"Going Through The Storm"| Episode #84 | Builder of All Things | Author’s Cut: Chapter Six w/ Richie Breaux

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Welcome to the Builder of All Things Podcast—where we go beyond the pages of the book and explore into the Author’s Cut! 🔥 Join Richie Breaux and Ray Bisnar as they break down each chapter in micro-episodes, giving you the behind-the-scenes insights, deeper wisdom, and real-life applications—just like a Director’s Cut for a book. 

In this episode, “Going Through the Storm,” we press into the heart of adversity — not to escape it, but to understand it. Storms aren’t punishments or proof you’re off track… they’re often just life happening — and sometimes, God-allowed for a purpose far deeper than we can see.

🌪️ The goal isn’t to avoid the storm. It’s to survive it with wisdom, faith, and perspective — knowing that what remains standing after the shaking is what’s truly built on the right foundation.

💡 In this conversation, we unpack:
* Why storms reveal more than they ruin — and how to evaluate what’s still standing
* How to recognize when adversity is just a season… not a sign you’ve failed
* What it means to shelter spiritually when life feels like an EF5 tornado
* How external challenges (like market shifts, inflation, and permit delays) test your internal posture
* The importance of discernment — and how to stay rooted when everything around you feels uncertain

📖 “If God allowed it, it’s under His control.” That mindset doesn’t make the storm easy — but it makes it purposeful. Whether in business, family, or faith, storms give you a rare chance to rebuild better.

🤍 If you’re facing something that feels out of your hands, this episode is for you. Not to fix the storm — but to walk through it stronger, more grounded, and more surrendered.

👇 Drop a comment: What has a recent storm in your life revealed about your foundation?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:18):
When you're talking about the differences with the
storm snake and smoke.
There was one particular quotein here, richie, that said
storms aren't punishments orproof we're off track, they're
just life happening.
And I think the two things here, or the one big thing here, is
that the recognizing what it isis so important because, again,

(00:43):
it gives you the guide on how torespond to something.
Yeah, can you kind of talkabout that?

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yeah, so don't get me wrong.
God is definitely thecontroller of the storm.
Sometimes he'll use storms towipe you out and not to take you
out, but wipe meaning maybewipe is kind of a word for take
out.
But what I believe God wants todo with a storm is shake your
foundation and what happens whenthere's a shaking.

(01:10):
I know this in construction.
If you have a solid foundationand there's an earthquake,
you're hoping everything builton top of that foundation stands
.
So when God has storms, he'stypically trying to shake your
whole being to see what stands,because when that's a good thing
there's nothing wrong withthings.
I mean it's, it's challenging,it's hard, it sucks.

(01:33):
But now you get to see whatdidn't work, what you got to
work to fix on what's what felloff.
Why did it fall off?
So when businesses get shooken,you know and you look at what's
actually standing after thestorm passes is what you've got
to reevaluate, to work on whatlanded.
If you don't have the rightfoundation, yeah, that's where a
wipeout can come and that'ssometimes where I don't think

(01:54):
God's going to.
I mean, god is God.
I can never limit him if hewants to punish out of a storm.
But I think our approach asbelievers is to know that he's
in control mostly our approachas believers, is to know that
he's in control.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
mostly, Is there a recent storm that you can think
of, maybe in the last, I don'tknow few months, or something
like something recent that thatyou can kind of paint a picture
for some listeners, whether it'sa big storm or small storm or
you know?

Speaker 2 (02:21):
I mean there's.
I mean the permit was probablyone of the most current alive
storms, as a business owner thatwe're in and um we're tackling.
So we're in a probably an f5tornado oh, the category.
That's the category, I thinkit's ef I think they changed
that uh categorization of storm,of tornadoes, now.

(02:42):
But uh, uh, we're in a bigtornado right now as we speak
and, um, how I'm operating is,uh, exactly how I'm supposed to
approach a tornado, you know, golook for shelter and survive.
So there's more spiritually onhow to handle that.
But but we were, there was keysand components that we'll talk
about.

(03:02):
That basically helped usunderstand what was coming and
what type of storm and beingready for it.
But yeah, I mean current livestorm right now is the island is
already challenging to getproducts here.
Inflation has rose incrediblypost-COVID, right with the, with

(03:24):
the, with land and market ofreal estate and interest rates,
inflation, lack of inventory,and then all these things take a
strong play on our market.
And so what that means is weused to get a lot of calls every

(03:47):
gosh.
We would get calls every day,all day, and I'd have a
full-time person just answeringthe phone.
Man, it was just like like alike it was awesome.
You know god was blessing.
But if interest rates arereally high, it's not a season
to go buy, you know it's uh,it's not a season to refinance.
So that just eliminates twodifferent markets for us, then

(04:09):
people aren't remodeling,they're not extending, they're
not doing these things.
And an inventory is really low.
So you know it's a littleisland.
It's kind of already all builtout.
So if you're not renovating orremodeling, you're not building,
and then that kind of lacks youknow the reach for market.
And then that kind of lacks youknow the reach for for market.
And then, on top of that, youhave a luxury market which we
strategically placed ourselvesand with people who don't

(04:32):
refinance and have the funds andjust buy land.
You're still dealing with lackof inventory, inflation on
product.
Um, since COVID and you havethe department of permitting
basically taken two years to gettheir plans through and they're
having their own struggles inthe storm or maybe it's smoke,
but they're having their own.

(04:53):
We're having a storm because ofit, because you know just
everyone's just not renovating,remodeling or building because
of all these different factors.
So currently going through thatstorm.