Abraham's Wallet

Mark Parrett talks to Jeff Bethke about finding mentors and how Jeff has assembled a team of leaders in his life (4:30). Jeff is a prolific author, a spoken word star on YouTube, a content generator with Jeremy Pryor and Jon Tyson, and he and his wife are owners of Neuflora Wardrobe. Jeff describes how he first met Jeremy Pryor (24:00), how to handle mentoring relationships with a young family (27:00), giving gifts and honor to mentors (30:30), what NOT to do in pursuing mentors (36:30), and specific steps to identifying and pursuing mentors (40:00).

Resources mentioned in this episode:

The Power of Moments, Chip and Dan Heath: https://amzn.to/3Uc7oIM

Jeff’s Intentional Family podcast with Jon Tyson: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/intentional-family/id1585603452

Jeff’s Family Teams podcast with Jeremy Pryor: https://familyteams.com/podcasts/

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Need to start a business or real estate holding but don’t know what it should be, exactly? Mark Parrett teaches Steven Manuel about Business Entities (4:30), from sole proprietorships (7:25) to partnerships (14:35) to LLCs (24:45) to corporations (33:15). Mark also answers the question, “Should I hold my rental property inside a business entity?” at 37:00, and Steven shares some intel about 501(c)3s (40:00) and why Abe’s Wallet went that route!

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THIS IS AN UNUSUAL EPISODE: Mark Parrett and Steven Manuel share their big Abe’s Wallet Announcement, and they’re so HYPED about it. Expect zero equipping in this all-about-us episode. Sorry.

If you’re interested in our donation/thank you set up, go to 22:15 and to www.abrahamswallet.com/donate. Our official ask is at 37:25. Thank you in advance, really.

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Mark Parrett and Steven Manuel continue their series on the Critical Path to Abrahamic Greatness, walking from being a young married couple without children to… the grave! To wit:

Step 6 (12:15) have children

7 (23:00) Adjust family vision

8 (29:10) Faithfully build wealth

9 (38:00) Develop self control and responsibility in your children

10 (42:45) Give children space and support with their spouses and families

11 (47:15) When grandchildren come… drop everything

12 (49:30) Make strategic big $$ gifts to children as they raise families

13 (52:45) Hand off the patriarch role to your children

14 (56:45) Facilitate all-family gatherings (think: Passover)

15 (58:30) Keep yourself spiritually, emotionally, and physically fit… til death!

But before all that, they start by talking about fitness for the aging, and the rare joy of being with your spouse for a few days with no kids around.

Resources Discussed in this Episode:

The Comfort Crisis, Michael Easter

Peter Atilla on Joe Rogan

Durable Trades, Rory Groves

Family Fortunes, Bill Bonner

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Mark Parrett and Steven Manuel talk through the implications of the proposed "student loan forgiveness" plan. Who benefits? Who pays? What does the Bible say? And what are the long term implications? And what can/should any of us do about any of this?

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Mark Parrett and Steven Manuel describe the most important steps any man can take to become an Abrahamic, multi-generational family leader. (8:30) This first part includes the following steps:

1. A young man learns self control and takes responsibility (14:40)

2. By age 17, learn to take care of yourself (22:15)

3. Around age 20, start to train for a career (35:30)

4. Find a wife! (46:45)

5. Dream with, pastor, and lead your wife as you create a family together (57:30)

Resources mentioned in this episode include: The Mortification of Sin, John Owen

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Steven Manuel talks with Ryan Emge of Assured Construction and Freight Edge about his life as a business leader who seeks to honor God in all domains of his world. They talk about Ryan’s feeling that workaday life was “unspiritual” (7:30), his re-start of his business (10:00), defining cultural values (13:15), giving away his business (20:20), and the time his team was overheard by a client (24:30).

Resources Mentioned in This Episode:

Marketplace Christianity, Robert Fraser

EOS and Traction, Gino Wickman and Tom Bouwer

Productivity, Douglas Wilson

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This is our first conversation with Johnny Phipps, FORT WORTH MAN. He’s been a successful family builder whose children love God… and whose grandchildren live across the street! Steven learns about the biggest decision Johnny and his wife Julie made for building a successful family (7:00) (It cost him a million dollars but was “worth every penny” according to Johnny). We also hit upon honoring spouses with our bodies (24:30), wives protecting their husbands from pornography and sexual health in marriage (29:30), Johnny’s decision (as an artist!) to teach a financial health class at his church (42:00), and the fact that what God established in the Phipps family is paying off to this day (47:00).

Even the birds in the trees loved this conversation.

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Mark Parrett and Steven Manuel talk (from painful personal experience) about how to take a loss and get back on your feet:

1. Do spiritual work first (10:00)

2. Work though the loss relationally (with the wife) (17:45)

3. Have or review a financial plan (25:20)

4. Share your loss with trusted friends (28:45)

5. Restore truth in your thinking (30:00)

6. Reconsider your financial assumptions (40:15)

7. Recoup integral losses via work and savings (42:30)

8. Rebalance as needed (43:40)

They finish up by talking nonsense about sneakers, restaurant reviews, and YouTube. You don't have to listen to that part.

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Ever wonder what it is, exactly, that we're trying to do around here? Not us: we know PERZAC'LY what we're trying to do. Mark Parrett and Steven Manuel talk about it in this episode:

PART ONE: NEWS

2:00 Voyager stops trading on its crypto platform (Steven and Mark take a bath)

5:00 the 4th of July and AMERICA!

6:15 Texas Road Trip report

11:25 Reaction to Roe v Wade overturn

PART TWO: EDUCATION

17:30 Orator’s Corner (Black Beauty)

25:30 Why Abraham’s Wallet exists:

29:15 to reinforce Biblical authority and inspire Holy Spirit dependence

30:10 to equip and encourage fathers as pastors of their homes

38:20 to help you lead intentionally via 5 capitals

41:00 to help develop godly masculinity

45:00 to defend independence for you as a family leader

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