This episode marks the Season One finale of the Digital Growth Group podcast.

In this closing episode, I reflect on what it’s meant to learn how to work from home, create and market digital products, and rebuild life during a season of recovery and transition. I share why My Family’s Recipe Journal has become the strongest and most complete journal in my collection, and how holding a finished physical copy reminded me why I started creating in the first place.

I also talk honestly about the realities of disruption — a house torn apart by new flooring, unfinished tech setups, and learning new systems while life is anything but settled. Alongside the business updates, I share important health news, including upcoming casting appointments and the next steps toward learning how to walk again.

Season One wasn’t about having answers or teaching systems.
 It was about showing up while rebuilding — physically, spiritually, and professionally.

This season captured recovery, learning curves, mistakes, faith, fear, gratitude, and the early foundation of Digital Growth Group LLC. It is an origin story — unfinished, imperfect, but real.

Season Two will return with more structure, clearer direction, and a deeper focus on building strong digital foundations.

Thank you for being here.

Block by block.
 Day by day.
 One step at a time.

— Gregory Stephens
 Digital Growth Group LLC

“This is Gregory Stephens with Digital Growth Group LLC — reminding you that real growth happens one block at a time. Stay encouraged, stay creative, and keep moving forward. I’ll see you in the next episode.”

In this episode, I focus on Fantasy Recipe Journal — the first book in my catalog that made it through Amazon KDP correctly in both format and print.

I talk honestly about why I still love this 6×9 book: the graphics, the full-page layouts, and the way it fits naturally into smaller kitchens and cabinets. I also share the immediate feedback I received from family and friends who loved the concept but wanted more room to write, especially for longer or more detailed recipes.

This episode is about learning through action — listening to feedback, recognizing design limitations, and owning small mistakes, including missing guide lines on an early cover design. Every lesson from this book helped shape the rest of my catalog and pushed me toward better formats and cleaner designs.

This isn’t about perfection.
 It’s about paying attention, telling the story behind the product, and continuing to build one step at a time.

“This is Gregory Stephens with Digital Growth Group LLC — reminding you that real growth happens one block at a time. Stay encouraged, stay creative, and keep moving forward. I’ll see you in the next episode.”

This episode is about showing up even when things aren’t perfect.

In Episode 8, I share updates from recovery after major surgery — stitches are out, healing is progressing, and I’m beginning the next chapter of finding and being fitted for a prosthetic. I talk honestly about fear, gratitude, faith, and what it looks like to keep building a business while your life is changing.

I also share an important publishing update: my first KDP book, My Fairy Recipe Journal, originally launched with the wrong trim size. After learning from the mistake and listening to feedback, I fixed it and re-released it properly. That lesson alone reminded me how much learning happens through action — not perfection.

I also talk about releasing one of the most personal projects I’ve ever shared, Bless You, Change Me — a raw memoir about rebuilding life from the ashes of your own choices. Letting that story go into the world was part of my own healing process and part of committing to honesty in this journey.

This episode touches on:
 • Healing and recovery updates
 • Gratitude for listeners and supporters
 • Learning through mistakes in publishing
 • Fixing and re-releasing early work
 • Faith and God’s timing in uncertain seasons
 • Why building something meaningful takes patience
 • Why showing up imperfect still counts

This podcast is about progress, not polish.
 Block by block.
 Day by day.
 One step at a time.

— Gregory Stephens
 Digital Growth Group LLC

“This is Gregory Stephens with Digital Growth Group LLC — reminding you that real growth happens one block at a time. Stay encouraged, stay creative, and keep moving forward. I’ll see you in the next episode.”

In this Christmas-week episode, I share a quieter but deeply meaningful update from recovery — reflecting on family, faith, gratitude, and the steady work of building a business while healing from major surgery.

This week has been about preparing for Christmas, sharing meals, exchanging gifts, and allowing space for family to come together and celebrate our blessings. At the same time, I’ve continued to maintain my WordPress and podcast schedule while giving myself permission to heal — physically, mentally, and spiritually.

I speak honestly about the challenge of phantom pain, the process of accepting leg loss, and how prayer continues to guide my mind and heart through recovery. Healing isn’t just physical — it’s emotional and spiritual — and this season has required patience, faith, and trust.

I also share important progress inside Digital Growth Group LLC, including ordering a desktop computer to create a true business home base, preparing to implement proper accounting with QuickBooks, and getting systems in place before Amazon sales begin arriving in January. This separation of personal and business life continues to be a key foundation for long-term growth.

You’ll also hear an update on the Digital Growth Group Shopify storefront — the central place where all books, future digital products, and upcoming course materials will live. I highlight My Family’s Recipes, a journal designed to be a permanent home for collecting and preserving family recipes — perfect for the holidays and beyond.

Thank you to every listener for your prayers, encouragement, and continued support. Your presence on this journey means more than you know.

— Gregory Stephens
 Digital Growth Group LLC

“This is Gregory Stephens with Digital Growth Group LLC — reminding you that real growth happens one block at a time. Stay encouraged, stay creative, and keep moving forward. I’ll see you in the next episode.”

In this week’s episode, I share an important shift happening inside Digital Growth Group LLC — the moment where the business begins separating fully from my personal life and takes on a true structure of its own.

I talk about purchasing a dedicated business phone and creating a new Gmail account for DGG, bringing my wife more fully into the business with her own MacBook Pro, and why this season of recovery has become the perfect time to build real foundations. I also share how God’s timing made all of this possible through disability support arriving exactly when we needed it most.

This episode also includes an update on the Digital Growth Group Shopify storefront, now officially open, and a quick spotlight on one of the listener favorites: The Fantasy Recipe Journal. With six of my published books now live on the store and the others still being refined, I’m learning — and teaching — that mistakes are part of the process, and that progress continues even when healing.

If you’re someone trying to build a business step by step, one block at a time, especially through life’s challenges — this episode is for you.

Thank you for your continued support during my recovery.

— Gregory Stephens
 Digital Growth Group LLC

“This is Gregory Stephens with Digital Growth Group LLC — reminding you that real growth happens one block at a time. Stay encouraged, stay creative, and keep moving forward. I’ll see you in the next episode.”

In this week’s episode, I’m sharing a heartfelt update from the first days of recovery after my amputation — and reflecting on the gratitude, faith, and slow-but-steady progress shaping this chapter of my life.

Even in the middle of healing, Digital Growth Group LLC continues to grow.
 This week, we officially opened the DGG Shopify storefront and added six of my published books — the core titles I’ll be promoting moving forward. I also talk openly about the three “learning curve” books: two printed in the wrong trim size and one that, somehow, ended up published only in Canada. Each mistake has become part of the journey and part of the foundation I'm still building.

This episode is about honesty, perseverance, and the willingness to keep going — even when you’re tired, even when you’re healing, and even when things don’t go perfectly.

If you’ve ever faced a season where life forced you to slow down but you kept putting one foot in front of the other…
 this episode is for you.

Thank you for your prayers, your support, and your continued presence on this journey.

— Gregory Stephens
 Digital Growth Group LLC

“This is Gregory Stephens with Digital Growth Group LLC — reminding you that real growth happens one block at a time. Stay encouraged, stay creative, and keep moving forward. I’ll see you in the next episode.”

“Faith in the Unknown: God’s Timing, Fear, and the Road Ahead”

In this deeply personal episode, I open up about the fear, uncertainty, and faith surrounding my upcoming leg amputation — and the incredible gratitude I feel knowing the surgery went well and recovery has now begun.

I talk honestly about what it’s like to walk into the unknown, how terrified my wife and I were leading up to this moment, and how God’s timing showed up in ways we could have never planned. From disability approval arriving at the exact moment we needed it, to the support of my mom and family, to the prayers and messages from listeners, this episode is a testimony of provision in the middle of fear.

This is not a business episode.
 This is not strategy or structure.
 This is a moment of truth — a moment of faith.

If you’ve ever faced something life-changing,
 if you’ve ever been afraid of what comes next,
 if you’ve ever wondered whether God sees you in the storm…

This episode is for you.

Thank you for listening, praying, and supporting my family and me through this journey. Your presence means more than you know.

— Gregory Stephens
 Digital Growth Group LLC

“This is Gregory Stephens with Digital Growth Group LLC — reminding you that real growth happens one block at a time. Stay encouraged, stay creative, and keep moving forward. I’ll see you in the next episode.”

In this deeply personal episode, I open up about the fear, uncertainty, and faith surrounding my upcoming leg amputation on December 1st. This isn’t a business episode — this is a testimony.

I talk honestly about the fear my wife and I are facing, the weight my whole family has been carrying, and the incredible relief and gratitude that came when God’s timing showed up right when we needed it most.

My disability approval, the support of my family, and the spiritual clarity that arrived in the middle of chaos were not coincidences — they were provision. They were reminders that God is in this storm with us, step by step.

If you’ve ever faced the unknown…
 if you’ve ever felt fear and faith pulling at you at the same time…
 if you need a reminder that God’s timing never misses…

This episode is for you.

Thank you for listening, praying, and walking this journey with me.

— Gregory Stephens
 Digital Growth Group LLC

“This is Gregory Stephens with Digital Growth Group LLC — reminding you that real growth happens one block at a time. Stay encouraged, stay creative, and keep moving forward. I’ll see you in the next episode.”

In today’s episode, I open up about the reality of facing my upcoming leg amputation while building my business from the ground up. I share how faith re-entered my life in the ICU, and how structure became the anchor needed to grow something real.

We dive deep into what I call the Four Pillars of Digital Growth:

• WordPress
 • Shopify
 • KDP Publishing
 • ChatGPT

…and why these tools have been the foundation of everything I’ve built in the last 90 days.

I also share the importance of treating your dream like a real business—LLC, EIN, bank account, accounting—and how consistency has been my biggest teacher.

If you’re rebuilding your life…
 if you’re stepping into the unknown…
 if you’re ready for transformation…

This episode is for you.

Piece by piece.
 Block by block.
 Day by day.

— Gregory Stephens
 Digital Growth Group LLC

“This is Gregory Stephens with Digital Growth Group LLC — reminding you that real growth happens one block at a time. Stay encouraged, stay creative, and keep moving forward. I’ll see you in the next episode.”

In this premiere episode of the Digital Growth Group Podcast, Gregory Stephens opens up about the true beginning of his digital journey — a story of loss, faith, creativity, and rebuilding from the ground up.

Gregory takes you through the life events that reshaped his identity: losing his sense of taste after cancer treatments seven years ago, the passing of his father, the downward spiral that followed, a major relocation, and the motorcycle accident that led to a spiritual moment in the ICU.

But this isn’t a story about staying down.
 It’s a story about standing back up — one block at a time.

From quilting with his mother as a form of therapy, to publishing books, building an LLC, launching a WordPress site, creating a course, and establishing a full digital business in just 90 days, Gregory reveals how faith and creativity helped him rebuild a completely new life.

This episode sets the foundation for what this podcast will be:
 real business growth, beginner-friendly tools, honest conversations about rebuilding, and the courage to create a new path when life forces you to change direction.

If you're starting over…
 If life has shifted…
 If you’re ready to grow at the speed you’re willing to change…
 This episode is where your new journey begins.

“This is Gregory Stephens with Digital Growth Group LLC — reminding you that real growth happens one block at a time. Stay encouraged, stay creative, and keep moving forward. I’ll see you in the next episode.”