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My wife and I spent five years on a missionary team in Brazil. Our first two years felt fruitless and futile. More often than not I went home frustrated. So we asked God for another plan.

We prayed and read the Epistles. We especially focused on Galatians. When I compared our gospel message with Paul’s, I saw a difference. His was high-octane good news. Mine was soured legalism. So, as a team, we resolved to focus on the gospel. I did my best to proclaim forgiveness of sins and resurrection from the dead.

We saw an immediate change. We baptized forty people in twelve months. Quite a few for a church of sixty members! God wasn’t finished with us yet. We just needed to put God’s plan in place. Why don’t you ask God for his plan?

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Can a team with one of the smallest payrolls in baseball win the whole thing? The Milwaukee Brewers just did — and culture is the reason.

In this solo episode, Jenni hits pause on the 10 Years of 4Sight series to talk about the 2026 World Series champion Milwaukee Brewers, and the five culture principles that carried a small-market underdog to the franchise’s first title.

Jenni is a Wisconsin native who grew up watching her dad watch Brewers games, and she’ll be the first to admit she was never a super fan. Baseball struck her as slow. What pulled her in was her eleven-year-old nephew’s love of the game, and then a season that kept defying the odds. She recorded this two days after Game 5, running on fumes after weeks of travel, staying up past a 9:30 bedtime in hotel rooms to watch a team she couldn’t stop studying. Because that’s the thing about Jenni: when a team is working, she has to know why.

Jenni digs into the Brewers’ people-first belief in overlooked talent and what she calls the gift of belief, Pat Murphy’s conviction that leadership is love and discipline in that order, the clarity behind a clubhouse that decided to “win our way,” and the Check Game — the ritual that makes ego expensive for everyone from the rookies to the owner.

What You’ll Hear

• Why Jenni paused the anniversary series for a baseball team she wasn’t even a fan of six months ago
• People first: how the Brewers built a champion out of players other organizations overlooked or gave up on
• Why “the gift of belief” is the thing great leaders give, and how it shows up in a roster decision
• Love and discipline, in that order: what a 67-year-old manager who’s publicly owned his old drill-sergeant style gets right now
• “Win our way” — leaning into what’s distinct about your organization instead of copying the team with the bigger budget
• Why clarity sits at the second level of the culture hierarchy of needs, and why it’s where most organizations stall
• Fierce feedback: accountability that runs peer to peer, not just top down
• The Check Game, and what it costs you in that clubhouse to brag, deflect, or pass blame
• Five planes to Tampa: what it signals when an organization flies its entire staff, not just the roster, to the World Series
• Five questions for your leadership team this week, built on the Lead Culture Framework: assess, define, build, equip, commit
• Jenni’s encouragement: culture is an outcome of what you direct or allow — you may not be able to outspend the competition, but you can absolutely out-culture them

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With his team winning comfortably, Philadelphia Eagles’ superstar football player Saquon Barkley rested on the bench. There was no need for him to continue playing. Then his coach approached and told him he was close to breaking a record.

Sometimes the changes meant to save your business can end up destroying it. 

In this episode, learn the three mistakes that led to Bed Bath & Beyond’s downfall—and how to keep up with a changing market without sacrificing what your customers love or putting your business at risk.

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For 10 years, StoryBrand readers have clarified their message and then asked the same question: now what? Don Miller watched it happen over and over. Clients left workshops with great sound bites, and months later their website looked exactly the same. The message got stuck in committee, and nothing shipped.

In this episode, Don announces his new book, the StoryBrand Your Business Field Guide, and tells the story of why he wrote it. He was 40% through a 300-page book when he realized everything he was trying to teach fit on one sheet of paper. That page became the StoryBrand Messaging Canvas: your core sound bites, tagline, elevator pitch, and brand story on one side, and a map of every piece of marketing you'll create on the other.

It's the fastest book Don has ever written, and he believes it's the most helpful.

The StoryBrand Your Business Field Guide releases January 12, 2027. Pre-order now to get one of the first copies:

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The marketing that works follows just a few simple principles that make it easy to understandable, memorable, and impossible to overlook. That's why StoryBrand has a free guide: The Four Rules of Messaging PDF will teach you those principles and in just a few minutes you'll have a simple but powerful framework for improving every message you create from your website and emails to your ads and sales calls.

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Work can hand you promotions while your marriage quietly runs out of oxygen. That tension is exactly where my conversation with pastor and author Mike Novotny goes, and we do not keep it theoretical. Mike leads Time of Grace and wrote “Newlywed: A Christian Guide for Loving Year One,” but the truth is these principles hit whether you got married last month or you have been married for decades and need a reset.

Come see us at The Lion Within Us Conference at the West Chester Nazarene Church in West Chester, Ohio on November 7th. We'll also be at Grace Community Church in Crossville, Tennessee on December 5th. To find out more and to register for either events visit https://thelionwithin.us/events/ 

For Global Bible Month we created a new 30 day plan called The Overcomer! Spend 30 days with us as we confront 10 strategic areas the enemy uses to ambush believers. But we aren’t just playing defense. We are going to absolutely destroy those lies with the unshakeable truth of God’s Word and equip you with immediate, practical actions you can execute today to consistently fight back. Start The Overcomer here.

It’s time to stop sitting on the sidelines.

Step into the fight and become the man God called you to be. Join a brotherhood built on truth, strength, and action. Visit thelionwithin.us right now and start leading with boldness and purpose. Iron sharpens iron — let’s go. https://thelionwithin.us/

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New Book: Unleashing The Lion Within

The enemy is relentless—doing everything possible to steal, kill, and destroy what matters most in your life. It’s time to fight back. True transformation happens when intentionality meets obedience. Take notes, apply these truths, and extend grace to yourself. Real change takes time—but if you stay faithful, the impact will reach far beyond what you can see.  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FLWYQJMB

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When disaster strikes, the human spirit responds by reaching out to help those afflicted. People stand in line to give blood. Rescue teams work for endless hours. But the most essential effort is accomplished by another valiant team. Their task?  To gird the world with prayer.

For the most part, we don’t even know their names. Such is the case of someone who prayed on a day long ago. He went to Jesus on behalf of a friend who was sick. No one was more vital than the one who went to Jesus. John writes, “So Mary and Martha sent someone to tell Jesus, ‘Lord, the one you love is sick'” (John 11:3 NCV).

Someone went to Jesus on behalf of Lazarus. And because someone went, Jesus responded. Would you be someone for someone?

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