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Pursuing Your God-Given Dreams Regardless Of Trials With Polly Payne · She Speaks Life - Christian Women, Strengthen Your Faith, Bible Study, Grow Spiritually In Christ

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Hi listeners. Welcome to the.
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She speaks live podcast a weekly encouragement where we share our
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God's stories. I'm your host.
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Jamie Elizabeth and I am so glad you are spending time with us
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today to listen. Hi there.
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I'm so glad you chose to listen to today's episode with me.
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I have poly pain. She is the host of a podcast
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called dream planner and is the founder of Horatio printing she
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developed. These wonderful dream, planners
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and beautiful, scripture journals, called seasons of
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soap. For those not familiar with
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soap. It stands for Sure, observation
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application and prayer. It's one of the many great ways
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to study and breakdown scripture in our daily lives.
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Today, we are going to chat about her trials.
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She has experience with running her business and how seeking
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God's wisdom Direction and peace led to some phenomenal Miracles
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Polly. It's such an honor to have you.
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Thank you for being here. Here.
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Whoa, thanks for having me. This is so fun because I found
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you on Instagram. Actually, my daughter found you
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on Instagram and so many of us will see a product, but not
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really know the person behind the product.
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So I can't wait for all of us to meet the girl behind seasons of
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soap, journals, and dream planners.
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So I'd love for you to just two Share a brief backstory about
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yourself. And we'd love to hear, gosh, the
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trials that you face right before or even during you start
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starting these journals this business with the planners and
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everything else and what God did to you through this.
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Okay, so let's start from the beginning.
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I'll rewind, I'm from Alabama, small town, girl group on the
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Gulf Coast of Alabama and went to Auburn studied piano.
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ER, and ended up doing an internship in New York, lived
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there for 10 years and now I'm currently in Tennessee, raising
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my daughter. I have another baby on the way
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married to my lovely husband, Luke.
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So that's a little bit about me but I grew up as a Christian in
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the church. I guess in college.
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I kind of had that prodigal daughter journey of just I still
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loved God, I still loved Jesus. I just kind of put him in a box
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and allowed him to become kind of in his own little space where
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he didn't tell me what to do, and I live life and I wasn't
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really walking with him if that makes sense.
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And the journey went from seeking God, to seeking
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validation, to seeking romantic relationships, and whatever was
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kind of fun at the moment. And And moving to New York, it
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was kind of like a kid in a candy store.
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I eventually found the Lord again and started going to
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church in New York. My mom was like, I can't believe
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God's in the big city she'd praying and praying and praying
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for me. Yeah.
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To, to reconnect with God and I was really successful in my
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corporate career, in New York, I went from the pr space to
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digital marketing and grew up to become a senior sales director
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at a successful. A Tech company that has since
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been sold for over a billion dollars.
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So, very successful. Yeah, there's this.
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I was the 9th employee. And so fun watching these young
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guys, build this startup and grow into something that is
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truly, truly phenomenal. And I started Horatio printing
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while I was working at that, Ed tech company, it became kind of
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a side, hustle for about a year and a half and then I took the
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leap, but I guess really the Catalyst for me to start that
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business was Was I really hit a low point in my life, on the
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outside, I had the success, I had the network, I had a vivid
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nightlife in what a social life, so to speak.
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And my job was entertaining clients at night, taking them to
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dinners, and two shows. And, you know, just kind of the
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dream in a way and because I was everyone's Fun friend.
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I was overdoing it in many areas of my life and my spiritual life
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was completely devoid of depth, and obedience, and intimacy with
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God, and my spirit was just empty and crushed.
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And so, I heard a sermon by Erwin McManus, I guess it would
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have been in Late July called he was doing his book tour.
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Or for the Artisan Soul, his book, The Artisan soul and the
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concept is that we're all artists because we're all
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created in the image of God and God is so creative and it's in
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our human DNA to create and to design in our life, is our most
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important work of art. And if we don't take time to
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become the Artisan of our soul and our life, we're going to end
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up basically just doing whatever culture tells us to do and
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pursuing. Unity and all these different
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things that I was like, yep, that's me.
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And so at that moment, I just had this real turning point
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reading his book One Night in August, and I was like, you
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know, I've got to get my life together.
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I need to make a planner to do it.
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I'm a planar girl. Always been a stationary, girl,
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and I knew, I needed to make a planner and I wanted to make it
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not just a planner for anybody, but specifically for the
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Christian woman who loves beautiful, excellent things, And
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just make it gorgeous and because it's got inspired, it
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should be excellent. And so, I just started sketching
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it out that night. And through months later,
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Horacio printing was born. I was living on Horatio Street
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at this time and so that's where the name kind of was inspired
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by. And then after launching that,
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you know, one of the big Catalyst for growth in my life,
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it has been reading the Bible and I did a journey for Linton
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one year where I read the Gospels in 40 days.
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And then I just kept going. And then I went back and read
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the whole Old Testament. And it was just, I was so
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thirsty for the word, and so hungry for it.
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And one at it Church, they taught us how to do a soap Bible
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study. And I'm like, this is great but
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I want more prompts and so I decided to build a soap Bible
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study book. That is a beautiful thick paper,
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you can use your in t-pins. That's what I love.
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Is nice, thick art paper and I decided to make it a choose your
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own. Own adventure Through the Bible
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based on the season of life, you're going through.
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And so started with one volume and now we have four and that's
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been so great to hear the testimonies come in as people
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that are like, maybe new to the reading the Bible or, you know,
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maybe didn't really grow up knowing, you know, where to
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start where to begin. And it's just a great place.
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You can pick up and go. Okay, I'm feeling I'm feeling
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like I'm needing some peace and you can jump to the peace
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section. And pick a day and just go and
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it's something. You can also squeeze into a
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short period of time not that we always want to just, you know,
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put God in a 15-minute box but it's amazing what God can do
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with 15 minutes if you show up with the heart posture of
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wanting to hear from God, he can show up and he can really speak
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to you through scripture because Bible the Bible reads you as you
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read it. And so, that's been a passion of
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mine, is to get people addicted to reading the Well, because of
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how much it fills you, how much you can actually apply this old
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text to your life today in 2021 2022.
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And so, yeah, we started building those and put them in
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our first subscription box back in 2018 and been making them
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ever since. Oh, my gosh.
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Well as you know and I told you I absolutely love it.
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My daughter found you first on Instagram and then showed me
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these wonderful journals. And I bought volume one, she
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bought Volume 2 and it couldn't have come at a better time for
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me and we know that God has his perfect timing.
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The one I got it has the different seasons of purpose,
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wisdom, transition, anxiety, and joy.
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And I just so happen to go through one of the biggest
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transitions this Summer that I have since I moved here from
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Southern California to Austin. And of course, when you're going
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through transition, you're seeking wisdom, you're wanting
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more joy because you may seem a little bit down because
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obviously, with transition, there's a change in where
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there's a change, you're losing something to gain something new
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and so you're going through all these mixed emotions and then
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the enemy can attack you with question your purpose, you know?
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And so the purpose kind of reinforces like that was just
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such a Pump animation going through all that even though you
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know your purpose and the scripture that you have it's not
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just one scripture verse you have a passage and so it's a few
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scripture verses packed all together and I love that you're
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not. Just over it in a minute.
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You're really soaking in that passage because so many times
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when we read a verse, it could be so much more enriching if we
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See the surrounding verses around it and it really comes to
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life. So I love that.
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You got all the important stuff all together and not making it
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too long but not too short. So I love that we can just
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underline and highlight in the scripture part and then
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observation is just unraveling God's character and you just
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write down what you're learning about God and the A verse and of
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course, application is. How does this apply in my daily
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life? Like what can I take action in
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as I'm reading the scripture what do I need to do?
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And then prayer writing out prayers I have a scripture
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Journal myself that I just self-published and one of the
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ways that I love studying the Bible was the soap scripture,
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observation, application prayer and personalizing strip.
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Sure versus so those two things came to life with me and so I
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had a god dream of doing a journal with personalized,
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scripture verses and so anyway when I saw this, I was like, oh
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my gosh, this is like a second addition to what?
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I love, how I love studying the Bible so so fun.
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Yeah, I mean it's all about, renewing your mind and at the
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end of the day, we have to apply what we're learning or else
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nothing. Changes.
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You know, we were talking earlier before we click to
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record about, there's a fear section in the front of the soap
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and so they actually put some stuff from the dream planner
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into the soap in the hopes that somebody leads a Bible study at
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home, it's set up perfectly like if you wanted to go through a
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soap series with a group of girls at your house, you guys
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could take a little bit of your session and do something from
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I'm the front, whether it's a dream planning night, or a heart
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check night or a fear night or writing down the stuff from the
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front of the soap and the fear sections, really powerful
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because it's all about application of scripture.
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I was listening to a sermon a while back and the Pastor said
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he was dealing with all these fears and so what he did was he
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wrote down all of his fears and then he found a scripture to
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counteract in conquer it and sometimes we'll listen.
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To a sermon and were like, oh, what a great idea are like, man,
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that sermon was good. And I thought I'm putting that
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in my planner because I think we should all do it.
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And so, that means a lot of the things that are in my planner or
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in the soap. It's all from a sermon I heard,
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or like somebody teaching me something and I'm like, cool.
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Let's make a resource out of that.
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Like, I'm tired of reading stuff and hearing stuff and not having
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life transformation or not applying it.
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So, my big advice is like, apply?
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What you learn. How Can you apply it?
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Because if we just read it, I think there's just so much more
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fruit on the other side of like, applying, what you're learning.
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Oh, totally. I know.
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That was probably one of the first times I've actually
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written out fears, and it was so impactful, just to write it out.
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And then, like you said, apply a scripture verse towards that
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fear and also the heart chog purifying, your heart.
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And you sit remove the toxins, that's the header there, and I
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love how you broke it down to what do I need to, like, go of,
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who do I need to forgive? What fears are holding me back.
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I mean, just all these reflection questions that really
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make you think and get it all out and it's so unique.
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It's nothing I've ever seen before.
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So, I absolutely love it. So let's get Into what are the
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trials. I whenever we're launching or
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running something that's advancing God's kingdom.
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We're always going to get attacked.
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I know. It was awful right before.
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I was starting this podcast, it was just the enemy was attacking
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left and right, and you push through and it's So Glorious on
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the other side. But during it, it's challenging,
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it's hard. So I'd love to hear kind of the
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trials, the hardships, and what God did through.
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You do it through that and how you got to see his phenomenal
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miracles on the other side. So there's so many.
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I've been running this business for seven years now.
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So it's like how I think. I think you know trials are a
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part of life, right? Whether you're running a
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business or doing life period And I think like sometimes I
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think of it as like a circle like you're a circle and with
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what's inside that circle is what you can handle, right?
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What you've handled previously. Even if like thinking about
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working out, like there's a certain weight, you can max out
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on, right? And then all of a sudden
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something comes up that's outside of that circle.
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Like imagine a dart just gets hit right outside of that
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Circle. Well you're like I can't do.
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That like, that's out of my capacity and you have to stretch
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to reach that new thing. And then, guess what?
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Your you grown? And now, as things, hit inside
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of your circle for someone else, that's out of their capacity.
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But for you, you've, grown and grown, and it just takes time
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and growth. And so, there's a lot of things
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that have happened that have grown me through the trials, and
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I'm thankful for it, I'll go through a few of them when I
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first. First started my business.
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I think one of my biggest trials was in my head, my limiting
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belief of not being smart enough to run a company.
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I grew up just kind of thinking I was Dumb and I was bad at
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spelling. I was really bad at
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multiplication. Just did make good grades in
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school, until I really was peer pressured into like okay, I want
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to make better grades and not be the kid that's, you know, making
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the season D's. And when I Horatio printing.
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I was living on Horatio Street and when I finally got my LLC in
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the mail, I took it out to the street sign to like commemorate
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the moment and I held the piece of paper up to the street sign
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and I realized I had spelled Horatio wrong.
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Okay. And at that point planners are
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being printed the websites. Like halfway done, like our
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Instagram handles live, I was like oh my gosh I'm going to be
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the laughing stock like my whole family's going to laugh.
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Everyone that knows me will think it's hilarious.
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Reyes and I just was going to feel more done.
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It was just a solidifying that belief for me and that thought
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came in of who are you to start a business?
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Like, what are you thinking? You can, you can do this, you
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can even spell the name of your company, right?
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Like, how are you going to build products and, and, and do all
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the things you're supposed to do?
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Because it's there's so much unknown when you're starting a
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big new thing, and, you know that imposter syndrome of like
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I'm not capable, right? I was and I say imposter
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syndrome. Yeah.
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So I had to get over that. And it was, it was like, you
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know what, we're going to roll with it and like, God can use my
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mistakes, God can use my imperfection, I will boast about
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my imperfections, all the more because it's God that gets the
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glory. When we sold out in January,
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people bought Horatio printing with the see planner, they
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didn't care you know and since then right after that actually I
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was getting testimonies of people.
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I'm finally getting my It paid off.
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I'm finally going on that Holy tour, I'm finally doing that
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thing. I set up that trip with my
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grandmother. We went on that vacation
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together like people were pursuing their dreams and if I
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had let myself live in that limiting belief, right there
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were so many miracles on the other side of that for other
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people. And I got to celebrate with
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them. So that was a girly early one
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and it made you kind of think of wow like here I'm concentrating
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on this thetic so much That it's really all about what's on the
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inside of the book and what it's transforming, the hearts of
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those that are using it, you know?
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So, yeah. But it's a lot of money
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releasing perfectionism. Yes, releasing that.
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That's so critical. Yeah, to doing anything to
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moving forward in a dream and so I've had some other crazy
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things. I had somebody actually
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completely Jack my design. That was tough and not only did
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they Jack my design like we were friends like I knew the person
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and they had asked for my advice but did not, you know, I gave
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them some advice they were in a completely different Niche than
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me. So I was like, okay cool, we're
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not really competitors but then she stole my design and it was
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like yeah that's pretty unique, I think that's very, very
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recognizable and Not only the hard part, was she really
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succeeded? She did a, you know, a
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Kickstarter and it I think it made like over 100k in like
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three days and it was like ah you just leapfrogged over me in
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those early years and I felt so much bitterness swelling in a
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heart toxin, right? And I was pissed, to be honest.
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I was just upset and like, right you stole my design.
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You LeapFrog over me and my My husband said, well, this is your
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time to really be a Christian, you know, and forgive.
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And I was like, oh yeah. This is up right off the hard
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way. Yeah.
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And the thing that I was realizing is that Satan at.
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That moment was really trying to steal my joy and if State Satan
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can steal your joy, he can really take a lot of your
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creativity. Which is God, given any fears of
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I'll comparison and content to bitterness those heart.
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Toxins can steal your creativity and steal your essence of who
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you are. And so I had to do some real
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work and it was the day that it happened.
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I got a package in the mail. This is the miracle.
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I got a package in the mail from a guy that I had worked with,
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who was the founder of the tech companies to work for.
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And he said, you know, this book came out I'm out at are at
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Bethel, Bill Johnson's new book, and we had to pray over who to
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send a copy to. And we're sending one to you.
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The book was about strengthening yourself in the Lord, and
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fortifying your roots in him, and this book was just flooded
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with the power of God, and the power of praying in the spirit
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and, and like holding strong to your faith and connecting with
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God. And it was like, God was like,
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hey, Hey, yeah. I don't care if I don't look to
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the left or to the right. And I just got this word of
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like, stay in your lane, stay in your lane.
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I've got you, I know the path ahead for you.
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I know the plans for you. I know the pace that you're
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supposed to grow so that you grow and healthy pace.
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And I look back now, I think God, I didn't grow that fast
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when we grow so fast, so many mistakes are made.
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So many problems are had slow growth is something to
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celebrate. Great because you make a lot
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less Financial mistakes too. And so all these years later I'm
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still in business and God is good and God is faithful, and
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he's carried me through, but it's just, I really feel like
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when we pray for wisdom, which I'm an adamant fan of doing,
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God, delivers and the best ways he delivers is through people.
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I think God's greatest gifts are people one being Jesus, right?
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And so God brought all these people in my life to speak.
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Into me books that speak into me, obviously the Bible but I
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just was so grateful. And that moment of God's
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reminder that he has, he has me. And just a reminder that these
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toxic things in my heart, they're just a trick of the
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enemy and forgiveness is truly. The only way that I could live
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in that in the power of the Holy Spirit to continue to pursue my
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purpose. In my calling.
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And so that was a pretty cool Miracle on the other side of it.
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Tough going through it, but I'm happy.
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I went through it now. Do you still kind of, I always
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loved asking when I see a business I'm going.
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This is pretty successful. I mean, it's so gorgeous on
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YouTube. You'll be able to see the
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journal seasons of soap and the different volumes down here at
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the bottom and I'll leave a link also, so you guys can purchase
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these gorgeous journals. In Her Dream planners.
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But I love to ask people that you see on the outside outside.
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So successful this look is just an amazing product.
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People are growing hearts are being transformed.
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Do you get weary doing good? Like do you just ever go?
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Wow like I'm running this business and lives are being
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changed but I'm so tired. Or do you ever get maybe to that
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point where you want to give up, or does none of that ever cross
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your mind? Oh sure.
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Yeah, and that's normal, you know.
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Write it with anything you pursue.
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I think we like hearing that though it has.
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Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, absolutely.
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I've had people email me, like I want to buy.
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Horatio printing. I'm like how much you want to
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buy it for, you know? But like, but we're not for
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sale. But I mean, you can email me if
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you really Want to make a nice but I, you know, I know my
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calling is to help people pursue their dreams and grow in their
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connection with God and pursue their inner artist and I've seen
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the transformation in my life. And there is so much joy.
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I get from hearing the testimonies of dreamers and and
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doing this work and doing the creative work of writing, my
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Monday morning motivations. And creating new products and
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things. I'm excited to launch next year
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but I do get weary and that's one of the things I've been
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creating here recently is my Academy because I'm diving more
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into that area of really diving in deep with people to help them
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heal themselves because I believe the biggest dream we can
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have is becoming who you're called to become because you
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can't really dream healthy dreams if you are.
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So toxic like Urge you has scared dreams.
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Toxic. You has toxic dreams and we can
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get caught up on. What is this dream for me?
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Or did God give me this dream? Or is like this is selfish tree.
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I think it comes down to like, will house your heart, you know,
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like the status of your heart, you know, Above All Else, guard
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your heart, everything you do flows from it.
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So the health of your heart is so critical and getting people
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to remove strongholds and releasing from past experiences
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and pains and m' and fears of judgement fear of failure.
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And so I go deep with people in my Academy for the dream
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crafting course. And then I've recently launched
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my faith-filled business blueprint, which is a business
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course, and one of the big lessons I've learned in running
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the business is, if you are not careful and you don't pursue
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your health holistically, your business can become an idol or a
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burnout, you know, burden. And I've been there, I've been
26:35
there where my time prioritization has been too much
26:42
in the business, because it's what I like doing.
26:46
It's what I could think I'm good at is what I get credit for if
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that makes sense. And so it's been a long journey
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of okay, I've got to have things in check.
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I've got to keep my spiritual life.
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Prioritize, I've got to keep my marriage prioritize throw in
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motherhood. Throw in all the other life
27:05
transitions. We just moved into a new house.
27:07
Two months ago, I've got a baby coming in six weeks.
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So I'm going through all sorts of transitions right now,
27:12
creating a my paternity leave and I've got to make sure that
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I'm healthy. So I can run a healthy business
27:21
and pursue a healthy dream and becoming who you're called to
27:24
become is the most important dream we can pursue because it's
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the only way you can sustain the dream God gave you if your dream
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is to have a healthy day, Ridge. You have to pursue your health
27:38
to show up in that marriage. If you want to have a thriving
27:41
business, you have to be healthy as a CEO to run that business.
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And it's so easy for us to neglect ourselves specially,
27:50
when you become a mom to. It's, everyone's needs over
27:53
yours and we give, and we deplete ourselves, right?
27:59
And so, that's been a big focus of mine.
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I've definitely hit see. Essence of complete burn out, or
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where it's been too high on my priority list and other things
28:11
have really other balls of dropped.
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And and so now I'm in a place of really making sure my
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fundamental needs are met and I am giving things the priority
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time it deserves and and stewarding the blessings God's
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given me write this whole, this child, this marriage.
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And Myself my body, my health. So yeah, absolutely.
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I think we love hearing that and I just listen to one of your
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episodes. I forget who it was, but your
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guests said, don't let the world dictate your season, and oh my
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gosh, it was just like a few words but it made such an impact
28:59
on me because I took normally I take a summer off.
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With podcasting. And then I just send out some of
29:08
the previous ones to keep it going.
29:11
But even this summer, God was like, hmm.
29:15
I want you to be still, it means.
29:16
Relax, don't do anything and just lean into me and have quiet
29:19
time with me and so I had it in my mind.
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Oh, okay, for the summer and consoles, like didn't give me
29:28
the go ahead on the green light when the summer was over.
29:32
And so we ran into fall and Going.
29:35
Oh my gosh, lord well not many podcasters, just take this time.
29:40
This long of a time off like this is longer than a normal
29:44
sabbatical and he was like, it doesn't matter.
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Just, you know, keep leaning into me and have the quiet time
29:52
and I'll let you know when you're going to launch the next
29:55
season. So that's when I was waiting to
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even see cuz every season, I just don't wanna Sue mah.
30:01
God wanted me to do this again because I I know God is very
30:05
seasonal and I know that he changes us and that when you
30:09
know he wants to move us on you. Moved us on but I was waiting
30:14
for that. Okay, you want me to continue
30:16
this podcast so he he told me the word like yes, I want you to
30:21
continue the podcast but so many of us think.
30:24
Oh, right now. Okay, green light.
30:26
Let's go. But it was like, no, not the
30:28
right timing, just wait. And so I knew I was going to
30:32
launch another season. It was just waiting on.
30:36
Okay. When and so, I kept waiting,
30:40
even though that side of me was like, oh gosh, you know, you may
30:46
lose listeners. You this isn't what you do, like
30:49
the world will tell you. This is so bad that you're
30:53
taking this time off. And God was just kept telling me
30:58
it was louder than the other voice.
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Thank goodness. I was just saying, just keep on
31:03
pressing. Being in to me, you need to
31:05
heal. You need to take the time to
31:08
really make yourself whole before we launch this next
31:12
season because of just the, the transition and emotions that I
31:17
had to go through over the summer of some hardship that
31:20
impacted my life and my family's life.
31:22
And so, anyway, I really was thinking this is a big mistake.
31:30
But God was saying, I make no mistakes and when I Just that
31:34
next season. I was just so pumped Polly like
31:40
the joy was overflowing, I had that fire burning inside like
31:46
even I was I was winding down season for, you know, you start
31:49
to get tired, you know, you're coming up on a summer break and
31:53
so you just need that time off and I just love how God knows
31:58
what you need more than, you know what you need.
32:01
And it was just an amazing. Feeling getting back into it and
32:06
having that fulfillment and that satisfying feeling of going.
32:10
Okay. I'm so glad I took that three
32:13
long months break because he's restoring my soul, he's filling
32:18
me up again. He's got that fire burning of
32:21
that passion back in me to produce these testimonies that
32:25
these stories of who he is and his faithfulness.
32:29
And it's just so important for us to get our stories out there.
32:33
I mean, A wise started returning, which I think so many
32:38
of us can lose those wise, you know, as we go along with our
32:42
business, as we go along with our ministry, whatever the god
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dream. You forget the why?
32:48
And it's so important to just be still and remember, having the
32:54
Lord remind you of your why, why you are doing this.
32:58
That's so true. And every time someone comes to
33:01
me for like a dream that they're wanting to pursue, do we you
33:04
have to start with the why? Because it could come from an
33:08
unhealthy place. Like your y could be, if you
33:11
look at the root of it, it could be toxic, it could be well,
33:14
actually I saw some on Instagram and I won't want they have, you
33:17
know, or if the why isn't big enough and larger than you
33:22
without a, why a dream becomes a burden and burdens are
33:26
abandoned. And so without that, why it's
33:30
going to go away and so it's so critical with anything you do.
33:34
To remember the wine testimonies obviously, or such a great way
33:38
to inspire faith. I have a crazy one that happened
33:42
in my business. The beginning of the pandemic, I
33:45
was working with a new printer out of.
33:49
It was a company in the u.s. that had a Korean printer.
33:53
That was excited to print in Korea and try them out.
33:58
And so, the founder came to my house at that time.
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I was When we first worked together, I was like nine months
34:06
pregnant. He came to my house with my with
34:09
my daughter and met me shook my hand, I was like cool, I can
34:12
actually have a US Representative.
34:14
This is great and we printed some soap, Bible studies, they
34:18
came back, they looked great. I was like cool like let's work
34:23
again. So the beginning of 2020.
34:26
I was relaunching a subscription box and I had purchased from
34:33
this The in 2019, like a lot of copies of this of the next
34:39
volume of. So both I think it was vol.3
34:42
that I was purchasing and along with some volume ones and twos
34:46
because we were running out. And so I gave them a five
34:49
thousand dollar deposit on my soaps and I was confirmed that
34:55
everything would arrive by like February of 2020.
34:58
And so there we are and I Keep checking in with them.
35:04
Like, hey, when are we, you know, update update update long
35:07
story short, that company was sold, the new owner fired, the
35:13
old owner, and they took all the cash and they weren't paying any
35:17
their printers and nobody's telling me anything, finally,
35:21
some lady from the company calls me and she's like, hey, like you
35:24
should probably like sue them. Like things aren't going good.
35:28
Like wanted to let you know like what?
35:31
Yeah, so turns out that I asked for my Todd's back.
35:34
Okay, let's cancel this job and I immediately go back with my
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old printer. I wire them the money.
35:39
And like five thousand dollars is not a small amount of money
35:42
when it comes to inventory, like the cash on hand, the cash flow
35:47
for inventory for future stuff. Like that wasn't something I had
35:50
to lose, right? And that was only half the bill
35:54
and so I was just in shock tears.
35:59
I'm not going at this money bag. Should I?
36:01
Sue? Oh my gosh.
36:02
I don't have the Resources, what am I going to do?
36:05
And I put a note on LinkedIn in desperation.
36:09
Like and I didn't want to say like, hey, anybody know a
36:12
lawyer, but I was like, hey, I worked with this company.
36:15
I gave them a deposit. They won't return my phone calls
36:19
anymore, they won't return my money and I didn't say I wasn't
36:25
malicious in my post, but I was just telling the truth about
36:29
what happened on that post, and The next day I got an email from
36:35
this Sweet Home school company that said we prayed about it and
36:40
we're going to send you a check for that amount of money.
36:44
No questions asked, and they sent it down to the penny of the
36:48
amount of money that I needed and they said we don't want any
36:51
recognition. We don't want you just share who
36:54
it was, which one, you know, that God's like for you.
36:57
And I remember just falling on my knees and pray and just
37:00
crying like Godlike, thank you. And, you know I was so thankful
37:07
that the that person like felt a calling and like, was obedient
37:12
to it, you know, to mean because I've been kind of my life where
37:15
I felt a calling and I wasn't obedient, you know, and I made
37:18
so many mistakes in my life. Like my first thought was me
37:22
like, I get this. Like, I make mistakes left and
37:26
right all day long. And so that was just this
37:29
incredible miracle of God of him.
37:33
Coming through in a way ultimately for his children
37:36
because there were people that needed those soaps, you know.
37:39
And so that's a beautiful miracle I wanted to share with
37:42
your listeners. I love that.
37:45
That is and I know there's many testimonies of getting these
37:49
Anonymous checks, you know, they're just God's gift from
37:52
heaven, from from above, I love it.
37:56
So, at the end of each episode, I asked the guests if they could
38:01
speak life with A takeaway for the listeners to just Ponder on
38:05
when they're done. Listening, do you have any
38:09
last-minute encouragement here? That you can tell us last been
38:14
an encouragement to ponder? I love Ponder.
38:17
I think the Ponder places where I like to hang out.
38:20
So yeah, I would sit with the question of who do I want to
38:25
become? I think that's probably one of
38:27
the most important questions we can sit with We kind of know who
38:32
we are right now and sometimes we end up in a place and we're
38:34
like, how did I become this person or like?
38:37
Yeah, how did I get here? You know, and it's like, well,
38:39
where were you going? You know?
38:41
And so, I think our schedule determines, who we become, where
38:46
we spend our time and our focus and our energy.
38:49
And so, if you want to see a change and transformation and
38:54
specially in like a certain area of your life, who do you want to
38:58
become in that area? You're feeling discouraged, and
39:02
sit with that question, write it out.
39:06
I know there's more and God has good things for you.
39:09
He's an abundant God, he has more for you more, peace, more
39:12
joy, more favored, more just blessings of intimacy of his
39:17
love. And so that's a question.
39:19
I would sit with today, is, who do I want to become?
39:23
Yeah, more like him looks really.
39:26
Yeah, I love it. Well, thank you Paulie.
39:30
A. And for those of you listening,
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I will leave a link on where you can purchase her dream planners
39:37
and her awesome journals seasons of soap.
39:42
Thank you so much for coming on here and where can people
39:45
connect with you Polly? We can go to the dream planning
39:47
podcast. I'm always over there hanging
39:49
out talking into my microphone and just so good.
39:54
Yeah, Horacio printing on Instagram, hor, a CIO.
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That's how I spelled it incorrectly.
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So you can go there or Horacio printing.com of course and you
40:04
can learn more about that. And if you're interested in
40:06
diving deep and taking those courses, either the business
40:11
course or just the dream, crafting course, of really
40:14
getting healthy. And you also get a community
40:16
with that. Course, that is found at the
40:20
dreamer in you.com, love it? Yes.
40:25
Well, I might just be the subscriber here for that, that
40:29
sounds so good. Good.
40:31
Well needed. Well, thanks Paulie for coming
40:33
on here and sharing. Yeah, thanks for having me.
40:38
Thank you so much for listening today.
40:41
I trust that God has encouraged you through this message for
40:45
more information on this ministry and to access free
40:49
downloads. Please visit my website at Jamie
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that's ja. Why mea Elizabeth, she speaks
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life. Until next time, my friends.
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I pray God reveals himself through your own life story.