July 31, 2025 • 36 mins
What if the moment that nearly took your life was the one that finally gave it back?
In this deeply inspiring episode of GRASP Confidence, host Tara LaFon Gooch welcomes Mindy McManus, M.Ed., PCC—a Christian executive coach, former Mayo Clinic professor, and the powerhouse behind Mindy’s Executive Coaching. With over 19 years of experience developing emotionally intelligent, mission-driven leaders, Mindy brings more than credentials; she brings conviction, clarity, and Christ-centered wisdom.
Mindy shares her powerful near-death experience and how it became the divine wake-up call she didn’t know she needed. From leading healthcare executives through high-stakes transitions to helping women rediscover their God-given identity, Mindy’s story is a testament to what’s possible when faith becomes your foundation and confidence becomes your calling.
We dive into what it truly means to lead like Jesus, how to embrace transitions with courage, and why high performers must learn to pause, listen, and surrender. Whether you're seeking alignment in your career or healing in your heart, this episode will stir your spirit and ignite your purpose.
You’ll walk away with renewed faith, practical leadership wisdom, and the reminder that your calling isn’t behind you—it’s rising within you.
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Episode Transcript
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What if unlocking your next
level of leadership and
faith didn't require more,
but rather alignment with
who you are at your best?
Today's guest, Mindy McManus,
is a powerhouse executive
coach and organizational
development expert who
spent over a decade at the Mayo Clinic,
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where she coached senior
physicians and executives,
led culture-shaping initiatives,
and developed programs that
redefined onboarding, remote leadership,
and emotional intelligence.
Now the founder of Mindy's
Executive Coaching and
Director of Growth at C-Suite for Christ,
Mindy helps high performers
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show up as the best version
of their themselves courageously,
faithfully and unapologetically.
Let's dive in.
Mindy, welcome to the show.
Thank you for having me.
I appreciate it.
Absolutely.
Quite a background.
You know,
you were such a powerhouse at the
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Mayo Clinic.
I watched you speak.
You delivered an exceptional
keynote just a few weeks ago.
And I was so blown away by your testimony.
It's really one of those
earth shattering moments.
uh stories that we all need
to hear which is why you're
here today and talking with
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us on this podcast so that
my audience can hear more
about this but let's talk a
little bit about mindy
because everybody's going
to be curious to know how
you went from this journey
From like superstar at the Mayo Clinic,
executive leadership to now
you have your own business.
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You're really diving into
faith more than ever.
I would love to hear a
little bit about this journey,
if you wouldn't mind.
Sure.
Well,
my journey started back in September
of twenty seventeen.
That was my first cruise
that I've ever been on.
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And I was going on it with my ex-husband.
And quickly,
when we first got on that cruise,
we'd been married for about
fifteen years.
His mental illness had gotten really bad.
And it was just as soon as
we got on that cruise,
I was just already thinking.
This marriage is over,
like this marriage just
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needs to be over because it
was just that his bipolar
just got out of control.
But we were on a cruise and
we needed to be there.
And while we were on that cruise, a bunch,
three hurricanes spun up
within the Atlantic Ocean.
And so the cruise was like, well,
we can either keep cruising or,
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and actually they said,
we have to go back to Miami
because they have to let
people off because people
needed to be able to
evacuate and board up their
homes and stuff like that.
And they gave us an option to either
get off the boat or to stay
on the boat and we can stay
there and they'd still feed
us we could still be on the
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boat and we knew that we
had no gas in our car so we
had to stay because you
have to think about like
all of the um all of the
cars were coming out of the
out of the keys so there
was no gas they were trying
to bring gas down there so
there's no gas so we
decided to stay well that
night after we had lost left the dock
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My stomach was in so much pain.
I was doubled over.
I was dry heaving for about eight hours.
And finally, in the middle of the night,
called the hospital that's on deck.
Well, with that hospital on deck,
they thought it was either
my appendix or my kidneys.
And now let me just tell you,
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this was Thursday night.
We didn't land somewhere
until Saturday morning.
And when you give me pain medicine,
it keeps me awake.
So I was awake and in pain for forty,
forty eight hours.
But the minute we got to the Cosmo, Mexico,
the ambulance got me.
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It had me to the hospital
within twenty minutes.
And you have to give your
credit card when you're in
a country that's not the United States.
You have to give them a credit card.
There needs to be two
thousand dollars on it.
So they went and did a CAT scan,
and they came back and they said,
we're prepping the OR.
We have to do surgery on you.
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And I was like, wait a minute.
I work at Mayo Clinic
because if you were in a
hospital overseas,
they will life flight you back.
And I said, they'll life flight me back.
And he's like, no, honey,
you're going to be dead in an hour.
We have to get you into the emergency,
into the surgery room now,
because you have been leaking your,
you are,
you've been leaking from your
appendix for weeks because
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that appendix is supposed to be this big.
It was like the size of a
pickle and it was perforated.
So I was septic by the time
I got to that hospital.
And when they came in and they said that,
like, you're going to die in an hour.
We're prepping the OR for you.
It was like my whole life
flashed before my eyes.
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And it was just like this.
God came down and wrapped
his arms around me and I
just felt this perfect peace.
And I was like, OK.
I had not only met the goals of my life.
but I haven't had exceeded them.
And I was ready.
I was like, okay, God, take me to heaven.
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Cause let me tell you,
my marriage wasn't any good.
I live with chronic pain every day.
So going to heaven was like,
it was amazing.
I was like, great.
I can get, I can go to heaven.
And so I was like, okay, I'm good.
Well, the good news is,
is God did bring me to
heaven and he brought me up
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there and I got to,
and I got to see God and I
got to walk with Jesus.
And they showed me all
around and I got to see
people dancing and having
fun and just enjoying themselves.
Just people laughing and dancing.
And I walked with Jesus on
the beach like I could see
our footprints in the sand on the beach,
like even in heaven.
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And then it was time for me to come back.
That was the most awful
thing that I have
experienced is having to
leave heaven and come back
here to this body.
My ex-husband.
I was angry at God for two years.
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Angry at him.
Then every night I cried and
asked him to bring me back to heaven.
Because when you experience heaven,
everything else is hell.
I had to come back to hell.
I had to come back to this body.
I had to come back to my husband.
I had to come back to hell.
And then work wasn't good.
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And it's always been like, you know,
you have like your family's
not good or your work's not good,
but never at the same time.
But God brought me through all of it.
But never be angry at God
because when you're angry at God,
he can't bless you.
And so finally,
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I was able to leave my
husband and really get deep into God.
And I am ashamed to say it
took me about two to three
years to do that.
But God talks to me and he
tells me that he wants me
to speak his word all over the world.
And so I've been very clear
and very clear about
speaking his word all around the world.
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He wanted me to leave Mayo
Clinic for over a year.
And I was like, no, I love it.
This is my safety net.
And God's like, I'm your safety net.
It was in that moment that I
realized that I put Mayo as my safety net,
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as my idol.
Mayo was my idol.
I was giving them sixty plus hours a week.
It had become my idol and
become my identity.
And it has been very clear to me.
Five years ago in twenty twenty,
when God's like,
I want you to speak my word
all around the world, I was like, well,
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I guess I guess I better
start reading the Bible.
That was the best thing I
ever could have done.
You don't know God.
You don't grow in
relationship with God
unless you read the Bible.
We can go to we can go to Bible studies.
We can go to church.
That's your fellowshipping
with other people,
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but you're not fellowshipping with God.
Hmm.
You only fellowship with God
when you're with him alone.
Yes,
he's there when you're around other
people.
But in order for you to grow
closer with God and build
that relationship, it takes that time.
It takes that alone time with God.
Wow.
So I, you know,
I eventually left Mayo Clinic.
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And a week later, you know,
I thought I would I thought
I had it all planned.
You know, you know, when you have a plan,
that's when that's when God's like, oh,
yeah.
Yep.
I've been there a couple of times.
And my husband had a job.
My husband had healthcare.
A week after me putting in
my two weeks notice,
actually it was a longer than that.
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My husband lost his job with AT&T.
And so because of the
writer's strike that was
happening with Paramount Global.
And then the very next day
we find out that he has
stage three esophageal cancer.
So I'm like, okay, God,
we're going on another roller coaster.
In the past two years,
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we have spent that time.
I have spent that time.
God gave me kingdom wealth.
I may not have had financial wealth,
but he gave me kingdom wealth.
The time that I needed to
take care of my husband.
The time that I needed to
take care of my mother
because my mother is not also well.
The time that I needed to
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dig and spend with God.
I spent fourteen to sixteen
hours a day with God.
Because he not only, so he's like, oh,
leave Mayo.
Your business is doing good.
Oh, no,
I leave Mayo and he shuts off my
business.
Brings me one new client a month.
Just enough to get by.
Just enough to get by.
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But that time was not about
me trusting God.
It was about God trusting us.
Trusting us with where he
has us and where he wants us to go.
Because he's been very clear.
I want you to be speaking my
word all over the world.
And that has been my clarity.
And that's why I was okay
with leaving Mayo.
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That's why I'm okay with
being out on my own because
I know God's got me.
So much to unpack there.
You know, wow.
Our audience,
they're primarily entrepreneurs,
high achieving people, leaders.
And it's really easy.
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to align ourselves with money, success,
vanity, expansion of our own thing,
our own business, our own will,
our careers,
and to put that on a pedestal,
as you said, Idol.
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And it's not easy to be
reflective and have that
honest conversation
And say, who am I actually worshiping?
And it's something we all need to do.
We need to audit ourselves.
And, you know,
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going back to what you said
about really having a
relationship with God and
being in his word, reading the Bible.
I told you this when I met
you a few weeks ago that.
I had, you know,
studied the Bible my whole life,
read the scripture here and there.
Right.
But it wasn't until just a few months ago,
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I decided, no, no, no,
I'm going to read this front to back.
Right.
Because I wanted to be,
I wanted to actually become
a habit and immerse myself in the word.
Yeah.
Changing my life as we speak and,
And I'm only, if you look at it,
it looks kind of pitiful
because the Bible is so big, right?
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It looks like I've only done
a little bit of work.
But I'm so proud of the
little bit of work that I've done.
And you don't have to do a leap, a bound,
a marathon.
You do a couple pages a day.
And you just let it become a habit.
Now I'm actually addicted to it.
I can't go to bed without
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reading the Bible.
And I sleep better.
You know what I started doing?
Yes.
I read to the Bible while I'm sleeping.
I have the Bible app on.
I have it playing while I'm sleeping.
And this is how amazing God is.
Sometimes if I go to bed
with something on my mind,
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I'll wake up to the part of
the Bible that God wants me
to read and hear.
And it's a message from him
about what I need for that
day or for that problem.
I mean, it's just,
I just, it's so amazing.
And it helps me to get God
in my head first,
because when I wake up in the morning,
it's on.
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So I like to just sit there
and lay there and listen to
the Bible and listen to
God's word so that I'm
getting God in my head
before I get in my head.
Because my flesh still likes to rebel.
I am still working on my
flesh and trying to really be intentional
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and have that self-control.
You know how I've been
starting the self-control
as I started fasting,
which the Bible tells us to do.
You're going to have to help me with that,
Mindy, because I love to eat.
And let me tell you, I love to eat too.
But when you choose not to
eat when you're hungry,
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you are growing your self-discipline.
Yep.
Because if I can control
what goes into my mouth,
I can control everything else in my
That's why the Bible has us fasting.
So as leaders, we need to fast.
We need to get into a
fasting state where we can have clarity.
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It's almost like when we're eating food,
everything gets fogged up
and in a log jam because
our body's too busy trying
to digest food.
But when your body's not digesting food,
it gets to go and clean up
the rest of our body.
And it cleans up the fog in my brain.
And it's just been so
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powerful learning how to fast.
Now,
I haven't done a full twenty four
hours yet,
but I can go I've gone about
sixteen hours so far.
Yeah,
and something you can continually
work up to.
Right.
And, you know,
there's the physical fast
that we need to do.
There's, you know,
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a lot of detoxing that I
think we get inundated with
so much information.
And I recently did kind of
like a spiritual fast, a spiritual detox,
if you will.
I removed all the social
media apps on my phone
because I realized that was
the first thing I was
worshiping in the morning.
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Not good.
So I removed all the social
media apps from my phone.
That's been four months now.
And for a solid month, for thirty days,
I didn't do anything except
for read the Bible,
I took some spiritual
courses and learned that
and went really deep.
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And I came out feeling like
a completely different
person because I think just
like you're saying,
when we eat and digest, our body is busy.
I think we're so busy mentally,
way more than we even
realize because of just the
constant inundation of
information that we get.
So it's good to go on these
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detoxes to really
understand where your center is.
Because if we lose alignment,
which is so super easy,
we start to lose alignment with our God,
don't we?
Yeah, we do.
Yeah.
And I'll tell you, it's so easy.
And you bring up the doom scrolling.
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And I was like,
there's something about this.
Why does my brain like this?
So I've made it into
actually blessing
scrollings or faith scrolling.
So I go in there and I look
up all the people that are
out there that are doing videos.
And I get to see them.
interact with people about
God of people coming at you like,
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you know,
who are you to come in here and
talk about God?
And why was God so wrathful
in the beginning of the Bible?
But if you read the Bible,
you'll see that God didn't
want to be wrathful,
that he gave them every
single chance that they had
and tried to get them to
turn their evil way.
But they were killing babies.
They were killing their daughters.
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They were killing their sons.
They were sacrificing them
to bail or ball or whatever.
Mm hmm.
And so God tried to save
them before he brought the wrath.
And it was, and I was, when I was going,
I don't know if you've got
to that in the Bible,
but I just could feel God's
heart and how much he
didn't want to have to do the wrath.
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And he wanted them to come back to them.
He wanted them to repent,
but they still chose not to.
I'm in judges now.
I'm, you know, so it's,
it's still at that part.
Yeah.
Cause I'm still in old Testament.
Um, and you know, a part of me,
I really was not wanting to
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look at the old Testament.
Right.
And I like to,
my comfort zone is I like to
start at Daniel cause it feels so good.
And I like to hear the
prophecies and that's
interesting and think about all that.
Right.
But that's why I knew I had
to start right from the
beginning because same as you're saying,
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I needed to hear and read it,
the why behind these things.
Yeah.
And if we can look at that
in our own lives, again, you know,
I think a lot about Lot's wife too.
And, you know, she turned back.
But she had something so
much greater ahead of her.
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And I think about that
because if we get too
comfortable thinking that
we're in the paradise right here,
I'm telling y'all, we're not.
Don't look back.
What's ahead of us is so
much greater than what we
could even possibly imagine.
And the cool thing is,
is that you've actually experienced that.
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A lot of near-death survivors...
have come back and said
exactly the things you're
saying right now.
They say that when I had that experience,
it felt like a lot of
people say they refer to it
as a golden blanket that's warm.
And then they refer to, you know,
seeing heaven and walking
in with God and
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experiencing God's presence
and in his presence and
And referring it as ultimate peace.
Something that you can't refer,
even think about here,
an ultimate unconditional
love where it envelops you
and goes into your very being.
Yep.
Because in heaven,
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you're the missing piece.
You're the missing piece.
I love that.
I was the missing piece.
So I came in and I connected in.
So if you think about like
God was the missing piece
in me and then you feel whole and
But in heaven, we're the missing piece.
So we're the one that helps
to complete heaven,
which is an even more
perfect peace experience.
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It's just you cannot.
There are no words.
There's no way to describe
it other than perfect peace.
Wow.
And I can't wait to get back there.
But God has a lot for me to do.
And he knows that he's filled me with bold,
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unapologetic faith.
And he never gave me fear.
Let me tell you,
that was my problem growing up.
I didn't have enough fear.
And so I rebelled against God.
I didn't fear him enough.
But now working with him and
him working through me has
been the most amazing thing.
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And being able to get up in
front of people and share
how much God loves them.
and how much god wants
everyone in heaven and what
keeps me up at night what
worries me which I give
that up to god is that
we're all going to be
raptured and there's still
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going to be way too many
people left on this earth
that have to go through
tribulation and right there
what you said about us
being the missing puzzle piece
You know, it's so true.
In my first book, I talk about purpose.
And I liken each of us to a cell in a body,
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right?
So we're all part of,
we're individual cells in a larger body.
And if we're trying to do
the work of another cell,
we're going to feel ill-equipped.
We're going to feel like failures.
We're going to feel misaligned.
But when we're aligned with
God's purpose for us,
we feel like that puzzle piece, don't we?
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We feel like we're a part of
the betterment of the entire body,
the organism,
like everything is working
in function in perfect unity.
Yeah.
And I love what you said
about that because that is
so full circle for me.
I wrote that book two years
ago now and I just met you
a few weeks ago.
And as soon as you said puzzle piece,
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it really resonated with me
because I think.
the same thing,
that if any of us is left
out of that equation,
it's not going to be fully functional,
that we belong there and
God wants us there and he
wants us to surrender to
him and know that we're so,
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so profoundly loved,
more than any of us can
even contemplate or imagine, right?
Yeah, you can't imagine it.
It's beyond understanding.
And that's what God is.
He's beyond understanding.
That's why we're not called to understand.
We are called to obey.
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Yeah.
Wow.
It's amazing.
Truly amazing.
And there's a lot of people
listening to this right now.
Maybe they're afraid.
Maybe they... And I have
people reach out to me all
the time on LinkedIn and...
Social media.
And they're afraid.
They're afraid to start a business.
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They're afraid to write a book.
They're afraid to share their story.
They're afraid to even post
about their faith.
I had a gentleman,
maybe it was last Christmas now,
reach out to me.
And he had this long post
that he wanted to write.
And it was about God.
And he didn't post it.
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And I asked him why.
He said he felt ashamed to do so.
That's the enemy.
That's the enemy.
That's the enemy.
I truly believe like Looney
Tunes had it right.
We've got a devil sitting on
one side and an angel on the other.
The devil yells, God whispers.
So if it feels like it's rushed,
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if it feels like it's urgent,
that's when we need to
quiet and get with God
because the devil rushes.
God gives us peace.
So it's about finding the
peace and learning how to
overcome that and
understanding where that
fear is coming from.
It's coming from the enemy.
And I always say fear is
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false evidence appearing real.
So if you're fearful,
what false evidence is
tricking you into fear?
Absolutely.
What is causing you to go into fear?
Because fear not.
I don't have the stats,
but it is in the Bible so many times.
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You're not supposed to fear.
And if we're fearing,
that's when we should go, okay,
where's this coming from?
Why am I fearing this?
And go, okay, God,
where is this coming from?
I'm going to give this to you.
And the sooner we can do that,
the more of that perfect
peace life that God wants us to have,
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that we can have.
But what we do?
We like to pray to God and say,
can you forgive us and everything else?
And then what do we do?
We take back the shame and
we hold on to it.
We don't let it go.
Because when God forgives you,
you just have to ask for forgiveness.
And it's already forgiven.
He doesn't hear it anymore.
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So why do we keep bringing it up?
And that's one thing.
It's like if God's forgiven you,
you don't have to feel shame anymore.
He's taken away that shame.
So don't let the enemy try
to make you feel shameful
because that's what the
enemy wants to do.
He wants us to feel shameful.
He wants us to second guess ourselves.
He wants us.
You know what he told me
when I left Mayo Clinic?
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He's like,
who the hell are you to leave
Mayo Clinic and go out on your own?
Who do you think you are?
And I was like,
I'm the child of the most high God,
mother trucker.
You can go.
Yeah.
You know,
and so sometimes we just we have
to claim it.
Claim that you're the child
of the most high God.
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Claim it.
Because if we don't claim it,
God can't claim it for us.
We can only claim it.
God can't make us trust him.
We can only trust him.
God can't make us love him.
We have to love on our own.
That's why we have free will.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
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It's so powerful and so
timely because there's so
much fear out there.
There's so much scarcity.
Again, I hear this a lot because, you know,
I own a branding and marketing agency and
Clients are always coming to me saying,
I want to do this,
but I can't do this or this
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reason or that reason.
And it's this fear, it's the scarcities,
these lies, right?
And going back to what you said,
this is a part in my
upcoming book that I've written.
If you want to silence the
voice of the enemy,
the best thing that you can
do is to pause and not react.
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Because if you he wants to be obeyed,
he doesn't want to be observed.
Once you understand whose voice it is,
because it's not your own.
And I talk about this a lot with self,
quote unquote, self-doubt.
Come on.
Come on.
It's not self-doubt.
That's the enemy planting a
seed that continuously grows.
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it's the voice of the enemy
and once you pause and
observe instead of react
and spiral he loses power
and then then you start to
realize oh wait a second he
only has a perception of
power because I grant him
through my free will the
ability to control me so if you pause
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and let him not, you know,
cause you to react,
you'll realize you're going
to be so much more aligned
with your creator.
Yeah.
And you're not going to spiral anymore.
You're not going to have
these self-doubts anymore.
You're not going to let fear
control you or scarcity
take over your life because
you're the child of God, right?
Absolutely.
And it's so funny because I
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just finished my first book.
My first draft is done.
What?
So I'm working for a publisher.
Yay.
Good for you.
I'm still working on mine.
Yeah,
I was just going back through it was
my first one.
But you know,
when it's meant to be God
gives you God zoomies.
I have three French bulldogs.
And so we have zoomies around the house.
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But it was like God gave me God zoomies.
I wrote my book in two weeks.
Yeah,
I had been writing it in my head for
the past five years.
I wrote it in two weeks.
But it goes along with that same thing.
It's that it's my story of
how God has helped me to be
a good leader.
And so then I can help other people.
You know,
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one of the things that kind of
came up for me the past
couple of weeks that
shocked me because I
realized as an executive coach,
as a coach, I'm someone that I'm,
I might be someone's idol.
Someone could be turning me
into their idol because
they're coming to me before
they go to God,
which is why I am now a Christian coach.
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I am the executive coach.
That's going to bring you closer to God.
and help you learn how to
bring God into your workplace.
Because if I'm not bringing
you closer to God, then I am an idol.
I could be somebody's idol.
And I want to be very careful about that.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
We can turn to other people
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for advice and suggestion
and for help and mentorship and coaching.
But be careful because
to not turn people into your idol.
Because at the end of the day,
there is only one who
created us and who knows us
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since before we were even born.
And I love that in Psalms,
how King David so
eloquently wrote that he
knew him before he was even
formed substance.
So this is the oldest
relationship any of us have.
He knows us better than anybody.
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So God uses people and
brings people into our life
to bring us in closer proximity to him.
But it's not to make that
person into a false idol, right?
Because...
That person,
a person can only take us so far.
God will always take us to
the finish line and beyond, right?
Yeah.
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I love that.
Mindy, so much wisdom here.
You know, it's, I,
what I really learned and
took away from this
conversation is our lives are finite.
What we have here on this earth is
And that's okay.
It's nothing to fear.
It's nothing to be afraid of.
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In fact,
it's empowering because what we have,
if we align with God,
on the other side is so much greater.
It's so much greater than
any paycheck or title or
accolade or vanity metrics we could have.
when we align our faith and
bring God into our business,
and this is why I'm really,
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really passionate and talk
to people all the time
about who is your business partner.
God is.
God is.
He's got to be, got to be your, your,
the one.
If God is not in your business and life,
you're not going to ever
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feel the level of
fulfillment that you could.
You're never going to fully
align with your purpose.
You're never going to fully
serve the reason you were
created on this planet.
The best thing that we can
all do is to probably
listen to this episode one
more time and do an audit
like I was telling
everybody about a little while ago.
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Do that honest audit and
realize who are we serving?
Whose voice are we really listening to?
And what changes can I make today?
Because tomorrow doesn't exist.
It's all about the now that
can bring me in closer
proximity and alignment.
That's what it's all about.
Any final last words of wisdom?
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You know,
my last word of wisdom is just to
remember that Jesus loves
you and to remember the great commission.
We are not called to,
we are called to share.
We don't have to convince.
We don't have to coerce.
We are called to share the
good news and then put them
in God's hands.
That's it.
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So how many people can you
share the good news with today?
How can you be bold today
and talk about Jesus?
How can you,
when something good happens to you,
just start saying, praise Jesus?
Those would be the things
that we can start doing to
start bringing God into our
daily life and recognizing
that all the little
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miracles that are happening around us.
That's right.
It's not self-made.
There's no such thing.
Right?
Right.
If it's self-made, it's self-destruct too.
Absolutely.
Needs to be God made.
That's right.
Mindy, where can everybody find you online,
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my friend,
so they can learn more about your work?
And how can you speak?
Because you're commissioned
to speak God's word around the world.
So where can they find you
online and hire you?
I know.
So my website is Mindy at
MindyCoaching.com.
And you can also find me on
LinkedIn under Mindy McManus.
And then I also have a new
YouTube channel called
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Motivational Moments with Mindy,
where you can see short
little less than one minute
tidbits of motivation that
I'm giving out on the beach
every morning.
So I hope you guys can tune
in and let me know what you think.
Oh, that's awesome.
Well, so cool.
Mindy,
what a privilege and honor for you
being a guest on the show today.
And thank you so much for
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We will catch you on the next episode.
Take care.
What if unlocking your next
level of leadership and
faith didn't require more,
but rather alignment with
who you are at your best?
Today's guest, Mindy McManus,
is a powerhouse executive
coach and organizational
development expert who
spent over a decade at the Mayo Clinic,
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where she coached senior
physicians and executives,
led culture-shaping initiatives,
and developed programs that
redefined onboarding, remote leadership,
and emotional intelligence.
Now the founder of Mindy's
Executive Coaching and
Director of Growth at C-Suite for Christ,
Mindy helps high performers
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show up as the best version
of their themselves courageously,
faithfully and unapologetically.
Let's dive in.
Mindy, welcome to the show.
Thank you for having me.
I appreciate it.
Absolutely.
Quite a background.
You know,
you were such a powerhouse at the
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Mayo Clinic.
I watched you speak.
You delivered an exceptional
keynote just a few weeks ago.
And I was so blown away by your testimony.
It's really one of those
earth shattering moments.
uh stories that we all need
to hear which is why you're
here today and talking with
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us on this podcast so that
my audience can hear more
about this but let's talk a
little bit about mindy
because everybody's going
to be curious to know how
you went from this journey
From like superstar at the Mayo Clinic,
executive leadership to now
you have your own business.
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You're really diving into
faith more than ever.
I would love to hear a
little bit about this journey,
if you wouldn't mind.
Sure.
Well,
my journey started back in September
of twenty seventeen.
That was my first cruise
that I've ever been on.
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And I was going on it with my ex-husband.
And quickly,
when we first got on that cruise,
we'd been married for about
fifteen years.
His mental illness had gotten really bad.
And it was just as soon as
we got on that cruise,
I was just already thinking.
This marriage is over,
like this marriage just
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needs to be over because it
was just that his bipolar
just got out of control.
But we were on a cruise and
we needed to be there.
And while we were on that cruise, a bunch,
three hurricanes spun up
within the Atlantic Ocean.
And so the cruise was like, well,
we can either keep cruising or,
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and actually they said,
we have to go back to Miami
because they have to let
people off because people
needed to be able to
evacuate and board up their
homes and stuff like that.
And they gave us an option to either
get off the boat or to stay
on the boat and we can stay
there and they'd still feed
us we could still be on the
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boat and we knew that we
had no gas in our car so we
had to stay because you
have to think about like
all of the um all of the
cars were coming out of the
out of the keys so there
was no gas they were trying
to bring gas down there so
there's no gas so we
decided to stay well that
night after we had lost left the dock
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My stomach was in so much pain.
I was doubled over.
I was dry heaving for about eight hours.
And finally, in the middle of the night,
called the hospital that's on deck.
Well, with that hospital on deck,
they thought it was either
my appendix or my kidneys.
And now let me just tell you,
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this was Thursday night.
We didn't land somewhere
until Saturday morning.
And when you give me pain medicine,
it keeps me awake.
So I was awake and in pain for forty,
forty eight hours.
But the minute we got to the Cosmo, Mexico,
the ambulance got me.
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It had me to the hospital
within twenty minutes.
And you have to give your
credit card when you're in
a country that's not the United States.
You have to give them a credit card.
There needs to be two
thousand dollars on it.
So they went and did a CAT scan,
and they came back and they said,
we're prepping the OR.
We have to do surgery on you.
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And I was like, wait a minute.
I work at Mayo Clinic
because if you were in a
hospital overseas,
they will life flight you back.
And I said, they'll life flight me back.
And he's like, no, honey,
you're going to be dead in an hour.
We have to get you into the emergency,
into the surgery room now,
because you have been leaking your,
you are,
you've been leaking from your
appendix for weeks because
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that appendix is supposed to be this big.
It was like the size of a
pickle and it was perforated.
So I was septic by the time
I got to that hospital.
And when they came in and they said that,
like, you're going to die in an hour.
We're prepping the OR for you.
It was like my whole life
flashed before my eyes.
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And it was just like this.
God came down and wrapped
his arms around me and I
just felt this perfect peace.
And I was like, OK.
I had not only met the goals of my life.
but I haven't had exceeded them.
And I was ready.
I was like, okay, God, take me to heaven.
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Cause let me tell you,
my marriage wasn't any good.
I live with chronic pain every day.
So going to heaven was like,
it was amazing.
I was like, great.
I can get, I can go to heaven.
And so I was like, okay, I'm good.
Well, the good news is,
is God did bring me to
heaven and he brought me up
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there and I got to,
and I got to see God and I
got to walk with Jesus.
And they showed me all
around and I got to see
people dancing and having
fun and just enjoying themselves.
Just people laughing and dancing.
And I walked with Jesus on
the beach like I could see
our footprints in the sand on the beach,
like even in heaven.
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And then it was time for me to come back.
That was the most awful
thing that I have
experienced is having to
leave heaven and come back
here to this body.
My ex-husband.
I was angry at God for two years.
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Angry at him.
Then every night I cried and
asked him to bring me back to heaven.
Because when you experience heaven,
everything else is hell.
I had to come back to hell.
I had to come back to this body.
I had to come back to my husband.
I had to come back to hell.
And then work wasn't good.
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And it's always been like, you know,
you have like your family's
not good or your work's not good,
but never at the same time.
But God brought me through all of it.
But never be angry at God
because when you're angry at God,
he can't bless you.
And so finally,
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I was able to leave my
husband and really get deep into God.
And I am ashamed to say it
took me about two to three
years to do that.
But God talks to me and he
tells me that he wants me
to speak his word all over the world.
And so I've been very clear
and very clear about
speaking his word all around the world.
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He wanted me to leave Mayo
Clinic for over a year.
And I was like, no, I love it.
This is my safety net.
And God's like, I'm your safety net.
It was in that moment that I
realized that I put Mayo as my safety net,
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as my idol.
Mayo was my idol.
I was giving them sixty plus hours a week.
It had become my idol and
become my identity.
And it has been very clear to me.
Five years ago in twenty twenty,
when God's like,
I want you to speak my word
all around the world, I was like, well,
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I guess I guess I better
start reading the Bible.
That was the best thing I
ever could have done.
You don't know God.
You don't grow in
relationship with God
unless you read the Bible.
We can go to we can go to Bible studies.
We can go to church.
That's your fellowshipping
with other people,
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but you're not fellowshipping with God.
Hmm.
You only fellowship with God
when you're with him alone.
Yes,
he's there when you're around other
people.
But in order for you to grow
closer with God and build
that relationship, it takes that time.
It takes that alone time with God.
Wow.
So I, you know,
I eventually left Mayo Clinic.
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And a week later, you know,
I thought I would I thought
I had it all planned.
You know, you know, when you have a plan,
that's when that's when God's like, oh,
yeah.
Yep.
I've been there a couple of times.
And my husband had a job.
My husband had healthcare.
A week after me putting in
my two weeks notice,
actually it was a longer than that.
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My husband lost his job with AT&T.
And so because of the
writer's strike that was
happening with Paramount Global.
And then the very next day
we find out that he has
stage three esophageal cancer.
So I'm like, okay, God,
we're going on another roller coaster.
In the past two years,
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we have spent that time.
I have spent that time.
God gave me kingdom wealth.
I may not have had financial wealth,
but he gave me kingdom wealth.
The time that I needed to
take care of my husband.
The time that I needed to
take care of my mother
because my mother is not also well.
The time that I needed to
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dig and spend with God.
I spent fourteen to sixteen
hours a day with God.
Because he not only, so he's like, oh,
leave Mayo.
Your business is doing good.
Oh, no,
I leave Mayo and he shuts off my
business.
Brings me one new client a month.
Just enough to get by.
Just enough to get by.
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But that time was not about
me trusting God.
It was about God trusting us.
Trusting us with where he
has us and where he wants us to go.
Because he's been very clear.
I want you to be speaking my
word all over the world.
And that has been my clarity.
And that's why I was okay
with leaving Mayo.
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That's why I'm okay with
being out on my own because
I know God's got me.
So much to unpack there.
You know, wow.
Our audience,
they're primarily entrepreneurs,
high achieving people, leaders.
And it's really easy.
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to align ourselves with money, success,
vanity, expansion of our own thing,
our own business, our own will,
our careers,
and to put that on a pedestal,
as you said, Idol.
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And it's not easy to be
reflective and have that
honest conversation
And say, who am I actually worshiping?
And it's something we all need to do.
We need to audit ourselves.
And, you know,
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going back to what you said
about really having a
relationship with God and
being in his word, reading the Bible.
I told you this when I met
you a few weeks ago that.
I had, you know,
studied the Bible my whole life,
read the scripture here and there.
Right.
But it wasn't until just a few months ago,
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I decided, no, no, no,
I'm going to read this front to back.
Right.
Because I wanted to be,
I wanted to actually become
a habit and immerse myself in the word.
Yeah.
Changing my life as we speak and,
And I'm only, if you look at it,
it looks kind of pitiful
because the Bible is so big, right?
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It looks like I've only done
a little bit of work.
But I'm so proud of the
little bit of work that I've done.
And you don't have to do a leap, a bound,
a marathon.
You do a couple pages a day.
And you just let it become a habit.
Now I'm actually addicted to it.
I can't go to bed without
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reading the Bible.
And I sleep better.
You know what I started doing?
Yes.
I read to the Bible while I'm sleeping.
I have the Bible app on.
I have it playing while I'm sleeping.
And this is how amazing God is.
Sometimes if I go to bed
with something on my mind,
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I'll wake up to the part of
the Bible that God wants me
to read and hear.
And it's a message from him
about what I need for that
day or for that problem.
I mean, it's just,
I just, it's so amazing.
And it helps me to get God
in my head first,
because when I wake up in the morning,
it's on.
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So I like to just sit there
and lay there and listen to
the Bible and listen to
God's word so that I'm
getting God in my head
before I get in my head.
Because my flesh still likes to rebel.
I am still working on my
flesh and trying to really be intentional
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and have that self-control.
You know how I've been
starting the self-control
as I started fasting,
which the Bible tells us to do.
You're going to have to help me with that,
Mindy, because I love to eat.
And let me tell you, I love to eat too.
But when you choose not to
eat when you're hungry,
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you are growing your self-discipline.
Yep.
Because if I can control
what goes into my mouth,
I can control everything else in my
That's why the Bible has us fasting.
So as leaders, we need to fast.
We need to get into a
fasting state where we can have clarity.
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It's almost like when we're eating food,
everything gets fogged up
and in a log jam because
our body's too busy trying
to digest food.
But when your body's not digesting food,
it gets to go and clean up
the rest of our body.
And it cleans up the fog in my brain.
And it's just been so
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powerful learning how to fast.
Now,
I haven't done a full twenty four
hours yet,
but I can go I've gone about
sixteen hours so far.
Yeah,
and something you can continually
work up to.
Right.
And, you know,
there's the physical fast
that we need to do.
There's, you know,
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a lot of detoxing that I
think we get inundated with
so much information.
And I recently did kind of
like a spiritual fast, a spiritual detox,
if you will.
I removed all the social
media apps on my phone
because I realized that was
the first thing I was
worshiping in the morning.
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Not good.
So I removed all the social
media apps from my phone.
That's been four months now.
And for a solid month, for thirty days,
I didn't do anything except
for read the Bible,
I took some spiritual
courses and learned that
and went really deep.
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And I came out feeling like
a completely different
person because I think just
like you're saying,
when we eat and digest, our body is busy.
I think we're so busy mentally,
way more than we even
realize because of just the
constant inundation of
information that we get.
So it's good to go on these
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detoxes to really
understand where your center is.
Because if we lose alignment,
which is so super easy,
we start to lose alignment with our God,
don't we?
Yeah, we do.
Yeah.
And I'll tell you, it's so easy.
And you bring up the doom scrolling.
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And I was like,
there's something about this.
Why does my brain like this?
So I've made it into
actually blessing
scrollings or faith scrolling.
So I go in there and I look
up all the people that are
out there that are doing videos.
And I get to see them.
interact with people about
God of people coming at you like,
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you know,
who are you to come in here and
talk about God?
And why was God so wrathful
in the beginning of the Bible?
But if you read the Bible,
you'll see that God didn't
want to be wrathful,
that he gave them every
single chance that they had
and tried to get them to
turn their evil way.
But they were killing babies.
They were killing their daughters.
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They were killing their sons.
They were sacrificing them
to bail or ball or whatever.
Mm hmm.
And so God tried to save
them before he brought the wrath.
And it was, and I was, when I was going,
I don't know if you've got
to that in the Bible,
but I just could feel God's
heart and how much he
didn't want to have to do the wrath.
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And he wanted them to come back to them.
He wanted them to repent,
but they still chose not to.
I'm in judges now.
I'm, you know, so it's,
it's still at that part.
Yeah.
Cause I'm still in old Testament.
Um, and you know, a part of me,
I really was not wanting to
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look at the old Testament.
Right.
And I like to,
my comfort zone is I like to
start at Daniel cause it feels so good.
And I like to hear the
prophecies and that's
interesting and think about all that.
Right.
But that's why I knew I had
to start right from the
beginning because same as you're saying,
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I needed to hear and read it,
the why behind these things.
Yeah.
And if we can look at that
in our own lives, again, you know,
I think a lot about Lot's wife too.
And, you know, she turned back.
But she had something so
much greater ahead of her.
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And I think about that
because if we get too
comfortable thinking that
we're in the paradise right here,
I'm telling y'all, we're not.
Don't look back.
What's ahead of us is so
much greater than what we
could even possibly imagine.
And the cool thing is,
is that you've actually experienced that.
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A lot of near-death survivors...
have come back and said
exactly the things you're
saying right now.
They say that when I had that experience,
it felt like a lot of
people say they refer to it
as a golden blanket that's warm.
And then they refer to, you know,
seeing heaven and walking
in with God and
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experiencing God's presence
and in his presence and
And referring it as ultimate peace.
Something that you can't refer,
even think about here,
an ultimate unconditional
love where it envelops you
and goes into your very being.
Yep.
Because in heaven,
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you're the missing piece.
You're the missing piece.
I love that.
I was the missing piece.
So I came in and I connected in.
So if you think about like
God was the missing piece
in me and then you feel whole and
But in heaven, we're the missing piece.
So we're the one that helps
to complete heaven,
which is an even more
perfect peace experience.
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It's just you cannot.
There are no words.
There's no way to describe
it other than perfect peace.
Wow.
And I can't wait to get back there.
But God has a lot for me to do.
And he knows that he's filled me with bold,
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unapologetic faith.
And he never gave me fear.
Let me tell you,
that was my problem growing up.
I didn't have enough fear.
And so I rebelled against God.
I didn't fear him enough.
But now working with him and
him working through me has
been the most amazing thing.
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And being able to get up in
front of people and share
how much God loves them.
and how much god wants
everyone in heaven and what
keeps me up at night what
worries me which I give
that up to god is that
we're all going to be
raptured and there's still
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going to be way too many
people left on this earth
that have to go through
tribulation and right there
what you said about us
being the missing puzzle piece
You know, it's so true.
In my first book, I talk about purpose.
And I liken each of us to a cell in a body,
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right?
So we're all part of,
we're individual cells in a larger body.
And if we're trying to do
the work of another cell,
we're going to feel ill-equipped.
We're going to feel like failures.
We're going to feel misaligned.
But when we're aligned with
God's purpose for us,
we feel like that puzzle piece, don't we?
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We feel like we're a part of
the betterment of the entire body,
the organism,
like everything is working
in function in perfect unity.
Yeah.
And I love what you said
about that because that is
so full circle for me.
I wrote that book two years
ago now and I just met you
a few weeks ago.
And as soon as you said puzzle piece,
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it really resonated with me
because I think.
the same thing,
that if any of us is left
out of that equation,
it's not going to be fully functional,
that we belong there and
God wants us there and he
wants us to surrender to
him and know that we're so,
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so profoundly loved,
more than any of us can
even contemplate or imagine, right?
Yeah, you can't imagine it.
It's beyond understanding.
And that's what God is.
He's beyond understanding.
That's why we're not called to understand.
We are called to obey.
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Yeah.
Wow.
It's amazing.
Truly amazing.
And there's a lot of people
listening to this right now.
Maybe they're afraid.
Maybe they... And I have
people reach out to me all
the time on LinkedIn and...
Social media.
And they're afraid.
They're afraid to start a business.
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They're afraid to write a book.
They're afraid to share their story.
They're afraid to even post
about their faith.
I had a gentleman,
maybe it was last Christmas now,
reach out to me.
And he had this long post
that he wanted to write.
And it was about God.
And he didn't post it.
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And I asked him why.
He said he felt ashamed to do so.
That's the enemy.
That's the enemy.
That's the enemy.
I truly believe like Looney
Tunes had it right.
We've got a devil sitting on
one side and an angel on the other.
The devil yells, God whispers.
So if it feels like it's rushed,
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if it feels like it's urgent,
that's when we need to
quiet and get with God
because the devil rushes.
God gives us peace.
So it's about finding the
peace and learning how to
overcome that and
understanding where that
fear is coming from.
It's coming from the enemy.
And I always say fear is
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false evidence appearing real.
So if you're fearful,
what false evidence is
tricking you into fear?
Absolutely.
What is causing you to go into fear?
Because fear not.
I don't have the stats,
but it is in the Bible so many times.
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You're not supposed to fear.
And if we're fearing,
that's when we should go, okay,
where's this coming from?
Why am I fearing this?
And go, okay, God,
where is this coming from?
I'm going to give this to you.
And the sooner we can do that,
the more of that perfect
peace life that God wants us to have,
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that we can have.
But what we do?
We like to pray to God and say,
can you forgive us and everything else?
And then what do we do?
We take back the shame and
we hold on to it.
We don't let it go.
Because when God forgives you,
you just have to ask for forgiveness.
And it's already forgiven.
He doesn't hear it anymore.
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So why do we keep bringing it up?
And that's one thing.
It's like if God's forgiven you,
you don't have to feel shame anymore.
He's taken away that shame.
So don't let the enemy try
to make you feel shameful
because that's what the
enemy wants to do.
He wants us to feel shameful.
He wants us to second guess ourselves.
He wants us.
You know what he told me
when I left Mayo Clinic?
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He's like,
who the hell are you to leave
Mayo Clinic and go out on your own?
Who do you think you are?
And I was like,
I'm the child of the most high God,
mother trucker.
You can go.
Yeah.
You know,
and so sometimes we just we have
to claim it.
Claim that you're the child
of the most high God.
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Claim it.
Because if we don't claim it,
God can't claim it for us.
We can only claim it.
God can't make us trust him.
We can only trust him.
God can't make us love him.
We have to love on our own.
That's why we have free will.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
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It's so powerful and so
timely because there's so
much fear out there.
There's so much scarcity.
Again, I hear this a lot because, you know,
I own a branding and marketing agency and
Clients are always coming to me saying,
I want to do this,
but I can't do this or this
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reason or that reason.
And it's this fear, it's the scarcities,
these lies, right?
And going back to what you said,
this is a part in my
upcoming book that I've written.
If you want to silence the
voice of the enemy,
the best thing that you can
do is to pause and not react.
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Because if you he wants to be obeyed,
he doesn't want to be observed.
Once you understand whose voice it is,
because it's not your own.
And I talk about this a lot with self,
quote unquote, self-doubt.
Come on.
Come on.
It's not self-doubt.
That's the enemy planting a
seed that continuously grows.
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it's the voice of the enemy
and once you pause and
observe instead of react
and spiral he loses power
and then then you start to
realize oh wait a second he
only has a perception of
power because I grant him
through my free will the
ability to control me so if you pause
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and let him not, you know,
cause you to react,
you'll realize you're going
to be so much more aligned
with your creator.
Yeah.
And you're not going to spiral anymore.
You're not going to have
these self-doubts anymore.
You're not going to let fear
control you or scarcity
take over your life because
you're the child of God, right?
Absolutely.
And it's so funny because I
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just finished my first book.
My first draft is done.
What?
So I'm working for a publisher.
Yay.
Good for you.
I'm still working on mine.
Yeah,
I was just going back through it was
my first one.
But you know,
when it's meant to be God
gives you God zoomies.
I have three French bulldogs.
And so we have zoomies around the house.
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But it was like God gave me God zoomies.
I wrote my book in two weeks.
Yeah,
I had been writing it in my head for
the past five years.
I wrote it in two weeks.
But it goes along with that same thing.
It's that it's my story of
how God has helped me to be
a good leader.
And so then I can help other people.
You know,
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one of the things that kind of
came up for me the past
couple of weeks that
shocked me because I
realized as an executive coach,
as a coach, I'm someone that I'm,
I might be someone's idol.
Someone could be turning me
into their idol because
they're coming to me before
they go to God,
which is why I am now a Christian coach.
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I am the executive coach.
That's going to bring you closer to God.
and help you learn how to
bring God into your workplace.
Because if I'm not bringing
you closer to God, then I am an idol.
I could be somebody's idol.
And I want to be very careful about that.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
We can turn to other people
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for advice and suggestion
and for help and mentorship and coaching.
But be careful because
to not turn people into your idol.
Because at the end of the day,
there is only one who
created us and who knows us
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since before we were even born.
And I love that in Psalms,
how King David so
eloquently wrote that he
knew him before he was even
formed substance.
So this is the oldest
relationship any of us have.
He knows us better than anybody.
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So God uses people and
brings people into our life
to bring us in closer proximity to him.
But it's not to make that
person into a false idol, right?
Because...
That person,
a person can only take us so far.
God will always take us to
the finish line and beyond, right?
Yeah.
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I love that.
Mindy, so much wisdom here.
You know, it's, I,
what I really learned and
took away from this
conversation is our lives are finite.
What we have here on this earth is
And that's okay.
It's nothing to fear.
It's nothing to be afraid of.
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In fact,
it's empowering because what we have,
if we align with God,
on the other side is so much greater.
It's so much greater than
any paycheck or title or
accolade or vanity metrics we could have.
when we align our faith and
bring God into our business,
and this is why I'm really,
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really passionate and talk
to people all the time
about who is your business partner.
God is.
God is.
He's got to be, got to be your, your,
the one.
If God is not in your business and life,
you're not going to ever
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feel the level of
fulfillment that you could.
You're never going to fully
align with your purpose.
You're never going to fully
serve the reason you were
created on this planet.
The best thing that we can
all do is to probably
listen to this episode one
more time and do an audit
like I was telling
everybody about a little while ago.
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Do that honest audit and
realize who are we serving?
Whose voice are we really listening to?
And what changes can I make today?
Because tomorrow doesn't exist.
It's all about the now that
can bring me in closer
proximity and alignment.
That's what it's all about.
Any final last words of wisdom?
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You know,
my last word of wisdom is just to
remember that Jesus loves
you and to remember the great commission.
We are not called to,
we are called to share.
We don't have to convince.
We don't have to coerce.
We are called to share the
good news and then put them
in God's hands.
That's it.
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So how many people can you
share the good news with today?
How can you be bold today
and talk about Jesus?
How can you,
when something good happens to you,
just start saying, praise Jesus?
Those would be the things
that we can start doing to
start bringing God into our
daily life and recognizing
that all the little
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miracles that are happening around us.
That's right.
It's not self-made.
There's no such thing.
Right?
Right.
If it's self-made, it's self-destruct too.
Absolutely.
Needs to be God made.
That's right.
Mindy, where can everybody find you online,
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my friend,
so they can learn more about your work?
And how can you speak?
Because you're commissioned
to speak God's word around the world.
So where can they find you
online and hire you?
I know.
So my website is Mindy at
MindyCoaching.com.
And you can also find me on
LinkedIn under Mindy McManus.
And then I also have a new
YouTube channel called
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Motivational Moments with Mindy,
where you can see short
little less than one minute
tidbits of motivation that
I'm giving out on the beach
every morning.
So I hope you guys can tune
in and let me know what you think.
Oh, that's awesome.
Well, so cool.
Mindy,
what a privilege and honor for you
being a guest on the show today.
And thank you so much for
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everyone who tuned into
this episode of Grasp Confidence Podcast.
Guys, don't forget to like, share,
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We will catch you on the next episode.
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