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1:05

Our guests this week share with us how they've

1:07

used their unique life paths to

1:09

share God's love with others, whether it's

1:11

their communities, or their family

1:13

circle. Stars of the TV

1:15

show reservation dogs, Little

1:17

Mike and Funny Bone are indigenous

1:20

entertainers who have delighted audience

1:22

with their humor and the talent on

1:24

television and on across the

1:26

country. The personal stories

1:28

of the challenges they faced and their

1:30

talent for the creative arts has

1:32

helped create a bridge between their Christian

1:34

faith and their culture. Andy

1:37

Dooley is a fitness influencer, an

1:39

author who found a way to connect

1:41

his seemingly disparate gifts of athleticism

1:44

and artistry. to share his brand

1:46

of hope and faith with the world by

1:48

allowing God to shape his life and embracing

1:50

his differences. Andy found his

1:52

purpose in teaching fitness to others through videos

1:55

online and is beginning a new journey

1:57

of leading his family through a faith

1:59

filled

1:59

life. Let's begin

2:02

with little mic and funny bone.

2:06

Well, I'm funny bone.

2:08

It's acronym for fully

2:10

united new nurse, young brother

2:13

of noble essence. It's

2:15

mouthful.

2:16

It basically just means I'm new and nourished

2:18

through the spirit of God and through

2:21

his word and

2:22

I'm of noble essence.

2:24

being as I'm the

2:26

son of the

2:27

king of kings. In

2:29

his word, you know, it says, we're all children

2:31

of God.

2:32

and I'm a little Mike.

2:34

I just

2:36

used to dance like my projection so they

2:38

used to call me a little Michael.

2:42

Well, we was

2:44

raised in a in a Native

2:45

American southern Baptist Church. You

2:47

know, we went to church

2:49

every Sunday and sometimes,

2:52

Mondays. But, like,

2:54

we wasn't living it, and I don't feel like

2:56

we was actually present. Like,

2:59

you can be somewhere and not be there.

3:02

I was raised with a really

3:05

strict father and it

3:07

was just very very abusive

3:09

verbally,

3:09

physically,

3:11

mentally.

3:12

So

3:13

we ran from home many times

3:16

trying to get away from that madness, and

3:18

it it really did some damage on

3:21

my reflexes or

3:22

my actions towards others.

3:25

you

3:25

know, once therapy kinda

3:27

sent me right, I was just like, yeah,

3:29

I never wanna be like my dad. And

3:32

I at that age, I wish I wasn't

3:34

so gullible. Like,

3:36

you know, joining a gang, like,

3:38

I had no problem with

3:39

getting beat up or fighting people. So just

3:41

like, oh, I gotta

3:43

get beat up to hang with y'all. That's cool.

3:46

I don't know where my mind was

3:48

when I was a child, but Now that

3:50

I see it, I'm like, oh,

3:52

no. I would never do that.

3:55

And I was only in there for

3:57

a year, I would say,

3:59

I was just like, yeah, just

4:03

lightning for me.

4:09

I guess you could say I've always wanted to

4:11

be an actor

4:12

because

4:13

I was always the class clown and

4:15

I would always act out. So acting

4:19

kind of came natural. But once

4:21

I saw my

4:23

big brother doing music and hitting

4:25

the stage, I You know,

4:27

I jumped into that. Mhmm. My

4:30

mother took me to a gospel music

4:32

concert and Also, the

4:34

power team was there, and they were Yeah. breaking

4:36

bricks and bend and steel. And I was like,

4:38

I it's crazy. And

4:41

just their testimonies and then the

4:43

testimonies from the gospel pastors and then

4:45

hearing that kind of music. I was

4:46

just like, alright, I want what they

4:49

get. Yeah.

4:50

I'll bang for a purpose. I'll

4:53

bang for god,

4:55

but I'm not bang it for no color

4:58

no more. So,

4:58

yeah, that's kind of what really got me set

5:00

series is seeing

5:03

followers of Christ in a

5:06

gang mentality that

5:09

in itself kinda

5:11

gave me a new purpose

5:13

and be a follow of Christ. We

5:16

grew up in the city, so we

5:18

relate more with urban

5:20

folks. Yeah.

5:21

Like Jesus had twelve disciples

5:23

and he tell him you know,

5:26

you gotta you gotta be like this and you gotta

5:28

be like this and you gotta dress like this. We all

5:30

gotta look like, you know, in the same uniform

5:32

or whatever. he picked

5:33

different people with different

5:36

characters. Neither one

5:38

of them was perfect. First

5:41

off, but I think Each one

5:43

had their own issues. Yeah.

5:45

Like and he picked them for a reason,

5:47

like, he he didn't want the same he

5:50

didn't want the same flavor.

5:57

It's cool because we're seeing people on social

5:59

media

5:59

and relating in

6:01

different countries

6:03

relating to the reservation. and

6:05

the story is from

6:07

Red Dog. So they're

6:08

seeing their story in

6:11

the reservation dog. That's pretty awesome.

6:13

we

6:13

knew Indian country was gonna

6:15

love

6:16

it and go crazy for it, but we

6:18

had no idea that the

6:20

rest of the world Yeah.

6:23

Was gonna be into

6:24

it. Yeah. Yeah. We even

6:26

tried to have like a reservation accent,

6:29

but that didn't go

6:31

as good as I thought it was.

6:34

So they just basically said, no.

6:36

Just just do you. Just do

6:38

you.

6:39

we actually

6:40

suggested to the director, he

6:43

was cool enough to be

6:45

flexible

6:46

with our beliefs and not

6:48

wanted to cuss.

6:50

because

6:50

when we saw the script and we wanted

6:52

to clean it up it was a little

6:54

couple of lines in there when we were like, yeah, I

6:56

can't I can't say that we'd

6:58

like to be living in the samples. of

7:01

what we speak about in

7:03

our music. You

7:04

know, we talk about not drinking, not

7:06

smoking. And when you see us

7:08

out in public, we are not drinking

7:10

and not smoking. That's something we

7:12

don't really believe in. That's

7:14

something that's real cool is in

7:16

the indigenous community. a

7:18

lot of the beliefs line up

7:21

with

7:21

the

7:22

word is

7:23

to be thankful in

7:25

all things. and

7:27

to pray

7:29

in all things. Respect your

7:31

elders. We just like to be that

7:33

that difference there

7:34

with all that Yeah.

7:36

We wanna inspire other

7:38

people to to be bold for

7:40

Christ how we are and

7:42

to use whatever they're blessed

7:45

with. We are a Christian and we believe us,

7:47

but we're not, like, trying to push it down everybody

7:49

else's throat.

7:50

Right. You know, we'll let them ask

7:52

questions and let them see

7:54

for themselves through

7:56

our lifestyle. And I

7:58

mean, it lines up with the bible, so it's

8:00

pretty awesome. once you

8:02

start looking at

8:03

it. Because

8:06

of all the issues that

8:08

indigenous people are facing and

8:11

the things that we've gone through. We just wanted to

8:13

use our platform to give

8:15

a voice to the voiceless because We

8:18

have one of the highest rates of

8:20

suicide in the indigenous

8:22

community,

8:22

the highest rate of

8:24

missing and murdered people.

8:26

There's a lot of issues.

8:29

So many subjects coming up, like,

8:31

against suicide, on the reds,

8:33

against drug use, clean water

8:35

issues like all that all that and it

8:37

just hit us in in the right spot to where we're

8:39

like, I wanna do more, but I don't

8:41

know exactly how and so, you know,

8:43

take a

8:43

first step and write a song,

8:46

then use what we have. That's

8:48

basically all we're doing is using what

8:50

we have. y'all gave us

8:52

talent to put catchy hooks in

8:54

people's minds in it. That catchy hook

8:56

changes somebody's mind and

8:58

maybe that's the the length and

9:00

the fifth and the air, reason we wrote

9:02

that as a a more

9:04

Adam sound and not

9:06

like a sad song or because

9:08

there's so many other

9:11

songs out there about that

9:13

that are just sad and

9:15

there's nothing wrong with there, but we didn't

9:17

wanna add to that. We wanted something that

9:19

would move people to

9:21

rise up and to

9:24

research the issue and to

9:26

rise up and make a move

9:28

for better. In some

9:30

places, it is changing. it's

9:32

getting better, but there's other

9:35

locations that are still suffering

9:37

from this systematic oppression.

9:40

And there

9:42

needs to be some changes. We

9:45

are honorable people We just

9:47

wanna be respected. We're just

9:49

looking for equality and justice.

9:52

Alright. You just want peace

9:54

and clean drinking water.

9:56

We're running electricity,

9:58

you know, reservations. I

9:59

mean, there's enough resources on

10:02

this planet for everybody to live happily

10:05

around. Right. Yeah. And that's what we

10:07

need people to realize. It's like,

10:09

there's enough for all of us. It's

10:12

Yeah.

10:12

One

10:15

thing I do is I

10:18

read a couple verses wake

10:20

up. You thank God for the day,

10:22

and our music playlist

10:25

is, oh,

10:26

faith based artists. So

10:29

whether it's pop,

10:29

r b, or heavy metal,

10:32

or

10:32

hip hop, I

10:33

mean, we're always present god when

10:36

we ride and -- Yeah. -- or

10:38

through social media, we like

10:40

to post wisdom on

10:42

our social media platforms to

10:44

help spread a little love.

10:46

And other than that, I

10:49

mean, what else

10:50

you got? Yeah. Like you said, I

10:52

mean, it's just it's

10:54

almost like a

10:55

like a reflex

10:58

or, like, not knowingly

11:00

doing it. I mean,

11:01

there's been times where I got out of bed in

11:03

my back comp and I go, oh, thank you

11:05

Jesus. And it's like, it's so natural.

11:09

I'm praying for healing. I'm praying for

11:11

patience. And then praying

11:13

that our music has some

11:15

form of effect on people.

11:18

I've been praying for healing.

11:20

I think that's something we

11:22

both kind of really been praying for

11:24

because this year You've

11:26

seen a lot of antidepressants.

11:30

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11:34

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11:36

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11:37

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11:39

to walk hand in hand with you. through

11:41

all my life. Please

11:43

help me face whatever today

11:45

brings. Pleasure, hardship, adventure,

11:48

disappointments, relying

11:50

you each step of the way.

11:52

Yes. I know that

11:54

nothing has ever wasted when it's shared

11:56

with you, brother. We thank

11:58

you and you can bring

11:59

a crown of

12:00

beauty out

12:01

of the ashes and

12:04

out of lost dreams. You

12:06

can glean jewelry out of

12:08

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12:10

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12:12

who is Also, king of kings

12:14

could accomplish this marvelous metamorphosis.

12:17

There is none other like

12:19

you lord. Well, thank you.

12:21

Jesus name. A man. Man.

12:24

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Our

14:00

next guest is fitness

14:03

influencer and entrepreneur, Andy

14:05

Dooley. who's been working with families for

14:07

over

14:07

eighteen years in the sports and ministry

14:10

spaces. He's passionate about helping

14:12

families connect and interact with each

14:14

other in real life changing

14:16

ways, and opening honest conversations with

14:18

each other, modeled after the ways

14:20

he leads his own family, and he writes

14:23

about in his latest emotional,

14:25

building a family of faith.

14:27

Hi. My name is Andy

14:29

Duley. I'm a husband, father of four

14:31

beautiful kids. I'm a fitness

14:33

coach, an author, influencer,

14:36

an entrepreneur. I just love

14:38

to create to remind people that

14:40

they matter in all facets, you

14:42

know, groups social media through my

14:44

interactions with people, fitness,

14:47

and just every day.

14:52

my three

14:52

pillars of faith, family, and

14:55

fitness. And that's what I try to

14:57

do. I create education

14:59

and entertainment and encouragement

15:01

elevate people and empower people through

15:03

what I do on my social media. I

15:05

grew up in a household with my dad

15:07

and my mom they were both pastors.

15:10

My father was actually in the military

15:12

as well, and he was a

15:14

chaplain in the military.

15:16

So you can imagine our house. A

15:18

lot of people thought our house would probably be so

15:20

rigid and so strict, but it

15:22

wasn't. My mom and dad found a

15:24

way to make it still fun,

15:26

but still and still discipline in our

15:28

life. And, you know, for me, it

15:30

was interesting

15:32

watching them and growing

15:34

up in a house that way. I

15:36

enjoy spending time with my family. Our

15:38

family is a close unit. We

15:40

enjoy spending time together. So

15:42

when I was working at a gym, I'm

15:45

gone, like, fifty

15:47

hours out of the week away from

15:49

the house. when I would come home from

15:51

work, then I would spend an

15:53

additional twenty, twenty five hours working

15:55

on getting myself into a place to be able

15:57

to work from home so that I

15:59

can have flexibility

15:59

to

16:00

give to the family. And in twenty

16:03

twenty, we were

16:05

forced you know, due to the

16:07

pandemic, to teach

16:09

from home, to home schooling,

16:11

and I got to be like

16:13

the PE teacher for the kids

16:16

and spend time with them on their

16:18

homework and just get intentional.

16:20

And because I have a flexible schedule, I

16:22

was able to make that happen.

16:26

When I wake up in the morning, we walk our

16:28

kids to school, so we walk our

16:30

kids to school, I make sure I have

16:32

my study time in the

16:34

bible, then walk to

16:36

kids to school, go to the gym,

16:38

and then come back and there's certain times

16:41

that my my wife is in school right

16:43

now. She's studying. I'm

16:45

doing work. And then we know at

16:47

a certain period of time we go pick up kids.

16:49

We spend intentional time with

16:51

them. They come home, do their homework,

16:53

go outside and play. And

16:56

do the nighttime, you

16:59

know, duties to get them ready, shower,

17:01

just get their stuff for school ready.

17:03

and then my wife and I will get an

17:06

additional hour or hour and a half or whatever we

17:08

need of work and study.

17:10

And so we just do it that way

17:12

and we do this thing where we call

17:14

a GP game plan the

17:16

night before, look at our schedules and

17:18

just take it one day time.

17:22

Just the other day, my daughter came

17:24

to me and she was like, dad, I wanna get baptized.

17:26

You know, she was in a tub,

17:28

and she was like, can we do it here right now?

17:31

And I wanted to like, I brought my wife

17:33

and spoke to her and I said,

17:35

Do you really understand

17:38

what baptized me? It was just

17:40

great to see the

17:42

wheels turning and have the

17:44

conversation and get it going so that

17:46

when we come to a

17:48

moment to actually have it done, should

17:50

know exactly what she's doing and

17:52

why she's doing it. Because she saw

17:54

it, we took a little vacation this

17:57

summer just went to the beach and my mother-in-law

17:59

wanted to be baptized. So we baptized

18:01

her in the ocean and it was beautiful.

18:05

It was such a special moment, and it

18:07

was on her birthday. It was

18:10

just awesome. And the kids got to

18:12

watch their mom and dad

18:14

do that. for their grammy. You

18:16

know? So just being

18:18

able to watch them, ask

18:21

questions, and you

18:23

know, find relationship with

18:25

god in their way. It's just cool.

18:27

And it starts with us as parents

18:29

just modeling it exposing

18:32

them to it and

18:34

having time together and just

18:36

showing them how cool God really

18:39

is.

18:41

I still

18:46

feel, even throughout the journey,

18:48

still unveiling his showing

18:50

me more. I don't feel like I have it

18:52

all down. I don't feel like,

18:54

oh, it's just this. Nothing

18:56

else. but I'm just sitting

18:58

in a passenger seat and letting god drive

19:00

this vehicle. That's why I'm trying

19:02

to, like, make sure I start my

19:04

day off with a devotional.

19:06

and spending time with God because

19:09

I can feel the difference when I

19:12

don't. You know? But with

19:14

our schedules, I also realized

19:16

there are seasons where I

19:18

didn't start the day off with it

19:21

and have to find a way to make

19:23

it happen in the evening time just

19:25

making sure I do it because what

19:27

it does is if

19:30

you start making it a point to

19:32

have a devotional in that family time and

19:34

spend that time even with yourself.

19:37

Throughout the day, you could just to

19:39

God. Prayer isn't just one

19:41

time. You know, prayer could

19:43

be throughout the day. You could just talk

19:45

to while you're driving. You could

19:47

just talk to God while you're at the

19:49

gym, or you have thoughts or

19:51

decisions where you're going through a

19:53

certain situation in a season in

19:55

your life. God wants to hear

19:57

from you on a regular basis.

19:59

So that's

19:59

what I love about devotional time or

20:02

prayer and prayer my

20:04

life because it

20:07

cultivates

20:07

and strengthens my faith

20:10

in God. It strengthens my

20:12

my faith to know. You

20:15

know what, I can just lean on God.

20:17

God's got his arms wide

20:19

open, want me to laying his

20:21

arms and he can hold me during the tough

20:23

times. He wants to hear from

20:25

me and I treat it as

20:27

a dialogue not a monologue. I don't

20:29

just talk to him and then

20:31

get out of the way. I pray

20:33

and then I'll sit there,

20:36

meditate, and Ask him throughout the day.

20:38

Lord, what are my steps so

20:40

that I'm in your perfect

20:42

will. Help me to

20:44

navigate throughout the

20:46

day. taking every single step that

20:48

you want me to

20:50

take. Jesus

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20:56

Lord Jesus. There's a mighty

20:58

battle going on for control

21:00

of my mind. Heaven and earth

21:02

intersect in my brain. I can feel the

21:04

influence of both realms tugging at

21:06

my thoughts. Thank you, Lord, for

21:09

creating me with the capacity to

21:11

experience tiny lattes. of heaven.

21:13

When I shut out distraction and

21:15

focus on your presence, I can

21:17

enjoy sitting with you in the

21:19

heavenly realms. This

21:21

is an incredible privileged

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reserve for those who belong to you

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and seek your face. You have

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instilled in me a

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strong desire spend time commuting with you. As I

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concentrate on you and your

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word, your spirit fills my

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mind. When with life

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and peace,

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amen.

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Marcus taught me really how to

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