What if winning had nothing to do with scoreboards and everything to do with how you love people today? Edwin Martin reframes success from outcomes to obedience, showing how one intentional conversation or courageous yes can create more impact than any trophy. He unpacks how fear of the unknown limits purpose, and why choosing what sets your soul on fire—every single morning—builds a life of momentum and meaning. Listeners walk away with practical ways to love people well, anchor their faith, and replace performance pressure with purposeful action.
You’ll Learn:
- How to shift from outcome-based success to a purpose-driven, faith-centered definition of winning.
- Simple daily practices to love people well, ask better questions, and create genuine connection.
- How obedience, presence, and small acts of courage compound into long-term impact.
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Episode Transcript
Two hard things.
Help one person.
Be good and do good.
Live a life of discipline andyou will always win.
You have all the tools that youneed to succeed.
Welcome to Win Today.
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Let's dig in.
Alright, here we are withanother snippet of winning is,
which is my new favoriteconversation to have with guests
as we're wrapping up an episodeto really define what does
winning mean and help createadditional perspective for
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people in that winning isn'tnecessarily an outcome in life.
Ed is the I'll call him theoldest young person I know just
because of his wisdom andmaturity at such a young age.
Ed was recently on the podcaston episode 229.
Go and check that out if youhaven't yet.
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But what strikes me about hisdefinition of winning is that I
really see it as being groundedin exemplifying love.
So he talks about if he canshare the message of Jesus every
day and really exemplify thatlove, the love that is shared in
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the good book, spread that loveto at least one person, then
that's winning for him.
Ed is certainly one of the mostgrounded and mature people that
I know, but more so grounded inthat when you're around him, he
is somebody that has this senseof comfort.
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He creates this sense of comfortand warmth that I believe is
very defined in people, and Ibelieve that that is a result of
his faith journey and walk withthe big man that he wants
everyone to join him on.
And he I believe there's nobetter person to learn from than
him when it comes to that.
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And we're at the time now wherea lot of folks are looking at
what do they want to dodifferently in 2026, and if
starting a faith journey is onyour agenda, then I highly
recommend uh digging more intoEd's work and reaching out to
him.
He is more than happy to be thecatalyst for not just your
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fitness journey, but your faithjourney.
And it's my wish that you cancheck out more of his work and
also help craft a meaningfuldefinition for winning based off
what he has to share with ustoday.
Thank you so much.
Ed, I've had this conversationwith folks on the pod this year,
switching things up a little bittowards the end, where I want to
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know what winning means topeople.
Because I've come to change thedefinition of it over the years,
and it's completely removed fromany sort of outcome.
Meaning that maybe if you asked15 years ago what winning was, I
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might have told you that it wasa wrestling state title or
something along those lines.
Now it couldn't be further froman outcome.
So we're on the win todaypodcast, but if I asked you what
is winning, like winning is dotdot dot.
What is that for you?
SPEAKER_00 (04:04):
Um just like you said, my answer probably 18
years ago probably would havebeen um some sort of
accomplishment or end resultthat would have been for my own
gain.
But winning today, in my eyes,is if I told someone about Jesus
um in the day.
Um and if I truly poured myheart out to intentionally have
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a conversation with them andshowing them the love of Christ
every single day would be mywinning.
And obviously, there's no goodworks that is gonna they're
gonna get us into heaven, but atthe same time, I'm gonna do
whatever I can do to go out ofmy way to share the love of
Jesus to somebody, whether it'sa homeless guy on the street or
it's a person I don't know thatI can bless at the grocery store
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by to asking them how they'redoing.
I'm gonna go out of my way tolove someone and share them,
share the show them the love ofChrist that they might not have
ever experienced before.
And I'm gonna be that person whosteps in to show them that.
Um and I feel like a lot of wejust kind of going back to the
previous conversation.
Um, a lot of times that I'veseen God move the most is just
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to have a willing heart to sayyes.
Um, just say yes.
You never know what is on theother side of your yes, and
that's going back to saying yesto this challenge.
It's just the beauty of theunknowns of the impact that
you're gonna make is sobeautiful because the unknown
scares so many people.
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So many people.
It'll that fear will factor inof you don't know what's gonna
come.
And and in my eyes, that'sbeautiful because that's
obedience, that's stepping outof your comfort zone and doing
it, and that's winning in myeyes, is being obedient, saying
yes, obviously usingdiscernment, but saying yes to
the right things because younever know the impact that
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you're gonna make on someoneelse's lives or eternity, you
know.
SPEAKER_02 (05:56):
What advice would you give somebody to craft a
meaningful relationship ordefinition with the concept and
word winning?
Great question.
SPEAKER_00 (06:11):
I would really say to search yourself, to really
find deep inside of your soulwhat sets it on fire, you know,
and it's gonna be different foreach and every person that gets
them up every going, like out ofbed every single day, and find
that thing that sets your soulon fire and never let it lose
that spark ever.
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Because the day that you losethat spark, you're you're done
for.
You just find it that literallygets you out of bed and it stirs
you to keep going.
And that's where when you findthat thing and you have that
deep down in your heart and yoursoul, you you can keep going in
some of these tough timesbecause you, whatever that is,
your your soul is on fire forit.
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So I'd say if I'm recommendingsomeone, I would say find
something that you're sopassionate about, whether it's
your faith, which I pray it is,or your hobbies, or your job, or
your relationships, or yourwife, or your husband, find that
thing and absolutely just pursuewith all of your heart, and
you'll never lose that momentumwhen it means that much to you
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every single day.
Just choose it.
Choose it every single day whenyou get out of bed.
SPEAKER_02 (07:19):
Amen to that.
What's one book that yourecommend people read in 2026
that can help them sharpen uptheir mindset?
SPEAKER_00 (07:29):
For me, mine would be The All of God by John
Revere.
Um, it really gives a good umjust overview of what fearing
God means.
Um, and I don't want to spoil itfor anybody, but the all of God
by John Brevere and it'll changeyour life.
SPEAKER_02 (07:45):
Yeah, I always love to ask books, book
recommendations because now I'vegot this massive list from
guests over the years and himturning it into a little running
guest list, so or running booklist that we'll have featured on
the on the website someday.
Ed, how do we keep up with youand support you?
What's the best way to do that?
SPEAKER_00 (08:06):
Uh it would be on socials, Instagram.
My Instagram is Ironsned.
Uh long backstory on that one,but yeah, that would be the main
source of contact.
And like Ryan previously gave usa shout-out, um, the Revitalized
Podcast, we're on uh Spotify atthe Revitalized Podcast and on
Instagram as well for a businesspage.
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