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November 29, 2021 44 mins

Today we're throwing back to another episode of Prompt Us recorded pre-lockdown! This weeks episode is spicy as the lads talk all things career and relationship.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Prompt Us is a production of My Heart Radio. Welcome
back to the prompt Us Podcast. You may have heard
of us talk about these episodes in previous episodes of
the podcast. The lost tapes are episodes that we recorded
before Lockdown, before we couldn't visit each other, which makes
these episodes almost two years old. Crazy. They're almost like
our demo mix tape episodes. Welcome to the prompt Us Podcast.

(00:22):
Where you start the conversation. We will be discussing topics
focusing on personal, spiritual and professional growth. I am Gabriel Conti,
and to my left we have the King of the
Teen Titans, Zachary says. And to my all right, all right,
we have I'm Chad. Chad Masters everybody. Yeah, come on, Zack,

(00:46):
you're changing your intro every time you left me on
that one, the Queen of the Teen Titans. But I'm
not from your person. I'm not a DC person. I
don't even know if there is a King of the
Teen Tits anyway, Teen Titans to is DC correct? It is?
It is? Welcome back to episode four. Guys, Episode four,
did you just try to fact check me on the

(01:06):
fact machine? Already listen, already listen, I'm the king of
the fact machine. I haven't said it once. That's you
got in earlier, Zack the King of the teen Titans.
I'm the King of the fact a printing out alright,
should we get into it? I think we should get
into it right now. In front of us, we have
three prompts sitting on cards and we will be picking
one of them. These all these prompts are submitted by

(01:27):
the audience before recording. We have no idea what's on
the cards, so our conversations are real in the moment,
appear to peer live. Can imagine if just one of
them said, fart, is that why you were laughing? I
thought you were laughing at something I said. That was
the most boy imagine said like, all right, I think

(01:50):
it is your turn to choose, my turn to choose
up from all right, So we have three in front
phanomount from me chat. Yeah, I'm just gonna pick one
while he's doing that. If you do want to ask
a question or can prompt, you can hit us up
on everywhere, just damn us. Hit us with a prompt,
whether it's Instagram or Twitter, and it's at prompt this podcast. Yeah, yes,
and I have a prompt in my hand and I'm

(02:11):
going to read it. It is upside down at the
prompt first time. We're reading this right now, what is
something in your life or career that you know you
should be doing more of? Zach, I would like just
open the floor for you. Thanks, Chad. Episode Yeah, just
start just be like, just pitch it to someone, Zach. Okay, Okay,

(02:32):
going to read one more time. What is something in
your life or career that you know you should be
doing more of. Wow, there's a lot of things, but
we can start with one thing, um something. Just go
one by one and then back around again, then back
around again until we just fill in forty five minutes. Okay,
so I think to just jump into it. Um. I

(02:55):
wanted to say focus, but I don't think it's necessarily focused.
I think focusing on the smart things. So what are
those smart things? Because I think that's like practically what
they're asking about. So that for me, those smart things
would be, um, not just watching a YouTube video on
the toilet, as fun as that is, because I can

(03:16):
be there for thirty minutes. I know that sounds thunder.
I mean wait wait, wait wait wait, that's it mean
thirty minutes thirty minutes. You guys are differ longa bro
with hit me with that hour long podcast session. Look,
I think I'm kidding. I'm kidding, but I think I
used to do that. But Jess gets mad at me,
nods out hot and she's like, what the heck are

(03:37):
you just do a hour? Okay? Honest, you're like so
focused when like if I take my phone in there
and I like, say, I do do emails or something
you do literally this is the conversation after we make
like burp and poop jokes literally, Okay, anyway, No, but
like you can focus so much when you're like just

(03:58):
you can't go anywhere room of solitude. It's easy to
focus when you're doing business alright for Chad's new podcast.
But I mean, yeah, if someone takes that, you owe
me a check, dude, we want that residual. But yeah,
I think I think just generally focusing on smart of

(04:18):
things so instead of um, you know, just this sounds crazy,
but just like just going to a job making check
and going home. Um, go to the job, I make
the check, and then I go home and think about
how I'm going to invest that check properly you know,
properly so or smart. I guess in terms of am
I saving it? Is this paying off my dad? Is
this going into a new project that might create more checks? Yeah?

(04:42):
You know, I think that's that's a big thing. Um.
Can you read the question again, just from more context.
What is something in your life or career that you
know you should be doing more of? Yeah? I think
that's it. I think I think just being um intentional
about every action and make sure that it's a smart
choice every time, and not just doing something because I
have to. So being more intentional. I like that. That's

(05:04):
kind of I heard a cool quote ones is from
a friend of mine, shout out James Bowie. He said,
don't exchange what's important for what's I'm sorry, little, I'm
gonna repeat that. Don't exchange what's urgent for what's important.
And the big thing is that you have we all
have important things we need to do, and we all
have urgent needs that pop up every single day, every
single minute. But don't ever try not to let those

(05:27):
things that are urgent exchange what's for what's important. I'm
going to springboard off of that. I started reading a
book called The Four Disciplines of execution. My brother recommended,
it's not about medieval execution work execution, being diligent and
doing things. Yes, medieval execution. Anyway, the four disciplines of

(05:49):
execution haven't got that much into it. I haven't even started,
like the first discipline of execution. But he's just breaking
down like the why before going into it. And I
started this book like three days ago. But it's funny
that you say that, don't what was the quote again,
don't trade for what's urgent for what's important. Dang that.
In the book, he calls like on the day to

(06:09):
day stuff that you go through the whirlwind of like
you're always going to have the whirlwind of your work,
and like when you're at work, the space that you're in,
everyone is always just trying to get things done and
get back to all their emails, like just get the
things done that they need to get done. But he
talks about having and I mentioned this to Usack in
the car we're driving the other day, about goal setting

(06:30):
and having two to three goals, yeah, a small amount
of goals even just yeah, and setting those goals until
they're done are complete, and those are the goals that
you strive for and letting those be the drive of
your actions, if that makes sense. So like that is
what it's important, reaching those goals, not keeping up with

(06:51):
like the urgent stuff that kind of pops up day
to day that distracts you from doing the things that
help you reach your goal, if that makes sense. And
then going on to the goal thing. Just what I
was explaining to Zach in the car was there was
like this diagram in the book talking about people who
have set between two to three goals will eventually get
done two to three goals. People who have set down
between I think it was like four to five or

(07:12):
four to six or something like that was the next window.
People who get done like four to six goals will
get or have have four to six goals will get
done one to two goals, and people who have between
ten and twenty goals will get done zero goals. And
it's being narrow and focus with your goal setting and
knowing like these are the very few things I'm going

(07:34):
to focus on, and focusing on those really hard and
not letting the whirlwind or what's urgent or those things
distract you. And I think there is a world where
you have to do those things like you have to
take your dog to the vet, you have to go
to the toilet, as you mentioned before, No, no, but
like you set times for those like things that are urgent,

(07:55):
like the small personal to do list, and be like,
within this hour of this day is what I need
to get these things down there. Within this these like
three hour time block on this day is when I'm
gonna get those things done so that I can hyper
focus on the other important things. You know. Um, well,
I'm convicted. What what is something in your life or career? Sorry,

(08:15):
I'm reading the prompt again. What is something in your
life or career that you know you should be doing
more of? Um? What I shared wasn't exactly that, but
it kind of elaborates more on executing those things that
you should be doing more of. Well, I have an answer, okay,
and give it to a chat. I know that there
was a lot of do do in business talk earlier,

(08:37):
But forgive me if I get a little emotional on
this one, because as we you know, as Zach was answering,
I was thinking a little bit about like, Wow, what
should I be doing better? And I I often think
there's so many things in my career it's so easy
to focus on those because you know, I work just say,
between six and towers days, so it's easy for me
to focus on how many things I should be doing better.

(08:58):
But genuinely speaking, I need to honor my wife better
in my life right now. I need to love her better.
And it's much more of a personal life level. I'm
just life her career. It's in the prompt. Yeah, it's
in the prompt. Thanks for prompting us. I'm so sorry,
but yeah, I'm just I'm just thinking that, you know,
my my wife, she's you know, she wakes up every

(09:20):
day and I have a chance to pursue her heart,
you know. And it's almost like it's just like every
day I wake up for work, I have a chance
to clock in and earn some money or do some
or build something, you know. And every day that we
metaphorically clock in and my my marriage, I have a
chance to pursue my wife and make her feel loved

(09:42):
and to serve her. And I'm definitely not taking advantage
of all those opportunities. And I'm just I'm I'm going
off the dome right now. That's something in my life
right now that I need to be doing a lot
better of because, um, I remember there's a quote that
a pastor said to me one time. He said that
if if I if I treated God, I'm sorry, if

(10:06):
I treated my wife the way I treat God, my
wife would not know that I love her. And right
now I think I'm just getting to a place where
there's been so much There's so many other things I've
been wanting to do that are for us because we're one,
we're married, But I'm not taking moments for those little
things of how how can I those those little those
little moments that really help your wife just feel fueled

(10:28):
and feel loved and feel encouraged. That's crazy, that's mine.
That's crazy that you say that, because that is something
that I've been thinking about recently as well. I want
to cry you, just like full sentence no, but like
being serious, like I was thinking this literally this week.
I was like, dang, when was the last time I
wrote Jess a letter that wasn't her birthday or Christmas

(10:50):
or something. And I'm just like, dude, I when I
was like pursuing her in dude, we all have our
heads down right now. Where no, but like when we
were dating, like that was something I would do constantly
because it was the pursuit of winning her heart and
going to marriage and being you know what I mean,
and like being super intentional with all that, and now

(11:12):
you can get complacent because you're like, we're here. I'm like,
for you know, Jess and I were like three years in.
And it's funny. I have a card that I had
about a while ago that I was like, oh, I
should write write just a letter, and it's been sitting bro,
I have a card as well. It's been dude, it's
for months. It's been sitting in a drawer and I
found it the other day and I was like, you're
kidding me. This is this was supposed we've done already.

(11:37):
I was supposed to write her a letter, like I
was supposed to tell her how much I love her.
And because it's difference, there's a difference waking up and
just being like, babe, I love you, oh yeah, and
like sharing that as opposed to like being super intentional
with like not so much a gift, because not that
it's like I'm buying her on like material item as

(11:58):
as showing that I love but more you know, the
intentionality of giving her a card and that as a gift. Ah. Yeah, dude, dude,
I think that I want to hear what it was
actually gonna say. But I think it's so funny. I
also bought toriy card awhile back because it was so
funny and I found it. It's it's an hopefully this
podcast hasn't come out before I actually go right this. Uh,
it's hilarious. The card says it's just a white card,

(12:20):
which just black text, and it says I love us,
We're awesome. And I'm like, I've never seen it, I
got and I I have it. I've probably had it
for maybe a month or two and I can't take
fifteen minutes. That's crazy. Yeah, oh great, Um, okay, it's
so Zack. I want you to share something, but I

(12:40):
think to challenge and maybe other people can join on
this with what you said Chad about I hope this
is an air before I write it. I think it's
a challenge that we can all take on us three
by the time this episode airs to have written our

(13:02):
wives are you know, fiance and freezing um two letters
that aren't on a holiday or birthday or something. That's
good because and we'll keep each other accountable because we're
gonna see this, you know, freaking episode is going to
come out and just write a cord sitting while. Yeah,
And I think it's a good challenge. And if anyone else,

(13:23):
anyone else wants to join, because they haven't, like, if
anyone else wants to join, and they're like, we already
we're hearing this for the first time. Episode is already airing. No,
But like, I think that goes back to the goal setting,
the thing that we're talking about, and you can go
set in your personal life as well. And I think
that's something we should do and keep each other accountable.
For you, I see it. Guys, were shaking on it
right now. Put your hands in shaking on it. Two

(13:45):
letters to our significant others, our wives slash fiance for Zach,
two letters before this episode airs. And then people, and
then if you're listening to this, either go to our
Instagram prompt this podcast or Twitter or whatever and ask
if we did it, you should. I I remember hearing
a quote that, um, I forgive me if I butcher this,

(14:05):
but essentially the quote said relationships aren't work, but they
take work. And so I just I don't want people
to hear this and think, oh wow, you guys have
to like set time aside to do this blah blah blah,
like you know you should just do it naturally and
organically blah blah blah. But like it. You know, there
to be hyperly intentional to really fill up our wives

(14:26):
and fiance's tank shoutoutz, I am you know. It does
require that intentional time where I'm gonna I'm gonna set
this aside and I'm going to put everything else I'm
working on a side. I'm gonna work on something for
her to just to continue pursuing her heart. Wow. Yeah
that's good. I mean, if I can share a story,
well vulnerable at this point. So we're getting in. But

(14:48):
he just wrote Chelsea a card. Got so real, self, dude,
this is this, this podcast is no no, don't be sorry, dude,
this was the spectrum. Dude, We're like talking about pooping
and farting and it goes just like so deep. Bet
we need to treat our lives better. Yeah literally, I mean, um,
I made the big mistake of on Chelsea and Eyes
one year anniversary by not writing a card, and I think, um,

(15:11):
you know I'm with you, chat that that's something that
I want to focus on more as well, because I
think the problem is is that I am getting too
focused in my career. Um. And I think a few
episodes ago you said gay about how you you schedule
and plan your personal life before you schedule your career
stuff and um, and I've learned from that in a
sense even between these few episodes. And so I didn't

(15:33):
do a card and and for me it wasn't a
big deal because just spending quality time which else filled
my tank, you know, like I was stoked, like today
I just get to hang with the person I love
the most, you know. And um, but for her it
really hurt, you know. And it was something that I
couldn't expect her to be like we'll just get over it,
you know, Like that's not how that works, you know.
And but I mean that's that goes to the question

(15:55):
of like your tank might be getting for, but it's
her tank getting for. That's what's being intentional about, like
making sure you know the way that she feels loved
and then doing that, And that goes to like love
languages and you can even do any Graham stuff with
personality and stuff, and no better understand their personality and
their traits and how to equip yourself with the tools

(16:18):
to better love the other person, you know. And what
I found is that and never that you should do
it in a selfish way. But when I see tels fulfilled,
I get fulfilled, you know, And and that means more
to me than even me getting fulfilled. And so that
that was like recently like a hard lesson, you know,
like the last few months of just be like dang
it man, Like like you said, Chad, like, relationship is

(16:41):
not a business. It's not work, but it takes as
much work. And um, I definitely think that's something that
I'm learning to do more of, even to bring it
back to the problems um as well. So Wow, convicted
and a half. I think it'd be cool for us
to break down a little bit about the love about
the love languages. I'm sure a lot of people know

(17:01):
about them. We do you want me to pull them up?
And I think I think we know all five? Right,
Do you guys know what's well? No, no, I know
that it's uh there's physical touch, where of affirmation, gifts,
receiving gifts, UM access service, access service, and quality time.
So so there's five love languages, and basically what the

(17:22):
book or the test you can take online are saying
is that people, uh, people receive and give love in
different ways, which are those five things we just mentioned,
and typically the way people want to receive love is
the same way that they want to give love. But
with that said, you know, if you're dating someone and
their lovling which is quality time, but yours is touched.

(17:44):
If you go and you're trying to love on them
and say you want to just give them like a
shorter massage or whatever it may be, and you know
that person may not be receiving the love that you're
trying to give to them, and so by better understanding
your spouse, you know it will help you intentionally love them,
so you're feeling their tank properly versus doing it in
a way that you think is actually loving them. Yeah,

(18:06):
well no, I mean that's that's no. But that like
on on a practical level. For Jesse and I, her
love language, Her biggest one is quality time and mine
is words of affirmation. So if I'm going around, I
will always encourage her and stuff, and I catch myself
doing it, which is fine, Like I can encourage her,

(18:27):
but I'll be like, babe, what you're working on is great,
You're I don't know whatever, Yeah, just compliment her on
on like sexy hot mess you know, um, through the
perfect combination of sexy and cute or whatever. Oh my gosh.
But yeah, anyway, I can do that all I want,
but that's not going to fully make her feel loved.

(18:50):
It's gonna make her feel loved is me intentionally spending
time with her and like taking her on dates and
doing that very just you doing like, um, what's the
word I'm looking for? Um, you can say intentional again,
Well no, no, no, there's another word I'm looking for,
like being active And yeah, I guess being active and

(19:12):
intentional with making sure I'm focusing on her love language
and not my own, you know, and vice versa. So
like that's the kind of that's the balance there, you know. Yeah.
Well my practical example is chills. She's gifts is her
love language. Like yeah, and and my thing that I
always got wrong about love languages and gifts in particular
is that I had to like drop a bunch of

(19:34):
cash and get something that was like something that I
care about. Because they're just talking about this the other
day due because like for me, I when I get
a gift, I'm like, I appreciate it more when it's
something that I can utilize for something that I enjoy
it so like it helps my career or whatever, right,
But for Chills, it's definitely like the letter or the
rotes or whatever it is that really doesn't mean anything,

(19:57):
but I care about you, and I was thinking about
you enough to exactly where mine's words as well, words
words of affirmation. So Chad's like making this face like
oh that dude, but yeah, mine's words of affirmation as well.
And I know for ChEls that's been hard because she's
definitely shy in her social, you know, interaction than I am.

(20:21):
And I know I can catch her being like I'll
show her my song and she she doesn't really know
much about music detail, but she'll still be like, I
love the new song. It's a bob and I'm proud
of you. And I'm like, wow, you're going dude, and
I'm like, I'm in love with you. We're gonna getting
married next week. But yeah, you know, that's been definitely

(20:42):
the things that I've noticed a different which I love.
I love that it's different, and I would never want
it to be the same, because it would definitely there's
a dynamic there that because we'll work it out together,
makes it so much more special. Um, and if I
were to kind of parallel with game same. It's not
that you can't love people the way that you receive love.

(21:05):
It's just people tend to it's less of it. Oh,
I'm not words of affirmation or oh I'm not gifts.
It's that people tend to have a really strong one
or two, you know what I mean, And so we
can we can absolutely love them and you know, all
five different ways. But I think it's I think it's
really important to hone in on what those really specific
ones are. Like Tour and I just took the test
a few weeks ago, and we were shore like, you know,

(21:27):
so we were sure that her love language is touched
you know. Amen, all right, I just want to say
that real quick, But we didn't know how much she
actually desires words of a they say it and so

(21:47):
and I'm just dude, I'm actually really bad at words
of affirmation. I don't, I don't. I'm still trying to
seek real Lord on all this. I'm gonna trying to
encourage someone just say this, but you don't got to
tell me anything. And I think it's maybe because you
know this is not to put anything on blast, but
maybe because I didn't receive it that much. But I
also know that the only thing I really care about

(22:09):
is what I think about myself, and people can say
all these different things, and if it doesn't coincide with
the way I'm currently feeling about myself, then it just
falls on deaf ears and that's not cool. That's like,
that's not okay. But that's that's who I am right now,
you know. But I'm realizing how I've been so poor
at encouraging her um because I think I don't need it,

(22:32):
and I just want to make that I want to
I want to make sure that I said that right.
I think I don't know that I actually do need it.
I actually do want it, but I'm resistant to it
right now and I don't know why I'm still unpacking
that and so but yeah, so you absolutely and I
think that you can look at them and say, if
I'm historically bad at one, that's probably one that my
spouse wants, you know, because you're just not gonna offer

(22:53):
it at all. And that's what I've been doing with
Tori than great. All right, well we're just like we're
just like listing all the things that were bad. How
about we spend how about we spend this and say,
what's one thing in our life or career that we're
proud that we're doing more? Okay? Is there is there?

(23:13):
Do we want to dive into that we should be
doing more of a little bit more we can if
you yeah, I just I'm just gonna keep here. We'll
jump we'll jump back to that, we'll jump back to
some more of that. The conversation will kind of go there,
I think naturally. But well, you just said that we're
proud that we're doing more of mhmm. Does anyone want
to take this because I can just about a quick

(23:35):
short one. I'm proud that I'm executing more. I'm you know,
even being here right now with the podcast. You know,
it's it's it's definitely something my struggle with. I love ideas,
I don't like executing, and something I am proud of
is I have taken time to delegate and hire people
to help me do the things I want to do
that was going to be mine. Yeah, or I'm so sorry, No, no, no, no,

(23:56):
I'm saying from you, you know what I mean, My guy,
I was gonna say, I'm that I'm delegating more often though, Yeah,
and so I'm really proud of doing that. Sorry, I
was just noting an agreement. Zack and I looked at
each other and started nodding. But I think, like for
myself quickly is delegating more. I've just continually like should

(24:16):
I just stress myself out with the amount of work
I put on myself? And I'm like, why can't I
get the these projects done that I need to get done?
Like what's wrong with me? And it's that I've been
bad at not just asking people for help and bringing
people onto the team, but properly equip equipping them to
help with those projects as best as possible. And I
realized that I need to like sometimes train people in

(24:39):
those positions or take time to find the actual right
person that fits that position better. So, like like someone
like Jake with a series, I needed to find someone
who was equipped as a videographer and editor to help me,
and like we both tackled it together, but he was
still there to help me as a support, you know,
and even with this podcast, like I couldn't have done

(25:02):
all of this by myself. Having you guys here to
help offset things. And like, Zach, I know you're gonna
be like working on like the editing and you know,
the just like kind of putting together all the raw
content that we get while shooting. And that like helps
me because now I don't have to you know, you
can focus on what your strength thought. Yes, exactly, exactly. So, um,

(25:25):
just delegating, I've been working on that more and it's
been going well so far, and like properly delegating and
not just you know, loosely trying to like bring people
on the team. And yeah, and you know, get getting
mad at everyone because I'm like, you're not doing it
the way I want you too. And I'm like, well,
did I teach them how to do what I wanted
them to, you know what I mean? So I'm I'm
I feel like I'm getting better at that over time.

(25:46):
It's good to use that, Okay. Well, so I think
there will come a season where delegating is the thing
that I'm proud of to do more. But what I
find right now is that I mean, growing up, I
always dreamed of like businesses or building something that's going
to impact people whatever that was, and en vision, man,

(26:07):
but what do the vision? But what I found was
in the process of actually executing that vision, I lost
my dreaming, you know, and I lost my drive to
actually keep envisioning what not only what could be for
my life, but you know, for my relationships, what could
be for my life financially, what could be for my
life with God? You know. And um, I think what

(26:28):
I've been focusing on more is actually letting myself get
excited about ideas again, you know, get excited about my music,
get excited about things that I if. I'm like, oh,
that would be a cool market to work in, getting
excited about that again. Because I know, for so long,
because I've had business ideas fail or um they didn't
work out the way I needed them to, I really
shut myself down on just dreaming about stuff. And so

(26:51):
what I've been doing more is, I guess extending from that,
what I've been doing more is having implement having a
vision and then implementing the vision, you know, rather than
I think the reason those ideas before it didn't work
is because they really just stayed ideas, you know. And
then but even the same you know with my relationship,
like I didn't let myself. You know, Chelsea and I

(27:13):
were friends for two years and then I was like, oh, dang,
I really want to be with this person, like she
really um is someone that I care about a lot.
I can't imagine doing life without her, you know. And
my well, it sounds like you've been a flipping marrier,
so you better start getting on the dating game, you know.
But I think those two years was me not like
I didn't see what we could be. I was just
like no, no, and and kind of stopping myself from

(27:36):
doing that. And then the moment that I was like, no,
I do want to be with I really care about
her and love her, that I started dreaming, like man,
I can't going to marry this girl on and I
had not up until that point let myself dream. And
she's excited about what our relationship can be. And now
that we're engaged and she's my fiance, I'm like, we're
already like talking about the wedding because that's an exciting
thing that we get to share together that's got nothing

(27:58):
to do with my career, you know, And that's been sweet.
So even just having that excitement and allowing myself to
dream about things. You know, dream about, Hey, are we
going to work together one day? You know, like it
doesn't happen, have to happen tomorrow. But if it's something
we're gonna do, I want to keep having the vision
for it, keep dreaming on it, and then start implementing
it now, you know. Yeah, dude, that's so good. And
I'm going to say, actually, I think there's another good

(28:20):
twist on the prompt is like tell each other things
that we're proud of that we see in each other.
Because I thought that as you're saying that, and you
mentioned like moving past some failures that you've had and
like dreaming and stuff like that. It's so cool from
an outside perspective seeing the things that you have like
held you back in the past, or things that maybe

(28:41):
you worked on that didn't like fully come to fruition
not affect your work ethic And you're dreaming now excuse me,
gott Broke, Oh my gosh, not effect. You're dreaming and
worth work ethic and everything now after the fact, and
you're continuing that pursuit of those things, you know, and

(29:04):
not letting your failures define you, but just be a learning. Yeah,
part of the process and a learning experience in a
springboard for the direction you're still heading it, which is
so it's so cool to see. Thanks man, Can I
say one for game? Sure? I listened words of affirmation.
I secretly, I secretly just decided to do this so
I can get some words of affirmation here. Well, guess

(29:24):
what Minus touched, So I'll just touch your shoulder on
the should. Thanks. Thanks friend. So, I just wanted to
encourage you. I don't know if you need to hear
this or not. And so if it's one of those
words you know that is like this has not applied
me at all, I'm sorry. I just wanted to let

(29:45):
you know that, in spite of the way you feel
emotionally about going off and doing a few projects, as
Gabriel CONTI uh, like on my own, on your own,
with all the things you have going you know, talking
about and like all the all the all the things
that people are gonna be really excited to learn more about.
I just want to know they already have. But I

(30:07):
don't know. I just don't want to say you know
what I mean, I don't because I don't know. So
I just want you to know that you're doing a
great job of keeping your confidence, because it's like, just say,
for example, that you're trying to you don't feel comfortable
in the gym, and you're trying to get comfortable, trying
to get confident enough to go in there and be

(30:27):
there and work hard. You're doing that on steroids times
a million. With all the things you have going on
in the different businesses you're building, You're dipping your toes
into waters that you can't see. You can't see the bottom,
you can see shark fins around. There's so much fear
that can surround everything you're doing. And so for you

(30:48):
to power through that and to and to fight against
that night, that that that those negative talk tracks, or
that fear that you may be popping up, it's just
really impressive. And it makes me want to be more bold.
You're just living it. Not you've seen anything, but you
live in It makes me want to be more courageous
and more bold and more and more strong and have

(31:09):
willpower to trust the plan that God has for me.
Wow did that dude? Well, it's funny because you mean, Chad, dude,
that words of a give you the words I know
you're not like a superwords ath And I know you
said you're trying to work out of take it, but

(31:30):
I've actually got something for you because I know that, um,
you're in a really big season of like changing what
your focus is, and I know you talk about a
lot about how the work you're currently doing isn't the
thing that necessarily drives you. But Bro, your persistence regardless
is like encouraging for me that you didn't just go, well,
I'm not doing that anymore at all, because you know

(31:52):
the responsibility you still have to love your wife and
you know, have a household, and so I just want
to say, Broy, like like the bills and stuff. Yeah, yeah,
you know, And so like I'm encouraged by you just
grinding it out. But also you're literally right now and
you talked about this with your delegating in a season
of envisioning and getting ready for the next season, and

(32:14):
so I just want to know in the next season, Bro,
it's going to flip and kill it. You know you're
gonna kill it in that But because I know you've
trusted God with it, dude, So I'm encouraging. I actually
really didn't need to hear that, because it's it's so
hard for me. Um. You know, it's almost like it's
almost like you're driving through a tunnel, right and you
can see the light at the end of the tunnel,
and you can see how bright it is, and it's

(32:35):
almost like I'm in the tunnel and it just keeps
getting longer, but I can see the light and I'm
so excited to get there. But it's good to know that.
It's good to be reminded that I still need to
be driving through the tunnel. I can't just stop and
even if I'm doing work that doesn't fulfill me or
that I even enjoy, it's purposeful. And I need to
be reminded that because I can get pretty down on

(32:56):
myself about I feel like I'm I'm just wasting time. Well,
I definitely think that, um, you know, like as you're
driving to I think we've all being I can remember
seasons of Gabe as well, and and you as well, Chad,
like of seasons that we feel like we're not moving
at all. But I think sometimes credit is needed, you know,
and it's like you know you're moving, you're just kind

(33:17):
of not confident with where you're moving to. So I
just I don't know a hundred of us that I know.
We talked about a lot. I don't know a hundred
percent where where you are with that, but yeah, I
just know that you'll move in the right direction. But
I appreciate that. I actually it's a funny quick story.
I remember when I lived in New York and I
was getting ready to move for school, and I was like,
what am I gonna do? And I was just waiting

(33:37):
on a calling from God. I'm just like God. I
would get so frustrated. I would like scream in my
prayers or my journal or whatever I would do. I
would just beg like give throw me a bone, like seriously,
helped me out, like help me, help you, like I
want to serve you, Like help me out. I would
get so mad and so frustrated, to the point where
I think it was April seventh of two thousand and seventeen,

(33:58):
I wrote my journal. I said, Okay, Lord, I'm gonna
be a moving ship and you better steer me because
I'm just gonna start walking. I'm just gonna start doing
because I can't. I was. I felt like I was
just like staying a place, waiting for an assignment. But um,
in that essence, the enemy was able to keep me
from walking in my assignment because I was just staying
still and I was frustrated. That itself is the assignment.

(34:22):
Like that in itself is the assignment. It's just to
trust the Lord and move forward, you know what I mean,
even though you don't know where you're going, but completely
trusting God. It sounds like Abraham right in Gis. God
said to Abraham, I want you to go to a
land that you do not now know, but go crazy, dude,
And that was California. Yeah, dang um. I'm just trying

(34:49):
to think about this question and how we can, you know,
kind of wrap it up a little bit. What well, Okay,
do you want me to read it one more time? Yeah,
read it again? What is something in your life or
career that you know you should be doing more of?
Now we've done a few different variations of it, But
what is something in your life or career that you
know you should be doing more of? Now that we've
had these conversations and we've kind of put it out

(35:10):
there and now we're looking at kind of holistically, what
are you excited to change now and excited to work
on moving forward after we've been asked that question. M hmm,
I'm excited to write some love letters. Oh yeah, I
forgot that we need Yeah yeah, Gabe, do not forget
that you challenged us? No, no, I mean I've forgotten

(35:31):
the conversation once I like walked out and was like,
you know, I saw the letters sitting because I haven't
like on my desk. Yeah, I pulled it out to
make sure I like write it soon, And now having
this conversation is just so convicting. The fact that I
haven't written it since I pulled it out last week
is just I'll taste that. Weird that's happened inside this
episode is that the I think the words of f

(35:53):
I'm so sorry this the words I think, the thing
I spoke to Gabe really hit me in a sense
that like wow, like I want to leave here and
continue to be confident, because I'm gonna get vulnerable for
a quick sect. I have been around. I have been
so scared to be open about my faith. It's not

(36:13):
that I don't want to be open. It's that I'm
afraid of causing other people harm. I'm afraid of looking
at someone and where they are and realizing that quoting
them scripture is not what they need to hear right now.
And then sometimes a lot of my jobs, I work
with people only one time, you know, I don't see
them again, and so I'm trying to find my my

(36:34):
place to be encouraging and also especially from a spiritual
side of things, how to be supportive and and everything
like that. But I I only get a few hours
with these people, and it's making me just stay silent
because I'm afraid that what I'm gonna say may actually
hurt the witness or hurt the gospel, and I'm afraid
of putting myself too much on it, and then I'm

(36:56):
not saying anything at all. But now I feel like
I'm really getting to a place where I'm I'm like
it is gonna sound weird, I'm so sorry, or I'm
literally just like saying, all right, screw it here it is.
This is what I believe, and not not just in
that situation specifically, but just as a believer on the podcast.
This is a big step for me because it's not

(37:17):
that I don't know the stuff I want to say.
It's that I'm not walking boldly. I'm not at all.
And so I think when I see you walk boldly,
I'm like, that's one thing I'm excited about. To answer
your question, I'm really excited to walk boldly in my faith.
That's awesome. But dude, it's even something like to encourage
you in that. I think it's something even something so

(37:38):
small as saying Jesus loves you. But like, I me know,
that's so like cliche to like to drive by Jesus
loves you kind of thing, but you know what I mean,
just just run on the window barely like what No,
But like, there's people in my life and like I

(37:58):
don't I don't want this to come across a like
a and in an arrogant way. But I'm just using
it as an example since it's in my own life
and I'm familiar with it. There's been times where I
haven't told people, I haven't shared Christ with people, like
initially for the first several times of like hanging out
with them or you know, getting to know them or whatever,
but over time them realizing that I do love them

(38:23):
and I do care about them and I do have
like depending on how much I know them their best
interests and stuff like that, or how much I get
to know them and just being the way I act,
being a witness in and of itself, and then them
like people like kind of come to the conclusion that
you're a believer if you're truly acting that way, you

(38:45):
know what I mean. It's they see Jesus in you exactly.
So like I'm very proud of that I've been able
to experience that in my life and be like, oh
my gosh, like people actually saw something different in me,
like I'm that and that builds my confidence in it.
And then just sharing something like hey, Jesus loves you.
I just want you to know that. It's so much
more powerful then the drive by Jesus loves you. It's

(39:07):
like actually impacting them on a friendship level, relational level,
in like in the name of Jesus without them even
knowing that, you know what I mean. I mean that's
what led me to Christ. You know. It was a
friend who had been my friend for two or three
years at the time, and he really never shared the gospel.
And I saw how invested he was in me as

(39:28):
a friend, and he saw me whenever I was just
in the absolute pits, and that's whenever he spoke up.
And it was that that super cliche quote that people
don't care how much you know until they know how
much you care. And he cared about me. I mean that, Yeah,
that's like several people had um in my life. Like
if if anyone listening is familiar with like of logs

(39:52):
and people, let me know. But Sebastian Gum is like
he's someone who I just I don't know, like I
just became friend to them and I need I needed
to love him and then um, it's just crazy seeing
the journey that he's been on in his transformation and
it's like it's weird looking back and being like, oh
my gosh, God used me in that way, you know

(40:14):
what I mean, to bring someone to know him and
believe in him and stuff. It's it's crazy and it's
like humbling to be like God, why would you choose
me to be used? It's it's so it's like so
cool and like build my confidence in Christ and builds
my confidence in my relationship with him, And I don't know,
it's I I just don't want it to come across

(40:36):
in any way of like oh yeah I got to
like bring people. Okay, thank you? Are you looking at
me for my answer to I don't know, I'm just
looking around like I'm excited to Um, well, I mean, look,
it's it's thematically makes sense because I'm engaged now. I'm

(40:58):
excited to to focus on that and enjoy that as
much as I enjoy the career stuff, because I do
love what I get to do for work and what
I'm going to do for work, but I need to
remember that that's not my wife. And you know, I'm
really excited to invest in chelse Um just as her
best friend and then one day her husband. So it's

(41:18):
just like, which is crazy to say, I just freaked out.
Just whoa that just anyway? I just freaked out. But yeah,
that's that's my thing. And what do you you know
you answered kind of with Chad, But what's like the
thing you're excited for? I think, and I've talked about

(41:38):
this on previous podcast, but I think it is applicable. Um,
I'm excited to work, which I guess comes across as
like and I'm always trying to avoid sounding like arrogant
or selfish or anything, but I'm excited to work on
my own projects again, if that makes sense, fully, because

(42:00):
I've done so much with Jess in the past, and
then became unconfident in myself, yeah, thinking that only if
I was attached to Jess will something be successful. And
finally like being comfortable in my own skin again, in
my in the creativity that God has given me, an
understanding the projects that he wants me to move forward

(42:20):
with and that some of them aren't with Jess, and
that those I'm just like, yeah, I'm excited to tackle those,
like things that are something that I've dreampt up I've
get to work on, like not by myself, because like
the whole delegating thing, like I'm bringing people on the
team to help, but just something that's my own and

(42:41):
I don't. I don't. I hope that doesn't come across
as selfish, but I'm excited about that because I haven't
it's been like two or three years, like almost since
we've gotten married. Other than a few acting gigs that
I did that, I haven't done my own like big
projects or whatever. Um even and even like this podcast
is one of it's not my own, it's a it's

(43:03):
are all three of ours, but it's it's taking the
confidence of me to separate myself from what I thought
would perform well, you know, and um, yeah, I think
that's that's that's that's my answer. I love that and
I think we all three. You just want to encourage
the audience or the people that are watching, and that

(43:23):
you should take some time to really sit down and
and ask yourself the same question. What is something in
your life or career or both that you know you
should be doing more of? And then before you get
down on yourself, you know, find some people and have
them speak over you and some things that maybe you
could be doing better or things that you're actually doing
really well, and then come up with an action plan

(43:44):
of how of things that you're excited to work on,
exciting thinking things that you're excited to do more of,
and then come up with the plan of how you're
actually gonna go about accomplishing those. So there's some fun homework,
but that's just our opinion. So I it. I love it. Well.
Thank you guys so much for listening to this episode
of prompt Us. And if you've made it this far,

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