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Welcome to the Lion Within Us , a podcast

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serving Christian men who are hungry to be the leaders

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God intends you to be . I'm your host

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, chris Granger . Let's jump in . All

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right , guys , it's fun Friday time . I'm excited

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to have you here , so let's get right into

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it . So this week we have been

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in the book of Isaiah . Okay , isaiah , chapter

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one . Just look at one verse though

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, verse 17 . It says learn to do right

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, seek justice , defend

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the oppressed , take up

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the cause of the fatherless , plead

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the case of the widow . Guys

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, how I encourage you , go back , listen to the

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spiritual kickoff . Unpack this

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verse at length , give you some

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ways you can simplify and apply

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this into your life , action

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that you can take . So if you haven't

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leader that God intends them to be All

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right . So now , if you missed episode

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we have with Jeremy Bryant , go check that one out . It

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was a fun conversation with Jeremy . He's

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an entrepreneur , built some great things and we talked

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about the importance of stories . I'm

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here to tell you your testimony

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matters . You may think that it doesn't

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. That's a lie . Your

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testimony matters . What

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you do matters the way you interact

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with others , the way you talk

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with your kids , the way you talk with your spouse , the

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way you talk with your church , your community , your boss

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, your co-workers to your direct reports . All

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these things how

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about this ? Strangers ? All

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these things matter , and

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taking the time to preserve those stories and

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passing them on to the next generation , that's

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just a lost art . We don't do that anymore

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. We don't . People don't just sit

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out on a porch anymore and just tell stories and

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just laugh and just be together

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. We have to recognize

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the attacks . This is an attack right here . The

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evil one is he's been , he's planted so much

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busy in our lives and so

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many distractions in our lives that

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we forget to connect with the ones that

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we mean , that mean the most to us . It's

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unacceptable . We

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cannot accept that . We

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got to build what we need in

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Place and put those things

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in place to ensure that our legacy

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of stories , of the values that we want to Distill

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down and pass on to the next generation

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, doesn't happen by accident

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. It takes intentionality

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and sharing your story , as

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your story story matters , it's

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so important . All right

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, so now let's get into our tips . Oh , a couple of these

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tips . I really tried to line up to that idea

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of stories because it's so

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important . I want to give you some

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practical ways you could do that . So , if you

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knew to the lion , with each fun Friday we do

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a health tip , a wealth tip and a self tip . Okay

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, the health is your mind and body , how

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you have a stronger mind and a stronger body . Wealth

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is career and finances , being better

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stewards . And self is being a better husband

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and a better dad . That's really all that's

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what it's all about . We wrap , we wrap everything around

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God's word and we try to give you some

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, some , some practical tips To just

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move the ball down the field a little bit in a positive

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direction . Somebody , these tips go

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pretty deep , some on the surface level , but

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you know what , every single one of them , if you think about

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it , if you see , this is an area that could help you , help

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you in your life . That's what it's all about . So

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, for the health tip , this is more of a mind thing

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I want to share with you Get

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a hard copy of the Bible . Okay

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, got my , got my Bible right here

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, a hard copy of your Bible , and

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then start writing in it , highlighted

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, underline it , write

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notes . I want you to wear

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that thing out . I mean this one right here . This is the

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one that my wife gave me when we got married . There

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are literally Underlines . On

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almost every page there's something that

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we have written or something that somebody

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calls out to me . There's highlights . Sometimes I do highlighters

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I'll do highlighters a whole lot Primarily

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underline stuff , and I write notes and the in the binders

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and the in the edges of it . And then

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you know , to my point , where my Bible is just it's

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, it's already just falling

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apart . I mean there's the cover

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of it right here . I mean it's just , it's

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just falling completely depart . But

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you know what ? I take

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an old , battered-up Bible any day of the

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week , any day of the week , Because

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this right here you talk about legacy and

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I talked about this a little bit with Jeremy . This

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is going to end that . This is a big impact for your legacy

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. What are you leaving behind

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that shows your spiritual journey

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, your growth , the

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aha moments , those God

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winks when he shows you something or reveal

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something to you , and you write that

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down and you underline

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it where you just sit there and they see

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where you . Maybe you circle a lot of

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things when it really jumps out it to me . Okay

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, well , he was circling that , so that

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really must have impacted them , right

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? Just taking the time , just

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to be intentional about this night , I get it . There's

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so much easier ways to read God's

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word and study God's word and know

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the digital apps . I mean , heck , we're on the biggest Bible

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app in the planet with the with the Bible app

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for you version . So I'm not anti

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that . I'm just telling you there is something

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to be said when you

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sit down with a copy of God's word . You

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open it up , you write in it

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, you just pour out your heart , see

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what the Holy Spirit reveals to you and

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you take the time to write it down . There's

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something beautiful about that . There's something

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just absolutely beautiful about that . That's

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going to encourage you , you know , to do

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that more . I just want to just , hopefully just lean

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into that . If you never thought about that

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, go get you a hard copy Bible today . Whatever

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version you want , it doesn't matter . You

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know , make sure it's one that you enjoy reading , right

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, that you feel comfortable reading . But get

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that and then start writing

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those notes down . Okay , all right . Now

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for the wealth tip . I want to share something with

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you guys again . We're going a lot of fundamental stuff

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on the line recently with the wealth tips . Basically

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, today , that's what I'm talking about what a stock is , because

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not everybody knows what these things are . So

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a stock is just a general term and

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it's used to describe the ownership Certificates

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of any company out there . Okay so

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a share , if you think about stocking

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, think about share On a

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share . On the other hand , that refers to a stock

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certificate of a particular company

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. Okay , so holding that particular company share

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makes you a quote-unquote

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share holder , right ? So

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stocks really have two common types . You

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have the common and the preferred stock . The difference

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is , while the holder of the former has voting

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rights that can be exercised in corporate

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decisions , the latter doesn't . That's

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really all it is . But preferred

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shareholders are legally entitled

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to receive certain level of dividend payments

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before any dividends Can

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be issued to other shareholders , and we'll kind of talk about

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dividends in future Episodes . But

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just want you to know basic fundamentals

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, blocking and tackling and what a stock is . Not

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many people know . They just think well , it's a stock . What is

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a stock ? Well , basically , you're , you're

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, you're buying a piece of that company and

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you need to know that . That's why buying companies

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and stocks , they encourage

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you to do your research and check

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it out and understand that the stocks

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that you're buying To do they align

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. Again , I have a buddy who

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has a wonderful podcast

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called investing for beginners . He

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has him and his partner . They put out

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stuff every week . So if you , if

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you're interested in the stock market and learning more

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about it , I highly encourage you leave here and go

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download investing for beginners . Check out

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some of the resources and items that they have built

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Over there to to get you started with

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a better understanding from fundamentals

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for financial literacy . This

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is what these guys do and they do a phenomenal job . A little

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okay now for yourself . Tip

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what you think about this , something

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we do in our family . And when I was thinking

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about the self tip for this episode , I actually had

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another one written , wrote out for this

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. But after recording with Jeremy , I was like you know , I'm

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gonna share this one . What we do

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, we do a photo journal

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of a year for our

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family . So this picture

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album . So my wife does it . There's

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different platforms out there that you do . I'm not gonna

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mention any of the platformers because you know you

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pick which platform you want . You just got there and you I'm

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sure you can find some and and

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what she does . She starts an album

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in in January and

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then throughout the year she

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gets you know as pictures

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happen . So so throughout the year . Just

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Walk through the year , you know . You have

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your new year , you have birthdays in

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January , february , you know , maybe

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have Valentine's Day pictures , maybe you have your

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Easter pictures , your family vacation

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pictures . You have maybe

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, you know , summer , any summer stuff

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, trips to the beach or the lake or things like

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that that you would do in the summer . Then , as you

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get into your fall pictures , you would

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have your , your Halloween pictures , your

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, the stuff that you do around Thanksgiving

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, of course , your Christmas pictures . But throughout the whole year

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she's making this album . You

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know , significant life changes . You know , for the

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last couple years we feel like we move that every

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three years . I'm not moving anymore . We're done moving prey . You

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know , good Lord willing , we're done moving and

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just take those , those pictures as you

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, as you take them on your phone and she

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uploads them to an album . So she'll just

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take it about once a month or once a quarter . I'll

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just see her . She's in there and she's she's updating

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that picture out . I , but I'm here to tell

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you . So we got one of those for every year ever since we started

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dating and it's been Just

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my heart out albums . Look at , you

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know , for one . You

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see how quickly time goes

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by , just how fast

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it is . Sam , my older

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girls just grow up right for my eyes and

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those in those albums it's

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hard . It just pulls at your heartstrings and

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then you'll see we don't shy away from

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stuff . We put the hard stuff in albums too . You

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know . So we have a whole album around faith and

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we lost her . You know there's

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albums that you know when animals

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pass away and you think about . Those animals are

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in the albums . You know so you think about them

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. So it's very common to

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have tears , you know when you , when

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we sit down and go through the albums and

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we keep the albums out , they're accessible and

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there's no Stories

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or anything like that , the way Jeremy's doing

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it , and no story lost . But

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for us the pictures , they tell a thousand words

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and it's just something that

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Highly encourage

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you guys to do that . You could do

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this . You talk about the

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best Christmas present you could ever

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give , or birthday or

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anniversary . You took the

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time To just

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go get one started , because you can save

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these online and you can just add to them as you go

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and Just start throwing those pictures

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in and you could . You could

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really Just

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have those happy tear moment that

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Jeremy was talking about . You could have

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that just with the pictures you have on your

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phone . And sometimes , way

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Becca does it , she'll , she'll come

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, she'll airdrop the pictures from my phone

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or her phone so she can get access

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to all the pictures . So you know , if you're

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doing this stuff with your spouse or with

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your kids and their kids have phones , okay

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, make sure you get their pictures too , because

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you know their perspectives . They're just . It's

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always interesting when we look at the album oh

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, I took this picture , or back of the end , or whoever it is

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, but it's just , it's

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one of the great days of the years when that

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album comes in so we can sit down

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and just look and think and reflect and laugh

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and cry and you

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know , just have that catalog of pictures

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, do the years . So there's , there's your tips

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. So so three tips your health

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, wealth and self tip . That health tip I want you to

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get that Bible , hard copy of

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a Bible , and start highlighting , underlining

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, journaling . Make it yours , because

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that is something just like this right here , is precious

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to me . I'll be able to hand this

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down to my children , right

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, and they'll be able to take this and open up and say , okay , this

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is what dad thought about this . Oh , check

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out what dad wrote over here . Well , he's underlying

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this when he was started opening up right here To

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Matthew . Hey , look what he was saying , matthew

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. It's just there's something

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about that . Guys , I'm telling you , don't miss this opportunity

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. That , well , tip just wants you to understand

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what the basis of what a stock is , and

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that self tip , start documenting

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your stories each year with a picture

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out . I'm telling you it's gonna change the game

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for you All right , guys . So let me know

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what tip you like the most . I love to get your feedback

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on that . Our book of the week this week , I

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want to pull this one out . This is one of buddy of mine

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, wayne . He gave this , this , this one , to

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me so far to get

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this book . He's like it's called the productivity

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chain and it's a holistic

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way to spend your time

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on what matters . And what I

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really love about this book is it

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breaks down the chain into different areas

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that you could consider in your life around

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. You know , as you

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look at the book here , you have different ways to

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use the chain , what the chain looks like

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in a chain . I try to get to the areas here . So you have

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boundary setting , you have communication

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, decision making , delegating

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things . What's your personal drive

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, goal setting , your health , organization

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planning , convention resources

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, tasks , project management and setting

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those boundaries . And the cool part is all

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those links in the chain Link together

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right , and you're only as strong

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as the weakest link in the chain . So

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you may look at it , say you know what I'm really good

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at delegating , at drive , at decision-making

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, but this health area , and

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I've got that slip . So it gives

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you some insight , it gives you some wisdom and some discernment

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on how you can share up that one

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link , that and the chain without

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impacting the others . Okay

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. So it's a really it's a pretty

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interesting book . I'm still working through it , I'm

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trying to implement some of the things in this book as

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I go . But lots of great tips

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in this book . Again , the productivity chain

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. It's written by Casey Moore , so

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go check that out . The holistic way to spend your

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time on what matters , okay

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. So check that out , fellas , let me know

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what you think . So our dad jokes this week got two

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good dad jokes for you , looking forward to sharing those with you

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. So dad joke number one five ants

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rented an apartment with

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another five ants . So

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I guess now we have tenants . That's

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number one . Number two I

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spent my entire life savings on pasta

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. It was worth every penny . So

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there you go . Both of those I just work on for me

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for some reason today , so hopefully they work for you . Number

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one five ants rented an apartment with another five

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ants . Now they're tenants

16:35

. And then I spent my entire

16:37

life savings on pasta . It was worth

16:40

every penny . So again , number

16:42

one or number two , I rolls , totally

16:44

count . When the dad joke realm and

16:46

if you have a dad joke would love to hear it from you

16:48

can send that to support at the line within that

16:50

us . If we use your dad joke , we'll

16:52

give you a shout out on the show , we'll connect

16:54

with you and we'll just actually keep sending some more . Okay

16:57

, so there you go . So the story of the

16:59

week this week is how can your story encourage

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others ? That's where I'm on you . Your story

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matters . The even ones gonna tell you doesn't

17:05

? I'm here to tell you that's a lot . Your

17:08

story matters , your testimony

17:10

matters . How you show up matters

17:12

. People are depending on you

17:14

each and every day . God has handpicked

17:16

you to be the leader he's can intends

17:19

you to be , and this way that

17:21

you are leading . That is your testimony . Don't

17:24

downplay that for a second . Don't miss this

17:26

. I Don't miss it

17:28

. You have such

17:30

a huge opportunity as

17:32

a Christian leader to make an impact

17:34

, to be the hands and feet . Can you do any of the saving

17:37

? No , but you can definitely plant the seeds

17:39

and let the Holy Spirit do the

17:41

work . Baby , you just do what

17:43

God's called you to and

17:46

then take the time to share

17:48

your story . Share

17:50

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17:53

want to share your story with me , I'd love to hear it . I

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