Inspired Stewardship

In this episode, I talk with you about the power and danger of online communication. I also talk about how the fundamentals of social interaction are benefited by getting out from behind a screen. As well, I talk with you about how I struggle with this and suggest some things that I and you can do to improve our social communication skills.

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In this episode, I cover how email can really take away from your time, thus preventing you from investing in others. I talk about some of the techniques you can use to quickly process email and achieve email inbox zero. I also talk about WHY this is something beneficial and how you can use your time more efficiently by working to build a better relationship with email.

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In this episode, I cover the idea that love is the greatest of all gifts. I talk with you about how without love no matter what your calling or gifts they won't last. I also talk about how faith, hope, and love are all gifts that are permanent and pervasive while other gifts and even your calling may shift, grow, adapt and change but these three gifts are there for you always. All three are vital but love is the one that rules them all.

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Kristin and Jeffrey are friends of mine and gurus when it comes to being successful in small business. In this weeks episode, I talk with Kristin and Jeffery about specific advice about investing in your spouse especially when you work together, niching down to find your ideal customer, and providing value for that customer by serving them well and more…

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In this episode, we cover the idea of having a firm financial foundation before you do Anything. What is a firm financial foundation and why having it is important and what steps you need to take to evaluate your financial foundation and add to it or build it so you can do everything else well. This is something that is often overlooked but vital to living your calling and being a good steward of your resources.

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In this episode, we cover the power of realizing that even as an employee you are simply self-employed with only one customer, your employer. And recognizing this can bring great power. You have risk and rewards both as a self-employed person regardless of your status as an employee or business owner.

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In this episode, we cover the power of no and yes. We are trained from a young age that we must say yes, but all too often yes can hold us back. Yes is looked at as good and no as bad, but yes or no are both value neutral. Instead, we need to learn to say no to things that are pulling us away from our calling and yes to those things that allow us to live our calling. No is a powerful word.

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In this episode, we cover how fear can hold you back from living your calling. How all too often we let our identity get tied up in what we do or what we make rather than who we are called to be. How, especially as a man, you can allow fear that is about worldly things to hold you back from really living your calling. I also talk with you about what you can do to begin to sense the direction God is calling you to go and if the fear is just put into you from the world rather than the Spirit.

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Kristin and Jeffrey are friends of mine and gurus when it comes to being successful in small business. They've managed to found a tribe of small business owners dedicated to investing in themselves, investing in others, developing their influence, and impacting the world. In today's episode, I talk with Kristin and Jeff from Small Biz Life about when they decided to launch into business for themselves, I ask Jeffrey about leaving a safe corporate job for the life of a small business owner, and some of their best resources and tips that you should use to invest in yourself, and more…

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In this episode, we cover the idea that we are all selling and being sold to all the time, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing. We talk about the 2012 book "To Sell is Human" by Dan Pink and how this book frames sales in a different light. We also talk about how we sell ourselves on bad behavior with money in the language we use and a trick to begin to shift your thinking to open up the possibility of selling yourself, and others, on good ideas.

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