July 22, 2025 • 32 mins
In this heartfelt episode of The No Fruit Podcast, Kafi and Maurice sit down with Larry and Sue Pruett to explore a question that often goes unasked in relationships: Why is it important for couples to dream together?
With decades of life, love, and lessons between them, Larry and Sue share how dreaming together has strengthened their marriage, deepened their bond, and kept them aligned through every season. Whether it's planning a future, building a business, or simply imagining what's next—shared vision brings couples closer and makes love more purposeful.
This conversation is not just about big goals—it’s about creating space for hope, imagination, and mutual growth. If you're looking to strengthen your connection or reignite your sense of purpose as a couple, this episode will show you how powerful it is to dream in partnership.
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With decades of life, love, and lessons between them, Larry and Sue share how dreaming together has strengthened their marriage, deepened their bond, and kept them aligned through every season. Whether it's planning a future, building a business, or simply imagining what's next—shared vision brings couples closer and makes love more purposeful.
This conversation is not just about big goals—it’s about creating space for hope, imagination, and mutual growth. If you're looking to strengthen your connection or reignite your sense of purpose as a couple, this episode will show you how powerful it is to dream in partnership.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I thank you very much for tuning in to the
No Fruit Podcast, and so our question for today. Everyone
has love, but not every couple has a shared vision.
Today we're joined with Larry and Sue Pruk about why
dreaming together might just be the missing piece in your relationship.
(00:23):
We'll talk about it right after this.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Let's talk about loving the man the way that God
intend like experiences share.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
To help you transfort.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Again.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Again, again, we thank you very much for tuning in.
So we're not going to share their bios and all
that stuff because you can find it on YouTube or
or else, because they have a wonderful YouTube channel, so
if you can go and listen to them on air.
But Larry and Sue, so many couples focused on managing
the day to day, but you both emphasize the importance
(01:13):
of dreaming together. Why do you believe a shared vision
is a center for long term relationship health and growth?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Oh my goodness. Well, first of all, thanks for having
us on.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
We really appreciate it and we're really looking forward to this.
But the reason that it's so important to dream together
is because if you're going to be successful in whatever
you want to talk about in life, relationship, business, family,
any of that, you as a couple have to be
pulling the same direction. And if you're dreaming but you're
(01:45):
not dreaming together, it's really easy to start pulling against
each other and pulling in different directions. And so I
think that that dreaming together just leads into the unity
that you wanted as a couple when you got married
in the first place.
Speaker 6 (01:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Absolutely, And it's just such a key thing for us
as if we go back, like a few years in
our experience, we started going away for like weekends, and
those were times where we just say, like, you know,
what do we where do we see ourselves in five
(02:19):
years or ten years or twenty years down the road?
And we just found that the act of dreaming together
really gave us a tremendous amount of connection.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
The dream itself.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I don't want to say it doesn't matter, but it
can be very distinct and very unique for every couple.
It should be, But just the act of dreaming together
provides such a unity as a couple. And then, as
Sue said, then you're pulling together in that same direction
whatever you've decided to do, and it just becomes this
beautiful thing.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
In a relationship.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
That's great. I think what I'm hearing, and I just
want you're input a little bit. But a lot of
times dreaming is associate with children. You know, like children
dream and they play pretend and all those types of things.
And it's unique to hear you say that. You know,
you as couples to continue to dream. A lot of
times we as kids, we dream of that wedding and
then it kind of stops after that. So talk to
(03:16):
us a little bit about how do you continue to
do that even after you're married. You know that you're
not done dreaming.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yeah, And I would just say to that point, there's
a point where you have to put some meat on
those dreams. You've got to get them a little bit
less fuzzy, and you've got to start putting some action
steps into place so that you start, you know, things
can become a reality. But yeah, as kids, we do
dream a lot, and then as we get older, we
(03:46):
just get well, there's a tendency we can start getting
cranky with what's going on in life and things start
beating you down and you lose those dreams and you
just lose I don't know, just something special about all
of that.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
I think a huge part of it is that that
tyranny of the urgent begins to pull on you a lot,
and you start One of the things that we talk
with our students a lot about is saying no more often.
I think, as we all have a tendency to say
yes to too many things, and before we know what
we're spread toothin, we're dropping balls. We can't achieve even
(04:23):
what we have already committed to do. Let alone think
about doing something different in the future. And honestly, for us,
we've been through a roller coaster with that. We've had
times where we've dreamed together really well, had really good,
clear dreams, other times where it's gotten fuzzy or it's
gotten lost. In fact, you had an experience several years
ago when you were working your corporate job about nine.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Point thirty on it or whatever it was.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
You want to share that, right, Yeah, So in some
ways we were living our dream, so to speak, because
Sue was able to stay home with our kids. We've
got five kids, and she was able to be homeschooling them.
And at one point I had a job that was
full time. It was thirty hours a week. They don't
make those type of jobs anymore, I don't think so.
(05:12):
But then that quickly turned on us, and it became
this thing where I was gone for basically the entire
waking hours of our kids during the week. So it became,
I guess you could, our dream turned into a nightmare
a little bit there. And so there was an evening
where I was coming home from work, and there were
some days where I did get off at six or seven.
(05:34):
Some days I got off at eight o'clock or something
like that, and I was thinking, what time of day
even is it? Right now, I've kind of have one
of those disoriented moments as I'm driving, which is a
little bit frightening, right But I went by a bank
that had that time and temperature thing on it, and
I looked over and it said nine thirty five pm,
(05:55):
and the realization just hit me. Well literally, I think
I said it out loud. I was in the vehicle
by myself. It's okay to talk to yourself sometimes, and
I just said, what the world am I doing? When
I get home? The kids are all going to be
in bed. Sue made some fantastic supper, but it's in well,
hopefully there's some leftovers. You know, kids, you never know
right right right, but I'm gonna have to worm it up.
(06:17):
And I've just missed out on an entire day with
my kids again here, and so that's one of those
moments where we're like, Okay, this is not working, and
we had to kind of redream. We had to regroup
on that and say, this is not what we wanted
like to look like. But we've we've got the opportunity
to fix this or to do something about it. So
what do we want to do? We know this is
(06:39):
not it, So how do we want things to look
in the future.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
I think sometimes we get caught up in the because
as I'm listening to you, it reminds me of my job,
because I used to get off at eight o'clock at
night at one time, and I was missing Christmas and
Thanksgiving and those type of holidays, and Cough would go
drop me off and early in the morning. So I'm
waking the kids up six o'clock in the morning just
(07:04):
to open up Christmas gifts, you know. And so I
understand that, But a lot of times I know for myself,
was you know what, I want to make sure that
these lights stay on? You know what, I want to
try and make sure that this water stays on. But
and some of that was because of I didn't know
how to manage my time, my energy, because I didn't
(07:27):
necessarily see that as a kid. So what I thought
from a kid perspective of how to dream, we're not
also taught how to manage that as well. So how
do we get into that place of understanding how to
manage that dream to make it come a true, full
blown reality?
Speaker 6 (07:45):
You know?
Speaker 3 (07:45):
I have to love that you use the word energy there,
not just time, but energy. I think that's a missing
piece that we many times think of. So in other words,
there could be there could be opportunities where I'm at home,
but I am not present because I've got no energy.
I am spent from the day and such. So I
(08:06):
do think once we've taken this dream of you know, hey,
this is where we want to be again. I kind
of use the five year down the road type thing.
That's a decent place to start to give it time
to be working on things. But then as you start
putting some meat to those bones and then start saying
what are some action steps, What is something that I
(08:27):
can do today or this week that's going to move
me towards that goal.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
The one thing you want to talk about that.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Yeah, so we often there's the book the one thing
the author's name is escaping me right now. But he
asked the question, what is the one thing that I
can do right now that by doing that everything else
becomes easier or maybe unnecessary. And so when we think
(08:56):
in those terms of what's the easiest next strit step
to take that will make things easier down the road,
I think that that is a huge key to putting
action to your dreams so that you can be moving
towards what you want to do.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
And I think i'll just add to that real quickly
is you know, we talk a lot about entrepreneurship because
that's who we are. We've been full time entrepreneurs for
twelve and a half years now. But not everybody as
an entrepreneur, not everybody has to do that, and we
fully understand that. And so maybe somebody's dream is to
advance in a corporate position, but then you just have
(09:34):
to you have to be very intentional and understanding about
what is the cost with that, what are the extra
responsibilities to travel, the time away and such. And I
think that's a very legitimate path that somebody can choose.
But but you know, again back to that question of
how do I manage it? You just have to be
very aware of what the consequences are, positive and negative
(09:55):
of those decisions, and then come up with a very
active game plan on how are we going to get
there so that I don't lose my soul along the
way of trying to accomplish what I'm trying to accomplish.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
And so I'm gonna piggyback off of the entrepreneur thing
because again, we started our own company in twenty twelve,
so we're relatively around the same time. And so the
thing is is in that dream of being an entrepreneur, right,
you're like, hey, you hear this word, and you hear
people flat. I mean, you see people flashing money and
you know, the bigger houses and cars and things like that,
(10:30):
and not understanding one hundred percent what it really took
to get to that point and so whether it was
the time or the energy, but how am I utilizing that?
And with that comes educating myself because that's some of
the things that we didn't understand. There were some legal things,
some form, some you know, processing, some systems that I'm
(10:54):
gonna be honest with you, we didn't really get into
that until probably halfway through know of really understanding what
it really meant and what it took to get to
become a true entrepreneur ie business person and understanding the
difference between working in your business and on your business
two different ideas, right, you know. So so I think
(11:15):
those type of things when we think about dreams, we
don't always understand could we see the bigger and or
global image, and not understanding all the little baby steps
because I'm a big picture person, conference the baby step person, right,
you know. And so sometimes I'm.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Like, no, we could, we could get there. We could get.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
There, but Maurice, what's the first step? You know? And
so sometimes I think those type of things kind of
determs us from our dream because we don't always know
all those little steps that we need to take to
get there.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
That is so true, and and so I think that's
a big part of our our kind of weekend getaways
that we do on a regular basis as we are
laying out steps. So we think about the big dream,
but then we start breaking it down to what are
the things that need to be done at what stage
of working towards this dream, and that really does help.
(12:10):
But also I have to say that for us, when
we stepped into entrepreneurship, we kind of did it. We
did it on the side. At first, it was a
side hustle. It was very much Larry doing it really
on his own. I was busy having babies and.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Homeschooling, so I didn't try to give into that.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
But then when we when we began to take that
step into full time entrepreneurship where he was going to
be home and we were going to be doing this
as a family, that was our that was our dream.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
That was our goal. Was to show our children that
there was more than one way to do life. And
we wanted them to see.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
They had seen what it was like to have a
corporate job and to to you know, be a faithful
employee and to to do all the honorable work there,
and we wanted to show them there's another way that
you can do it too. And frankly, neither one of
those ways made us millionaires. But we've supported our family.
We have a closeness as a family now that I'm
(13:07):
thrilled with. Even our children are all very close to
each other, even though there most all are grown and
out of.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
The house will be there, and it became like that
became the most important thing to us.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Yes we needed to support our family, Yes we needed
to earn money, but the more important thing was showing
our children there's more than one way to do this,
and these are honorable ways to do it, all.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Of them are. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Yeah, there's so many things that we've kind of discovered
along the way also, just like what you're saying, and
some of them even recently, you know. And of course
technology changes and there's different tools and such that are
available now that weren't available twelve thirteen years ago. But
one of the things that we did that has really
helped us with kind of where you were going with
that question is we developed a family Mission Statement, and
(13:54):
then we use that as a filter to help us
as we were making decisions. And you know, fast forward
now to twenty twenty five when we're recording this is
now we've got these AI tools that we can we
can plug that those type of things into these AI
tools and then say, here's this opportunity that's come up
or Larry's come up with this crazy idea today, and
(14:17):
what's the first step. Yeah, what Sue is asking me,
all right, So we're very similar there, and then we
run that through the AI program and it's like, here's
some tough questions that you need to ask yourself. What
is the cost of this? Are you going to have
the energy to do this? And it's it's a little
bit scary how much the AI knows.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Us right right right.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
Also that tool that we can use to our benefit.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
So that's something that now we are teaching other people
on how to do so that you take those dreams,
you make them really practical, You filter out the good
ideas so that you've got the time and energy for
the excellent ideas.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
So you know what I was hearing a lot is
well that gravitated to me was the values even in
those goals, the values even in your dreams, you know.
And I think that's where we have to kind of
match up a lot of times. I think even in
our marriage journy we've been married twenty almost twenty five years,
(15:18):
we didn't always dream together in that way, but our
values always matched up. So even though he may be
dreaming on, you know, climbing the corporate ladder when he
was in corporate America, and I was like Sue, just like, Okay,
do you want to keep the house together, want to
keep a roof over our heads? Yeah, I'll go to work.
But you know, my importance, part, my value was home.
(15:41):
So it was key that we had those same values,
even though maybe our dreams and our goals were different.
And then as time goes on, you live together, you
work together, you know, and those things some kind of
way match up again. You know, So talk to a
little bit about you know, just the family values. You know,
you talk about the mission statement that you have and
(16:02):
that kind of helps to go to that value. But
talk us a little bit more about those family values
and how those impact the entrepreneur and how that impacts
just the dreams.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Oh. Absolutely. When we got married, I don't think we
had any idea what we were getting into as far
as just marriage.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
And also I don't I didn't picture myself with five
children and.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
All that kind of thing. But business, no, not running
a business.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Oh yeah, we were told every which way you're not entrepreneurs,
don't ever.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
Do that, and so don't ever tell us we can't
do something.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
One of us is a little stubborn.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Yeah yeah, same here, same here.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
But but as far as the family values go.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
The that whole thing about showing our children, I mean
that that was a huge thought at the forefront of
our mind always as we were raising our children is
the discipleship aspect of it. We wanted to lead them
down a good spiritual path. We wanted to lead them
down a good physical path. We wanted to lead them
down a good family path. We wanted to show them
(17:05):
what a good godly marriage looked like, and what a
good family, godly family looked like. And we definitely made
mistakes in all of those areas. None of it was perfect.
We're not christ so we weren't perfect and so but
our children saw some of the things that were absolutely possible.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
And to this day, we just discovered this recently.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Four of our kids have moved out of the house
and they're scattered across the country, and we just found
out recently that on a regular basis, it's almost weekly,
our five kids all get on a video chat together
and an hour or two visiting with each other. We
had no idea this was happening, and this was not
something I anticipated, but what a blessing it was to
(17:48):
learn that it was happening.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
And so they see that importance of sticking together as siblings,
and we have regular discussions with them individually as well.
But when we found out about that group, we were.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Really excited to hear that they're maintaining those relationships and
so I think we can kind of, you know, check
the success column in that that they value their family
relationships as much as we hoped they would.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
And our values definitely inform our mission and it definitely
inform what we do. But then it can just take
so many directions from there because there are so it's
a really good value to keep the lights on, like
what you said, that means you go out and get jobs,
right if you work for somebody else. And then sometimes
it's like, well maybe we can explore this whole entrepreneurship thing.
(18:36):
And then there's all kinds of iterations in between there
as well. It's not binary, it's not just these two
ways of bringing money in. But you know, for us,
definitely one of the values was family and for me
to be present in the home. And again at that
moment where I said what am I doing? That my
(18:56):
job was standing in the way of us accomplishing our dreams,
and it was standing in the way of our values
and so we knew something has to change. I didn't
go in and quit the next day. It was i'd
say probably a year later. So we we put a
plan into place some time, and whenever I gave notice
at my job, I gave a six month notice. I
(19:19):
didn't know if they were going to say, no, just
get out of here, but they use every single day
of my six.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
Month and then I stayed on as a provided there.
But so that was a little bit scary doing that.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
But we we put a plan in place, and then
we just trusted the Lord, which we all are in
that in that position, whether we recognize at the moment
or not that we are completely trusting him for the
next breath. But it becomes more obvious at different stages
of life, for sure.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Well, and I think both of you said a mouthful.
To be honest, there's a few things that I would
like I don't want to touch on first. I can totally
agree that not having a family support Because the name
of the podcast is called the No Fruit Podcast for
a reason. People didn't think that we were going to
be fruitful. People did not believe in what we were
(20:11):
going to achieve. I have another podcast called that's will
never worked podcast again, same idea. Right, people didn't believe
that we were going to be where we are. No
one really supported the dream of us living and being
together for twenty five years, which is very interesting that
now going to your children, part right of Hey, they're
(20:32):
staying connected to the community. They can't stay connected to
the source to a degree right of each other. And
a lot of times we're not always taught to stay connected.
We have that I me me me mentality, and I
think those are the type of things that when you
talk about value of hey, the importance of family, the
(20:54):
importance of community, that when it comes down to it,
in some case, that's all you really have that you
can you know, Hey, this supports system that I have
and I've had it for over years. I already know
how you're gonna respond. I already know how you're gonna
talk back to me. I already know that. Hey, if
I call my brother over here, he's gonna tell me
what I don't want to hear. But I know I
(21:14):
need to hear it anyway, you know, you know, so
sometimes we don't understand the true value of that, even
though the family did not necessary support. But sometimes I
know for myself, I need to hear Maurice, you're not
gonna be what you think you're gonna be. Well, guess
what here I am today, right, you know it's the
stubborn side, right. And on top of that, the other
(21:36):
part of that is we are well, not this particular podcast,
but I'm an award winning podcaster for the other one,
and we've been nominated for an award for this one.
Again breaking this cycle of people telling us we can't
be anything, not doing anything, you know, but it helps
to say, hey, we can do it together. We can
(21:57):
show you just because you didn't experience it doesn't mean
it's not possible, right, you know. So I think those
are type of things that we are changing the atmosphere
understanding that through Christ, all things are possible, right, you
know that that now we are beyond what our ancestors
had even considered, you know. And I think those are
(22:18):
type of things that that as we continue to move
forward and listen again, like y'all said, y y'all said
the whole mouthful, I can I can go on for
the next three hours a little bit, y'll provided, you know,
But I think that that was very powerful and impactful
which allowed me to be like, yo, you know what,
there's no way that I can truncate it, make it small,
you know, and especially for the pieces that somebody might
(22:41):
have missed and be able to implement, like, hey, you
know what, I can be a little bit better and
I can continue to dream because even though the bills,
I mean, look, we filed we filed bankruptcy within four
years of us being married. And that's some of that
is based off of not knowing how to manage money, right,
not you know, not understanding that, hey, this baby really
(23:04):
costs one thousand dollars a month, right, and that's just
them coming out, you know, because of diapers and everything else.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
We haven't even.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Gotten to child caire stuff yet, you know. And so
those are things that we don't always understand and why
I think kills our dream to some degree because we're
not prepared for what the true cost of that dream is.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
I agree, and I think that a huge piece of
any successful endeavor put anything that you want at homeschooling, entrepreneurship, anything,
corporate work, any of it, you have to have a
mental toughness that allows you to absorb or to maybe
even you know, let those those difficult times kind of
(23:52):
bounce off of you. One of the things that has
benefited us, I think is that my personality is I
tend to be a little bit cold, so I don't
get too caught up emotionally in all the ups and downs.
It's a good thing. But yeah, and that helps because
(24:16):
it helps you keep a clear head, and it helps
you to hang on to the dream even in the
face of the challenge.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
And so pretty much, but it serves well, does it not?
Speaker 6 (24:33):
It does?
Speaker 2 (24:33):
It does, And especially when you have a dreamer as
a husband, because he is a dreamer. He's a visionary,
so he sees things. And again he's a big picture person.
So when he shares things and and it, like he says,
people don't believe in it, I'm like, okay, so what
keep you know, keep it?
Speaker 1 (24:53):
But it will deflate me. And so now I'll retract.
I'll retreat a little bit and not put my my
whole energy into it now even though I'm still kind
of moving forward, but I'm not getting the results. And
now I'm frustrated because I'm too busy hearing all the
other voices.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
You know, wait a minute, remember what our steps are.
Step one, Step two, let's go back, let's we visit
what we said we were going to do.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
So I applauded it, like I'm.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Sorry, if we can just get like really real here
right right, like we could if we could rewind twenty
four hours ago. This was an ugly scene here in
this very spot, because some people that we really trust
and that we look up to use the word impossible
with us that what we were trying to do was very,
(25:45):
very difficult and maybe impossible, and I was crushed.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
I'm not I'm just being real here.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Oh yeah, please do so I'm.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Ready to just like clamp up and just shut down
and I'm done. And Sue kind of over on this
chair kind of close to me, and I'm coming and
she leans into this really difficult moment and difficult situation.
I'm like, I don't really want to talk right now.
But we talked, and we talked, and by oh, you know,
(26:17):
twenty three hours ago, my jaw is set and like impossible,
Oh yeah, we're going to do this, And I'm saying
I think it was forty eight hours ago. Yeah, actually
we've got to yea be factual here, but yeah, this
is just real life, and there is a rollercoaster right
to it, and we do have to be tough mentally,
(26:37):
and then we have to come back and produce that
energy and rely upon the Lord to produce that energy
within us and then to continue on.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Yeah, I think what you're saying is true. You know,
I think twenty four hours ago I was in tears. Actually,
well twelve hours probably, But just again, what God has
for us as for us, you know what I mean.
So no matter what humans see in us, because they
don't see it through the spirit. So I think that's
(27:09):
the part that hurts a lot of times because again,
like you said, it's the people that are close to us,
and you would think that they would know us well,
but they don't know us like God knows this, you
know what I mean, and what He has for us
and what our purpose is here. You know, nobody can
to move that, you know what I mean. So you know,
congratulations to you can continuing to push this thing forward
(27:30):
and not giving up along with all the naysayers and
the nose and the never's. You know, congratulations to my
husband for that vision that he's had and he's moving
forward with it, you know, and I'm just here to help.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Yeah, So you know, but I thank y'all very much
for coming on. I thank you for sharing your story.
I think for the information that you provided, like I said,
was very impactful. I thank you for being such great
role models, you know, and something providing information that everyone
can learn from it and should be able to take
and implement every day of their lives. So I thank
(28:07):
you very much for coming on and sharing that. If
the people want more information, where can they find you
so they can hear more of this type of information.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Yeah, we'd love to give a free gift to your listeners,
and that is a set of Connect cards. And so
this is for husbands and wives. Basically, this is a
set of about I think it's almost two months worth
of cards. So one per day you take the card out,
there's a question on it. Some of them are just
fun and lights. Some of them are a.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
Little bit deeper.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
But literally we're talking about for couples to spend anywhere
from a couple of minutes maybe two to five minutes
a day. So the guys you can do this, all right,
So sometimes the guys have a sense to be like,
I don't want to talk, So guys, you can do this.
It's just a couple of minutes a day, but it
does help with the connection between the couple, and you
can get that on our website, A's Side by Side
business dot com slash connect cool.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
The thing is that I'm the talker, she isn't. Yeah,
but we thank you very much for sharing that, And
of course that information will be in the show notes.
So if anybody is out there out there doing whatever
you're doing, gardening, whatever it might be, the information will
be there.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
So before we let you both go, it's really hard
to let you go because like Marisa, we can continue
this conversation for much much longer.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
It's easy.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
But before we let you go for today's podcast, I
have one question left for you both. You know you're
so connected and all the great things, But my question is,
if you could sing a duet with anyone in the
world other than each other, living or deceased, who would
you sing that duet with?
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Oh? I never pictured, so I'm going to add to that.
And I had a good voice.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
Okay, I think I would really love to sing with
the Getty's, so that would be true, but that would
be who I would take.
Speaker 6 (30:08):
So if if this somebody who's alive.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Or living or deceased.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
It doesn't matter, all right, So.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
I would love to sing this is gonna be maybe surprising,
but Whitney Houston, Okay, she would totally carry the duet.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Yeah, well, you know, And since y'all being such fun,
I'm gonna ask you all my question off of that
will never work because I kind of piggyback off of both.
So off of that would never work. I asked every guest,
would you rather question use your imagination? There are no parameters,
(30:45):
there's nowhere at or wrong. Would you rather choose three
doors or a forking road?
Speaker 6 (30:55):
Mhm? Question?
Speaker 4 (31:00):
I like traveling, so I'll say a fork in the road.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
I was going to say a fork in the road
as well, and my mind went to and I don't
know if this is anywhere clear where you're going with,
but I think about Jeremy's six sixteen. Stand at the
crossroads and look as that's.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
Where the good way is, and walk in it.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
So as long as I have a chance to ask
where the for the ancient pass and where the good
way is, and then I'll be able to know which
forth to take.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
That's nice. That's nice. Again, It was no right or
wrong It's just a way to a fun way to
end off the show, you know, and give everybody an
idea of how you process information, what your thoughts are.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
You know.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Sometimes people want more options, some people do not. Some
people have answered that question saying, hey, the doors are glass,
I could obviously what's that in the you know, behind
the doors. So that's why I said, use your imagination,
you know. But we think y'all very much for coming.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
On the shows. You're having you so again, all of
the information for our guest today will be in the
show notes. We thank you very much Larry and Sue
for being one today.
Speaker 6 (32:08):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
It's been such a delight to be here with you guys.
Speaker 6 (32:11):
Yeah, thanks for having us.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Sure, no problem, and we thank you all very much
for listening, and we'll talk to you just a little
bit later.
Speaker 6 (32:17):
Thanks for tuning in to another episode of the No
Fruit Podcast, where we bring you fruitful conversations, ripen wisdom
and love that's deeply rooted. We hope today's discussion left
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Speaker 1 (32:50):
Take care and we'll see you next time.
I thank you very much for tuning in to the
No Fruit Podcast, and so our question for today. Everyone
has love, but not every couple has a shared vision.
Today we're joined with Larry and Sue Pruk about why
dreaming together might just be the missing piece in your relationship.
(00:23):
We'll talk about it right after this.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Let's talk about loving the man the way that God
intend like experiences share.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
To help you transfort.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
Again.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Again, again, we thank you very much for tuning in.
So we're not going to share their bios and all
that stuff because you can find it on YouTube or
or else, because they have a wonderful YouTube channel, so
if you can go and listen to them on air.
But Larry and Sue, so many couples focused on managing
the day to day, but you both emphasize the importance
(01:13):
of dreaming together. Why do you believe a shared vision
is a center for long term relationship health and growth?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Oh my goodness. Well, first of all, thanks for having
us on.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
We really appreciate it and we're really looking forward to this.
But the reason that it's so important to dream together
is because if you're going to be successful in whatever
you want to talk about in life, relationship, business, family,
any of that, you as a couple have to be
pulling the same direction. And if you're dreaming but you're
(01:45):
not dreaming together, it's really easy to start pulling against
each other and pulling in different directions. And so I
think that that dreaming together just leads into the unity
that you wanted as a couple when you got married
in the first place.
Speaker 6 (01:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Absolutely, And it's just such a key thing for us
as if we go back, like a few years in
our experience, we started going away for like weekends, and
those were times where we just say, like, you know,
what do we where do we see ourselves in five
(02:19):
years or ten years or twenty years down the road?
And we just found that the act of dreaming together
really gave us a tremendous amount of connection.
Speaker 6 (02:30):
The dream itself.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
I don't want to say it doesn't matter, but it
can be very distinct and very unique for every couple.
It should be, But just the act of dreaming together
provides such a unity as a couple. And then, as
Sue said, then you're pulling together in that same direction
whatever you've decided to do, and it just becomes this
beautiful thing.
Speaker 6 (02:52):
In a relationship.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
That's great. I think what I'm hearing, and I just
want you're input a little bit. But a lot of
times dreaming is associate with children. You know, like children
dream and they play pretend and all those types of things.
And it's unique to hear you say that. You know,
you as couples to continue to dream. A lot of
times we as kids, we dream of that wedding and
then it kind of stops after that. So talk to
(03:16):
us a little bit about how do you continue to
do that even after you're married. You know that you're
not done dreaming.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Yeah, And I would just say to that point, there's
a point where you have to put some meat on
those dreams. You've got to get them a little bit
less fuzzy, and you've got to start putting some action
steps into place so that you start, you know, things
can become a reality. But yeah, as kids, we do
dream a lot, and then as we get older, we
(03:46):
just get well, there's a tendency we can start getting
cranky with what's going on in life and things start
beating you down and you lose those dreams and you
just lose I don't know, just something special about all
of that.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
I think a huge part of it is that that
tyranny of the urgent begins to pull on you a lot,
and you start One of the things that we talk
with our students a lot about is saying no more often.
I think, as we all have a tendency to say
yes to too many things, and before we know what
we're spread toothin, we're dropping balls. We can't achieve even
(04:23):
what we have already committed to do. Let alone think
about doing something different in the future. And honestly, for us,
we've been through a roller coaster with that. We've had
times where we've dreamed together really well, had really good,
clear dreams, other times where it's gotten fuzzy or it's
gotten lost. In fact, you had an experience several years
ago when you were working your corporate job about nine.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Point thirty on it or whatever it was.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
You want to share that, right, Yeah, So in some
ways we were living our dream, so to speak, because
Sue was able to stay home with our kids. We've
got five kids, and she was able to be homeschooling them.
And at one point I had a job that was
full time. It was thirty hours a week. They don't
make those type of jobs anymore, I don't think so.
(05:12):
But then that quickly turned on us, and it became
this thing where I was gone for basically the entire
waking hours of our kids during the week. So it became,
I guess you could, our dream turned into a nightmare
a little bit there. And so there was an evening
where I was coming home from work, and there were
some days where I did get off at six or seven.
(05:34):
Some days I got off at eight o'clock or something
like that, and I was thinking, what time of day
even is it? Right now, I've kind of have one
of those disoriented moments as I'm driving, which is a
little bit frightening, right But I went by a bank
that had that time and temperature thing on it, and
I looked over and it said nine thirty five pm,
(05:55):
and the realization just hit me. Well literally, I think
I said it out loud. I was in the vehicle
by myself. It's okay to talk to yourself sometimes, and
I just said, what the world am I doing? When
I get home? The kids are all going to be
in bed. Sue made some fantastic supper, but it's in well,
hopefully there's some leftovers. You know, kids, you never know
right right right, but I'm gonna have to worm it up.
(06:17):
And I've just missed out on an entire day with
my kids again here, and so that's one of those
moments where we're like, Okay, this is not working, and
we had to kind of redream. We had to regroup
on that and say, this is not what we wanted
like to look like. But we've we've got the opportunity
to fix this or to do something about it. So
what do we want to do? We know this is
(06:39):
not it, So how do we want things to look
in the future.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
I think sometimes we get caught up in the because
as I'm listening to you, it reminds me of my job,
because I used to get off at eight o'clock at
night at one time, and I was missing Christmas and
Thanksgiving and those type of holidays, and Cough would go
drop me off and early in the morning. So I'm
waking the kids up six o'clock in the morning just
(07:04):
to open up Christmas gifts, you know. And so I
understand that, But a lot of times I know for myself,
was you know what, I want to make sure that
these lights stay on? You know what, I want to
try and make sure that this water stays on. But
and some of that was because of I didn't know
how to manage my time, my energy, because I didn't
(07:27):
necessarily see that as a kid. So what I thought
from a kid perspective of how to dream, we're not
also taught how to manage that as well. So how
do we get into that place of understanding how to
manage that dream to make it come a true, full
blown reality?
Speaker 6 (07:45):
You know?
Speaker 3 (07:45):
I have to love that you use the word energy there,
not just time, but energy. I think that's a missing
piece that we many times think of. So in other words,
there could be there could be opportunities where I'm at home,
but I am not present because I've got no energy.
I am spent from the day and such. So I
(08:06):
do think once we've taken this dream of you know, hey,
this is where we want to be again. I kind
of use the five year down the road type thing.
That's a decent place to start to give it time
to be working on things. But then as you start
putting some meat to those bones and then start saying
what are some action steps, What is something that I
(08:27):
can do today or this week that's going to move
me towards that goal.
Speaker 6 (08:33):
The one thing you want to talk about that.
Speaker 5 (08:35):
Yeah, so we often there's the book the one thing
the author's name is escaping me right now. But he
asked the question, what is the one thing that I
can do right now that by doing that everything else
becomes easier or maybe unnecessary. And so when we think
(08:56):
in those terms of what's the easiest next strit step
to take that will make things easier down the road,
I think that that is a huge key to putting
action to your dreams so that you can be moving
towards what you want to do.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
And I think i'll just add to that real quickly
is you know, we talk a lot about entrepreneurship because
that's who we are. We've been full time entrepreneurs for
twelve and a half years now. But not everybody as
an entrepreneur, not everybody has to do that, and we
fully understand that. And so maybe somebody's dream is to
advance in a corporate position, but then you just have
(09:34):
to you have to be very intentional and understanding about
what is the cost with that, what are the extra
responsibilities to travel, the time away and such. And I
think that's a very legitimate path that somebody can choose.
But but you know, again back to that question of
how do I manage it? You just have to be
very aware of what the consequences are, positive and negative
(09:55):
of those decisions, and then come up with a very
active game plan on how are we going to get
there so that I don't lose my soul along the
way of trying to accomplish what I'm trying to accomplish.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
And so I'm gonna piggyback off of the entrepreneur thing
because again, we started our own company in twenty twelve,
so we're relatively around the same time. And so the
thing is is in that dream of being an entrepreneur, right,
you're like, hey, you hear this word, and you hear
people flat. I mean, you see people flashing money and
you know, the bigger houses and cars and things like that,
(10:30):
and not understanding one hundred percent what it really took
to get to that point and so whether it was
the time or the energy, but how am I utilizing that?
And with that comes educating myself because that's some of
the things that we didn't understand. There were some legal things,
some form, some you know, processing, some systems that I'm
(10:54):
gonna be honest with you, we didn't really get into
that until probably halfway through know of really understanding what
it really meant and what it took to get to
become a true entrepreneur ie business person and understanding the
difference between working in your business and on your business
two different ideas, right, you know. So so I think
(11:15):
those type of things when we think about dreams, we
don't always understand could we see the bigger and or
global image, and not understanding all the little baby steps
because I'm a big picture person, conference the baby step person, right,
you know. And so sometimes I'm.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Like, no, we could, we could get there. We could get.
Speaker 1 (11:32):
There, but Maurice, what's the first step? You know? And
so sometimes I think those type of things kind of
determs us from our dream because we don't always know
all those little steps that we need to take to
get there.
Speaker 5 (11:50):
That is so true, and and so I think that's
a big part of our our kind of weekend getaways
that we do on a regular basis as we are
laying out steps. So we think about the big dream,
but then we start breaking it down to what are
the things that need to be done at what stage
of working towards this dream, and that really does help.
(12:10):
But also I have to say that for us, when
we stepped into entrepreneurship, we kind of did it. We
did it on the side. At first, it was a
side hustle. It was very much Larry doing it really
on his own. I was busy having babies and.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Homeschooling, so I didn't try to give into that.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
But then when we when we began to take that
step into full time entrepreneurship where he was going to
be home and we were going to be doing this
as a family, that was our that was our dream.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
That was our goal. Was to show our children that
there was more than one way to do life. And
we wanted them to see.
Speaker 5 (12:45):
They had seen what it was like to have a
corporate job and to to you know, be a faithful
employee and to to do all the honorable work there,
and we wanted to show them there's another way that
you can do it too. And frankly, neither one of
those ways made us millionaires. But we've supported our family.
We have a closeness as a family now that I'm
(13:07):
thrilled with. Even our children are all very close to
each other, even though there most all are grown and
out of.
Speaker 4 (13:12):
The house will be there, and it became like that
became the most important thing to us.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Yes we needed to support our family, Yes we needed
to earn money, but the more important thing was showing
our children there's more than one way to do this,
and these are honorable ways to do it, all.
Speaker 4 (13:30):
Of them are. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Yeah, there's so many things that we've kind of discovered
along the way also, just like what you're saying, and
some of them even recently, you know. And of course
technology changes and there's different tools and such that are
available now that weren't available twelve thirteen years ago. But
one of the things that we did that has really
helped us with kind of where you were going with
that question is we developed a family Mission Statement, and
(13:54):
then we use that as a filter to help us
as we were making decisions. And you know, fast forward
now to twenty twenty five when we're recording this is
now we've got these AI tools that we can we
can plug that those type of things into these AI
tools and then say, here's this opportunity that's come up
or Larry's come up with this crazy idea today, and
(14:17):
what's the first step. Yeah, what Sue is asking me,
all right, So we're very similar there, and then we
run that through the AI program and it's like, here's
some tough questions that you need to ask yourself. What
is the cost of this? Are you going to have
the energy to do this? And it's it's a little
bit scary how much the AI knows.
Speaker 1 (14:36):
Us right right right.
Speaker 6 (14:37):
Also that tool that we can use to our benefit.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
So that's something that now we are teaching other people
on how to do so that you take those dreams,
you make them really practical, You filter out the good
ideas so that you've got the time and energy for
the excellent ideas.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
So you know what I was hearing a lot is
well that gravitated to me was the values even in
those goals, the values even in your dreams, you know.
And I think that's where we have to kind of
match up a lot of times. I think even in
our marriage journy we've been married twenty almost twenty five years,
(15:18):
we didn't always dream together in that way, but our
values always matched up. So even though he may be
dreaming on, you know, climbing the corporate ladder when he
was in corporate America, and I was like Sue, just like, Okay,
do you want to keep the house together, want to
keep a roof over our heads? Yeah, I'll go to work.
But you know, my importance, part, my value was home.
(15:41):
So it was key that we had those same values,
even though maybe our dreams and our goals were different.
And then as time goes on, you live together, you
work together, you know, and those things some kind of
way match up again. You know, So talk to a
little bit about you know, just the family values. You know,
you talk about the mission statement that you have and
(16:02):
that kind of helps to go to that value. But
talk us a little bit more about those family values
and how those impact the entrepreneur and how that impacts
just the dreams.
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Oh. Absolutely. When we got married, I don't think we
had any idea what we were getting into as far
as just marriage.
Speaker 5 (16:19):
And also I don't I didn't picture myself with five
children and.
Speaker 4 (16:24):
All that kind of thing. But business, no, not running
a business.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Oh yeah, we were told every which way you're not entrepreneurs,
don't ever.
Speaker 6 (16:31):
Do that, and so don't ever tell us we can't
do something.
Speaker 4 (16:36):
One of us is a little stubborn.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Yeah yeah, same here, same here.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
But but as far as the family values go.
Speaker 5 (16:45):
The that whole thing about showing our children, I mean
that that was a huge thought at the forefront of
our mind always as we were raising our children is
the discipleship aspect of it. We wanted to lead them
down a good spiritual path. We wanted to lead them
down a good physical path. We wanted to lead them
down a good family path. We wanted to show them
(17:05):
what a good godly marriage looked like, and what a
good family, godly family looked like. And we definitely made
mistakes in all of those areas. None of it was perfect.
We're not christ so we weren't perfect and so but
our children saw some of the things that were absolutely possible.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
And to this day, we just discovered this recently.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Four of our kids have moved out of the house
and they're scattered across the country, and we just found
out recently that on a regular basis, it's almost weekly,
our five kids all get on a video chat together
and an hour or two visiting with each other. We
had no idea this was happening, and this was not
something I anticipated, but what a blessing it was to
(17:48):
learn that it was happening.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
And so they see that importance of sticking together as siblings,
and we have regular discussions with them individually as well.
But when we found out about that group, we were.
Speaker 5 (18:00):
Really excited to hear that they're maintaining those relationships and
so I think we can kind of, you know, check
the success column in that that they value their family
relationships as much as we hoped they would.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
And our values definitely inform our mission and it definitely
inform what we do. But then it can just take
so many directions from there because there are so it's
a really good value to keep the lights on, like
what you said, that means you go out and get jobs,
right if you work for somebody else. And then sometimes
it's like, well maybe we can explore this whole entrepreneurship thing.
(18:36):
And then there's all kinds of iterations in between there
as well. It's not binary, it's not just these two
ways of bringing money in. But you know, for us,
definitely one of the values was family and for me
to be present in the home. And again at that
moment where I said what am I doing? That my
(18:56):
job was standing in the way of us accomplishing our dreams,
and it was standing in the way of our values
and so we knew something has to change. I didn't
go in and quit the next day. It was i'd
say probably a year later. So we we put a
plan into place some time, and whenever I gave notice
at my job, I gave a six month notice. I
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didn't know if they were going to say, no, just
get out of here, but they use every single day
of my six.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
Month and then I stayed on as a provided there.
But so that was a little bit scary doing that.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
But we we put a plan in place, and then
we just trusted the Lord, which we all are in
that in that position, whether we recognize at the moment
or not that we are completely trusting him for the
next breath. But it becomes more obvious at different stages
of life, for sure.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Well, and I think both of you said a mouthful.
To be honest, there's a few things that I would
like I don't want to touch on first. I can totally
agree that not having a family support Because the name
of the podcast is called the No Fruit Podcast for
a reason. People didn't think that we were going to
be fruitful. People did not believe in what we were
(20:11):
going to achieve. I have another podcast called that's will
never worked podcast again, same idea. Right, people didn't believe
that we were going to be where we are. No
one really supported the dream of us living and being
together for twenty five years, which is very interesting that
now going to your children, part right of Hey, they're
(20:32):
staying connected to the community. They can't stay connected to
the source to a degree right of each other. And
a lot of times we're not always taught to stay connected.
We have that I me me me mentality, and I
think those are the type of things that when you
talk about value of hey, the importance of family, the
(20:54):
importance of community, that when it comes down to it,
in some case, that's all you really have that you
can you know, Hey, this supports system that I have
and I've had it for over years. I already know
how you're gonna respond. I already know how you're gonna
talk back to me. I already know that. Hey, if
I call my brother over here, he's gonna tell me
what I don't want to hear. But I know I
(21:14):
need to hear it anyway, you know, you know, so
sometimes we don't understand the true value of that, even
though the family did not necessary support. But sometimes I
know for myself, I need to hear Maurice, you're not
gonna be what you think you're gonna be. Well, guess
what here I am today, right, you know it's the
stubborn side, right. And on top of that, the other
(21:36):
part of that is we are well, not this particular podcast,
but I'm an award winning podcaster for the other one,
and we've been nominated for an award for this one.
Again breaking this cycle of people telling us we can't
be anything, not doing anything, you know, but it helps
to say, hey, we can do it together. We can
(21:57):
show you just because you didn't experience it doesn't mean
it's not possible, right, you know. So I think those
are type of things that we are changing the atmosphere
understanding that through Christ, all things are possible, right, you
know that that now we are beyond what our ancestors
had even considered, you know. And I think those are
(22:18):
type of things that that as we continue to move
forward and listen again, like y'all said, y y'all said
the whole mouthful, I can I can go on for
the next three hours a little bit, y'll provided, you know,
But I think that that was very powerful and impactful
which allowed me to be like, yo, you know what,
there's no way that I can truncate it, make it small,
you know, and especially for the pieces that somebody might
(22:41):
have missed and be able to implement, like, hey, you
know what, I can be a little bit better and
I can continue to dream because even though the bills,
I mean, look, we filed we filed bankruptcy within four
years of us being married. And that's some of that
is based off of not knowing how to manage money, right,
not you know, not understanding that, hey, this baby really
(23:04):
costs one thousand dollars a month, right, and that's just
them coming out, you know, because of diapers and everything else.
Speaker 6 (23:13):
We haven't even.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Gotten to child caire stuff yet, you know. And so
those are things that we don't always understand and why
I think kills our dream to some degree because we're
not prepared for what the true cost of that dream is.
Speaker 5 (23:30):
I agree, and I think that a huge piece of
any successful endeavor put anything that you want at homeschooling, entrepreneurship, anything,
corporate work, any of it, you have to have a
mental toughness that allows you to absorb or to maybe
even you know, let those those difficult times kind of
(23:52):
bounce off of you. One of the things that has
benefited us, I think is that my personality is I
tend to be a little bit cold, so I don't
get too caught up emotionally in all the ups and downs.
It's a good thing. But yeah, and that helps because
(24:16):
it helps you keep a clear head, and it helps
you to hang on to the dream even in the
face of the challenge.
Speaker 4 (24:21):
And so pretty much, but it serves well, does it not?
Speaker 6 (24:33):
It does?
Speaker 2 (24:33):
It does, And especially when you have a dreamer as
a husband, because he is a dreamer. He's a visionary,
so he sees things. And again he's a big picture person.
So when he shares things and and it, like he says,
people don't believe in it, I'm like, okay, so what
keep you know, keep it?
Speaker 1 (24:53):
But it will deflate me. And so now I'll retract.
I'll retreat a little bit and not put my my
whole energy into it now even though I'm still kind
of moving forward, but I'm not getting the results. And
now I'm frustrated because I'm too busy hearing all the
other voices.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
You know, wait a minute, remember what our steps are.
Step one, Step two, let's go back, let's we visit
what we said we were going to do.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
So I applauded it, like I'm.
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Sorry, if we can just get like really real here
right right, like we could if we could rewind twenty
four hours ago. This was an ugly scene here in
this very spot, because some people that we really trust
and that we look up to use the word impossible
with us that what we were trying to do was very,
(25:45):
very difficult and maybe impossible, and I was crushed.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
I'm not I'm just being real here.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Oh yeah, please do so I'm.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
Ready to just like clamp up and just shut down
and I'm done. And Sue kind of over on this
chair kind of close to me, and I'm coming and
she leans into this really difficult moment and difficult situation.
I'm like, I don't really want to talk right now.
But we talked, and we talked, and by oh, you know,
(26:17):
twenty three hours ago, my jaw is set and like impossible,
Oh yeah, we're going to do this, And I'm saying
I think it was forty eight hours ago. Yeah, actually
we've got to yea be factual here, but yeah, this
is just real life, and there is a rollercoaster right
to it, and we do have to be tough mentally,
(26:37):
and then we have to come back and produce that
energy and rely upon the Lord to produce that energy
within us and then to continue on.
Speaker 2 (26:47):
Yeah, I think what you're saying is true. You know,
I think twenty four hours ago I was in tears. Actually,
well twelve hours probably, But just again, what God has
for us as for us, you know what I mean.
So no matter what humans see in us, because they
don't see it through the spirit. So I think that's
(27:09):
the part that hurts a lot of times because again,
like you said, it's the people that are close to us,
and you would think that they would know us well,
but they don't know us like God knows this, you
know what I mean, and what He has for us
and what our purpose is here. You know, nobody can
to move that, you know what I mean. So you know,
congratulations to you can continuing to push this thing forward
(27:30):
and not giving up along with all the naysayers and
the nose and the never's. You know, congratulations to my
husband for that vision that he's had and he's moving
forward with it, you know, and I'm just here to help.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
Yeah, So you know, but I thank y'all very much
for coming on. I thank you for sharing your story.
I think for the information that you provided, like I said,
was very impactful. I thank you for being such great
role models, you know, and something providing information that everyone
can learn from it and should be able to take
and implement every day of their lives. So I thank
(28:07):
you very much for coming on and sharing that. If
the people want more information, where can they find you
so they can hear more of this type of information.
Speaker 3 (28:17):
Yeah, we'd love to give a free gift to your listeners,
and that is a set of Connect cards. And so
this is for husbands and wives. Basically, this is a
set of about I think it's almost two months worth
of cards. So one per day you take the card out,
there's a question on it. Some of them are just
fun and lights. Some of them are a.
Speaker 6 (28:35):
Little bit deeper.
Speaker 3 (28:36):
But literally we're talking about for couples to spend anywhere
from a couple of minutes maybe two to five minutes
a day. So the guys you can do this, all right,
So sometimes the guys have a sense to be like,
I don't want to talk, So guys, you can do this.
It's just a couple of minutes a day, but it
does help with the connection between the couple, and you
can get that on our website, A's Side by Side
business dot com slash connect cool.
Speaker 1 (29:01):
The thing is that I'm the talker, she isn't. Yeah,
but we thank you very much for sharing that, And
of course that information will be in the show notes.
So if anybody is out there out there doing whatever
you're doing, gardening, whatever it might be, the information will
be there.
Speaker 2 (29:21):
So before we let you both go, it's really hard
to let you go because like Marisa, we can continue
this conversation for much much longer.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
It's easy.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
But before we let you go for today's podcast, I
have one question left for you both. You know you're
so connected and all the great things, But my question is,
if you could sing a duet with anyone in the
world other than each other, living or deceased, who would
you sing that duet with?
Speaker 4 (29:47):
Oh? I never pictured, so I'm going to add to that.
And I had a good voice.
Speaker 5 (30:00):
Okay, I think I would really love to sing with
the Getty's, so that would be true, but that would
be who I would take.
Speaker 6 (30:08):
So if if this somebody who's alive.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
Or living or deceased.
Speaker 1 (30:12):
It doesn't matter, all right, So.
Speaker 3 (30:13):
I would love to sing this is gonna be maybe surprising,
but Whitney Houston, Okay, she would totally carry the duet.
Speaker 1 (30:23):
Yeah, well, you know, And since y'all being such fun,
I'm gonna ask you all my question off of that
will never work because I kind of piggyback off of both.
So off of that would never work. I asked every guest,
would you rather question use your imagination? There are no parameters,
(30:45):
there's nowhere at or wrong. Would you rather choose three
doors or a forking road?
Speaker 6 (30:55):
Mhm? Question?
Speaker 4 (31:00):
I like traveling, so I'll say a fork in the road.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
Okay, okay.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
I was going to say a fork in the road
as well, and my mind went to and I don't
know if this is anywhere clear where you're going with,
but I think about Jeremy's six sixteen. Stand at the
crossroads and look as that's.
Speaker 6 (31:18):
Where the good way is, and walk in it.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
So as long as I have a chance to ask
where the for the ancient pass and where the good
way is, and then I'll be able to know which
forth to take.
Speaker 1 (31:30):
That's nice. That's nice. Again, It was no right or
wrong It's just a way to a fun way to
end off the show, you know, and give everybody an
idea of how you process information, what your thoughts are.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
You know.
Speaker 1 (31:40):
Sometimes people want more options, some people do not. Some
people have answered that question saying, hey, the doors are glass,
I could obviously what's that in the you know, behind
the doors. So that's why I said, use your imagination,
you know. But we think y'all very much for coming.
Speaker 2 (31:58):
On the shows. You're having you so again, all of
the information for our guest today will be in the
show notes. We thank you very much Larry and Sue
for being one today.
Speaker 6 (32:08):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (32:08):
It's been such a delight to be here with you guys.
Speaker 6 (32:11):
Yeah, thanks for having us.
Speaker 1 (32:12):
Sure, no problem, and we thank you all very much
for listening, and we'll talk to you just a little
bit later.
Speaker 6 (32:17):
Thanks for tuning in to another episode of the No
Fruit Podcast, where we bring you fruitful conversations, ripen wisdom
and love that's deeply rooted. We hope today's discussion left
you feeling uplifted, encouraged, and ready to take on life's
journey with purpose. If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget
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Speaker 3 (32:34):
Leave us a review and share it with someone who
could use a little inspiration in their debt.
Speaker 6 (32:38):
You can catch up on past episodes, send us your thoughts,
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stay rooted in love and remember every seed you plant
today shaped the fruit of tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Take care and we'll see you next time.
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