Good Neighbor Podcast: Frisco

EP 336: From Family First to Global Impact: Team Tate on Building Healthy Relationships, Healing Communities, and Giving More Than You Take

• Sophia Yvette

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What makes Maisha and Dr. Gregory with Team Tate Ministries a good neighbor?

Some conversations make you take a breath and look at the people you love with fresh eyes. Our time with Maisha and Dr. Gregory of Team Tate Ministries does exactly that—tying the daily work of building healthy relationships to the bigger story of thriving neighborhoods and real community impact. Their message is plain and powerful: better together is not a slogan; it’s a practice you can live at home, at work, and across your city.

We trace their shared origin from college alignment to a mission centered on family strength, emotional safety, and practical tools you can use long before any crisis. They dismantle common myths about ministry—especially around money and motive—and walk us through the receipts: equipping a South African school with computers to prevent closure and mentoring kids at a faith-based basketball camp in Barbados. The thread is service as a lifestyle, where generosity and accountability build trust that lasts.

If you’re a young family in a fast-growing place like Frisco, a single aiming for healthier connections, or a team leader who wants a culture of respect and repair, this episode offers scripts, rhythms, and mindsets that travel well. We also share news of Team Tate’s upcoming podcast relaunch and mid-November coaching services—expanding the conversation beyond marriage to include dating, friendship, co‑parenting, and community engagement. Expect real talk, interactive Q&A, and frameworks that turn intention into habit.

Subscribe for more local stories from operators who measure what matters. If this conversation helped you see a next step in relationships and community, share it with someone who matters and leave a review telling us what you’ll try this week.

To learn more about Team Tate Ministries go to:
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SPEAKER_02:

This is the Good Neighbor Podcast, the place where local businesses and neighbors come together. Here's your host, Sophia Yvette.

SPEAKER_00:

Welcome to the Good Neighbor Podcast. Are you in need of a ministry? Well, one may be closer than you think. Today I have the pleasure of introducing your good neighbors, Myesha Tate and Dr. Gregory Tate with Team Tate Ministries. Hi, how are you both doing today?

SPEAKER_01:

Hello. We are awesome.

SPEAKER_03:

We are excited. Thank you for having us. We are elated to be here.

SPEAKER_01:

Yes, absolutely.

SPEAKER_00:

Amazing. Well, it's definitely a blessing to have you both on today. No, we are excited to learn all about you and your mission. Can you start by telling us a little bit about your business?

SPEAKER_03:

Sure. Babe, why don't you go ahead and go first and I'll buy a cleanup?

SPEAKER_01:

Sure. We're a husband and wife team, and that's why we refer to ourselves as Team Tate Ministries. And we just believe wholeheartedly in the phrase, we're better together. And so, with that being said, we love to share in building community here in the Frisco area and abroad. We're international speakers and preachers, and we go into schools, we go into businesses and corporate arenas and also into ministries and just share about our insights on how to build stronger relationships and to utilize those relationships in a way that can help your own personal development as well as benefit the community that you're a part of. And so we provide various uh services. We're getting ready to relaunch a podcast on relationships and also we offer coaching. So we do coaching with couples and singles and just helping build stronger relationships. We think it is central and key to this time that we're in right now. Um, when we went through COVID, everyone was so divided and we're just excited about helping people reunite, reconnect, and get plugged back into service and community.

SPEAKER_03:

Because we also believe that if healthy relationships are present, there's also a healthy community.

SPEAKER_01:

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_03:

There's a healthy community, there's a healthy neighborhood, there's a healthy neighborhood, and we can go down a list, but it starts with the household of having a healthy relationship. We are all worthy of having a healthy relationship.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, I think that's a beautiful reminder for us all today. Now, how did you both get started in? I almost want to say your mission.

SPEAKER_03:

I'll start since we started last time. Um, how do we start? Is it was already in us growing up. Um she was primarily raised in Arizona. I was raised in California, but when I went to Arizona for uh my undergrad, we uh saw that our visions were aligned, our missions were aligned, and our priorities were aligned. And that is we're just we're fanatics about family. We're obsessed with seeing a healthy family unit. Uh, we are the byproducts of healthy family units, yeah. And we believe in creating that generational wealth for the next generation and the generations to come after that.

SPEAKER_01:

Yep, absolutely. You couldn't have said better.

SPEAKER_00:

Amazing. Well, 100%. All of that is so, so important. Now, what is the most common myth or misconception in the unique movement you two are a part of?

SPEAKER_03:

Go ahead, Mary.

SPEAKER_01:

Well, there's there there can be several when it comes to being a ministry. Um, first of all, the lot of there's this assumption usually that because we're not a nonprofit, that we're taking all of the donations or the gifts or the monetary things and the book sales and all the things that we get in terms of monetizing our ministry for ourselves. But he and I are committed to building communities. We have projects going on all over the world that we're a part of and helping service communities that are underrepresented underrepresented and also on the margin. So recently we were a part of a project where we were able to supply a school in South Africa with computers, um, which was really exciting because that school was actually on the fringe of being shut down had we not been able to supply with technology. And so helping those kids be on the cutting edge of society and be in the competitive marketplace is really important to us. And then also we're a part of just sharing in other organizations that are already doing the work. We're able to make donations and serve in whatever capacity we can. We just came back from Barbados, where we had the honor and privilege of helping some young kids, a part of a basketball camp, there, a Christian basketball camp. And we went in and just played with the kids and shared a little bit about God and our mission with them. So we're very busy and just giving more than we are taking. And sometimes the myth is that when you're, you know, not a formal nonprofit, that you're not doing the same types of mission style work. We're very passionate about giving, and we think it is a key indicator of whether or not you represent God.

SPEAKER_03:

Also, too, another myth that we we discussed that is prevalent in our line of work is when people think of ministry, they think, okay, I only need to come to ministry when I'm doing bad or I'm on the brink, or something is in crisis mode. And what the we want to pop that that that mystery there, that myth buster right there is that when we ministry is best served from A to Z, from when you're doing good to the midpoint to the plateau to the midlife crisis to the burnout to where I just need I'm desperate and I'm in crisis mode and I need help.

SPEAKER_00:

Right.

SPEAKER_03:

So we're we are we love what we do and we love taking that journey with you throughout life's process. And what it is, is it's giving people tools, it's illuminating people's paths and getting out of the way and helping them do the work of self-discovery that you know what, not what it takes. You know what? I am better than I thought I was doing. And just being there and an encourager and an empowerment agent, that's what we like to call ourselves, an empowerment agent that we like to empower our students, our clients, and those that are taking our courses and those that are under our coaching so that they can know it, see themselves in a much healed, much better and healed light than they perceive themselves right now.

SPEAKER_01:

I absolutely love that, babe, because sometimes I think people do think of it as a 9-1-1 thing. Like, let me reach out to God when I'm going through the worst of times, and He's willing to receive you at that time as well. Right. But it's it's it's a lifestyle, it's a it's He's a part of our everyday lives, it's a relationship, it's a journey, and the joys are much sweeter with him. And so I just love that you said that.

SPEAKER_00:

Appreciate you. Amen to all of that, and I definitely align with all of the beliefs that you guys hold. Now, I would love, love, love to ask you so many questions today, but we only have a limited amount of time. So let's get to the heart of things. We know marketing is the heart of every business. Who are your target? Who is your target audience? And in terms of marketing, how are you reaching them?

SPEAKER_03:

I think our target demographic is where as far as our statistical data that shows is young families, young adult families, especially here in the Frisco area, it is a plethora of young families. That's what makes up Frisco is young families. And so that's where a majority of our statistical data is showing. However, we are uh experienced in uh you know the boomer generation, and we're also experienced in the younger generation, but really where we're hitting home runs at right now is our younger families, families that have just been started, or families that are you know within that five to ten year span, uh, we really strike uh and have real strong presence uh in that demographic right there.

SPEAKER_01:

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00:

Now I know the answer to this question, but have you guys ever thought about doing your own podcast?

SPEAKER_01:

Yes, absolutely. So we used to have one called Marriage Mondays. We had huge success, and we were also um featured on a Christian television network for two seasons. However, um we just felt the need to kind of focus in on our own um show, and we we no longer with the network. Um, it was definitely not on bad terms, it was more about us wanting to focus more on building our business and what God was telling us to do. So um, and it it was a huge success. We're we're big on interaction and taking people's questions, and we had several couples actually get married after being a part of that um whole movement. So it's it's pretty exciting, and there's a new baby even on the way. So just so much good things. And so we're deciding now to we we felt like we needed to broaden the audience a little bit and bring in singles. So we're we're gonna talk about relationships in general and not just the married um marriage portion of it. Very much so. Um, and we think we have something to offer for those that are even thinking about marriage, or maybe they're not wanting marriage, but they just want to build better relationships in general. So that's why we're gonna go that route. So listen up and stay tuned. Um, we're definitely gonna be putting it out soon and launching also our coaching services.

SPEAKER_03:

It's gonna be coming uh mid-November. That is the target date. And so you hit it right on the head. Yes, we're thinking about a podcast. It's already in motion. We already have our production engineers, we have everything together, and we already have our first season written out already, so we are excited. Uh, and even more exciting is I get to work with my best friend, I get to work with my you know, my lover, and it's just it's something that we are just over the moon about. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00:

Wow. Well, so much great information was covered here today. But what our listeners really want to know is where can they go to learn more about team tape ministries?

SPEAKER_03:

Absolutely. There's several. I'll cover two, and my wife will cover the rest. Um, main source is our website, www.team tapeministries.com. Also, our email is at uh team tapeministries, the number one at gmail.com. And my wife can tell you the rest of the places that you can see us as well.

SPEAKER_01:

I think the website is perfect. You can find our social media links and outlets on the website as well. That if you tap on the icons, it will link you directly to our social media, our Instagram account, our Facebook, and other social media accounts. You can also sign up for our newsletter and receive weekly updates and encouragement as we continue to pour out and empower the community around us. So we'd love to have you there at team tapeministries.com. And you can find our books and our resources there as well as our coaching services.

SPEAKER_00:

Well, Team Tate, I really appreciate you both being on the show. We wish you and your business the best moving forward.

SPEAKER_01:

Thank you so much for having us.

SPEAKER_02:

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