Podcast | Version 2.0

In episode #24, I talked about “doing the daily work.” I also offered the example of Rob’s house flipping course AND his goal of making $1MM per year through a new venture. 💰 In that episode we discussed the importance of the lag measures AND the lead measures…. 📐 LEAD measures = the daily work you do, the actions you must track… (B/c the habits lead to the harvest— not the other way around.) ⏱️...

My friend Rob is the co-owner of EXIT Realty Birmingham…. … and he’s flipped over 300 houses over the past decade PLUS been part of 1,000+ successful real estate transactions (he only lost money on two of them). But things weren’t always like that… 😱   When I met him he was just then— ‼️ overcoming a drug addiction ‼️ had been homeless, living in the Target parking lot ‼️ been in and out of...

One of the biggest reasons that “dreams don’t get done” is because we fail to attach the dreams to tangible actions. 💡 We look at the IDEA only rather than the IMPLEMENTATION 🧐 We leave it in our HEADS rather than moving it to our HANDS 💭 We remain DREAMERS instead of DOERS   Let’s review the 3-step process we’ve been discussing: 1️⃣ STEP 1 = DECIDE WHERE YOU WANT TO GO… 2️⃣ STEP 2 = DEFIN...

Continuing from the previous talk about looking ahead and deciding where you want your life to go— in multiple areas (each of them important)…. … we come to step 2. 👇 STEP 2 = DEFINE WHRE YOU ARE RIGHT NOW You must do this with radical clarity. For instance… 💰If you plan to get out debt, you must know what you owe, you must know what you’re spending (the bigger issue in budget is often what’s go...

Sometimes we don’t make the progress in life that we’d like to make… It might be that we hit unknown / unforeseen obstacles (or get sideswiped by trauma, trials, and tests). It might be that we don’t actually sit down and make a plan. We don’t think about where we want life to go. 🧐   We can’t account for all of the unknown variables but we CAN consider what we do. Here’s a three-step (overl...

🥊 Note: this talk is a continuation of the one-two punch we started about parenting in the previous episode 🥊   There are THREE phases of parenting… And you’ve got to pivot your roles and goals at each milestone. 📈   Here’s why knowing the three phases is helpful… 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁 1️⃣ If you know which stage you’re in, you know the “role” to play as you parent 2️⃣ If you know what you want...

Parenting happens by design or default. And, honestly, it’s easier— though it seems more difficult— to do it with a plan. But doing it with a plan requires a few things. 👇   I invited my friend Randy into the studio to discuss his approach to the “part art / part science” long-term process of parenting. He’s an expert, because he and his wife did it and ALMOST had an empty nest… and then fou...

In the previous episode we discussed waiting / delays related to our dreams / purpose. We mentioned four things which occur… ⭐️ There are three more things that happen during our seasons of waiting (listen to our previous talk for the first four): 5️⃣ PLANS & IDEAS develop + mature. That is, the ideas become “better” and more refined. 6️⃣ PATIENCE grows— making us more complete. When we remem...

Sometimes, we find ourselves waiting… There’s a delay between what we feel God calls us to do and the actual implementation of that call. ⏰ Many times, it’s out of our control. And when it is, it might just be a matter of TIMING. ⏰   In this talk we discuss a YEARS long delay between an idea and an implementation strategy, as well as the long road it took to get there. And, we highlight fou...

Let’s talk about shame. It’s a real deal, and it impacts a lot of us… 🤷‍♂️ Whereas PTSD is primarily and soul hurt (read: emotions), Moral Injury is a primarily a spirit hurt (read: conscience. It’s important to note the differences… … because any part of us can be injured. And, the part that is injured is the part that needs to be healed. A lot of us are walking around with wounded spirits… ❤️‍...

Is emotional health / healing even Biblical? That’s the question we want to answer in this episode… ⭐️⭐️⭐️ In seminary I learned about “the law of first mention,” a precept that tells us to really comprehend something in the Biblical narrative, we need to dig deep into the first time we see the word or concept introduced. To understand redemption and the redeeming work of Jesus, and to explore...

We continue in this talk where we left off in the previous… … tackling the idea that if you work through the pain in the Presence you may very well find your bigger purpose. (Note: this is a continuation of episode 14 .) 💥 That led me to the GY6 project— a resource I created over the past 2 years, based on a lot of personal struggles as well as professional opportunities. And, it’s getting ready...

Two “streams” converged to create the GY6 project— 1️⃣ Personal struggles, and 2️⃣ Professional experience that fit the same “lane” as those struggles…   Here, we tackle the first stream— the personal struggle. And, we discuss what it was like for me to get raw about myself, truly look in the mirror, and tackle some of the deeper issues. When we get honest about our pain-points, our shortcomi...

This past year we began creating a 501c3 / nonprofit organization with my dad… … with the intent of platforming some of his most essential (and meaningful) ideas from the past 50+ years of ministry AND ALSO building upon that as a foundation to “more.” 👇 The project began with the Heaven Bound book and continued… 👑   In this episode we discuss how it all unfolded, we talk about some of the...

A few years ago several projects converged and it just seemed like the right timing to pull together ALL of the processes we use to write books, create courses, host events, lead workshops, and more… … and put them all in once tidy package. The result of the effort was/is— 📘 The Amplify book 💻 The Amplify course 💰 The Amplify business that teaches people how to get paid for what they know… &nbs...

It’s odd that we attempt to show “bless-able” we are based on our behaviors and ability to keep religious rules and regulations, because— as Gentiles (read: not Jewish)— we were never under the rules. Rather, God engaged us on RELATIONSHIP. In this talk we discuss what that means… … and how pursuing relationship not only removes the burden from us, but it’s also sometimes HARD. ‼️ Face it. Humans...

We tend to make our relationship with God FAR MORE complex than it needs to be… … because we lean into our ability to keep rules and follow regulations more than we engage in authentic relationship. 🤔   In this talk we continue the series on GRACE, and we dialogue about the unique way in which God relates to us— — not by rules. — not by regulations. Those were all elements of the past, but t...

If Jesus is actually your high priest— the one whom you appeal to on behalf of your sins— then you’ve got a decision to make: You can— 1️⃣ Appeal to the Law and your self-righteousness OR— 2️⃣ Appeal to Jesus and HIS righteousness on your behalf… But… You’ve got to make a choice. 👇   Here’s why: Under the Old Testament Law, Jesus wasn’t qualified to be a priest. He’s of the tribe of Judah— n...

In the New Testament era— just like today— people assumed they needed to choose “one leader” and follow them. But Paul said something radical— EVERY BIT OF INFO from any Christian leader is YOURS. In other words, you don’t have to pick-and-choose, such that you “align” with one “STRIPE” or version of Christianity. 💥 And then he went further… He said that EVERY BIT OF ANY TRUE INFO anywhere belong...

Paul says that Christ ascended to Heaven and then POURED out gifts to everyone in the “body of Christ” (read: all of His followers, past-present-and-future) so “build up” together into the full measure of Christ Himself (see Ephesians 4:11f.). In other words… 1️⃣ We’re all gifted 2️⃣ We’re all called ⭐️   The problem is that we often create a false dichotomy between who is called and who isn...

  About a decade ago, I found myself struggling with my health. Bad. At 40 years old, I was overweight, out-of-shape, sluggish, and tolerated a lot of health issues that I just assumed were part of the natural aging process. Turns out, I was wrong. 👇 The first word we see in the Bible for healing is iaomai — meaning “miraculous” and “instantaneous” healing. This is how we most often envision...

Advance is a resource (or, set of resources) developed over a few renditions of events, workshops, interactions, and more… … to equip you to move forward from where you are to where you deeply desire to be in MULTIPLE areas of life. 🚌 It started in an odd way… … almost an after-thought to an event that was completely unrelated to what Advance became. 👇 This is the long version of the story… AND—...

We’re designed to explore and grow. The problem is that as we explore, we bump into pain. 💔 As a result of pain, we create internal rules— often hidden from our conscious mind that cause us to self-protect going forward. Therein lies the problem— 👉 We “live out” of these rules (read: thought patterns), but we’re often not sure WHY we react the way we do in certain situations. 😳 In the same way...

Many times we SEE what we’ve been preconditioned to see… 👀 Two stories in the Old Testament, 40 years apart, illustrate this. 👇 Story 1– The 12 spies felt like grasshoppers compared to the giants in the promised land. Numbers 13-14 Story 2– 2 spies meet Rahab, who reveals the people of Jericho (the “giants”) have been “melting in fear” for 40 years— because they feared the children of Israel. Jo...

Maybe you find yourself in “liminal space,” that odd space where you haven’t quite left the past season YET you haven’t quite stepped into the next season, either. You’re in the middle, on the threshold. 🤷‍♂️   The Children of Israel learned that we often meet God in that space… the middle. For sure, we can EXTEND the stay, but we can’t “quicken” in, because there are certain things that can...