Purpose with Mark Bertrang

News anchors usually ask the questions. In a role reversal, Amy DuPont-News Anchor at WKBT-News 8 is asked questions about her decades-long career in reporting and delivering the news; a journey of serving multiple diverse communities. You will feel like you are visiting an old friend, who shares the heart of the ups and downs of television news, concerns for local news outlets and poignant stories from her own personal life.

Walt Disney partially financed Disneyland with a loan against his Whole Life Insurance Policy. The Bushes Baked Bean Company was partially financed with a Whole Life Insurance Policy. The Pampered Chef Company was entirely financed through a loan against a Whole Life Insurance Policy. A Whole Life insurance policy provides a place to store your safe money. Learn what Milly did with the cash value of her life insurance policy. It changed all of our lives forever.

At the headwaters of the Mississippi River, you can literally dip your cup and take a drink of water; but, by the end of the same river - 2,350 miles later at the Gulf of Mexico, you probably wouldn't even want to eat a fish from it. Money works the same way. In the beginning it's pure. Yet, once it's flowed through government constructed retirement programs like 401(k)s and IRAs, taxes, fees and inflation; it becomes polluted. Here's Author-Mark Bertrang's latest video describing exactly how that happens. How do you purify your money?

At the headwaters of the Mississippi River, you can literally dip your cup and take a drink of water; but, by the end of the same river - 2,350 miles later at the Gulf of Mexico, you probably wouldn't even want to eat a fish from it. Money works the same way. In the beginning it's pure. Yet, once it's flowed through government constructed retirement programs like 401(k)s and IRAs, taxes, fees and inflation; it becomes polluted. Here's Author-Mark Bertrang's latest video describing exactly how that happens. How do you purify your money?

How do you love a population of offenders? Can God create something good out of people who are not seen as worthy due to incarceration? Ann Wales is the chaplain of the La Crosse Jail Ministry. Ann's story begins in northern Minnesota, serving as a missionary in Lebanon and losing her husband to cancer on Christmas Day. We have all experienced pain in our lives; but, it's what we do with that pain that can define our lives. Ann shares her love and understanding of God's children who are imprisoned.

Herbert Freudenberger coined the term "burnout" forty years ago as he described a state of mental and physical exhaustion caused by one's professional life. Our guest, Richard Kyte is the director of the D.B Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership at Viterbo University in La Crosse, WI. Together, we discuss job burnout, work/life balance and the stress and unhappiness many people struggle with daily in their jobs.

Vicki Markussen takes us into her deep-dive by engaging us into a greater La Crosse, Wisconsin. Local media outlets may provide a few short column inches of print or perhaps ninety seconds of airtime on the radio or tv. Vicki uses her unique skill as a journalist with a servant leader heart to cut through the social media clutter creating a hub for those who are passionate about their community, whether it's jobs and promotions, business health, housing, development, education, government or entertainment and leisure. You will find this to be a very engaging conversation about the community of the greater La Crosse area.

This is visit number two with Chris Crye, executive director of Next Chapter/La Crosse about its mission of building lasting relationships with people who have been impacted by crime, restoring them to God, family, and their community with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Next Chapter provides safe, secure and stable housing - Transitional housing (Discipleship Home) integrated with Christian living programs for men recently released from incarceration providing holistic support; a healthy community - rebuilding family relationships, discovering their gifts, getting rooted in a church community and learning to mentor others; and worthy work - Providing basic skills training in a supportive environment that equips participants to gain employment.

A visit with Chris Crye, executive director of Next Chapter/La Crosse about its mission of building lasting relationships with people who have been impacted by crime, restoring them to God, family, and their community with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Next Chapter provides safe, secure and stable housing - Transitional housing (Discipleship Home) integrated with Christian living programs for men recently released from incarceration providing holistic support; a healthy community - rebuilding family relationships, discovering their gifts, getting rooted in a church community and learning to mentor others; and worthy work - Providing basic skills training in a supportive environment that equips participants to gain employment.

Mark Bertrang visits with Kim D.H. Butler about her eighth book – "Perpetual Wealth: How to use 'Family Financing' to build Prosperity and Leave a Legacy for Generations". Making the list of one of American's most influential financial advisors by Investopedia, Kim learned through the hard work of growing-up as a farm girl with her own dairy cow. She chose to make an impact by taking a non-typical journey. Kim is also a leader of the Prosperity Economics Movement.