EP 336: From Family First to Global Impact: Team Tate on Building Healthy Relationships, Healing Communities, and Giving More Than You Take

What makes Maisha and Dr. Gregory with Team Tate Ministries a good neighbor?

Some conversations make you take a breath and look at the people you love with fresh eyes. Our time with Maisha and Dr. Gregory of Team Tate Ministries does exactly that—tying the daily work of building healthy relationships to the bigger story of thriving neighborhoods and real community impact. Their message is plain and powerful: better together is not a slogan; it’s a practice you can live at home, at work, and across your city.

We trace their shared origin from college alignment to a mission centered on family strength, emotional safety, and practical tools you can use long before any crisis. They dismantle common myths about ministry—especially around money and motive—and walk us through the receipts: equipping a South African school with computers to prevent closure and mentoring kids at a faith-based basketball camp in Barbados. The thread is service as a lifestyle, where generosity and accountability build trust that lasts.

If you’re a young family in a fast-growing place like Frisco, a single aiming for healthier connections, or a team leader who wants a culture of respect and repair, this episode offers scripts, rhythms, and mindsets that travel well. We also share news of Team Tate’s upcoming podcast relaunch and mid-November coaching services—expanding the conversation beyond marriage to include dating, friendship, co‑parenting, and community engagement. Expect real talk, interactive Q&A, and frameworks that turn intention into habit.

Subscribe for more local stories from operators who measure what matters. If this conversation helped you see a next step in relationships and community, share it with someone who matters and leave a review telling us what you’ll try this week.

To learn more about Team Tate Ministries go to:
 🌐 https://www.teamtateministries.com/

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Episode Transcript

SPEAKER_02 (00:00):
This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place

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where local businesses andneighbors come together.
Here's your host, Sophia Yvette.

SPEAKER_00 (00:10):
Welcome to the Good Neighbor Podcast.
Are you in need of a ministry?
Well, one may be closer than youthink.
Today I have the pleasure ofintroducing your good neighbors,
Myesha Tate and Dr.
Gregory Tate with Team TateMinistries.
Hi, how are you both doingtoday?

SPEAKER_01 (00:27):
Hello.
We are awesome.

SPEAKER_03 (00:29):
We are excited.
Thank you for having us.
We are elated to be here.

SPEAKER_01 (00:33):
Yes, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 (00:35):
Amazing.
Well, it's definitely a blessingto have you both on today.
No, we are excited to learn allabout you and your mission.
Can you start by telling us alittle bit about your business?

SPEAKER_03 (00:48):
Sure.
Babe, why don't you go ahead andgo first and I'll buy a cleanup?

SPEAKER_01 (00:52):
Sure.
We're a husband and wife team,and that's why we refer to
ourselves as Team TateMinistries.
And we just believewholeheartedly in the phrase,
we're better together.
And so, with that being said, welove to share in building
community here in the Friscoarea and abroad.
We're international speakers andpreachers, and we go into

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schools, we go into businessesand corporate arenas and also
into ministries and just shareabout our insights on how to
build stronger relationships andto utilize those relationships
in a way that can help your ownpersonal development as well as
benefit the community thatyou're a part of.
And so we provide various uhservices.

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We're getting ready to relauncha podcast on relationships and
also we offer coaching.
So we do coaching with couplesand singles and just helping
build stronger relationships.
We think it is central and keyto this time that we're in right
now.
Um, when we went through COVID,everyone was so divided and

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we're just excited about helpingpeople reunite, reconnect, and
get plugged back into serviceand community.

SPEAKER_03 (02:04):
Because we also believe that if healthy
relationships are present,there's also a healthy
community.

SPEAKER_01 (02:09):
Absolutely.

SPEAKER_03 (02:10):
There's a healthy community, there's a healthy
neighborhood, there's a healthyneighborhood, and we can go down
a list, but it starts with thehousehold of having a healthy
relationship.
We are all worthy of having ahealthy relationship.

SPEAKER_00 (02:23):
Well, I think that's a beautiful reminder for us all
today.
Now, how did you both getstarted in?
I almost want to say yourmission.

SPEAKER_03 (02:34):
I'll start since we started last time.
Um, how do we start?
Is it was already in us growingup.
Um she was primarily raised inArizona.
I was raised in California, butwhen I went to Arizona for uh my
undergrad, we uh saw that ourvisions were aligned, our
missions were aligned, and ourpriorities were aligned.

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And that is we're just we'refanatics about family.
We're obsessed with seeing ahealthy family unit.
Uh, we are the byproducts ofhealthy family units, yeah.
And we believe in creating thatgenerational wealth for the next
generation and the generationsto come after that.

SPEAKER_01 (03:17):
Yep, absolutely.
You couldn't have said better.

SPEAKER_00 (03:22):
Amazing.
Well, 100%.
All of that is so, so important.
Now, what is the most commonmyth or misconception in the
unique movement you two are apart of?

SPEAKER_03 (03:37):
Go ahead, Mary.

SPEAKER_01 (03:38):
Well, there's there there can be several when it
comes to being a ministry.
Um, first of all, the lot ofthere's this assumption usually
that because we're not anonprofit, that we're taking all
of the donations or the gifts orthe monetary things and the book
sales and all the things that weget in terms of monetizing our
ministry for ourselves.

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But he and I are committed tobuilding communities.
We have projects going on allover the world that we're a part
of and helping servicecommunities that are
underrepresentedunderrepresented and also on the
margin.
So recently we were a part of aproject where we were able to
supply a school in South Africawith computers, um, which was

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really exciting because thatschool was actually on the
fringe of being shut down had wenot been able to supply with
technology.
And so helping those kids be onthe cutting edge of society and
be in the competitivemarketplace is really important
to us.
And then also we're a part ofjust sharing in other

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organizations that are alreadydoing the work.
We're able to make donations andserve in whatever capacity we
can.
We just came back from Barbados,where we had the honor and
privilege of helping some youngkids, a part of a basketball
camp, there, a Christianbasketball camp.
And we went in and just playedwith the kids and shared a

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little bit about God and ourmission with them.
So we're very busy and justgiving more than we are taking.
And sometimes the myth is thatwhen you're, you know, not a
formal nonprofit, that you'renot doing the same types of
mission style work.
We're very passionate aboutgiving, and we think it is a key

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indicator of whether or not yourepresent God.

SPEAKER_03 (05:30):
Also, too, another myth that we we discussed that
is prevalent in our line of workis when people think of
ministry, they think, okay, Ionly need to come to ministry
when I'm doing bad or I'm on thebrink, or something is in crisis
mode.
And what the we want to pop thatthat that mystery there, that
myth buster right there is thatwhen we ministry is best served

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from A to Z, from when you'redoing good to the midpoint to
the plateau to the midlifecrisis to the burnout to where I
just need I'm desperate and I'min crisis mode and I need help.

SPEAKER_00 (06:06):
Right.

SPEAKER_03 (06:07):
So we're we are we love what we do and we love
taking that journey with youthroughout life's process.
And what it is, is it's givingpeople tools, it's illuminating
people's paths and getting outof the way and helping them do
the work of self-discovery thatyou know what, not what it

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takes.
You know what?
I am better than I thought I wasdoing.
And just being there and anencourager and an empowerment
agent, that's what we like tocall ourselves, an empowerment
agent that we like to empowerour students, our clients, and
those that are taking ourcourses and those that are under
our coaching so that they canknow it, see themselves in a

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much healed, much better andhealed light than they perceive
themselves right now.

SPEAKER_01 (06:52):
I absolutely love that, babe, because sometimes I
think people do think of it as a9-1-1 thing.
Like, let me reach out to Godwhen I'm going through the worst
of times, and He's willing toreceive you at that time as
well.
Right.
But it's it's it's a lifestyle,it's a it's He's a part of our
everyday lives, it's arelationship, it's a journey,
and the joys are much sweeterwith him.

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And so I just love that you saidthat.

SPEAKER_00 (07:18):
Appreciate you.
Amen to all of that, and Idefinitely align with all of the
beliefs that you guys hold.
Now, I would love, love, love toask you so many questions today,
but we only have a limitedamount of time.
So let's get to the heart ofthings.
We know marketing is the heartof every business.
Who are your target?

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Who is your target audience?
And in terms of marketing, howare you reaching them?

SPEAKER_03 (07:48):
I think our target demographic is where as far as
our statistical data that showsis young families, young adult
families, especially here in theFrisco area, it is a plethora of
young families.
That's what makes up Frisco isyoung families.
And so that's where a majorityof our statistical data is

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showing.
However, we are uh experiencedin uh you know the boomer
generation, and we're alsoexperienced in the younger
generation, but really wherewe're hitting home runs at right
now is our younger families,families that have just been
started, or families that areyou know within that five to ten

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year span, uh, we really strikeuh and have real strong presence
uh in that demographic rightthere.

SPEAKER_01 (08:38):
Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 (08:40):
Now I know the answer to this question, but
have you guys ever thought aboutdoing your own podcast?

SPEAKER_01 (08:47):
Yes, absolutely.
So we used to have one calledMarriage Mondays.
We had huge success, and we werealso um featured on a Christian
television network for twoseasons.
However, um we just felt theneed to kind of focus in on our
own um show, and we we no longerwith the network.

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Um, it was definitely not on badterms, it was more about us
wanting to focus more onbuilding our business and what
God was telling us to do.
So um, and it it was a hugesuccess.
We're we're big on interactionand taking people's questions,
and we had several couplesactually get married after being

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a part of that um wholemovement.
So it's it's pretty exciting,and there's a new baby even on
the way.
So just so much good things.
And so we're deciding now to wewe felt like we needed to
broaden the audience a littlebit and bring in singles.
So we're we're gonna talk aboutrelationships in general and not
just the married um marriageportion of it.

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Very much so.
Um, and we think we havesomething to offer for those
that are even thinking aboutmarriage, or maybe they're not
wanting marriage, but they justwant to build better
relationships in general.
So that's why we're gonna gothat route.
So listen up and stay tuned.
Um, we're definitely gonna beputting it out soon and
launching also our coachingservices.

SPEAKER_03 (10:14):
It's gonna be coming uh mid-November.
That is the target date.
And so you hit it right on thehead.
Yes, we're thinking about apodcast.
It's already in motion.
We already have our productionengineers, we have everything
together, and we already haveour first season written out
already, so we are excited.
Uh, and even more exciting is Iget to work with my best friend,

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I get to work with my you know,my lover, and it's just it's
something that we are just overthe moon about.
Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00 (10:43):
Wow.
Well, so much great informationwas covered here today.
But what our listeners reallywant to know is where can they
go to learn more about team tapeministries?

SPEAKER_03 (10:54):
Absolutely.
There's several.
I'll cover two, and my wife willcover the rest.
Um, main source is our website,www.team tapeministries.com.
Also, our email is at uh teamtapeministries, the number one
at gmail.com.
And my wife can tell you therest of the places that you can
see us as well.

SPEAKER_01 (11:14):
I think the website is perfect.
You can find our social medialinks and outlets on the website
as well.
That if you tap on the icons, itwill link you directly to our
social media, our Instagramaccount, our Facebook, and other
social media accounts.
You can also sign up for ournewsletter and receive weekly
updates and encouragement as wecontinue to pour out and empower

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the community around us.
So we'd love to have you thereat team tapeministries.com.
And you can find our books andour resources there as well as
our coaching services.

SPEAKER_00 (11:49):
Well, Team Tate, I really appreciate you both being
on the show.
We wish you and your businessthe best moving forward.

SPEAKER_01 (12:00):
Thank you so much for having us.

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