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Sarah Hoit, Co-Founder & Chairman of SIP's Global Brain Health Initiative, is on In Your Head with Dr. Leigh Richardson! We'll dive into actionable ways everyone can support brain health, no matter your age. We'll also explore the upcoming Brain Health Innovation Olympics in September 2024 and the powerful concept of "Food as Medicine." Plus, get insights on the Retail Health Strategy and the Longevity Leadership Program at the Harvard Faculty Club. Don't miss this enlightening conversation!After the episode, visit The Brain Performance Center's website at https://thebrainperformancecenter.com/ to explore how our programs can support individual brain health needs. Whether you're seeking advice or a comprehensive consultation, our dedicated team is ready to help you achieve optimal brain performance. Phone: 214-329-9017 Tune in on Audible, Amazon Music, Amazon Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, iTunes, Stitcher, Player FM, and Podcast Addict.

Dr. Osborne talks nutrition, mold illness symptoms, what to do and not to do if you've been exposed to mold, mold and cancer; and so much more!  Dr. Peter Osborne is a doctor of chiropractic, doctor of pastoral science, an expert in functional nutrition, and is Board Certified with The American Clinical Board of Nutrition.Often times referred to as “The Gluten Free Warrior”, he is one of the most sought after alternative and nutritional experts in the world. He has had the honor and privilege or sharing the stage with some of the world's most well known and internationally recognized experts to include Alessio Fasano, MD, Russell Jaffe, MD, PhD, Steven Gundry, MD, Joe Mercola, DO, Yehuda Shoenfeld, MD, and Dr. Josh Axe.He is one of the world's leading authorities on gluten sensitivity, and lectures nationally to both the public as well as doctors on this and many other nutritionally related topics. He is the founder Gluten Free Society, the author of The Gluten Free Health Solution and The Glutenology Health Matrix, a series of digital videos and ebooks designed to help educate the world about gluten. In addition, he is the author of the international best selling book, No Grain No Pain, published by Touchstone (Simon & Schuster), which was also printed in 5 languages and turned into a PBS special that aired nationwide.Because of his work with gluten, Dr. Osborne was invited to speak at the Harvard Faculty Club with functional medicine advocate, New York Times best selling author and TV icon, Suzanne Somers.  Because of his passion to educate the world about the relationship between gluten and autoimmune disease, he founded, financed, and hosted, The Autoimmune Revolution I & II– a free online educational series featuring more than 40 of the world's leading experts on autoimmune disease and nutrition.Dr. Osborne has been a featured expert in a number of documentaries including, Betrayal, Autoimmune Secrets Revealed, and the Netflix series, Afflicted.Dr. Osborne has served as the executive director and the vice president for the American Clinical Board of Nutrition. He was an adjunct professor at HCC and Texas Women's University teaching nutrition and neurophysiology to nursing and occupational therapy students.  He currently serves on the advisory board for Functional Medicine University.He has been featured in or on Netflix, Fox News, CBS, PBS, The New York Post, Muscle & Fitness Hers, Celiac.com, The Gluten Summit, Radio MD, The People's Pharmacy Radio, The Journal of Gluten Sensitivity, and many other nationally recognized publications.

Full Interview will be Released on 2/1/2023. Dr. Peter Osborne is a doctor of chiropractic, doctor of pastoral science, an expert in functional nutrition, and is Board Certified with The American Clinical Board of Nutrition.Often times referred to as “The Gluten Free Warrior”, he is one of the most sought after alternative and nutritional experts in the world. He has had the honor and privilege or sharing the stage with some of the world's most well known and internationally recognized experts to include Alessio Fasano, MD, Russell Jaffe, MD, PhD, Steven Gundry, MD, Joe Mercola, DO, Yehuda Shoenfeld, MD, and Dr. Josh Axe.He is one of the world's leading authorities on gluten sensitivity, and lectures nationally to both the public as well as doctors on this and many other nutritionally related topics. He is the founder Gluten Free Society, the author of The Gluten Free Health Solution and The Glutenology Health Matrix, a series of digital videos and ebooks designed to help educate the world about gluten. In addition, he is the author of the international best selling book, No Grain No Pain, published by Touchstone (Simon & Schuster), which was also printed in 5 languages and turned into a PBS special that aired nationwide.Because of his work with gluten, Dr. Osborne was invited to speak at the Harvard Faculty Club with functional medicine advocate, New York Times best selling author and TV icon, Suzanne Somers.  Because of his passion to educate the world about the relationship between gluten and autoimmune disease, he founded, financed, and hosted, The Autoimmune Revolution I & II– a free online educational series featuring more than 40 of the world's leading experts on autoimmune disease and nutrition.Dr. Osborne has been a featured expert in a number of documentaries including, Betrayal, Autoimmune Secrets Revealed, and the Netflix series, Afflicted.Dr. Osborne has served as the executive director and the vice president for the American Clinical Board of Nutrition. He was an adjunct professor at HCC and Texas Women's University teaching nutrition and neurophysiology to nursing and occupational therapy students.  He currently serves on the advisory board for Functional Medicine University.He has been featured in or on Netflix, Fox News, CBS, PBS, The New York Post, Muscle & Fitness Hers, Celiac.com, The Gluten Summit, Radio MD, The People's Pharmacy Radio, The Journal of Gluten Sensitivity, and many other nationally recognized publications.

Dr. Peter Osborne is a doctor of chiropractic, doctor of pastoral science, an expert in functional nutrition, and is Board Certified with The American Clinical Board of Nutrition.Often times referred to as “The Gluten Free Warrior”, he is one of the most sought after alternative and nutritional experts in the world. He has had the honor and privilege or sharing the stage with some of the world's most well known and internationally recognized experts to include Alessio Fasano, MD, Russell Jaffe, MD, PhD, Steven Gundry, MD, Joe Mercola, DO, Yehuda Shoenfeld, MD, and Dr. Josh Axe.He is one of the world's leading authorities on gluten sensitivity, and lectures nationally to both the public as well as doctors on this and many other nutritionally related topics. He is the founder Gluten Free Society, the author of The Gluten Free Health Solution and The Glutenology Health Matrix, a series of digital videos and ebooks designed to help educate the world about gluten. In addition, he is the author of the international best selling book, No Grain No Pain, published by Touchstone (Simon & Schuster), which was also printed in 5 languages and turned into a PBS special that aired nationwide.Because of his work with gluten, Dr. Osborne was invited to speak at the Harvard Faculty Club with functional medicine advocate, New York Times best selling author and TV icon, Suzanne Somers.  Because of his passion to educate the world about the relationship between gluten and autoimmune disease, he founded, financed, and hosted, The Autoimmune Revolution I & II– a free online educational series featuring more than 40 of the world's leading experts on autoimmune disease and nutrition.Dr. Osborne has been a featured expert in a number of documentaries including, Betrayal, Autoimmune Secrets Revealed, and the Netflix series, Afflicted.Dr. Osborne has served as the executive director and the vice president for the American Clinical Board of Nutrition. He was an adjunct professor at HCC and Texas Women's University teaching nutrition and neurophysiology to nursing and occupational therapy students.  He currently serves on the advisory board for Functional Medicine University.He has been featured in or on Netflix, Fox News, CBS, PBS, The New York Post, Muscle & Fitness Hers, Celiac.com, The Gluten Summit, Radio MD, The People's Pharmacy Radio, The Journal of Gluten Sensitivity, and many other nationally recognized publications.

In this episode Certified Financial Fiduciary, Alan Porter, shares how to retire with a tax-free income and protection for long-term care.Alan Porter is a founding member of the American Tax Planning Institute, where they emphasize TAX Savings and Planning, Asset Protection, Business Exit Strategies, Estate Planning, and Charitable Gifting.He is a Master Mentor of the Circle of Wealth Program and specializes in showing people how to reduce and possibly eliminate both debt and taxes and provide them with more spendable income.With over 37 years of experience in Mortgage Banking, Real Estate, Insurance, and the Financial Services Industry Porter feels he not only has a moral obligation to pursue the best interests of his clients, but also a legal obligation.He currently writes articles for three financial magazines, speaks at numerous functions across the United States including at at West Point, where he was selected as Outstanding Speaker for the Leadership Conference there and at the Harvard Faculty Club.He has co-authored two International best-selling books book on Financial Leadership, and two books on Tax Saving Strategies.He just completed another book on WEALTH BEYOND TAXES that can be found on Amazon.To learn more email Alan at StrategicWealth@gmail.com of call him at 910-551-1046.MegaBucks Radio with Nina Hershbergerhttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/megabucks-radio-with-nina-hershbergerSource: https://businessinnovatorsradio.com/alan-porter-wealth-strategist-on-how-to-have-a-guaranteed-income-in-retirement

Welcome back to the podcast! In today's episode, Chantel spoke with Dr. Peter Osborne. He is a doctor of chiropractic, doctor of pastoral science, an expert in functional nutrition, and is Board Certified with The American Clinical Board of Nutrition. Often referred to as “The Gluten Free Warrior”, he is one of the most sought after alternative and nutritional experts in the world.    He is one of the world's leading authorities on gluten sensitivity, and lectures nationally to both the public as well as doctors on this and many other nutritionally related topics. He is the founder of Gluten Free Society, the author of The Gluten Free Health Solution and The Glutenology Health Matrix, a series of digital videos and ebooks designed to help educate the world about gluten. In addition, he is the author of the international best selling book, No Grain No Pain, published by Touchstone (Simon & Schuster), which was also printed in 5 languages and turned into a PBS special that aired nationwide.   Because of his work with gluten, Dr. Osborne was invited to speak at the Harvard Faculty Club with functional medicine advocate, New York Times best selling author and TV icon, Suzanne Somers.  Because of his passion to educate the world about the relationship between gluten and autoimmune disease, he founded, financed, and hosted, The Autoimmune Revolution I & II– a free online educational series featuring more than 40 of the world's leading experts on autoimmune disease and nutrition.   Dr. Osborne has been a featured expert in a number of documentaries including, Betrayal, Autoimmune Secrets Revealed, and the Netflix series, Afflicted.   Dr. Osborne has served as the executive director and the vice president for the American Clinical Board of Nutrition. He was an adjunct professor at HCC and Texas Women's University teaching nutrition and neurophysiology to nursing and occupational therapy students.  He currently serves on the advisory board for Functional Medicine University.   He has been featured in or on Netflix, Fox News, CBS, PBS, The New York Post, Muscle & Fitness Hers, Celiac.com, The Gluten Summit, Radio MD, The People's Pharmacy Radio, The Journal of Gluten Sensitivity, and many other nationally recognized publications.   Enjoy!   Connect with Dr. Peter: https://drpeterosborne.com/  https://www.facebook.com/DoctorPeterOsborne/  https://twitter.com/docosborne  https://www.instagram.com/drosborne/  Today's Episode Is Sponsored By BiOptimizers Magnesium Breakthrough & Their BLACK FRIDAY SALE: http://bioptimizers.com/waistaway   Use code waistaway for a special discount from Nov. 21st to Nov. 29th! 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Taped live at the Harvard Faculty Club, an interview with Naomi Oreskes about her forthcoming book "The Big Myth," focused on the origin story behind free-market ideology, followed by a panel discussion on how to widen climate accountability to include not only oil companies but also the other industries and enablers that have obstructed climate action. Resources:UCS Science Hub for Climate Litigation: https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/science-hub-climate-litigationClimate Social Science Network: https://cssn.org/Pre-order The Big Myth: https://www.amazon.com/Big-Myth-American-Business-Government/dp/1635573572Jennifer Jacquet's The Playbook: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/534048/the-playbook-by-jennifer-jacquet/Dr. David Michaels' books: https://www.drdavidmichaels.com/books

Today on The Neil Haley Show, Neil will interview Dr. Ted Grellner. Dr. Grellner was a featured speaker for the Business Expert Forum at the Harvard Faculty Club. His speech discussed how the quality of care in implant dentistry now spans a wider spectrum of expertise and skills than ever before. He introduced information about his highly accurate 3-D implant placement procedure that allows him to show your dentist exactly where he plans to place your dental implant.

Audio Transcript: This media has been made available by Mosaic Boston church. If you'd like to check out more resources, learn about Mosaic Boston and our neighborhood churches or donate to this ministry, please visit mosaicboston.com.Heavenly father, we thank you that you have created us and though we rebelled against your will, choosing our own, attempting to supersede your will with our own, we rebelled against you and you didn't leave us in our sins and trespasses. While we are yes, sinners, you sent your son, Jesus Christ. Jesus, you fulfilled the law perfectly from the heart, empowered by the spirit from the heart you fulfilled it perfectly and then you gave your life as a sacrifice on the cross. Today, we remember your sufferings on our behalf. We thank you for your shed blood, your broken body that leads to our healing and the washing of our souls. And we pray Lord that you send us the holy spirit to make us the people that our obedient from the heart not because we're just afraid of punishment but because we fear and love you and seek to delight you and please you and make us some people that seek to serve you in the new way of the spirit and bless our time and the holy scriptures now and nourish our souls. We long for it, we pray this in Christ's name. Amen.We're continuing our sermon series through Romans, in Romans 7:1-6. Today, the title of the sermon is New Way of the Spirit. And one of the things that we need to make clear is everything that God says, everything that God does is because he wants the best for us. We want the best for you, this is why we preach God's holy word and God's best for you is his will. Another way of thinking of God's law because when you think of law, it's often negative. God's law is God's will, this is why Jesus Christ taught us to pray the following, "Our father who are in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven," so we are to... In the beginning Jesus says, "This is how you pray. Pray God may your will be done in my life, your will in heaven may that be the same as your will for my life here on earth."Do you mean this when you pray it, do you long for God's will to be done in your life completely? And you say, "Whoa, hold on. What's God's will? God's will, anything that God wills that's what I want?" If there's any hesitation that's called sin where our will fights God's will, that tension in the middle is sin. What's in the way of you living out God's best for you is sin. And the best for you is freedom from sin. This is why Jesus came not just to forgive us the penalty for sin but to remove even the power and ultimately, the presence of sin, the liberation from enslavement to sin, to self, it's not just a freedom from sin but a freedom to obey God, that's the best. So how do we get our will and God's will to be one will in our life? Only by the power of the holy spirit.In Christ, you've been set free from sin and have become slaves of God. We have died to sin and we have died even to the law itself and this is what we'll be talking about today. Would you look at the text with me in Roman 7:1-6. "Or do you not know brothers for I'm speaking to those who know the law, that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives. For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives but if her husband dies, she's released from the law of marriage. Accordingly, she will be called an adulterous if she lives with another man while her husband's still alive. But if her husband dies, she's free from that law and if she marries another man, she's not an adulterous. Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ so that you may belong to another to him who has been raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God.""For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions aroused by the law. We're at work in our members to bear fruit for death but now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive so that we serve in the new way of the spirit and not in the old way of the written code or the letter of the law." This is the reading of God's holy and infallible, authoritative word, may he write these eternal truths upon our hearts, three points to frame up our time.First, you can't fine a dead person. Second, to whom do you belong? And third, serve in the new way of the spirit. Just to set the context if you missed any of the sermons, by the way they're all online, it's been a tremendous series thus far. Today, we're in seven, one through six which is actually, a continuation of the argument in chapter six, 15 through 23. Originally, we're in St. Paul wrote the text there weren't these chapter verse breaks, he just wrote it as one letter so sometimes the chapter verse breaks are helpful. Here, they are not because it makes it seem like he's starting with a new point. He's not, he's just carrying the argument along in six 15 through 23, Paul rejected the notion that believers are permitted to sin since we're no longer in the law, this is what he said, "We're under grace, we're not under law. And immediately the objection is, "Whoa, hold on. If you tell people they're under grace and not under law, they're just going to sin as much as possible which leads to antinomianism, life conscientiousness, you just live any way that you want."And Paul says, "No. If that's how you think, you have never been born again, you haven't been regenerated, you haven't been justified because if you are justified by grace through faith, you want to be sanctified, you want to delight in the Lord." Seven, one through six, carries this argument one step further and he contends that sin is something that Christians have died to. And sin is actually, what people under the law struggle with because Paul's Jewish opponents contended that freedom from the law opens the door towards sin. And then Paul turns the tables on them and he says, "Hold on. It's actually, the people who insist on the law as the way that we are made right with God. These are the people who are actually, in bondage to sin if they're really honest, because they're not fulfilling the law from the heart because they can't, they don't have the ability to only those who have died with Christ and the law and possessed the holy spirit have the ability to bear fruit for God."So point number one, is you can't fine a dead person and here we get that from verse one, "Or do you not know brothers from speaking to those who know the law, that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives." That's the main point of the text and then he illustrates it and then he applies it in verses four through six. But here he says the law is binding for a person that's alive.Any law, the moral law, the 10 commandments of God is binding to us while we're alive and any kind of the law of the land, it's binding to us when we're alive. For example, if you're driving 150 miles an hour in Store Road Drive, you'd have to be at night because you're lucky to go 25 on Store Road Drive. But just hypothetically, speaking you've gone on 150 miles an hour on Store Road Drive. You broke every single law that there is and you die, you crash, you're dead. And then the cops show up, the cops don't pull you out or whatever's left of you from the car and they do not fine you for going so fast because you're already dead. You're not bound by the law if you are dead, that's what he's saying. He turns his conversation here to believers and he starts teaching believers theology because he assumes that if you've been listening to the letter of Romans this long, thus far you got here, he just assumes you're already Christian.He's already taught that we're all sinners, God created us to worship him, image forth his holiness. We've sinned and he explains that we're sinners, we're rebels, we're degenerates, we're wicked, we're selfish, we're pathetically self-absorbed. Pleasure is our God, truth is our enemy and we as a society hate truth so much that we'll call anything truth except truth itself. Anything can be true as long as you don't say the Bible is true, as long as you don't say that Jesus Christ is the only way, as long as you don't say that's true, everything else is fine. I was invited by a friend to the Harvard Faculty Club this week for this round table discussion and they have these every once in a while where they invite professors from MIT, from Harvard, Northeastern, BU and then they invite some clergy to come as well.And it's all funded by the Templeton Foundation, it's actually, their attempt at proselytizing or evangelizing, sharing the gospel with these professors and the idea is if we invite them and they get saved, well, maybe we can reach Harvard. So okay, I go to this thing and there's a spiritual guru that comes up and he shares about his spiritual experience. And all of it is subjective, all of it, its visions and things that he does and I'm listening to it. After a while, I got tired of listening to him, a guy at my table fell asleep and then finally he's done. And then the food begins and everyone's happy because it's free food and it's open bar and everyone's just chilling. So I sit down and the lady next to me is a professor from Northeast University and I was like, "What do you do?"She's like, "Oh, I teach Economics," and then she's like, "What do you do?" And I was like, "I'm a pastor of a local congregation," as soon as I said that she just turned and she put on her mask and that was the end of the conversation. And the lady next to me on the other side, so I'm like, "I have no choice so I'm going to continue the round table," we're supposed to have a discussion. And then this lady next to me is a professor of Russian History from Harvard and I was like, "Oh, we have something to talk about." So all of a sudden we're talking about Russian history and we're talking about the war in Ukraine. She was like, "How do you feel about that?" And we're talking about that then the facilitator says, "Let's talk about what this guy said about visions and this is how we think about spirituality." And this is what she said very nicely, "Isn't it wonderful that each of us can bring our own perspective of the truth and that everyone's truth is equally true."And I was like, "Am I going there?" And I was like, "Yeah, I'm going there," and I was like, "Yeah, it is wonderful unless the person's truths are all lies and made up." And she didn't like that and then she turned away from me as well. And I was like, "Aren't we supposed to have dialogue so you can talk about any kind of truth?" This guy just got up and I think he just made up half his stuff because he was just rambling. He didn't even know he was supposed to go 45 minutes he's like, "Oh, 45 minutes." Yeah, it's wonderful if your truths have nothing to do with my life and me submitting myself to the truth. We know that God alone is truth, God alone is true. God defines what's true and what's a lie and he does this with his self-authenticating word.When you read the word of God and you read it with an open mind and an open heart and if you read it prayerfully and you say, "Lord, is this your word?" What God does with his spirit is he authenticates, he confirms, "Yes, this is the word." Because as soon as we read God's word, we study God's moral law and we're open about it, what happens is the law written on our heart is confirmed, "Oh yes, this resonates. Oh yes, this is actually, truth that I have been attempting to suppress all of my life." God's word reveals God's law and once we know it does resonate because it's written on our hearts. For example, and I get this example from our text, he's talking about marriage and adultery. We in our society know adultery is wrong. Everyone knows this but we live in a culture that encourages people to be trained up in adultery even from a young age. If we even cared about civilization, we would know the building blocks for civilization are healthy families.And if we do care about marital fidelity and marriages, we would encourage young people to remain celibate until marriage and instead we're teaching kids things that their sweet little innocent hearts are not ready for. And I know because my girls are in the public school system and my youngest is in pre-K and with pride month, they have all the flags up. And all the parents are like, "Isn't this wonderful?" And I'm like, "No, it's not wonderful. I don't want my kids to know... She's four, I don't want," that's why fewer people are actually, getting married in our culture because you think about lifelong fidelity to one person that's impossible yet we all long for it.So St. Paul would say, "Now that we've established that we're all sinners," and he does one, just one command and you can take any other command, "And thou shall not covet," we all transgress that, we're all sinners. He's established that, we've all transgressed the law. What do we do now? The law is binding upon us, God's law is upon each one of us. So how do we get freed from this law? You have two options. Number one, you can disregard God's law as if it doesn't exist, you can do whatever you want but the more you disregard it and the more you actually, sin against it, what happens is the law does punish you and it does through guilt and shame. You break God's law, God's law begins to break you that's how we've been designed.The other side is other than disregard, you say, "You know what? I'm going to be a good person. I will attempt to be holy. I'm going to fulfill God's law," and as soon as you start doing it, you realize that's impossible. So we need a third option and this is where the beauty of the gospel comes in. That the law giver who demands absolute obedience, realizes that we can't do it. So God sends his one and only son, Jesus Christ, Jesus fulfills the law perfectly in absolute obedience. He takes God's will and God's will becomes his will and he's holy and righteous in everything he does. And then he offers his life as a sacrifice, a substitutionary atonement, a propitiation for our sins, absorbing the wrath of God that we deserve, the curse that we deserve for our law breaking. He absorbs upon himself, he dies, he rises, he reigns and he calls us to repent of our sins and submit to Jesus Christ and as soon as we do, we're justified by grace through faith.Now we're in Christ and with Christ we've died to our former life of sin so now we are dead to sin. Christians had the power to not sin because of the holy spirit. And along with being dead to sin, we're also dead to the law. He says we can be free from sin because we're free from the law. The law is no longer binding on you. You're no longer enslaved to the law and he gives us this illustration of verse two about marriage, before we get there... What he's saying is each one of us were born bound to law, married to the law. Now that we're free to law, we've died to the law. You're free to remarry. Remarry whom? Jesus Christ. This is the power of our relationship with God.It's a covenant relationship as strong and if not stronger than marriage itself and now you don't have a law telling you from the outside, "Do this, don't do this. This is God's will, this isn't God's will." It's a lot deeper, you now have the law of God written on your heart and you have the love of God pulsating your heart, the love of Christ telling you, why would you ever cheat on Jesus Christ? Why would you walk away from this great of a savior? So that was the principle verse one, that we are bound to the law unless we're dead and then verse two, he gives an illustration for marriage, here it says, "A married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage." So he continues this explanation of our relationship to the law with analogy from marriage, to explain what it means to die to the law, he uses this illustration.Illustration comes from marriage at the marriage ceremony, we take our vows, we promise to honor, cherish, love one another till death do us part and until we are separated by death. If one partner in the marriage covenant should die, all the obligations upon the remaining partner are now set aside. He says, "For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives," the married woman, the Greek word is huppahandras which literally, means a woman under a man because this is biblical marriage, it's headship. The husband's the head of the wife. This is why scripture says "Husbands love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her." I thought morning service all the wives were like, "Yeah, you've got to love me as Christ loved the church. Yeah, get him." And then the next verse says, "and wives submit to your husbands as it's the Lord and everything it's headship.And he says the woman that is under the man, if, if the man dies, then she is free. Discharged from the law concerning the husband, which creates new opportunity of freedom for her by law, married, women's bound to husband as long as he is alive. Once he dies, she's freed from the covenant and from the law of marriage itself the contrast is clear, the law binds her but his death frees her, more over her release is complete. The law of God does provide for divorce under some circumstances but that's not what Paul is talking about here. A married woman can't lawfully marry another man but a widow can because a widow is completely free in the eyes of God to be married again. The first marriage has no continuing claim on her, that's why Paul says in 1 Timothy 5:14, "So I would have younger widows married, bear children, manage their households and give the adversary no occasion for slander. The law binds, regulates as long as the partner is alive."So he says think of your relationship to the law in the same way, you were bound by the law, when Jesus died you believe in him, you died with him and by your death with him in his death, you're released from the obligation of the law. Set free for another relationship, another way of life and that's relationship with Christ Romans 7:3 he continues, "Accordingly, she will be called an adulterous if she lives with another man while her husband is alive but if her husband dies she is free from that law. And if she marries another man, she's not an adulterous." So to continue the point to make it clear he calls attention to the difference between her situation if the husband were alive, if the husband is alive and she becomes involved with another man lives with another, he says or gives herself to another that's adultery. And his emphasis here is on the fact that the law still binds the married woman to her husband but the husband's death releases her.Now, what does this have to do with us? What's the difference for us? And that brings us to point two, to whom do you belong? He says, "If you died to the law you no longer belong to the law. You no longer experience the condemning effects of the law." So then to whom do you belong? This is Romans 7:4, "Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God." So our spouse has not died, the law didn't die to us but we have died to the law. We have died with Christ therefore the law has no more dominion over us. We died in Christ and then Christ is the one who fulfilled the law so we're in him so we fulfill the law in the sense that we're justified. The law has not been removed but Christ has died for us. We no longer carry the burdens of law, the law no longer hangs over our necks like a sword condemning us.That's why in chapter eight, verse one, he says, "Therefore, there's now no condemnation for those who are in Jesus Christ." So the very second that you believe in Jesus Christ, you repent of your sins. You are justified your declared innocent forever, for all of eternity. Your sin is imputed to Christ on the cross, Christ righteousness is imputed to you. Which sin only, the sins that we committed before trusting in Christ? No, all of the sins.Once you trust in Jesus Christ, there will never be any condemnation for you ever, all of your sin past, present and future are nailed to the cross. Martin Luther, the great reformer who actually, went to the Catholic church and he said, "We have lost the point of Christianity. We're teaching people that they are made right with God by keeping the law, observing the law." And Luther at this point was a doctor of theology, he'd been a Christian for decades and he was still wrestling with sin. And he realized that if we were made right with God because of our righteousness, he would never be made right with God because he studied God's law all day, every day and he realized that he's guilty. So Luther emphasized the gospel, we're justified by grace through faith. He taught this in Wittenberg, he just preached the Bible.And one of his favorite things to do was to go get haircuts because he's a monk. So he has to get a very particular haircut, the one you've got to get balled off top. So he developed a tremendous relationship with his barber and his barber was named Peter Beskendorf and he called him Peter, the master barber. And Peter, the master barber came to faith through Luther's ministry and then he asked Luther, "Hey, can you teach me how to pray?" And Luther went home and wrote him a 40 page pamphlet teaching him how to pray in which he just went through the Lord's prayer phrase by phrase. He's like, "This is how you pray. Just meditate in the phrases, 'Our father,' It's not just your father, it's our father." So you've got to be in community. He's a father, he cares for you. Our father, he's intimate, that relationship. Our father who is in heaven, so it's a transcendent relationship, God is above you. Our father who is in heaven, hallowed be thy name and your name be holy so you just went through that thing.So this guy started praying, started growing in his relationship and then something occurred. This guy was a solid believer but then one night he got drunk and in a rage killed his son-in-law, he killed his daughter's husband. He was guilty of the crime, a man slaughter, he didn't deny it. No one disputed any of the facts and actually, took Luther's intervention to keep this guy from getting executed. Instead, he was exiled from Wittenberg but Luther never stopped believing that there was no condemnation for Peter, the master barber. Actually, he told him he's like, "Do you still believe in Jesus Christ?" He said, "Yeah." "Do you still trust in Christ?" "Yeah." "Have you repented your sin?" He said, "Yes." He said, "Then there's no condemnation for you." And we see what a mighty thing our liberation from law is when we contemplate such a result that even a man who committed murder, a Christian who killed another man, a member of his own family, his own daughter's husband because he's in Christ because he died to the law, Christ died for him that he is still justified. Now, how does that make you feel?I know if I were not preaching this text and I was just sitting here I'd be like, "I'm not sure if I like this message." Especially when my kids were sitting here I'm like, "No, give them law. They need more law. Honor your father and your mother, give them law. I want them at home extra obedient." And this is really the tension in our hearts. It's like, "Okay, grace. If we really understand that we're under grace, what does that mean, for whom is grace? And is there anything that we can do to ever lose the grace?" And Paul says, "No. Once you're in Christ, there's no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." Now, you can understand why people are like, "No, you are teaching antinomianism that there is no law so you can live any way that you want."And Paul says, "No, I'm teaching grace so that people when they understand grace, that their hearts are captured by grace, it changes your heart. It changes your affection, your desires and then you don't obey God to not just get punished. You obey God because you want to." Galatians 3:10-14, "For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse, for it is written cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of life and do them. Now, it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law for the righteous shall live by faith. But the law is not of faith rather the one who does them shall live by them. Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for its written curse is everyone who is hanged on a tree. So that in Christ Jesus, the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles so that we might receive the promised spirit through faith."He said, Christ died on the cross. He took the curse of the law upon himself so we're free. Christians are free from the curse of the law. We are free from earning salvation through the law. However, the law continues to reveal to us what's pleasing to God. He continues in verse four, "Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God." So that you may belong to another, he's saying anyone who thinks that they can sin any way they want to live, any way they want they still think that they belong to themselves, they still think that they are autonomous and independent.He said, "No, if you are justified, if you are bought with the blood of Jesus Christ, you are not your own." You're not your own twice over, you're not your own because you've been created by God. And you're not your own because you've been redeemed by the precious blood of Jesus Christ. It's a brand new identity. I am not my own, I belong to Christ, I am saved by grace through faith. Of course, I will do everything I possibly can to be righteous before God. I'm not my own for what purpose? In order that we may bear fruit for God. What kind of fruit is he talking about? He's talking about the outward works so once Christ changes our heart, this is regeneration and he fills our heart with the holy spirit now, we want to do what is honorable before the Lord. Galatians 5:16-26. The contrast between the works of the flesh and the works of the spirit, the fruit of the flesh, the fruit of the spirit."But I say walk by the spirit and you will not gratify the desires of flesh for the desires of flesh are against the spirit and the desires of the spirit are against the flesh. For these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. But if you are led by the spirit, you are not under the law. Now, the works of the flesh are evident, sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies and things like these. I warned you as I warned you before that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the spirit's love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the law with its passions and desires. If we live by the spirit, let us also keep in step of the spirit let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another."This is brand new. It's completely brand new way of relating to God. Every other religion gives you rules and gives you a way to follow God, "Here's the pathway, here's the pillars, here's the rules. Obey them and you are accepted into the kingdom of God if not you are punished and then exiled forever." And then Christ comes and says, "You can't do it." Christ does it for us and then he pays the penalty for our sin and he says, "Trust in me," and when we trust in him, his sacrifice gets counted on our behalf and we're filled with the holy spirit. And now because of the holy spirit we want to obey God to serve...And this is point three, serve in the new way of the spirit. Verse five, "For while we are living in the flesh, our sinful passions aroused by the law. We're at work in our members to bear fruit for death." He's saying this is in the past tense while we were living in the flesh, "Our sinful passions aroused by law. We're at work and our members to bear fruit for death," living in the flesh, that phrase translated in other places, "For when we were controlled by the sinful nature," we just did what our nature led us to do. And we, with the sinful nature live in a sinful world and the sinful world exacerbates our sinful nature. 1 John 2:15-17, "Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes and pride of life is not from the father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires but whoever does the will of God abides forever."You're saying if we are in Christ, we're characterized by the fact that we are dead to both sin and the law. But if we are in the flesh, we're characterized by the certain behavior that is exacerbated, he says by the law. So if you're in Christ, Paul assumes you're no longer living in the flesh, you're no longer controlled by the sinful passions and the doctrine sanctification, it doesn't say, "Just change your life, you'll become a better person." That's like saying to a bad tree, stop bearing bad fruit. No, it says, "Come to the Lord through the gospel, you can get regenerated, become a new tree, bearing new fruit." What in the world does it mean that the law aroused our sinful passions? If you go back to verse five, what does it mean that the law because of the law, our sinful fashions are aroused by the law. Why would God give us a law that leads us into sin?Why would God give us a law that arouses our sin? Well, this is actually, one of the intentions of the law is to reveal to us just how sinful we are. That apart from the spirit, the law inflames our hearts to sin. We're sinful and one purpose for which God gave a law is to expose and excite. There's something rebellious within us that when you tell us, "Thou shall not eat of a certain tree," that's all you can think about even if you don't really like fruit. Thou shall not eat that tree, you're like, "Ah, give me that tree, give me that fruit." By rebels, we thrive in rebellion. Why do we relish doing things that cause us harm, that are self destructive? Why do we do things that as soon as we know that God forbids it, that's all we can think about? That people destroy themselves before they submit to God and the law brings to mind God's will but it provokes our own rebelling. Tell a young person that, "You can't do a certain thing," and then all of a sudden they become intensely interested in that one thing.How often are we seeing children, teenagers disobey for no reason other than they just want to disobey. It's disobedience for disobedience's sake and it's not just children. Adults are just like that, we just mask it better. So he says, "Yes, this is a challenge," don't just preach the law and some churches just do this. They just preach the law, "Don't do this." And all the young people, that's all they want to do and then you lose the young people, you lose the youth, you lose that generation. You've got to preach the law with the gospel together. The law by itself inflames sin, just preaching the law excites, exacerbates our sinful nature and then the law is powerless to help us fight the sin. This is why Paul and the Judaizers or the religious Jews of the day they fought because the Judaizers are like, "No, the law is how we are protected from sinning."And Paul says, "No, actually, the reverse is true. The law sets you on a course of inevitable hypocrisy. You can't, you won't obey the commandments. You pretend to do it and then all of a sudden obedience is redefined superficial terms." And that's why the entire rabbinical system was such a pretense. People are just pretending to obey but their hearts were never in it. And it's not just in synagogues or rabbinical trainings but this is in churches too. If you just preach the law, you just preach the law, you don't preach grace then people turn into hypocrites. Preaching law must also, always be followed by preaching the gospel because it's only the holy spirit working through the gospel that creates us a desire and a power to obey. So he continues verse six, "But now we are released from the law." It's as if we were encaged by the law, he says, "You're released having died to that which held us captive so that we serve in the new way of the spirit and not in the old way of the written code."He says, but now you were in the flesh, you were controlled by sinful passions. The law, all it did was exacerbate sin but now that you're released from the law, you've died to it. Now, you have the ability to serve in a new way. I think about this all the time as a pastor, as a father, I think about my kids because my kids are getting older. I think about my kids, that they are spending more time outside the home than with us. They're with friends, they're with the soccer teammates, they're in school. And how do you teach them to be godly when they're not in the house? How do you teach them to do the right thing when mom and dad aren't looking? Well, the only way that you can do this effectively... And it's the same with pastoring, most of you I do not see you during the week.I pray for you but I don't see you. Most of the decisions that you make in terms of obeying the Lord, following the Lord or not following the Lord it's just you and the Lord. So why in the world would allow people, would make people obey when no one's looking? It's a complete transformation of the heart, where God fills your heart with love for him and love for his word and love for his will. He does that by the power of the holy spirit where God says, "I'm not just going to give them the word, I'm going to write the word on their hearts and I'm going to give them the power of the holy spirit within to do what I call for them to do.Ezekiel 36:24-32, "I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land and I will sprinkle clean water on you. And you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses and from all your idols and I will cleanse you and I will give you a new heart and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules. You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers and you shall be my people and I shall be your God. And I will deliver you from all your uncleannesses and I will summon the grain and make it abundant and lay no famine upon you. And I will make the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field abundant that you may never again suffer the disgrace of famine among the nations.""And then you will remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good. And you will loathe yourselves for all your inequities and your abomination. It is not for your sake that I will act declares the Lord, God. Let that be known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel." It's through Jesus Christ that the law, the mastery of the law is broken and now we don't do God's will just because he might punish us for it. We do God's will because he has given us the power to do it where his will and our will come together. He causes us to walk in his ways. The holy spirit has taken up residence in us and has given us a new nature. And then he summons that new nature into expression as we live our lives day by day in following him. It's only the holy spirit that can give us the power to do the will of God.The change must come from above and from the inside out. When we trust in Jesus Christ, when we welcome the holy spirit and we seek to obey God, the father. If you're not a Christian today, we welcome you to become a Christian. All you have to do is repent of all your sin and you say, "Lord, forgive me for my sin. Forgive me of my rebellion. Forgive me of my law breaking. Forgive me of all of it. Lord, I need grace. Lord, forgive me. I want to be yours, I want to belong to you. I want to obey you in everything that I do send me the holy spirit," and the Lord does. And you'll see incredible transformation, you'll wake up with desires you've never had. You want to commune with the Lord, you want to obey him, you want to study his word, you want to be with God's people. It's all a work of the holy spirit.If you're a Christian, you're struggling with some sins, if there's sins in your life that you have not repented of, we call you today. Repent of those sins, trust in Jesus Christ. Take the power of the holy spirit and commit to following him the rest of your days. Jesus, we thank you for the gift of a new heart and a new life and a new way of serving you in the power of the spirit. Where we have a power that's not our own and energy that's not our own, a wisdom that's not our own, desires and affections that are not our own they're foreign to us. But we pray give us more love for you. A deeper desire to honor you and delight you and to fear you and to please you. We thank you that we are now not under law but under grace and because we're under grace, we have an even greater desire to live in accordance to your law because of the great cost by which we were saved. The cost of the son of God himself who died for us.Lord, fill each one of us with the spirit in ways that we have never been led and filled with the spirit before. And continue to make us a people who live in a manner worthy of the gospel of Jesus Christ so everything we do, we do because we are yours, because we belong to you, because we have a brand new identity, because we are the children of God. We thank you for the gift of grace, the gift of adoption to your family and we thank you, holy spirit, that you allow us to serve you. What a great privilege that is and continue to take the labors of our hands and multiply them a thousand fold for your glory and our joy and we pray all this in Christ name. Amen.

Audio Transcript: This media has been made available by Mosaic Boston church. If you'd like to check out more resources, learn about Mosaic Boston and our neighborhood churches or donate to this ministry, please visit mosaicboston.com. Heavenly father, we thank you that you have created us and though we rebelled against your will, choosing our own, attempting to supersede your will with our own, we rebelled against you and you didn't leave us in our sins and trespasses. While we are yes, sinners, you sent your son, Jesus Christ. Jesus, you fulfilled the law perfectly from the heart, empowered by the spirit from the heart you fulfilled it perfectly and then you gave your life as a sacrifice on the cross. Today, we remember your sufferings on our behalf. We thank you for your shed blood, your broken body that leads to our healing and the washing of our souls. And we pray Lord that you send us the holy spirit to make us the people that our obedient from the heart not because we're just afraid of punishment but because we fear and love you and seek to delight you and please you and make us some people that seek to serve you in the new way of the spirit and bless our time and the holy scriptures now and nourish our souls. We long for it, we pray this in Christ's name. Amen. We're continuing our sermon series through Romans, in Romans 7:1-6. Today, the title of the sermon is New Way of the Spirit. And one of the things that we need to make clear is everything that God says, everything that God does is because he wants the best for us. We want the best for you, this is why we preach God's holy word and God's best for you is his will. Another way of thinking of God's law because when you think of law, it's often negative. God's law is God's will, this is why Jesus Christ taught us to pray the following, "Our father who are in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven," so we are to... In the beginning Jesus says, "This is how you pray. Pray God may your will be done in my life, your will in heaven may that be the same as your will for my life here on earth." Do you mean this when you pray it, do you long for God's will to be done in your life completely? And you say, "Whoa, hold on. What's God's will? God's will, anything that God wills that's what I want?" If there's any hesitation that's called sin where our will fights God's will, that tension in the middle is sin. What's in the way of you living out God's best for you is sin. And the best for you is freedom from sin. This is why Jesus came not just to forgive us the penalty for sin but to remove even the power and ultimately, the presence of sin, the liberation from enslavement to sin, to self, it's not just a freedom from sin but a freedom to obey God, that's the best. So how do we get our will and God's will to be one will in our life? Only by the power of the holy spirit. In Christ, you've been set free from sin and have become slaves of God. We have died to sin and we have died even to the law itself and this is what we'll be talking about today. Would you look at the text with me in Roman 7:1-6. "Or do you not know brothers for I'm speaking to those who know the law, that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives. For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives but if her husband dies, she's released from the law of marriage. Accordingly, she will be called an adulterous if she lives with another man while her husband's still alive. But if her husband dies, she's free from that law and if she marries another man, she's not an adulterous. Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ so that you may belong to another to him who has been raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God." "For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions aroused by the law. We're at work in our members to bear fruit for death but now we are released from the law, having died to that which held us captive so that we serve in the new way of the spirit and not in the old way of the written code or the letter of the law." This is the reading of God's holy and infallible, authoritative word, may he write these eternal truths upon our hearts, three points to frame up our time. First, you can't fine a dead person. Second, to whom do you belong? And third, serve in the new way of the spirit. Just to set the context if you missed any of the sermons, by the way they're all online, it's been a tremendous series thus far. Today, we're in seven, one through six which is actually, a continuation of the argument in chapter six, 15 through 23. Originally, we're in St. Paul wrote the text there weren't these chapter verse breaks, he just wrote it as one letter so sometimes the chapter verse breaks are helpful. Here, they are not because it makes it seem like he's starting with a new point. He's not, he's just carrying the argument along in six 15 through 23, Paul rejected the notion that believers are permitted to sin since we're no longer in the law, this is what he said, "We're under grace, we're not under law. And immediately the objection is, "Whoa, hold on. If you tell people they're under grace and not under law, they're just going to sin as much as possible which leads to antinomianism, life conscientiousness, you just live any way that you want." And Paul says, "No. If that's how you think, you have never been born again, you haven't been regenerated, you haven't been justified because if you are justified by grace through faith, you want to be sanctified, you want to delight in the Lord." Seven, one through six, carries this argument one step further and he contends that sin is something that Christians have died to. And sin is actually, what people under the law struggle with because Paul's Jewish opponents contended that freedom from the law opens the door towards sin. And then Paul turns the tables on them and he says, "Hold on. It's actually, the people who insist on the law as the way that we are made right with God. These are the people who are actually, in bondage to sin if they're really honest, because they're not fulfilling the law from the heart because they can't, they don't have the ability to only those who have died with Christ and the law and possessed the holy spirit have the ability to bear fruit for God." So point number one, is you can't fine a dead person and here we get that from verse one, "Or do you not know brothers from speaking to those who know the law, that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives." That's the main point of the text and then he illustrates it and then he applies it in verses four through six. But here he says the law is binding for a person that's alive. Any law, the moral law, the 10 commandments of God is binding to us while we're alive and any kind of the law of the land, it's binding to us when we're alive. For example, if you're driving 150 miles an hour in Store Road Drive, you'd have to be at night because you're lucky to go 25 on Store Road Drive. But just hypothetically, speaking you've gone on 150 miles an hour on Store Road Drive. You broke every single law that there is and you die, you crash, you're dead. And then the cops show up, the cops don't pull you out or whatever's left of you from the car and they do not fine you for going so fast because you're already dead. You're not bound by the law if you are dead, that's what he's saying. He turns his conversation here to believers and he starts teaching believers theology because he assumes that if you've been listening to the letter of Romans this long, thus far you got here, he just assumes you're already Christian. He's already taught that we're all sinners, God created us to worship him, image forth his holiness. We've sinned and he explains that we're sinners, we're rebels, we're degenerates, we're wicked, we're selfish, we're pathetically self-absorbed. Pleasure is our God, truth is our enemy and we as a society hate truth so much that we'll call anything truth except truth itself. Anything can be true as long as you don't say the Bible is true, as long as you don't say that Jesus Christ is the only way, as long as you don't say that's true, everything else is fine. I was invited by a friend to the Harvard Faculty Club this week for this round table discussion and they have these every once in a while where they invite professors from MIT, from Harvard, Northeastern, BU and then they invite some clergy to come as well. And it's all funded by the Templeton Foundation, it's actually, their attempt at proselytizing or evangelizing, sharing the gospel with these professors and the idea is if we invite them and they get saved, well, maybe we can reach Harvard. So okay, I go to this thing and there's a spiritual guru that comes up and he shares about his spiritual experience. And all of it is subjective, all of it, its visions and things that he does and I'm listening to it. After a while, I got tired of listening to him, a guy at my table fell asleep and then finally he's done. And then the food begins and everyone's happy because it's free food and it's open bar and everyone's just chilling. So I sit down and the lady next to me is a professor from Northeast University and I was like, "What do you do?" She's like, "Oh, I teach Economics," and then she's like, "What do you do?" And I was like, "I'm a pastor of a local congregation," as soon as I said that she just turned and she put on her mask and that was the end of the conversation. And the lady next to me on the other side, so I'm like, "I have no choice so I'm going to continue the round table," we're supposed to have a discussion. And then this lady next to me is a professor of Russian History from Harvard and I was like, "Oh, we have something to talk about." So all of a sudden we're talking about Russian history and we're talking about the war in Ukraine. She was like, "How do you feel about that?" And we're talking about that then the facilitator says, "Let's talk about what this guy said about visions and this is how we think about spirituality." And this is what she said very nicely, "Isn't it wonderful that each of us can bring our own perspective of the truth and that everyone's truth is equally true." And I was like, "Am I going there?" And I was like, "Yeah, I'm going there," and I was like, "Yeah, it is wonderful unless the person's truths are all lies and made up." And she didn't like that and then she turned away from me as well. And I was like, "Aren't we supposed to have dialogue so you can talk about any kind of truth?" This guy just got up and I think he just made up half his stuff because he was just rambling. He didn't even know he was supposed to go 45 minutes he's like, "Oh, 45 minutes." Yeah, it's wonderful if your truths have nothing to do with my life and me submitting myself to the truth. We know that God alone is truth, God alone is true. God defines what's true and what's a lie and he does this with his self-authenticating word. When you read the word of God and you read it with an open mind and an open heart and if you read it prayerfully and you say, "Lord, is this your word?" What God does with his spirit is he authenticates, he confirms, "Yes, this is the word." Because as soon as we read God's word, we study God's moral law and we're open about it, what happens is the law written on our heart is confirmed, "Oh yes, this resonates. Oh yes, this is actually, truth that I have been attempting to suppress all of my life." God's word reveals God's law and once we know it does resonate because it's written on our hearts. For example, and I get this example from our text, he's talking about marriage and adultery. We in our society know adultery is wrong. Everyone knows this but we live in a culture that encourages people to be trained up in adultery even from a young age. If we even cared about civilization, we would know the building blocks for civilization are healthy families. And if we do care about marital fidelity and marriages, we would encourage young people to remain celibate until marriage and instead we're teaching kids things that their sweet little innocent hearts are not ready for. And I know because my girls are in the public school system and my youngest is in pre-K and with pride month, they have all the flags up. And all the parents are like, "Isn't this wonderful?" And I'm like, "No, it's not wonderful. I don't want my kids to know... She's four, I don't want," that's why fewer people are actually, getting married in our culture because you think about lifelong fidelity to one person that's impossible yet we all long for it. So St. Paul would say, "Now that we've established that we're all sinners," and he does one, just one command and you can take any other command, "And thou shall not covet," we all transgress that, we're all sinners. He's established that, we've all transgressed the law. What do we do now? The law is binding upon us, God's law is upon each one of us. So how do we get freed from this law? You have two options. Number one, you can disregard God's law as if it doesn't exist, you can do whatever you want but the more you disregard it and the more you actually, sin against it, what happens is the law does punish you and it does through guilt and shame. You break God's law, God's law begins to break you that's how we've been designed. The other side is other than disregard, you say, "You know what? I'm going to be a good person. I will attempt to be holy. I'm going to fulfill God's law," and as soon as you start doing it, you realize that's impossible. So we need a third option and this is where the beauty of the gospel comes in. That the law giver who demands absolute obedience, realizes that we can't do it. So God sends his one and only son, Jesus Christ, Jesus fulfills the law perfectly in absolute obedience. He takes God's will and God's will becomes his will and he's holy and righteous in everything he does. And then he offers his life as a sacrifice, a substitutionary atonement, a propitiation for our sins, absorbing the wrath of God that we deserve, the curse that we deserve for our law breaking. He absorbs upon himself, he dies, he rises, he reigns and he calls us to repent of our sins and submit to Jesus Christ and as soon as we do, we're justified by grace through faith. Now we're in Christ and with Christ we've died to our former life of sin so now we are dead to sin. Christians had the power to not sin because of the holy spirit. And along with being dead to sin, we're also dead to the law. He says we can be free from sin because we're free from the law. The law is no longer binding on you. You're no longer enslaved to the law and he gives us this illustration of verse two about marriage, before we get there... What he's saying is each one of us were born bound to law, married to the law. Now that we're free to law, we've died to the law. You're free to remarry. Remarry whom? Jesus Christ. This is the power of our relationship with God. It's a covenant relationship as strong and if not stronger than marriage itself and now you don't have a law telling you from the outside, "Do this, don't do this. This is God's will, this isn't God's will." It's a lot deeper, you now have the law of God written on your heart and you have the love of God pulsating your heart, the love of Christ telling you, why would you ever cheat on Jesus Christ? Why would you walk away from this great of a savior? So that was the principle verse one, that we are bound to the law unless we're dead and then verse two, he gives an illustration for marriage, here it says, "A married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage." So he continues this explanation of our relationship to the law with analogy from marriage, to explain what it means to die to the law, he uses this illustration. Illustration comes from marriage at the marriage ceremony, we take our vows, we promise to honor, cherish, love one another till death do us part and until we are separated by death. If one partner in the marriage covenant should die, all the obligations upon the remaining partner are now set aside. He says, "For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives," the married woman, the Greek word is huppahandras which literally, means a woman under a man because this is biblical marriage, it's headship. The husband's the head of the wife. This is why scripture says "Husbands love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her." I thought morning service all the wives were like, "Yeah, you've got to love me as Christ loved the church. Yeah, get him." And then the next verse says, "and wives submit to your husbands as it's the Lord and everything it's headship. And he says the woman that is under the man, if, if the man dies, then she is free. Discharged from the law concerning the husband, which creates new opportunity of freedom for her by law, married, women's bound to husband as long as he is alive. Once he dies, she's freed from the covenant and from the law of marriage itself the contrast is clear, the law binds her but his death frees her, more over her release is complete. The law of God does provide for divorce under some circumstances but that's not what Paul is talking about here. A married woman can't lawfully marry another man but a widow can because a widow is completely free in the eyes of God to be married again. The first marriage has no continuing claim on her, that's why Paul says in 1 Timothy 5:14, "So I would have younger widows married, bear children, manage their households and give the adversary no occasion for slander. The law binds, regulates as long as the partner is alive." So he says think of your relationship to the law in the same way, you were bound by the law, when Jesus died you believe in him, you died with him and by your death with him in his death, you're released from the obligation of the law. Set free for another relationship, another way of life and that's relationship with Christ Romans 7:3 he continues, "Accordingly, she will be called an adulterous if she lives with another man while her husband is alive but if her husband dies she is free from that law. And if she marries another man, she's not an adulterous." So to continue the point to make it clear he calls attention to the difference between her situation if the husband were alive, if the husband is alive and she becomes involved with another man lives with another, he says or gives herself to another that's adultery. And his emphasis here is on the fact that the law still binds the married woman to her husband but the husband's death releases her. Now, what does this have to do with us? What's the difference for us? And that brings us to point two, to whom do you belong? He says, "If you died to the law you no longer belong to the law. You no longer experience the condemning effects of the law." So then to whom do you belong? This is Romans 7:4, "Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God." So our spouse has not died, the law didn't die to us but we have died to the law. We have died with Christ therefore the law has no more dominion over us. We died in Christ and then Christ is the one who fulfilled the law so we're in him so we fulfill the law in the sense that we're justified. The law has not been removed but Christ has died for us. We no longer carry the burdens of law, the law no longer hangs over our necks like a sword condemning us. That's why in chapter eight, verse one, he says, "Therefore, there's now no condemnation for those who are in Jesus Christ." So the very second that you believe in Jesus Christ, you repent of your sins. You are justified your declared innocent forever, for all of eternity. Your sin is imputed to Christ on the cross, Christ righteousness is imputed to you. Which sin only, the sins that we committed before trusting in Christ? No, all of the sins. Once you trust in Jesus Christ, there will never be any condemnation for you ever, all of your sin past, present and future are nailed to the cross. Martin Luther, the great reformer who actually, went to the Catholic church and he said, "We have lost the point of Christianity. We're teaching people that they are made right with God by keeping the law, observing the law." And Luther at this point was a doctor of theology, he'd been a Christian for decades and he was still wrestling with sin. And he realized that if we were made right with God because of our righteousness, he would never be made right with God because he studied God's law all day, every day and he realized that he's guilty. So Luther emphasized the gospel, we're justified by grace through faith. He taught this in Wittenberg, he just preached the Bible. And one of his favorite things to do was to go get haircuts because he's a monk. So he has to get a very particular haircut, the one you've got to get balled off top. So he developed a tremendous relationship with his barber and his barber was named Peter Beskendorf and he called him Peter, the master barber. And Peter, the master barber came to faith through Luther's ministry and then he asked Luther, "Hey, can you teach me how to pray?" And Luther went home and wrote him a 40 page pamphlet teaching him how to pray in which he just went through the Lord's prayer phrase by phrase. He's like, "This is how you pray. Just meditate in the phrases, 'Our father,' It's not just your father, it's our father." So you've got to be in community. He's a father, he cares for you. Our father, he's intimate, that relationship. Our father who is in heaven, so it's a transcendent relationship, God is above you. Our father who is in heaven, hallowed be thy name and your name be holy so you just went through that thing. So this guy started praying, started growing in his relationship and then something occurred. This guy was a solid believer but then one night he got drunk and in a rage killed his son-in-law, he killed his daughter's husband. He was guilty of the crime, a man slaughter, he didn't deny it. No one disputed any of the facts and actually, took Luther's intervention to keep this guy from getting executed. Instead, he was exiled from Wittenberg but Luther never stopped believing that there was no condemnation for Peter, the master barber. Actually, he told him he's like, "Do you still believe in Jesus Christ?" He said, "Yeah." "Do you still trust in Christ?" "Yeah." "Have you repented your sin?" He said, "Yes." He said, "Then there's no condemnation for you." And we see what a mighty thing our liberation from law is when we contemplate such a result that even a man who committed murder, a Christian who killed another man, a member of his own family, his own daughter's husband because he's in Christ because he died to the law, Christ died for him that he is still justified. Now, how does that make you feel? I know if I were not preaching this text and I was just sitting here I'd be like, "I'm not sure if I like this message." Especially when my kids were sitting here I'm like, "No, give them law. They need more law. Honor your father and your mother, give them law. I want them at home extra obedient." And this is really the tension in our hearts. It's like, "Okay, grace. If we really understand that we're under grace, what does that mean, for whom is grace? And is there anything that we can do to ever lose the grace?" And Paul says, "No. Once you're in Christ, there's no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." Now, you can understand why people are like, "No, you are teaching antinomianism that there is no law so you can live any way that you want." And Paul says, "No, I'm teaching grace so that people when they understand grace, that their hearts are captured by grace, it changes your heart. It changes your affection, your desires and then you don't obey God to not just get punished. You obey God because you want to." Galatians 3:10-14, "For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse, for it is written cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the book of life and do them. Now, it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law for the righteous shall live by faith. But the law is not of faith rather the one who does them shall live by them. Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for its written curse is everyone who is hanged on a tree. So that in Christ Jesus, the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles so that we might receive the promised spirit through faith." He said, Christ died on the cross. He took the curse of the law upon himself so we're free. Christians are free from the curse of the law. We are free from earning salvation through the law. However, the law continues to reveal to us what's pleasing to God. He continues in verse four, "Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead in order that we may bear fruit for God." So that you may belong to another, he's saying anyone who thinks that they can sin any way they want to live, any way they want they still think that they belong to themselves, they still think that they are autonomous and independent. He said, "No, if you are justified, if you are bought with the blood of Jesus Christ, you are not your own." You're not your own twice over, you're not your own because you've been created by God. And you're not your own because you've been redeemed by the precious blood of Jesus Christ. It's a brand new identity. I am not my own, I belong to Christ, I am saved by grace through faith. Of course, I will do everything I possibly can to be righteous before God. I'm not my own for what purpose? In order that we may bear fruit for God. What kind of fruit is he talking about? He's talking about the outward works so once Christ changes our heart, this is regeneration and he fills our heart with the holy spirit now, we want to do what is honorable before the Lord. Galatians 5:16-26. The contrast between the works of the flesh and the works of the spirit, the fruit of the flesh, the fruit of the spirit. "But I say walk by the spirit and you will not gratify the desires of flesh for the desires of flesh are against the spirit and the desires of the spirit are against the flesh. For these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do. But if you are led by the spirit, you are not under the law. Now, the works of the flesh are evident, sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies and things like these. I warned you as I warned you before that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. But the fruit of the spirit's love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the law with its passions and desires. If we live by the spirit, let us also keep in step of the spirit let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another." This is brand new. It's completely brand new way of relating to God. Every other religion gives you rules and gives you a way to follow God, "Here's the pathway, here's the pillars, here's the rules. Obey them and you are accepted into the kingdom of God if not you are punished and then exiled forever." And then Christ comes and says, "You can't do it." Christ does it for us and then he pays the penalty for our sin and he says, "Trust in me," and when we trust in him, his sacrifice gets counted on our behalf and we're filled with the holy spirit. And now because of the holy spirit we want to obey God to serve... And this is point three, serve in the new way of the spirit. Verse five, "For while we are living in the flesh, our sinful passions aroused by the law. We're at work in our members to bear fruit for death." He's saying this is in the past tense while we were living in the flesh, "Our sinful passions aroused by law. We're at work and our members to bear fruit for death," living in the flesh, that phrase translated in other places, "For when we were controlled by the sinful nature," we just did what our nature led us to do. And we, with the sinful nature live in a sinful world and the sinful world exacerbates our sinful nature. 1 John 2:15-17, "Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes and pride of life is not from the father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires but whoever does the will of God abides forever." You're saying if we are in Christ, we're characterized by the fact that we are dead to both sin and the law. But if we are in the flesh, we're characterized by the certain behavior that is exacerbated, he says by the law. So if you're in Christ, Paul assumes you're no longer living in the flesh, you're no longer controlled by the sinful passions and the doctrine sanctification, it doesn't say, "Just change your life, you'll become a better person." That's like saying to a bad tree, stop bearing bad fruit. No, it says, "Come to the Lord through the gospel, you can get regenerated, become a new tree, bearing new fruit." What in the world does it mean that the law aroused our sinful passions? If you go back to verse five, what does it mean that the law because of the law, our sinful fashions are aroused by the law. Why would God give us a law that leads us into sin? Why would God give us a law that arouses our sin? Well, this is actually, one of the intentions of the law is to reveal to us just how sinful we are. That apart from the spirit, the law inflames our hearts to sin. We're sinful and one purpose for which God gave a law is to expose and excite. There's something rebellious within us that when you tell us, "Thou shall not eat of a certain tree," that's all you can think about even if you don't really like fruit. Thou shall not eat that tree, you're like, "Ah, give me that tree, give me that fruit." By rebels, we thrive in rebellion. Why do we relish doing things that cause us harm, that are self destructive? Why do we do things that as soon as we know that God forbids it, that's all we can think about? That people destroy themselves before they submit to God and the law brings to mind God's will but it provokes our own rebelling. Tell a young person that, "You can't do a certain thing," and then all of a sudden they become intensely interested in that one thing. How often are we seeing children, teenagers disobey for no reason other than they just want to disobey. It's disobedience for disobedience's sake and it's not just children. Adults are just like that, we just mask it better. So he says, "Yes, this is a challenge," don't just preach the law and some churches just do this. They just preach the law, "Don't do this." And all the young people, that's all they want to do and then you lose the young people, you lose the youth, you lose that generation. You've got to preach the law with the gospel together. The law by itself inflames sin, just preaching the law excites, exacerbates our sinful nature and then the law is powerless to help us fight the sin. This is why Paul and the Judaizers or the religious Jews of the day they fought because the Judaizers are like, "No, the law is how we are protected from sinning." And Paul says, "No, actually, the reverse is true. The law sets you on a course of inevitable hypocrisy. You can't, you won't obey the commandments. You pretend to do it and then all of a sudden obedience is redefined superficial terms." And that's why the entire rabbinical system was such a pretense. People are just pretending to obey but their hearts were never in it. And it's not just in synagogues or rabbinical trainings but this is in churches too. If you just preach the law, you just preach the law, you don't preach grace then people turn into hypocrites. Preaching law must also, always be followed by preaching the gospel because it's only the holy spirit working through the gospel that creates us a desire and a power to obey. So he continues verse six, "But now we are released from the law." It's as if we were encaged by the law, he says, "You're released having died to that which held us captive so that we serve in the new way of the spirit and not in the old way of the written code." He says, but now you were in the flesh, you were controlled by sinful passions. The law, all it did was exacerbate sin but now that you're released from the law, you've died to it. Now, you have the ability to serve in a new way. I think about this all the time as a pastor, as a father, I think about my kids because my kids are getting older. I think about my kids, that they are spending more time outside the home than with us. They're with friends, they're with the soccer teammates, they're in school. And how do you teach them to be godly when they're not in the house? How do you teach them to do the right thing when mom and dad aren't looking? Well, the only way that you can do this effectively... And it's the same with pastoring, most of you I do not see you during the week. I pray for you but I don't see you. Most of the decisions that you make in terms of obeying the Lord, following the Lord or not following the Lord it's just you and the Lord. So why in the world would allow people, would make people obey when no one's looking? It's a complete transformation of the heart, where God fills your heart with love for him and love for his word and love for his will. He does that by the power of the holy spirit where God says, "I'm not just going to give them the word, I'm going to write the word on their hearts and I'm going to give them the power of the holy spirit within to do what I call for them to do. Ezekiel 36:24-32, "I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land and I will sprinkle clean water on you. And you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses and from all your idols and I will cleanse you and I will give you a new heart and a new spirit I will put within you. And I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules. You shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers and you shall be my people and I shall be your God. And I will deliver you from all your uncleannesses and I will summon the grain and make it abundant and lay no famine upon you. And I will make the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field abundant that you may never again suffer the disgrace of famine among the nations." "And then you will remember your evil ways and your deeds that were not good. And you will loathe yourselves for all your inequities and your abomination. It is not for your sake that I will act declares the Lord, God. Let that be known to you. Be ashamed and confounded for your ways, O house of Israel." It's through Jesus Christ that the law, the mastery of the law is broken and now we don't do God's will just because he might punish us for it. We do God's will because he has given us the power to do it where his will and our will come together. He causes us to walk in his ways. The holy spirit has taken up residence in us and has given us a new nature. And then he summons that new nature into expression as we live our lives day by day in following him. It's only the holy spirit that can give us the power to do the will of God. The change must come from above and from the inside out. When we trust in Jesus Christ, when we welcome the holy spirit and we seek to obey God, the father. If you're not a Christian today, we welcome you to become a Christian. All you have to do is repent of all your sin and you say, "Lord, forgive me for my sin. Forgive me of my rebellion. Forgive me of my law breaking. Forgive me of all of it. Lord, I need grace. Lord, forgive me. I want to be yours, I want to belong to you. I want to obey you in everything that I do send me the holy spirit," and the Lord does. And you'll see incredible transformation, you'll wake up with desires you've never had. You want to commune with the Lord, you want to obey him, you want to study his word, you want to be with God's people. It's all a work of the holy spirit. If you're a Christian, you're struggling with some sins, if there's sins in your life that you have not repented of, we call you today. Repent of those sins, trust in Jesus Christ. Take the power of the holy spirit and commit to following him the rest of your days. Jesus, we thank you for the gift of a new heart and a new life and a new way of serving you in the power of the spirit. Where we have a power that's not our own and energy that's not our own, a wisdom that's not our own, desires and affections that are not our own they're foreign to us. But we pray give us more love for you. A deeper desire to honor you and delight you and to fear you and to please you. We thank you that we are now not under law but under grace and because we're under grace, we have an even greater desire to live in accordance to your law because of the great cost by which we were saved. The cost of the son of God himself who died for us. Lord, fill each one of us with the spirit in ways that we have never been led and filled with the spirit before. And continue to make us a people who live in a manner worthy of the gospel of Jesus Christ so everything we do, we do because we are yours, because we belong to you, because we have a brand new identity, because we are the children of God. We thank you for the gift of grace, the gift of adoption to your family and we thank you, holy spirit, that you allow us to serve you. What a great privilege that is and continue to take the labors of our hands and multiply them a thousand fold for your glory and our joy and we pray all this in Christ name. Amen.

Jay joins us from California to discuss Anita Goel's monopolisation of this whole minute. Thankfully she has some quite thought-provoking dialogue. We relish the discussion on the Vedas, unity in nature, consciousness and Paramahansa Yogananda's life long goal of marrying the East and the West. The majority of the scenes are filmed in the Harvard Faculty Club, but thankfully we, as guests, will be allowed to enter through this exlusive minute. 0:00 Meet Jay; 5:37 Summary of minute; 6:49 Vedic philosophy; 17:26 Mining for knowledge without WiFi; 24:20 Anita Goel in the Harvard Faculty Club; 30:05 The discovery of unity in nature; 47:51 Anita's Lab and our meditation experiments. If you wish to hear more about Anita Goel and her research interests, you can listen to our episode for Minute 18: The yogic rite to Write DNA.

Jay Goodbinder ND DC DABCI is the owner and lead clinician of The Epigenetics Healing Center in Kansas City MO where he has helped thousands of people from all over the world overcome autoimmune and life crippling diseases. He has spoken at CNN with Dr. Oz, Harvard Faculty Club with Suzanne Somers and is the author of the Amazon best-selling book “Defending Your Life”. His goal is to make sure that everyone has the ability to choose how they keep themselves and their family healthy as well as what they put in their bodies. In this episode Dr. Goodbinder talks all things hormones and body building with @glamgirlbikini coach @amyehinger You can contact the Epigenetics Healing Center at 816-673-1230 emal office@drgoodbinder.com or at www.drgoodbinder.com You can find us on Instagram @preplifepodcast and apply for the team at: https://www.glamgirlbikini.com/get-started/   

Christopher Salem is an accomplished business and emotional intelligence strategist, world-class speaker, award-winning author, certified mindset expert, radio show host and media personality, and wellness advocate partnering with entrepreneurs, corporations, and small businesses with overcoming their limiting beliefs so his clients can then adopt the process to operate within the solution – and not manage the problem – for sustainable success. Chris has worked with organizations such as JP Morgan Chase, Ralph Lauren, Microchip Technology, Anthem, the United States Census Bureau, Hubbell, and the NYPD forensics department. He has also worked with tertiary institutions, such as the University of Hartford, Bay Path University, Worcester State University, and spoken on overcoming limiting beliefs for peak performance at the Harvard Faculty Club.  Chris is the originator of the term, Prosperneur, which refers to an individual whose health and wealth are aligned in a way that leads to true prosperity. His book Master Your Inner Critic addresses this and in doing so hit the international best-seller list in 2016. He was also a co-author of a recent edition of Mastering the Art of Success with Jack Canfield. His weekly radio show Sustainable Success is broadcast on the VoiceAmerica Influencers Channel.   “I could have acted out, I could have started drinking … (and gone) back to the things I used to do when I was really young that would have taken me out. But … I made a conscious choice to be mature about this … there was nothing I could do except go forward, be present and … not allow this to sideline me for any other future decisions or risks that I would take, whether for starting a business or making an investment.” Christopher Salem   Worst investment ever Venture begins in bullish mood of mid-2000s Chris’ story is set in the boom time before the global financial crisis of 2008. House prices were skyrocketing alongside stock markets and people were doing very well. He had invested in start-up companies before, his first being back in 1993. So in around 2006 he met a couple of very smart founders of a media company who were going to revolutionize the video space on airplane seatbacks to engage business and first-class passengers with special offers. After some due diligence, he wanted to invest in what they were doing to take the company from the ground up to make it successful. With his background in media, it was also in an area he had interest in. All pieces and people in place for air-travel-tech winner And so he put a lot of time into preparation for this particular investment and when he went forward everything looked as if it were going to plan. It was a truly disruptive business idea that filled a niche and a need. That positivity was boosted by the presence of American Airlines former CEO Robert Crandall on the board of the company. Chris invested a considerable sum, not being exactly averse to some risk. Early days show promise with ‘Six-Sigma-type guys’ at the helm At first the company was showing a lot of promise with its special offers based on personalized information obtained through credit cards. If a VIP passenger’s lease on their Audi was finishing in a month, and they were going to be in Las Vegas, the company would put an offer up on the seatback monitor for the passengers to test drive a BMW when they arrive via sophisticated algorithms and processes. All of this was being run by people with excellent credentials in technology and business in general, “Six Sigma type guys”. Global crisis plunges knife in investors’ backs But then the financial crash hit. As a result, Chris and the team’s venture began to unravel. The progress of everything slowed down, and certain airlines planning to go forward, did not. Also slowly Chris began to the money invested by himself, other investors and the company’s founders being burned through quickly. All measures to save it were fruitless despite that extensive planning had gone into it, despite how great it looked on paper, and in spite of the support provide by a lot of skilled, experienced people. Despite all that, the company never made a sale to a single airline. Hard times for new parents For Chris and everyone, it was a very difficult time. His marriage was young and they had just had a son. Though it didn’t bankrupt him, it put him in a very tough situation as he had lost a significant amount of money and time doing research and managing the investment. Start-up investor reaches emotional crossroad At that time Chris had to decide whether to sit in the problem, act out and be angry about what happened, or just accept what happened, live with it and advance to what was necessary to get his money back. Eventually, he weathered the storm. Chris said he could have started drinking or doing other things that would have taken him out, but he made a conscious choice to be mature and go forward, be present not allow this to sideline him for other future decisions or risks in starting a business or making an investment.   Some lessons Active investors must learn to accept that losses do happen. It’s just part of the game. Even though you’re going to win some and lose some, take calculated risks. Learn how to stay calm in these situations and be truly present. Believe in yourself and know that if you continue to do right things, with the right habits and disciplines, in time you will make the money back or you will make another investment that you put a lot of time and due diligence into that will pay off. Don’t allow mistakes to take you out of the game. So be cautious, do your due diligence. Reflect and try to emerge with gratitude and humility, because even the great investors have lost vast amounts of money. They just don’t talk about it.   Andrew’s takeaways The winners are not the people hitting home runs all the time, they’re just those who don’t strike out in business, finance and investing. Everybody experiences losses at some time or other. Risk management is vital. Though Chris lost a lot in this story (he estimates 10 years of work!), many people lose everything in deals like this because they ignored the readily available risk management methods.   “They say: ‘I lost everything, I lost all my money, I lost my family, I lost everything,’ because there are risk management principles that they didn’t follow, such as only investing a small amount of your money into an idea, particularly in the beginning.” Andrew Stotz   The pain of loss can be crushing, but there are ways out of it. Sometimes everything goes wrong; an investment, a business idea, health, work. When you get in such a storm of defeat, the self-worth can fall and that has an impact on your interactions with the people you love and who love you and other people. Chris has some great recommendations in the next section.   Actionable advice Learn how to become present and mindful in the moment. This can be done through meditation and journaling, and we then have the ability to offset the fear created from the past that triggers stress. Such stress produces inflammation in our bodies from the cortisol levels that rise and this affects us physically. This can lead to poor eating habits, failing to take care of ourselves, and this carries on to a negative impact on our emotional health. That same fear and stress from the past is projected into the future and becomes anxiety that can then lead to procrastination, and failing to act and make decisions or having a cluttered mind. When you learn to be present, we learn how to accept what happened and look at it as a learning experience. By being present, we can do what it takes to make back the money we have lost. There is always a way to make money back, but if you dwell on the problem and not the solution, it makes it very difficult to do so because you get further trapped in the problem. But meditation and journaling on a daily basis will allow you to get centered and move forward from a major loss or a major challenge that is affecting your life. Daily program to be aware how you are feeling. This is especially when you’re not feeling too good, bothered by negative emotions such anger, shame, guilt, whatever is consuming you, and be aware that they’re taking you further into the problem. So the only logical choice that you have at this point to get into the solution is to be present. And Chris here shares his daily program to get into the present and prepare the day. Make your bed. When you wake up in the morning, before you do anything, do something like making your bed or some other action to get your mindset clear and focused that you have accomplished something, something you’ll feel good about. Meditate for 10 to 15 minutes. Don’t overthink or over-analyze the thoughts that come in and out of your head. Just be present. Let those thoughts come and go and keep your focus on your breath. Write down exactly and only what comes to mind during the meditation. Don’t overthink, don’t over-analyze, just write exactly what comes to mind. This allows us to get the clutter out of our conscious mindset, and whatever is being revealed from the subconscious mind, which gives clues to the limiting beliefs that could be holding us back or triggering the way we feel in these types of situations. Andrew adds one of his own actions to this daily program: Read Practicing the Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle or listen to its audiobook. When times get so tough that Andrew feels overloaded and overwhelmed, one thing he does is turns on the audio version of that book. Tolle’s voice is very calm as he reads through the book but the key for Andrew is that Tolle brings him back to every single moment and convinces him that he is safe and not under threat at that moment. The hopes and fears of the future can be set aside, as can the fears and suffering of the past.   “It’s like taking an aspirin for a bad headache. It works.” Andrew Stotz   No. 1 goal for next the 12 months Chris is investing in a Canadian start-up that recently signed a deal with Fitbit. The company is providing algorithms that can detect sickness in the body, such as common colds, flu, and the like. They seek to make further advances in detecting other types of major illnesses, such as heart disease and cancer, and there are discussions IBM and Johnson & Johnson about this. His goal is to be very active, as an investor and an advisor to help the organization really make significant advancements.   Parting words Chris wishes you to believe in yourselves, forgive yourselves for any past mistakes or bad investments you have made. They’re in the past, so let them go learn from them. In the areas, you can control, perform differently. In the areas you can’t control, let them go. Be present and apply the things you have learned into the present moment going forward to reach your success.   You can also check out Andrew’s books How to Start Building Your Wealth Investing in the Stock Market My Worst Investment Ever 9 Valuation Mistakes and How to Avoid Them Transform Your Business with Dr.Deming’s 14 Points    Connect with Christopher Salem LinkedIn Twitter Website Email   Connect with Andrew Stotz astotz.com  LinkedIn Facebook  Instagram Twitter  YouTube My Worst Investment Ever Podcast  Further reading mentioned Christopher Salem (2016) Master Your Inner Critic: Resolve the Root Cause – Create Prosperity  Christopher Salem, Jack Canfield, et al (2011) Mastering the Art of Success   Eckhart Tolle  (2009) Practicing the Power of Now: Essential Teachings, Meditations, and Exercises from the Power of Now 

Maryanne Parker is a celebrity and award winning  Entrepreneur, a philanthropist and the  founder of Manor of Manners,  company that specializes in International Business, Social and Youth etiquette in San Diego, CA. She is the author of two number one international bestselling books "The Sharpest Soft Skill" and "Posh Overnight" - available on amazon.  Poise, elegance, and sophistication were essential to Maryanne’s successful years of corporate experiences and she holds multiple degrees, certifications and membership into the Society of Certified Etiquette Trainers in the US. Parker speaks often on the topic of etiquette, recently at West Point,  Harvard Faculty Club and NASDAQ. Maryanne has been featured  in Forbes, USA Today, CNBC, The Epoch Times, Martha Stewart Weddings,  The Chicago Tribune, NBC, ABC, FOX, E!Entertainment and more. We continue to advocate for the Kind Campaign - in their efforts to end bullying.  We encourage all forms of kindness. Thanks as always to Smith Sister Bluegrass for our closing song.   Thank you sponsorts Safety Bags, Inc; StadiumBags.com and Traci's Healthy Habits.  Follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.  Email dori@wordofmomradio.com to become a guest or sponsor! Word of Mom Radio Network ~ Sharing the Wisdom of Women 

Honored with the Distinguished Mentor Award from the Business Expert Forum at the Harvard Faculty Club, recipient of the coveted eWomenNetwork Foundation Champion award for her generous fundraising, and ranked on the prestigious Inc. 500/5000 list of America’s Fastest Growing Private Companies for 2 years in a row, Lisa Sasevich “The Queen of Sales Conversion” teaches experts who are making a difference how to get their message out and enjoy massive results, without being “salesy.” After 25 years of winning Top Sales Awards and training senior executives at companies like Pfizer and Hewlett-Packard, she left corporate America and put her skills to the test as an entrepreneur delivering high-impact sales-closing strategies for turbo-charging entrepreneurs and small business owners to great profits. In just a few short years, Lisa created a multi-million dollar home-based business with two toddlers in tow. Lisa really is the undisputed expert on how to make BIG money doing what you love! What you’ll learn about in this episode: How Lisa transitioned from corporate to entrepreneurial life — which wasn’t exactly a leap from one to the other How to identify what it is you are meant to do by asking yourself, “What do people like to pick my brain about?” The gifts that we need to unwrap that contain our personal keys to success Two nuggets of information you can do immediately after the show to start moving your sales job into a successful direction Getting clear on the offer but figuring out exactly what your offering to others is and why that offer is irresistible Deliver what you offer by figuring out exactly how to grab the client’s attention and transforming them via the experience One of the biggest mistakes people make in sales: leaving out or forgetting about the “limiter” Clear examples of what limiters are and how they work to help build your success at sales The three key things Lisa Sasevich wish she knew first so that she could have built a $100,000,000 business sooner Ways to contact Lisa: Website: www.lisasasevich.com Twitter: @LisaSasevich Facebook: www.facebook.com/LisaSasevich LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/lisasasevich

David Suess, the CEO of Fairfax Data Systems, was very honored to speak at Harvard to the best-of-the-best entrepreneurs around the world!! These leaders of businesses are transforming the world in every aspect of people's lives including IT, medical, financial and personal coaching.He spoke on providing “technology makeovers” for every business by securing, and organizing data to provide the most streamlined and effective office automation through tools such as:EZ-ECM: Cloud based solution to secure, organize data and provide office automation - http://www.fairfaxdatasystems.com/Products/EZ-ECM-an-easy-subscription-based-serviceSmartPAL: award winning solution to handle permits, applications and licenses - http://www.fairfaxdatasystems.com/Content/smartpaleRegs: Solution to handle approval and publishing of documents - http://www.fairfaxdatasystems.com/Content/eregsDatacap: Solution to go paperless - http://www.fairfaxdatasystems.com/…/By-…/Paperless-SolutionsThe technology make over is essential for all businesses and Fairfax can provide that with ease to transform any business to a more effective, powerful and profitable business!!!David thanks the Entrepreneurship Club of Harvard Business School for giving him the “IT Innovator Award”. Additionally, he had a chance to speak with Suzanne Sommers who attended this event and was the guest speaker. David shared " I can not express how intelligent, funny (witty), personable and wonderful person she was. She is amazing!!!!!! She still is beautiful after all these years, Go Chrissy SnowThe Thought Leaders Showhttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/the-thought-leaders-show/

David Suess, the CEO of Fairfax Data Systems, was very honored to speak at Harvard to the best-of-the-best entrepreneurs around the world!! These leaders of businesses are transforming the world in every aspect of people's lives including IT, medical, financial and personal coaching.He spoke on providing “technology makeovers” for every business by securing, and organizing data to provide the most streamlined and effective office automation through tools such as:EZ-ECM: Cloud based solution to secure, organize data and provide office automation - http://www.fairfaxdatasystems.com/Products/EZ-ECM-an-easy-subscription-based-serviceSmartPAL: award winning solution to handle permits, applications and licenses - http://www.fairfaxdatasystems.com/Content/smartpaleRegs: Solution to handle approval and publishing of documents - http://www.fairfaxdatasystems.com/Content/eregsDatacap: Solution to go paperless - http://www.fairfaxdatasystems.com/…/By-…/Paperless-SolutionsThe technology make over is essential for all businesses and Fairfax can provide that with ease to transform any business to a more effective, powerful and profitable business!!!David thanks the Entrepreneurship Club of Harvard Business School for giving him the “IT Innovator Award”. Additionally, he had a chance to speak with Suzanne Sommers who attended this event and was the guest speaker. David shared " I can not express how intelligent, funny (witty), personable and wonderful person she was. She is amazing!!!!!! She still is beautiful after all these years, Go Chrissy SnowThe Thought Leaders Showhttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/the-thought-leaders-show/

Lise Gottlieb, a well-known and successful entrepreneur from Denmark who is also known as “The eCommerce Queen of Denmark” has received the eCommerce 2017 Award at the Business Expert Forum at Harvard Faculty Club recently. She spoke at a Thought Leader Conference at the Entrepreneurship Student Club’s at Harvard Business School about her eCommerce Formula “Power eCom Formula” and the results of her own and her students.One of the best things about this is that this is the very first time that the award is given to a woman and to a person outside the US. Lise Gottlieb received the award because of her unique method known as Power eCom Formula, based upon her keen mastery of the art of selling online and teaching this method to other business owners and entrepreneurs to help them achieve huge success and profit as well.Her method is unique due to the analytical approach to the choice of products and market as well as the high focus on website conversion. She also deserved the award because of her expertise in marketing and she was known to have highly intelligent analytical approach to business as well as the audience and market. Her successful business method is composed of three main components and easy to follow step-by-step blueprint to business profit.There are many things that make Lise Gottlieb a very outstanding and award-winning person. Since childhood, she was completely determined to succeed. Though she had a very promising career back then and she excel in real estate, banking, mortgage, investment and IT industry, she left the corporate world and decided to launch her own business. But due to financial crisis, her business failed and unfortunately, she also developed thyroid disease and ulcerative colitis. Instead of stopping her, these challenges have inspired her to write books that helps all those who are also suffering in life.With all the amazing things about Lise Gottlieb she fully deserved the award and recognition. During the awarding, many other entrepreneurs at the Thought Leaders Conference were very excited about Gottlieb's speech as well as for the intelligent method and approach to eCommerce.Aside from being a successful and popular entrepreneur, Lise Gottlieb is also an international best-selling author, financial adviser, business coach, Harvard speaker and business development expert.To learn more, feel free to check out http://lisegottlieb.com.The Thought Leaders Showhttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/the-thought-leaders-show/

Lise Gottlieb, a well-known and successful entrepreneur from Denmark who is also known as “The eCommerce Queen of Denmark” has received the eCommerce 2017 Award at the Business Expert Forum at Harvard Faculty Club recently. She spoke at a Thought Leader Conference at the Entrepreneurship Student Club’s at Harvard Business School about her eCommerce Formula “Power eCom Formula” and the results of her own and her students.One of the best things about this is that this is the very first time that the award is given to a woman and to a person outside the US. Lise Gottlieb received the award because of her unique method known as Power eCom Formula, based upon her keen mastery of the art of selling online and teaching this method to other business owners and entrepreneurs to help them achieve huge success and profit as well.Her method is unique due to the analytical approach to the choice of products and market as well as the high focus on website conversion. She also deserved the award because of her expertise in marketing and she was known to have highly intelligent analytical approach to business as well as the audience and market. Her successful business method is composed of three main components and easy to follow step-by-step blueprint to business profit.There are many things that make Lise Gottlieb a very outstanding and award-winning person. Since childhood, she was completely determined to succeed. Though she had a very promising career back then and she excel in real estate, banking, mortgage, investment and IT industry, she left the corporate world and decided to launch her own business. But due to financial crisis, her business failed and unfortunately, she also developed thyroid disease and ulcerative colitis. Instead of stopping her, these challenges have inspired her to write books that helps all those who are also suffering in life.With all the amazing things about Lise Gottlieb she fully deserved the award and recognition. During the awarding, many other entrepreneurs at the Thought Leaders Conference were very excited about Gottlieb's speech as well as for the intelligent method and approach to eCommerce.Aside from being a successful and popular entrepreneur, Lise Gottlieb is also an international best-selling author, financial adviser, business coach, Harvard speaker and business development expert.To learn more, feel free to check out http://lisegottlieb.com.The Thought Leaders Showhttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/the-thought-leaders-show/

Michael Martinez has been a financial advisor and pension advocate for more than 21 years, dedicated to helping individuals with their pensions, income planning, investments and preparing for the future. He started The Pension Group for exactly this reason: To help people better understand their pension options. Since then, Michael has helped hundreds of clients evaluate their pension plans to help ensure accuracy and soundness.He has spoken at the Business Expert Forum at Harvard Faculty Club, NASDAQ, and Coca-Cola as well as other venues around the nation.As the head of a team of Columbus pension advisors, Michael knows the importance of strong leadership and creative thinking. He has helped police officers, teachers, firefighters and employees from various companies including Honda, BMW, AT&T, Battelle, 3M and JCPenney explore their pension options.Neither Michael Martinez nor The Pension Group has any affiliation with any company and/or with American Honda Motor Co, Inc or its affiliates.A CORPORATE CONNECTIONMichael has been a guest speaker at several venues, including the 33rd Annual Governor’s Conference and several AT&T events to teach employees about their 401(k) plans, pensions, and their various planning options. Education is the key to helping people make decisions that they face both financially and personally. After all, retirement is not the end, but the start to a new beginning.A HOLISTIC APPROACHAs a firm, The Pension Group takes a more holistic approach to pension and retirement planning. We’re committed to servicing our clients in several different areas, not just investments. Throughout the years, we have helped clients evaluate options in Social Security, Social Security Disability (SSI) and tax-planning with our network of in-house CPAs and estate-planning attorneys.A PERSONAL TOUCHMichael is the proud father of five children. He has been very active in the Dublin, Ohio, community, volunteering for several organizations including the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Memorial Tournament, Veterans Project, Dublin Food Pantry, Salvation Army and Junior Achievement.To Learn More:Mike Martinezhttps://thepensiongroup.com/about/https://thepensiongroup.com/honda/The Thought Leaders Showhttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/the-thought-leaders-show/

Michael Martinez has been a financial advisor and pension advocate for more than 21 years, dedicated to helping individuals with their pensions, income planning, investments and preparing for the future. He started The Pension Group for exactly this reason: To help people better understand their pension options. Since then, Michael has helped hundreds of clients evaluate their pension plans to help ensure accuracy and soundness.He has spoken at the Business Expert Forum at Harvard Faculty Club, NASDAQ, and Coca-Cola as well as other venues around the nation.As the head of a team of Columbus pension advisors, Michael knows the importance of strong leadership and creative thinking. He has helped police officers, teachers, firefighters and employees from various companies including Honda, BMW, AT&T, Battelle, 3M and JCPenney explore their pension options.Neither Michael Martinez nor The Pension Group has any affiliation with any company and/or with American Honda Motor Co, Inc or its affiliates.A CORPORATE CONNECTIONMichael has been a guest speaker at several venues, including the 33rd Annual Governor’s Conference and several AT&T events to teach employees about their 401(k) plans, pensions, and their various planning options. Education is the key to helping people make decisions that they face both financially and personally. After all, retirement is not the end, but the start to a new beginning.A HOLISTIC APPROACHAs a firm, The Pension Group takes a more holistic approach to pension and retirement planning. We’re committed to servicing our clients in several different areas, not just investments. Throughout the years, we have helped clients evaluate options in Social Security, Social Security Disability (SSI) and tax-planning with our network of in-house CPAs and estate-planning attorneys.A PERSONAL TOUCHMichael is the proud father of five children. He has been very active in the Dublin, Ohio, community, volunteering for several organizations including the Nationwide Children’s Hospital Memorial Tournament, Veterans Project, Dublin Food Pantry, Salvation Army and Junior Achievement.To Learn More:Mike Martinezhttps://thepensiongroup.com/about/https://thepensiongroup.com/honda/The Thought Leaders Showhttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/the-thought-leaders-show/

Securities and Advisory Services offered through Cetera Advisors LLC, member FINRA/SIPC. Cetera is under separate ownership from any other named entity.Jeremy M. Matranga, RFC shares his thoughts and experience on leadership and success in financial mattersFinancial educator, Jeremy Matranga, was a featured speaker at the annual thought leaders conference Business Expert Forum at the Harvard Faculty Club. These thought leaders include CEOs, dignitaries, professionals, best-selling authors, technical and medical experts from around the world. A well-known financial educator in The Woodlands, Texas. he is the founder and the president of Platinum Tax & Wealth Management, a company that helps individuals pursue their financial goals by providing high-quality information, services, and product. By engaging clients on a regular basis, Platinum Tax & Wealth Management keeps them focused on an approach that helps them realize their dreams. Matranga has assisted retirees, as well as those who are about to retire, avoid making costly financial mistakes. Clients who have benefited from his expertise and advice include current and past employees of ExxonMobil, AT&T, South Western Energy and Anadarko Petroleum Corporation.Matranga believes that there is no fast track to success unless someone is willing to learn from his mistakes, surround himself with successful people, is inquisitive and seeks the services of a business coach. He says his desire to educate and help others is what sets him apart from the rest of the pack and that his commitment to his own continued education is to help others improve their finances and not for his own benefit.Although he is considered to be a business leader Matranga's idea of leadership is different from most. “Some people may be born leaders but practicing and constantly working on leadership skills can help in making a leader.” He says a leader is a humble servant of the people with a high level of integrity.Matranga is a regular speaker in various forums, radio and television shows where he lectures on financial topics. He is a committed family man and enjoys spending time with his wife and their three children.Contact: Jeremy MatrangaAddress: 2002 Timberloch Place, Suite 525The Woodlands, TX 77380Phone:(281) 362-1444Fax:(832) 442-5055Securities and Advisory Services offered through Cetera Investments LLC, member FINRA, SIPC. Cetera is under separate ownership from any other named entity.Jeremy M. Matranga, RFCPresident/CEO2002 Timberloch PlaceSuite 525The Woodlands, TX. 77380Phone: 281.362.1444Fax: 281.296.5865The Thought Leaders Showhttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/the-thought-leaders-show/

International Best-selling author, Dr. Deb Schreibman shared the stage with New York Times Best-selling Author Suzanne Somers at the Business Expert Forum at Harvard Faculty Club. Her book, “Your Journey to Wellness: Creating Ease Through Preventive Care” recently was a No. 1 International Best Seller on Amazon.Dr. Deb Schreibman was a featured speaker at the annual thought leaders’ conference Business Expert Forum at the Harvard Faculty Club. These thought leaders include CEOs, dignitaries, professionals, best-selling authors, technical and medical experts from around the world.To Learn More:Go to: https://lakepointechiro.com/our-staff/the-doctors/For more information or to have Dr. Deb Schreibman speak for your club or organization, contact her at her office at 770-974-5215.The Thought Leaders Showhttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/the-thought-leaders-show/

Functional Medicine and Holistic practitioner Dr. Steve Wander spoke at Business Expert Forum at Harvard Faculty Club and shared the stage with New York Time Best-selling author Suzanne Somers.Dr. Steve Wander was a featured speaker at the Business Expert Forum at Harvard Faculty Club, an annual conference of thought leaders from around the globe including CEOs, dignitaries, professionals, and leaders in the technical and medical fields. A national best-selling author, Dr. Wander is the owner and treatment director of Integrated Health Center of Maryland. He provides noninvasive treatments and solutions for patients suffering from thyroid, Type 2 Diabetes, and autoimmune issues. His grandmother’s health problems initially influenced the focus of his functional medicine practice.To learn more about Dr. Steve Wander, visit his website at dcfunctionalhealth.com or by calling 301-770-5395.Contact Info:Name: Dr. Stephen WanderEmail: drwander@dcfunctionalhealth.comOrganization: Integrated Health Center of MarylandAddress: 5912 Hubbard Dr,, North Bethesda, MD 20852, United StatesPhone: +1-301-770-5395The Thought Leaders Showhttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/the-thought-leaders-show/

Functional Medicine and Holistic practitioner Dr. Steve Wander spoke at Business Expert Forum at Harvard Faculty Club and shared the stage with New York Time Best-selling author Suzanne Somers.Dr. Steve Wander was a featured speaker at the Business Expert Forum at Harvard Faculty Club, an annual conference of thought leaders from around the globe including CEOs, dignitaries, professionals, and leaders in the technical and medical fields. A national best-selling author, Dr. Wander is the owner and treatment director of Integrated Health Center of Maryland. He provides noninvasive treatments and solutions for patients suffering from thyroid, Type 2 Diabetes, and autoimmune issues. His grandmother’s health problems initially influenced the focus of his functional medicine practice.To learn more about Dr. Steve Wander, visit his website at dcfunctionalhealth.com or by calling 301-770-5395.Contact Info:Name: Dr. Stephen WanderEmail: drwander@dcfunctionalhealth.comOrganization: Integrated Health Center of MarylandAddress: 5912 Hubbard Dr,, North Bethesda, MD 20852, United StatesPhone: +1-301-770-5395The Thought Leaders Showhttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/the-thought-leaders-show/

International Best-selling author, Dr. Deb Schreibman shared the stage with New York Times Best-selling Author Suzanne Somers at the Business Expert Forum at Harvard Faculty Club. Her book, “Your Journey to Wellness: Creating Ease Through Preventive Care” recently was a No. 1 International Best Seller on Amazon.Dr. Deb Schreibman was a featured speaker at the annual thought leaders’ conference Business Expert Forum at the Harvard Faculty Club. These thought leaders include CEOs, dignitaries, professionals, best-selling authors, technical and medical experts from around the world.To Learn More:Go to: https://lakepointechiro.com/our-staff/the-doctors/For more information or to have Dr. Deb Schreibman speak for your club or organization, contact her at her office at 770-974-5215.The Thought Leaders Showhttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/the-thought-leaders-show/

Securities and Advisory Services offered through Cetera Advisors LLC, member FINRA/SIPC. Cetera is under separate ownership from any other named entity.Jeremy M. Matranga, RFC shares his thoughts and experience on leadership and success in financial mattersFinancial educator, Jeremy Matranga, was a featured speaker at the annual thought leaders conference Business Expert Forum at the Harvard Faculty Club. These thought leaders include CEOs, dignitaries, professionals, best-selling authors, technical and medical experts from around the world. A well-known financial educator in The Woodlands, Texas. he is the founder and the president of Platinum Tax & Wealth Management, a company that helps individuals pursue their financial goals by providing high-quality information, services, and product. By engaging clients on a regular basis, Platinum Tax & Wealth Management keeps them focused on an approach that helps them realize their dreams. Matranga has assisted retirees, as well as those who are about to retire, avoid making costly financial mistakes. Clients who have benefited from his expertise and advice include current and past employees of ExxonMobil, AT&T, South Western Energy and Anadarko Petroleum Corporation.Matranga believes that there is no fast track to success unless someone is willing to learn from his mistakes, surround himself with successful people, is inquisitive and seeks the services of a business coach. He says his desire to educate and help others is what sets him apart from the rest of the pack and that his commitment to his own continued education is to help others improve their finances and not for his own benefit.Although he is considered to be a business leader Matranga's idea of leadership is different from most. “Some people may be born leaders but practicing and constantly working on leadership skills can help in making a leader.” He says a leader is a humble servant of the people with a high level of integrity.Matranga is a regular speaker in various forums, radio and television shows where he lectures on financial topics. He is a committed family man and enjoys spending time with his wife and their three children.Contact: Jeremy MatrangaAddress: 2002 Timberloch Place, Suite 525The Woodlands, TX 77380Phone:(281) 362-1444Fax:(832) 442-5055Securities and Advisory Services offered through Cetera Investments LLC, member FINRA, SIPC. Cetera is under separate ownership from any other named entity.Jeremy M. Matranga, RFCPresident/CEO2002 Timberloch PlaceSuite 525The Woodlands, TX. 77380Phone: 281.362.1444Fax: 281.296.5865The Thought Leaders Showhttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/the-thought-leaders-show/

MALA RAMAKRISHNAN shares her story of going from homelessness to success in this inspiring interview. Listen and learn about how the seeds of success are planted and sown for harvest.Empowering women is my biggest passion.Mala says:I am a single mum for 3 children. Have been through many hurdles and was made homeless with my 3 children.My challenges didn't stop there and it didn't stop me from achieving my dreams. I fought all odds and pursued my diploma and worked very hard to achieve my goals.I was invited as a speaker at the Harvard University, Harvard Business Forum School, Harvard Faculty Club from 28 July 2017 to 30 July 2017 – on Women EmpowermentWas invited as a special guest to contribute an article in FORBES Magazine – I was booked immediately after my speech at Harvard on 27 July 17. Topic – LEADERSHIP - What makes a good Leader?I was interviewed on the national newspaper 'The Newpaper' - 9 October 2016.Was interviewed on the National Television in a programme called 'Achamillai Achamillai Season 2' on Vasantham Central – 4th May 2017Was a special guest in a National television channel in the USA for a TV programme called 'THRIVE' for a 'WinCAM' channel.Was an invited special speaker on a radio channel in the USA called 'Business Innovator Radio'To Learn More:https://www.facebook.com/mala.rama.12The Thought Leaders Showhttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/the-thought-leaders-show/

Alan Porter was a featured speaker at the annual thought leaders’ conference Business Expert Forum at the Harvard Faculty Club. These thought leaders include CEOs, dignitaries, professionals, best-selling authors, technical and medical experts from around the world.After being a Blackhawk helicopter pilot and instructor for 21 years, his career path took a dramatic change when he became a financial advisor.Porter has a passion for what he does because of what has happened to his family. At the age of 35, his son was diagnosed with a disabling disease and is now 100 percent disabled. Three years later, the wife of his son was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer, which took her life a year later. Shortly thereafter; his daughter was diagnosed with breast cancer.“I was devastated,”he said. “You might think you are the healthiest person in the world, but you don’t know what is going to happen in the future.”During this time he embarked on a financial education journey. “I was like 99 percent of the people who thought that insurance was a death product and you had to die to take advantage of the payout. Wow, was I mistaken,” explained Porter.Porter teaches his clients how to protect themselves from catastrophic events and set them up with a tax-free retirement.“I teach my clients about legal financial strategies that some might consider out of the box,” he said.“I have crossed over into the terrain of the wealthy and powerful, and I guide clients on how to use legal obscure financial strategies. I broke the insider’s financial code and I’m out to share the secrets the wealthy and the financial institutions use to protect, retain and increase wealth. I want every one of my clients to become their personal bank to pay themselves instead of the banks.”Porter then challenged the attendees at the Harvard Faculty Club to take charge of their financial future and to protect yourself, your family and to leave a legacy and make a difference in this world.Alan Porter is the owner of Strategic Wealth Strategies located in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and a founding member of the American Tax Planning Institute. He is a non-traditional financial advisor. His mission is to defend his clients from the enemy: excessive taxes and wealth killing financial strategies. He has been featured on ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX and CW.To Learn More: Telephone (910)-551-1046http://www.alanporternc.com/The Thought Leaders Showhttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/the-thought-leaders-show/

Alan Porter was a featured speaker at the annual thought leaders’ conference Business Expert Forum at the Harvard Faculty Club. These thought leaders include CEOs, dignitaries, professionals, best-selling authors, technical and medical experts from around the world.After being a Blackhawk helicopter pilot and instructor for 21 years, his career path took a dramatic change when he became a financial advisor.Porter has a passion for what he does because of what has happened to his family. At the age of 35, his son was diagnosed with a disabling disease and is now 100 percent disabled. Three years later, the wife of his son was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer, which took her life a year later. Shortly thereafter; his daughter was diagnosed with breast cancer.“I was devastated,”he said. “You might think you are the healthiest person in the world, but you don’t know what is going to happen in the future.”During this time he embarked on a financial education journey. “I was like 99 percent of the people who thought that insurance was a death product and you had to die to take advantage of the payout. Wow, was I mistaken,” explained Porter.Porter teaches his clients how to protect themselves from catastrophic events and set them up with a tax-free retirement.“I teach my clients about legal financial strategies that some might consider out of the box,” he said.“I have crossed over into the terrain of the wealthy and powerful, and I guide clients on how to use legal obscure financial strategies. I broke the insider’s financial code and I’m out to share the secrets the wealthy and the financial institutions use to protect, retain and increase wealth. I want every one of my clients to become their personal bank to pay themselves instead of the banks.”Porter then challenged the attendees at the Harvard Faculty Club to take charge of their financial future and to protect yourself, your family and to leave a legacy and make a difference in this world.Alan Porter is the owner of Strategic Wealth Strategies located in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and a founding member of the American Tax Planning Institute. He is a non-traditional financial advisor. His mission is to defend his clients from the enemy: excessive taxes and wealth killing financial strategies. He has been featured on ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX and CW.To Learn More: Telephone (910)-551-1046http://www.alanporternc.com/The Thought Leaders Showhttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/the-thought-leaders-show/

Troy Fullwood will be speaking at NASDAQ, Coca-Cola, and Microsoft. He just recently shared his message at Harvard Faculty Club at the annual Business Experts Forum.Troy founded Pinnacle Investments in 1996. He has written more than 250 articles on real estate investing and has spoken at more than 60 industry conventions as well as participated in over 27 radio talk shows about real estate note investing.Pinnacle Investments is a nationwide principal buyer of 1 st lien performing and non-performing real estate notes.Troy has assembled a team of professionals whose main focus is to quickly assemble and close each and every transaction. He has done over 14,000+ real estate note deals since 1996, through a combination of both single and bulk transactions.Troy built the first distressed asset fund on Wall Street for non-performing residential mortgages back in early 2007 to capitalize on the market crash. He spent two years running the distressed asset fund which operated and produced a solid 91.15% IRR for himself and the investors that were involved, in late 2008 he sold off his majority interest in the fund to a Wall Street Capital group. The core focus of the fund was purchasing the first lien NPN’s and modifying the loans so that people could stay in their homes. He helped over 1700 people stay in their homes during his time at the fund.Recent Career Highlights:2015 Best Mortgage Investor USA by Wealth & Finance International2016 Best of the Best in Finance by Acquisition International2017 Founding Member of the Seller Finance Coalition based in Washington DC.2017 Built the Note Genesis Software2017 Launched The Thriving Investor Financial Website2017 Became a founding investor with Tezos bank (The first of its kind in the worldwide cyber currency markets)He has established many referral business relationships with diverse types of real estate investors and attributes his success to his creativity and persistence in problem-solving.He is active in a local community church, as well as community issues in the financial industry. He is a respected and sought-after speaker in the industry, international best-selling author, and serial entrepreneur.The Thought Leaders Showhttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/the-thought-leaders-show/

MALA RAMAKRISHNAN shares her story of going from homelessness to success in this inspiring interview. Listen and learn about how the seeds of success are planted and sown for harvest.Empowering women is my biggest passion.Mala says:I am a single mum for 3 children. Have been through many hurdles and was made homeless with my 3 children.My challenges didn't stop there and it didn't stop me from achieving my dreams. I fought all odds and pursued my diploma and worked very hard to achieve my goals.I was invited as a speaker at the Harvard University, Harvard Business Forum School, Harvard Faculty Club from 28 July 2017 to 30 July 2017 – on Women EmpowermentWas invited as a special guest to contribute an article in FORBES Magazine – I was booked immediately after my speech at Harvard on 27 July 17. Topic – LEADERSHIP - What makes a good Leader?I was interviewed on the national newspaper 'The Newpaper' - 9 October 2016.Was interviewed on the National Television in a programme called 'Achamillai Achamillai Season 2' on Vasantham Central – 4th May 2017Was a special guest in a National television channel in the USA for a TV programme called 'THRIVE' for a 'WinCAM' channel.Was an invited special speaker on a radio channel in the USA called 'Business Innovator Radio'To Learn More:https://www.facebook.com/mala.rama.12The Thought Leaders Showhttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/the-thought-leaders-show/

Doug Phillips is a facilitator for the CORPORATE TRAINING PROGRAM used by American Express, Anheuser-Busch, AT&T, BOA, General Mills, General Motors, IBM, Lockheed Martin, Prudential, Re/Max, Verizon, Etc.Doug Helps CEO's Re-Establish Corporate Vision, Then Drives It Throughout Their Organizations.Doug recently spoke at the Business Expert Forum at Harvard Faculty Club.To Learn More, see Doug Phillips on Linkedin.The Thought Leaders Showhttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/the-thought-leaders-show/

Troy Fullwood will be speaking at NASDAQ, Coca-Cola, and Microsoft. He just recently shared his message at Harvard Faculty Club at the annual Business Experts Forum.Troy founded Pinnacle Investments in 1996. He has written more than 250 articles on real estate investing and has spoken at more than 60 industry conventions as well as participated in over 27 radio talk shows about real estate note investing.Pinnacle Investments is a nationwide principal buyer of 1 st lien performing and non-performing real estate notes.Troy has assembled a team of professionals whose main focus is to quickly assemble and close each and every transaction. He has done over 14,000+ real estate note deals since 1996, through a combination of both single and bulk transactions.Troy built the first distressed asset fund on Wall Street for non-performing residential mortgages back in early 2007 to capitalize on the market crash. He spent two years running the distressed asset fund which operated and produced a solid 91.15% IRR for himself and the investors that were involved, in late 2008 he sold off his majority interest in the fund to a Wall Street Capital group. The core focus of the fund was purchasing the first lien NPN’s and modifying the loans so that people could stay in their homes. He helped over 1700 people stay in their homes during his time at the fund.Recent Career Highlights:2015 Best Mortgage Investor USA by Wealth & Finance International2016 Best of the Best in Finance by Acquisition International2017 Founding Member of the Seller Finance Coalition based in Washington DC.2017 Built the Note Genesis Software2017 Launched The Thriving Investor Financial Website2017 Became a founding investor with Tezos bank (The first of its kind in the worldwide cyber currency markets)He has established many referral business relationships with diverse types of real estate investors and attributes his success to his creativity and persistence in problem-solving.He is active in a local community church, as well as community issues in the financial industry. He is a respected and sought-after speaker in the industry, international best-selling author, and serial entrepreneur.The Thought Leaders Showhttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/the-thought-leaders-show/

Doug Phillips is a facilitator for the CORPORATE TRAINING PROGRAM used by American Express, Anheuser-Busch, AT&T, BOA, General Mills, General Motors, IBM, Lockheed Martin, Prudential, Re/Max, Verizon, Etc.Doug Helps CEO's Re-Establish Corporate Vision, Then Drives It Throughout Their Organizations.Doug recently spoke at the Business Expert Forum at Harvard Faculty Club.To Learn More, see Doug Phillips on Linkedin.The Thought Leaders Showhttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/the-thought-leaders-show/

Visit EOFire.com for complete show notes of every Podcast episode. Honored with the Distinguished Mentor Award from the Business Expert Forum at the Harvard Faculty Club and ranked on the Inc. 500/5000 list of America’s Fastest Growing Private Companies 2 years in a row, Lisa “The Queen of Sales Conversion”, teaches experts who are making a difference how to get their message out and enjoy massive results, without being “salesy.”

Civil rights attorney Vincent W. Davis was a featured speaker at Business Expert Forum at Harvard Faculty Club, an annual conference of thought leaders from around the globe including CEOs, dignitaries, professionals, and leaders in the technical and medical fields. Having personally represented over 1,000 families across the country since 1986 in their battle to get their children back, Davis is recognized for his expertise in defending parents, grandparents, foster parents and other guardians against the claims of Child Protective Services (CPS) and the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS).To learn more about Vincent W. Davis, tune in at 8 a.m. PST on Saturdays for his radio show http://www.blogtalkradio.com/talkradioexperts/2017/05/13/get-your-kids-back-now or visit http://www.helpfightcps.com/ to listen to past shows.To Learn MoreWeb: http://VincentWDavis.comEmail: v.davis@vincentwdavis.comOrganization: Offices of Vincent W. Davis & AssociatesAddress: 150 N Santa Anita Ave, Suite 200, Arcadia, CA 91006, United StatesPhone: 888-888-6582The Thought Leaders Showhttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/the-thought-leaders-show/

Civil rights attorney Vincent W. Davis was a featured speaker at Business Expert Forum at Harvard Faculty Club, an annual conference of thought leaders from around the globe including CEOs, dignitaries, professionals, and leaders in the technical and medical fields. Having personally represented over 1,000 families across the country since 1986 in their battle to get their children back, Davis is recognized for his expertise in defending parents, grandparents, foster parents and other guardians against the claims of Child Protective Services (CPS) and the Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS).To learn more about Vincent W. Davis, tune in at 8 a.m. PST on Saturdays for his radio show http://www.blogtalkradio.com/talkradioexperts/2017/05/13/get-your-kids-back-now or visit http://www.helpfightcps.com/ to listen to past shows.To Learn MoreWeb: http://VincentWDavis.comEmail: v.davis@vincentwdavis.comOrganization: Offices of Vincent W. Davis & AssociatesAddress: 150 N Santa Anita Ave, Suite 200, Arcadia, CA 91006, United StatesPhone: 888-888-6582The Thought Leaders Showhttps://businessinnovatorsradio.com/the-thought-leaders-show/

In this episode, Timothy R. Johnson, author, speaker, and Business Development Manager for Clint Author's Status Factory, discusses how easily you can create celebrity status for yourself and your business using media. Most businesses, as well as individuals, mistakenly believe that they don't have much to offer and should not be a celebrity, but this is not true. Everyone has a story to tell and a message to share, and that story and message can endear you to your target customers.Tim goes on to say that speaking at both the Harvard Faculty Club and West Point helps build the status of the individual business owner and help make him the obvious choice with whom to do business. He adds that once you have achieved celebrity status, you begin to hang out with others who have expertise different from your own and begin to create profitable ventures with those authorities.Tim Johnson, Chicago-area investor, specializes in selling, rehabilitating, and renting real estate. He is the owner of Bradley Management. He is currently the business development manager for Clint Arthur's Status Factory. A graduate of Celebrity Launchpad, Tim has 18 national and local TV appearances to his credit and is the author of five books. The Status Factory programs are designed to give its graduates higher status than their competition. Tim enrolls ideal clients in these programs, as well as creates joint ventures and strategic alliances for the Status Factory.For more info about Tim, visit http://www.StatusFactory.com or text the word "money" to 574-203-9605 for an introduction to Tim.Check out Tim's latest book, Living Wholesale in a Retail World, on Amazon at http://amzn.to/2kiy8a4.Main Street Mavericks Radio with Joel Helferhttp://businessinnovatorsradio.com/main-street-mavericks-radio-with-joel-helfer/

In this episode, Timothy R. Johnson, author, speaker, and Business Development Manager for Clint Author's Status Factory, discusses how easily you can create celebrity status for yourself and your business using media. Most businesses, as well as individuals, mistakenly believe that they don't have much to offer and should not be a celebrity, but this is not true. Everyone has a story to tell and a message to share, and that story and message can endear you to your target customers.Tim goes on to say that speaking at both the Harvard Faculty Club and West Point helps build the status of the individual business owner and help make him the obvious choice with whom to do business. He adds that once you have achieved celebrity status, you begin to hang out with others who have expertise different from your own and begin to create profitable ventures with those authorities.Tim Johnson, Chicago-area investor, specializes in selling, rehabilitating, and renting real estate. He is the owner of Bradley Management. He is currently the business development manager for Clint Arthur's Status Factory. A graduate of Celebrity Launchpad, Tim has 18 national and local TV appearances to his credit and is the author of five books. The Status Factory programs are designed to give its graduates higher status than their competition. Tim enrolls ideal clients in these programs, as well as creates joint ventures and strategic alliances for the Status Factory.For more info about Tim, visit http://www.StatusFactory.com or text the word "money" to 574-203-9605 for an introduction to Tim.Check out Tim's latest book, Living Wholesale in a Retail World, on Amazon at http://amzn.to/2kiy8a4.Main Street Mavericks Radio with Joel Helferhttp://businessinnovatorsradio.com/main-street-mavericks-radio-with-joel-helfer/

Honored with the Distinguished Mentor Award from the Business Expert Forum at the Harvard Faculty Club and ranked on the Inc. 500/5000 list of America’s Fastest Growing Private Companies 2 years in a row, Lisa The Queen of Sales Conversion, teaches experts who are making a difference how to get their message out and enjoy massive results, without being salesy.