This week’s episode is with returning guest with Mike Sipe (you can check out his previous interview on ABW 37 - Unity and Transformation Through Business Leadership). In this week’s conversation Mike shares about a supernatural approach where prayer brings divine solutions to business problems that are impossible to solve in the natural realm alone.

You can connect with Mike at his 10X Catalyst Groups website: https://www.10xgroups.com/ 

You can also pick up a copy of Mike’s brand-new bestselling book about the intersection of work, worship, and service called The AVADA Principle

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This week’s interview is with Ryan Wall. Ryan is one of my roommates and a classmate from bible college who owns a digital marketing business called StoryMarque. Ryan had been going through the most difficult season of his life for the past year or so, but just experienced a profound breakthrough and change of perspective.

Having just officiated his first wedding as a licensed minister this past weekend, Ryan describes a very insightful connection he made between humility and love for himself. This allowed him to have a deeper and greater love for people, which translates into a single-minded focus on relentlessly adding value to people through his business and life in general. One thing he said that really struck me is this: “Love does not stop at the door of business”.

The results are that now clients are hunting him down to pay him and engage his services, whereas before the opposite was true as he was toiling and striving in his own efforts to build his business. Just in the last few months and particularly the last week, his income has increased 300%. Moreover, he is now experiencing more life-giving joy and fulfillment in serving and loving people through his business than he ever has before.

You can connect with Ryan via email at [email protected], or give him a call at (719) 822-1776. Though it’s currently undergoing major construction, you can also connect with him through his website: www.storymarque.com.

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[Note: This episode originally aired 2 weeks ago, but because the testimonies so perfectly capture the essence of A Better Way, I decided to replay it now that many of you have just opted in this week.]

Join Ryan in this episode of "A Better Way" as he interviews Blake Schallenberg from CoLabor Ministries about bringing Heaven to earth in and through business. Starting in 2009, seeing the desperation many business owners were experiencing during the Great Recession, Blake and others in his ministry expectantly prayed for businesses to experience breakthrough. Setting aside their own human thoughts and expectations, they simply asked the Holy Spirit what to pray for and listened to what He said. What resulted is beyond comprehension. There are so many testimonies I can’t possibly roll it all up here, but are a few  highlights from several different businesses:

-A museum exhibit company that went from zero sales to 400% of average annual revenue within 90 days of receiving prayer, releasing the owner to sell the business at peak revenue and follow his dream of being a full-time pastor.

-Within 1 year of praying forgiveness over former employees who had stolen from them, a staffing business owner had a 970% revenue increase and placed 1600 jobs, 54% of which went to people with criminal backgrounds. They have now placed 10 times more jobs for former criminals than any of the city’s social services agencies.

-By praying and living from Heaven’s value system, Blake’s company has a closure rate 3x higher than their industry’s average, receive 98% of clients by referral, and 2.2x the industry average for revenue per client

There are numerous other examples of terminal conditions healed; lifelong dreams realized; families and businesses restored; miraculous transformation of individuals, employees, companies, and communities.

You can connect with Blake’s ministry, CoLabor, at https://colaborministries.org/

You can also connect with Blake’s business, Risk Point Insurance Advisors, at http://riskpointins.com/

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This week’s interview is with Judah Musick, a serial technology entrepreneur with a sincere drive to see demonstrable city impact through business. With a desire to see the simplicity and power of The Great Commandment (“Love God, Love Your Neighbor”) at work in his own backyard, Judah started the Community Impact Fund in Denver, CO.

One powerful testimony is when Judah went to a family’s house on Christmas Eve to deliver food. This family looked outwardly affluent but was in desperation because the husband had divorced the wife and left the family with huge debt. One of the daughters was anorexic and suicidal, and the mother was at her wit’s end. After Judah dropped off the food, the mother later told him that because of this practical demonstration of love, “God is real. He heard me; He sees me.” Within one month of this, $250,000 of donations were raised and there was a clear call to go further with this model.

This has also led to a larger effort to help businesses create Employee Care Programs that meet the previously unmet needs of their workforce, 30% of whom are in financial desperation. So far, they’ve had an 80% employee participation rate in the pilot program, with many more exciting things to come. This is an example of businesses demonstrating God’s love and transforming cities and communities by living out the Great Commandment.

You can connect with Judah at [email protected] or through his website, https://communityimpactfund.org/

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This week’s episode is an interview with Jason Clark. Jason has been self-employed for 15 out of the last 20 years and has experienced times of amazing abundance as well as times of desperate circumstances. In one of these seasons of financial lack, God told Jason that “Desperation is illegal for a son or daughter of God”. As a result, Jason’s life and business demands a supernatural explanation for which only God can be credited:

Jason’s one life message is this: “God is love; His love is always good”. Through this revelation, Jason has learned the secret to contentment in all circumstances by steadfastly believing in and saying “yes” to God’s perfect love and affection towards him.

You can connect with Jason at his website, http://afamilystory.org/. You can also pick up his book called “Prone to Love” as well as other books and resources through the website. I highly encourage you to check it out!

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In what has quite possibly been the most emotional interview for me personally, this week's episode is with Mike Sipe. Mike is the Founder of 10X Catalyst Groups in Bend, Oregon and owner of CrossPointe Capital (a long-time and very well-regarded Mergers and Acquisition business). Though he's extremely humble and doesn't talk much about it, Mike is a military and business veteran who has been extremely successful as an entrepreneur and really knows how to get things done. 

But more importantly than that, he has a deep and humble servant's heart to leverage his business and personal influence for transformational community impact and advancement of God's Kingdom.  In this conversation we discuss how Mike and other business leaders in his community came together with a sincere desire to see true unity and collaboration between the previously fragmented spiritual, business, governmental, educational, and other cultural "Mountains of Influence" in their region. Mike and his fellow marketplace leaders demonstrate the humble heart of Jesus in selflessly serving and loving their city and region, with transformative impact. 

Highlights of this interview include:

15-20 pastors meeting weekly for prayer and fellowship to cultivate greater unity within the previously-divided church and community 

10 checks from 10 churches, providing both funding and manpower, to support the local school district in combatting child suicide 

A community-wide service project to help clean up their schools before the start of the school year

Bringing together over 1500 people in the city for a powerful "One Church / One Voice" community event 

One particular young person who was deeply and eternally impacted by an encounter with God's love at that event

The "bottom line" in all of this is changed hearts and changed lives, one person at a time, through the supernatural power of God's love. 

You can connect with Mike at:

http://www.10xgroups.com/ 

55 NW Wall Street, Suite 150

Bend, OR  97703

Cell: 541.390.8610

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This is another episode where Nathaniel Spiers is interviewing me (Ryan Haley) about my own testimonies that are part of the revelation that's birthed A Better Way.

After making a seemingly foolish decision to leave my growing real estate practice in the D.C. area and wait on God for three months to “drop something in my lap”, I met a highly successful serial entrepreneur who offered me a job at a technology startup company in beautiful Vail, CO. At the same time but independently, I was offered an amazing ministry opportunity in the same area. Despite a critical housing shortage in what USA Today ranked as “the most unaffordable county of the United States” at the time, before I moved there I was given essentially my own private wing of a $14 million mansion for monthly rent in the form of a $500 monthly tax-deductible donation. 

Most importantly though, I had a much deeper revelation of God’s Grace and of Him as a good, good Father who cared more about my personal fulfillment as His son than dutifully serving as a cog in His divine wheel. 

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Jumping right in after last week's interview, this is another testimony from my own life that Nathaniel Spiers interviewed me about. It was originally one interview, but I split it into two parts because it was really two different stories. 

This one is all about letting go of a situation once you've exhausted your own abilities and letting God take it over the finish line for you. In this particular instance, I describe a critical juncture of my life when I was getting out of the Navy and was under an extremely tight timeline trying to get a physical exam done to qualify for Veteran benefits once I separated from the military. After doing everything I possibly could to schedule this exam with the VA, it looked like it wasn't going to happen. I released it to God and ceased from my own striving, when literally at that exact instant of letting go and giving it to God, my phone rang and it was the exam scheduler!  

I was able to get my exam done and in a miraculous, unusually short timeframe after getting off active duty I was receiving VA benefits. These VA benefits were a huge blessing because they gave me the passive income to have the financial freedom to pursue the things God has put on my heart for the last several years. This is a testimony of the fact that there is supernatural power and provision in ceasing from our own human effort and depending on God for our provision. 

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