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Be Rich Like Jesus? Jerremy Newsome on Money, Faith, and a Christian Money Mindset · ToddTalks--Spirit By Design: Your Weekly Survival Guide

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Todd: Welcome to Todd Talks, where I help you design your spiritual life in order to help you prepare for the second coming of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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Todd: And today, my friends, I have a special guest for you.
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Todd: He's my mentor, my coach, Jeremy Alexander Newsom.
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Todd: He has been through the ups and downs of life, from making millions to losing it all.
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Todd: Twice, I believe, if I've uh if I'm correct.
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Todd: And today we're gonna we're gonna talk a little bit about not the financial journey, but his spiritual journey.
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Todd: How he became a faithful follower of Jesus Christ and uh how he built his faith along the way, because most people that I know, when they've lost millions of dollars, um, have raged at God rather than turning to him.
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Todd: So, Jeremy, if you could give a little bit, uh tell tell a little bit of your story and and we'll just go from there.
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Todd: How's that sound?
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Jerremy: Yeah, I love it, dude.
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Jerremy: You summed it up super well.
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Jerremy: Um, and to be clear, I definitely raged against God for a while.
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Todd: Well, we all we all go through trying times.
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Todd: My last two podcast episodes have been about the refiner's fire that we go through in life.
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Jerremy: Yes, sir.
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Jerremy: Yes, and so I guess the the part that's probably the most meaningful for your listeners and for myself as well, and for you.
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Jerremy: So I grew up a Jehovah's Witness, and I spent 24 years in that religion.
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Jerremy: It's uh an aspect of Christianity to in the in the belief that they do absolutely believe in Jesus.
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Jerremy: And it was just a very, it's a very unique upbringing because it's a very scarcity mindset religion.
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Jerremy: And growing up in that religion, I just never felt connected to Jesus.
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Jerremy: I never felt connected to God.
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Jerremy: I never felt like the religion was for me, if that makes any sense, right?
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Jerremy: I kind of felt like this.
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Jerremy: Yeah, I felt like I was like, I feel like I'm designed and destined to do something bigger or better.
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Jerremy: And it was just like this poverty application.
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Jerremy: This and again, this is just my interpretation of all of it, but it was just like this don't go to school, uh, don't get a degree, don't get a good job, don't make a bunch of money, you know, give all of your money to the kingdom hall, and don't do anything for yourself and just work and toil until Jesus comes back.
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Jerremy: And so there's no need for money, uh, don't have a lot of it, and just kind of operate in this like very low frequency, low vibration.
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Jerremy: And it just never truly resonated with my soul.
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Jerremy: So when I ended up getting kicked out um when I was 20, 20, 20, 22, 23-ish, I moved to um Nashville, Tennessee from Gainesville, Florida.
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Jerremy: And I just started going down what very often people will call like a self-development route.
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Jerremy: So the self-development route is where you start leaning on and relying on individuals to give you information versus any kind of spirituality, which pros and cons.
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Jerremy: Um, I never really viewed anyone particularly as like an idol.
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Jerremy: Uh, I never really worshipped anyone.
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Jerremy: I just listened to other people and wanted to hear their verbiage and their thoughts and really went the direction of you know universal energy, which is kind of popular for a lot of people.
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Jerremy: Like if they leave God for a period of time, they just study the bigness and the vastness and the infinite of the universe.
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Jerremy: And so I would say 20 to probably 20, uh sorry, 22 to probably 28, those six years was very much self-exploration.
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Jerremy: I went to all kinds of churches.
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Jerremy: Um, I went to all different types of buildings and establishments and religions, just looking and searching for the meaning and the belief and the understanding of like what God is.
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Jerremy: And what I've learned through all of those things is probably two or three very strong truths for me is there is a God and I'm not Him.
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Jerremy: And and God is always the ethos of love.
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unknown: Right.
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Speaker 2: And if we approach it from that perspective, like who is the most loving, the most caring, the most compassionate individual, you really start to develop what me and my wife will call like a Christ consciousness.
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Speaker 2: This embodiment of no judgment to the best of our human ability, this love is really the answer.
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Speaker 2: And we can only heal through love.
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Speaker 2: We can never heal through judgment.
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Speaker 2: So removing yourself from this place of judging, this place of victim and victimhood, to place yourself into this all-encompassing, protective, caring, compassionate layer of love.
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Todd: Oh, I like that.
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Jerremy: And that's been really, I would say, the last eight years of my life, and definitely for sure the most recent six, where I've done my absolute best to embody that as uh as I I feel Christ did, to to embody the always being and representation of the physical expression of love, which is I believe is the the meaning of life for me in this moment.
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Todd: No, I totally love that.
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Todd: Love, I love that because it is it's so true.
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Todd: We are told to follow Christ.
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Todd: He said, follow me, follow in my footsteps, do those things I that I have asked you to do, obey my commandments.
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Todd: And what are the his two commandments?
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Todd: Top two?
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Jerremy: Love God, love God, love thy neighbor.
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Todd: Love thy neighbor.
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Todd: Okay, so as you've progressed in this, uh in these past the last eight years and especially the last six, what has been the most important lesson that you would say you've learned or gained out of it?
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Jerremy: I feel like the most important lesson that I've gained out of it probably came back in February, because in February I spent uh six six or seven days in solitude in a dark cave by myself.
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Todd: Oh, okay.
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Jerremy: So I had a what's called a cave retreat.
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Jerremy: Um, so no light, no sounds, no interaction, no people, just me.
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Jerremy: And when I say cave, you know, think of like a like a days in type of like room.
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Jerremy: So I mean I had a bed, uh a yoga mat, a toilet, and a bathtub.
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Jerremy: You know, so there's not there's not a whole lot there.
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Jerremy: And it was the realization for me that I believe evil is just the separation from God.
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Jerremy: And we are all made in that image.
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Jerremy: And so the more we begin to separate as humans, the more we think or we put our physical body into a place that we're not actually the image of, right?
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Jerremy: We then take this mental fortitude of I'm better than or I know better than, and you start having this incredible free will that starts to bubble up and feel a lot like ego.
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Jerremy: And then that ego, when you're representing and you're and you're deciding and making choices, not from the soul, not from the heart, not from the image of God, but simply from the place of what it is that you think is best, that's what causes the majority of atrocities and challenges and problems in this country and in this world.
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Todd: Oh, totally.
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Todd: I mean, I I always have been uh telling P one of the ways I like to explain it is we all have a God-sized hole in our heart.
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Todd: And those that don't look towards God, they try and fill it up with everything else, whether it's um distractions or sure, or um, what do you call it?
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Todd: Brain fart.
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Todd: Distractions is a great one.
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Todd: There you go.
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Todd: And then destructions, or putting, as you said, that's when you start getting into the evils and the ego and the deciding on your own that you're you know better than everything else, and you're trying to fill up that that hole, that emptiness that is inside you.
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Todd: But it can only be filled up with Christ.
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Jerremy: Come on, come on, man.
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Jerremy: And in so doing, it brings peace, man.
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Jerremy: I think that's what people are searching for, right?
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Jerremy: People are searching for peace.
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Jerremy: And you know, I was on a podcast probably two or three months ago where a gentleman did say, like, we live in the most distracted society of all time, and the word that you used as well, and I said, Well, yes and no.
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Jerremy: I feel like we're also probably in the most addicted time ever.
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Jerremy: Oh, absolutely.
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Jerremy: You know, and the addictions are our our problems and our choices that we are bringing upon ourselves, right?
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Jerremy: Which is perfectly okay.
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Jerremy: Like we all have our trials and tribulations.
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Jerremy: Every has everyone has things that we're going to go pursue, and like you said at the very beginning, refine.
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Jerremy: And those are all our fun little battles, but those challenges, problems, and hurdles become a lot easier when we stop being pushed by our pain and we start getting pulled by our purpose.
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Jerremy: Ooh, I like that.
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Jerremy: And so many people we get to ask, like, well, who's pulling you?
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Jerremy: And it's a lot better.
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Jerremy: It's a lot easier of an energy when you're getting pulled by divine, when you're getting pulled by God, when you're getting pulled by Jesus, and you're getting pulled by an energy of love.
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Jerremy: Man, it's just such a better energy and it's a better fuel, right?
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Jerremy: For a lot of my life, I was pushed by pain.
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Jerremy: And I still choose to do hard things in my life because I want to do hard things because I know I know challenges are coming, and I want to just go ahead and put those on myself.
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Jerremy: I want to overcome those challenges myself so that I can remind myself how easy life is and how beautiful God is.
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Todd: And that's why you're going to run seven marathons on seven continents.
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Todd: You're insane, by the way.
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Todd: But I totally I get it.
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Todd: Um, it is so much easier to be pulled by divine than it is to be pushed by pain.
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Todd: We we the carrot and the stick.
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Todd: It's really kind of what it is.
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Todd: And you know, for this entire year, my focus has been teaching people to learn how to receive personal revelation.
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Todd: So to basically, and to sum it up in uh a later layman's terms, it's being able to listen to the path, to be pulled by pulled by the divine and know that what you're doing is God's will for you, right?
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Todd: And so many people get stuck in the well, I'm not hearing anything, or I'm not this, I'm not that.
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Todd: When we are told in scripture that all good things come from God.
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Todd: So if we are on a path of goodness and making those steps, then we will start to hear and feel and more and we'll be inspired to do those things.
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Todd: What are some of the things that have been inspiring you lately?
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Jerremy: Oh wow, yeah, phenomenal question.
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Jerremy: I mean, right right now, the thing that's my my biggest inspiration uh really for the last four years, and I'm gonna come up on I'm publishing a book on this very, very soon, is really studying Jesus' personal wealth because I was and since a young age have been so attracted to money, and I know what it can do, and so many people find a very specific nobility and poverty.
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Jerremy: Right, they they find this sanctity and this energy of rich people are evil and poor people have it made, and like they have to toil and grind and hustle for everything they they so that they can feel worthy of deserving, so they can feel worthy of having.
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Jerremy: And the inspiration I'm having right now is just really learning and studying that, like the physical, tangible monetary wealth of Jesus.
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Jerremy: And it's such an interesting, interesting paradigm shift, at least it was for me and probably a few thousand people that I've talked to at this point about it, just because it's it's a cool, to your point, it's a cool revelation, right?
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Jerremy: Again, for me personally, I was taught the you know, um birds have nests, foxes have dens, but the son of man has no place to rest his head.
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Jerremy: I was taught that that is Jesus doesn't have real estate, he doesn't have any physical possessions, he doesn't have a lot of physical wealth, he's donating all of his money and his time uh to his service.
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Jerremy: But the more I studied it from a place and from a lens of abundance, that scripture now to me means that Jesus chose to be liquid.
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Jerremy: He chose this designation of not having physical wealth like homes or houses to hold him down, but he kept money as this currency, right?
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Jerremy: Just like the sea or the ocean, right?
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Jerremy: It's always moving, it's always flowing.
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Jerremy: So having this currency allows you to be more in a flow state so that you can go, right?
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Jerremy: If you're flowing, you're going.
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Jerremy: Giving you a place to move and actually step into the things that you're called for.
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Jerremy: You mentioned this earlier, like God's purpose.
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Jerremy: So many people think, oh my goodness, I want to do this in my life.
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Jerremy: I need this, I need to do this in my life, but I have no money in order to do it.
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Jerremy: Right.
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Jerremy: So the realization is it's a perfectly rational fear and and misguided truth and excuse that we don't have the money because the money's there.
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Jerremy: The provision was always given.
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Jerremy: We simply have to ask where, like, where is the provision?
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Jerremy: If you if you know that the money is there, and you no longer play in the oh, it's not there, I can't do it, but you know that it's there, it's a different energy because now you begin to search.
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Todd: Oh, yeah.
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Jerremy: Versus just study.
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Jerremy: A lot of people study all the time, they never search for anything.
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Todd: Well, too many people study, study, study, study, but never take the first step of actual action.
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Jerremy: Come on, my man.
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Jerremy: 100% true.
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Todd: That's the the the the whole when God gives you a purpose, when he gives you revelation and tells you, do this and I'll make you wealthy, do this and I will make you healthy.
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Todd: What do people do?
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Todd: They don't they say, okay, and then they sit back and eat their pizza and watch their TV and don't get healthy or wealthy.
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Jerremy: Yes, and and here's a perfect example of that, right?
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Jerremy: So there's another scripture where uh Peter goes to Jesus and he's like, hey bud, we gotta, you know, I'm paraphrasing, hey bud, we got we gotta pay this temple tax.
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Jerremy: Like, what's up?
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Jerremy: You know, and that's where Jesus is like, hey, you know, pay Caesar's thing to Caesar's God's things to God's like, yeah, we need to pay the you know we need we gotta pay this temple tax.
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Jerremy: Like, so he's paying taxes.
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Jerremy: So then Jesus says, All right, go cast your rod, catch a fish, open its mouth.
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Jerremy: Now, the cool part about that is Jesus says, Hey, the provision is there.
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Jerremy: Hey, Peter, why are you why are you stressed out about money?
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Jerremy: The money's there.
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Jerremy: But what did Peter have to do?
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Jerremy: He had to go do some work.
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Jerremy: He had to, he had to go do, he had to put in energy, he had to put in effort, he had to put in time, he had to believe, he had to throw a net.
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Jerremy: And the first example when Jesus met him, he had to cast over the other side of the boat.
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Jerremy: He had to take an action.
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Jerremy: Jesus was like, hey, here's this thing.
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Jerremy: You're taken care of, you're good.
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Jerremy: But you gotta do this thing.
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Jerremy: And that thing for us can be whatever it is, but it's it's the catching of the fish, it's the the reeling in the fish.
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Jerremy: I don't know how big the fish was, but he opens his mouth and there are the coins.
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Jerremy: There are the coins to be able to pay.
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Jerremy: And it wasn't just one, it was multiple coins, which is really cool because one coin, you know, people could probably make up like, oh, the fish found the coin and swallowed it or something.
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Jerremy: Like you multiple, dude.
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Jerremy: I've caught thousands of fish in my life.
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Todd: Never found a coin in its mouth, did you?
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Todd: Not a single one.
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Todd: Not a single one.
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Todd: Oh, that's a great, great story and a great lead-in to the action step because most people they pray, they're like, I'm reading my scriptures, I'm I'm studying, I'm doing all the things to learn when they want to change their life.
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Todd: They they wanna they want to grow closer to God.
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Todd: And then he says, Okay, well, your gluttony is a problem.
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Todd: It's taking you away from me, or because you're not able to go visit the people I need you to visit because you can't get out of your chair, or your um he tells them you need to go visit this person, and you're like, why?
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Todd: He's like, I'll tell you when you get there, and you don't go visit them, and then that person actually needed a visit.
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Jerremy: Here he comes.
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Jerremy: Here he comes.
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Jerremy: Yeah, man.
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Jerremy: There there's there's always an action that we have to take, and it doesn't always have to be work, physical work, it can be some type of internal work, right?
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Jerremy: And prayer, in prayer we ask and meditation we receive.
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Jerremy: I'm always like, hey, let me cover my bases and do a little bit of both, right?
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Jerremy: Like, let me listen, let me spend time.
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Jerremy: Um, I think I even did this when you and I first met in our conference.
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Jerremy: It's like I raised my hand, hey, who here has ever worked for 12 hours straight?
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Jerremy: Boom, every hand in the room goes up.
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Jerremy: Who here has prayed for 12 hours straight?
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Todd: Every hand went down.
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Jerremy: I think yours might have been one that ones was up, but it's like there wasn't many, right?
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Jerremy: It was less than two for sure.
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Jerremy: Because it's just an interesting paradigm because we over here thinking to ourselves, oh, what's what's praying for 12 hours gonna do?
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Jerremy: I don't know.
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Jerremy: Maybe you should try it, right?
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Jerremy: It's like guarantee you're working for working for 12 hours, I'm gonna get paid.
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Jerremy: Praying for 12 hours, I don't know what's gonna happen.
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Jerremy: Exactly, right?
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Jerremy: Humans are more afraid of the unknown than we're afraid of the known.
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Todd: I love that.
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Todd: That is so true.
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Todd: And you're right.
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Todd: You pray for 12 hours.
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Todd: I can tell you what you're gonna get.
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Todd: You're gonna learn how to have a conversation with God, not just talk at him.
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Jerremy: Uh-oh.
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Jerremy: Yes.
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Jerremy: Yes.
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Jerremy: There's a really cool book um on that note.
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Jerremy: There's two of them that I really like a lot.
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Jerremy: There's one called Two Chairs.
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Jerremy: Um, I I got introduced to this concept by gay uh by a guy named Dr.
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Jerremy: Clay Louder, and it's where you I have it's so cool.
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Jerremy: You can't see on the camera.
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Jerremy: I don't know if this is a visual podcast, but there's two chairs in my office.
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Jerremy: And I don't do this all the time, but there's certainly a situation where I'll sit in one chair, look at the other chair, and just have a conversation.
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Todd: Right?
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Jerremy: Do my best to just kind of open it up and just kind of see what's see what's what's available to me because and and oftentimes as humans, we play this human game of let me human my life, let me human everything through this, and let me come up with the answers myself.
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Jerremy: And I'm like, you know what you could do?
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Jerremy: Good good to have a conversation with all knowing, all powerful, all infinite.
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Jerremy: You know, it's a little bit easier.
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Jerremy: Uh you can start to get answers quickly.
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Todd: I like that because I do a similar thing.
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Todd: I don't sit in one chair and and talk to the other, but I sit a lot of times when I'm driving, long, long drives, because I I drive three and three hours to work when I go to work.
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Todd: Um, so I get lots of time to be in the car and I'll turn the radio off and I'll have a conversation with God while I'm while I'm driving.
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Todd: Yes, you will.
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Todd: Um yeah, you will.
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Todd: And not only that, I'll do it when I'm on the treadmill, and I just have time.
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Todd: Time is the biggest thing.
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Todd: You have to give you the same time to God as you give to other things.
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Todd: And most of us don't.
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Todd: Most of us give him a pittance.
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Jerremy: I dude, that's so true.
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Jerremy: Yes.
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Jerremy: Another great book is called uh Conversations with God by a guy, I think, uh Neil Walsh.
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Jerremy: Another great book.
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Jerremy: Uh, talking about just talking about the epitome of love.
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Jerremy: You know, what love is, um how to embody it.
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Jerremy: It's it is, it's uh the giving of time.
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Jerremy: It's like many people will think that the giving of money is powerful, and it is.
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Jerremy: However, an equally, if not more powerful gift is just simply the gift of time, right?
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Jerremy: To be able to give our time to Jesus and say, let's let's just hang out, let's spend time together, let's let's have a conversation, like guide me, show me, give me some evidence, give me some, give me a miracle, show me something something cool, something exciting.
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Jerremy: We can ask for these things, right?
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Jerremy: It is available.
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Jerremy: Like we can ask for miracles.
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Jerremy: We, in fact, if you if you ask, you shall receive.
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Jerremy: And sometimes, sometimes the what you receive is no.
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Jerremy: But when we when we get a no from you know what the Garth Brooks song, right?
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Jerremy: Like God, some of the best gifts are God has unanswered prayers.
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Jerremy: It's like the no the no is still a receipt, you've still received something.
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Jerremy: And ultimately, I believe that if we understand that and we go, yeah, I asked and I did receive.
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Jerremy: It was just not what I wanted to receive.
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Jerremy: That's because that's your human thinking you know the answer, which is what the problem that Judas fell into is he thought he was using his.
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Jerremy: His knowledge of how things should work with money and with the um with the treasurer, right?
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Jerremy: Of the the treasure that Jesus had physically.
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Jerremy: Like he thought he knew what he should be doing with it versus just asking, and then when he gets the answer, actually going forth and actually believing that Jesus probably knows what he's talking about.
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Todd: Well, and Judas Iscariot.
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Todd: I mean, he was the treasure, and he was was kind of a miser.
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Todd: And Jesus wanted him to use the the funds for the poor, wanted to help those around him.
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Todd: And he's like, Well, wait, wait.
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Todd: But we want this.
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Todd: I want this.
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Todd: And he ends up betraying Jesus over his own personal needs, doubts, desires, even though he had spent three years along with all the other disciples walking in the footsteps of the Master, seeing the miracles, knowing and learning that he was truly the Son of God.
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Todd: But it never sank in because his ego got in the way.
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Todd: Where everyone else could see it, his ego got in the way, and he ended up hanging himself.
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Todd: Very sad.
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Jerremy: Yeah, a lot of lessons to be learned in that though.
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Jerremy: You know, a lot of lessons.
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Jerremy: It's like, how many times will we go, oh, I don't have enough money to give to the poor?
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Jerremy: It's like, dude, you don't have to give, you can give everything that you want, and man, the blessings that will come that way, but that's a terrible, that's a very scary act to give everything that you have away.
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Jerremy: Uh I've done it, and it's really cool the things that can happen, but it is scary.
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Jerremy: But even if you have 40, $48 in your bank account, you can't you can give $4.
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Todd: Yeah.
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Jerremy: 10%.
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Jerremy: You can give, you can give $15.
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Jerremy: Like, you can find a way to go, like, hey, let me bless, let me give, because the secret to living is giving.
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Jerremy: And then there's the one of my favorite biblical laws, man.
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Jerremy: The more you give, the more you receive.
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Todd: The more you receive.
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Jerremy: So many people forget about that second part.
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Jerremy: They do.
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Jerremy: It's like, like, let's find a way to give, and we can re we're gonna receive something powerful.
24:02
Jerremy: We're gonna receive something big.
24:03
Jerremy: We're we could you could receive the answer to the problem that you've been trying to solve for a long time.
24:08
Jerremy: It doesn't have to be more money that you're getting, it can just simply be more of what you've been seeking.
24:14
Todd: So I have another question for you based on what we've been discussing.
24:18
Todd: So in my life, I learned to really have these conversations with God.
24:24
Todd: I've been uh religious my whole life, but really in the last six years or so, seven years, I've learned to have these conversations with God in part because I spent five and a half years in constant pain.
24:37
Todd: And some three bulge discs in my thoracic in the middle of my back, and it was constant to the level five of pain on a 10 scale for five and a half years.
24:49
Todd: Finally got that uh worked out um by going to a body guru who helped me to uh to basically within a week get rid of it.
25:01
Todd: I still have the occasional twinge, but not like I did.
25:04
Todd: But I that developed me talking with God and having these conversations.
25:09
Todd: How did you go through, or how did you develop from where you were to where you are now of being able to sit in one chair and look at the other chair and have a conversation having conversations with God?
25:25
Todd: Because that's a huge change in beliefs in belief right there.
25:29
Jerremy: Oh, dude.
25:29
Todd: Yeah, that's and how did you get from where you were to your current testimony and belief to be able to do that?
25:36
Todd: And it's a relationship, it's not just a belief, it's a relationship.
25:40
Jerremy: Absolutely.
25:41
Jerremy: To to see if I can sum it up, the first thing that I did was when I experienced so many problems and losses, you know, when we opened this up, like I've lost millions of dollars in my 20s, and what's amazing about that is most of it was other people's money.
25:58
Jerremy: Number one.
26:01
Jerremy: Uh number two, I had to sit back and say, Who's to blame for this?
26:09
Jerremy: Oh yeah.
26:11
Jerremy: It's me.
26:14
Todd: Ooh, self-introspection.
26:15
Todd: Not everyone does that.
26:17
Jerremy: Who is to blame for this?
26:19
Jerremy: And so many people are gonna go, oh, it's Trump, Biden, police, boss, taxes, government, whatever.
26:28
Jerremy: They're gonna project.
26:30
Jerremy: But the enemy is in me.
26:32
Jerremy: It's like it's your it's probably your fault.
26:35
Jerremy: There's a really good chance it's your fault.
26:37
Jerremy: So that was step one, was going, oh, I'm the problem.
26:41
Jerremy: Number one.
26:42
Jerremy: Number two, there was a time in my life where it was so there's so much pressure, and again, this is my early, mid, mid to early, mid to late 20s, 25, 26, 27.
26:51
Jerremy: Is I was like, there's just so much pressure, it was so overwhelming, and my life was so hard.
26:56
Jerremy: And there was a day and a point in my day as I was just walking, I was like, all right, all right, God.
27:02
Jerremy: I'm done with everything being so hard.
27:07
Jerremy: I'm done with this.
27:10
Jerremy: Tell me what to do.
27:14
Jerremy: I'm done with the hardships.
27:16
Jerremy: I want it to be easy now.
27:18
Jerremy: I think I've learned the lesson, and here it comes, ladies and gentlemen.
27:22
Jerremy: Ready?
27:22
Jerremy: I'm sorry.
27:24
Jerremy: I'm sorry for doing it all myself.
27:27
Jerremy: I'm sorry for me doing me without you and trying to live a human existence fully by myself, fully autonomously, believing that I'm the best and biggest player in this game and on this earth.
27:43
Jerremy: I apologize and I'm sorry.
27:44
Jerremy: I'm ready for it to be easy now.
27:46
Jerremy: Please show me the way.
27:48
Jerremy: That's huge, bro.
27:50
Jerremy: And that was like that was a prayer and a testament and all the things.
27:54
Jerremy: And you're going to get some answers when that happens.
27:58
Jerremy: And I did get some answers.
27:59
Jerremy: One of them was, hey, stop drinking alcohol.
28:00
Jerremy: Got it.
28:01
Jerremy: All right, we'll do.
28:02
Jerremy: Because if he goes back to the young ruler, right?
28:06
Jerremy: The young ruler coming up to Jesus and he's like, hey, dude, tell me what I need to do to follow you.
28:10
Jerremy: Like, I'm all in, I'm ready for this.
28:11
Jerremy: And Jesus gives him the one command that he couldn't uphold, right?
28:14
Jerremy: Well, the one offer, the one ask.
28:16
Jerremy: Sell everything, give to the poor, and come follow me.
28:20
Jerremy: Now, to keep in mind when he's saying sell everything, again, get liquid, have liquidity in your life, give to the poor.
28:27
Jerremy: He didn't say give everything to the poor.
28:29
Jerremy: He said give to the poor, could have been any amount, right?
28:31
Jerremy: He could have sold, made a million dollars, sold $200,000, give to the poor, and take the 800,000, you know, in biblical terms, whatever, and then go travel Jesus.
28:39
Jerremy: Didn't do that.
28:40
Jerremy: So when you ask that prayer, when you create that testament, when you say, I am ready for life to be easy, show me the way, the way will appear, and you will have to walk it.
28:55
Jerremy: You just got finished doing seven miles.
28:57
Jerremy: Walking is pretty easy.
28:59
Jerremy: Walking a mile for the majority of the world, pretty easy.
29:02
Jerremy: Walking a hundred miles becomes harder.
29:06
Jerremy: The same thing.
29:07
Jerremy: It's the same thing.
29:08
Jerremy: You're just doing it for a little bit longer.
29:10
Todd: And I ran five of those seven miles.
29:13
Todd: Yeah, you did, beast mile.
29:14
Todd: Come on.
29:15
Todd: Come on.
29:16
Todd: Three months ago when I first met you, I couldn't run a mile.
29:20
Jerremy: Yeah, let's go.
29:22
Todd: Because I hadn't, I I had I walked a lot, but uh, but I was not cardio aerobically fit.
29:34
Jerremy: Yeah, yeah, I feel you.
29:35
Jerremy: And this was, you know, for me, this was 2018.
29:37
Jerremy: So let's call that like what is that, eight years ago?
29:40
Jerremy: So I'm like right around 29, 30 years old, um, is when I start to actually, you know, take ownership and and listen to those instructions, those guidances, which was ask, donate, give, step up, stop complaining, uh, take take full ownership.
29:58
Todd: Uh and let me guess, let me guess.
30:01
Todd: Once you started doing that and acting, you got more responses, more answers, more guidance.
30:09
Jerremy: I did.
30:10
Todd: And it led you to where you are today.
30:12
Jerremy: Come on, my brother.
30:13
Jerremy: And I and here's the big one, ladies and gentlemen.
30:15
Jerremy: This is tough, but I listened.
30:18
Jerremy: It's one thing to hear, it's a whole other thing to obey.
30:22
Jerremy: And I did.
30:24
Jerremy: I did the things.
30:25
Jerremy: I I would, whatever, whatever the feeling was.
30:27
Jerremy: So when people, when people say they hear from God, I I personally, personally generally don't hear any audible voices.
30:34
Jerremy: I have like this inner sense, this almost like this guidance of what to do and and why, even though it may or may not specifically dramatically make sense, I do my best to just listen.
30:47
Jerremy: And so my wife would call that listening to the heart, like the heart space, not the ego space, the space of like you're being led and pulled by something.
30:53
Jerremy: Listen to that.
30:55
Jerremy: And that's what I started doing, man.
30:57
Jerremy: That was the big, big, big, big turning point in my life.
31:00
Jerremy: And some of those things that that were asked of me that were guided to me was like saying yes to opportunities, saying yes to doing deeper work.
31:09
Jerremy: I went to my first meditation retreat ever.
31:12
Jerremy: Um, I think it was 2018.
31:15
Jerremy: And then I did my very first extremely hard endurance event in 2019.
31:19
Jerremy: And and there was so much um, there was so much healing from that because yes, I do believe that humans, we need to go through something to prove that we're worthy of that thing, and that thing can be hard because if we need it to be hard physically, then it can be very, very easy spiritually, emotionally, financially.
31:39
Jerremy: Like there's gonna be some level of hard in your life, you're just gonna get to choose which one that is.
31:43
Jerremy: Choose your hard.
31:44
Jerremy: And I started making the choices, man, and I didn't want my life to be hard anymore.
31:47
Jerremy: I didn't want my money to be hard anymore, so I just started making the right choices, and and things have worked out extremely well, uh, really since 2017, 2018, when I made that shift.
31:56
Todd: That's that's amazing.
31:57
Todd: You know, because I've I've always believed and I've always taught that that when you listen, you get more guidance.
32:08
Todd: And then when you are leveled up, when you have reached the next point where you've done all you can on your own with and God has gotten you to that point, then He provides you with more guidance through other people because other people are um a lot of the means that God uses to reach us.
32:29
Todd: And so I got to a point over the last 10 years I've been doing personal development work, right?
32:35
Todd: And working on my own visions of abundance, working on uh being able to grow and listen to the spirit, not just um for abundance, but for everything.
32:49
Todd: And then I started this podcast.
32:51
Todd: First, it was on all areas of personal development.
32:55
Todd: He told me to niche it down into spiritual development, and so that's what I've been doing for almost the last two years.
33:02
Todd: And and in doing that, I've niched that down into spiritual development.
33:08
Todd: I've been listening so much more, growing so much more, and then he led me to expansion, led me to prosperity portfolio through expansion in expansion, which has changed my wife's and I mentality.
33:26
Todd: Because everything I tried before, my wife was not on board.
33:29
Todd: My wife is completely on board, and it is changing us, grow helping us grow together financially in abundance and making big wins and seeing that God is leading us in a direction and we're stepping forward in that direction.
33:49
Todd: But it's been seven years and ten years in coming when I first asked the first person to be my mentor and work help me work on personal development to grow to today, and now you as one of my coaches and mentors, thank you for that.
34:10
Todd: Because it I've had to take a lot of work to get here, and now I've got a lot of work to get to the point where I don't need your help.
34:19
Todd: It's gonna be a while, but but I I appreciate that one, you've grown your life to be in such a state in the position that I I am now that I am ready, and the the the coach and mentor has come, I am ready to receive and not just go, oh, he's crazy.
34:42
Todd: I don't know what I don't want to listen to him.
34:47
Jerremy: Yeah, well, thank you.
34:49
Jerremy: Uh thank you.
34:50
Jerremy: And you know, man has brothers in Christ, it's like there's there's always these things that can that can challenge our beliefs and our belief systems.
34:56
Jerremy: And I think that that's okay because what what is what is faith if we only believe blindly, but we never actually ever put anything to the test.
35:05
Jerremy: There's no challenge, there's no hurdle.
35:08
Jerremy: We never place our body or our mind in spots where we're like, all right, do I do I believe whatever I believe?
35:13
Jerremy: And it's okay, it's okay to have your faith either A tested or B refined or C improved or D increased.
35:20
Jerremy: That that's okay.
35:21
Jerremy: But for the for the majority of people, they go, This is what I believe.
35:25
Jerremy: And we could it doesn't have to be spiritual, it could be anything.
35:27
Jerremy: All right, I believe that money is I believe that rich people are gone.
35:30
Jerremy: I believe that rich people are evil and that money is terrible.
35:33
Jerremy: If you believe rich people are evil and money is terrible, you don't have any.
35:36
Jerremy: You have no money and you have no friends that are rich.
35:38
Jerremy: That's okay but that's okay.
35:39
Jerremy: You want to have that belief, you have that belief.
35:41
Jerremy: So a man thinketh.
35:44
Todd: So is he, so is he.
35:47
Jerremy: Whatever you think, that is exactly what your reality will be.
35:51
Todd: And who you surround yourself with is who you will become like.
35:56
Jerremy: Come on, dude.
35:57
Jerremy: And it makes it easier or harder, depending on what it is that you're trying to accomplish.
36:00
Jerremy: Because you're in part of the right good associations, or sorry, bad associations, spoiler you habits, right?
36:07
Jerremy: It's like you hang out with bad people, you want to be a you want to be a miserable drug addict, hang out with other miserable drug addicts, right?
36:14
Jerremy: You want to be a millionaire uh who donates hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to charities, hang out and spend more time with people that are millionaires that donate hundreds of thousands to charity.
36:23
Todd: Absolutely.
36:24
Todd: And so, like we we talked about in the beginning, I know uh time is precious, and we've got another call to get to here in a little bit.
36:30
Jerremy: We're doing, we're doing great.
36:32
Todd: I know.
36:32
Todd: Um, so I wanted to ask real quick.
36:36
Todd: You said you have a book coming out.
36:38
Todd: I know is it coming out in December?
36:40
Todd: Tell us a little bit about your book, um, you know, so we can hype it up.
36:45
Jerremy: Yeah, thank you, thank you, thank you.
36:48
Jerremy: Yes, if you ever happen to see in the near future a book called Be Rich Like Jesus, that was uh written through me.
36:56
Jerremy: That was not uh not a concept that I thought of.
37:00
Jerremy: It just started slowly getting downloaded over time, and I thought it was so cool.
37:03
Jerremy: I wrote a best-selling book in 20 uh 2018 called Money Grows on Trees.
37:08
Jerremy: I love that one.
37:09
Jerremy: Thank you, brother.
37:10
Jerremy: And I slowly kind of dabbled a little bit in like that spiritual awareness of money because that's really what I do is I'm a I teach the spirituality of money.
37:19
Jerremy: Spirituality of money is how to have a relationship with it, how to have a better relationship with it, because obviously it's ethereal, right?
37:25
Todd: And so our most I love money and money loves me.
37:28
Jerremy: It does, dude.
37:29
Jerremy: It does, and I'm so happy you do, and and you've gotten richer since you started doing that, since you started saying that, since you started believing that.
37:36
Todd: Doubled my doubled my account.
37:41
Jerremy: That's bro, three months.
37:44
Jerremy: There you go, dude.
37:45
Jerremy: There you go.
37:46
Jerremy: I mean, it's like hello.
37:48
Todd: Of course, uh everything is on uh waiting for everything to go back up, but it's the October slump.
37:54
Todd: It's the October slump, dude.
37:56
Todd: There's there's Mar.
37:57
Todd: This is why I actually just told a friend of ours that's in the class, Billy, uh Billy Bennett.
38:02
Todd: He you know, he's in the class and he's like getting a little nervous, and I'm like, no, look.
38:07
Todd: Every October, if you go back through the market, if you look, every October there's a slump, and then it goes up in November, December, and then it slumps in January, February, and then it goes back up through June, and then it kind of chops up in June, July, August, and then it does it again.
38:25
Jerremy: Come on, dude.
38:26
Jerremy: It's like, listen, the history repeats, history rhymes.
38:30
Jerremy: There's so many opportunities, there's so many ways for us to interact with capital and with expansion of who we are, because money expands everything it touches.
38:39
Jerremy: And I think my big message for all the listeners is look within yourself, do that self-introspection that Todd mentioned earlier, to go within and really find the things that you want expanded and the things that you don't want expanded, work on them.
38:54
Jerremy: Work on that forgiveness, work on self-forgiveness, the forgiveness of others, the the judging mentality, the fear, the scarcity.
39:01
Jerremy: It's okay to work on and work through those aspects and to slowly, slowly elevate and become uh the most remarkable embodiment of God.
39:10
Jerremy: And and as we do that, your life gets better.
39:14
Jerremy: It does.
39:15
Todd: It absolutely does.
39:16
Todd: I can attest, I was in the darkest of abysses 15 years ago, 16 years ago, and um worked back up through it with my wife and with God, and that's when we basically turned our life over to God and said, We're only getting through this stuff with you.
39:42
Todd: Help us and we'll listen.
39:46
Todd: And we have our entire marriage, we've been married 30 years now.
39:50
Todd: We have the one focus that we've kept is if God tells us to go somewhere to do something, we act.
39:57
Todd: We don't we don't question, we just act.
39:59
Todd: And it's led us to some very crazy, we've had an adventurous life because of it.
40:07
Todd: And we expect the next 30 years to be just as adventurous because we'll have a lot more money to be able to help a lot more people than we have the first 30 years, and we're gonna have some fun times, and it's gonna be great because we're listening, act asking and acting.
40:27
Todd: So if anyone to finish this up, I always like to finish up with you can plug how can someone reach you if they want your coaching or want to join your uh your prosperity portfolio group and want to learn from you, how what can uh how can they reach you?
40:48
Jerremy: The easiest way I think right now is find me on social media.
40:52
Jerremy: Uh I have a really, really awesome team that's kind of dedicated to filter out their animal spam messages and make sure that great people uh can connect with me because I do message everyone directly and individually.
41:03
Jerremy: It's an actual human.
41:05
Todd: So we find that amazing.
41:07
Jerremy: Yes, yes.
41:08
Jerremy: It's so it's like just reach out.
41:10
Jerremy: I'm Googlable.
41:11
Jerremy: If you spell my name correctly, it's Jeremy with two R's.
41:13
Jerremy: My dad's name was Jerry, so it stands for Jerry and Me.
41:17
Jerremy: Last name Newsome.
41:18
Jerremy: Newsom with an E.
41:20
Jerremy: So it's like reach out, message me, um, and just let me know where you're at in life.
41:24
Jerremy: And I will give you my absolute best guidance, my best assistance.
41:27
Jerremy: I'll do everything I can to at least point you in the right direction and see what we can do together and see how I can help you expand.
41:32
Jerremy: And definitely get a copy of my book when you get a chance to do so when it comes out and late this year, early next year.
41:38
Jerremy: Uh read it.
41:38
Jerremy: You will enjoy it.
41:39
Jerremy: It will change your life, it will heal every single person that reads it.
41:42
Jerremy: It's an incredible, incredible message.
41:44
Jerremy: And uh, I'm very, very honored and blessed to be here, Todd.
41:46
Jerremy: Thank you.
41:47
Jerremy: It was an amazing meeting you not that long ago.
41:50
Jerremy: And for everyone who's listening to this podcast, Todd's a remarkable man, and he is doing so good at just leveling up in life, leveling up in all ways.
42:00
Jerremy: And that's a it's a beautiful testament to how powerful God is because we can all do it.
42:04
Jerremy: Every single person here can have a better, easier, faster, simpler life.
42:09
Todd: Thank you very much.
42:09
Todd: Thank you for coming on the show.
42:11
Todd: I will see you in Destin in a couple weeks.
42:13
Todd: And uh I wish your body strength as you run seven marathons, you crazy, crazy, crazy man.
42:22
Todd: Love you, Jeremy, and uh really appreciate it.
42:25
Todd: I'm stopping the recording.