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Lessons - The Powerful Shift From Life's Struggles To Your Calling | Keion Henderson - Faith Leader & Visionary · Success Story with Scott Clary

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  In this lessons episode, learn why embracing change instead of resisting it is the key to personal
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  growth. Discover how faith alone isn't enough without human responsibility and action. Understand
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  why every transformation requires resilience and purpose and explore how leaning into life's hardest
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  shifts leads to true breakthroughs. Let's answer sort of the elephant in the room. Obviously,
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  obviously it's easier said than done to have something negative happen to you and just
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  realize that this could be a blessing, right? It's just it's nice to talk about it on podcasts,
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  but when people come to you and they're going through shifts in their life,
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  what is the thing that they have to or what did you have to lean on
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  to make it through the most difficult parts of the difficult times? What is the thing they have to
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  is it is it God is it self-belief is it what is the most important idea than will unpack that
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  a little bit? Yeah, so obviously for me as a man of faith is going to be God, but I want to make
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  sure that I could tell that with some flexibility and by that I mean God is the source,
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  but he also leads you as the scripture says to paths, right? That's Psalms 23. He leads you
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  through paths of righteousness. So you still have human responsibility in every shift in your life.
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  You see because like and I'm going to be talking about it. I've got a minister here in California
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  today and I'm talking about the four stages of a miracle and every one of them required
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  human responsibility. So whether you're a person of faith or whether you're agnostic, whether
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  you're an atheist, because there are still ways to scale and make money and and make shifts in life
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  without God. I'm not saying that I believe the outcomes are going to be apropos, but there are
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  a lot of people in the world who have tons of money and and never read the Bible, right? So so when
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  you when you when you boil it down to what does it take to make it through the the the physical
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  aspect of life, human responsibility that there is no mystical formula, not even for those of us
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  who believe in God. We don't just lift our heads and say, Hey, God, you know, send a million dollars
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  and it just comes out of the sink where we turn the water on. You're still going to have to put
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  the axe to the grind. You still got to work. You still you still have to believe. You still have to
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  be self-motivated. You still have to be self-driven. You still have to navigate life transitions.
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  You still have to be resilient. You still have to find purpose. And none of that
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  is either existent or non-existent because I'm a man of faith. So when you ask me the question,
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  what do I tell people? I don't care what you believe in. These are things you're going to have to do.
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  These are things you're going to have to do. There is a you know, a Christian dollar bill and a Muslim
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  dollar bill. You know what I mean? Good point. You know, there is it. There is an abutist
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  resilience and a agnostic resilience. You just have to be a resilient person. And then you add
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  faith on it. The size of a muster seat. And then you can move mountains. Do you think that some
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  people, this will be a question, I guess, for people that are very religious. Do you think that
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  sometimes you see people using religion as a crutch as opposed to having all of the other
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  components in navigating hard times? You think that there has to be this beautiful balance of both.
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  I think it has, that's a great question. I think it has to be a beautiful balance. And when
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  when I hear you say the word crutch, I would summarize it by saying that I think that there are
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  some folks who use their relationship with God as a way of not having to show up for themselves.
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  Right? So it's like, hey God, I give an example. There's a miracle in the Bible man that
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  been laying on the bed for 38 years. There are some who would use their
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  relationship with God to say, hey God, come and pick me up off of this bed. I've been here for 38
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  years. But the story says that Jesus tells the man, pick up your bed and walk human responsibility.
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  So even though God was there, God didn't pick him up nor did he pick up the bed. He told him
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  to pick up the bed because God has to make sure that we have the faith, the drive, the resilience
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  and the purpose to continue to move even in moments where we cannot feel him. So yes,
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  I think a lot of folks will use their relationship with God to be an end all be all but
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  and I know it'll be a controversial statement but I can go through, Scott, I can go through
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  every miracle in the Bible and prove that human responsibility was necessary. Okay,
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  let's take the one that everybody knows, Jesus turns water to wine. But what does he tell them? He
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  says, go and bring the water pots to me. Human responsibility. He didn't bring the water pots to the
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  you go bring the water pots to me and then I'll do it. The man who was blind, God tells him,
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  you have to go wash your eyes and the pool. The man who had the hand that was atrophy, God says,
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  you got to stretch forth your hand. The woman who had the issue of blood, she went 12 years trusting
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  doctors until she got to Jesus and he says to her, hey, do you want to be Mayo? She says to
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  herself, if I could just touch the him of his garment, see human responsibility. If I could touch
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  the him of his garment, I'll be Mayo. Oh, there is a human component no matter what your faith is
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  to all transition resilience breakthrough and purpose. There is always a human component that's
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  necessary. I love that. I think that's such an important message too. I think that before we even get
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  further, what we were even just talking about before we press record, you know, you mentioned
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  that this book, the shift, this is a re-release of a book that you put out. He said four years ago
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  and you've written other, I mean, you've written other books since and I thought that was an
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  interesting story. How, you know, people will bring you some of the other books he've written
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  or the book signing for one of the other books, but then they'll bring you this book and be like,
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  this changed my life. Like, please sign this. You know, this has been incredible. So I think that
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  it's interesting to touch on sort of the anatomy of what a shift is, why it's so important,
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  why this idea resonates with so many people. I'm sure you have, I'm sure you have a couple thoughts
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  because there's something about the idea of a shift of going through these massive transformative
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  moments in your life that is so powerful that literally out of all the incredible work you do,
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  people are still saying, hey, this was the book that had the most impact on my life. Why do you
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  think that is? Yeah, because I think that the one thing that is inevitable in all of our lives,
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  we won't all be rich, we won't all be poor, we won't all be born black, we won't all be born white,
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  we won't all be affluent, we won't all be struggling, everybody won't be fit, everybody won't be
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  not fit, but we all will go through a transition. I don't care what spectrum you follow. You
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  could live in the hills of Hollywood or you can live on the streets of Gary Indiana where I came
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  from, you're going to go through a shift. So embracing change as opposed to resisting change
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  is the emphasis that the books put on because change is inevitable, but not only is it inevitable,
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  it's necessary. It's necessary. The tree can't stay a sea forever. The oak tree can't stay in
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  acorn forever. If you stay in the original form of which you were planted, you'll never flourish
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  into what you were meant to be. So in this book, I'm encouraging the readers to lean into the shift
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  rather than to resist it. One of my mentors tells me a story about his brother who when he was younger,
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  used to ride motorcycles and his wife used to ride motorcycles with him and you probably know
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  when you are on the back of a bike or motorcycle with somebody, you have to lean the same direction as
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  them. You know, my wife and I will go jesting and she don't really like the water. So I'm going left
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  and she's leaning right. I'm like, nothing, you got to lean with me this way because if you don't
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  lean with the turn, you'll tip it. It's the same way with life. If you don't lean into the change,
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  if you don't lean into the turn, then you're going to tip the boat and you have to trust that
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  every season has a purpose and you got to lean into it. It makes sense. It's very scary when you're
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  living it. Why do people not lean into it? I love this idea, this you know, the
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  get out of your comfort zone. You have to go through these these hard periods of your life to
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  get on the everything worth doing is on the other side of a, you know, hard work, hard conversation.
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  Some all these ideas are so powerful, yet people still shy away from them their entire life.
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  So these ideas, these ideas, people know them. They know that there's going to be change in shifts
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  in their life. But for some reason, we negotiate with ourselves. We negotiate with ourselves until we
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  die. So there is a huge mental block when somebody stays in a job or a relationship or in a
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  circumstance that does not serve them quite literally until they're no longer on this earth.
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  What is this block? What's what's going on? Yeah, I think there are several blocks. That's a
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  question that I can see a Lego amount of Legos. It could be the block of, you know, imposter syndrome.
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  It could be the block of inadequacy and insecurity. It can be the block of character versus
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  personality. So none of us have the same block. But here's the deal. I get that question all the time.
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  People say, yeah, but it's hard. It was hard for the person who did it. It is hard. And that's why
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  everybody doesn't do it. It is hard. And that's why everybody doesn't reach it. It is hard,
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  which is why they are all stars in basketball and people who sit at the end of the bench and have
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  to cheer. We all are born within an incredible amount of talent, right? For those of us. And I'm
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  not talking about people who were born with, and God blesses with the severity of a handicap,
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  right, are something that holds them back. I'm talking about folks who can actually function
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  psychologically in their everyday life without the assistance of, you know, medical attention.
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  Obviously, we understand that there are some folks in life who have been disadvantaged. But if
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  you and everybody's watching social media now, there are folks who were born disadvantaged,
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  who've gotten the slightest edge on folks who don't have disadvantages.
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  I mean, I can't think of the guys name. He spoke for me one time. I wish I could think of him.
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  He has no legs. Nick had neck sat in the stomach. Nick spoke for me at a conference.
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  And literally, he's from Florida. I know him. Wow. Incredible. He inspired me so much. Nick,
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  I never, I never met Nick. I just saw him online and had our team to reach out to him.
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  This guy is an itinerant speaker like he's everywhere around the world. He somehow
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  thought it kind enough to come to our church and spoke, sat on the edge of a step at our stage
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  with no lyrics, a partial arm and tore the room upside down. And is quite honestly
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  making huge amounts of money right now, speaking all over the world, who literally could have said
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  I have no legs and no arms. And so I'm not going to do anything. That's what I mean by
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  leaning into the ship. He took what he had. He leaned into it. And he made something of himself.
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  Folks listening today, I understand it as hard. And I don't think Scott nor I are saying
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  that it is easy. But what we are saying is you can do it. And how we know you can do it is because
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  somebody with the same set of circumstances are the lack thereof that you have. They did it.
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