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Andy Whatley: Listen to The Whisper · Get The Hell Out of Your Life with Ron Meyers

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Announcer: It's time now to get the hell out of your life.
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Announcer: A weekly broadcast with real people, sharing real struggles, and offering real hope.
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Announcer: Today's show will encourage, inspire, and empower you to face life's challenges with a full confidence and renewed hope.
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Announcer: Now let's join our host, Ron Myers, the promoter.
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Ron Meyers: Hello, my friends.
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Ron Meyers: It is so good to be with you today.
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Ron Meyers: I want to begin with a thought-provoking question.
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Ron Meyers: Does God have you where he wants you to be?
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Ron Meyers: Now think about that for a minute.
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Ron Meyers: Are you doing what God created you to do?
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Ron Meyers: Are you using the gifts, talents, and abilities he's placed inside of you?
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Ron Meyers: Or do you feel like there's something more to life?
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Ron Meyers: If your answer is no or even, I'm not sure, Ron, then today's episode is a must listen.
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Ron Meyers: Now, if you're new to this show, let me tell you what I do.
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Ron Meyers: I chase God stories.
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Ron Meyers: I love hearing the stories of ordinary people who discover that God has an extraordinary purpose for their lives.
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Ron Meyers: Today's story found me after church last Sunday.
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Ron Meyers: A friend of mine, Greg, walked up to me and told me about a blues rock musician coming to Biloxi on June 20th to perform at the music venue called The Sanctuary.
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Ron Meyers: As he shared a little bit about this man's journey, I knew then that God had set up an appointment for me with another story that my listeners needed to hear.
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Ron Meyers: Now I warn you, I have been accused of being an instigator.
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Ron Meyers: Not because I caused trouble, but because this show has a way of stirring up gifts, dreams, and callings that have been lying dormant inside of people for years.
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Ron Meyers: You know those gifts God placed inside of you?
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Ron Meyers: The ones that keep whispering there's more.
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Ron Meyers: The ones that won't leave you alone.
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Ron Meyers: The gifts that are screaming, let me out.
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Ron Meyers: Well, today's conversation may do exactly that.
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Ron Meyers: My guest is Andy Watley, a blues rock musician who spent years raising a family, coaching football, running businesses, and doing all the things responsible people do.
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Ron Meyers: He had a dream.
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Ron Meyers: Music.
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Ron Meyers: The music never left him.
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Ron Meyers: The gift never left him, the calling never left him.
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Ron Meyers: After our conversation, I'll share a few practical action steps that you can begin immediately to help you move closer to the place God wants you to be.
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Ron Meyers: And before we're done, you're going to hear a little of Andy's music and learn how you can see him live if you're on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
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Ron Meyers: So let's get right to it.
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Ron Meyers: Andy, what's your story?
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Andy Whatley: Wow, which which rabbit trail are we going to go on today?
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Andy Whatley: Brought up in an incredible Christian family in Montgomery, Alabama, and had me in a Christian school, but there were two things relevant growing up.
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Andy Whatley: One's music constantly, the other was sports.
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Andy Whatley: That's it.
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Andy Whatley: Music and sports, sports and music, which is a little bit of a sometimes contradictory, you know, but it's it's what we were.
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Andy Whatley: And so my dad, you know, was teaching me how to play guitar, and we're constantly having instruments around the house.
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Andy Whatley: And so that kind of was, I guess, the feeder for what was gonna eventually become.
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Andy Whatley: The reason I even bring the sports and the music up is because you're gonna see that interwoven as as I'm just dealing with with what God brings me and and what I run away from and what he brings me back to.
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Andy Whatley: So left that school, ended up playing college football up in Wisconsin, probably because that's the furthest way I could get away from my folks at that time when you're 18 and ready to think you can do it on your own.
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Andy Whatley: And that lasted good.
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Andy Whatley: I had fun up there, but it just wasn't for me.
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Andy Whatley: If you wanted to be a good preacher, you would go to that school at that time.
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Andy Whatley: I wasn't wanting to be a preacher, so that only lasted about a year.
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Andy Whatley: As I floated on back, I started getting to bands, playing everywhere I could.
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Andy Whatley: We called ourselves Christian Rock at that time, but we pretty much played anywhere the door was open and we could play, whether it be a Christian coffee house here, a bar there.
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Andy Whatley: We actually had a, I think it was a label called Word out of Nashville wanted to sign us because they were looking for no, this didn't work out, but they were looking for a Christian band to go into bars and they're just they had an idea that didn't that didn't really come to fruition for us, but that also explains to you where we were at, you know, trying to do that.
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Andy Whatley: And when I say we, it a lot of that is my brother.
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Andy Whatley: Um his name is Chris, and uh, so me and him are constantly just trying to do stuff like that.
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Andy Whatley: Along comes, I go back to my high school sweetheart, married her, and I think I met her, she was in ninth grade, I was 11th.
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Andy Whatley: So after a few years, well, we we team up, we get married, we have our second child, and that's the time I was like, ooh, if I keep doing these bars and I keep this lifestyle, I'm going to lose that woman and those two boys.
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Andy Whatley: So I kind of put up the guitar at that point and went into the business of my own, uh, the meat business of all things.
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Andy Whatley: It was fun.
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Andy Whatley: Did that for about seven years and kept having kids.
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Andy Whatley: We ended up having five kids during all that, four boys and a girl.
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Andy Whatley: And so that led us to the back to sports.
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Andy Whatley: I actually went back, got my degree, got my master's, and started coaching football in Alabama, definitely about three or four different schools.
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Andy Whatley: You know, you travel around.
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Andy Whatley: What led me back to music was sitting around a coaches meeting.
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Andy Whatley: We always had ours on Sunday in between churches.
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Andy Whatley: And my dad calls me and he says, Hey, come down here to this benefit, and uh they want us to sing Seven Bridges Road.
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Andy Whatley: And what what it was was there's a friend, there's a mutual friend in our family, and he's a big country star.
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Andy Whatley: His name is Jamie Johnson.
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Andy Whatley: So he was having a local benefit, and he had it for a few years there.
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Andy Whatley: So I it was raising money for I think pancreatic cancer.
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Andy Whatley: And so I kind of knew about it, but again, you know, I'm I'm not in music.
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Andy Whatley: I'm I'm only in, you know, like sports at this point.
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Andy Whatley: My sons, they're killing at music, they're learning their instrument, they're getting very good on their instruments, you know.
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Andy Whatley: So I got to listen to them and throughout all these all these years, but I'm not.
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Andy Whatley: So my dad calls me, hey, you know, come come sing the song.
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Andy Whatley: You know, literally just come to we'll we'll put you on a little cart, they'll take you to the stage, we'll get up there.
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Andy Whatley: I'm like, dad, I can't, you know, I've got a meeting right here, you know.
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Andy Whatley: We're trying to go over this defense here, and you know, and so then he texts me, hey, uh, hey, hey, you think you can come up, you know?
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Andy Whatley: And so I actually I remember looking down, literally thinking, you know, I kind of wore some black jeans and a black shirt.
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Andy Whatley: Other words, I was like, this would work on stage, you know, because it was what I wore to church that day.
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Andy Whatley: I just went straight over to the school after that.
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Andy Whatley: I'm like, all right, so I go, and literally, it was, you know, he probably had a couple thousand people out there, and they pulled me up and it they handed me a acoustic guitar.
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Andy Whatley: There's my dad, there's my brother, and I believe Jamie's dad, he always sings bass with us.
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Andy Whatley: And so uh so we jump up on stage, did one song, and right there I went, oof.
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Andy Whatley: Even on the way home, I was going, no, no, no, no, no, don't, don't, don't, Andy, don't, don't, you know.
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Andy Whatley: And I'm really talking to what I felt like God's saying, yeah, I've got some new plans for you.
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Andy Whatley: And so that took an extreme, you know, turn.
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Andy Whatley: I really wasn't telling anybody, like, hey, I might give up all this to start this.
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Andy Whatley: I really didn't want to really tell anybody, especially my wife.
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Andy Whatley: Well, at the same time, my sons, who are getting very good at their instruments, they come to me and they say, Dad, why don't you sing for us and let's book a few shows?
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Andy Whatley: Let's have some fun.
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Andy Whatley: And I'm like, oof, that's good timing.
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Andy Whatley: So I literally said, Okay, let's do that, and started booking shows mostly out of town.
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Andy Whatley: Jump in the truck, trailer, go set up, play a bar scene.
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Andy Whatley: And it was all it was a lot of fun.
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Andy Whatley: But I wasn't doing it for fun.
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Andy Whatley: I knew I was supposed to go this direction.
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Andy Whatley: We kicked along for about two years, and that was called Watley and Company.
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Andy Whatley: And we started at that time, Jamie uh Johnson, he he started saying, Hey man, why don't you why don't you uh get on my record label and start releasing music under it's called Big Gass Records?
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Andy Whatley: And I said, Okay, let's do that.
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Andy Whatley: And but all of a sudden, that firstborn, he's the drummer, Kyle.
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Andy Whatley: He he had his second baby.
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Andy Whatley: And the uh second born, my bass player, Carson, he had his, I think he got he had his first baby, and and then the my guitarist who does other stuff like keyboards and everything else, Kirkland, he was getting married.
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Andy Whatley: So you can see where I'm going with this.
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Andy Whatley: Now they're doing the same thing I did when I had my second kid.
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Andy Whatley: Dad, I can't go, I can't do this traveling.
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Andy Whatley: We were starting to travel a lot more under Watley and Company, and so I kind of saw that and I'm like, hmm.
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Andy Whatley: And so we were playing a show in Tennessee, I'll never forget it.
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Andy Whatley: And I'm I love history.
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Andy Whatley: And so uh I was uh after the show in Tennessee, we were opening up actually for I think it was Jamie, it was a it was a big artist.
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Andy Whatley: Well, my sons, they took the truck and trailer, went that way.
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Andy Whatley: I actually have my wife on that trip trip, and we're gonna go to Shiloh Battlefield.
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Andy Whatley: On the way there, I literally heard in my in my head, Andy Watley and Company.
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Andy Whatley: Instead of, you know, it was Watley and Co.
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Andy Whatley: Wally and Company.
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Andy Whatley: And I'm like, oh no, I'd never put my name.
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Andy Whatley: You know, I like a band.
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Andy Whatley: Come on, give us a band name.
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Andy Whatley: You know, I don't ever want to put just, you know, Billy Bob Johnson here, boom, you know.
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Andy Whatley: And so I was like, I wrestled, no, no, and but I I was like, wow, my sons are with me.
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Andy Whatley: And and then he said, Yeah, they're leaving.
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Andy Whatley: You know, I heard I felt God say, They're leaving.
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Andy Whatley: This is you.
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Andy Whatley: This is you, I got you to where I need you to be.
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Andy Whatley: And so I officially made it Andy Watley and company or and went back to my brother and said, Bubba, will you travel with me?
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Andy Whatley: He's a bass player.
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Andy Whatley: And I went back to you.
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Andy Whatley: Remember, I told you I was playing when I was younger?
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Andy Whatley: That exact that drummer there.
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Andy Whatley: I went back to him and got those two guys to start touring with me.
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Andy Whatley: Now, since my brother has gotten off the road, too much interstate for him, he plays and sings locally.
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Andy Whatley: So I have a younger bass player now, you know, that does these shows with me.
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Andy Whatley: So that right there is leading me up to just keep releasing, keep playing music.
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Andy Whatley: And we, I guess, management has kind of looked at the direction I'm going and says, you know what, let's get you, let's wean you off these bars and start implementing some of these small theaters, and so we could start working those for a couple of years and build that that clientele up.
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Andy Whatley: And you just got to hear the story.
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Ron Meyers: So you knew since you were little that you had a talent with singing, and you know, life threw things at you, wife, marriage, you know, kids, and all that kind of stuff, and it kind of took a detour, but there was always something pulling you back.
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Ron Meyers: You said God, I believe it was God, because I think God wants us to all, you know, follow our talents and the gifts He's given us.
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Ron Meyers: Did you have people telling you, well, you not want to think twice about that?
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Ron Meyers: Did you have people or did you have support from everybody?
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Andy Whatley: People thought I lost my my mind on this last one.
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Andy Whatley: Just because I was so established in what I did for a living and and in that in that whole circle of deals, you know, coaching and athletic director and a baseball coach.
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Andy Whatley: Just that was what I was wrapped up in.
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Andy Whatley: Now, while all that was going on, that was 17 years I did that.
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Andy Whatley: I'd always had these little like I could pick a guitar up, not tell anybody and just write a song, you know, just put it down, you know, and just kind of you know, keep keep a record of it.
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Andy Whatley: I was doing that the whole time thinking, eh, that would have been fun if I'd if I'd got to do that.
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Andy Whatley: In fact, I've got to do it so much now.
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Andy Whatley: If he says, okay, I'm ready for you to go do this, uh, you know, I would love and cherish everything I've done up to this point.
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Ron Meyers: Amen.
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Ron Meyers: Amen.
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Ron Meyers: You know, one of the things that I like to talk about in my show a lot with the guests is that a lot of people feel like they're missing something in life, but they they don't want to take away from their responsibilities or their full one 401k.
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Ron Meyers: But I always say there's a time in life that you do have to make a decision if you want to go and pursue your dreams.
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Ron Meyers: And so somebody out there that is listening to your story and say, Man, I can relate to that guy.
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Ron Meyers: What encouragement would you give them about following their dreams and not listening to the negative things in the world?
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Andy Whatley: Yeah, and we're me and you are talking about the belief in in Jesus.
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Andy Whatley: Amen.
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Andy Whatley: And so it's so what so me and you, our conversation is always, always going to be based on listening and hearing from him.
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Andy Whatley: And so, you know, because you take a look at what I do, and if you don't know me, you're gonna go, there's another stoned-out rock and roller playing late at midnight at, you know.
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Andy Whatley: And I I when I went into this, I was like, wow, that that in fact, that's another thing you don't see a lot of is somebody who has 13 grandchildren literally out there playing bar and theater and bar and theater and opened up the, you know, I got to go do a run with Blackberry Smoke, you know.
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Andy Whatley: I got to open up for Charlie Daniels before he passed away, you know.
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Andy Whatley: Um, I shared a stage and backed up Kid Rock literally while he was doing a tribute to Eddie Money.
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Andy Whatley: So all these things, and all I it wasn't like nobody came to me and said, Hey, you get to do all this if you make this decision.
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Ron Meyers: It just happened.
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Andy Whatley: I just don't know.
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Andy Whatley: So it yeah, and but it was that you know this is where I messed up.
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Andy Whatley: So this is where I messed up, and I didn't, I wasn't upfront with my wife.
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Andy Whatley: I could not look at her and say, hey, you know that master's degree I have in sports management, and and you know that I I'm gonna walk away from that.
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Andy Whatley: I I I should have done that and I didn't, and we're okay.
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Andy Whatley: We made amends, and it was a rough a couple years for her to finally go, oh, you're doing this now, you know.
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Andy Whatley: So uh yeah, you know you we're gonna make mistakes along this whole journey, anyhow, but that's definitely one of them.
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Andy Whatley: But anyhow, when you know it back to hearing from God, and when you know it in your heart, you know, you gotta go.
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Andy Whatley: You gotta go.
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Andy Whatley: And you know there's gonna be naysayers.
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Andy Whatley: That's just part of it.
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Ron Meyers: That's exactly right.
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Ron Meyers: And you have to go do that.
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Ron Meyers: I tell people now, they say, well, what's the difference when you were listening to Jesus, Ron, and when you were doing it and weren't were doing it for yourself?
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Ron Meyers: And I said, Well, this might sound strange, but everything I thought I was gonna do, I'm not doing.
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Ron Meyers: And everything I never knew I could do, I'm doing.
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Ron Meyers: So that has to be God.
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Ron Meyers: I'm having a life now that just it's fun, it's exciting, it touches people's lives, but I get to be myself.
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Ron Meyers: And I think that's really what it comes down to, Andy.
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Ron Meyers: A lot of times God wants us to be ourselves, to be ourselves and not be somebody else that people want us to be, but he's given us those talents.
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Ron Meyers: And I see your videos, I see your website, and you seem like you have a connection.
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Ron Meyers: You have a connection because the songs, in fact, I was reading, you write the songs like basically half the lives of those people sitting in your audience, and so there's the connection with them.
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Andy Whatley: I was I was really hoping someone would pick up on that because uh sometimes I write a song, and especially my, you know, my my closest human is my wife, she's like, Yeah, you you don't deal with that.
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Andy Whatley: I said, I know, but I've met a guy who deals with this.
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Andy Whatley: I'm singing like he wrote the song, you know, and he's my muse, you know.
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Andy Whatley: I don't even know his name, but I I remember him sitting at the bar.
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Ron Meyers: Amen.
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Andy Whatley: And uh and so I'm glad you picked up on that.
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Andy Whatley: Thank you.
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Ron Meyers: Well, I think it's so important because there's so much that we can share with people, with you know, none of us are gonna make perfect decisions in life.
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Ron Meyers: That's why we need Jesus.
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Ron Meyers: You know, he's he's giving us forgiveness and we have that grace, but he wants us to share our struggles and our troubles with other people and how we got through them.
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Ron Meyers: So if somebody came up to you at the end of your show and said, you know, Andy, you you're so talented and enjoy it, but you know, I have such a crummy, rotten life.
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Ron Meyers: I don't even know why I came here tonight.
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Ron Meyers: I my life, I can't do anything like you're doing.
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Ron Meyers: I know you'd probably give him a pep talk, wouldn't you?
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Ron Meyers: What would you tell that person?
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Andy Whatley: First, I was I started writing a song just then about this dude.
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Andy Whatley: I I was at I had the opportunity to uh play at the Grand Ole Opry last July, and that was with uh the same guy, uh Jamie, he's a member.
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Andy Whatley: So he invited my dad and my brother and me to come and sing because it was his birthday.
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Andy Whatley: And anyhow, there was this young kid there who got to play and he he had his guitar, I can't even remember his name, but he had his guitar muted.
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Andy Whatley: So you finally get out there on stage on one of the biggest country music stages, and they didn't unmute his guitar.
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Andy Whatley: And and and it's just like when he came off the stage, I don't know why I went straight into coaching mode.
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Andy Whatley: Like that that kid just you know, just threw a uh hung a curveball and the guy hit another fit.
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Andy Whatley: And and and so that vibes came down now.
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Andy Whatley: I'm answering your question about anybody that comes up to me.
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Andy Whatley: I can't tell you what I would say to anybody until that happens and the Holy Spirit starts speaking through me.
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Andy Whatley: Because do you ever do that after after you kind of give some advice, you go, wow, that wasn't me at all?
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Ron Meyers: Like, amen.
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Ron Meyers: Where did I say I didn't know I was that smart?
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Ron Meyers: Where'd that come from?
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Ron Meyers: Right.
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Andy Whatley: And so the answer is I'm not that smart.
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Andy Whatley: I really ain't.
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Andy Whatley: And uh so I just have to hope hope that he starts speaking through if that's a good divine moment, you know.
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Ron Meyers: Amen.
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Ron Meyers: So, what's life like now for Andy Watley and what's God doing through you and all your travels?
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Andy Whatley: I got you.
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Andy Whatley: Well, here's a typical first of all, I'm finally empty nester.
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Andy Whatley: All five kids are married.
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Andy Whatley: Four of them has given us 13 kids.
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Andy Whatley: The other, the young one, he's only been married a couple years, so we're gonna give him another few more years.
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Andy Whatley: So empty nesters and my my Monday is what I'm doing usually with the music, trying to uh settle down from the weekend and then kind of do some production.
18:38
Andy Whatley: And this is what I love this part.
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Andy Whatley: So while I was coaching, you know, the whole football coach needs to teach history thing.
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Andy Whatley: It is usually a joke class.
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Andy Whatley: Though while I was opposite, I love history.
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Andy Whatley: That's what I don't miss coaching at all.
18:53
Andy Whatley: Miss teaching history.
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Andy Whatley: Then you start gearing up for the weekend.
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Andy Whatley: You know, you're I'm always chasing a dollar, making sure me and the wife can eat, you know.
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Andy Whatley: So if I'm not playing, I'm doing something like that, you know.
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Andy Whatley: If I'm not playing, usually weekends start Thursday, but you know, we travel back Sunday, usually is what how it usually works out.
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Ron Meyers: What can people expect if they say, Wow, I've never even heard of this man?
19:15
Ron Meyers: I think I want to come come listen to him.
19:18
Ron Meyers: What can they expect a night of listening to you and your songs?
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Andy Whatley: Well, it it's gonna be loud.
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Andy Whatley: We are very loud.
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Andy Whatley: It's a three-piece band.
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Andy Whatley: And when I'm I'm not gonna sit there and play an hour and 40 minutes of Andy Wiley music because I want to give everybody something.
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Andy Whatley: So you'll hear a mixture of songs I like to hear that are covers, and you'll hear uh my originals.
19:42
Andy Whatley: But the covers now, they don't I don't think I do one cover the way it's supposed to be done.
19:49
Andy Whatley: I do it all my own versions.
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Andy Whatley: And so, and that for some reason is one of the best compliments we get is hey, I like that you did that, and I like the way you did it.
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Andy Whatley: You know, because nobody else is gonna do it the way I do it.
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Andy Whatley: And so that's usually, you know, kind of a I don't know what people kind of look forward to, what am I gonna do now, you know.
20:09
Andy Whatley: I just put somebody just posted on my Facebook me doing a slide lead with a beer bottle, and so somebody literally texts me and said, You got to bring one to Biloxi.
20:18
Andy Whatley: So I'll I'll be doing a slide blues lead on the own with a beer bottle.
20:22
Ron Meyers: That's awesome.
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Ron Meyers: Well, listen, we're about out of time.
20:25
Ron Meyers: I know you're busy.
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Ron Meyers: There's a couple things that I want to ask you.
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Ron Meyers: One is the title of this show is called Get the Hell Out of Your Life.
20:32
Ron Meyers: So, Andy, how do you get the hell out of your life?
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Andy Whatley: Man, you you you focus your your view on the cross, even if it looks like you're an idiot and you just go.
20:43
Andy Whatley: You just and yeah.
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Andy Whatley: And so I think naturally the hell will get out of your life at that point.
20:49
Andy Whatley: It has to, because you just staying on the right path.
20:51
Ron Meyers: Amen, brother.
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Ron Meyers: And before we go, will you close us out and pray for our listeners?
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Andy Whatley: I sure will.
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Andy Whatley: Father God, thank you so much for uh the show and uh what what he does and how you uh I guess you work through him to affect people, Lord.
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Andy Whatley: We just ask for blessings for everybody listening, and we also ask for blessings for the show tonight, and uh just uh may your will be done in all this.
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Andy Whatley: Thank you so much in Jesus' name, amen.
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Ron Meyers: Did you pick up on the fact that God never wasted a single chapter of Andy's life?
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Ron Meyers: The football coaching wasn't wasted, the years raising a family were not wasted, the business years weren't wasted, even the years when that guitar sat in the corner weren't wasted.
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Ron Meyers: You see, God was preparing him.
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Ron Meyers: I also love something else, Andy said.
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Ron Meyers: He did not pursue music because it was safe, he pursued it because he believed God was leading him there.
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Ron Meyers: Today Andy is playing blues rock music in theaters, festivals, and everything.
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Ron Meyers: Every time he steps on stage, he has an opportunity to reflect the love, grace, and character of Christ.
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Ron Meyers: Now, here are some action steps if you're ready to move towards your purpose.
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Ron Meyers: Number one, pray about the dream you've buried.
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Ron Meyers: Number two, identify the gifts God has already given you.
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Ron Meyers: Number three, stop waiting for the perfect conditions.
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Ron Meyers: Number four, take one small step this week.
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Ron Meyers: Number five, use your gifts to serve others, not just yourself.
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Ron Meyers: And number six, trust God with the outcome.
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Ron Meyers: You see, my friend, you don't have to become someone else.
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Ron Meyers: You simply need to become who God created you to be.
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Ron Meyers: When I return, I will close out the show, say a prayer for you, and let you listen to a bit of Andy's music.
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Announcer: You're listening to Get the Hell Out of Your Life with your host, Ron Myers.
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Ron Meyers: Dear Jesus, no more wasting time and doubting you.
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Ron Meyers: Today, encourage, inspire, and empower me to follow the dreams you have placed inside of me.
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Ron Meyers: Remove the doubt, the fear, and ignite a passion to pursue my purpose.
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Ron Meyers: Jesus, I give you my life.
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Ron Meyers: I want to follow you and share my gifts with the world.
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Ron Meyers: Thank you for your forgiveness, love, and awesome grace that reminds me daily how much you love me.
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Ron Meyers: I am yours and thank you for Andy sharing his story today.
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Ron Meyers: Lord, I want a life with no regrets.
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Ron Meyers: Amen.
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Ron Meyers: I will be back next week with another grace-filled episode of Get the Hell Out of Your Life available wherever you listen to podcasts.
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Ron Meyers: Until next week, this is Ron Myers reminding you when you give Jesus your heart, you not only get the hell out of your life, but you are giving Jesus permission to transform you into the person he created you to be.
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Ron Meyers: And if you're in the Gulf Coast area Saturday evening, June 20th, why not make plans to come see Andy perform at the sanctuary in Biloxi?
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Ron Meyers: The show starts at 7 30 p.m.
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Ron Meyers: Look for me, I'll be there and say hi.
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Ron Meyers: And now I want to close out today's show with a taste of Andy Watley's music.
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