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Joni Woods - Human Connection & Culture Architect, Founder of Journey Coaching, Author, and Speaker - shares her testimony and how her faith shapes her work including her entire youth spent in the church; Heaven’s Gates/Hell’s Flames play and the traumatic experience with her father; the importance of 1 John 4:19; works mentality growing up; spending a year in service as part of a church program that caused a wedge between her and her family; rebuilding after a divorce; her husband (at the time) and her being fired from four different ministry positions; realizing that God’s love for His children is like our love for our children and the role that realization played in her divorce; how her book “Burned, Blocked, and Better Than Ever” came to be; despite her terrible grades in English class, she knew this was a story that needed to be released, and her wrestling with the process; founding her company “Journey Coaching”; creating an exceptional work culture through emotional intelligence and “soft skills”; the challenging and heartbreaking way she came to discover the importance of emotional intelligence; spending time with God in the car; and much much more!

https://joniwoods.com/

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Gabriel Andreson - author, speaker, entrepreneur, and the President and Co-Founder of Inovis Energy - shares his journey and how his faith guides his work including being raised in a Christian home by pastor parents; raising his hand for salvation in third grade (to avoid hell); having a passion for the marginalized in school; the pain of divorce; how the breakup with a serious girlfriend turned into anger; a terrifying drug experience where God questioned him that drew him back to God in a deeper way; how his distaste for studying ended Bible school and a desire to be a doctor or nurse; his pivot to the light bulb industry; his entrepreneur venture as a result of his wife hearing from the Lord; how a word from Mark Tietsort confirmed the entrepreneurial endeavor; the impact of speaker Ed Rush; the benefits of “God Talks”; a panic attack 30,000 feet in the air; his book "UnAnxious: A Practical Guide to Calm Your Mind & Reclaim Your Peace in an Anxiety-Filled World"; anxiety is something that’s there to teach us something; Box Breathing; returning to the Lord’s presence; business as ministry; how he preaches where he reaches in the marketplace; and much more!

Gabriel's Book:

https://www.amazon.com/UnAnxious-Practical-Guide-Reclaim-Anxiety-Filled/dp/B0GP3619JS

https://www.inovisenergy.com/

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Note: English is not Erenia's first language, but God certainly spoke through her anyway.

Erenia Mendoza - Technical Operations Manager/Marketing Executive (global entertainment brands including Warner Bros. Discovery, Disney, Amazon, Netflix, and Sony Pictures) - based in Brazil, shares her faith and her story including growing up in a Catholic home but having a lot of questions about faith in her 20’s; how her mother’s painting class changed the trajectory of her life; how a message at church spoke directly to her; how her questions were met with patience from her pastor; how her maturity helped her not separate her faith life from the rest of her life; her dream of being a lawyer but she was “bitten” by the entertainment “bug”; starting her career at Sony distribution; opening her own distribution company; her switch to marketing; how her learning to read with comic books turned into a love of movies; deciding that all her decisions must have God’s direction; a potential big career move that she ran passed God first; a possible move to Miami became a move to Mexico; how the COVID pandemic and the thought of spending her birthday alone brought her back to Brazil; receiving the “Monday Manna” on an iPad (until it died); the impact that CMBC International has had on her faith and work; and much more!

https://www.cbmcint.com/

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