Growth Mindset Strategies That Build Faith Driven Leaders ft Dr Yvette Rice

0:00 I tell women all the time that that every door that God opens, he closes some and we couldn't, we can't understand why, but then he puts us in other places and the door opens and here's a divine plan. And I tell people all the time to make sure you're listening enough to God and not your. We talked about that in Proverbs about trust the Lord with all your heart. Lean not into your understanding. Take out at him and you direct your path. Well, look, he directs our path.

0:31 Sometimes we're off the we're off the path. So he has to close the door to make a shift and go back where we are supposed to be because that's where your blessings are. That's that's where your Kairos moment is. That's where the doors open for you is when we allow God's present Holy Spirit to speak into our lives and listen instead of talking studying on prayer a couple of days ago and and I shared it with one of my classes and I was saying this prayers communication and that's a two way St.

1:04 We can't say we prayed if we didn't let God talk. So where we asked? Yes, one mouth for a reason. And as you can tell, I'm a talker, so I have to reel myself in because. Before we dive back into today's conversation, I want to share something important. This episode includes a paid partnership with Better Help, a platform designed to make starting therapy easier.

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4:01 Listen, subscribe, and join the conversation today. Uh huh. We're live. Ladies and gentlemen, you once again welcome to the Kingdom's podcast. And today I'm going to meet a very, very special guest fighting out of all of bomber United States of America, America. Doctor Iver Rod, how are you, Doctor?

4:29 I am wonderful and I'm under honoured to be on your podcast today. It's just been an adventure and I've enjoyed every moment of it. Oh, wow. I love and respect to you. Love and respect to you. Yeah. Yvette Rice. I know people have made that joke with your name, a lot of rice. But I still eat rice today, earlier today. So we cannot do without rice.

4:57 My last name, I rejoiced at it first I wondered about it when I got married to my husband, but the word that word rice, if you think about it, that is a food substance that is used all over the world to feed exactly. And from a divine standpoint of where God has aligned my life here I am I feed people all over the world the word of God, which feeds the soul.

5:21 So there's a reason everyone's name and I'm even though now in the South sometimes it's not pronounced rice. Is rice my pronunciation in the correct way? I I remember going to Jamaica and I think they call us the Reese's, the Reese. Yeah, Reese. Yes, thank you. This Reese. But then you know he says good is just one syllable.

5:47 It's not Ademola. I've had so many variants of my name that I don't even know what name is real any longer. So I just tell people call me AI. Look, that's my first name is Patty Muller. My middle name is the CMS. So yeah, I love that Monica AI. I've been around for a long time. Exactly, now that your nieces are very popular, so that works.

6:07 That was right. Cool. Somebody was was jealous of me recently goes like, oh wow, you have such a cool Monica like like excuse me, I've had this Monica all my life. I've always been AI. I've always signed emails AI. But you guys did not get it right. But now when I send my when I send my emails, AI, you guys are.

6:30 You guys are raising eyebrows. Yeah. Like, why? Why? Yeah, I've always been AI. Wow. It's just this stuff. Doctor Rice, you are many things that of course, you feed many souls. Right. And let's talk about ladies living in victory. And excellent Is that life or leave? It's live, we're all about our lives and so my the acronym for my company is LLVE, but we pronounce it live. But it's ladies living in Victor and excellence. I through my the path that God chose for me from engineer to at home mom to back into the marketplace as a programme manager of a multi $1,000,000 contracts. I noticed a pattern when it came to women in the marketplace especially and industries that were male dominated and I also noticed it in ministry.

7:24 We've already discussed that I'm way I'm double your senior so. Double my age. I don't I don't understand the alignment right. I am 33 or 60 exactly. So tell them what I told you backstage. It's. Almost. I'll leave. It. I will leave it. I will leave it to you. I will leave it to you. Some people may say, well, it could be double trouble, but we're going to say it's double victory because anytime, God, I've spoke something twice, it happened immediately. So that's the way we're going to look. Once have I spoken, twice have I heard that all power belongs to God.

8:00 That's right about it. 33 + 66 is 99. Wow. Another victory. So think about it, with my generation of women and even in younger women when I came back to the marketplace, things had not changed a whole lot when it came to women in leadership or women in industries that were male dominated. And I really felt the pulling from the Lord to start live.

8:25 But like I told you, I did not start in obedience. I called it everything but ladies living in Victory and excellence. The acronym was the same, but I was saying learning to live in victor victory and excellence. And you know how God can reprimand us when we're not hearing his voice. I finally, I finally got on my face and said, OK, God, I surrender.

8:47 I know the world's going to say this is crazy. Why is she doing leadership development and professional development for women through a biblical lens? Because that's supposed to be taboo to mix them, but I knew what the Lord was telling me. That's when Ladies Living in Victory and Excellence was rebirthed.

9:04 And I started what's called the Faith Field Executive Leadership Institute for Women and doors Open, Things change. Because I saw so many women that they wanted to combine their faith and trust in God and what their marketplace assignments were, but they were a little bit afraid to do it. And then I saw women who like me, they left the marketplace to go raise a family. And then when you come back after being away for a long period of time or there's a gap, people treat you differently. And so I wanted to encourage women to understand something I had to.

9:40 I remember the day when the Lord told me that I had been away for 15 years. Now I'm really about to date and you're going to laugh. When I left, when I left the marketplace, there was number that they were just starting to use computer aided design. We were doing engineers with a draft court and AT square right. I know you're thinking you have this dinosaur on your show, but listen, we talked.

10:06 No, no, no. So, So what what I'm thinking is when I was at university, I had a lot of architecture students. They were always carried the the theme, the square at the at the bar. They're all in like this. Exactly. So here I am re entering the marketplace and I'm going into a company. They hired me because I had the background of the leadership and development and training because they needed me to do technical leadership and training and our team was overriding help menus for software that the government had built in house.

10:40 But I get there and I'm thinking of all of the things that I have to overcome and I remember every day I was a 25 minute drive and I remember every day going, Lord, Are you sure? But I started realising that as I prayed and spent time with him in that 25 minute drive, the Holy Spirit became my best friend. You know, the Lord Jesus said I won't leave you orphan as an orphans and John is a John 16.

11:09 He said I'm sending you the the Holy Spirit is coming the conference and that word comforter means helper, teacher, God stand by. He's everything we need. And so I started depending on him every day that I went to that office and I'm leading this team. And I just started realising he really is my helper, my comforter teacher. It that word breaks down advocate. So he'll even fight for you when you can't speak up, a fight for yourself.

11:40 And so I started realising what I call God empowered confidence. And that made me so bold and put me in a place of leadership that I knew I wasn't supposed to keep it to myself. And I knew there were other women who felt like I did, who had to take gaps away from the marketplace, whether it was to take care of a family member, their parents, raise children, take care of themselves, whatever it was that they could re enter the marketplace in a place of power and confidence if they trusted God instead of trusting themselves.

12:15 So that's what Nevello became, became. That's what it's all about. Now we spoke a bit about the impact versus income conflict. Yes, peak faith. All of us at some point face that situation when it comes to your calling, meeting your calling, or making a living. How difficult was it for you, and how were you able to reconcile that conflict with your own self?

12:42 So, so it's funny you asked me that question at this time. I remember when we stepped away, when I stepped away the from the marketplace the first time, my salary was more than my husband's and the insurance, everything that we needed was set up within my my job. I worked for the the government at the time that time too. And but we prayed and God spoke to him and gave him peace for me to walk away.

13:09 And the day I did well when we set the paperwork in process, it was amazing, but it was God. His job started providing health insurance dental insurance eye insurance and he his salary was doubled weeks before I was supposed to leave. Now you know that does not happen so with divine and event in the mid I wrote a book called mountain movie made easy while I was away the first time and something that God had to jump out on the page at me and I'm I'm going the long route but I'm going to get to where we're going to I'll try to shorten it down was in the scriptures. It said that if we have faith as a mustard seed, then we can move this mountain.

13:55 And so I used to think growing up that and I heard men and ministers say it, if we have faith the size of but I went back and translated that and it says as meaning like. And so God had me to study the process of the mustard seed and it's in Scripture. Jesus taught it in a in a biblical example where the seed goes into the ground and it's so tight, but then it goes on the stick, but it it branches and rises up so great that the fowl and the birds of the air could have a home there. So that meant that my faith may start off small, but I have to digest the word of God, spend time with him in prayer to develop it so that it can house what we need. And so many times in my situation and in the battles we face, where we have to decide

14:50 whether we're going to listen to God and follow his path, even if it means stepping away and taking a lesser salary for our period of time or do it the world's way. That's where our faith has to grow. And like I shared with you before we actually started recording, I remember the day I'm whining and crying out to God about something. Oh Lord, I need this, this and this. And he goes, oh, so you the daughter that wrote mountain move mate, he's a talking about faith. And now you're whining to me.

15:19 Why are you not trusting me for you? And you know what I think many times we forget how much God loves us. And if we really understood how much he loves us, we would never doubt anything that he wants us to do or ask for us. Because remember, he wants he wants us. He wants his best for us. So with that understanding that He wants his best for us, why would he leave us in a situation where we'll be denied everything that Christ died for us for? So when it comes to faith, some of force have that faith as a must secede and allow that faith to grow. I remember the parable in the Bible. You know, there are people with different kinds of hearts, the rocky heart, the fertile ground.

16:12 Right. Some people, the seed Gemini, right? Or how about wait for it, those people that take their mustard seeds and sprinkle it on their McDonald's burger. You know, I see the sprinkles, you know, on those burgers. It's like some people, they just eat it up like they don't have the time to invest that.

16:37 And we have, we have a very minor peak generation right now. We even the TikTok generation, people have that cognitive bias. People have the recent bias. People don't remember even things us by us last year, the last thing that they saw. People don't even have good attention span any longer and it's leading us into a faithless generation.

17:11 Right and. If the last thing that is so, So what would you say to the next generation of the leaders, you know, billionaires like that or the Gen Z and of course the upcoming Gen Alpha or 10 AI if you wish. You know I I just. The Lord flashed before me, the prodigal son. He thought he could have it better by doing his own thing. He didn't need what his father had for him. But the in in the middle of all of that, his father never took away the blessing of the inheritance. He gave him what he asked for.

17:53 And even though he went and squandered it and he ended up in the hog pit, he ended up in a place where he realised, he said, even my father's servants are doing better than me. And so I think sometimes God allows us to stray or get in positions or put a, he allows us to do our own thing, but he keeps just enough cord on us. So at the right time and the right moment, he could pull us back.

18:20 I mean, I lived that life when I went off to college. But we've talked about Tuscaloosa, AL and I enjoyed myself. I, I, I straight up did all of these things thinking I'm living for God, but I'm really not living for God. I could do my own thing and, and I had a, I've had a master's role the moment right after I graduated. In fact, I graduated in petroleum engineering and I did not get a job because the oil industry plummeted. I did not get a job for 12 months. So all of these plans I had for myself, I was going to be on an oil rig in Texas or Louisiana somewhere making all of these, all these hundreds of thousands of dollars that was eventually going to equate to millions.

19:04 God had me and a place where I had to come home and depend upon my parents again temporarily, but He brought me to my knees just like the young man in the hog pen. But what I would say to you, to your generation and to those generations is this, remember something, we may go out there and we may experience all these things and think which we think in our own what we don't need. You know, we, we have this place where we really don't need God anymore.

19:34 You'll come to that place where you find out that you do. But know this, this the same way the father with the prodigal son had his hands stressed out. Why? To receive his son and give him another inherited because remember, he squandered his person. He gave him another inheritance. So it's still waiting on you.

19:56 The blessings, the benefits, the promises, they don't go away just because we do. We just have to find our way back to Him and realise everything that we were chasing after is already waiting for us if we go back to the one who created it for us in the first place. It's really refreshing having having leaders like yourself in this agent's time and you know the Bible says something starting to show myself a Workman that be ashamed rightly dividing the word of truth right finances something in this generation. There are way too many.

20:37 OK, how fixed Christians? How fixed is even good, right? We're talking about Christians like steaks, right? I like my steak well done, but we have medium steaks and of course you have the rare. But some, some people are like even uncooked steak. They go all around misrepresenting the word Christianity.

21:01 You know, sometimes I even feel ashamed identifying as a sister. Of course, there are certain people who change Christianity to like a terrorist group or terrorist affiliation. Yes. They just toss it around and you, you don't even feel proud any longer to identify Christian and people don't even realise that Easternity means being Christian means Christ like. Right.

21:28 Somebody who goes to church a lot, right? I know somebody that goes to church a lot. In fact, two people who have actually misbehaved terribly back in recent times. And there was one who was involved in an altercation with another person. And I told them, you go to church a lot. I, I, for a long time, you know, I've not really even stepped foot in church. They want to judge a person like myself saying, oh, you don't go to church.

21:55 You're like the devil that knows a lot of the Scriptures. But excuse me, but do you know the Scriptures? You know what the Scripture says? They come to you and tell you, oh, my pastor said this. Who the hell is your pastor? I don't care who your pastor is. I don't know who your pastor is. What does Jesus say?

22:12 And guess what? This person was fighting with the other person. And guess what this person said? The person said, I'm not going to apologise, I'm going to fight. OK, Excuse me. What would Jesus do in this situation? Guess what this person told me Jesus Christ said? An eye for an eye. Excuse me, Jesus.

22:28 Jesus doesn't say. That was Moses, not Jesus. Right. As I was like, oh, you don't go to church and you're telling me what I'm like, Excuse me? Well, you can check it. Just check it. You're fighting. You go to church and guess what? This person told me I'm going to go to church this evening and ask for forgiveness. But to to know it's seeing and still do it is seeing when I really started working on this platform for the Faith Filled Leadership Institute and for what I do specifically where I do leadership development for women through a biblical lens. I did some research and just in the United States alone, there were over there were close to 40 million women who identified themselves as believers. 30% of

23:16 them don't go near a church and in our company, I mean, in our country, you know, right now, Christianity is being weaponized. And so right, so I'm your weird point of I don't, I say I'm a believer. And it's, it's, you know, hard to to see that there is no Christ likeness there. But something that the Lord really put in my heart was this you go be the light in the marketplace and teach them, welcome them, let them come into a safe space and learn about me. And then I reintroduce them to spaces where they can then can go to.

23:58 I'm not looking. I don't I don't bring in anything political. I just talk about being Christ like and living for Christ. And so I think though, in fact the Bible tells us what in Matthews 5 it says for us to go and shine and be a light. That was funny, it wasn't my mind. Let your light so shine that the world sees the glory of your Father within thee.

24:26 My favourite, my favourite version of Matthew 5 is in the Message Bible. It says, let me tell you why you're here. Let me tell you why you even put on this earth. You'll put there to shine so that the whole world can see the glory of God. And So what we tried to make Christ likeness be in four with the four walls of the church instead of Christ likeness being out where the whole world can see us.

24:51 And that includes the marketplace. I mean, he said, I'm sending you to the highways and the byways. We're on the highway of the, the Internet right now. And we're talking about the glory of God and we're talking about purpose. And that's what I, I want women to understand that even in the marketplace, we have a marketplace assignment. I think I'm fulfilling my marketplace purpose by what I'm doing.

25:15 And it's all leading back to shining for the glory of God, but at the same time being a light to some people who will never walk in the doors of a church because of what they've seen there. We have to go out to the world and be that light and shine. For him, a city set on a hill cannot be hidden. No one lights a candle and puts it on a bullshit. I think that that that is enough food for thought, right Be that letting hear what the Spirit is saying to the Church, yes. So if word is enough otherwise right, that you know our people are white.

26:02 And whether you realise it or not, what you're in a marketplace ministry, although although you bring different guests and they're speaking different things, your life is radiating all over the world. And that's what we have to realise exactly is that the places that God puts us, their strategic. I tell women all the time that that every door that God opens, he closes some and we couldn't we can't understand why, but then he puts us in other places and the door opens and here's a divine plan.

26:36 And I tell people all the time to make sure you're listening enough to God and not your. We talked about that in Proverbs about trust the Lord with all your heart. Lean not into your understanding out of him and indirect your path. What look, he directs our path. Sometimes we're off the we're off the path.

26:57 So he has to close the door to make a shift and go back where we are supposed to be because that's where your blessings are. That's that's where your Kairos moment is. That's where the doors open for you is when we allow God's present Holy Spirit to speak into our lives and listen instead of talking studying on prayer a couple of days ago and and I shared it with one of my classes and I was saying this prayers communication and that's a two way St.

27:28 We can't say we prayed and we didn't let God talk. So were we asking to? Yes, one mouth for a reason. And as you can tell, I'm a talker, so I have to reel myself in because he wants us to hear him so much, because he has so much for us that we could miss if we don't listen to him. I talk about this a lot. There are 4 lines of skills, 4 lines of skills, listening, speaking, read and write them.

28:05 But a lot of people focus on just a speaker in order to be a great communicator, getting to master the world and professing life myself. I'm grateful and really grateful being able to master all of the four skills. And when I started out, this whole podcasting journey back, I'm a CPA, right? I'm an economist, a finance guy.

28:30 A lot of people like, what are you looking for in the world of podcasting? You should have been doing this but. I never worked at one day. I never worked one day of my life in petroleum engineering. I graduated engineering that that was the avenue to get me in that STEM industry. I ended up working as a engineer. When I did work for the government, I worked as a mechanical engineer.

28:52 Had nothing to do with petroleum. I never got to be on one oil tank tanker, not one time. Let me make you. Let me make you feel bad. I'm going to make you feel bad now. During my time at PwC, I audited oil companies and yeah, I got to be on a couple of work time. I'll make you feel bad right now. I'm Shield.

29:19 I'm going to do this. I'm sorry, I'm sorry I have to do this, but I think that I have, I have a picture where I was, I was the oil. Oil week. Yeah. Wow. Yeah, be be be being at the already. And I am, yes, going to do that. So I felt like I missed what I was supposed to be doing. But I don't think so.

29:46 I think the divine connections and what we learned along the way lead us to where God really wants to take us next. Because yeah, that humbled me. It humbled me that I say 1212 months before I actually got hired as an engineer and it moved back to my hometown. So a lot of times our past, it is in our hearts do certain things, but they lead or they connect to other things. So So here you were an accountant on an oil rig. Wow.

30:18 So you experiencing, you experienced something that I never had a chance to do. And I thought, Lord, did I miss you. I'm really supposed to be doing this. But it was that was a place of development for me. Those 12 months was a place of development and humbling for me. And then in one day I went from waiting 12 months to in one day I was going to take some mechanical engineering courses and double my major.

30:45 One day, first day of class, gentleman walks up to me and say, Hey, don't you already have an engineering degree? I'm going to bring your application for the for the government and you fill it out and and I'll turn it back in for you. So this is that Monday of class of the first day of the week. Maybe two days later, I bring it back to him. The next day after me waiting 12 months, I get a telephone call. Hey, can you come in for an interview? I said sure.

31:13 Next day go for the interview. Been waiting 12 months. Remember, go in for the in and they tell me, listen, we're going to send you to this organisation first if you don't like them. Did you hear what I said? If you like them, come back. We have a couple more places we can take you to and you'll have the job of your choice before you leave here. They got to the interviews like that. So it was in that trusting in the Lord with all our heart leaning not to my own understanding Now you know I've been my understanding was God.

31:50 I am being set up. I'm waiting. I don't have a job. All it is Why, Why, why, why? But he had a divine purpose in it all. I didn't say that can only be guarded as quite interesting. And I love what you said about how God closed the second doors right. In other words, setting all the doors to open. And that is something I only say. I don't understand why you are very much aligning with my philosophies.

32:16 You talk about having that light and talking about me in the broadcasting industry, being a ministry for me. And recently I celebrated crossing the 100 country mark and becoming global top 2%. Think about it, if I stayed back in the corporate world, who would know me? Who would be impacted by the work that I do?

32:44 I didn't know like 100 countries. Right. And even more than that is this. How many people would have missed a message that they needed to hear on your podcast, but you weren't in place for the guests that you had and the people that had that you had and your voice, you weren't in place for them to hear it.

33:08 That's why it's so important for us as children of God to make sure we are where we're supposed to be when that moment comes, because others are going to miss out if we're not there. Right. It's right time doing the right thing. Wow. So Speaking of impact, Speaking of impact, anyways, like my friend who called me just before we started the recording, we had that discussion earlier today about the impact, right?

33:43 Me being grateful. I'm very big on gratitude because I think gratitude is good attitude. And I was telling them I, I feel very grateful, you know, for the impact I've been able to achieve. And it's really interesting. I need to play this one for them. But I just see. Oh, she instructs on our conversation from Ed today.

34:03 You were listening to us without our permission. That's divine intervention. That's I'm laughing because even our entire the meeting, the conversation, all of it has been a divine intervention, intervention where God just aligns where we're supposed to be or as we listen, we are obedient what he's telling us. So I mean, he used us so many times to make impact and many times we underestimate the impact that God wants to make through us.

34:32 And it's a lot of times it has to do with the people who knew us growing up are the people that are around us. Remember, Jesus was, you know, Jesus said. A prophet is without honour in his own. In his own home. So, so many times we minimise who we really are based on our natural connections, because the people that we're naturally connected to, like our families and our friends and the people around us, they have minimised who we are not, not in a purposeful, purposeful kind of way, but because they've seen us in this ordinary life, They don't under or see the supernatural life that God has established for us. And so in these different spaces and, and you're in 100 countries now they're going, wow, is this

35:23 their camera? Is this? Yeah, is it? Is this? Is this man Joseph? You know the mind. You know the one that it was Joseph's, but we don't know. About that so. We have to trust God in those processes of where He puts and locates us because it matters. It doesn't. Matter like it's the same guy I grew up with. You know, I was in a place a few days ago when my husband, we were at an organisation for a dinner and the one of the women asked, Oh yeah, she would go with me. And I thought, boy, my life is so different from when I went to high school.

36:01 But that's what she remembered me from. And so so we have to constantly remind ourselves of who we are in the Lord and then don't worry about what they see us as, because when the right time comes and God has elevated us to that space that he wants us to be in, he'll remind the world for you who you are. I love that and this speaks you so better. I always say that human beings, people, everybody listening to this part that don't care about what people say. What is important is who you are and who God says you are. Believe in yourself and believe in your God. That's what really, really matters. But people potentially for validation. I believe for validation, yeah.

36:52 Like a lot of people say different is about me. Like I'm tired, like I don't really care and I don't, I, I try as much as possible not to let people change who I am. Of course, if you're a kind person, yeah, people will test you. That's where the God empowered confidence comes in because if we try to live in our own, in our own skin, in our own confidence, then we can distract it or we'll we'll start to feel some sort of way about ourselves. But when we allow the Holy Spirit to remind us and what I call God empowered confidence, man, we are, you know, it's not my business to worry about what other people think. It's my business to think or the word be concerned about what God thinks about me and who he told

37:42 me I was. You know, it's just like growing up and and your parents and you had a question about, you know, who you are and what you you would develop. That's my, my, my family. I have a long lineage of Macklin's in my family, my mother's side of the family. And, and that was a strong lineage of women.

38:01 The women in our family were very strong. And my grandmother only went through the 8th, the 8th grade because in the United States at that time, because of the desegregation and all those things, she was not able to go any further than that in her education. But she was one of the women who have started the 1st Girl Scout Trooper organisation in our city for for African American young girls. And I look at that, she didn't let what they thought about her stop her.

38:32 She knew what her mother had told her. You are a Macklin and you can do this. And it's the same way with us and God. You are God's son, you are God's daughter, and I've given you the power to do this. Don't worry about what everybody else is thinking about. Know who God says you are and the Lord is telling us. Know who I say you are.

38:55 He says I say head and not to tell you on the top and not on the bottom. I say you're blessed coming in and going out. Everything you touch is black, so why would you listen to the world? Who's going to try to tell you you cannot be successful? Wow, just want to like to know anytime I think about marketing, I think far too big. So, but let's talk about leave, right? So that honestly, yeah, anytime God gives you a vision, God will make a provision.

39:27 Right. I want you to align with that statement. God gave you that vision and of course, interesting you have a passion for execution of that vision. So how has the journey been? What have been the provisions and what's the level of impact you hope to achieve? And what's the level of impact you have achieved thus far? Well, God has told me I will make provisions for the vision, so I have to trust in him absolutely. Even when I look at where I am now and what He's promised me that it will be, I really have to trust Him in faith. I think the impact that he's allowing me to make as I reach out to women, it is now women globally. And I actually ended up, I checked a message from my podcast that I just launched.

40:18 In September and there was a message from someone in in India and it was a gentleman actually. And he said, I love the way you have incorporated leadership and business along with your faith. Wow. That. Sounds like messages that I get as well. Right. And I'm like, Oh my God. So so the impact is great. And, and The thing is that as, as, as I continue to be obedient, you've got to open more doors. He'll tell me, OK, I've got this lined up for you and this is what I'm offering you.

40:53 It's just like when I was sharing about the, the 90 day, and I mean, 90 minute intensive that I'm going to be doing or I've started to do the second one is and probably be after this podcast. But The thing is when he tells me whatever rate to give, that's what I do. And I have to trust him to make up the difference.

41:11 But he's also promised me some corporate accounts where I'll actually go into an organisation and speak into the lives of the women there. And so I'm not concerned. I used to be more concerned about it. Now it's all on trust. I mean, I'm like Peter now we are out there on, we're in the water, we're walking on the water. We're just going to have to not look down and just focus on the assignment.

41:36 And that's what I say to you. And in a lot of people out there that are wanting to combine their faith with their business side is focus on the assignment. Think that I will, I'll have, I believe in my heart. There'll be 100,000 tuning in women, tuning into women, the world in the marketplace, because that's the that's my YouTube channel.

41:57 Women, the word in the marketplace. And they're going to be listening and they're going to hear their father's voice and they'll start saying, OK, this will work for me. This will work for me. I just, I just believe the impact is there. In fact, I'm going to share an experience I had with you before we close out. It was probably about a month ago. No, it's maybe maybe six weeks ago now. Now, if you could tell by my background behind me, this is my office and everything's in all in place. And what I saw, I'm really picky about certain things. And, and the night it was on a Saturday night, and I had dreamed about a woman who was about to make a business deal. And in the middle of her going

42:39 to the deal, she knew in her heart she didn't have God's peace about it, but she went anyway. But when she got there, the people she's going to make the deal with, it was almost like it was a shyster kind of back door behind the scenes thing. And she got a revelation that will not do it. And so she threw the briefcase up. Money went flying everywhere and she ran. And so when I woke up from the dream, you know, I'm, I'm thinking about it the whole time I'm getting ready for morning worship and I'm headed to our church. And, you know, usually when I speak online, I'm all got my little background and everything's all neat. And I said, God, what do you want me to do with this dream? I said, you want me to talk

43:16 about it tomorrow because no, you've got to say this now because they're going to make that deal in the morning. So I go live in my car on Facebook and I just say, hey, I don't know who I'm talking to, but there's somebody out here. And I shared the experience and I said, and I shared with them that that God has a plan for you, but you're, you're trying to make a deal and you don't have peace about it.

43:42 And, and I told him about the dream and what I saw and I said the Lord said it's not him. And so I went live with it. Well, probably within a 24 hour period, I had three different women to message me and say thank you. So we don't understand impact sometimes and sometimes we have to realise our impact. Sometimes we have to choose impact and obedience over the money side, and the money side will catch up to us because what does it say He first, the Kingdom of God. Kingdom of God and every other thing shall be added unto you. He added to me.

44:23 So if I seek His Kingdom and doing it His way and doing and being obedient in my assignment, all the other things that we desire, the big corporations, the employees, the people, the reach is going to be added. But the key is seeking Him first. So that's what live is all about. So before we close, I'm going to share a testimony with you as well.

44:50 So somebody sent me this. And by the way, back to that same friend I was talking to, just shortly, this whole start recording of that same friend told me something recently. As I said, I'm going to be very, very mad at you. I'm going to be very upset with you if I think what's talking forecasting. You cannot afford to stop this thing. This is your life.

45:14 This is what God has dropped you on earth to do. Please don't have to think about it. And the interesting thing is the very few times I've ever been discouraged, you know, of course. Yeah. The impact versus the income thing. Right, Right. Come on. You're very talented. You know something else then just drop this.

45:38 Probably a distraction. Somebody from somewhere in the world will always just pop up on social media, Instagram or LinkedIn, TikTok, and send me a message. This one came sometime earlier this year and I'm going to read this right. Hello, Atimola. How are you doing? I recently started listening to your podcast and I'd like to mention that you are doing a great work. I also like that you make a reference to this creature in your conversations.

46:08 Hey so for me for me I'm grateful grateful that I'm gathered in the word of God. You know been able to study to show myself a food to work by the end of the year she and actually means a word of two and yeah I'd like to end with Psalm chapter 24 not who shall I send into the gill of the Lord either have clean hands and a pure heart, but belief that of the soul on to vanity a sworn the situation he shall read the benefit of the salvation of the law.

46:41 This is the generation of the basically that Facebook Jake up you tuck your head when you get something you doors and you just think of glory, but not of course you tuck your head or you get something you do check the other last indoors anything with glorious farming. He was a king of glory. Do not fight him at all. He's a king of glory say a lot.

47:04 So for me to you, it's a very, very big thing for you. I obviously use an attitude of gratitude as good attitude and any kind of person shares their time with you to share their life with you because the S like the information of life this time. So for me to you to love and of course, massive respect. Did you have any last words to say to the world? First of all, seek His Kingdom first and everything else will be added.

47:34 And if he, if He wants to use you to be a light in the marketplace, don't be afraid. Just trust Him to put you at the right place at the right time. He'll make all the provision and He's giving you, and I'm speaking to the ladies, there's some of you. He's given you witty inventions and ideas to launch your companies, but you've been afraid and now is the time here. And so clearly now is the time for God's daughters to rise up in the marketplace.

48:01 There's so many women in the Bible that you could read about who actually had businesses. So it's time for you to run and be obedient. And to you, I am so honoured to be on your podcast and the light that you continue to share and bring. I just think I thank God for what he's doing through you. And it's not like you're reaching generations from the top to the bottom.

48:24 So know that it's not just one generation, is many generations. Yeah, and I'm grateful that I'm in the middle. I'm a millennial, you know, I'm a millennial. So it's yeah, you can go up and you can go down, like easily. They can relate. Yeah, absolutely more. Especially Gen Z&J Alpha, those guys that difficult, they are difficult to deal with, but I love them.

48:47 I love them. Sad out to. Keep being a lot sooner later they're going to catch the fire. Just keep being a lot. Whoa, and of course from me to you guys, it is always good for something in your life, right? Conceive, believe, strive to thrive and achieve so that come your way next, keep the fire burning.

49:05 God bless you guys. Bye bye.