"Where Are You in The Storm"| Episode #87 | 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, “Where Are You in the Storm,” we talk about positioning and preparation — because recognizing you’re in a storm is one thing… but knowing where you are in it is what helps you respond with wisdom, not panic.

🌬 Storms don’t just show up. They come with signals: the wind shifts, the clouds darken, thunder rumbles, lightning strikes… and then the rain hits. The same is true in life and business. If you can learn to discern the indicators, you can prepare, pivot, and protect what matters most.

💡 In this episode, we unpack:
* The four stages of a storm: the wind, the thunder, the lightning, and the rain
* How to recognize early indicators — both practical and spiritual — before the storm hits
* What it looks like to build “shelters” in business, leadership, and family
* Why preparing SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) for worst-case scenarios matters
* How storms reveal what’s solid and what needs to be strengthened or surrendered

📖 “Peace doesn’t come from the absence of the storm — it comes from the presence of the Builder of all things.”Whether your storm is still on the horizon or you’re in the thick of it, this episode is an invitation to slow down, pay attention, and ask the question: Where am I right now — and how is God using this?

🤍 From spiritual discernment to strategic business decisions, this conversation is for leaders, builders, and believers who don’t just want to survive the storm… but come out stronger on the other side.

👇 Drop a comment: What’s one way you’ve learned to recognize a storm early — before it fully hits?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:16):
can you talk about preparation and positioning?
Yeah, um know, with myexperience in you know, peoria,
midwest, growing up there beforeI came to the islands, uh, and
those things I shared with youknow about, you know,
recognizing the wind and thenhearing the thunder, and then

(00:37):
you see the lightning and thenit comes the rain.
There's like a order there,right, and so I felt like
recognizing number one you're ina storm or a storm's coming and
recognizing where you're at inthe storm, like are you at tier
one, two, three or four kind ofdeal, right?
So, um, what I've naturally,you know I've done this, but now
I'm just trying to like defineit is through.

(01:00):
There's two parts to the wind.
You know, the wind is first, isfirst, like I was saying, it's
like a feeling.
You feel wind.
You don't see it, but you feelit.
Yeah, you know, and there wasthe moisture change and there's
just something you could feeland I really believe that
there's two things that happen.
It's just you've had enoughexperience in your business,
trade and life that there's anintuition that develops

(01:22):
naturally, right, and anintuition that develops
naturally right.
And I would say when the windhappens, like when I was a kid,
pay attention doesn't mean runback in the house, you know,
like we're playing a game.
But be aware, don't ignore it.
You know, and sometimes it'sactually God speaking to you too
.
It's not just you may have noexperience in that situation,
and God will give you that samefeeling, that same kind of

(01:44):
intuition.
That's what we call the HolySpirit.
Right, so he'll speak to youthat way as well.
But, yeah, that wind comes, Ithink.
Pay attention.
You know, like I have.
I have that experience all thetime with you know, uh, in a lot
of situations where I can justfeel like we need to email the
client, I just nothing else sayswhy do it right now?

(02:07):
Or like before the day ends.
But follow those leadings.
You know, there's this littlelike can't explain it, you can't
pinpoint it, it's just payattention.
So that would be my first keyis recognize if, if you feel
something, there's a reason whyand doesn't mean you have to
have the answer yet but go aheadand note it.
Pay attention and be awarethat's good.
That's like number one.
Don't.
Don't just throw it off, likewhen the moisture changes the

(02:29):
wind and you kind of see theclouds doing a little something
different.
Then okay, we're watching you.
Yeah, just record it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So that would be my firstindicator.
And, um, typically, like whenthat kind of thing happens and
you don't really have anyprocesses in place, I would take
worst case scenarios, workbackwards and create sops for

(02:51):
risk limitations, right?
Risk awareness for what youwould do, right?
Business gems yeah, sorry,we're getting into business gems
, but I mean, be ready for everytype of storm, right?
If it's a tornado, where are wegoing to go?
And if the tornado goes rightover our head, have a vision of
worst-case scenarios and alreadyput tactics and SOPs.
Sop just really meansinstructions and a process to

(03:14):
get from A to Z.
That's all it means.
Right, it's just okay.
A is stand up.
You know, that's a procedure.
Actually, what we really wantto do is get over there to that
shelter, open the doors and getin.
That's what we need to do.
And in business, we like totype out everything.
Man Like you got to stand up,walk 10 feet.
I think that's a little toomuch information, but when

(03:36):
you're building these, it's veryimportant to have these.
So, even when the wind kicks inand your intuition kicks in, you
could sometimes determine whatkind of storm could be.
Yeah, you know, and then you'realready kind of okay if this
just kind of taking that mentalnote and that, okay, like, if it
is the you know, I feel likethe permitting is taking a

(03:56):
little bit longer than usual,and if that's the case, what
could happen?
Oh, people could stop doingwork.
If that happens, okay, I needto start doing podcasts with
people that are connected tomaking decisions, with bills
that have to do with DPP.
That was an intuition thing.
I don't have to sit there withthe mayor and certain people,

(04:17):
but I made an intuition.
I feel it coming and want to bea part of the solution, not
just to hang out in the problem.
I'm already doing some workbased on intuition, right, and
so that's what births thosethings, you know.
It's like why, would you know,am I doing, trying to, you know,
create scenarios of survivingoutside of I'm pivoting now,

(04:37):
okay, what kind of projectswhere we don't need permitting,
you know.
And scenarios of survivingoutside of I'm pivoting now,
okay, what kind of projectswhere we don't need permitting,
you know.
And so you gotta you just gottathink, okay, worst case
scenario even everything's allgood now, everything might not
be all good in the storm, right.
So indicator number two is whatI call the thunder.
You know, I was like, once youhear that rumble, rumble, you're
like oh man, it's kind ofofficial now, like there is a

(04:59):
storm Doesn't mean it's going tohit you, but there's definitely
a storm now.
Yeah, right.
So hearing it is like is itaffecting you yet or is it just
noise, that it's out there butnot affecting you?
And so when you hear thethunder, it's like when I read,
you know, a magazine articleabout the DPP is taking longer
than usual.
I'm now hearing the noise.

(05:20):
It's not just an intuitionanymore.
Now I'm speaking to other.
You know, I'm out there withanother colleague and he's like
man, is your permit taking awhile, cause it's like taking us
almost a year now.
The architect starts I see inemails and you know, and just
the noise is getting real, right, it's like oh man, like there
is a storm out there.

(05:40):
It's approaching you.
It's approaching or it's out onthe outskirts of me.
You know it's not affecting meyet, but it's on the outskirts.
So when that starts happening,that's when you know we just
start doing our preparation attier two.
Now Like a little more.
You know it's real.
Give the team heads up Like,hey, projects might not start.
You know, it's okay tointegrate a little bit of that

(06:01):
awareness.
There's a storm.
You know, just like storms do.
They put the little indicatorson the TV back in the day, so
there's warning, or you know.
Or the floating banner, yeah,yeah, yeah, so same kind of
thing in business and how youapproach certain things.
But then when you see thelightning, it's collectively.
It's something you could seenow, and that's when the
lightning is when you actuallystart seeing it affecting you.

(06:23):
So it's not in the outskirtsanymore.
Lightning is like, okay, it'shitting ground.
Yeah, you know what I mean.
It's no longer just in the sky,it's touching the earth.
You know it's like and, andthen it's approaching too right,
and so now that it's affectingyou, maybe your profit margins
are losing a little bit, maybeyour sales aren't hitting what
they.
You're starting to see it, yeah,like affecting you, and so when

(06:45):
those indicators happen, it'stime for shelter, it's time for
protecting your business, it'stime to stop investing, it's
time to stop, it's time to kindof like let the team know, like,
hey, things like this is, thisis a storm.
It could still like pass us,but it could like it's a real
storm.
Now it's touching the ground,it can hit us dead on, so um,

(07:05):
and then the last one's the rain.
So if you could be a businessowner, family, uh, marriage
could be in the middle of thisright now.
That's when you're in the storm, you know, and if you didn't
prepare for those indicators,that's, it is what it is and
you're free in the storm rightnow.
It's not too late, like youstill can wake up the builder of
all things.
It's not too late.
You know what I mean.
So sometimes you it's good tohave these indicators and and to

(07:28):
like pay attention and thenstart you know prepping teams to
understand it could be, andwhen it is happening, just start
putting your processes in placeand get your shelter and ready
for the storm.
But when the rain comes andyou're in it, man, that's when
it's all fate that you canimagine, like in twister.
When the storm was hitting itwas just once.
They're at the shelter, man,they're just holding each other
and hope they don't blow away.

(07:49):
It's like the rain is whenyou're in it, but when you're in
it in it, and that's what thoseuh disciples on the boat were.
They were in it, in it.
And so they.
They had to make a choice onwhether to try to control it
from there or to wake up thebuilder of all things, to just
kind of seize the day.
And so, just going back on whatI said, man, that peace doesn't

(08:10):
come from the absence of thestorm, it comes in the presence
of the builder of all things iswhere you get to really rest
peacefully and understandingthat he is in control of the
storms that come.
He is the one that's in controlof allowing it to begin in the
first place.
So if he's in control ofallowing it to pass and to stop
it, like everything in themiddle, as much as it sucks,

(08:32):
it's going to shake yourfoundation and all the things
that need to fall off.
So you know what you got to fix.
And if you not, if it shuts youdown, then praise God.
If it shuts you down, thenpraise God, because Paul, in
Acts 27, was on a ship, let'scall it a boat was going off and
that storm hit them.
That boat didn't survive, butnot one person was injured on

(08:54):
that ship.
Every single one.
I shouldn't say injured.
I'm pretty sure they hadscratches and broken arms, but
they all survived.
Not one died, for sure.
They all made it to land.
They had to swim, but they allmade it.
Every single one accounted foryeah.
So sometimes even the boat willsink, but you weren't meant to
do a business at that time orthat type of business in that
time, and that's acceptable,right, that's good.
So, either way, at the end ofthe day, god, when there's a

(09:18):
storm, he is shaking you, tryingto see what you need to work on
, and sometimes it's not todestroy or to to shake,
sometimes it's just to reroute.
Yeah, you know.
Redirect, like sometimes thestorm's right there and you just
can't go forward.
No more, right?
You know, like, oh, that we gotto go this way.
Then, yeah, let's dodge thesword.

(09:38):
So sometimes it's just to pivotyou, yeah, and get you in a new
direction.