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Unleashing True Potential: Michelle Schaffer on Faith, Money, and the Power of Dreaming Big · Stuck No More Voices

• 0:01
  Speaker 1: Hey, it's the Kingdom Enter podcast.
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: I am so glad you are here.
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: I'm Teresa Croft and you know we always focus on our voice.
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: We go deep in understanding our identity.
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: So before I introduce this guest, I got to tell you a little story.
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: So I was in San Diego a couple of weeks ago for this speaker academy, which turned into a conference, and I was having dinner with Jenny Virginia, and I saw it's like Jenny, so I'd only met this guest on Zoom calls.
• 0:31
  Speaker 1: So tell me, what does Michelle really like?
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: And she proceeded to talk and talk, and talk.
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: The very next day I walked in the room, one hug and looking in her eyes and I knew this is a kingdom influencer.
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: I wanted my life.
• 0:47
  Speaker 1: So with that, it's great honor to welcome you.
• 0:49
  Speaker 1: Just an amazing woman, Michelle Schaefer.
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: Hey, Michelle.
• 0:54
  Speaker 2: Hello, thank you for having me, teresa, it is so great to have you.
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 0:59
  Speaker 1: I know listen guys, we're gonna have a coffee chat and you're gonna be blessed to listen in, okay.
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: So, michelle, I know we could go in detail about your background, but I do like the mother heart, so can we just touch on this?
• 1:11
  Speaker 1: Were, you realized you were working as in the beauty salon and you realized you wanted to be home with your kids more.
• 1:19
  Speaker 1: Can I take us from there just a little bit Sure.
• 1:23
  Speaker 2: Well, I think I probably always wanted to be home with my kids.
• 1:28
  Speaker 2: I had my first child at 16 years old, so I was just a child myself, and prior to that, though, I knew someday I was gonna be a mom.
• 1:39
  Speaker 2: But I had aspirations.
• 1:40
  Speaker 2: To go to college, I wanted to be a journalist and an actor and a writer and all the things.
• 1:47
  Speaker 2: A lawyer I really wanted to be a lawyer.
• 1:48
  Speaker 2: And then I had this child, and, of course, everything changes, and when my first daughter was born, even though I was only a child, I fell into the deepest love I had ever knew or experienced, and anything that I wanted for me kind of just melted away, and I just wanted to spend every moment with my children.
• 2:11
  Speaker 2: That's not exactly how life turned out for me.
• 2:13
  Speaker 2: I had my son, my second child, a couple of years later, two and a half years later, and then a year after that, a year and a half after that, I was divorced with two kids at just barely 21.
• 2:25
  Speaker 2: So I was thrust into the working world and it's survival.
• 2:34
  Speaker 2: You're thinking about surviving, you're not thinking?
• 2:38
  Speaker 2: I mean, maybe in the distant part of my mind I was thinking it would be great if I could have my life look like this, but in the moment, as a young girl no college education and having these two humans rely on me I was just focused on making ends meet.
• 2:52
  Speaker 2: I tried to figure out a way that I could make not just ends meet.
• 2:59
  Speaker 2: I didn't want to just barely make it, I wanted to make enough that I felt comfortable.
• 3:04
  Speaker 2: I jumped into the beauty business.
• 3:05
  Speaker 2: I was able to create a six figure income there and I loved the business.
• 3:10
  Speaker 2: However, just that mom guilt that just is part of being a mom.
• 3:16
  Speaker 2: I worked 50 to 60 hours a week and I missed so much of my children's lives and then, years and years later, got remarried and we had my third child.
• 3:28
  Speaker 2: Really, that's when all of that time came together and felt like a little explosion inside of my heart.
• 3:36
  Speaker 2: I have to get home, or these children that I've been raising since I was a teen are going to grow up and move out and we wouldn't have known each other.
• 3:48
  Speaker 1: So you got married to Bobby and he introduced you to the wonderful world of network marketing and I know we don't have to go on it.
• 3:57
  Speaker 1: You worked and busted your butt on all the companies that you worked with, so I'm going to take a slight turn.
• 4:05
  Speaker 1: So you are a faith influencer and you came head to head to an idea.
• 4:11
  Speaker 1: Tell us that about the really the origination of girl power alliance, can you?
• 4:18
  Speaker 2: take us on that journey a little.
• 4:19
  Speaker 2: I would love to do that, but it has to start kind of back at like 2017.
• 4:23
  Speaker 2: Please do.
• 4:25
  Speaker 2: That's fine.
• 4:25
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, it's okay.
• 4:28
  Speaker 2: I've been a woman of faith my whole life.
• 4:29
  Speaker 2: I grew up in a Christian home.
• 4:31
  Speaker 2: I attended church as a young girl.
• 4:33
  Speaker 2: As a young adult, I attended church off and on.
• 4:35
  Speaker 2: It certainly wasn't consistent, but God was consistent in my life, Even when I wasn't walking with him and but you know, being in survival mode for as long as I had been just wanting to make ends meet.
• 4:47
  Speaker 2: I didn't want anything to get in the way of that and I'd always been taught if you want to be successful, you don't talk politics and you don't talk religion.
• 4:54
  Speaker 2: And I never did, Even though I was.
• 4:56
  Speaker 2: My relationship with the Lord was changing and morphing and growing and really shaping who I was as a person, who I was as a wife, who I was as a mom.
• 5:04
  Speaker 2: But it wasn't like something I just put out there for the world.
• 5:07
  Speaker 2: Remember, you know, we lived in the world before there was social media, so everybody didn't know everything that you did all the time.
• 5:13
  Speaker 2: So it's just this private journey that I had with my walk with the Lord that, as social media did come into play and as God was really working on me, there came a point in 2017 where I felt I felt this push, that I felt like God was really asking me to be more upfront, more bold, talk about my relationship with him.
• 5:36
  Speaker 2: It was such a big part of my life I wasn't talking about it really at all and I felt like he was asking me, like okay, I'm not not really asking, like kind of telling me I want you to be more bold.
• 5:45
  Speaker 2: But the question he asked me was if, if you weren't worried about offending anybody like you know, even before, cancel culture was a thing, it was still a thing.
• 5:54
  Speaker 2: So if you weren't worried about offending anybody or upsetting anybody, what would it sound like?
• 5:59
  Speaker 2: What would your language be?
• 6:00
  Speaker 2: What would, what would you talk about?
• 6:02
  Speaker 2: And so, because of that, and only that, I started a podcast in 2017 called sold out entrepreneur S O U L E D sold out, and on that podcast, I talked about everything through the lens of faith and, and I remember before I record, it was just me, me and this microphone right here and my computer.
• 6:20
  Speaker 2: This is my relationship with my podcast is me alone with this microphone and my computer, and I wasn't video recording them, I only did audios.
• 6:30
  Speaker 1: And.
• 6:31
  Speaker 2: I remember I had recorded a couple of episodes to release when I launched the podcast and I remember telling my husband I'm so nervous about this, I feel so naked, and he's like I don't get it.
• 6:41
  Speaker 2: You literally talk to people all day, every day.
• 6:43
  Speaker 2: I said I know, but this is different, wow, and it was different because I was going places that I had never gone before.
• 6:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and the process of doing that podcast, really it really was the catalyst for what is now my company, because that I was stepping into that place of talking freely about my faith and and really going wherever I felt like I wanted to go and really like going deep on how, what I thought about God, what God was showing me in the marketplace and relationships.
• 7:14
  Speaker 2: It shifted everything about me and almost like, okay, I'm going to paint a picture for you.
• 7:21
  Speaker 2: Do you remember, teresa, when we, when radios had a dial Sure, and it wasn't digital you had to die, turn the dial and find the station, and so, like you would be, you'd be turning the dial and you'd hear it, and then you'd stop and you'd kind of like, do this to the dial, you'd adjust it, you'd turn it and turn it just slightly until until you got a crisp voice.
• 7:41
  Speaker 2: That's what doing that podcast did for me.
• 7:44
  Speaker 2: It was like I.
• 7:45
  Speaker 2: It was like I didn't really know who I wasn't and who I was.
• 7:49
  Speaker 2: I started to, I started to tune into it and that podcast really got me to a place of like clarity.
• 7:56
  Speaker 2: And so once, once, I began to feel that anything that wasn't that felt yucky.
• 8:05
  Speaker 2: It felt like static.
• 8:06
  Speaker 2: You know in the radio if, to keep to keep on the same analogy, it just felt like it didn't.
• 8:11
  Speaker 2: It didn't feel like me anymore.
• 8:13
  Speaker 2: And so I had built this wonderful, amazing career with this company and making a lot of money.
• 8:18
  Speaker 2: It just didn't fit anymore.
• 8:21
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 8:21
  Speaker 1: So that's like that's got to be encouragement, because really, what you're saying is you were finding your authentic voice, which had this solid foundation with your relationship with God.
• 8:33
  Speaker 1: I think that's encouragement, don't you think anyone?
• 8:35
  Speaker 1: I mean podcasting.
• 8:36
  Speaker 1: I can't tell you how many people come up to me.
• 8:38
  Speaker 1: How do you create a podcast?
• 8:39
  Speaker 1: That's hope that, even if you look in that camera and no one's watching, your identity is being formed as you step up to the plate.
• 8:47
  Speaker 1: I didn't know that was the beginning.
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: That is really fascinating.
• 8:51
  Speaker 2: It is the beginning and because if I had never had done that, I don't know that I ever would have really been able to experience the feeling of what came out of me as I was expressing the full expression of me.
• 9:06
  Speaker 2: They were all pieces Like I think everybody can like.
• 9:10
  Speaker 2: It's not like you're not being you, but you're only being a portion of you in these different segments of your life, and I was able to like just be me, that's so powerful.
• 9:22
  Speaker 1: So Michelle is now the founder of Girl Power Alliance and I got to tell you something, Michelle there are conferences and there is the conference.
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: And two weeks ago I went to one of the conferences.
• 9:34
  Speaker 1: It was Girl Power's annual Activate Conference.
• 9:38
  Speaker 1: And this is where I want to go from here.
• 9:42
  Speaker 1: I remember sitting there and just watching you and then watching the ladies and the honor and the accountability and the celebrations of going through leadership classes and Michelle hit me deep in the core of my being.
• 9:58
  Speaker 1: I'm like that is who I want to be aligned to, Someone who is moving atmospheres and is bringing an organization that's kingdom, but it's for the benefit of so many people.
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: And I just want to, like I said I just was at a conference just last, this past week, and it was like, oh God, give me back to acting.
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: I mean, I learned a lot of good stuff about AI and stuff.
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: I love AI.
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: I think it's a tool that we can use.
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: So obviously, you just didn't get to that place as far as Activate, but you're seeing something build.
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: So could you like share about that, like personal development, I mean what you offer inside this community, inside this alliance?
• 10:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you, I love hearing that.
• 10:49
  Speaker 2: I feel like I feel like that I look forward to it.
• 10:51
  Speaker 2: This was really this Activate that you just attended.
• 10:54
  Speaker 2: So it was our second one, but it really was the first because I was able to design it absolutely the way that I would have wanted a conference to go, literally from moment one to the last moment.
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: I'm still getting goosebumps as you talk about it, because I'm in a lot of good place of the memory of that.
• 11:12
  Speaker 1: So thank you for your diligence and low.
• 11:16
  Speaker 2: Oh, it's a whole team, but it's a God idea.
• 11:19
  Speaker 2: It's a God idea for sure.
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: Really awesome.
• 11:21
  Speaker 1: Wait, what did you ask me?
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: Oh, I was asking you.
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: I was really asking you.
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: Obviously, whatever's inside girl power alliance oh, the personal professional development leadership.
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: I think we could start at personal development, because you're not an influencer, you don't really have a voice until you take care of your stuff.
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: For example, can I give you an example?
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: I joined in February this past year and I mainly thought I was in there for just a speaker Academy.
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: But I realized something I didn't have PTSD of this business.
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: I had PTSD in my own life that I had to take care of.
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: So even I stayed in it.
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: I watched the calls but I wasn't actively to the point of sharing it much.
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: And I say all that to say.
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: From February till so maybe September I went through such an intense neuropsychotherapy where I'm at like, I feel like a totally different person.
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: It's like I'm free.
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: I'm going to speak from a scar, not a wound.
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: So personal development sometimes is the beginning of that.
• 12:32
  Speaker 2: I think it's always the beginning of it, always, and this is a biblical concept, the idea that we are not to remain infants.
• 12:41
  Speaker 2: And if you look around, let's just say you're immediate circle, like your friends.
• 12:46
  Speaker 2: If you had friends, maybe that you went to high school or college with, are they the exact same person that they were in high school or college?
• 12:53
  Speaker 2: Because how can you become all the things that you want to become if you're not becoming and it's biblical this walk with the Lord is active.
• 13:04
  Speaker 2: You can't sit on the stands as a bystander and watch and expect that it's going to happen.
• 13:10
  Speaker 2: So personal development, I think, is the beginning of so many things becoming a better wife, mother, daughter, sister, leader in business, volunteer, all of it.
• 13:22
  Speaker 2: The truth of the matter is most people do not really have self-awareness.
• 13:25
  Speaker 2: It's just the way that it is.
• 13:27
  Speaker 2: We just we're around certain people and we act the way that we act.
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: We have no self-awareness.
• 13:32
  Speaker 2: And a couple of things for me.
• 13:35
  Speaker 2: Number one I grew up in a family where my older sister had terminal cancer and it was a very traumatic just my home life was traumatic because of that.
• 13:50
  Speaker 2: My mom struggled with mental illness which when I look back now I can see.
• 13:55
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's plain as day.
• 13:57
  Speaker 2: But as a child you don't know.
• 13:58
  Speaker 2: And there were things that happened along the way that I can see now had a tremendous impact on me, because I never wanted that to happen.
• 14:06
  Speaker 2: I knew that, well, I'm not going to be like that, that's not how I'm going to behave.
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: And then I become a mother as a teenager, and so I'm this child.
• 14:15
  Speaker 2: I didn't even I didn't even have an actual identity, didn't have a career, I didn't have anything yet.
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: But I knew that some of the things that I felt as a child still I was still a child Some of the things that I felt as a result of my life and my parents' behavior, that I wasn't.
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: My kids were not going to experience that.
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: So I remember being 16 and pregnant and reading books on parenting, because I was like my children aren't going to feel like that, I'm not going to behave that way, so my children don't feel that way.
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: So that was the first kind of entrance for me into self-development.
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: I was trying to develop as a parent.
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: I was like I'm going to be a good mom.
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: I know I'm a kid, but I'm going to be a good mom.
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: And then, when I got into network marketing, so much is around personal development.
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: I started reading personal development books and leadership and all these things and I was at an insatiable hunger for it, and so all of that always kind of sifted through the lens of my faith, because a lot of self-development, that world, a lot of it's very, very new agey, it very much puts you at the center of it, making you giving you the false idea that you are manifesting your reality, when I don't believe that at all.
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: I believe that your reality is shaped by your faith in God and the submission to God.
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: And so I could go a lot of places there, but it always it always starts with personal development and making a decision to take radical responsibility for who you are and for the circumstances that you exist in.
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I appreciate you saying we're not manifesting.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: I had a weekend of that and I'm thinking, okay, just internalize that, that you have relationship with God.
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: Don't chase the unicorn.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: The unicorn is always there.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: No disgrace, but I was there for AI tools and it was great.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: Part of Girl Power Alliance is there's an opportunity.
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: But before we say something about that opportunity, Michelle, making money is spiritual warfare.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: What do you say to that?
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: 110%.
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: Because if you I mean if you could keep somebody, what's the best way to keep somebody from doing anything?
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: To give them no hope, to give them no resources, to make them so worried about paying bills that they can't possibly step into their true identity, they can't possibly think about impacting the world.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: I think it's one of the biggest tools and I think that the church in general has bought into it, because I think there's a lot of reasons I won't get into the minutiae of it because this could be a whole podcast in and of itself.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: I believe that there's certain denominations, certain churches that they have wanted to make sure that this is going to sound bad, but this is just the way I think.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: I think that a lot of churches have wanted to make sure that people spent their money at the church.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: Make sure you can't want money, but we want your money, but you can't want money.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: They also wanted the work of the church to be at the church so that people spent their money at the church.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: The truth of the matter is and what I believe is we physically us, the believers, we are the church.
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: We never needed a building.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: It's wonderful to have a building in your local area that does good works.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: It is a place for people to gather in fellowship, but it was just supposed to be one piece of the puzzle of the church and so, being that money moves the needle.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: Money funds orphanages.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: It gives missionaries the ability to go overseas.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: It prints bibles.
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: It gives homeless people the ability to go sleep in a hotel and get treatment.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: It gives single moms the ability to pay rent.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: My church here locally owns six homes and they allow single moms or families that are in need to spend one year in a home rent-free.
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: It is life-changing.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: It takes money to do that, so I believe that money in the hands of faithful believers will change the world.
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: That's so good, and we're not bashing church, but Not at all.
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: No, it's just sad when church tries to keep the members inside for the money for the, and I love churches that release you to go and use your voice to where God has told you to.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: So you have in your book, by the way, the guidelines, if you really want to know.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: I've read it to the conference and I'm so relieved to read the rest of it, coming home from that last conference.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: So I would like to talk about.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: I love how you said in the book don't insult God by dreaming small.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: One thing I liked about this last conference is there were a couple Christians in this panel and they were like it's your responsibility If you've got a message, it's your responsibility.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: This is gonna sound crazy, but to go on Instagram, go on Facebook and share the stuff that you've learned, it's your responsibility.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Obey God if he's telling you to do that.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: And I could sit up here and start preaching, because that's my whole heart of this podcast of using your voice.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Don't insult God by dreaming small.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Why don't you?
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: I read the book.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Why don't you break that down?
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: It's so beautiful.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: I think about, first and foremost, nature.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: Like I am odd by nature, like every day, I live in a beautiful area.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: It's beautiful.
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: There's mountains.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: In the winter we get these snow caps, the sun sets and the sun rises, and the colors and the way that the clouds are, every little intricate detail of a leaf and a flower.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: There's nothing small about that.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: If you've ever gone anywhere beautiful, like, just say, hawaii, I mean you're awestruck.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: It's the crystal clear water and the different colored fish in the ocean and the shells and the pearls are created inside of oyster.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: I mean just the magnificence of earth and nature and what God has created.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: There's nothing small about that.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: And then you look at children and how they have these wild, radical imaginations and they wanna be a hundred things a hundred times and they play, dress up and their imaginations just go.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: There's nothing that limits them and their thinking.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: But what happens to us?
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: We grow up when we can't even think outside of going to work this week and I just again, I believe that's a design of the enemy, but we serve this incredible creative creator.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: I mean he's the original creator.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: We're creators, we're doing podcasts and content.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: He's the original creator that's built inside our DNA.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: These magnificent ideas and the things that happen were his idea always and first.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: And when I think about that particular statement that I wrote, or thinking about dreaming big, I think about the parable of the talents in Matthew, because Jesus specifically said, before he shared that parable, he said the entire kingdom of God can be summed up in this parable.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: The entire kingdom can be summed up in this parable.
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: And in the parable he talks about the master who gives a sum of money to three different guys.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: The first two guys go out and they actually double that amount of money, and the third guy buried it.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: He was afraid that he was gonna get in trouble or lose it or whatever.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: So he said I'm not gonna take any risk at all, I'm gonna just take what I was given and I'm gonna bury it until the time where the master's gonna come back and he's gonna collect what was his.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Then I'm safe.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: And what happens was when he comes back and he tells him he says it with I'm putting my own mood and tone on it, but I would imagine he's like hey, I knew who you were, so I wasn't about to take a risk here.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: So here's your stuff.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: I buried it.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Here's exactly what you gave me.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: And instead of being praised, instead of saying good job, thank you for not losing it, what the parable tells us is the master says to him, you worthless and lazy servant.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: And he doesn't just stop there by actually insulting his lack of action, he actually says take what he has and go give it to the guy who did something with what I gave him.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that I believe.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: If we are to believe what Jesus says, that the whole kingdom is wrapped up in this parable, then we can apply that to everything.
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: We can apply that to money, to relationships, we can apply that to our gifts and our talents.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: And what that means to me is you have these dreams inside of you and, sadly for a lot of people, they push them down and they bury them.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: They never, ever take one step because in their mind it's just a dream.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: That can't be what God's calling me to.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: That's impossible.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: How would I do it?
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: I don't have the resources, I don't have the skill.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: That can't be the thing that I'm supposed to do.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: So they do nothing with it.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: But if we're to follow this parable, just like Jesus said, the whole kingdom then I take it like this you have things inside of you, their skills, their talents, their dreams, their desires.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: I believe they were put in your heart by God.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: If you're following God, you can trust that they were put there by God, at least in some version.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Right, and if we do nothing with it, if we don't take any risk, if we never take any step, it's the equivalent of burying it.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: When you get to heaven one day and you say here God, I knew this was the thing you gave me and I protected it and I did nothing with it.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: And instead of him going good job, he's gonna go.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: Why didn't you do something with that thing I gave you?
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: I created you to do this and you did nothing with it.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: Wow, so dreaming small to me is the equivalent of that.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: And if someone just thinks, okay, this is what I love about what Michelle has created in her staff.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: I think Girl Power Alliance it's a stepping stone, a big stepping stone really, of you saying, okay, I like what she's saying.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: I've been dreaming small, so where do I start?
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: I think it was born inside Michelle's heart from that single story in the Bible to say, hey, we need to have some place where someone can start right from the beginning and not just get personal professional leadership development and then have an arm to it where you get to make money.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: I think there are.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: So I think, as you're seeing the company grow and as you're seeing more and more women come in I think you're seeing this in your own eyes.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Just come to life.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: More and more people are finding out about this thing called Girl Power Alliance.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: More and more people.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Hey, they wanna have a podcast, but they wanna start with some professional development first.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: That is you.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Please check out or look at the links in the show notes here for a chance to really look inside.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: I love marketing, I love AI, I love making websites, and they did something really phenomenal they created an opt-in that turns into a funnel of a email marketing dripping, so they're actually giving you the tools, aren't you, michelle, giving the tools to help you make this not a?
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: I don't know, michelle, when you said in the chapter this is real hard for me because I'm a little bit of an introvert, believe it or not but when you said something like start shaking hands and kissing babies, I was like, oh gosh, that means I gotta go out the door and that's okay.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: I know, I gotta learn that, but I'd rather be like Michelle Tufford and just kind of bring him in over TikTok, over to Instagram.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: There's many ways to do it, but there's nothing like.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: This is the bottom line I'm saying about all of this.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: It's a place where you get connected and it's really a place where you do stretch yourself.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: And the number one thing is this bank card called relationships.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: It's not like just to cash in, but if you really develop relationships, in God's economy, he has a way of not paying back, but giving back what you pour out into people.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: So, talking about this business, it is a multi-level marketing business.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: So, michelle, coach me and everyone else listening what have you found the key to get to that point where you're talking and you're loving them, talking, loving them and then bringing them in effortlessly?
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Well, for me, it's never.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: Network marketing is predicated on the fact that happy customers, people that love whatever the product is, can't stop talking about it.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: And I've worked solely with women, like primarily my entire adult career.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: First behind the chair in the salon I mean you had a sprinkled in a couple of men, but they're mostly women and then in network marketing, I've mostly worked with women and I will tell you something about women.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: That is one of our giftings when you're excited about something, you can't shut up about it.
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: It's just the way that it is.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: So women have been able to be really, really phenomenal in the network marketing profession because that is a natural thing that comes out of you, introvert or not.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: If you like something, you found a good AI that's working for you.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: You're not keeping it to your.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: You're telling everyone because you're like this will help you.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: I'm creating a course, hey, speaking of, I'm starting to see the difference in me.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: I took an Uber and I just effortlessly talking, I actually had another person and next thing you know, she goes.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: I need to know what you're talking about.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: So I sent her a link.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: I had a live mental Monday.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: It was on Tuesday.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Yesterday she joined that.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: So I was for me personally, I'm not an introvert and what I'm excited about this, it's not something that you got 120 products weight in the garage to sell.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: It's your very heart.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: If you are all about personal development and you want some yourself, if you're all about making money, if you're all about connecting, it's you know.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: I got to say this, michelle it's not just all those things we get, is it?
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: Almost every day of the week we got some call a prayer call.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of A call a leader, call an opportunity, call that's.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: I think to me that is part of the glue that holds us all together in the community, even when we leave activate.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: It was so depressing leaving activate where I'm, I was depressed too, but yeah, that was just amazing.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: But I think the calls and social media, the text, the inboxes, is kind of the glue.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: So if you think you're an introvert like me now, you wouldn't be an introvert.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: When you believe in something and when you start seeing the results of personal development, you start going through.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: What is it?
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: 16 weeks of the leadership?
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Yes, if you wait, I'm going to be there Monday or 2024 with Molly.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: I can't wait.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: That's something I'm.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Oh, you haven't gone through RLA.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Yet yes, I was going through RLA one-on-one with the therapist.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: No, oh my gosh, teresa.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: Yes, thank you.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I'm so excited for you, thank you, and Molly's going to be the leader of the 2024.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: Oh, my goodness.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, then, because that happened to me, michelle, I think I'll be all the more when enrollees come in.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: I think I'll be all the more understanding hey, that's where you've got to be.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: And no one really and it's okay, no one really showed me all that.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: And I love the Speaker Academy.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about the Speaker Academy.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about it Because I talk, my voice is all about my course is all about getting your voice out there, whether online or on stages.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: So I kind of know the story of how you guys put this together, but, for the sake of our listeners, I'll share it.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you how you, because it is so exciting.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Oh, my gosh, I'm so.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: It's literally a whole.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: It's its own entity.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: Yes, I believe it's going to grow into its own entity.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: So I've been speaking for my whole career.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: Even when I was a hairdresser, I was speaking publicly because I was educating.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: I was going into salons and teaching haircuts and styles and product education.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: So that's what I've been.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: It's literally what I've been doing my whole life.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: And then I get into network marketing and you're speaking in homes and I had a lot of success.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: So I got to speak on a lot of stages and then I started a podcast.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: I was speaking every day and do a microphone and then social media.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: Now you're doing live.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: So I've been, I have done.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: The largest crowd I spoke in front of was 15,000 people, and that's cool.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: I always tell people though, if you could speak in front of two, you can speak in front of 2,000.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: You can speak in front of 20.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: It's no different.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: It's literally no different.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: Actually, I think sometimes it's a little harder to speak in front of a smaller crowd, because it's really intimate.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: So it's a really intimate thing.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: Anyway, I love speaking.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: I don't have.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: It feels natural to me because it doesn't feel any different than speaking to you like this.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: And I had been seeing Over the years I had been seeing these courses for people that wanted to be speakers.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: Everybody wants to be a speaker.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: It's a great thing, it's a fun thing to get paid to speak.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: So over the years I had seen courses $5,000, whatever but in the last couple of years I've seen a lot of people do courses to teach people the ability to speak publicly and to help them launch their speaking career and all this stuff.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: And they were really expensive 10,000, 15,000, 20,000, $25,000.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: And I'll be honest, I was very irritated by it.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: I was like the people that are taking these courses for 10, 15, 20, $25,000 are the people that actually can't afford it, but they want so desperately to launch their career that they believe the marketing that says all you need to do is take this course and then now you're going to be a paid speaker.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: And I just thought and I know there's a lot of people out there who do high ticket offerings.
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: I have nothing against them, but I will say that most of the time they're marketing to the people who make.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: The percentage of what they make in comparison to what these courses cost is disproportionate.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: So the people that should be paying $20,000 for the course are the people that are making half a million dollars a year and more, and so it's a small percentage of that.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: But the people that take it are the people that make 50.
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: And so it's disproportionate.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: So I thought to myself I could create a very good speaker course.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: I've studied speakers for years to be a more effective communicator.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: I've learned a lot of things.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: I'll create a speaker course and it just put it in the back of my mind and told the girls like one of these days I'm going to create a speaker course and it's going to be part of our membership.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: So people have to pay these outrageous amounts of money.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: You know, doing all the things I cook, I didn't know I don't have time.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: At some point I'm going to get to it.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: Well, Lisa Vanderkwak, who's a that's what she does for a living.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: That's her trade is coaching and teaching people to speak.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: She's one of our leaders here inside girl power lines.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: She sends me a voice message one day and she goes hey, I don't know if you're, if this is on your radar at all.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: But wouldn't it be cool if we could create something that was like the radiant leadership Academy, but it was a speaking Academy.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: Well, it was a confirmation to something that I already knew, but now I had.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: Now I had somebody who, like wanted to move it forward with me so that it would like hold my feet to the fire, and so I said 110%.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Yes, this was already on my radar.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: Anyway, we sat down Lisa, myself and Molly, who, prior to GPA, was an on.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: She would coach people about how to speak on camera and be effective, so three kind of different skill sets and different areas of expertise and we sat down and it was like a supernatural conversation and this framework came out to teach people this, this talk, to have more impact but use less words and to have a kingdom impact.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: And that's another thing that was driving me.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: You know, the, the creme de la creme up till now is always Ted.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: Everybody wants to get on a Ted, ted, a talk stage and you put it on your bio Ted, talk, speaker and all the things that happen, and people have Gained a lot of notoriety from some of these.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: There's some great Ted talks out there that I've loved, and so that's like that.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: That's what people do.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: So they pay coaches, they pay to get on stages so they can be a Ted talk speaker, and I'm like, but you can't talk about Jesus on a Ted talk stage, you can't.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: There's specific criteria.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: So I like, let's what if we could?
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: What if we could create a platform for people that have a kingdom message?
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: So, anyway, all that to say, what was birthed out of that conversation was a Kim 10, a kingdom impact talk in 10 minutes, and so we created a framework around it and a certification around it, and in 2024 we're gonna have our first Kim 10 event.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: So sweet, you were a part of our very first ever Certification and small event.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: But from that small event, we're gonna open this event to the public and to it's gonna it's gonna be an amazing thing.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: And and before you jump in, I just want to say this so there's a nine-week online live virtual course that anybody can go through if they're part of the membership as a VIP.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: That's included in the VIP membership.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: And so we go through framework and you have homework and it's really setting the stage to be able to teach you this talk.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: And Then those that want to go next level and go through the certification.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: You have the first day, the ability to go on stage and share this talk that you've crafted this 10 minute Kim 10 talk and we had four Moderators on a panel who would give feedback for the talk, and the next day was like your performance.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: Everybody got to get up on stage and we had a professional camera crew there and you haven't gotten it yet.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: You're gonna get it by the end of the month.
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: You get this, this 10 minute professionally recorded talk, and and what we saw from day one to day two, well, I don't even.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: It wasn't even like speaker training, it was like some kind of Holy Spirit fire.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: Like I love experience.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: It was.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: And I gotta say you know I'm I'm going to be pushing the radiant speaker as a voice coach, but the fact that that that beautiful thing, this huge thing, is inside all this other good things.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: And you know, michelle, the price.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: And no one should even focus on the price, because for that little bit to get in all of this I say that because I'm I'm in another mastermind where it's a lot of money, but this, every penny, every dollar is gonna be worth you.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: And I gotta say this on the speaker Academy.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: So I've known since I was young that I was, I was to be a speaker.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: So you know, open up the very obvious, open up the Apple and your.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: But that this is what I loved about it.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: I had been on very few stages.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Okay, so this beautiful panel of four people, it's like it was like a safe place.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Now I've had a lot of life happened to me, as if you watch my podcast, yeah, I get bits and pieces of it that's starting to be scars.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: So we speak from scars, not wounds.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: So I think I just spit out, trying to spit out the last two years of my life On on the practice day, and I loved every minute now.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Listen y'all.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Yes, that's vulnerable You're.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: You're getting up on the practice day, you're practicing your speech and you're doing it really just in front of these four people, every single one of these ladies.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: They they had some, they had some advice, but they exuded love and support for you, michelle.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: That was, you know, that was amazing.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: It was life-changing really for me, because life changing for me, yeah.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: So you even gave me that catchy phrase that you know nothing against.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: I am gonna go for a TED talk on that phrase.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: I'm so glad my husband died.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: And then you said you should be a comedian.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: That's a heavy subject.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: So when I came home after the conference, that hit me.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: Really, you can use some Comedy to make that bearable.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Yes, you're trying to help out, yes, so so there I got an idea.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: She's like you should start your speech out.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: So I went to the, went back to my motel room and I felt like I had to Right rewrite the whole thing and then I thought, no, I'm not gonna send her just on that.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: So I pulled some of the things back and was able almost to make a whole another Kim talk.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: But I wouldn't have been able to do that or have the wisdom to do that if I didn't have four beautiful ladies Speak into my life.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: And, michelle, I gotta tell you you had such an impact on me because it's like, yeah, you went through this crap, but you still got a message.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: I mean that I can't explain that.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: So we're getting a little excited about just one segment.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: That's inside girl power lions.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: The only thing that's missing is you.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: So please look at the show notes.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: We'll even give you a 24-hour sneak peek or we'll give you something that to give you the heart.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Because we could talk for more and I don't want to take Michelle's time up.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: We could talk forever about the amazing impact, your story, yeah, girl power lines.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: But I am so glad that you put in the radiant speaker.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: That's like an answer to my prayer and, like I said, michelle, it will.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: You provided a safe place.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: Sometimes women they're like, oh, I can't imagine that.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: But if you can just listen to me, you want to speak.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: I know it's in you.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: I see you imagine just a safe place To start, a little bit of a foundation to your dream of speaking.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: And, michelle, I gotta tell you that this last conference, big name conference we had to go on stage and Speak not long, it's just like it was 30 seconds but because of what I learned on the Radiant Speaker Academy.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: So I went up there and I had a pregnant pause looking out because I believe in that and I learned that from you and from the speakers.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: And they were almost like they were on anticipation, like did you forget what she was going to say?
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: And then, bam, and you know how I ended it.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: I said I'm Teresa Krafa, live speaker, certified live speaker.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: Podcast for Yadiyadah.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: I help women who feel voiceless find transformation by finding their voice, embracing it and speaking.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: And then I had another pregnant pause because we're supposed to say what our superpower was.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: And with confidence, I looked out in that crowd and I said my superpower is my voice because I shift atmospheres, but it's not me.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: But he inside of me exited that stage, wow.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: So because I said that all of a sudden, the few Christians that were there started to connect because I was going in there as salt and light and I wasn't.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: There's no judgment, but and they really teach speaking, but I go through Radiant Speaker Academy.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: It's the bomb, it's the real deal.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: So you were in the inaugural class, yeah.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: So we learned a lot and it was.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: I can tell you with honesty, it was so much more than I had anticipated it being.
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: I knew it was going to be good, because when you keep Jesus and stuff, it's just better, it just is, it's just better.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: But it was so much, it was so much more than what I had anticipated.
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: That, like it was, it was hard to transition my mind to leaving that there and then going into our conference, which is why we'll never do it again, because I kind of wanted to sit in the goodness a little longer and I we weren't able to.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: We just went into this.
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: Another, another amazing.
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: The other event was amazing too.
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: So it was.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: But you know what we were seeing.
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: We were seeing the practice day and it's almost like the Holy Spirit came into each of us and flipped us around and we came back with with a revival speech.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: Any one of those ladies could a letter revival, that's.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: And it's not like, oh, she's such a good speaker.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: No, that's just what happens when you put yourself in an environment safety, and all four of these speakers are full of the fire of Jesus.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: They're good speakers too and you've got all that poured in you.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: I'm glad I stayed for every talk Then the last day because I was so nervous the first day.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: I was trying to you know in and out, like, what am I trying?
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: Why is this making me nervous?
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: Like, why do I feel like I need to be seen?
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: But I need to be seeing all the nerves?
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: It's wonderful, don't think that's bad.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: But then you're in the same place and you get to walk on stage and look out and the number four it's not like they're appearing right.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: No, it's not.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: They're like if you, they could speak.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: They were like cheering you on.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: I get excited about that and I'm so glad.
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: You know, michelle, I'm doing a signature course on helping you get on stage or online with using AI.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: But believe you me, I'm going to send as many people as I can to Girl Power Alliance for that speaking engagement Now, for that speaking now.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: You only have one here.
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: So when do you start preparing the online course?
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: Do you go through it two times or do you just have one?
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: online.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: You only have to go through it once to be to go through the certification.
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: I think the next one we start is in March I think I could be wrong, I don't have the dates in front of me and then we're going to do our live event, probably the first week in June.
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: Ok, we're not going to butt it up too.
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: We can't, we just can't.
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: We can't butt it up.
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: But activate is its own thing, and this Kim 10 event, it will be what I believe, and you know God gives me pictures, but I only know the first, like two steps.
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: But I know the big picture.
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: The Kim 10 events is going to be.
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: It's a separate component to what we're doing and who knows what God's going to do with it, and so it will be part of GPA, but not so.
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: The Speaker Academy will always stay inside of Girl Power Alliance.
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: The Kim 10 certification will stay inside Girl Power Alliance, but the Kim 10 events will, I have a feeling, take a life of their own, and so people that are not even a part of GPA will be on the stage and we're going to open that up and see what God wants to do.
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: But you know, the bottom line is I mean for you, Teresa.
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: I have seen tremendous change in you.
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: Just the lightness that is on your face when you speak, the joy that comes out of you and you know you're just scratching the surface, You're just starting in this stuff.
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: Imagine in one year like you'll have to go back in one year and look at the podcast you recorded at this time and you don't even have to listen.
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: You could just look at your face.
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: And what God is doing in this time is, I believe he's allowing people that really intentionally seek him and intentionally decide to do what the first two guys in the parable did.
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: They say God, you gave me this, I'm going to work to increase it.
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: I believe that he's exponentially allowing growth that may have taken in another time, years.
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: That's happening in days and months and I've seen that in you, Teresa, like radical, radical, just like you're radiant.
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: I mean you just radiate and you know you walk into a room and you do shift the atmosphere.
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: That's happening with you now.
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: So I just want to say I'm so excited that we're friends and that you're part of what we're doing.
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: I'm so glad you were part of our first group and I'm excited to see what happens in your life in the next year.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: And I got to thank you for what you said.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: One word, yes.
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: And if you're listening, that one word of yes.
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: When you say yes, the yes of God swoops down there and is right next to you and then you can be like Sarah, who embraced God's miracle working power.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: After she got done laughing, she said, yes, I believe this.
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: And even though she was barren and even though she was past the age of childbearing, she did something.
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: She attached that yes, which is her faith.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: She attached it to the one who promised.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: The authority of her faith rested on the one who promised.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: And then she did something else she tapped into his faithfulness.
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: So that's the work.
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: So you may be one yes from entering an amazing organization like Girl Power Alliance and Inside's got this another amazing speaker academy.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: Let me be your witness.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: I lost my husband.
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: It hasn't even been two years, but I've walked in more freedom and I'll thank Michelle and her team for more healing.
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: And I've just begun, because I'm going to start their leadership in January of 2024.
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: It's a 16 week.
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: I am so freaking excited I can't stand still.
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: So, michelle, thank you so much for taking so much of your time and I love it.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: That your original podcast.
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: That really blesses my soul.
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: I'm going on my fifth year next year and I love this is my happy place because I get to talk anything I want, have all these people and just talk about Jesus in your voice and how you can have to make your voice.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: So, michelle, I love you so much.
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: I love you too.
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: You're amazing.
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: Keep going.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: I'm your biggest fan, amen Thank you, michelle, and thank you for watching to the Kingdom Mentor podcast.