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Turning Points: Mastering the Skill of Life Pivots | EP36 · Jess Ask

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email is big to me your time is personally big to me. I am
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I'm really excited about the new year. I'm excited and nervous about the new
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year. I don't know. I don't know what it is, but I
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know something Major said. We always say something Major is happening because I think
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sometimes we can attach Major to a new thing, but new thing requires an
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elevator, another form of responsibility, like another attachment to your responsibility. And
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I'm like, Lord, when he talked about what he's doing a new thing,
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I get excited, but I think I'm like God, this new thing.
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You you be trying to make folks responsible. Yeah, I think I
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think the I think, hey there, happy new year, y'all I can
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say for me, just I think think the the whold guy is because you're
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looking at your your abilities. Yeah, right, so he I don't think
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if I know the God that I know, I don't think he would bring
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us something that we're not capable of. But we're looking at we're looking at
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our natural abilities, or we're looking at where we are right now. And
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I think that's why the process of a thing is important, because he may
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be bringing something to you, but there's always gonna be a process for it
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right, So you're either beginning the process, you in the middle of the
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process, you're coming out of the process for whatever this thing is, that's
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that's that's coming. And then we look at it like whatever it is,
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like it's like going into the unknown. But the only person that don't know
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is you. You're the only one that don't you know, You're the only
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one that don't know. It's like God, when you're gonna help us,
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sister figure it out. And for me, I don't know how God wighs
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with you. I don't least you speak on it, but for me,
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God to give me something and he'll say, Okay, do this, but
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I don't really understand and the impact or I might get like a hey do
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this and I'm gonna have the answers for the in between. I eat this
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podcast. I didn't know that this podcast would grow as as it has.
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I didn't know that it would be a light camera action situation. I didn't
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know that I was going to be interviewing the people that are in the lineup
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for this year. Y'all, this line up lining and all of it,
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we claim all of it. It's a like the desire, like I really
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believe that when God says He's gonna give you the desires of your heart,
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I literally think that there are certain desires that are his desires, and he
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put he formulates it your heart because you're doing relationship with him and you have
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the ability to nurture this relationship in this in this magnitude that his heart becomes
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your heart right And because because that is in place, then my desires have
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to be his desires. And so if he's given, he's given me what
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he wants for me. And so these desires of having certain people on this
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platform I haven't gotten to know yet. I'm excited about that, not because
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if I seem it as rejection, but because I'm literally hearing and having desires,
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certain desires for certain people at certain times, because everybody's time on just
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Ass is not the same. Like I might desire like, oh I think
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you would be good for the show I see this in you, Well,
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that time might not match up with when you're supposed to. I just know
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there's a desire and there's a specific time and season that you're supposed to be
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on this platform. Because what makes for me, what makes just As different,
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is that, yes, you get to visualize and be a part of
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the community. But as I said earlier, we're changing. We went from
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creating a safe space for Kingdom entrepreneurs and creatives to the word influencers, right,
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And at first I was you can a tiery this. I was tolding
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with the idea of keeping kingdom, but the Lord was like, no,
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you're you got to be a safe space for the influencer. And so what
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makes just as different in my opinion, is that we get to serve the
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influencers, allow them to tell their story and with magnitude that they want to
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deliver it, and then allow you the community, not to only learn from
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it, but to experience it. Yeah. Yeah, no, no,
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no, no, that was it was like, yeah, no, I
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was like, yeah, because I'm visualizing you know what I'm saying, the
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the transformation and why you struggled with taking the word out. Why do you
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think you struggled with taking the word out kingdom? Yep? Me personally?
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Man, okay, and can I keep it wrong? I mean we had
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now so so this kind of dates back to why I don't really I've had
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to become comfortable with using my voice because Okay, this results back to like
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childhood, right, my sister and my brother. I think y'all have heard
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this before if you've been paying attention of but for those that hadn't been a
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part of the community yet, my sister and my brother are naturally gifted.
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They're naturally smart. They were in a gifted program. They were both deemed
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intelligent. Excuse me, they were both deemed intelligent, and I was I
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didn't meet that Martin. I struggled a little bit more in school, you
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know, just thinking thinking that I wasn't smart enough, right, And so
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that kind of translates to how I feel I feel sometimes with ministry or with
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trying to deliver Christ to people, if you'll say, because as a believer,
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one of the one of the if you are part of the big Church,
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right, I think that one of our responsibilities is to share Christ,
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whether it's through action, word, deed, whatever that may may look like.
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And so taking Kingdom off of it invites everybody, which I'm not opposed
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to, but it does challenge me to make sure that I'm being mindful of
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the delivery of who God is because I don't want to This is a fear
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I didn't want. I want to alter the platform from being kingdom driven,
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right, And I think that I think that the fear of that, because
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you know, the best thing I do see quote unquote is Jesus like people
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listening to me when I talk about the Lord. Not too many people talk
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listen to me about anything else. But that's only because I hadn't presented myself
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in the realm, be quiet in the realm and room and the talents and
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grace that God has given me. Because I it doesn't make sense because it's
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so much, you know what I'm saying, Like, it's so much,
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and so taking the word kingdom off invites everybody, yep, because that can
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be considered an influencer. And I feel like, you know, I'm not
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expecting to be like talking to tones to them or whatever, but just like,
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are they going to be comfortable coming here knowing that I'm unapologetic about who
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God is to me? And am I going to be welcoming enough as far
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as their their comfort level for it to make them comfortable enough to let them
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know that this safe space. You might not agree with me my religious beliefs
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or anything like that. I don't like saying using the word but religious,
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but are you going to I don't want to offend people, and I don't
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want to take away from the safe space. I guess does that make sense?
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Yeah? Yeah, I think that just plays a part in you know,
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you know the words that you had gotten that you felt a certain type
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of way about was to sell Jesus right, And I think you took offense
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to it initially because of the probably the way you saw it or have seen
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it done right. And so taking the word Kingdom off doesn't change who you
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are. What He's given you to give it has just done just that.
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It has taking a word that would probably limit the space, which is not
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bad, but it has broadened now the platform to allow you and him to
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do what it is that He's gonna do in this earth, which is draw
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people. Right. And so you draw people by just showing up as yourself,
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like somebody like people will be comfortable with coming to this platform knowing that
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you know you're deep in God. But because of who you are, you
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make them feel you don't make you don't. It's like a he I don't
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feel judged. I don't feel like I'm being condemned. But she's just a
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real cool person and I just kind of want to you know, see what
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she's talking about. I want to see what her platform is about. It's
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bait pretty much, you know what I'm saying. That's why it's important that
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we just show up and who and and God and who He's given us to
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be, because that's what's gonna do the drawing. We don't have to do
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anything outside of just be who He's called us to be. He does the
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drawing. You know what I'm saying, They're gonna come because I think you're
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pretty cool. I thank you for that. I think I'm trying starting to
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I don''t say settling it, but starting to be okay with the idea of
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me being cool. You know, I've gone through and I think everybody has
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this experience, but I think I've based I'm gonna say this, I think
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I've based my realities and my thought process around what other thing people think about
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me, and I lean so much so on I lean so much so on
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their validation. And I think God really has me in this season. Twenty
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twenty four is really going to be the season I think I've said this before
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of trusting not only the voice of God and I hear God, but trusting
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the fact that he'll do it for me, or trusting that his presence like
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he desires me the way he does, and then I can start believing that
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people might think I'm dope, you know what I'm saying, Like when people
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are like, oh, I think you're a cool person, Like really,
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because I really think I'm weird. I really, I really think I'm weird
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and you are weird. I mean because you're set apart. Well, yeah,
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I think I think you know, I think we because and this is
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me too, like I've always been sorry, hey, hey, I've always
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been different, right and and sometimes not fit into the normal spaces. And
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I had to understand we say weird, we're peculiar people, you know what
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I saying, because we were chosen to set apart, and I think the
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sooner we can settle into that, then we can show up as our normal,
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weird self being comfortable comfortable in that. Yeah. I also think that
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a big thing that's happening for the podcast this year is there there is a
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pivot that's unexplainable. And God was dealing with me on this word and I
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kept like, I kept thinking about the word pivot, and if you look
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in the dictionary there's some different uh connotations about it, like a pivot is
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like an axle point or something like that. But then also when I think
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about it in the rim of basketball, when when you have a pivot foot
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right a foot, one foot turns so that you can get moved around,
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but one foot stays planted. And so even in this, in this pivotal
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season, I think that's the same context. Pivot is the word maybe if
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I'm gonna go with it, But in this pivot season, right where I'm
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turning to take my shot, but I still find a planet place. I
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still remind myself of my planet place, and I have to. I think,
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my where I've been planning or where I've allowed myself to be planted before,
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hasn't fully been in God. And what I meant by mean by that
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is because of my unhealthy relationship and ideals of people, I have pivoted myself
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and planting myself and people but not really knowing that's that's a solid place to
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be able to turn, because once I turn, then they're turning too,
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you know, and not necessarily a bad way, but I need something consistent,
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right, And so even in turning, even in things changing, even
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in things evolving, especially for the podcast, like that that that is a
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pivot point for the podcast, like because that's not I really don't even understand.
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I didn't even know what the podcast was going to be doing, right,
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And so when I made the intro. When I made it, I
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think I was even scared to put the entrepreneur situation on there because I didn't
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view myself as an entrepreneur and apostle how it was like, why don't you
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say, you know, creat lose and entrepreneur because I just had creative because
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I know I was creative, but I didn't think I was a businesswoman,
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you get what I'm saying. I didn't think I was a ort to consider
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myself an entrepreneur. But now you're say an influencer. And I was like,
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okay, God, you're trying to tap into my identity. You try
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to tap in to who I am, So you're calling me an influence influencer,
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you know what I'm saying, Like I don't have that many faults or
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I don't have this, I don't have that, And God has just continuously
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shown me in different ways of how that is alive. Yeap the lot like
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a lot because it doesn't matter about the numbers people. And I'm learning in
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this process, y'all. I'm learning this process and I hope it doesn't sound
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like a rent right now, but I'm learning this process that people don't always
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come in. People are not gonna always like but they see you. Oh
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yeah, like you can't unsee just as the podcast, you can't unsee that.
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You can't unsee these clips. You can't unsee the elevation. Right.
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But once, once your girl gets certain interviews or getting certain likes to subscribe,
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that's when everybody's gonna be loud. And I just got to accept that
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that that's just part of the process. Yeah, I think that comes with
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as you're growing and you're growing in God. And you talked about the pivot
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foot. That's the that's the did you play basketball? I did? Okay,
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So you know the pivot floot is, like you said, that's that
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foot that's planted right that allows you to move. So with the foot that's
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moving, you can go all the way around in the whole circle, you
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know what I'm saying. You can pick it up, you can put it
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down, you can do a little jap step here and there, you can
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go here you can go to the side, you can go this side,
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but as long as that pivot foot doesn't move, you're still good. So
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as long as you're still connected, and I think as you, as as
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as we as believers, continue to go deeper in God and stay planted in
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Him. Well, I say this, I think there's a decision that has
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to be made, right, whether we're gonna go all the way in God.
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Oh, we're gonna keep teeter tottering, that's good. Right. So
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in business in the world, there is a way to do business right.
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There's you know, formulas, there's funnels, there's you know, analytics,
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statistics that that we go by to measure if your business is doing well or
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not. That's how the world measures your success in business. The Kingdom don't
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work like that. And so it's it's it's it's kind of difficult to to
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fully to fully comprehend that if we're not fully submitted to the to the source,
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you know what I'm saying, Because we're gonna we're gonna continue to revert
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back to what the ways of how how the world measures business. Right,
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So if you put a put a podcast out there and you get three views,
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right, So measurably. We may say, man, that that podcast
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is not doing well, Yeah, because it had three views. Well what
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if it was only supposed to have three views? What if the people who
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God had assigned to that particular word watched it? So was it successful or
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not? And I think that's kind of where we have to become confident in
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that we heard that we're being obedient, and as long as we're being obedient,
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we're not responsible for the outcome. That's so good. But as long
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as we're tipping toe in like okay, and I understand it's really hard,
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especially like I think I've been a full time entrepreneur since twenty fifteen and I'm
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still learning and growing. But now I'm having to try to retrain my mindset
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to do it God's way as I've struggled to do it my own way.
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I feel like everything I've worked for I've I've worked really hard to try to
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get the knowledge of the thing, but I can honestly say I didn't ask
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God. So now I'm in a in a season where I'm trying I'm going
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to Him first for everything and allowing him to give me the strategy and allowing
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him to give me the blueprint to do. So I ain't so that I
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can make sure that I am being purposeful with the things that I that I'm
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doing now. And so with that pivot is you're gonna have to it's just
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keeping that pivot foot down and staying grounded and the source. That's so good.
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I love how we're using the basketball illustration because get first, let's talk
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about how it sucked. I would listen, I played on the team just
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because my dad would not let me be a cheerleader. And yes, Dad,
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I am talking about, Oh he would not let me be to play
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basketball. He won't because of the little skirts. Yes, So I ain't
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gonna tell you. I'm not gonna say it on the platform what he said.
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But he said and he's swell up and down. He don't remember,
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but Kendall remembers the conversation. So shout out to my sister because we having
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each other back about stuff that our parents used to do. But even in
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thinking about playing basketball in high school, if when I did start, and
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the reason why I started is because I was one of the top defenders and
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you weren't. You was gonna have to do your best to get around me,
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right, I was aggressive. I didn't mind being aggressively. I didn't
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mind, you know, blocking your shot. I don't mind keeping you from
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scoring. But I I wasn't as good for me. I wasn't as good.
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Shout up to Paris, y'all in the middle of y'all, y'all,
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hold on, I'm just gonna I'm just gonna let y'all so the fact that
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I'm recording live, say, hey, Paris, God, she got y'all
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here, I got the sexy voice sound look at her faith. This is
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a face of a warrior. Come on, supposed to be calling me on
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the podcast and everything. Mm hmm uh, it's okay, okay, I
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wanna call you back. I thought my phone was on silent, but it
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rained. It did it rained out real loud. No, if you want
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to, I mean, don't play with it, don't it. I'm just
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saying, that's just baby, what you think it's solid? Guy said,
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I'm gonna make come through loud. Baby. You ain't gonna miss not one
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notification, not one blessing in this year. So go ahead and get what
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you need. Come on now, talk to the people right now. Go
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ahead on you'll be stirred. Listen to my girl. Sorry, y'all,
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I like to have fun. It's just us. I mean, welcome to
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the safe the safe space. But I played played better at defense than I
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did offense, right, And and I was thinking about it the other day.
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Why is that because that was me to just yeah I was, I
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was a body on offense, like I could pass. Yeah, you know,
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I'm you know, make sure I got the ball to you know,
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because that's that's important that you know who you labor amongst. Yeah, what
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I'm saying. But on defense though, and you you you wouldn't you weren't
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finna get past me exactly? But I think if I because I've always had
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to defend myself, so I was good at defense. But if you think
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you make it practical, offense takes strategy, right, yep, Offense takes
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patience. Offense takes I feel like it has more rules than our boundaries than
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playing defense because my goal, my my my goal is to not allow you
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to pass me and not to get one on me by enemies by any means
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necessary. Right, But on offense, I'm expected to score, I'm expected
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to at least try. I'm expected to do these things. And so even
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thinking about pivoting, you can. Pivoting is only important in an offense offensive
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nature. It is offensive nature. So now I'm talking about just as is
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a part of the pivot. Like there's a pivotivo, a pivot that's happening
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for us. There's a change that's happened, a turning point. What you
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say, and but I can't. I can't pivot in defense mode. I
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have to pivot in offense mode because it takes strategy, strategy to score,
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to meet that goal. And the fear, if I can be honest,
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the fear is missing the shot. The fear is missing the shot. And
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the fact Greg is gonna be so proud of me when he hears this that
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I'm using a sports metaphor because this is not what I do, but this
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is how the Lord has given it to me. Right now, Like that's
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good. The power of pivot never happens in defense because it don't matter.
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Your feet can go anywhere, your feet can go anywhere, both feet can
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be off the ground. You can move and do whatever you want want in
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a defensive mold. But an offense, you're catching your breath, You're you're
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paying attention to the floor, You're you're paying attention to who you passing the
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paton to. You're paying attention to who's on your team. And mind you,
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yeah you said did I say paton? You said basketball? You're a
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say baton mixing. I doing a good job. But look just what what
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as you're talking, we talk about as you're talking, and we're talking about
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the pivot being proactive, right, that pivot foot when when when you're pivoting,
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and because you are planted and grounded, there's also comes a level of
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trust that part. Right, there's a level of trust now because like I
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said, you can move, so you got you got three options, right.
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So let's say you caught the ball, right, so you got your
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pivot foot down and you got your foot that you can move with. So
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I just caught the ball. I got three options, right. I can
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drive, I can shoot, or I can pass. Girl, you were
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you're talking. I can drive, I can shoot, I could pass.
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Right, the trust is gonna come in if I'm planted right here, I'm
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planted to the swords, which is my heaven and Father Jesus hallelujah. If
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I'm planted in him, there there should be a level of trust. So
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if I have the ball, if I trust who I'm on the floor with,
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if I trust who's on my team, if I shoot, if I
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pass, if I drive, I'm trusting my team to either rebound. I'm
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trusting my team to either if I pass the ball to the next player,
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I'm trusting that they know the next move, or if I drive, I'm
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trusting that you can Finn get out of my way. Oh right, So
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when we're when we're, when we're when you're planted, there's that just kept
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coming up. It's like there's a level of trust that you have that we
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have to have in this pivot or you're gonna revert back. You're gonna pick
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that pivot foot up and be trying to move all on on your own because
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we ain't on defense, right, And that's a file. I mean,
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that's not a file traveling. It's a traveling violation, traveling violation. And
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so even thinking about okay, even when I'm not I don't have the only
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way I have a travel violation is if I have the ball in my hand.
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So pivot becomes important not only in a being on offense, but it's
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very important and only matters when you have the ball in your hand. And
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so now I have a fear that because the ball in my hand, wherever
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the ball is, that's what the spotlight is, That's what people are paying
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attention to. That's what the pressure is, That's what the responsibility lies.
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Because what you do will enhance a hurt the team, the people that are
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depending on you. So we can talk about just as right, what I
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do with the ball in my hand affects desiree. It affects you first more
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than anybody. You know what I'm saying. Hello, Yes, it impacts
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you. So what decision I make this is so good, the decision that
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I make with the ball of just as the podcast, it's going to affect
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It affect you, whatever level that might be, but it's gonna affect you.
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So either we shooting and winning together or we losing together, you know
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what I'm saying. And so for me, when you think about team players,
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you think about people on your squad. Everybody can't be on the court
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at the same time. You can be on my team, but you might
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not be playing with me in this season. You might be hurt, You
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might be going through your own thing. You might have filed out the game
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and you temporarily off the you know, off the field or off the court.
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You know what I'm saying. But you're still cheering, you know,
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you're still cheering me on. You're still on the you know bench. That's
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cool. But these people that are in the game with me are trust There's
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another level of trust right being in the game and outside of the game,
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being on the bench. And so even when you when you think about trust,
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Now, I'm not just trying to trust God, but I gotta trust
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God, because if I'm not trusting God, then people ain't really gonna be
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able to trust me. That's That's that's deep. That's deep. If I'm
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not trusting God, if I'm not trusting my coach, let's go back.
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If we're gonna keep the basketball thing, if I'm not trusting coach and the
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and the things that coach has has told me, and and I'm not necessarily
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talking about my coach, I'm talking about a basketball coach. But if I'm
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not trusting that I learned this thing in practice and then executing it when it's
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game time, then either I wasn't either I played around in practice or I
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never trusted my coach. And I'm trusting in my ability versus what's being told,
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right, And so I just I just you know, I I think
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it's interesting that I've that we bring up the fact that we have to learn
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how to be in a on the offensive stance. And I think part of
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that is not only fear of failure, fear the spotlight, but lack of
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planning. M lack of planning because when you think about the game, you
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s you make plays yep, every play. You might not have a ball,
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You play a position and you maneuver yourself to get the ball in your
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hand. But that takes a level of intentionality yup. And it takes a
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level of hm is the only word I can think of is the level of
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trust. It takes a level of intentionality. But it also takes a level
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of wisdom. Right. So the knowledge is, oh I learned to play.
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The wisdom is the execution of it. So sometimes as as we talk
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about the the preparation of the thing is is learning learning the plays. Mm
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hmmm that part. You gotta learn the plays, you can't actually to actually
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do them. Like you how we run in motion? That everybody? Everybody
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we run in motion? But you stuck on blue? How How that?
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How that works? You on you on the wrong sheet. Mm hmmm,
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why you're on the wrong play The lack of preparation. Ooh, that's that's
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good. The lack of preparation will cause you to mismanage to play. And
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and if you're thinking about like business, preparation could be your budget. Preparation
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could be put the camera on you because you're talking real good, you know,
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preparation could be your budget. You know, we're talking about the podcast,
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so I think God has gifted you with something special. But if we
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never had a conversation about what the show is gonna be about, then how
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how are we gonna execute an excellent show if we're if we're if we're not
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preparing, you know what I'm saying, And that's and that's gonna come definitely
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with the pivot. Is effective communication. You just made a powerful point because
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Okay, Greg is gonna get me. Poor preparation proceeds to formants. I
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think I said they're wrong, But basically that sounds like something Greg Griff and
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Gregg will say. Yeah, Bishop Greg will say that, and I'm probably
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not saying it right right now, but it's something that he always says,
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like poor preparation, right will lead to poor performance, and so what does
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our preparation look like? And just to make it practical, like for this
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community, how we prepare is is like, Okay, we've talked about our
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goals for the podcast, We've talked about us working together. We're actually setting
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up to go to the podcast summit, like how we enhance and learn from
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other podcasters part of the seven figure podcast community. Desert Rate is setting herself
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to teach, you know, certain things and aspects. So even though she
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can enhance and be able to talk about the details when we were friends,
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we like each other, but at some point in each conversation we're saying,
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Okay, did you get this podcast? Did you do this? It's not
37:15
just coming behind a camera plus and record and start editing, right, It's
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literally like we live and breathe this thing. I don't know how else to
37:22
say it, but it has become I don't even want to say a lifeline,
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but I don't know what another word is. Like that's how much passion
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we have a behind this thing. And so I think the ability to pivot
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depends on the ability to prepare. That's good, that's good. Yeah,
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the ability to pivot is determined by your ability to prepare. And so this
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year twenty twenty four, when we pivot, either you can be a part
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of the team or you can not be a part of the team. I
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mean, it's you, it's your choice. But we're pivoting with God at
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the end of the day, that's teammate. We're pivoting with God. It's
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so interesting because when I was looking up pivoting with basketball, because I could
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not I didn't really understand what I was seeing at the time. But the
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man that was explaining, he was like, the only time you have permission
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to move your pivot foot is when you're taking the shot, right. And
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so you have when you a proper shooter comes off the ground, and you
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have you've learned, you know how to position your body and take your shot.
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But every shot comes off the ground, like when you're in motion,
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like free shot. I'm not talking about free throws or whatever. I'm talking
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about actually being in the game and shooting a layup requires your feet to come
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off the ground. It's still a shot, right. And so I think
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that this is the season and it's enter as I'm saying this, this is
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the season where just ass is taking the shot shoot the shot. Shoot the
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shot. Just shoot the shot. Shoot the shot, Shoot the shot.
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Paul Jacob, John, Paul Etta, Julia Stacey, Antoinette Kimball, Paris
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Bree. I'm shouting out all my friends. Coach D, Coach j D.
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Take shot, shoot the shot, shoot the shot. Damn, that's
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good. It's good. Quick conversation. This is a new year, this
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is new season, and we are excited. We're excited about what's happening.
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We're excited about the move, we're excited about the pivot, and we're just
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gonna trust the process. And so thank you so much for joining us in
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this episode. Remember we are here weekly every Thursday, where your eyes and
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ears can absorb the goodness of the Lord through this platform. We love you,
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We honor you. Remember life could be much more simple if you just
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