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Sammy Garrity: Scaling Business, Spiritual Insights, and Podcasting as a Mission · The Scene Projects

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  Well, welcome into a very exciting episode of the scene.
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  Today, I'm joined by my new friend, Sammy Garrity from the brand catalyst.
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  Welcome to the show, Sammy.
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  I'm so excited to be here.
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  Thank you.
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  Well, I told him your name.
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  Why don't you tell us what the brand catalyst is and and what it does?
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  Oh my gosh.
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  Well, I am the brand catalyst.
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  My husband is the impact catalyst, and together, we are the impact catalysts.
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  And we have two sides to our business.
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  We have the impact catalyst, which is for entrepreneurs, business owners, change makers,
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  people that are are really mission driven.
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  They know that they have something bigger than themselves.
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  It goes beyond just building a business now.
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  They know there's a bigger calling and they wanna explore that and and really make an
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  impact.
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  And and I learned the hard way having had four near miss heart attacks in three and a half
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  months chase and just walk away.
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  Justin
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  Sami, if you can hear
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  me, I'm gonna
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  I'm gonna stop you.
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  Sammy, if you can hear me, I'm gonna stop you real quick just because you're I don't know if
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  it's your connection or mine.
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  It just totally went to and you're glitching out and everything was happening.
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  So oh, no.
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  And there you went.
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  So I'm guessing it must have been yours.
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  Well, welcome into a very exciting episode of the scene.
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  I am your host, Bubba Starts, and with me today is Sammy Garrity from the brand catalyst.
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  I'm so excited to be here.
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  I really am.
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  Thank you for for inviting me on your show.
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  Well, it's my pleasure completely.
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  And, we found each other through some Facebook groups, so we're just getting to know each
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  other.
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  So I've told them your name and your business, but why don't you tell us a little bit more
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  about yourself and what you and your husband do?
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  Oh, thank you.
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  Well, my husband and I, we're on a real mission, to make an impact and to make our
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  impact through those that we serve.
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  I think that individually, we're one drop, but together, we can be the ocean.
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  Right?
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  And and the great thing about our experience over the years is I burned out big time when I
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  was 38 and and I because I was I was trying to fill this hole inside of me.
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  And I didn't know what that hole was, but I thought that success and money and fame would
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  fill that hole.
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  And then when I achieved all of that, I still felt empty and just spiritually bankrupt.
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  I it still wasn't doing it.
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  And and so I built five very big businesses over at the same time, had four Nimbus heart
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  attacks in three and a half months.
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  And that's when I realized, you know what?
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  My heart is hurting for a reason.
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  I need to just take a boop boop boop back here and just see, like, why?
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  Why is this happening?
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  You know, I'm I'm doing all the things that I thought I was meant to do to be able to feel
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  the way I thought I was meant to feel, and yet I still feel empty.
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  And and so, ultimately, I had to make a decision that I'd made myself so unhealthy
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  chasing success that I needed to just take a complete time out.
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  So I ended up selling my multimillion business for £1 so that I could just hand it over and
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  walk away completely, you know, just be released to to to not have anything taking up
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  that space in my brain and and see what what did God have in store for me.
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  And, and so while I was waiting, it was that period of waiting, and I think that's the
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  hardest time, isn't it?
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  It's when you're between things.
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  And I was in the that period of the in between thinking, well, you know, I what what am I
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  meant to do?
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  And at that time, I was a believer.
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  I believed that there was something bigger, but I I didn't have a relationship with God at that
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  time.
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  And so I started to ask the universe because that's what everyone else seemed to be doing.
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  And so I was asking the universe, alright, universe.
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  What am I meant to be doing?
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  And I wasn't getting an answer.
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  So I thought, you know what?
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  While I wait for the answer of what is my purpose, I'm gonna just use what I already
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  know.
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  And so I knew business.
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  I knew how to build businesses, and I'd been, my qualifications were all in brand and
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  branding and PR and marketing.
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  I thought, you know what?
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  I can teach some people how they can do it while I work out what my purpose is.
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  So I set out because if I'm gonna do something, I go all in with it.
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  And so I decided I was gonna build the world's largest brand building resource for
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  entrepreneurs of purpose driven businesses.
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  What I didn't realize was that would become my purpose, and and it was just, the most
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  phenomenal journey.
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  And over the last fourteen, years, we've we've done so many things.
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  And, since we started that side of the business, the how to build a brand side, I
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  mean, it took us all over the world speaking, running webinars, launching other companies
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  around the world, and, being on documentaries, doing the most amazing things and supporting
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  people.
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  And in that process, I then met my now husband, Greg, and he was doing that.
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  He was building seven businesses, and the two of us just met on that journey.
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  But, you know, when you're in flow and you're going for it, there's a point where you start
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  doing things because people tell you that's why don't you do this?
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  Why don't you do that?
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  And they start, you know, they start to have more of a say than our amazing creator does.
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  Right?
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  Well because listening.
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  Well and because you're so capable and you could do any of those things that they've
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  listed off, we just go do them.
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  Right?
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  Yeah.
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  And we don't realize that that can take us away from from our purpose.
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  And so we started listening, which, you know, that's an important thing to do is to listen to
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  your customers, but everybody has an opinion.
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  Right?
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  And so we started to, I think, spread ourselves too thinly, and we ended up building, by
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  accident, a global business and a global network where we were running 34 events all
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  around the world every month.
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  And some days, we had something happening in Brisbane on the same day that we had something
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  happening in New New York and something happening in London or Holland, and it just
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  grew.
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  And we had this amazing network of people who were going through our programs, building their
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  brands and their businesses, and then saying, I wanna set this up here.
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  And so we we were like, okay.
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  Let's do it.
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  And we spread ourselves so thin.
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  And I think of I know that, you know, lockdown and the the COVID time was a terrible time for
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  so many for me.
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  It was it really was a great reset because we lost our business overnight because we were
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  we'd built it physically.
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  And so, you know, it'd gone from everything being online to being physical, and so we lost
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  everything overnight.
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  And and it was a it was a very traumatic time, but also it was a time I can look back on now
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  and say, now I see what God was doing.
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  Because I was getting so carried away listening to everyone and being pulled in all so many
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  different directions that I wasn't listening to him.
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  And he was trying to say, but this is where like, this is the easy route.
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  Take this.
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  But if you're using your own thinking and you're trying to think your way through this,
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  it's gonna be so much harder.
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  Well, I took the hard route and and learned my lesson.
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  And so the the biggest lesson that I really learned through that was there's three things,
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  and I call them the three v's.
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  The first thing is what is the vision for your life?
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  Because your vision for your business and the vision for where you're going, we tend to give
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  lots of attention to that, and then it overtakes our life.
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  And then we don't end up with a life because we're doing everything for the business, and
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  we're doing everything for what people are wanting us to do instead of really stick
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  staying in lane with our calling.
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  What life do we want this business to give us is really important as a question, and I'd
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  never considered that.
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  And so therefore, I didn't have a life because I gave all of myself and more the detriment of
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  my health to that, the vision of the business.
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  So the first thing that I realized was we need to have a really powerful, strong vision for
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  our life and and be completely connected to what is that.
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  What is the bigger kind of quest, the thing that I wanna do that all these things I'm
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  getting involved with are actually gonna drive me towards, gonna help me to achieve that?
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  And the second thing is, values.
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  I I was getting so pulled into everything else that everyone else was doing that I wasn't
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  being true to the values that are really key to me, that are important to me.
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  Family is one of those values, and I wasn't even seeing my family.
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  So knowing what your values are really important.
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  And the third thing is your value.
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  And I'd I'd got so caught up in everything that I was doing that I'd lost a sense of who I was,
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  my my value, my identity.
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  Well, you know, it was so easy to become what everyone else is and, oh, they're successful.
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  They're doing these things.
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  So therefore, that must be what I should be doing.
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  And I lost myself along the way, and and I realized that, you know, this is actually about
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  who we are being as we are doing what we're doing, and that's what makes the greatest
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  impact because people are watching you.
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  They're watching you.
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  They're watching how you show up.
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  They're watching how kind you are, how generous you are.
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  They're watching who you're being as you're doing the things you do, and that is making an
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  impact.
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  And so we launched Impact Catalysts for entrepreneurs and CEOs and mission driven
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  people.
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  Even need to be a business owner, but someone who's mission driven just wants to do something
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  in their community, but wants to make the greatest impact and the greatest ripple that
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  they can with what they have.
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  And, and that's been our mission for the last two years now.
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  And so I'm the brand catalyst, Greg's the impact catalyst.
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  And we're that's that's what we do.
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  Crazy journey to get here.
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  Incredible.
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  Someone, actually, I I do believe it was Moe Train.
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  Shout out to Moe.
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  He started that, podcasters of Facebook group, which I don't know that he ever dreamed that it
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  would grow to the to the heights that it has now, but I think he set out with that mission
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  in the first place.
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  But one thing that he put, just yesterday, he kinda did a little question and always very
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  poignant with the questions too.
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  But it was how do you what metrics do you use to measure success in your podcast?
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  And I just put in big capital letters, lives changed, because that's what this is about.
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  Yeah.
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  I have said it many times, and people who are listening to these episodes coming out
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  consecutively, they're gonna get annoyed by it probably, but this is how God is speaking to
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  us.
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  This is how God is speaking through each one of us, through our stories, through sharing it.
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  And I'm not an overly religious person.
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  You know, came from more of the ask the universe.
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  Right?
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  I am very in tune with who I am becoming, because I'm not there yet, but everything that
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  you have said, I could cut you off right now.
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  Thank you.
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  Have a nice day.
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  Thank you.
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  Bye.
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  Well, the listeners
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  of our program are are going to do that because I'm having the same conversations with people.
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  I'm part of a network called the C Suite Network, which was started by a man named Jeff
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  Hazlett, who's a speaker.
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  And, he built this because there was a need for, people in that c suite to deliver message.
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  It was very business oriented.
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  Right?
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  I'm kind of one of their first dips into more of the entertainment world, but having met me
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  and having seen his pitch, right, his keynote, I was like, just give me his script.
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  I'll go sell that.
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  I can do speaking.
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  I come from the music side, Sammy.
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  Yeah.
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  That's what the scene projects was started from was, I had a new single last February, and I
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  wanted to get it out there and talk to people.
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  So I did the, you know, the two podcasters I know in the whole state of South Dakota.
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  I did the local news, and I thought I was gonna be a rock star.
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  And I went in to do the second podcast interview with my friend Dave Holly, And, not
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  only was I inspired because everything that he had in that studio, I had in my house.
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  Just accumulating.
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  Right?
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  And then he gave me a Zoom p four, which is just a little, you know, box unit, but you can
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  plug a microphone into it, but I could plug my phone into it.
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  So before I ever started doing Zoom, it was just phone calls with my friends.
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  And then I started recording some of our live shows together, and, then I fell in love with
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  having conversations.
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  And I fell in love with healing myself through conversations with people.
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  I just got off a Zoom call for two hours with my business partner, and we didn't speak a lick
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  of business.
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  You know, my it was my grandma's birthday today I shared with you, I think, on the other the
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  other recording, but, you know, my granny's birthday would have been today.
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  We lost her a few years ago.
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  So I started off the morning with a lot of tears and a lot of healing that needed to be
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  done and a letter that I'd recently written to my father with twenty five years of pain behind
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  it, and all of this letting go that I'm doing so that I can be fresh to come into our brand
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  Awakening.
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  The scene projects are finally arriving in the podcasting world.
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  We have a 30 episodes probably and another 30 that I've done in the last two weeks, Sammy.
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  This is what I enjoy.
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  This is what I love.
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  I love sharing my story.
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  I love hearing your story and seeing where we can relate.
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  My my side of the story is from the depths where yours is the heights.
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  Mine is the I was in prison five years ago, you know, or now it's been six or seven years ago.
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  Right?
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  But I I shouldn't I would have never connected with Sammy and heard this beautiful story if
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  not for God.
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  And and not being someone over religious.
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  So, you know, I was saying before, can call it source or creator.
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  No.
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  Call it what it is.
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  It's god speaking to you.
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  My my partner, Teresa, who our new venture, she's
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  gonna
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  be mad at me.
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  I won't release this until we got it all settled on the business side, but it it is a
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  podcast network, not for broadcasting, but for supporting the Midwest Podcasting Network to
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  support other people in not just their podcasting journey, but in their life journey.
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  And and and our mission is to change lives.
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  And if there's only one life changed per conversation and that life is me, then it's
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  successful.
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  Right?
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  And that it's just such a beautiful thing to then come into the next conversation ten
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  minutes later, and it's Tammy Garrity telling me about her business.
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  But, you know, it's so funny because, like, last night, I woke up this morning having had a
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  dream about my grandmother.
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  My grandma, she was never religious, but she had a profound visitation from Jesus six months
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  before my parents broke up, and we went to live with my grandparents.
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  So I spent all my time growing up with conversations about Jesus without even, like,
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  having opened a bible.
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  Like, you know, my grandma had this amazing relationship with God that nobody else could
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  understand because I spent so much time with her.
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  I grew up with that.
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  And I woke up.
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  This is the first time I think I've ever had a dream about my grandma since she passed away in
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  02/2013.
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  And I dreamt that that she was I was sitting in this restaurant, and I was waiting for her to
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  arrive.
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  And she came walking up, and she she I was sitting down, and she leant over, and and I was
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  just like I just have my head, and I was looking up into her face.
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  And she was looking down at me, you know, like, just such pride, you know, just such love.
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  And, you know, I'm so proud of you.
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  Like, just keep going.
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  And and you tell the story about your you know, writing a letter to your dad.
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  God, I didn't realize it was gonna be one of these kind of interviews today.
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  I did the very same thing to my biological father.
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  I wrote a letter to him that I never sent, but I wrote the letter, it must be about six years
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  ago, forgiving him forgiving him just completely for everything and and the sense of
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  relief even knowing that I was never gonna send that letter.
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  You may have sent yours.
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  I didn't.
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  I I didn't send mine.
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  But the relief and the release that that gave me, I think was also part of the contribution
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  to that big hole that I had in me that was just craving something to fill it.
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  And, you know, you talk about God.
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  I didn't ever have that relationship with God.
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  My grandma was the one that passed messages to me, so I I didn't realize that I could have a
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  relationship with him.
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  I thought this was something that other people did and then passed it on to me.
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  And then, I took a client on to do all of her branding work, ten years ago.
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  And she her whole business is God.
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  Right?
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  Everything about it.
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  And and and so this over the last ten years that I've been branding her books and doing all
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  of her stuff, you know, it's been leading me in and and this curiosity towards it.
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  Just a year ago, Greg and I flew to America to speak at a conference in Vegas about how to
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  take your idea global.
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  And so we're we're there to speak at this conference, and while we're in the hot tub, my
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  husband gets this word from God.
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  Now my husband was a humanist, didn't even believe and wouldn't he wasn't happy about me
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  even curiously looking into this.
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  And, and so we're sitting there and he gets this word from God and he he he turns to me and
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  he said, I've just had a word from God.
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  I said, you don't even believe in God.
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  What what do you mean you've had a word from God?
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  And he said, I just know that it's from God.
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  God is telling me that Texas is my spiritual homeland.
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  This is where I'm meant to be.
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  And I said, what do mean homeland?
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  You never use that kind of language.
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  He said, I can only tell you what God has said.
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  And I said, so do you believe in God or don't you believe it?
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  Like, we had this whole conversation around it.
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  I was like, I never heard him speak like that, and we were just in the process of moving.
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  When we got back from that speaking tour, we were moving to Barcelona in Spain.
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  We've been living on a boat for four years, traveling around England and all the canal
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  networks, and so we've got a pretty adventurous life.
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  But we were just like, well, hang on a minute.
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  We're just about to move to Spain.
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  How can Texas be your spiritual homeland?
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  And and so we just said, no.
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  You know, just hearing things.
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  And so we moved to Spain.
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  We take three months touring around the coast of France, land in Spain.
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  We we've moved to Barcelona.
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  We've been living there for, like, ten days when a member of Greg's family passes away, and
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  so we have to go back to England for the funeral.
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  So we go back to England Two Days before we're due to fly back, and I'm up for an award in
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  London.
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  So we're doing that and then coming back to Barcelona.
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  And the Friday night before I'm due to drive to London to do this award ceremony, I go out to
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  take the dogs for a walk.
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  And as I'm walking the dogs for their last walk of the night, I hear verbally in my right ear,
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  why are you going to Barcelona?
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  You know you're meant to be in Texas.
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  Why are you putting Barcelona in the way?
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  And I just stood frozen and thought, is there someone just said that to me.
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  Someone like and there was no one there.
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  This was, like, pitch black last you know, taking the dogs for their last walk.
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  So I thought, I must have just imagined that.
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  So I walked down onto the boat.
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  And as I close the boat up and and I walk in, Greg says, I've just gotta say something to
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  you.
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  I don't want you to do anything with it because I don't know what to do with it, but don't say
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  anything.
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  Just let me say it.
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  And I said, okay.
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  You know?
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  Oh my gosh.
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  What is this gonna be?
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  And he said, I just have another word from God.
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  Really?
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  He said, yeah.
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  I said, so what did he say this time?
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  He said, Texas is your spiritual homeland.
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  Don't go back to Barcelona.
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  Go to Texas.
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  Go now.
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  And I said, and I burst out laughing.
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  He said, well, it's not that funny.
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  What are you laughing for?
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  And I said, well, I've just had the same word.
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  What are we supposed to do about this?
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  And he said, well, I think God's wanting us to go to Texas.
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  And I said, so what do we do?
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  And he said, we go to Texas.
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  Bless I
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  said, okay.
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  So we called our friend that our client here, and I said, we've both had this word from God.
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  Like, we know that we're supposed to do this.
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  She said, well, you better get over here.
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  So we booked a flight.
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  I flew over two days later, came to stay with her thinking, you know, I'll come out for a few
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  weeks and just see, you know, is this what we're meant to be doing?
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  Anyway, within five days, we'd put an signed an eighteen month contract on the house, not even
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  knowing if we could get here, started the immigration process, got a car, like, got
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  everything sorted.
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  She said, you better go back and clean house.
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  So we were I I arrived back in in England on the December 5, and we had a month.
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  We we were moving out here for our first assignment here.
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  So we haven't quite moved to Texas yet, but we're out here, just learning ministry because
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  that's what God is calling us to do.
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  And we were just so confused at the time.
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  But but the instruction was everything has got to go.
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  You haven't got time to sell anything.
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  You just give it away and go.
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  So we gave everything away.
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  We gave our car to a family that needed it.
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  We just gave it all away in complete faith.
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  We were told to close all of our business down.
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  All of our biz everything we'd built up over, like, the the four years since we've gone into
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  lockdown and lost everything.
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  We'd built everything back up again, give it all away.
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  The one thing he allowed us to keep was our Impact Catalyst program.
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  He said you're gonna need that because as you're growing leaders and as you're, helping
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  what did he say?
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  Helping my leaders to lead well and make the impact that I designed and created them to
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  make.
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  As you're helping them to do, they're gonna need that program.
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  That's the only thing.
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  That's that was the only thing we were allowed to get we had to get rid of, like, 90 plus
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  percent of all of our income.
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  We gave everything away, and we we just came here knowing we were supposed to go into
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  ministry.
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  And this last year, we picked up our first bible in the January, had a car accident that
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  meant we didn't have a vehicle in the, like, June time.
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  So then, I was taking Greg on a date night.
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  I said, how are gonna get there?
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  He said, let's Uber.
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  So we Uber.
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  We go on this date night to the cinema.
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  The guy who picks us up in an Uber to bring us back turns out to be a minister who's raced all
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  over the world.
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  He's a jockey.
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  It went into ministry, built a chapel on their racetrack, was ministering to all of the the
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  jockeys and the horse riders that were coming in from around the world, went into ministry
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  full time.
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  And he said, you know what?
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  He said, dropped out for me because he has a tree surgery business, just dropped out for me
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  a couple of weeks ago, just from everything to nothing.
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  And I said, wow, that's crazy.
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  And he was talking about this journey, so that's why I'm Ubering.
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  And then we get in his taxi, and he says, like, we're talking.
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  And he says, if you do you know, do you go to church?
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  Are you looking for a church?
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  And we said, maybe.
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  He said, well, you haven't got a car.
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  Let me pick you up.
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  And so he picked us up on the Sunday, took us to church.
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  That became our church.
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  So we were planted in a church.
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  We've got so many amazing miracle stories, and so we come out to Texas as much as we can now
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  to go to that church.
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  They've got nine campuses.
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  We're learning ministry.
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  And what we know for sure now that we're being led to, God said last May, you're gonna bring a
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  hundred thousand people back to Christ.
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  And I said, how can I be the one that does that, Lord?
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  Like, how can I be that like, I this is so new for me?
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  Why why would you choose me to do that?
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  Surely, you want somebody who's who's been a part of the church and and who understands
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  this, you know, because this isn't about religion.
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  It's the relationship with you.
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  How am I supposed to be the one that does that?
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  And he said, you'll see.
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  And just as we've been sharing our stories, people have said, you just left everything.
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  You just got a word from God and just left everything.
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  You've restored my faith today.
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  You know?
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  We're like, oh, wow.
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  So so literally, people who are who are already, you know, believers, faith based, but
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  have maybe lost their faith or they're sitting on the fence or something has happened to them
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  or and it's making them question it.
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  And and so, yeah, we're really on that journey.
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  And he's he said to me just last week, as I was sharing with you before he came on here, he
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  said, you see all of these things that that you've been paid to create?
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  I said, what do you mean?
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  He said, and I've got thousands of online courses and resources and programs and books
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  and all kinds of things we've written.
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  He said, like, I've blessed you to create those.
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  Now I want you to bless others.
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  You're gonna give all of that away.
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  And so we're now creating a resource called Grapevine, which will be, an online resource
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  that Christians and faith based business owners will be able to get the support and the tools
• 25:45
  and the the experience they need to to help grow the kingdom and and to be successful in
• 25:54
  that.
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  You know?
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  It's like, I don't know how we're gonna do it, but god knows.
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  Well, you just have to have faith.
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  Right?
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  And I
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  I think you just shared the the parable of the mustard seed.
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  Right?
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  That Absolutely.
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  You know, the the faith, then that's I've been running on faith for another for a year now
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  pretty much.
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  It's coming up on I quit my job.
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  I was making, you know, a a decent living.
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  Right?
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  $5,060,000 dollars a year for a welder, and and we don't spend a lot.
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  We live in rural South Dakota.
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  So, you know, our mortgage is, $600 a month.
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  Right?
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  And I was I just couldn't do it anymore.
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  God was calling me to something bigger.
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  I didn't know what it was.
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  I didn't know it was podcasting.
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  I know that now, but it's beyond this.
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  It's it's helping my my goal is a million podcasters.
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  Right?
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  Mhmm.
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  Not a million podcast episodes.
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  Not that's easy.
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  Those are easy numbers.
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  Yep.
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  I think there's 8,000,000,000 humans on this planet right now.
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  There's 8,000,000,000 stories.
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  Each of them have a story.
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  Each one
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  of them a different expression of God.
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  Right?
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  And we're all children of this.
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  We are all expressions of this.
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  Then we share our stories.
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  That's how we connect.
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  That is how God is speaking through us and no more evident than our conversation today.
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  I gotta get you out of here because I got another conversation with God.
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  And I just I'm so appreciative of you.
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  I know we're gonna be talking again, obviously.
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  I think you would be very interested in knowing our business, and I would be interested
• 27:23
  Well, I'm gonna have you on our show as well.
• 27:24
  Well, that would be wonderful.
• 27:26
  I really look forward to it.
• 27:28
  Is there a website that we can go to to learn more about you guys?
• 27:31
  Yeah.
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  If you go to the impactcatalysts.com.
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  So that's got an s on the end.
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  Theimpactcatalysts.com.
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  And our YouTube channel is the kingdom catalyst, which is now this side of the
• 27:42
  business that God is calling us to.
• 27:44
  So come and join us there and make the most of all the free resources that he's having me give
• 27:48
  away.
• 27:49
  Well, I I know I will be, and a lot of other people behind us will be as well because we are
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  one of those teachers.
• 27:56
  I am one of those leaders, and God has brought us together for a beautiful reason.
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  So I am.
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  Sammy, thank you so much for your time today.
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  You're very welcome.
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  Say blessed, guys.