Stewardship Over Hustle: Choose Action Anchored In Faith

Ever feel stuck on the launchpad, rewriting plans while your idea gathers dust? Arthur Toole, CEO of MegRelief, opens up about pressing reset the right way—by moving with what’s already in your hands. No perfect timing, no magic partner, just faith tied to daily steps that compound into impact. He shares the honest journey from analysis paralysis to action, and why excellence in the marketplace can be a quiet, powerful sermon.

We dig into stewardship as a full-life practice. That means owning health choices at 47, trading sugar habits for strength and hydration, and treating energy like fuel for the mission. It also means money with a conscience: giving where we’re called, saving with intention, and cutting the mindless spend that blunts progress. Family stands at the center—marriage and kids considered not as distractions but as the very legacy the work is meant to serve. Through it all, Arthur explains how MegRelief, MegRub, MegSoak, and MegBomb came to market with integrity, compliant and customer-focused, without pretending to be a scientist or playing the guru game.

Setbacks show up here too: stolen ideas, slow seasons, and the sting of being underestimated. The response is different—“to God be the glory”—a choice to let adversity refine instead of define. Faith becomes more than belief; it’s the daily phone call, the product page published, the workout logged, the budget honored. We commit to weekly transparency on wins and misses so you don’t have to walk alone. If you’re ready to restart—really restart—use what’s in your hands and take the next right step with us.Subscribe for new episodes, share this with a friend who needs a nudge, and leave a quick review to tell us what you’re starting today.

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Transcript

Calling Over Credentials

Perfectionism And Excuses

Shared Struggle And Purpose

Redefining Success Before God

What Restart Means

Stewarding Health And Habits

Money, Family, And Accountability

Building Megaleaf By Faith

You’re Not Alone: Keep Moving

Faith Plus Daily Actions

SPEAKER_00 0:12

This is not a new podcast. It's a restart. Hi, my name is Arthur Toole. I'm the CEO of MegaLeaf, the first ever 100% totally pain-free topical pain relief solution. Challenge is, I'm not a scientist. I'm not a lab technician. I'm not anything. It's just a thing that God put in my hands years ago. And He wanted me to cultivate it and to build it. And so many years I've tried to merge what He's given me with what I thought business is supposed to be done. I've followed all the gurus that you've heard of. I'm not going to name them, but all the popular ones. I bought their books and all those other things. But I failed to actually restart. I failed to actually use what was in my hands, what God told me to do and move forward. Because I was sitting there waiting on the perfect set of scenarios. If I had this person, if I had this person, if I had that money, if I had this, when all God called me to do was to start. That's it. Then I used excuses like, well, you know, I made mistakes here, I made mistakes there, or you know, this hurt me. People won't rock with me, all those things. Right? And God just said start. I've even started and stopped, but I never truly started. I did all the planning, plan, replan, plan, replan through Chat GPT, and that tell it tells me all the different ways I can do things. But I didn't actually start. Does it sound like you? All right, and if it sounds like you, then you and I on one accord, we're in the same place. And what I'm going to do is I'm just going to share what I'm doing and then what I'm actually feeling so that you know that you're not alone because you're not, right? God's put something in you, put something in me that people need in this world. Maybe Megalief will go to be the 100% all-natural version of Proc Chain Gamble and it lasts for 12 generations. Maybe Megalief ends next year because the people I was supposed to serve, I served. It doesn't matter which one it is. God put something in my hands for me to start, and that's his expectation. When I get to heaven, God willing, he's not going to say, Oh, you didn't become a billionaire, so you didn't do it. What he's going to say is, Well done, thy good and faithful servant. That's what I want. So, what is a restart? A restart for me is for me to actually start being a good steward of the things that God has given me, right? So you know the business, but what about my health? What about your health? Right? I have an affinity towards sweets. And at 47, I've stopped working out, I've stopped, you know, being physically active more than you know, any more than what's required. Don't drink water. All the things, right? I'm old enough to start feeling it and young enough to make a change. Am I being a good steward of my body? What about our personal finances? Yeah, we're not homeless, but have I really been a good steward? Have I given to the places I was supposed to give to? Have I saved when I was supposed to save? Or have I blown it on Reese's and Cokes and Sprites? Right? What about my wife and kids? Have I been a good steward of those? All those things I'm gonna be held accountable for, and all those things you're gonna be held accountable for. And so I want to share all of those. But the overarching thing is that I'm gonna use what's in my hands for God's glory, and I'm gonna start it off by meg relief, right? I have no way of making this thing grow. He gave me the formula for meg relief, meg rub, meg soak, and meg bomb. I am not a scientist, but I trusted him, did it his way, and now we have products that are compliant with FDA laws. How was that? It's not because of me. I can't do any of those things. So, walk with me on this journey. I promise to give you 100% the truth and 100% the journey so that you know you're not alone. Because that's what we really need, right? We need to know that we're not alone, that the things that you're feeling are valid, and that despite what you're feeling, and despite what you see and don't see, you have to move forward with what God put in your hands. Period. It doesn't matter how many times you had setbacks, it doesn't matter how many times people violated you, how many times people lied to you, how many times people lied on you. I've had all of those. I've had people steal my idea and tell me to my face. I've had other people, they didn't steal the idea, but they saw what I was doing, and then they took the best parts, and now they are like a thousand times better than anything I could have imagined. So to God be the glory for that. And for the people that stole it, to God be the glory for that. I've had my name drugged, you know, to God be the glory for that, because I am still here. So I say that to say no matter what you're experiencing, no matter what you're going through, you gotta be like, to God be the glory, because all things work together for the good of those who love the Lord and are called according to his purpose. So if you take what's in your hands and say, God, I'm gonna move forward with this idea, then all the things that that you know, the enemy, your frenemies, and all those, your misguided friends send your way, God can use that to your glory. Okay? So you and me, we're in this together. But what we have to do is we have to have our faith, and that's the thing, you know, substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen, meaning that we believe what we are saying, and we have to combine that with actions. All right, you have to take the daily actions so that you can move forward, all right? If Abraham would have just said, God told me to walk, and it's great, and he spent all this time trying to figure, you know, plan the food and plan the shoes and all this other stuff, we'd have never known anything about the Israelites. If the the disciples, when Jesus said, Don't take a purse, don't take a bag, don't take anything, and they just said, Well, I don't know what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna wait till he gives me something else to do, the church of Christ would have never um grown.

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It’s Time To Use Your Gift

Make The Restart Commitment

Weekly Check‑Ins And Transparency

Marketplace As Ministry

SPEAKER_00 6:17

And so that's the same with you and I. Like I've I've had MegroLif now for about five, six years. I've had the idea since 2011, so that's 14, 15 years. It's time because I've seen what using what's in my hands does for other people. I've seen how it helps other people, and you can too. So today is that day, right? If you hear this and this resonates with you, and you promise to restart now, despite feeling like you don't have it all together, let me know. You can put it in the comments, you can message me, or whatever, and then I'll be praying for you and you'll be praying for me. Okay? My goal is once a week just to come on here and just to say, one, how I'm personally doing, how I'm stewarding the things that God has given me, and two, what progress or lack of progress I've made or feel like I've made so that you can see it in real time, so that you know you are not alone. And that if we just trust God and use what's in our hands, that's always enough. All right. Love you. God loves you more. Let's do this together so that He gets the glory. And we just happen to do it in the marketplace. We're the ones that go out there. We're not in the pulpit, we're in the marketplace. So we're not preaching the sermon. It's through our excellence and commitment to our craft, it's to our customer service, it's to how we treat our suppliers, it's to how we treat our employees, future or present. That's how we preach the gospel to people in the marketplace. And just so you know, they're always watching. All right.