"Facing The Storm"| Episode #85 | 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, “Facing the Storm,” we talk about what it means to stand firm when adversity rolls in — whether it’s a passing drizzle or a full-blown tornado. The storms of life come in all shapes and sizes. And the key isn’t just surviving them — it’s learning how to face them with faith and wisdom.

🌧️ From childhood memories of Midwest thunderstorms to the real-life pressures of business, family, and leadership — this episode invites us to reflect on how we respond to the shaking, the uncertainty, and the unexpected.

💡 In this conversation, we unpack:
* The difference between a small “manini” storm and a foundation-shaking one
* How to approach storms with childlike faith and adult stewardship
* Practical indicators for recognizing when a storm is coming — and how to prepare
* The balance between doing all you can and trusting all that God can
* What it means to hold onto peace, even while protecting what matters most

📖 “Face it with childlike faith, but steward it like an adult.” That’s the heart of this episode. Because while storms might come suddenly, our response doesn’t have to be reactionary — it can be rooted, steady, and full of trust in the One who’s in control.

🤍 Whether you’re in a light drizzle or an emotional F5 tornado, this conversation is for you. Not to panic — but to prepare, to believe, and to stay grounded through it all.

👇 Drop a comment: How do YOU stay steady when a storm is brewing?

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Chapters

• 0:00 Categorizing Life's Storms
• 0:59 Childhood Storm Experiences
• 2:18 Childlike Faith vs Adult Responsibility
• 4:07 Balancing Faith and Stewardship

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:18

so it seems like um at has been through a bunch of storms uh and I'm assuming also snakes and smokes, but particularly with storms, there's going to be small manini ones and like big ones. Right, how would you, or what's your advice to people that are going through the small ones and what's your advice to people that are going through like major, you know, foundation shaking type storms?

Speaker 2: 0:44

yeah. So from a practical level, I believe that you got to identify number one. If you categorize, you're in a storm. Yeah, you know, by looking at all three categories I shared, you say man, this is definitely a storm, it's out of my control, there's nothing I can do. You know? Uh, there are four indicators discernment indicators and application indicators that I would advise that we use, and it's based off my childhood experience in storms. You know, growing up, in the Midwest.

Speaker 2: 1:12

You know, I was like one of those kids that loved I had those. We had a basketball rim that you can adjust. I put it just at the level to where I can dunk it. Who didn't? You know, we did, yeah, and then I would get a little bit smaller ball so I can dunk it. Who didn't, yeah, who didn't, yeah, yeah. And then I would get a little bit smaller ball so I can palm it, and then we used to have dunk contests and yeah, it would be super fun. You know, I was probably, you know, sixth grade and acting like I'm Sean Kemp, that's my age, y'all.

Speaker 1: 1:34

That's cool.

Speaker 2: 1:35

You know so, but doing these we're always outside and so we had to be back home by the street lights, you know. So that's all normal. And while we're playing sometimes we realize like, wait a minute, it's getting kind of like we can, you can feel it, like the moisture in the air changes. It's sometimes a little little warmer, a little cooler. The wind starts changing. You just feel this. You could feel it like a storm's coming, you know. You just know, you've been around it. It's just you have that like you just know the wind. You look at the clouds, you can tell it's getting a little bit dark. They're kind of doing this wavy blow thing. That's not normal and you're just like, okay, storm's coming, but as thing that's not normal and you're just okay, storm's coming, but as kids you don't go run for shelter, you, you, and you don't care how big it is, you're trying to get your last hour of playing. So when you would hear thunder, it was official, okay there's a storm well, no, we still wouldn't go home.

Speaker 2: 2:37

Oh, because we learned this rule, like when you hear thunder, you see lightning. You do this little count one, one thousand, two, one thousand. And then if you see the lightning thunder, you see lightning you do this little count one, 1,000, two, 1,000. And then if you see the lightning, or if you see the lightning and you do it, and you hear the thunder, that's how far away by mileage right.

Speaker 2: 2:50

By mileage. So we wait until the last second because we want to maximize our time. Right, go playing. But hearing the thunder and then seeing the lightning right before the rain, we would time it pretty good, pretty like on point. I mean, sometimes hell would fall on us, that would be crazy. But so we go back inside and then in the Midwest I was in the city so we didn't get like the tornado Tornadoes hit us. We'd hear about the tornadoes outside of us, but we would get slammed with the thunderstorm part of it right, and it would hit so hard. You would hear like small debris come and slam into the window. You would see trees fall, you would see electrical wires fall, and it was just kind of a fun experience. The next day, when the storm passed, we would go outside as kids grab our bikes. There would be fire trucks.

Speaker 1: 3:45

It sounds super fun. I'm imagining now it'd just be cool to just go on your bikes with the boys.

Speaker 2: 3:52

Bro it was We'd get on our bikes. There would be smashed cars with trees.

Speaker 1: 3:58

I mean, it was like a war scene.

Speaker 2: 4:01

And it would happen three or four times a year and we just want to go see all the damage. Obviously it was just that childlike faith, not thinking at it like you know, the destruction or the panic or worrying about your house getting, you know, slammed or whatever by by the wind and the destruction, um. But then looking at it as an adult too, now that I'm older, is like dang, you're hoping you're, you're kind of going to a little more of a panic or a little worry. Like man, I hope my car doesn't get hit, I don't got to worry about insurance, or I hope you know everyone's safe.

Speaker 2: 4:43

I'm so sorry about Jim across the street where his truck got smashed. I can't imagine what he's going through. You know there's the whole adult side of looking at it too and the responsibility of, like trying to protect your assets and people and everyone's safe. So you know, when you're young you don't think about those things. But it really made me think about, like, the balance of and this is to answer your question what would I share to the people that different levels of storms is.

Speaker 2: 5:07

I do believe that we want to address it with a balance, with a heart or a like a childlike faith, but also an adult stewardship, you know like there's an a balance of doing all you know you can do, you know, but at the same time have a faith aspect, knowing that God's in control of all things. And just having that faith, understanding like, hey, it will pass and in, whatever happens, god allowed and we'll have to address it when the time comes.