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Speaker 2: What's going on everybody and welcome back into the Built

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Speaker 2: Different Podcast. As always, I'll be your host today, doctor

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Speaker 2: Zach Clinton, that helpe and pray each and every one

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Speaker 2: of you had a blessed weekend. And let me start

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Speaker 2: out by saying happy June June is actually recognized. It's

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Speaker 2: kind of a transition period out of what we just

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Speaker 2: did in the month of May mental Health Awareness Month.

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Speaker 2: We had a lot of guests on to talk about

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Speaker 2: a lot of mental health challenges, a lot of topics

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Speaker 2: revolving around this field, this profession, this space.

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Speaker 1: But on top of that, it was Military Appreciation Month.

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Speaker 2: We kind of ended the month with a lot of

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Speaker 2: military veterans and heroes who have laid down their lives

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Speaker 2: for yours and for my freedom. June has recognized as

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Speaker 2: Men's Mental Health Awareness Month, and so over the next

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Speaker 2: several weeks we're going to have guests on that are

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Speaker 2: just going to be able to unpack the topic from

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Speaker 2: a perspective of masculinity. Different stories, different testimonies, different roads

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Speaker 2: that they've walked through, and a lot of them have

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Speaker 2: to deal with mental health and just the challenges that

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Speaker 2: they've been able to experience freedom from today. Our very

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Speaker 2: special guest is someone who can speak to those very issues,

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Speaker 2: but somebody that through a radical encounter with Jesus everything

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Speaker 2: has changed since then. He is an ultrarunner, he is

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Speaker 2: a speaker, he is an advocate for mental health, and

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Speaker 2: he's just a man on a mission, whether it's twenty

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Speaker 2: four hours on a treadmill, one hundred mile races, nearly

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Speaker 2: it is, this is a dude who has the mentality

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Speaker 2: but also is experiencing and walking in the freedom that

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Speaker 2: only God can offer us. Edwin Martin, my friend, thank

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Speaker 2: you so much for joining me, bro, thank you so

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Speaker 2: much for having me. Dude so drove up from Charleston,

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Speaker 2: South Carolina. I want to style it this way. You

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Speaker 2: mentioned today at breakfast First Watch out at the First

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Speaker 2: Watch as we were eating there this morning, you mentioned

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Speaker 2: that you just did it one hundred mile race.

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Speaker 1: What just a couple of days ago?

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Speaker 1: Three days ago. How's the body feeling.

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Speaker 4: Body feels good, feels recovered for sure. It just takes

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Speaker 2: Take me back three days ago when you're running a

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Speaker 2: But what's going through your mind is you're running one

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Speaker 2: Love because you don't run for the accolades or for

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Speaker 2: the affirmation. You're genuinely running for to raise awareness, to

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Speaker 2: that they heard, and that they're known Edwin. What I

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Speaker 2: And somebody might be thinking, like, how does somebody get

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Speaker 1: But then I'm just.

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Speaker 2: Thinking, for a second, you have a journey that you've

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Speaker 2: return to the Lord, that a doorway of hope, even

438
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Speaker 2: in the value of aco or a value of suffering,

439
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Speaker 2: a doorway of hope will be opened wide unto us.

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Speaker 2: And I feel like you're continuing, my friend, to step

441
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Speaker 2: into that doorway of hope, as you are now exuding

442
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Speaker 2: and spreading the hope and the goodws of the Gospel

443
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Speaker 2: into a world that so desperately needs it in that

444
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Speaker 2: of running. And so I kind of want to ask

445
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Speaker 2: you a little bit more so before we get into

446
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Speaker 2: the running sector and the discipline aspects just masculinity. Because

447
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Speaker 2: June is recognized as Men's Mental Health Awareness Month, and

448
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Speaker 2: I know that there's how dare to say, there's a

449
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Speaker 2: lot of dudes listening to this today who edwin are

450
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Speaker 2: silently suffering, and you know that healing can't be found

451
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Speaker 2: in hiding, but they feel like that's just what culture

452
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Speaker 2: and society expects of us as met right. We have

453
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Speaker 2: this pressure to provide, to protect, to perform, but then

454
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Speaker 2: all of a sudden, we find ourselves on a bathroom

455
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Speaker 2: floor where we find ourself at a breaking point. We

456
00:19:58,680 --> 00:20:03,920
Speaker 2: find ourselves hitting rock and there's opportunities, there's relationships, there's people,

457
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Speaker 2: there's trained professionals who genuinely want to walk alongside of you.

458
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Speaker 2: But for some reason, a lot of us have enough

459
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Speaker 2: brokenness and trauma in our lives that the one thing

460
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Speaker 2: that hurt us the most was someone. So therefore, why

461
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Speaker 2: would I let someone into my life speak to just

462
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Speaker 2: how you would maybe see masculinity and what does it

463
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Speaker 2: mean to be in an experienced biblical manhood.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's good, I think, especially in my story, I

465
00:20:27,800 --> 00:20:30,199
Speaker 4: just thought that it was a sign of weakness. Like

466
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Speaker 4: just to be able to speak and say, hey, I'm

467
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Speaker 4: feeling this way, you know, and just having that just

468
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Speaker 4: humility is just a massive thing for men, you know,

469
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Speaker 4: just knowing that, you know, one that guy doesn't need

470
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Speaker 4: us at all, truth, but it's an honor that he

471
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Speaker 4: wants to use us. And having that attitude within all

472
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Speaker 4: my areas of my life. But looking back on my

473
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Speaker 4: story of just you know, I spent eighteen years of

474
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Speaker 4: my life not being able to say anything out loud

475
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Speaker 4: because I felt so ashamed of the things that I did.

476
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Speaker 4: You know, That's why it just goes back to the

477
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Speaker 4: root of the gospel, you know, just looking back on

478
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Speaker 4: the cross of like, you know, if He's really paid

479
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Speaker 4: it all, you know, I'm gonna look back at that.

480
00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:10,600
Speaker 4: I'm continually drawback to that and say, dang, he paid

481
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Speaker 4: it all. All the things that I would think, all

482
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Speaker 4: the things that I would do, all the things that

483
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Speaker 4: I would continuously put before him, he paid it all

484
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Speaker 4: on the cross. So continuously drawing back to that and

485
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Speaker 4: the sacrifice that He paid for us is just from

486
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Speaker 4: a perspective of the gospel. But in terms of me

487
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Speaker 4: speaking out and you know, masculinity, I think there's a

488
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Speaker 4: big just distinction right in the world right now of

489
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Speaker 4: mascularly and just emotional suppression, you know, being able to

490
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Speaker 4: say that, hey, there is a massive problem within men

491
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Speaker 4: and mental health in this world that we live in today,

492
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Speaker 4: because you know, you see some of these top leaders,

493
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Speaker 4: like they have all the fame and all the power

494
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Speaker 4: and all the money and everything that you need, and

495
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Speaker 4: they lay their head down to night they're poor in

496
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Speaker 4: spirit and they're like, Wow, what am I missing?

497
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Speaker 3: You know, what am I missing? Why can't I talk?

498
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Speaker 3: Why do I feel so heavy?

499
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Speaker 4: Why do I feel these changes completely just like I'm

500
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Speaker 4: carrying a boat behind me, you know, because that you

501
00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:03,160
Speaker 4: just have to say something. You'd have to say, hey,

502
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Speaker 4: I'm feeling this way, and that a saying that we

503
00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:08,520
Speaker 4: say at our church is your loved and your story matters,

504
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Speaker 4: you know, because it matters to God. And knowing that

505
00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:14,000
Speaker 4: there are so many people out there or willing that

506
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Speaker 4: have ears to hear you and want to know your

507
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Speaker 4: story because it matters to the Lord. And actually looking

508
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Speaker 4: back on that of like how many people were actually

509
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Speaker 4: receptive of once I was. It just starts with one

510
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Speaker 4: conversation or one moment or one sentence of saying it

511
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Speaker 4: to someone and just the domino effect of people willing

512
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Speaker 4: to hear you, and you just getting more comfortable being

513
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Speaker 4: vulnerable with people, because when you're vulnerable with people, to

514
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Speaker 4: be vulnerable with you right back. And that's where these

515
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Speaker 4: conversations start to be opened with, you know, just freedom

516
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Speaker 4: and being able to talk about these things that we're

517
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Speaker 4: just so we're broken people in need of a perfect

518
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Speaker 4: savior and knowing that we're going to screw up time

519
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Speaker 4: and time again. And it's okay to talk about these

520
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Speaker 4: things because nine times out of tend someone's gone through

521
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Speaker 4: something that you have or has known someone who's gone

522
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Speaker 4: through something to be able to pour on you in

523
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Speaker 4: that way rather than trying to boggle up and do

524
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Speaker 4: on your own and say, hey, I got this, just

525
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Speaker 4: one more day, just one more moment.

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Speaker 3: You know that.

527
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Speaker 4: People, we were called to carry each other's burdens and

528
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Speaker 4: not not literally do this life alone. You know, starting

529
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Speaker 4: in Genesis, you know, not to do life alone. And

530
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Speaker 4: you know, just having that weight lift off me that

531
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Speaker 4: there are people out there who care and love and

532
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Speaker 4: like that's why even just with what I do on

533
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Speaker 4: social media right now, and you know, my mission is

534
00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:29,199
Speaker 4: to literally just know people, just to let them know

535
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Speaker 4: that I'm here, I'm available, I love them, their story matters,

536
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Speaker 4: and that they're seen, you know, because that might be

537
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Speaker 4: the one time that they encounter with the spirit. Is

538
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Speaker 4: just me that moment, you know, just knowing that they

539
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Speaker 4: are loved and seen. Just buy a video on social

540
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Speaker 4: media and how much that could play a factor in

541
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Speaker 4: their life, the amount of dms that I've got and say, hey, dude,

542
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Speaker 4: your video running on a treadmill save my life. I

543
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Speaker 4: was seconds away from pulling the trigger of my life

544
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Speaker 4: and I ended it, and your moment of just running

545
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Speaker 4: changed it. And like that is the heaviness where I'm

546
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Speaker 4: just like, if God's called me to do these crazy,

547
00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:09,479
Speaker 4: insane challenges, I'm gonna be faithful because it's you know,

548
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Speaker 4: it's just giving people just an opportunity to keep going.

549
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Speaker 4: And like that's why I'm just bringing the mission field

550
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Speaker 4: into this. It's just because you know, Hope has a name,

551
00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:19,160
Speaker 4: and his name is Jesus, and I'm going to continue

552
00:24:19,160 --> 00:24:21,800
Speaker 4: to just point back to that of like I've been

553
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Speaker 4: in the pits of this and he saved me out

554
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Speaker 4: of this pit of misery, you know, and I'm going

555
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Speaker 4: to give that same hope to other people because I

556
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Speaker 4: know what the Lord can do in and through each

557
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Speaker 4: and every person.

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Speaker 2: So what God's doing through you and your life and

559
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Speaker 2: your leadership is it's so encouraging, dude, it really is.

560
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Speaker 2: You're equipping people with the good news but also with

561
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Speaker 2: this idea that they can push beyond their own limits.

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Speaker 2: I'm just thinking about me, you and Max s eating

563
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Speaker 2: their first watch this morning in Rose coming up right,

564
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Speaker 2: who works their first watch shot out to her and

565
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Speaker 2: just her being courageous enough to ask, like, here are you?

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Speaker 1: Edwin Martin?

567
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Speaker 2: Right? I followed you on Instagram a month ago and

568
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Speaker 2: your content is so INSI aspiring to me because it's

569
00:25:01,400 --> 00:25:04,360
Speaker 2: reminding me that I'm capable of more. And like when

570
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Speaker 2: you hear things like that, I mean, that has to

571
00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:09,880
Speaker 2: be just a humbling experience to know the man that

572
00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:12,399
Speaker 2: you were, the man that we still struggled to become.

573
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Speaker 2: But at the same time, the opportunities and the doors

574
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Speaker 2: that God is open just to reach the one right,

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Speaker 2: Like you said, you don't run to even just reach

576
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Speaker 2: the masses. You run for that one person who might

577
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Speaker 2: reach out and say, brother, you helped me not do

578
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Speaker 2: the unthinkable because you just chose to run. There's a

579
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Speaker 2: video that you posted on social media of after project

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Speaker 2: twenty four to seventy twenty four miles or twenty four

581
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Speaker 2: hours they should say miles way longer than that twenty

582
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Speaker 2: four hours on a treadmill. You just sat there and

583
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Speaker 2: you could I could sense you just experience the moment,

584
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Speaker 2: like you were weeping with tears just rushing down your face,

585
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Speaker 2: and you had a massive group of guys and girls

586
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Speaker 2: surrounding you and loving on you and praying for you

587
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Speaker 2: and probably testifying of the goodness that they just experience

588
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Speaker 2: of God in that moment. Take me back just to

589
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Speaker 2: that moment, like what's going through you? And what was

590
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Speaker 2: the emotion?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there was a massive weight of emotion finishing that.

592
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Speaker 4: And it's it's truly an experience that I can't even,

593
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Speaker 4: like still to this day put into words, but I'll

594
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Speaker 4: try to give a little summary of it. But just

595
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Speaker 4: having the idea random idea just prompted when I was

596
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Speaker 4: just praying, when I was in the treadmill, of like, God,

597
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Speaker 4: I want you to use me in some way using

598
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Speaker 4: this treadmill, and he put a nonprofit. I was like,

599
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Speaker 4: you know, if you want me to do this, put

600
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Speaker 4: me in connection with a nonprofit that needs help. And

601
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Speaker 4: I was like, okay, you know, spend some time praying

602
00:26:40,760 --> 00:26:43,679
Speaker 4: on it and just talking with some people, and literally

603
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:45,840
Speaker 4: within two days a nonprofit say hey, like we need

604
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Speaker 4: we need some money to host it a big event

605
00:26:48,119 --> 00:26:50,320
Speaker 4: within two months and not ended up being questioned recovery,

606
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Speaker 4: so immediately, just how quick things started to come.

607
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Speaker 3: And I was like, obviously, like the Lord's called me

608
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Speaker 3: to this, like we gotta go.

609
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Speaker 4: We got to make these things happen, and we got

610
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Speaker 4: to do it, you know. And the twenty four hours

611
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:05,600
Speaker 4: was just random. But the seventy where the project point

612
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Speaker 4: of verse seventy comes in was there were seventy people

613
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Speaker 4: who took their own lives in the Charleston County last year.

614
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Speaker 3: And I was like, that number is so high, And.

615
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Speaker 4: You know, I was talking with the quest guys and

616
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Speaker 4: they're like, you know, should we do she used to

617
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Speaker 4: do seventy miles to honor them. I'm like, no, I

618
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:20,200
Speaker 4: need to go more for them, you know. I don't

619
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Speaker 4: want to just stop at seventy because they need they

620
00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:24,440
Speaker 4: needed to go one more day, and I want to

621
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Speaker 4: go way beyond that just to prove that they can

622
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Speaker 4: keep going just one more day. And so that's the

623
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Speaker 4: initial way that it started how it came about. But

624
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Speaker 4: just on paper, I shouldn't have finished that challenge. I

625
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:42,080
Speaker 4: really shouldn't have just because in early, just like the

626
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:44,680
Speaker 4: Ultra Marathon, my stomach flipped. Early I was in shambles.

627
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:46,239
Speaker 4: I was having to run to the bathroom back and

628
00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:48,760
Speaker 4: forth a lot, like more times than you could ever imagine,

629
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Speaker 4: hopping off the treadmill. I'm on the live stream, like

630
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Speaker 4: why does he keep leaving? I'm like, my stomach's and shambles,

631
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Speaker 4: and I couldn't do anything about it. So within the

632
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Speaker 4: first hour, so I had twenty three hours of just straight.

633
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Speaker 3: Pain in my stomach and not able to get down calories.

634
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:03,520
Speaker 4: And when you can't get down calories and Ultra Marathon,

635
00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:06,080
Speaker 4: you're pretty much you're walking on ice with getting rabbed

636
00:28:06,080 --> 00:28:09,040
Speaker 4: in biosis. And when you get rabel, I mean you're

637
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:13,240
Speaker 4: done for. So I basically gutted out ninety miles of

638
00:28:13,280 --> 00:28:16,600
Speaker 4: that challenge on like little to no fuel, literally little

639
00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:18,320
Speaker 4: to no fuel, and I got to about one hundred

640
00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:21,000
Speaker 4: and ten miles, went to the bathroom and I was like,

641
00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:24,600
Speaker 4: you know, I got to throw up and ended up

642
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:27,439
Speaker 4: throwing blood. Throwing up blood at that time, and at

643
00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:29,960
Speaker 4: the time, I had two buddies in there and they're like, no,

644
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:32,320
Speaker 4: it's just raspberries. And I was like, there's no way

645
00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:36,080
Speaker 4: I taste metal in my mouth. Yeah, And I was like, nah,

646
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:38,000
Speaker 4: I can taste the blood. And they're like, no, it's

647
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:40,440
Speaker 4: it's raspberries. And I was like, ok okay, so whatever.

648
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:42,520
Speaker 4: In that moment, they convinced me that it was raspberries,

649
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:43,920
Speaker 4: and I was like, Okay, let's time to hop back

650
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 4: on that treadmill for six more hours whatever it was,

651
00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:50,560
Speaker 4: whatever it was in that hour, But just moments like that,

652
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:54,280
Speaker 4: and knowing why I was doing the challenge and the

653
00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:56,960
Speaker 4: messages that were flowing in during the challenge, and just

654
00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:59,360
Speaker 4: looking back at my story and God's faithfulness and the

655
00:28:59,360 --> 00:29:01,280
Speaker 4: way that he pulled out of these depths of just

656
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:04,320
Speaker 4: misery was the way of emotion. Like I think I

657
00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:06,400
Speaker 4: was getting emotional within an hour left of when I

658
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:09,280
Speaker 4: was finishing. I was like, one, He's given me the ability

659
00:29:09,280 --> 00:29:11,880
Speaker 4: to do these things, and two, just thinking about people,

660
00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:14,120
Speaker 4: so many people that were suffering out there that didn't

661
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:18,240
Speaker 4: have their voice to say something, and just looking back

662
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:21,400
Speaker 4: of like how my story almost ended, but now how

663
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 4: God's used me in such a big way. And in

664
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:27,280
Speaker 4: terms of running, it's just running and for people to

665
00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:31,320
Speaker 4: being inspired and encouraged to keep going. The emotions I

666
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:33,800
Speaker 4: just I just couldn't stop them. I just was just

667
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,640
Speaker 4: overfilled with joy the amount of people who were supporting

668
00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:38,520
Speaker 4: me and the amount of people that I knew that

669
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:40,640
Speaker 4: were going to be inspired by this because of how

670
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:43,160
Speaker 4: insane it was. You know, if God put this crazy

671
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 4: idea and insane challenge on my heart for a reason,

672
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 4: I knew that he was going to show up in

673
00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:50,040
Speaker 4: such a big way like he always does, and he did.

674
00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:54,040
Speaker 4: And just looking constantly drawing back of like, you know,

675
00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:58,080
Speaker 4: if I can endure this hardship for twenty four hours

676
00:29:58,440 --> 00:30:00,960
Speaker 4: to inspire someone to keep going for just one more day,

677
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:04,120
Speaker 4: it's a win and it is a victory to be

678
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:07,600
Speaker 4: able to do this because it inspired someone to keep

679
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:09,840
Speaker 4: going or speak up, or have that conversation or send

680
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:11,880
Speaker 4: that text whatever. It was like looking back on my store,

681
00:30:11,920 --> 00:30:14,800
Speaker 4: it was that text, you know, send that text to someone, share,

682
00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:16,760
Speaker 4: tell them that you love them. Looking back on that,

683
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:20,120
Speaker 4: and that's just why the emotions were just so overwhelming.

684
00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:22,800
Speaker 4: It like literally genuinely, it wasn't even the pain. It

685
00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:25,200
Speaker 4: was literally just the magnitude of the situation, the weight

686
00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:30,280
Speaker 4: of how just so many people that I wanted to

687
00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:35,120
Speaker 4: inspire along this challenge and was able to just see

688
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:39,840
Speaker 4: the weight of it in all honesty, which was beautiful.

689
00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:44,040
Speaker 2: I remember watching that video and just says, the tears

690
00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:46,840
Speaker 2: were flowing down your cheeks. Brother, I mean, my eyes

691
00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:49,719
Speaker 2: start welling with tears because I know you, and I

692
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:51,680
Speaker 2: know why you do what you do, and I know

693
00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 2: that you're not doing it for yourself or again the accolades,

694
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:56,200
Speaker 2: while you're doing it for the one like the one

695
00:30:56,240 --> 00:30:59,400
Speaker 2: person that needs it in that moment, And I just

696
00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:01,560
Speaker 2: think about what I get to do as a counselor

697
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:04,480
Speaker 2: and just the joy it is to walk alongside of

698
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:06,720
Speaker 2: people through the crazy journey that we call life, and

699
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:09,040
Speaker 2: as you do a lot in the suicide prevention space.

700
00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:11,680
Speaker 2: Just some stats for some people out there listening to

701
00:31:11,760 --> 00:31:15,440
Speaker 2: understand the reality of the moment. Twenty five percent of

702
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:18,480
Speaker 2: men on any given day walking around with the mental illness.

703
00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:21,160
Speaker 2: Seventy five percent of those twenty five percent never receive

704
00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:25,120
Speaker 2: help in this Officially early enough timetable seventeen hundred and

705
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:28,200
Speaker 2: seventy men in their life every single day. Is over

706
00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:31,360
Speaker 2: seventy percent of all suicides are completed by men, typically

707
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 2: because of the lethality that we choose to do it

708
00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:36,160
Speaker 2: by which we do. And so there's so many stats

709
00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:40,719
Speaker 2: that just continue to reveal this depth of despair that

710
00:31:40,800 --> 00:31:43,960
Speaker 2: countless men are walking in, that countless men are again

711
00:31:44,080 --> 00:31:47,440
Speaker 2: suffering in silence, but just the reminder, just their running

712
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:49,360
Speaker 2: on a treadmill. And I want to jump here for

713
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:53,080
Speaker 2: a second to this nearly two hundred mile run across

714
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 2: the state of South Carolina.

715
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 1: I know that was for a different cause.

716
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:58,640
Speaker 2: I believe it was for something regarding was a cancer

717
00:31:59,200 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 2: research in different things, but just like running for those

718
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:06,600
Speaker 2: who can't run and doing something not for on your behalf,

719
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:09,320
Speaker 2: but on the behalf of others, Like what goes into

720
00:32:09,600 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 2: a run across the state if you don't mind me asking.

721
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:15,960
Speaker 4: That was an adventure to say the least, and so

722
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:20,120
Speaker 4: we did. So the main mission behind this was I

723
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 4: have a buddy named Ryan Cass and he has a

724
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:25,440
Speaker 4: foundation called Breaking Ribbons. So in an ideal world, you know,

725
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 4: when a runner finishes the race, the ribbon splits, you know,

726
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 4: but that's not the case for a lot of these

727
00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:33,719
Speaker 4: people who have cancer and are fighting these battles every

728
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:36,880
Speaker 4: single day. So what he does, and I've just been

729
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 4: honored to partner with him and run alongside him, is

730
00:32:40,200 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 4: he is in partnership with a few organizations that find

731
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 4: families who desperately need the financial help in their walk

732
00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 4: of life. So what we got to do, which was

733
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:52,120
Speaker 4: so cool before I started talking about the run, is

734
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 4: we got to literally hand deliver the checks to these

735
00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:58,840
Speaker 4: families who are battling cancer. The first family that we

736
00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:01,720
Speaker 4: got to go to was living in a hotel, three kids,

737
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 4: single mom, stage four breast cancer, and we got to

738
00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 4: give them five thousand dollars. And that you would have

739
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:11,520
Speaker 4: never seen me crying so hard in a place ever

740
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 4: by seeing a three year old burst down in tears

741
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:16,520
Speaker 4: of knowing that her life was changed for even the

742
00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 4: next two months by five thousand dollars, And just puts

743
00:33:19,960 --> 00:33:23,360
Speaker 4: into perspective of how blessed that I am just to

744
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:25,760
Speaker 4: be able to one to do this challenge, but two

745
00:33:25,840 --> 00:33:27,840
Speaker 4: the life that I get to live right now, And

746
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:32,600
Speaker 4: just puts in perspective of, like, you know, two hundred miles.

747
00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:35,560
Speaker 3: That was hard. That was very hard, very extremely hard.

748
00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:38,040
Speaker 4: Yeah, but knowing that that pain was going to go

749
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:39,640
Speaker 4: away and I was going to recover from that, Lord

750
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:42,000
Speaker 4: Willing and I did, And knowing that there was a

751
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 4: finish line to that run, like we started in rock

752
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:45,320
Speaker 4: Hill and we were going to finish in Charleston and

753
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 4: we did.

754
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:47,160
Speaker 3: There was a finish line within that.

755
00:33:47,200 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 4: Some of these people who are battling cancer, it's a

756
00:33:50,040 --> 00:33:52,520
Speaker 4: long process and you know that might be the end

757
00:33:52,640 --> 00:33:55,520
Speaker 4: for them, you know, is their end of their cancer treatment.

758
00:33:55,600 --> 00:34:00,200
Speaker 4: So just having that was just so cool and having

759
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 4: a why that was so much bigger than myself or

760
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 4: the run across the the state was absolutely unreal. But

761
00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:09,439
Speaker 4: the run part was the wildest thing I've ever done.

762
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:11,359
Speaker 4: You Know, people keep asking me, what's the hardest challenge

763
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:13,200
Speaker 4: you've done? Is the treadmill? Is the run across the state?

764
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 4: Is it the one hundred miles around the track?

765
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:15,279
Speaker 3: Like what is it?

766
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:17,719
Speaker 4: And I'd have to say it definitely is that the

767
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:20,319
Speaker 4: run across the state to a capacity. Because we had

768
00:34:20,360 --> 00:34:23,279
Speaker 4: no organization of this, we literally just we started at

769
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 4: Fort Mile High School in the upstate of South Carolina

770
00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:31,480
Speaker 4: and we started Ryan wrestled at Fort Mill, so he

771
00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:35,600
Speaker 4: we literally started at their high school gym. Wow, and

772
00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:38,680
Speaker 4: literally just went all the way there to Charleston. We

773
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:41,719
Speaker 4: were running on highway shoulders that were about two feet

774
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:46,000
Speaker 4: wide with eighteen wheelers just rolling by us and had

775
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,319
Speaker 4: no idea what we were doing. And you know, when

776
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:50,960
Speaker 4: you're one hundred miles deep, you really don't have the

777
00:34:51,000 --> 00:34:54,239
Speaker 4: best of balance. So when you're literally just walking on

778
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:57,800
Speaker 4: thin eyes with literally getting smashed by a car, which

779
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:00,960
Speaker 4: was insane, but just being on your feet for sixty

780
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:04,640
Speaker 4: three hours was like wow, Like I had literally felt

781
00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:06,440
Speaker 4: like I had knives in my shins, like they were

782
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:10,680
Speaker 4: swelled up. It was insane. But we had such a

783
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:13,480
Speaker 4: great crew rolling with us. They literally were in two

784
00:35:13,600 --> 00:35:17,280
Speaker 4: white mini vans, like eight of them in each. No sleep,

785
00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:20,680
Speaker 4: no shower, no nothing, and they were able to just

786
00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:23,080
Speaker 4: pick it up and just go because they they wanted

787
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:23,840
Speaker 4: to honor the mission.

788
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:26,400
Speaker 3: They loved us so much that they wanted to.

789
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 4: Spend three days of their life literally trekking across the

790
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:33,000
Speaker 4: state in a van, following three dudes running for a

791
00:35:33,040 --> 00:35:36,920
Speaker 4: cause that was bigger than their self. So just I

792
00:35:36,920 --> 00:35:41,520
Speaker 4: mean that in itself, those long three day ultra marathons.

793
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:43,279
Speaker 4: That was my first one that I had gone over

794
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:46,200
Speaker 4: one hundred miles, so it was uncharted territory. So every

795
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:48,200
Speaker 4: step after one hundred was a distance pr for me.

796
00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:51,160
Speaker 4: So I'm just like, okay, wow, let's just do it. Yeah,

797
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:53,880
Speaker 4: let's just double it, and let's do it in sixty hours.

798
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:58,320
Speaker 4: This so just every step was uncharted territory for me.

799
00:35:58,440 --> 00:36:01,240
Speaker 4: But being able to look back at that of like, wow,

800
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:05,680
Speaker 4: like we actually ran across an entire state is insane.

801
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:08,719
Speaker 4: But knowing continually drawing back of how much money we

802
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:10,880
Speaker 4: got to raise and how much attention got brought to

803
00:36:11,239 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 4: these families that we got to honor at the end

804
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:14,239
Speaker 4: of it, what made it all worth it.

805
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:18,520
Speaker 2: Doctor Andrew Huberman out of Stanford University, who I'm sure

806
00:36:18,520 --> 00:36:20,840
Speaker 2: you're well acquainted with. He has a quote where he

807
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:24,359
Speaker 2: says we should do self elected hard things so that

808
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:28,120
Speaker 2: when life's non elected challenges arise, and they will, I

809
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:30,480
Speaker 2: can tell myself, I don't know how I'm going to

810
00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:32,719
Speaker 2: do this. The one thing I know is that I

811
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:37,080
Speaker 2: can do hard things. This idea that chosen suffering is

812
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:39,239
Speaker 2: really the only way in which we can prepare for

813
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:42,839
Speaker 2: the unchosen suffering moments of our lives and being able

814
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:45,960
Speaker 2: to discipline ourselves. I'm just interested in knowing that you

815
00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:49,120
Speaker 2: and your buddy Max and countless other people that you

816
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:50,920
Speaker 2: spend a lot of time with, like you guys do

817
00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:54,800
Speaker 2: hard things and you choose to do them. And again,

818
00:36:54,880 --> 00:36:56,359
Speaker 2: people might look at you when we were talking about

819
00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:57,759
Speaker 2: this a breakfast, people might look at you and say,

820
00:36:57,760 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 2: you guys are crazy.

821
00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:00,440
Speaker 1: Like why would you do that?

822
00:37:00,520 --> 00:37:00,719
Speaker 3: Yeah?

823
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:04,480
Speaker 2: Right, but like your call to this and you remind people.

824
00:37:04,480 --> 00:37:06,200
Speaker 2: And we'll get into the limiting beliefs here in a second,

825
00:37:06,200 --> 00:37:07,719
Speaker 2: But I just want to know as you choose to

826
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:12,480
Speaker 2: do these endurance challenges that again people can't even have

827
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:15,360
Speaker 2: them in their brains. What has it taught you about

828
00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:18,520
Speaker 2: resilience of the human body, resilience of the human mind,

829
00:37:18,560 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 2: resilience of Edwin Martin.

830
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, the first thing that comes to mind is the

831
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:26,399
Speaker 4: mind quits way before the body does every time.

832
00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:27,399
Speaker 3: Every time.

833
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:29,440
Speaker 4: I mean, if I would tell you looking back on

834
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:32,040
Speaker 4: these races, I'd be like, twenty five miles, I'm done.

835
00:37:32,239 --> 00:37:34,200
Speaker 4: My mind's like I'm good. I don't want to do

836
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:36,440
Speaker 4: this anymore. We're not made for this. You're not built

837
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:38,680
Speaker 4: for this. All of the lies that were just being

838
00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:41,520
Speaker 4: spoken over me. So looking back on that of just

839
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:45,120
Speaker 4: all these crazy challenges, like way before the challenge even

840
00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:48,040
Speaker 4: got finished, I wanted to quit, you know, and being

841
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:49,560
Speaker 4: able to say that, I was like, yeah, this is

842
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:51,960
Speaker 4: the war is literally one in the mind. It's not

843
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:54,160
Speaker 4: the physical stuff. And that's why I just harp on

844
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 4: people say, you're capable more than you would ever think

845
00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:58,440
Speaker 4: or imagine. You just have to do it. You have

846
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 4: to put yourself in the arena. And that's why I

847
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 4: love to do that these things is just because I

848
00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:05,439
Speaker 4: know what I'm going to learn. I know I'm gonna

849
00:38:05,440 --> 00:38:07,479
Speaker 4: want to get out of these things after I get done.

850
00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:10,000
Speaker 4: Like these moments of sufferinger and teach me so many things.

851
00:38:10,080 --> 00:38:11,239
Speaker 4: It's going to make a lot of errors in my

852
00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:13,719
Speaker 4: life a lot easier, you know. It's that hard conversation

853
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:16,080
Speaker 4: that that job or I mean, whatever it is, it's

854
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:17,640
Speaker 4: going to be a lot because I just draw back

855
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:19,399
Speaker 4: these moments like dude, you ran one hundred miles, Dude,

856
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:22,799
Speaker 4: you ran two hundred miles, but this is nothing, you know,

857
00:38:22,960 --> 00:38:24,920
Speaker 4: Like just that's why I just put myself in the arena,

858
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:27,680
Speaker 4: because one is it's you learn so much, but two

859
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:29,399
Speaker 4: is such a deeper reliance on the Lord at that time.

860
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:32,680
Speaker 4: It's like, God, God, if this was my strength, I'm done,

861
00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:34,920
Speaker 4: no shot. You know, God, I need your strength. I

862
00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:36,680
Speaker 4: need you to continue to work in and through me

863
00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:40,200
Speaker 4: during this challenge, you know, And just having that attitude

864
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:45,200
Speaker 4: of knowing that you the war is one or lost

865
00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:48,080
Speaker 4: in your mind every time you know there's no debate,

866
00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 4: and knowing that you're capable of so much more than

867
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 4: you think.

868
00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:52,239
Speaker 3: You just have to do it, you know.

869
00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:53,960
Speaker 4: I feel like a lot of people in this life

870
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 4: will go through everyday life of just wanting that comfort

871
00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:00,400
Speaker 4: of the everyday life of the normal life nine to

872
00:39:00,440 --> 00:39:02,840
Speaker 4: five and won't take any I'm not hating on the

873
00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:05,080
Speaker 4: nine to five job, but I'm just saying, like stepping

874
00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:07,360
Speaker 4: out of their comfort zone for anything, and that's different

875
00:39:07,400 --> 00:39:10,200
Speaker 4: for everybody. It doesn't have to be these crazy runs.

876
00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:12,520
Speaker 4: It's maybe going to the gym, finding these disciplines, finding

877
00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:15,399
Speaker 4: these routines that will actually prevail them for a better

878
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 4: life and set themselves up for a longevity of a

879
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:20,759
Speaker 4: healthy lifestyle. And it just plays into so many areas

880
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:23,279
Speaker 4: that people neglect because they don't want to step on

881
00:39:23,320 --> 00:39:25,920
Speaker 4: the other side of something that sucks, and everything worth

882
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:28,440
Speaker 4: having is on this other side of something that sucks.

883
00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:29,319
Speaker 3: It really does.

884
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:33,040
Speaker 2: Remember years ago, a guy who's a friend named Jededi

885
00:39:33,160 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 2: Thurner once told me that there are two drugs of

886
00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:39,239
Speaker 2: choice in culture and society, comfort and convenience. He went

887
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:42,120
Speaker 2: on to say, think about exactly like our food fasts,

888
00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:44,600
Speaker 2: we like our men and women easy with like success overnight.

889
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:46,360
Speaker 2: We want to lose thirty pounds in thirty days. We

890
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:48,520
Speaker 2: like cheat sheets, a set of study guides, handouts, and

891
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:50,680
Speaker 2: set of hard work welfare set of jobs. We want

892
00:39:50,719 --> 00:39:54,440
Speaker 2: God's promises without God's processes, and ultimately we want our

893
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:57,080
Speaker 2: destiny at a discount. But you have to remind people

894
00:39:57,160 --> 00:39:59,839
Speaker 2: zac that greatness never goes on sale, and vision never.

895
00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:02,920
Speaker 2: So then you finished it with this. Anything worth value

896
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:05,799
Speaker 2: in this life will always come with the cost, and

897
00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:10,000
Speaker 2: it's being willing to pay the price. And it's like

898
00:40:10,200 --> 00:40:12,919
Speaker 2: doing these things every day. In neuroscience, what's fascinating about

899
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:14,880
Speaker 2: the research behind is that there's a region in the

900
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:18,480
Speaker 2: brain called the anterior mid singular cortex that actually grows

901
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:20,799
Speaker 2: and expands and becomes more flexible the more you do

902
00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 2: hard things. In other words, the more you do hard

903
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:25,239
Speaker 2: things like you just mentioned, you can look back and

904
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:28,640
Speaker 2: build off of the evidence, which only builds confidence for

905
00:40:28,680 --> 00:40:30,520
Speaker 2: the next hard thing that you'll do, even if it's

906
00:40:30,560 --> 00:40:35,000
Speaker 2: a different thing. Perseverance literally can be hardwired not just

907
00:40:35,040 --> 00:40:37,760
Speaker 2: into your brain and your synapses, but like your DNA

908
00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:42,320
Speaker 2: and into your being. I'm just thinking of the limiting

909
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:46,400
Speaker 2: beliefs that you mention that people experience in life, the stories,

910
00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:49,840
Speaker 2: the narratives that we develop over time. I can't I'll

911
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:53,200
Speaker 2: never be able to write I'm not good enough all

912
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 2: of these things. And I just am a firm believer

913
00:40:56,239 --> 00:40:58,600
Speaker 2: that the difference between those who win and those who don't,

914
00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:01,040
Speaker 2: whether in sports or in life, is the story we share,

915
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:04,880
Speaker 2: the narrative we repeatedly think on. And I think of

916
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:07,000
Speaker 2: a guy named doctor James Gills. I don't know if

917
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:09,560
Speaker 2: you've ever heard of that name, but he's a guy

918
00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:12,759
Speaker 2: that in it was interviewed by John Gordon, and he

919
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:17,040
Speaker 2: did some unbelievable feats in this ultra athlete space. He

920
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:20,560
Speaker 2: has the world record for six double iron man's before

921
00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:25,360
Speaker 2: Edwin Martin came around, and six double iron man's, So

922
00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:27,640
Speaker 2: obviously for the audience out there that maybe isn't a

923
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:30,160
Speaker 2: quaint with an Ironman competition two point four mile swim,

924
00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:32,319
Speaker 2: one hundred and twelve mile bike ride, twenty six point

925
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:32,959
Speaker 2: two mile run.

926
00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:34,560
Speaker 1: He would do that, he would.

927
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:35,960
Speaker 2: Go to sleep for about eight hours or so, wake

928
00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:39,239
Speaker 2: up and do another Ironman the next day. And he

929
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:42,279
Speaker 2: talks about upon his retirement. His last one was at

930
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:44,840
Speaker 2: the age of fifty nine, right before he turned sixty,

931
00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:47,040
Speaker 2: and so like, this is a bad man, right, You

932
00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:50,440
Speaker 2: talk about discipline and stuff, all of this, But at

933
00:41:50,440 --> 00:41:53,839
Speaker 2: his retirement party, somebody asked him a question of like,

934
00:41:53,960 --> 00:41:55,279
Speaker 2: how did you do it?

935
00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:57,040
Speaker 1: How'd you push yourself to the.

936
00:41:57,040 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 2: Extreme beyond any possible human life, And he said, I

937
00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:04,480
Speaker 2: mastered the art of talking to myself more than I

938
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:07,400
Speaker 2: listened to myself. If I were to listen to myself,

939
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:10,000
Speaker 2: Like you mentioned, the mind is a very limiting thing.

940
00:42:10,520 --> 00:42:14,799
Speaker 2: Default is pessimism. Default is you can Default is give up.

941
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:15,879
Speaker 2: Default is why are.

942
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:16,839
Speaker 1: You doing this? To begin with?

943
00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:19,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, But then when you begin to speak life

944
00:42:19,719 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 2: over your life, you realize that you're the most influential

945
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:25,920
Speaker 2: person in your life because nobody talks to you more

946
00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:27,920
Speaker 2: than you do. And so, Ed, I'm just thinking as

947
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:30,239
Speaker 2: you're running out there, Like what are the things that

948
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:33,680
Speaker 2: you are meditating and marinating on, and what do you

949
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:36,640
Speaker 2: speak over yourself in moments when you would rather give up?

950
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:40,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's writ in the proverbs. It's as

951
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:43,839
Speaker 4: man thinks, so is he. Just when I'm in these

952
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:48,359
Speaker 4: moments of like ultra marathons and you know, even hard

953
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:51,239
Speaker 4: situations in life, it's just knowing that it's just one

954
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:53,400
Speaker 4: more minute. In these ultra marathons, it is just one

955
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:55,160
Speaker 4: more minute. Make it to the next mile, make it

956
00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:58,040
Speaker 4: to the next half mile. You like, you have people

957
00:42:58,080 --> 00:42:59,520
Speaker 4: love you and the are caring for you and doing

958
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:02,520
Speaker 4: these things and walking alongside you. And that's the beauty

959
00:43:02,560 --> 00:43:03,920
Speaker 4: of like why I get to do these things and

960
00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:07,120
Speaker 4: people that I'm so grateful for that get to just

961
00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:09,879
Speaker 4: come experience this stuff with me, because if it wasn't

962
00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:12,719
Speaker 4: for them, I wouldn't be able to do it. And

963
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:16,279
Speaker 4: having them just supporting me through all this stuff, like

964
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 4: people were carrying my water bottles, doing all the nutrition,

965
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:20,719
Speaker 4: all the stuff, like I can't do it alone, and

966
00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:22,760
Speaker 4: just having that in my mindset of like.

967
00:43:24,239 --> 00:43:25,600
Speaker 3: One, I've been here before too.

968
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:27,839
Speaker 4: You just got to make it one more step, one

969
00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:30,719
Speaker 4: more step, just like even in the midst of life

970
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:32,839
Speaker 4: of just like you know, tomorrow's not promise. We got

971
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:34,399
Speaker 4: to make it through these next day his mercies are

972
00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:36,160
Speaker 4: new in the morning, you know. We just got to

973
00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 4: keep making it. One more day, one more day, one

974
00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:40,760
Speaker 4: more step. And that's why this Sue beautiful Wultra marathon

975
00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:43,560
Speaker 4: translates into so many areas of my life. Because it's

976
00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:47,000
Speaker 4: gonna end, it's gonna stink, it's gonna get hard. It's

977
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:49,160
Speaker 4: just a matter of when and how you respond, you know,

978
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:51,200
Speaker 4: And I'm in control of that. I can quit, I

979
00:43:51,239 --> 00:43:52,920
Speaker 4: can throw in the towel when I have these initial

980
00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:54,840
Speaker 4: thoughts of saying you're not built for this, you're not

981
00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:56,520
Speaker 4: made for this, you don't have the prize for this,

982
00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:57,640
Speaker 4: all these lives about these things.

983
00:43:57,640 --> 00:43:59,960
Speaker 3: I could quit in that moment, you know, but I want.

984
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:02,840
Speaker 4: To be I'm a guy who is a man of

985
00:44:02,840 --> 00:44:04,960
Speaker 4: his word, and it says these things and actually does

986
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:07,359
Speaker 4: it and cause a shot and does it, you know,

987
00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:10,880
Speaker 4: because it just solidifies so many things in your life

988
00:44:10,880 --> 00:44:13,319
Speaker 4: that just build so many confidence and areas that you

989
00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:15,640
Speaker 4: wouldn't even think of just being able to do these

990
00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:18,520
Speaker 4: things that are so hard and so unfathomable. To a

991
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:21,120
Speaker 4: lot of people. But being in the moment of just

992
00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:24,600
Speaker 4: saying one more step, one more moment, just one more second,

993
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:27,080
Speaker 4: just make it one more second, every single time just

994
00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:29,080
Speaker 4: draws back to you. Just got to keep going. You

995
00:44:29,120 --> 00:44:31,440
Speaker 4: got to keep going. Just fight, keep fighting, keep.

996
00:44:31,320 --> 00:44:32,280
Speaker 1: Fighting, keep fighting.

997
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:34,680
Speaker 2: One more step, one more step, one more minute, one

998
00:44:34,680 --> 00:44:37,600
Speaker 2: more moment, one more mile, whatever it is, it's just

999
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:41,280
Speaker 2: one more. And if you can even begin to simplify

1000
00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:44,759
Speaker 2: it down to just one, right, anybody can do one

1001
00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:48,280
Speaker 2: more and being able to build and stack that one percent.

1002
00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:50,799
Speaker 2: I'm just thinking when you go to your page on

1003
00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:53,719
Speaker 2: social media, when you know you right, I'm just thinking

1004
00:44:53,719 --> 00:44:57,240
Speaker 2: about Max sitting over here, your friend group, different people

1005
00:44:57,280 --> 00:45:00,279
Speaker 2: that you have surrounded yourself with when you run, like

1006
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:03,520
Speaker 2: you never really run alone. You have people that are

1007
00:45:03,560 --> 00:45:05,799
Speaker 2: with you, like even if they're taking different groups and

1008
00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 2: they're taking shifts, like you're always running with someone. And

1009
00:45:09,560 --> 00:45:11,439
Speaker 2: I'm just thinking about the person out there today, maybe

1010
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:14,400
Speaker 2: the man out there today who feels like I got

1011
00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:16,520
Speaker 2: this right through the most dangerous word a man could

1012
00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:20,120
Speaker 2: ever say, and they're just continuing to push by themselves,

1013
00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:23,520
Speaker 2: thinking that that's the expectation. But the importance of community

1014
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:26,760
Speaker 2: ed the importance of having a band of brothers, guys

1015
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:28,960
Speaker 2: that you can do life with that will not just

1016
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:33,080
Speaker 2: surround you, but that will both support you and sharpen

1017
00:45:33,160 --> 00:45:36,000
Speaker 2: you every step of the way. Speak to the importance

1018
00:45:36,080 --> 00:45:38,200
Speaker 2: of your friend group and what they've meant to you

1019
00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:38,880
Speaker 2: in this journey.

1020
00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:44,839
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it's been truly unimagina one, especially this past year,

1021
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:48,240
Speaker 4: just being so blessed with such a great church body

1022
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:50,719
Speaker 4: and having I think the coolest thing about a lot

1023
00:45:50,719 --> 00:45:53,600
Speaker 4: of this stuff is when me and Maximum are the

1024
00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 4: equation into this church body. They just weren't like they

1025
00:45:57,120 --> 00:45:59,480
Speaker 4: had no idea about this endurance stuff, but the way

1026
00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:02,720
Speaker 4: that they were like, we have no idea the daptness

1027
00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:04,400
Speaker 4: and the weight and the craziness of this stuff, but

1028
00:46:04,440 --> 00:46:06,040
Speaker 4: we're going to do it because we love these dudes,

1029
00:46:06,320 --> 00:46:08,400
Speaker 4: and they could care less about what we do on

1030
00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:11,799
Speaker 4: like everyday basis of these things and these races, but

1031
00:46:11,840 --> 00:46:13,799
Speaker 4: they love us and they want to be alongside of us,

1032
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 4: and they're proud of us, and they know it's insane,

1033
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:16,879
Speaker 4: but they just want to do it with us.

1034
00:46:16,920 --> 00:46:17,960
Speaker 3: And just being able.

1035
00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:20,920
Speaker 4: To walk with people who will call me higher but

1036
00:46:21,040 --> 00:46:23,520
Speaker 4: also will be there right beside me in the think

1037
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:26,400
Speaker 4: of it in the nastiness of the ultra marathons, and

1038
00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:28,480
Speaker 4: just knowing that they couldn't be more impressed by me,

1039
00:46:28,520 --> 00:46:30,520
Speaker 4: but they couldn't want to love me even more if

1040
00:46:30,520 --> 00:46:34,400
Speaker 4: they tried, just because we're doing life together and having

1041
00:46:34,440 --> 00:46:36,719
Speaker 4: those people just constantly like I don't even have to

1042
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:39,520
Speaker 4: ask them anymore. It's like, what's the next crazy thing?

1043
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:41,160
Speaker 4: How can I help you? How can I support you?

1044
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:42,600
Speaker 4: How can I be there for you? How can I

1045
00:46:42,640 --> 00:46:47,480
Speaker 4: love you better through this? And just actually seeing how

1046
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:49,560
Speaker 4: much fruit has come from that and how many people

1047
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:52,719
Speaker 4: are just flocking to that of like the questions that

1048
00:46:52,760 --> 00:46:54,440
Speaker 4: are sharing these people's hearts, of like why do they

1049
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 4: love this guy so much? Why do they keep showing

1050
00:46:57,239 --> 00:46:59,399
Speaker 4: up for this dude? Like at the treadmill run, we're

1051
00:46:59,400 --> 00:47:01,719
Speaker 4: in a gym is just like filled with a lot

1052
00:47:01,719 --> 00:47:03,840
Speaker 4: of people who don't know the Lord. And my prayer

1053
00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:06,000
Speaker 4: was going into it of just like Lord, would they

1054
00:47:06,080 --> 00:47:06,960
Speaker 4: just see you and me?

1055
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:07,799
Speaker 3: You know?

1056
00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:11,120
Speaker 4: And by doing this thing, and like so many people,

1057
00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:12,960
Speaker 4: the way that they showed up, the way that they

1058
00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:15,040
Speaker 4: loved me, the way that they ran beside me for

1059
00:47:15,120 --> 00:47:17,400
Speaker 4: twenty four hours. I didn't run a single hour alone

1060
00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:19,440
Speaker 4: just stirs questions of like why did they love this

1061
00:47:19,440 --> 00:47:21,719
Speaker 4: guy so much? And the answer is just they both

1062
00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:23,879
Speaker 4: following Jesus. They love Jesus so much that they're gonna

1063
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:25,640
Speaker 4: do whatever it takes to show up for their people.

1064
00:47:26,040 --> 00:47:28,480
Speaker 4: And just being able to see those moments and just

1065
00:47:28,480 --> 00:47:31,319
Speaker 4: being so blessed by this community who loves me so

1066
00:47:31,440 --> 00:47:33,200
Speaker 4: much but calls me high at the same time and

1067
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:35,320
Speaker 4: just sharpens just being in the arena with someone I

1068
00:47:35,360 --> 00:47:37,640
Speaker 4: can't describe it. It's just in the thick of it,

1069
00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:39,920
Speaker 4: in the suckiness of the workout, but just knowing that

1070
00:47:40,239 --> 00:47:43,520
Speaker 4: you have someone just presence for me is the big thing.

1071
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:45,279
Speaker 4: Like I could be in the thick of these ultra

1072
00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:47,200
Speaker 4: marathons and just having someone to my left or to

1073
00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:49,080
Speaker 4: my right. They don't have to say a word, it's

1074
00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:51,799
Speaker 4: just being there beside me, you know, just continuously just

1075
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:53,640
Speaker 4: what I think about, what the Lord He just wants

1076
00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:55,799
Speaker 4: us to sit right at his feet, you know. And

1077
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:57,960
Speaker 4: just having these people so present in my life. I

1078
00:47:57,960 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 4: don't even have to say a word, but they're encouraged

1079
00:47:59,960 --> 00:48:02,399
Speaker 4: me of being there means more that I could ever

1080
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:05,359
Speaker 4: put into words. Every single time all these races, people

1081
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:07,080
Speaker 4: are going to show up for me. And I'm incredibly

1082
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:09,840
Speaker 4: blessed every single time for that person who you know

1083
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Speaker 4: thinks they can do it on their on their own,

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Speaker 4: and they say, I got this. I say one the

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Speaker 4: three most dangerous words that you could say. But find

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Speaker 4: people who have the same like like activities, they like

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Speaker 4: to do the same mindset, and just go far with him.

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Speaker 4: If like a quote that I always go back to,

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Speaker 4: if you want to go far, go alone. If you

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Speaker 4: want to go far, go together, And that state may

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Speaker 4: stem so true in all areas of life, not even

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Speaker 4: just endurance sports. So I'm just incredibly blessed by the

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Speaker 4: community that you know, the Lord is building within his

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Speaker 4: people in the city of Charleston right now.

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Speaker 2: You don't have to know me long to know that.

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Speaker 2: One of my favorite passages in scripture is Daniel chapter three,

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Speaker 2: right chattering me shack into Benego and this idea that

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Speaker 2: God will give you friends for the fire. And I

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Speaker 2: believe that He has equipped you with friends in the

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Speaker 2: midst of the fiery furnace of life. But at the

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Speaker 2: same time he is the fourth man in the fire

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Speaker 2: all ways. Isaiah forty three, verse two, When you pass

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Speaker 2: through the waters, I will be with you. And when

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Speaker 2: you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you.

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Speaker 2: When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned.

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Speaker 2: The flames will not set you ablaze. This idea that

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Speaker 2: God is always present. He is a present help in

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Speaker 2: times of need. He sticks closer than a brother, even

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Speaker 2: when your father and mother, for sake you, he never does.

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Speaker 2: This is a beautiful thing of recognizing the all empowering

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Speaker 2: presence of God, no matter where you're at in life,

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Speaker 2: no matter the brokenness, no matter the bathroom floor, no

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Speaker 2: matter the one hundred mile race, no matter South Carolina Marathon,

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Speaker 2: whatever it is like, God is with you always. And

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Speaker 2: what I want to touch on here for a moment

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Speaker 2: is out of Hebrews twelve, this idea of running your race.

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Speaker 2: Because we were talking at breakfast and not even just

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Speaker 2: driving over from First Watch this morning, I was pumping

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Speaker 2: gas and I was just thinking, you know, you mentioned

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Speaker 2: that at some point you're going to hang up the

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Speaker 2: shoes at some point, right, You're not going to be

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Speaker 2: able to maybe do this stuff any longer. Point. The

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Speaker 2: one hundred mile races and the two hundred mile races

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Speaker 2: and the twenty four hours on a treadmill. Like those

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Speaker 2: things will fade, but the finish line of heaven never does.

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Speaker 2: And so I just want to read some verses here

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Speaker 2: out of Hebrews chapter twelve, the first twelve verses, and

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Speaker 2: then I just want to ask you about what it

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Speaker 2: means to you, Edwin about running your race, the race

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Speaker 2: set before you. Says Therefore, since we are surrounded by

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Speaker 2: such a great cloud of witnesses, let us also lay

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Speaker 2: aside every weight and sin which clings so closely, and

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Speaker 2: let us run with endurance that race that is set

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Speaker 2: before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfector of

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Speaker 2: our faith, who for the joy that was set before him,

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Speaker 2: endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at

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Speaker 2: the right hand of the throne of God.

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Speaker 1: Verse three.

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Speaker 2: Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself,

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Speaker 2: so that you may not grow weary or faint hearted

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Speaker 2: in your struggle against sin. You have not resisted to

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Speaker 2: the point of shedding your blood. And have you forgotten

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Speaker 2: the exhortation that addresses you as sons. My son, do

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Speaker 2: not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be

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Speaker 2: weary when reproved by him. For the Lord disciplines the

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Speaker 2: one he loves and chastises every son whom he receives

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Speaker 2: Verse seven. It is for discipline that you have to endure.

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Speaker 2: God is treating you as sons, for what son is

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Speaker 2: there whom his father does not discipline. If you are

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Speaker 2: left without discipline in which all have participated in, you

1151
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Speaker 2: are illegitimate children and not sons. Besides this, we have

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Speaker 2: had earthly fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them.

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Speaker 2: Shall we not much more be subject to the father

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Speaker 2: of spirits and live? For they disciplined us for a

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Speaker 2: short time, as it seemed best to them. But He

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Speaker 2: disciplines us for our good, that we may share his

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Speaker 2: holiness Verse eleven. For the moment, all discipline seems painful

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Speaker 2: rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit

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Speaker 2: of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. Therefore,

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Speaker 2: lift your drooping hands, and strengthen your weak knees, and

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Speaker 2: make straight paths for your feet, so that what is

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Speaker 2: lame may not be put out of joint, but rather

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Speaker 2: be healed. So I'm thinking about a quote even I

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Speaker 2: just read yesterday about discipline. It actually differentiated motivation, discipline

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Speaker 2: and obsession. The guy said, Motivation is I want to

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Speaker 2: do this. Discipline is regardless of how I feel, I'm

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Speaker 2: going to do this. Obsession is I can't not do this.

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Speaker 2: And I think about discipline, discipline when we have the

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Speaker 2: proper perspective, eventually I would assume ed it becomes a

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Speaker 2: desire right when you discipline yourself so much so it's like,

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Speaker 2: how can I not do this? This is what God

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Speaker 2: has called you to speak to the impact of understanding

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Speaker 2: what your race, the race God is set before you

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Speaker 2: means to you in this moment.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, for me, like you know the question, you know

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Speaker 4: what I want to be remembered by as just is

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Speaker 4: it a runner? Is it a crazy endurance guy? Is

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Speaker 4: it a guy who speaks on mental health? Is just

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Speaker 4: a guy who is faithful, faithful to what's.

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Speaker 3: Right in front of me.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's not the running, it's not the accolades,

1182
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Speaker 4: it's nothing like that. It's just someone who was faithful,

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Speaker 4: love people extremely well and just fearlessly chase after Jesus

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Speaker 4: and brought people alongside him, you know, to do that.

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Speaker 4: And for me, like within these running and stuff, and

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Speaker 4: just like we talked about her breakfast this morning, it's

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Speaker 4: like it could be taken away from me in thirty

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Speaker 4: minutes literally.

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Speaker 3: You know.

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Speaker 4: And whatever I draw back to is the Lord of

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Speaker 4: my life. And how easy it is am these things

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Speaker 4: that I get to do, is how much it become

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Speaker 4: an idol, and the things that I even struggle with

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Speaker 4: of like on a daily basis, of like how not

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Speaker 4: making discipline and running an idol and a pedal stool

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Speaker 4: over the Lord every single day because I'm just like,

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Speaker 4: you know, it's easier to go run ten miles and

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Speaker 4: is to pick up my babble the morning, you know.

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Speaker 4: And having those disciplines, spiritual disciplines, just as a line

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Speaker 4: of my physical disciplines, is something that you have to

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Speaker 4: master because if not, those are being to come idols,

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Speaker 4: and if they become idols, we're just you're going to

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Speaker 4: be bankrupt within these things and you're gonna have to

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Speaker 4: continuously draw back of what I feel empty. It's because

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Speaker 4: you're not filling your cup with the right things. You're

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Speaker 4: going to things that are temporarily satisfying your heart, and

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Speaker 4: that's these physical stuff. And that's why you know, being

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Speaker 4: in this space is so hard because it takes a

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Speaker 4: lot out of you to do these things, but being

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Speaker 4: able to ginuously home with myself before the Lord of

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Speaker 4: like you are the lord of my life, and I'm

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Speaker 4: gonna give you everything.

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Speaker 3: This is just the vehicle and.

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Speaker 4: The platform that you allowed me to do these things with,

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Speaker 4: not the main importance of these things, Because God, if

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Speaker 4: you want to take these running things and you know,

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Speaker 4: the social media away from me, the things that I'm

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Speaker 4: doing right now, that's okay. I'm secure, My identity is secure,

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Speaker 4: and I don't have to worry about that. So just

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Speaker 4: continuously drawing back to this is my calling, my life

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Speaker 4: right now. But if he takes it away and he

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Speaker 4: steering me in a different direction, I have to be

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Speaker 4: okay with that and not allowing that to distract me

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Speaker 4: of the mission that he has set in front of me,

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Speaker 4: and that's to literally run my race well, and run

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Speaker 4: it with endurance, and run it so well that I'm

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Speaker 4: furiously chasing after him so hard that if anything comes away,

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Speaker 4: if he wants to take anything away for the advancement

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Speaker 4: United Kingdom, I have to be acceptable of that and

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Speaker 4: not be saying, you know, but running is my thing.

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Speaker 4: But running is my thing. Running is just the vehicle

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Speaker 4: that he's using me to advance the Gospel with and

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Speaker 4: if he takes it away, he takes it away. That's

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Speaker 4: no problem, because I'm secure in Christ every single day.

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Speaker 3: Amen.

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Speaker 2: And maybe the moment of suffering. I think a lot

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Speaker 2: of people, I'll say this, have an improper theology of suffering.

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Speaker 2: They view it as punishment rather than this idea of discipline.

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Speaker 2: The thing that maybe you believe God is using to

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Speaker 2: destroy you, God might be using to develop you. The

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Speaker 2: thing in which God you feel like God has forgotten

1242
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Speaker 2: you in maybe He's just forging you through. And you

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Speaker 2: talked about endurance, and that's what this passage is all about.

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Speaker 2: Running the race with endurance that has been set before you,

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Speaker 2: not looking to your right or to your left, not

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Speaker 2: looking in somebody else's lane, not looking at somebody else's

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Speaker 2: life and comparing your race to theirs, but just running

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Speaker 2: with Heaven in mind, with Heaven in sight, and seeing

1249
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Speaker 2: that this process of sanctification and becoming more like Jesus

1250
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Speaker 2: like that is something that we are all called to

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Speaker 2: in our own unique way. But this idea of endurance,

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Speaker 2: it was broken down really well to me a couple

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Speaker 2: of years ago, and they said, it just simply means

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Speaker 2: to suffer through patiently, and that idea of patience is

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Speaker 2: something that so many people struggle with, especially in the

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Speaker 2: midst of pain. But we cling to promises. I think

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Speaker 2: of Romans eight twenty eight, right, for we know that

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Speaker 2: all things work together for the good of those who

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Speaker 2: love God and who have been called according to His purpose.

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Speaker 2: But one thing I've recognized in my life at is

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Speaker 2: that sometimes my definition of good looks different than God's.

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Speaker 2: That h I'd ever said, right like, my definition of

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Speaker 2: good is like easy, comfortable, not painful, whatsoever, famous, successful,

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Speaker 2: whatever the cultural.

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Speaker 1: Definition of good might be.

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Speaker 2: But then God defines his definition in the very next verse,

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Speaker 2: verse twenty nine of Romans eight, for those he foreknew,

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Speaker 2: he also predestined that they might be conformed to the

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Speaker 2: image of his son. It's like, in the middle of

1270
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Speaker 2: your stuff, what if God is using it as really

1271
00:57:02,880 --> 00:57:06,359
Speaker 2: a training ground to help you form and become more

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Speaker 2: malleable into the image of Christ. I want to close

1273
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Speaker 2: this way, man, because something that I always do on

1274
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Speaker 2: the podcast is just leave room for a pressing word

1275
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Speaker 2: for our guests to share something that God is placed

1276
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Speaker 2: on his heart for the listener out there today. Man

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Speaker 2: who just really does feel disappointed and feels discouraged and

1278
00:57:24,720 --> 00:57:28,240
Speaker 2: has been listening to the limiting beliefs, or maybe has

1279
00:57:28,280 --> 00:57:31,120
Speaker 2: attached themselves to a lie, a false narrative for far

1280
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Speaker 2: too long. To the person who maybe feels like they're

1281
00:57:34,560 --> 00:57:36,400
Speaker 2: alone in this life. To the person who's on a

1282
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Speaker 2: bathroom floor with a gun nearby or a pill bottle

1283
00:57:40,280 --> 00:57:42,840
Speaker 2: and they feel like there's just no hope in this

1284
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Speaker 2: life for me, what's just the final word of hope,

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Speaker 2: encouragement and motivation you want to leave with that person today?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it would definitely be your loved and your story

1287
00:57:52,800 --> 00:57:56,360
Speaker 4: matters because it matters to the Lord, and knowing that

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Speaker 4: you are uniquely beautifully crafted in the image of God,

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Speaker 4: and knowing that you were created on this purpose for

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Speaker 4: a reason and if you weren't, you wouldn't be here,

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Speaker 4: and knowing that you have such a purpose and it's

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00:58:09,760 --> 00:58:11,520
Speaker 4: up to you to be able to find that because

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Speaker 4: even within my story, like I thought that I didn't

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Speaker 4: have any purpose, and God used someone else to put

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Speaker 4: them in my life to find that purpose and using

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Speaker 4: that person specifically to bring that out of me. So

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Speaker 4: just for that person, just knowing that you know, sharing

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Speaker 4: your story and what you've gone through with someone else.

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Speaker 4: That's why to say your story matters and your loved

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Speaker 4: because it matters to the Lord. And being able to

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Speaker 4: tell I think there's so much freedom in telling your

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Speaker 4: story for the first time because you asked you know,

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Speaker 4: ninety nine percent of this world of like, have you

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Speaker 4: actually sat down and shared your story? And like, I look,

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Speaker 4: someone asked me, it's like, how are you so boldly

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Speaker 4: sharing your faith? It's just because you know, my life

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Speaker 4: is living proof that the Cross actually worked and seeing

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Speaker 4: that perspective of I'm here for a reason.

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Speaker 3: The Cross is literal proof of that.

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Speaker 4: And for people to literally experience that, and the freedom

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Speaker 4: that you can walk in of just sharing your story

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Speaker 4: and just sharing the heart wreck that you've gone through,

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Speaker 4: in the suffering that you've gone through, and how you've

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Speaker 4: endured it, and like looking back on God's faithfulness in

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Speaker 4: those seasons of life where you thought that you had

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Speaker 4: nothing left and now that I can so freely look

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Speaker 4: back on and see how the Lord was using to

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Speaker 4: just allow me to run after him. Meanwhile he was

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Speaker 4: fearlessly pursuing me, even the monks of the brokenness. So

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Speaker 4: just for that person out there who just feels like

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Speaker 4: they just have nothing left. Just share your story with

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Speaker 4: someone and talk and speak and say that one word,

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Speaker 4: send that text and say hey, I need help.

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Speaker 3: I need to talk because.

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Speaker 4: When you that's why I just spent eighteen years of

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Speaker 4: doing that and boggling it up, and there's so much

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Speaker 4: freedom just saying hey, I actually do need help, I

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Speaker 4: actually do need to talk about these things. I can't

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Speaker 4: boggle this up and I can't do this alone. So

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Speaker 4: just for someone out there who is just on their

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Speaker 4: bathroom floor or just thinking about not wanting to be

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Speaker 4: heard anymore, just say one word someone, because someone's gonna care.

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Speaker 4: And it might not be the first person that you

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Speaker 4: reach out to who has any thort of care in

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Speaker 4: their heart, but it might be the second, and it

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Speaker 4: might be the third, and it might be the fourth.

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Speaker 4: Just knowing that there are people out there who love

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Speaker 4: and they care for you because your story matters and

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Speaker 4: it truly does.

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Speaker 2: Hope is accessible to anybody who desires it. I love

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Speaker 2: that word that you just shared. It's a word, my friend,

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Speaker 2: that my life is living proof that the Cross, the Resurrection,

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Speaker 2: the gospel actually works and is actually true. Ed, my friend,

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Speaker 2: where can audience go to find out a little bit

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Speaker 2: more about you. Is it through Instagram? Is it through

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Speaker 2: social media? Is there a website? Is there one stop

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Speaker 2: shop where we can get plugged in? And also if

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Speaker 2: we want to get trained by you, guys, come on,

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Speaker 2: I'm interested in that.

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Speaker 1: Where can they go?

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Speaker 4: So my social personal is iron Snet on Instagram iron Snet.

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Speaker 1: By the way, where did that come from?

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Speaker 3: That?

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Speaker 1: That nickname?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, so that was a nickname from college where my

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Speaker 4: first ever endurance event was an iron Man.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I was a one and done guy with the

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Speaker 3: triathlon space.

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Speaker 4: But I was doing that and just create an Instagram

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Speaker 4: say I'm gonna I'm going to track my journey, follow

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Speaker 4: my journey. And sneed is my nickname in high school.

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Speaker 4: So I one thing led to another.

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Speaker 1: So iron sned on Instagram and on Instagram.

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Speaker 4: In our training profile is revitalize you training on Instagram

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Speaker 4: and on website as well.

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Speaker 2: Revitalize You Training. I'm going to make sure that I

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Speaker 2: got plugged up with you and Max tell you guys

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Speaker 2: leave because I want to get right too.

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Speaker 1: My friends.

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Speaker 2: Still can't just save it all for yourself. Brother, Thank

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Speaker 2: you for making the drive up here. Thank you for

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Speaker 2: what guy's continuing to do and in through your life,

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Speaker 2: your vulnerability, for your leadership, for your influence, your voice matters,

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Speaker 2: and continue to own that influence, man, because you're doing

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Speaker 2: a lot of good in the world, and I'm so

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Speaker 2: grateful for the ways on which you continue to impact

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Speaker 2: and inspire my life as well.

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Speaker 3: Yes, joint of me, thank you brother.

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Speaker 2: To our audience, here are bil different. I just wanted

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Speaker 2: to say, if you heard nothing else from today's episode,

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Speaker 2: I hope and pray that you heard that you were seeing,

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Speaker 2: you were loved and you are not alone. And as

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Speaker 2: you talk about faith, and as we talked about this

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Speaker 2: mental health journey, I'm just reminded of a passage. I

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Speaker 2: forget the reference, but it's in first or second. It's

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Speaker 2: this idea, flee from the things that are holding you back.

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Speaker 2: Pursue holiness, Pursue righteousness every single day, Pursue the Lord,

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Speaker 2: pursue Heaven, pursue the hope of it. But then also

1389
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Speaker 2: fight the good fight of faith right like it's gonna

1390
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Speaker 2: be a dogfight.

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Speaker 1: It's not going to be easy.

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Speaker 2: I don't believe Christianity makes life easier, but it makes

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Speaker 2: you stronger for the journey ahead. And then The last

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Speaker 2: phrase is hold fast to the hope that has been

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Speaker 2: set before us. God has given you a race to run,

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Speaker 2: and I hope and pray that today would just have

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Speaker 2: equipped you to run it with a little bit more endurance.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for joining us. We love being

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Speaker 2: a part of your life.