"Going Through The Storm"| Episode #84 | Builder of All Things | Author’s Cut: Chapter Six w/ Richie Breaux

Welcome to the Builder of All Things Podcast—where we go beyond the pages of the book and explore into the Author’s Cut! 🔥 Join Richie Breaux and Ray Bisnar as they break down each chapter in micro-episodes, giving you the behind-the-scenes insights, deeper wisdom, and real-life applications—just like a Director’s Cut for a book. 

In this episode, “Going Through the Storm,” we press into the heart of adversity — not to escape it, but to understand it. Storms aren’t punishments or proof you’re off track… they’re often just life happening — and sometimes, God-allowed for a purpose far deeper than we can see.

🌪️ The goal isn’t to avoid the storm. It’s to survive it with wisdom, faith, and perspective — knowing that what remains standing after the shaking is what’s truly built on the right foundation.

💡 In this conversation, we unpack:
* Why storms reveal more than they ruin — and how to evaluate what’s still standing
* How to recognize when adversity is just a season… not a sign you’ve failed
* What it means to shelter spiritually when life feels like an EF5 tornado
* How external challenges (like market shifts, inflation, and permit delays) test your internal posture
* The importance of discernment — and how to stay rooted when everything around you feels uncertain

📖 “If God allowed it, it’s under His control.” That mindset doesn’t make the storm easy — but it makes it purposeful. Whether in business, family, or faith, storms give you a rare chance to rebuild better.

🤍 If you’re facing something that feels out of your hands, this episode is for you. Not to fix the storm — but to walk through it stronger, more grounded, and more surrendered.

👇 Drop a comment: What has a recent storm in your life revealed about your foundation?

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Chapters

• 0:00 Understanding Storms as Life Happening
• 0:49 God's Purpose in Life's Storms
• 1:26 Facing a Business Tornado
• 3:17 Hawaii's Real Estate Market Challenges
• 4:22 Effects of Permitting Delays

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:18

When you're talking about the differences with the storm snake and smoke. There was one particular quote in here, richie, that said storms aren't punishments or proof we're off track, they're just life happening. And I think the two things here, or the one big thing here, is that the recognizing what it is is so important because, again, it gives you the guide on how to respond to something. Yeah, can you kind of talk about that?

Speaker 2: 0:49

Yeah, so don't get me wrong. God is definitely the controller of the storm. Sometimes he'll use storms to wipe you out and not to take you out, but wipe meaning maybe wipe is kind of a word for take out. But what I believe God wants to do with a storm is shake your foundation and what happens when there's a shaking. I know this in construction.

Speaker 2: 1:12

If you have a solid foundation and there's an earthquake, you're hoping everything built on top of that foundation stands. So when God has storms, he's typically trying to shake your whole being to see what stands, because when that's a good thing there's nothing wrong with things. I mean it's, it's challenging, it's hard, it sucks. But now you get to see what didn't work, what you got to work to fix on what's what fell off. Why did it fall off? So when businesses get shooken, you know and you look at what's actually standing after the storm passes is what you've got to reevaluate, to work on what landed. If you don't have the right foundation, yeah, that's where a wipeout can come and that's sometimes where I don't think God's going to. I mean, god is God. I can never limit him if he wants to punish out of a storm. But I think our approach as believers is to know that he's in control mostly our approach as believers, is to know that he's in control.

Speaker 1: 2:06

mostly, Is there a recent storm that you can think of, maybe in the last, I don't know few months, or something like something recent that that you can kind of paint a picture for some listeners, whether it's a big storm or small storm or you know?

Speaker 2: 2:21

I mean there's. I mean the permit was probably one of the most current alive storms, as a business owner that we're in and um we're tackling. So we're in a probably an f5 tornado oh, the category.

Speaker 2: 2:36

That's the category, I think it's ef I think they changed that uh categorization of storm, of tornadoes, now. But uh, uh, we're in a big tornado right now as we speak and, um, how I'm operating is, uh, exactly how I'm supposed to approach a tornado, you know, go look for shelter and survive. So there's more spiritually on how to handle that. But but we were, there was keys and components that we'll talk about. That basically helped us understand what was coming and what type of storm and being ready for it. But yeah, I mean current live storm right now is the island is already challenging to get products here.

Speaker 2: 3:17

Inflation has rose incredibly post-COVID, right with the, with the, with land and market of real estate and interest rates, inflation, lack of inventory, and then all these things take a strong play on our market. And so what that means is we used to get a lot of calls every gosh. We would get calls every day, all day, and I'd have a full-time person just answering the phone. Man, it was just like like a like it was awesome. You know god was blessing. But if interest rates are really high, it's not a season to go buy, you know it's uh, it's not a season to refinance. So that just eliminates two different markets for us, then people aren't remodeling, they're not extending, they're not doing these things.

Speaker 2: 4:13

And an inventory is really low. So you know it's a little island. It's kind of already all built out.

Speaker 2: 4:18

So if you're not renovating or remodeling, you're not building, and then that kind of lacks you know the reach for market. And then that kind of lacks you know the reach for for market. And then, on top of that, you have a luxury market which we strategically placed ourselves and with people who don't refinance and have the funds and just buy land. You're still dealing with lack of inventory, inflation on product. Um, since COVID and you have the department of permitting basically taken two years to get their plans through and they're having their own struggles in the storm or maybe it's smoke, but they're having their own.

Speaker 2: 4:53

We're having a storm because of it, because you know just everyone's just not renovating, remodeling or building because of all these different factors. So currently going through that storm.