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Your Field of Vision · SOLID START

• 0:03
  SPEAKER_01: Hello again and welcome back to another episode of Solid Start, podcast designed to get your week off to a solid start by focusing on life from God's perspective.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm Greg Greed, life coach with Merrill Bros, up in the northern paradise of Kokomo, Indiana, joined by my ever wonderful and amazing co-host Brian Herzog.
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  SPEAKER_01: Brian, good morning.
• 0:25
  SPEAKER_01: Good Monday morning.
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  SPEAKER_01: What's up, man?
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  SPEAKER_01: I got to visit my son this weekend.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, great.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, the newlyweds.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, the newlyweds, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: It was uh great going down to visit my son and daughter-in-law.
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  SPEAKER_01: I love them very much.
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  SPEAKER_01: Had a really good burrito down there in this Mexican place, one of the best burritos I've ever had.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh, wow.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, can't remember the name of the place, but uh Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, it was amazing.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it was good seeing them too.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: In addition to the burrito.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, I'm very excited for uh for them.
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  SPEAKER_01: They're kind of in a whole new chapter of life, and so yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, that's uh that's exciting.
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  SPEAKER_01: Matter of fact, they live in the same town where my mom lives.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and they're going to the same church now.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they go in the same church.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's they love your mom.
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  SPEAKER_01: They went out to uh dinner with her the other day and said they they fell in love with her, so yeah, yeah, she's uh such a neat lady and obviously produced some incredible kids, I guess.
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  SPEAKER_01: So well they're there are five other ones in addition to uh yours truly.
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  SPEAKER_01: So hey, I was gonna ask you, speaking of uh of newlyweds and new things, um are you uh familiar with a group called New Kids on the Block?
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  SPEAKER_01: You're probably not quite old enough for them, are you?
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  SPEAKER_01: No, I was that was that was my childhood, and uh uh I was so jealous of those guys.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: I wanted to be up there in the city.
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  SPEAKER_01: Cool.
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  SPEAKER_01: I wanted to be that cool, have that hair and sound so good.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah, I remember new kids.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, they were uh quite the thing back in the day.
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  SPEAKER_01: They were quite the thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that uh made me thinking about them, made me think uh about somebody.
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  SPEAKER_01: Maybe you're listening to this podcast and you're thinking, well, hey, I'm kind of new at my job as well, or something new is going on in my life.
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  SPEAKER_01: And there's something about maybe the first day a new job.
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  SPEAKER_01: You walk through the door, you don't know anybody, you don't know personalities, you don't know the unwritten rules, um, you don't even know who will help you or who might make your life miserable.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh and so what do you do?
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  SPEAKER_01: You kind of watch, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: So tell me about a time when you felt like you were new.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh I mean you've been here, you've not been here forever, so you were at one time new year.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, three years ago.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh just stepping into this role.
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  SPEAKER_01: We didn't have a marketing department, didn't know what to do.
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  SPEAKER_01: Right.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh it was I remember that.
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  SPEAKER_01: I didn't know anything about biosolids.
• 2:49
  SPEAKER_01: Uh-huh.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like, I didn't even know what that was.
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  SPEAKER_01: Didn't couldn't even spell biosolids.
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  SPEAKER_01: No, and they're like, you're gonna market this.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I'm like, okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, what is it?
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh so for the first goodness, first day was fun and um first couple days, and then the reality hit.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, I I really don't know much about this company at all.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it it took a while to really understand and learn what we do here.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it it it's interesting when we talk about well, maybe we could hire so and so to do brochures or hire a different company to to do videos.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, it would take them forever to understand us.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh what we do.
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  SPEAKER_01: So yeah, I remember that first day.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, I remember the first week.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, I was lost, yeah, completely lost.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: I remember meeting you then uh during that those early days.
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  SPEAKER_01: We went out to lunch.
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  SPEAKER_01: Those early days.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: And you came back.
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  SPEAKER_01: You still came back after going out to lunch.
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  SPEAKER_01: I did.
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  SPEAKER_01: I did.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, I'm glad I'm glad you stayed.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you.
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  SPEAKER_01: So that uh made me think about this whole thing of being new and being an outsider, uh, like what you were.
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  SPEAKER_01: You didn't really know the culture at all.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um there's a story in the Bible of an outsider, maybe one of the most uh unique outsiders in all of history, because she was uh a woman, number one, and uh she was a widow, she was a foreigner, she was poor, she was alone, and she has a book by her name, Ruth.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I wanted us to uh talk about that story a little bit because I think it really helps us to understand this whole thing about being new and being safe.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um so, Ruth, uh, in case you don't remember the story, she had lost her husband.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, she was from another country and she was living in Bethlehem in the nation of Israel, and she had uh she really had nothing.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so one day she went out to try to grab some of the leftover grain from the harvesters, hoping that someone would allow her to gather enough uh leftover grain to be able to survive.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so why don't you pick up the story in uh Ruth chapter two, verses two and three, Brian?
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  SPEAKER_01: And Ruth the Moabite said to Naomi, Let me go to the fields and pick up the leftover grain behind anyone in whose eyes I find favor.
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  SPEAKER_01: Naomi said to her, Go ahead, my daughter.
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  SPEAKER_01: So she went out, entered the field, and began to glean behind the harvesters.
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  SPEAKER_01: As it turned out, she was working in a field belonging to Boaz, who was from the clan of Elimelech.
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  SPEAKER_01: So here's Ruth.
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  SPEAKER_01: She didn't arrive with any status, she had no connections, no leverage, she simply walked into somebody else's workplace hoping she would be treated decently.
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  SPEAKER_01: And think about what Ruth must have been doing as she entered that field, watching, wondering who can I trust?
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  SPEAKER_01: Will they let me stay?
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  SPEAKER_01: Will these men treat me safely?
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  SPEAKER_01: Um, Ruth was an outsider.
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  SPEAKER_01: She was, if you will, the new kid on the block.
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  SPEAKER_01: Now pick up uh with verse five.
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  SPEAKER_01: Something changes.
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  SPEAKER_01: Boaz asked the overseer of the harvesters, who does that young woman belong to?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: So one person noticed her, and that was Boaz.
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  SPEAKER_01: And when Boaz arrived, he saw Ruth and he asked the overseer of his harvesters, who does this young woman belong to?
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  SPEAKER_01: And um, so before Boaz protected Ruth, he provided for her, um, but he noticed her.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that's that's the key thing that when someone is new, if you just get noticed and somebody says, Hey, I care, I'm so glad that you're here.
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  SPEAKER_01: So creating a safe place often starts by us simply noticing someone, noticing people who could be easily overlooked.
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  SPEAKER_01: It could be in a workplace, maybe it's a new employee who's standing off to the side, it could be at home, uh, it may be the spouse of someone who's gone unusually quiet, or it could be one of your kids who said, Well, I'm fine, but clearly they're not.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so safety begins when somebody pays attention.
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  SPEAKER_01: And then Boaz does more than notice, he takes responsibility for what happens to Ruth in his field.
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  SPEAKER_01: So verses eight and nine of that same chapter, Brian.
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  SPEAKER_01: So Boaz said to Ruth, My daughter, listen to me.
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  SPEAKER_01: Don't go and glean in another field, and don't go away from here.
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  SPEAKER_01: Stay here with the women who work for me.
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  SPEAKER_01: Watch the field where the men are harvesting, and follow along after the women.
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  SPEAKER_01: I have told the men not to lay a hand on you, and whenever you are thirsty, go and get a drink from the water jars the men have filled.
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  SPEAKER_01: Wow.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it's like stay here, stay close.
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  SPEAKER_01: I've instructed my men, water's available.
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  SPEAKER_01: In other words, in this field, you're safe.
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  SPEAKER_01: So Boaz didn't just give Ruth some grain, he created an environment where she could work without being afraid.
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  SPEAKER_01: And that uh that really leads us well into our fourth quarter's focus, which is make your pasture a safe place.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, one of the principles that comes out of a book that we've been using for several years called The Way of the Shepherd is creating a place where people feel safe.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so a good shepherd understands the in that environment matters.
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  SPEAKER_01: And people do better when they know they can work, learn, ask questions, make mistakes, uh, speak honestly without wondering if somebody's going to embarrass them, attack them, or use their vulnerability against them.
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  SPEAKER_01: So, what was it like as you went on those first few weeks?
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  SPEAKER_01: What do you remember about that?
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  SPEAKER_01: Because that was how long ago, Brian?
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  SPEAKER_01: Three three years.
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  SPEAKER_01: Three years, okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: So when did it, when did you finally think, hey, I think this is this is gonna work, this is safe, this is a good place, this is a good environment.
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  SPEAKER_01: I knew that before going in, of course.
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  SPEAKER_01: Okay, okay, meet with people, uh, knew the Merrills uh a little bit.
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  SPEAKER_01: And okay.
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  SPEAKER_01: So I knew that.
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  SPEAKER_01: And yes, looking at when we were actually when we were in the boardroom over there, the conference room, there were there were uh scriptures on the wall, and there was a picture of Jesus shaking hand with a businessman.
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  SPEAKER_01: I'm like, okay, this is a safe place.
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  SPEAKER_00: Honestly, I'm like, this is this is awesome.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, like a this feels different, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: This is a um a place where I I feel like honestly, we're we're this is where God wants me right now.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and so I felt like He led me there.
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_01: A lot of things, amazing things happened for me to be able to um in order for me to get that job, and it happened quickly, and it was at a time in my life where I had w I left my former job.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um I was unemployed.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, um my daughter was starting college and God kind of opened this door so I knew this is where he wanted me.
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  SPEAKER_01: And just being in the environment here, it felt safe walking through the door.
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_01: It's awesome.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't know if there was an exact day or time where I felt um I felt it on the way in the door.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yes, yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: So you were kind of pre uh pre you were prepared in advance to say, hey, this is going to be good, and it and it lived up to that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Absolutely.
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  SPEAKER_01: Every single day.
• 10:17
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Every single day that we're here, it has lived up to it.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: I've been through five employee appreciation weeks now, and those are just remarkable times where I I'm confident that people walk away from those if they didn't before, saying, Wow, this is this is a different kind of place.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is very unique among businesses.
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  SPEAKER_01: I don't have any other businesses that have that pay that kind of attention to their people.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so, you know, our pastures, not just Merrill Bros, uh, as you and I've talked about our families, it goes way beyond just what we do here.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, it affects um somebody else's life, maybe it's your crew, your office, your truck, your home, your marriage, your family, your friendships.
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  SPEAKER_01: This pastures wherever you have influence.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so it's like, how do I help other people to feel like they're safe?
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  SPEAKER_01: How do I help other people feel like they belong and that they matter while they're here?
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_01: And so we want to make this uh very personal.
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  SPEAKER_01: Don't just answer these questions out loud.
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  SPEAKER_01: We want you to sit and think about them for a moment.
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  SPEAKER_01: What's it like to work with me?
• 11:28
  SPEAKER_01: Um, I won't even have you answer that.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was ready.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_01: I know, I know you had a lot to say, Brian.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we're out of time.
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  SPEAKER_01: Let's see.
• 11:38
  SPEAKER_01: Oh, I'm sorry.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's uh podcast is about to come to a close.
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  SPEAKER_01: So it's like when somebody makes a mistake around me.
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  SPEAKER_01: What do they expect when somebody disagrees with me?
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  SPEAKER_01: Can they say that when a new person joins the team?
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  SPEAKER_01: Do I make it easier or harder for them to belong?
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  SPEAKER_01: And maybe the harder question is, what's it like to live with me?
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  SPEAKER_01: So you'd have to ask my wife and kids and grandkids, and I'd have to find out from your family, hey, what's it like to to live with Brian?
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  SPEAKER_01: And sometimes people at work get the patient, encouraging, controlled version of us, and maybe the people we love the most get what's ever left over.
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  SPEAKER_01: And a lot of times it happens that way.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's what happens, doesn't it?
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  SPEAKER_01: Who are you when you come home from work and walk through the door?
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  SPEAKER_01: My uh word for this year is listen.
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  SPEAKER_01: And my my desire, and I my wife would be the one that could answer that the best, but I said at the beginning of the year, I want to be a better listener uh to the Holy Spirit, and I want to be a better listener to my wife.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I think I've had some times of success with that.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I've had some times that my wife said, You didn't hear a thing I said, did you?
• 12:53
  SPEAKER_01: And I think, man, I didn't I didn't listen very well, did I?
• 12:57
  SPEAKER_01: Um and so again, it's just my way of saying, How do I make my home a place where my wife loves it and my adult kids and grandkids uh love to be around be around me?
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  SPEAKER_01: So do people feel safe, being honest with you?
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  SPEAKER_01: Do they feel safe making a mistake around you?
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  SPEAKER_01: Um I wonder what uh what they would say.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so Boaz couldn't control every field, and neither can we.
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  SPEAKER_01: You and I can't control every field, but we can take responsibility for what happens in the fields where we have impact, like your soccer field, literally a field, but yet you get you have an incredible opportunity to help that group of girls to feel like, man, this is the best place that I could ever be, because there's a coach who cares about me and who loves what uh the the person that I am and wants the best for me.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
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  SPEAKER_01: And it's okay to make mistakes, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: So they don't have to look over all the time if they mess up, like, oh no, what's he gonna say?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's important to you.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's a big yeah, that's probably when it shows up the most, right?
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  SPEAKER_01: When we make mistakes.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's like, hey, because we're all uh we're all going to be there.
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  SPEAKER_01: So this week's challenge is what would make someone feel safe with you this week?
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  SPEAKER_01: Um so sometime this week, someone around you is going to make a mistake.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like we said, they're gonna struggle, they're gonna seem stressed or simply need to know that somebody sees them.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um may happen at Merrillbros, it may happen in your kitchen tonight.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh, you probably will not know ahead of time when that's when that's going to come.
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  SPEAKER_01: They just come, but I want you to ask yourself one question.
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  SPEAKER_01: What would make this person feel safe with me right now?
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  SPEAKER_01: So that's the that's the question for this week.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh then whatever that is, do that one thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Do the next right thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Maybe it's listening before you lecture, maybe it's asking instead of assuming, maybe it's keeping a confidence, maybe it's offering to help, maybe it's simply communicating, I got your back.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um Boaz couldn't make every field safe, but when Ruth stepped into his field, he made sure she knew what was safe there.
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  SPEAKER_01: So this week, when somebody steps into your field at work or at home, I just I mean we are challenging you to notice them, ask the question, and then do the one thing.
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  SPEAKER_01: Well, Brian, as we uh pray today, what a great uh privilege that is to be able to pray for uh the people that are part of our team.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I especially want you to pray for those people that are new.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um people that um I had lunch with someone just last Thursday who was day one.
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  SPEAKER_01: Tomorrow I've got uh lunch with somebody else who's day one, and so we just all the time are it's day one for people all over the country for us.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so I would love for you to uh to pray for them as well as the field people that are out in the fields.
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  SPEAKER_01: We talked about this field that Boaz was in, and so we've got people in the fields uh all the time right now, and so we want to pray for them, pray there'll be a great harvest and that uh uh the resources from that uh part of those can be used for the benefit of lots of people.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um and so let's uh let's go ahead and pray.
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  SPEAKER_01: Dear Father, we thank you for this day.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for how you provide.
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  SPEAKER_01: And one way you've provided for Merrill Brothers is sending good people to us.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so we're just so thankful for that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you, God, for those individuals over the years and uh and the years to come that you that you will continue to lead toward uh Merrill Brothers.
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  SPEAKER_01: I just pray for those uh uh uh new staff members who come in and um we know how it is.
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  SPEAKER_01: This is a very unique place, it's a big place.
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  SPEAKER_01: We do a lot of different things and uh it can take a while um to real fully understand what we do here.
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  SPEAKER_01: And uh uh just pray for their first few days, weeks and months here.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh God, I pray that you would uh just uh help us to love them, uh help us to care for them and uh see their needs and meet their needs.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_01: I pray God that you would um just allow them to feel comfortable here and safe and know that this place is different and the reason why, God, is because we put you first in all that we do here.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_01: That's why it's different.
• 17:39
  SPEAKER_01: It's very simple.
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  SPEAKER_01: Um I pray that we would continue to do that and to to rely on you and and look to you for guidance and wisdom.
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  SPEAKER_01: I pray for all of our uh folks who will be in the fields this week and the next couple weeks.
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  SPEAKER_01: We have harvest, we just have a lot going on.
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  SPEAKER_01: There's just a lot that happens within a short amount of time, and so please keep them safe in the fields on the roads and working around that equipment.
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  SPEAKER_01: Thank you for their hard work and their effort and just what they do for Merrill Brothers.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we're just praying for uh a great harvest season.
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  SPEAKER_01: Uh we are so blessed to be able to farm and to have uh the means to do that, and so just we're just praying God you continue to bless that.
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  SPEAKER_01: Eternal God, thank you for the reminders throughout scripture that you are our refuge and the strength, our very present help in all of life's issues.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so thanks for providing a safe place for us with you.
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  SPEAKER_01: And we ask that we could extend that to uh the places where we have influence and that our presence, wherever that is, will affect somebody else's life this week.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so help us to be on the lookout to notice this week when people might uh seem anxious or that they're uncertain or that they're embarrassed or that they've been that they're stuck.
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  SPEAKER_01: Help us to be the kind of people that walk alongside of them and offer support and encouragement and guidance.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so we just thank you that we we have great influence wherever we go.
• 19:18
  SPEAKER_01: And our hearts do break for those that uh have lost loved ones recently.
• 19:24
  SPEAKER_01: Uh maybe people listen to this podcast have had to say goodbye to someone uh this month, this uh this year.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so we uh we just pray for our team and ask for the fact that you are um our refuge and you are a place that you can say we you tell us that we can cast all our cares on you because you care about us.
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  SPEAKER_01: And so thank you for that care and thank you for the challenge to extend that care wherever we go this week.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's in Jesus' name we pray.
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  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_01: Amen.
• 19:58
  SPEAKER_01: Well, as always, we want to make sure that you let us know if there are ways we can be praying for you.
• 20:03
  SPEAKER_01: Uh and Brian, uh, how uh how can that happen?
• 20:06
  SPEAKER_01: Why don't you uh remind us if in case somebody's listening to this for the first time, we uh we do have a way that people can connect with us.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_01: That's right.
• 20:14
  SPEAKER_01: Go to Merrillbrose.com, M-E-R-R-E-L-L-B-R-O-S.com, click on the prayer tab at the top of the page, and then you can get in touch with us there.
• 20:22
  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we want you to know this is a safe place.
• 20:25
  SPEAKER_01: It's a way that you can ask people to pray for you um confidentially, and we would love to be able to do that.
• 20:32
  SPEAKER_01: So thank you for joining us for another episode of Solid Start.
• 20:36
  SPEAKER_01: Keep growing, keep encouraging, make someone feel safe with you this week.
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_01: Lord bless you.