Ron Derrick is the principal engineer, designer and consultant at Derrick Mechanical, a mechanical engineering firm specializing in metals mining, energy, industrial materials, heavy manufacturing, agriculture, construction, and other industrial support services. Ron lives in Arizona with Andrea, his wife of 25 years and they are the parents of seven children. What We'll Cover: The type of engineering Ron specializes in and how he went from being an employee to a one-man consulting, design and implementation firm. Dispelling the myth that scientists like engineers are less believing or religious than others. The role inspiration played in the process of starting his business. The process Ron used for putting together a business plan and the importance of writing in that process. The pattern of the Doctrine of Christ: faith, repentance, making covenants and receiving the Holy Ghost. The process of covenants and “binding ourselves to act” by making and keeping promises to God. How we can practice creating things (tasks, projects, our day, etc.) spiritually before we move forward and create m in actuality. How and why effective prayer means real communication with Heavenly Father. What it’s like to truly hear the Spirit inspiring your thoughts and action. The relationship between decision making and “binding ourselves to act”. How Ron prayed for help with a challenging client project and was led to solve a previously unsolvable mechanical plate structure problem. How to fast to learn from what has happened in the past rather than for something we want to happen in the future. How we will still experience challenges even when we are worthy and that challenges do not mean we are out of favor with God. How Ron uses journaling to aid in the revelatory process and to see the hand of God in his life and in his business. What evidence you can look for that indicates the Holy Ghost is active in your life and in your business. Why it’s important to act on the first prompting from the Holy Ghost and how to recognize those promptings when you receive them. How to ask and answer the question each day, “How am I going to exercise my faith?” The spiritual practices that keep the Holy Ghost active in our lives. What the revelatory process looks like:  confusion, questions, studying/pondering, conclusions, decide, make an attempt, then there is light. How we become what the Lord wants us to be.    

God and Business Today

019: How to Receive Revelation for Your Business with Mechanical Engineer Ron Derrick

Arvell Craig unofficially began his start in business at the age of 9, cutting "fades and fro’s" for neighbors, family and friends in Detroit, Michigan. This continued throughout elementary, high school and college. While still an undergraduate, he eventually laid down the clippers to take up slicing Photoshop files to build  websites and marketing material for small businesses. Officially, Arvell has worked the past 16 years as a digital marketer and entrepreneur. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Western Michigan University and a Masters of Divinity from Oral Roberts University. He presently lives in Phoenix as a marketing coach, speaker and consultant. He’s also a husband, father, author, marathoner and closet poet. In 2015, Arvell published his first book, Sanctified Ambition: 6 Uncommon Lessons on Seeing and Sensing God Though Success and Failure. Learn more at www.ArvellCraig.com. What We Cover in This Episode: How seasons trump calling when it comes to fulfilling your purpose. The two types of life purpose and why we should prioritize divine purpose over individual purpose. The importance of understanding the failure will happen even to the most righteous of people and how "normalizing failure" can be a key to success. How we put limits on God and why we should stop. How living with ambiguities--in our lives and in the lives and behavior of others--can help us progress more quickly. What sanctified ambition means and how to make our motives more holy. Resources Mentioned: Your One Degree life purpose training program:  https://www.youronedegree.com/ Arvell Craig's book Sanctified Ambition: 6 Uncommon Lessons on Seeing and Sensing God Through Success or Failure: https://arvellcraig.com/books/

018: Sanctified Ambition and How We Can Be Motivated By What Really Matters with Author Arvell Craig

Monique Caradine-Kitchens, author of How to Embrace Your Inner Millionaire: 8 Simple Steps You Can Take RIGHT NOW That Will Put You on the Path to Abundance, is known as the OverFlow Coach. She helps women fix their relationship with money so they can stop worrying about it, stressing over it, and chasing after it. She’s helped hundreds of women develop a foundation for lasting wealth through her step-by-step coaching programs and workshops. Learn more at www.MyInnerMillionaire.com. What we talk about: What hurricane Irma did to her backyard when it went through Puerto Rico. Finding your purpose through trials and struggles, and how your relationship with God is at the heart of it all. Figuring out who you’re here to work with. First, who do you get excited about working with? Second, who keeps asking for your help? Third, what are the areas of need that I see out in the marketplace? Last, what is the really difference that I can make? The lies about money we tend to believe and where they come from. Typical fears that people have around money. How father relationships impact our views of money and God. What it looks like when God is your source versus having money as your source. Questions you can ask yourself to connect with God:  Who or what is your source? Are you happy? Are you comfortable with the size of your gift? Are you comfortable sharing that gift? The power of forgiveness in tearing down barriers and obstacles in your life and what forgiveness has to do with God trusting us with more. Why Monique pays tithing fully and faithfully every time because of a very specific experience with giving.   Resources Mentioned: Publicity Profit Secrets course at www.PublicityProfitSecrets.com with a special DISCOUNT CODE for GABT listeners = GODANDBIZ www.MyInnerMillionaire.com – Leave name and email address to get first couple chapters of the book for free.

017: Embrace Your Inner Millionaire with OverFlow Coach Monique Caradine

Tony Bass is the CEO of Super Lawn Technologies and Tony Bass Consulting. He works with lawn and landscape business owners who would like to double profits or double sales in 12 to 24 months and he isn't afraid to let his faith show in the process. He believes in business as a calling with the power to change the world. Tony loves his wife, his two kids, dove hunting with his dad and making videos for his students while he drives in his car. Tony and his family live in Georgia and like to eat at Chic-fil-A. Mmm...yummy.   What You Will Learn:   The importance of building systems into your business so you can replace yourself and make room for growth How and why Tony and his dad ended up owning two patents and building a whole business around them How Tony got into the business he is in and how the examples of hard-working, Christian farmers influenced his choices How Tony dared to say a prayer to bless the food when speaking as a sponsor at a business event and what happened when he did Why business as a calling requires an inhuman drive, a “divine drive” The benefits and blessings of paying tithing How God helped Tony find his awesome wife after getting saved by a minister in an auto body paint shop How being called to build a business can truly let you do good and change the world for the better   Resources Mentioned:   Tony’s book The E-Myth Landscaper: Why Most Landscape Companies Fail and What to Do About It on Amazon The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It by Michael Gerber on Amazon Book by Chic-fil-A Founder S. Truett Cathy, It’s Easier to Succeed Than to Fail on Amazon Roger Braswell, Founder of Compact Equipment Inc.:  http://www.cpiequipment.com/about-us/leadership Book The Prayer of Jabez:  Breaking Through to the Blessed Life (that Roger Braswell gave to Tony) on Amazon Tony’s Websites:   Tony’s monthly coaching and mentoring membership service for lawn and landscape business owners:  www.SuperLawnToolkit.com 2017 Growth Summit for lawn and landscape business owners:  www.SuperLawnToolkit.com/2017summit Super Lawn Truck website:  www.SuperLawnTrucks.com

016: The Divine Drive to Build a Business as a Calling with Mentor and Consultant Tony Bass

Stephen began his career in 1985 as a certified public accountant, where he excelled in auditing, tax preparation, and peer review compliance services. In 1995, Stephen formed his own professional corporation serving non-profit, pastoral, and itinerant ministries and organizations. In the same year, he joined Bethel Church of Redding to serve as chief financial officer and member of their senior leadership team. After two decades of learning and growing, Stephen has transitioned to create and teach full-time on the subjects of money and the prosperous soul. With a unique blend of experience, humor, and creativity, Stephen offers the Body of Christ a fresh, Holy Spirit-inspired perspective with his biblically based financial insights. Stephen is based in Redding, California, with the wife of his youth, Dawna De Silva, founder and co-leader of the international healing and deliverance ministry Bethel Sozo International.  Learn more at http://stephenkdesilva.com/ What We Cover in this Episode: What “financial deliverance” means and what it looks like in real life. How our internal conflicts about money create an “engine of anxiety” and how financial deliverance resolves the problem. How to use one of Stephen’s tools called The Purpose Train to identify your divine identity, purpose and vision so that you have an engine to pull your strategies and tactics that will achieve that vision and purpose. How to build your own Purpose Train. What Financial Sozo is and how it can mend our broken view of God that may have resulted from negative experiences with fathers or other authority figures. What a “poverty mentality” looks like and what we can do about it. The role of metaphor in scripture and the Sozo process and its value in helping us see ourselves in a new way. How Stephen was called to begin a financial deliverance ministry. What it means to be able to “develop the capacity to carry wealth” and how you can build that capacity for yourself. How the Prosperity Doctrine has harmed a lot of people’s beliefs about God, about the Church and about money. The importance of the men and women of God being willing to serve in places of power and authority. How being in personal bondage to debt and false beliefs keeps us from doing the Lord’s work. An overview of all the tools available to help you align your faith, finances and purpose.   Tools and Resources Mentioned: The Purpose Train Logos Theory developed by Viktor Frankl Strengths Finder 2.0 Financial Sozo Prosperous Soul Prosperous Home Praying It Forward What My Pastor Never Told Me Shirtless in My Offering   Books Mentioned: Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl Money and the Prosperous Soul – on Amazon Self-Study Manual on the Prosperous Soul  

015: Aligning Your Faith, Finances and Purpose with Financial Deliverance Coach Stephen De Silva

Kathi Wilson is a psalmist and songwriter who prayed for the gift of healing music. Her music is known for its healing effect on the mind, body and spirit. Drawn from the well of her own pain and suffering, Kathi’s music lifts up prayers to God and reminds us of His love for and commitment to us. Her music and work ministers to the brokenness in all of us. Join our conversation to discover more about the force of creation that drives this remarkable and talented woman. Learn more at https://kathi-wilson.com/. What You’ll Learn About Healing Music:   How God is attracted to brokenness and why we don't have to perform to earn His love. Why Kathi Wilson asked the Lord to give her songs of healing. The role of ego in doing the Lord's work. What people say about her music’s healing effects. Why she believes that “we humans are all broken.” How her perspective of “brokenness” informs and affects her songwriting. The importance of authenticity with ourselves and one another in the healing process. How Kathi’s life experience prepared her to create and share healing music. How God so often inspires our greatest creations in service of our own greatest needs. Five ways we can use healing music in our lives. Kathi’s one piece of advice for business owners and entrepreneurs who want to invite God into the process. Resources Mentioned:   Kathi’s new song “Painter of the Heavens”: https://kathi-wilson.com/kathis-music/newly-released-singles/ The song she sang for her husband: From Tony Stoltzfus’ book Christian Life Coaching. Chapter 2, “The On-Purpose Life”: “Another practical way to live toward heaven is to choose a quality of God’s heart you are drawn to model. Then rearrange your life and work to display that facet of the heart of God in a way so other-worldly that it has the scent of the eternal….[I]nstead of doing something for Christ, the focus is on being like Him. In fact, the heart of your call to embody one unique aspect of Christ’s heart and reflect it to the world.” (p. 34)   Where to Find Kathi Wilson Online:   Learn more about Kathi’s healing music at: https://kathi-wilson.com/ Purchase music singles and CDS here:  https://kathi-wilson.com/shop/ Special Offer:  Let Kathi know you enjoyed the interview via her contact form and she’ll send you a code to download a song for FREE!  https://kathi-wilson.com/contact/   Where to Find Kathi Wilson Offline:   Phone:  717-203-1688 Email:   kathi@kathi-wilson.com Mail:   PO Box 34, Brandamore, PA 19316  

014: Healing Music Mends Our Brokenness with Singer-Songwriter Kathi Wilson

Dr. Anita Schamber's coaching career began more than 20 years ago with World Vision International. Anita has coached organizational, training and coaching leaders from 22 different countries on four continents. She holds a doctoral degree from Vanderbilt University, a master's degree in counseling from the University of Illinois and is a Commissioned Minister for Volunteers of the Northern Rockies. She is also an instructor at the Institute for Life Coach Training. Anita's current focus in coaching is on working with women in the third-third of life to turn "retirement" into "refirement." She is married to KR, a retired PGA golf pro. They have a blended family of six adult children, 12 grandchildren, and at least two dogs. What You Will Learn About Coaching:   What coaching really is. The difference between coaching, consulting and counseling. How coaching can help you "do what you are" and align your life plans with God's plan for you. Why coaching works when talking to friends, family and colleagues does not. The role of coaching in performance management. The different types of coaching available today (i.e., executive, business, pastoral, life, wellness, career, college prep, women in mid-life, calling/purpose and many other types of coaching). Accreditation organizations for certification and the difference training and certification can make in your experience of coaching as a client. Specific courses, tools and books that can help you discover and live your purpose. What coaching for spiritual development is and how you might benefit from it. How the Holy Spirit participates in the coaching practice including examples of what that might look like. Why the societal statement "you can do anything you want to do" is not true. Where to take courses to develop your own coaching skills. How the experience of "deep listening" is missing from the faith experience and how to fix that problem. How you, your business and employees might benefit from coaching. The difference between praying and giving God a to-do list and praying to align your will with His (AKA the redesigning of faith to fit us). Coaching Resources Mentioned:   Book: Becoming a Professional Life Coach by Patrick Williams and Diane S. Melendez on Amazon Non-directive, Rogerian counseling article from Psychology Today:  https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/what-doesnt-kill-us/201408/what-is-non-directive-therapy World Vision International:  http://www.wvi.org/ Book:  Life Keys on Amazon "Motivated Abilities" - Anita mentioned this and referred to a unnamed author. I did some research and found this inventory based on the book:  https://arthurfmiller.com/about/sima/ The Institute for Life Coach Training:  http://www.lifecoachtraining.com/ Courses taught by Anita at the Institute for Life Coach Training:  http://www.lifecoachtraining.com/search/results/search&keywords=anita+schamber/ Coaching for Clergy website:  http://coaching4clergy.com/ Life Maps life purpose/calling discovery program:  https://www.onelifemaps.com/ Book:  The Benedict Option - A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation by Rob Dreher Video of Rob Dreher explaining the basic tenets of his book:  https://youtu.be/VbItNogEOx4 Daniel Henderson's book Transforming Prayer:  How Everything Changes When You Seek God's Face Where to Find Anita Online:   Send her an email at anitaschamber at gmail dot com Take one of her courses at the Institute for Life Coach Training:  http://www.lifecoachtraining.com/search/results/search&keywords=anita+schamber/

013: The Divine Calling of Coaching – How to Do What You Are and Live Your Purpose with Dr. Anita Schamber

John Boyd is a team intelligence and employee engagement expert. A good part of the work he’s done over the years has been with tech companies. In fact, John says, “I love how innovative technology solves problems for business, and I enjoy being a part of teams of people that work together to bring those technologies to market.” John is the founder of Dyalogic, a consulting company devoted to helping teams of all kinds to adapt and unify by consistently discovering truth through dialogue in an ever-changing environment. His “DISCOVER” framework is the main topic of our interview today. His DISCOVER framework is featured in the July 2017 issue of Quirk’s Marketing Research Review magazine. Learn more at http://www.dyalogic.com. In addition to his consulting firm, John is co-founder of Tracking First, a technology company providing campaign code validation and automation technology for web analytics. Their clients include:  TIAA, Verisign, Amtrak, USAA, LDS Church, Hilton, Dell, Carlson Hotels, Elkjop Nordic, AbbVie, UBM, Abbott Labs, Novartis, Royal Bank of Canada, and Holland America Cruise Lines . We don’t talk at all about this company today, BUT if you’d like to learn more about managing your online campaigns, you can visit http://www.TrackingFirst.com. John is the author of two books, The Illustrated Guide to Selling You and The Illustrated Guide to SMART Living. He has been married to his wife Karen for 27 years. They are the parents of seven children. In This Episode, You Will Learn:   What a team is and how a team functions as a complete system. How one part of a system can affect the whole system. Why charity and love play a key role in effective team behavior. What team intelligence is and how to increase it. The 8 steps to increasing team intelligence. D – Destroy Information Barriers I - Invite Feedback S – Seek Out the Info C – Challenge Your Assumptions O – Observe Your Environment V – Verify and Clarify E – Emotional Regulation/Management R – Respond Quickly Why God is the most important member of your team and how to involve God in the process.   Resources Mentioned: John's Article in Quirk's:  https://www.quirks.com/storage/attachments/59565b0cd82f1c142c1e3256/595a76cad82f1c11e424a0fa/original/201707_quirks.pdf Information Entropy on Wikipedia:  https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_entropy Information Entropy Video on Khan Academy (quantifying information loss):  https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-science/informationtheory/moderninfotheory/v/information-entropy Fog of War on Wikipedia:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fog_of_war IMDb Page for the movie Band of Brothers:  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0185906/ Urban Meyer profile on Wikipedia:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_Meyer Larry Ellison profile on Oracle website:  https://www.oracle.com/corporate/executives/ellison/index.html Steve Jobs profile on Biography.com:  https://www.biography.com/people/steve-jobs-9354805 Link to Jack Welch interview where he says, “That's why all these leadership books and stuff about leadership, it's all crap.”:  https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/truth-trust-crap-how-jack-welch-looks-leadership-today-daniel-roth Meg Whitman on Wikipedia:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meg_Whitman Battle of Gettysburg on History.com:  http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/battle-of-gettysburg “What are mental models?” on Princeton.edu:  http://mentalmodels.princeton.edu/about/what-are-mental-models/ Clemson vs. Alabama 2017 game summary on ESPN:  http://www.espn.com/college-football/game?gameId=400876570 Forbes article “Don’t Skimp on the After Action Review: 6 Ways AAR Will Catapult Your Situational Awareness”:  https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffboss/2016/12/01/dont-skimp-on-the-after-action-review-6-reasons-why/#6e914402ba3d Emotionally Focused Therapy on GoodTherapy.org:  http://www.goodtherapy.

012: D.I.S.C.O.V.E.R. the Secrets to Building Effective Teams with Consultant John Boyd

Crystal Obey is a copywriter, business owner and mompreneur of three who has been married to her husband Anthony for 15 years. Together they run CopyCouple.com, a copywriting and marketing strategy consultancy serving clients around the world, and Tony Crystal Labs, an online hair care education and hair care products business that is the perfect example of their marketing strategies in practice. Crystal and Anthony work together at home with their three young children, so Crystal is somewhat of an expert when it comes to work/life balance and including God in her marriage and in her business. This episode reveals specific strategies for working together as a couple in partnership with God as well as strategies for building your business using the five key components of the Obeys’ own marketing funnel. What You Will Learn in This Episode:   What copywriting is and why it is vitally important to your business. The difference between brand advertising and direct response marketing. (Hint: There is always an offer and a call to action that allows you to measure the response rate.) How to transfer sales and marketing strategies from a seemingly unrelated business into your own business. Tips for deciding how to most effectively allocate your advertising dollars. Specific strategies (i.e., quiet time, prayer, fasting, discussion, and daily, weekly, quarterly and annual planning) to help you involve God in your business and in your business relationships. Time management and planning techniques for prioritizing your time with the Lord, work time, family time and more. Strategies for forward planning so that you can achieve the life you want and serve the Lord in the ways He calls you to serve. How to systematize your marketing in an information/education system or funnel that sells your products and services for you. The FIVE most important components of your marketing funnel and how you can use them in your business and on your website. An inside look at what an automated sales funnel looks like. Why you should give away information and education for free in order to build your business and make the world a better place. How Crystal’s marketing skills enable her to be the mom and wife she wants to be for God and still fulfill her mompreneurial desires.   Resources Mentioned:   The Equipped Disciple Program: http://www.watermark.org/dallas/ministries/equipped-disciple The Navigators:  http://www.navigators.org/Home Free “Funnel Optimization Strategy Session” (20 minutes):  Send Crystal an email to info@copycouple.com. 21 Ways to Build Your Business with Email Marketing:  Secrets to Nurturing Prospects, Educating Customers, and Selling More Online with Email Marketing:  https://www.amazon.com/Ways-Build-Business-Email-Marketing-ebook/dp/B00IFHTV50/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1499554681&sr=8-1&keywords=21+ways+to+build+your+business+with+email+marketing   Where to Find Crystal Online:   Crystal and Anthony’s copywriting and marketing consulting business:  http://www.copycouple.com The Prerogative Hair System:  www.TonyCrystalLabs.com

011: Working Together in Partnership with God with Mompreneur Crystal Obey

Heather Heuman is a social media consultant, strategist and speaker who loves diving into the trenches with clients to help them see that social media can give them great results for their business or organization. She is the founder of ElizabethtownFamily.com, a digital marketing company/blog connecting a community near Fort Knox, Kentucky, and the founder of Sweet Tea Social Marketing. There’s a whole lot more to Heather than just those titles and tech terms in social media. Top priorities and loves in life are God, her husband of fourteen years and her three sweet children Photography, sweet-tea, Chick-fil-A and cooking are passions she pursues and delights in every week  A southern girl at heart, she calls Columbia, South Carolina home although she's also lived in many states and Germany as a military spouse before her husband launched a new career in 2016 She LOVES travel and her dog Annie   What You Will Learn About Social Media:   What a social media consultant does and how you might use one in your business. The importance of using social media to “achieve business goals.” How to use data to analyze the results of social media posts so you know what is working and what is not. What it means to “do social media well” and the kind of “results” you should expect from your social media efforts. Where to start in social media if you’re just getting started, you’re overwhelmed and you don’t know where to begin. Why to focus on one platform to start with and when to expand to another. What it looks like to partner with God in selecting a niche and attracting the right clients. How aligning your will with God’s through prayer can bless your business and family and lead you to prosperity. What it means to be “willing” to follow God’s promptings when we receive them. Resources Mentioned:   The Smart Social Media Strategy Checklist for FACEBOOK:  http://www.sweetteasocialmarketing.com/offer/facebookchecklist/ Survey Monkey online survey software:  https://www.surveymonkey.com/ The event where Heather and I met—Social Media Marketing World:  http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/smmworld/   Where to Find Heather Online:   20 Minute FREE Discovery Call with Heather to work on strategy. Send Heather an email (heather at sweetteasocialmarketing dot com) and tell her you heard the offer on Tami’s God and Business Today podcast OR (if the offer is still up on the website) use Heather’s Contact form here:  http://www.sweetteasocialmarketing.com/contact-us/ Sweet Tea Social Marketing Academy. A monthly membership opportunity with monthly trainings, live Q&A calls, bite sized trainings, and a private Facebook Group. Learn more here:  http://www.sweetteasocialmarketing.com/hire-us/ Hire Heather to Speak for Your Organization:  http://www.sweetteasocialmarketing.com/international-keynote-speaker-digital-marketing-social-media/

010: Social Media Matters and More with Expert Marketer Heather Heuman

In 2012, Kim D’Arezzo and her husband Brian bought an indoor skate Park in Queen Creek, Arizona.  Today it's a hot spot for famous YouTubers and scooter enthusiasts looking for a wholesome environment. The funny thing is Kim and Brian take NO MONEY out of the business. It is their ministry which they have used to train their children—Kaylee, Justin and Jacob—to be skilled, responsible and proactive business owners, and where they continue to train other teens to do the same. Now if you're a parent of a scooter fanatic, ask them if they know who Jacob D'Arezzo is. (He's legitimately famous in the scooter world.) If they do, tell them you're about to listen to an interview with his mom. And if you've listen to more than one episode, I would be honored if you would consider subscribing on whatever platform you're listening on. That way you'll receive a notification every time an episode comes out. You'll find the subscription links for iTunes, Google Play, Sticher and Blubrry in the show notes. Subscribe Now: On iTunes:  https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/god-and-business-today/id1225000083 On Google Play:  https://playmusic.app.goo.gl/?ibi=com.google.PlayMusic&isi=691797987&ius=googleplaymusic&link=https://play.google.com/music/m/Icjghatt4kp6p4utymbit3fdopa?t%3DGod_and_Business_Today%26pcampaignid%3DMKT-na-all-co-pr-mu-pod-16 On Sticher Radio:  http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/tami-call/god-and-business-today On TuneIn Radio:  http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/tami-call/god-and-business-today In the Blubrry Podcast Directory:  https://www.blubrry.com/godandbusinesstoday/   In this episode, you will learn:   How challenges can help you know God is in control and bring you closer to Him. How to resolve problems encountered with territorial distribution rights for products you sell. How owning a small business can augment your homeschooling efforts. How to use your business to create opportunities for self-promotion via social media. How to establish and reinforce guidelines to create a wholesome environment at work. Why Kim lets everyone know she is a Christian.   Resources, Places and People Mentioned:   Plato’s Closet resale clothing place:  http://www.platosclosetchandler.com/ San Tan Village Mall:  http://www.shopsantanvillage.com/ Scottsdale Kierland Commons Mall:  http://www.kierlandcommons.com/ Jacob D’Arezzo on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQsEdnXddMnFaxUoVY04J6Q Tanner Fox on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/user/MTflims Gator Skin for skate ramps:  http://gatorskinsramps.com/     Finding AZ Grind and The Grind Shop Online:   AZ Grind Skate Park:  http://azgrindskatepark.com/ The Grind Shop:  http://www.thegrindshop.com/ The Grind Shop’s Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/thegrindshop/   Where to Find AZ Grind and The Grind Shop in Real Life:   The Grind Shop at San Tan Village Mall  2206 E Williams Field Rd #104, Gilbert, AZ 85295 Phone:  (480) 786-9118   AZ Grind Skate Park 8743 E Pecos Rd #136, Mesa, AZ 85212 Phone:  (480) 888-0499  

009: Building a Business as a Ministry with Skate Park Owner Kim D’Arezzo

Randy Dix has built a thriving residential real estate practice in Gilbert, Arizona by Living the Golden Rule in all he does. He works with his daughter Janine Igliane and together they sold over 100 homes in 2016. The secret to their sales success is developing business and marketing systems that both streamline and expedite the home sales process. After listing my rental property with them last year (and following all of their advice from painting to staging), the home sold in 5 days. The key to Living the Golden Rule, Randy says, is being in constant conversation with the Lord, to assure that everything he does is according to His will. (Viewing this on your podcasting app? Visit the Show Notes online:  http://wp.me/p27IYc-fQ) In This Episode You Will Learn: Important steps to perfecting your business "process" How to apply lessons from an unrelated business to your own How to tie Godly love and community service to a business model The importance of including God in daily decisions How tithing can bless your life and business opportunities How the Lord can bring peace in personal and business ventures Scripture Verses Mentioned: Luke 6:31 Malachi 3:10 Where to Find Randy Online: http://teamrandyandjanine.com/ https://www.instagram.com/teamrandyandjanine/

008: Living the Golden Rule in Business with Realtor Randy Dix

Dr. Jason Frizzell previously served as a chief psychologist in the Arizona Department of Corrections where he developed programs such as mental health awareness training for corrections personnel, conducted psychotherapy with mentally ill offenders, and provided supervision for other mental health professionals seeking state licensure.  He is now employed as a forensic psychologist by the Maricopa County Competency Evaluation Program where he conducts psychological evaluations for the courts. Dr. Frizzell has also taught at the university level, conducting courses in introductory psychology, substance abuse, personality theory, and statistics. In this episode, we will cover: How he got into forensic psychology. What forensic psychologists do. Why he enjoys working with the forensic population. What a day on the job looks like working with inmates who may be in super max facilities and even on death row. Whether there is a tendency among those working in the prison systems to want to let prisoners suffer, rather than receive counseling or psychological treatment because “they deserve it.” The best experience and worst experience he’s had as a forensic psychologist. What it’s like to be on suicide watch in prison and what one inmate did when Jason wouldn’t take him off suicide watch immediately. How working with criminals impacts his spiritual state and what he does to prepare himself to face that environment. How saying to someone, “Tell me your story?” and then listening intently can help us see others as the Lord sees them (i.e., with greater love, compassion and understanding). The phenomenon is psychology called the Fundamental Attribution Error and how we tend to take credit for success and excuse our failures, but when others fail we overvalue how responsible they were for their failure or misdeeds. The importance of doing activities that make us feel renewed. Stress and coping research that has to do with developing hardiness or resilience to protect ourselves against the stresses of everyday life. How to maintain a belief in forgiveness, redemption and a God that is good when working with people who have done terrible things. How to find peace in the knowledge that judgment is not up to us and that everything will be worked out in the judgment in the next life. Why inmates find God in prison and how prevalent conversion is inside the prison system. How it’s more common for prisoners to become more antisocial. What it’s like to bear the responsibility of evaluating someone’s mental state. The important role of humility when working as a forensic psychologist. How Jason addresses the idea that if God is good and loving and all that He is purported to be, how could He created mentally defective people who then, as a result of that defect, do horrifying things to others. The purpose and purifying power of sin and suffering. How changing our perspective on an experience or situation can enable us to move through suffering and grow as a result. How being in therapy can be hard work but that it’s worth it. Where to start when you, a friend, loved one or employee who you think may have a mental illness. The importance of working with a therapist who specializes in the issues you are dealing with and the willingness of therapists to refer you to the right person. Options for people who don’t have insurance, including state funded mental health care programs and counseling programs at local universities and colleges that may even have sliding fees based on your income. How life is like a lawn full of weeds (a metaphor for mental health). The importance of doing things that are renewing and stress-reducing for you; don’t wait until catastrophic things happen because little stresses are cumulative and build up over time. Resources Mentioned:   Fundamental Attribution Error: On Wikipedia:  https://en.wikipedia.

007: Viewing Convicted Criminals as Children of God with Forensic Psychologist Jason Frizzell

Terry Davis is an author, attorney, business coach and abundance mentor. He is the founder of SmartBizUniversity.com, an online mentoring and business development training program for small and medium sized businesses. He has served as counsel for several successful startups, including the company that first introduced global Internet service to the commercial cruise-line industry. His book Receive and Achieve…Now! 15 Bible Secrets on How to Find Joy, Success & Abundance in Small Business is about “equipping the saints for success and warfare.” Terry says, “I wrote this book...to provide entrepreneurs with a system to grow their businesses based on biblical principles so they can transform the world.” Terry is married with two children. He is an active member of the Church of the Highlands in Montgomery, Alabama. In this episode, we will cover:  3 Secrets to Developing an Abundance Mentality... Prepare for spiritual warfare. Have faith in God. Be a giver. 6 Myths About Abundance and Money... It’s wrong to pray about money. It’s wrong to desire prosperity. Having wealth makes you a bad person. Having money is the root of all evil. God doesn’t care about trials with money. God is pleased when we seek security. And More... Why it’s important to act and pray like God wants us to be abundant. How having abundance enables us to do more of what God calls us to do. The difference between money and the love of money being “the root of all evil.” Handling the difficult choice of staying on the path God has called you to or going back to doing what makes money when times are financially tough. Dealing with the IRS when you have tax issues. The difference between having faith and exercising faith. The story about two farmers and which one exercised more faith. The importance of recognizing that everything we have belongs to God. How money is “neutral” and what we can do to “put God’s Spirit on it” by giving back to Him. How developing the habit of giving prepares us to willingly respond to God’s promptings when He needs us to give in specific situations. God’s word talks about money more than any other topic in the Bible. How money makes you more of who you already are. Using music, people, and the things you expose yourself to ion order to be pickled in the Gospel and become a person who will make right choices because of the influence and spirit you are under all the time. Why it's important to get yourself financially and spiritually fit so you can go out and do God’s work. When it comes to money, God wants us to be not like a sieve or strainer but like a funnel so that when He pours wealth into our lives, He is able to direct where it goes. We do that by 1) making a budget, 2) giving back to God, 3) saving money, 4) creating an emergency fund, 5) starting to eliminate debt. In other words, don’t pray for money on the one hand and then be irresponsibly spending or wasting it on the other. Scriptures Quoted or Referenced:   Jeremiah 29:11: “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” (NIV) Genesis 22:13: “Abraham looked up and there in a thicket he saw a ram caught by its horns. He went over and took the ram and sacrificed it as a burnt offering instead of his son.” (NIV) Ephesians 6:10-17:  “Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power.  Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. Stand firm then,

006: Developing an Abundance Mentality with Terry Davis

For the first time ever, investigative reporter Mike Wendland shares the story of his conversion. When one woman dares to send a letter to his television station quoting the Bible, his not-so-kind response sends him down a rabbit hole of transformation no one ever could have predicted. Don't miss this episode where Mike reveals what it's like to be a renowned, award-winning reporter (18 Emmy Awards) dealing with death, deceit and corruption on a daily basis.  He shares his thoughts on the state of the media today, what we as consumers can do to influence the media for good, and posits opportunities to develop media outlets created for and by Believers. Mike Wendland is the Family Motorcoach Association's Roving Reporter, author of the Open Mike Column in Motor Coaching Magazine, creator of daily inspirations at MikesDailySoap.com, and the NBC-TV Newschannel technology correspondent for all 215 NBC-TV stations. You can find Mike online at: Mike's Daily Soap:  http://mikesdailysoap.com Roadtreking Travel Blog:  http://roadtreking.com PC Mike Tech Blog:  http://pcmike.com What We Cover in This Episode: How Mike survived the “dark, egocentric world” of journalism. How God gives us passions and gifts that we can use in our careers and why you should do something you love. The media has been a mess, never as bad as now, and what you can do about it. How the darkness, evil and corruption of the world lead to cynicism, pride and using others as a means to your own end. The temptation of prizes, awards, honors and scooping the competition. Why he lied about reading the Bible. What happened when he decided to take a 12-week “Survey of the Old Testament” course with his wife (with the subtle intention to prove it wasn’t true). Why, as a believer, he could no longer “hold his head up” and remain part of the media. How he transitioned from telling terrible stories to telling “good” stories on his blog. What we should do as consumers of media today. Most reporters care about evil, corruptions and want to make a difference and to do good, but… How this generation of journalists has been taught to think a certain way and how that affects the presentation of the media today, often making evil look good and good appear evil. How to be aware of the mainstream media bias and anger and how to keep a balance by reading conservative media too. Why Mike would never, as a Christian, send his child to a public university. As consumers, what we can do to have a good, positive influence on the media today. The opportunity we all have to develop an alternate media that represents and preserves Christian values. How “Christianese” can be the most destructive language we’ve even heard and how to promote Christian values in ways others can understand and digest. What it means to be an “ipastor” running and “icampus”. Staying connected to God while you’re on the road. The funny thing Mike Huckabee does to serve in his church. Why it’s important to learn to do your own Bible study that is independent of anything else. How to use social media to challenge bad stories and point out good stories. How the song “Amazing Grace” saved a woman from death and led to the eventual conversion of her attacker. (After the end of the show during the “after party” so keep listening.) References: Jimmy Hoffa’s 1975 disappearance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Hoffa Walter Martin’s The Kingdom of Cults: http://amzn.to/2pVyGFU James Dobson’s Focus on the Family:  http://www.focusonthefamily.com Chuck Colson’s Born Again:  http://amzn.to/2pVzGJV C.S. Lewis’s Mere Christianity, chapter 5 on Pride:  http://amzn.to/2qPlkeb Romans 5:20 "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter." (NIV) Wall Street Journal:  https://www.wsj.com/ New York Times:  https://www.

GABT 005: Investigative Reporter Finds God with Mike Wendland

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