Heavenly Human
Welcome to the Heavenly Human podcast where we help you pause and pivot toward true fulfillment.
Have you ever felt that stirring deep inside — that quiet voice telling you there's something more for your life? That feeling that despite all your success, something still feels missing?
We’ve been there. We are you. Three years ago, co-host Laura King was at the peak of her career as an Executive Recruiter. On paper, she had it all. Awards, accolades, and a healthy bank account. But each night, she’d come home feeling slightly off, a bit disconnected, and wondering, "Is this it?"
In 2023, it all came crashing down with a triple diagnosis - severe anxiety, ADHD, and sleep issues. Her body was screaming what her heart had been whispering for years. There was another path. There was another way of being.
Co-host Mondo experienced a similar calling. Three years ago, he was living what many would consider the dream — a successful startup founder with a six-figure lifestyle. Then, his heart called him to something radical: surrendering 99% of his material possessions to pursue a completely different path.
What Laura and Mondo both discovered through deep conversations, healing, tears, breakthroughs, and countless moments of growth was that we were being called to our unique sliver of Heaven on Earth — what we now call, Heavenly Human.
We've now joined forces to create this podcast, sharing what we've learned with other believers who feel that same nudge toward something more meaningful. We're here to guide you toward fulfillment through the embodiment of heaven on earth.
Peace, Love, Joy, Freedom, Abundance.
It’s all waiting for you.
"Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven."
Heavenly Human
What's Really on the Other Side of Your Biggest Fear?
Fear stands at the threshold of every meaningful breakthrough waiting to be conquered. In this raw and revelatory conversation, we peel back the layers of what it truly means to walk by faith through our most terrifying uncertainties.
Laura begins by sharing her impossible-seeming dilemma as a household breadwinner carrying significant debt while yearning to pursue her calling. "How am I supposed to make this kind of money doing the work you want me to do?" she questioned, until a divine nudge challenged her to simply trust. What followed was nothing short of miraculous provision that defied logical explanation.
My own journey takes a different path but resonates with the same truth. From losing my mother at ten, to facing repeated basketball team rejections, to pioneering as "The Black Tech Guy" in an industry where no one looked like me, each challenge required confronting fear on increasingly higher stakes. The ultimate test came when I received the call to leave behind 99% of my material possessions—abandoning unicorn startup ambitions for a three-year walk through darkness that many viewed as irresponsible or erratic.
The revelation? Everyone's mountain is their mountain. Your version of fear—that difficult conversation with your spouse, that career change, that relationship you need to repair—feels just as overwhelming to you as our challenges did to us. The weight is relative, but the principle is universal: whatever you're avoiding because it terrifies you is precisely what stands between you and your fulfillment.
What fear are you brushing under the rug today? Take courage from our stories and know that peace awaits on the other side of your bravest moment.
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So first let me refresh your memory on the statement that Laura said at the end of the last episode.
Speaker 2:What is coming up for me now is there are probably a lot of people and their ego is saying must be nice to be you, must be nice to be Mondo. You know, you have it all figured out. Oh, please, let me tell you that is not the case.
Speaker 1:I'm like.
Speaker 2:I have been the breadwinner in my household. My husband left corporate America and opened a music school, so we have a lot of debt. Um, and and this is what's held me back for so long is because, okay, yes, we can make certain lifestyle adjustments, absolutely. But there was still this number hanging over my head. This number hanging over my head how God, am I supposed to make this kind of money doing the work you want me to do? I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 2:And the story I told myself is there's not a way. There's not a way. And I sat in that for way too long and that was part of my unhappiness and my uneasiness is because the story I told myself was it wasn't possible. And then something lifted last spring no, no fall. It was last fall where I heard it's like Laura, would you just trust me, would you just trust me? And a series of events unfolded that just blew my mind and the money came, came and Brian was like Laura, I don't feel comfortable you doing anything until we have like six months of income built up and you know, we got four kids and we, you know we've got all these things, and and then God just provided.
Speaker 1:Yo, at the end of that, laura dropped some fire right, like there is this uncertainty, this level of discomfort that she had to make. That were scary and I want to piggyback it. And the only way my perspective, my add-on perspective, works is if you know a little bit more about my mindset. I am the dude in the room who just have always had unlimited confidence, and I can say a bunch of words about how confident I am, but I like to use this analogy that's tied to brushing your teeth, and so here it goes. So I really want you to think about yourself and think about your morning routine, and in your morning routine, I imagine you brush your teeth. I don't know if you get right up and go into the bathroom and brush your teeth, if you make coffee first and then you brush your teeth, whatever that is. You have a routine on how you brush your teeth. You did it yesterday the same way and you are going to do it tomorrow the same way. Same way, and you are going to do it tomorrow the same way. Imagine if you were having this conversation with God and you were like God. I am extremely confident that I am going to brush my teeth tomorrow the same way that I brush my teeth today. That level of certainty that you have on brushing your teeth, nothing's going to disrupt that. You are as close to 100% sure that you are going to brush your teeth that way tomorrow. That same level of confidence that you have on brushing your teeth the same way tomorrow I'm brushing your teeth the same way tomorrow.
Speaker 1:That same level of confidence is how confident I have always been in myself, and that confidence in myself led me to believe I was going to sell a startup for over $1 billion. It's actually somewhere between a billion and 11 ones left. Of the decimal 11 billion, one, one, one, one one. The reason I bring this up is because I had zero doubt, or as close to as zero doubt as possible. If you compare it to the doubt you have on brushing your teeth tomorrow, it's equivalent to. So this isn't about me selling a company for a billion dollars, but it is about the fear that you have in whatever you are doing or whatever you must face is equivalent relative to Laura's fear, to my fear, to anybody else's biggest fear. So I want you to get to know me a little bit better and this might help you out.
Speaker 1:So I was always the most confident dude in the room. It didn't matter what room I was in. I just have an epic imagination and the way that I perceive myself is being the good guy in the story, being the brave, being the courageous archetype, like the character in the story. The hero is in the story doesn't matter what movie I'm watching. I'm always like how do I compare, how do I match up? How was my character aligned or better or more balanced than the hero in this story? And it's just something that I have always nurtured, always wanting to just be the best version of myself, and I had some amazing role models. So my first role model was my dad. My mom passed in a tragic accident when I was 10 years old, moved in with my dad, me and my younger brother who's three years younger than me, and my dad was that amazing present father who always filled my cup, who always said Mondo, I just want you to be better than me. And so my dad was that nine to five worker, put in overtime, always just ensuring that the stability was there. Mondo, you don't have to work, just focus on the thing that you feel like pulls at your heart.
Speaker 1:Early in life it was sports. Eventually it became business. After that it became this blind journey to build a relationship with Christ. But the reason why I highlight that is because at every major step of my journey I had to face the fear that was relative to me. I had to face the fear that allowed me to break through, to hit whatever that next level was. So here's an example.
Speaker 1:I remember I went to the University of Tennessee my freshman year of college and I played basketball and here in the city I was, I had a gift right, led the conference in scoring. I felt like I could lock down anybody else on the court. I had the thing, but I didn't have a division one scholarship to a school that I was interested in. So I said I am going to go attempt to walk on to the university of Tennessee and I got there and tried to walk on and I got cut. It's the first time I have ever got cut from anything. I was always the coolest dude in the room. I now reflect back and I'm just like, oh, that was a good, humbling experience.
Speaker 1:But I just kept working, continued to persist to develop the character, to be a better version of myself, and I transferred from the University of Tennessee to Florida A&M University and this was the first time in my life I had a fear of pursuing something that I felt like was destined for me. I literally packed up all my stuff from University of Tennessee, drove to Florida A&M and I had to go, walk into a coach's office and say I'm a sophomore student here, I was recently cut from University of Tennessee, but I deserve to be on this team. I had nothing else except for those words. I was scared. I was scared of the rejection. I remember sitting outside the gym for about 30 minutes listening to the same track over and over and over and over again, trying to develop the confidence Similar to Laura when Laura highlighted how she was going to have a conversation with her employer and she was listening to Christian music on the highway to just find the strength, find the courage to go do the thing. And I remember going in and having this conversation and coming out feeling so refreshed like you did it. You did the courageous thing and at that time it was the hardest, simplest thing that I had to do. There was just some fear. I ended up not making the team and I tried to walk on again the following year and not making the team again. I went from being star player in my hometown to being cut three times in a row in three consecutive years. Okay, but Mondo, you're still the coolest character in the story. Continue to be resilient, fast forward.
Speaker 1:I played basketball at a smaller junior college and eventually I just stopped playing because I hit 25 years old. I said if I'm not playing overseas or professionally by 25, god give me a different plan. So at 25, I hung up my shoes, stumbled into education as an educator, into education as an educator. As an educator, I leaned into technology. Around the same time and when I say leaned into tech, the whole startup culture in the Twin Cities was absent of people that looked like me. There were very few startup founders that were black in the Twin Cities and I remember stepping into this industry, having this nine to five job as an educator and outside of that, like, hey, I want to build this amazing startup. And every room that I walked into I seen nobody that looked like me and I had asked myself do I belong here? I had to walk in with my head up high, knowing that no one else in that room is seeing the world the way that I see it so I could have shriveled up. Instead, I doubled down. I I adopted this brand the black tech guy, and for almost a decade, every room that I walked in, you know, I had this big old brand on my chest saying the black tech guy.
Speaker 1:I was unwilling to let the barrier of nobody that looked like me be the thing that stopped me from doing a thing I felt like I was called to do. Again, there's some fear there of stepping in and being the first to do it. I'm building upon this story because the college experience and having to be resilient over and over and over and keep getting these no's stepping into tech and building this brand and building cool technology and things that I felt like could impact community, but still never fully breaking through, still not finding an investor to give me seven figure investment and to continue on that path and say like I know. And to continue on that path and say like I know, I know I'm not supposed to stop. And then one day, a series of events happen and God's like no, I need you to leave 99% of your material possessions and follow me. What Hold on? I just worked super hard to build this wealth, to build these relationships, to build this identity, to have this confidence, to sell a company At unicorn status For a billion dollars or more. I have unwavering belief that I can do this. But, god, you're saying, leave it all. I had to choose to be obedient and leave it all and have no idea what was on the other side of this blind faith walk. Now I have a Patreon of documenting this.
Speaker 1:For years, the first 12 episodes of this podcast is me sharing a capstone in sports, in business, and then in darkness, and at every level, I had to face this fear. I had to break through something to reach this balance, peaceful version of myself. And so Laura says at the end of this last episode that some people are saying it must be nice to be you, laura. It must be nice to be you, laura. It must be nice to be you, mondo. It's not about it being nice to be us. We just chose to face your version of those fears. Now let me do something else that's extremely challenging. Let me have this courageous conversation with my spouse. Whatever, that is Right.
Speaker 1:It's that thing that really scares you. It's that thing that can blow up your family, but you've been avoiding it, you've been hiding from it, you've been brushing it under the rug. You've been hiding from it. You've been brushing it under the rug. You've been doing everything that you possibly could do instead of facing it, because you're scared. We all have that fear. Laura's was having a conversation with her employer. Along with many other things, mine was leaving 99% of my material possessions and walking three years in darkness not knowing where God was guiding me, having a whole bunch of people thinking I was being irresponsible, erratic. How could you blow up your life that way, mondo? Oh, it's all in God's plan. So, whatever your thing is, whatever fear is standing tall in front of you, face it and fulfillment is on the other side. Peace.