This episode of the YOU MATTER To Christ Podcast features Paul Michalski, Founder of Integrous LLC. Sometimes, it takes a massive sledgehammer to wake you up to even the smallest realizations.

Paul shares the story of when he realized that his marriage was in a downward spiral. He tells of the profound experiences God showed him to get through this and other hardships later on in his life. He also talks about what Integrous LLC does and how they advise leaders on how to lead faithfully. 

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Paul: "The third thing, thankfully, is I did something I had not done in a long time is I cried out to God to help me. And that moment changed the rest of my life."

Paul: "I've lost count of the number of people whose lives have been transformed because in a moment of desperation they said, God if you're real, now would be a really good time to show me."

Paul: "God would show up to just show me in a way that I would understand, 'just don't give up.' The lesson I learned was so often I think we give up on the brink of success. That we give up just at that last moment."

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This episode of the YOU MATTER To Christ Podcast features Dan Bruder, Founder of Blendification and author of The Blendification System. Dan shares the concept that we need to look at how to blend work and life instead of just focusing on work-life balance. 

He shares about his early childhood environment and how it influenced his story. He also talks about a particular night when God showed up for him that involved Bible verses and a cartoon about Jesus. All of these experiences led Dan create a system that blends work and life in all aspects including faith, career, and even usual daily activities.

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Dan: "The message there was 'man shall not live on bread alone.' So I was stressed about my job and the recognition there was life isn't just about that. There's much more to life."

Dan: "The truth is there's some level of ambiguity to this and we have to make what I consider to be a leap of faith. So it's having trust in something that I can't see and knowing that I don't have all the answers."

Dan: "We're all created for good works. We're actually created to do good things and we call that our vocation, calling, or what have you, and if we look at our time we spend over 40 percent of our time on work-related activities. So if we're going to do anything good in life we need to do it through work."

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This episode of the YOU MATTER To Christ Podcast features Juanita Headley, Founder and CEO of Changing Cases. She is an international speaker on human trafficking and a pro bono lawyer focusing on cases around immigration and false incarceration. 

Juanita shares about the impactful moments throughout her life that brought her to prison ministry, becoming a pro bono lawyer, and eventually starting the Changing Cases organization. She talks about the time when she was confined for 8 days and the undeniable way God showed up then. 

She also talks about her book, Can You Keep a Secret? Here she tackles the difficulties she has faced in her life that led her to educate and empower individuals against sex trafficking and sexual abuse. She ends by discussing what faith means to her and how God has been present even in the most difficult times. 

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Juanita: "Sometimes I tell people a white lie that I'm God's favorite but he doesn't have any favorites. But I am so blessed just by the way he shows up."

Juanita: "I want to ensure that I'm not exploited ever again. But I want to protect other children and so I believe that despite the negatives, despite the effects it had on me, the Lord has allowed me to use my story."

Juanita: "For the last 10 years, I've been living like a Luke chapter 10 Christian. I've traveled the world for 10 years without a paid job, I've never worked illegally, and the Lord has provided so much. So for me, knowing how real he is and seeing him show up consistently, it's not easy obeying. But as my pastor said, it's a lot harder to disobey."

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This episode of the YOU MATTER To Christ Podcast features James Burkhardt, President of Orphaned Heart Ministries and founder of the SNT Radio. SNT, short for "Spirit and Truth", has been streaming online 24/7 since Memorial Day of 2009.

James talks about his early passion for baseball and music. It wasn't all sunshine and rainbows though as his parents went out of their way to discourage him from playing music. Ultimately, he continued to foster this love for singing in church, especially during Christmas time.

He also shares about always keeping the idea of servant leadership in mind while being in executive positions throughout his life. He mentions learning about humbling himself and being a doer of the Word, not just being a role model.

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James: "Don't lose your childlike faith. Don't lose the joy of discovery or the joy of just being free in your mind and with your body. Go out and enjoy nature because sometimes you can be focused on the next project or the current project, you lose track of what you really need."

James: "At that young age, I could understand the presence of God's spirit in church, but especially at Christmas time. It was like, for a few weeks everyone became totally different, kind, and God's spirit kind of permeated the earth."

James: "I found that God loves a humble and contrite heart. So even though you've accomplished a lot, you're supposed to not be braggadocious about it or drawing attention to yourself."

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This episode of the YOU MATTER To Christ Podcast features Dr. Deborah Fryer, a Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative Literature, mindset coach, and an award-winning filmmaker. She is also the founder of the Anatomy of Money system, training entrepreneurs for ease, abundance, and freedom in life and business.

Deborah shares all about how nature helped her realize her aspirations and allowed her to be in one with herself. She talks about her "should haves" and why she didn't handle money as well as she should have even with her many qualifications. She explains how nature eventually taught her to let these thoughts go.

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Deborah: "Nature is not productive 24/7 and I had been running my business as if I didn't have to follow the laws of nature. I was often working round the clock for clients. And what I came to understand was that I was operating against the laws of nature. I was just giving and giving some more and not allowing myself to receive."

Deborah: "I had only been giving, I haven't been allowing myself to receive. I had only been giving, I haven't been allowing myself to rest. And I hadn't allowed myself to just be. I was so in the mode of doing, doing, doing, I didn't even know how to be."

Deborah: "Whenever we're taking a big risk, we feel this click and it often is at the heart and it's often at the solar plexus. And that's by design because it's like our body is saying, 'I got you' and the squeeze is actually the catalyst that's going to get us to the next level."

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This episode of the YOU MATTER To Christ Podcast features Rick Barnett, Founder of Rep-Lite, a contract sales and service company providing salesforce solutions in the medical industry. Instead of using the CEO title, Rick considers himself more as a "steward" for this faith-based organization.

He was driven by his dad to become a major league pitcher when he was young and through that, he always had a passion and drive for any endeavor. He shares how this passion helps with his goals and how it naturally transcended to his business.

Rick also shares his experiences working with his Christian counselor and its immediate effect on his view of life in general. He details the premise behind running a faith-based company and never getting a pushback when it comes to employees' beliefs.

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Rick: "I was focused on the things I thought would satisfy my soul and I thought were significant. And what I realized only 10 or 12 years ago is that my significance has nothing to do with my salary, nothing to do with my title, and it was really a heart transformation if you will."

Rick: "This world and all the outside influence that we get, I think having someone who is honest, caring, and faith-based to not speak at us but to speak in us, is really valuable."

Rick: "Faith is my only solid ground. Everything else can shift and shake and rattle but the aspect of faith and believing in something I can't feel, touch, or see, it's a bedrock. It's a foundation."

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This episode of the YOU MATTER To Christ Podcast features Ricco McAdory, CEO and Founder of Davidic Covenant Speaks, keynote speaker, and author of the book Your God-Given Identity.

He shares how he has always known about being a miracle baby. However, it was when he was already 40 years old that he found out that his mother did not know she was pregnant until the last trimester. With this, Ricco learned to unlock solutions by focusing not around him, but within him.

He also explains how during his time in the navy, miles from home in the middle of the ocean, he finally said yes to God's call to minister His word. All of this led to his passion for helping other people realize their purpose, no matter what it may be.

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Ricco: "That let me realize that my future was not ahead of me but it was inside of me, just in seed form. And I had to say yes to activate the seed that was already there."

Ricco: "Faith is such a very important part. You're going to hit rough patches in life to where you can't figure it out on your own. You're going to need His higher wisdom to help you see what's already there. And once you say yes and surrender, the very thing you were praying for could be staring your right in the face."

Ricco: "He put both the idea and the purpose on the inside of you therefore you came to earth already loaded. So there's not a time you're going to be wondering, 'I don't have.' It's not that you don't have, it's there but it's coming in a way that you haven't recognized yet."

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Hannah: "In that moment, when you're really just clinging on by a thread is where you really meet God because you realize you have to hold on to something bigger."

Hannah: "Eventually, when you've persevered through suffering, it brings about the ability to carry hope for people when they can't carry it for themselves. And not in a trite way but in a way that honors the fact that they have suffered or lost."

Hannah: "The church is one of the places that really pushes healthy marriages and we talk about marriage counseling and marriage retreats. But we don't really spend a lot of time talking about what happens when it goes sideways. And I think that's something important to incorporate in."  

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David: "You never achieve something until you are willing to embrace the failure... There's an extreme amount of strain that comes before the breakthrough." 

David: "You can go after your dreams and fail, or you can accept ordinary opportunities and also fail."  

David: "If you're experiencing a break down, a breakthrough is on the other side, you just have to continue to trust that process." 

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