November 25, 2024 • 29 mins
Ready to be inspired by an entrepreneurial powerhouse? Lori Templeton joins us to share her incredible journey from selling cedar shavings as a 12-year-old to owning multiple businesses and homeschooling her four children. Lori’s story is a testament to perseverance, innovation, and the power of integrating entrepreneurial education into family life. Discover how she inspires her children to launch new ventures every semester and her unwavering commitment to empowering women of faith.
Ever thought about buying and scaling a business without breaking the bank? This episode sheds light on creative ways to acquire and grow “boring” yet profitable businesses like truck washes and plumbing companies. We discuss how overwhelmed business owners, especially tradespeople who have turned to entrepreneurship, can regain control of their time with expert guidance. Learn how to uncover upstream and downstream opportunities to create value and align your business with your divine purpose.
Finally, we tackle the profound journey of discovering your true purpose and identity, especially for “mompreneurs.” I share my personal story of embracing my calling, inspired by Ephesians 2:10, and introduce the CODE method—calling and purpose, operations and systems, destiny, and execution. This episode offers practical strategies to integrate these principles into both home and business life, ensuring productivity and fulfillment. Join us for an episode filled with inspiration, practical advice, and a celebration of stepping into your true calling with confidence.
More About Lori:
Lori always seemed to be drawn to entrepreneurship, becoming an entrepreneur at the young age of 12 after noticing a demand when she would bag up the tree shavings from her father’s lawn & garden shop and sell them to customers.
Today, she and her husband have acquired 3 different businesses - the “boring kind” & grown them to multiple millions from years of business experience, buying, building, scaling, and selling companies WHILE homeschooling 4 kids!
Lori is now launching her very own company that is very dear to her heart — Momprenista!
Momprenista is a passion business for Lori. It’s all about training, supporting, and mentoring faith-based women to build empires while being fully present for their families and living out their God-given calling.
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Speaker 1 (00:17):
Hey, I'm Lemon.
I am just like you, sisterfriend.
Talk about stepping into thatoverflow that God has for us by
becoming those ultimate Proverbs31 women.
Hey, I'm Lemon.
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I knew God had something morein store for me, but I couldn't
see a way out of the laundrypiles and, frankly, I resented
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That is until I found out howto really step into becoming
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In this podcast you're going tofind financial freedom,
leadership, growth andmotivation so you'll be able to
do all the things God has calledyou to do with ease and really
step into that land of milk andhoney.
Welcome back to the Milk andHoney podcast.
(01:00):
I'm your host, lemon Price, andI'm so excited because I have
Lori Templeton here and I metLori through Kelly Roach.
You guys know she was on theshow not that long ago.
I was obsessed with Lori'sstory.
She has been in theentrepreneur space since she was
12.
That reminds me of my kids,right?
So she noticed this demand whenshe would bag up tree shavings
(01:24):
from her father's lawn gardenshop and then would sell them to
customers.
My kids actually went around afew years ago and they did.
They put sticks and all kindsof things on the neighbor's
houses who had dogs as like adog toy and they like left it as
a sample.
Lori and her husband haveacquired three different
businesses, grown them tomultiple millions from years of
business experience buying,building, scaling and selling
(01:45):
companies, all whilehomeschooling her four kids.
So that means you do not havean excuse, my friends.
If she can do it, thenliterally anybody can do it.
Now Lori has her own company,momprinista, which I am excited
for.
I'm going to let her talk alittle bit about this, but she
is really reclaiming whatwomanhood is in today's world
for women of faith who want tobuild businesses and be the best
(02:07):
mom, wife, entrepreneur andleader they can be.
She has over 20 years ofexperience.
She's a ministry leader, atrauma-impacted nonprofit owner
and a former pageant girl.
Thank you for being here, lori.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Thank you for having me.
I'm excited to be here and chatwith you all today.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
I'm excited.
I just love your story.
So your dad had a lawn like hewas an entrepreneur right then.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yes.
So my dad started a lawn andgarden shop and he used to have
these things they would callchainsaw days or whatever.
We'd have people coming indoing the chainsaw carvings,
where they would turn some biglog into a bear or an eagle when
they would use cedar.
I would go and grab the cedarshavings.
My granny did it.
She would put this cedar inlittle satchets and put it in
(02:52):
her drawers or her hutches andmake things smell better.
Right, that's what you do inthe South.
And so I was like, hey, I'vegot all this free product here.
I bet I could do something withit.
Dad had extra bags from hisparts department that he didn't
use and they were just littleclear bags.
So I didn't have to pay for myproduct and I didn't have to pay
for my packaging.
I didn't have to pay for myadvertising, because clients
(03:15):
were coming to me and justcapitalized on everything.
And you would thinkentrepreneurship would be so
easy for someone that startedout with a mindset like that.
Right, would be so easy forsomeone that started out with a
mindset like that right.
No, it's not.
It has been a roller coasterride.
But yeah, that's where the bugbit me.
For entrepreneurship, I knewsomething was built into me at
that point.
To try and solve these problems, provide someone else with
(03:38):
something of value, I was bittenby the entrepreneur bug and
tried to figure it out from thatpoint forward.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I love that you said that, because when your parents
are doing entrepreneurship itimpacts your kids so much.
There was a series I don't knowif you've seen the Tuttle Twins
series.
We love them, but they have awhole thing on entrepreneurship
and the worksheets my kids werefiguring out their profit
margins and all those kind offun.
Nobody talked to me like thiswhen I was 10 about profit
(04:07):
margins and advertising andrunning a business.
How cool that we get to havethat conversation with our kids
now.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Yeah.
So we actually run anentrepreneurial model homeschool
and so that means that everysemester our kids have to start
a new business.
If something's going reallywell, then they can stay in that
business.
New business If something'sgoing really well, then they can
stay in that business.
My oldest is 12 and we've doneeverything from lemonade stands
to whatever he can find to tryand do a business with.
Right now he's found the worldof affiliate marketing and
(04:34):
selling digital products.
Last year we went into thatworld with him and I was like
dude, you're learning this, thisis you on your own.
I think people look at thingsand go oh, affiliate marketing
doesn't work, that's a scam.
Or Mary Kay doesn't work,that's a scam.
Or selling supplements doesn'twork, that's a scam.
Or trying to start yourconstruction business doesn't
(04:55):
work because it takes too muchmoney.
We nullify everything forourselves when, in actuality,
the only thing that's notworking in your equation is you.
You have to figure that out,and so we talk ourselves out of
something that's stirring in ourhearts.
Anyway.
The truth is, mary Kay works,selling Supplements works,
affiliate Marketing works,running construction companies
works.
It's just figuring out how toactually execute that in your
(05:17):
life, and that's when it works,when you get it together, when
you figure out okay, god isleading me in this direction and
this is where I'm supposed togo.
That's when something works.
He's doing this littleaffiliate marketing business.
He's doing really well with itand he's very proud.
So we've kept that around for afew semesters now and he's
enjoying that.
But it's really fun becausethey get that world Like they
have to make a marketing plan,they have to make a business
(05:40):
plan, they have to understandwhat their finances look like
and all of that.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I love that.
If you guys homeschool, this issuch a simple way to introduce
math.
They can be really creativewith this.
We did the same thing withbaking all the time.
That's how they learnedmeasurement and all those things
.
It doesn't have to look liketextbooks, and I think that's
really beautiful.
That's what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah, so I'm a baking nerd too, but I actually grind
my own flour.
We start with fresh wholegrains, grind and then bake.
My kids are learning all thattoo, learning all the
measurements.
We have baking classes onFridays and it's really fun.
They get all those foundationalthings and your entrepreneurial
homeschool model can coverevery subject.
That's what's so fun.
You get history, math,geography, science, language
(06:23):
arts, like all the things inthat one model you're doing and
you can tailor it to them.
I love tailoring everything.
I have a 12-year-old, a7-year-old, a 4-year-old and a
2-year-old.
Obviously, the 2-year-old isn'trunning a business yet, but you
can tailor everything to themand it's so fun.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Okay, we are meant to be, because we also have a
giant garden and we're doingwinter wheat this year as soon
as, like our crops are done, forwe'll harvest like July,
august-ish time, which has beenreally fun.
My kids are learning abouthomesteading and agriculture all
of those kinds of fun things.
My in-laws have a farm, sothey're always going out and
we're working with horses,they're working with the pigs,
(07:02):
they're doing all those kind ofthings too.
I love that.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
And I love that you said everything works.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
My friend, bobby, always says everything works,
just not all the time, and Ithink it really is about like
being passionate and aligned andgoing all in on the thing
you're doing, and so I love thatyou're starting these
businesses.
Affiliate marketing is cool.
Right now.
My 12-year-old started a storeon Etsy doing dropshipping
because he loved that, so I waslike whatever, that's fine.
(07:31):
You also said you bought boringbusinesses.
Can you talk about boring?
Because I feel like nobodytalks about buying boring
businesses or how you buybusinesses like any of those
kinds of things.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
So I think the biggest thing is a lot of people
think that you always have tostart from scratch and it takes
tons of money to be able to walkout and buy a business, and
that's not the case.
You can get creative fundingand you can make deals.
You can structure deals whereyou don't even have to pay
anything out of pocket to buy abusiness.
That's more how we operate.
We've got lots of years ofexperience under our belt.
(08:09):
A lot of times what we end updoing is we find business owners
who are just completelyoverwhelmed.
This is where my passion is.
We were created for a purposeand so we have to figure out how
we're walking in that purpose.
And a lot of times people willjust start a business because
they're a plumber and they havethat skill and then all of a
sudden you have this husband andwife and way over their heads
and they traded a nine to fivefor 24 seven and they just don't
know what next steps to take.
We are able to walk in thereand help them level things out
(08:30):
and help them put procedures inplace.
We add value to their business.
We may not actually buy intothat business, they may just
give us a level of equity tohelp them scale their business
so they can then operate.
They can exit and so they canexit Exits.
Look like that you just want tobe able to take a vacation for
two weeks and your business runwithout you.
Or that you want to be able togo to Hawaii for a couple of
(08:53):
months and your business runwithout you.
Or that you want to actuallyoperate at a board level all the
time and you are not overseeingthe day-to-day at all.
You're just running thebusiness from a board level, and
that's typically how I operate.
In most of the businesses that Irun right now, I have operators
in place.
I'm in a board level for themost part.
My husband is still in thegrind with one of our businesses
(09:13):
, especially because we'retaking it to an eight-figure
mark and we get to pick andchoose that, which is deciding
the direction that you want togo.
You can design your destiny, aslong as it is cohesive with
your divine design that Godcarved into you.
We can look at a business andsay, no, we don't really want to
buy that business because it'sgoing to take too much of our
(09:34):
time, because we've put in theforethought, to figure that out.
You can take a business, scaleit and then sell that business.
There are people everywherelooking to buy businesses and
people don't realize this.
But then what happens is you'rethat plumber couple and now
you're in your sixties thinkingwhat am I going to do?
I've got grandkids now.
I don't want to be doing thisfor the rest of my life.
It's eaten everything up.
So I'm going to sell mybusiness, but you haven't
(09:56):
actually structured things to beable to put things in place, to
flip that and to actually beable to sell it for a profit in
accordance with the hard workthat you've put in.
People get pennies on the dollarfor what they've actually put
into their business over theyears.
We help them turn that aroundand help families take back
their lives.
You've traded that nine to fivefor 24 seven.
(10:17):
Now, all of a sudden you're upat 4 am in the office trying to
get stuff done.
So if you can make it to yourkids game at five o'clock,
that's what we help people do.
That's our passion.
We want to restore familiesbecause I believe that God
created us to be entrepreneurs.
I think that is biblical.
At the same time, I think we'vebeen taught very wrong in the
(10:37):
world and how to do that.
That's our passion is to beable to help do that.
I took this experience andbrought it to the online space a
few years ago, because mypassion is to help moms see that
they can do this.
Maybe they don't have the righttools to execute what they're
trying to execute.
That's where my passion lies.
I want to help you see yourpurpose.
I want to help you step into itand I want to help you actually
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be able to execute it, and youjust might not have the right
tools to be able to do it, andthe truth is it all works.
It's just figuring out how itworks for you.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
I love that because I didn't even know buying
businesses at this level was athing until I saw people on
TikTok talking about it.
And then I had a friend.
He was like that's my passion,that's what I want to do.
I want to buy businesses andoperate at a board level.
He introduced me to thatwebsite where people are always
selling their businesses, andthen it triggered something in
my husband.
He's been a truck driver foryears after he got out of the
(11:29):
military.
Truck washes are really hard tocome by.
He was talking to a guy.
I'm almost at a point where Ihave to legitimately keep it
open 24 hours because we are sobusy around the clock.
This man was doing $1.5 to $2million a year washing trucks.
So the options are out there.
You have to be open to receivethem.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Yeah, and I think another thing a lot of people
miss is they'll think, okay, I'ma and I'm just using a plumber,
because it's easy for mostpeople to understand, but like,
I'm a plumber and so I need tostart a plumbing business, no,
not necessarily.
What if you walk in and you'resourcing the plumbers with their
policies and procedures, oryou're sourcing the plumbers
(12:10):
with their equipment and theirtools, or you're sourcing like
you can buy upstream ordownstream in a business to feed
into something that you alreadyknow about, and that's another
creative way to actually getinto businesses.
People go I want to start acoffee shop.
Maybe you don't need to start acoffee shop, but maybe you want
to become the sourcer for acertain type of bean that is a
(12:30):
luxury exclusive.
And so now, all of a sudden,you're upping your game even
more, serving people at adifferent level and not having
the overhead of the shop thatyou're trying to make happen.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
And so there's all kinds of different ways to be
able to look at entering how toyour own business.
Okay, this is the most timelyconversation because my best
friend she's getting married inthree weeks.
Florists have been an insaneprocess for her just getting
some bud vases and flowers forher flower girl.
It was almost $5,000 for 20 budvases where she was like this
is crazy, we should do thisourselves.
She lives in New Jersey.
(13:08):
I'm down here in Georgia and westarted looking into it and
because her sister-in-law has 20acres that she's not using, I'm
like let's look into cut flowerfarming and all of these things
.
We start looking into it.
And I hooked her up with theUSDA.
They're willing to put ingeothermal greenhouses for them
without costing anything forthem, and she was like I didn't.
We've been talking about thisfor a month and a half, but
(13:30):
she's I didn't know.
This was an option when thesegrants exist and this exists and
we could do a lot of this forwithout putting any of like our
own real money necessarily intoit.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
By the box.
There's so many opportunitiesthat are present.
And here's the deal is.
All you have to do is you havean idea, google it, see if
somebody's already doing it,contact that person and say, hey
, tell me what you're doing,because people want to tell
their stories.
People naturally want to helpother people.
Find those people who've gonebefore you and I will say that's
(14:01):
one of the success points in mylife, from leading my nonprofit
ministry and growing it toimpacting over a million people.
Find someone who has gone beforeyou, who has been successful or
maybe not successful, butthey've learned lessons and can
share that with you.
That way, you have a directionto go in.
It matters so much.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Yes, I love that you said this, because I know
somebody listening right now isprobably oh my goodness, if
somebody else is doing it, thenI can't do it.
First of all, the market isginormous.
When people are like themarket's oversaturated, I'm like
it's because you're surroundingyourself with only people who
are doing what you're doing,which is why it feels
oversaturated.
If it's possible for them, thenit's possible for you.
(14:42):
I just saw Alex Ramosi saidsomething like the top 1% of
people are just people who keepgoing when they don't see
immediate results.
Don't see immediate resultsBecause he was talking about
podcasting and he was like ifyou want to be a top 1% podcast
globally, all you have to do isproduce 21 episodes.
Most people never get pastepisode 20.
(15:03):
And I knew that, but I was likethat is fascinating advice.
You just have to be willing todo work without seeing immediate
results and being open to doingthings differently and having
conversations with people andbeing much more open.
I'm so glad we ended up on thisfun topic.
This was not what we planned totalk about, y'all, I just got
very excited about it, but Ithink it plays into what we did
(15:23):
want to talk about your codemethod and talking about calling
and purpose and all those funthings.
Can you explain your codemethod for us, my friend?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
So that was the thing when I started figuring out
what exactly it was that we weredoing for business owners and
how we were changing their livesand what things looked like.
I was talking to some friendsof mine and they would say, oh
my gosh, you ask the rightquestions, the right strategies,
you do the right things.
Like you crack my code.
And my husband commented onthat.
He said that's what you do forpeople you crack their code.
(15:53):
And I was like, okay, cool, soI'm an acronymaholic.
So I sat down and I was likeall right, what do we do with
this?
As I transferred things to theonline space, I wanted to create
something for moms where theycould unapologetically and
authentically step into whothey're created to be.
And so it became the mompreneestill life.
When I would go and speak atconferences, that's what would
(16:15):
happen is people would walk upand they'd say, oh my gosh,
you're like this super mom,slash mompreneur, slash
fashionista, all rolled up intoone.
Can you teach us how to do that?
And I'm like first of all, Ilike fashionista because I'm
supposed to be up here in frontof y'all.
That's why I have on makeup,that's why my hair is on point.
(16:40):
You don't see the yogurt in thehair and the sweatpants during
the week, and so that's wheremom Pernisa came from.
We just sandwiched all thosewords together.
We kept the code method withthat and what that was.
It's your calling and purposefirst, like you were created,
ephesians 2.10 says you werecreated for a purpose.
When you dig back to the Hebrew, the words give the idea that
something is literally carvedinto you so that you get to
discover it and rise up into it.
We want to help you discoverthat.
Then we're born into anadulterated world and
(17:02):
unfortunately our purpose justgets trampled on by well-meaning
people who want to put us indifferent directions.
And so we have to go back tothat place and figure out who we
were created to be and what thepurpose was that carved into us
, because it's a purpose for youthat no one else can do.
God created you.
There's a one in 100 millionchance that you are who you are.
The right sperm had to meet theright egg at the right time for
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you to become you right, and soyou have a kingdom assigned
purpose to your life, and thereare other people waiting on you
to step into your purpose sothat they can actually step into
theirs so that their eternitiescan be impacted because of you.
They need your story, they needto borrow courage from you,
they need your help.
They need you to solve theproblem, the way that you can do
(17:45):
it and that matters to theirlives and that's how you leave
for full effects of legacy.
The C in code.
That's calling and purposeright.
And we have operations andsystems.
Not only are we looking atoperations and systems in
businesses, but we're looking atoperations and systems in your
home, because you have to runand manage your home like you
run and manage a business, andthe first time I realized that
was several years ago.
(18:06):
It was like this light bulbmoment when I started
transferring and putting systemsand procedures into my home.
It eliminated so much chaos, itimproved communication and
relationships within my family.
It matters so much to actuallylook at running things, and that
way you're not reacting all thetime.
Right, if we don't have a plan,if we don't have structure in
(18:27):
place, all we're doing isreacting to something.
And so then, when you couplethat with trying to start a
business and run a business, ohmy goodness, you're just, you're
overwhelmed, you're on thehamster wheel, you're burning
the candle at both ends.
You're trying to figure outwhat to do, and all you're doing
is reacting, because you don'thave structure in place, and so
kids get sick.
If you have four kids, like Ido, kid one gets sick and a few
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days later kid two gets sick anda few days later kid three gets
sick and a few days later kidfour gets sick, and husband gets
it and I get it and thebabysitter gets it.
So all of a sudden you've losttwo and a half weeks worth of
work for the sickness to workthrough everyone.
But if you have a plan in placeand you can actually still be
productive and not just bereacting to life.
So, whatever the situation isright and I even put I call them
(19:10):
high value tasks in businessand in the home, and so, like in
my laundry room, I have abinder full of procedures on how
to do laundry for what matters.
I had to give on this a littlebit Like there was some pride in
some things that God was likeLori honey, it does not matter
that it's done that way, right,this doesn't matter.
This over here does, and youcan write a procedure for that.
(19:31):
But this is pride, this isperformance.
So I will say it was a learningexperience and a slopping off
of self in a lot of ways forthat.
And so we put operations andsystems in place in businesses
and in homes.
If you ignore the home, youwon't be able to grow and scale
to the level of which you couldRight If you ignore the business
, same way, you won't be able togrow and scale to the level
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which you could.
And so, same way, you won't beable to grow and scale to the
level which you could.
And so then we have the d,which is your destiny, your
destination, right?
This is where we say you candesign your destiny according to
your divine design.
If you don't have a plan, thenyou don't know where to go.
And this is where our syncmethod comes in.
We teach people how to properlyplan their lives, because that
is one of the things we'remissing out on.
(20:14):
We teach you how to actuallytake stock of everything in your
life, look at the yoke of howit is on you and then choose how
you want to navigate that.
And then you figure out yourfinancial costs and your time
costs.
Planning this matters so muchto your success in life.
And then we have the execution,because so many people will
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learn the principles and they'lllearn the.
So many people will learn theprinciples and they'll learn the
system and they'll learn thestrategies, and they never
execute because they don't knowhow to actually get that
traction.
They've got all the ideas intheir head, but they don't know
how to get that traction.
So that's one of the things wefocus on.
We have a lot done for you anddone with you services.
When you come to us, we're ableto help you get that footing
(20:55):
and teach you grow it.
That's one of the things thatpride ourselves.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Okay, I am obsessed with this and we should just do
a whole episode talking aboutthis framework, but I know that
it would turn into a three hourepisode if I did it right now.
But I love that you start withyour calling and your purpose,
because I think that is thething that I find women
especially struggle with themost.
Right, like it's my purpose tobe a mom, it's my purpose, a
(21:22):
wife is my purpose.
I don't feel totally fulfilledin all those things and I always
think our first purpose is togo and share the gospel.
Right, that's your firstpurpose.
That's what Jesus said, that'sthe command we all have.
But the way in which you do that, I think looks different from
everybody.
I think that's where people gettripped up and stressed.
I don't know if that's what you, but I feel like that and the
execution piece are like the twothings I think people struggle
(21:44):
with the most.
I'm so glad we can laugh aboutthis.
But yeah, I mean, for you, isthat where you see the biggest
struggle?
And then, if so, how do youhelp people in finding your
calling and your purpose?
Because you said that is carvedinto you by the Father.
So how do you find that or helppeople find that.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
I think we have a lot of things where, if you ever
have seen me talk or see me in apresentation, there's a few
staple things that I say overand over again.
I say it in a lot of thecontent I'm producing now as
well, which is if you don't knowwhat you don't know, you don't
know what you don't know untilyou don't know it.
And then, when you don't knowit, you figure it out for
yourself.
And if you don't know it foryourself, then you don't really
know anything.
So until you've dug intosomething and researched it for
yourself, you can't take whatAunt Sue handed down or Pastor
(22:26):
Billy handed down Like you haveto know it for you.
A lot of times we see someoneout there who's hey, guess what.
I made a million dollars withthis framework, and if you
follow it, you can do it too.
That might not fit into yourlifestyle, that might not fit
into the rhythms of your life inthe season that you have right
now.
And the other thing is theymight've been a one hit wonder.
You don't know that, we haven'ttested them, we haven't put
(22:47):
them on a growth ramp and wehaven't figured out they've
actually met all the levels ofskill, and so you have to
actually go in and say all right, father, what is it that I am
supposed to be doing in thislife?
Help me.
One of the things that we do iswe take people all the way back
to when they were like that,especially women, right, like
this three or four year oldlittle girl.
(23:07):
Because psychologists andpsychiatrists will tell you that
around the five year mark iswhen things start to shift,
because up until then you don'tcare what anybody else thinks,
but at that mark, that's whenyou start caring about what
other people think.
If you can go back and look atwhat you did when you were three
and four, what stories didpeople tell you about your life
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at that point?
I'll use me as an example.
I was the center of attention.
My aunts and uncles would visitand I would grab a boom box and
microphone.
I would sing songs andentertain everybody.
We did this thing called thePenny March at church and I'd
walk up with my pennies and geton stage.
Now, before I put these penniesin, I want to tell you all a
story.
These are the stories myparents tell me about me, and I
remember wanting to be thatlittle entertainer.
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Now I can fast to this point inmy life and I can say that I
feel the most alive when I'm ona stage speaking and sharing
information with other people.
When I'm sharing something thatI know is going to help
transform someone else's life,that's when I feel the most
alive.
So I know that there was a bentin me for something to be able
to share, using my voice, usingmy passion, the impact other
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people through my words, andcreating that with the Father
right.
And so I understand that now.
I never knew why that was.
And here's the thing Along theway, people would say you just
want to be a showboat, you justwant to be the center of
attention.
Can't you just give someone elsethe spotlight for a while?
It's not always all about you.
Tons of this stuff coming at me.
Here's the deal God knew whathe put in me, far beyond the
(24:38):
point that anyone had an opinionabout it.
He knew before anyone else knewthat I was supposed to be the
center of attention.
He put that in me right, andthat's what matters that God
knew who I was supposed to be,and so I had to actually own
that and step into it and careless about what everybody else
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in my life thought right Now,there is a level that I need to
be honoring to my husband.
Right, there is a level that Idon't need to be crazy and
embarrassing and I have to berelationally intelligent when
I'm doing this, right, like youdon't get to say, oh, this is
how God made me and I'm justgoing to say what I'm going to
do.
No, that's not how this works.
I've got a friend, she's alawyer, and she'll go back and
she'll say I remember trying toargue both sides.
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I remember wanting to debatewith people.
I remember wanting to findsolutions to things.
There are things in your lifethat you can look at where
you've ended up or where youeven want to end up right, that
you can look at where you'veended up or where you even want
to end up right, and you canfigure out how you got there and
why you're supposed to be goingon the path that you're
supposed to be going.
That's one of the exercisesthat we do with people.
We go back to that three orfour year old little girl and
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try to figure out what was inthat little girl that needs to
be grown up and brought tofruition and matured to a point
where she gets to impact thekingdom the way that she's
supposed to be impacting thekingdom and making ripple
effects to leave a legacy forother people's lives.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
I am obsessed with it .
I don't know if you hostworkshops, just doing that,
because I could see that beingsomething that you do
wholeheartedly because it is soimportant.
I was taking notes, did I dothese things?
I will 100% go back and listento this again to really take in
what you just said.
I think it's beautiful.
It's just a biblical leadershipclass.
One of the very first thingsshe said is that you were born
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to lead like God made you thisway.
The enemy also knew it and hasan insidious plan to keep you
from that truth.
Even at five, you start to carewhat other people think, so we
start to suppress things aboutourselves.
Maybe Aunt Sally said, oh that,lori, she's so loud, or you're
a showboat, or any of that andyou start to internalize these
things that are not true aboutyou.
What I think is beautiful aboutthis whole thing is that when
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you agree with the lies theenemy has planted in you about
yourself, you are directlydisobeying and it's a slap on
the face to the Lord.
He created you.
Your purpose was carved intoyou.
It is a direct slap in the faceto the creator and who he made
you to be and is saying that hegot it wrong.
Yeah, exactly.
(27:11):
This is so powerful.
I'm so glad that I alreadyemailed your team and told them
that you have to come back,because we could be here for
three more hours talking to herabout this very topic.
Lori, where can everybody go tofind you work with you?
All those kind of fun thingsyou?
Speaker 2 (27:26):
can pretty much find me anywhere online under
MomPrinistaLife.
So just go there and it'sM-O-M-P-R-E-N-I-S-T-A.
You can find me anywhere there.
Try to keep everythingconsistent across profiles and
all of your domains.
That way it makes it easier forpeople to find you and what
you're doing.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Yes, okay, I love that.
I just changed all of my stuffto my name, which was actually
super hard to Google, becausewhen you Google my name, you get
the price of lemons at a localgrocery store.
If you guys ever Google me,that's where you'll find me, but
I will link all of this in theshow notes for you guys to go
connect with Lori.
I promise I will have her backto keep talking about this topic
because I think it's reallyimportant, especially now.
(28:06):
I can just keep thinking aboutthe fact that you homeschool and
how much the enemy is attackingthis generation of children and
just the things they experience.
He's attacking purpose andidentity.
So much.
So, laurie, thank you for beinghere and sharing your wisdom
and knowledge with us.
I deeply appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
No, thank you so much for having me.
It's an honor to be here and Iam so excited to chat with you
more.
I love this.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
I love it.
Until next time, friends.
Hey friend, what a joy it hasbeen to share today's journey
with you.
If you found a spark ofinspiration or a nugget of
wisdom that resonated, would youbless someone else by sharing
this episode with them?
It could be the encouragementthey need to step into their
purpose and calling.
Also, if you could spare amoment to leave a review, it
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would mean the world to me.
I really appreciate yourfeedback and it really helps our
community grow.
Remember, the road todiscovering God's call for you
isn't one you have to walk alone.
So join me again next Mondayfor another episode where we'll
continue to explore the depthsof leadership and the heights of
our heavenly calling.
Until then, keep seeking, keepgrowing and keep trusting in his
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plan.
God bless you and I'll catchyou on the flip side.
Bye, friend.
Hey, I'm Lemon.
I am just like you, sisterfriend.
Talk about stepping into thatoverflow that God has for us by
becoming those ultimate Proverbs31 women.
Hey, I'm Lemon.
I am just like you, sisterfriend.
I knew God had something morein store for me, but I couldn't
see a way out of the laundrypiles and, frankly, I resented
that.
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How was I going to live up tothe hype?
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That is until I found out howto really step into becoming
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In this podcast you're going tofind financial freedom,
leadership, growth andmotivation so you'll be able to
do all the things God has calledyou to do with ease and really
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Welcome back to the Milk andHoney podcast.
(01:00):
I'm your host, lemon Price, andI'm so excited because I have
Lori Templeton here and I metLori through Kelly Roach.
You guys know she was on theshow not that long ago.
I was obsessed with Lori'sstory.
She has been in theentrepreneur space since she was
12.
That reminds me of my kids,right?
So she noticed this demand whenshe would bag up tree shavings
(01:24):
from her father's lawn gardenshop and then would sell them to
customers.
My kids actually went around afew years ago and they did.
They put sticks and all kindsof things on the neighbor's
houses who had dogs as like adog toy and they like left it as
a sample.
Lori and her husband haveacquired three different
businesses, grown them tomultiple millions from years of
business experience buying,building, scaling and selling
(01:45):
companies, all whilehomeschooling her four kids.
So that means you do not havean excuse, my friends.
If she can do it, thenliterally anybody can do it.
Now Lori has her own company,momprinista, which I am excited
for.
I'm going to let her talk alittle bit about this, but she
is really reclaiming whatwomanhood is in today's world
for women of faith who want tobuild businesses and be the best
(02:07):
mom, wife, entrepreneur andleader they can be.
She has over 20 years ofexperience.
She's a ministry leader, atrauma-impacted nonprofit owner
and a former pageant girl.
Thank you for being here, lori.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Thank you for having me.
I'm excited to be here and chatwith you all today.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
I'm excited.
I just love your story.
So your dad had a lawn like hewas an entrepreneur right then.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yes.
So my dad started a lawn andgarden shop and he used to have
these things they would callchainsaw days or whatever.
We'd have people coming indoing the chainsaw carvings,
where they would turn some biglog into a bear or an eagle when
they would use cedar.
I would go and grab the cedarshavings.
My granny did it.
She would put this cedar inlittle satchets and put it in
(02:52):
her drawers or her hutches andmake things smell better.
Right, that's what you do inthe South.
And so I was like, hey, I'vegot all this free product here.
I bet I could do something withit.
Dad had extra bags from hisparts department that he didn't
use and they were just littleclear bags.
So I didn't have to pay for myproduct and I didn't have to pay
for my packaging.
I didn't have to pay for myadvertising, because clients
(03:15):
were coming to me and justcapitalized on everything.
And you would thinkentrepreneurship would be so
easy for someone that startedout with a mindset like that.
Right, would be so easy forsomeone that started out with a
mindset like that right.
No, it's not.
It has been a roller coasterride.
But yeah, that's where the bugbit me.
For entrepreneurship, I knewsomething was built into me at
that point.
To try and solve these problems, provide someone else with
(03:38):
something of value, I was bittenby the entrepreneur bug and
tried to figure it out from thatpoint forward.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
I love that you said that, because when your parents
are doing entrepreneurship itimpacts your kids so much.
There was a series I don't knowif you've seen the Tuttle Twins
series.
We love them, but they have awhole thing on entrepreneurship
and the worksheets my kids werefiguring out their profit
margins and all those kind offun.
Nobody talked to me like thiswhen I was 10 about profit
(04:07):
margins and advertising andrunning a business.
How cool that we get to havethat conversation with our kids
now.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Yeah.
So we actually run anentrepreneurial model homeschool
and so that means that everysemester our kids have to start
a new business.
If something's going reallywell, then they can stay in that
business.
New business If something'sgoing really well, then they can
stay in that business.
My oldest is 12 and we've doneeverything from lemonade stands
to whatever he can find to tryand do a business with.
Right now he's found the worldof affiliate marketing and
(04:34):
selling digital products.
Last year we went into thatworld with him and I was like
dude, you're learning this, thisis you on your own.
I think people look at thingsand go oh, affiliate marketing
doesn't work, that's a scam.
Or Mary Kay doesn't work,that's a scam.
Or selling supplements doesn'twork, that's a scam.
Or trying to start yourconstruction business doesn't
(04:55):
work because it takes too muchmoney.
We nullify everything forourselves when, in actuality,
the only thing that's notworking in your equation is you.
You have to figure that out,and so we talk ourselves out of
something that's stirring in ourhearts.
Anyway.
The truth is, mary Kay works,selling Supplements works,
affiliate Marketing works,running construction companies
works.
It's just figuring out how toactually execute that in your
(05:17):
life, and that's when it works,when you get it together, when
you figure out okay, god isleading me in this direction and
this is where I'm supposed togo.
That's when something works.
He's doing this littleaffiliate marketing business.
He's doing really well with itand he's very proud.
So we've kept that around for afew semesters now and he's
enjoying that.
But it's really fun becausethey get that world Like they
have to make a marketing plan,they have to make a business
(05:40):
plan, they have to understandwhat their finances look like
and all of that.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
I love that.
If you guys homeschool, this issuch a simple way to introduce
math.
They can be really creativewith this.
We did the same thing withbaking all the time.
That's how they learnedmeasurement and all those things
.
It doesn't have to look liketextbooks, and I think that's
really beautiful.
That's what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah, so I'm a baking nerd too, but I actually grind
my own flour.
We start with fresh wholegrains, grind and then bake.
My kids are learning all thattoo, learning all the
measurements.
We have baking classes onFridays and it's really fun.
They get all those foundationalthings and your entrepreneurial
homeschool model can coverevery subject.
That's what's so fun.
You get history, math,geography, science, language
(06:23):
arts, like all the things inthat one model you're doing and
you can tailor it to them.
I love tailoring everything.
I have a 12-year-old, a7-year-old, a 4-year-old and a
2-year-old.
Obviously, the 2-year-old isn'trunning a business yet, but you
can tailor everything to themand it's so fun.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Okay, we are meant to be, because we also have a
giant garden and we're doingwinter wheat this year as soon
as, like our crops are done, forwe'll harvest like July,
august-ish time, which has beenreally fun.
My kids are learning abouthomesteading and agriculture all
of those kinds of fun things.
My in-laws have a farm, sothey're always going out and
we're working with horses,they're working with the pigs,
(07:02):
they're doing all those kind ofthings too.
I love that.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
And I love that you said everything works.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
My friend, bobby, always says everything works,
just not all the time, and Ithink it really is about like
being passionate and aligned andgoing all in on the thing
you're doing, and so I love thatyou're starting these
businesses.
Affiliate marketing is cool.
Right now.
My 12-year-old started a storeon Etsy doing dropshipping
because he loved that, so I waslike whatever, that's fine.
(07:31):
You also said you bought boringbusinesses.
Can you talk about boring?
Because I feel like nobodytalks about buying boring
businesses or how you buybusinesses like any of those
kinds of things.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
So I think the biggest thing is a lot of people
think that you always have tostart from scratch and it takes
tons of money to be able to walkout and buy a business, and
that's not the case.
You can get creative fundingand you can make deals.
You can structure deals whereyou don't even have to pay
anything out of pocket to buy abusiness.
That's more how we operate.
We've got lots of years ofexperience under our belt.
(08:09):
A lot of times what we end updoing is we find business owners
who are just completelyoverwhelmed.
This is where my passion is.
We were created for a purposeand so we have to figure out how
we're walking in that purpose.
And a lot of times people willjust start a business because
they're a plumber and they havethat skill and then all of a
sudden you have this husband andwife and way over their heads
and they traded a nine to fivefor 24 seven and they just don't
know what next steps to take.
We are able to walk in thereand help them level things out
(08:30):
and help them put procedures inplace.
We add value to their business.
We may not actually buy intothat business, they may just
give us a level of equity tohelp them scale their business
so they can then operate.
They can exit and so they canexit Exits.
Look like that you just want tobe able to take a vacation for
two weeks and your business runwithout you.
Or that you want to be able togo to Hawaii for a couple of
(08:53):
months and your business runwithout you.
Or that you want to actuallyoperate at a board level all the
time and you are not overseeingthe day-to-day at all.
You're just running thebusiness from a board level, and
that's typically how I operate.
In most of the businesses that Irun right now, I have operators
in place.
I'm in a board level for themost part.
My husband is still in thegrind with one of our businesses
(09:13):
, especially because we'retaking it to an eight-figure
mark and we get to pick andchoose that, which is deciding
the direction that you want togo.
You can design your destiny, aslong as it is cohesive with
your divine design that Godcarved into you.
We can look at a business andsay, no, we don't really want to
buy that business because it'sgoing to take too much of our
(09:34):
time, because we've put in theforethought, to figure that out.
You can take a business, scaleit and then sell that business.
There are people everywherelooking to buy businesses and
people don't realize this.
But then what happens is you'rethat plumber couple and now
you're in your sixties thinkingwhat am I going to do?
I've got grandkids now.
I don't want to be doing thisfor the rest of my life.
It's eaten everything up.
So I'm going to sell mybusiness, but you haven't
(09:56):
actually structured things to beable to put things in place, to
flip that and to actually beable to sell it for a profit in
accordance with the hard workthat you've put in.
People get pennies on the dollarfor what they've actually put
into their business over theyears.
We help them turn that aroundand help families take back
their lives.
You've traded that nine to fivefor 24 seven.
(10:17):
Now, all of a sudden you're upat 4 am in the office trying to
get stuff done.
So if you can make it to yourkids game at five o'clock,
that's what we help people do.
That's our passion.
We want to restore familiesbecause I believe that God
created us to be entrepreneurs.
I think that is biblical.
At the same time, I think we'vebeen taught very wrong in the
(10:37):
world and how to do that.
That's our passion is to beable to help do that.
I took this experience andbrought it to the online space a
few years ago, because mypassion is to help moms see that
they can do this.
Maybe they don't have the righttools to execute what they're
trying to execute.
That's where my passion lies.
I want to help you see yourpurpose.
I want to help you step into itand I want to help you actually
(10:59):
be able to execute it, and youjust might not have the right
tools to be able to do it, andthe truth is it all works.
It's just figuring out how itworks for you.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
I love that because I didn't even know buying
businesses at this level was athing until I saw people on
TikTok talking about it.
And then I had a friend.
He was like that's my passion,that's what I want to do.
I want to buy businesses andoperate at a board level.
He introduced me to thatwebsite where people are always
selling their businesses, andthen it triggered something in
my husband.
He's been a truck driver foryears after he got out of the
(11:29):
military.
Truck washes are really hard tocome by.
He was talking to a guy.
I'm almost at a point where Ihave to legitimately keep it
open 24 hours because we are sobusy around the clock.
This man was doing $1.5 to $2million a year washing trucks.
So the options are out there.
You have to be open to receivethem.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
Yeah, and I think another thing a lot of people
miss is they'll think, okay, I'ma and I'm just using a plumber,
because it's easy for mostpeople to understand, but like,
I'm a plumber and so I need tostart a plumbing business, no,
not necessarily.
What if you walk in and you'resourcing the plumbers with their
policies and procedures, oryou're sourcing the plumbers
(12:10):
with their equipment and theirtools, or you're sourcing like
you can buy upstream ordownstream in a business to feed
into something that you alreadyknow about, and that's another
creative way to actually getinto businesses.
People go I want to start acoffee shop.
Maybe you don't need to start acoffee shop, but maybe you want
to become the sourcer for acertain type of bean that is a
(12:30):
luxury exclusive.
And so now, all of a sudden,you're upping your game even
more, serving people at adifferent level and not having
the overhead of the shop thatyou're trying to make happen.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
And so there's all kinds of different ways to be
able to look at entering how toyour own business.
Okay, this is the most timelyconversation because my best
friend she's getting married inthree weeks.
Florists have been an insaneprocess for her just getting
some bud vases and flowers forher flower girl.
It was almost $5,000 for 20 budvases where she was like this
is crazy, we should do thisourselves.
She lives in New Jersey.
(13:08):
I'm down here in Georgia and westarted looking into it and
because her sister-in-law has 20acres that she's not using, I'm
like let's look into cut flowerfarming and all of these things
.
We start looking into it.
And I hooked her up with theUSDA.
They're willing to put ingeothermal greenhouses for them
without costing anything forthem, and she was like I didn't.
We've been talking about thisfor a month and a half, but
(13:30):
she's I didn't know.
This was an option when thesegrants exist and this exists and
we could do a lot of this forwithout putting any of like our
own real money necessarily intoit.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
By the box.
There's so many opportunitiesthat are present.
And here's the deal is.
All you have to do is you havean idea, google it, see if
somebody's already doing it,contact that person and say, hey
, tell me what you're doing,because people want to tell
their stories.
People naturally want to helpother people.
Find those people who've gonebefore you and I will say that's
(14:01):
one of the success points in mylife, from leading my nonprofit
ministry and growing it toimpacting over a million people.
Find someone who has gone beforeyou, who has been successful or
maybe not successful, butthey've learned lessons and can
share that with you.
That way, you have a directionto go in.
It matters so much.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Yes, I love that you said this, because I know
somebody listening right now isprobably oh my goodness, if
somebody else is doing it, thenI can't do it.
First of all, the market isginormous.
When people are like themarket's oversaturated, I'm like
it's because you're surroundingyourself with only people who
are doing what you're doing,which is why it feels
oversaturated.
If it's possible for them, thenit's possible for you.
(14:42):
I just saw Alex Ramosi saidsomething like the top 1% of
people are just people who keepgoing when they don't see
immediate results.
Don't see immediate resultsBecause he was talking about
podcasting and he was like ifyou want to be a top 1% podcast
globally, all you have to do isproduce 21 episodes.
Most people never get pastepisode 20.
(15:03):
And I knew that, but I was likethat is fascinating advice.
You just have to be willing todo work without seeing immediate
results and being open to doingthings differently and having
conversations with people andbeing much more open.
I'm so glad we ended up on thisfun topic.
This was not what we planned totalk about, y'all, I just got
very excited about it, but Ithink it plays into what we did
(15:23):
want to talk about your codemethod and talking about calling
and purpose and all those funthings.
Can you explain your codemethod for us, my friend?
Speaker 2 (15:32):
So that was the thing when I started figuring out
what exactly it was that we weredoing for business owners and
how we were changing their livesand what things looked like.
I was talking to some friendsof mine and they would say, oh
my gosh, you ask the rightquestions, the right strategies,
you do the right things.
Like you crack my code.
And my husband commented onthat.
He said that's what you do forpeople you crack their code.
(15:53):
And I was like, okay, cool, soI'm an acronymaholic.
So I sat down and I was likeall right, what do we do with
this?
As I transferred things to theonline space, I wanted to create
something for moms where theycould unapologetically and
authentically step into whothey're created to be.
And so it became the mompreneestill life.
When I would go and speak atconferences, that's what would
(16:15):
happen is people would walk upand they'd say, oh my gosh,
you're like this super mom,slash mompreneur, slash
fashionista, all rolled up intoone.
Can you teach us how to do that?
And I'm like first of all, Ilike fashionista because I'm
supposed to be up here in frontof y'all.
That's why I have on makeup,that's why my hair is on point.
(16:40):
You don't see the yogurt in thehair and the sweatpants during
the week, and so that's wheremom Pernisa came from.
We just sandwiched all thosewords together.
We kept the code method withthat and what that was.
It's your calling and purposefirst, like you were created,
ephesians 2.10 says you werecreated for a purpose.
When you dig back to the Hebrew, the words give the idea that
something is literally carvedinto you so that you get to
discover it and rise up into it.
We want to help you discoverthat.
Then we're born into anadulterated world and
(17:02):
unfortunately our purpose justgets trampled on by well-meaning
people who want to put us indifferent directions.
And so we have to go back tothat place and figure out who we
were created to be and what thepurpose was that carved into us
, because it's a purpose for youthat no one else can do.
God created you.
There's a one in 100 millionchance that you are who you are.
The right sperm had to meet theright egg at the right time for
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you to become you right, and soyou have a kingdom assigned
purpose to your life, and thereare other people waiting on you
to step into your purpose sothat they can actually step into
theirs so that their eternitiescan be impacted because of you.
They need your story, they needto borrow courage from you,
they need your help.
They need you to solve theproblem, the way that you can do
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it and that matters to theirlives and that's how you leave
for full effects of legacy.
The C in code.
That's calling and purposeright.
And we have operations andsystems.
Not only are we looking atoperations and systems in
businesses, but we're looking atoperations and systems in your
home, because you have to runand manage your home like you
run and manage a business, andthe first time I realized that
was several years ago.
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It was like this light bulbmoment when I started
transferring and putting systemsand procedures into my home.
It eliminated so much chaos, itimproved communication and
relationships within my family.
It matters so much to actuallylook at running things, and that
way you're not reacting all thetime.
Right, if we don't have a plan,if we don't have structure in
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place, all we're doing isreacting to something.
And so then, when you couplethat with trying to start a
business and run a business, ohmy goodness, you're just, you're
overwhelmed, you're on thehamster wheel, you're burning
the candle at both ends.
You're trying to figure outwhat to do, and all you're doing
is reacting, because you don'thave structure in place, and so
kids get sick.
If you have four kids, like Ido, kid one gets sick and a few
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days later kid two gets sick anda few days later kid three gets
sick and a few days later kidfour gets sick, and husband gets
it and I get it and thebabysitter gets it.
So all of a sudden you've losttwo and a half weeks worth of
work for the sickness to workthrough everyone.
But if you have a plan in placeand you can actually still be
productive and not just bereacting to life.
So, whatever the situation isright and I even put I call them
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high value tasks in businessand in the home, and so, like in
my laundry room, I have abinder full of procedures on how
to do laundry for what matters.
I had to give on this a littlebit Like there was some pride in
some things that God was likeLori honey, it does not matter
that it's done that way, right,this doesn't matter.
This over here does, and youcan write a procedure for that.
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But this is pride, this isperformance.
So I will say it was a learningexperience and a slopping off
of self in a lot of ways forthat.
And so we put operations andsystems in place in businesses
and in homes.
If you ignore the home, youwon't be able to grow and scale
to the level of which you couldRight If you ignore the business
, same way, you won't be able togrow and scale to the level
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which you could.
And so, same way, you won't beable to grow and scale to the
level which you could.
And so then we have the d,which is your destiny, your
destination, right?
This is where we say you candesign your destiny according to
your divine design.
If you don't have a plan, thenyou don't know where to go.
And this is where our syncmethod comes in.
We teach people how to properlyplan their lives, because that
is one of the things we'remissing out on.
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We teach you how to actuallytake stock of everything in your
life, look at the yoke of howit is on you and then choose how
you want to navigate that.
And then you figure out yourfinancial costs and your time
costs.
Planning this matters so muchto your success in life.
And then we have the execution,because so many people will
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learn the principles and they'lllearn the.
So many people will learn theprinciples and they'll learn the
system and they'll learn thestrategies, and they never
execute because they don't knowhow to actually get that
traction.
They've got all the ideas intheir head, but they don't know
how to get that traction.
So that's one of the things wefocus on.
We have a lot done for you anddone with you services.
When you come to us, we're ableto help you get that footing
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and teach you grow it.
That's one of the things thatpride ourselves.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Okay, I am obsessed with this and we should just do
a whole episode talking aboutthis framework, but I know that
it would turn into a three hourepisode if I did it right now.
But I love that you start withyour calling and your purpose,
because I think that is thething that I find women
especially struggle with themost.
Right, like it's my purpose tobe a mom, it's my purpose, a
(21:22):
wife is my purpose.
I don't feel totally fulfilledin all those things and I always
think our first purpose is togo and share the gospel.
Right, that's your firstpurpose.
That's what Jesus said, that'sthe command we all have.
But the way in which you do that, I think looks different from
everybody.
I think that's where people gettripped up and stressed.
I don't know if that's what you, but I feel like that and the
execution piece are like the twothings I think people struggle
(21:44):
with the most.
I'm so glad we can laugh aboutthis.
But yeah, I mean, for you, isthat where you see the biggest
struggle?
And then, if so, how do youhelp people in finding your
calling and your purpose?
Because you said that is carvedinto you by the Father.
So how do you find that or helppeople find that.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
I think we have a lot of things where, if you ever
have seen me talk or see me in apresentation, there's a few
staple things that I say overand over again.
I say it in a lot of thecontent I'm producing now as
well, which is if you don't knowwhat you don't know, you don't
know what you don't know untilyou don't know it.
And then, when you don't knowit, you figure it out for
yourself.
And if you don't know it foryourself, then you don't really
know anything.
So until you've dug intosomething and researched it for
yourself, you can't take whatAunt Sue handed down or Pastor
(22:26):
Billy handed down Like you haveto know it for you.
A lot of times we see someoneout there who's hey, guess what.
I made a million dollars withthis framework, and if you
follow it, you can do it too.
That might not fit into yourlifestyle, that might not fit
into the rhythms of your life inthe season that you have right
now.
And the other thing is theymight've been a one hit wonder.
You don't know that, we haven'ttested them, we haven't put
(22:47):
them on a growth ramp and wehaven't figured out they've
actually met all the levels ofskill, and so you have to
actually go in and say all right, father, what is it that I am
supposed to be doing in thislife?
Help me.
One of the things that we do iswe take people all the way back
to when they were like that,especially women, right, like
this three or four year oldlittle girl.
(23:07):
Because psychologists andpsychiatrists will tell you that
around the five year mark iswhen things start to shift,
because up until then you don'tcare what anybody else thinks,
but at that mark, that's whenyou start caring about what
other people think.
If you can go back and look atwhat you did when you were three
and four, what stories didpeople tell you about your life
(23:28):
at that point?
I'll use me as an example.
I was the center of attention.
My aunts and uncles would visitand I would grab a boom box and
microphone.
I would sing songs andentertain everybody.
We did this thing called thePenny March at church and I'd
walk up with my pennies and geton stage.
Now, before I put these penniesin, I want to tell you all a
story.
These are the stories myparents tell me about me, and I
remember wanting to be thatlittle entertainer.
(23:50):
Now I can fast to this point inmy life and I can say that I
feel the most alive when I'm ona stage speaking and sharing
information with other people.
When I'm sharing something thatI know is going to help
transform someone else's life,that's when I feel the most
alive.
So I know that there was a bentin me for something to be able
to share, using my voice, usingmy passion, the impact other
(24:13):
people through my words, andcreating that with the Father
right.
And so I understand that now.
I never knew why that was.
And here's the thing Along theway, people would say you just
want to be a showboat, you justwant to be the center of
attention.
Can't you just give someone elsethe spotlight for a while?
It's not always all about you.
Tons of this stuff coming at me.
Here's the deal God knew whathe put in me, far beyond the
(24:38):
point that anyone had an opinionabout it.
He knew before anyone else knewthat I was supposed to be the
center of attention.
He put that in me right, andthat's what matters that God
knew who I was supposed to be,and so I had to actually own
that and step into it and careless about what everybody else
(24:58):
in my life thought right Now,there is a level that I need to
be honoring to my husband.
Right, there is a level that Idon't need to be crazy and
embarrassing and I have to berelationally intelligent when
I'm doing this, right, like youdon't get to say, oh, this is
how God made me and I'm justgoing to say what I'm going to
do.
No, that's not how this works.
I've got a friend, she's alawyer, and she'll go back and
she'll say I remember trying toargue both sides.
(25:25):
I remember wanting to debatewith people.
I remember wanting to findsolutions to things.
There are things in your lifethat you can look at where
you've ended up or where youeven want to end up right, that
you can look at where you'veended up or where you even want
to end up right, and you canfigure out how you got there and
why you're supposed to be goingon the path that you're
supposed to be going.
That's one of the exercisesthat we do with people.
We go back to that three orfour year old little girl and
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try to figure out what was inthat little girl that needs to
be grown up and brought tofruition and matured to a point
where she gets to impact thekingdom the way that she's
supposed to be impacting thekingdom and making ripple
effects to leave a legacy forother people's lives.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
I am obsessed with it .
I don't know if you hostworkshops, just doing that,
because I could see that beingsomething that you do
wholeheartedly because it is soimportant.
I was taking notes, did I dothese things?
I will 100% go back and listento this again to really take in
what you just said.
I think it's beautiful.
It's just a biblical leadershipclass.
One of the very first thingsshe said is that you were born
(26:26):
to lead like God made you thisway.
The enemy also knew it and hasan insidious plan to keep you
from that truth.
Even at five, you start to carewhat other people think, so we
start to suppress things aboutourselves.
Maybe Aunt Sally said, oh that,lori, she's so loud, or you're
a showboat, or any of that andyou start to internalize these
things that are not true aboutyou.
What I think is beautiful aboutthis whole thing is that when
(26:50):
you agree with the lies theenemy has planted in you about
yourself, you are directlydisobeying and it's a slap on
the face to the Lord.
He created you.
Your purpose was carved intoyou.
It is a direct slap in the faceto the creator and who he made
you to be and is saying that hegot it wrong.
Yeah, exactly.
(27:11):
This is so powerful.
I'm so glad that I alreadyemailed your team and told them
that you have to come back,because we could be here for
three more hours talking to herabout this very topic.
Lori, where can everybody go tofind you work with you?
All those kind of fun thingsyou?
Speaker 2 (27:26):
can pretty much find me anywhere online under
MomPrinistaLife.
So just go there and it'sM-O-M-P-R-E-N-I-S-T-A.
You can find me anywhere there.
Try to keep everythingconsistent across profiles and
all of your domains.
That way it makes it easier forpeople to find you and what
you're doing.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
Yes, okay, I love that.
I just changed all of my stuffto my name, which was actually
super hard to Google, becausewhen you Google my name, you get
the price of lemons at a localgrocery store.
If you guys ever Google me,that's where you'll find me, but
I will link all of this in theshow notes for you guys to go
connect with Lori.
I promise I will have her backto keep talking about this topic
because I think it's reallyimportant, especially now.
(28:06):
I can just keep thinking aboutthe fact that you homeschool and
how much the enemy is attackingthis generation of children and
just the things they experience.
He's attacking purpose andidentity.
So much.
So, laurie, thank you for beinghere and sharing your wisdom
and knowledge with us.
I deeply appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
No, thank you so much for having me.
It's an honor to be here and Iam so excited to chat with you
more.
I love this.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
I love it.
Until next time, friends.
Hey friend, what a joy it hasbeen to share today's journey
with you.
If you found a spark ofinspiration or a nugget of
wisdom that resonated, would youbless someone else by sharing
this episode with them?
It could be the encouragementthey need to step into their
purpose and calling.
Also, if you could spare amoment to leave a review, it
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would mean the world to me.
I really appreciate yourfeedback and it really helps our
community grow.
Remember, the road todiscovering God's call for you
isn't one you have to walk alone.
So join me again next Mondayfor another episode where we'll
continue to explore the depthsof leadership and the heights of
our heavenly calling.
Until then, keep seeking, keepgrowing and keep trusting in his
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plan.
God bless you and I'll catchyou on the flip side.
Bye, friend.
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