ASI 2018: Business Unusual

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Young Professionals

Mark Finley

History & Mission of ASI

Jason Churchwell

Jesus’ first miracle was making juice!

Sean Wycliffe

Developing a Level 7 Evangelistic Business

Calvin Kim

F5 Challenge – Challenging the Status Quo!

Michelle Doucoumes

Danny Houghton

Denzil McNeilus

Brenda Palmer

Gary Rayner

Michael Tuazon

Panel: Business and Finance for Young Professionals and Entrepreneurs

Business Titans of the Bible:  Lessons for the 21st Century Entrepreneur

GW Chew

Starting a Center of Influence

Nathaniel Justin Khoe

Pick Up Your Phone and Follow Me

Eric Walsh

YP Speaker Panel

Your First Profession

Our next section is going to be a special panel of our speakers.

Mike and Michelle are gonna lead out in this and we're gonna invite our speakers to come up at this time and we're gonna have Q&A.

All right, well we have come to the time where You've gotten to hear from all of our speakers except 1, which is Dr.

Walsh, who will share a closing charge after this.

But this is the time when we promised you that these speakers could answer your questions.

We're going to go through a few of those.

And also, we can still probably take a few more via text potentially.

So I don't know if that number is going to go up there, but if it does you can text a few more here.

But why don't we start with a word of prayer?

You've met all these guys already today, but let's pray first as we start.

Father in heaven, thank you so much for just the inspiration of what you are doing through the people up here in this panel.

And we know that's just a small subsection of what you're doing through people in this room and in your work in general.

But I pray that you would guide right now what we share, what we discuss, that it would be the things that are beneficial, the things that you want shared at this time.

And so I just pray for this and thank you in Jesus name, Amen.

Well, the first 1 is a little bit more of a general 1, so I'm going to throw this to whoever feels like answering this, but it's a big 1.

How do you balance working in the professional world and the side of ministry?

So maybe some of you in the corporate world who have that job and are doing ministry, who would like to answer that question to start us out?

I guess I'll go first since no 1 else jumped on this 1.

This is very challenging, actually, and it's 1 of the most difficult parts of being a professional in a very secular world.

You know, and if you've, many of you have seen, you're talking about social media, My face has been all over social media and the internet and YouTube and everywhere else.

And I think that's what a lot of people don't understand.

I was never afraid to have my name attached to the gospel of Jesus Christ.

And I knew, And I told my brother this even years before everything happened to me, that what I'm doing is 1 day going to cause me to lose everything I have.

I knew it, because I knew what I preached, and I knew the world in which we live.

You cannot have your profession as an idol.

If your profession becomes an idol, if your career becomes an idol, you will lose your soul to your idol.

And there are a lot of people in this room right now that really, our profession comes first.

We would never take the chance to go through what I went through because we would never want to lose everything.

The problem with that philosophy is you don't give God the credit for having giving you everything in the first place.

And so if he can, like Job said, the Lord gives and the Lord takes away.

If you're going into profession, and my talk after this is entitled, Your First Profession, your first profession has to be your profession of faith.

And if you're not willing to leave everything at the foot of the cross, to lose everything like Christ did, like Paul did, like Daniel did, like the 3 Hebrew boys did, like David did.

Then your profession, you may thrive at it, but spiritually it can actually choke you out.

I think this is particularly why the Sabbath commandment is so valuable.

We are commanded to work for 6 days and rest 1 day.

So if you can't accomplish your work in 6 days, you're probably doing more than what God has called you to do.

It's for the presenter in the blue shirt who has 3 master degrees.

Is it possible to get the presentation of the Bible characters who had the different circumstances and overcome them?

I guess the question is if they wanted resources, is there a way they can get some of the resources you had or anyone?

Who would they contact with I guess is there a Email address is associated with yeah I think what we'll do is that before the end of the presentations this evening We'll give a contact information for the young adults and they can email that so we'll do that after this We'll have that up that they can contact and that you can send it to us.

Yeah, no problem All right, here's 1 for those of you who are working with groups and teams.

What do you look for when building a team to build a business?

Yeah, right now, I mean, we're in the process of building a team for our manufacturing operation.

But 1 of the things I have, 1 of my closest friends actually has become 1 of my greatest business partners.

But you look for people that have similar core values that you have.

And I like to say, 1 of my pastor told me a long time ago is that, you know, time is your friend.

Meaning like time really becomes your educator on a person's character.

And you find ways to, you know, have those intimate conversations and you ask questions.

Jesus when he was in the temple when he was 12 years old, what did he do?

And you can just simply just take time before you kind of give a person a major responsibility, you take that intimate conversations, that time to get to understand who they are, you get to see what their values are, what they think, what they believe.

And you know that when a crisis comes, because in business a crisis is going to come, and you know that by their responses, things that they're saying, eventually their character is going to come through.

The reason why this is so important for our company, last thing I'll say is that we're raising a lot of money right now as a business.

Also our business is a very sexy business in the sense that there's a lot of people investing a lot of money into what we're doing.

Eventually we might have an opportunity to sell our company to another person or we might can take investment but that might not be the right investment.

So the people that's on my team or even the investors that actually are investing, they also become team members as well.

They can lead you to do things that go against your values.

So I think values are number 1 when it comes to your team, knowing that they have the same faith, perspective, same belief systems when it comes to business, family, friends, that type of stuff is super important as you get your close intermediate kind of team.

Yeah, I have maybe a little bit of a different perspective having been through now 8 different ventures, 3 really fast-growing ones that have grown to hundreds of employees, and seeing what can happen.

And I started out with the same ethos, which is essentially bring on people that you trust, maybe that you've known for a long period of time, that you feel like that there is some loyalty, that you're going to have loyalty when there's hard times come.

But the problem is with the loyalty ethos is that they expect that you're also going to be loyal to them under all circumstances.

And what happens is, as the company grows quickly, there's these growth and transition points.

You get to say 10 employees, and at 10 employees, the way you've been doing things from 2 or 3 employees doesn't work anymore.

So you've got to completely reconfigure and then there's another wall at like 50 employees and there's another wall at 100 employees and another wall at 200 employees.

And if you don't completely change the way that you're doing things, you smash against that wall and you just cannot get through it.

It doesn't matter how much energy and time and money you throw at it, it's like, unless you completely change.

And the problem is, there's this expectation for those that were with you from the beginning, that they're entitled to the same position or higher as the company grows.

For their life, if millions of dollars depend on it, they just can't do it.

And you have to be able to fire, you know, you don't want to fire them, but what usually happens is they protect themselves, they start hiding information, they're trying to conceal their incompetence.

It's just a terrible situation to get into where you're conflicted between your loyalty to your friend and your loyalty to the investors and to the business and what you have to do to grow.

So if you put yourself in that position to where you feel like you can't make those decisions, it gets really, really ugly.

Like in a way that's not ugly, that if It's just someone that you hired and you know, they're not working out anymore because they're not hitting the metrics Think if we could pass the mic to over here to Jeff Yeah, I think a part of culture and values some of the pieces that are really helpful for me in building a team is I've seen there's 4 essential people on a team.

There's the dreamer, the doer, the details person and the team builder and having 4 of those different characters on your team.

You need different elements to help balance out a team.

Another good book to read on that is the E-Myth Revisited, where it talks about there's 3 essential people that are part of a company.

There's the entrepreneur, there's the manager, and there's the engineer, the technician.

And so you need 3 of those essential people to be a part of a company and a team to accomplish everything.

You can't have all engineers, you can't have all dreamers and entrepreneurs, you have to have a balance of all of them.

All right, let's go to our next question.

This is for all of you, and it's going to be just real quick, 1 answer each.

Would each panelist name 1 resource or education tool that was a great benefit for them in their business?

So besides the Bible, Spirit, Prophecy, maybe it was a book, maybe it was a course you took, what was it that helped you be successful?

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