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Dr. Jewel Williams is a pastor and founder of Tri-Production Publishing. After her own book, Fearfully and Wonderfully Made, was published, she answered her call to help others become published by starting her own publishing company and author mentorship program. With a doctorate of ministry from Bethel Seminary-St Paul, she has been an educator and leader for countless Chicago-area Christian organizations. She currently serves as pastor at Abundant Life Worship Center in Chicago, IL. “I owe God myself, because of what He sacrificed through Christ to give to me. . . . And so I offer myself to Him so that he can now love through me.” Please leave us a rating and subscribe so that you never miss an episode. For more inspirational content visit: https://www.pray.com/pray-bible-experience

Dr. Jewel Williams is a pastor and founder of Tri-Production Publishing. After her own book, Fearfully and Wonderfully Made, was published, she answered her call to help others become published by starting her own publishing company and author mentorship program. With a doctorate of ministry from Bethel Seminary-St Paul, she has been an educator and leader for countless Chicago-area Christian organizations. She currently serves as pastor at Abundant Life Worship Center in Chicago, IL. Please leave us a rating and subscribe so that you never miss an episode. For more inspirational content visit: https://www.pray.com/pray-bible-experience

Mike Kai has led Inspire Church, a multi-site congregation in Hawaii, for more than twelve years. He is also the author of Plateaus: Move From Where You Are To Where You Want To Be. In an effort to support Islanders with tools to lead, he founded Equip and Inspire Conferences, which has expanded into an international organization. In 2007, he founded Send Hope International to support and strengthen church-planters and missionaries alike. He has coached, trained, and mentored pastors from Hawaii, the Pacific Rim, and the mainland US. Please leave us a rating and subscribe so that you never miss an episode. For more inspirational content visit: https://www.pray.com/pray-bible-experience

Mike Kai has led Inspire Church, a multi-site congregation in Hawaii, for more than twelve years. He is also the author of Plateaus: Move From Where You Are To Where You Want To Be. In an effort to support Islanders with tools to lead, he founded Equip and Inspire Conferences, which has expanded into an international organization. In 2007, he founded Send Hope International to support and strengthen church-planters and missionaries alike. He has coached, trained, and mentored pastors from Hawaii, the Pacific Rim, and the mainland US. “If there’s anything that I want to be known for is, in my daughters lives, I want to be known as the G.O.A.T. I want to be known as the greatest of all time when it came to a father.” Please leave us a rating and subscribe so that you never miss an episode. For more inspirational content visit: https://www.pray.com/pray-bible-experience Join Mike Kai's church, Inspire Church at https://www.pray.com/org/inspire-church-waipahu-hi

Mike Kai has led Inspire Church, a multi-site congregation in Hawaii, for more than twelve years. He is also the author of Plateaus: Move From Where You Are To Where You Want To Be. In an effort to support Islanders with tools to lead, he founded Equip and Inspire Conferences, which has expanded into an international organization. In 2007, he founded Send Hope International to support and strengthen church-planters and missionaries alike. He has coached, trained, and mentored pastors from Hawaii, the Pacific Rim, and the mainland US. “I delighted myself in God and he gave me the desires of my heart, but my desires began to change. My desires became His desires. I wanted what God wanted.” Please leave us a rating and subscribe so that you never miss an episode. For more inspirational content visit: https://www.pray.com/pray-bible-experience

Mike Kai has led Inspire Church, a multi-site congregation in Hawaii, for more than twelve years. He is also the author of Plateaus: Move From Where You Are To Where You Want To Be. In an effort to support Islanders with tools to lead, he founded Equip and Inspire Conferences, which has expanded into an international organization. In 2007, he founded Send Hope International to support and strengthen church-planters and missionaries alike. He has coached, trained, and mentored pastors from Hawaii, the Pacific Rim, and the mainland US.“I thought my marriage would get fixed I thought she’d come back and like the changes, I thought things would be different. But even though my circumstances never changed, I was changing.” Please leave us a rating and subscribe so that you never miss an episode. For more inspirational content visit: https://www.pray.com/pray-bible-experience Join Mike Kai's church, Inspire Church at https://www.pray.com/org/inspire-church-waipahu-hi Download the Pray.com app and join your communi

Mike Kai has led Inspire Church, a multi-site congregation in Hawaii, for more than twelve years. He is also the author of Plateaus: Move From Where You Are To Where You Want To Be. In an effort to support Islanders with tools to lead, he founded Equip and Inspire Conferences, which has expanded into an international organization. In 2007, he founded Send Hope International to support and strengthen church-planters and missionaries alike. He has coached, trained, and mentored pastors from Hawaii, the Pacific Rim, and the mainland US. Please leave us a rating and subscribe so that you never miss an episode. For more inspirational content visit: https://www.pray.com/pray-bible-experience Join Mike Kai's church, Inspire Church at https://www.pray.com/org/inspire-church-waipahu-hi

Christian Aranza is the Head Pastor at Valley Rise Church. Raised in southern Louisiana, he moved to Detroit Michigan for high school. After graduation, Christian served as a medic in the airforce, and later earned his degree from Oral Roberts University. After some challenges, Christian began his life of service at Church of the Highlands in Birmingham, Alabama. In January 2018, he launched Valley Rise Church in Houston, Texas, where he continues to build an open and inviting community. Please leave us a rating and subscribe so that you never miss an episode. For more inspirational content visit: https://www.pray.com/pray-bible-experience

Christian Aranza is the Head Pastor at Valley Rise Church. Raised in southern Louisiana, he moved to Detroit Michigan for high school. After graduation, Christian served as a medic in the airforce, and later earned his degree from Oral Roberts University. After some challenges, Christian began his life of service at Church of the Highlands in Birmingham, Alabama. In January 2018, he launched Valley Rise Church in Houston, Texas, where he continues to build an open and inviting community.“Sometimes I think we need to simplify it and just go: ‘What am I doing for my fellow man’. Cause I think that’s where our legacy really comes from. Not from what we accomplished but what we did for our fellow man.” Please leave us a rating and subscribe so that you never miss an episode. For more inspirational content visit: https://www.pray.com/pray-bible-experience

Christian Aranza is the Head Pastor at Valley Rise Church. Raised in southern Louisiana, he moved to Detroit Michigan for high school. After graduation, Christian served as a medic in the airforce, and later earned his degree from Oral Roberts University. After some challenges, Christian began his life of service at Church of the Highlands in Birmingham, Alabama. In January 2018, he launched Valley Rise Church in Houston, Texas, where he continues to build an open and inviting community.“Sometimes I think we need to simplify it and just go: ‘What am I doing for my fellow man’. Cause I think that’s where our legacy really comes from. Not from what we accomplished but what we did for our fellow man.”Please leave us a rating and subscribe so that you never miss an episode. For more inspirational content visit: https://www.pray.com/pray-bible-experience

Christian Aranza is the Head Pastor at Valley Rise Church. Raised in southern Louisiana, he moved to Detroit Michigan for high school. After graduation, Christian served as a medic in the airforce, and later earned his degree from Oral Roberts University. After some challenges, Christian began his life of service at Church of the Highlands in Birmingham, Alabama. In January 2018, he launched Valley Rise Church in Houston, Texas, where he continues to build an open and inviting community.Please leave us a rating and subscribe so that you never miss an episode. For more inspirational content visit: https://www.pray.com/pray-bible-experience

Christian Aranza is the Head Pastor at Valley Rise Church. Raised in southern Louisiana, he moved to Detroit Michigan for high school. After graduation, Christian served as a medic in the airforce, and later earned his degree from Oral Roberts University. After some challenges, Christian began his life of service at Church of the Highlands in Birmingham, Alabama. In January 2018, he launched Valley Rise Church in Houston, Texas, where he continues to build an open and inviting community. “When I went in I went in, I had just started dating my now wife, and heard all these horror stories, you’re going to go off to war and she’s going to find someone else. . . . And I said God if you let me not deploy I’ll be a preacher. Not because I was scared, I just didn’t want to lose the person that I knew I was going to spend my life with." Please leave us a rating and subscribe so that you never miss an episode. For more inspirational content visit https://www.pray.com/pray-bible-experience

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David Meltzer is a speaker, best-selling author, award-winning humanitarian, and the CEO of Sports 1 Marketing a firm he founded with Warren Moon. He was honored by Variety as “Sports Humanitarian of the Year” and is a recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor. David also has his own podcast called The Playbook Podcast which features a series of conversations with celebrities, athletes, and entrepreneurs who share their professional and personal playbook to success and how they made themselves successful. “Understand the theory of relativity and oneness. When we understand that we’re all connected, that we’re all relative to one another, some people are more relative to us than others... John Daly gave me an interesting answer, he said, Legacy is BS, it’s what I do now.” For more episodes of Life, Leadership, and Legacy please visit pray.com/podcast. Call (323)521-9791 to leave a voice message about how this podcast has impacted your life. Links mentioned in this episode of Life, Leadership, and Legacy

David Meltzer is a speaker, best-selling author, award-winning humanitarian, and the CEO of Sports 1 Marketing a firm he founded with Warren Moon. He was honored by Variety as “Sports Humanitarian of the Year” and is a recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor. David also has his own podcast called The Playbook Podcast which features a series of conversations with celebrities, athletes, and entrepreneurs who share their professional and personal playbook to success and how they made themselves successful. “In order to have clarity on what we want in order to be a leader we need to have balance of our values and we have to have prioritized balance not equilibrium balance. That then allows us to have focus which gives us confidence. And confidence is something that allows us to lead.” For more episodes of Life, Leadership, and Legacy please visit pray.com/podcast. Call (323)521-9791 to leave a voice message about how this podcast has impacted your life. Links mentioned in this episode of Life, Leadersh

David Meltzer is a speaker, best-selling author, award-winning humanitarian, and the CEO of Sports 1 Marketing a firm he founded with Warren Moon. He was honored by Variety as “Sports Humanitarian of the Year” and is a recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor. David also has his own podcast called The Playbook Podcast which features a series of conversations with celebrities, athletes, and entrepreneurs who share their professional and personal playbook to success and how they made themselves successful. “Giving is not easy, giving is not trading, I don’t give to get. But eventually what happens is you’re a vessel and when things happen through you you become an appreciator.” For more episodes of Life, Leadership, and Legacy please visit pray.com/podcast. Call (323)521-9791 to leave a voice message about how this podcast has impacted your life. Links mentioned in this episode of Life, Leadership, and Legacy: Pray app for iOS Pray app for Android Music by Jon Schneider Pray.com

Dr. Philip Zimbardo is an American psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He became known for his 1971 Stanford prison experiment and has since authored various psychology books, textbooks for college students, and other notable works, including The Lucifer Effect, The Time Paradox, and The Time Cure. He is also the founder and president of the Heroic Imagination Project. “We started a shyness clinic to help people who were shy or inhibited. We are almost 100% effective because we know how to treat shyness and that clinic is still continuing to this day in Palo Alto University.” For more episodes of Life, Leadership, and Legacy please visit pray.com/podcast. Call (323)521-9791 to leave a voice message about how this podcast has impacted your life. Links mentioned in this episode of Life, Leadership, and Legacy: Pray app for iOS Pray app for Android Music by Alexander Mark Pray.com

Dr. Philip Zimbardo is an American psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He became known for his 1971 Stanford prison experiment and has since authored various psychology books, textbooks for college students, and other notable works, including The Lucifer Effect, The Time Paradox, and The Time Cure. He is also the founder and president of the Heroic Imagination Project. “There was always a few kids who were the leaders. They set the agenda, they told us what things that we should do and things that we could do. And most people ended up agreeing. I guess I was 12 and at that time I figured out that the world was filled with a few leaders and many followers.” For more episodes of Life, Leadership, and Legacy please visit pray.com/podcast. Call (323)521-9791 to leave a voice message about how this podcast has impacted your life. Links mentioned in this episode of Life, Leadership, and Legacy: Pray app for iOS Pray app for Android Music by Alexander Mark Pray.com

Dr. Philip Zimbardo is an American psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He became known for his 1971 Stanford prison experiment and has since authored various psychology books, textbooks for college students, and other notable works, including The Lucifer Effect, The Time Paradox, and The Time Cure. He is also the founder and president of the Heroic Imagination Project. “My hope came mostly from praying. I was 5 and a half years old and I began to pray every morning when I work up. I’d pray to Jesus Christ to make me strong and brave and healthy and be able to go home as soon as possible.” For more episodes of Life, Leadership, and Legacy please visit pray.com/podcast. Call (323)521-9791 to leave a voice message about how this podcast has impacted your life. Links mentioned in this episode of Life, Leadership, and Legacy: Pray app for iOS Pray app for Android Music by Alexander Mark Pray.com