As The Leader Grows with Ken Joslin

Proximity is a Cheat Code Pt.1 - Community

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What if you could unlock new levels in life just by changing who you're around? This episode features the transformative concept of "Proximity is a Cheat Code," inspired by my personal journey and the upcoming Create Atlanta 2025 event. With incredible guests like John Maxwell and Gary Brecka joining us, we explore how being near the right people can propel your journey in faith, health, relationships, business, and finances. I share my own health transformation story, sparked by meeting Gary Brecka, and the profound impact of the RMI Regenerative Medicine Institute on my well-being.

We've all heard that you're the average of the five people you spend the most time with, but what if it was true? This episode dives into the critical importance of building a supportive community. Whether through our GrowStack Drive collective or the Create conference, surrounding yourself with like-minded individuals opens doors to encouragement and resources that help turn dreams into reality. We'll discuss how the right environment can add courage and momentum to your journey, so you can pursue your calling with confidence and determination.

Ever wondered how adopting a thermostat mindset can change your life? Explore the essence of servant leadership and how elevating your circle of influence is a game-changer. From practical tips on being an encourager to personal anecdotes of timely support and gratitude, this episode is packed with insights. Plus, we delve into why evaluating the 10 to 12 people you spend the most time with matters more than you might think. Tune in to discover how proximity and being part of a life-giving community can serve as your cheat code for success.

Welcome to the ATLG podcast I am your host Ken Joslin, former pastor turned coach & host of CREATE, the #1 Faith-based Entrepreneur conference in America. My mission is to help faith-based entrepreneurs become the best version of themselves by growing in our Core 5: Faith, Health, Relationships, Business & Finances. You can get more information as well as join our FREE Facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/676347099851525

If you enjoyed the podcast, come join our FREE GSD Community of hundreds of entrepreneurs & a ton of FREE Content including CREATE Conference recordings with Ken, John Maxwell, Gary Brecka, Ed Mylett & more. growstackdrive.com/free

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Hey guys, welcome to another episode of as the Leader Grows. I am your host, ken Jocelyn. I'm super excited to be with you today. We're going to kick off a brand new three-week series where I dive into my upcoming book, which is coming out in January, and also the theme for Create Atlanta 2025. Listen, we've got some of the most amazing friends on the planet showing up in Atlanta January 30th, 31st, february, 1st, myself, good friends John Maxwell, gary Brecka, vic Keller, ryan D Lee, dr Bailey Bort. We've got some unbelievable people gathering About 500 plus faith-based entrepreneurs gathering for the number one faith-based entrepreneur conference in America, as we'll focus for two and a half days on becoming the best version of ourselves in our core five areas faith, health, relationships, business and finances. It's going to be an amazing, amazing time. And so the theme for Create this year is going to be proximity, and that comes from my brand new book, which is going to be released in January as well.

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Proximity is a cheat code. How many of you guys have ever been to a hotel room or used a key fob, a key card, to get into access at work? The door's locked, you can't get through it. Your room at the hotel is locked, you can't get through the door, or even on the elevators, depending on where you stay. If you stay somewhere nice on the elevator, you have to put your key card next to the reader before you can get to your floor. And so that is what, in the research that we did, we found out is a 21 or 24-bit proxy code. So basically, there's 14 to 21 different frequencies. That leaves that key fob or that key card that you hold, that when those frequencies match up with the key reader or the key fob reader or the card reader, what happens is the door is open and you're granted access into that room. Guys, let me say this For the past three to four years, I have constantly said that proximity is a cheat code. So in my upcoming book is a cheat code.

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So in my upcoming book, I'm going to talk about 21 attributes or frequencies that you and I need to have as faith-based entrepreneurs to develop the relationships that we need in order to open the door to the next room or the next level of our lives. And, guys, it happens in all five of our core five areas faith, health, relationships, business and finances. And I want to challenge you this. You're listening to this today, you're watching this clip. I want to challenge you. Think through those core five areas. Think through your faith, think through your health, your relationships that you have currently, right now, married single, your friendships, your relationships with your children. Think about the relationships Now. Think about your business and think about your finances. Every single time in your life that you've went to the next level in one of those areas, you've done it through and because of a relationship.

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When I think about my faith journey and my faith walk, man, I've got some amazing human beings who have been a huge part of my faith journey and helping me grow as a disciple and a Christ follower In my health journey. Obviously, man, I have got an amazing, amazing team around me. But, guys, it started all the way back in May of 2021 when I met a guy named Gary Brecka. I was on my health journey for about six months and I ran into Gary. I was down about 20 to 20. I think I was down 27 pounds-ish when I met Gary on the way to my 66-pound goal. That was my goal. I was down about 26, 27 pounds when I met Gary, but I was stuck. I'd plateaued. So Gary walks into my life, teaches me about keto teaches me about nutrition, just all the different things that Gary talks about a lot Many of you are well aware of. So Gary comes into my life All of a sudden. In my health journey I go to the next level, then I go to the next level, then I go to the next level. Literally, I've just been level level level over the last three and a half years. So Gary comes into my life.

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The team at RMI Regenerative Medicine Institute in Costa Rica, one of the top stem cell companies in the world, comes into my life. Before I went down to RMI in July of last year so it had been 2023, I took my good friend, erwin McManus. Erwin and I spent two and a half days at RMI getting stem cell treatments, therapeutic plasma exchanges, all the different things. I walked in to that clinic in Costa Rica with about a level 5 to level 6 back pain in my back almost every day, literally almost every day so tight, so sore. When I got out of bed After my ortho injections, where they gave me 100 million stem cell infusion in an IV and then put me to sleep and did ortho injections in all the spots that they identified as inflammation, scar tissue on my sonogram, which there were a lot. Literally six hours after that, guys, my back pain was almost completely gone. I haven't had hardly any back pain in the last year and a half, other than just a gym accident, if you will, because I tried to lift too much weight one day. I think I had 720 on my sled push for my legs and a little bit too much tweaked my back. But outside of that, guys, I have immediately became healthy.

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Then I got connected with my good friend, josh Porter, who is a physician's assistant who owns five Optimize you clinics, from Knoxville to Chattanooga to Cleveland, tennessee, all the way down here, even in Roswell. Joss is a hormone replacement guy. He's a peptide guy. They do all kinds of stuff in their clinics. So now I have my functional medicine team at RMI. I've got Dr Lozano and two PhDs there who help with my nutrition. I've got Gary. The last time I was in there I'm sitting in their conference room, gary's on the big screen with me getting the information, and I've got Josh on my phone. So I've got all three of my relationships helping me become the best version of myself with my health.

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And so what happened that day? Was I literally with my health? And so what happened that day was I, literally when I went in January of last year. It's just been a progression. Every time I get around the right relationship and I promise you we're going to dive into that in just a moment when it comes to my health, I go to the next level. So, sitting in that meeting in January of last year, I think my testosterone was like a 240. They were shocked, like they did my testosterone level. They were like this can't be right, dude, you've got way too much energy for a 246 or 248 testosterone level. And so what they did was they immediately put me on a prescription called Clomiphene, which helps my testicles produce my own testosterone, instead of giving me a synthetic testosterone to see if that would work for my body. So that was January. In June I go back and I already climbed to a 608.

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Well, when I went back the beginning of October this year now, because of Josh, he's like man I'd love to see you take three of those clomiphenes Monday, wednesday, friday instead of just two days a week. Take it three days a week and I think we could see even a more dramatic and positive improvement in your testosterone levels. 9.48 in October. So I jumped from a 2.40 to a 9.40 in the span of about nine months because of the people that are in my life. And guys, when I sit here I'm doing this video now and I look at my body, I look at my neckline and my shoulders and my life. And guys, when I sit here I'm doing this video now and I look at my body, I look at my neckline and my shoulders and my arms and I'm like dude, not only have I been putting work in the gym, but because of the relationships that I have on the health side, they've helped me become the best version At this point in my life, the best version at 56 years old, the best health version of Ken Jocelyn that there's ever been. It's an unbelievable journey, but it's done through relationships.

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So I want to jump in In this series. It's going to be three parts. We're going to talk about proximity being a cheat code and I want to talk specifically about three spheres of relationships, and I've talked about these in the past. But today I want to really dig in because I'm going to break these three spheres of relationships up into three different episodes. So today I want to talk to you about the sphere of community. Let me give you all three of them real quick, if you're taking notes great opportunity to be able to learn and then really go. Okay, because I'm going to give you some framework today on the relationships that need to be in your life and you can look and go do I have a good community, do I have a good circle and do I have a phenomenal corner? So the three spheres of relationship are community, circle and corner. So those are the three spheres of relationships and I want to break down today. I want to break down community because community is huge.

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So when you say kin, when you say community, explain that to me, community is that large group of people that you travel with, that. You journey with that. You have the same like-mindedness, you have the same aspirations, the same desires. Like, literally, you're going in the same direction. Now, there can be a lot of different communities in your life. Number one it could be your spiritual community, which could be your church. It could be your entrepreneurial community, which is what we've created here at GrowStack Drive with our collective, which is our online version of for faith-based entrepreneurs. It's basically the entry level for us. It could be our create conference, where we have 500 plus faith-based entrepreneurs. You can walk into that room in January and walk out of that room with a community of people and relationships with people that are moving and going in the same direction.

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You know, in the South we have a saying man. I said something and that person looked at me like a cow at a new gate and some people, when I say that around the country, they're like what does that mean gate? And some people, when I say that around the picture, they're like what does that mean? In the south, when you put up a new gate, the cow looks at it like I have no idea what's going on. There is nothing more defeating than being in a room and sharing with somebody the vision that God's put in your heart to do what it is he created and called you to do. Nothing more defeating than when you share that and people look at you like a cow at a new gate, like there's no way you can do that, like that dream is way too big.

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Do you understand where you come from? Do you understand that even in scripture, if you look in scripture, it says Jesus could do no mighty works or miracles in his hometown. Why? Because everybody in the hometown knew Jesus is the little three-year-old kid they used to have to change his diaper. They knew him as a kid playing baseball in the yard. He had knock a window out Like he was just the carpenter's son is not? Isn't this just the carpenter's son? Is what scripture tells us. And he could do no mighty miracles in his own hometown because people just thought of him as how they knew him.

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Before you have, you need, you must have a community of faith-based entrepreneurs when you share vision, and this has happened in the past. I can't really go into detail about what happened, but we had this happen at our Puerto Rico mastermind with a dear friend who's a part of our mastermind for the year, who said man, I just want to buy the entire franchise in that room with a couple dozen faith-based entrepreneurs in Puerto Rico. At our mastermind, troy stands up out of his chair and he does this. He goes. Did you guys just feel the energy shift in this room? I'm sitting in my chair about to come unglued. I'm like holy cow. And then Troy looked at. I'll never forget when Troy looked at him and he goes okay, here's what we're going to do. Like literally, it wasn't a thing to where when he shared. Here's what I Everybody in the room went well, how are you going to do that? How is that possible? What makes you think that you're gifted enough or talented enough to be able to do that? Listen, when you're in a community of, when you're in the right community with the right people and you share things like hey, my name's Ken.

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Guys at GrowStack Drive our vision and passion. Everything that we do is to impact 1 million faith-based entrepreneurs over the next five years to help them become the best version of themselves in their core five faith, health, relationships, business and finances. I'm telling you, if you've been to Create or you're coming to Create this year, our conference in January with an amazing, amazing lineup. I promise you it will be transformative and you share your vision. In a room like that, what you will get is encouragement to go after it. What you'll get from me is okay, what do we got to do? What's the work? Do we have a strategic plan? You've got this big vision. Have you worked it backwards to decide? Okay, how am I going to pull this off and then work like your life depends on it, because out of that work and out of that effort that you give comes a couple things that effort that you give comes a couple of things great passion and it gives God an opportunity to meet you and to do things for you and for that vision that he created you to accomplish. It gives God room to be able to show up and to really do things. That when you look at the end like we've built this in four and a half five years to the number one faith-based movement in the country, the largest faith-based entrepreneur conference in the country, we've done this.

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I started this with $5,000 four and a half years ago, literally no idea what I was doing. I just had a dream and listen. I was a part of a pretty amazing community at the very beginning. I was a part of Grant Cardone's 10X community for about the first year and a half to two years that I built GSD and what it did was it got me in rooms with the right people. That when I shared my vision and I shared what I wanted to do, no one looked at me like I was crazy. I had five heads or a cow at a new gate. They looked at me like, okay, what do you got to do? Let's help get you connected with the right resources and the right information, the right people so you can do what God has called you to do.

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So proximity is a cheat code. There are relationships inside of every amazing community that you need to be a part of that are going to hold you. They're going to do a couple of things. Number one they're going to encourage you. The word encourage literally means to add courage to it's like and I say this a lot let me allow you to borrow my courage until you have enough momentum in your life to have your own courage. Until you work up and create enough momentum in your life that you don't need my encouragement as much as you did, and not only then, but then you can go forward and start being an encourager to other people. Second thing it does is it's going to give you accountability.

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Listen, our GSD collective, growstatdrivecom forward slash collective, our people, our entrepreneurs that show up on our calls every Monday morning at 8 am Eastern and every Wednesday night at 8 pm am Eastern and every Wednesday night at 8 pm Eastern. They don't show up just to show up. They show up because they know they're going to be held accountable. Even people that call me to ask me about what are you guys doing at GSD. How in the world have I not heard about what you're doing? I've had two or three friends in the last week to two weeks that have told me, man, you've got to get connected with these people at Grossteid Drive and I just start sharing with them. Tell me what your dream is. Tell me what's the big vision in your heart right now. Oh, I want to write a book. Great, have you started yet? Well, no, I haven't started. What's your deadline to have your book done? Like it's amazing when I ask people simple questions when it comes to vision and seeing things come to pass, some of the people that go oh, man, I don't know. When you have a great community and an unbelievable tribe around you, they are going to breathe life into your sails. They are also going to hold you accountable to what you said you want to do.

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A lot of you guys are very well aware of my health journey. I'm down close to a hundred pounds of body fat. Right now I feel like a million bucks. I'm actually doing the RP Strength app for my workouts and it's kicking my ass. I ain't gonna lie, dude, it is absolutely. I'm sore three to four days a week right now, but physically I feel stronger now than I've ever felt in my entire life, even when I was in high school or even when I was in the Air Force. I feel more physically strong and ready to tackle the day than I ever have before because I had people to encourage me. Number one. Number two I had people and I have people to hold me accountable, because when I started this health journey, the first thing I did was take a before picture. I took a before picture, a shot of my scale, and I put it on social media. I'm going to lose 66 pounds. And then, when I got to 60, I moved it to 86 pounds. Then, when I got to 80 pounds, I moved it to 106 pounds.

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Like, literally, a community is a group of people that will encourage and hold you accountable and you need to find your tribe, whatever that looks like. It may or may not be what we're doing here at GrowStack Drive. If it is, if you're a faith-based entrepreneur, I happen to believe what we're doing is so far and above and beyond what any other faith-based group out there is doing, simply because we. It's funny Eric Weir came and spoke at our Atlanta Mastermind Several brand new people at our Atlanta Mastermind this summer and Eric told me the last day he goes, ken, there's a lot of quote unquote and he did the quotations a lot of faith-based entrepreneurs or faith-based masterminds, and what makes them faith-based is they pray over their meal he goes. Faith was interwoven in everything that we did this weekend and I said, eric, you're 100% correct, that is my call. I know that's what God has called me to do.

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I pastored for 12 and a half years and my good friend, pastor mentor Saul Lovejoy, told me two years ago he goes, ken, everything that I've watched you go through over the past 15 to 17 years was to prepare you to do what you're doing now. So my question to you today is where is your community? Are you plugged in? Do you have an amazing group of people going in the same direction? I'm telling you guys, when we hop on our calls on Monday morning or Wednesday night and we're done, it is like a breath of fresh air, it is like a shot in the arm and sometimes even just even in this past couple of weeks, we had a couple of people that are killing it. They're super successful in their business but in their personal life I had a mother fall, really got bruised and damaged, was in the hospital for several days. When she fell, her whole face was cut and bruised. That was terrible. And so what do we do? I just pastored them and encouraged them through that setback, because, if you've heard me say this before I got this from my pastor, pastor Chris Hodges at Church of the Highlands You're either in a setback, you're coming out of a setback, or you're about to go into a setback, because this isn't an easy journey that we take, guys. This is difficult, which leans into the importance for every single one of us to have a solid community around us, people to hold us accountable and people to breathe life and encourage us. So how do I show up If I'm in a community, or when I find a community, how do I show up? I want to share with you a couple of things. If you've got your pen, I would love for you to write this down. Number one practice servant leadership. Practice, servant leadership.

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From the time my oldest daughter is 28 years old and if you follow me on social, you've seen my grandbaby pictures, because she is the most precious thing on the planet. You've seen my pictures. Well, my daughter was five years old going to kindergarten. I had my own mortgage company at the time, so I used to take the girls back and forth to school pretty much every day. She was going to a private Christian school. I used to take the girls back and forth to school pretty much every day. She was going to a private Christian school. I would drop her off From the time she was five years old and all of my children through school.

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I would drop them off in the morning. I'd ask them this question. I'd say, hey, baby, what's a servant leader do? And they'd look at me and they'd say, daddy, servant leaders do three things they put other people's needs before their own. They do things right the first time and they do things without being asked. I said, okay, baby, go be a servant leader today. And then when I picked them up in the afternoon, they got in the car. Then they had to say, because they knew dad was going to ask tell me how you were servant leader today, daddy. I let little Johnny. We came in from outside and it was hot at recess and I let little Johnny go in front of me in the waterline. Dad, mrs Green's trash needed to be taken out and I just did it, without even asking her. I just did it for her.

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So when my daughter moved to Birmingham and went to Hollins College, she got a job at brand new Chick-fil-A. Brand new and she just kept getting promoted and promoted, and promoted and promoted. And what happened was she called me one day and she said dad, you're not going to believe what happened. And she sent me this picture on my phone. She goes the owner operator of the Chick-fil-A that I worked at. He owns two in Birmingham. The owner operator came to me and said how in the world do you get all these people to do what you want them to do? Like, how in the world have you been promoted and promoted and promoted on our team? And you're like 19, 20 years old. She said my dad taught me about servant leadership and she shared with him the story. And he goes here's what I want you to do. And so she sent me a picture of you know, at Chick-fil-A where they have the aluminum stuff where they slide the fries and the nuggets down on the top and the bottom.

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Written on the facing of that aluminum little serving area was three characteristics of a servant leadership. Number one we put other people's needs before their own. Number two we do things right the first time. Number three we do things without being asked, and he had to write that in there and she sent that to me. It was one of the most proud dad moments I've ever had in my life. So when you find a good community, lean into and be a servant leader.

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Second thing is and I absolutely love this I haven't talked about this in a long time the second thing is is adopt the thermostat mindset. Adopt a thermostat mindset. The difference between a thermostat and a thermometer is huge. A thermometer does what. It tells you what the temperature of a room is. If you walk into a room and it's 72 degrees, the thermometer will tell you it's 72 degrees room and it's 72 degrees, the thermometer will tell you it's 72 degrees. But a thermostat has the ability to change the temperature of any room that they walk into. And so when you adapt a thermostat mindset, what happens is you can affect the room. You can affect any room that you walk into as a human being. One of the things I wrote down in my ideal partner homework that I did with my good friend Lauren Zoller a couple of years ago, doing some somatic therapy with her, was inform my ideal partner that she this is exactly what I wrote that she brings her life-giving presence into every room that she enters. Every encounter that other people have with her. It leaves them a better human being. So that's what thermostats do. Thermostats go into a room determined and passionate about helping other people.

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You've heard, every single one of us have heard be interesting, be interested before you're interesting. Like, don't just go in and go. Here's who I am and here's what I do. Ask people about themselves, be interested in what they do, be interested in their family, be interested in who they are. This happened to me at a restaurant a few weeks ago. Server comes up and I'm like dude, tell me about you. How did you get to work here? What do you like to do? And it just opened up this huge conversation with this young guy phenomenal conversation, because I was interested in him. And then, when he goes, well, what do you do? Oh, I'm glad you asked. I'm on a mission to help 1 million faith-based entrepreneurs become the best version of themselves in their faith, health, relationship, business and finances over the next five years. Wow, that sounds amazing. Can you give me more information? But I was interested in what he was doing before I was. I wanted him to be interested in what I was doing. So some practical actions for you are, as we talked about. Be an encourager. Hold other people accountable. I also want to say here's some, here's some great practical actions.

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I do these all the time. I've done this for five years. Literally. I have shortcuts in my phone for just about every special occasion Happy birthday, happy Thanksgiving, happy anniversary, merry Christmas, happy Easter. He is risen. I've got all these shortcuts in my phone. So every single day I go on Facebook and I look through the birthdays and I go HB space and boom, it does my whole happy birthday shortcut and I tell everybody happy birthday. When I see a friend, it pops up on my feed or on Instagram that says happy anniversary. I stop and I take the time to say happy anniversary. I want them to know that they mean so much to me that I'm going to push pause on what Ken wants to do so I can add value and encourage them. So I'm telling you you will never be without amazing friendships and relationships when you live your life through the lens and from the perspective of a servant leader. And one of the things servant leaders do when we say you put other people's needs before their own is you know what I want? To make sure you're having a special day. I randomly in the mornings almost every single day, and when you talk about gratitude, you guys know in our planner I've created goals, gratitude affirmations, top three every day. And one of the things I say a lot is it's not good enough for you to have gratitude just on your paper. You need to get your gratitude off your paper and in your phone. Shoot somebody a text message, send somebody a video text message. I do this. I do this all the time and you would be amazed and people do it for me as well, and it's amazing. I do this. I do this all the time and you would be amazed, and people do it for me as well, and it's amazing.

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I had Dr Ziga from Washington State I think they're right outside of Spokane and he shot me a message. He said I was in prayer and he said God said pray for Ken and he literally I can't tell you the timing was so on the money, it was last year, right after I had found the girl that I was dating in bed with her ex-boyfriend. It was like four or five days after that and very few people knew. And it came right on time for me. I needed God, I need somebody to encourage me. God, my heart is down, god, I'm hurting, I'm broken right now. And literally, he picked up the phone and sent me a voice text and just said brother Ken, this is Dr Z and God told me to call you, to send you a voice text and encourage you and let you know everything's going to be okay. And he said this unbelievable prophetic prayer over my life. That was exactly what I needed in the moment.

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But take your gratitude and get it off your paper. Paper's great, listen, paper's amazing. It gets you in the attitude of gratitude. But it's even better when you pick up your phone and you go hey, dude, it's Ken Just want to encourage you, and I'm sitting here looking at my phone hey, man, I just want to encourage you. Man, I was thinking about you this morning and here's, here's a scripture or a verse I wanted to share with you. And I just want to let you know, dude, you're not alone. I'm here with you and I'm speaking peace and grace over you right now, in Jesus name. Cause, guys, I have about two or three friends right now battling and dealing with cancer, and so when I see my good friend Jen in Florida, who I met speaking at Amberley Lago's event, I am purposeful to go in there and go praying Psalms 103, verse one through three. I want them to know, man, I'm thinking about you and I want to breathe life into you. Guys, that is the importance and what you get out of being in an amazing community. I want you to hear a couple more things real quick and then I'm going to share with you guys what we've done a free community that we've created just for you guys. We've just done this in the past three to four weeks.

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The last thing is participate. Be an active participant in what's going on. Like, if you're in a community like ours and we have a call on Monday morning and a call on Wednesday night, show up Like, do whatever you can do. And I'll say this the people in our collective that's our entry-level thing here at Grostat Drive the people that are in our collective that show up no matter what, even if they're in their car. Josh Porter hopped on a call last week on the way from Chattanooga down to his new office in Atlanta. Had his whole car, had his senior leadership team in the car and he's on our call. The people that show up the most are the people making the biggest difference and seeing the needle moved in their impact and influence in what God's called them to do. So I want to encourage you with that Be an active participant. So let me tell you what we've created for you guys. Grosstowndrivecom forward slash free.

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I told Nate, my good friend and chief growth officer here for GSD. We've been friends for 25 years. He worked for John Maxwell for years. I actually met him at a, at an event that John was speaking at and Nate was his tape of the month guy who used to get up and he would pitch John's tape of the month and John's books, whatever John was publishing at the time. And that that's when I met Nate. And through that process of him coming on our team full time, I told him just in the past two to three weeks. I said, bro, I said I want to because our goal the fire underneath us right now is to impact 1 million faith-based entrepreneurs over the next five years.

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I said, dude, I want to give away so much content. I want to give away our courses. I want to give away a digital copy of our GSD planner. This is the number one thing we sell. Guys, these things go like crazy. I want to give it to people. So they've got a Kindle or an iPad, they literally can take our planner and they can do our planner and not have to purchase one. I want to give them so much content and add so much value to their life that it makes such a difference that they're like man, I don't have a choice. I've got to be a part of this community. So my mindset course is on there. It is a lengthy course that we shot on how to identify, remove and replace limiting beliefs like fear, scarcity, insecurity, comparison, shame and success. Like how do I make the hurdle in my mindset over these six common limiting beliefs?

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We've got our Create 2023 conference online Myself, john Maxwell, erwin McManus, ed Milet. What an unbelievable weekend. All the recordings for our Create conferences are on there for you to watch for absolutely free. My last book that I did, which was an Amazon bestseller, number one bestseller in four different categories, the first book I ever wrote. As the Leader Grows, there's access to get a digital copy in there. There's so much free content for you because our heart is to my.

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I know my call is to pastor high performing, faith-based entrepreneurs and just breathe life into them, just like I did when I was a pastor every Sunday morning with the people that were a part of our church. So I want to encourage you. Proximity is a cheat code. Get around the right people, and the first sphere of influence, or first thing you need to look at is am I connected with a life-giving community of faith-based entrepreneurs, people that dream at a different level, people that believe at a different level, people that believe at a different level?

Speaker 1:

Next week, guys, we're going to talk about circle the 10 to 12 people that you spend the most time with, and I'm going to dive into that and ask you some very specific questions on what your circle looks like. Guys, thank you again for joining us on as the Leader Grows. I am your host, ken Jocelyn, and this has been a talk on proximity. Guys, this has been a teaching on. Proximity really is a cheat code, and there's three spheres of relationships that every one of us need to have locked in, and this one this week is your community. I'll see you next week on as the Leader Grows.