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EP306: Radical Purpose Part 4 - The Spark

• Dr. Nate Salah • Episode 306

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What if the moment that could change your future is the spark you’ve been ignoring? In this episode, Dr. Nate reveals how the first flicker of curiosity and imagination becomes the doorway to purpose, drawing on the early sparks that shaped Hershey, Disney and Jobs. This is where fascination turns into conviction and vision begins to take form. Press play to discover the spark inside you and what it’s trying to awaken.

 
 Key Takeaways To Listen For

  • How curiosity becomes the first ignition point of purpose
  • Why Walt Disney turned hardship into imagination and wonder
  • How Steve Jobs followed fascination into world-changing design
  • The progression from curiosity to imagination to vision
  • How vision evolves into a sacred burden that refuses to leave you


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[00:00:00] Dr. Nate Salah
The spark is no longer an idea. It's a direction, and direction is the beginning of destiny. Let me ask you, what idea in your life refuses to leave you alone? What vision keeps tapping on your shoulder, even when you try to push it aside? Welcome, my friends, to episode four of our Radical Purpose Journey. I'm taking you through each chapter of the book, Radical Purpose, really a taste of the work on Milton Hershey, Walt Disney, and Steve Jobs, my dissertation, if you will, in his first installment of four books, three in one series, and then one standalone on radical journeys of leadership. And so if you haven't listened to the first three episodes, I would encourage you to go back, check 'em out, and uh, and come right back to this one.

[00:00:54]
 However, you're here, and you wanna stay, let's just dive in. But before we do, I just would. Want you to relax with me because I'm gonna take you on some journeys. I want the noise to fade around us just for a bit, because today it's not just informational, it's transformational. You see, episodes one, two, and three helped us to understand. Our context, our wiring, and our skills, which in a lot of ways is the foundation of leadership. And today, episode four is where the entire trajectory of leadership begins to reveal. Meaning today is where we step into something deeper, the spark, the ignition moment. It's that flash of curiosity, imagination that tells you something in me is waking up. You've probably felt this before, and maybe you've ignored it. Maybe you didn't know what it meant. Maybe you thought it was random, but it wasn't. And today we're gonna decode that exact moment, our moments that Hershey, Disney, and Jobs experience their spark. And as we walk through their stories, we're gonna see how your spark maybe developed with brand new eyes.

[00:02:05]
 This episode may be the most important so far. So let's go there together. Before we unpack anything, I, I want you to imagine something with me. Imagine you're walking down a familiar path, work errands, responsibilities, the usual rhythm of life, and suddenly something catches your attention. Not a distraction, not entertainment, a deeper, it's a pull, a curiosity, a whisper from inside, and you lean in and something clicks. You don't know why it matters, but you know it does. That moment, friend right there. That's the spark. We're gonna decode that spark through the eyes of these three giants of visionary leadership. So I want you to come with me to the late 18 hundreds and in Denver, a dusty street, a horse-drawn wagon clattering, a crisp mountain breeze, just cutting through the air, and tucked away inside a modest confectioner shop. Is Milton Hershey standing over a bubbling copper kettle? Steam is rising around him. The smell of sugar, it just thickens the air. Milk is warming, caramel is forming, and the heat from the stove just wraps around him like a blanket. He's not just working, he's watching. His eyes are fixed. His breath slows, his mind sharpens.

[00:03:35]
 And in that shop. Far from the pressures of his father's vision for his life, far from the discipline of his mother, far from the failures of his earlier ventures, Milton experiences, something he had felt in his life, time and time again. Curiosity. He leans closer. He tilts the kettle. He studies the texture. He tastes the caramel, and he tries again. You know that feeling when something captures your attention so deeply that time disappears. Well, that was Hershey in these moments. He wasn't thinking about building a future chocolate empire. He wasn't thinking about factories or towns or philanthropy. He was thinking about caramel milk, heat process possibilities. Now, let me ask you right now, when was the last time you got lost in a moment like that? Where your mind locked onto something so tight that everything else faded, where the process itself became exhilarating, where curiosity carried you deeper than effort ever could. That's the spark. Now, here's the part most people misunderstand.

[00:04:52]
 Hershey didn't discover the future of milk chocolates because he loved sweets. He discovered the future. Because curiosity led him deeper into craft than anyone else was willing to go. You see, his spark wasn't chocolate. His spark was wonder through work, and wonder never lies. I wanna share how that spark carried him to what we would consider destiny. You see Milton's experimentation, his observations led him to discover. Fresh milk, caramel. It wasn't his idea. He stumbled upon it by the work of someone else. Different heating levels, different stir rates, different ratios. He wasn't improvising blindly. He was analyzing, it's not just talent, it's curiosity becoming creativity and creativity, becoming vision. One day he finds out that. It's smoother, richer, more stable, more flavorful, and something in him. Reignites. This is it. You see, he feels it before. He understands that he knows something wonderful is about to happen. Now, pause right here with me. I want you to just lean into this thought. It's really important.

[00:06:24]
 Your spark often shows up before you have the context to interpret it. Hershey stumbled upon a caramel recipe that wasn't his, but through his own curiosity, it ignited a spark. But caramel wasn't the destiny. Caramel was a doorway to something else. Your spark is often not the destination. It's the portal. It's the hint, the clue, the breadcrumb. Now let's just jump forward. Years later, Hershey would attend the world's Colombian exposition in, in Chicago as the world's Fair, and he would encounter something that made his spark explode. You guessed it. Chocolate-making machinery. He sees it. He feels it. He knows that this, this is the future. It wasn't random. Curiosity had prepared him for recognition. His spark primed him for vision. You see the connection, your spark prepares you for future recognition. Without the Denver curiosity, Hershey would've likely walked right past that machine, but because his spark was alive, he recognized the future when it appeared. I wanna ask you something. What future are you walking past because you haven't reconnected with your spark? I want you to let that question just sit with you. Now. Let's leave Denver behind, and I want to step with you into Walt Disney's world. I wanna take you to Kansas City for just a moment. It's dark.

[00:08:07] 
It's cold. Early morning. Picture a young Walt Disney standing on a street corner with a heavy canvas bag slung over his shoulders. The street is quiet, the sky is still black, the world is still asleep. Walt begins his newspaper route. He runs from house to house. His fingers are numb, his legs aching, his body exhausted. It's brutal work for a child, but something happens when Walt gets home. He doesn't collapse onto the bed. He doesn't complain. He doesn't shut down. He creates, he draws, he sketches. He performs little shows for his mother. He tries to make her laugh. Even on the days when cheese seems burden tired, anxious. Now let's just stop right there. That's not normal behavior for a child carrying adult responsibilities, but Walt wasn't normal. You see, he was wired with a spark. Spark of wonder, imagination, curiosity about joy itself. I want you to think about this question. Why does a child under heavy pressure run toward imagination instead of escape?

[00:09:20] 
Well, the answer I think is, it's profound because imagination was Walt's oxygen. He wasn't escaping reality. He was reinterpreting it. He wasn't avoiding pain, he was transforming it. You see, he wasn't ignoring pressure. He was alchemizing it. Wal Spark wasn't drawing, it was animation. It was wonder. Wonder about, people wonder about emotion, about joy, and story. This is why he eventually noticed things that other people ignored. You can picture him sitting on a bench watching his daughters ride a carousel. Parents are on the sidelines board. Children are delighted. Walt doesn't just see the moment. He studies it. He leans in. He tilts his head. He watches the joy, he watches the boredom, and he wonders. Why can't adults have fun too? Why aren't families laughing together? What would it take to build a place where everyone delights? You feel that spark? That's the moment Disneyland was conceived, not because of imagination alone, but because curiosity collided with need. See when your wiring meets, your Wonder Vision is born.

[00:10:41] 
So, for you, what has been catching your attention lately that you haven't fully explored yet? What moment has been tapping on the window of your mind trying to get you to lean in? Pay attention. Your spark might be in that moment now. I wanna shift to Steve Jobs because his spark burned differently. An old man, it burned. Bri, I wanna take you to a college classroom. Read college 1970s. The desks, they're old. The air smells like books and ink. The light is soft, and students shuffle in quietly. And sitting in the back of the room, a young man with bare feet, unkempt hair and a curiosity full of intensity. It's Steve. He technically doesn't belong in this class. He's not paying for it. He is not enrolled. He is a dropout, but something about calligraphy pulls him. It's the shapes, it's the structure, it's the curves and the rhythm and the balance, and the beauty. He watches the teacher move chalk across the board, slow, deliberate strokes, and he becomes hypnotized.

[00:12:02] 
He's not just learning, he's absorbing, he's seeing, he's feeling, he's connecting dots. No one else is connecting. Why does this matter so much to me, he had to wonder. He has no practical reason to be there, but he can't look away. This, the spark. Spark. This is the curiosity, the curiosity lighting, the match of purpose. I wanna pause here and just ask a question. Has curiosity ever led you somewhere that made no sense at the time, but later it became the turning point of your life? You see, Steve didn't pursue calligraphy for a career. He pursued calligraphy for meaning. And that meaning became the foundation for Apple's Revolution. Beautiful typography, elegant spacing, designed consistency, human-centered beauty, all because of a spark in a random class at at a time when he didn't know who he was or where he was going. Curiosity is the compass of destiny. Now, I wanna bring you back to you. Slow down. Take a breath. And I wanna ask you, what did you love before you were taught what to love?

[00:13:29]
 Think about that. Go back there If you have to stop, stop and just imagine and think about what curiosity keeps coming back. No matter how much you ignore it, that's a spark. Think about what fills you with wonder, even when life feels heavy. I want you to stop dis dismissing it. What have you always been drawn to? Even if you've never given yourself permission to explore it, that my friend is a clue. Think about what makes you lose track of time. That's a doorway. Think about what memory still glows in your heart. When you think about the child version of you, that's a spark. You see if these questions are stirring something in you. We're about to go even deeper because everything we've explored with Hershey, Disney and Jobs is about to converge. Where we decode, how the spark turns into vision. Now, take a deep breath because we're about to step into the moment. Everything shifts up until now. The spark has been curiosity, the quiet pull, the moment, something catches your attention and you lean in.

[00:14:44]
 What happens next? What happens when curiosity doesn't leave you alone? What happens when you can't stop thinking about something? When you replay it in your mind, when it turns into a question and a possibility, then a picture you see friend, that's imagination, awakening. Imagine this as curiosity is the match. An imagination is a flame, and this transition, this ignition. Is what separates leaders who simply do work from leaders who reshape the world. Let me show you exactly how this shift happened in Hershey, Disney, and Jobs, and then we're gonna uncover how it's happening in you. I want you to come with me again into Milton Hershey's world, not the boyhood world of chores and instability, but the world of his twenties. He's in a Lancaster now. He's older, he is failed, he is frustrated, but he isn't defeated. Failure. Didn't crush his spark. Failure fed it. Now imagine walking through a Colombian exposition in Chicago, this massive fair where we were talking about earlier, a celebration of innovation and showcase of the future.

[00:15:54]
 And people are marveling at many things, electricity, architecture, manufacturing, technology, all of that. But Hershey, he's wandering the food halls and he stops. His breath catches. He sees for the first time that European chocolate making machine we just mentioned, these massive cylinders, rotating rollers. These gears turning, this rhythmic grinding that feels like the heartbeat of an industry. Milton Hershey steps closer. His eyes narrow, his mind activates. Everyone else sees a novelty. Milton sees a world. The spark of curiosity, that experimental pull from Denver's caramel shop is suddenly expanding. He imagines, what if chocolate could be made affordably? What if it wasn't a luxury for the wealthy? What if children everywhere could enjoy this? What if I could create something bigger than caramel? What if this is my future? You hear those words? What if that's imagination? 

[00:17:06]
 Hey friend. It's your friend, Dr. Nate Salah. If you're tired of leading in isolation, if you're wondering if anyone else is trying to build a business and a life that honors God, let me tell you, you're not alone. That's why we created the G3 community. This is a space where kingdom-minded leaders grow together. We share wisdom. We pray for one another, and we take. Take bold steps in our calling. That sounds like your kind of tribe. Come join us. Head to G3tribe.com or find us on Facebook. Grow, give, go together. 

[00:17:50]
 Vision always begins with a question wrapped in possibility. Friend, I want you, I wanna ask you something right here. Pause and reflect. What if, what? What if? Has been tugging at you lately. Maybe it's small, maybe it's quiet, maybe it's terrifying. But if it's persistent, you need to pay attention because that's not random. That's ignition. This moment, this invisibly small shift, it's the moment Hershey's curiosity evolved into imagination, and that imagination would eventually birth a company, a town, a legacy that outlived him. It began right there. One man, one machine, one spark expanding into a vision. Now I wanna step with you in the world of Walt Disney because his version of imagination is something we've never seen in modern history.

[00:18:41]
 I want you to picture Walt now in his late teens, lanky, hopeful, exhausted from life's pressures, but fueled by something internal that refuses to die. He's working on a commercial artist project, then he is animating newspaper ads. Then he is experimenting with short reels. None of it's easy, none of it's glamorous. But he can't stop. He won't stop. And here's where imagination begins to expand. For Walt, he sees motion and its stillness. He looks at two drawings, one slightly different than the other, and imagines how they might come alive between the frames. He wonders, what if I can create movement? What if I could tell a story through drawing? What if humor could be animated? What if emotions could live on a page? Let me bring you into a vivid moment. A real moment that most people gloss over. Walt is sitting alone late at night in the art school building in Kansas City. Everyone else has gone home. The room smells like pencil shavings in ink.

[00:19:46]
 The lamps cast off these golden circles on the wooden desks. There's not a faint buzz maybe from the fluorescent lights, and Walt is hunched over papers. He's sketching, racing, sketching, racing. His eyes begin to burn. His stomach growls, but he keeps going. He moves two drawings side by side and he flicks them with his fingers. The characters seem to move just a little, a tiny gasp out of Walt's mouth that escapes. When wonder sneaks up on you, he leans forward, his heart rate picks up, his mind rushes this. This could be something right there, friend. That tiny subtle moment is when animation became destiny. Not a business. Not a career, not fame, not even Disney Studios Destiny. And it happened because the spark grew legs. Curiosity formed. Imagination formed wonder formed vision. So lemme ask you, when's the last time you gasped because something you were working on suddenly came alive? Maybe you saw a solution, maybe you connected the dots, maybe you realized you had a gift. Maybe you noticed you had a pattern. Maybe you suddenly understood something that had felt foggy for years. That's imagination awakening. That's the moment where purpose steps into the room. Now I want to transition into Steve Jobs because his imagination was sharp, disruptive, and almost volcanic. I wanna zoom back into that Reed College calligraphy class.

[00:21:23]
 Steve isn't just sitting in the back. He's leaning in, practically hanging on each stroke of chalk. He's studying curvatures, spacing, the breath between lines, and here's where the spark begins to expand when everyone else is learning fonts. Steve is learning philosophy. He imagines what if letters could have personality? What if design could evoke emotion? What if technology could feel human? This is important. Most people learn what they're taught. Visionaries learn what isn't being taught. Now shift scenes years later, Steve is working with the other Steve, Steve Wozniak in a garage. The garage is messy. Electronics everywhere. SA soldering irons. Smoking parts are scattered like breadcrumbs of possibility when Steve picks up a primitive circuit board. Nothing special at first clients, but to Steve, it's a blank canvas. What does he see a future? A tool for creativity, a device that could change lives, a machine that could empower humans.

[00:22:32]
 While most engineers imagine performance, Steve imagines possibility. That imagination, that's leadership in form and it all stems from the spark. And let me ask you. What possibility has been haunting your imagination lately? The one you keep dismissing because it feels too big. Too unrealistic. Too inconvenient. Write it down. That's the beginning of something. Now we've walked deeper into these stories. I want you to see something powerful. Curiosity begins the internal pole. Why does this matter? What is this? Why am I drawn to this? Imagination gives shape to the pole. What if. This were different. What could this become? How might this transform something and vision? Well, it gives direction. This is where I'm going. This is what I'm building. This is what I must do, friend. This isn't mystical, it's developmental. Now here's a simple formula that will help you understand what's happening inside of you. Curiosity awakens attention.

[00:23:41]
 Imagination awakens, possibility, vision awakens. Purpose. That's the spark to purpose progression. And you felt this before you've lived this progression. You may not have recognized it, but you've experienced it. And I wanna pause here because we need to talk. Honestly, if you're listening right now and really listening and thinking, Nate, I'm not sure I've ever felt this spark in a long time. I hear you. I hear you. And lemme tell you why. Overwork buries the spark friend. When you're constantly reacting, you have no space to imagine fear. It suffocates the spark. What if I'm wrong? What if I fail? What if I'm stupid? Those fears shut down imagination before it can breathe. Comparison, it poisons the spark. You dismiss your spark because you judge it against someone else's fire, Trauma it dims the spark. When life hurts you, your brain protects you something. Sometimes shuts down curiosity, busyness. It blinds the spark. If every moment of your life is full, vision cannot enter. But here's the miracle. Spark never dies. It only hides and what hides can be found. Now, I want you to take a moment just like we stepped into Hershey's Denver shop, Disney sketch room jobs as calligraphy class. I want you to imagine yourself as a child again. What captured your imagination? Then really think, was it building things, drawing things, taking things apart, helping people daydreaming, imagining worlds, thinking deeply, organizing, telling stories.

[00:25:29]
 Was it seeing patterns or solving puzzles or feeling the room, whatever it was, friend, that wasn't random. That was early imagination. Now. Think back to the first time in adulthood, you felt that spark again. Was it during a project, during a breakthrough, during a conversation, during a crisis, during a quiet moment, maybe during a prayer or a failure, or even a victory, that wasn't random either that was the spark resurfacing. Now imagine what would happen if you stopped ignoring it. If you just closed your eyes for a moment, as long as you're not driving, breathe, listen. The spark inside you is speaking. You see, friend, this is where things get real. Up until now, we've been talking about the spark, the curiosity, the fascination, the wonder, the moments where something grabs your attention and says, look here, lean in this matters. Every visionary reaches a point where the spark becomes something more than curiosity becomes a burden, not a heavy burden. I would call it a holy burden, a weight that says I've seen something I can't unsee. I have imagined something I cannot ignore. I have envisioned a future I must build, even if I don't know how this moment.

[00:26:58]
 This turning point is what separates leaders who feel purpose from leaders who follow purpose. And I know you've felt it too. I wanna take you to that exact moment where Hershey, Disney, and Jobs felt this shift as we close. Because once you see in their lives, you'll recognize it in your own. I want you to picture Milton Hershey sitting alone late night in his Lancaster factory. The building's quiet. Machines are idle. The lamp cast off a soft, soft glow across the floor. The air, it smells faintly of cocoa and caramel. Milton is holding a small piece of chocolate in his hand. He turns it over, examines it closely, feels the weight of it, smells, it tastes it. Slowly, he closes his eyes and something stirs in him This. This is what I was meant to do. He doesn't even say it aloud. He doesn't announce it. He doesn't declare it. He feels it. This isn't a spark anymore. It's a pull. It's a draw. It's that burden. He imagines a company dedicated entirely to chocolate. Chocolate made with fresh milk, chocolate that's affordable to everyone. Chocolate that becomes part of American life chocolate that brings joy to children who have nothing, chocolate that could fund something bigger. Maybe a school, maybe a home, maybe a community. You see what's happening, curiosity to imagination, to vision to mission. The spark is no longer an idea, it's a direction, and direction is the beginning of destiny.

[00:28:39]
 Lemme ask you, what idea in your life refuses to leave you alone? What vision keeps tapping on your shoulder, even when you try to push it aside? That's not distraction. It's calling now picture. Walt older, now successful, but not yet Disney. He's cramped in an office at the Disney studio. Storyboards cover the walls, pencils scatter across the desk. Coffee cups, cigarettes. Smoke fills the room. He's pacing something, is bothering him deeply, persistently. Mickey, it's successful. The silly symphonies, successful Laa grams changed animation forever. But Walt, he's unsettled. He feels this tug a pull towards something bigger, something bolder. What if animation could have depth? What if characters could feel emotions? What if people could cry from a cartoon? What if the world could fall in love with a story they know by heart? He sees in his mind's eye snow white, not the princess. On a page, the princess on a screen, her eyes expressive. Her hands trembling her voice full of emotion, but everyone around him thinks he's lost his mind. Walt. A feature-length animated film, people will walk out. Walt, it's too expensive. Walt. Nobody will sit for 80 minutes to watch a cartoon. Walt, be reasonable. And here it is, the moment every visionary faces when the spark becomes more real to you than the doubt of others. Walt couldn't shake the vision.

[00:30:28]
 He was willing to risk everything, his money, his reputation, his studio, his health to bring snow white to life. Lemme pause and ask you, have you ever had a vision so strong that it scared you? The kind of vision that demands sacrifice, but promises purpose? That is the burden of imagination, friend, and that is the birthplace of greatness. Now we're gonna shift to Steve. He's standing in a warehouse. With the Macintosh team, exhausted engineer, stacks of motherboards, fluorescent lights, buzzing overhead. They're behind schedule, over budget, under pressure, tired. They're frustrated and that tension is so thick. But Steve sees something nobody else sees. He sees imagination. A computer that greets you, a system that feels alive, a machine that empowers the everyday human, not just engineers. It's a tool that feels. Warm, friendly, inviting, beautiful. He doesn't just see hardware and software. He sees art. He sees humanity. He sees the future, and he demands relentlessly that the team builds what he sees.

[00:31:42]
 To others, it feels irrational, unreasonable, unnecessary, obsessive. But for Steve, it's not obsession. It's calling. It's oxygen, it's mission. I wanna ask you what vision in your life feels unreasonable to others, but deeply true to you? Friend, that may not be arrogance, that may be imagination, evolving into conviction. And conviction is where destiny forms. And now that we've walked through their stories, I wanna bring you back to yours. I want you to listen carefully because this may be the most important part of the entire episode. There's something in your life right now that's trying to evolve from spark to vision. Something that intrigues you or pulls at you or haunts you or energizes you, won't leave you mind. It keeps resurfacing and feels meaning. It feels possible. It feels like this could be it, but you push it aside, maybe because you're busy, maybe because you're afraid, maybe because it feels too big. Maybe it feels impractical. Maybe because you think you're unqualified. But I want you to hear me. If something keeps returning, it's not a distraction's direction. The spark doesn't return unless it's meant to be something. Lemme walk you through three questions that will help unlock this. The first, what idea or possibility gives you a quiet thrill inside?

[00:33:23]
 That's a spark. What mental picture keeps replaying in your imagination? Friend. That's vision. Forming what possibility scares you and excites you at the same time. That's calling. If you can answer those three questions, honestly, something in your purpose will click into place. Because your spark doesn't show you the whole picture. It shows you the direction of the picture, and that's all you really need right now. When the spark evolves, it often brings fear. Why? Because imagination lifts your eyes above your current capacity, and vision reveals the gap between where you are and where you're called to go. For Hershey, the gap was enormous. He was a failed entrepreneur with limited resources for Disney. The gap was terrifying. He was on the edge of bankruptcy trying to create the world's first animated feature for Jobs. The gap was brutal. He was pressuring teams to do the impossible, and later, he'd be ousted from the very company he helped build the spark. Doesn't bring comfort. Friend brings conviction. So lemme ask you this. What vision in your life feels impossible right now? Because the impossible is the indicator of purpose. If your vision doesn't scare you, it's not vision. It's a to-do list because purpose requires courage. Encourage is what our next episode is all about.

[00:34:56]
 I wanna guide you into a personal reflection right now while your imagination is awake. I want you to find a quiet moment inside yourself. Don't need silence around you, these silence within you. Now, I ask yourself, what is the spark I've been carrying? I want you to picture it, want you to feel it. And I want you to ask, what might the spark become if I stopped ignoring it? And I want you to let your imagination paint that picture. Don't force it, let it rise. And then ask this, what is one thing I could do in the next week to explore this spark? We're not talking about full commitment. We're not talking about changing our whole lives. Just exploration because sparks grow when you explore them. You don't need clarity. Just need a little courage. So before we close episode four, I want to give you this thought that summarizes everything we've discussed. Everything we've discussed. Your spark is the doorway. Your imagination is the architect. Your vision is the blueprint. Your purpose is the building. This is the Progression Every Visionary follows Hershey, curiosity, imagination, chocolate, legacy, Disney Wonder, imagination, animation, transformation, jobs, fascination, imagination, humanity-centered design, revolution. Now, insert your name into that equation; you spark imagination, vision, purpose. This is where you are right now, standing at the doorway.

[00:36:41]
 In the next episode, we'll step through it because episode five is where we talk about something essential, courageous conviction. That part, a purpose where you finally move from imagination into action, where you stop observing the spark and begin following it. When you stop dreaming the vision and begin building it where you step into risk, into uncertainty, into possibility, into growth, where you're ready. I wanna close with this friend. You have a spark. You've always had it. Life may have buried it, pain may have quieted it. Responsibility may have distracted you. Fear may have suppressed it, but it never died. And now, because you are walking in it, because you're exploring your story, because you're leaning into the journey, the spark will wake up again. Pay attention to it, follow it, honor it. Because this spark isn't a random impulse, it's a divine clue. It's your soul pointing toward your purpose, and we will soon light that spark into a flame of conviction. I will see you there. 

[00:37:54]
 Thank you so much for supporting our program. We couldn't do it without you. I want to just take a moment to honor you in prayer. We don't wanna build anything without you. God, we're not a business, not a family, not a. Future. So we invite you into every room we walk into this week, board rooms, living rooms, prayer rooms. Let your spirit lead us. Let your voice guide us and let your power move through us to bless everyone we encountered. We are yours and your holy name. Amen.

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