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S9-E4- Un-Becoming with Eboni L Truss

So many entrepreneurs have fallen victim to the “copycat culture” in the business world. A culture that tells us that to be successful we must become like the experts and gurus who offer their blueprints, formulas, and swipe copy!

But there is a better way to succeed in business, by discovering who God called you to BE. That’s enough to build a successful business!

During this episode we hear from Dr. Eboni L Truss, author of UN-BECOMING which focuses on the difference between the world’s business system versus God’s way of BEing and doing business.

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On this episode you will hear:

  • How Eboni always had an entrepreneurial spirit
  • How she discovered that God is actually the God of business
  • How she came to the revelation that people are branding who they want to BECOME and not who God called them to BE
  • Often it’s not about just hearing a message from God but stewarding the message so others can hear it
  • The process of UN-Becoming
  • How the myth of don’t recreate the wheel has impacted businesses and created a lot of copycat businesses.
  • That the Marketplace belongs to God and He gave the desire to be a part of the marketplace to entrepreneurs
  • The importance of remembering your calling of who you are supposed to BE despite what may be happening
  • Profitability doesn’t point to purpose
  •  Focus on who you BE and let Heaven show you what you need to DO
  • Step into your BEING and not your DOING
  • The difference between CHASING and ATTRACTING your clients
  • Focusing on being a PROPHET and not getting the PROFIT
  • The reason why we start things is because it’s already in us
  • What people say should be CONFIRMATION of what God has already had a CONVERSATION with YOU about 
  • We get to have our own CONVERSATIONS with God
  • We are not here to follow other people’s BLUEPRINTS, we are here to create FRAMEWORKS
  • How launching her book was launching a MOVEMENT, a MESSAGE and the MANTLE
  • Everything rests on “WHO YOU BE!”

About the Book- UN-BECOMING

The world’s business system tells us that to be successful, we must become like the experts and gurus who offer their blueprints, formulas, and swipe copy. What that has created is a “copycat culture” and a marketplace full of believers who are at a crossroads between God and business. 
 
It’s the world’s business system versus God’s way of BEing and doing business. 
 
Dr.Eboni L. Truss has experienced these crossroads firsthand. Using biblical teaching, scriptural examples, and the transparency of her own journey, she invites you to discover who God called you to BE is enough to build a business on.

PURCHASE THE BOOK

About the Author- Dr. Eboni L. Truss

Dr. Eboni L. is a woman of purpose, passion, and a global voice of ​knowledge and wisdom. Her teaching ​and training empowers leaders to rediscover what they were born to ​say and do so that they show up in the world powerfully, purposefully, ​and productively. The author of 2 transformative books, she has a particular and power-​filled calling and capacity to lead you into rediscovering your authentic ​self so that you can lead in a way that leaves a generational legacy. She is an international speaker and best-selling author, but more ​importantly, Dr. Eboni L. is the wife to James and mom to two amazing ​and handsome sons. 

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S9-E3- Grace Over Grind with Shae Bynes

Growing a business can be HARD! Many subscribe to the hustle and grind of growing a business, but some choose a different path, the path of ELIMINATING the burden of the grind and EMBRACING the gift of God’s grace in business.

During this episode we hear from Shae Bynes, author of Grace Over Grind. We discover how to eliminate the burdens of the grind and work by the infinite power of God’s grace.

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On this episode you will hear:

  • How Grace Over Grind was inspired by a sermon on Matthew [11:28]-30
  • The importance of living your message out loud by sharing and modeling your message
  • The vision for the book was to reach people and impact their hearts and minds
  • How she believed that God would increase and multiple her efforts and He did
  • How she is just shy of 20,000 books sold (paperback, audio, and Kindle)
  • How her message was amplified on the YouVersion app
  • How God favors you as you steward the message
  • How God is calling you to steward your message
  • How the Spirit of thanksgiving aligns our heart with God’s heart
  • God loves to reward those who diligently seek Him
  • The Biblical Success Formula: Faith + Obedience = Success
  • In order to receive God’s BEST, you have to embrace God’s PROCESS
  • How God has called you to co-create with him and not to respond solely to His instructions
  • How to do Business With God
  • The difference between a good thing and a God thing
  • Creating a lifestyle and rhythm of consulting with God
  • The difference between blueprints/formulas and a framework
  • God is the source, everything else is a resource
  • And so much more…

THE BOOK- Grace Over Grind

In the world of entrepreneurship, hustling and grinding will earn you a badge of honor. In the Kingdom of God, it is an inferior substitute for working by the infinite power of God’s grace. For the past five years, Christ-centered entrepreneurs have turned to this celebrated guide to grow in the Biblical truth of God’s empowering grace in business. In these pages, you’ll discover how to eliminate the burdens of the grind and embrace the gifts of God’s grace to experience:

  • Transcendent Peace
  • Abundant Rest
  • Sustainable Rhythms
  • Faithful Collaboration
  • Divine Favor
  • Kingdom Impact

THE AUTHOR- Shae Bynes

Affectionately known as ‘Chief Fire Igniter,’ Shae Bynes inspires and equips leaders to be catalysts for transformation in the marketplace.

Shae is a pioneer in the Kingdom entrepreneurship movement who has touched the hearts and minds of over one million people through her writing, teaching, and mentoring since 2012. Her most popular book Grace Over Grind: How Grace Will Take Your Business Where Grinding Can’t is shifting the way people live, work, and engage in the world around them.

Shae is currently the Executive Advisor for Kingdom Driven LLC, which she previously ran as Founder and CEO, and is the President and Executive Director of Kingdom Driven Entrepreneur Foundation Inc. As an advisor and strategist, she has served start-up entrepreneurs and established CEOs across various industries.

Whether she is speaking with audiences publicly or consulting clients privately, you can expect Shae to deliver an abundance of truth with love, grace, and contagious joy.

CONNECT WITH SHAE BYNES:

Website- https://shaebynes.com
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S9-E2- Exponential Living with Sheri Riley

Do you ever feel like your professional achievements come at the detriment of your personal desires? Something that a lot of high achievers struggle with is the balance of professionals goals and personal needs.

During this episode we hear from Sheri Riley, author of Exponential Living. We explore the 9 Principles of Exponential Living which focuses on how personal development fuels professional growth and empowers us to live in our true power, which is PEACE.

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On this episode you will hear:

  • When God places a message in your HEART it takes time for it to unfold
  • How we all need PEACE, CLARITY and COURAGE to live a fulfilled life
  • Sheri’s journey to exponential living by finding PEACE, FULFILLMENT and JOY
  • How God gave her the name, tagline, and content for her book
  • How she had a vision of global impact and international distribution for the book
  • The importance of standing on what God has given you
  • The importance of living the message of your book
  • How to live in your P.O.W.E.R.
  • How HAPPY is a choice and JOY is a lifestyle
  • The importance of gratitude and celebration
  • How inner peace gives you clarity, and clarity gives you courage
  • To Live, Love and Learn the Word of God
  • Peace is Possible. Peace is our New Success.

ABOUT THE BOOK- EXPONENTIAL LIVING

Exponential Living- Stop Spending 100% of Your Time on 10% of Who You Are (Penguin Random House) is the ultimate guide to integrate your personal desires into your life, without detriment to your professional achievement. It teaches how to make choices, that lead to less stress, better clarity, and more fulfilling lives. The 9 Principles of Exponential Living focuses on how personal development fuels professional growth and empowers us to live in our true power, which is peace.

Exponential Living has garnered several Self Help “Book of the Year” awards, was an NAACP Image Award nominee and a Porchlight Books Business Bestseller. Also, it has been translated into Romanian, Vietnamese, and French.. Available everywhere E-books and audiobooks are sold.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR- SHERI RILEY

Dr. Sheri Riley is a wife, mother, daughter, and entrepreneur. We know this is not easy, but she’s figured out how to make it simple. After spending 20 years creating marketing strategies for global superstars and companies like Usher, WarnerMedia, and Converse, she now serves as the Founder and President of Exponential Living, a personal, professional, and leadership development company that empowers professional athletes, coaches, entertainers, corporate executives, and entrepreneurs to grow personally and dominate professionally.

As an empowerment speaker, high-performance life coach, award-winning author, founding member of John Maxwell’s global Maxwell Leadership Certified Team, Dr. Sheri speaks and trains at companies like the Chicago Bears, NBA, NBA Coaches Association, Indiana Fever, The Coca-Cola Company, Universal Music Group, and JP Morgan Chase, to name a few on how to implement her 9 Principles of Exponential Living to enhance personal/professional development, leadership, and productivity.

She travels around the world, sharing her message…Peace is the New Success.

CONNECT WITH SHERI RILEY:

Website- sheririley.com
Social- @sheririley

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S9-E1- Women Faith + Business Podcast- Season 9 Begins

Welcome to Season 9, Episode 1 of the Women Faith + Business Podcast.

On this episode of the podcast, I introduce Season 9 of the podcast! I’m especially excited about this season because 9 represents spiritual growth, wisdom, and completion. 

The mission of the podcast remains the same, to showcase the stories of women of faith in business who are not only using their businesses to make a difference in the world, but are using their business platforms to glorify God.

This season we will be sharing the inspiring stories of powerful women of faith in business who have authored purpose-driven books.

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In this episode I share:

  • The importance and significance of the number 9 .
  • The theme for Season 9 is spotlighting 12 awesome women of faith who have authored purpose-driven books
  • Both audio and video of each episode will be made available

The episodes this season revolve around conversations about purpose-driven books about: :

  • Hope, Grace, Peace
  • Removing the systems, structures and beliefs that haven’t served us through the UN in our lives including:
    – UN-Market Your Business
    – UN-Tangle Your Faith
    – UN-Tangle Your Life
    – UN-becoming
  • – And so much more…

Tune in for Season 9 of the Women Faith + Business Podcast!

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4 Ways Rest Helps Your Business

ORIGINAL POST 5/12/2020

Recently, our world was required to shelter in place. This was a very new experience for most of us and most of us will never see it again. However, the shelter in place caused us to pause our regular activities. We had to learn new ways to live and work. You can review more about this in last my blog – Collective Pause of 2020.

This week I want to take a look at one of the areas that pausing allows us to focus on…REST. REST is the first part of pausing.

Rest is a crucial factor in business success and it is often overlooked, especially by entrepreneurs. By allowing time to recharge both mentally and physically, rest becomes a powerful tool for business owners. 

Take a look at the video or read the summary below to learn 4 Ways REST Can Help Your Business

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4 Key Benefits of Spirit-led Marketing

There are several benefits to being Spirit-led when it comes to your marketing.  In this blog post I will share 4 key benefits of Spirit-led Marketing.

Spirit-led marketing helps to create a holistic approach that drives business growth and aligns with your spiritual and ethical principles. Implementing the 4 key benefits I share can lead to more meaningful connections with customers, increased loyalty, and a sense of purpose in your marketing efforts.

1. ALIGNMENT

When you are being led by the Holy Spirit when it comes to marketing your business you are aligned with the will of God.  Being aligned with God allows you to experience ease and flow in your business.  It allows you to choose marketing strategies and tactics that align with the way that God designed you and designed your business. This allows you to shine and standout in the marketplace.  When you are in partnership with God things that may be hard are done with ease and grace.

Spirit-led alignment emphasizes aligning your business practices with your spiritual values and beliefs by:

  • Ensuring your marketing strategies reflect your core spiritual principles
  • Making decisions that are in harmony with your faith or spiritual guidance
  • Creating consistency between your personal beliefs and business operations

 

2. AWARENESS

One of the goals of your marketing is to create awareness for your business and/or brand. When you are being Spirit-led in your marketing you will create immediate awareness with the people that God has called you to serve.  They will become
aware of your services and products by the prompting of the Holy Spirit and will
feel led to learn from you and/or work with you.

Spirit-led awareness focuses on developing a higher sense of your own consciousness in your marketing approach by:

  • Being mindful of the impact your marketing has on individuals and society
  • Staying tuned in to spiritual guidance and intuition in your business decisions
  • Improving your self-awareness and understanding your true motivations

3. ATTRACTION

Your marketing should create attraction for the people that you are called to serve in the marketplace. When you practice Spirit-led marketing you attract the people you are called to serve in the marketplace and repel the people you are not supposed to
serve. This attraction allows you to work with ideal and aligned clients in your business.

Spirit-led attraction is about drawing in the right customers or clients naturally by:

  • Focusing on authenticity rather using manipulation in your messaging
  • Trusting that by operating with integrity, you’ll attract like-minded customers/clients
  • Creating value-based content that resonates with your target audience’s spiritual or ethical values

4. ACTION

The key to your marketing is to inspire some type of action for your audience to take. That action can be to download a freebie, sign-up for an event, or purchase a product or service;  your marketing should inspire action. When you are being Spirit-led with your marketing it creates Spirit-led action for you and for your audience.

Spirit-led action relates to implementing spirit-led principles in your marketing activities by:

  • Taking inspired action based on spiritual guidance
  • Implementing ethical practices in all marketing efforts
  • Serving your customers/clients with genuine care and consideration
  • Continuously aligning your actions with your spiritual values

Want to learn how to create a Spirit-led Marketing Plan so you can attract your ideal and aligned clients? Are you ready to create attraction with the people you are called to serve in the marketplace and inspire action with your audience?  

Be sure to schedule a Marketing Clarity Call to discover how Spirit-led marketing can work for you!

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5 Key Points to Simply Believe!

ORIGINAL POST 8/28/2019

Last week we discussed CLARITY and how it equips you to effectively market your brand. Check out the blog to learn 3 areas you should be clear on when it comes to marketing your business.

This week I’m shaking things up a bit because I wanted to share with you a special message – my FAITH FRIDAY message. It works the same as Marketing Monday in that I choose a focus word related to faith in business. This week the word is BELIEVE. Watch the video and/or read the summary below to learn 5 key points about simply believing!

REVISED AND REPOSTED 9/10/24

5 Key Points to Simply Believing

Whoever humbles himself like this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. (Matt. 18:4 ESV)

In Matthew 18:4, Jesus emphasizes that true greatness in the kingdom of heaven does not come from status or achievements but from humility. By comparing those who are humble to a child, He highlights that simplicity and a genuine, unpretentious attitude are key to serving God. This scripture suggests that serving God should be straightforward and sincere, focusing on a humble heart instead of being important or successful. In addition, we are more apt to hearing God’s instructions and in position to be obedient.

I share the 5 points to believing below.

1. Serving God Should Not Be Complicated

Anything that you are doing in your business or personal life that is causing complication needs to have God brought in to clear it up. Chaos and confusion is not of God and does not serve God.

2. Be Like a Child

Simply enjoy yourself as children do. What are you doing to enjoy yourself? Be carefree and understand that God is in control. Believe what you are told in God’s word; God tells you what is promised so believe it.

3. Believing Simplifies Life

God takes care of our circumstances. when you believe that God has your back, believe things will work out, believe His Word. Believing releases joy and frees us to enjoy our lives.

4. Diligently Do What God Says

Do what He says in His word and what He speaks to our hearts. We hear what God says when we are reading His word and when He touches our hearts.

5. Put All Your Trust in God and Be Obedient

We have to exercise our trust in God by giving our circumstances and situations to Him to handle and then simply BELIEVE it is taken care of. Being obedient is simply doing what He instructs and believing it will be done.
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3 Ways to be Spirit-Led in Your Business

ORIGINAL POST 4/5/2022

In the previous blog post, we discussed the importance of tapping into the vision that you have for your business and how that vision can impact the success of your business, and we looked at the vision statement for several well-known companies.  If you missed that post, be sure to check it out ‘What’s the vision you have for your business?’ 

Today, let’s move from vision to action and focus on Holy Spirit-Led Action. Watch this throwback Marketing Monday video below or read the summary to discover 3 ways to take Spirit-Led Action in your business. 

REVISED AND REPOSTED:

3 Ways to be Spirit-Led in Your Business:

1. OPPORTUNITIES

Opportunity – Business owners and entrepreneurs come across opportunities unexpectedly all the time. Many opportunities we experience are not planned and some of them are not for us. When we are presented with an opportunity we have a feeling of being led and sometimes we do not. We must know the difference of being led to an opportunity and being presented with an opportunity. It really is a matter of being active or being passive.

When we are led to an opportunity it is because we are actively seeking it out. This can show up as networking, updating your skillset, staying aware of what you are looking for, taking initiative, having a growth mindset, and/or preparing for the opportunity.

When we are presented to an opportunity it is something that simply happens without effort. This can show up as someone in your network suggests or offers and opportunity, waiting for something to happen, reacting to opportunities only when they are presented, and/or staying in your comfort zone.

2. IDEAS

Ideas – Ideas come and go by the minute because we see and hear a lot about and from other businesses. Every idea we have is not for us to take action on. However, when an idea is dropped in our spirit, we begin to feel that tug at our hearts. This is a tug that we feel strongly and it seems it will not leave us.

Here are a few ways to know if an idea requires us to take action:

  • intellectual or emotional. You determine this by understanding if it was simply information or if the information caused an emotional reaction to take action. Ideas that are for you will be both intellectual and emotional.
  • external or internal validation. Hearing ideas rely on external input, but knowing an idea is for you requires internal validation and must be in alignment with your values and beliefs.
  • temporary or lasting. We hear a high volume of ideas regularly and these fade away rather quickly. However, ideas that are for us tend to stick with us and influence our thoughts and actions.

3. COLLABORATIONS

Collaborations – We connect with people all the time in person and online. God creates divine connections. Divine connections are appointed times that you are to be with others to deliver and/or receive a specific message. We are here to do the work we are called to do, but it is not necessary for it to be done alone all the time. Pay attention to the collaborations and partnerships that present themselves in your business.

Collaboration has its benefits and drawbacks so it is important to take careful consideration before collaborating.

Collaboration is beneficial when potential collaborators have skills, knowledge, or resources that fill gaps in your business. Relationship building is the foundation of collaboration because it strengthens professional networks and create opportunities for future partnerships. Bringing together different or diverse perspectives and experiences can spark creativity and lead to innovative solutions that wouldn’t be possible working in isolation.

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New Place + New Pace = New Perspective

Have you ever felt stuck in a rut, going through the motions of your daily routine without really engaging with the world around you? Sometimes, all it takes to shake things up is a change of scenery and a shift in your usual rhythm. In this post, I share how simply shaking up your daily routine can lead you to discover how “New Place + New Pace” could equal the new perspective you’ve been looking for.

Watch or read this vlog to discover how a NEW PLACE + NEW PACE = NEW PERSCPECTIVE:

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Discover how a new PLACE + a new PACE = a new PERSPECTIVE

NEW PLACE:

Here are two ways to change your PLACE:  

  1. CHANGE YOUR WORK LOCATION-  Changing up the location of where you work can help you to be more productive. If you work from home, try working at a co-working space or a coffee shop. Sometimes being around other people and in a different atmosphere can help you to gain a new perspective or it can change how you feel and how you think, which can be helpful for your business.
  2. CHANGE WHERE YOU GO TO TAKE A BREAK-  Try going to another city in you area to experience different shops, restaurants and experiences locally. Visit a different state to experience different food and culture, or even better, travel to different countries to experience food, culture, and sites in a new country. Doing these things can help you to gain a new perspective.

NEW PACE:

  • Slowing down your pace in order to reflect, think, pause can help you to be more innovative, spark new ideas, and offer new insight.
  • Speed up your pace when you have big launches or events in your business. That increased pace will make a difference.

NEW PERSPECTIVE:

When you change your physical location and you change your pace it naturally creates a NEW perspective and helps you to be renewed, refreshed, and revived.

In-person retreats are a GREAT way to change place and pace and to learn and grow in life and in business. Retreats can be some of the most transformative experiences.

INVITATION:
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October 24 – October 27, 2024

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The retreat will offer you a chance to change your place, pace and perspective as you discover how to embody and transform into the best version of YOU by:

– Removing limiting beliefs and stumbling blocks
– Revitalizing your energy, abundance and joy
– Breaking free of judgement and other’s opinions

…And gaining:

1. Fulfillment
2. Inner Peace
3. Greater Self Love
4. Confidence
5. Ability to Let Go

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INPUT v. INSIGHT

This week on the VLOG I share the difference between input and insight and how both are needed and necessary for life and business. However, we look at how insight is more powerful.

Discover how intuition, instincts, and inspiration can be powerful to guide you in business and as a believer in business the gifting and relevance of the Holy Spirit and being led by the Holy Spirit in business.

INPUT- something that is put in
For the sake of this conversation INPUT is outward sources (coaches, experts, books, etc.) information that we receive from outside sources. This can be super helpful in life and business.

You can get input from:

  • Coaches & Counselors can help to shift you to the next level through guidance, instructions, directions. Therapists process pain while coaches guided you in various areas. Both are needed and necessary.
  • Computer- AI you put input and the computer gives you awesome output

INSIGHT – the power or act of seeing into a situation
For the sake of this conversation INSIGHT is your inward sources (intuition, inspiration, imagination, Holy Spirit). Information that we are given that comes from inside. This can be the most powerful guidance and includes: Intuition- Direct perception of TRUTH

  • Instinct- Innate impulse, tendency to ACT
  • As believers we are gifted with the Holy Spirit there to guide, instruct, and direct us (John [14:26])

INSIGHT is more powerful than INPUT. Get input but lean on insight.

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