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From Setbacks to Comebacks: A Journey of Faith and Resilience · HAVE FAITH LET IT BEGIN®

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  Have faith, let it begin. When it starts right now.
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  Welcome to Have Faith. Let it begin. Here's your host, Angel Santana.
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  Ariel, can you say, have faith? Let it begin. Let it begin? Let it begin. Say, have faith.
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  Let it begin. Let it begin. No. No. No? Okay. Hey, Noah. Noah! Noah!
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  Happy birthday, Noah! I'm so busy! What does that mean?
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  No! This little light of mine, I'm going to let it try.
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  This little light of mine, I'm going to let it try.
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  This little light of mine, I'm going to let it try. Let it try.
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  Let it try. Let it try.
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  Daddy, I'm so excited, but I have one question. What's your question?
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  Are you going to be a pastor or a minister?
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  Good question. I don't know, but it is all in God's hands. Good morning.
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  You're listening to Have Faith, Let It Begin, and it starts right now.
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  Hello, everyone, and welcome to Have Faith, Let It Begin.
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  Today is Thursday. Holy cow. I can't believe I'm about to say this.
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  It's Thursday, April 17th, 2025.
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  April is half done, and we are just a couple days away from Good Friday and,
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  of course, Easter Sunday, Resurrection Day. Well, I wanted to share a moment with you.
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  Today, you will more than likely see on Facebook, I think they'll post it today,
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  that I did receive an award for Employee of the Month.
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  I've been with the hospital now. It'll be 10 years in May.
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  And very humbling experience. And I'm sitting in the car here,
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  dressed up, ready to go into work.
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  And I wanted to share with you just the history and story of when you... Let me just get into it.
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  So, you know, in 1999, when I started my career in sales, I worked my way up
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  to be an assistant branch manager.
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  I was transferred after that particular location was closing.
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  I took an offer to be transferred to Providence, Rhode Island,
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  and stayed with the company, obviously.
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  And the first two years of the six years in Rhode Island was the most difficult
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  parts of my life, mainly because not only was I dealing with a depression due
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  to a breakup, but I was also dealing with a boss who did not want me there.
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  Overcoming so much adversity and pain, I ended up having to take in four jobs
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  just to make payments due to a, I'm trying to think how I word this.
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  Well basically they stole my identity my ex and you know ran my credit up pretty high.
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  So here i am working four jobs to make sure
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  i never miss a payment which i never did fast forward i decided after six years
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  it was in my best entrance since the company was failing in that state as well
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  to move forward and out of that industry and i went into equity concepts into
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  mortgage and running a call center for the mortgage company.
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  That only lasted about a year and a half before I decided it was my best interest
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  to move back home and go back and finish college, which I had put off for my career.
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  So by the age of 29, 30, I eventually graduated college with a business degree.
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  And while I was in college, I said to myself,
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  no more women, no more anything just i'm gonna take care of myself and i pleased
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  to tell you that that's where i met my girlfriend which became my fiance and now is my wife,
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  And while I was back home, I took on a job at AAA for seven years while also
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  holding a part-time job as a manager,
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  excuse me, as a part-time banker, personal banker for Bank of America,
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  and also working at GameStop on top of that.
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  Yes, I was always working multiple jobs.
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  So after doing all those jobs my original
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  job that transferred me back from Middletown
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  New York all the way to Providence back to Maui New
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  Jersey I took an offer and I left all the other jobs and I decided to go back
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  into management and it was as if I took a step back because when I went into
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  there into that division the managers there were not too keen on me coming in
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  and we just did not see eye to eye.
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  When I knew that cuts were coming, I decided it was in my best interest to look for something else.
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  And one day I saw an advertisement for a switchboard 911 operator.
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  I say 911 because we deal with emergencies for the hospital,
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  which was named at the time ORMC.
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  And on the same day that they let me go.
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  At my job after working with them since 1999
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  on and off in 2000 it was
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  may 12 2015 i was
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  one month exactly away from my wedding day i was laid off and when i got home
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  and cried and got over it and decided to leave my best interest to just put
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  all my energy toward the wedding i checked my voicemail and lo and behold, Nancy Harney,
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  the recruiter at the time of ORMC, called to tell me that I was being offered
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  the position as a switchboard operator.
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  So here we are almost 10 years later working here. I am blessed.
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  And after 10 years of working, I was receiving an award for Employee of the Month.
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  I will get more detailed about that whole process, but I wanted to share with
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  you the message today, and that's never give up.
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  No matter how many times we feel like we fall, no matter how many times we feel
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  like we have to reinvent ourselves or find ourselves or we have to do everything
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  in our power to realize that God is with us,
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  God is in control, and that we also have to take advantage of what's in our
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  control as opposed to what's out of our control,
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  and also take care of our environment and not allow all the negativity that's
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  on the outside of our homes not affect what's happening inside our homes.
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  So today, I'm encouraging all of you to think positive.
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  And if you're having struggles at work, if you're having difficulty realizing
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  where you're gonna be in the next year, six months or whatnot,
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  Concentrate on what's in your control.
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  Concentrate on doing what's right for you and your family.
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  And always put God first. Because I guarantee you, he will see it through.
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  And he will put you on the path of righteousness.
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  That's all I've got for you today. May God be with you. May he shine his light
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  upon you. And grant each and every single one of you peace on earth.
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  And never forget, have faith.
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  Let it begin. See you tomorrow. Thank you for listening to Have Faithful Begins. We'll be back tomorrow.