And welcome to tonight's Prosper Leader member call.
We do these twice a month and it's a powerful combination, my voice tonight, a powerful
combination of some one-on-one time, breakout time, which we just did, some teaching where
I just share some concepts for you to dive deeper, that's what this portion is.
And then we turn the camera off and we just go real and raw and mastermind and hot seat
and work together back as a group.
So what I want to talk about today, well, actually what I want to do is pray first,
and then I want to share three key thoughts for where we are right now in marketing, in
business, in the world, and how we as leaders, especially as Prosper Leaders, how we need
to be positioning ourselves in this season.
So that, you know, scripture talks about understanding the seasons, and this is so important.
I think one of the biggest mistakes people make and entrepreneurs make is they keep doing
something because at one time it worked.
And so it became kind of the group collective teaching, and it gets repeated, I really noticed
this in the coaching space, and it gets taught again, taught again, and it becomes the way
and everybody does it, and yet somewhere in that cycle, halfway, three quarters into it,
it's no longer working.
This is what I'm seeing in the industry.
It's no longer working, and yet it keeps on being taught and we keep on doing it, we keep
on doing it, we keep on doing it, and there's a certain defeatedness in there.
There's a frustration in there, and it's simply because we're not following that biblical
mandate of understanding the season.
And perhaps we're not taking enough time to be led by the Spirit of God.
So you know, there's a lot of talk about AI and all this incredible volume of wisdom,
but I'm going to tell you, there's no wisdom greater than the wisdom from the Most High.
And there's no substitution for downloads of living water, of living rhema revelation.
There's no substitute for that.
And there is spirit in there, there's the letter of the law, so AI can regurgitate lots
of facts.
It has no feeling and it has no spirit.
And it's only getting from the Spirit of God and allowing the Spirit of God to live through
us and heal through us and coach through us and love through us, that's something that
only humans can do, AI can't do.
And the revelation knowledge, because one of the roles of the Holy Spirit that scripture
says is that he will show us things to come, that he will guide us into all truth.
That's one of the roles of the Holy Spirit.
If you look at the roles of the Holy Spirit as helper, counselor, advocate, teacher, all
of those roles of the Spirit of God that lives in you, because you're the temple of the Holy
Spirit, if we're not tapping into that, you're not tapping into the greatest wisdom and power
and love and beauty and knowledge and understanding.
So we've got to start there.
Scripture says that those that are led by the Spirit are the sons and daughters of God.
Okay.
So I'm going to start with prayer and then I'm going to talk about how to incorporate
that in what you're doing so that we're like the sons of Issachar.
The sons of Issachar in the Bible, it says they understood the times and they knew what
to do.
There needs to be sons of Issachar in this season because the world is completely changing.
Never has there been a greater amount of change at such a rapid speed.
There's been change throughout history, but there was always more time to digest it.
The Industrial Revolution or the Agricultural Revolution or the Information Age Revolution,
there was time to adjust.
This is moving so fast.
And so I'm feeling so strong in my spirit that there needs to be sons of Issachar for
this season, daughters of Issachar for this season.
that they understand the times and they know what to do
because they're led, because within them
as a temple of the Holy Spirit,
having the mind of Christ is infinite wisdom,
infinite understanding, infinite creativity,
all of that, all power, all love,
every resource you could want to draw on.
In fact, scripture says that springs of living water,
rivers of living water flow out of our belly, okay?
So I'm gonna pray for that
and then we're gonna talk about it
and then we'll come back
and we'll talk about it collectively, okay?
So Father God, I just thank you that,
as it was once said, the best of times and worst of times,
in the middle of craziness
and enormous, enormous transformation,
I'm asking Holy Spirit for a spirit of wisdom,
a spirit of revelation knowledge,
a spirit of understanding, a spirit of clarity
that we will be the sons and daughters of Issachar,
that we will understand the times and know what to do.
So I ask that you speak clearly here
and in every single woman represented,
both here live and listening to the recording,
I'm asking Holy Spirit that you will rise up
mightily within us,
that we will be the light as you've called us
to be the light,
that we will be the love as you've called us to be the love,
that we will be the voice of truth
as you've called us to be the voice of hope,
the voice of healing, the voice of love.
I'm asking that you'll use us mightily
and I ask in Jesus' mighty name, amen.
Okay, so I wanna talk of some key words
when we talk about the timing right now
and making the most of the timing, okay?
The first word I wanna talk about is alignment.
If you're taking notes,
you would wanna write down align, align.
What do you need to align with?
Well, let me ask, what are you aligned with?
What do you need to align with?
I'm gonna tell you that right now
as there becomes an information overload,
which is also resulting in a lot of deception,
a lot of confusion, a lot, are any of you feeling this?
Are you feeling like there's more webinars coming at you
than you can handle?
There's more knowledge, there's more emails,
there's more eBooks, there's more like,
like, you know, I've got sitting on my computer
like six powerful things I wanna be listening to
and I can't even get to the volumes
that are coming to me right now that are high quality,
I've already sorted, but the volume.
So number one, there's just this volume
of massive information coming at us, okay, and to us.
But there's also confusion, like, was that a real person
or was that an AI simulation?
Did that person really say that or did computer graphics,
did that really happen or are we watching a movie screen?
Like, it's getting to the place
where there's gonna be this sense of overwhelming confusion,
like, I don't even know what to believe anymore.
And many people are being overwhelmed by that.
And then if they're being fed by mainstream media,
which is designed to control your emotions,
and there's a lot more that goes into that
to control the frequency and how you're feeling
to have a population, if they want a population angry
or they want a population depressed,
or if you're not aware of that manipulation,
we've got to come out.
We've got to be in the world, but not of the world.
You've got to be the one that is influencing the world
as opposed as a leader.
If you're a thought leader, if you are a spiritual leader,
if you're a coach, if you're a teacher,
you must be the change and being the influence
instead of being dragged along and driven by the wind, right?
And so to do that, you've got to be in alignment.
You think about a car, if the wheels are out of alignment,
you're gonna wear out.
One tire is probably gonna blow out.
I remember one time my alignment was off
and I didn't even know it.
And the whole inside tread, it was completely bare,
but I couldn't really see it on the outside of the tires
on the inside edge.
That's what being out of alignment will do.
It wears off the tread so that you're confused
or you're exhausted or you lack focus or you lack power
or you lack love or because you're out of alignment, okay?
And so the first alignment.
Alignment, of course, is within us.
OK, so if I'm talking spiritually, the first alignment, you've got three
components, we're a triune being, OK, we are spirit, soul and body.
OK, so
which of those is running?
The proper alignment is that our spirit is running our soul,
which is our mind, will and emotions, which is running and mastering our body.
If that's out of alignment, if your body is what's leading.
And, you know, I got to have a cigarette.
I got to have that food.
I need that. I'm craving this.
I'm you know, you're being led by the flesh.
You have not crucified the flesh.
OK, so that the flesh is running you.
OK, and that's out of alignment because the soul, the mind, the will, God gave us
the will is meant, OK, to rule over the body.
And the spirit, which is directly
connected with Holy Spirit, is meant to rule the mind.
So the mind is renewed and then the body is walking in alignment.
That's that's being in alignment here.
OK, putting that in alignment.
Then as we reach out and we're in alignment, this is going to become more
and more important. And so one of the ways to be in alignment
is to really know your identity.
So I'm going to be talking a lot about identity.
In fact, you're going to want to mark
your calendar on doing a masterclass next month on identity and identity,
your self-concept, how you're seeing yourself and your true identity.
Because this is the number one influence
in how much money you're making and how your relationships are working
and how your health is working, how your business.
And it's not something that's talked about very often.
So I'm going to go very deep in identity.
But if we're talking about alignment as
it comes to identity, I want you to think about this.
Who are you?
Who are you, if I say, who are you now?
Often if we're out of touch and I say, who are you?
Most people will answer with a role, with what they do.
I'm a mom. I'm a doctor.
I'm a nurse. I'm a teacher.
No, those are things that you do.
Those are roles that you play.
They're not who you are.
Sometimes we're so tapped into our body that we think we're our body.
No, you're not.
You're not a body. You have a body.
But you are not a body.
If you lost your arms right now, God forbid, would you still be you?
And the answer is yes.
If you lost your legs, would you still be you?
The answer is yes.
Even if your mind was not working, would you still be you?
Yes, because the essence of who you are never changes.
So you're not a body and you're not a role.
So what are you?
Who are you?
Now, this becomes super, super important.
And it is your self concept.
Like, what are you saying about yourself?
Who do you say that you are as opposed to who does God say that you are?
And do they line up?
Do they line up?
So to be in alignment,
we see ourselves the way that God sees us.
So at the recent His View retreat,
God gave me a download and I saw it so clearly.
I saw a very important question.
And Jesus asked Peter a very important question.
He says first, he says, who do they say that I am?
And he says, well, some say you're a prophet, some say you're a teacher,
some say blah, blah, blah, you're Elijah, you're Moses, come back.
And then he looks at Peter and he says, who do you say that I am?
And Peter is in alignment at that moment, he's walking in revelation knowledge,
he's hearing direct from spirit and he says, you're the Christ,
the son of the living God.
And Jesus responds and says, Peter,
flesh and blood didn't reveal that to you, but my father that's in heaven.
In other words, Peter, you're tuned in.
That's accurate.
Now, most of us maybe know that story, but let me look at the backside of the story.
Let's pull up the hood on that story.
When you look at the backside of that story,
Jesus did not get his identity from public opinion.
It didn't matter if they said he was Moses or Elijah
or a teacher or a healer or a prophet,
that was not moving him.
And then when Peter, he did not need validation.
In other words, when you know who you are,
you don't need external validation.
You don't need likes on Facebook
to be confident in what you teach.
You don't need engagement.
You don't stop or you don't keep changing
in order to get external validation
because you're walking and you're living
from that place of knowing who you are
that does not require external validation, okay?
So Jesus did not reveal.
So he said flesh and blood.
Now, he could not have answered that
if he had not already gotten clear with who he was.
Do you see the power that he was already clear who he was?
So then when someone spoke truth and saw him
as he really was, he could recognize that.
That's where we have to be with our identity.
I'm gonna go deep in the masterclass
how that affects every area of our life.
But when we're talking about being in alignment,
it's aligning our self-concept, how we see ourselves,
what we say about ourselves.
When you look in the mirror, what you say about yourself,
your self-talk, all of that, how you see yourself,
how you visualize yourself, what you're imagining,
all that self-concept stuff and who you really, really are.
That has to be in alignment.
Second, we have to be in alignment with our God-given vision.
We have to be in alignment with our God-given vision.
Third, we have to be in alignment
with our God-given design, our divine design.
We have to be in alignment with our divine design.
So I gave you an exercise and it's a powerful exercise
because one of the ways you can discern your purpose,
you can begin to discern what did God place in you
when he knew you before the foundation of the world
and he created you with unique fingerprints
that nobody else has, unique eye that nobody else has
and a unique plan and a purpose for your life,
a divine design.
Ephesians says that he's prepared a good path
for us to walk out.
And so to do that, you have to be discerning
of your divine design, not what your parents or pastors
or teachers or other people said that you should be or do
or try to follow after what they think,
but who did God make you to be?
What did he bring you here to do?
What is your divine purpose that only you can do?
And so I gave you a very powerful exercise
and I hope you did that worksheet.
And the exercise was that there's breadcrumbs
throughout your entire life.
There's like a thread running through your life
where God has been preparing you
so that you understand that what is in you
that is trying to emerge,
that person God created you to be is seeking to emerge
and come out, okay, and reveal your unique gifts.
The thing that only you can do.
I was having a fascinating call with Cindy
before we started this call earlier
and talking about our source.
So part of all that you're doing
is you have to get very clear who or what is your source.
Your job is not your source.
Your business is not your source.
Your clients are not your source.
God is your source.
There's many channels that he uses to provide for you
and you can be your clients, a spouse, government.
There's many challenge, but there's channels,
but there's one source, okay?
So who or what is your source, okay?
And so as we were talking about that,
I said, our job is simply to release the gifts within us
to serve humankind,
to share our gifts with absolute excellence,
share our gifts with love.
That's our job on the planet.
We've been given purpose.
We've been given gifts.
We've been given a divine design.
Our job is simply with a spirit of excellence,
with a spirit of love to share our gifts
to make the world a better place.
When we do that, we're not trying to get something.
I don't need to get clients, get money, get a business.
No, no, no.
All that's already in us because we're really clear
who or what our source is.
This makes you more grounded.
So your emotions don't go up and down with the economy.
You can tell if you're confused about your source
is if your emotions go with your bank balance,
if your emotions go with the economy,
then you're looking for something outside of you
to be your source as opposed to within you, okay?
So we have to be in alignment.
So when we go through this exercise I gave you,
it's so powerful.
I gave you like five or six major experiences in your life
and you were to look at that, the triumphs, the defeats,
the main things that happened in your life.
You got married, you got divorced, you went to college,
you got whatever.
What were the major events in your life?
And you look at each one and did the success,
when you got success, did it make you happy?
That's really important because it shows
if you're just in constant striving,
which is something else I'll talk about on another time.
So did it make you happy?
Why or why not?
But here's the big one I wanted you to see.
I wanted you to see the pattern,
the thread that runs all the way through.
I'm gonna real quick share some of my high points
and how it revealed so clear.
And when you know this,
you know you're doing exactly
what you're supposed to be doing,
that you're releasing the gifts
that you're meant to release, right?
So I started with college, when I graduated with college,
okay, and I started looking at, okay, what did I learn?
What moved me forward?
What happened there?
And one of the things that happened in college for me,
I was involved in campus ministries.
It started my speaking training.
I started speaking in churches.
I was also the resident assistant.
So I was leading studies.
I was moving into this leadership and speaking,
which by the way, I'll tell you honestly,
was scary as all crap, okay?
I mean, they had to tell me not to lock my knees
because they were afraid I was gonna pass out
holding onto the podium.
I was not born a speaker.
So I want you to understand that.
I've been speaking for 40 years,
but I was not born a speaker, okay?
And so this was where I started my speaking training.
And of course, it's also where I got
a lot of biblical training, okay?
So that was what happened first.
I began to learn.
What did I learn?
I was a good speaker, okay?
I went from there to Korea.
What happened in Korea?
I was teaching.
I was directing a language school.
Again, I was speaking, okay?
And so again, I began to see, okay, there's a pattern here.
There's speaking, there's teaching,
there's biblically-based teaching, okay?
And then I came back and I was married
and I got involved in direct selling
and I made my first six-figure income
in a nutritional network marketing company.
And again, what did I learn?
How did it move my life forward?
What was the thread?
What was the pattern?
It's like, it just keeps going through
like this golden thread that's running through, right?
And so now I added some things.
I developed even greater leadership.
I developed greater sales skills.
I started having more personal development,
but still again, I was back speaking and teaching.
And then I founded my own company
when I launched my own company.
And this was when I made my first multi-seven figures.
And now it was a higher level of leadership
understanding of business and marketing.
But again, what was I doing?
Leadership, speaking, teaching, mentoring.
You see the golden thread running through.
Even as I was having children
and I was homeschooling my children,
I was learning to develop curriculum,
biblically-based teaching.
Do you think that came in handy
when I had a coach certification program?
I had been developing curriculum for years
as I educated three kids all the way through.
So you start to see when I started prospering all things
and so on.
So this is what is a very powerful exercise
for you to see what's the golden thread
that runs through all of your life major events
that was God showing you.
This is what you're made of.
This is what you're made for.
This is your divine purpose.
This is your gifting.
And knowing that helps you stay in alignment
when we're talking about alignment.
So I said I was gonna talk about three things.
I really spent a long time on alignment.
So number one, alignment.
I'm gonna go real fast through the other two.
Number two.
is in understanding the season now,
this is a season to simplify, okay?
Just look around, look at your life,
look at all the people that are around you,
look at the clients, the past clients,
the potential clients, what's happening?
What do we see across the board?
Overload, overwhelm, stress, okay?
Okay, so we're maxed out in our mental capacity
as a people right now, most people are very maxed out, okay?
So that level of overwhelm and overload is very high
and attention is dropping.
Now the battle is for attention.
So with that going on, if you get out there,
excuse me just a second here.
With that kind of overwhelm and overload
that so many people are feeling,
lots of change is also keeping everyone off balance.
If you come in and your message is very confusing
and you don't get to the point,
if you're not talking about a problem you solve
and you're going round and round and round,
it takes you 15 minutes to explain
and they still don't exactly know what you do
and your offer is very long and very convoluted.
You know, in the past, even including myself,
what was very popular out there
was to just add so much value to your offer
called offer stacking.
Some of you know about stacking, right?
You see I stack, well, you get coaching
and you get the Prosper Leader membership
and I even throw in and we stack our value, okay?
That's not ideal for this season.
This season, your message has to be so simple.
I can help you solve this problem.
It needs to be very personalized and customized.
I can help you solve this problem
and this is the result that you will get.
And they have to, in their busy life,
look at what you're offering and say,
yeah, I think I can do that.
I can implement that.
That would really help me move forward.
So you've gotta be clear.
You've gotta be simple, okay?
That's how you've gotta be marketing in this season.
So simplify your message, simplify your offer.
Go and look at your offer right now.
Is it confusing?
Simplify your marketing.
Are you trying to be on so many channels?
Are you trying to speak to so many niches?
Are you trying to offer so many products?
Simplify, simplify, okay?
So align, simplify, and lastly, unify, okay?
One of the things that's going to be more and more
and more important as the world gets crazy and confusing
and AI and overwhelm and overload and massive change,
what's gonna be important is community.
It's going to be important to be active
in your local community.
I'm encouraging you, if you've mainly been online,
go back as your coach.
I'm gonna tell you, go back local.
Get involved in local networking, local communities,
local belly-to-belly communities
where you can support each other,
and then online communities like this one
where I am super committed
to make Prosper Leader membership
even more a place of community and a connection
and really raising you up to be successful.
One of the things I'm starting next month,
I'm gonna have office hours every Thursday morning
at 9 a.m. so that you can come in for coaching or questions
or community or encouragement or prayer.
I'm making even more changes to make this more valuable
where community is going to be more and more important.
In the age of AI, and I love AI, you all know,
I use it to say 15 to 20 hours a week,
and I think you can too, okay?
So I use it, you'll see me in coaching,
I'm always using it.
So I love it, and it becomes more and more important
for us to be fully human.
People are more and more going to want to work
with a very authentic, real human.
It's gonna be important for you to share your story,
to be very authentic.
It's gonna be important to share your clients' stories.
It's going to be important to humanize your business.
High touch, high human.
So use the AI to save time and automate tasks
and do things, okay?
Make sure that you humanize it.
So aligning, aligning with your vision, identity,
your purpose, your gifts,
aligning with your ideal client, simplifying.
Simplifying your message, simplifying your offer,
simplifying your market, unify.
Community, working in community,
belly to belly humanity, okay?
So let's get together and talk about implementing that.
I'm going to stop the recording.
You can turn your cameras back on.