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Growth Mindset Strategies That Build Faith Driven Leaders ft Dr Yvette Rice · King Dems Podcast | Growth Mindset, Leadership, AI and Business Insights

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  I tell women all the time that that every door that God opens,
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  he closes some and we couldn't, we can't understand why, but
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  then he puts us in other places and the door opens and here's a
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  divine plan. And I tell people all the time
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  to make sure you're listening enough to God and not your.
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  We talked about that in Proverbs about trust the Lord with all
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  your heart. Lean not into your
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  understanding. Take out at him and you direct
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  your path. Well, look, he directs our path.
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  Sometimes we're off the we're off the path.
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  So he has to close the door to make a shift and go back where
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  we are supposed to be because that's where your blessings are.
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  That's that's where your Kairos moment is.
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  That's where the doors open for you is when we allow God's
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  present Holy Spirit to speak into our lives and listen
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  instead of talking studying on prayer a couple of days ago and
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  and I shared it with one of my classes and I was saying this
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  prayers communication and that's a two way St.
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  We can't say we prayed if we didn't let God talk.
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  So where we asked? Yes, one mouth for a reason.
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  Ladies and gentlemen, you once again welcome to the Kingdom's
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  podcast. And today I'm going to meet a
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  very, very special guest fighting out of all of bomber
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  United States of America, America.
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  Doctor Iver Rod, how are you, Doctor?
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  I am wonderful and I'm under honoured to be on your podcast
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  today. It's just been an adventure and
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  I've enjoyed every moment of it. Oh, wow.
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  I love and respect to you. Love and respect to you.
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  Yeah. Yvette Rice.
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  I know people have made that joke with your name, a lot of
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  rice. But I still eat rice today,
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  earlier today. So we cannot do without rice.
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  My last name, I rejoiced at it first I wondered about it when I
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  got married to my husband, but the word that word rice, if you
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  think about it, that is a food substance that is used all over
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  the world to feed exactly. And from a divine standpoint of
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  where God has aligned my life here I am I feed people all over
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  the world the word of God, which feeds the soul.
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  So there's a reason everyone's name and I'm even though now in
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  the South sometimes it's not pronounced rice.
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  Is rice my pronunciation in the correct way?
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  I I remember going to Jamaica and I think they call us the
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  Reese's, the Reese. Yeah, Reese.
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  Yes, thank you. This Reese.
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  But then you know he says good is just one syllable.
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  It's not Ademola. I've had so many variants of my
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  name that I don't even know what name is real any longer.
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  So I just tell people call me AI.
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  Look, that's my first name is Patty Muller.
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  My middle name is the CMS. So yeah, I love that Monica AI.
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  I've been around for a long time.
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  Exactly, now that your nieces are very popular, so that works.
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  That was right. Cool.
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  Somebody was was jealous of me recently goes like, oh wow, you
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  have such a cool Monica like like excuse me, I've had this
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  Monica all my life. I've always been AI.
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  I've always signed emails AI. But you guys did not get it
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  right. But now when I send my when I
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  send my emails, AI, you guys are.
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  You guys are raising eyebrows. Yeah.
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  Like, why? Why?
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  Yeah, I've always been AI. Wow.
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  It's just this stuff. Doctor Rice, you are many things
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  that of course, you feed many souls.
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  Right. And let's talk about ladies
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  living in victory. And excellent Is that life or
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  leave? It's live, we're all about our
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  lives and so my the acronym for my company is LLVE, but we
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  pronounce it live. But it's ladies living in Victor
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  and excellence. I through my the path that God
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  chose for me from engineer to at home mom to back into the
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  marketplace as a programme manager of a multi $1,000,000
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  contracts. I noticed a pattern when it came
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  to women in the marketplace especially and industries that
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  were male dominated and I also noticed it in ministry.
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  We've already discussed that I'm way I'm double your senior so.
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  Double my age. I don't I don't understand the
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  alignment right. I am 33 or 60 exactly.
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  So tell them what I told you backstage.
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  It's. Almost.
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  I'll leave. It.
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  I will leave it. I will leave it to you.
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  I will leave it to you. Some people may say, well, it
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  could be double trouble, but we're going to say it's double
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  victory because anytime, God, I've spoke something twice, it
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  happened immediately. So that's the way we're going to
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  look. Once have I spoken, twice have I
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  heard that all power belongs to God.
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  That's right about it. 33 + 66 is 99.
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  Wow. Another victory.
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  So think about it, with my generation of women and even in
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  younger women when I came back to the marketplace, things had
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  not changed a whole lot when it came to women in leadership or
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  women in industries that were male dominated.
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  And I really felt the pulling from the Lord to start live.
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  But like I told you, I did not start in obedience.
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  I called it everything but ladies living in Victory and
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  excellence. The acronym was the same, but I
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  was saying learning to live in victor victory and excellence.
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  And you know how God can reprimand us when we're not
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  hearing his voice. I finally, I finally got on my
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  face and said, OK, God, I surrender.
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  I know the world's going to say this is crazy.
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  Why is she doing leadership development and professional
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  development for women through a biblical lens?
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  Because that's supposed to be taboo to mix them, but I knew
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  what the Lord was telling me. That's when Ladies Living in
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  Victory and Excellence was rebirthed.
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  And I started what's called the Faith Field Executive Leadership
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  Institute for Women and doors Open, Things change.
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  Because I saw so many women that they wanted to combine their
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  faith and trust in God and what their marketplace assignments
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  were, but they were a little bit afraid to do it.
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  And then I saw women who like me, they left the marketplace to
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  go raise a family. And then when you come back
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  after being away for a long period of time or there's a gap,
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  people treat you differently. And so I wanted to encourage
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  women to understand something I had to.
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  I remember the day when the Lord told me that I had been away for
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  15 years. Now I'm really about to date and
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  you're going to laugh. When I left, when I left the
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  marketplace, there was number that they were just starting to
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  use computer aided design. We were doing engineers with a
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  draft court and AT square right. I know you're thinking you have
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  this dinosaur on your show, but listen, we talked.
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  No, no, no. So, So what what I'm thinking is
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  when I was at university, I had a lot of architecture students.
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  They were always carried the the theme, the square at the at the
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  bar. They're all in like this.
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  Exactly. So here I am re entering the
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  marketplace and I'm going into a company.
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  They hired me because I had the background of the leadership and
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  development and training because they needed me to do technical
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  leadership and training and our team was overriding help menus
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  for software that the government had built in house.
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  But I get there and I'm thinking of all of the things that I have
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  to overcome and I remember every day I was a 25 minute drive and
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  I remember every day going, Lord, Are you sure?
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  But I started realising that as I prayed and spent time with him
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  in that 25 minute drive, the Holy Spirit became my best
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  friend. You know, the Lord Jesus said I
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  won't leave you orphan as an orphans and John is a John 16.
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  He said I'm sending you the the Holy Spirit is coming the
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  conference and that word comforter means helper, teacher,
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  God stand by. He's everything we need.
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  And so I started depending on him every day that I went to
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  that office and I'm leading this team.
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  And I just started realising he really is my helper, my
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  comforter teacher. It that word breaks down
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  advocate. So he'll even fight for you when
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  you can't speak up, a fight for yourself.
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  And so I started realising what I call God empowered confidence.
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  And that made me so bold and put me in a place of leadership that
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  I knew I wasn't supposed to keep it to myself.
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  And I knew there were other women who felt like I did, who
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  had to take gaps away from the marketplace, whether it was to
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  take care of a family member, their parents, raise children,
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  take care of themselves, whatever it was that they could
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  re enter the marketplace in a place of power and confidence if
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  they trusted God instead of trusting themselves.
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  So that's what Nevello became, became.
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  That's what it's all about. Now we spoke a bit about the
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  impact versus income conflict. Yes, peak faith.
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  All of us at some point face that situation when it comes to
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  your calling, meeting your calling, or making a living.
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  How difficult was it for you, and how were you able to
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  reconcile that conflict with your own self?
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  So, so it's funny you asked me that question at this time.
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  I remember when we stepped away, when I stepped away the from the
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  marketplace the first time, my salary was more than my
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  husband's and the insurance, everything that we needed was
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  set up within my my job. I worked for the the government
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  at the time that time too. And but we prayed and God spoke
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  to him and gave him peace for me to walk away.
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  And the day I did well when we set the paperwork in process, it
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  was amazing, but it was God. His job started providing health
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  insurance dental insurance eye insurance and he his salary was
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  doubled weeks before I was supposed to leave.
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  Now you know that does not happen so with divine and event
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  in the mid I wrote a book called mountain movie made easy while I
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  was away the first time and something that God had to jump
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  out on the page at me and I'm I'm going the long route but I'm
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  going to get to where we're going to I'll try to shorten it
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  down was in the scriptures. It said that if we have faith as
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  a mustard seed, then we can move this mountain.
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  And so I used to think growing up that and I heard men and
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  ministers say it, if we have faith the size of but I went
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  back and translated that and it says as meaning like.
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  And so God had me to study the process of the mustard seed and
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  it's in Scripture. Jesus taught it in a in a
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  biblical example where the seed goes into the ground and it's so
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  tight, but then it goes on the stick, but it it branches and
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  rises up so great that the fowl and the birds of the air could
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  have a home there. So that meant that my faith may
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  start off small, but I have to digest the word of God, spend
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  time with him in prayer to develop it so that it can house
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  what we need. And so many times in my
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  situation and in the battles we face, where we have to decide
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  whether we're going to listen to God and follow his path, even if
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  it means stepping away and taking a lesser salary for our
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  period of time or do it the world's way.
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  That's where our faith has to grow.
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  And like I shared with you before we actually started
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  recording, I remember the day I'm whining and crying out to
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  God about something. Oh Lord, I need this, this and
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  this. And he goes, oh, so you the
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  daughter that wrote mountain move mate, he's a talking about
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  faith. And now you're whining to me.
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  Why are you not trusting me for you?
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  And you know what I think many times we forget how much God
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  loves us. And if we really understood how
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  much he loves us, we would never doubt anything that he wants us
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  to do or ask for us. Because remember, he wants he
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  wants us. He wants his best for us.
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  So with that understanding that He wants his best for us, why
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  would he leave us in a situation where we'll be denied everything
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  that Christ died for us for? So when it comes to faith, some
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  of force have that faith as a must secede and allow that faith
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  to grow. I remember the parable in the
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  Bible. You know, there are people with
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  different kinds of hearts, the rocky heart, the fertile ground.
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  Right. Some people, the seed Gemini,
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  right? Or how about wait for it, those
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  people that take their mustard seeds and sprinkle it on their
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  McDonald's burger. You know, I see the sprinkles,
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  you know, on those burgers. It's like some people, they just
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  eat it up like they don't have the time to invest that.
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  And we have, we have a very minor peak generation right now.
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  We even the TikTok generation, people have that cognitive bias.
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  People have the recent bias. People don't remember even
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  things us by us last year, the last thing that they saw.
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  People don't even have good attention span any longer and
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  it's leading us into a faithless generation.
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  Right and. If the last thing that is so, So
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  what would you say to the next generation of the leaders, you
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  know, billionaires like that or the Gen Z and of course the
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  upcoming Gen Alpha or 10 AI if you wish.
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  You know I I just. The Lord flashed before me, the
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  prodigal son. He thought he could have it
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  better by doing his own thing. He didn't need what his father
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  had for him. But the in in the middle of all
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  of that, his father never took away the blessing of the
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  inheritance. He gave him what he asked for.
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  And even though he went and squandered it and he ended up in
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  the hog pit, he ended up in a place where he realised, he
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  said, even my father's servants are doing better than me.
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  And so I think sometimes God allows us to stray or get in
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  positions or put a, he allows us to do our own thing, but he
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  keeps just enough cord on us. So at the right time and the
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  right moment, he could pull us back.
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  I mean, I lived that life when I went off to college.
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  But we've talked about Tuscaloosa, AL and I enjoyed
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  myself. I, I, I straight up did all of
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  these things thinking I'm living for God, but I'm really not
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  living for God. I could do my own thing and, and
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  I had a, I've had a master's role the moment right after I
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  graduated. In fact, I graduated in
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  petroleum engineering and I did not get a job because the oil
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  industry plummeted. I did not get a job for 12
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  months. So all of these plans I had for
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  myself, I was going to be on an oil rig in Texas or Louisiana
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  somewhere making all of these, all these hundreds of thousands
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  of dollars that was eventually going to equate to millions.
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  God had me and a place where I had to come home and depend upon
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  my parents again temporarily, but He brought me to my knees
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  just like the young man in the hog pen.
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  But what I would say to you, to your generation and to those
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  generations is this, remember something, we may go out there
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  and we may experience all these things and think which we think
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  in our own what we don't need. You know, we, we have this place
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  where we really don't need God anymore.
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  You'll come to that place where you find out that you do.
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  But know this, this the same way the father with the prodigal son
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  had his hands stressed out. Why?
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  To receive his son and give him another inherited because
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  remember, he squandered his person.
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  He gave him another inheritance. So it's still waiting on you.
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  The blessings, the benefits, the promises, they don't go away
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  just because we do. We just have to find our way
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  back to Him and realise everything that we were chasing
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  after is already waiting for us if we go back to the one who
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  created it for us in the first place.
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  It's really refreshing having having leaders like yourself in
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  this agent's time and you know the Bible says something
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  starting to show myself a Workman that be ashamed rightly
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  dividing the word of truth right finances something in this
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  generation. There are way too many.
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  OK, how fixed Christians? How fixed is even good, right?
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  We're talking about Christians like steaks, right?
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  I like my steak well done, but we have medium steaks and of
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  course you have the rare. But some, some people are like
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  even uncooked steak. They go all around
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  misrepresenting the word Christianity.
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  You know, sometimes I even feel ashamed identifying as a sister.
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  Of course, there are certain people who change Christianity
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  to like a terrorist group or terrorist affiliation.
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  Yes. They just toss it around and
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  you, you don't even feel proud any longer to identify Christian
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  and people don't even realise that Easternity means being
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  Christian means Christ like. Right.
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  Somebody who goes to church a lot, right?
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  I know somebody that goes to church a lot.
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  In fact, two people who have actually misbehaved terribly
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  back in recent times. And there was one who was
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  involved in an altercation with another person.
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  And I told them, you go to church a lot.
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  I, I, for a long time, you know, I've not really even stepped
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  foot in church. They want to judge a person like
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  myself saying, oh, you don't go to church.
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  You're like the devil that knows a lot of the Scriptures.
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  But excuse me, but do you know the Scriptures?
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  You know what the Scripture says?
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  They come to you and tell you, oh, my pastor said this.
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  Who the hell is your pastor? I don't care who your pastor is.
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  I don't know who your pastor is. What does Jesus say?
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  And guess what? This person was fighting with
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  the other person. And guess what this person said?
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  The person said, I'm not going to apologise, I'm going to
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  fight. OK, Excuse me.
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  What would Jesus do in this situation?
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  Guess what this person told me Jesus Christ said?
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  An eye for an eye. Excuse me, Jesus.
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  Jesus doesn't say. That was Moses, not Jesus.
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  Right. As I was like, oh, you don't go
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  to church and you're telling me what I'm like, Excuse me?
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  Well, you can check it. Just check it.
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  You're fighting. You go to church and guess what?
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  This person told me I'm going to go to church this evening and
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  ask for forgiveness. But to to know it's seeing and
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  still do it is seeing when I really started working on this
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  platform for the Faith Filled Leadership Institute and for
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  what I do specifically where I do leadership development for
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  women through a biblical lens. I did some research and just in
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  the United States alone, there were over there were close to 40
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  million women who identified themselves as believers. 30% of
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  them don't go near a church and in our company, I mean, in our
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  country, you know, right now, Christianity is being
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  weaponized. And so right, so I'm your weird
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  point of I don't, I say I'm a believer.
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  And it's, it's, you know, hard to to see that there is no
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  Christ likeness there. But something that the Lord
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  really put in my heart was this you go be the light in the
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  marketplace and teach them, welcome them, let them come into
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  a safe space and learn about me. And then I reintroduce them to
• 23:54
  spaces where they can then can go to.
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  I'm not looking. I don't I don't bring in
• 24:00
  anything political. I just talk about being Christ
• 24:03
  like and living for Christ. And so I think though, in fact
• 24:10
  the Bible tells us what in Matthews 5 it says for us to go
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  and shine and be a light. That was funny, it wasn't my
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  mind. Let your light so shine that the
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  world sees the glory of your Father within thee.
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  My favourite, my favourite version of Matthew 5 is in the
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  Message Bible. It says, let me tell you why
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  you're here. Let me tell you why you even put
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  on this earth. You'll put there to shine so
• 24:37
  that the whole world can see the glory of God.
• 24:39
  And So what we tried to make Christ likeness be in four with
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  the four walls of the church instead of Christ likeness being
• 24:50
  out where the whole world can see us.
• 24:51
  And that includes the marketplace.
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  I mean, he said, I'm sending you to the highways and the byways.
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  We're on the highway of the, the Internet right now.
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  And we're talking about the glory of God and we're talking
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  about purpose. And that's what I, I want women
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  to understand that even in the marketplace, we have a
• 25:09
  marketplace assignment. I think I'm fulfilling my
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  marketplace purpose by what I'm doing.
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  And it's all leading back to shining for the glory of God,
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  but at the same time being a light to some people who will
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  never walk in the doors of a church because of what they've
• 25:27
  seen there. We have to go out to the world
• 25:30
  and be that light and shine. For him, a city set on a hill
• 25:34
  cannot be hidden. No one lights a candle and puts
• 25:39
  it on a bullshit. I think that that that is enough
• 25:45
  food for thought, right Be that letting hear what the Spirit is
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  saying to the Church, yes. So if word is enough otherwise
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  right, that you know our people are white.
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  And whether you realise it or not, what you're in a
• 26:07
  marketplace ministry, although although you bring different
• 26:09
  guests and they're speaking different things, your life is
• 26:13
  radiating all over the world. And that's what we have to
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  realise exactly is that the places that God puts us, their
• 26:22
  strategic. I tell women all the time that
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  that every door that God opens, he closes some and we couldn't
• 26:29
  we can't understand why, but then he puts us in other places
• 26:33
  and the door opens and here's a divine plan.
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  And I tell people all the time to make sure you're listening
• 26:40
  enough to God and not your. We talked about that in Proverbs
• 26:44
  about trust the Lord with all your heart.
• 26:46
  Lean not into your understanding out of him and indirect your
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  path. What look, he directs our path.
• 26:54
  Sometimes we're off the we're off the path.
• 26:57
  So he has to close the door to make a shift and go back where
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  we are supposed to be because that's where your blessings are.
• 27:04
  That's that's where your Kairos moment is.
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  That's where the doors open for you is when we allow God's
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  present Holy Spirit to speak into our lives and listen
• 27:16
  instead of talking studying on prayer a couple of days ago and
• 27:20
  and I shared it with one of my classes and I was saying this
• 27:24
  prayers communication and that's a two way St.
• 27:28
  We can't say we prayed and we didn't let God talk.
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  So were we asking to? Yes, one mouth for a reason.
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  And as you can tell, I'm a talker, so I have to reel myself
• 27:42
  in because he wants us to hear him so much, because he has so
• 27:50
  much for us that we could miss if we don't listen to him.
• 27:56
  I talk about this a lot. There are 4 lines of skills, 4
• 27:59
  lines of skills, listening, speaking, read and write them.
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  But a lot of people focus on just a speaker in order to be a
• 28:10
  great communicator, getting to master the world and professing
• 28:16
  life myself. I'm grateful and really grateful
• 28:18
  being able to master all of the four skills.
• 28:21
  And when I started out, this whole podcasting journey back,
• 28:26
  I'm a CPA, right? I'm an economist, a finance guy.
• 28:30
  A lot of people like, what are you looking for in the world of
• 28:32
  podcasting? You should have been doing this
• 28:34
  but. I never worked at one day.
• 28:36
  I never worked one day of my life in petroleum engineering.
• 28:41
  I graduated engineering that that was the avenue to get me in
• 28:45
  that STEM industry. I ended up working as a
• 28:47
  engineer. When I did work for the
• 28:50
  government, I worked as a mechanical engineer.
• 28:52
  Had nothing to do with petroleum.
• 28:54
  I never got to be on one oil tank tanker, not one time.
• 29:00
  Let me make you. Let me make you feel bad.
• 29:02
  I'm going to make you feel bad now.
• 29:03
  During my time at PwC, I audited oil companies and yeah, I got to
• 29:09
  be on a couple of work time. I'll make you feel bad right
• 29:12
  now. I'm Shield.
• 29:19
  I'm going to do this. I'm sorry, I'm sorry I have to
• 29:22
  do this, but I think that I have, I have a picture where I
• 29:28
  was, I was the oil. Oil week.
• 29:35
  Yeah. Wow.
• 29:37
  Yeah, be be be being at the already.
• 29:40
  And I am, yes, going to do that. So I felt like I missed what I
• 29:44
  was supposed to be doing. But I don't think so.
• 29:46
  I think the divine connections and what we learned along the
• 29:50
  way lead us to where God really wants to take us next.
• 29:53
  Because yeah, that humbled me. It humbled me that I say 1212
• 29:59
  months before I actually got hired as an engineer and it
• 30:03
  moved back to my hometown. So a lot of times our past, it
• 30:08
  is in our hearts do certain things, but they lead or they
• 30:11
  connect to other things. So So here you were an
• 30:14
  accountant on an oil rig. Wow.
• 30:18
  So you experiencing, you experienced something that I
• 30:22
  never had a chance to do. And I thought, Lord, did I miss
• 30:26
  you. I'm really supposed to be doing
• 30:27
  this. But it was that was a place of
• 30:31
  development for me. Those 12 months was a place of
• 30:34
  development and humbling for me. And then in one day I went from
• 30:39
  waiting 12 months to in one day I was going to take some
• 30:42
  mechanical engineering courses and double my major.
• 30:45
  One day, first day of class, gentleman walks up to me and
• 30:48
  say, Hey, don't you already have an engineering degree?
• 30:51
  I'm going to bring your application for the for the
• 30:53
  government and you fill it out and and I'll turn it back in for
• 30:58
  you. So this is that Monday of class
• 31:00
  of the first day of the week. Maybe two days later, I bring it
• 31:04
  back to him. The next day after me waiting 12
• 31:07
  months, I get a telephone call. Hey, can you come in for an
• 31:11
  interview? I said sure.
• 31:13
  Next day go for the interview. Been waiting 12 months.
• 31:16
  Remember, go in for the in and they tell me, listen, we're
• 31:20
  going to send you to this organisation first if you don't
• 31:25
  like them. Did you hear what I said?
• 31:28
  If you like them, come back. We have a couple more places we
• 31:32
  can take you to and you'll have the job of your choice before
• 31:37
  you leave here. They got to the interviews like
• 31:39
  that. So it was in that trusting in
• 31:43
  the Lord with all our heart leaning not to my own
• 31:46
  understanding Now you know I've been my understanding was God.
• 31:50
  I am being set up. I'm waiting.
• 31:52
  I don't have a job. All it is Why, Why, why, why?
• 31:56
  But he had a divine purpose in it all.
• 31:59
  I didn't say that can only be guarded as quite interesting.
• 32:02
  And I love what you said about how God closed the second doors
• 32:06
  right. In other words, setting all the
• 32:08
  doors to open. And that is something I only
• 32:10
  say. I don't understand why you are
• 32:13
  very much aligning with my philosophies.
• 32:16
  You talk about having that light and talking about me in the
• 32:22
  broadcasting industry, being a ministry for me.
• 32:25
  And recently I celebrated crossing the 100 country mark
• 32:30
  and becoming global top 2%. Think about it, if I stayed back
• 32:36
  in the corporate world, who would know me?
• 32:38
  Who would be impacted by the work that I do?
• 32:44
  I didn't know like 100 countries.
• 32:48
  Right. And even more than that is this.
• 32:51
  How many people would have missed a message that they
• 32:55
  needed to hear on your podcast, but you weren't in place for the
• 33:01
  guests that you had and the people that had that you had and
• 33:04
  your voice, you weren't in place for them to hear it.
• 33:08
  That's why it's so important for us as children of God to make
• 33:12
  sure we are where we're supposed to be when that moment comes,
• 33:18
  because others are going to miss out if we're not there.
• 33:24
  Right. It's right time doing the right
• 33:26
  thing. Wow.
• 33:28
  So Speaking of impact, Speaking of impact, anyways, like my
• 33:33
  friend who called me just before we started the recording, we had
• 33:37
  that discussion earlier today about the impact, right?
• 33:43
  Me being grateful. I'm very big on gratitude
• 33:46
  because I think gratitude is good attitude.
• 33:48
  And I was telling them I, I feel very grateful, you know, for the
• 33:51
  impact I've been able to achieve.
• 33:53
  And it's really interesting. I need to play this one for
• 33:56
  them. But I just see.
• 33:57
  Oh, she instructs on our conversation from Ed today.
• 34:03
  You were listening to us without our permission.
• 34:07
  That's divine intervention. That's I'm laughing because even
• 34:10
  our entire the meeting, the conversation, all of it has been
• 34:14
  a divine intervention, intervention where God just
• 34:16
  aligns where we're supposed to be or as we listen, we are
• 34:20
  obedient what he's telling us. So I mean, he used us so many
• 34:25
  times to make impact and many times we underestimate the
• 34:29
  impact that God wants to make through us.
• 34:32
  And it's a lot of times it has to do with the people who knew
• 34:35
  us growing up are the people that are around us.
• 34:37
  Remember, Jesus was, you know, Jesus said.
• 34:40
  A prophet is without honour in his own.
• 34:42
  In his own home. So, so many times we minimise
• 34:48
  who we really are based on our natural connections, because the
• 34:52
  people that we're naturally connected to, like our families
• 34:55
  and our friends and the people around us, they have minimised
• 34:59
  who we are not, not in a purposeful, purposeful kind of
• 35:03
  way, but because they've seen us in this ordinary life, They
• 35:07
  don't under or see the supernatural life that God has
• 35:12
  established for us. And so in these different spaces
• 35:17
  and, and you're in 100 countries now they're going, wow, is this
• 35:23
  their camera? Is this?
• 35:25
  Yeah, is it? Is this?
• 35:27
  Is this man Joseph? You know the mind.
• 35:29
  You know the one that it was Joseph's, but we don't know.
• 35:33
  About that so. We have to trust God in those
• 35:37
  processes of where He puts and locates us because it matters.
• 35:42
  It doesn't. Matter like it's the same guy I
• 35:46
  grew up with. You know, I was in a place a few
• 35:50
  days ago when my husband, we were at an organisation for a
• 35:53
  dinner and the one of the women asked, Oh yeah, she would go
• 35:57
  with me. And I thought, boy, my life is
• 35:59
  so different from when I went to high school.
• 36:01
  But that's what she remembered me from.
• 36:04
  And so so we have to constantly remind ourselves of who we are
• 36:10
  in the Lord and then don't worry about what they see us as,
• 36:14
  because when the right time comes and God has elevated us to
• 36:18
  that space that he wants us to be in, he'll remind the world
• 36:21
  for you who you are. I love that and this speaks you
• 36:26
  so better. I always say that human beings,
• 36:29
  people, everybody listening to this part that don't care about
• 36:34
  what people say. What is important is who you are
• 36:41
  and who God says you are. Believe in yourself and believe
• 36:44
  in your God. That's what really, really
• 36:46
  matters. But people potentially for
• 36:49
  validation. I believe for validation, yeah.
• 36:52
  Like a lot of people say different is about me.
• 36:55
  Like I'm tired, like I don't really care and I don't, I, I
• 37:00
  try as much as possible not to let people change who I am.
• 37:04
  Of course, if you're a kind person, yeah, people will test
• 37:10
  you. That's where the God empowered
• 37:14
  confidence comes in because if we try to live in our own, in
• 37:18
  our own skin, in our own confidence, then we can distract
• 37:22
  it or we'll we'll start to feel some sort of way about
• 37:25
  ourselves. But when we allow the Holy
• 37:27
  Spirit to remind us and what I call God empowered confidence,
• 37:32
  man, we are, you know, it's not my business to worry about what
• 37:35
  other people think. It's my business to think or the
• 37:38
  word be concerned about what God thinks about me and who he told
• 37:42
  me I was. You know, it's just like growing
• 37:44
  up and and your parents and you had a question about, you know,
• 37:48
  who you are and what you you would develop.
• 37:50
  That's my, my, my family. I have a long lineage of
• 37:54
  Macklin's in my family, my mother's side of the family.
• 37:57
  And, and that was a strong lineage of women.
• 38:01
  The women in our family were very strong.
• 38:03
  And my grandmother only went through the 8th, the 8th grade
• 38:07
  because in the United States at that time, because of the
• 38:11
  desegregation and all those things, she was not able to go
• 38:15
  any further than that in her education.
• 38:18
  But she was one of the women who have started the 1st Girl Scout
• 38:22
  Trooper organisation in our city for for African American young
• 38:27
  girls. And I look at that, she didn't
• 38:29
  let what they thought about her stop her.
• 38:32
  She knew what her mother had told her.
• 38:34
  You are a Macklin and you can do this.
• 38:38
  And it's the same way with us and God.
• 38:40
  You are God's son, you are God's daughter, and I've given you the
• 38:44
  power to do this. Don't worry about what everybody
• 38:47
  else is thinking about. Know who God says you are and
• 38:51
  the Lord is telling us. Know who I say you are.
• 38:55
  He says I say head and not to tell you on the top and not on
• 39:00
  the bottom. I say you're blessed coming in
• 39:03
  and going out. Everything you touch is black,
• 39:07
  so why would you listen to the world?
• 39:09
  Who's going to try to tell you you cannot be successful?
• 39:13
  Wow, just want to like to know anytime I think about marketing,
• 39:15
  I think far too big. So, but let's talk about leave,
• 39:19
  right? So that honestly, yeah, anytime
• 39:23
  God gives you a vision, God will make a provision.
• 39:27
  Right. I want you to align with that
• 39:30
  statement. God gave you that vision and of
• 39:32
  course, interesting you have a passion for execution of that
• 39:36
  vision. So how has the journey been?
• 39:40
  What have been the provisions and what's the level of impact
• 39:44
  you hope to achieve? And what's the level of impact
• 39:47
  you have achieved thus far? Well, God has told me I will
• 39:52
  make provisions for the vision, so I have to trust in him
• 39:56
  absolutely. Even when I look at where I am
• 39:59
  now and what He's promised me that it will be, I really have
• 40:03
  to trust Him in faith. I think the impact that he's
• 40:06
  allowing me to make as I reach out to women, it is now women
• 40:10
  globally. And I actually ended up, I
• 40:13
  checked a message from my podcast that I just launched.
• 40:18
  In September and there was a message from someone in in India
• 40:21
  and it was a gentleman actually. And he said, I love the way you
• 40:26
  have incorporated leadership and business along with your faith.
• 40:31
  Wow. That.
• 40:34
  Sounds like messages that I get as well.
• 40:38
  Right. And I'm like, Oh my God.
• 40:40
  So so the impact is great. And, and The thing is that as,
• 40:44
  as, as I continue to be obedient, you've got to open
• 40:48
  more doors. He'll tell me, OK, I've got this
• 40:50
  lined up for you and this is what I'm offering you.
• 40:53
  It's just like when I was sharing about the, the 90 day,
• 40:57
  and I mean, 90 minute intensive that I'm going to be doing or
• 41:00
  I've started to do the second one is and probably be after
• 41:04
  this podcast. But The thing is when he tells
• 41:07
  me whatever rate to give, that's what I do.
• 41:09
  And I have to trust him to make up the difference.
• 41:11
  But he's also promised me some corporate accounts where I'll
• 41:15
  actually go into an organisation and speak into the lives of the
• 41:19
  women there. And so I'm not concerned.
• 41:22
  I used to be more concerned about it.
• 41:24
  Now it's all on trust. I mean, I'm like Peter now we
• 41:27
  are out there on, we're in the water, we're walking on the
• 41:30
  water. We're just going to have to not
• 41:32
  look down and just focus on the assignment.
• 41:36
  And that's what I say to you. And in a lot of people out there
• 41:40
  that are wanting to combine their faith with their business
• 41:44
  side is focus on the assignment. Think that I will, I'll have, I
• 41:49
  believe in my heart. There'll be 100,000 tuning in
• 41:52
  women, tuning into women, the world in the marketplace,
• 41:55
  because that's the that's my YouTube channel.
• 41:57
  Women, the word in the marketplace.
• 41:59
  And they're going to be listening and they're going to
• 42:02
  hear their father's voice and they'll start saying, OK, this
• 42:05
  will work for me. This will work for me.
• 42:07
  I just, I just believe the impact is there.
• 42:10
  In fact, I'm going to share an experience I had with you before
• 42:13
  we close out. It was probably about a month
• 42:16
  ago. No, it's maybe maybe six weeks
• 42:18
  ago now. Now, if you could tell by my
• 42:20
  background behind me, this is my office and everything's in all
• 42:24
  in place. And what I saw, I'm really picky
• 42:26
  about certain things. And, and the night it was on a
• 42:31
  Saturday night, and I had dreamed about a woman who was
• 42:35
  about to make a business deal. And in the middle of her going
• 42:39
  to the deal, she knew in her heart she didn't have God's
• 42:42
  peace about it, but she went anyway.
• 42:44
  But when she got there, the people she's going to make the
• 42:46
  deal with, it was almost like it was a shyster kind of back door
• 42:50
  behind the scenes thing. And she got a revelation that
• 42:54
  will not do it. And so she threw the briefcase
• 42:57
  up. Money went flying everywhere and
• 43:00
  she ran. And so when I woke up from the
• 43:02
  dream, you know, I'm, I'm thinking about it the whole time
• 43:04
  I'm getting ready for morning worship and I'm headed to our
• 43:07
  church. And, you know, usually when I
• 43:09
  speak online, I'm all got my little background and
• 43:12
  everything's all neat. And I said, God, what do you
• 43:14
  want me to do with this dream? I said, you want me to talk
• 43:16
  about it tomorrow because no, you've got to say this now
• 43:20
  because they're going to make that deal in the morning.
• 43:22
  So I go live in my car on Facebook and I just say, hey, I
• 43:29
  don't know who I'm talking to, but there's somebody out here.
• 43:32
  And I shared the experience and I said, and I shared with them
• 43:35
  that that God has a plan for you, but you're, you're trying
• 43:39
  to make a deal and you don't have peace about it.
• 43:42
  And, and I told him about the dream and what I saw and I said
• 43:45
  the Lord said it's not him. And so I went live with it.
• 43:49
  Well, probably within a 24 hour period, I had three different
• 43:53
  women to message me and say thank you.
• 43:58
  So we don't understand impact sometimes and sometimes we have
• 44:04
  to realise our impact. Sometimes we have to choose
• 44:08
  impact and obedience over the money side, and the money side
• 44:12
  will catch up to us because what does it say He first, the
• 44:17
  Kingdom of God. Kingdom of God and every other
• 44:20
  thing shall be added unto you. He added to me.
• 44:23
  So if I seek His Kingdom and doing it His way and doing and
• 44:29
  being obedient in my assignment, all the other things that we
• 44:32
  desire, the big corporations, the employees, the people, the
• 44:35
  reach is going to be added. But the key is seeking Him
• 44:40
  first. So that's what live is all
• 44:44
  about. So before we close, I'm going to
• 44:48
  share a testimony with you as well.
• 44:50
  So somebody sent me this. And by the way, back to that
• 44:56
  same friend I was talking to, just shortly, this whole start
• 45:00
  recording of that same friend told me something recently.
• 45:04
  As I said, I'm going to be very, very mad at you.
• 45:06
  I'm going to be very upset with you if I think what's talking
• 45:10
  forecasting. You cannot afford to stop this
• 45:13
  thing. This is your life.
• 45:14
  This is what God has dropped you on earth to do.
• 45:17
  Please don't have to think about it.
• 45:19
  And the interesting thing is the very few times I've ever been
• 45:25
  discouraged, you know, of course.
• 45:28
  Yeah. The impact versus the income
• 45:31
  thing. Right, Right.
• 45:32
  Come on. You're very talented.
• 45:34
  You know something else then just drop this.
• 45:38
  Probably a distraction. Somebody from somewhere in the
• 45:42
  world will always just pop up on social media, Instagram or
• 45:46
  LinkedIn, TikTok, and send me a message.
• 45:48
  This one came sometime earlier this year and I'm going to read
• 45:52
  this right. Hello, Atimola.
• 45:55
  How are you doing? I recently started listening to
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  your podcast and I'd like to mention that you are doing a
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  great work. I also like that you make a
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  reference to this creature in your conversations.
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  Hey so for me for me I'm grateful grateful that I'm
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  gathered in the word of God. You know been able to study to
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  show myself a food to work by the end of the year she and
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  actually means a word of two and yeah I'd like to end with Psalm
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  chapter 24 not who shall I send into the gill of the Lord either
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  have clean hands and a pure heart, but belief that of the
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  soul on to vanity a sworn the situation he shall read the
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  benefit of the salvation of the law.
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  This is the generation of the basically that Facebook Jake up
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  you tuck your head when you get something you doors and you just
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  think of glory, but not of course you tuck your head or you
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  get something you do check the other last indoors anything with
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  glorious farming. He was a king of glory.
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  Do not fight him at all. He's a king of glory say a lot.
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  So for me to you, it's a very, very big thing for you.
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  I obviously use an attitude of gratitude as good attitude and
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  any kind of person shares their time with you to share their
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  life with you because the S like the information of life this
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  time. So for me to you to love and of
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  course, massive respect. Did you have any last words to
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  say to the world? First of all, seek His Kingdom
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  first and everything else will be added.
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  And if he, if He wants to use you to be a light in the
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  marketplace, don't be afraid. Just trust Him to put you at the
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  right place at the right time. He'll make all the provision and
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  He's giving you, and I'm speaking to the ladies, there's
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  some of you. He's given you witty inventions
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  and ideas to launch your companies, but you've been
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  afraid and now is the time here. And so clearly now is the time
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  for God's daughters to rise up in the marketplace.
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  There's so many women in the Bible that you could read about
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  who actually had businesses. So it's time for you to run and
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  be obedient. And to you, I am so honoured to
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  be on your podcast and the light that you continue to share and
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  bring. I just think I thank God for
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  what he's doing through you. And it's not like you're
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  reaching generations from the top to the bottom.
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  So know that it's not just one generation, is many generations.
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  Yeah, and I'm grateful that I'm in the middle.
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  I'm a millennial, you know, I'm a millennial.
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  So it's yeah, you can go up and you can go down, like easily.
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  They can relate. Yeah, absolutely more.
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  Especially Gen Z&J Alpha, those guys that difficult, they are
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  difficult to deal with, but I love them.
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  I love them. Sad out to.
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  Keep being a lot sooner later they're going to catch the fire.
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  Just keep being a lot. Whoa, and of course from me to
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  you guys, it is always good for something in your life, right?
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  Conceive, believe, strive to thrive and achieve so that come
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  your way next, keep the fire burning.
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  God bless you guys. Bye bye.