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Hello, hello and welcome back one more time, god's Diamonds in the Rough podcast.
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We are so excited to be with you one more time.
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Amen, we're hoping and praying that today has been a good day for you.
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The week has been well for you.
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Amen, we are excited about our show on today.
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You have myself.
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If you don't know who I am, catherine Michael is not here today, but we do have a guest with us who's going to be giving us a mouthful about entrepreneurship today.
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His name is Chris Anderson, a man, and he just did some fabulous things in the time of the pandemic.
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He's the CEO and founder of Elevate Media Group.
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Amen, but before he comes on, y'all know what we got to do we got to pray.
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So, father, we thank you so much for your grace and your mercy.
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Thank you for allowing us this day, a day we've never seen before.
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I pray God, for every listener, every heart that is here, god, that we would all be able to glean from what you are giving to us.
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God, we bless your name and we bless your people.
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We pray this prayer in the mighty and matchless name of Jesus Christ.
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We do pray, amen, amen and amen.
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Chris, would you say hello to everyone?
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Hey everybody, super excited to be here.
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Hopefully you can take something away from what I talk about today, but hopefully God speaks right.
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Amen, absolutely.
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So tell us a little bit about yourself and how you entered into this.
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I would say this blessing from God.
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Yeah, into this.
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I would say this blessing from God, yeah, I mean the whole story I keep telling my wife and when I talk about it, it's all a God thing, this whole journey of entrepreneurship, just how his hand's been in it.
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You know, it's true, he provides everything we need, and this journey has been kind of a testament to that and just really, you know, just really strengthen my faith even more.
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So, um, in in some really deep valleys and, um, and it's just such a blessing, though, to be able to do a podcast like this or any podcast, and share just kind of what he's done and how he's used me to build something, um, that's helping other people elevate their stories, whether it be individuals or businesses, and, um, yeah, again, just how he's provided along the way.
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So it's been a really cool thing to grow.
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Elevate media group, which is a video production agency I started in 2021, you know, I actually quit my job in 2020 because I wanted to start a business um, because I felt God calling me to do that.
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Um, and we can dive into how that happened and everything with my wife being on board and things as well later, but didn't know what I was going to do, had an idea and you know wasn't, it wasn't his plan and finally got myself out of the way, and that's when Elevate was started at the end of 2021.
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And you know.
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He's been in it since and we've been growing and it's it's just a huge and um, yeah, I just decided to share whatever I can and however he wants to use me today amen.
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So you said you said something that was pivotal and absolutely fundamental, uh, to anybody doing anything.
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Uh, an idea, an idea.
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What you have to know, diamonds, is that it always begins with an idea, and it's usually something that's just kind of like what do you really want me to do that?
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Huh, and you're like you know, well, I don't have the money and I don't have this and I don't have that, but what made you go forth with this idea, chris?
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made you go forth with this idea, chris.
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Yeah, so this the whole, I mean.
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I'll try to be brief because the backstory could be pretty lengthy, but, um, you know, I was working in the corporate world, normal nine to five job all that fun stuff.
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I was an athletic trainer and you know, in the, in the spin of a year, um, I lost my last grandmother and at the end of that same year, my wife lost her last three grandparents.
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In the span of a month, Um, and because that was at the end of the year, uh, one, it was a big blow.
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But they're down in Texas as well, that's where my wife's from and my job said hey, you've already used all your bereavement on the first death and the second death, um, the last two cause they died within a week.
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That actually married is beautiful, actually, how god, I mean.
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One passed, the other passed two days later.
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So they, that's the longest they've ever been separated um, which is it's just a beauty to god's story there.
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But anyways, you don't have any more bereavement.
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You have all your pto already used for this year.
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Uh, so you can't go down there.
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I was like I'm going down there, I'm going to be down there to support my family and my wife.
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How is this going to work?
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Well, it'll just be time off, unpaid.
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And I said you're kidding, right, like, these are desks, these are unplanned things.
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They're like yeah, unfortunately.
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So what happened?
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I ended up canceling my Christmas PTO so I could use it.
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And thankfully they said we don't usually accept PTO.
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You know, with this short of time frame, I think I gave them a week.
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We usually need like three weeks, so we don't usually do that, but we'll do it this time.
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So I'm thankful they worked there with me.
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But it was really kind of the final straw that I was like life is short, life is precious and I care more about my time with family and other people that I can maybe make a difference outside of this.
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And two, I think God made me a little bit stubborn because I don't necessarily enjoy people telling me what I can do with my time and what it's worth and where it should go to.
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And I've learned with my time and what it's worth and where it should go to and I've learned that over time.
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And it's the strength and weakness.
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And so I was like this is for the birds, like I can.
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And I've been getting into a lot of personal development.
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I've been listening to podcasts.
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I started my podcast in 2019.
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So I had been talking to entrepreneurs about how they were successful and what they've done.
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I'm like I can do something.
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I can do my own business.
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I know I can just cause, I know myself and um, so that all happened in 2019.
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Um, or, excuse me, that was 2018, 2019.
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I started my podcast and really had been thinking about it and was like, okay, what am I going to do?
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And so I went to a conference beginning in 2020 in Toronto.
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I'm from Indiana, so it was about a nine-hour drive.
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I was coming back from that, or in the evening on a Sunday in February, called my wife because I just felt super cold to quit my job and start a business.
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I said I said Hannah, I said I think God told me to quit my job and start a business.
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I really think that's what I'm supposed to do.
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And so she's a math teacher.
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She's very analytical, she's very A plus B has to equal C, kind of thing, or how does that happen?
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And she was like, yeah, this doesn't add up.
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This is not.
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You quit your job, you're bringing in more income.
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How's that going to work?
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I was like I don't know.
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This is just what I feel God calling me to do.
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And so we basically ended up on you know, this is truly what God wants.
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She is going to be on board with it, hannah, you're going to be on board with it, cause I don't think he's going to take us in different paths on this thing.
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Um, so we just kept praying on it and, into March, rolled around and was like hey, you know, I think you are supposed to quit your job and start a business.
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And I was like, okay, here we go.
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So gave my business four weeks notice, so basically all of April.
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Two weeks into that four weeks notice, covid hit here in Indiana.
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I got furloughed for the last two and I was done anyways.
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I got furloughed for the last two and I was done anyways.
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Um, and that's kind of how the whole business started of just kind of leaning into him and listening.
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And uh, you know, it took a year for elevate to start because I was again stubborn, had an idea of what I wanted to do, Uh, and he presented, you know, different clients in a different field, which is now what I do.
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But I was fighting it and so eventually I got myself out of the way.
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I said, okay, I'm going to listen again to your Lord.
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You provided this whole time.
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I see it.
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If this is what you want me to start, I'll do it.
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I started Elevate the next month.
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I had my first reoccurring client.
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That's still with us today.
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Thank, thank, Kim, Praise the Lord on that.
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And it's just continued to grow since that.
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That is awesome, awesome.
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So would you describe yourself as a solution to a problem?
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Would you describe yourself as solution?
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As a problem, I mean a solution to a problem.
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Before you answer that, diamonds, we have to know that God already has a solution before the problem ever came.
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He had already been preparing Chris for the pandemic.
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You understand he had already been preparing him for what was already coming.
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So you have to know that, strategically, your life has been playing.
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Your steps are ordered by God.
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If you truly trusted him, he been playing.
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Your steps are ordered by god.
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If you truly trusted him, he's ordering your steps.
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So, chris, can you answer the question?
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Uh, would you say that you were a solution to a problem, or are that's a great.
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That's a great question, um, and that's it's hard for me to answer that and say yes, because you know I battle that kind of thing, not that I'm anything great, but we're in his image and he's great, right?
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And so we can do great things.
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I mean, if I think of it that way, of him using me, then, yes, I'm a solution to a problem with him working through me, with him working through me.
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Uh, and what we always say at elevate is you know, your story matters, whether that be a brand of business, an individual, uh, your story truly matters and we want to help elevate that in your market so we can, um, just be a part of reaching more people by elevating you, so you can help more people and in doing so, we're just a piece of that in the background.
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So, um, yeah, we're, we're thankful again and we get to be a solution to multiple problems when we help businesses through video content.
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Uh, and, and when I get to speak, I get to share a lot about.
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You know how he worked in this journey, but also how he worked in my personal journey, and, and you know that your story truly does matter, You're worth it in his eyes and, um, you, that your story truly does matter, you're worth it in his eyes and you're more than the worldly titles put on you or you put on yourself.
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And so, yeah, I would say, yes, I am.
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Amen.
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So you know, what I'm trying to bring out is to every entrepreneur that is out there trying to do something, because God has given them an idea, it's okay to humbly move in his image and after his likeness.
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God does not hide who he is.
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He's all-powerful, he's all-knowing, he's the creator and the author and the finisher of everything, and that says a lot to us as individuals who are made in his image and after his likeness.
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He wants us to carry ourselves in such a way that says that God has given a plan for me, god has a plan for your life, and it is okay to illustrate it.
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I think that and you tell me what you think I think that society has made us or is trying to force God's people to hide because we have something to say for him.
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What do you think about that?
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Yeah, yeah, I think that's a big thing.
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I think you know I've read the Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis and if you haven't read that book, I'd recommend it highly because it just shows how the devil tries to work in little things, um, and he, I think he really does use us, or use those methods to to deter us from really living.
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You know that story that God has for us, um, because all our stories are powerful and they all you know, plant those seeds for you know the kingdom, for you know glory being given to God, for people to see God working.
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And, yeah, I think that's one area that gets attacked a lot and it's the little things that keep us off of living into our story fully.
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Absolutely.
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I agree with that 100%.
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At the end of the day, I think that also another thing that matters that you knowing who you are, who you are, and knowing that, because you are a child of god, he's going to use you in a magnificent way um, he wants to use ordinary people to do extraordinary things.
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I mean, I believe that jesus illustrated that with his birth alone.
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You know what I mean.
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You're talking about the king of kings being born in a barn.
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I mean it just doesn't.
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Intellectually, it doesn't make any sense.
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How can somebody that's coming off the streets change literally change the world?
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How can somebody just quit their job and then turn around, have a six to seven figure income you know what I mean just like in a span of a couple of years.
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It just mathematically doesn't make sense now, does it?
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right, I know, and it's, and it's those things too, like when we start letting the devil kind of get in our head and in our mind and our thoughts, that we start to play small and we start to have fear.
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And you know, that's the scary thing too, because our story is important and our story is unique and our story can impact other people.
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But when we allow that fear to be more powerful in our minds and stop us from sharing that story, there are people who are missing out on hearing that.
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And when that happens and it's a scary thing and I talk to my wife about this, because sometimes when I don't want to share something or I feel like I shouldn't say something, that's planting a seed I feel like that's the devil.
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So I always should say it, because I tell her, I said you know what, if that's that one moment that I don't share that, because I'm scared what they're going to say or I'm fearful what they're going to think Now, if I don't share that, that's their only time of hearing God.
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Yeah, yeah, I get it.
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Like that's the one moment, that's the catalyst that God's going to speak to them through, and I didn't.
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I didn't step up because I was too afraid, instead of living in the power of God, and so that person might never hear what they needed to hear in that moment and their whole, their whole life path could be a whole, a whole different thing.
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Um, not that it's always that extreme, but that's kind of what I think in my mind to try to overcome that fear is what if that one person that you're speaking to needed to hear your story or needed to hear that thing that you were a little scared to say because of whatever?
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And then you know maybe what happens they're going to reckon they pass away and that was their moment to that they needed that they were going to.
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You know, reach out to God.
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And we didn't do it because we allowed the devil to let fear stop us.
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I don't know, just my mind kind of goes in that direction, like that's our story matters that much and we and there's power through it, you know that God can use us with it.
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Absolutely.
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And one thing to note is that you know when God wants to.
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God doesn't always have us to, you know.
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But what am I saying?
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What I'm saying is because so oftentimes people are looking for the people of God to only speak, that they only are supposed to speak scripture, and our life becomes a scripture.
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You know what I mean.
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And you know our life can be a testimony or a reflection of the scripture, and that's what you got to know is that you know your witness doesn't necessarily have to be you memorizing a scripture and constantly talking about scripture to be a witness for Christ.
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Christ is not religious, he's relational, and he would rather us be relational with people than to come legalistically with a whole bunch of scripture out of your mouth.
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You know, you understand what I'm saying.
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You know what I mean, cause.
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I just feel like so many people are missing missing, true, because they are trying to be politically correct, I guess you could say yeah, but anyway, go ahead, go ahead, sir.
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Yeah, I think I mean the biggest thing is just to be real.
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You know, we're all sinners, we all fall short, no one's perfect.
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And you know, just have those conversations and like be okay to say I don't know the answer, or I don't know why that happens, or I don't.
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You know, I'm not, all I know is this and what God's done in my life.
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And you know, just be real and be open and authentic and that's, I mean, that's the best thing.
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I think people gravitate towards that more than if you're just trying to push your scripture and use it to the Bible thump instead of just being real and open.
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And it's great to.
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I mean, obviously it's powerful to use scripture when it's right, but you're just doing it to try to to seem you know a certain way it might not come off as well.
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Absolutely so.
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Um, not really shifting gears, but I want you to have time to talk about, uh, a little bit more in depth about Elevate Media, uh, maybe some simple steps in how we can actually glean from, I mean, give us what it is that you have to tell us about Elevate Media.
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Yeah, so you know, we do full video production, whether it be, you know, video, podcast edits, brand story videos, social media video content.
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We have an events branch, so they do weddings, real estate parties, things like that as well.
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So the big thing is, you know, with video, and why we love that so much, is because social media is so prevalent and it's going to continue to be that way.
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Like it or hate it, social media is going to be, you know the future, continuing with being able to reach people, either, you know, business, personal faith, whatever it is, that's going to be the medium.
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And as we're getting into more virtual reality, metaverse, all this crazy stuff, video and being on camera and at least having your likeness out there is crucial To be able to one build a relationship, build that trust, build that connection with those who are following you.
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A lot better than a static image or a static post those still have their power but video, with where we're at in life, it just opens the door to building relationships through a screen, whether it be on social media or whether it be on YouTube, because people are watching YouTube videos on their TVs now, so you could literally be in people's homes and their living rooms, talking and sharing, uh, and they're going to be watching you and, and you know, building that connection and getting that message through there.
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And so, again, that's why elevate you know I love, you know, I love you know I started out not loving what I was doing it was just providing income until I was like, dude, look what this is doing, like this isn't just a business, this is helping other people get their stories out there, get heard.
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And a lot of people we help are making a difference in the world in some way in business, in life, in the world, in some way in business and life.
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And so it's like they're making a difference and you're now making a difference in their story which allows them to expand and be seen.
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And their story is now being heard by more people, seen by more people, and so our ripple effect is going out.
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And when I saw that, I got a different enjoyment and I got a different passion for it and I mean he's been faithful and provided along the way.
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But that's why you know why Elevate's here is to help people realize the power of video as a tool to grow their business, to grow their brand, to reach more people with their message, with God's message, and it's just a really cool thing to be a part of and see all these different organizations and people making a difference and we're just kind of in the background getting to do our part, um, in helping plant the seeds and extending that ripple out.
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Awesome.
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Well, you know what, mr Anderson, I need you too.
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We definitely need you over here, but we'll talk more after the show is over.
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But, um, can you tell us uh, how, how people can get in contact with uh elevate media?
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I see you have a website.
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You got Facebook, all of the handles on social media, so share please.
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Yeah, absolutely so.
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Yeah, our website's elevate-media-groupcom, and actually we're going to be building a community for people who want to get their message out on social media online through video A little bit easier.
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We're going to kind of guide people how to do that and especially if they don't have the means to outsource, and so we're starting that community and that's going to be on.
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We're we're building out the wait list right now because we're going to launch in in June and and so I'll get you that link because it's going to be.
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It'll be.
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It's a little bit longer to say some people can just click on it, but yeah, for elevate nation, we're going to build that out.
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So I'm excited to be able to share that One of the first podcasts I get to share that on, because we we wanted if you can't afford our production, we still want to benefit and help you grow with video, and so that's why that's our heart behind it.
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We want to just continue to elevate people's output and marketing and businesses through that.
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So that's a big one.
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We have a podcast, the Elevate Media Podcast, where we talk to entrepreneurs.
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We talk video content there to help people elevate their lives and businesses.
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So check that out wherever you listen to podcasts.
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If you have any more questions, you can reach out to me personally on Instagram at christanderson Would love to start conversations.
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I still answer those messages personally myself.
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So if you have questions on video, on business, anything, I love talking to people, I love having conversations and I'm definitely open to it.
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So don't shy away or think I don't have time to do it, because I make time and that's the best way to connect with us and get connected and learn and grow with us.
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That is fabulous, because I'm telling you, you will absolutely hear from me, absolutely, because there is so much that God has shown me to do and I just don't know exactly how to do it, and I believe that it is so important for us to be connected Connection, connected community communication.
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We can, absolutely we cannot.
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Look, here's the thing we try to do, what God tells us to do, but we can't always do it by ourself.
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Oh, absolutely, try to do what.
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God tells us to do, but we can't always do it by ourself, and when we're doing it with God and we're doing it the way he tells us to do it, that he's going to align us with like-minded individuals, that not that we shine, necessarily, but that he shines through us because we're doing it for him.
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Oh my gosh, I just, I mean I just it's crazy.
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It's crazy to think about.
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Like Jesus came down and he could have got the message out however he wanted, but he picked to have disciples.
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Yeah, he built his own team.
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You know, he picked a team.
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He didn't do it alone and I think that's just a beautiful thing.
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He could have easily, you know, he could have been, and once did he snap, went to another city, but he chose to walk with others like physically walk the road with others, not alone, not flying back and forth, but he built.
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he built a team and I think that's a testament to what you're saying.
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And we can't, we shouldn't, do it alone and we can, can't.
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I mean, that's elevate, like I couldn't have gotten to where we are today without bringing people on who are better at different areas than I am, and it's just a, it's just a reflection of what Jesus did with disciples and it's it's a crazy thing If you look at it like I've never.
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I, you know just recently looking at it like that.
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It's like, wow, like because he could have just right, I'm gonna go here and then I'm gonna go here and just show up.
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But he didn't.
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He walked and he walked with others, uh, which I think is just huge.
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Oh man, god, I just so feel the spirit oh my goodness, I just feel the spirit right now and you know, with, with this conversation and the fact that you know that, know, I always say let's see when the light comes together, the brighter the light becomes.
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And it is powerful when you think about that.
