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November 4, 2025 16 mins
Ever feel plugged in but still disconnected? In this episode, we're joined by Debbie Feyh, author of Believe in What You See, to reveal how nature holds the key to a deeper, unshakeable connection—one that technology can’t replace. Discover the stories, wisdom, and simple steps that can help you see the extraordinary in the everyday world around you. Step outside, look up, and get ready to believe in what you see.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Now sit back and strap in because on the line
with us today we have the impressive Debbie five and

(00:53):
we're gonna be discussing Debbie's incredible book, Believe in What
You See, Knowing God personally, by sea, his presence in nature. Man.
It's Amazon, it's a lot of other places. Type it
into a search bar and you'll find it. But most importantly,
you gotta check out our website that's Debbifi dot com.
Gather more information on her on this book hyperlink setup

(01:18):
to take it to the purchasing pages, you're gonna find
another book that she's written, which is actually it's a workbook, right,
it's a companion meant to go along with it. That
one is entitled My Diary of God's Presence. Believe in
what you see in. Both of these are fantastic additions
to be put onto your shelf. Again, that's debbiphi dot

(01:41):
com and listen. It is a true pleasure to have
Debbi here on the line. Man. You know what's interesting
is you are all listening to me talk to you
right now, most likely on the smartphone, right on a
device that connects you to everything, and yet at the
same time it can leave you feeling completely alone. Now,

(02:04):
it's interesting here when we analyze this, because we met it,
we've never been more quote unquote plugged in. Yet so
many of us are yearning for a signal of a
different kind, a genuine, unshakable connection, and entered Debbie because
her book suggests we've been looking for that connection in

(02:28):
the wrong feed. She makes a compelling case that the
natural world is actually the original and the most reliable
network to be found, and it's one that never buffers.
It never sells your data, and it's always broadcasting a
message of love. And that's gonna be the last pun
I promise you. We were having so much fun with this,

(02:49):
my team and I when we were creating it, We're like,
oh yeah, throw this in there, throw that. But no
joking aside, people, I know you all can relate to
it because I can. We are at such an interesting time.
Technology is really taking over and we are on the
precipice of the next wave, right AI is woof man,

(03:11):
that's about to take us to another level. Let's start
to get back, let's recenter ourselves and like she says
there in her book, like just being in nature. I
think it's something that I've really started, like definitely in
the past few years now with having children and forcing
myself to slow down a bit. I don't know if

(03:32):
I let me. Am I forcing myself or am I
just always exhausted? I don't know. Bottom line is, people,
I'm slowing myself down and I find myself recognizing these
subtle nuances in the world, so much beauty, so much
peace that can be found. You gotta take an opportunity
to find eh. Listen, this is gonna be a wonderful discussion,
and I promise you're gonna love adding this book to yourself.

(03:55):
Strap in. Here we go, Debbie, welcome to the network,
and thank you for being a guest. How you doing.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
I'm good, I'm good. It's an honor to be here today.

Speaker 1 (04:03):
Thank you, Debbie. Listen, the honor is all ours. Thank
you again for being a guest. Start first and foremost
at the foundation. Tell us more about yourself.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yeah, I'd love to. So I'm a farmer's daughter. Grew
up on a family farm in rural Kansas, so I
was outside a lot when I was in FFA. I
was in high school, I was heavily involved in FFA
and graduated from Kansas State University with an animal science
and an egg economics degree. Then I went to work

(04:34):
at the Kansas State Fair and I directed all the
agriculture shows and all their competitions there. And so now
I'm a farmer's wife and GiMA so love it.

Speaker 1 (04:47):
If we're talking about nature, is one thing that Debbie
knows for sure, people, and that's nature. Man, you understand
this is coming from a knowledgeable place. Now let's go
into the book here. I have a lot of questions
that I'm going to ask pertaining to it, but let's
get a brief synopsis. Believe in what you see, tell
us more about it.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
I guess I have a question for you because this
is how it started. So how many times do you
think you take the beauty of nature for granted?

Speaker 1 (05:15):
Oh? Every day, Debbie. I cannot even put a numerical
value on it.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
It's so easy to do, right. So we get stuck
in our heads and we're thinking about anything, and then
we just forget to look around. So then it just
becomes a habit. Are there flowers outside your house? Are
there flowers downtown? Maybe by the grocery store? And you
might be able to say, oh, maybe there's flowers, but
what color are they? What kind are they? Do you
actually take the time to smell them? God treated nature

(05:44):
to show us his presence and tell us about him.
So his presence is such a gift and it's meant
to help us. Nature isn't a religion, but nature is
God and he's our provider. And I think God's peace
is oh, sir, than we ever realized.

Speaker 1 (06:02):
Listen, I'm buying what you're selling here, okay, And I
love the discussion and where you're pointing us. So now
let's look at from your perspective. Obviously, growing up, as
you said, you're a farmer's daughter, now you're a farmer's wife.
You are one in nature, and everybody listening in right
now also understands we take it for granted so often,

(06:23):
especially I'm in Los Angeles and I'm not born and
raised here, but I've been here for decades now, and
oh my goodness, are we spoiled or what? Like? Here
in Los Angeles it's sunny, seventy degrees all year round.
That's just our norm. I find it. I was actually
going to the beach more when I was living in
New England rather than all of the years that I've

(06:45):
been here in Los Angeles. So that is just a
notion to plug into what you're saying in terms of
taking it for granted. But following this journey, what was
that moment like for you, what was the one moment
in nature where you felt God's presence so strongly and
you thought to yourself, like, you have to write this down.
It has to be a book.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
It started out my grandma taught me to see God
in nature, and I share this as one of the
stories in my book. But one day I was in
high school, probably fifteen sixteen, we were out in the pasture.
We were putting hay out for the cows. They had
a dairy, and so we were feeding the cows and
we were riding out there in my grandma she leans
over and says, deb what do you think is God's

(07:29):
favorite colors? Of course I'm a teenager. And I looked
her like, what I mean, I got nothing here and
so you know, and so then she leans over and says, Okay,
they've got to be blue and green, and then she
went on to describe how damn look at the blue sky.
It can't get any bluer than that. And we had
stopped by then, and so she stood up and kind

(07:50):
of waved her arm out in front of her like
a magic wand and said, look, it's green as far
as the eyes can see. So I stood up and looked,
and Grandma wasn't wrong. It was blue. And then she said, oh,
and waters are all blue with when everything I could
see from the soil to the sky was blue or green.
And so that that really started it. That was just

(08:12):
an amazing moment for me, and her question eventually changed
my life. But then she began to teach me how
to see God in nature, and so I want to
share then teach that perspective with the readers, because if
you grew up in a city, you have a different
perspective of nature than someone like me that's been in
the sticks all their lives.

Speaker 1 (08:33):
People, remember, you got to head on over more. I
could plug all the additional places, but the most important
one is debbiefi dot com. Okay, head on over there,
purchase your copies today. And just to make sure there's
no confusion, the FI is spelled feyh Okay, to make
sure you got it right. Head on over there, purchase

(08:54):
your copies today. But Wie, I love the simplicity of
this in a way. Right, this is something that I
believe is universal to a certain extent. Right, like whether
whether people are necessarily believers in Yeah, whether you want
to say God, right, if they're Christian followers, Catholic, whatever,

(09:15):
the religion or the particular higher force is right, copy
and paste yours. But it all circles together, and there's
a beauty to that. But if we're going to focus
specifically on God here, that's what we're gonna name the
higher force. What I love that your book presents, at
least in my interpretation, and please correct me if I'm wrong,

(09:36):
at its core, it seems that the book is less
about searching for God and more so about simply noticing God.
And I think that's an important delineation because as I again,
as I interpret it, as I was preparing for the interview,
it really struck me, like so many people, they're often

(09:57):
side like they're searching for God, They're waiting to hear
his they're waiting for him to answer their prayers. And
he's around us all of the time and all of
the creations that He has blessed us with. For people
out there listening in right now, obviously picking up your
book is going to be a great place to start.
But what is the first small step that you hope

(10:19):
your reader takes towards recognizing that shift.

Speaker 2 (10:24):
Once you see God's presence in nature, you almost can't
unsee it, right, And Nature's like hollering, Nature's right, hollering here,
I am, Nature's God hollering here I am. He's not hiding,
you know, he tells us so much about him And okay, okay,
like one other question here, has there ever been a
day since you were born that the sun hasn't risen,

(10:47):
slid across the sky and set with beautiful colors. No,
because God is faithful. God is faithful because he created.
He tells us in Genesis one, like three through five,
he said, let there be light, and there was light.
He created the darkness. And not only did he create,
but he named it as well. When the sun comes up,

(11:10):
we still say it's light outside. When the sun goes down,
we still say it's dark outside. He created the word
day and the word night. We still use that as well.
There's four seasons in the year. Has there ever been
a year in your life that there hasn't been four seasons? No,
because God is faithful and he's always there. He never

(11:31):
leaves us. And you can see him in all the
aspects of nature. Nature's visual comfort to us. We can
see the beauty and awe and nature and know that's God.

Speaker 1 (11:43):
Debbie, when you were creating this book, I'm curious, like,
how did you know the order that you wanted this
book to fall? Like? How did you decide the order?
What feeling did you want to create for someone that
was reading it from start to finish?

Speaker 2 (11:58):
I really want the reader to learn to live life
expecting to see God in it. I mean, he's not distanced.
His cousins is woven into every detail of your day
through nature, if you choose to look for it. And
so I went through with how He created and how
we went through it. And God created with a plan,

(12:20):
and his plan has never changed from the very beginning,
from day one. His plan has not changed. And there's
so many scientific things also that to go along with it.
And NASA tells us that the surface of the Earth
is seventy percent blue and thirty percent green, and that
doesn't even count the beautiful blue sky. So if you're

(12:42):
doing the math, and ASAD tells us that the Earth's
surface is blue and green. And then there was a
survey done too. I talk about this in the book
that of people's favorite color, guess what blue is people's
favorite color? It was number one and green is number two.
And that's not only true in the US, but several
other countries. And so God created and we are a

(13:05):
part of his story.

Speaker 1 (13:06):
Debby close us out here. My final question, tell us
a little bit more about your other book, about this
workbook and your vision behind it. How do you see
it as that companion for your readers.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
You know, God is a part of our everyday life,
and that if you choose to look for it and
write that down when you see God's presence and when
you learn say, once you see it, you won't ever
unsee it. And so write that down where you saw
God because then when you have low times in your
life and you wonder where God is because sometimes it

(13:42):
seems like there's a lot heavy silence, and go back
and read that and say, oh, yeah, God did this
and God did this because hindsight's twenty twenty. I mean,
when you're going through problems, it's very hard to see
the outcome. And once you look back, then you can
see God. I wish from my grandma. I wish I
had a book from her of that written down where

(14:03):
she saw God in nature and where she saw God
in different things. I would love to have that. So
that's where that comes from. So I'm writing it down myself,
even for my grandkids.

Speaker 1 (14:13):
Love it. Paying it forward. Man, people, what a great
place to close out. You all got it there. We've
barely scratched the surface. I promise you. There is so
much to be found. But I look at this conversation.
And I also look at this book as a challenge,
really as a challenge for all of us, and for
some it's a harder challenge than others. Right that you

(14:34):
mentioned before, like growing up on a farm man, you're
engulfed in that nature. You got to try to escape it.
You grew up in this city more so like me,
you're dealing with nature, but it's a slightly different type. Right.
But my challenge for each and every one of you
listening in right now is to step outside, step outside,
even for a moment, Look at a leaf, look at

(14:58):
the trees around you, feel the the sun. Just listen
to the world and the world that isn't made up
of these bits. And trust me what I say, Like
I know I'm gonna be I'm being a little hard
right now on technology. I'm not here to beat up
on it. It serves its purpose. There are pros and
there are cons and that's for another debate. That's for
another discussion, because the list is getting longer. But the

(15:21):
motion here is to just be one, to take a moment,
to breathe and take it all in. Because the most
profound connection that we could ever establishment, it's waiting for
you to simply look up and recognize it. It's waiting
for you too, all right, last pun here for you
to believe in what you see, because I promise you, man,
it's gonna change some things for you once you do that. Again,

(15:44):
Remember it's Amazon, it's Debbi five dot com. Head on
over there, pick up copies today and get lost in
this magnificent book. Debbie, this has been a true pleasure, Okay,
an absolute honor. Thank you once again for being a guest,
A people of distinction.

Speaker 2 (15:59):
Thank you, thank you so much.
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