Humility and Success: Balancing Faith and Entrepreneurship with Colt King

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Colt King (00:03):
Instead of a sex cult , they call him dance clubs.
So he takes things that areevil and he twists them and he
makes them acceptable.
Most people don't think of loveas sacrifice.
If something doesn't go my way,I understand that nothing
happens in my life unless itpasses through God's hands first
.
When you have an understandingthat everything is God, that

(00:25):
nothing belongs to you andthere's not really any
attachment, that's not a lot ofissues.

Aaron O'Connell (00:30):
Welcome back to the WHY to Fitness Podcast.
I'm your host, Aaron O'Connell,and today I am with my friend,
colt King.
How are you doing today, colt?

Colt King (00:40):
Good man.
I always say I'm on the side ofthe ground, I have air in my
lungs.
God woke me up.

So I'm good, excellent, excellent, excellent.
So yeah, today I asked you tobe on this podcast because
you're an entrepreneur, and asuccessful one at that, and I
just thought in my mind wow, Ihaven't touched any basis on
business and also humilitywithin being successful, because

(01:06):
there's a lot of people outthere that'll call themselves
entrepreneurs, but they don'thave people working for them.
They're probably struggling 10times more than if they were in
a normal job, which isn't you.
So I'm going to bring you onhere and really showcase how you

(01:26):
can be successful as aChristian and also be a family
man at the same time, becausethat's what you do, sure man.
Thank you for having me, ofcourse, of course.
So, just right off the bat, Ireally would love for you to
just share your personal journeyof your entrepreneurship and

(01:47):
kind of how faith played into it.

Colt King (01:50):
Sure, so I'll try to keep it short and sweet.
But I moved down to SouthFlorida when I was 18, had
absolutely nothing.
I was actually homeless.
So it was pretty tough and Igrew up in a family that always
told me that you either have togo to college and get a degree

(02:13):
or you better get used to sayingwould you like fries with that?
Because you're going to beworking at McDonald's.
So God bless my mom.
She didn't have any badintention.
Her idea was for me to go tocollege and get a degree, like
most parents want, because shegrew up in an era where if you

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didn't have a degree, you wouldstruggle to find employment.
You'd struggle to have a job.
I don't come from a family ofentrepreneurs or business people
, so, anyways, I came down herewith that mentality and actually
got into a lot of trouble as akid.
Although I grew up in church, Inever had a personal

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relationship with Jesus.
I went to church because I wasmade to go to church and.
I was always in church and sawpeople raise their hands and
praise the Lord and I thoughtthey were weirdos.
I thought that all the kidsthat were in youth group and the
kids were weirdos.
You know it was.

I'm from the Midwest and I'm homeschooled as
well, and it's funny me and mysisters will always point out
people like you can tell they'rehomeschooled, and I'm thinking
of the way that you're thinkingof those per se, those
Christians in there, and it'slike you're right, they always
had this.
There was something different.

Colt King (03:40):
Yeah, but you know, I had a judgmental spirit.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Colt King (03:44):
You know, like I was in public school and I wasn't
the most humble kid, Idefinitely was like most kids,
right, I was looking for thecool kid.
I was looking to fit in, I waslooking to be accepted and I
didn't feel like I even wantedto be accepted by those kids.
I felt like they were different.

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But anyways, when I would be inchurch I grew up in a church
that was kind of like fire andbrimstone.
So I felt like I'm never goingto be good enough.
I'm never going to be likethese kids.
I'm never going to be likethese people.
I'm never going to be what aChristian is supposed to be or

(04:25):
what I thought a Christian wassupposed to be at that time.
So it was obviously, inhindsight, all Satan lying to
make us stay away from the Lordand drive a wedge.
But anyways, long story short,I grew up in church but I didn't

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have a relationship with Jesusand I came down to South Florida
, had that mentality that if Ididn't have a degree I wouldn't
be successful.
Dropped out of school at 15,got a GED or got kicked out
actually got a GED.
And when I was down here I knewthat I wanted to do something
with my life.
But I never thought that it waspossible because I didn't have

(05:06):
a degree.
I don't really learn the waythat you're supposed to learn in
school, sitting in a class forhours and just listening to
people lecture and taking tests.
I don't learn that way.
I learn by being interested inthings.
If I'm interested in things,I'll lock myself in a room and
read books for hours.

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I will study and do researchuntil I know absolutely
everything there is to knowabout something.
But sitting in a classroomlearning that way, I didn't
learn very well.
So I came down to South Floridavery young, saw all these guys
with Lamborghinis and Ferrarisand Mercedes and all this stuff
and young dudes, and I startedto go up and ask questions.

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I'm very naturally inquisitiveand I like to learn, so that
interested me.
I went to these guys and Iremember one guy who was one of
my first mentors.
I said dude, where did you goto college?
How do you have this car andthis Rolex or whatever?
You're like three, four yearsolder than me.
And he goes dude, I got a GED.

(06:12):
How did he go to college?
From Camden, new Jersey?
And I'm thinking in my head.
I'm like this doesn't make anysense, like I was so mind
boggled right, I was so mindboggled, but it was like at that
moment the blinders came offand I realized that I wasn't
necessarily lied to as a kid,but I was misinformed.

Right.

Colt King (06:35):
My mother was misinformed.
That was her reality, so I wasmisinformed.

Okay, so what do you do now?
What is your business?
What were the businesses thatyou first got into to where you
are right now?

Colt King (06:49):
So, yeah, when I finally realized I didn't need a
degree, I definitely neededknowledge, so I started to be
around people that had what Iwanted, I was very, very humble.
I wasn't not a Christian, but Iwasn't really a Christian.

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I was totally living for theworld, and the reason why I
wanted to have things wasbecause I never wanted to
struggle, I never wanted to wantsomething and not be able to
have it, and I wanted to havethose material things.

Yeah, I'll stop you right there because I'll
challenge you on that and younot having that relationship, I
would say, especially tolisteners, if you're of this
world and not actively pursuingthat relationship, you may have
known of God, but you didn'tknow God.
And that, right there is whereI feel so many people are

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falling into that safe zonewhere it's like, oh well, I know
that Jesus is the Savior and Iknow he's Lord and all that
stuff, but you didn't make himthe Lord of your life, you're
not acknowledging him.
It would be like you having awife, which you do, and it'd be
like, hey, I got this wife,she's amazing, but I don't talk

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to her and I never see her.
It's like then you don't have arelationship, which then I
wouldn't be calling that aChristian.
Yes, that could be a season,and I'm not the one that
dictates who is Christian andwho isn't, but you can identify
a Christian by his fruit and atthat time you had zero fruit

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because you never got rooted in.

Colt King (08:33):
If anything, I had some seeds planted.

And that's the thing is that it goes right back
to the four seeds.
There's the seed that goesright on the path that gets
plucked up right away by Satan.
That's the Satanists.
That's the people that arereally off.
Then there's the ones that gointo the gravel or the shallow
soil and they receive it with somuch joy, but instantly it just

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dies off.
Those aren't Christians either.
Those are the ones that arelike oh yeah.
It sounds really good.
They could have been in theBilly Graham, they could have
gone, they could have beenaround a crowd that went to
church for just a little bit andbecause everyone was making
them feel so good, they raisedtheir hand, they said the prayer
, everything was good.
They went home, they didn'tread the Bible and within one

(09:18):
week they're back partying andwhatever.
Then there's even the thirdseed that goes into the thorns
and all the distractions of theworld and a lot of people want
to say that those are stillChristians.
But you notice they don't talkabout the fruit of those seeds.

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Right, they're still growing,but they're not Christians
because they get theirsidetracked.
They're making everything elsethe Lord of their life, they're
choked out.
But the ones that fell on goodsoil produce that return of 10,
50, 100 fold.

Colt King (09:55):
And.

I just wanted to just stop you right there
just for a little bit, becausethis podcast isn't like your
normal podcast.

Colt King (10:02):
I call things how it is yeah, dude, I definitely
wasn't with the Lord, especiallynow that point in time.

But the great thing was, as you were raised up
that way, and it just speaks tohow important it is for
generations to be able to raiseup your kids the way that they
ought to go, because then, ifthey even do depart, they will
come back because they've beeninstilled.
And that's what we're going tobe also talking about is

(10:30):
maintaining that work-familybalance.

Colt King (10:34):
And I had that in me.
I definitely had that in me andI had that consciousness.
That is the Holy Spirit thattold me I was doing something
wrong.
Right, like if you don't havethe Holy Spirit and you don't
have a God, or you're your ownGod, right, everybody has a God.
But you don't know Jesus andyou do something, you don't
really feel bad about it, right?

(10:55):
Because why would you If youdon't have any negative effects
in your life?
If it doesn't affect you bad,nobody knows about it.
Who cares?

You've not had them actually living in there,
but he was knocking and knockingand knocking.
You were hearing them fromoutside the house.
You knew what was there.
You were instilled, becausethat's where I was too.
I knew it all, but I only usedit for my advantage.
She was my insurance policy.
I know it's right.
It was that old Testament thing.
As long as I do XYZ right, Iknow I get blessed.

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But there was no grace on it.
There wasn't any power aboutthe Holy Spirit.

Colt King (11:30):
I didn't understand the true gospel.
The only thing that I thoughtwas God was a judgmental God.
He's up there.
He's looking down at me.
I have to do works, I have tobe good enough.
I wasn't good enough.
I was never going to be goodenough.
I might as well.
If I'm going to hell anyways, Imight as well enjoy life.

For sure, yeah, but back to you.
You found out that this mentorof yours had a GED.

Colt King (11:53):
Yeah, I started to learn a lot.
I started teaching myselfonline marketing, taught myself
search engine optimization, payper click.
I started doing onlinemarketing.
Then I started learning leadgeneration.
I started servicing someindustries that had great
returns.

(12:13):
I provided a lot of value, madesure that I was making the
business's money, because ifyou're not providing value,
you're just going to cyclethrough clients all the time and
create a bad reputation foryourself.
So many people go into businessto chase money.
But very early on I understoodthat you have to compete and you

(12:35):
have to be able to provide morevalue than anybody else so that
eventually you don't have tocompete.

Yeah, I actually heard it said just the
other day.
A lot of people like to usepeople.
They love money and use people,but as Christians we need to
love people and use money.

Colt King (12:58):
Yeah, that's true.
That was another thing.
I was always told money is theroot of all evil.
Then when I actually cracked myBible open, I realized that
it's the love of money.
Most people these days don'teven understand what love is
because they think love is afeeling.
But when you read John 3.16 andit says for God so loved the
world that he gave his onlybegotten son, whosoever believes

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in him shall not perish.
But the point of that is that'slove.

It's sacrifice.
We know he loves us because heloved us and he died for us
while we were still sinners.
That's real love.
It's an action.
It has nothing to do with self,all about the other.

Colt King (13:33):
Right, but you don't think about love.
Most people you probably do,but most people don't think of
love that way.
Most people don't think of loveas sacrifice.
How many people get divorcedand say well, I fell out of love
.

Yeah Well, just case point.
Example when I first starteddoing the Y2 Fitness and the
whole program that I have, Ibeta tested it with over 60
people and almost 45, 50 peopledropped off on two areas A truth
, because everyone thinksthere's multiple versions of
truth and all that.
And the second one was love,and because you had to agree

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that love is an action.
It has nothing to do with self,but a lot of people have only
selfish love.
I will do XYZ as long as I getABC back.
Once I don't get ABC back, Iwill not do XYZ.

Colt King (14:21):
So it's really just an exchange.

It's just an exchange and that's what it's
really come down to.
Is that I loved.
It's more about I love the wayyou make me feel, so I say I
love you, but the moment youdon't make me feel that way, I
no longer love you.
But that's what people dowithin the Christian faith as
well, is I love you, god, whenyou are doing these things for
me, but the moment you aren't, Icurse you out, I stray from you

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or any of that.
The only reason I have anyrelationship is because I love
the way you make me feel.
I love what you can do for me.
I love the security you give me.
It's like I don't know aboutyou, but my Bible says you need
to die to yourself and pick upyour cross daily.
You know it's all the disciples, except one died horrible
deaths.

Colt King (15:03):
Right, yeah, man, Totally, Absolutely.
So I didn't necessarily.
I guess you know that point intime I wasn't a Christian,
although I was raised in church,because although I said the
prayer as a kid, I never reallywanted a relationship with him.
It wasn't in my heart and Ithink you know a lot of churches

(15:24):
do that right.
Say the prayer and then we got50 people saved and no offense
any churches that do that, butit and that's not to say those
people aren't saved.
Again, like you said, we can'tsay who's not saved.
But it says profess with yourmouth that Jesus Christ is Lord
and believe in your heart.
You're right.
You have to believe that, one,he died in the cross for your

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sins.
Two, that he was resurrected orwas resurrected from the grave
and or, I'm sorry.
Three, that he's, he's the sonof God, right?
First, he's the son of God.
Second, that he died in thecross for your sins or he is God
and human form.
And then, three, that heresurrected because that's when
he defeated death.

And but I've said this in other podcasts is
so much gets misconstrued,there's so much turmoil, so much
goes on because of the lack ofdefinitions that people use.
And you'd have to ask yourselfokay, if you believe those
things, if you believe the wordof God is the best way, then the

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absolute truth, then you shouldbe in it all the time.
If you really believed it, ifyou believe that his way is
better.
I always say this I got amillion dollars in one hand and
I got a piece of poop in theother hand.
Who's going to pick the pieceof poop?
Nobody, nobody's going to.
Even if you're blind, you'regoing to smell it, you're going

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to touch it first you're goingto be like no right, but that's
really what it is.
when you become a real Christian, you understand that every
other area leads to death.
You start looking at it and youread scripture like if you love
me, you're going to obey mycommands.
It's not like you're going toobey my commands.
No, of course you're going to,because you realize that they

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all produce.
They don't return void.

Colt King (17:12):
Well, how many people get caught in a cycle?
Right, they say I'm going to doso good, and then they rely on
their self-will.
Right, their flesh, their ownwillpower.
Then they go and they sinbecause it gives them instant
gratification.
Right, whether it's sex ordrugs or lie, whatever it is, it
serves them and their flesh.
At that point, in time and thenafterwards they regret it.

Well, it goes back to they're doing it for
themselves.
I'm going to do it this way, soit helps me.
But what the greatest news isis that we all suck, we all are
sinners, we all fall short.
And once you can sit there andget off that hum, that little
prideful horse and understand,no, I can't do it If every time

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I try it I screw up.
So now let me bring the Lordinto it every single day.
Say Lord, help me this day,help me do this.
I don't know, just take it andbe like I think I know the way.
But let me just pray to theLord first.

Colt King (18:14):
Yeah Well, fast forward a little bit in my story
.
When I first started makinggood money and I was, I guess,
independent, right I was in myfirst entrepreneurial journey.
In the first industry I was in,I started to make money and I

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got extremely arrogant.
I got the cars and the watchesand the stuff, and what I
thought was a lot back then wascoming from my frame of
reference of having nothingbefore.

How old were you?

Colt King (18:47):
It's like 19 years old, 1920.
Yeah, so I started to becomevery arrogant because I thought
that everything was my own doing, Again, not understanding that
everything is from God andeverything is because we're

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stewards.
I lost everything.
So I got a lot of stuff built,clients built this and that, but
it was like a constant, likeyo-yo.
It was like up and down.
I do really good, get a lot ofstuff, get very arrogant and
prideful, think that everythingwas from me, and then God would
humble me.
At the time I didn't see thatit was God, but I was just like

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why does this keep happening?
And then I would go and eitherdo something else which was
inconsistency as well where Iwould go back and build back up
again no-transcript Then itwould fall and it would always
be a little bit higher each time, right.
So it was like, you know, I hadnothing and I'm like man, if I
could make $10,000 a month, thatwould be insane, right,

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$120,000 a year.
And when you're 19 years oldand you're homeless and you
never had anything and your momcleans houses for a living and
your Dad cut grass for a livingand you've never Experienced any
kind of real money, you're like, oh my goodness, like this is
impossible and I'm doing it.
And then you take all the creditfor yourself and you fall.
And then you go back and thenyou know, oh wow, like 20,000 a
month, that's insane, like I'venever met anybody in my life.

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That's done that and I'm doingit.
And then you know, whatever itis in the next goal, 50,000 a
month and I'm not talking aboutlike boom, I hit it one time in
one month, it's likeconsistently every month.

Yeah, yeah.

Colt King (20:25):
Then it's like man, wouldn't it be really cool if I
could do a hundred thousanddollars a month consistently?
And you know it's just everysingle point in time?
But to go back to my point is,every single time I took all the
credit and I thought that itwas all me.
I always wound up back where Istarted or in a in a worse

(20:49):
situation.
I couldn't have any consistency.
And when I finally understoodwho Jesus really is and I
understood the true gospel ofgrace and I fully surrendered,
on my own will as an adult, mylife to Jesus and Decided I
wanted a relationship with him,and not just a relationship, but

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I wanted to Make him the Lordof my life.

Which truly means I have to submit to him.

Colt King (21:19):
Yes, everything isn't mine, it's all his, anything
that I have, even if I say, well, it's my mind and it's my
actions, even if I Don't want toacknowledge God's favor, I
Would still have to acknowledgethat God made me and created me
as an individual and the mindthat I have is from him and in
the snap of a finger, my mindcan be gone.

(21:40):
Yeah so the very last time whereI started to, I Think I was
making probably anywhere betweenlike 75 to a hundred thousand
dollars a month and I was veryarrogant, very prideful.
I thought that everything wasof me, everything was from me,
it was all of my own doing andmy own doing alone.

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Before I was Surrendered mylife to Jesus and and truly gave
my lifetime as an adult.
That actually prompted me to dothat I started getting like
really bad brain fog, like itwas difficult for me to even
have conversations and I hadalways been a pretty sharp guy.
You know I could havehigh-level conversations and,

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and, you know, do whatever Ineeded to do.
I didn't have any issues withwith anything right, everything
was my own doing.
And I went to the doctor andrealized that I had thyroid
nodules.
Come to find out they did afine eat, a lot biopsy and it
was benign, but there wassomething going on with my
thyroid.
At the time I didn't take anypills for it, I didn't get

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anything removed, but they kindof related it back to that.
They're like well, this is theonly explanation we can come up
with, because other than thatyour blood works fine,
everything seems fine.
We don't know what it could be.
So I got a real big scarebecause I'm like, oh my goodness
, is this thyroid cancer?
Like you don't know what toexpect when they find when they
do a what do they call it?

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A Ultrasound on your thyroidand they find nodules.
You just, you just think theworst and that scared me,
especially with those sideeffects.
But when I finally realized, Ihit my knees and I went to God
and I said God, I Know that I'vebeen prideful, I know that I've
been arrogant and I know that Ithought everything was myself

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and you've taken that away fromme.
I Want to give my life to you,I want to give my will to you,
and I in that moment realizedthat it wasn't me, because I
wasn't in control of that.
There's nothing I could do.
I try to take vitaminsupplements, I try to go in the
sauna, I tried to exercise more,I try to drink water, I try to
eat healthier.
I tried to do everything in myown flesh that I thought, you

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know, going on Google orwhatever, just Researching like
how do you get rid of brain fog,you know whatever it is, and it
didn't work.
But when I finally hit my kneesand I went to the Lord and I
said, hey, you know, I thoughtthat everything was me and and
basically All that has stoppedand I've lost that and now I am

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Not sharp and I feel foggy and Ifeel tired all the time and I
feel lethargic, I realized thatit wasn't me, it was all God.
And when I finally humbledmyself before God and I
acknowledged, hey, this is allfrom you, even my mind is, is
from you anything that I have,even the fact that I woke up

(24:37):
this morning, even the fact thatI just took a breath, is all by
your grace and your mercy.
At that moment everythingchanged and Like literally,
within like a week, all thebrain fog went away and it was.
It was completely gone.
And it's funny because when wewere in church, we got the same
church people.
A few weeks ago, the pastor dida, a sermon on King

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Nebuchadnezzar when he stood onthe top of his was at the top of
his palace and he looked overeverything well, first, didn't?
they sent the prophet Daniel tohim and said hey look, you know
you gotta stop taking credit forall this God's favors on you.
You need to acknowledge God,and If you don't, this is what's
gonna happen.
And then I don't know whetherthey say a year later or
whatever.
I should probably know thestory better.
But long story short.

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He was up there.
He said look what I built.

Look at what I built and instantly his mind was
taken yeah, what I built withmy hands and my work and my son
and so instantly his mind wastaken and he started having to
roam the desert naked.

Colt King (25:33):
Yeah, he was like.
What do you think it was atdonkey, he went insane he went
insane, just like that.

and then afterwards he then got as the
time went on, boom, god restoredit, just like that again he's
like, hey, I now understandright and it's crazy because
that wasn't the first time thatI've heard that story since the
incident that I just told you inmy life.

Colt King (25:54):
But every single time I hear that story, dude, I just
break down crying because,obviously I'm not King
Nebuchadnezzar and I don't havea kingdom and a palace and all
that, but it was almostidentical.
I related to that story so muchbecause it was Just like that.
For me, it's when I thoughtthat everything was from my
doing.
God took my mind.

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I wasn't eating grass naked inthe desert, but I Was.
I was very humbled because thething that I thought was all
mine and all my doing was gone.

But you were in a desert eating all these
stupid supplements.
Yeah, which is probably.
You were probably eatingdrinking grass like peeing green
and fluorescent colors, and youknow but, but it was.

Colt King (26:37):
It was similar in the fact that when I finally
realized that everything wasfrom God and I hit my knees and
humility and said, god, pleaseremove this from me, I can't do
it on my own and he took it fromme, it's like that's God, like
there's no denying anymore, andthen that really just like set
me on fire for the Lord Startedattending church regularly.
My wife and I we had justgotten married and we were going

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to have our first child, andshe grew up in the church but
was living completely in theworld.
I grew up in the church, wasliving completely in the world,
and when we got together we bothhad that kind of like that seed
planted in that foundation.
So we said, hey, look if, ifwe're gonna have children and
we're gonna be married in thisworld, like we need to.

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We need God we need to find achurch, we need to have a
relationship with God, becausethis world's messed up, this
world's broken.
Even though we were both in theworld, we knew that it wasn't a
good place to be and we knewthat, raising our children, we
needed to raise our children inthat and first we needed to get
ourselves right.
So, although I had materialthings and success and money and

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all that stuff, I knew that theonly way to raise a family was
in the Lord.
So, anyways, we started goingto church, you know, really got
involved, started doing groups,started going through it and I
bought a Bible because, look, ifyou Love God, right, you have

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to consume his word.

Amen.

Colt King (28:12):
What does it say?
It says, though, in thebeginning the word was God, the
word was with God, and the wordbecame flesh, and that was Jesus
.
Yeah, and that's the living,breathing word of God.
So if you're gonna spend, ifyou love God and you're really
on fire for the Lord, you haveto dig into the word.
You can't just go to Sunday orgo to church on Sunday to be a
consumer and expect to be fed amessage.

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And then, god, we go to a goodchurch that actually has
wholesome, real, true Biblepreaching.
But a lot of churches take somany things out of context and
they just tell you theseinspirations, like Philippians
413, for example, for God, orwhat is it up?

I could do all things.
You, christ's strength andstrength.
It's funny, I actually have atattoo on me.
I got a, but if you look and ifyou back up and 11 and 12
before that, it's saying, hey,I've learned the secret of life
how to live a little like a lot,how to go hungry and how to go
full.
You know.
So now, because I know thatsecret, because I've had a lot
in a little, I've been humble.
I've known, gone through all,that I can do things, all things

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.
Who Christ's?

Colt King (29:05):
strengthens me, right ?
Basically, I can be content,and also that's what it wherever
the Lord takes me as a servantin humility.
I can do all things, even ifthat thing sucks.
She's my French, but yeah, evenif that thing stinks like, I
can do it because he gives mestrength and I'm not relying on
myself, I'm relying on him.
So yeah, man, that definitelywas a big game changer for me

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now.

Well, let me just stop you right there, just
real quick.
You know, I just heard theother day a great analogy and it
was like okay, even if you'regoing to a group, christians
Listen up.
Even if you're going to a group, let's just say you got a group
on Wednesday and you go tochurch on Sunday, okay, let's
call you an alcoholic.
Now You're an alcoholic, butyou only have a drink on Sunday

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and you have a drink onWednesday.

Colt King (29:55):
You're not an alcoholic.

You just have a drink on Sunday and a drink on
Wednesday.
That's the same thing asChristianity.
You can't call yourself aChristian and only consume God
on Sunday and Wednesday.

Colt King (30:06):
Right, yeah, man.

But that's the thing.

Colt King (30:10):
There's a difference between saying and this isn't
judgmental I'm not comparingmyself to anybody or this isn't
judgment by any sense, becauseeverybody's at a different stage
.

This is my platform.
We can get as judgmental as wewant, because we're not speaking
to anybody or person.
We love.
But there's hard truths in theBible.

Colt King (30:29):
Yeah, but some people get saved and it's like the day
of Pentecost, right the Holy.
Spirit you know, they justbecome on fire for the Lord and
they're just set free Otherpeople.
They have to go through aprogression and they have to go
through the fire.

It's just okay.
There's a difference betweenyou being able to say I just got
saved yesterday, a week ago, amonth ago, six months ago, eight
months ago, a year Opposed to.
I've been with the Lord forfive years and I still struggle
to be reading the Bible Right.
There's a huge difference, youknow, because go look at the

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thief on the cross.
All he did was say truly, youare the Son of God.
He goes, you're going to be inparadise with me, but that's
because God can see the heart.
We can't see the heart.
But if he would have all of asudden gotten mercy, let's just
say someone was like, oh no, wejust figured out something and
they pulled that thief off thecross, I promise you he would

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have been one of the disciples.
Then that probably went todeath.
You know, because God knows theheart.
It wasn't just words for him tosay it, there was nothing for
him to be gained there wasnothing to be gained at that
moment when he said that youknow.

Colt King (31:40):
Well, you know either , churches like to sometimes
preach nothing but firebrimstone to strike fear in the
hearts of people so that they dothings to out of fear which
don't get me wrong, we have tohave a fear for God, as we know
or they preach nothing but thegospel of grace, where people
think they have a license to sinand they think that, oh well, I

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can do whatever I want to dobecause I'm saved and it doesn't
really matter.
But it's like you know, jesusdied in the cross, not to give
us a religion, but to give us arelationship with him.
And if you have a relationshipwith somebody, let's say you get
a girlfriend and yourgirlfriend says, hey, I love you
and I really care about you.
Jesus showed us that he lovesus.
He died on the cross for oursins.

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Like, even when we rejected him,even when he knew that we'd
probably reject him, he stilldied in the cross for our sins,
even when we hate, even whenwe're in our sin.

He knew all of his disciples were going to flee
at that moment, and still Right.
So the joy that was set infront of him.

Colt King (32:36):
He did that anyway.
So if you had a girl and shesays I love you so much, I care
about you so much, and then shenever answered your phone calls,
she never texted you, and shenever checked on you.

She never wanted it.

Colt King (32:48):
Yeah, she never wanted it, but the point is is
that you can see somebody'shearts by their actions.
Like there's an old sayingactions speak louder than words.
And also, you know, the Bibletells us you'll know them by
their fruit.
So one of the fruits, or one ofthe I guess side effects you
could call it is you know, ifyou really love Jesus, you're
going to want to consume as muchof him as you possibly can.

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It's going to come natural.
It's going to come natural.
But let me tell you why.
I think it's an issue for a lotof people and it's because,
going back to my previous point,where churches sometimes will
preach nothing but fear, fireand brimstone or nothing but the
gospel of grace, if you comeinto a situation where you don't

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get told that you're a sinner,a lot of churches don't want to
go up there and say like, hey,you're a sinner, because the
enemy is the accuser.
His job is to make you feelguilty.
So if you feel guilty and youfeel shame, that's from the
enemy, and you know that it'sfrom the enemy.
The Holy Spirit is going toconvict you.
He's not going to make you feelshame and guilt, because if you

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feel guilty and you feel shamed, then you're going to be
defeated, and a defeatedChristian cannot be the light
and the salt of the world.
But if you feel conviction fromthe Holy Spirit, it leads to
repentance and you do new things.
So if you get saved because youheard a great sermon on grace
and you go, oh my goodness, Ilove this church.
I love the way this praise andworship music made me feel.

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I love the way this messagemade me feel.
It's very inspirational.
I'm going to raise my hand andsay this prayer, but they don't
understand why they're doing it.
My point in saying that is, ifyou don't know how much, or you
don't acknowledge how much youneed to be forgiven for, then
it's very hard to be gratefuland really appreciate the gift

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that you've been given.
So a lot of people like Satanminimizes everything.
God is the Creator, satan isthe perverter, so he takes sin
and he twists it and he calls itsomething else.
So instead of a pedophile,you're a minor attracted person,
or instead of a.
That's an extreme example butinstead of adultery, you're a

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swinger.
Instead of a sex cult and Ican't take credit for this.
This is from a pastor.
I think Marcus something is agreat pastor, but I heard a
sermon on this.
Instead of a sex cult, theycall him dance clubs.
So he takes things that areevil and he twists them and he
makes them acceptable.
So when we think thateverything's acceptable because
we're living by the worldstandards and not God standards,
we don't see our sin for whatit is.

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We don't understand our needfor a savior.
Therefore, it makes it verydifficult for us to really fall
in love with Jesus.
So for me, I was able to reallysee my sin.
The thing that made thedifference for me was I was hit
and convicted by the Holy Spirit.
Where I'm like man, I fullyacknowledge that, hey, I deserve
death, I deserve to burn inhell because God is a holy,

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perfect God.
That's just love and holinessand perfect.
What do they say?
There's angels flying around usthrowing on holy.
Holy is the.

Lord, god Almighty.

Colt King (35:52):
So it's like, if we really understand who God is,
we're not challenging God, we'renot saying God isn't fair and
God's not here to take the funout of anything.
He's like a good father.
He wants his children to obeyso that they can have a good,
happy, long life.
So, anyways, when you fullyunderstand your sin and you
understand that what it is thatyou deserve truly deserve not

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what the world says, that it'snot a big deal you understand,
by God's standard, the onlyjudge that actually matters,
that we're all going to comebefore, then you understand wow,
I really need an attorney, Ireally need Jesus, because when
God doesn't look at me anymore,he looks at Jesus.
So Jesus, being fully God andbeing fully man, lived the

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perfect life and he died.
He was the sacrificial lamb sothat if we believe in Him, we
can look, and God doesn't lookat us anymore, he looks at Jesus
.
We're co-heirs of the throne.

What is it?

Colt King (36:45):
We're the righteousness of God through
Christ, so I have norighteousness, I don't deserve
anything.
And I think that's difficultfor a lot of people who have
reached some level of success,because a lot of people in the
world who become successful,they become their own God.
They believe that.
Look what I've done, kind oflike King Nebuchadnezzar and
kind of like what I went through.
Look what I've done, look whatI've accomplished.

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I don't need God, everybody hasa God.
What is your God?
Is your God?
Porn Is your God?
Sex Is your God?
Yourself Is your God?

money Is it fame status?
Is it stuff?
Is it material things?

Colt King (37:20):
So that was a lie that Satan told me for a long
time.
He said, basically, if you'regoing to be a Christian and I
was a businessman and I feltthis calling and the Lord was
pulling me if you're going to bea Christian, you basically have
to sell all of your materialpossessions and be this like
poor guy.

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You need to be poor.
And I've always felt like Iguess they say some people have
an entrepreneurial spirit, soI've always been sort of like an
entrepreneur heart.
I've always known that I wasmeant to lead and I had a
calling to do the things thatI'm doing today and I felt like
man, it doesn't make sensebecause if I'm a Christian, I'm

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going to have to basically stopeverything, I'm going to have
to….

Which you knew that was the lie, right from the
devil as well, because if youreally look at it, it's like
well, let's see here Job.

Colt King (38:14):
Satan will do anything.
Look at King David, kingSolomon.
King Solomon, a man after God'sown heart, king David.

There's so many people that are blessed Right.
You know, that have a lot.
Go look at Abraham, go, look atall these people.
It's like how much they had.
God wants to reign those thingsdown, but you said something
earlier you have to be a goodsteward.
Oh, of course, which we'll talkto in just a second, but I
wanted to back up because youwere saying something that I

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really wanted to touch on,because you talk about it in the
entrepreneurship world, butit's also in the fitness world
and a lot of people don't getthis is that you were having
that success, but then, all of asudden, you just dropped down.
Then you'd have it a little bitmore, and then you dropped down
.

Colt King (38:59):
And it always looked like a series of unfortunate
events.

For sure, and you wanted to either blame it on
yourself, blame it on otherpeople, whatever it is.
But I'm here saying that thathappens so often in the health
and fitness realm.
You, what people, go look tothe diet, they go look to the
workouts, they go look down tothe iron gods, the group trainer
, the whatever person that is,and they follow their way and

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they get close.
And then all of a sudden,something happens and they back
up and they get close and theyusually blame it on themselves,
whatever it is.
Or they go look to Google.
Like you said, you had brainfog simply because you weren't
dedicating your life to Well.

Colt King (39:42):
I think it was a spiritual.
Yeah, it was 100% a spiritualthing.

But that's because we don't fight against
flesh and blood.
We are fighting against theprincipalities of this world,
the devil.
And that is what is happening inthe fitness realm.
God allowed that to happen.
Well, and that's what I want toget to, is if you would have
done just went into a straighttrajectory to Ewan Makhs side,
I'm just saying, or any, just up, up, up, up up, the likelihood

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that you would have repented isvery low For sure, you know,
because even Elon Musk said Ihave everything.
Yet happiness seems, you know,and fulfillment seems to still
elude me.
That's a quote that he has said.
You know, because God is sogood that he will even allow the
bad quote, unquote bad thingsto happen to you.
Because he loves you so much,he gave you this brain fog to

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show you that you are not inalignment with his word.
And that's what's happeningwithin the fitness realm.
So often people go to thesupplements, they go to the
workouts, they go to the diets,they go to all these things.
But my Bible says seek firstthe kingdom of God and live
righteously, then everythingwill be at you.
Offer your body as a livingsacrifice.
You know, holy and pleasing.

Colt King (40:53):
God, I think so many people are in the carnal world,
especially when they think aboutfitness.

Oh yes, and that's the thing is like.
Maybe you're not getting.
You're doing all the rightthings.
Maybe you are doing the dietbut you're not losing the weight
.
Your health issues aren't goingaway, they're getting worse.
Your hormones are all out ofwhack.
All these things you're doingall these things, maybe it's
because God is saying hey, giveit to me, stop being a glutton,

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stop doing these things for yourown self.
Because if maybe you go and doget onto those hormones,
whatever it is females and males, you know you get onto those
hormones because you'reoverweight, you're having hot
flashes as a woman, or you'rejust always lethargic, you have
brain fog, you whatever it isand you go seek these magic

(41:42):
potions from the snake oil, thesnake oil, whatever it is.
And I'm not saying that theycan't be used, but if you ask
those doctors like, okay, howlong am I gonna be on these
hormones, how long am I gonna beon this medication?

Colt King (41:55):
Forever, Forever.

But they won't say it.
But like they don't, there's noplan to get you off of it, so
it's like wait a minute.
And you get off and you're worsethan when you started and
you're worse than when youstarted and because you now were
reliant on it and it causeddamage, all these other things.
And it's like that's why I domy business, because I want to
show people that there is adifferent way.
Yes, you can be on it now great, or you could have it and be

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helped here.
But let's get you off of that,let's get you weaned off that.
But maybe you're doingeverything right and you're not
on the hormones, you're notseeking all these things, but
you're doing it for your ownbenefit.

Colt King (42:32):
I think some people 100% and not to interrupt you,
but I think it goes a lot.
It's the same inentrepreneurship and in business
and it's the same inChristianity as well, and
obviously they Christianity inbusiness and then Christianity
as well and in fitness.
Right, because everybody'slooking for somebody to give
them a secret formula.

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Everybody's waiting forsomebody to say there's the
escalator, just hop on and it'sgoing to take you to the top,
whether that's where they wantto be in their fitness goals.
But, dude, if you really thinkabout it, it's so easy.
Stop eating 5000 calories a dayand then extra like, if you
think about it, you know what'sthe secret.
How do I lose weight?

I can't figure out how to lose weight, and you
know honestly, not to correctyou a lot of people aren't
eating 5000 calories.
99% of the people that came tome to lose weight were under
eating, wow, and but that's thething is, they don't get it.
They don't understand that whenyou under eat five, six days a
week and then binge one day aweek with the crappy food or

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whatever, what are you doing?
Yeah, when you're 20, you're 20,you can get away with it.
25, you can get away with itbecause we have God's body.
We have, we are made in God'simage, we have such an amazing
body.
But what you don't realize iswhat are you turning off at that
moment?
Your hormones are going down,your thyroid's going down, your
brain, your brainwaves are goingdown, your heart is getting

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weaker, everything is cancer,cells are starting to build up
all these different thingsbecause they're under eating or
there.
And then they say go, work outso hard, do two a day's high
five.
It's like well, now you'reeating 1800 calories, you're
burning 1400 calories, you know,in a workout and a normal body

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does 2000,.
Like for us, we're doing about2200, about our age and size,
but a woman is, so now you're ina 2000 calorie deficit every
day.
Go tell me one thing in thisworld that operates in the
deficit and keeps going Nothing.
You can't do it in a budget,you can't do it in an
entrepreneurship, you can't doit in a country.
We're seeing that in the USright now.

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You know you can't do it, youcan't do it.
But we have God's body and somuch grace.
Not God's physical, you know,but what we're made in this
image.
We literally can make any typeof drug from a placebo effect.
If we believe it enough, that'show miracles happen.
That's how faith can movemountains.
True healing can happen.

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But you have to have that faith,not just oh, I have faith, lord
, but you're not doing anythingto really do it kind of ordeal,
you know, but like people don'tunderstand that even if you're
doing the right thing is, Godmay be holding that result back
because he loves you so much,because if you do go get it,
then you're going to think it'sall you and then you don't have

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him.
Like those are signs that youare not doing it right.
When you're not getting theresults, if you know, if you
only get results when you'redoing something and then you go
right back to it, that's morestress, you know, and that.
And when you said that it wasjust like, wow, I need to just
stop him right there, because onboth sides of fitness and in
entrepreneurship, but if youdon't have that, that walk with

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Christ, you're going to be thefirst person that gets angry
over it.
You're not going to, you know,because we need to.
Our weakness is made, but whenin our weakness, god's power is
made perfect, we can sit thereand say, okay, why can't I do
this, lord?
What do you want me to see?
Not, okay, google, tell me.
Like, if you're searchingGoogle, before you're searching

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the word, you got yourpriorities backwards?

Colt King (46:03):
Sure, yeah, and a lot of people think things aren't
spiritual matters that actuallyare, because they can't find the
correlation between it.

Yeah, I wanted to ask you a question what are
some specific challenges thatyou, as a Christian entrepreneur
, may face in the business world, and how can you overcome those
and stay true to the faith Like?
Has there been any challengesthat kind of come your way?

Colt King (46:31):
Not anymore, definitely in the beginning.
I think that in the beginning Iwas sort of I didn't
necessarily use my business as aplatform for the Lord and I
just I kind of felt like I wasgoing to offend somebody, right,
like if I was doing businesswith somebody who wants to have
that conversation when you'retalking about business, right,

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who wants to talk about Jesus orbring it up, or what if they're
a Muslim, or what if you knowwhatever?
And you know they don't want todo business with me anymore.
You know that was quite sometime ago, but I'm very outspoken
about my faith and, to be quitefrank, if somebody has a
problem with the fact that Ilove Jesus and that I do

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business in such a way that isgoverned by God and his rules
not rules, but his guidance If Ilook to God for everything
right in his guidance, then youdon't really want to do business
with that person anyways, right?
So, just like in marriage, ittells you not to be unequally
yoked.
It's kind of the same inbusiness you know, my partner

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and I will be in here sometimesand somebody will come in and
sit down and talk with us andI'll just tell them like yeah,
we're not doing business withthat guy.

Well, you know, Proverbs 16.3 says commit to
the Lord whatever you do, and hewill establish your plans.

Colt King (47:48):
Yeah.

And I love that , because you were even saying
like, hey, you have a GED.
Your mentor in the beginninghad a GED.
It doesn't matter, it doesn'tmatter if you're a doctor, it
doesn't matter if you are in anyarea of your life.
Whatever you're trying toachieve, whatever you're trying
to do, commit to the Lord.
He says commit to the Lord,whatever you do, and he will

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establish your plans.
Maybe it's not the plan,because many are the plans of a
man's heart, but God determinesthe steps.
And that's what I feel like alot of people don't do is they
don't commit it to the Lord,when you have an understanding
that everything is God, thatnothing belongs to you and
there's not really anyattachment.

Colt King (48:30):
There's not a lot of issues, right Like, even in the
morning, when I wake up, thefirst thing I do is, as I say a
prayer, and I thank God forwaking me up, because I realized
that a lot of people had plansfor it today and they didn't
wake up.
So you know, I submiteverything to him and it's
become kind of routine now.
It's just become the way that Ido things, so there's not a lot

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of challenges.
You know, if something doesn'tgo my way, I understand that
nothing happens in my lifeunless it passes through God's
hands first.
And I have so many experienceswhere I perceive something in
the physical to be a negativething and then I realize that
God was closing the door withthat person or that business
deal or whatever it was, andmaybe it's a couple months,

(49:13):
maybe it's a year, maybe it'stwo years down the road I'm able
to look back and see and belike God, you're a funny guy,
because he sees everything.
So you know I have fullacceptance of everything.
So I don't think there's adifficult any sort of difficulty
.

Yeah, god works all things for the good of
those that love him.
Yeah, he's my priority.

Colt King (49:32):
man Like if something happens, I'm not really worried
about it.
I would have been a number ofyears ago, but I'm not really
worried about it.
Like, even if I lost everythingtomorrow, I know that whatever
he has in store for me, nothingcan stop what God has in store.
Yeah, so which?

leads to a nice place to shift gears, and I
really want to just touch onhumility within financial
success, because not many peoplehave reached financial success
and a lot of people are almostscared.
Like you said, I don't evenconsider myself financially
successful.

Colt King (50:05):
I hold such a high standard, like once you hang out
with a few billionaires, yourealize you don't have very much
, which I get, that which isjust your some humility starting
to show.

you know why I've even gotten you onto this
podcast to ask these questions.
But you know, luke 12, 1248says for everyone that has been
given, much, much will bedemanded.
And I just want to ask you, howcan we, you know, or you do you
stay humble while stillenjoying financial success in

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your business?
Like, how do you do that?

Colt King (50:38):
For me, it's putting God first.
Yeah, Because if I realize thateverything belongs to him, I'm
just a steward.
Yeah, if I, I can't loseanything because it's not mine.
I can't gain anything becauseit's not mine.
Whatever I have is by his graceand mercy, because he deemed
that.
You know I was supposed to haveit.
I like that verse because itsays what is it?

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Whoever has much, much will berequired.

Yep much will be demanded.

Colt King (51:03):
Yeah, so you know it's when I understand that
everything is God's.
I use everything to further hiskingdom and things aren't my
God.
So I think that's how you havehumility, because I think ego
comes from thinking that you'vedone everything yourself.

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And when I have a fullunderstanding that even the fact
that I woke up this morning wasby God's grace, everything that
I have is because it's God'sand I'm grateful.
I have an attitude of gratitude.
I understand that everythingthat I have is from him and it's
for him.
Yeah, it's kind of hard to geta big head and not have humility

(51:46):
if you don't think things areyours and even the stuff with
the cars, for example, rightLike which, which actually I
just wanted to let me.

Let me almost rephrase that question just a
little bit.
I'm sure you get people becauseyou're driving a Lamborghini.
Now you have one, you justrecently picked a one.
We've talked, you've had allthe cars, you sold them.
You're driving your old, yourold, old, old Land Rover that
doesn't even look new at all fora while, you know, but now you
do that.
How do you handle, like peoplethat look at you Because you're

(52:15):
still a young guy, you know thatyou have this car you have.
I haven't been to your house,but it's a nice house,
especially comparable to therest of the United States.

Colt King (52:25):
Because it's just stuff and it's not my God.
So here's the thing right.

How do you handle that of like any type of
criticism or any of that type of?

Colt King (52:32):
stuff I don't even like.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I kind of youknow I keep to myself and if
I'm speaking to somebody it'sbecause I think I can add value
to them.
Yeah.

I like that.

Colt King (52:41):
But for the most part , like you know, a lot of people
think that being successful isstepping on people's backs to
get to the top and get whateveryou can.
And of course you're successfulbecause you get a lot, so you
get a lot.
That means you take, but reallyyou get paid in direct
proportion to the value youbring.
So I just focus on being themost valuable asset I can be to
the marketplace and whateverrespect the field I'm in or

(53:04):
whatever business I'm in, andsuccess and money and those
things are a byproduct.
I do everything for the Lord,everything you know.
The Lord knows my heart and asfar as the material things,
those things aren't my God.
You know I like cars.
I still have the Range Rover Ihave, I always have three or
four cars and the Lambo I mightdrive once a week.

Yeah, for a date night.
But you were even saying likeyou get the deal on the Lambo.

Colt King (53:29):
Yeah, and then you get the deal.
All those things are tools,that's all Well.

You can do good marketing deals, good meetings.
People respect you because youare this young good-looking guy.
You know you get that respectif you pull up to the 65, you're
like who's he?
He's really gonna take my fivemillion dollar business and make
me make this much more.
But when you roll up in thatbut you and I were talking it's
like you look for the deal.
You get the car, you drive itfor eight months and you can

(53:55):
almost sell it for just as muchas you bought it for it, or more
.

Colt King (53:58):
Yeah, you, just if you do things smart, I don't do
anything impulsively and as faras the stuff's concerned with,
like you know, cars and materialthings, whether it be watches,
cars, houses, clothes, whateverit is those things are just
marketing tools.
you know, and if you, you buysmart and you really understand
what you're doing and you dothings the right way, you're not

(54:20):
gonna lose money.
So essentially, it's justparking the money from the bank
account into something you getto enjoy it.
And you know I have it.
A lot of people go and buythose things to compensate.
They feel small, they feellittle or they feel big and
whatever the reason is, theywant to show people who they are
right.

(54:40):
They want to say hey, howard,they look at it through the lens
of how are people gonna see meif I have this car, if I wear
these clothes, if I have thiswatch?
What are people gonna think ofme?
And they're gonna think highlyof me.
So that's what I want Me.
Honestly, I could care less whatsomebody thinks about me.
Sometimes I don't drive the car, even when I feel like driving
the car, because I don't reallywant to sit and have an

(55:02):
hour-long conversation, asChevron, about something with a
stranger.
And that doesn't mean I lovepeople and I love to talk to
people.
But sometimes I have a lotgoing on.
But you know it's not forattention.
That's not where my heart is.
It's because I truly enjoy carsand if I went or not if.
But when people do come up andhave a conversation with me, you

(55:22):
know what do you do.
You know I'll have aconversation with them about
that.
It's a great recruiting tool aswell.
But I always talk about Jesus,I always talk about the Lord.
But it's just stuff, dude.
It's not difficult for me tohave humility, because when I
understand that everything's notmine and it's on loan from the
Lord, it's not reallycomplicated.

Well, I highly suggest the listeners to this
and anyone watching the video tocheck out the book the Blessed
Life.
I don't know if you read thatbook.
It's an excellent book and ittalks about how God wants us to
have that blessed life.
And one of the examples was ashe was driving down you know A1A

(56:02):
and going by these six milliondollar houses, 20 million dollar
houses, and this guy is likethey could just sell their house
and just give so much away, andit's like and you looked over
me he goes are you selling yourhouse and giving it everything
away?

Colt King (56:22):
So why?

should they?
So why should they?
Just because they have thisbigger game, because he who does
well with a lot, because youdon't know how much they're
giving away, right, you knowlike, yes, 10% is the bare
minimum of you know that opensthe windows.

Colt King (56:35):
Well, that kind of goes back to this as well not to
get off your point to hold thatthought, but also it's like
everything's done offpercentages right.

A lot of people .

Colt King (56:43):
Well, most people live off of credit just to
portray a lifestyle, to keep upwith the Joneses, right.
So they're living on borrowedmoney.
They don't have true wealth butthey're trying to appear
wealthy because it goes back towanting to be seen through that
lens.
They want to seem wealthy, theywant to be seen that way, in
that light.
But everything for me is donesmart and it's done off

(57:07):
percentages.
So I don't spend more thanmaximum 20% of my income every
single month and that's like onthe high end it's usually like
10 to 15%.
So anything that I have,whether it's car payments,
mortgage spending, whatever itis, it's no more than 10 to 20%
and I never have to like stopand look at it and be like, okay
, let me, because I'm alwayswell below it.

(57:29):
But if Most people can't affordto do what they do, but they do
it because they wanna be seen acertain way Technically dude,
if I wanted to, I could go buythree more Lambo's cash, 10 more
Lambo's cash.

You know what I mean?
I just have a whole fleet, butthe thing is it's like for what?

Colt King (57:46):
Like I?

don't.

Colt King (57:47):
I don't like, I have one.
I have what I like, I have youknow and.
I have other nice cars, but thepoint is, is you know those
people?
For example, with the $6million, $20 million houses.
They're buying those housesbecause they're wealthy and they
can afford it, and thoseproperties are probably one of
10 other properties, that's,they didn't take every single

(58:07):
thing that they had in the bankto put town as a 3% down payment
and then live, struggling, youknow, sweating every single
month, figuring out.
But everybody can only see lifethrough their own lens.
So people look at you andthey're like man, why would you
spend so much money on a car?
Or why would you spend so muchmoney on a watch?
Or why would you?
Because a lot is reallyrelative.

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It's all based on perception.
Like if I have, if I make $500million a month, I wish one day.
But if I make $500 million amonth and I spend a million
dollars a month, who cares?
I spent 1,500th of what I makein a month.
So if somebody else you knowmakes a million dollars a month

(58:48):
and they spend a million dollarsa month, or if somebody makes
$50,000 a year and they hearsomebody and they buy a $45,000
car and they're spending $3,000on rent, yeah, or if?
they say somebody's spending youknow.
Think about it if you're making$50,000 a year and you're
spending, you know, 97% of yourmonthly income on bills, and

(59:08):
then you know you knowstruggling, living paycheck to
paycheck just to keep up withthe Joneses.
Well, that's foolish, but again, everything's based off of
percentages.
So you know.

Well, that's the great thing about tithing is
tithing literally means 10%,and that's what I was trying to
say is like no one knows howmuch you're giving.
I'm not gonna even ask you that, that's not something I'm
trying to do here, but like,let's just say you're giving 30%
to the church, you know, and or10% to church, 20% to other

(59:40):
places, type of thing.
Great, it's like no one has anyway to speak to anything.
You could have a billiondollars, you know.
You could be making 20 million,you know, a month, let's just
say and if you're doing 30%,it's like you could still be
affording the private jet, theeverything.

Colt King (01:00:01):
Yeah, it's not what you spend, it's what you make.

Aaron O'Connell (01:00:02):
Because, let's be real, god can just make money
up here if you wanted to, if hewanted to, he can have stones,
praise him.
He can just all of a suddeninstill in that dumb person
right there that just loves theLord.
So much boom, and I'm justgonna make you win the lottery
and you're gonna be thinking I'mgonna give 98% of it away.

(01:00:24):
He can just go do that if hewanted to.
But he doesn't care about thematerialistic things.
He cares about the souls.
That's what real commodity is,that's what the devil wants and
that's what God wants.
And so when you look at it as atool well, a good tool is to
have somebody that's chasingafter his owner, a man, after

(01:00:45):
his own heart it all comes backto the heart man.
Exactly.
And he goes wow, you have agreat heart, but you also have
this entrepreneurship.
You also have this desire to besmart with your money.
Why wouldn't he bless you?
A?
He is, but also the moment youstart drifting.

(01:01:07):
We already saw what happens.
Right 100 times, you know andrainfall, you know, but that's
not because.

Colt King (01:01:12):
I have fear of the Lord.

Well, yeah, but now you have that fear and now
you've learned from those things, you're not being that stupid
person anymore, and that's whatI just wanted to showcase to the
listeners is like you gottahandle it.
Well, you got, you get.
We already stated that in there.
He who has a lot more will beexpected of him.
You know, it goes back to theparable of the talents.

(01:01:35):
He distributed the talents orthe money, in accordance to
their abilities.

Colt King (01:01:42):
Yeah, and listen.
You can use money to fund warsand you can use money to put
clothes on people's backs andyou can use money to feed hungry
people.
You know money, again, is just atool and the word currency
comes from the same root word ofthe word current, which means
to flow.
So it's not supposed to justcome in and be stored and saved

(01:02:04):
for your own personal gain.
Then it's like it coagulateslike blood.
It doesn't flow and then youdie.
So you know it's supposed to beused for good things.
So if you're using you know, ifyou're tithing what you're
supposed to tithe, then you'reusing, even if God's given you a
platform, to use that platformto lead people to the Lord, to
show people that hey, you can besuccessful, you can make money

(01:02:26):
and still love the Lord.
You know, and you can havethings.
You don't have to be poor andsell all your possessions to
show that you love the Lord.
Like the thing is, it's Godjudges us by our heart.
So, going back to what I wassaying earlier about the Bible,
when I first, you know, got onfire for the Lord and I truly

(01:02:46):
realized my sin and what Jesusdid for me and I just broke down
and fell in love with Jesus andhad that personal relationship,
I wanted to get into the Word.
So I got a.
I couldn't do the King JamesBible at that time.
The arts and the vows and thethis kind of you know kind of
got to me.

(01:03:06):
But I got a new internationalversion life application of
study Bible and I started inMatthew and I said I'm just
going to read through the wholeNew Testament.
That's where I'm going to start.
And it's really cool because atthe bottom of every single page
it breaks down each verse andif there's things that are
confusing, it kind of likebrings light to it and it will
reference like oh, this isreferring to the prophecy in the

(01:03:27):
Old Testament.
Then you can go back and it'snot just reading the Word of God
.
You don't read the Word of Godlike a story book.
The Bible's not a book.
The Bible's a library full ofbooks.
So when you read through it andthen you go back and you
actually study the word and youstart to, or even like the Greek
, you know the original Greek,to understand where the words
originated from, to have adeeper understanding.
It really helps.
And I started in Matthew andobviously Matthew starts with

(01:03:49):
the lineage of Jesus, so it'slike in the beginning, it's like
Boaz and then you know, camefrom this, and then you're like
but once you start to get intoit, I told myself I'm going to
read 15 minutes a night, just 15minutes.
I'm going to commit to that.
And after like night two orthree, I just couldn't put it
down, like I was falling asleepbecause it was at night.
I was like, I was like fallingasleep in the Word and I wanted

(01:04:12):
to keep myself up because Ididn't want to stop reading and
I didn't want to stop studyingand I just, you know, I would
get goosebumps and the wordswould start to come to life and
I really started to understandwho Jesus was, because I was
spending time with Jesus.
It wasn't just these foxholeprayers God get me out of this
situation, or God help me withthis, or God give me favor.
My prayers started to becomemore intentional.

(01:04:34):
I started to pray lessselfishly.
I would pray for people.
You know I started focusingless on what people could do for
me.
I always focused on providingvalue in business, but in my
life, okay, how can I be ablessing to somebody?
Instead of asking God to beblessed, I started to pray.
God put people in my path, togive me opportunities to be a

(01:04:56):
blessing to people.
Lord give me opportunities touse what you've given me to help
other people, Give meopportunities to speak to people
.
And God showed up every timeI'd be at the gas station and
somebody would come up to me andjust start pouring their heart
out to me and I'm like what inthe world is going on?
Like this has never happenedbefore, and now this is
happening.
And it's just crazy, man,because when you really seek

(01:05:20):
after a relationship with Jesus,you get one.
And like I was talking aboutearlier with if you had a
girlfriend and she neveranswered your calls and she
never wanted to hang out withyou.
That wouldn't be much of arelationship.
But how do you spend time withGod?
How do you spend time withJesus?
You love Jesus.
Well, first of all, you know,you meditate on His word, you

(01:05:40):
play it through in your head,you pray to Him, not just these
like routine religious prayers,like our Father, heart and
heaven.
Okay, I checked my goodChristian box.
I went to church and I said myprayer before bed.
But you actually, throughoutthe day, like, you stop and you
pray and you surrender and yougive everything to God and you
have that.
It's a conversation.
He's speaking to you, you'respeaking to Him, and then you

(01:06:02):
get in the word.
Because what's the first thingyou do when you get into a
relationship with somebody?
You have to get to know them.
Or, if you wanna build arelationship with somebody, you
have to get to know them beforeyou can build a relationship
with them.
So you wanna get to know Jesus.
Hey, I said the prayer.
Now what do I do?
Well, you should get a Bibleand you should get to know who
Jesus is.

You need to figure out who he is to even
understand if that's what youreally mean or not.
Right, you know because, likeyou can say, I love this person.
But if you don't know who theyare, you know when you're down
the road.
It happens in marriages thatpeople rush so often All of a
sudden you find out they'recrazy.
Right you know they're theselfish person.
They have these weird quirks dada da, da, da da da, all these

(01:06:43):
things.

Colt King (01:06:43):
Or instead of letting a pastor tell you who Jesus is,
find out on your own, it's likeimagine, you know, you get into
a relationship with somebodyjust based off the merit of what
her best friend told you.

They introduced you.
She's a great person.
She loves to face after, andany time that you wanna get to
know her you go to her bestfriend, but you never ask her.

Colt King (01:06:59):
Right, right, exactly so it's taking that time and
dude, in the beginning it'sgonna be, it's not gonna feel
natural.
Well, the devil's gonna beattacking you in the beginning,
100%.

So not think you understand it, all that
stuff Cause like I'd even justto back up, just to challenge
you.
Like you said, it is a libraryof books written by X amount of
men through the X amount ofyears.
Yes, but like when I shreddedit in 28 days.

Colt King (01:07:25):
What do you mean?

When I read the Bible in 28 days, cover to
cover.

Colt King (01:07:29):
I was like you shredded the Bible.
No, no, no, no in 28 days.
What do you mean, marilynManson?
Ha ha ha.

It came.
That is when it came alive forme 10 fold, Because you would
read about Noah and within acouple days you're ready in
David Within another week you'realready in Joel Within all of a
sudden, another week you'realready gotten done with the
Gospels.
Yeah, you know it happens this,and you see just the huge
picture that it is a story justgoing through and all of a

(01:07:57):
sudden, that's when things startbecoming alive.
Like I love the lineages, Notbecause I like reading them, and
no, it just provides my faithsuch more.

Colt King (01:08:07):
And then when you understand the whole purpose of
it.
Like Matthew was the taxcollector.

Well, he was yeah.

Colt King (01:08:11):
Matthew was appealing to the Jewish people.

To therefore talk about the lineage.
The Jewish people didn'tbelieve that Jesus was the
Messiah, so he was referencingthe prophecy that the Messiah
was gonna come from David.
And then if you get to Mark,he's talking more to the Romans,
you know, and you start readingthose things.
But I really liked what yousaid is you have to spend that
time and be in that relationship, just as that excellent gear.

(01:08:35):
Shifting to the last topic thatI wanted to bring up, which is
that work, family balance,because we know that you need to
be spending that time with yourkids, with your wife, all that
stuff, cause even the Ephesianssix forces fathers do not
exasperate your children.
Instead, bring them up in thetraining and instruction of the

(01:08:57):
Lord, and you need to be thereto bring them up, to train them
All that stuff.
Your wife is the one that'susually there, got the homemaker
thing, but when you come back,you can't just be gone the whole
time.
When you come back, you have tospend that time.

Colt King (01:09:12):
So I was really exactly.

So I was really wondering you know how?
Do you?
Could you like share strategiesfor setting boundaries between
work and family time to ensureboth are given the proper
attention?

Colt King (01:09:25):
Yeah, well, to be completely honest, obviously
those lines get blurred a lot asan entrepreneur, I have to take
phone calls or I have to bringout my laptop and take care of
something that's time sensitiveand crucial at the moment.
But I think the most importantthing is having priorities in
your mind, because before youcan make something a priority in
your life, it has to bepriority in your heart and in

(01:09:47):
your mind.
Because if I think thatbusiness is the most important
thing, and I don't care whathappens with anything else,
because this is my God or thisis my main focus, I'm not gonna
be intentional, right?
So first, it's truly knowing inyour heart what's important,
right?
So me, I don't make thosedecisions for myself on what's
important.

(01:10:07):
I go to God.
And you know the Bible tells usthat our marriage is our first
ministry, right?
So our marriage and our familyis our first ministry.
And when we're raising children, it's not just to raise
children who get good grades andgo out and be successful people
.
It's children that learn tolove.
And it's children who You'reraising, little girls, to be

(01:10:29):
good wives and good, strong,powerful women of the Lord one
day.
And you're, if you have boyswhich I don't have boys yet,
hopefully one day I'll see youknow you're raising them to be
husbands and fathers and youknow, what you teach them and as
children are is going todetermine who they grow up and
become as a man.
So for the balance part I havekind of like some things are

(01:10:52):
kind of sporadic, but for themost part I say hey, you know,
in the morning this is myroutine.
I wake up at this hour, mychildren wake up.
You know I'll have breakfastwith them or I'll spend some
time with them in the morning.

So there's a boundary you set that you're
like no, I'm gonna have thattime.
Right, it's, it's beingintentional.

Colt King (01:11:06):
I'm gonna do this and then I'm gonna get home at this
at this time.
I mean, things come upsometimes there's a late meeting
, this and that, but 99% of thetime, hey, I'm home at this hour
and as soon as I get home I'mright into it.

So for example, when, before that, when you do
miss that, that time you sayyou're gonna be there, I'm gonna
be home at this time, and thensomething happens.
Well, it's not usually somethingcomes up, it's usually like I
know ahead of time and I justtell my wife like hey, I'm gonna
be a little bit later today butokay but specifically it's, you
know, for the most part it's,it's pretty set right, yeah, cuz

(01:11:39):
I know I know for me being adad, when I say I'm gonna be
there at certain time and if Ihave it and this rarely happens
but if it did, I then go, youknow I have to make up for it.
Right, like not just equal, butlike I need to go above and
beyond.
Like I missed your.
I'd never missed a game.
Avery's not Somebody that likessports in the first place right

(01:12:00):
.
But yeah, I can only imagine,because I see it all the time.
Hey, buddy, I I promise youI'll be at your game, and then
something happens and they'renot at the game, right?
Well, okay, that's cool, lifehappens.
Well, how are you gonna make upfor it?

Colt King (01:12:12):
Well, at this phase, you know my dog, I have one
daughter that's two and a halfand another daughter that's
about to turn ten months.

Yeah, tomorrow so you're not quite there.

Colt King (01:12:21):
Yeah, they're both so young to where, even if I told
them I'm gonna be home at thistime, they wouldn't even like
really understand it.
Yeah, okay, but still like,even where I'm at with very
young kids, it's just importantbecause their development, a lot
of the development, especiallywith the personality, happens by
like three years old.
So the most important thing inour home and the most important
thing, and especially at thisstage and all the time, is love,

(01:12:43):
right, I?
I always speak to my daughtersand tell them that they're
beautiful, that their childrenof God, that they're intelligent
, that they're smart.
I speak life over them becausethe power in life and death are
in the tongue.
So I'm very intentional with mywords, I'm very intentional
with my, my actions, and I justset times in stone and I make
sure I'm there.
And it's not always easy.

(01:13:04):
Listen.
I get invited out to things ona regular basis that are Later
at night or on the weekend orthe workdays, and most of the
time I pass on those thingsbecause when you set something
as a priority, and it's truly apriority, it supersedes anything
else that comes up.
So it's a very rare occasionwhere that happens.
So I just make sure that I'mpresent when I'm there.
I do my best to Be presentbecause you can be there and be

(01:13:27):
on your phone, or you can bethere.
So I just kind of like to setmy phone away, turn everything
off.
I'll go back in my phone.
I'll have a hundrednotifications, but you know
it'll, it doesn't matter, I can.
I can handle that stuff andbasically anybody that I do
business with and anybody thatknows me understands that, hey,
what I'm with my family.

You set the tone first.

Colt King (01:13:47):
Yeah, I mean I have.
I have Anybody that that I dealwith.
When you get to a certain point, you kind of get to set the
rules for yourself for the mostpart.
So you know I kind of you getout of life that you accept and
you basically teach people howto treat you by what you accept.
So it's not in a negative lightor you know to try to control

(01:14:10):
everything.
But the people that are in mylife know me, I'm transparent,
they know that.
You know this time is for myfamily and if it's an emergency,
like yeah, call me, but I'm, Ijust really care about that time
and make sure I'm intentional.

Okay.
Do you have any advice ForChristian entrepreneurs who may
feel guilty about spending timeon their business when they want
to be present with theirfamilies?

Colt King (01:14:34):
Get more organized.
Yeah, I mean, listen, we canalways come up with a million
excuses.
You know how many people do youknow in the fitness world?
They're like I just don't havetime for the gym.
Brother, you can wake up anhour earlier, you can go to
sleep an hour earlier and youcan go to the gym.

Let me follow you around for one day and I can
show you when.

Colt King (01:14:52):
I'll show you right so it's like, yeah, it's
difficult, but everything inlife that's really good as
difficult.
Like most people that like, ifyou see somebody and goes, I
want that, I want my life to belike that.
Well, you know, if I give youthe recipe all the way to the,
the degrees the oven has to beset to, the time and the exact
everything and you copy thatrecipe, you're probably gonna

(01:15:13):
get the same result and it's thesame thing, right?
So find somebody that isprioritizing and balancing a
successful business and familyand watch what they do and do it
.
But it doesn't even have to bethat complicated just Get off
social media, get up.
I didn't first be completelyself-aware and honest.

(01:15:33):
Identify what your distractionsare.
Identify the things that arerobbing your time, that are
really not that important orthat you say aren't that
important, but your actions showthat they're more important
than what you reallyquote-unquote want to do and Get
rid of them.
Cut them out, even if you havesocial media withdrawal or
whatever.
It is TV time like.
If you, I don't watch TV.

(01:15:53):
I don't spend a lot of time onsocial media.
Every single second, everysingle minute, every single hour
.
I'm extremely intentional of mytime because if I don't, time
will just fly by.
Yep so if I want to make surethat I have time for my family,
I'm gonna make sure that I havetime to Do what I need to do in
the day for my businesses orWith my clients, and then also

(01:16:16):
have any sort of life balancefor my own personal self,
whether it be fitness exercise,you know just whatever it is
that.

I enjoy to balance out.

Colt King (01:16:27):
You know, you have to be extremely intentional and,
to be quite honest, I don't havea lot of balance other than
family and business, becausewhen I, first of all when I work
, I don't feel like I'm workingWell you also got your buddy
sitting in your office right now.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Colt King (01:16:42):
Yeah, he's my business partner, is my very
close friend as well, but youknow if I want to hang out with
somebody, I'll have him come tothe office, like I'm not gonna
go out and have lunch.
I'm not gonna go out and havelunch, and if I do, I'm gonna
have my laptop on the table thewhole time.
But you know, most of the timejust they come here.
But I never really feel likeI'm working, because I
absolutely love what I do.
You know, I heard a long timeago that if you love what you do

(01:17:05):
, you'll never work a day inyour life.
And it's very true, because Idon't ever feel like I'm working
.
I feel like life is a game.
I'm the main character, no, andit is.
Whatever I decide it's going tobe.
Yeah and it takes a lot ofdiscipline, takes a lot of
self-awareness and you have tobe able to manage yourself well.

Life's a game.
You're the main character andGod is the creator of the
goddess God as a creator.
He has all ultimate authorityand the cool thing is is he gave
you the user manual for thegame.

Colt King (01:17:36):
But we're made in the image of God.
Yeah, god is.
God has many names, obviously,right.

Jehovah, god, you know, but, but God is the
creator.

Colt King (01:17:44):
Yeah, so if we're made in the image of God, we are
the most fulfilled when we'recreating, so, like when I'm
building a business, likeespecially as man.
We were born to create exactly.
So every single day I'm justcreating and building, you know,
and I take pride in what I doand I love what I do, so I don't
really feel like I'm working.
Ever so you know, my free timeis what I'm working.

I love that, so I that's like an excellent
thing.
We've touched on all the topicsthat I really wanted to talk,
and is there any advice oranything that you would just
Want to depart the listenersbefore we're?
Before we're done?

Colt King (01:18:18):
Yeah, give everything to the Lord.
Don't let the enemy tell youthat you have to be in the world
To accomplish anything.
That's a big lie.
Most of the people that do haveany sort of material success
that are in the world arecompletely miserable, and you
can't have peace, joy, happinessand all the fruits of the
spirit as well as financial andmaterial success.

(01:18:41):
It requires surrender.
It requires Giving your heartto the Lord and testing your
heart and your ways and yourintentions.
But put God first andEverything else would be given
to you.

Excellent.
Well, thank you again for beingon the podcast.
Do you want to give anyinformation of where, how people
can find your business ifthey're like, wow, this guy,
this guy's somebody, I want todo my, have my lead gen or
anything like that.
Just you know, quick, quickplug for you.

Colt King (01:19:11):
Yeah, well, for the last two years We've had a
waiting list, so everything'sbasically like.
That's why you don't see a lotof stuff in my office.
It's kind of like appointmentonly, so I don't need to promote
anything on that end.
But if anybody wants to connector Anything, my social media is
Colt King official.
It's my Instagram.
You can follow me on Instagramor reach out to me.

(01:19:33):
Excellent, I'm here.

Well again, thank you so much for being on
the podcast.
Yeah, I know, I was having andI really hope the listeners were
filled up as well.

Colt King (01:19:44):
Cool.
Thank you for having me.
Man, of course, thank you.

All right brother, God bless you.
God bless you you.

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