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Kingdom-Centric Development with Dr. Angela Pipersburgh · The SmallBizChat with Melinda Emerson

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  3, 2, 1, 0, ignition.
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  Lift off.
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  Ending small business failure.
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  Welcome to the small biz chat podcast with the number 1 small business expert, Melinda
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  Emerson.
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  Now here's your host, the small Biz chat lady herself, Melinda Emerson.
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  Hi, everybody.
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  I'm Melinda Emerson small biz lady.
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  America's number 1 small business expert, and I'm so excited to welcome you to another
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  episode of the small biz chat podcast.
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  Now it's time for me to introduce my guest, Doctor Angela Pipersburg.
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  She is a dynamic figure in the field of spiritual leadership and entrepreneurship, she
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  is renowned for her kingdom centric approach to personal and professional development.
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  She has successfully established 4 innovative brands, including the Kingdom Chamber of
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  Commerce, the Kingdom business school, Shadia Marketing And Communications And Kingdom
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  Investors all aimed at uplifting Christian Professionals And Businesses.
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  Known as the supernatural coach, Doctor Pipersburg is committed to helping individuals
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  discover their true identity embrace their purpose and realize their vision.
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  She's published 2 books, your gift it makes room, and aligning with your Destiny connector.
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  All are which are available on Amazon.
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  For more information, go to Kingdom Chamber of Commerce dot org.
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  Doctor Angelo, welcome to the small business chat podcasts.
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  Thank you so much.
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  I'm just so excited, and I'm looking forward to this time with you.
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  Oh, awesome.
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  Awesome.
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  So give us your story.
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  You know, how did you, become a spiritual leader?
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  And then how did you translate that into business?
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  Well, it all started, with me being in corporate America, you know, and, got a word
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  one day I was being room to be the youngest general manager, and I had this encounter with,
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  basically, I need you for my kingdom.
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  So I did grow up in a household of faith.
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  So, you know, I lived my life, based on faith principles and, was able to bring those
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  principles into work into the marketplace.
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  And when I have that encounter, I need you for a greater work than what you're doing right
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  now, something bigger than running a a very successful organization.
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  Yes.
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  And so that was me having my walk and water experience where I left out Would I always say
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  a word from god and a yes for my husband?
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  And we started out this work of just gathering entrepreneurs together And, what I thought was
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  just gonna be a networking opportunity led to something even greater.
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  And 19 year years later, we just celebrated our 19th anniversary you know, here's the Kingdom
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  Chamber of Commerce where we're integrating business with Faith where we bring the
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  supernatural to the marketplace.
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  Though we recognize that we all answer to a higher calling, which is the man upstairs as
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  someone referred to him.
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  And so it's it's amazing because it gives us the opportunity to really bring what we learn,
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  which is faith faith, is that thing that you can't see, but if it guides you, gives you the
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  principles for success, And it's really an anchor, and it's an anchor that causes you to
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  be unmovable regardless of economic trends.
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  It causes you to be unrecognizable because you start experiencing success and supernatural
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  success as well.
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  And it really allows you to be able to have that vision and to fulfill fill the assignment
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  that you were placed here on planet Earth to do.
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  I'm big on purpose.
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  I'm big on assignment.
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  No one was born and placed here on planet Earth.
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  Just to exist, we were all here to fulfill an assignment.
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  The thing about it, Melinda, is that we understand what that assignment truly is and
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  that we stay in the flow
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  of our assignment.
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  And we just move, you know, with the confidence that we can do it.
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  We're all victorious.
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  We can get it done, but we need a community.
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  We can't do it alone.
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  So how can faith really be a source of resilience and and and coping for leaders
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  because it's hard to run a business.
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  Right?
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  Defeat is always around the quarter.
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  Right?
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  Any given day, something big or small can close line you in a business.
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  So how can you how can you lean on your faith in challenging times?
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  Well, you know, and especially during challenging times is what you really you get to
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  understand really who you are.
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  You understand, that if becomes that that anchor.
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  It becomes that that foundation.
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  It causes you to bounce back, not to say you won't have challenges.
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  I would say that One of the hardest thing to do and those that are entrepreneurs will
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  understand, it's running a business.
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  It is not easy.
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  And the economic trends, you know, you you the wind keeps blowing.
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  Sometimes you're sailing, and then all of a sudden, the weather, you know, the water starts
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  getting rough, but being able to have something that you could hold on to, which for me is the
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  word of god.
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  Being able to understand case studies that I could go back and pull on and rely upon, being
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  able to understand that my belief system is everything that I have a god that I trust, and
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  I understand that I'm not alone.
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  And I think that is everything now more than ever being able to understand that we're not in
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  this alone when you know that you could hold on to something that's unmovable.
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  You understand?
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  And that's where the faith comes in.
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  Your faith becomes so unmovable that you can trust, you know, the word of guys is trusting
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  the lord with all your heart, lean not to your own understanding.
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  That is everything.
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  The courage that it gives you, Joshua 18, and Joshua 18.
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  So it's really understanding that you are aligning with your maker.
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  You're taking words that for those of us that are of faith, understand that you just read,
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  and now you're bringing into the marketplace.
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  This word shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate upon it day and night.
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  What are you doing when you're meditating?
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  You know, you're now causing it to be the way how you think, that positive thinking.
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  Right?
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  And now you're taking that and you're single.
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  Okay.
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  Fine.
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  I can do this.
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  I can be strong in re regardless of the situations.
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  No business.
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  Believing for sales, going out there and getting clients, employees walking out on you,
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  whatever the circumstance or the situations you become so strong and so resilient that even
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  when you're encountering challenging times, Will, and that you're able to bounce back, and
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  I think that is everything now more than Emerson.
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  And not only that, maybe the business you start off with is not doing well.
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  And so maybe you need to try something new, being able to understand the fact that, hey,
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  listen.
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  I got this I can do this because it's not me who's doing it, but I have a backup.
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  I have a whole team that's supporting me that may not just be the team that you see.
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  Mhmm.
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  Now I know that, you've mentioned this earlier, and I've heard you say this in other settings
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  that we've been in each other's company, about your goal is to bring the spiritual rim into
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  the marketplace.
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  What do you mean by that?
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  Being able to spread those of us that are believers, being able to be truly who you are.
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  You know, one of the biggest challenge I had when I left corporate America was I felt like I
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  was not myself, even being in the workplace, and there's so many people living double lives.
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  And so being able to understand that as a believer, you know, you understand that you
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  answer to a higher calling.
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  How can I now become my authentic self?
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  And that was something that I was missing.
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  There's some environment I went in.
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  It just didn't feel like I I fit in, you know, being able to bring who you are to the
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  marketplace, being able to operate your business with the spirit of excellence,
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  mastery, being the best that you could be, being able to understand how you treat others,
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  you know, the golden rule, treat others the way you wanna be treated, being able to understand
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  the importance of really supporting others.
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  It not just about you.
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  Giving the best service that you could be that you could give, be the best in your industry,
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  and really, being able to understand the economic trends and mastery.
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  They're 2 different kingdoms.
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  There's a kingdom of this world, right, and then there's a kingdom of darkness.
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  And so we need to be able to understand it as us as kingdom believers, as kingdom citizen,
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  that we understand there's 2 economies.
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  The economy of this world is shifting.
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  It's like quicksand.
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  It keeps moving.
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  You wake up one day.
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  You're dealing with one situation.
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  You go to bed one day.
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  You wake up with something else.
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  So what do you do?
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  You have to be able to understand the importance to latch yourself on and to be able
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  to have that faith and have that courage that, you know, regardless of what happens around you
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  as a citizen of the kingdom, you will be successful.
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  You know, why?
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  Because you're bringing the supernatural.
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  You the the you're bringing the supernatural into the marketplace.
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  You're bringing your faith.
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  You're bringing everything that you that you believe in.
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  You're bringing those case studies and you're bringing in your intellect, right, because we
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  understand so many times we wanna reflect just only upon what we are our own ability, but it's
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  not just about your ability.
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  There's a higher way and there's a better way of how we can do business when we don't rely
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  just upon ourselves.
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  So when I talk about bringing the supernatural into the marketplace is exactly that.
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  We are bringing in our faith into the marketplace.
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  We're bringing in that supernatural ability into the marketplace and understand that we can
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  be successful when we don't depend only upon ourselves and when we understand the importance
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  of supporting others and then also the level of success that we're to walk in.
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  I wanna switch gears with you just a little bit and talk about having a strong sense of faith
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  and engaging your employees and how you can leverage that, for motivation and engagement,
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  but don't you also have Melinda walk a fine line to make sure that you're not doing
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  something that feels like a demand.
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  Do you know what I mean?
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  So can you talk to us a little bit about you know, ways in which you have engaged, employees
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  around around faith and how that's actually strengthened your business.
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  Yeah.
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  That's very, very, you know, that's like a fine line, because I understand even when you're
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  interviewing somebody, you know, you, you really can't just say to them, well, you know,
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  are you a believer?
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  You can't do that, right, but you understand one thing that you have principles, and values
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  and ethics by which you conduct your life and and the way how you run your business that
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  hopefully you're they're able to see the fact that you care for them.
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  It doesn't matter who says they're a believer, not a believer, who answer to a higher calling
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  or not.
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  How do you treat your people?
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  Right?
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  I think that is everything.
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  You treat others the way you wanna be treated, and people don't care how much you know until
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  they know how much you care.
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  And so when you're in a position now where you are able to be able to really care for them,
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  and engage them, show them the vision of the organization, communicate that vision to them,
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  get them to rally around your vision then, and they understand what you stand for.
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  I know so many entrepreneurs that answer to a higher calling, better believers.
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  You are the believer, not the business, and so we have to understand that.
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  So I just happen to run my life and live my life with morals and principles, and I'm being
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  respectful of where people are the pay the regardless of what they believe in or what they
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  follow it.
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  Hopefully, they'll see that your life is peaceful.
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  They'll see that you live a certain way.
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  They'll see that your life is joyful now more than ever.
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  Maybe they may wanna learn a little bit more about what you're doing.
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  So when it comes to the workplace, it's really an opportunity where the vision and the mission
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  of the organization really speaks.
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  And then the people that are behind the vision, hopefully, are those that are sent it enough to
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  understand if we meet people where they are.
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  Exactly.
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  Exactly.
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  I love it.
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  And when we come back on the small bizhet podcast, We're gonna be talking more with
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  doctor Angela Piper Piper's Burke about the role of faith in your business.
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  Welcome back to the small biz chat podcast.
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  I'm Melinda Emerson small biz lady, your host, and we've been talking with doctor Angela
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  Pipersbert about the role of Faith in business and bringing the spiritual room into the
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  workplace.
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  Angela, now this might be a tough question for you.
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  How can business leaders balance their personal faith with their professional decision making?
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  Particularly when a hard decision has to be made, like layoffs.
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  Can you talk about that?
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  Oh, yes.
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  I can.
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  We have experienced that as well.
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  And, and, again, you know, like I said, you know, as much as you're a believer, understand
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  you're running an organization, and an organization is an entity to itself.
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  And so when decisions must be made from a financial standpoint, of course, you know,
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  you'll pray about it, you know, you'll seek counsel for it for us.
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  We have chastity, the Holy Spirit who leads and guides and directs us, but understand their
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  times when the the numbers just don't make sense, and you do have to let go.
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  Now one thing you can do, at least I've done this before, where I have gone out looking for
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  opportunities for where our employees can actually be be placed.
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  Right?
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  And so you try to do your best to be able to make sure they placed properly, but I'm telling
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  you as long as you're running a business, it is an organization to itself.
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  You will have to make those hard decisions, but your employees know your heart and you're
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  looking for the right place for them where they can be, whether it's an interim situation or a
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  situation where, they can actually, now have that income be replaced.
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  Do you feel like, Christian entrepreneurs are creating a movement right now?
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  Like, I feel like One of the things that I do every year on Martin Luther King Day, I
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  actually release a blog post called the 10 Bible Emerson every small business owner needs
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  for that year.
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  And I've been doing it since 2010.
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  And literally the those blog posts are the number one blog posts clicked on on my site,
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  gear in, gear out all 13, 14 of them that I have written.
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  And I'm just wondering If do you feel like there's a movement afoot of of Christian
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  entrepreneurs not being afraid to say, you know, who and what they are?
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  I really, really do think so.
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  I mean, I started this journey 19 years ago, and a lot of people were not as bold with their
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  faith as they are now.
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  I'm bowl with my fate because, listen, this is my anchor.
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  This is what I stand on.
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  This is what keeps me going.
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  And I think what it is is that folks have come to the place of identity where they're
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  recognizing who they truly are.
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  They understand the potential that's on the inside of them.
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  They understand the purpose They understand the very breath that we breathe doesn't belong to
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  us.
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  And when you get to the place that you understand and listen, I have more that are
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  with and more that are against me, it does not matter.
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  You're gonna stand up and say, and when you understand that the greatest business book that
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  was ever written, has all the case studies of success and that he wants me wealthy, and he
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  wants me successful, and he wants those creativity, those innovative ideas to be able
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  to be pouring out, and I could bring a change to planet Earth.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  You'll just stand up and say, I have a voice, and I'm not ashamed of who I am.
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  I love it.
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  I love it.
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  Well, tell me this.
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  What is the best business advice you've ever been given?
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  The best business advice that I've ever been is to make sure that you don't make a decision
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  when you are in a place where you're going through changes in your life, and that has
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  saved me so many times.
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  I will make sure that I always recognize, like, for example, if you're moving, if you're
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  bringing a new product, if you have changes in your marriage, a whole lot of stuff in your
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  family dynamics that's happening, don't make a quick decision.
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  Make sure also that for me, I was told by my, my leader, to understand, they had my mentor,
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  Doctor.
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  Miles Munroek.
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  He said, always make sure you seek the Holy Spirit.
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  Before you make any major decision, and that has saved me time and time and time again.
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  Well, I think that's good advice.
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  Thank you so much, Angela.
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  I really appreciate your insight about faith and business.
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  You never lose in business.
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