April 29, 2025 • 36 mins
How does the creator of the universe view time, free will, and our spiritual journey? Do we need to "manifest" our desires, or is there a simpler path to transformation?
When third-generation minister and book publishing expert Steve Kidd joined me to celebrate our one million download milestone, our conversation quickly evolved into a profound exploration of faith versus modern manifestation practices. Steve cuts through spiritual complexity with refreshing clarity: "The creator of everything in the whole world wants more than anything else to just hang out with you." This perspective challenges our tendency to complicate spirituality with "woo-woo" concepts when the fundamental truth is beautifully simple.
Steve's explanation of God's relationship with time provides a fascinating framework for understanding prayer. "We are time-locked beings traveling through time from yesterday to today to tomorrow. God exists simultaneously across all possible realities." This concept, combined with free will, explains why prayers aren't always answered in our expected timeframe or manner. The divine operates outside our linear timeline while respecting our freedom to choose.
Beyond theological insights, Steve shares his expertise in helping nearly 5,000 people write and publish bestselling books through his interview-based approach. His message that "someone is waiting for your unique knowledge" resonates deeply—we often undervalue our experiences not realizing they could be exactly what others desperately need. Steve introduces us to "zaraz," an ancient Hebrew word meaning "the light of transformation," perfectly capturing how authentic faith naturally radiates from within rather than being forced.
Whether you're questioning your spiritual path, considering writing a book, or simply seeking meaningful transformation, Steve's wisdom offers a refreshingly straightforward approach to life's biggest questions. Visit AskSteveKidd.com for a free consultation about publishing your story, and share this episode with someone who needs to hear that their light matters.
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Dwan Bent-Twyford (00:02):
Hey everybody , welcome to The Most Dwanderful
Real Estate Podcast Ever.
I'm your host, DwanBent-Twyford.
I'm America's most sought-afterreal estate investor.
I have some super exciting news.
We just reached a milliondownloads this week.
So I'm so excited.
So, thanks to all of you, Ifinally cracked a million
(00:24):
downloads.
So now we have to work on twomillion.
So like and share and telleverybody that you know that we
need two million downloads rightnow.
So isn't that exciting.
I was so excited, steve.
I got a thing from Buzzsproutthat says you have reached a
million downloads.
I was like, ah, because I'vebeen close, like hanging around
(00:44):
it, you know, but like didn'tquite get there.
I was so excited and the weirdthing is, when that happened,
like within two days, I had like25,000 more, just like boom,
boom, boom, boom, boom.
So super excited about that.
So I want to welcome my awesomeguest today.
I have Steve Kidd.
He's AskSteveKidd.
com, he's AskSteveKid.
com, and we're going to find outwhat he does and find out how
(01:06):
he can help all of the wonderfulpeople.
So, Steve, I really just kindof like to throw people in and
have you give us your name, howto contact you directly and what
you do, just really short, andthen I'm going to ask questions
to find out how you came to beSteve Kidd.
Syndicated Radio.
Steve Kidd (01:29):
Yeah, my name is Steve Kidd.
I'm a third generation minister, an international best-selling
author of now 36 books andcounting.
I've worked with just shy of5,000 people, helping them write
, publish and then, mostespecially, marketing their
books to bestseller andeverything that goes beyond that
.
To contact me that's why I'vegot it on the screen askstevekid
(01:50):
.
com.
You can jump straight onto myschedule.
I'll give you 15 minutes forfree talking about anything to
do with the.
You know all we've learned inthe 38 years of marketing and
any of that.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (02:02):
Anything I can help you with.
Steve Kidd (02:03):
I'd be glad to.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (02:04):
Yeah, you know what, now that you said
that, I do remember us havingthe ratings.
You talked about helping withbooks and after all the stuff
Bill and I have been through thelast couple of years, I feel
like now is the time I'm goingto sit down and I'm going to put
together a book, because, youknow, my husband went through a
bone marrow transplant.
I mean it's the craziest thing.
I just I had never even metanyone else that's been through
(02:26):
all that crazy stuff.
I'm like you know that needs tobe in a book.
And also about you know, our 35years of real estate investing
and and all the stuff like that.
So I love that you're aminister.
Steve Kidd (02:38):
Yeah, absolutely.
My grandfather was and myfather was his whole life both
of them.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (02:45):
I've been a Christian, saved and baptized,
got a little wild in my 20s,looped back to God.
So now I'm like 35 years, likejust hardcore back into it and I
just love to talk to otherChristians and especially you
know all the great things thatGod can do and help you in your
businesses.
(03:06):
If you're just like, let him doit, instead of everyone trying
to do everything on their ownall the time.
Steve Kidd (03:13):
Absolutely.
I agree completely.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (03:15):
Right.
So what's some advice?
Give us a few tidbits of advice, since you are a minister and I
want to talk about your, howyou help with the books and
stuff too.
But what are a couple of thingslike for people you know that
are lukewarm, they backslid,they need to come back.
They're not ready to come back.
You know how everybody is.
What are a couple I don't know,like a little tidbits about
(03:38):
people that are following.
I'm assuming you're followingJesus, yes, okay, so let me just
make that clear before I startranting off and you're like oh
yeah, no, I'm, I'm a ministerand something else.
So because my uh, my sign off,at the end of my podcast I say
the truth is in the red letters.
And so some people email me andgo what does that?
(04:02):
That mean?
I'm like, well, what do youthink it means?
And so, of course, everythingJesus said is in the red letters
.
So I try to, like you know,drop seeds, and I do a few times
a year I'll do a podcast.
That's just about a Bible study.
You know, just something likethat.
So what are a few ways forpeople that are now I have a
(04:25):
good run people that are likemanifesting and like it's talk.
Can you talk about like theuniverse, manifesting versus
like what the bible actuallysays?
oh, okay without too much.
Is that too broad?
No, no, no.
Steve Kidd (04:42):
I was just going to say, without going on too much
of a rant on you here, we workso hard to make the easiest of
all things possible.
We know the world existedbefore we came into it.
You know before we were born.
You know we have enoughhistorical proof, archaeological
(05:04):
proof, whatever, that it washere before we were here.
Ok, and without going deeplyinto exegetical explanations of
why you know, I believe Godcreated the earth.
I think it's just, you know,real good common sense to say
there's something bigger outthere than us.
(05:26):
So that's the first step.
Step two in that is stop tryingto make it so hard.
You have the creator ofeverything, who created it all
for one purpose, and that was sothat he could get to know you
so much so that he created thisincredibly, wonderfully horrible
(05:48):
thing called free will.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (05:50):
Yes.
Steve Kidd (05:51):
Because and people really struggle with it because
they want God to give them freewill, but everybody else not,
yes, not.
And I always tell people it'slike God had to give us free
will, because the only way wecan choose to love him is if we
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actually truly have a choice.
If there wasn't the option ofoption A and option B, it
wouldn't really truly be achoice, and that's where free
will comes in.
Yes, All of this was done bythe creator of everything, just
so that he could get to know youand hang out with you and be
your friend.
That's all he's looking for.
(06:31):
And we try so hard to come upwith all these woo woo outside.
You know extra I use the wordwoo woo Like.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (06:40):
stop with all that woo woo stuff?
Steve Kidd (06:43):
What do the numbers on the clock mean?
You know all those kind ofthings.
To try to explain the simplestof all things, and that's that
the creator of everything in thewhole world wants more than
anything else to just hang outwith you.
Yeah, and if that doesn't blowyou away, I don't know what else
is going to.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (07:01):
You know, I can't even tell you how much I
agree with that.
I have friends, and you know,and I love them dearly and
they're, you know, christians,you know, and they're like, oh,
I'm sending you love and lightand that I'm like, listen,
please stop sending me love andlight and all that stuff.
Like that.
Like, do you want to send meanything?
Pray to Jesus, you know to sendme whatever.
(07:25):
And one of the things I've had acouple of people on the show
that are really big intomanifesting.
So I was asking them like, ohyeah, no, you know, we like to
the universe and Mother Earth.
And I was like, oh my God, Ifreaking invited a Wiccan on my
show and I'm like, listen, theBible says, speak things into
existence as if they're alreadythere.
(07:45):
It's like, okay, god is tellingyou, I'm a successful real
estate investor, I lost 50pounds, I'm married to the
greatest person on the face ofthe earth.
Like God is saying, speak itinto existence like it already
happened, and then God will workwith you and, you know,
hopefully, bring all thosethings to fruition.
(08:07):
So I have so many people thathave been a guest I just really
didn't know enough about, Iguess, and I'm just like, oh my
god, this conversation is notwhat, anything that I believe,
like that.
But you're right, it's like youknow Jesus is there, god's Holy
Spirit's living inside of you,like you got all the stuff you
(08:27):
need right there.
If you're worrying aboutdepression or anxiety or you're
in a bad marriage or whatever,you can just speak things and
just keep saying, all right,lord, I'm speaking this into
existence.
These are the things and Godcan do remarkable things and
change anybody's heart and somany good things.
(08:48):
And people just like, I don'tknow, people want like the
woo-woo stuff and they want likeeverything done today and it's
like, but God doesn't answerprayer, like that.
It's like yes, no and maybe, oryou know it could be a yes and
you're like, oh great, this isgoing to happen tomorrow and
that yes could be, oh no, 10years from now.
Yes doesn't mean tomorrow.
Steve Kidd (09:13):
Yeah Well, the problem is we are time-locked
beings.
We travel through time fromyesterday to today to tomorrow.
God exists simultaneouslyacross all possible realities,
meaning that when you say yes tosomething, he lives in both the
(09:35):
if you had said yes and if youhad said no at the same time.
That's why the Bible saysthere's no temptation, except
that's common to man that Godhas already provided a means of
escape.
God spends all the time tryingto help lead us back from the
times when we went left, when weshould have gone right, because
he loves us and he wants to bein that relationship with us.
(09:57):
But he exists in all those.
So when God says yes, his yesis right now, because right now
is all of eternity, in aninstant in his space.
It doesn't necessarily mean thatit can happen that quickly,
because then, in addition tothat, there's that crazy thing
(10:19):
that I talked about before, andthat's free will, because often
you know, especially when westart talking about money, but
you could also use having yourspouse be the best spouse in the
world.
You know, you can pray that forthem.
At the end of the day, theyhave to choose to be the best
version of themselves, them, atthe end of the day, they have to
choose to be the best versionof themselves.
(10:40):
They have that free will to notbe.
You know, to be able to do that, if you're going to pray, to be
successful, you've got to goout and work.
You know, I mean people.
I'm sure that, with as great asyou are and maybe you've had a
few people do it but very rarelydo you have somebody that comes
to your house, knocks on yourdoor and says I have this
amazing property that I'd likefor you to invest in.
(11:00):
You know, now you can put outthings on the internet that dry
in leads and things like that,but if you're just sitting in
your house just manifesting it,just sitting there waiting for
that person to come in and knockon the door, it's never going
to happen.
You know, and that's, in fact,fact, the cool part about it is,
I've actually interviewed mostall of the people from the book
(11:22):
in the movie the secret um anduh.
Most of them got together andwrote a second follow-up book to
that, called how thought, howthoughts, become things, and
every single one of them talksabout that in the fact that, yes
, you want to believe, but yes,you also have to put action to
the things you're believing in.
You can't just sit around andexpect you or nothing is going
(11:46):
to create something.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (11:47):
Yeah, no, I'm with you all the time.
I mean, I've got a prayer boardwith a list a mile long and
most of it's about other peopleactually.
But I just figured, you know,know, I do the work, I trust god
, I tied, I do my part, thengod's gonna open those doors for
me.
I mean, look at me, I'm talkingto you today.
Yeah, absolutely, that's howthe magic happens.
(12:10):
All right.
So I love that I, I love thatyou're a minister and you're
from a family of ministers.
I'm, I just uh, I just lovethat.
I watch tv preaching all thetime.
I always read my bible andthere's just so many gifts and
things that god can do forpeople.
But I think people just don'twant to wait, like, oh, I want
(12:31):
this, I want today.
Because you know, we're like a,we're like a microwave society.
Now you can't drive through andget your food in two minutes.
People have a meltdown.
It's like, literally, that wastwo minutes since you ordered
and now you have a bag of food.
Slow your roll, slow your rolland do the right things.
So let's talk about these books.
So I love the fact that youhelp people write books.
Steve Kidd (12:55):
Yes.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (12:56):
So someone's on here.
They're like Dwan, I'm brandnew, I've barely even invested.
How could I possibly write abook?
What are some ideas?
How do you help people likepull a book out of themselves?
Steve Kidd (13:08):
Well, and we do, or at least we suggested doing all
of our books via interview.
We just literally hop on a Zoomcall and encourage a person to
begin to start talking.
There's a process to a book andI know all of that well enough
that I can walk them throughthat.
But I just want to get them inconversation because, no matter
who you are, whether you are, mygranddaughter, who is now, you
(13:32):
know, getting ready to turn 15,can't believe she's that old um,
but you know, when she waseight, she wrote I also
understand.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (13:37):
I'm like, oh my god, she's that old.
But you know, when she waseight, she wrote I also
understand.
I'm like, oh my God, she's inpuberty.
How is that possible?
She's 10 years old.
Steve Kidd (13:42):
Oh, I know, you know , but when she was eight she
wrote a book and the only thingshe knew is that you know her
best friend and that you knowthey were just the bestest of
friends and how she had met her.
And that's what she wanted totell.
The whole world was about herbest friend and how she met her
and you know all the good timesthey had together.
You know, and if you thinkabout some children's books,
(14:03):
some of the best ones of themare just that really simple of a
structure.
So, no matter where we're atwhat we're going through, what's
easy for us is something thatsomebody else is struggling for,
and somebody is waiting on youfor the exact thing that you are
right now.
There isn't any of our time ofour life that's throw away.
(14:23):
Training is about doing andgetting better and doing more.
It's not about you reach somekind of perfection and then
you're ready to be able to startdoing things.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (14:37):
I agree, and you know everybody, everybody's
got a book in them.
Steve Kidd (14:42):
Oh yeah.
Most everybody that does a bookhas multiple books in them.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (14:47):
It's just, everyone's been through stuff
and things and businesses and Ihave successfully written the
short sale, pre-foreclosureinvesting, which is the best
seller.
How to sell your house whenit's worth lessclosure investing
, which is a bestseller.
How to sell your house whenit's worth less than a mortgage,
which is a bestseller.
I did a chapter in a book withSteve Forbes.
My husband did a chapter in abook with Dan Kennedy, and the
(15:08):
last four or five years I'm likeyou know, we need to sit down
and write a book, like about allthe stuff that we went through
and just really how trying andhow much we really truly had to
rely on not that we don't relyon god, but like I mean this
like puts your faith to the test, like hardcore puts your faith
to the test, and just all thethings.
I'm like you know we need to sitdown.
(15:28):
Bill's like I, you know.
He's like well, write whateveryou want.
You know I'll throw in somestuff.
It's like, no, we, we need towrite a book and um, so I we're
gonna start working, so I'llprobably call you and say, hey,
listen, I need y'all to help meget put a book together.
I feel like I have so much tosay right now.
I don't like when I wrote theother books I I organized the
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chapters first.
It kind of got my head, but Ifeel like I have so much to say
right now.
I'd have a hard time putting itinto like chronological and
chapters and it's like my mind'slike blowing up with things.
So I'm going to have you helpme do that.
Steve Kidd (16:06):
Well, one of the best things you can do is just
brain dump all of it.
In fact, what I tell people is,when you're doing that,
everything that comes to mind,just say all of it.
You can always get rid ofthings.
But even if because when we goin that active memory type of a
space anytime we try to stop itor edit it while we're doing
(16:29):
that, we also stop the creativeflow.
So I tell people, even if likesomething totally random, like,
oh my gosh, did I remember to dothe laundry?
Oh, I got to remember that Igot to go pick up the kids at
three o'clock, you know thosekinds of things that have
nothing to do, you know they'renot going to make it in the book
, you're not going to be like.
And then the author said I mean, by just saying that and then
(16:49):
continuing on, we continue increative space.
When we stop and try to forcethat thought to go away, we
actually we stop and try toforce that thought to go away,
we actually also stop thecreative flow.
So, yeah, we can totally helpyou with that.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (17:02):
Yeah, I told Bill.
I said I'm down here in Floridafor a month now, so I think I'm
going to start and I can't evencome up with a title at all yet
, Like a title, and I pray abouteverything.
Like when I started my podcast,I wanted to have like a really
cool sign off because, like youknow, like like Sean Handy says,
let not your heart be troubled.
(17:23):
And I remember, like WalterCronkite, I'm way back, this is
a show my age.
He'd say like something likegood night and tomorrow,
whatever.
I thought I need a sign.
That's the way it was.
Yeah, and I remember thatforever.
And so I had the title at theconcept and I was like, and I
was like, lord, listen, I got tohave this really good sign up
(17:45):
and it's got to like, it's gotto talk about you, but it can't
be like too much, it's got to beme.
And I mean honestly, I had theequipment.
I had everything ready to gofor like three months, the
equipment.
I had everything ready to gofor like three months.
And I was just like, come on,give me a title and I'd say
things or write things down.
And it's like I don't know, itdoesn't fit and then just like
out of nowhere, I was like, oh,the truth is in the red letters.
(18:06):
Jesus said everything in thered letters.
That's the truth of life.
Steve Kidd (18:14):
I was like, thank you, lord, that's brilliant, I
wrote it down and I recorded thenext day.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (18:17):
Awesome, I'm not recording till I have a sign
off.
And I know that's such a smallthing and people are probably
like, oh yeah, you could havegone.
It's like, no, I need something.
And I just couldn't.
I mean, I can't tell you howmany times I prayed and I was
just like I can't get it.
I can't get it.
I wrote all kinds of things.
I was like no, it doesn't feelright.
(18:42):
And then I did that.
I was like okay, that would belike a little bit like people
might not know what it means, sothey might ask me.
Then I can say, hey, jesus saideverything is in the red
letters.
Like, if you don't knowanything about the bible and you
want to start, don't start atgenesis, read all the red
letters and then see where thebible takes you.
Like, that's, if you learnabout Jesus, you got it.
And I have had pastors call meand say, when the people at my
(19:03):
church get saved, I now tellthem to start with the red
letters.
I was like, seriously, they'relike yeah, because honestly it's
so simple.
And I was like, wow, all right,thank you, lord.
So now, 450 episodes later, Istill say it I love it.
Steve Kidd (19:20):
Yeah, and that's one of the one of the ways where
doing your book writing viainterview works so well, because
during the course of thatconversation, something amazing
that you're going to say isgoing to come out just kind of
naturally like that, and it'sgoing to be like oh yeah, that's
it, you know, and then yeah, soyeah, no, I'm with you.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (19:40):
I'm with you, all right.
So, um, now, are you involvedin the real estate industry?
You're, you're mostly themenace.
Now do you preach and like havea church?
Are you like actively apreacher?
Steve Kidd (19:50):
I am no longer working in a church.
I mean, technically, my giftingis evangelism.
So much of what I've done havebeen outside of the doors.
But you know, I've worked as ayouth pastor and worship leader
and stuff like that.
My last staff position was ohgosh, it's almost 12 years ago
now, but I was actually theyouth pastor at 45.
(20:16):
You know, that gives you anidea how old the congregation
was, and a really cool littlechurch in Ocean Park, washington
, and that was the last staffposition I've had.
But everything that I do isreally just an outpouring of my
ministry and myself and some ofmy business partners.
We have a lot of things that wedo.
And then of course, there's thebooks that I write that all of
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them have a whole lot of Jesusin them, whether I'm quoting
Bible verses or not.
And then I have my radio showevery week and you know I say at
the beginning of it you knowthat I'm a third generation
minister and I tell people thatand that's why I always do that
in my intro too, because I willsay you know it's like hey, you
know, I warned you, I'm a thirdgeneration minister, so if a
Bible verse pops out of me whileI'm talking here to you you
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can't be really shocked, youknow.
I mean, it's kind of just partof who I am.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (21:03):
That's what makes me love you more.
I love it, I love it, I love it.
And you know I can remember.
So I got saved and baptizedwhen I was 12.
Went to church faithfully.
Then I could get 18, you moveout, you know, and in my 20s it
was the 80s, and I becameprobably as heathenistic as any
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person could be.
And then, 32 or three, I waslike you know what?
God hit me with a hammer andget your butt back, and you know
so I like rededicated.
And then now it's like I lookback.
I'm like, oh my god, god mustlisten to, shaking his head like
girl, what is wrong with you?
What are you doing?
But I'm forgiving and I bringyou back and you know, do good
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things.
That always when I do podcasts,I always talk about God and some
people are like, oh, you know,we don't really talk about that.
I'm like dude, it just fallsout of my mouth.
I talk about all the time I'mteaching in the class I say
God's good to me, god did this,god did that, and some people
they get offended.
I'm like, hey, listen, totallycool, you can stay or you can go
(22:05):
.
I'm not changing what I saybecause I'm standing on the
words and I've had people leave.
You're too preachy when youteach.
I'm not preachy, I'm just like,hey, god brought me this path
and God brought me that path andGod brought me this husband.
And da, da, da, da da.
And I've had a few people andI'm just like I'll pray for you
(22:26):
and I'm like it's this day.
Now let me talk about God.
I got you.
I don't want to force it on you, but you know you heard the
word.
So someday when you're standingup at them, pearly gates, and
say, remember when you heard thewords and you ignored it.
So All right, so let's talkabout you.
(22:47):
What's your favorite band ofall time?
Steve Kidd (22:50):
Oh, goodness Of all time and I only have to pick one
.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (22:54):
Only one, all time.
Steve Kidd (22:59):
Oh, that's so tough.
I've broken it down to two andI'm trying to decide which one
of the two Probably.
Yeah, I'm probably still goingto have to say Bon Jovi.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (23:18):
Ah, I love Bon Jovi, and what a good choice
he is.
God, bon jovi's.
And you know that's the oneconcert I have never seen.
I I'm a major concert person.
I've seen literally almosteveryone from the 70s, 80s, all
the way.
I go to concerts all the timeand, for whatever reason, I've
(23:38):
never seen bon jovi and I waslike next time I tour I have to
go because I love all of theirmusic, all of their music.
Okay, what's your favorite food?
Steve Kidd (23:51):
uh, definitely pizza , yeah, I love pizza too.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (23:55):
I I don't know how anyone could not love
pizza.
We have one of those uh pizzacookers, you know, it just spins
underneath the lights and itcooks your pizza top and bottom.
I have pizza at least twice aweek.
It's like how can you not lovepizza?
Steve Kidd (24:11):
Well, the worst of it for me is I'm on a diet right
now where I'm no sugar, noflour.
I've lost over 100 pounds inthe last about eight months, and
so these days when I eat pizza,I tear the toppings off and
just leave the crust, which mydog loves, you know, because
then she gets the whole crustwhich she thinks is cool, and
(24:31):
then she hides them all aroundthe house for like oh my god
well, congratulations um.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (24:36):
So you're doing like something like keto
I'm actually uh.
Steve Kidd (24:41):
Yeah, it's a company called Energize Health that
helps with cellular regeneration.
Really great Christian couplethat runs the company.
Yeah, I couldn't say enoughgood about that.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (24:53):
Well, good for you.
I mean, 100 pounds, that'snothing to sneeze at.
After everything that happenedwith my dad and my friend and
all this stuff, I put on 15pounds, pounds which may not
seem like a lot but when allyour clothes fit the way they
fit, like I can't.
I can't button my jeans with 15pounds because it all goes
right to my belly.
And I was like you know what?
(25:14):
I'm missing the keto for aminute, because I really like
that diet, I love the highprotein, I love the fat of the
vegetables, like I really lovethat diet.
But there was a few times it'slike, oh man, pizza or pasta.
But then you know, I feelbetter when I eat like that.
I feel better.
(25:35):
And I did notice I had terribleheadaches from withdrawing off
sugar.
It was like golly, it's likedrawing off caffeine or stopping
drugs or something.
I had blinding headachesbecause I just no sugar and I
still don't have sugar.
Sugar.
I mean I have things like withmonk fruit or stevia, which
(25:55):
probably still is sugar, butjust like sugar, sugar and no
candy, no, nothing.
I was like, oh, I had headachesfor two weeks.
Steve Kidd (26:02):
That's crazy.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (26:03):
Well, good for you, congratulations.
What's your favorite part?
Steve Kidd (26:08):
of the day.
I really like late evenings,you know, like nine, 10 o'clock.
You know I currently am living.
My brother and I bought myuncle's house when he passed and
you know, about a year and ahalf ago now we had our mom move
in with us.
We're taking care of her too.
We're kind of sort of in theprocess of remodeling the house.
(26:30):
It's going very slowly.
I'm not even sure some days ifwe can claim it as remodeling it
with as slow as we're going,but you know they go up to the
rooms or go to bed or whateverthey do, you know, and I'm here
in my room by myself, um, youknow, and likely the phone's not
gonna ring.
I don't have too many clientsthat call me after nine or ten
(26:51):
o'clock at night.
Every once in a while somebodywill, but for the most part, you
know, and so that's when I cando my writing and you know, and
I do a lot of singing then andjust you know it's it's kind of
really the best time for me.
Plus I'm a night owl, you knowI I don't do mornings.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (27:07):
Well, anyway, they say, night owls are the
smartest people.
Steve Kidd (27:11):
Oh well, there you go, that's why I do it then.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (27:14):
You know it's funny.
I also am an evening person andI interview people all the time
and I ask them you know whichway, and they're like oh, want
to have 4 am, be in the gym.
And in my mind I'm like but why, like?
(27:34):
Why do you want to be up atfour in the morning?
And and why?
I don't think, even if it wasquiet.
I hang out with bill, you know,we talk, we chat.
It's like oh, this is thepeaceful part of the day for me
too.
So I'm with you and you knowlike 90% of people are super
early morning people that Iinterview and I'm like no, y'all
got to get in the groove likethe night time.
The night time's where it's at.
That's how I feel.
(27:55):
So I love that about you.
All right, so I want you to um,is there anything you want to
talk about that I didn't ask youor something that you want to
impart upon the group?
Steve Kidd (28:11):
I mean, you know, mostly it's just a matter of
somebody's waiting on you.
You know somebody needs exactlywho you are to help them with
exactly what they're searchingfor.
You know, I often use theexample, you know, because we
all search for things on theinternet these days, you know,
whether it be some kind of AI or, you know, google or whatever,
and they're just desperatelylooking for the thing that often
(28:32):
is so easy for us that ifsomebody asked you what you were
gonna write your book about,you probably wouldn't even count
.
That you know.
You just assume.
You know that must be easy foreverybody.
And yet for everything that youcan imagine, you know there's
somebody that's struggling withthat and they're waiting for you
to be able to, to bring thatout in the way that you're going
to, because you're the one thatwas put on this earth to get to
(28:56):
share that in a way that theycan get it.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (28:59):
Yeah, no, I could not.
I could not agree more.
All right, so, Steve, the lastthing, as I like all my guests
to leave us with a parting wordof wisdom, but it can only be
one single word.
Steve Kidd (29:14):
Okay, well, I have a great word, okay, but you're
not going to know what the wordmeans.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (29:25):
Okay, give it to me.
Steve Kidd (29:27):
All right, the word is Z-R-A-Z.
It's spelled Z-A-R-A-Z.
Spelled the same way Z-A-R-A-Z.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (29:34):
Okay, the first ones ever told me this.
So first of all let me explain.
So I tell everyone to leave uswith a part, because if you ask
someone to give us a partingword, they'll go on for 20
minutes and talk about something.
It's like, oh my god, peoplecan't process that.
There's a word and then theword becomes the word of the
week in the wonderful universe.
(29:56):
So our word is zaraz.
So we need to know first of all, what the heck does it mean?
But what does it mean to you isthe most important thing.
Steve Kidd (30:05):
So Zeraz is a English spelling of an ancient
Hebrew word that comes fromIsaiah 60, verse 3.
Isaiah 60, verse 3 says yourlight will draw the kings of all
nations unto me, meaning God,zeraz is the light of
transformation that makes theimpact and the difference.
(30:27):
It's the light inside of us,that spark that is put there by
God to change the world.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (30:34):
Oh, I love that.
So when people see my lightshining, that's my Zerahs.
Yes, ah, okay, I did not knowthat word, so thank you.
Steve Kidd (30:43):
The book's almost done.
I should have it out herewithin the next week or two oh
nice, I love it all.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (30:48):
Right, everybody.
Word of the week is a raw, sobasically it's like let people
see the light inside of you yesis that right, yeah or not, or a
little bit more detailed?
Steve Kidd (31:00):
well, I mean in a little more detail.
It's, um know, it's about beingthe light, so it's just living
it versus yeah, yeah, I mean it,just it is.
Zeraz is now.
Zeraz is who you are.
It isn't about I mean, there isa lot of activeness to it, but
it isn't about being and doinganything.
(31:22):
It just it is, you know, yourlight.
Will you know I love it.
That's the biggest thing, youknow.
Going back to the verybeginning of our conversation,
you know the Bible says Jesussaid red letters.
Let your light so shine beforemen that they will see your good
works and glorify your father,which is in heaven, and that
(31:43):
ultimately capsulizes.
You know what Isaiah is talkingabout.
You know, in to go back to whatyou're saying, the red letters.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (31:51):
Okay, so it's Hebrew.
Steve Kidd (31:54):
It's ancient Hebrew, so it's the dead language
version of Hebrew.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (31:58):
I'm going to start using that word.
People go why I'm like I'm justthat smart.
My friend Steve turned me on toa new word, but I like it
because the Bible does likelight, your light.
And I've had people you know,we teach a lot of classes and we
have people like God.
When I walk through the room,you guys can just your light
just shines, and I was likethat's light, that's God, that's
(32:21):
God, that's just because we'relike, we're up there, and so I
love that word.
What's a rise?
I'm gonna google it too andread a little bit more about it,
because I did not know.
Steve Kidd (32:31):
If you google it, the only thing you're gonna find
about zaraz until my book comesout.
Um is.
There is a polish word that'szaraz, that has um.
That basically means to takeaction.
Okay, so you want I mean veryrarely are you going to find
translations for ancient Hebrewwords.
It was about a four hour deepdive that I did on AI one night
(32:54):
trying to find a word for therebrand we're doing for the
company.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (32:58):
Oh nice, no, I love it.
Well, when the book's out, letme know.
We'll have you come back onagain and talk about your book,
cause that I love stuff likethat.
When I learn something new, Iget super excited to learn
something new.
All right, so, everybody, Iwant to thank you for being on
the show today and what is thename?
Steve Kidd (33:19):
Is your radio show called?
Ask Steve.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (33:20):
Kidd, it's Thriving Entrepreneur, thriving
Entrepreneur, so I want you todid they subscribe?
Steve Kidd (33:29):
Like subscribe.
Go to wehelpyouthrivecom andfollow it on my website.
Listen to it.
It's on about 30 radio stations.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (33:36):
Okay, so say it in wehelpyouthrivecom.
Steve Kidd (33:40):
Wehelpyouthrivecom has all of the last 10 years, of
all the shows.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (33:44):
Okay.
So y'all to listen to this guy.
He is wise, wise, wise.
He's got wisdom.
He's told Jesus I'm sure he'sgiving that really amazing
information.
So follow him and I always askyou to do me a favor.
If you enjoyed the podcast, ifyou learned one thing I learned
a new word.
I want you to like andsubscribe and leave a comment,
(34:05):
because Steve and I cannot growour businesses without you, so
it is important that you like,follow and also Dwanterful.
So I took my name Dwan andwonderful, and I made a new word
that's D-W-A-N-D-E-R-F-U-L.
(34:26):
It's wonderfulcom.
Go over to my website and optin.
I've got a little real estatequiz that you can take and it'll
tell you where you're at inyour real estate investing
career.
So that's super fun too.
So check me out, check him outAgain.
We cannot do it without you.
So I'll be back next week, samebat time, same bat channel.
(34:48):
And remember, the truth is inthe red letters.
I've got a guy that knows whatthat means.
All right, everybody, ciao,have a great day.
Hey everybody , welcome to The Most Dwanderful
Real Estate Podcast Ever.
I'm your host, DwanBent-Twyford.
I'm America's most sought-afterreal estate investor.
I have some super exciting news.
We just reached a milliondownloads this week.
So I'm so excited.
So, thanks to all of you, Ifinally cracked a million
(00:24):
downloads.
So now we have to work on twomillion.
So like and share and telleverybody that you know that we
need two million downloads rightnow.
So isn't that exciting.
I was so excited, steve.
I got a thing from Buzzsproutthat says you have reached a
million downloads.
I was like, ah, because I'vebeen close, like hanging around
(00:44):
it, you know, but like didn'tquite get there.
I was so excited and the weirdthing is, when that happened,
like within two days, I had like25,000 more, just like boom,
boom, boom, boom, boom.
So super excited about that.
So I want to welcome my awesomeguest today.
I have Steve Kidd.
He's AskSteveKidd.
com, he's AskSteveKid.
com, and we're going to find outwhat he does and find out how
(01:06):
he can help all of the wonderfulpeople.
So, Steve, I really just kindof like to throw people in and
have you give us your name, howto contact you directly and what
you do, just really short, andthen I'm going to ask questions
to find out how you came to beSteve Kidd.
Syndicated Radio.
Steve Kidd (01:29):
Yeah, my name is Steve Kidd.
I'm a third generation minister, an international best-selling
author of now 36 books andcounting.
I've worked with just shy of5,000 people, helping them write
, publish and then, mostespecially, marketing their
books to bestseller andeverything that goes beyond that
.
To contact me that's why I'vegot it on the screen askstevekid
(01:50):
.
com.
You can jump straight onto myschedule.
I'll give you 15 minutes forfree talking about anything to
do with the.
You know all we've learned inthe 38 years of marketing and
any of that.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (02:02):
Anything I can help you with.
Steve Kidd (02:03):
I'd be glad to.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (02:04):
Yeah, you know what, now that you said
that, I do remember us havingthe ratings.
You talked about helping withbooks and after all the stuff
Bill and I have been through thelast couple of years, I feel
like now is the time I'm goingto sit down and I'm going to put
together a book, because, youknow, my husband went through a
bone marrow transplant.
I mean it's the craziest thing.
I just I had never even metanyone else that's been through
(02:26):
all that crazy stuff.
I'm like you know that needs tobe in a book.
And also about you know, our 35years of real estate investing
and and all the stuff like that.
So I love that you're aminister.
Steve Kidd (02:38):
Yeah, absolutely.
My grandfather was and myfather was his whole life both
of them.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (02:45):
I've been a Christian, saved and baptized,
got a little wild in my 20s,looped back to God.
So now I'm like 35 years, likejust hardcore back into it and I
just love to talk to otherChristians and especially you
know all the great things thatGod can do and help you in your
businesses.
(03:06):
If you're just like, let him doit, instead of everyone trying
to do everything on their ownall the time.
Steve Kidd (03:13):
Absolutely.
I agree completely.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (03:15):
Right.
So what's some advice?
Give us a few tidbits of advice, since you are a minister and I
want to talk about your, howyou help with the books and
stuff too.
But what are a couple of thingslike for people you know that
are lukewarm, they backslid,they need to come back.
They're not ready to come back.
You know how everybody is.
What are a couple I don't know,like a little tidbits about
(03:38):
people that are following.
I'm assuming you're followingJesus, yes, okay, so let me just
make that clear before I startranting off and you're like oh
yeah, no, I'm, I'm a ministerand something else.
So because my uh, my sign off,at the end of my podcast I say
the truth is in the red letters.
And so some people email me andgo what does that?
(04:02):
That mean?
I'm like, well, what do youthink it means?
And so, of course, everythingJesus said is in the red letters
.
So I try to, like you know,drop seeds, and I do a few times
a year I'll do a podcast.
That's just about a Bible study.
You know, just something likethat.
So what are a few ways forpeople that are now I have a
(04:25):
good run people that are likemanifesting and like it's talk.
Can you talk about like theuniverse, manifesting versus
like what the bible actuallysays?
oh, okay without too much.
Is that too broad?
No, no, no.
Steve Kidd (04:42):
I was just going to say, without going on too much
of a rant on you here, we workso hard to make the easiest of
all things possible.
We know the world existedbefore we came into it.
You know before we were born.
You know we have enoughhistorical proof, archaeological
(05:04):
proof, whatever, that it washere before we were here.
Ok, and without going deeplyinto exegetical explanations of
why you know, I believe Godcreated the earth.
I think it's just, you know,real good common sense to say
there's something bigger outthere than us.
(05:26):
So that's the first step.
Step two in that is stop tryingto make it so hard.
You have the creator ofeverything, who created it all
for one purpose, and that was sothat he could get to know you
so much so that he created thisincredibly, wonderfully horrible
(05:48):
thing called free will.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (05:50):
Yes.
Steve Kidd (05:51):
Because and people really struggle with it because
they want God to give them freewill, but everybody else not,
yes, not.
And I always tell people it'slike God had to give us free
will, because the only way wecan choose to love him is if we
(06:11):
actually truly have a choice.
If there wasn't the option ofoption A and option B, it
wouldn't really truly be achoice, and that's where free
will comes in.
Yes, All of this was done bythe creator of everything, just
so that he could get to know youand hang out with you and be
your friend.
That's all he's looking for.
(06:31):
And we try so hard to come upwith all these woo woo outside.
You know extra I use the wordwoo woo Like.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (06:40):
stop with all that woo woo stuff?
Steve Kidd (06:43):
What do the numbers on the clock mean?
You know all those kind ofthings.
To try to explain the simplestof all things, and that's that
the creator of everything in thewhole world wants more than
anything else to just hang outwith you.
Yeah, and if that doesn't blowyou away, I don't know what else
is going to.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (07:01):
You know, I can't even tell you how much I
agree with that.
I have friends, and you know,and I love them dearly and
they're, you know, christians,you know, and they're like, oh,
I'm sending you love and lightand that I'm like, listen,
please stop sending me love andlight and all that stuff.
Like that.
Like, do you want to send meanything?
Pray to Jesus, you know to sendme whatever.
(07:25):
And one of the things I've had acouple of people on the show
that are really big intomanifesting.
So I was asking them like, ohyeah, no, you know, we like to
the universe and Mother Earth.
And I was like, oh my God, Ifreaking invited a Wiccan on my
show and I'm like, listen, theBible says, speak things into
existence as if they're alreadythere.
(07:45):
It's like, okay, god is tellingyou, I'm a successful real
estate investor, I lost 50pounds, I'm married to the
greatest person on the face ofthe earth.
Like God is saying, speak itinto existence like it already
happened, and then God will workwith you and, you know,
hopefully, bring all thosethings to fruition.
(08:07):
So I have so many people thathave been a guest I just really
didn't know enough about, Iguess, and I'm just like, oh my
god, this conversation is notwhat, anything that I believe,
like that.
But you're right, it's like youknow Jesus is there, god's Holy
Spirit's living inside of you,like you got all the stuff you
(08:27):
need right there.
If you're worrying aboutdepression or anxiety or you're
in a bad marriage or whatever,you can just speak things and
just keep saying, all right,lord, I'm speaking this into
existence.
These are the things and Godcan do remarkable things and
change anybody's heart and somany good things.
(08:48):
And people just like, I don'tknow, people want like the
woo-woo stuff and they want likeeverything done today and it's
like, but God doesn't answerprayer, like that.
It's like yes, no and maybe, oryou know it could be a yes and
you're like, oh great, this isgoing to happen tomorrow and
that yes could be, oh no, 10years from now.
Yes doesn't mean tomorrow.
Steve Kidd (09:13):
Yeah Well, the problem is we are time-locked
beings.
We travel through time fromyesterday to today to tomorrow.
God exists simultaneouslyacross all possible realities,
meaning that when you say yes tosomething, he lives in both the
(09:35):
if you had said yes and if youhad said no at the same time.
That's why the Bible saysthere's no temptation, except
that's common to man that Godhas already provided a means of
escape.
God spends all the time tryingto help lead us back from the
times when we went left, when weshould have gone right, because
he loves us and he wants to bein that relationship with us.
(09:57):
But he exists in all those.
So when God says yes, his yesis right now, because right now
is all of eternity, in aninstant in his space.
It doesn't necessarily mean thatit can happen that quickly,
because then, in addition tothat, there's that crazy thing
(10:19):
that I talked about before, andthat's free will, because often
you know, especially when westart talking about money, but
you could also use having yourspouse be the best spouse in the
world.
You know, you can pray that forthem.
At the end of the day, theyhave to choose to be the best
version of themselves, them, atthe end of the day, they have to
choose to be the best versionof themselves.
(10:40):
They have that free will to notbe.
You know, to be able to do that, if you're going to pray, to be
successful, you've got to goout and work.
You know, I mean people.
I'm sure that, with as great asyou are and maybe you've had a
few people do it but very rarelydo you have somebody that comes
to your house, knocks on yourdoor and says I have this
amazing property that I'd likefor you to invest in.
(11:00):
You know, now you can put outthings on the internet that dry
in leads and things like that,but if you're just sitting in
your house just manifesting it,just sitting there waiting for
that person to come in and knockon the door, it's never going
to happen.
You know, and that's, in fact,fact, the cool part about it is,
I've actually interviewed mostall of the people from the book
(11:22):
in the movie the secret um anduh.
Most of them got together andwrote a second follow-up book to
that, called how thought, howthoughts, become things, and
every single one of them talksabout that in the fact that, yes
, you want to believe, but yes,you also have to put action to
the things you're believing in.
You can't just sit around andexpect you or nothing is going
(11:46):
to create something.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (11:47):
Yeah, no, I'm with you all the time.
I mean, I've got a prayer boardwith a list a mile long and
most of it's about other peopleactually.
But I just figured, you know,know, I do the work, I trust god
, I tied, I do my part, thengod's gonna open those doors for
me.
I mean, look at me, I'm talkingto you today.
Yeah, absolutely, that's howthe magic happens.
(12:10):
All right.
So I love that I, I love thatyou're a minister and you're
from a family of ministers.
I'm, I just uh, I just lovethat.
I watch tv preaching all thetime.
I always read my bible andthere's just so many gifts and
things that god can do forpeople.
But I think people just don'twant to wait, like, oh, I want
(12:31):
this, I want today.
Because you know, we're like a,we're like a microwave society.
Now you can't drive through andget your food in two minutes.
People have a meltdown.
It's like, literally, that wastwo minutes since you ordered
and now you have a bag of food.
Slow your roll, slow your rolland do the right things.
So let's talk about these books.
So I love the fact that youhelp people write books.
Steve Kidd (12:55):
Yes.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (12:56):
So someone's on here.
They're like Dwan, I'm brandnew, I've barely even invested.
How could I possibly write abook?
What are some ideas?
How do you help people likepull a book out of themselves?
Steve Kidd (13:08):
Well, and we do, or at least we suggested doing all
of our books via interview.
We just literally hop on a Zoomcall and encourage a person to
begin to start talking.
There's a process to a book andI know all of that well enough
that I can walk them throughthat.
But I just want to get them inconversation because, no matter
who you are, whether you are, mygranddaughter, who is now, you
(13:32):
know, getting ready to turn 15,can't believe she's that old um,
but you know, when she waseight, she wrote I also
understand.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (13:37):
I'm like, oh my god, she's that old.
But you know, when she waseight, she wrote I also
understand.
I'm like, oh my God, she's inpuberty.
How is that possible?
She's 10 years old.
Steve Kidd (13:42):
Oh, I know, you know , but when she was eight she
wrote a book and the only thingshe knew is that you know her
best friend and that you knowthey were just the bestest of
friends and how she had met her.
And that's what she wanted totell.
The whole world was about herbest friend and how she met her
and you know all the good timesthey had together.
You know, and if you thinkabout some children's books,
(14:03):
some of the best ones of themare just that really simple of a
structure.
So, no matter where we're atwhat we're going through, what's
easy for us is something thatsomebody else is struggling for,
and somebody is waiting on youfor the exact thing that you are
right now.
There isn't any of our time ofour life that's throw away.
(14:23):
Training is about doing andgetting better and doing more.
It's not about you reach somekind of perfection and then
you're ready to be able to startdoing things.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (14:37):
I agree, and you know everybody, everybody's
got a book in them.
Steve Kidd (14:42):
Oh yeah.
Most everybody that does a bookhas multiple books in them.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (14:47):
It's just, everyone's been through stuff
and things and businesses and Ihave successfully written the
short sale, pre-foreclosureinvesting, which is the best
seller.
How to sell your house whenit's worth lessclosure investing
, which is a bestseller.
How to sell your house whenit's worth less than a mortgage,
which is a bestseller.
I did a chapter in a book withSteve Forbes.
My husband did a chapter in abook with Dan Kennedy, and the
(15:08):
last four or five years I'm likeyou know, we need to sit down
and write a book, like about allthe stuff that we went through
and just really how trying andhow much we really truly had to
rely on not that we don't relyon god, but like I mean this
like puts your faith to the test, like hardcore puts your faith
to the test, and just all thethings.
I'm like you know we need to sitdown.
(15:28):
Bill's like I, you know.
He's like well, write whateveryou want.
You know I'll throw in somestuff.
It's like, no, we, we need towrite a book and um, so I we're
gonna start working, so I'llprobably call you and say, hey,
listen, I need y'all to help meget put a book together.
I feel like I have so much tosay right now.
I don't like when I wrote theother books I I organized the
(15:51):
chapters first.
It kind of got my head, but Ifeel like I have so much to say
right now.
I'd have a hard time putting itinto like chronological and
chapters and it's like my mind'slike blowing up with things.
So I'm going to have you helpme do that.
Steve Kidd (16:06):
Well, one of the best things you can do is just
brain dump all of it.
In fact, what I tell people is,when you're doing that,
everything that comes to mind,just say all of it.
You can always get rid ofthings.
But even if because when we goin that active memory type of a
space anytime we try to stop itor edit it while we're doing
(16:29):
that, we also stop the creativeflow.
So I tell people, even if likesomething totally random, like,
oh my gosh, did I remember to dothe laundry?
Oh, I got to remember that Igot to go pick up the kids at
three o'clock, you know thosekinds of things that have
nothing to do, you know they'renot going to make it in the book
, you're not going to be like.
And then the author said I mean, by just saying that and then
(16:49):
continuing on, we continue increative space.
When we stop and try to forcethat thought to go away, we
actually we stop and try toforce that thought to go away,
we actually also stop thecreative flow.
So, yeah, we can totally helpyou with that.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (17:02):
Yeah, I told Bill.
I said I'm down here in Floridafor a month now, so I think I'm
going to start and I can't evencome up with a title at all yet
, Like a title, and I pray abouteverything.
Like when I started my podcast,I wanted to have like a really
cool sign off because, like youknow, like like Sean Handy says,
let not your heart be troubled.
(17:23):
And I remember, like WalterCronkite, I'm way back, this is
a show my age.
He'd say like something likegood night and tomorrow,
whatever.
I thought I need a sign.
That's the way it was.
Yeah, and I remember thatforever.
And so I had the title at theconcept and I was like, and I
was like, lord, listen, I got tohave this really good sign up
(17:45):
and it's got to like, it's gotto talk about you, but it can't
be like too much, it's got to beme.
And I mean honestly, I had theequipment.
I had everything ready to gofor like three months, the
equipment.
I had everything ready to gofor like three months.
And I was just like, come on,give me a title and I'd say
things or write things down.
And it's like I don't know, itdoesn't fit and then just like
out of nowhere, I was like, oh,the truth is in the red letters.
(18:06):
Jesus said everything in thered letters.
That's the truth of life.
Steve Kidd (18:14):
I was like, thank you, lord, that's brilliant, I
wrote it down and I recorded thenext day.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (18:17):
Awesome, I'm not recording till I have a sign
off.
And I know that's such a smallthing and people are probably
like, oh yeah, you could havegone.
It's like, no, I need something.
And I just couldn't.
I mean, I can't tell you howmany times I prayed and I was
just like I can't get it.
I can't get it.
I wrote all kinds of things.
I was like no, it doesn't feelright.
(18:42):
And then I did that.
I was like okay, that would belike a little bit like people
might not know what it means, sothey might ask me.
Then I can say, hey, jesus saideverything is in the red
letters.
Like, if you don't knowanything about the bible and you
want to start, don't start atgenesis, read all the red
letters and then see where thebible takes you.
Like, that's, if you learnabout Jesus, you got it.
And I have had pastors call meand say, when the people at my
(19:03):
church get saved, I now tellthem to start with the red
letters.
I was like, seriously, they'relike yeah, because honestly it's
so simple.
And I was like, wow, all right,thank you, lord.
So now, 450 episodes later, Istill say it I love it.
Steve Kidd (19:20):
Yeah, and that's one of the one of the ways where
doing your book writing viainterview works so well, because
during the course of thatconversation, something amazing
that you're going to say isgoing to come out just kind of
naturally like that, and it'sgoing to be like oh yeah, that's
it, you know, and then yeah, soyeah, no, I'm with you.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (19:40):
I'm with you, all right.
So, um, now, are you involvedin the real estate industry?
You're, you're mostly themenace.
Now do you preach and like havea church?
Are you like actively apreacher?
Steve Kidd (19:50):
I am no longer working in a church.
I mean, technically, my giftingis evangelism.
So much of what I've done havebeen outside of the doors.
But you know, I've worked as ayouth pastor and worship leader
and stuff like that.
My last staff position was ohgosh, it's almost 12 years ago
now, but I was actually theyouth pastor at 45.
(20:16):
You know, that gives you anidea how old the congregation
was, and a really cool littlechurch in Ocean Park, washington
, and that was the last staffposition I've had.
But everything that I do isreally just an outpouring of my
ministry and myself and some ofmy business partners.
We have a lot of things that wedo.
And then of course, there's thebooks that I write that all of
(20:36):
them have a whole lot of Jesusin them, whether I'm quoting
Bible verses or not.
And then I have my radio showevery week and you know I say at
the beginning of it you knowthat I'm a third generation
minister and I tell people thatand that's why I always do that
in my intro too, because I willsay you know it's like hey, you
know, I warned you, I'm a thirdgeneration minister, so if a
Bible verse pops out of me whileI'm talking here to you you
(20:59):
can't be really shocked, youknow.
I mean, it's kind of just partof who I am.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (21:03):
That's what makes me love you more.
I love it, I love it, I love it.
And you know I can remember.
So I got saved and baptizedwhen I was 12.
Went to church faithfully.
Then I could get 18, you moveout, you know, and in my 20s it
was the 80s, and I becameprobably as heathenistic as any
(21:24):
person could be.
And then, 32 or three, I waslike you know what?
God hit me with a hammer andget your butt back, and you know
so I like rededicated.
And then now it's like I lookback.
I'm like, oh my god, god mustlisten to, shaking his head like
girl, what is wrong with you?
What are you doing?
But I'm forgiving and I bringyou back and you know, do good
(21:44):
things.
That always when I do podcasts,I always talk about God and some
people are like, oh, you know,we don't really talk about that.
I'm like dude, it just fallsout of my mouth.
I talk about all the time I'mteaching in the class I say
God's good to me, god did this,god did that, and some people
they get offended.
I'm like, hey, listen, totallycool, you can stay or you can go
(22:05):
.
I'm not changing what I saybecause I'm standing on the
words and I've had people leave.
You're too preachy when youteach.
I'm not preachy, I'm just like,hey, god brought me this path
and God brought me that path andGod brought me this husband.
And da, da, da, da da.
And I've had a few people andI'm just like I'll pray for you
(22:26):
and I'm like it's this day.
Now let me talk about God.
I got you.
I don't want to force it on you, but you know you heard the
word.
So someday when you're standingup at them, pearly gates, and
say, remember when you heard thewords and you ignored it.
So All right, so let's talkabout you.
(22:47):
What's your favorite band ofall time?
Steve Kidd (22:50):
Oh, goodness Of all time and I only have to pick one
.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (22:54):
Only one, all time.
Steve Kidd (22:59):
Oh, that's so tough.
I've broken it down to two andI'm trying to decide which one
of the two Probably.
Yeah, I'm probably still goingto have to say Bon Jovi.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (23:18):
Ah, I love Bon Jovi, and what a good choice
he is.
God, bon jovi's.
And you know that's the oneconcert I have never seen.
I I'm a major concert person.
I've seen literally almosteveryone from the 70s, 80s, all
the way.
I go to concerts all the timeand, for whatever reason, I've
(23:38):
never seen bon jovi and I waslike next time I tour I have to
go because I love all of theirmusic, all of their music.
Okay, what's your favorite food?
Steve Kidd (23:51):
uh, definitely pizza , yeah, I love pizza too.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (23:55):
I I don't know how anyone could not love
pizza.
We have one of those uh pizzacookers, you know, it just spins
underneath the lights and itcooks your pizza top and bottom.
I have pizza at least twice aweek.
It's like how can you not lovepizza?
Steve Kidd (24:11):
Well, the worst of it for me is I'm on a diet right
now where I'm no sugar, noflour.
I've lost over 100 pounds inthe last about eight months, and
so these days when I eat pizza,I tear the toppings off and
just leave the crust, which mydog loves, you know, because
then she gets the whole crustwhich she thinks is cool, and
(24:31):
then she hides them all aroundthe house for like oh my god
well, congratulations um.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (24:36):
So you're doing like something like keto
I'm actually uh.
Steve Kidd (24:41):
Yeah, it's a company called Energize Health that
helps with cellular regeneration.
Really great Christian couplethat runs the company.
Yeah, I couldn't say enoughgood about that.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (24:53):
Well, good for you.
I mean, 100 pounds, that'snothing to sneeze at.
After everything that happenedwith my dad and my friend and
all this stuff, I put on 15pounds, pounds which may not
seem like a lot but when allyour clothes fit the way they
fit, like I can't.
I can't button my jeans with 15pounds because it all goes
right to my belly.
And I was like you know what?
(25:14):
I'm missing the keto for aminute, because I really like
that diet, I love the highprotein, I love the fat of the
vegetables, like I really lovethat diet.
But there was a few times it'slike, oh man, pizza or pasta.
But then you know, I feelbetter when I eat like that.
I feel better.
(25:35):
And I did notice I had terribleheadaches from withdrawing off
sugar.
It was like golly, it's likedrawing off caffeine or stopping
drugs or something.
I had blinding headachesbecause I just no sugar and I
still don't have sugar.
Sugar.
I mean I have things like withmonk fruit or stevia, which
(25:55):
probably still is sugar, butjust like sugar, sugar and no
candy, no, nothing.
I was like, oh, I had headachesfor two weeks.
Steve Kidd (26:02):
That's crazy.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (26:03):
Well, good for you, congratulations.
What's your favorite part?
Steve Kidd (26:08):
of the day.
I really like late evenings,you know, like nine, 10 o'clock.
You know I currently am living.
My brother and I bought myuncle's house when he passed and
you know, about a year and ahalf ago now we had our mom move
in with us.
We're taking care of her too.
We're kind of sort of in theprocess of remodeling the house.
(26:30):
It's going very slowly.
I'm not even sure some days ifwe can claim it as remodeling it
with as slow as we're going,but you know they go up to the
rooms or go to bed or whateverthey do, you know, and I'm here
in my room by myself, um, youknow, and likely the phone's not
gonna ring.
I don't have too many clientsthat call me after nine or ten
(26:51):
o'clock at night.
Every once in a while somebodywill, but for the most part, you
know, and so that's when I cando my writing and you know, and
I do a lot of singing then andjust you know it's it's kind of
really the best time for me.
Plus I'm a night owl, you knowI I don't do mornings.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (27:07):
Well, anyway, they say, night owls are the
smartest people.
Steve Kidd (27:11):
Oh well, there you go, that's why I do it then.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (27:14):
You know it's funny.
I also am an evening person andI interview people all the time
and I ask them you know whichway, and they're like oh, want
to have 4 am, be in the gym.
And in my mind I'm like but why, like?
(27:34):
Why do you want to be up atfour in the morning?
And and why?
I don't think, even if it wasquiet.
I hang out with bill, you know,we talk, we chat.
It's like oh, this is thepeaceful part of the day for me
too.
So I'm with you and you knowlike 90% of people are super
early morning people that Iinterview and I'm like no, y'all
got to get in the groove likethe night time.
The night time's where it's at.
That's how I feel.
(27:55):
So I love that about you.
All right, so I want you to um,is there anything you want to
talk about that I didn't ask youor something that you want to
impart upon the group?
Steve Kidd (28:11):
I mean, you know, mostly it's just a matter of
somebody's waiting on you.
You know somebody needs exactlywho you are to help them with
exactly what they're searchingfor.
You know, I often use theexample, you know, because we
all search for things on theinternet these days, you know,
whether it be some kind of AI or, you know, google or whatever,
and they're just desperatelylooking for the thing that often
(28:32):
is so easy for us that ifsomebody asked you what you were
gonna write your book about,you probably wouldn't even count
.
That you know.
You just assume.
You know that must be easy foreverybody.
And yet for everything that youcan imagine, you know there's
somebody that's struggling withthat and they're waiting for you
to be able to, to bring thatout in the way that you're going
to, because you're the one thatwas put on this earth to get to
(28:56):
share that in a way that theycan get it.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (28:59):
Yeah, no, I could not.
I could not agree more.
All right, so, Steve, the lastthing, as I like all my guests
to leave us with a parting wordof wisdom, but it can only be
one single word.
Steve Kidd (29:14):
Okay, well, I have a great word, okay, but you're
not going to know what the wordmeans.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (29:25):
Okay, give it to me.
Steve Kidd (29:27):
All right, the word is Z-R-A-Z.
It's spelled Z-A-R-A-Z.
Spelled the same way Z-A-R-A-Z.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (29:34):
Okay, the first ones ever told me this.
So first of all let me explain.
So I tell everyone to leave uswith a part, because if you ask
someone to give us a partingword, they'll go on for 20
minutes and talk about something.
It's like, oh my god, peoplecan't process that.
There's a word and then theword becomes the word of the
week in the wonderful universe.
(29:56):
So our word is zaraz.
So we need to know first of all, what the heck does it mean?
But what does it mean to you isthe most important thing.
Steve Kidd (30:05):
So Zeraz is a English spelling of an ancient
Hebrew word that comes fromIsaiah 60, verse 3.
Isaiah 60, verse 3 says yourlight will draw the kings of all
nations unto me, meaning God,zeraz is the light of
transformation that makes theimpact and the difference.
(30:27):
It's the light inside of us,that spark that is put there by
God to change the world.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (30:34):
Oh, I love that.
So when people see my lightshining, that's my Zerahs.
Yes, ah, okay, I did not knowthat word, so thank you.
Steve Kidd (30:43):
The book's almost done.
I should have it out herewithin the next week or two oh
nice, I love it all.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (30:48):
Right, everybody.
Word of the week is a raw, sobasically it's like let people
see the light inside of you yesis that right, yeah or not, or a
little bit more detailed?
Steve Kidd (31:00):
well, I mean in a little more detail.
It's, um know, it's about beingthe light, so it's just living
it versus yeah, yeah, I mean it,just it is.
Zeraz is now.
Zeraz is who you are.
It isn't about I mean, there isa lot of activeness to it, but
it isn't about being and doinganything.
(31:22):
It just it is, you know, yourlight.
Will you know I love it.
That's the biggest thing, youknow.
Going back to the verybeginning of our conversation,
you know the Bible says Jesussaid red letters.
Let your light so shine beforemen that they will see your good
works and glorify your father,which is in heaven, and that
(31:43):
ultimately capsulizes.
You know what Isaiah is talkingabout.
You know, in to go back to whatyou're saying, the red letters.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (31:51):
Okay, so it's Hebrew.
Steve Kidd (31:54):
It's ancient Hebrew, so it's the dead language
version of Hebrew.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (31:58):
I'm going to start using that word.
People go why I'm like I'm justthat smart.
My friend Steve turned me on toa new word, but I like it
because the Bible does likelight, your light.
And I've had people you know,we teach a lot of classes and we
have people like God.
When I walk through the room,you guys can just your light
just shines, and I was likethat's light, that's God, that's
(32:21):
God, that's just because we'relike, we're up there, and so I
love that word.
What's a rise?
I'm gonna google it too andread a little bit more about it,
because I did not know.
Steve Kidd (32:31):
If you google it, the only thing you're gonna find
about zaraz until my book comesout.
Um is.
There is a polish word that'szaraz, that has um.
That basically means to takeaction.
Okay, so you want I mean veryrarely are you going to find
translations for ancient Hebrewwords.
It was about a four hour deepdive that I did on AI one night
(32:54):
trying to find a word for therebrand we're doing for the
company.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (32:58):
Oh nice, no, I love it.
Well, when the book's out, letme know.
We'll have you come back onagain and talk about your book,
cause that I love stuff likethat.
When I learn something new, Iget super excited to learn
something new.
All right, so, everybody, Iwant to thank you for being on
the show today and what is thename?
Steve Kidd (33:19):
Is your radio show called?
Ask Steve.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (33:20):
Kidd, it's Thriving Entrepreneur, thriving
Entrepreneur, so I want you todid they subscribe?
Steve Kidd (33:29):
Like subscribe.
Go to wehelpyouthrivecom andfollow it on my website.
Listen to it.
It's on about 30 radio stations.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (33:36):
Okay, so say it in wehelpyouthrivecom.
Steve Kidd (33:40):
Wehelpyouthrivecom has all of the last 10 years, of
all the shows.
Dwan Bent-Twyford (33:44):
Okay.
So y'all to listen to this guy.
He is wise, wise, wise.
He's got wisdom.
He's told Jesus I'm sure he'sgiving that really amazing
information.
So follow him and I always askyou to do me a favor.
If you enjoyed the podcast, ifyou learned one thing I learned
a new word.
I want you to like andsubscribe and leave a comment,
(34:05):
because Steve and I cannot growour businesses without you, so
it is important that you like,follow and also Dwanterful.
So I took my name Dwan andwonderful, and I made a new word
that's D-W-A-N-D-E-R-F-U-L.
(34:26):
It's wonderfulcom.
Go over to my website and optin.
I've got a little real estatequiz that you can take and it'll
tell you where you're at inyour real estate investing
career.
So that's super fun too.
So check me out, check him outAgain.
We cannot do it without you.
So I'll be back next week, samebat time, same bat channel.
(34:48):
And remember, the truth is inthe red letters.
I've got a guy that knows whatthat means.
All right, everybody, ciao,have a great day.
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