Yahweh’s Money®️: The Crossroads of Religion & Money

Gratitude Is The Antidote To Envy

• Shay Cook & Vanessa McNelley • Season 3 • Episode 67

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Gratitude and envy—two powerful forces shaping our lives in unexpected ways. Imagine transforming the green-eyed monster into a companion of joy. In this episode, Shay Cook and Vanessa McNelley share their personal stories and biblical insights, taking you on a journey to understand how gratitude can bring contentment and fulfillment into your daily life. Together, we'll explore why thankfulness should extend beyond the holiday season, helping you align your heart with the blessings you already have, rather than longing for what others possess.

Jealousy and envy might seem negative at first glance, but they don't have to be. Listen as we tackle these complex emotions, revealing how they can be transformed into appreciation through gratitude. By sharing experiences from various environments, we highlight how different perspectives have shaped our understanding of privilege and abundance. Cultivating gratitude can enhance your spiritual life and happiness, allowing you to celebrate others' successes without the sting of envy.

Finally, we'll delve into the meaningful intersection of religion and money. Discover how aligning your financial practices with your spiritual beliefs can lead to financial fitness and inspiration. Reflect on your financial journey and consider the impact of faith-based principles on your decisions. Through Shay and Vanessa's conversation, you'll uncover strategies to integrate gratitude into your financial life, enhancing both your monetary and spiritual well-being. Remember, it's always better Yahweh's way, and you can stay updated with us by subscribing to our podcast or visiting Crusaders4Change.org.

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Shay:

Ever felt those awkward vibes when religion and money come up? You're not alone. Welcome to Yahweh's Money, the podcast where we tackle the crossroads of faith and finance. I'm Shay Cook, an Accredited Financial Counselor, and the CEO and founder of Crusaders for Change LLC.

Vanessa:

And I'm Vanessa McNelley, Accredited Financial Counselor and COO of Crusaders for Change. Join us on our journey as we discuss topics like tithing saving and conquering debt through religious perspectives.

Shay:

Let's get started, hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of Yahweh's Money. I am Shay and I'm here with my girl, Vanessa.

Vanessa:

Hey Vanessa, hey Shay, I'm glad to be here today.

Shay:

Me too, because this dang on envy conversation I've been looking forward to, because I have been suffering from envy. I've been praying on it every day. Lord, take this envy away from me. I rebuke you, devil, in the name of Jesus. Oh, it's hard. It's hard. It can be hard. Vanessa is the total opposite of me. She has no envy. So we're about to have a really good conversation, because we're on a total opposite spectrum when it comes to this, and I love it because that's what it's all about.

Shay:

So gratitude seems to come into our vile vocabularies a lot more around the holidays, but that shouldn't be so. In today's episode, Vanessa and I will be looking into the power of gratitude and its profound impact on our lives. We'll explore how thankfulness isn't just a holiday sentiment but a divine practice that aligns our hearts with God's blessings, from recognizing the everyday gifts we often overlook to understanding how gratitude can transform our relationship with money. We also delve into how envy, with this insatiable hunger, stands in complete contrast to gratitude. While gratitude opens our hearts to abundance, envy can cloud our vision and create discontent.

Shay:

Yes, that part. Get ready to celebrate the abundance that comes from a grateful heart and learn how to shift away from feelings of lack, let's get started. Yay, wow. And we always got to start with a scripture, because that is what we are led by the word of God. So 1 Thessalonians 5, 16 through 18 encourages believers to rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus. This highlights that gratitude is not just a suggestion but a command. I think we've had this conversation before.

Vanessa:

Yeah, definitely, definitely, and it's still. It's a hard conversation to have.

Shay:

It really is.

Vanessa:

And I think it's so hard for some of us to not have that envy or that desire or that longing for other things, but when we do that, we miss out on the blessings that are right in front of us. And I think we forget that gratitude is recognizing the blessings that God has given us, and he may not give us the same blessings as somebody next door. He most likely won't.

Vanessa:

Right, right. So our blessings are going to be very different and we have to be able to see them. So when we fixate on somebody else's blessings, we we have to be able to see them. So when we fixate on somebody else's blessings, we miss our own blessings and there's so many things in this life to be thankful for so many, so many things. I know we talk a lot about just dinner and cooking and eating, because we like food here and we cook every day.

Vanessa:

You know we cook whole good food every day and we often say, you know, look at us, like we are able to sit down and have steak once a week, Like that's such a blessing. I mean, I remember the days when I would get one pack of chicken and I had to make it last the entire week. If I had meat you know if I had meat in my buggy? So, there's so many things. We have to remember that there's all these tiny little blessings in our lives that really add up to something huge.

Shay:

You really do. You know, from the scripture notes of Thessalonians 5, I think it's 16 through 18, one of those scriptures. It says circumstances or feelings. Obeying these three commands be joyful, never stop praying and be thankful often goes against our natural inclinations. When we make a conscious decision to do what God says, however, we will begin to see people in a new perspective. When we do God's will, we will find it easier to be joyful and thankful. And I know that's what I found out in probably in the last six years since I left the Coast Guard, when I had my huge ego on blast and that thing was not to freak down. It was like that ego was like, and then now I'm a little more humble.

Shay:

I still struggle, but just being more grateful and thankful and obedient. Number one, I'm finding it just it's easier to look at people. You know if they have an issue or not with me. I'm like more, I guess, open than I used to be before. Be like I don't want to hear it, Whatever, it's your problem, right? So that gratitude is really helpful in everything you do and, just like you said, it's recognizing the blessings God gives us and even though in this neighborhood I live in a lot of people. We have a similar house. We have different blessings inside those houses, right, and there's nothing wrong with that.

Vanessa:

There is nothing wrong with that at all, and your heart's desires can be completely different than that person's too. So it's like one person's desire could be to have children and they're having a hard time.

Vanessa:

So they have the blessings, of the resources to help them have those children, or somebody else's blessings could be I want to be able to take care of a sick parent or be able to, you know, help my, my fellow friends and colleagues when they need it. So those blessings are based off of that desire that's in our heart too. So that's what we have to remember, our desires and what God wants for our life is completely different than somebody next door to us Completely different.

Vanessa:

And we have to remember that gratitude can deepen our faith and it gives us a sense of you know, of just being able to sit there and be content and not want or long for other things. And that's so hard, too, for a lot of people to be okay with where you're at, because we're taught to want more in this world.

Vanessa:

We're taught to seek that next level and to get that promotion and get a raise and have a bigger home and get a nicer car. That's what we're taught the reality of it is is who's teaching us that? I?

Shay:

know, and why? Right, exactly, you know, exactly. Yeah, I mean because they want us to have that, I mean in a capitalist society, and it's just not always a bad thing, but the bad that there's pros and cons to it. Let me put it that way I know people argue you shouldn't be in this, like no, whatever capitalism is unfortunately where it is, there's pros and cons, and but you're taught that so you can continue that cycle and so you get to continue to buy into it and do that and you know god wants us focused on him number one and in serving his people.

Vanessa:

And then all of everything else comes, secondary or tertiary, exactly, and when we do, that we don't have that desire in us to get the next best thing or have more yeah we're content and happy with where we are and that's something. I think a lot of people their entire lives. They're never content and happy.

Vanessa:

And that would be miserable to me to always feel like I don't have enough. And I, you know, I've not really struggled with that a lot because I somehow, something in me, has always been like I am blessed and I have more than I deserve, um, but at the same time it's like I don't know. I've never had that thing where it's like, okay, I want a bigger house and I want more, and I want that we say in our house a lot you may want new, but you don't need more.

Vanessa:

So you know, that's something that we have to remember that most of us have more than we need, yeah, more than we need. When it comes down to it, it's just worldly standards. We don't have enough.

Shay:

Yeah, and that's a struggle, because social media, which I try to stay off of because I know people I'm not trying to shade anybody that is on social, not at all, that's your thing. I did that for years and it just brought me to a very bad headspace mentally. I was just not seeing everybody. You know, because everybody puts their good stuff on social. There are some people that put their bad stuff and like, I don't know all that.

Shay:

It's just funny because, like I want a mixture, I want to balance, but it's like I rather see the good stuff than the bad stuff. But what I'm saying is it's just like you start to see like, oh, look at that house, look at saying is it's just like you start to seem like, oh, look at that house, look at that vacation, look at those shoes, look at that dress, look at that bathing suit, look at that body, look at that booty, you know all that. It's like, uh, no, I gotta get away from this because this is too much and you know, and we need to talk too, about like indie versus jealousy too and indie is wanting something someone else has and jealousy is being worried that someone is going to try to take what you have or want.

Vanessa:

So your neighbor gets a new car and you're like, oh, I would love to have that car, it's beautiful, that's envy. But your neighbor invites your husband to go for a drive in that new car and you're worried your neighbor might try to take your husband from you or whatever it might be.

Shay:

So, it's.

Vanessa:

There's two parts to that.

Shay:

Different spirits, different jealous versus envy spirit, yeah, and jealousy doesn't have to be malicious either.

Vanessa:

Yeah, and you know, jealousy a lot of times can be malicious, but but yeah envy doesn't have to be malicious. So those are hard, hard things to think about too, but we can kind of recognize those things, Um, and we live in a place where we're we're gracious and we have gratitude. It can help us appreciate the many ways in which God provides for us too. Like we've been talking about those tiny little things that keep popping up. That's what really matters, um, and it can enhance our worship experience.

Vanessa:

It really, really can, because we know what we have versus what we're lacking.

Shay:

Yeah, that's so good. The gratitude is where it's at For me. Like I said, I've been going through some envy this week, last two weeks, and it's been hard y'all. It really has Seeing family members have bigger and better and I'm not understanding why and I know there may be deeper issues around it, and I'll handle that through therapy with my therapist and Vanessa, because she's been helping me get through this, and even my daughter and husband know too. But I think I've shared more with Vanessa than even those two and it's just been really hard, you know.

Shay:

But the gratitude is where that is really an antidote, because when I start, when my mind starts to think about oh, they got bigger and better, spirit is like stop, let's sit down and start thinking about what you already have, how blessed you are like and I mean I don't even know what the statement is, but I know people will say, like man and I think you said this, Vanessa, that you know what we have like we are really like the one, two, three percent of America or in the world, like we are so blessed, so blessed, even though if we're not up with the upper echelon 1%, you know the billion, billion billionaires but we still are so blessed. We not only have the necessities. That establishes us and keeps us there. But you know, when you're talking about the pyramid, what is it? The path, the, what's the name? The pyramid of needs I think it's the Pavlov's pyramid. I always get confused.

Shay:

Anyway, some psychological theory that I learned in school and I can't recall right now, but the pyramid of basic necessities. I have all of that. I got food, I got water, I got clothes, I got housing, but I have so much more than that. And so for me to sit here and have envy to me, it's kind of ridiculous. But I'm human, so I try to honor your human. Your flesh sometimes want to try to take over, but the spirit is constantly. So it's really that exercising gratitude, which I know is going to pay off in the long run, um, me going through this envy exercise, which I hate because I just I'll be random, like I'll be outside walking, having a good time exercising, and then my mind's like, oh, you should have a bigger house. And it's like what the hell did that come from? I wasn't even thinking about that. So, yeah, it really. All of this, you know, just recognizing what God has, that gratitude exercise, that's real y'all. That's really real.

Vanessa:

It really is, you know, and when we focus on the gratitude and we fill our spirit and our mind and our hearts with gratitude, there is no room for envy.

Vanessa:

You know there's no room for that envy to take over, because you are full of thankfulness and gratitude and you are happy and you can be happy for other people and that they have these amazing things. But when it comes down to it, I mean I have a roof over my head, you know. I have food on my table. I have, you know, savings in case something were to happen. I am so blessed in this world.

Vanessa:

And there's so many things I have, you know, savings in case something were to happen. I am so blessed in this world and there's so many things that I have that somebody else would give anything for, and we have to remember that, that most of us are in that position that somebody else would do anything to be where we're at.

Shay:

Yeah.

Vanessa:

Yeah, and you know, and I've lived in other places. You've lived in other places and I've lived in places where we didn't have water three or four days a week, or we didn't have power the same amount of time. And for us here it's like, oh my gosh, that's a need and it's a necessity. We have to have Wi-Fi 24-7. And the reality of it is, nope, those are all gifts, exactly. Sure, having access to water to drink, yes, but being able to, you know, take a hot shower and flush the commode and whatever it might be.

Shay:

Those are so true, those are so. Running water is a gift. We have family members, I'm sure, on both our sides that did not have that. Growing up, I had to go into an outhouse to use, or just out in the woods to use, the bathroom, then have access to great toilet tissue, like the list goes on right.

Shay:

Sometimes I'll just I mean a lot of times through the week, if I'm doing my gratitude exercise in the morning or afternoon or during the day, I'm like, thankful, like thank you, lord, for this toilet, this good cotton towel, toilet tissue, these paper towels, all of this stuff. Running water that it gets hot. You know, like I mean people don't have this y'all Like.

Vanessa:

I mean it's crazy. I mean I think I've told stories about, you know, dying my hair and then realizing my water was not on that day, because it was just one of those days in Puerto.

Vanessa:

Rico and thankfully I had like saved up water and I was able to rinse my hair out. But you know, these things and and all these things happen. And when that happened, my mom, when she passed away, she wanted to build a water well, that she wanted that to be. Her legacy was to have a water well somewhere in a village, somewhere she didn't care where, that they had access and they didn't have to walk two hours to carry it back. And that day it was like when that happened to me and I realized, oh my gosh, this is a blessing to have access to this. You know, somebody was put in my path that did that and we were able to build like 12 wells in Cambodia. You know, through her, her legacy, and it's like those things matter you know, me, having a new car does not matter.

Shay:

Yeah, exactly if we're moving on to emotional well-being. You know, focusing on what we, or what we are grateful for, creates a more positive and resilient mindset, and I think we've kind of already talked about this, but I mean, I'll go a little deeper again in my gratitude exercises. When I'm focused on either, the ego is out of control, I'm not as humble. Oh man, man, the list goes on. The envy, the jealousy, trying to, you know, thinking about what other people's has, obviously the envy. I mean, the list goes on. Just, you know, there's a lot of jealousy sometimes seeing people that are super happy and just living their life like it's golden and it's like are they really, though, but that's again, social media can really cause a lot of issues. So just thinking about all of that, you know, being grateful, can really help you be positive and just help you keep that resilience up Like all right and just be able to fight against the demons that are there, you know, yeah, and bringing up, you know, the social media aspect.

Vanessa:

We're seeing a snippet, we're seeing a moment in time and the reality of it is is okay. Well, they're maxed out on their credit cards. They, you know, got into a huge fight with their spouse because their spouse doesn't want them to buy this big thing they wanted. So they've not talked in a week.

Vanessa:

You know all these things behind the scenes, they're stressed and they're having to work more hours to keep up with the payments that are coming in. And if you don't buy into all that and you can sit back and say I'm good, like, yes, I work hard and yes, I have these things and I've planned, and I think that's a lot of it, too, is planning and making sure you're in that spot where you know you're not you're not Superman and things you know are not going to never be able to touch you.

Vanessa:

But you have some armor around you, yeah, and that helps you to kind of see the bigger picture with things.

Shay:

Exactly and I mean it helps you. You know if you get your emotional wellbeing. If you do, you know I always say people we got to get, we have to take care of our mental health. We have to our mental, our emotional wellbeing, our mental wellbeing. Like we go to the doctor for the physical Hopefully you're talking to financial counselors, like Crusaders for Change for your finances, but people always forget about the mental health piece of it.

Shay:

And you know if you're taking care of that, if you're being grateful, you know you can really help to decrease the feelings of envy, of resentment, of frustrating, leading to a peaceful heart. We all want peace, right? I hope so. If you don't, something's wrong with you. But that peace is the gratitude can really lead you to being peaceful. And that's what I see when I again keep going back to the gratitude and I'm thinking, when this envy just pops up out of nowhere and I sit back and I'm grateful, then I come down off of that craziness, high and frustration and resentment and then I'm grateful. Then I come down off of that craziness, high and frustration and resentment and then I'm Zen, peaceful, namaste, right and when you, when you see this and you you have somebody in your life that kind of exudes.

Vanessa:

This example is so beautiful, Like, absolutely Like probably going to get teary eyed, but my mother, she she is the first person that comes into my mind with this.

Vanessa:

So my mother had cancer for 16 years. That is a long time to be sick and everybody outside of her was like, oh you know, it must be awful to be in pain all the time. And to, you know, to to know that you're dying, and to to not have this and not have that. And it was always negative, negative, negative, like she should be more down than she was. And her replies were always if I would have given up, I would have missed out on the birth of my granddaughter and having a relationship with her and these amazing experiences that we had over the last 16 years.

Vanessa:

So it's like if we can focus on the good that comes out of that. So, yes, she was sick. Yes, she had, you know, pain and had surgeries and all these things, but because she was here, we got to do all these amazing things and build those memories that last and that leads to a peaceful heart too.

Shay:

Exactly, and Yvonne obviously did a great job raising you and leaving a legacy and I felt like I know her through you, so obviously she's still alive in you. And wow, what a blessing Cause. Most of us don't have that. We don't have that parent that exudes that positivity Like I ain't trying to call out nobody's parents, including my own, but most of us don't. Most of us don't have that. And so, wow, and that's a testament. 16 years yeah, that must've been crazy having cancer for that long, but because she remained positive, she got to still stay here and bless you guys with that 16 years Cause it could have been six months, it could have been six days, six hours. If she had given in, if she was negative and she was doing what all those people were saying she should have did, she wouldn't have lived that long and so and be able to leave, and Shay Cook would never probably met Vanessa, because you would have been a different person, yeah.

Vanessa:

She had 16 years of gratitude which then kind of you know melted over into me and took her circle, because we all had gratitude.

Shay:

Oh, wow.

Vanessa:

Versus having envy because so-and-so wasn't sick or so-and-so didn't have that. But yeah, it really spills over into your community when you have that gratitude.

Shay:

I love that. I love that, oh Lord, and, yeah, you know, just shifting our focus from what we don't have to the blessing that we do have, enhancing our resilience, as we kind of talked about. You're focused on the good, even during challenging times. And again, man, it's been some challenging times with me. I've been dealing with some mental stuff, like I haven't talked to my therapist yet and I talked to her a few weeks, weeks, months ago, but not about the specific envy stuff, because I wanted to talk to you guys on this podcast, with Vanessa with it, but also just have time with God to so he can build up my resilience. Because you know what, ooh, I just got a revelation just that quick.

Shay:

If I'm, if I'm, feeling envy over a family member, how, oh my God, as this business grows, as my life grows and does great things, there's going to be times where I'm like, oh my God, as this business grows, as my life grows and does great things, there's going to be times where I'm like, oh, wish we had that 500 million, thousand, million, billions of dollars, right. And so I think he's preparing that resilience in me, that strong heart and faith, so I can be prepared to take even us to the next level with this business. All of this comes together. So, even though I've been sitting the last two weeks like Lord, why am I dealing with this envy? He, just in this moment, is showing me why. Because if you can get through this, I'm going to take you to the next level. Then you're going to have another challenge and then, if you can get through that, I'm going to take you to the next level. So he's wanting us to bless us through even our challenges, like he uses all of this for our good. So, true, all of this.

Vanessa:

It's so true Because if we can get through today and get through this situation, you know there's going to be another hard time there's going to be another time that comes, that might be even, you know, three degrees harder than it is right now. But, if we can work through it. It's just like, just like exercising, you know the more you do, the stronger you get.

Shay:

Exactly.

Vanessa:

And it's not because we're being punished or tested, it's just, that's life. And there's these negativities that happen in life and they're not from God not at all, but he wants to make sure we're prepared for them, so that we know how to handle them.

Shay:

And that's a blessing. It is totally a blessing, because envy can really breed negativity and dissatisfaction, as we talked about earlier, and I don't want to be dissatisfied, I don't want to be negative. I don't want to be out here like, oh, woe is me, woe is me, I ain't got time for that. Like, that's just not my personality anyway. Like, okay, good for you, I'm good and happy you have all that, but God has given me my specific Shay Cook blessing.

Vanessa:

Okay, I don't want your blessing, abc or you, you know, I want my blessing Yep and those people are exhausting, by the way, that are just full of negativity and dissatisfaction, like I mean, I have one person in my life that comes, you know, comes to mind and sometimes I have to take breaks from them because it is always just negative, negative, negative and that is. Oh my goodness, it is so hard on your spirit and your soul when it is just like negative all the time. And I know there was a time I was around this person for a little bit and somebody they knew was like you sound like blah, blah, blah and it was like oh no, I do not want this to happen, so you have to take a step back and reevaluate, and readjust yeah, he'll keep in your circle, um, because I don't want to be that person either.

Shay:

Boundaries are real y'all. Man, you gotta have those boundaries, cause sometimes it'd be like I don't know how you even live in your old life, and when you around me, I'm exhausted. I can only imagine how exhausted you are and you wonder why you got so many elements. Anyways, that part, exactly, exactly, yeah, yeah.

Vanessa:

But you know, gratitude can also encourage generosity.

Shay:

And.

Vanessa:

I think this is a similar theme.

Vanessa:

When you just allow that that heart of yours to be opened up and just to be there for other people and to be there for God, like we to to be there for other people and to be there for for God, like we're supposed to be there, like he's there for us. We understand the blessings that we have and we see the struggles of others and that can lead us to helping more people. And if we were on the other side of this, we would say, well, you know what. They didn't earn it, you know they're the ones who didn't go to work today.

Vanessa:

Or you know, if they would have really tried, they would have got this, that or the other. But it's when we, when we have that, that openness and gratitude, we see that, you know that may not be their fault or their problem, or maybe it doesn't even matter why they don't have right, I have, so I can help.

Vanessa:

And you know, and when we're thankful for what we receive, we can always want to return the favor. And I remember growing up my dad, he would always try to help somebody or give them five bucks, or whatever the situation like we, even in a camper on my dad's land and you know he was a Vietnam vet my dad would always give him, you know, five, 10 bucks here and people were always chastising my dad because they were like you know, boo's just going to use that for beer and cigarettes, right? And my dad's answer was that's not for me to decide, and if that's, what it takes for him to get through his day.

Vanessa:

That's what it takes, and you know, that to me is the perfect answer, because it's not on us and that's taken that back from God too, because we're not giving freely.

Shay:

And we give freely with love, we don't care.

Vanessa:

when it leaves our hands, it leaves our hands.

Shay:

It's not your responsibility, it's not even for you to care. Exactly that's when you lead that up to God. You ain't.

Vanessa:

God, but we can be there to love and support and to bring that kindness aspect, exactly, yeah, and you find joy in giving.

Shay:

I mean, recognizing that our blessings come from God can inspire us to give back as a form of worship or service, and really envy can lead to selfishness and a focus on scarcity. So you're always like, oh, I got to get this, I got to get that, you know. Like now, focus on the blessings. Like, oh, I gotta get this, I gotta get that, you know. Like now, focus on the blessings. It ain't your responsibility to figure out why what somebody's gonna use their money on or no, just give. Like Vanessa saying, give freely. It's such a blessing to be able to give freely, because I'm telling you and you shouldn't be given to receive, but I'm telling y'all you're gonna, you're gonna receive and I'm not talking about and just money.

Shay:

I'm gonna going to say, oh, I gave $20. I'm going to give $40. No, you might. The blessings and the favor and the peace, oh, that is priceless. That is priceless. And so I want to give and give and give Because, like you said, it's not always about money too. It could be time, it could be energy, it could be knowledge, it could be whatever. Love you know, love, love, love, you know. So that is just beautiful, just absolutely beautiful. Yeah, wow, any final thoughts?

Vanessa:

You know, I would just say give when you can and open your heart up and be gracious and be you know be full of gratitude and be thankful for the tiny things. Be thankful you woke up this morning and you were able to make a good cup of coffee.

Shay:

I mean that is a blessing.

Vanessa:

I haven't had no coffee yet, but yes, Remember those little things are all gifts and those little things add up to something amazing.

Shay:

And I want to end with Proverbs 1430, which states a tranquil heart gives life to the flesh, but envy makes the bones rot. And in a new, living translation it says a tranquil heart gives life to the flesh, but envy makes the bones rot. And in a new, living translation, it says a peaceful heart leads to a healthy body. Jealousy is like cancer in the bones. So in an honor of Yvonne, who was living with a peaceful heart, even though she had cancer, she was still healthy in her spirit, she had gratitude, she had love. And she was still healthy in her spirit, she had gratitude, she had love, and she was 16 years.

Shay:

Y'all Like. That ain't nothing but a blessing. And may she rest in holy peace in heaven. And just thank you for joining us today, wonderful day. A big thank you for listening to this episode. We hope you found today's chat about the intersection of religion and money insightful. We would love to hear your feedback. Hit that subscribe button or follow the podcast and please feel free to leave us a review.

Vanessa:

Yes, and for the latest Yahweh's Money content, visit us at www. crusaders4change. org or find us anywhere you listen to podcasts. Until next time, stay financially fit and spiritually inspired.

Shay:

And remember it's always better Yahweh's way.

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Shay Cook

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