"The Bait Of The Snake" | Episode #92 | Builder of All Things | Author’s Cut: Chapter Seven 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. 

Episode 3 of Chapter 7 takes the gloves off. We’re diving into real-life snake attacks — not physical ones, but deceptive, character-attacking, bait-filled schemes that aim to steal your peace, your focus, and your purpose.

🎙️ Richie shares a personal story about a client trying to publicly attack his character and even his marriage — and how he resisted the temptation to take the bait. The focus: truth over reaction, discernment over drama.

🐟 Key Themes We Break Down:
* How to recognize bait: The enemy studies you and tailors distractions just for you.
* Why truth is your starting point: Before reacting, ask “What’s true?”
* The danger of fighting in the dirt: When you respond in emotion, you’re fighting the snake on its terms.
* The enemy's #1 goal: Steal your perspective — because if he gets your lens, he gets your mission.
* What Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness teaches us: The devil’s tricks haven’t changed — he’s a “1-2-3” fighter with a predictable game plan.
* Why knowing the enemy’s patterns gives you power — in business, leadership, and life.

🔥 This episode is packed with practical wisdom for entrepreneurs, leaders, and anyone navigating conflict, slander, or personal attacks. Don’t let deception shift your focus. Don’t let bait knock you off your God-given course.

📖 Chapter 7 isn’t just about snakes — it’s about staying sharp, grounded, and elevated even when you’re under fire.

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Chapters

• 0:20 Separate Truth From Attack
• 1:06 Client Conflict Without Taking Bait
• 2:06 Establishing Personal Truths
• 3:06 How Bait Works And Why It Deceives
• 3:47 Tailored Bait Targets Your Weakness
• 5:08 Protecting Perspective As Your Weapon
• 6:40 Purpose, Lures, And Stolen Lenses
• 8:02 The Snake’s Timing And Tactics

Transcript

SPEAKER_01: 0:20

Once you're able to categorize, okay, this is attacking my character, where are the truths in this? This is not true. You know, I think establishing truths first. Like, because that's what the main beta is and the and the stirring of the pot is deception. And so when you look at things and say, hey, what's the truth in this? For example, I had a client that was trying to sabotage our company. And now clients have the right to be upset, to be dissatisfied, and to voice their concerns. I'm not talking, that's not the snake. Don't go out there calling your client snakes because they're not happy with bad work, you know, or bad product. You know, that's not snakes, man. Like, okay, that's just we need to step up in excellence. But this client was attacking my character. And when he was attacking my character, I had to check myself. Did I misrepresent myself? I have to be honest. Or wait a minute, those aren't true.

SPEAKER_00: 1:20

Yeah, right? That's good.

SPEAKER_01: 1:21

So there, and then you can even tell, not only was he attacking my character and lying in a lot of emails and and social blast. I put all this in the book. He started coming at my wife, calling me a bad husband. You don't know how I'm a husband at home. That's that's stepping over a line of poking at my my character, my integrity, my and so I know the truths. So the truths really are I'm a good husband. These are this is what I, you know, these are the things that I do. I did not lie, you know, and so when we're able to establish, you know, the truths, and that's the first like stance of just positioning ourselves ready for this battle, yeah, is saying and categorizing it too.

SPEAKER_00: 2:03

Yeah, would you say that that's part of the bait?

SPEAKER_01: 2:06

Oh man, the bait comes in all kinds of forms, man. And and I share this in one of the masterclasses, but the bait is like it's deceptive. So when you think about a real fisherman trying to bait fish, it's creating false sense of food, yeah. And it's putting it on water like it's really swimming. Like the fish are like, oh, that's a live worm, you know? But that what is what is it really? It's a bait. It's a bait. Yeah, it's the whole point of bait is it's already deceptive and it's trying to bait you. So when you're going fishing, depending on the fish, you choose your bait. Right, right. So the same thing with bait, there's so many, it depends on who you are. If I look at you, Ray, Ray, I'll say, What kind of fish are you? How will I get you to come to the top of the surface to grab my hook? Right. And so baits come in all different ways. If you're, you know, if you're in securities about you and your wife, you know, and certain things, he's gonna try to uh bring attacks in that area. If you're a business owner and you do certain things, he's he's just gonna try to use the bait in so many different ways.

SPEAKER_00: 3:08

I like one of the things you mentioned in the opening portion of the bait, and this this stood out to me a lot, Richie, which was um, the enemy wants to steal your perspective. The first time I heard of stealing your perspective, that's insane. That if you're hearing this guys, that's I mean, we have to kind of talk about that. Like, what's what's stealing your perspective?

SPEAKER_01: 3:27

Yeah, so from a like a metaphorical view, imagine a fish is on a mission and he's swimming, and then the bait hits the water at the top, it distracts you, and you look up, and then you're like, Oh, food. Then basically, you just lost your whole mission. You just started swimming all the way to the top, yeah. And so the enemy, like the snake, we'll keep referring him to. Like when I had that client trying to sabotage us through email, he was trying to bait me to respond. Yeah, he was trying to poke in certain areas where I wanted to respond and and kind of snap, like bro, you know, you know, like you know who like it's like I felt a responsibility to defend my character and respond with passion to let him know he's wrong, but then I'm fighting on on the dirt, you know. That's not how you fight the snake, right?

SPEAKER_00: 4:19

And I think the reason why I this this just stood out to me so well, so big, was because I believe that in this battle, your your perspective is the your biggest weapon. And if you if they steal your sword, it's an automatic L, bro. And I think that's why it's so it stood out to me so much.

SPEAKER_01: 4:40

Yeah, it's he's always at work trying to lure you out of your purpose and get you out of the stream any way he can to get you out of the path that God has you on, and that's but he has still your perspective, he has to give you a different perspective that can overattract the perspective you have now. He's gonna get so basically if you have a purpose and a vision, and like we talk with the lens, you like this picture and your focus. Yeah, he's gonna try to turn the vibrant setting a little bit more colorful, a little more light. He's gonna try to say, Hey, this is prettier. Yeah, you know, this come check this out. This is nicer than that one. And then try to make it look. As soon as you look, boom, you know, you just stole it. You just stole your lens. You got a new lens on now.

SPEAKER_00: 5:24

Yeah, and it's terrifying to it's terrifying to know that you could, I don't say lose, but you can get your weight lost or or stolen just like that.

SPEAKER_01: 5:34

Just like that, bro. Yeah, just like that. And that's that's his job all day, all night. Oh man, that's true. He's constantly at work, man.

SPEAKER_00: 5:42

We talk about you mentioned that the snake shows up in Genesis in Adam and Eve, and there's another portion in there. We talk about the snake appearing to Jesus in the while he's uh fasting. And I think the thing that stood out to me in that portion was that you know, the snake being the snake and knowing just how conniving he is, and and he knows all these things, right? And for him to come at the right time at the right place, meaning in that story where Jesus is fasting and he comes at like the latest time where he's hungry and he's so to speak vulnerable, right? Can you talk about the snake appearing in that uh story?

SPEAKER_01: 6:22

Well, yeah, I think what I wanted to show, and a lot of business owners, we can move into successful paths. Number one, with God, of course, but we recognize patterns. So, what what happens in the scripture when the snake appears, I recognize oh, he has the same pattern. And so when we look at his approach with Adam and Eve, with Job, with Jesus in the garden, it's the same one, two, three, man. It's like so it's like even like as a as a MMA fighter, you kind of gotta learn who you're fighting, right? And then you kind of learn, you know, what's their combos, what's their match. But if you watch his fight, you're gonna be like, dude, you fight the same every single time. Like you're not different, like you don't like you're crafty with finding the bait, but you're still a one, two, three, like punch guy. Yeah, yeah. Like, oh, you're you're actually easy to defeat. Come on, very easy to defeat. And so, as a business owner, entrepreneur, man, I recognize the patterns just reading it. And so when he came with Jesus, and what I did in the book is try to illustrate, there's a pattern in Adam and Eve and with Jesus, and I I actually paralleled those for you so you can see the the actual pattern. It's the same attack, yeah, same exact attack. So we really have no excuse. God's showing us come on, look, man, he's a kindergarten fighter, you know. Like, that's no, he's like an ABC fighter. Like, that's why Jesus was like, dude, you're an ABC fighter, dude. Like, yeah, yeah. Like, come on, man. Like, you're easy to defend, really. You really are.