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22: Breaking Free from Your Past and Changing People’s Lives with Cristi Gooding

Co-Founder of YesLord, Inc, Cristi Gooding is here today to share her story of freedom and how she got into ministry.  She has a story of addiction and recovery, and now she only lives to be obedient to God. Cristi has an amazing story of how God gave her a vision of Yes Lord! She explains what it is and what the mission of it is.

Listen to the episode as Cristi also discusses:

  • What a “dwell night” is and what it means
  • The early beginnings of Yes Lord!
  • Why she didn’t wait for the Lord to drop her ministry in her lap
  • How she stepped out in faith to get Yes Lord! started
  • The miracles she has seen from her twice monthly “dwell nights”
  • How she got global reach for Yes Lord! in the first week!
  • How a t-shirt has been instrumental in starting the movement
  • Why she feels so strongly about her own personal testimony
  • Her 20-year drug addiction
  • Her choice to overcome her meth addiction and how she laid it down overnight
  • How childhood rejection led her to a food addiction that later turned into drug addiction
  • How the real battle began when she quit drugs and went back to her food addiction
  • The process of becoming unbound from addictions and how she dealt with it…..this was the hard part
  • Why it has taken almost 10 years to break the chains of addiction that bind her
  • Her childhood agreement with lies she believed about herself, and the ramifications
  • How “giving” is her weakness, and she has trouble receiving
  • What God is stirring within her

 

Connect with Cristi:

Website for Yes Lord is in the works, so stay tuned

facebook.com/yeslord

facebook.com/Cristi.Cathey.Gooding


To get your FREE Yes Lord T-Shirt – Email: yes.lord1999@yahoo.com and send your shirt size and shipping address. Mention that you heard about it on Are You Real Podcast!


Recommended Books and Resources:

Honor’s Reward

Girls with Swords

Breaking Free 

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21: Using Beauty to Combat Sex Trafficking with Dianna Bautista

As a hair stylist in the beauty industry for 15 years, Dianna has worked on many platforms in the salon and providing advanced education to professional stylists. After 11 years of doing hair for fashion magazines and red carpets, she began teaching women in developing countries who have endured extreme poverty, exploitation, abuse, and trafficking the skill of hair dressing. Dianna has helped build and develop educational beauty programs in Kenya, Uganda, Brazil, Mexico, Cambodia, and now Thailand. Giving hope and a future to women through vocational training has become her mission. In seeing her vision of freedom through hair dressing become a reality, she has moved to Pattaya, Thailand, the World capital of sex tourism and child trafficking. Dianna has committed to living there indefinitely to establish Shear Love International to give women the opportunity of a career in hair design, a future for their families, and a voice in the world.

Dianna has helped build and develop educational beauty programs in Kenya, Uganda, Brazil, Mexico, Cambodia, and now Thailand. Giving hope and a future to women through vocational training has become her mission. In seeing her vision of freedom through hair dressing become a reality, she has moved to Pattaya, Thailand, the World capital of sex tourism and child trafficking. Dianna has committed to living there indefinitely to establish Shear Love International to give women the opportunity of a career in hair design, a future for their families, and a voice in the world.

What you’ll hear in this episode:

  • How Dianna teaches career skills to women rescued from sex trafficking
  • The horror and the dangers
  • The solution, according to Dianna
  • A favorite scripture: “Love one another.”—John 13:34
  • How Dianna got started “doing hair”
  • Where passion and purpose meet for Dianna
  • Overcoming extreme family difficulties
  • Eye-opening trips to Africa, Brazil, and Cambodia
  • Dianna’s plans for a beauty school to teach women skills
  • Dianna’s business plan
  • Her beauty school in Kenya: 84 graduates to date!
  • The shift to full-time ministry
  • Dianna’s inner struggle
  • Finding your voice/standing up for kids
  • Any regrets?
  • What is needed to change people’s lives
  • The goal: $75,000 for next year to fund EVERYTHING—and a barbering school for men in the future!
  • Women being empowered—for the RIGHT reasons
  • Consider becoming a financial supporter! (Visit the website to learn how to help!)
  • How the gospel is shared with victims
  • Two favorite books: Unstoppable by Christine Caine and The Circle Maker by Mark Batterson
  • What would you do if you could change ONE THING in the world? “Abolish trafficking”
  • What would be your advice to a younger you? “I would go to myself at age 19 and tell Dianna to know your talents, cultivate, and use them. Know that they come solely from God.”
  • Dianna’s parting advice to listeners: “One rescued is a reason to celebrate and one enslaved is a reason to fight.” –Kaley Wilson

Download the audio version of Dianna’s book recommendation “The Circle Maker” by Mark Batterson for FREE on Audible.

Resources:

www.shearloveinternational.org

Find Dianna and Shear Love on Facebook and Instagram, too!

 

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20: Gifted with Creativity by the Creator with Dr. Nashon Walker

Dr. Nashon Walker is a Music Creator, Urban Community Solutionist & Modern Day Street/Gang Culture Philosopher.  Dr. Nashon is also the President & Founder of HoodRISE MUSIC a global music production, talent development & record label with an emphasis on creating life-giving content.  HoodRISE MUSIC has world-wide distribution through ADA/WEA a Warner Music Group Company.  Dr. Nashon is also the President & Founder of the Empowerment Center Worldwide, Inc. a social solution movement (SSM) committed to transforming the lives of youth and the leaders that serve them through solution driven initiatives that reflect the kingdom of God.  

 

On April 15, 2014, Dr. Nashon was honored by Ambassador at Large for the Republic of Burundi, Dr. Clyde Rivers with the GOLDEN RULE INTERNATIONAL AWARD for his work of excellence within Urban culture.  The following year, Dr. Nashon was again honored by Dr. Clyde Rivers with an honorary Doctorate Degree in Music with an emphasis on Arts & Worship.

 

Driven by a passion for results and true social transformation, Dr. Nashon begin to development change models based on his years of research, experience,and unprecedented outcomes.  Today, Dr. Walker is not only a global example of transformation but is pioneering a new social solutionist movement for the urban culture & community.

 

Listen to the episode as Nashon discusses:

  • The difference between your gifts and your purpose
  • Communication and creativity – how Nashon identified his 2 main gifts
  • Salvation in a jail cell…it was the real thing!
  • Learn about Nashon’s turning point in his life
  • Nashon’s rough upbringing without his parents and in a gang culture The strong Islamic influence on his life
  • How he and his Father were incarcerated together and how it changed him
  • Nashon’s Father, the professional con artist….and he still loves him
  • The books his cellmates were reading when he first met them.
  • How he got out of prison in 18 months, on a mandatory 85 year sentence
  • Homeless at 14 with 2 younger brothers to care for – meet the mentor that helped him
  • What caused him to turn from the streets and gang culture, to something better
  • How God elevated Nashon in his academic life
  • The 5 Pillars of Transformative Success
  • Nashon’s work with inner city kids – music, media and mentors
  • Parents have to take control of the media their children consume
  • Learn a daily habit that brings light into the darkness of Nashon’s daily work

Download a free audio book today with Audible.

 

Connect with Nashon:

www.nashonwalker.com

Facebook/NashonWalker

 

Dr. Nashon Walker’s Books:

Shining in Your Difference

Transformative Business Success – coming soon!

HOOD Rise Music – Clean, but trendy music for your teens!

 

 

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19: Using Your Finances to Fulfill Your Purpose with Ed Harris

 

Ed Harris has worked in the financial industry for over a 14 years. He is passionate about equipping people with the wisdom and knowledge to manage their wealth, fulfill their unique God-given purpose, and advance the kingdom of God. Ed is an advisor, mentor, speaker, and the author of Mountain Climbing Money

 

Listen to the episode as Ed discusses:

  • Why you may never find God’s ATM
  • Jesus taught productivity – learn about it
  • What it truly means to be “about My Father’s business”
  • How he was shown patience, love and understanding by another
  • The loss of his brother when Ed was only 8 years old
  • Why he had a hard time as a child
  • The example Jesus set for dealing with people
  • Why it’s even hard as a Christian to see other Christians disenfranchised by the church
  • The illustration of the bull eye and sin
  • Personal responsibility and emotional intelligence
  • Sin = missing the mark
  • Jesus hit the bullseye, and THEN the masses came

Download the audio version of Ed’s book recommendation “Start with Why” By Simon Sinek for FREE with Audible

 

Connect with Ed:

info@harrisadvisorsonline.com – Join the weekly Broadcast on Wed at 5pm EST

Www.harrisadvisorsonline.com

Www.youtube.com/Harrisadvisors

Www.facebook.com/Harrisadvisors

 

Recommended Books:

 

Start with Why – Simon Sinek

 

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18: How to Find Your Right Lane in Life with Lane Ethridge

 

Lane Ethridge is a National Bestselling author, an international business owner, speaker and trainer, and successful entrepreneur. Life is not about what you accomplish while you live but how you live in your accomplishments. Life is about following your passions and utilizing your God-given gifts and talents for the benefits of others. Become the ultimate person you can so you can help others reach their ultimate potential.

 

As the CEO of Changing Lanes International, Lane contributes to helping people give back, think and live bigger, grow as a person and a leader and create a legacy that will impact many generations.

 

There comes a time in life for a Lane Change and your time is now.

The destination on the road to success is yours to create.

Changing lanes is the road trip of a lifetime! Don’t let life pass you by. Bypass the good life on the way to your best life.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

  • Why Lane wants to use his gift of teaching
  • His personal experience with “ask, seek, knock”
  • How Lane left his teaching career to do what he is doing now
  • How to let the Holy Spirit guide you to the right lane
  • All the things Lane did, before he found the right thing for him
  • How to accelerate when you don’t have the skill set
  • The trifecta – Skills, Action, Motivation
  • Basic foundational principles to succeed
  • The “hand in the sand” principle – what it is and why it matters
  • The bug splat learning lesson
  • Lane’s biggest strengths and gifts
  • Why Lane’s been called a con artist
  • How weakness can come when you operate in your strengths
  • Ways that Lane shares his faith in his life and work

 

Lane’s Books:

 

Changing Lanes

Kairos

 

Connect with Lane:

Cellphone – 240-401-9742 – send him a text and schedule a 15 minute consultation

Recommended Books:

The Freedom Journal – John Lee Dumas

Tribes – Seth Godin

Download Lane’s book recommendation “Tribes” by Seth Godlin for FREE on Audible.

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