The Christian Network Marketer's Podcast

This week I interviewed Tasha Smith one of the brains behind the CNM Community and our resident network marketing coach.  She started her business from the ground up and I thought maybe you guys might like to hear her talk about what she felt like she needed in order to make that happen.  You will notice a break in the interview when my daughter woke up and decided she wanted to join in on the interview as well.  But nap times just don’t always go as you planned.  We hope you enjoy it.

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Today I want to pray for you.  And pray for myself too.  As I was preparing for this podcast I felt inclined to flip through a book of prayers that I have on my shelf and have always loved.  And because this Wednesday is the start of Lent, I flipped to the prayers for this season in the Church calendar.  Now, I did not grow up observing the seasons of the Church calendar, and I suspect some of you did not as well.  But in light of our discussion on pride this week, I invite you to listen to this passage from Samuel Moor Shoemaker.  It felt very appropriate.

Sometimes, when I hear stuff about pride, I have this intuitive sense that I know it goes deeper than I am even aware.  But sometimes, like this week.  We get a glimpse at ourselves and remember.  Ah!  What do we do in times like that?  I have an idea!  Let’s ask God what he has to say.  It can’t hurt, right?

Mark 6:39-44

Then Jesus directed them to have all the people sit down in groups on the green grass. So they sat down in groups of hundreds and fifties. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to his disciples to distribute to the people. He also divided the two fish among them all. They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces of bread and fish. The number of the men who had eaten was five thousand.

One of my favorite management books recently challenged me on this question. Are you a hero, or are you a hero creator? Listen in as I explain what this means and how we can rethink loving our team.

“No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.” Charles Spurgeon

Today I want to tell you a story about how one of my amazing clients truly loved and encouraged her team member by telling her the reality of ranks.

Proverbs 16:18

Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.

Pride, this is one I know well. When I was a young direct sales manager, I knew I was selling an opportunity. So I did my best to “look the part” instead of being wise with my finances. Listen in as I share a little of how this ultimately led to the failure of my first business.

Love not being proud may be our hardest one yet.  Not because there isn’t enough to say about it.  Rather, cause there is so much.  Pride is CORE to humanity.  It’s a dethroning of God and crowning of ourselves.  We’re going to get down and get real this week.  It’s going to be good.

We heard you facebook group! You’ve been searching for a group like this where you can relate to others in your shoes.  And today, we heard the cry from the Pastor’s wives out there and we talked about it.  We hope this addresses some real needs.  And if you have more questions, post them!  We would be happy to address them.

Romans 5:1-11

“Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, 2 through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4 perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us. 6 You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. 7 Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. 8 But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! 10 For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life!11 Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.”

This week’s focus felt like it was addressing an area of network marketing that not many people talk about.  So, what do we do in light of this?  I want challenge you to do something different.  If this week’s topic was convicting (or any other time in your business when you see yourself in truth and want to change it), I want to challenge you to bring that truth of yourself to the Lord.  Don’t ask him to change you, don’t even ask for forgiveness…there will be time for that later.  Just bring it to God.  I’ll walk you through it here.  I think you’ll be surprised at what happens.