Money Isn’t the Problem. Stewardship Is.

I have a philanthropic heart and I've had to only stand up and offer to give when I'm told to versus anyone under the sun. And part of that's because I was able to see behind the curtain on several occasions, unfortunately, where larger non profits, they would literally raise money in year one and under. The guys, hey, we're gonna, we're bring on these people, we're gonna do these types of things. This is the salaries we want to pay. The money comes in, the money stays at the top. Very little of it gets to the team or the bottom, if you will, the services that they're attempting to do. And that cycle repeats the day before. One of the other speakers, who's now become a really good friend of mine, Jake Hamilton, former lead singer of Jesus Culture, was given the opportunity to not only play worship in the morning at this event, but also speak to the crowd. I love the work he's doing as well. And he was talking specifically about what a God centered masculine protection over the divine feminine looks like. And the very next day, Jake's not there. At that time, he was doing another event or something like that in the area. And I kept feeling like God kept saying to me, she's trustworthy. Because you didn't have. I say you didn't have because you did have. You've had a few key people. That's been part of your journey from early on. Troy being one of them. Amazing man, I love that guy. But additional sets of covering without control. It's like people are willing to, to come be a part of your initiative and believe in your vision as long as they could control your vision rather than just trusting that. Like when I, when I donate and whether it's, it's sharing a platform or sharing a stage with you or whatever, I can trust that whatever I'm donating, you got it. You're buying whatever medication you need to buy. You're getting the utilities however you need to get them. You're renovating the hospital in a way that, that serves the children at a deeper level. Like there's a trust factor there. And it came from. I was, I think I was, I was. I love how God set stuff up because I feel like Jake was a setup from when I heard what I heard and saw what I saw. For me to say, enough's enough. This is ridiculous. There's no. I walked into that room wearing nice clothes, okay? It didn't take long for me to say, what she's asking for is the equivalent of me buying nice clothes twice a Month. Yeah. And these lives are worth far more than a pair of shoes, far more than a top, far more than a pair of pants, far more than a sports car. Right. Far more. Like it's just when I think about what matters to God, it's not how big your lifestyle becomes, it's how effective is your lifestyle. You know, and that fired me up because again, this is, this is where God just. Maybe you doodled it somewhere else, I don't know. But he's like, he showed up like, he's like. And he wouldn't let me go. I tried to sit, like I spoke, I tried to sit down. Yeah. And then I was like this, this still ain't good enough, like. And you know, so anyway, I say all that to say that one of the things I, maybe we can talk a little bit about is how little it actually takes from what we as an American culture would would seem as to help a child like this live another year, have a better lifestyle, have love at the, you know, if they're, if they are going to pass, they have love or get the help they need and be restored because of someone who wants to operate as much grace and mercy as I can. One of the things that I realized growing up was that a lot of folks that unfortunately play an active role in mishandling another human being, let's put it mildly, experience that same trauma themselves. At least my faith that says it's okay to even accidentally harm someone else. Right. Even the accidental nature of harming someone else should be, you know, rectified or redeemed in many respects. I do find it very difficult. You know, as someone who's philanthropic by nature, I have no shortages of people who are interested in financial help. The thing that I've struggled with is I've watched nonprofits that specialize in a certain niche. I won't say come and go, but rise and fall. Sure. And part of it feels like it's an endurance play. Part of it feels like it's not the full appreciation of stewardship. And you know, even in this niche there's, there's been other organizations that have rise really quickly, did a lot of really good, great work, it seemed like early on and then began to have stress fractures and then essentially take a movement that was getting more, more line of sight. And one mistake, two mistakes, five mistakes, you know, that are, that are challenging by nature wreck the whole thing. Yep. $37 trillion is the in the hands of professing faith based believers. Yet the annual need to solve most issues, solve or or basically have a working model, a business model, if you will, of basically tramping a lot of this stuff out is 7 trillion, right? Which means there's already an abundance of 30 trillion that's just being reallocated to. And I have to be cautious of this. I even have a rule. I'll share my rule with you after I say this, but it's being reallocated to selfish, selfish things, right? Like being Instagram fam. Instagram famous. But you know what I mean? Like, you know, just, like, I have to show that I'm this to. To show other people think I have value. And it's. That's an insecurity thing. We. We try to tackle that. It takes me. It take. It's really hard for me to go out and. 10,000, 100,000, a million dollars. Like, I have to work my butt off, right? Right. And I have to give and I have to serve and I have to sweat and I have to bleed and I have to fire and I have to hire and I have to work on me and I got to work on my team and build my infrastructure. And the last thing I want to do is. Is turn it over to people who aren't trustworthy, right? Who are going to be unscrupulous with it and somehow align themselves without. Without building an organization. Great leadership is simply a byproduct of great stewardship. Okay? If you want to limit the chances for your own children to be injured along the way, then the best thing you can do is show up as a great leader, which is mentorship. It's being trustworthy. It's being the kind of. I heard that this thing popped up on Instagram, so probably a month ago. Love the quote. It was a. It was a young lady, and she was doing a story that then turned into an image, and it, like, grew from there. But essentially the story was this. She goes, no, I'm sorry. It was a father. The father says, I never want my daughter to ever say, I can't tell my dad. He goes, I want my daughter to always be able to say, my dad will know exactly what to do. Yeah, right? And the only way you get to a relationship, right, that is not suppressing the communication that's present now. So being a great resource and being the person who put their phone down and stuff like that and be present and, like, you can trust me, I've got you. Yeah. And if they bring something up, it's uncomfortable that you just maybe don't want to hear or whatever. Like, you're like, I know I need to hear this, right? That's an exhibit of love. You know, when I watch, when I look at Jesus handle the people and I mean the people everywhere in the Gospels, right? He always showed up in presentness and ready to listen. Like, he never led with what he knew about them. He always gave them a chance to communicate who they were, who they thought they were to him. And then he would really reframe and say, well, let me, let me tell you're actually this, right? And this is always better. But anyway, one of the, one of the folks on there was like, hey, I need this type of provision. And ironically, the answer to the need for provision is not provision, it's presence. It's like really getting center, really getting. What's my number one thing? How do I learn to think? Like, you know, I was, I was telling my CPA recently because you obviously, you know, I exited in 2023 and you know, whatever mental wealth practices or whatever that I went from, you know, the homelessness, multiple levels of breaking scarcity. Right. And poverty mindset. Right. Multiple levels. And then like now I'm like, dude, I gotta, I have to learn how to think like a billionaire. Yeah. Like, how do they use resource? How do they compound resource? Right? Because I feel like, and I feel like, I feel this is for, I feel this is, I feel this for you and I feel this for me in different capacities or in similarities as we're. We are being called to a higher standard to call others to their higher standard. Faith side of what you're building is, is a massive piece of the. It's a cornerstone and it's unique as far as how it's positioned and how it's presented, which is important because I feel like people have been talked at for decades, if not hundreds of years, and now they're being invited into relationship, friendship and community. So I love that. I also believe I, I showed you a, a real yesterday, something I did a number of about two years ago. A speech, keynote, whatever you want to call it. And I said there, I think the greatest movement of God is going to come through the marketplace. Right. Billy Graham said it before I said it in a different way. And I think that's, I think it's absolutely true. Again, growing a business is a byproduct of not scaling dysfunction or chaos. And if you have that stuff in your, in your team, in your business, in your heart, right. You are not happy. Yeah, you can, you can. I, you know, like again, I work with a lot of entrepreneurs that have made money but lost meaning. Right? And they lost meaning because they made money for the sake of making money or for the sake of proving something or showing that they had worth or value not knowing it's intrinsic all the time. A certain part of me knew I was called to, began to force to be called to, tried to do, got humbled, taught, learned a little more presence, got humbled again, learned a little more present like this cycle. Before we jump into the the health side, I'd love to talk a little bit about the transformation that you've experienced the last gosh, 24 months. Yeah, we could absolutely jump in the hat. I know the hell side a piece of that but, but there's a, there's the, the kin that I love that I'm proud of and proud to be associated with is the authentic one. Like it's, it's not uncommon for you to share your heart with tears on stage without Phil.