Real Life Mentoring

Today Chris interviews Dr. Micheal Turner. Dr. Turner specializes in developing personalized, integrated approaches to health including hormones, sleep recovery, nutrition, supplements and exercise to help people perform at their highest level. Dr. Turner will discuss holistic health, Covid, telemedicine, mentoring and how his faith impacts everything he does. You won't want to pass on this dynamic conversation.

Steve Trice is a successful C.E.O. of Jasco Products based in Oklahoma City, Ok yet has a global impact. Jasco proudly supports communities all around the world by donating 50% of net profits to causes that matter. Today, Chris and Christina interview Steve and discover his passions lay far beyond his role as a businessman. You will be inspired to give your life away as you listen to the testimony of Steve. Enjoy!

New years resolutions vs what does God want for me? Resolutions are good for 9% of the population. What if we reframe how we enter into the new year by asking what God may be inviting you to do in 2023? Chris and Christina will dive into the topic as you prepare for the new year.

What is stressing you this time of year? Do you find yourself being nostalgic?

Body language, social skills, social anxiety and fear are the final topics Chris and Christina will discuss today as they round out the series on how to better understand others. Life is about relationships. By understanding people better, it helps build healthy relationships that go beyond surface conversations and connect us at a heart level. In summary, God knows us. Many people don’t feel known by God. As you choose to get to know people better, you may have the privilege of getting to show them how much God knows and loves them.

In part two of How to Better Understand People, Chris and Christina will dive into the six areas: emotional, mental, physical, spiritual, relationships, professional/educational. Understanding people better involves asking purposeful questions to take the relationship to a deeper level. In today’s podcast, you’ll gain some insight into how to ask good questions that help those relationships in your life go to a new level.

It is easy to look at someone and to quickly make certain assumptions. However, our assumptions may not be fair. Until we learn someone’s story we cannot truly know them. The intent of today’s podcast is to help you better understand people. The four concepts Chris and Christina will discuss today: words and actions don’t always tell the whole story, discovering the importance of personalities, the importance of understanding another's person’s pain, understanding cultural differences.

As promised, here are the links to the personality tests to check out:

1. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (myersbriggs.org)

2. The Grip-Birkman Method (advancingchurches.org/grip-birkman.html

3. The Enneagram (enneagraminstitue.com)

4. The Disc Assessment (discprofile.com/what-is-disc)

5. Smalley Personality Test (mint-hr.com/smalley-trent)

6. Tim LaHaye Personality Assessment: Why You Act The Way You Do

We don't often hear about how to deal with suffering: our personal suffering or others. Today, Chris and Christina will talk about how to deal with suffering. It's important to not only share our own stories of how we are suffering but they will discuss how to sit with others as they share their suffering. How do you react? How do you give permission for others to share their stories of pain? Today’s discussion will open up some great discussion on how to approach the topic of suffering.

No matter what your age, there are people around you who could use a little mothering and/or fathering. God desires to ultimately be our parent. When we don't receive parenting, God can use others in our life to bring the nurturing we've missed out on. What does the world need? Father and Mother figures!

Branson, MO. Today, Chris and Christina pick up with the series of how to experience God in the middle of hard things. Christina experienced a major health crisis that brought them both to believe she could die. You'll hear, once again, how they learned to trust God in the middle of difficulty.