May 29, 2024
Financial Life with Kingdom Purpose with Eric Hall
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Everyone knows how turbulent the economy is, how difficult it is with inflation, some of
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the government policies, some of the one world government talk of cryptocurrency.
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How are we to navigate this?
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How are we to know what to do?
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How are you doing with your own investments or preparing for your retirement?
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Well, today on the Strang Report, I'm going to talk to a man who can give us some answers.
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Hello, everyone.
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I'm Stephen Strang.
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My guest today is Eric Hall.
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He's an author, a distinguished financial advisor for over 19 years of expertise.
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He served in roles such as vice president at both JP Morgan and Merrill Lynch, as well
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as performing executive coaching for international companies.
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His financial services are centered on conservative Christian values, allowing him to guide clients
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through uncertain economic times with a focus on investment strategies that are outside
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of the reach of the market manipulation by the elites, the world economic forum, and
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those in control.
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His audience is largely those who are skeptical of conventional banking and Wall Street offering
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tailored advice to conservative Christians seeking financial guidance aligned with their
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beliefs.
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He's also a pastor of a thriving church in Indiana.
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Eric is fully, he nurtures the ministry of the prophetic and he preaches the soon coming
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of Jesus Christ within his ministry.
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As a financial advisor, this perspective is crucial for clients who are preparing for
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significant economic shifts and value a spiritual dimension in their financial planning.
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His services attract individual and families with an average portfolio size of $1.5 million,
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particularly those seeking to distance themselves from main street financial systems and advisors.
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Eric's expertise extends across critical investment, event planning, home buying, mortgage
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lending, retirement income planning, and wealth management.
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By focusing on clients who desire a financial path that reflects their conservative and
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Christian values, Eric Hall stands out as a leader who is not only equipped to navigate
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complex financial landscapes, but also deeply understands the motivations and concerns of
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his clientele.
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You don't want to miss my exclusive conversation with Eric Hall.
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Stay tuned.
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Eric Hall, you have a very interesting business that is also a ministry and also helps people
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in these very, very difficult times we're in.
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So I want to start my podcast today by asking me to explain to me and to my viewers and
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listeners what exactly it is that you do and how it could help them.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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First off, thank you, Mr. Strang, for having me on your program.
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Greatly appreciate it and certainly appreciate the work you've done all around the world
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going back decades.
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So thank you very much.
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This is what I do.
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I help people.
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I help people navigate in the financial climate that we're in today.
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It's been turned upside down.
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There is a Wall Street and there is a Main Street, which represents two different economies
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in the United States.
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And Wall Street doesn't know Main Street anymore.
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And Main Street is certainly frustrated with Wall Street.
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Can you elaborate a little bit so we're sure to get your point?
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Yeah, absolutely.
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So Wall Street represents markets, what you see on the mainstream media, different programs
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that hey, this is how you should invest.
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This is what you should do.
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This is what is happening right now.
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Why things are good or why things aren't so good.
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Wall Street has a tendency to not consider everybody's man day to day and what they're
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doing, living.
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And in America today, we know Wall Street doesn't have a problem living day to day where
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Main Street has a little bit of a struggle living now in the times that we are in from
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paycheck to paycheck.
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And of course, there's a lot of evidence that backs that up.
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So Main Street, while they're struggling with inflation, they're struggling with lack of
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increase of pay and income, lost jobs, Wall Street's just trucking along looking at market
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indices and saying, hey, we're doing great.
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And that's the measurement for what's good for America, unfortunately.
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But it's leaving a lot of people behind.
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And I will just share this with you.
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Since 1971, if you go back and you look at some of the charts, you'll see that the middle
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class has shrunk.
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And over the last three years, we've seen a rapid acceleration in the shrinking of the
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middle class.
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And so it's leaving.
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We're losing the middle class because of all the different things that are hitting Main
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Street while Wall Street is just trucking along doing their normal thing.
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And not only that, but a lot of the big companies, the big corporations, big pharma, certainly
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the military industrial complex, which is what President Eisenhower called it.
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They do a lot of business with the government and that keeps them going.
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Yeah.
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And these sort of endless wars that we see, just all kinds of things.
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A lot of it seemed to come out with COVID.
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And what is an average person to do?
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I mean, we can maybe see it, understand it.
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Most of us don't understand it.
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Right.
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But we have to make decisions.
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We have to make decisions on paying our bills this month, but also preparing for our retirement.
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So what is an ordinary American or should I say even an ordinary Christian to do?
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So the question that you asked was what do folks need to do right now?
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And that's a great question.
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There really is no specific answer to that because everybody is unique, just like your
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thumbprint, just like your iris.
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Everybody has a unique set of circumstances, but there are some general, I would say 30,000
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foot view areas to focus on.
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And primarily I would suggest looking at liquid alternatives or looking at institutions that
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are not over leveraged, looking at investments that invest in things that are not sin related
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per se.
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There's a lot of good things that are out there, but we have to make sure that they
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are obviously meeting the needs of each individual accordingly.
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So that's a broad question.
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That's probably one of those things that I would have to answer on a personal basis with
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somebody who would ask those questions.
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Well, give us a little bit of your background.
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I read earlier your bio.
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You have a very interesting background working for some very big companies.
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You're obviously very intelligent, but you're also a pastor.
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And so you see things from a biblical perspective, which most people in the financial space don't.
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They don't consider what the Bible says or what God's will is or believing God like we
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would in the church, so to speak.
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But we have to, each of us has to operate in this secular society.
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So tell me a little bit about your own background, how you got into this and kind of how you
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can help people.
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Sure.
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Well, Stephen, that's, I appreciate you asking that question.
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So I was a vice president with JP Morgan, was a vice president with Merrill Lynch, worked
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with several other companies, did a couple of things.
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Recruited, trained, advised advisors on how to give advice, work with individual clients.
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A lot of things that I did, there's not too many things I did not do in these major corporations.
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And how I got to where I am today, I mean, I was called to preach when I was nine years
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old.
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I was preaching in my father's church.
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I grew up, I moved to Indiana.
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My wife and I, we traveled the United States as an evangelism team, held revivals and crusades.
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Eventually we settled down and God opened the door for us to pastor a church.
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And this church was so small, this is a really small, so I had to figure out a way to take
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care of my family.
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And so somehow God opened the door for me to move into the financial investment services
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side of life.
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And through that, God has just exploded my understanding in these things and taken the
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complexity of that world and putting it together with an end time view or a real time view
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of what's happening in the kingdom of God.
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You're right.
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It is a different perspective because we have to live like Jesus is going to call us today
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and we also have to occupy till he comes.
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And so how do we navigate through that storm?
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I will tell you that what I learned on Wall Street is not so much in the best interest
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of those who live on Main Street because money moves things.
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And so taking that and combining those areas, knowing what Wall Street is doing, understanding
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what the Bible is saying about money, but not just from a stewardship side of it, but
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also a real time, hey, look, things are changing.
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Everything that can be shaken will be shaken.
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Well, it's shaking now.
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Economy is shaking.
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The global political world is shaking.
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Wars are...
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All that stuff is happening right now.
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There is a way through it.
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There is a process.
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There is something that we can do to protect ourselves financially and navigate through
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this.
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That's what I specialize in.
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That's what we do.
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All of this is driven by the fact that we want to go into the world and we're doing
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that.
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We're going to nations, some of them I can't mention because they're challenged nations.
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We wouldn't be able to get in, but we go to these nations and we preach the gospel of
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Jesus Christ.
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We're seeing massive conversion rates, but we're bringing those things together.
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So it's a very unique thing.
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Probably never heard of it before.
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Neither did I.
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But it's a door that God has opened and we're using that.
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We're just blessing the kingdom of God 360 degrees.
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That's very interesting.
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That's one of the reasons why I wanted to talk to you because my whole career, we've
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been telling stories, stories of people that are doing unique things, people who have vision,
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who have faith.
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It seems like things are getting more and more difficult, but I think of just even earlier
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in the last century, World War I was horrible.
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The worst war in human history up to that time.
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The Depression was one of the worst economic periods our nation ever did, followed by World
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War II, which is even worse than World War I.
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And then do I need to mention the nuclear standoff that we've had with Russia, the Cold
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War they called it.
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And I'm a few years ahead of you.
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And listen, when I was young, there was the anti-Vietnam era, drugs and alcohol and free
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sex and riots and everything else.
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And somehow we survived all of it, but it seems that a lot of this is kind of recycling
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now.
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So what do you feel that the Lord is up to?
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I know you believe the Bible, so you believe that it's all culminating in the end of time.
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Kind of help me and help my viewers understand, because we want to understand.
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We want to be led by the Holy Spirit.
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Yes.
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Well, I think what you're seeing right now is an appointment of times.
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It is, you know, Daniel talked about the increase of knowledge, right?
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We live in a time where knowledge is accelerating at a pace and every day something new comes
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out.
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Artificial intelligence, it's quantum computing, all of these things.
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So we're seeing all of these things come to pass in one generation, all of it.
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And we're not on here to talk about prophetic events taking place that the Bible said would
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take place, but they're all culminating to this event.
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From a financial standpoint, I was born when Nixon was president.
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Ronald Reagan was the prolific president of my younger years.
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My first presidential vote was for the elder Bush, and so over time.
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But during that same time, gold standard is dropped.
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We move away from that.
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We start going into this strictly fiat currency type of a situation.
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And since that day, the dollar has been devaluing at an accelerated rate.
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That's going to continue.
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We see the world economic forum using crisis to push a global agenda, agenda 30 or 2030,
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which deals with moving from shareholders, people who own stock, to stakeholders, people
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who don't own stock, but the DEI initiatives and wokeism and all of those things.
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All of that stuff is affecting the financial world, not just in the US, but in every capacity.
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Everything about investments, money, anything that has an asset value is being destroyed,
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except for a few things.
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Gold's a great thing.
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But all of these things are being destroyed at the same time.
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Why?
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To push us into a one world government, to push us into a one world currency.
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It's almost like, and there's no coincidence.
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I don't believe in coincidence.
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It's like everything is happening at the same time.
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Digital dollar, the acceleration of the dollar decreasing in value.
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And the third thing is GDP being outpaced by inflation or by the national debt.
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We are now 134% of GDP in debt.
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So that's a bad thing.
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All of these happening almost around the same time.
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It's all coming together.
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It's all happening.
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And I do believe that what is happening is this is all lining up.
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It's all in preparation for what God is going to bring about here very, very soon.
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And that would be his church being called out of this world.
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Now your company is called AlignX.
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AlignX.
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Tell us more what you do.
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And it seems to me that you have a lot of answers that people are looking for.
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It's hard to know who to trust.
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You see the ads.
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You don't know what to do.
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You'd feel like just one out of, what is the population now?
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330 million in our country.
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And that's just the United States.
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So what does a person do and how can you as an advisor help those of us who have a need?
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So AlignX was born out of the idea of a vision that God gave me.
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The Lord just began to deal with me in prayer.
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And I don't want to make this long, but I'll tell you real quick.
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I was praying.
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I was in a revival.
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I was praying.
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The preacher was preaching.
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The Lord spoke to me and said, you need faith.
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And I'm thinking, Lord, I've prayed for people and the blind eyes have opened.
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The deaf ears have heard.
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There's not too many miracles I haven't seen done in our ministry.
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And the Lord says, you need faith?
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And I'm thinking, I have faith.
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And he says, no, you need the kind of faith that gets out of the boat and walks on water.
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He says, I'm realigning your life.
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Everything is going to be realigned.
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And he did.
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And I don't want to go into detail, but long story short, I got to the place where God
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did.
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He realigned everything, my ministry, my family, everything that we were doing, what I was
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doing for an occupation.
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Our church started to grow.
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Business started to go in different directions.
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Missions, we began that work.
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The X, the Align comes from that realignment.
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The X comes from align.
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What do you want to align in your life?
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Align your finances, get that in alignment with God, get your heart in alignment with
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God, get your attitude in alignment with God, get your family in alignment with God, get
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your health in alignment.
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So the whole idea behind Align X is that we want to help people realign themselves with
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the kingdom of God and the kingdom voice that is being spoken by Jesus to all of us.
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He said, you pray this way, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is, it already
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is, in heaven.
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So what we want to do is help people get them to the is in heaven by way of aligning specifically
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their finances and their goals with their family.
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And then we in turn help others align through ministry.
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So that's where that Align X comes from.
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That's what we do.
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That's how we're helping people.
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And if there's anybody out there that's watching this program right now, go to alignx.net,
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just fill out a form.
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We'll get back to you.
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We'll talk to you and we'll see what we can do to help you.
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I can't help everybody, but I will do my best.
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Our team will do our best to make sure that we have a good, godly conversation with you
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and help you make sense of the things that you're dealing with right now, especially
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with the worldview that we see right now.
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You know, in the few minutes that we have left on this podcast, I want to just ask you
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some practical questions.
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If somebody's watching this long, that means they're really interested.
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And if are there, you know, all these things are very, very complicated, much more complicated
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that we can get to in a short podcast.
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But also when it all boils down, a lot of times it's just very simple things like to
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get ahead.
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You've got to be honest, you got to work hard, you got to save, you got to live within your
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means.
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So when it comes to investing, planning for our future, our retirement, trying to navigate
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these very difficult things, you mentioned DEI, the one world government, the currency,
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you know, there's a lot of things that are confusing.
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But when it comes down to it, what are the two or three things that everyone should do
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and start doing right now, whether they work with you or work with another financial advisor
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or just try to do it on their own?
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What is the advice that you would give that will the people can take away from this podcast
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and do something now?
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Absolutely.
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Great question.
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Again, just a great question.
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So the first thing that I would tell people is you have to have, and anybody will tell
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you this, you need six months worth of emergency money set aside.
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You've got to do that.
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Everybody has a life event happen at least one to two years, and that's a life changing
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event for the good or for the negative.
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It's just going to happen.
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So you need to have six months of money set aside.
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And I've had people tell me, I can't do that.
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We've talked with them.
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We've helped them.
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We've showed them areas where they could do that, and they've been able to do that.
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So you mean six months worth of income, half an annual salary, whatever that is.
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Well, let me define that a little bit better.
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Six months of non-discretionary spending, money that you have to have to pay the bills
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and to eat and keep shelter over your home.
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That's what I'm talking about now.
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So it may be a little less than a year's salary because some folks just, they like to go eat
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out a lot.
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So that's my suggestion.
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You're going to hear that from everybody that's in the financial services industry.
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Doesn't matter what their background is.
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The second thing that I would say is you have to secure income over and above your social
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security.
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There's a lot of people who think that social security is going to take care of everything
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that they need.
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You can pay off your home, pay off your car.
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You can pay everything off and say, I'm going to live on social security.
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I just want to tell you, it's going to be very difficult for you to do that.
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Just these last few years have proved when you have inflation, inflation from 2021 through
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mid 2023 was over 24% across the board.
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Now you can itemize things at 30, 40, 50, 60% inflation.
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But if you're trying to buy eggs on a fixed income and we have that happen, and I will
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tell you inflation's here for a long time.
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It's not going away.
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Go listen to Jamie Dimon.
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He'll tell you.
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Same thing.
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Wall Street won't tell you that, but he will and I will too.
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Inflation's not going away.
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It's here for a while.
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If that is the case, then you need to have a second source of income above and beyond.
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There's ways to do that.
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That's where we really get into the weeds and I have to be careful about giving broad
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advice in that way.
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But I would say that we have to figure out what that income is going to look like for
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you.
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The third thing is legacy planning, planning for a long retirement, making sure that once
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you start the income stream or you have secured that income stream situation that you are
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obviously preparing for future needs down the road, whether that be a new roof on the
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house or buying a new vehicle, taking care of a grand kid who needs money for college.
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You never know what's going to hit, but there's a lot of things there that you don't see coming.
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I call it the three bucket system, the emergency fund, the income, and then the asset accumulation
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and acceleration.
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Those are the three simplest ways to view moving forward.
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Now, again, everybody's different and how we do that for each individual is going to
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depend on their specific situation.
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But those are the things that I say you have to focus on right now.
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And I will say this, just let me throw one more thing in there.
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The 60-40 rule, 60% stock, 40% bonds did not survive this inflationary onslaught that we
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saw through 2021 and up through today.
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It did not.
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And I'll be honest with you, going forward, this is one of the things I stay that a lot
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of people disagree with me on.
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It's not going to work in the future either because we have so much volatility.
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And there is good reason to believe that in order to stop future inflation, which I believe
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is coming, more inflation, you keep kicking that can down the road, it catches up to you,
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that they may have to raise interest rates again.
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And if they do that, if they do that, if they have to do that again, then that becomes another
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issue that it's going to be very difficult to deal with.
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So that affects the banks, that affects just about every asset that's out there.
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So that 60-40, we got to figure out a different way to do that.
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I got the answer, but I just can't share it with you live because I'll get in trouble.
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Well I'll add one, and that is it's hard to navigate this stuff yourself.
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For one thing, there's procrastination, there's uncertainty.
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We can't stop and go to college to figure this out.
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So you've got to find trusted professionals that can help.
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Just like if you're going to sell property, you need a good real estate person.
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You're going to do a will, you need a good lawyer.
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Well, when it comes to finances, each of us has to find a financial advisor who we trust.
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We need to do our research, we need to do our due diligence, because ultimately we all
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have to take control over what we do and not just leave it to chance.
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And yes, we have to believe in God, and we believe that God takes care of his own.
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And one of the ways he takes care of his own, in my opinion, is he gives us wisdom, he gives
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us relationships and so forth.
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So as we wrap this up, I want to give you the last word, and then I'll be back with
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a final thought from my viewers.
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Absolutely.
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Thank you, Stephen, once again for allowing me to be a part of your program.
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It's an amazing thing that you're doing, reaching the entire world.
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That's certainly our goal.
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And if I can align what we're doing alongside with what you guys, what an incredible thing
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that's happening.
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God is moving in this time.
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There's great revival around the earth.
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You're part of the fastest growing.
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One professor at Boston College recently said that this movement that's happening right
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now with God is the fastest, most incredible religious move ever seen on planet earth.
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And I'm paraphrasing, but that's why I just give it to our church yesterday for Pentecost
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Sunday.
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It's incredible.
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And you're a part of that.
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Everybody that's on here, you're a part of that.
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And really, everything that we talked about, none of that is near as important as your
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relationship with Jesus.
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And I hope that through this program and working with your pastor, whoever it is, that you
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continue to grow your relationship and get out there and tell people about Jesus.
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Invite them.
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Tell your testimony because that's what this is all about.
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And that, to me, is the most important thing.
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So God bless you and thank you for letting me fill that in at the end.
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If you take to heart what Eric Hall said, this could be one of the most important podcasts
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you've ever watched.
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Thank you for staying tuned this long.
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And if you're interested in more and if you follow me, if you're interested in what I
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have to say, you need to check out my newest book, Spirit-Led Living in an Upside-Down
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World.
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I'm going to talk to you about the entire chapter about the end times and how difficult
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it's going to be to help you get more information about navigating this.
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I also have a lot to say about finances and goal setting and doing just practical, common
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sense things.
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I think you'll really enjoy the book.
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You can get it at SteveStrangBooks.com along with the other books I've written or on Amazon.com
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It's easy and I hope that you'll check it out.
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I think you'll really benefit from my book, which will be a follow-up to this interview
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with Eric Hall and everything he had to say about investing and finances.
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Mine is not from that perspective, of course, but it's from a spiritual perspective that
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will help you dig a little deeper.
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Thank you for watching my podcast.
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Tune in again every Tuesday and Thursday at 4 p.m. Eastern time.
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Everyone knows how turbulent the economy is, how difficult it is with inflation, some of
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the government policies, some of the one world government talk of cryptocurrency.
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How are we to navigate this?
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How are we to know what to do?
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How are you doing with your own investments or preparing for your retirement?
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Well, today on the Strang Report, I'm going to talk to a man who can give us some answers.
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Hello, everyone.
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I'm Stephen Strang.
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My guest today is Eric Hall.
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He's an author, a distinguished financial advisor for over 19 years of expertise.
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He served in roles such as vice president at both JP Morgan and Merrill Lynch, as well
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as performing executive coaching for international companies.
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His financial services are centered on conservative Christian values, allowing him to guide clients
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through uncertain economic times with a focus on investment strategies that are outside
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of the reach of the market manipulation by the elites, the world economic forum, and
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those in control.
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His audience is largely those who are skeptical of conventional banking and Wall Street offering
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tailored advice to conservative Christians seeking financial guidance aligned with their
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beliefs.
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He's also a pastor of a thriving church in Indiana.
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Eric is fully, he nurtures the ministry of the prophetic and he preaches the soon coming
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of Jesus Christ within his ministry.
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As a financial advisor, this perspective is crucial for clients who are preparing for
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significant economic shifts and value a spiritual dimension in their financial planning.
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His services attract individual and families with an average portfolio size of $1.5 million,
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particularly those seeking to distance themselves from main street financial systems and advisors.
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Eric's expertise extends across critical investment, event planning, home buying, mortgage
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lending, retirement income planning, and wealth management.
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By focusing on clients who desire a financial path that reflects their conservative and
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Christian values, Eric Hall stands out as a leader who is not only equipped to navigate
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complex financial landscapes, but also deeply understands the motivations and concerns of
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You don't want to miss my exclusive conversation with Eric Hall.
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Stay tuned.
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Eric Hall, you have a very interesting business that is also a ministry and also helps people
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in these very, very difficult times we're in.
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So I want to start my podcast today by asking me to explain to me and to my viewers and
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listeners what exactly it is that you do and how it could help them.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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First off, thank you, Mr. Strang, for having me on your program.
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Greatly appreciate it and certainly appreciate the work you've done all around the world
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going back decades.
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So thank you very much.
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This is what I do.
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I help people.
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I help people navigate in the financial climate that we're in today.
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It's been turned upside down.
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There is a Wall Street and there is a Main Street, which represents two different economies
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in the United States.
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And Wall Street doesn't know Main Street anymore.
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And Main Street is certainly frustrated with Wall Street.
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Can you elaborate a little bit so we're sure to get your point?
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Yeah, absolutely.
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So Wall Street represents markets, what you see on the mainstream media, different programs
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that hey, this is how you should invest.
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This is what you should do.
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This is what is happening right now.
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Why things are good or why things aren't so good.
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Wall Street has a tendency to not consider everybody's man day to day and what they're
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doing, living.
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And in America today, we know Wall Street doesn't have a problem living day to day where
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Main Street has a little bit of a struggle living now in the times that we are in from
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paycheck to paycheck.
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And of course, there's a lot of evidence that backs that up.
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So Main Street, while they're struggling with inflation, they're struggling with lack of
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increase of pay and income, lost jobs, Wall Street's just trucking along looking at market
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indices and saying, hey, we're doing great.
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But it's leaving a lot of people behind.
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Since 1971, if you go back and you look at some of the charts, you'll see that the middle
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class has shrunk.
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middle class.
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We're losing the middle class because of all the different things that are hitting Main
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Street while Wall Street is just trucking along doing their normal thing.
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And not only that, but a lot of the big companies, the big corporations, big pharma, certainly
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the military industrial complex, which is what President Eisenhower called it.
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They do a lot of business with the government and that keeps them going.
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And these sort of endless wars that we see, just all kinds of things.
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A lot of it seemed to come out with COVID.
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And what is an average person to do?
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I mean, we can maybe see it, understand it.
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Most of us don't understand it.
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But we have to make decisions.
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We have to make decisions on paying our bills this month, but also preparing for our retirement.
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So what is an ordinary American or should I say even an ordinary Christian to do?
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So the question that you asked was what do folks need to do right now?
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And that's a great question.
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There really is no specific answer to that because everybody is unique, just like your
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thumbprint, just like your iris.
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Everybody has a unique set of circumstances, but there are some general, I would say 30,000
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foot view areas to focus on.
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And primarily I would suggest looking at liquid alternatives or looking at institutions that
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are not over leveraged, looking at investments that invest in things that are not sin related
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per se.
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There's a lot of good things that are out there, but we have to make sure that they
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are obviously meeting the needs of each individual accordingly.
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So that's a broad question.
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That's probably one of those things that I would have to answer on a personal basis with
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somebody who would ask those questions.
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Well, give us a little bit of your background.
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I read earlier your bio.
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You have a very interesting background working for some very big companies.
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You're obviously very intelligent, but you're also a pastor.
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And so you see things from a biblical perspective, which most people in the financial space don't.
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They don't consider what the Bible says or what God's will is or believing God like we
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would in the church, so to speak.
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But we have to, each of us has to operate in this secular society.
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So tell me a little bit about your own background, how you got into this and kind of how you
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can help people.
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Well, Stephen, that's, I appreciate you asking that question.
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So I was a vice president with JP Morgan, was a vice president with Merrill Lynch, worked
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with several other companies, did a couple of things.
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Recruited, trained, advised advisors on how to give advice, work with individual clients.
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A lot of things that I did, there's not too many things I did not do in these major corporations.
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And how I got to where I am today, I mean, I was called to preach when I was nine years
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old.
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I was preaching in my father's church.
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I grew up, I moved to Indiana.
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My wife and I, we traveled the United States as an evangelism team, held revivals and crusades.
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Eventually we settled down and God opened the door for us to pastor a church.
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And this church was so small, this is a really small, so I had to figure out a way to take
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care of my family.
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And so somehow God opened the door for me to move into the financial investment services
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side of life.
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And through that, God has just exploded my understanding in these things and taken the
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complexity of that world and putting it together with an end time view or a real time view
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of what's happening in the kingdom of God.
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You're right.
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It is a different perspective because we have to live like Jesus is going to call us today
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and we also have to occupy till he comes.
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I will tell you that what I learned on Wall Street is not so much in the best interest
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of those who live on Main Street because money moves things.
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what the Bible is saying about money, but not just from a stewardship side of it, but
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also a real time, hey, look, things are changing.
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Everything that can be shaken will be shaken.
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Well, it's shaking now.
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Economy is shaking.
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The global political world is shaking.
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Wars are...
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All that stuff is happening right now.
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There is a way through it.
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There is a process.
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There is something that we can do to protect ourselves financially and navigate through
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this.
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That's what I specialize in.
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That's what we do.
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All of this is driven by the fact that we want to go into the world and we're doing
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that.
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We're going to nations, some of them I can't mention because they're challenged nations.
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We wouldn't be able to get in, but we go to these nations and we preach the gospel of
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Jesus Christ.
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We're seeing massive conversion rates, but we're bringing those things together.
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So it's a very unique thing.
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Probably never heard of it before.
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Neither did I.
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But it's a door that God has opened and we're using that.
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We're just blessing the kingdom of God 360 degrees.
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That's very interesting.
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That's one of the reasons why I wanted to talk to you because my whole career, we've
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been telling stories, stories of people that are doing unique things, people who have vision,
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who have faith.
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It seems like things are getting more and more difficult, but I think of just even earlier
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in the last century, World War I was horrible.
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The worst war in human history up to that time.
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The Depression was one of the worst economic periods our nation ever did, followed by World
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War II, which is even worse than World War I.
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And then do I need to mention the nuclear standoff that we've had with Russia, the Cold
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War they called it.
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And I'm a few years ahead of you.
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And listen, when I was young, there was the anti-Vietnam era, drugs and alcohol and free
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sex and riots and everything else.
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now.
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So what do you feel that the Lord is up to?
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I know you believe the Bible, so you believe that it's all culminating in the end of time.
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Kind of help me and help my viewers understand, because we want to understand.
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We want to be led by the Holy Spirit.
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Yes.
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Well, I think what you're seeing right now is an appointment of times.
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It is, you know, Daniel talked about the increase of knowledge, right?
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We live in a time where knowledge is accelerating at a pace and every day something new comes
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out.
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Artificial intelligence, it's quantum computing, all of these things.
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So we're seeing all of these things come to pass in one generation, all of it.
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And we're not on here to talk about prophetic events taking place that the Bible said would
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take place, but they're all culminating to this event.
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From a financial standpoint, I was born when Nixon was president.
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Ronald Reagan was the prolific president of my younger years.
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My first presidential vote was for the elder Bush, and so over time.
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But during that same time, gold standard is dropped.
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We move away from that.
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We start going into this strictly fiat currency type of a situation.
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And since that day, the dollar has been devaluing at an accelerated rate.
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That's going to continue.
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We see the world economic forum using crisis to push a global agenda, agenda 30 or 2030,
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which deals with moving from shareholders, people who own stock, to stakeholders, people
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who don't own stock, but the DEI initiatives and wokeism and all of those things.
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All of that stuff is affecting the financial world, not just in the US, but in every capacity.
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Everything about investments, money, anything that has an asset value is being destroyed,
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except for a few things.
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Gold's a great thing.
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But all of these things are being destroyed at the same time.
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Why?
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To push us into a one world government, to push us into a one world currency.
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It's almost like, and there's no coincidence.
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I don't believe in coincidence.
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It's like everything is happening at the same time.
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Digital dollar, the acceleration of the dollar decreasing in value.
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And the third thing is GDP being outpaced by inflation or by the national debt.
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We are now 134% of GDP in debt.
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So that's a bad thing.
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All of these happening almost around the same time.
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It's all coming together.
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It's all happening.
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And I do believe that what is happening is this is all lining up.
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It's all in preparation for what God is going to bring about here very, very soon.
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And that would be his church being called out of this world.
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Now your company is called AlignX.
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AlignX.
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Tell us more what you do.
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And it seems to me that you have a lot of answers that people are looking for.
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It's hard to know who to trust.
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You see the ads.
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You don't know what to do.
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You'd feel like just one out of, what is the population now?
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330 million in our country.
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And that's just the United States.
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So what does a person do and how can you as an advisor help those of us who have a need?
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So AlignX was born out of the idea of a vision that God gave me.
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The Lord just began to deal with me in prayer.
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And I don't want to make this long, but I'll tell you real quick.
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I was praying.
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I was in a revival.
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I was praying.
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The preacher was preaching.
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The Lord spoke to me and said, you need faith.
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And I'm thinking, Lord, I've prayed for people and the blind eyes have opened.
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The deaf ears have heard.
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There's not too many miracles I haven't seen done in our ministry.
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And the Lord says, you need faith?
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And I'm thinking, I have faith.
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And he says, no, you need the kind of faith that gets out of the boat and walks on water.
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He says, I'm realigning your life.
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Everything is going to be realigned.
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And he did.
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And I don't want to go into detail, but long story short, I got to the place where God
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He realigned everything, my ministry, my family, everything that we were doing, what I was
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doing for an occupation.
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Our church started to grow.
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Business started to go in different directions.
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Missions, we began that work.
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The X, the Align comes from that realignment.
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The X comes from align.
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What do you want to align in your life?
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Align your finances, get that in alignment with God, get your heart in alignment with
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God, get your attitude in alignment with God, get your family in alignment with God, get
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your health in alignment.
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So the whole idea behind Align X is that we want to help people realign themselves with
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the kingdom of God and the kingdom voice that is being spoken by Jesus to all of us.
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We want to make sure that there's an alignment.
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He said, you pray this way, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is, it already
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is, in heaven.
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So what we want to do is help people get them to the is in heaven by way of aligning specifically
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their finances and their goals with their family.
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And then we in turn help others align through ministry.
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So that's where that Align X comes from.
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That's what we do.
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That's how we're helping people.
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And if there's anybody out there that's watching this program right now, go to alignx.net,
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just fill out a form.
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We'll talk to you and we'll see what we can do to help you.
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I can't help everybody, but I will do my best.
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Our team will do our best to make sure that we have a good, godly conversation with you
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and help you make sense of the things that you're dealing with right now, especially
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with the worldview that we see right now.
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You know, in the few minutes that we have left on this podcast, I want to just ask you
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some practical questions.
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If somebody's watching this long, that means they're really interested.
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And if are there, you know, all these things are very, very complicated, much more complicated
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that we can get to in a short podcast.
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But also when it all boils down, a lot of times it's just very simple things like to
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get ahead.
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You've got to be honest, you got to work hard, you got to save, you got to live within your
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means.
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So when it comes to investing, planning for our future, our retirement, trying to navigate
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these very difficult things, you mentioned DEI, the one world government, the currency,
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you know, there's a lot of things that are confusing.
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But when it comes down to it, what are the two or three things that everyone should do
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and start doing right now, whether they work with you or work with another financial advisor
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or just try to do it on their own?
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What is the advice that you would give that will the people can take away from this podcast
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and do something now?
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Absolutely.
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Great question.
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Again, just a great question.
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So the first thing that I would tell people is you have to have, and anybody will tell
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you this, you need six months worth of emergency money set aside.
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You've got to do that.
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Everybody has a life event happen at least one to two years, and that's a life changing
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event for the good or for the negative.
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It's just going to happen.
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So you need to have six months of money set aside.
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And I've had people tell me, I can't do that.
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We've talked with them.
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We've helped them.
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We've showed them areas where they could do that, and they've been able to do that.
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So you mean six months worth of income, half an annual salary, whatever that is.
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Well, let me define that a little bit better.
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Six months of non-discretionary spending, money that you have to have to pay the bills
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and to eat and keep shelter over your home.
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That's what I'm talking about now.
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So it may be a little less than a year's salary because some folks just, they like to go eat
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out a lot.
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So that's my suggestion.
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You're going to hear that from everybody that's in the financial services industry.
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Doesn't matter what their background is.
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The second thing that I would say is you have to secure income over and above your social
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security.
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There's a lot of people who think that social security is going to take care of everything
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that they need.
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You can pay off your home, pay off your car.
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You can pay everything off and say, I'm going to live on social security.
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I just want to tell you, it's going to be very difficult for you to do that.
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Just these last few years have proved when you have inflation, inflation from 2021 through
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mid 2023 was over 24% across the board.
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Now you can itemize things at 30, 40, 50, 60% inflation.
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But if you're trying to buy eggs on a fixed income and we have that happen, and I will
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tell you inflation's here for a long time.
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It's not going away.
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Go listen to Jamie Dimon.
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He'll tell you.
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Same thing.
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Wall Street won't tell you that, but he will and I will too.
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Inflation's not going away.
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It's here for a while.
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If that is the case, then you need to have a second source of income above and beyond.
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There's ways to do that.
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That's where we really get into the weeds and I have to be careful about giving broad
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advice in that way.
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But I would say that we have to figure out what that income is going to look like for
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you.
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The third thing is legacy planning, planning for a long retirement, making sure that once
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you start the income stream or you have secured that income stream situation that you are
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obviously preparing for future needs down the road, whether that be a new roof on the
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house or buying a new vehicle, taking care of a grand kid who needs money for college.
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You never know what's going to hit, but there's a lot of things there that you don't see coming.
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I call it the three bucket system, the emergency fund, the income, and then the asset accumulation
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and acceleration.
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Those are the three simplest ways to view moving forward.
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Now, again, everybody's different and how we do that for each individual is going to
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depend on their specific situation.
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But those are the things that I say you have to focus on right now.
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And I will say this, just let me throw one more thing in there.
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The 60-40 rule, 60% stock, 40% bonds did not survive this inflationary onslaught that we
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saw through 2021 and up through today.
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It did not.
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And I'll be honest with you, going forward, this is one of the things I stay that a lot
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of people disagree with me on.
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It's not going to work in the future either because we have so much volatility.
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And there is good reason to believe that in order to stop future inflation, which I believe
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is coming, more inflation, you keep kicking that can down the road, it catches up to you,
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that they may have to raise interest rates again.
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And if they do that, if they do that, if they have to do that again, then that becomes another
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issue that it's going to be very difficult to deal with.
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So that affects the banks, that affects just about every asset that's out there.
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So that 60-40, we got to figure out a different way to do that.
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I got the answer, but I just can't share it with you live because I'll get in trouble.
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Well I'll add one, and that is it's hard to navigate this stuff yourself.
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For one thing, there's procrastination, there's uncertainty.
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We can't stop and go to college to figure this out.
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So you've got to find trusted professionals that can help.
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Just like if you're going to sell property, you need a good real estate person.
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You're going to do a will, you need a good lawyer.
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Well, when it comes to finances, each of us has to find a financial advisor who we trust.
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We need to do our research, we need to do our due diligence, because ultimately we all
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have to take control over what we do and not just leave it to chance.
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And yes, we have to believe in God, and we believe that God takes care of his own.
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And one of the ways he takes care of his own, in my opinion, is he gives us wisdom, he gives
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us relationships and so forth.
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So as we wrap this up, I want to give you the last word, and then I'll be back with
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a final thought from my viewers.
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Absolutely.
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Thank you, Stephen, once again for allowing me to be a part of your program.
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It's an amazing thing that you're doing, reaching the entire world.
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That's certainly our goal.
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And if I can align what we're doing alongside with what you guys, what an incredible thing
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that's happening.
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God is moving in this time.
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There's great revival around the earth.
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You're part of the fastest growing.
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One professor at Boston College recently said that this movement that's happening right
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now with God is the fastest, most incredible religious move ever seen on planet earth.
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And I'm paraphrasing, but that's why I just give it to our church yesterday for Pentecost
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Sunday.
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It's incredible.
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And you're a part of that.
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Everybody that's on here, you're a part of that.
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And really, everything that we talked about, none of that is near as important as your
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relationship with Jesus.
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And I hope that through this program and working with your pastor, whoever it is, that you
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continue to grow your relationship and get out there and tell people about Jesus.
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Invite them.
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Tell your testimony because that's what this is all about.
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And that, to me, is the most important thing.
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So God bless you and thank you for letting me fill that in at the end.
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If you take to heart what Eric Hall said, this could be one of the most important podcasts
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I also have a lot to say about finances and goal setting and doing just practical, common
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I think you'll really enjoy the book.
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It's easy and I hope that you'll check it out.
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I think you'll really benefit from my book, which will be a follow-up to this interview
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with Eric Hall and everything he had to say about investing and finances.
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Mine is not from that perspective, of course, but it's from a spiritual perspective that
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will help you dig a little deeper.
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Thank you for watching my podcast.
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