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Prophets in the Boardroom: Hearing God in High Stakes Decisions · Called to Build

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  SPEAKER_00: Prophets in the boardroom, hearing God in high stakes decisions.
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  SPEAKER_00: I didn't hear God's voice in the boardroom first.
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  SPEAKER_00: I heard it in Dodge City.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not during a strategy meeting, but in a season where nothing made sense and everything I thought I wanted was being stripped away.
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  SPEAKER_00: I had followed a path that looked like success, law enforcement career, leadership roles, a chance at influence.
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  SPEAKER_00: But what I found was isolation, political pressure, and a spiritual dryness I couldn't explain.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it was there, in the desolate places, both literal and spiritual, that I began learning the discipline of discernment.
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  SPEAKER_00: I didn't plan for it, but God used silence, surrender, and solitude to tune my ears to heaven.
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  SPEAKER_00: Years later, that same discernment would become the most valuable asset I brought into ministry, entrepreneurship, and financial leadership.
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  SPEAKER_00: The prophets of old didn't emerge from comfort.
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  SPEAKER_00: They came from caves, deserts, and prisons.
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  SPEAKER_00: And today the boardroom still needs prophets.
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  SPEAKER_00: It needs leaders who are listening.
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  SPEAKER_00: From the wilderness to the war room.
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  SPEAKER_00: In desolate places I share how God stripped away my identity as a big city cop and led me into obscurity in Dodge City.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was overlooked, criticized, and restless.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it was in that dry season that God began softening my heart to hear him again.
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  SPEAKER_00: When my language cleaned up and my Bible time became consistent, the fog began to lift.
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  SPEAKER_00: I realized he hadn't forgotten me.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was forming me.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that formation would become the foundation of everything I've led since.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today, I see leaders trying to build strategy without intimacy.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like trying to build a skyscraper on sand.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can be smart, successful, and still miss God.
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  SPEAKER_00: Spirit-led scaling, a boardroom moment that wasn't born in a meeting.
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  SPEAKER_00: For several months I felt a stirring I couldn't shake, an internal prompting that it was time to scale my marketing agency.
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  SPEAKER_00: At the time it was a boutique solopreneur operation with a faithful handful of clients, but God was nudging me towards something more.
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  SPEAKER_00: Something national in scope, focused on specific verticals, with reproducible systems and a full-time team.
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  SPEAKER_00: I didn't receive this revelation in a strategy workshop or through market analysis.
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  SPEAKER_00: It came through prayer, silence, and that unmistakable inner nudge from the Holy Spirit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Soon after, two confirmations emerged.
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  SPEAKER_00: First, I connected with Josh Nelson, founder of Seven Figure Agency, whose coaching gave me the systems and frameworks to begin scaling with clarity and focus.
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  SPEAKER_00: Around the same time, a door opened that could only have been orchestrated by God.
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  SPEAKER_00: I had been serving as a white label PPC partner for agent branding and marketing, an agency specializing in marketing solutions for local insurance agents.
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  SPEAKER_00: Out of the blue, the owner informed me that he was preparing to retire and asked if I would be interested in acquiring the agency.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was a spirit-timed intersection, the prompting, the preparation, and the opportunity all aligned.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what prophetic leadership looks like in the boardroom.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not mysticism, but movement.
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  SPEAKER_00: You listen, you wait, you act when the cloud moves.
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  SPEAKER_00: Silent retreats and the rhythm of revelation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Years later, during a season of intense ministry fatigue, I stepped into a retreat series called Longing for His Presence.
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  SPEAKER_00: There, in 60 to 90% silence, I relearned how to listen.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not for business breakthroughs, but for intimacy with God.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's something about 48 hours without a screen, a phone, or small talk.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just silence, scripture, and the soft stirring of conviction, that's where God rewired my discernment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those retreats refined my hearing and anchored my leadership.
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  SPEAKER_00: They reminded me clarity isn't found in hustle, it's found in holy hush.
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  SPEAKER_00: The spiritual framework behind financial strategy.
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  SPEAKER_00: When leaders ask me how to integrate faith into financial decision making, I always return to this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Don't separate your spiritual walk from your strategic work.
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  SPEAKER_00: I teach biblical stewardship, yes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tithe the first 10%, save the next 10%, invest another 10%.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I also teach that discernment must govern dollars.
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  SPEAKER_00: That means don't chase returns, chase God's rhythm.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let risk be measured by peace, not just percentage.
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  SPEAKER_00: Align your three time horizons, short, mid, and long term, with heaven's assignment.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whether I'm advising a startup, a church planner, or a real estate investor, the question is the same.
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  SPEAKER_00: Have you prayed longer than you've planned?
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  SPEAKER_00: Final word, listen, obey, lead boldly.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've sat with God in desolate places.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've seen him open unexpected doors in business.
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  SPEAKER_00: My journey started with a whisper in Dodge City and led me to boardrooms, investments, and acquisitions I never could have orchestrated on my own.
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  SPEAKER_00: The spreadsheet can wait, the still small voice cannot.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you're a leader, a founder, or a steward of resources, don't just seek insight, seek intimacy, don't just plan.
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  SPEAKER_00: Pause.
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  SPEAKER_00: The profits still belong in the boardroom.
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  SPEAKER_00: And those who are willing to listen will be the ones entrusted to lead.