Halfway There

Kristi Kennedy, Co-Founder/CEO of Bee Friendly Network she is a PhD Candidate in Medical Research, a widow by circumstance and mother to five, all are survivors of bullying and abuse. Today, she shares about fully accepting her faith and founding her company to help fix the problems she saw in the world. As she was growing up she wrestled with a question that prevented her from diving deeper into her faith. All of us have our questions that we just can’t find the answer to but her story is an encouragement that questions, and needs, do receive answers.

Stories Kristi shared:

• Founding the Bee Friendly Network

Great quotes from Kristi:

No matter how bad things are, there’s always a way you can give to somebody.

There is no obstacle too big for God.

Resources Kristi mentioned:

• Kristi’s website, Bee Friendly

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Pheyland and Natalie Barthen are musicians, worship leaders, and evangelists. Today they share how they learned to trust God in even the most uncertain circumstances.  Pheyland and Natalie reached rock bottom financially when God picked them back up and provided for them in unexpected ways. Their story will inspire you to place your trust completely in God and allow him to take care of you on your journey. Now, they are on a journey pressing into the calling God has for them.

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Stories Pheyland & Natalie shared:

• Starting a ministry together in 2001

Great quotes from Pheyland & Natalie:

We really didn’t have a choice but to lock onto God with everything we had.

It just let me know that God hadn’t forgotten about me.

Resources mentioned by Pheyland & Natalie:

• Pheyland & Natalie’s YouTube channel

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Daniel Gomez is a coach, author, and speaker. Today, he shares his story of coming to know God, drifting away from him during his career, then being brought back through his wife’s illness. His struggle between balancing his career with his life with his family and relationship with God is relatable to all of us in our work centered world. God used many people to show him that he had wandered away. His story pushes us to look into our own lives and see if we really are being the people God made us to be.

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Stories Daniel shared:

• Why he wrote his book You Were Made to Fly

Great quotes from Daniel:

I really didn’t even know what I was going to write I just knew that God put it on my heart to do something.

I’ve been a big crybaby a lot this year.

There is no condemnation in Christ Jesus.

God is running to where you’re at right now to meet you because he loves you.

Resources Daniel mentioned (some links are Amazon affiliate links that send me a small commission when you use them):

• You Were Born To Fly: Be Original, Be The Best YOU by Daniel Gomez

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Art Costello is the creator of Expectations Therapy. Today he shares about how God led him throughout his life both through loneliness, the war in Vietnam and the loss of his wife. His unique experiences of talking with God became a vital part of his prosperity and success in his life. You will find Art’s stories relatable and his method of understanding your expectations invaluable.

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Stories Art shared:

• Teaching people to manage their expectations.

Great quotes from Art:

God planted the seed of expectation in every man, woman, and child. It’s up to us to manage them.

Everything in God’s world is a process.

Once you surrender and believe and have faith, boy, you’re life will go where God intends it to go.

Resources we mentioned:

• Art’s website, Expectation Therapy

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Penni Zelinkoff is a speaker, podcast host, and coach helping people overcome not feeling good enough.  Today, Penni discusses discovering how she connects to God and recognizing that she was loved just as she was and is. Drifting away from the lord led her closer to him and aided her in accepting that God doesn’t want to see her dressed up to see him. Penni also shares her powerful strategy for releasing feelings of being not good enough.

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Stories Penni shared:

• The decision she made to take her life back and discovered her purpose

Great quotes from Penni:

What can I do today that will make me proud to put it in my gratitude journal?

When I don’t have the Lord in my life it become emotionally, spiritually, physically chaotic.

When I am the best version of myself, I have had faith in my life.

You can’t out give the system so how can I give to the system?

Resources we mentioned:

• Penni’s podcast The Penni Z Show

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Tracy Higley is a writer, serial entrepreneur, and mom with a passion for helping women become unstuck in life. Today Tracy shares stories about owning her faith, losing a child and facing the fact that she was addicted to getting things done. In a world focused on constant productivity her story resonates with us all during the busy season surrounding Christmas. She was driven to the end of herself before she was able to realize she didn’t have to do it all. Her story will inspire you to ask important questions about what you truly want during this season and your life.

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Stories Tracy shared:

• Running on dual tracks as an author and business person

Great quotes from Tracy:

How much of this Christian life is really performance based?

What is there nothing I can do to have things go my way?

We early on learned that our kids belong to God.

Resources we mentioned:

• Tracy’s website

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Aaron Walker is a life and business coach, author, and mastermind facilitator. Aaron has been successful all his life with business all over Nashville. From the outside, it appeared he had everything together. He did all the right things like going to church, reading his Bible, and praying every day. His life took a dramatic turn on August 1, 2001 when his car struck a pedestrian sending him into a five year dark night of the soul. Aaron opens up about the darkness of that period and the way it deepened his relationship with the Lord. Today, Aaron mentors men through mastermind groups and coaching, a significant impact he may never have reached without going through that difficult experience.

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Stories Aaron shared:

• Growing up in a Christian family in Tennessee

Great quotes from Aaron:

There’s no way I would wish that on my worst enemy, yet I wouldn’t take anything for it because it pointed me in the right direction.

If you have total clarity you don’t need faith.

I want to give my life to something bigger than me.

Isolation is the enemy to excellence.

Resources Aaron mentioned:

• Aaron’s website View From the Top

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• What the Evangelical idea of the heart is currently

Great quotes from Tim:

Your heart speaks through intuition.

When you actually lean into your design and step out – which means you have to step into courage – it is the hardest thing you’ll ever do because God designed you to be dependent on him.

Joy is the fruit of engaging your desire.

• Tim’s blog post The Gospel of the New Heart

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John Morgan is an inspirational speaker and George W. Bush impersonator. John overcame decades long fear to step into a calling as a performer.  Today, John shares the devastating grip fear had on him, the wilderness fear led him to, and how the Lord led him to freedom. We also talk about listening to “nudges from God” and learning the hard way to live without regret. This episode is full of laughs as John does his thing, too.  John’s story will inspire you to ask “What am I allowing fear to keep me from?”

Please listen to and share John’s story!

Stories John shared:

• Why he is willing to be called an imitator of Christ

Great quotes from John:

That day, I found the missing piece and it fit perfectly into my heart. It was a person; his name is Jesus.

When we simply take him at his word and believe him life takes on a dramatic and amazing dimension.

How do you know it’s not God?

I wrongly believed if you don’t try you can’t fail.

The way you overcome a fear is to take a step toward it.

Fear and unbelief work in tandem to keep us away from our relationship with God.

Resources John mentioned:

• John Morgan’s website and how to book him

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Jason Feffer is an evangelist for the spiritual disciplines. For over twenty years he has been helping people follow Jesus in their everyday lives with his teaching and writing. Currently, he pastors The Practice, a practice-based contemplative ministry at Willowcreek Church. Today, Jason shares how he discovered spiritual disciplines, the way disciplines have shaped him, and why it’s okay to use different disciplines than those around you. Books play an important role in Jason’s journey and he shares how insight from virtual mentors shaped him.

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Stories Jason shared:

• Growing up in a Roman Catholic church then accepting Christ as a child

Great quotes from Jason:

My whole life is centered on my relationship with Jesus; everything flows from being a disciple of Jesus.

Sometimes the most loving thing is to allow people to be where they are.

A spiritual discipline is any practice that helps to cultivate communion with the real presence of Christ in our everyday lives.

Because we are all uniquely wired, we will all connect with spiritual disciplines in a different way.

Resources we mentioned (Amazon affiliate links that send a small commission my way if you use them):

• The Spirit of the Disciplines: Understanding How God Changes Lives by Dallas Willard

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