Taking the Leap: Embrace Faith & Be Transformed Through Free Fall

Taking the leap of faith can be terrifying, yet it's often where true growth happens. As entrepreneurs, we're constantly on the brink of risking public failure, and that's where today's conversation begins. In our latest episode of the Certain Success Podcast, I recount the whirlwind experience of hosting our first grand-scale virtual event, Dream Builders Live. It was an intense, heart-pounding journey that left me feeling more alive than I've been in a decade. This wasn't just about event production; it was a profound lesson in making room for the divine, where the presence of God was tangible and transformative.

Reflecting on these recent experiences, I dive into the concept of "free falling" into faith—where we embrace vulnerability and let go of the fear that holds us back. By sharing insights and divine revelations with the world instead of hiding them away, we invite others to join us on this spiritual journey. The Dream Builders Live event was filled with unexpected gifts and lessons that went far beyond my expectations. As I share my personal story of experiencing a spiritual high and learning to trust in God's timing, my hope is that listeners will find inspiration to take their own leaps into the unknown, guided by faith and the strength of community.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey guys, welcome back to the Certain Success
Podcast.
I'm Matt Fagioli and thisepisode is called Free Fall.
I'm going to read you somethingthat I wrote this morning that
I think pretty well came out ofme from the Lord, and I'm coming

(00:25):
off of our Dream Builders Liveevent last week.
You're going to hear a lot moreabout the Dream Builders Live
event, the upcoming stuff thatwe're going to do around that,
but for today I just wanted toshare Free Fall and then I'll
talk a little bit about it.
So here's what I wrote, andI'll probably embellish it.

(00:52):
Maybe the greatest strength ofan entrepreneur is the
willingness to risk colossalfailure publicly.
If you learn something new fromthe Lord about your life but
you never share it with theworld, what good is it really?
If you have an insight from Godbut you keep it to yourself?
Who did you serve?
If your idea is kept in thecloset, it stays stuck in the

(01:13):
realm of the meaningless.
You have to take the leap offaith to go public.
Fear is the only thing stoppingyou, and fear is a choice that
you're making.
So quit hiding as I yell at you.
These are the thoughts I'vewrestled with the last few days

(01:34):
after our Dream Builders Liveevent last week.
It was the greatest experienceI've had in probably 10 years.
At one point I thought my heartwas going to jump out of my
chest.
I was so amped about what wewere doing For me specifically.
That's what he means by life tothe full.

(02:00):
When was the last time you feltlike that?
I think a big part of what madeit so great for me was the
radical risk of it all.
I felt like I was flying, ormore like free falling, but the
risk was not careless.
This risk was a direct responseto God's invitation.

(02:23):
He said jump.
So I jumped.
That's not some cute statementI'm making.
It came from a few years ofasking him and actually
listening.
That's not careless risk.
That's the mystery of faithlived out, lived out.

(02:49):
I was so honored to have hadthe chance to bleed out publicly
about my effort to simply failmy way forward in the pursuit of
a life and a business thatmight glorify him.
Because we did it in public,maybe it serves someone else.
I think that's the essence ofwhat I think God has called me
to do in this season to bleedout loud about the battle within

(03:12):
me, the battle within all of usand how to walk that out for
real on Monday and Tuesday andevery other day of the week,
every other day of the week.
I've learned perhaps thebiggest lesson of my life last
week and that is the gift is hispresence.

(03:36):
Sadly, I can't explain that toyou.
Only he can explain it.
But I can tell you this forcertain he only speaks to me
like that when I'm in free fall.
So that was my facebook postthis morning and it's a complete

(04:01):
rant.
It kind of moved all over theplace, but it started and ended
in this, me just typing words,sort of journaling with god,
about God, about how I felt,about what happened last week,
and if you weren't there, it wasjust crazy, awesome.

(04:23):
And I say that with as muchhumility as I can muster,
because it wasn't me that madeit great.
It was an event where it waslive for really five days, but I
don't know total hours, maybe15 hours or something, I don't

(04:44):
know.
It was a lot.
It was the biggest, longestevent that I've ever produced
and it was completely virtualand that's the first time I
really produced a virtual eventat scale like that, other than
one other sort of mediocreattempt in the past, but I

(05:04):
learned a million things.
But the biggest thing we didwas we just made all of the
space for God to show up and I'mlike wow, he showed up in me,
in others.
It was unbelievable to me.
As I wrote in the post, maybethe greatest thing I've felt in
at least 10 years.
And he taught me things, gaveme gifts like the one that I

(05:32):
read about that I just couldn'thave anticipated and I didn't
really go in expecting thosethings at all.
And that's completely how Godworks is just, you get these
gifts but they aren't oftenaren't the things that you were
specifically asking for.
But they're better than thethings that you were asking for

(05:54):
and, man, it was just a lot.
So what happened last week andwhat's happening right now and
going forward if you listen intothis podcast at all, is just me
living out loud like failing myway forward and trying to walk

(06:15):
out the business and life withJesus experience, which is so
impossibly difficult for all ofus.
Yet it's the most wonderfulthing in the world.
It's the willingness to jumpinto the abyss, into the

(06:36):
blindness, and know that you'renever in control, you're never
going to be in control, andcompletely releasing that
creates a freedom that prettymuch no one else around you is
ever going to have.
But you can have it today.
So I don't know if that washelpful, but it helped me, and

(07:02):
so maybe this podcast issomewhat my own therapy, but I
sure hope that it servedsomebody else, and that's the
reason to do it out loud, that'sthe reason to fail out loud,
reason to fail out loud.
So take a jump and free fall.
Thanks for listening in to theCertain Success Podcast and

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we'll see you back here soon.