in your partnership creates freedom. Denise was talking earlier about freedom
When you find this permission when you find this partnership you step into a space of so much freedom
It's like oh my goodness. How many?
Business people do you know I've come to hate the business they building because they've ended up becoming, you know bound by it
They can't go on vacation
They can't do this they can't and they give away all the best bits to other people they've hired and all the junky bits
The stuff they hate doing they end up doing and so they end up almost despising the thing they've created
I've met so many leaders who've done that but what if your partnership with the Lord puts you back into that place of freedom?
Build your your team the kingdom way. There is a way to build a team
Jesus said father. I've received those you've given me
So and they know you so the question is who's God giving you and who should you receive?
It's more than just hiring and firing. It's who's God giving me?
And how do I know and then how to make your leadership prophetic if you're not familiar with a prophetic?
It doesn't matter just means how do you speak to people one step above where they are and pull them up?
How do you speak to other people even your customers and pull them up into one step higher?
Grow your capacity as a leader your capacity is not set in God that capacity can grow
Develop the mindset of a high-powered kingdom executive and I was too long to add who functions from rest
And then leverage the kingdom approach to customers for higher impact in fact customer service in a kingdom way could be the most
Distinguishing fact and most compete biggest competitive advantage you have in your business
All right, and then we're going to talk a lot more about how to
unlock your yoke potential. How do you 10x your business in God? He loves that idea, by the way.
But when it's ready, he says, okay, we're not just about the 15, 20% growth a year. What if we took
it to a whole different level? We'll talk about how do we know when that is? How do we partner
with the Lord in doing that? I don't know about you, but I love all those topics. That was really,
I mean, they super excite me because as I'm going through them, I'm remembering stories and
different people have already been. Okay. The downstairs section, Leaderforge, learning from
great leaders. This is based on my PhD study of great leaders and stuff I've been adding since.
So it's my job to keep up with all the latest stuff. How many of you have ever done the thing
where you've looked up leadership at Google? I think there's 2.3 billion links on leadership.
And there's, I don't know how many millions of books there are on leadership and how many YouTube
videos and how many, and you look at these, I don't know which one. I don't know what it's too
much. That's our job. We've been pulling out all the best stuff, the stuff that genuinely moves
the needle. And we brought that into one program. And so we've also simplified them for anyone to
use. They've got to be so simple that every single person in your whole team can do it.
All right. Practical worksheets. We can hear about a thing, but we have to become the thing,
right? It doesn't match just hearing, we have to become. So there's practical worksheets
that we've put together to help your whole team grow into this space. That's how we produce our
high-performance culture. That 500% increase in productivity I was talking about, that came from
this program. And there's an app, a LeaderForge app, and can really track team development.
There are a total of 48 training sessions available in this whole thing. And let me
share those with you. We've broken those up into different series. There's the foundation series,
where we talk through this force. Each of these are four sessions. So there's a session on how
to create a team of leaders, not just a team with a leader. How do you empower an entire team to act
like owners? That's very powerful. That will step your business up straight away. What on earth are
we doing? What are we doing? Why are we doing it? And then answering the question, how do I fit in?
Giving your people one-line job descriptions and so on. Very powerful way to do this.
And then building a high-performance trust culture. Once you build trust into your organization
as a kingdom organization, even if you're the only believer in your whole team,
it doesn't matter. This all works. By the way, all this training has no Christian references,
no kingdom. We took all the kingdom goodness, baked it in, but there's no Christian references.
It was designed to help you as a kingdom leader bring goodness to others and get all the
performance. There's no Christian references here whatsoever. Okay, then on the productivity series,
we talk about the key to productivity, the whole sense of cognitive control,
the ability to stop switching from one task to another and exhausting yourself,
and all the other stuff. A lot of neuroscience, a lot of great research has gone into this. The
superpower of deep work. How a four-hour session uninterrupted can move your contribution to the
business to a whole different level, especially if you partner with Holy Spirit doing it.
Three ways to grow your business. There's only three ways to grow a business, and we talk about
what they are and which one you should be focused on and how to partner with the Lord on that.
All right, then the last two series are the innovation series and the executive series.
On the innovation series side, we talk about the key to innovation, how you do
just thin little projects, lots of little thin slicing rather than boil the ocean project and
try to take on these big projects you never finish and never take to market. And making
less meetings work is a very powerful way to free people up to work and not just keep your people
tied up in meetings all the time, death by meeting. And then making work effortless.
All of these come from great leaders, and we reference and tell you where all the sources
are, where we got this. So Greg McKeon, who wrote the workbook Effortless, came up with an
incredible... He also wrote Essentialism and some of those kind of books. So Greg's a great guy.
Executive series, we talk about necessary endings. How do you know just to end, or maybe it's time
to shut down this business. That's a tough one. Or maybe it's time to let someone go.
All those necessary endings and new beginnings. When do you launch new products? How do you
provide new services? Developing next level leaders. How do you develop leaders in your
organization, not just have to hire them in? And you can hire them in, but developing your own
is the better way to go. And then...
upgrading economics and the whole pricing strategies and marketing elements around
those key concepts. So a lot of key ideas here from lots of great leaders. And then once a year
we do a two-day in-person event. That's when we all get together and hang out and have great time.
All right, let me go through. Here's the offer to you. We've made the offer available in three
modes. If you're a startup, so there's three plans. There's a startup plan, a growth plan,
and an all-in plan. So let's go through those. The kingdom executive coaching, all three get that.
I said a plus one. Again, all three get that. The SOS calls, there's no SOS calls for startups.
There's too much movement there. But those in the growth plan will get one a year and those
in the all-in get three. They tend to need more one-on-one time. And then the leader forge,
the downstairs training. So the downstairs training is the foundation series. I'll just
put all the series up so you can see them all. So they're all the series. The all-in get all of
them. The growth get three of the four. And the startups, we just focus on the productivity
because a lot of times startups are a single person and that single person doesn't need
all the team stuff that everything else is dealing with. So it's all the high personal
productivity like deep work and self-management and cognitive control and all those cool things
that help you really be unhurried and calm in the way that you execute. Okay, so here are the prices.
So the investments are, the startup is $7,999. Growth is, I'm just going to round them up. So
it's 8,000, 12,000 or 15,000 on the all-in costs. Or if you want to do it monthly, just take away
the last digit and then you've got the monthly amount. So it's 999 or 199 or 1499. And then the
all-in, we have the in-person two-day event. That event is a $2,000 event. Two days, $2,000.
And the all-in people get it included. So if you decide you want to do the all-in thing,
then that would be included for you. Let me stop there and ask any questions around this.
So when I'm looking here, I'm looking at the chat session. All right. Very good. So
if you're paying full, that's obviously a 15% savings. So if you go back, you can see
those prices are discounted by 15%, actually a little more. And that's for the paid-in. So
if you want to be part of this right here, we can answer your questions now. And if you say,
I think I'm ready to make a decision, the question here is to ask the father, father,
are we doing this? And if we're doing this, then take bold action. And if you are interested,
Jenny will put you into a breakout session. She can help you and give you the links and
everything else you need. So if you are interested in that, just raise your hand
and Jenny will pop you into the breakout session. And in the meantime, I'll answer
any questions you might have. Okay. So we kick this off on the first Wednesday of January,
the first Wednesday of every month, 10 a.m. Exactly like we're doing today. First Wednesday
of the month, 10 a.m. for two hours. So Jerry, ask the Lord that question.
There's another question from Amy. Did you see that? If you are in BSOL.
No, Amy, these are separate programs. BSOL is a Tuesday. These run on Wednesdays. They're
separate programs. And the content, there's no overlapping. I mean, there's basic overlap in some
of the theology, but there's no overlap in the training. The training's at a different level.
BSOL, think of it as level two. This is right at the top level one.
If you know what BSOL is, folks, that's the brilliant school of leadership that Amy's
referring to. So you simply ask the Lord, Lord, are we doing this? And then I could give you so
many stories about people who've taken bold action based on the Lord's permission and how
he's provided, but that may be a bit manipulative. And so that's why I haven't told you those stories.
I really just want you to ask the Lord. This is your first step in the direction of,
uh, this is your first step in direction of partnering with the Lord, right? This is your
first moment of upstairs permission leads to downstairs bold action. Emily is bringing up.
Did you want to come up on the call or did you want to go through to the?
I can hear you.
I think you're unmuted.
Nope.
We don't have you unmuted.
She's unmuted.
We just cannot hear.
So it might be something in your sound settings.
Maybe her AirPods or something.
All right.
So Jenny, if you want to drop a link, I'm going to have while Emily's doing that, we
can drop a link to if you'd like some more information.
All the rest.
This is the information.
So there isn't a whole lot more, but are there two calls monthly?
No, it's the it's one call per month.
Every Wednesday, the first Wednesday of every month at 10 a.m. Eastern Time, 10 a.m. Eastern.
First Wednesday, every month for two hours.
That's the program.
One call per month.
First Wednesday.
Bridget wrote it there.
Eastern.
I know it.
Brilliant.
We often quote Pacific Time.
So please be aware.
This is Eastern.
Can we expand a little on the startup?
Yes.
You mean on the startup offer?
Is that what you're asking, Addy?
On the startup offer?
Yeah, I can show you a little more of what that is.
So quickest way to do that is this way.
So this startup section here, Addy, includes all the Kingdom Upstairs training and it includes
this productivity series.
So the productivity series is 12 sessions.
I know that's a lot to take in.
So let me walk you back to those sessions.
It's making me do it step by step.
So we'll get there in a second.
So here are the 12 sessions.
So the sessions we were talking about earlier were these sessions, the productivity series.
So the productivity series is the whole cognitive control, personal management, how we've developed
a system over 30 years in which you can manage yourself.
And the superpower of Deep Work, we talk about how to use Deep Work in like four hour blocks
to just up-level your business really quickly.
Do that once or twice a week.
We talk about the power of that.
And then so each of those sessions, Module 4, Module 5 and Module 6, each have four trainings.
So three times four is 12.
That's why it says 12 training sessions.
So these are 12 training sessions that are included.
So when we get together monthly, I pick one of these topics and I add them into the monthly
call.
But you have all the full training and all the worksheets.
So you get 12 training sessions and 12 worksheets in your productivity series for that group.
OK, let's get back to.
Did I answer your question, Addy?
Yeah.
OK.
Yeah.
Emily.
How's the sound now?
Yeah, we can hear you now.
How are you doing?
Good.
I'm doing good.
So I wanted to encourage everybody about the, you know, sowing into this, because I obviously have been doing this, you know, for a while.
And back in March, you know, I had to kind of step into a deeper place of expectation with the Lord and say, OK, Lord, this is what's needed to go forward.
And, you know, in heaven, we have all the resources we need.
So we're not limited.
And I asked him, I said, OK, Lord, what permission do I have?
You know, should I keep going?
And this was like, you know, six months later and back in March.
But and I didn't hear him say anything.
And I was like, OK, you know, so you just wait a little bit.
And I'm like, OK, Lord, what bold action do I need to take?
You know, and I sat there for a little, you know, maybe one or two days and I heard him say, I've already given you permission, you know, and I said, oh, OK.
So then the question turned into something else.
All that to say he provided six months of what I needed to be in this with him.
So my encouragement to you is like, don't let money be stopping you from doing something that the Lord's calling you to do, because he will provide.
You just have to step into that place with him, knowing that he's not limited by money, that that's not any problem for him at all.
It's just he's growing you into a place of trusting him with more and just like you stepping out with him.
And, you know, it's amazing.
Every month like there was never any worry because you know, you've got deadlines. You've got dates. Okay, this is do then and there but it's amazing how he provides.
So I just wanted to encourage you like if you feel the Lord, you know, you know inviting you into this go for it because he will provide.
So thank you. I mean, I know it's been great having you as part of the circle and because you work for a large organization and you know, you're also doing things on your own.
And so, you know, thanks for sharing that. I appreciate that. I want to say that if you're not hundred percent sure. Yes, one way you can do this.
You can do a taste and see pick pick the program you're interested in pay the first month that that takes care of that come to January and then you know after the end of January off that first session.
You can you can either pay the difference or keep paying every month after that you can do that too.
So either way it works. You just pay your first payment as a deposit and then you can figure out what you want to do from there.
Okay, by the way, just so that you know, we open this up every December. So the next time we get opportunity to join is next December.
So that's and the reason is is because we grow it as a group throughout the year and each session builds on the others.
And if people come in in the middle, we try to do that. It's not great. You're starting all over again. You're laying a foundation again.
You're putting all that structure together again and people get lost, you know, when they come in in the middle of it.
So we build it up as though, you know, nobody knows anything and then we build it up layer by layer all the way up both in the upstairs and the downstairs.
Okay. So if you want, if you want to connect with Jenny, just let us know and we will send you to the breakout session and we can stay and answer some more questions.