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Rewards of Giving and Receiving (audio) David Eells – 8/17/25 Father, we thank you so much for being in our midst. We are so privileged, Lord. The overwhelming majority of the world doesn't know You and we'd certainly like to be Your vessels through whom You reveal Yourself to them, and we pray toward that end earnestly. Lord, forgive us of our sins and our foolishness. Give us Your grace. Please rise up in us and do Your wonderful work in these days. Please anoint us and give us wisdom. Lord, we want to return to what You gave the early church and even go beyond that. We want You to teach us, Lord; show us how to walk in Your steps. We just ask for Your mercy and grace today. We see old world crumbling around us and we need Your wisdom now. We want to come out of this world and totally into Your kingdom. We want to know the difference and know Your principles. Lord, we've been reading them and studying them, and we ask You to help us put them into effect in our lives and in our midst. We just need You, Lord. We need You now more than ever. Come, Lord Jesus. Amen. So we're hidden in Christ. Most people never think to pray about those kinds of things, to be hidden from the Beast and take our name out of their system. There is a new Beast in town that is much more favorable to Christians. I believe the Lord is getting ready to prepare us to separate somewhat from this new system soon because it's rising only to fall again as history repeats. There's no use in us continuing to hemorrhage Kingdom supplies to the Beast. As I've said, we're headed back to the Book of Acts. We know we're going there, and you need to be prepared. Failure doesn't have to happen for us because we live in a different Kingdom, and we need to be living according to that Kingdom and according to the Word of God. We have a precedent in the scriptures to follow, and we know from the scriptures that it's important for us to work. I had a lady ask me years ago, “Was I supposed to be working in a secular job?” I said, “Well, why don't you go ask the Lord that?” And so she did. And she came back and said, “No, the Lord told me you were doing exactly what He told you to do”. And I said, “Well, that's right”. But it wasn't always that way with me. I worked for a long time, enjoyed it, and I had a very fruitful ministry when I was doing what the world calls a part-time ministry. But it really wasn't part-time ministry because I got to minister to a lot of people I never would have touched otherwise. Toward the end of that kind of a ministry, I was working for Exxon, and we had gatherings every day of men and women from across the plant. It was a very large plant, which took up a good portion of downtown Baton Rouge on the river. When Christians around the place heard that we were having Bible studies, they would flock from every corner of that plant and join in. We started having two meetings like that -- one in the field and one in the central mechanical building, and we had a large church assembled out there, and lots of miracles were happening. Multitudes of religious people were finding out that God was bigger than they originally thought. They were coming out of their structured churches and fellowshipping with other Christians and learning that there was more to Christianity than what they thought in their little sheltered clique that they were in. I believe the same thing is going to happen soon. I really believe that there are many people for us to reach, and that's going to happen. I think one way it's going to happen is that we will have something in common with them, with other Christians, and that is, we're coming into tribulation soon. Even before The Tribulation, we're coming into tribulation, and that kind of draws people together. It causes them to drop their sectarianism for the sake of survival. I'm not worried about survival. I don't know about you, but I'm not doing this because of survival; I'm doing it because it's scriptural. I believe that if we seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, all these other things will be added unto us. We won't have to worry about a thing. But if we're seeking God and His righteousness, let's face it, we're going to be doing some things that those first disciples did. If we get what they got, we'll do what they did, as I've said so often. And if we do what they did, we'll get what they got. And so we have a precedent here in the scriptures. The apostle Paul worked for many years in a fruitful ministry, tent making, which led him from city to city with other people in the same business. He didn't like relying on people; he didn't like being a burden on people; he said so. And I felt the same way. I mean, I didn't get out of my ministry at Exxon, and having Bible studies. I didn't get out of that and start into what they call the full-time ministry because I wanted to wait on the Lord and this was bearing fruit. I just told the Lord, 'Hey, Lord, I need more time to study; I'd like to have more time to share,' but I waited. And I waited for a few years until the Lord told me, Okay, it's time. I didn't choose that for myself; the Lord is the one Who has to open the doors. As many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God. We have to be led of the Lord. We shouldn't be making steps on our own. Now we know from Paul's testimony that he did this, and we know it's scriptural. We'd all like to just live by our faith and sit out there and meditate on God and let Him drop manna out of heaven, and there's no doubt we'll get into situations where He's going to do just exactly that. But the Lord has multiplied food for me and even put it in my stomach when it wasn't there, so I know God's a mighty God. And Jesus multiplied the fishes and the loaves, and we're going to do the exact same thing. But where did the fishes and the loaves come from? Have you ever thought about that? Well, somebody had those fishes and loaves before Jesus multiplied them. So, I believe that it's scriptural for us to be effectively working, according to the scriptures. I'll just share a few with you. (1Th.4:11) And that you study to be quiet and to do your own business and to work with your hands even as we charged you... You think there's any difference today? I don't think so. Now, we know that we're in the process of easing ourselves out of this worldly business and into the King's business all the time, and that's good. Ultimately, that's all we're going to be doing because soon the world is not going to accept us doing any business with them anymore, and so God's going to use that to put us totally in the wilderness. But there's no reason not to be walking out a little into that wilderness right now because we're going to need to prepare for what's coming. I believe it's good and right and proper for people who have good-paying jobs to continue to work because, if we're successful in doing what they did, a lot more of our finances are going to stay with us and a lot less of it is going to go out into the world. And for people who have jobs, there is still a need for money to pay monthly bills, etc.. I mean, be useful where you are until God moves you. I found a very useful, very fruitful ministry while working at Exxon and I was enjoying that, and when I went into what they call the full-time ministry and God moved me to Florida. I was there a little while when I said, 'Lord, I think I was bearing more fruit there doing that than I am now.' But I was studying the Word and digging in the Word, and I asked, “Lord, do You want me to go out and knock on doors?” He said, “No, I want you to do just what you're doing now, except a lot more of it”. I said, Okay. There is a very fruitful ministry out there among the people who won't come into a church; they won't listen to a preacher. You know, you can talk to them where you are. So I'm not talking about departing from that yet, but I am saying this: Some of us have some time on our hands that we could fulfill some other things that we see in the scriptures. (1Th.4:12) ... that you may walk becomingly towards them that are without and may have need of nothing. So he says to work with your hands so you won't have any needs. Well, we can pray it all down out of heaven, can't we? Yes, but it's scriptural. You still have to obey these principles. And certainly, when we get into a spot, and we will get into spots where we need a miracle, a creative miracle, praise the Lord, these creative miracles are going to convert a lot of people. I received many of them in my wilderness before the Lord moved us to TN. I believed we could have good association with the people around this area too. There are a lot of Christians here and there are some innocent people here. Some of them might be ignorant, but that doesn't make them evil because, if you're walking where you know to walk and you're walking as close to the Lord as you understand, you are innocent and the Lord looks upon them that way and we should look upon them that way, too. We're supposed to be making friends by means of the mammon of unrighteousness so that they can receive us into eternal tabernacles, right? (Luk.16:9) So we're supposed to use everything around us, to have associations with these people, not to go into the corrupt lifestyles that some Christians are in or into the apostasy that they're in, but we still have to love them, and we still have to share with them graciously. We're going to be close together in the end times and I believe that when we start living the way we see in the scriptures, we'll be able to associate with them and they will see some things in us and they will want some things we have.  We'll be able to share, not just how to bake bread with them or how to raise chickens with them, but more about the Gospel. You'll have something in common. We all have a need, right? So I think what he says right here is very plain: “So we can walk becomingly towards them that are without and have need of nothing.” (Eph.4:27) Neither give place to the devil. But let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need. So, one reason we work is not just for ourselves, but to give to people who have needs, which I did for many years. There are a lot of people who won't know where we're going right now, and they're going to have needs because they haven't been prepared, and that's going to put them at the mercy of God and, in some cases, at our mercy. So we work in order to be prepared to give to those who have need. There will be many Christians and many neighbors who have needs. We are about to have great abundance and we can give. This world is going to persecute Christians and do what they have done in the past; they're going to separate them, and they're going to plunder them. The further we separate from the dependency upon this system, the better. We don't need to be dependent upon this system; we need to be dependent upon God. That's what the wilderness was about. Now, we've been studying faith and that is good; you'll need that all the way through the Tribulation, but there are some things I believe we can do to be more like the early church and less dependent upon this world. You know how often you need to go to the grocery store, right? You know how often you need what they have. Well, I believe we ought to come to the place where we need a whole lot less of what they have and not be dependent upon them because the powers that be are using that dependency to bring you under their thumb. There are a lot of ignorant people out there who are walking with God where they are, who are going to take the mark of the Beast because they don't know God supplies. They don't know that they don't have to because they haven't been taught the Truth of the Gospel. They don't know that God supplies. They don't know how a Christian community works because they go to church, as a spectator, they get up, and they go home. They don't know that God still does these things because they've been lied to. So, when we rub elbows with them, we share with them the Good News that Jesus is the same yesterday, today and forever. So, he says, “Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need.” (2Th.3:6) Now we commend you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly... I might say, there are some people who judge saying, “they just have to have faith”; I've run into them. It's not an evil in them, necessarily. Many don't see examples of people who live by faith in their churches. They want to serve Jesus, and all true Christians want to serve Jesus. But they're imbalanced. They need some help; they need some wisdom from those who are older in the Lord, because we can serve Jesus anywhere. Anywhere we are, we ought to be serving Jesus. We work as unto the Lord. As the Bible says, we are to work like we work for the Lord. We're not here to be men pleasers, right? We're here to work for the Lord, in whatever ways we can serve His Kingdom. We either work in ministry or at a secular job while we minister. (6) ...Withdraw yourselves from every brother that walks disorderly and not after the tradition which they received of us. (7) For yourselves know how you ought to imitate us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you; (8) neither did we eat bread for nought at any man's hand, but in labor and travail, working night and day, that we might not burden any of you. (9) Not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an example unto you that you should imitate us. (10) For even when we were with you this we commanded you: If any will not work, neither let him eat. Some tough love there, isn't it? And, of course, sometimes people don't have jobs and they don't think they can work, but I really believe that can change. And I think some ideas are going to come from each of us that are going to show us a way to do this. (11) For we hear of some that walk among you disorderly, that work not at all, but are busy-bodies. (12) Now, them that are such we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work and eat their own bread. (13) But ye, brethren, be not weary in well-doing. (14) And if any man obeyeth not our word by this epistle, note that man that you have no company with him, to the end that he may be ashamed. You know, there is something almost anybody can do to serve in the Kingdom and to be able to meet the needs of other people. I believe we're about to see a lot of needs presented before us very soon. The dollar is dying very fast. It's going to crumble. The whole system they have is going to crumble. They know it, they're forcing it, they're doing it on purpose. They want a New World Order. They have set up the NESARA and QFS plan, and soon there will be the new world currency and then total digital. All will have to work who can work to receive their income. They know that if we are totally dependent upon them, we'll be at their mercy. But we're not totally dependent upon them and we need to get prepared to live in the Kingdom like a body would. We know that the world doesn't know anything about this. But a body meets its own needs. We are all built for some service in God. Praise be to God! Our ministry is even now supporting missionaries on other continents and we are about to be able to do much more. I can see  that God's going to bring all we need into this ministry in order to meet people's needs so the Gospel can be sent to the World. He showed us that very plainly. We're waiting for that to come and it's on the way now; but at the same time, we still have to obey the scriptures and every one of us ought to be giving and receiving. You know, there is no reward in the scriptures for buying and selling whatsoever. The reward in the scriptures is for giving and we can be doing that weekly or daily. Some will work at secular jobs and others will have their hands free to bring the Gospel to the world and some will do both. He's promised a great reward multiplied many times over in the Kingdom forever, so He wants us to do it. Let's do it. Giving brings an eternal reward. Some people could supply milk, some could raise beef. We will inherit cows for meat and milk and fields. We will have Tesla free energy. Some could supply feed, some could supply corn and some other vegetables. Some could supply chickens and eggs. Some could be butchers and some could be mechanics. Some could be cooks. Some would say, “Thank you for your milk.”  Another would say, “I have something to give you.” Or “I'll meet your needs in some other way.”  We're going to get equipment to plow those fields. We're going to get equipment to plant and harvest those fields. I think all of this is coming, but again, we are learning how to live differently. We're learning how to fellowship with one another about this work and to have more in common with one another than we do just coming to what people call ‘church'. Some people know how to make bread; they're very good at it. They can teach others. There are some people who have poultry, eggs, turkeys, chickens, rabbits and so on and so forth. Just some ideas here. If anyone feels led to go in any direction, that's what I'm asking. What do you feel led to do? Everything you do, you need to be led of the Lord. I'm just putting these ideas out there to share so you can think about it, because the Lord spoke it to me a few nights ago in the middle of the night, and I don't want Him to talk to me again about this in the middle of the night, so I'm going to share it with you. I like talking to the Lord in the middle of the night, but not having to repeat the same things. Some people are good at vegetable growing. I was telling somebody the other day that the house I moved into several weeks before my family moved here, I found one tomato plant on my property that somebody had forgotten about. It was behind a wood pile, and nobody had ever staked up the plant; it was just lying up on the ground, growing this way and that way. And I got to walking around behind this wood pile, and I saw there were tomatoes all over the place down there, so I had been eating tomatoes every day ever since then. That's just one tomato vine. Then the frost got them one night. I decided that I had better go out and gather what tomatoes were still there. So I got them; however, the frost had gotten a few of them, but I was able to gather a few tomatoes from it. I just placed them on the windowsill. But I sure enjoyed being able to eat plenty of tomatoes from one vine that somebody forgot about. The landlord was telling me, “Hey, you can eat the fruit off that tree over there”, and I said, “Hey, I've been eating your tomatoes ever since you left here”. I was watching some brethren make some soap the other day. That was pretty neat. I said, “Hey, you need a machine to grind that”. They were hand-grinding. I believe some people can make soap in order to have soap for their neighbors. You've been paying way too much for soap, and it doesn't work nearly as well as these folks' soap would. And some people would be good at distributing the products to the people. There are people good at doing taxes; there are people good at law. They can offer their services to the brethren and vice versa. Carpentry, mechanics and electricians, handymen, techies, etc. You can think of a lot of things, all kinds of services you can give to others, and they can give to you. And this giving and sharing is just part of being a Christian. In some cases we will hire the world to be laborers while we will be priests and ministers of the Lord. Isa 61:5  And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners shall be your plowmen and your vine-dressers. 6  But ye shall be named the priests of Jehovah; men shall call you the ministers of our God: ye shall eat the wealth of the nations, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.  These are all part time jobs. No one is going to have to slave to stay alive for God has given abundantly and the ministry will make sure all needs are met as it was in Acts. Our main job will be to put the word and gifts of the Spirit in our hearts so we can give this to others. The world is buying and selling. God kept complaining about the buying and selling and the marrying and giving in marriage, and we see that that's the way of the world. Suretyship is the way of the world. Borrowing and mortgaging and guaranteeing to pay back -- that's the way of the world. The Bible teaches against “suretyship.” (Pro.11:15) He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it; But he that hateth suretyship is secure. The Hebrew word there actually means “to be a guarantor of an agreement; to give or to be security”; in other words, “to mortgage.” It's making a guarantee to pay back what has been borrowed, but we can't even guarantee that we'll be here tomorrow. The Bible also warns us against making promises, pledges, or guarantees of any sort. I think the Amish have something to teach us there. They all gathered together and built the house. Okay, we'll build you the house, and you won't be going into debt either. We can gather together and build a few chicken coops and rabbit coops, and whatever. We can do these things. The ministry can help some of you get started in what some people have called a cottage industry. We can give you something that will, for example, get you a grinder that will grind soap all by itself. Just some ideas. We already have Telsa free energy here waiting to be turned on. we've received several prophecies about a virus that's going to shut down the Internet and the grid but that may be out in the world. The worldly church has no way to know this is going to happen because they're not led by the Spirit, and they're not aware of these warnings in dreams and prophesies. We don't have to stop; we've been warned. We can listen to God and ask, “Hey, God, what do you want me to do about this?” Well, He's giving us some ideas. But we know the Lord is going to supply all our needs according to His riches in glory. That's what He said, right? But we just need to believe and obey Him to receive all needs. We also know there's small earthquakes coming through here to separate the land from the mainland. The Lord showed us that. That's going to run people off and make this a peninsula. But we know it's going to happen and we just need to be ready. Even bartering is taxable, so giving freely and receiving freely is the best policy and has heavenly rewards. We're headed toward the mark. Some people are going to take the mark because they don't know that they have a choice. And we can show them not only some supernatural choices, but we can also show them some natural choices because we live the way we're supposed to live toward one another scripturally by meeting one another's needs and working to make sure everybody's needs are met, making sure that there is equality. And the Lord spoke in 2 Corinthians about equality. He wants equality in His church. He wants all of His people to have their needs met. And the way of the world is, I'm in a race with my neighbor: I gotta have the biggest car, the biggest house, swimming pool, etc.; but that's not us. We're here to serve and to lift up our neighbors and to be a community, a body, in order to make sure that everybody's needs are met through giving and receiving, right? The idea of gaining from your neighbor is less important to us than making sure our neighbors' needs are met and our needs are met. It's a control thing with the DS. They think that if they bring down the economy, we will be under their control. And it's true; for an awful lot of Christians, it's true. We can give them a choice here. I believe that if we do a little bit of specializing and less duplicating, we can get this thing up and going pretty fast. Everybody does not need a lawnmower. Some are already set up to do this. Our trips to the store will be for almost no staples and pay their exorbitant prices, and that money will go to feed the Beast; we don't care about that. Whatever we make, we would like it to totally serve the Kingdom. That's the way. I'm not talking about names and storefronts and things like that. These are things we have to avoid. We want to have a low profile where we're going. We want to avoid open rebellion against the system because they'll come to get you. They'll figure out a way to do it. We know we're protected by God and hidden in Christ, but we don't want to dare them, right? And we can do a lot of things just the way we normally do them, just naturally. The way of the world, of opening a big storefront, saying, 'We're not buying and selling, we're bartering'; they'll tax you and figure a way to shut you down. They want control and they don't want anybody to be independent. We can be very independent if we give and receive individually, and we can bring in a lot of Christians who don't know what's coming. We'll enjoy fellowshipping with them too, and not just around these things, but around the Word of God. So we can share with others this way. In Acts 6:1-4, there were some people complaining about their system not working very well, so they chose and ordained some deacons to make sure that the widows weren't missing out. We have lots of deacons in our ministry. “Deacon” just means “servant” in the Word of God. We have servants who do all kinds of things in our ministry. People have many different gifts and talents with backgrounds and training in several areas. This is one we need to move toward, too: People whose whole concern is to make sure that everybody's needs are met, that the system is working, it's not breaking down somewhere. So we'll be thinking about this, and you be thinking about this, too, because it's definitely going to be needed. As the apostle said, they did it at that time so that they could continue in prayer, be able to study in the Word of God and teaching, and these ordained brothers can handle this. Many Man-child families are coming here. Man-child reformers will teach and minister in our bible schools that the Lord has given us. Other specialty teachers will be here too. Let me also say this: Because you're a deacon does not negate you from being an elder or being one of the two-witnesses or being in the Man-child. It doesn't negate that at all. Remember, Jesus was called a deacon, too. In the scriptures, in every way people served others, the word diakonos was used; it just wasn't always translated that way. So, if we translated it the same way every time, we would find out that Jesus was a deacon, all of His disciples were deacons, and everybody was a servant in one form or another. But deacons do not have to be elders. And our ministry has lots of servants. Many people are coming together here to serve the Word of God to people and to make sure it's prepared properly. I'm not bringing this up for any other reason than I feel like the Lord brought it up to me, and I'm not bringing it up in desperation because I'm worried about what's coming. I'm not in the slightest bit worried about what's coming. I am eager to get the Gospel out to the world and we shall. We can be giving and receiving. We can receive the benefits of the eternal kingdom. God's already taken care of all of this. I'm doing this because we can offer blessings to the people by just learning to give to them and making sure their spiritual and physical needs are met. And as we read in the Scriptures, they worked for more than just me, my, and mine; it was for the purpose of giving to other people who were in need. We're going to see multitudes in need. God's giving us property, schools, meeting places and houses here. There are going to be many people, refugees from all over this country and from other countries coming here, and we want to be hospitable. We want to be able to take care of them and help them to move into something that, even if they don't have a secular job, the ministry can meet their needs and meet the needs of people around them. Now, we're not trying to build what the world would call a commune here. You won't see anybody in our ministry running around giving orders. It's a little different than a lot of ministries you've been involved in, or heard about, I'm sure. Most of the people in this ministry who are deacons in this ministry, they have that because it was in their heart to do it, and they came to us and said, 'Hey, I'd like to do this', or ‘I can do this', and so praise God. We want people to be free to do these things from the heart. If you give from your heart, that's a good sacrifice before the Lord, according to 2 Corinthians. From the very beginning of our ministry, we've never charged for anything; we just give it. If people want to give back, that's fine; if they don't, they still receive what they ask for, so we can't really call it bartering when you're not demanding anything in return. We're not talking about hoarding either; we're just talking about meeting needs. Well, we can do some workshops here, people showing other people how to do things, and people gathering together to get these things started in a really good way. And, as I said, I felt the Lord told me that the ministry could also contribute money toward things that people need to get started in this way. Everyone does not belong here for God has not called them to a refuge but tribulation. We can take a lesson from the Amish. They gather together and do something in a group that they could never do individually, or at least, it would take a lot longer time. We don't have a long time. We are not needing to build houses or many buildings that are already provided. I know that we have people to fill every specialty and we can get up and going quickly. And of course, this is all voluntary, whatever a person feels their gift is or the Lord is guiding them to do. The funny thing is, I'm visiting people's houses, and the house I'm living in now, and they are all electric and we have free electricity. One of the Bible colleges has natural gas. There is a rich deposit of gas right here, and that's free energy. We had a brother whose family came down and visited us, who was just north of us, and he has a gas well in his backyard, and I'm thinking, why aren't more people punching holes in the ground around here? That's free heat; that's energy. Well, if you have a community of people who aren't far apart, or if you want to, use it to pressurize it and run vehicles. When I was young, we used gas tractors, gas trucks, and we had the old International Harvester trucks that were converted to run on gas because it was readily available, so you can do the same thing today. People are talking about all different kinds of ways to keep your car running when gasoline becomes hard to find, which it will. Not necessarily here, but it will. But certainly, if you have the availability of a gas well you can buy the converter kits for tractors. We will have electric cars. Birds are hand-to-mouth, aren't they? They don't worry about storing it up; they just eat it. Well, I think you got the idea, so really just pray and ask the Lord if He wants you to do something and, if so, what, and just be ready and willing for Him to use you. You can train people in what you know, and you can be trained by others, and we can all come together with what we each know the Lord is leading us to do. And the ministry would be glad to contribute to anybody who wants to get a start, so you all think about it and pray about it, and we'll see where it takes us. But only consider coming if God says so. Lord, we just ask you, Father, in the name of Jesus, to give us all wisdom. You know what's coming down the road. You see the end from the beginning. We see nothing, Lord; we just trust in You. We want to be led by Your Spirit. We are the sons of God by faith, and we're asking You to lead us and guide us into something that will be very useful, not only to us, but to the people around us and to get the Gospel out. Lord, we thank You for Your mercy toward us, and we know that we have nothing to worry about; we just put all of our faith in You. We know that You are an absolute miracle-working God and You will multiply the fishes and the loaves. And You will bring us manna out of heaven, and You'll do everything that's necessary to provide for Your people. So we just trust in You and we just want to be useful to serve. And we thank You for it, Lord, in Jesus' name. Amen.   Greed and the Tithe (by David Eells) Paul gave Timothy a revelation of the false prophets and those who follow them in the “last days”. (2Ti.3:1) But know this, that in the last days grievous times shall come. (2) For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, railers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, (3) without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, no lovers of good, (4) traitors, headstrong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God; (5) holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof: from these also turn away. These men, who are identified by their egotistical appetite for money, prestige, pleasure, and position, love their religious “form of godliness”. Among these are the false prophets who lead captive the like-minded apostate religious sects. (6) For of these are they that creep into houses (of worship), and take captive silly women (sects of God's people - Isa.4:1, 32:9) laden with sins, led away by divers lusts, (7) ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Those who love to justify their own sinful ways respect these “impostors” and their “form of godliness”. (13) But evil men and impostors shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. These false prophets are identified as “lovers of money”. These are the merchants of religious Babylon (Rev.18). They make “Father's house a house of merchandise” (Joh.2:16). Since God will not support their personal kingdom-building, they peddle books, tapes, trinkets, chicken dinners, tours, etc. This is the way of the world, and for those who have an impoverished God. Why would anyone who was sent by God and believed the promises of our provision through Christ do this? Our examples in the early leadership of the Church certainly did not. (Joh.2:13) ...Jesus went up to Jerusalem. (14) And he found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: (15) and he made a scourge of cords, and cast all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers' money, and overthrew their tables; (16) and to them that sold the doves he said, Take these things hence; make not my Father's house a house of merchandise. They peddle the promises of God's provision to those who give to their ministry. They make “merchandise of the word of God” (2Co.2:17 [in Greek]). They peddle the Word for salaries like hirelings. When a person is not sent by God, he does not have faith that “God shall supply every need” (Php.4:19). Where God sends, He supplies. Without God's supernatural supply, people have to resort to other tactics to support “their” ministry. The Lord has not changed His mind, “the righteous shall live by faith”, not salaries. He commanded His ministers, “Freely ye received, Freely give. Get you no gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses”. A man who lives by faith has to walk with God because “if our heart condemn us not, we have boldness toward God; and whatsoever we ask we receive of him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight” (1Jn.3:21,22). God's command that His leaders walk by faith ensures righteous leadership. The early Church leadership was not in the habit of taking up collections, but when they did, it was not for themselves but for the saints in persecution and had needs, as it was with Jerusalem. (1Co.16:1) Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I gave order to the churches of Galatia, so also do ye. (2) Upon the first day of the week let each one of you lay by him in store, as he may prosper, that no collections be made when I come. (3) And when I arrive, whomsoever ye shall approve, them will I send with letters to carry your bounty unto Jerusalem. Notice that Paul didn't handle the money, but approved brethren did. He preferred to not even be present when the collection for the saints was received, so that there would be no extortion involved, as it was with the Macedonian collection. He also didn't use the Macedonians' presence to shame and extort the Corinthians. (2Co.9:3) But I have sent the brethren, that our glorying on your behalf may not be made void in this respect; that, even as I said, ye may be prepared: (4) lest by any means, if there come with me any of Macedonia and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be put to shame in this confidence. (5) I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your aforepromised bounty, that the same might be ready as a matter of bounty, and not of extortion. Ministers received free will offerings and did not demand their rights through condemnation or legalism. (1Co.9:11) If we sowed unto you spiritual things, is it a great matter if we shall reap your carnal things? (12) If others partake of [this] right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right; but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ. (13) Know ye not that they that minister about sacred things eat [of] the things of the temple, [and] they that wait upon the altar have their portion with the altar? (14) Even so did the Lord ordain that they that proclaim the gospel should live of the gospel. (15) But I have used none of these things: and I write not these things that it may be so done in my case; for [it were] good for me rather to die, than that any man should make my glorifying void. Paul said, “we did not use this right...that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel”. Even the world sees through the “gimmee gospel” and its con men, and they disrespect the true Gospel because of it. In obeying the command “freely ye received, freely give” we leave no room for suspicion. (2Pe.2:1) But there arose false prophets also among the people, as among you also there shall be false teachers, who shall privily bring in destructive heresies.... (3) And in covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you. One way they “make merchandise of you” is to put God's people under the Law to support them when the Scripture clearly states that our giving is “not of necessity” (2Co.9:7). “[Let] each man [do] according as he has purposed in his heart; not grudgingly, or of necessity (this is not according to the law of tithing): for God loveth a cheerful giver”. In the New Covenant, God wants an offering from the heart from those born of His Spirit. God made the Old Covenant with natural Israel and refused the Gentiles. (Psa.147:19) He showeth his word unto Jacob, His statutes and his ordinances unto Israel. (20) He hath not dealt so with any nation; And as for his ordinances, they have not known them. Now the New Covenant is made only with the Church and is refused to those under the Law. If a doctrine like tithing is not in the New Covenant, then it was never made with you! It will only separate you from Christ and grace. (Gal.5:4) Ye are severed from Christ, ye who would be justified by the law; ye are fallen away from grace. Jesus rebuked the false prophets of His day saying, “Woe unto you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye tithe mint and anise and cummin (even their seasoning), and have left undone the weightier matters of the law, justice, and mercy, and faith: but these you ought to have done (this is past tense in all ancient manuscripts, Numerics, and the Received Text), and not to have left the other undone” (Mat 23:23). Jesus clearly said here that tithing was both in the past and under the Law. Some say tithing was before the Law. Yes, circumcision and animal sacrifice were before the Law, too, but they were included in the law and we are not under Law to do them anymore either. Paul also said tithing was of the Law in Hebrews 7:5-11. There is no New Covenant command or request to tithe because we are no longer stewards of ten percent. Jesus taught that we have to renounce ownership of the other ninety percent, or we cannot be His disciples. (Luk.14:33) So therefore whosoever he be of you that renounceth not all that he hath, he cannot be my disciple. “All” here means all possessions, rights, and will. Those who claim possession of the other ninety percent are thieves. The Holy Spirit and the New Covenant commands were given to establish where, how much, and to whom we give. We are merely stewards of what He has put in our hands. The church's system of tithing is extortion and graft. It is not even righteous when compared to the Old Covenant tithe. Under the type and shadow of the tithe, ten percent was taken from eleven tribes and given to one tribe, the Levites ([ministers] Num.18:24). Then the Levites gave one ten percent (tithe) to the high priest (25-28). This left the Levites with ten percent from ten tribes. That is an average of what the other eleven tribes had to live on. Even when Israel's economy grew, they still lived on an average income. Today, with a larger percentage of the people doing the supporting, coupled with the fact that the pastors have usurped the authority of the rest of the five-fold ministry (Eph.4:11), ministers have become fat and filthy rich. This is a great stumbling block to both the world that sees through this and to the ministers. This also makes the people of God bad stewards. We have made God's house a “den of robbers” (Mat.21:13). (Eze.34:2) Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel, prophesy, and say unto them, even to the shepherds, Thus saith the Lord: Woe unto the shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves! should not the shepherds feed the sheep? (3) Ye eat the fat, and ye clothe you with the wool, ye kill the fatlings; but ye feed not the sheep. These men make it plain that we are not under the Law except when there is a profit involved and then we are told to “bring ye the whole tithe into the storehouse”, which is a command of the Old Covenant. Of course, they falsely claim to be the storehouse. In Old Covenant type and shadow, tithes were cast into the treasury, which was in the midst of the temple (1Ki.7:51; Mar.12:41). In the New Covenant, the temple is God's people, and Jesus said that we would be judged by whether we meet the needs of His people (Mat.25:31-46; 1Jn.3:16,17). This is how we store up treasure in heaven (Luk.12:33,34). We are taught to not store up our treasures on earth (Mat.6:19-21) but to meet the needs of the brethren so “that there may be equality” (2Co.8:14). Those who will not renounce ownership and become stewards of one hundred percent are not being disciples for “we were bought with a price”. We are now bondservants of Christ. The Holy Spirit now tells the disciples of Christ how much, to whom, where, and when to give. Amen. Now, the Bible specifically says you get a reward for giving, and the interest is much better. The interest is “good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over.” I've tried God on this and it works. He is faithful — consistently faithful. He is our surety. I learned that you just give and meet the needs of the brethren around you, and not worry about what you have left because God is never going to fail you. Never. From the time the Lord showed me about faith and how He forbade debt to His people, I haven't stored up or borrowed any money, and the Lord has never failed to make sure we had a good car, a good house, and all our needs met. The world says that you have to store up the money until you have enough, or even more commonly, borrow it from the bank, which is debt. But you don't need to go the way of the world, because God can bring it in a lump sum. He did it for us many times. Men serve insurance companies, H.M.O.s, banks and store up their treasures on earth for the security they think it gives them. But we are told in (Mat.6:19) Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal. Y2K revealed the paranoia and lack of trust in those who stored up their treasures on earth contrary to our Lord's command. Quite a few people that I showed these principles to went home to give their store away and found it full of bugs, just as Jesus said, “thieves break through and steal.” Jesus told of a man who found peace in the insurance of storing up his goods in greater barns (Luk.12:18). He said to himself, (Luk.12:19)… Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry. (His misplaced trust brought judgment.) (20) But God said unto him, Thou foolish one, this night is thy soul required (Greek: “they require thy soul”) of thee; and the things which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be? (21) So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God. Notice that it was his stored-up treasures that required his soul. Jesus promised the unfailing kingdom provisions to those who would store up their treasures in heaven by giving. (32) Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom (33) Sell that which ye have, and give alms; make for yourselves purses which wax not old (That means you're not storing it up or keeping it for a long time.), a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief draweth near, neither moth destroyeth. Give alms. Meet the needs of people around you. That's what He calls “a treasure in the heavens that faileth not.” Any treasure you store up on earth is going to fail. The world is going to plunder you, folks, and, if not the world, the devil is going to plunder you by the curse, but you're going to be plundered. Let me tell you how not to get plundered: Give! Meet the needs of the brethren around you. Give and then it will be coming the other way because it says in (Luk.6:38) Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, shall they give into your bosom. For with what measure ye mete it shall be measured to you again. That's how it works. You can make a living by giving. It works. (Luk.12:34) For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also. Some people tell me, “It's okay to have it. Just don't set your heart on it.” That's not what Jesus said. He said, “If you have it, your heart will be on it.” “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” If you're thinking, “Well, David, doesn't it say that Joseph stored up for the years of plenty so that he could give it back in the years of famine?” Yes, but let me point out to you who Joseph very clearly represents in type and shadow. Joseph was among the elders of Israel, but his own brethren sold him into bondage to the Gentiles for silver, just like Jesus. Joseph was lied about by the harlot, Potiphar's wife, just like Jesus. Joseph was persecuted by them and he was cast into prison, just like Jesus. Jesus went and preached to the souls in prison after He was crucified and what did Jesus do to the souls in prison? He decided who went to Abraham's Bosom and who went to Hades; in other words, He judged between the good souls and bad souls. The same thing happened to Joseph when he was cast into prison. He decided between the butler, who came out of prison and went up to serve Pharaoh, and the baker, who lost his head. When Joseph came out of prison, he was ruler over all of the earth, second only to Pharaoh, who was worshipped as a god. And when Jesus came out of prison, He was ruler over all of creation, second only to God. The types and shadows are all there to show that Joseph represented Jesus. If you store up on this earth, you are disobeying Jesus. It's only good for spending, and then you learn to walk by faith. (Jas.2:5) Hearken, my beloved brethren; did not God choose them that are poor as to the world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to them that love him? God chose those who are poor of the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the Kingdom. A person who is rich in faith will never go without. God always provides for them. So how do you store up under the hand of “Joseph”? How do you store up your treasures in Heaven under Jesus? You do that by giving alms, by making yourselves purses that wax not old, by meeting the needs of the brethren. You give and it will be given unto you. When you get out in that wilderness, don't you want to have something stored up in the Bank of Heaven? He said, “A treasure in the heavens that faileth not.” If you pack food out there into that wilderness, it will fail you. If you pack gold out into that wilderness, the world will plunder you. But if you store it up by giving, God said He will give unto you. Now I'm not asking for anything; I'm just telling you how to get prepared for what's coming because a lot of you have been hearing a bunch of baloney from apostate preachers. That is not how you get prepared for the wilderness. If you want to be prepared, you store up your treasures under the hand of Jesus in the Kingdom of Heaven, and then you can get it back when you need it. “Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, shall they give into your bosom.” The way to make money in the world is not to store up, it's not to bring people under the Law, it's not to tell everybody your needs. Those are the methods of Egypt, but God wants you to stay in the wilderness. The Israelites cried out to go back to Egypt. They didn't like the trials of their faith and they wanted to go back to the ways of the world. The way of God is to give what you have and then God will multiply it back. It's happened to me many, many times that when I did not have enough money to take care of my needs, I would just go and give it. And you know what? God has never failed me, not once. I walked by faith and raised five children, and God always met our needs. Now, one time we were forced into a fast as a trial of our faith, and that's the only time we were ever put in that position, but we got in a position many times where God literally multiplied food, multiplied money and even multiplied gas in our tank. We got to see wondrous miracles from God and we're still seeing them! God sees to it that His Word is fulfilled. (Jer.1:12) Then said the Lord unto me, Thou hast well seen: for I watch over my word to perform it. He stands behind His Word, and He will never fail you. He cannot fail. One thing I've learned about God is that He can do everything but fail. He will supply your every need according to His riches in glory. Our brother, Curt Bryan, had always given sacrificially to our ministry. He had given testimony several times where he had written checks to pay his own bills without the money in the bank to cover them, believing God to have the money there in time. In his business, many of his customers were walk-ins, so income was hard to predict. Whenever he had stepped out by faith in this way, God would always come through. A sudden rush of customers would come in, or a generous tip would be given to him. (2Co.9:6)… He that soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he that soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. An opportunity to give can also be an opportunity to sit on, or eat the seed. We can only reap to the extent we sow. God multiplies it back, not to make us rich but to make us channels of His blessing to the needy. He multiplies our seed for sowing, not hoarding. (10) And he that supplieth seed to the sower and bread for food, shall supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness. God's promise to those who are faithful in giving is here. (8) And God is able to make all grace abound unto you; that ye having always all sufficiency in everything, may abound unto every good work. This is one of the most powerful, all-encompassing promises of provision in all of the Scriptures. Here are a few other testimonies from our site of how the Lord miraculously provided financially when people acted in faith.   Give and It Will Be Given Gideon Smith - 03/08/2012 My wife and I had a medical bill we couldn't afford to pay, so we told them we couldn't afford it. We then gave some money to a ministry that helps our brothers and sisters who are persecuted. The next day, my wife was contacted by the medical people and was told that the bill was cleared, and we owed them nothing. God blessed us five times the amount that we gave by taking care of that debt. When my wife told me this, I was amazed and said, “Wow! Since we had some of that money set aside to pay the bill from our income tax, we should give again.” So right at the table tonight, l prayed, “Lord, if You want us to give again, You will send someone to us in need. Well, I went to the grocery store and had to get some stuff, but I forgot to get everything, so I had to go back. When I went back, I first began to murmur, but instead I praised God. When I left the store, a man approached me with an empty gas container, asking if I could help him. I said, “Sorry, I don't have any cash.” But then I remembered the prayer I prayed. At this point, I said, “Give me the tank. I will fill it up for you. I filled the container up and went to the ATM to get him some cash. When I got back to him, I told him about my prayer and let him know that it was Christ Who just showed him and me this miracle. I am so in awe of God's direction and all His works. Praise the Lord, in Jesus name! You want proof of Christ, there you go. Hallelujah!   Trusting God for Finances Anna Higareda - 04/28/2010 Hello, Brother Eells. This is the first time I have written you. The Lord has put it on my heart to send you a great THANK YOU, as I am sitting here listening to your teaching, Wilderness Living Now. My husband, Jon, has written an email to you once before regarding a dream he had, and you actually spoke about it in one of your teachings. My husband and I have been listening and learning from your teachings and reading your books now for about two years, and we have recently been brought to a point of weakness and have been forced to live in the “wilderness”, as you speak of in your teachings. I wanted to send you a great THANK YOU; it is because of the good Lord and your teachings that we have learned to live by pure faith, and we have also been able to teach our kids to look to God and thank HIM every day. Your stories of faith and your life experiences have really inspired us and given us all the more faith to trust in the Lord for everything we need. As a matter of fact, besides your ministry, my husband received word to be faithful to one other ministry here in Campbell, CA. He was helping at that ministry last Thursday evening (he helps set up and take down all the technical stuff) and when they were taking down and putting things away, one of the elders told him, “I just had a vision, out of nowhere, that you were putting on your coat and it was made of money”. So my husband said, “Hmm, wow, that's pretty neat!” Then he continued on with putting things away, and the elder said to him, “Jon, well ...?!” So my husband looked dumbfounded, and the elder motioned for him to feel his pockets. So he put his hands back in his coat, and he felt paper; it was a $100 bill in his coat pocket! My husband was shocked and in disbelief because it wasn't too long before that, he had had his hands in his pockets and his pockets were empty. My brother-in-law was also there that night, and my husband asked him, “Did you do this?” He said, “No way. I couldn't have done that. I only brought $4 with me tonight”. Then my husband asked the elder the same question, and the response was, “I didn't do that; I guarantee!” This was truly amazing, Brother Eells, because no one knew we had been going through any type of financial struggle. We kept it all to ourselves and that morning I got my paycheck, and my entire check went towards the bills. What was left over after paying bills was $266 and I thought to myself, “That's funny. I thought we would have $366 left over yesterday after bills. There is no way we could make it with this amount until the next time I get paid”. I ended up with $100 less than I thought I would have after bills. Then I talked to God at my work desk and told him, “Lord, I know you have provided many times before and I have faith you will provide again for my family, so I am not going to worry; it's in your hands!” I thanked God and moved forward with my day, and then that night, the Lord put that extra $100 in my husband's pocket at the ministry. I saw my brother-in-law two days later, and he asked, “Did Jon tell you about what happened at the ministry with his jacket?!” I replied, “Yes, isn't that amazing!” Then he said, “I know! Jon asked if one of us had put it in his pocket, but I am telling you, Anna, there is no possible way that anyone put that money in his pocket that night”. I then told him and his wife about the rest of the testimony, and they said, “Thank you, Jesus!” :) God is amazing! So I want to say thank you so very much for all the hard work you do for HIS kingdom; it is truly inspiring! My family and I have been abundantly blessed to have come across your ministry two years ago! Thank you and I wish you and your family all the best! So, Saints, don't fear the wilderness. God designed this wilderness. He's ordained this wilderness. He's even ordained the Beast that's going to cause this wilderness. He's ordained Pharaoh's army to get behind God's people and force them out there into that wilderness. God is not going to fail you. Learn to walk by faith because the wilderness will be nothing for the people who walk by faith (2 Corinthians 5:7). But for those who are fearful and murmur and complain and walk by sight (Numbers 11:1; 1 Corinthians 10:10; Jude 16; Revelation 21:8; etc.), they are not going to make it through. Why is God doing this? He's doing this because He's raising up believers. (Heb.10:38) But my righteous one shall live by faith: And if he shrink back, my soul hath no pleasure in him.

Wednesday on AOA, we start the show discussing USDA's reorganization plans and get perspective from former USDA Undersecretary Robert Bonnie. In Segment Two, we hear from Neil Dahlstrom, Manager of Archives and History at John Deere and author of Tractor Wars: John Deere, Henry Ford, International Harvester, and the Birth of Modern Agriculture, to learn more about the book. In Segment Three, we catch up with Missouri Farm Bureau President Garrett Hawkins to discuss a number of topics including the latest news surrounding the Grain Belt Express. Then we close the show in Segment Four discussing 30 years of innovation from Peterson Farms Seeds with founder Carl Peterson.

"Tractor Wars" by Neil Dahlstrom: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1953295746/Software is Feeding the World (Rhishi's newsletter): https://www.rhishipethe.com/sftw[History of Agriculture] Cyrus McCormick And The Birth Of Mechanical Harvesting It's impossible to picture the modern food system we have today without the invention of the tractor. And it happened really not that long ago, just over a hundred years ago.Today we're gonna be talking about this book, "Tractor Wars" by Neil Dahlstrom. Neil is the manager of archives and history at John Deere and tackling this book with me is my good friend and repeat host on the podcast, Rhishi Pethe.An excerpt from the epilogue of "Tractor Wars: John Deere, Henry Ford, International Harvester and the Birth of Modern Agriculture": " Fortune magazine called the 1920s the decade of the Fordson. Not everyone agreed, but the fact that the Fordson accelerated adoption of the farm tractor and forever altered the competitive landscape is undeniable. Ford was right about the insatiable appetite for automobiles and in time for farm tractors. There were now 17 million passenger cars and nearly two and a half million trucks traveling on more than 521,000 miles of surfaced roads. But he had miscalculated the connection between farmers and their land and their constantly evolving needs. Most importantly, farmers wanted to fortify that relationship, not end it. Only 33 American farm tractor manufacturers remained in 1929 as mergers, consolidations and bankruptcies continued to narrow the field. In its overview of the tractor industry in early 1928 the Tractor Field book surmised that large numbers of inefficient machines were discarded during the five-year period from 1920 to 1924. As many were built by companies whose efforts were largely experimental."So it's that process of like explosion in consolidation that we're gonna be talking about here today from Neil Dahlstrom's book.

Monday's “What's Buggin' You” segment for 4-21-25

On the HAT Podcast C.J. Miller has the news including some positive reaction to new U.S. tariffs, including how China may respond, and the connection of International Harvester to Ft. Wayne, Indiana. HAT Chief Meteorologist Ryan Martin calls for lingering moisture in the south but mainly just cloud cover in the north today, but any dry conditions will not last. The Thursday soybean futures followed many other markets in a sharp selloff after the reciprocal tariff announcement a day earlier. Andy Eubank has the settlements and market commentary with Karl Setzer. It's all part of the #HATPodcast, made possible by First Farmers Bank & Trust - proudly serving local farms, families, and agribusiness for 140 years. Visit them online at FFBT.com to learn more.

On this week's edition of Hoosier Ag This Week: President Trump's reciprocal tariffs have had a major impact on soybean futures and the livestock markets within the first two days of his announcement. You'll hear from Jackie Ponder from Greenwood, who has recently been elected to the board of the National Pork Producers Council, as she talks about the impact that Trump's tariffs could have on the U.S. pork industry. Eric Pfeiffer was on Purdue University's campus earlier this past week for "Purdue Ag Week". He chatted with Marnie Schwartkopf, a Purdue senior who's also president of the Purdue Ag Week Task Force, about the ways they've been reaching out to all Purdue students, staff, and faculty to share the importance of agriculture. Plus, you'll hear from Ryan DuVall with Harvester Homecoming, as he shares his passion for keeping the history of International Harvester alive in Fort Wayne. He not only talks about the company's 60-year history of manufacturing in Fort Wayne, but he also talks about how his love for International Harvester started with the Scout, which was the first vehicle he owned and drove when he was 16! All that and much more are all part of the Hoosier Ag This Week Podcast!

Show #2381 Show Notes: Communion Verses: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%205%3A12-21&version=KJV  &  https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2026%3A26-29&version=KJV Psalm 4 : https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm%204&version=KJV Psalms 78: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=psalm%2078%5C&version=KJV Trump stops the money to Planned Parenthood: https://www.lifenews.com/2025/03/26/150-pro-life-leaders-call-on-congress-to-defund-planned-parenthood/ International Harvester – Layton Howerton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfrDlgNAJzQ Dave Daubenmire, a veteran 35 […]

Our book this month is "The Great Game of Business," written by Jack Stack and Bo Burlingham. It presents a novel approach to business management centered on open-book management, employee empowerment, shared financial responsibility, and what I would describe as the gamification of business. It argues that by treating employees as partners and educating them about the company's financials, businesses can foster a culture of ownership, improve performance, and achieve remarkable results. The book chronicles Stack's journey transforming Springfield ReManufacturing Corporation (SRC), a struggling division of International Harvester, into a thriving employee-owned company. Faced with a factory closure, Stack and his team embarked on a radical experiment: To buy the plant from International Harvester with a tiny downpayment and massive amount of debt. They needed to turn these assets into a revenue generating business or go broke. Rather than use the management methods from their prior career at IH, they opened up the company's books, shared financial information with all employees, and taught them how to understand and influence the numbers. This became the foundation of "The Great Game of Business."-------------**Real Estate Espresso Podcast:** Spotify: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](https://open.spotify.com/show/3GvtwRmTq4r3es8cbw8jW0?si=c75ea506a6694ef1)   iTunes: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-real-estate-espresso-podcast/id1340482613)   Website: [www.victorjm.com](http://www.victorjm.com)   LinkedIn: [Victor Menasce](http://www.linkedin.com/in/vmenasce)   YouTube: [The Real Estate Espresso Podcast](http://www.youtube.com/@victorjmenasce6734)   Facebook: [www.facebook.com/realestateespresso](http://www.facebook.com/realestateespresso)   Email: [podcast@victorjm.com](mailto:podcast@victorjm.com)  **Y Street Capital:** Website: [www.ystreetcapital.com](http://www.ystreetcapital.com)   Facebook: [www.facebook.com/YStreetCapital](https://www.facebook.com/YStreetCapital)   Instagram: [@ystreetcapital](http://www.instagram.com/ystreetcapital)  

Jason Fraley interview country music star Craig Morgan, who performs at CFG Bank Arena in Baltimore, Maryland this Thursday night. They discuss his new album "American Soundtrack,” as well as his biggest hits, including "Almost Home," "That's What I Love About Sunday," "Redneck Yacht Club," "Little Bit of Life" and "International Harvester." (Theme Music: Scott Buckley's "Clarion")

In Podcast #341, Jessica Ray fills in for John Davis on hosting duties. Her and the rest of the MotorWeek crew discuss the massive upgrade for the gas-powered Chevrolet Equinox. Along with Toyota's helping hand to Mazda, lending them hybrid tech to put in their CX-50 utility. And finally we'll finish off with the resurrection of the Scout name–yes, the one from International Harvester—as a new EV truck & SUV brand who recently debuted their first two models. Plus we have a Lightning Round on the recent resignation of the CEO of Stellantis—the company that owns Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, RAM, & Fiat—and what his departure might mean for the brand.

In this episode of North American Ag Spotlight, Chrissy Wozniak interviews Lee Klancher, a celebrated author, photographer, and publisher, known for his contributions to agricultural storytelling through his company, Octane Press. Lee discusses his latest book, Snoopy and the Spy, a thrilling narrative set during the intense rivalry between agricultural giants John Deere and International Harvester amidst the 1980s farm crisis.Lee's book captures the dramatic 1980s era when John Deere and International Harvester were in fierce competition, providing new technology to farmers during challenging economic times. From sneaking into competitor events to small-scale espionage, Lee reveals stories of intense tactics between these iconic brands, showcasing the lengths they went to for dominance. Lee shares his passion for telling stories that capture the resilience and ingenuity of the agricultural community, inspired by his childhood memories and career-long fascination with machinery and farming.Reflecting on the resilience of farmers during hard times, Lee emphasizes the universal lesson of perseverance—a message that resonates with many in agriculture today. Lee explains how farm mechanization transformed society, making time for innovation and technological advancement that shaped the modern world.Memorable Links:Dive into the riveting history of John Deere and International Harvester. Snoopy and the Spy - https://www.amazon.com/Snoopy-Spy-Espionage-Ingenuity-International/dp/1642341851Connect with Lee Klancher and learn more about Octane Press here - https://octanepress.com/Listen to the full episode and discover more about the fascinating and resilient history of the agricultural industry.Be sure to subscribe to North American Ag Spotlight on your favorite podcast platform! ###North American Ag is devoted to highlighting the people & companies in agriculture who impact our industry and help feed the world. Subscribe at https://northamericanag.comWant to hear the stories of the ag brands you love and the ag brands you love to hate? Hear them at https://whatcolorisyourtractor.comDon't just thank a farmer, pray for one too!Send us a textSubscribe to North American Ag at https://northamericanag.com

This week, Danny Myrick and I sit down in the beautiful Coeur D'Alene, Idaho. We're here for our very first TLR on the Road show and I just had to get some time with Danny to dive into the stories behind some iconic songs he has written.. Danny has some classic cuts like ⁠“International Harvester” by Craig Morgan⁠ and ⁠“She's Country” by Jason Aldean⁠, and we dive into both stories on this week's episode.  We also talk about his friendship and collaboration with the late, great ⁠Leslie Jordan⁠, and how, together, they were able to get ⁠Dolly Parton⁠,  ⁠Tanya Tucker⁠,  ⁠Eddie Vedder⁠,  ⁠Brandi Carlile⁠, and ⁠Chris Stapleton⁠ on the same album - ⁠Company's Comin'. ⁠ Through this project, Danny also developed a friendship with Eddie Vedder (no big deal), and he shares how he unintentionally convinced Eddie that “Maybe there is a God?” In this episode, Danny also shares what he's got going on right now - writing with some exciting up-and-comers and bigger artists, and we talk about the changing landscape of the industry, coming up with original guitar licks, and how his great success has come since being 40.  So good to catch up with Danny here in Coeur D'Alene… Let's get into it! SHOW NOTES: Keep up with Danny Myrick ⁠HERE⁠ Stay up to date with fresh podcast episodes and Listening Room show dates - Listen/Subscribe/Follow - ⁠HERE⁠ SBTSongs TikTok - ⁠@SBTSongs⁠ SBTSongs Instagram - ⁠@SBTSongs ⁠ SBTSongs YouTube - ⁠@SBTSongs ⁠ Chris Blair's Instagram - ⁠@ChrisBlairMusic ⁠ Chris Blair's Website - ⁠HERE⁠ The Listening Room's Website - ⁠HERE ⁠ TLR's Instagram - ⁠@ListeningRoomCafe⁠ TLR's TikTok - ⁠@TheListeningRoomCafe⁠ *A special shout out to our sponsors* ⁠Sennheiser⁠ ⁠Imperfect Aesthetician⁠ ⁠Alclair In-Ear Monitors⁠ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sbtsongs/support

Rally Returns Christopher Day, CEO, Elevate Ventures and U.S. Sen. Todd Young Inside INdiana Business is on location for the second Rally Innovation Conference in Indianapolis. We look at what it means for entrepreneurs and executives from around the globe and the potential payoff for Indiana businesses. University of Evansville partners with Toyota Christopher Pietruszkiewicz, President, University of Evansville The University of Evansville and Toyota Indiana have a new partnership to support the automaker's Driving Possibilities initiative. The initiative aims to prepare students in southwest Indiana for future STEM careers. International Harvester Building remains endangered Jerry Betley, Vice President, Harvester Homecoming For 60 years, it produced everything from World War II torpedoes to what many credit as the first modern SUV. But now, the former International Harvester building in Fort Wayne is on Indiana Landmarks' Most Endangered List, which lists historic places around the state on the brink of extinction. South Bend's momentum James Mueller, Mayor of South Bend South Bend has come a long way since its early days with millions of dollars going toward revitalizing its downtown, modernizing and adding flights to its international airport, strengthening its partnership with Notre Dame and more. Mayor James Mueller is this week's guest on the Business & Beyond podcast.

This week on Past Gas, it's the history of International Harvester! How did they start America's love affair with the SUV? How did they get there from making plows and threshers? And why, after a huge run of success, did they fall off the map? Find out today on Past Gas.  More about Show: Follow Nolan on IG and Twitter @nolanjsykes.   Follow Joe on IG and Twitter @joegweber. Follow James on IG and Twitter @jamespumphrey. Follow Donut @donutmedia, and subscribe to our Youtube and Facebook channels!   Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast for free wherever you're listening or using this link: http://bit.ly/PastGas. If you like the show, telling a friend about it would be helpful! You can text, email, Tweet, or send this link to a friend: http://bit.ly/PastGas. Thanks to our sponsors: Visit Lexus.com/Motorsports to learn more about Lexus Racing and get all of the details on upcoming races. Thanks to Hankook for sponsoring today's episode! Click here http://bit.ly/DynaproTires to learn more about Dynapro tires! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dan is celebrating 10 years of The Binder Boneyard by interviewing a few experts and friends in the International Harvester world. Find Sean and Anything Scout here! https://anythingscout.com/

Dan is celebrating 10 years of The Binder Boneyard by interviewing a few experts and friends in the International Harvester world.

Dan is celebrating 10 years of The Binder Boneyard by interviewing a few experts and friends in the International Harvester world. Find Jeff and IH Parts America here! https://www.ihpartsamerica.com/storefront.html

The Farmall Century 1923-2023: The Evolution of Red Tractors and Crawlers in the Golden Age of International Harvester – Lee Klancher – Octane Press – Hardcover – 9781642341393 – 384 pages (11.8 x 10.5) – $59.95 – October 26, 2023 This fantastic coffee table book is a massive, well-researched, detailed, extensively illustrated, and very readable […] The post Lee Klancher: The Farmall Century 1923-2023 first appeared on WritersCast.

Mandatory, my a--; Books for our community; Striking down a dictator; The Return of John Brown; “Capitalism is dead” Today's labor quote: Louis Tikas Today's labor history: UAW wins strike against International Harvester @aflbobby @AFTunion @LCLAA @labourstart @LaborHeritage1 @PodcastGreenRed Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network.

As always, email your questions for Sip, Jake & Bill to earlybreak937@gmail.com or tweet themAlso, SONG OF THE DAY (sponsored by Sartor Hamann Jewelers): "International Harvester" ~ Craig Morgan (2007)Show sponsored by GANA TRUCKINGAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Show #2129 Show Notes: Wisconsin Christian News Conference poster: https://www.wisconsinchristiannews.com/images/home/2024/ConferencePoster.png At Cost Metals: http://AtCostMetals.com/join?code=PassTheSalt Communion verses: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=romans+10%3A4-13&version=KJV and https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matt+26%3A26-29&version=KJV Layton Howerton: https://www.facebook.com/laytonhowertonmusic A Calling To The People: https://acallingtothepeople.org/ Holy Place – Layton Howerton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3abGK_NnkA Dave Daubenmire, a […]

Do you ever wonder how much you can trust the labels on organic food? In today's episode of the NTI PodTalk, we hear from Organic Industry Watchdog, Mark Kastel, the founder and Executive Director of OrganicEye. Listen in as he and Dianne discuss organic label standards, organic certifiers, and protecting the integrity of the organic food system. About Mark: Mark Kastel has spent most of his professional life advocating for family farmers and working to ensure the integrity of organics. He spent his early career working for agribusiness giants, International Harvester, J.I. Case, and the FMC Corporation, but made a paradigm shift to organic agriculture in the early 1980s after suffering a debilitating illness. His adherence to an exclusively organic diet was instrumental in restoring and maintaining his good health. That shift led him to start farming organically on his own and to establish an industry-related consultancy. In 2004, he co-founded The Cornucopia Institute and built a reputation as one of the most recognizable and effective organic industry watchdogs. Check out Kastel's Kitchen, where Mark shares tips and tricks for decoding organics! **Timestamps for the topics discussed can be found on this episode's NTI PodTalk page. Are you ready to start your journey as a Nutrition Therapist Master or Natural Food Chef? To learn more about NTI's Nutrition Therapist Master Certification, visit ntischool.com for more information, or call 303-284-8361 to speak with our admissions team. This discussion is not intended to provide Medical Nutrition Therapy, nor in any way imply that Nutrition Therapists who graduate from NTI are qualified to provide Medical Nutrition Therapy.  The scope of practice for graduates of NTI is to deliver therapeutic nutrition guidance to our clients which helps support their natural biology to achieve optimal function in whatever wellness path they are on.

There's no doubt that 'Farmall' is a household name accross the nation. Even those who run green recognize the brand as an icon in the tractor revolution of the past century. This episode, we speak with several International Harvester enthusiasts who love the Farmall brand and the tractors it represents. Enjoy as we discuss some of the significant markers in the brand's history and share a few anecdotes along the way. Thanks for listening!

On this episode, Chris and Sean discuss how Sean turned an overpriced cell phone and garage full of International Harvester parts into the premier International Harvester light line parts retailer, pioneered the Scout drivability conversion and became the preeminent investment quality Scout builder.  Since 1993, Anything Scout has been the premier International Harvester light line parts retailer and go to destination for Scout enthusiasts.  In 2003, Sean and his wife, Heather, bought Anything Scout and started building what has become the foremost IH light line parts retailer, drivability conversion specialist and investment quality Scout builder in the world.  From it's humble beginnings in a California Bay Area garage, Anything Scout relocated to a state of the art facility in Ames, IA in 2006.  That relocation enabled them to expand and eventually become the leading Scout drivability conversion "Retromod" specialist in the world.  It also spawned a new brand, New Legend 4x4, which has become the preeminent bespoke investment quality Scout builder in the world.  Their ethos has never changed, Sean, Heather, their family and team are dedicated to keeping Scouts on the road to enable new generations to have the same great memories exploring life, just as those before us!Thank you Patrick Kesler (@scoutlegacy) for requesting Sean as a guest and making this episode happen!Follow the podcast on Instagram and Facebook @classic4x4_trucks, check out our website at classic4x4.com and reach out if we can help you sell your classic, custom and modified truck or 4x4. Thanks for listening!

Today's guest is Daniel Holmlund.   Daniel started the Alternative Investing Club which helps educate people in creating an ownership culture. He is also an active real estate investor who partners and mentors with others.   Show summary:  In this episode, Daniel shares his real estate journey, from flipping single-family homes to founding Good Samaritan Capital, a syndication and private equity real estate company. He also discusses the growth of the Alternative Investing Club and offers advice for aspiring club organizers. Daniel and Sam then delve into the current market conditions, including inflation and interest rates, and discuss the strategies implemented by Good Samaritan Capital.    -------------------------------------------------------------- Intro [00:00:00]   Building the Real Estate Club at Intel [00:03:19]   Moving the Club Externally [00:08:28]   Scaling the Club and Membership Growth [00:06:29]   The Real Estate Club and Networking [00:11:12]   Impact of Interest Rates on the Market [00:12:52]   Good Samaritan Capital Growth Fund [00:18:19]   Daniel's contact information [00:22:31]   Expressing gratitude [00:22:54]   Closing[00:22:55]   -------------------------------------------------------------- Connect with Daniel:  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/danielwholmlund  Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-holmlund/ Email: daniel@goodsamaritancapital.com  Web: https://www.goodsamaritancapital.com/   Connect with Sam: I love helping others place money outside of traditional investments that both diversify a strategy and provide solid predictable returns.     Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HowtoscaleCRE/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/samwilsonhowtoscalecre/ Email me → sam@brickeninvestmentgroup.com   SUBSCRIBE and LEAVE A RATING. Listen to How To Scale Commercial Real Estate Investing with Sam Wilson Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-scale-commercial-real-estate/id1539979234 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4m0NWYzSvznEIjRBFtCgEL?si=e10d8e039b99475f -------------------------------------------------------------- Want to read the full show notes of the episode? Check it out below: Daniel Holmlund (00:00:00) - We went and raised a large chunk of money for them and negotiated with them for better terms, and then an individual would get coming in. And it really dawned on me this year that being able to find better terms is the name of the game. And the only way you can really do that is through scaling. Welcome to the How to Scale commercial real estate show.   Sam Wilson (00:00:23) - Whether you are an active or passive investor, we'll teach you how to scale your real estate investing business into something big. Daniel Hamlin started the Alternative Investing Club, which helps educate people in creating an ownership culture. And he's also an active commercial real estate investor in Daniel. I know that that bio just doesn't even remotely capture everything that you've done in commercial real estate, but either way, it's great to have you on the show.   Daniel Holmlund (00:00:53) - Hey Sam, it's great to be here. I love seeing that you put out a daily podcast and I know a little bit about the rigor that that entails. So congratulations to you too.   Sam Wilson (00:01:02) - Well, we have to I can't say it's daily anymore.   Sam Wilson (00:01:06) - Regrettably, we did seven. I don't know who is. We? We got a mouse in my pocket. I did. I do have a lot of help. So maybe it is we it is definitely a we. Podcasting is a wee wee sport, but we did 720 episodes. So two years straight daily and then we've moved to three days a week. So it yeah, we're only at three days a week now. I can't claim a daily real estate show anymore, but either way, Daniel, this show was about you, not me. There are three questions I ask every guest who comes on the show in 90s or less. Can you tell me where did you start? Where are you now and how did you get there?   Daniel Holmlund (00:01:38) - Sure. So when I was little, my grandparents bought a apartment complex. After my grandfather retired from International Harvester, it was only after he retired from his full time job and bought real estate that he actually amassed a new wealth. And that kind of struck me as a ten year old.   Daniel Holmlund (00:01:54) - So I started right out of college, buying properties in single family homes, usually adding a little value there, flipping them. That was in 2002. I invested as hard money lender from overseas, actually all during 2006 to 2008. I ended up through the 2008 with a couple of houses that hard money lenders didn't want to pay me back for. Kept those for a little while and then founded Good Samaritan Capital, which is a syndication and private equity real estate company in 2018. And I have been working on private equity commercial deals ever since.   Sam Wilson (00:02:34) - Okay, that is really cool. I mean, but you've also held a W-2 here until recently, if I'm not mistaken.   Daniel Holmlund (00:02:42) - Yeah. Yeah. So I until just this year, I was full time at Intel where I worked on video and and artificial intelligence was a trainer for these. So didn't actually write the software. But I trained people in how to use it. And I also started the real estate club at Intel, which has been going now strong for four years.   Daniel Holmlund (00:03:04) - It's just exited Intel and we rebranded ourselves the Alternative Investing Club. And it is we bring a speaker in every single Friday and just learn from great people who are out there doing it.   Sam Wilson (00:03:19) - Let's stay there for just a second because I think this is something really cool that you set up there at Intel. You guys, like you said, you had a weekly meeting. You brought in a speaker every Friday. I think you had, you know, parameters around it which make all the sense in the world. It's a no pitch educational only. And I actually got to present there for you.   Daniel Holmlund (00:03:36) - Yeah you did you it on syndicating parking lots.   Sam Wilson (00:03:38) - Yeah. This was three years ago.   Daniel Holmlund (00:03:40) - Three years ago. Yeah. Yeah.   Sam Wilson (00:03:41) - 3 or 3 and a half even. But it was fun. Yeah, it was great. It was great. It was great to be there. One. How did you build that club and then what advice would you give to somebody else thinking about that? Because, I mean, you guys are at Intel.   Sam Wilson (00:03:54) - You're not there to talk about real estate. You're talking, you know, microprocessors and all the other probably 800 billion things that Intel involved in.   Daniel Holmlund (00:04:00) - Yeah, Yeah. And you know, actually, I not only helped to build the club at Intel, but in 2021, I started just a small pro-bono mastermind helping other people start clubs. And we, we helped start the club with me over at Walmart, over at Netflix, at Cisco, at We revitalized the club over at Apple. We started one at Facebook. And so we we built a little bit of a network there and they're actually totally independent from me and off doing their own deals, starting their own clubs. But in Intel, I basically went into and said, I see you've got a stock company or a stock club. I see you've got a startup club and I want to run the real estate club. And my advice to people wanting to do that is figure out who to talk to at and make sure that you you frame it in terms of I am making this company a better place to be, right? You know, Intel needs to be a great place to work.   Daniel Holmlund (00:04:58) - And because of that, we're starting this club, which is purely educational and and also networking.   Sam Wilson (00:05:04) - Right, Right. That's cool. That's cool. Yeah. Love that. I mean, again, I've never spent a day in corporate America, so wouldn't even know where to start on that front. Like, oh.   Daniel Holmlund (00:05:14) - Hell, some corporations are. Ah love the idea that you have the enthusiasm, some are really conscientious and they'll put like the the compliance officers in the audience to, to monitor you, which, you know, you should be compliant. You should be running a purely educational club. Right. So, you know, just work with them and make sure that you keep the people happy and provide great speakers to your club members.   Sam Wilson (00:05:40) - Right. Right. No, I think that's great. How long did it take for you to get traction on that front?   Daniel Holmlund (00:05:45) - Oh, gosh. You know, my first four months running that club, I was embarrassed to go out to speakers. I was like, We're the Intel club.   Daniel Holmlund (00:05:53) - We've got like 12 people that are showing up. Yeah, but around what I did that actually grew the club is I went to other clubs and there's a, there's a 20 and 30 professional club called called Next Gen professionals at Intel. And I said to them, Hey, can I get on your calendar? And this is what we we do. So I went and networked with other clubs and that's actually what caused my my growth to explode. And you can see a very nice progression up over the last three and a half years. We're now at almost 1100 members.   Sam Wilson (00:06:29) - Wow. That's really, really impressive. And that's something I mean, I'm assuming you've done essentially with no marketing, no advertising.   Daniel Holmlund (00:06:39) - In fact, I was forbidden from doing that. It didn't sell. It was all word of mouth. Right.   Sam Wilson (00:06:43) - Right. Oh, that's really, really cool. I love that. And I think that's the other thing is I think even back to launching a podcast or it was like, you know, I don't know where we are 800 and 3050 episodes, somewhere in that range.   Sam Wilson (00:06:58) - It's like the first few episodes. It's like, Man, why am I doing this? Like I think I had? I think God bless the guy that came on with seven downloads, I think was on my first episode published like, Oh, after a week I had seven listens whoop de stinkin do. Why are we doing this? And obviously that's changed. But I think anybody starting out scaling what they're doing just has to note there's that incubation period, there's the embrace, the suck period of like, well, hey. Oh yeah, Pat in your hand, will you come talk to my 12 friends at Intel?   Daniel Holmlund (00:07:30) - Because our group is at the very beginning of the club, we actually used to reserve a room and physically go there. And I realized one particular time nobody showed up in the room, but there was like 15 people online. And I looked at them. They were all in the same building as I was in. They were just at their desks. And so you go through periods like that, right? Right.   Sam Wilson (00:07:51) - And did you go and did that change the model or the way that you did it from then on? Did you do it all remote after that?   Daniel Holmlund (00:07:56) - It's completely remote. Most of our most of our attendees, the number one spot is actually from Folsom, California. Number two is Portland, Oregon. Number three is is Phoenix, Arizona. So we're a lot of West Coasters. There's some Texas and Virginia and other places thrown in. But but, yeah.   Sam Wilson (00:08:13) - Got it. Oh, that's really, really cool. I love that. And so how did you how did you take that club out of Intel? I mean, did you just take all your email list and say, All right, guys, we're going to move this club? I'm not hosting it here at Intel anymore because I've stopped working for.   Daniel Holmlund (00:08:28) - Pretty much, yeah, over over about a eight week period. I said, first of all, we posted all of our videos internally at while the club was happening in Intel, only Intel employees were allowed to go there.   Daniel Holmlund (00:08:41) - So we posted our videos internally. We couldn't even send them to our speakers. Right? And well, actually, that's not true. We could send them to our speakers, but we asked they not share them. Right. And so and the reason why is because Intel wanted to protect the the privacy of their employees. And that was the policy that we had to abide by. Right. And so going out of Intel, it's been a big process. We basically told everybody, hey, if you want to continue coming to the group, sign up on this external emailing list in order to get on the group and we're going to go through all the videos and make sure that names are blurred out that you know, and anything that reveals any sort of employee name or data is taken out. And which was hard because we did question and answers where would say Bob is asking da da da da da da, right? And I realized actually early on that just using first names and not whole names was a good way to go because it meant a whole lot less editing.   Daniel Holmlund (00:09:40) - Right? But basically we just told the told the group that we were moving externally and we moved over to Alternative Investing Club. Com and that's where we're hosting now.   Sam Wilson (00:09:51) - That's really cool. Yeah. I love I love the idea of protecting the kind of the privacy of the people who are in the meeting. I made it here's a here's a rookie mistake I made the other day. Daniel I was doing a webinar and I didn't and I was using Zoom and I'm too cheap to pay for the, the like the webinar version of Zoom because it's like another, you know, I do like two webinars a year. So I was like and I pay for obviously.   Daniel Holmlund (00:10:15) - Like 400 bucks isn't it? It's something like that.   Sam Wilson (00:10:18) - But a.   Daniel Holmlund (00:10:19) - Month.   Sam Wilson (00:10:19) - It's high. When you tack on the webinar feature, I'm like, Man, I don't really care about that. And you can do speaker only view because none of that, none of the attendees in the webinar needed to be there. But I failed to do that.   Sam Wilson (00:10:30) - And so it had everybody. His name's who was attending obviously a webinar for our clean Laundry fund. And I'm like, Oh, crud, there's all the type of video editor get in there and blur everything out and like. But it just wasn't quite the same, same but same idea. Or it's like, Oh crud, everybody doesn't want to get advertised. Hey, I was in this meeting and none of my investors want to get advertised to the world that, hey, they were attending a webinar for a clean laundry fund. So it's just like you got to protect those things. So very, very cool. We've talked a lot about the club and how you started at Intel, what you've done to move it to taking it out of the corporate America structure. What are some things you're doing differently now inside of that club that maybe you couldn't do before at Intel?   Daniel Holmlund (00:11:12) - Uh, well, for one thing, we're beginning to bring in actual, you know, pitches to the club. So if people want to come in and talk about their clean laundry fund, we're doing more of that where it actually is listed to the attendees.   Daniel Holmlund (00:11:26) - This this is is a pitch for a particular fund. And this is, you know, this is not a non educational one. One thing that I want to back up and say, actually, is that the the real estate club for me was my launching platform for Starting Good Samaritan Capital. So it was a networking group and I did a ton of networking, never using company resources, always called on Zoom outside of company resources, never doing anything like that. But I built up my investor list that way, and Good Samaritan Capital over the last over the last five years now has participated in 12 syndication deals, um, and two of which we have sponsored and then two fund to fund deals, I'm sorry, three of which we've sponsored and two fund to fund deals. And so our goal was to bring a new high quality vetted investment out to the attendees or people, rather not the attendees, but the people on my investor list. There's actually a lot of people attending who were not on my investor list.   Daniel Holmlund (00:12:32) - Um, and bring it out once a quarter. So we've, we hit that goal every single quarter except for Q4 of 2022 where interest rates were starting to peak up really quickly and liquidity was drying in the market. This is still the current conditions that we're in and I'd love to talk about that as well too.   Sam Wilson (00:12:52) - Yeah, shoot, man. No, let's let's talk about I mean, that's a lot of deals to get done. And that's and you, you essentially what you just said, if I can recap it and clarify is that you built your investor list by hosting these events and by starting these clubs.   Daniel Holmlund (00:13:09) - Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. You and it's straight out of, you know, the best ever real estate syndication book. Right? Create your thought leadership platform, create a thought leadership platform and become the expert to a group of people that you know and earn their trust through repeatedly being there. Our club has actually had for an average of 49 events on Friday for the past four years. So we we usually don't do the Friday after Thanksgiving and maybe 1 or 2 in December.   Daniel Holmlund (00:13:41) - But other than that, we're there like clockwork and that that's a way to create trust.   Sam Wilson (00:13:47) - Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Very, very cool. You wanted to talk about interest rates not getting a deal out in the last quarter. What what what has been your focus and where are you going now that we've kind of, you know.   Daniel Holmlund (00:14:02) - Things, things. Yeah. Yeah. So so it's interesting. I think that a lot of people that are in the real estate market right now are realizing and and actually in the club we've been warning for two years I was joking in back in 2021 about which is more transitory inflation or the Fed or the Fed's reputation. Uh, and and I think now it might be the Fed's reputation, right? And that's, that's actually what we thought back then too. Um, but the writing was on the wall for quite some time. And in fact, one of the reasons I started a real estate company is because I knew I needed to convert all my stock market funds into real estate and hard assets because we were going into an inflationary period.   Daniel Holmlund (00:14:45) - And my my thesis was always that inflation is starting to pick up. The way that governments are spending is going to necessitate that inflation picks up. But all it's going to take is a shock to the system to make it really jump up. Right. And we've seen lots of shocks to the system. Of course, nobody thought Covid would come around, but it only takes the shock to the system and shocks to the system happen a lot. The economy tends to position itself right on the knife's edge, right where, you know, we've borrowed just enough to make inflation. Not a problem if everything goes right. Well, what if everything doesn't go right? You want to be in assets that are tangible and that actually go up in value in inflationary environment. Since that was the core theme to my business, you know, five years ago and the writing was on the wall since, you know, 2013 where we anyway won't go down that route. So, so we, we now are in a period where inflation is kicking up, expenses are going up, the interest rates are going up.   Daniel Holmlund (00:15:50) - This is drying up a lot of liquidity in the market. A lot of lenders have drastically pulled back. I see deals right now that, you know, used to be underwriting for underwritten for 75% LTV loan to value and now they're doing 65 or 60%. And so syndicators are raising a lot more capital in order to. If they're deals done, they're paying, you know, 7%, pref, 6% pref, whatever they happen to be paying, which is, you know, not as competitive as it used to be when interest rates were down at 2%. Right. You know, if you can borrow money at 2%, why pay 7% pref? Well, now they're getting a lot more closer to each other which is causing pref to move up potentially in some types of deals. And so a lot of lenders are pulling back and it's it's creating demand for private equity for increased amounts of equity and for mezzanine debt, particularly with operators who are running into cash flow issues or maybe didn't buy a rate locks. And so a lot of distress is starting to come into the market.   Daniel Holmlund (00:16:58) - And that's that's kind of been our theme this year. Last year, our theme was in the two years before actually was flight to quality assets, where we invested in A-minus and B plus multifamily assets. We also bought our industrial asset in Kansas City, which is doing well. And this year it's going to be opportunistic to a certain extent deals with pref equity. And so Good Samaritan Capital has shifted its strategy a bit. Last year in our flight to quality deals, we started what's called a fund fund of funds, and we went and invested with large operators like Rise 48 and Lone Star and, you know, big operators who had a good track record of paying out dividends, not dividends distributions. Um, and so we, we went and raised a large chunk of money for them and negotiated with them for better terms. And then an individual would get coming in. And it really dawned on me this year that being able to find better terms is the name of the game. And the only way you can really do that is through scaling.   Daniel Holmlund (00:18:11) - So I'll stop there because I've been talking for a little while. I could keep going, but I'll let you get an edge. A word in?   Sam Wilson (00:18:19) - No, this is good. I'm loving here in the thought process how you guys have shifted, what you are looking for, what you previously invested in. You know, we're running out of time, but I do I do want to hear about because we've kind of got the back picture on where you've seen things and where how you guys are shifting your strategy, but you've launched a growth fund. I do want to highlight this before before we get off the call here, which is talk about your growth fund, because I think inside of that, when you talk about the four different things you guys are doing will really help kind of backfill the rest of what you were previously talking about.   Daniel Holmlund (00:18:55) - Yeah, it's realizing that scale was needed in order to be able to come to the table and get better terms. We've launched the Good Samaritan Capital Growth Fund. It's a 506 C fund for accredited investors, and we are targeting four main strategies which we think are are particularly good in this environment.   Daniel Holmlund (00:19:16) - In fact, I think there's a short window for it in this environment. And the first one is, is new construction. In the short term, we're going to see a lot of cash flow crunches. And so I want our focus to be on the areas where we can deliver for our investors, and that's in long term, long term growth. So we're looking at new construction, particularly new construction of land that is already permitted and already has the the architectural diagrams signed off by the counties. So we come in, we'll buy the land, the permits and the diagrams and then partner with new construction companies in order to build midsize multifamily 30 to 40 to 50 units. That's strategy number one. Strategy number two is, is a continuation of our previous flight to quality strategy, where we invest in multifamily that is long term and is either A-minus or B+. And usually I like to see some sort of tax abatement. Taxes are the largest expense in a multifamily deal. If you can reduce that expense, which a lot of a lot of municipalities right now are offering tax abatements because there is an increase in affordability.   Daniel Holmlund (00:20:34) - So the county is coming in and helping you subsidize your your renters in many cases. And there's different types of deals. The second and third, I'll do really quickly, there is an opening right now for pref equity deals are beginning to become cash flow constricted and maybe they just need to finish off the last couple of units that they're doing. So there's a pref equity play which is in high demand right now. The the drying up of of markets and the unwillingness of banks to lend or the or only lend to large players has created a vacuum there. And there's an opportunity to step in with pref equity. And then just slightly further up on the. Capital stack is the mezzanine debt. There's a great opportunity for mezzanine debt financing as well. So the long term plays are the new construction and the value add and the shorter term kickers that generate a kick in the fund are the pref equity and the mezzanine debt. And so those are the areas we see as being good places to target this year.   Sam Wilson (00:21:36) - Daniel And then.   Daniel Holmlund (00:21:37) - Probably next year.   Sam Wilson (00:21:39) - Absolutely. No, that's incredibly insightful. I mean, we could spend the next two hours really just breaking down each of those different components, how you vet, how you choose to work along, who you choose to work alongside and, you know, not winding up like you did in 2008, owning assets that you don't necessarily want. You know, how do you guys structure? And we could get into all of that. So maybe you need to come back on the show and we'll re re kind of go or not recap but go through all of those and get it get a little bit deeper. Dive into that. For those of you who don't know, Daniel was one of the early people here on the podcast that came on. Daniel, last time you were on the show, it was December 16th, 2020. And you goodness, I know you were episode number 17, So thanks again for coming. Oh, you came on early, man. Thanks for giving thanks for gambling on me.   Sam Wilson (00:22:31) - Certainly appreciate you having you come back on the show here today. Daniel, If our listeners want to get in touch with you and learn more about you, what is the best way to do that?   Daniel Holmlund (00:22:38) - You can reach me at Daniel at Good Samaritan capital.com and our website Good Samaritan capital.   Sam Wilson (00:22:45) - Good Samaritan capital.com or Daniel at good Samaritan capital.com make sure we include all of that there in the show notes Daniel thank you again for coming on today I do appreciate it.   Daniel Holmlund (00:22:54) - Thank you very much.   Sam Wilson (00:22:55) - Hey thanks for listening to the How to Scale Commercial Real Estate podcast. If you can do me a favor and subscribe and leave us a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, whatever platform it is you use to listen. If you can do that for us, that would be a fantastic help to the show. It helps us both attract new listeners as well as rank higher on those directories. So appreciate you listening. Thanks so much and hope to catch you on the next episode.  

Welcome to the 16th season of "Relevant Or Irrelevant"!Neil Dahlstrom, Branded Properties and Heritage Manager at John Deere, is the guest for "ROI" episode 527.  He joins the group to talk about "Tractor Wars:  John Deere, Henry Ford, International Harvester, And The Birth of Modern Agriculture."The host for this edition is John Kealey, and the history buffs are Jay Swords and Rick Sweet.Opinions expressed in this program are those of the hosts and the guest(s), and not necessarily those of KALA-FM or St. Ambrose University.  This program is recorded at KALA-FM, St. Ambrose University, Davenport, Iowa, USA!

BONUS DISCUSSION:  Welcome to the 16th season of "Relevant Or Irrelevant"!Neil Dahlstrom, Branded Properties and Heritage Manager at John Deere, is the guest for "ROI" episode 527.  He joins the group to talk about "Tractor Wars:  John Deere, Henry Ford, International Harvester, And The Birth of Modern Agriculture."The host for this edition is John Kealey, and the history buffs are Jay Swords and Rick Sweet.Opinions expressed in this program are those of the hosts and the guest(s), and not necessarily those of KALA-FM or St. Ambrose University.  This program is recorded at KALA-FM, St. Ambrose University, Davenport, Iowa, USA!

Doug Tolbert headed to retirement after a 46-year run at Graniterock.His last day was May 12, 2023.The Gilroy resident started his long career in 1977 at the Berryessa asphalt plant, which has been closed for many years.He's also served as a loader operator unloading rail cars at Berryessa and Capitol and has been responsible for the Company's recycling operations.Since 2015, Doug has served as project manager at the Aromas hot plant.In addition to these roles, Doug was asked by Bruce Woolpert in 1992 to restore the Company's 1942 steam locomotive, engine number 10, which was originally used to haul rock at the A.R. Wilson Quarry.Doug spent five years rebuilding the historic locomotive to running condition. The train is now housed at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento.Doug has also spent his Graniterock career overseeing maintenance and decoration of the Company's antique vehicle fleet, which includes a 1950 Ford mixer truck, 1928 AA dump truck, 1948 International Harvester tanker and 1920s Austen motor grader.He has taken the vehicles to many community events and parades on weekends during his Graniterock tenure.“Doug was one of the kindest people you would ever meet.  He sincerely enjoyed coming to work every day to help make our operations more efficient and productive,” Stuart Mager said. “He willingly passed his vast knowledge of materials plants to other team members he worked with.  He had such a long history at Graniterock that he knew where all the bones were buried, so to speak.  If we ran into a challenge with the plant that we could not solve, Doug usually knew how to solve it and knew where we could find replacement parts somewhere at one of Graniterock's other sites, which kept plant downtime to a minimum.”Doug is passionate about fixing old cars and trucks and fishing.He plans to spend retirement between his homes in Shasta and Gilroy.Best wishes, Doug!

All of us have heard of the cola wars, the tennis shoe wars, and certainly the PC wars. But the tractor wars?Neil Dahlstrom is a historian and archivist for John Deere, and he's the author of Tractor Wars, a historical narrative of the race to be the top manufacturer of power farming at the turn of the twentieth century. Will it be International Harvester, Ford, or the much smaller player, John Deere?Neil's book is a story of what-ifs, including pricing wars, business rollups, marketing insights, and bold moves by Henry Ford.

The home of International Harvester, Fort Wayne, Indiana, was once dubbed "The Truck Capital of the World".  Ryan Duvall is not only a dedicated International Harvester enthusiast and collector but the Founder of Harvester Homecoming.  Harvester Homecoming is a dedicated group of locals, including many former International Harvester employees, working to establish the Fort Wayne Harvester Historical Fund and host the largest annual International Harvester truck show in the world to bring the one-time "Truck Capital of the World" back to the forefront of the city's identity.On this episode, Chris and Ryan discuss his passion for International Harvesters and the brand's deeply embedded truck history in Fort Wayne, Indiana.  Ryan shares his insider knowledge of Volkswagen's resurrection of the Scout brand in the form of an electric vehicle and his meeting with the Scout CEO, Scott Keogh.Follow the podcast on Instagram and Facebook @classic4x4_trucks, check out our website at classic4x4.com and reach out if we can help you sell your classic, custom and modified truck or 4x4. Thanks for listening!

My guest in this episode is Dr. Naomi Lamoreaux. She explains how antitrust enforcement has changed since its lax era of the 1980s. She adds that it's not just antitrust, patent law, which is seemingly a highly technical field of law, is also a product of our political system. Dr. Lamoreaux takes us back to John D. Rockefeller, to the days of Standard Oil, to how the term antitrust was adopted and how the scope and enforcement of antitrust has ebbed and flowed over the centuries. This history is replete With colorful characters such as Judge Learned Hand and later Judge Bork, and iconic companies such as General Electric, International Harvester, and United States Steel Corporation, and organizations such as labor unions, NAACP and the Ku Klux Klan. Dr. Lamoreaux is a professor of Economics and History at Yale University's Department of Economics. She is also a Senior Research Scholar at University of Michigan Law School To learn more about Lamoreaux, you can visit her academic homepage. In addition, below are links to two fascinating episodes: S2E40: OPEC, Prices At the Pump & Oil History, Dr. Weaver S2E13: CRISPR Patents, Dr. Zyontz S1E17: History of US Patents, Mr. Pepe & Dr. Brenner I hope you enjoy these episodes. Adel Host of the History Behind News podcast HIGHLIGHTS: get future episode highlights in your inbox. SUPPORT: please click here and join our other supporters in the news peeler community. Thank you.

Country Music legend Craig Morgan will headline the Marshall-Putnam County Fair 2023. According to the announcement made Tuesday morning, tickets to see Craig Morgan with opening acts Joe Stamm (Acoustic) and Whiskey Bent, will headline the Fair on Thursday, July 13th in the Grandstands in Henry, Illinois. From the official announcement from Fair organizers:  "The Marshall-Putnam County Fair Board is excited to announce the headliner for the 2023 Marshall-Putnam Fair! This year, Craig Morgan, a country music icon, TV personality, celebrated outdoorsman, and patriotic Army veteran, is coming to the Marshall-Putnam Fair! As one of country music's best-loved artists, Morgan has charted 25 songs on Billboard and thrills massive crowds with signature hits including “Bonfire,” “Almost Home,” “Redneck Yacht Club,” “International Harvester,” “This Ole Boy,” “Soldier,” “Wake Up Loving You,” “That's What I Love About Sunday” and his faith-filled tribute to his son Jerry, “The Father, My Son, and The Holy Ghost.” Local favorites Whiskey Bent and Joe Stamm will be opening the show!"  The concert takes place in Henry, Illinois, at the Marshall-Putnam Fairgrounds. Gates will open at 5:30 PM, and the show will start at 7:00 PM. Tickets will go on sale Friday, March 3, 2023, at 8 AM. Tickets can be purchased at www.marshallputnamfair.org. Drew Herridge with the Marshall Putnam County Fair was our guest on Wake Up Tri-Counties on Tuesday, February 28th, to talk about the announcement of this headline act... 

It's almost planting time here in Saskatchewan and it's already started in some parts of America. And who is it that does the planting?????? Why the hard working farm guys and gals. And so my friends , give a listen to some of the greats that sing about things that in some way relate to life in and around the farm. I think you might be surprised. JOHN DENVER kicks things off but JOE DIFFIE , MERLE HAGGARD, LITTLE JIMMY DICKENS and so many more have a lot to add to the show. You might learn about JOHN DEERE GREEN and even what an INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER has to do with our country music.

 The first #Whataburger location in Cherokee County opened Thursday with drive-thru only services, and the district manager for the restaurant said that the lines were long, but fast moving. For Thursday's opening, private security and Woodstock Police Department officers were present at the restaurant. Officers at #Whataburger said that traffic along Highway 92 continued to move smoothly throughout the day. Cones were placed near the entrance of the restaurant to allow drivers easy access to both Whataburger and Truett's Chick-fil-A next door.The restaurant opened at 11 a.m. Thursday and will remain open 24/7. The Whataburger drive-thru features double lanes and digital menu boards. Dining room access, ordering via the #Whataburger App and Whataburger.com, curbside and delivery will be available within the next few weeks. The #Woodstock location marks the second metro Atlanta opening, after Whataburger opened a restaurant in Kennesaw in November. Nine additional restaurants are planned for the Atlanta area in 2023, according to Whataburger. Planned locations include Cumming, Buford, Athens, Dawsonville and Snellville. The Cherokee County School District announced Wednesday the winners of the district's first #Minecraft Programming Challenge. One winner was selected for the middle school and high school division. This team was twin eighth-grade brothers Aidan and Andrew Dyke of Teasley Middle School. For elementary school, the first-place winner was fourth-grader Brando Bellini of #Bascomb Elementary School, with fourth-grader Everett Hutchins of Sixes Elementary School placing second and fourth-grader Henry Oh of #Avery Elementary School placing third. Winning students were presented with certificates and prizes by #CCSD Instructional Technology Specialist Merry Hofmeister. The challenge, organized by CCSD's Office of Technology and Information Services, builds upon the school district's nationally recognized use of "Minecraft: Education Edition," the school version of the popular video game, to further engage students in learning. For the past three school years, CCSD has sponsored different student challenges using #Minecraft, but this school year it offered the first competition focused on computer programming. Elementary and middle school students from across the district were challenged last semester to use code in Minecraft to program building a home. The #Woodstock Summer Concert Series returns to the Northside Hospital-Cherokee Amphitheater May 13, the city announced. Mayor Michael Caldwell first announced the lineup Friday during his State of the City Address. The first headliner in the series performing May 13 is county singer-songwriter #CraigMorgan, with hits like “Redneck Yacht Club” and “International Harvester.” June 10, Woodstock is inviting Grammy-winning Australian-American artist #RickSpringfield, known for "Jesse's Girl." Next, July 8, the amphitheater will welcome #UptownFunk, a #BrunoMars tribute band. Concertgoers will enjoy some of the biggest hits from #VanHalen August 12 from tribute band #CompletelyUnchained. Woodstock will close out the concert series September 9 with #DrivinNCryin'. The Woodstock Summer Concerts are free, held at the Northside Hospital-Cherokee Amphitheater. For more information head over to Woodstock Concert Series dot com.  The Original Hot Chicken is bringing Nashville-style hot chicken to Woodstock at its grand opening today featuring renowned competitive eater Joey Chestnut, prizes and entertainment.  The Atlanta-based Experiential Brands restaurant is located on 180 Parkway 575 in Woodstock and is scheduled to open at 11 a.m.  #JoeyChesnut who was ranked as the world's best competitive eater by #MajorLeagueEating, will be attempting to eat the restaurant's mac and cheese for five minutes straight. He will be available for a fan meet-and-greet and signings afterwards.  The first 50 guests will receive bags of free sponsored goodies. A chicken dance contest will start at 12 p.m. and crown a winner to a $200 gift card. Free food samples of varying hot sauces will also be available throughout the afternoon. The event will host a live DJ as well as a live art installation by #Roodoodles, a South Carolina artist named #MichaelHaun who specializes in watercolor art of roosters.  The menu includes chicken tenders, wings, sandwiches and waffle meals. The corn-flake-battered chicken is served with six sauce level options ranging from "No Heat" to "Xtra Hot." Meals can also be served with their signature "Come Back" sauce, a side of coleslaw, fries or mac and cheese.  Among their dessert options are an array of milkshakes, banana pudding and fried Twinkies. The restaurant also serves six beer options.  The Cherokee girls picked up their seventh straight win Tuesday night as it beat Region 5 seven A foe Wheeler 77-49. The Warriors' best stretch of the season continued as they have beaten teams by an average of 33.9 points since Dec. 30. Cherokee,  which remained undefeated in the region and leads Walton and North Cobb in the standings, will search for a regular-season region sweep of each over the next two games. Continuing her stellar junior season, Toni Warren led Cherokee with 24 points against Wheeler. Alex Whitecliffe finished with 16 points, followed by Riley Simmons' 13 points and Elle Kenney's nine. Beyond Warren, multiple contributors have stepped up for Cherokee. Whitecliffe, Simmons, Lyla Griffith and many more have rapidly improved for a lineup riddled with young talent. Cherokee's schedule played a role in getting its young lineup ready for region play. It matched up with River Ridge, Lumpkin County and Lovejoy in the first three weeks of the season, and those three teams have a 51-12 combined record. The Sequoyah Regional Library System held a groundbreaking ceremony January 25 for the Hickory Flat Public Library expansion and renovation. The project includes renovating the existing 10,000 square foot building, which opened in 1993, and expanding it by an additional 7,800 square feet. Construction on the project will begin this month, with an expected completion date of about 12 months. When it reopens, the library will have more space for books and technology; larger areas for programs, meetings, collaboration and creation, and additional seating for study and quiet reading. Hollandsworth Construction is handling the construction. The total construction contract for the project is $6.7 million and is funded through Cherokee County's Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax. Additional funding includes $2 million from a Capital Outlay Grant, administered by the Georgia Public Library Service. The building is closed to the public for the entirety of the construction. 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Howdy! In this episode, we talk about healing, and also about what Matty Healy has been up to at his music concerts. I almost called this episode "Matty Healing" but figured that would be a stretch. But that's a pretty good name for a thing, right? Maybe for his eventual solo album? Matty, call me. We also talk about Michael discovering the concept of heartburn as a child, what trauma means to us, and the song International Harvester by Craig Morgan. It's a very My Ex & I kind of episode, ya know? Anyway, hope you're having a good day!

Allen Morris joined his father at The Allen Morris Company in 1980 at the age of 28. Since then, his company has developed 85+ successful award-winning commercial and mixed-use projects with $8.025 billion in business volume. Their portfolio of development projects includes the Florida headquarters for AT&T and multiple district headquarters for Bell South, Florida Power and Light, IBM, Unisys, International Harvester, General Motors Acceptance Corporation, and Lockheed Martin, amongst others. Allen believes his company's legacy of success is due to its unwavering commitment to placing the client's needs first, guaranteeing satisfaction, and delivering what they promise.   I'm excited to be talking to Allen about his recently published book, All In: How to Risk Everything for Everything that Matters, which he wrote as a roadmap for how men can achieve greater effectiveness, fulfillment, and influence when they allow themselves to be vulnerable. He shares what happened when he had a serious accident flying an airplane and why it inspired him to really make his life count. Allen also discusses the connection between old wounds and intense emotions and why understanding that connection is so impactful for inspiring leaders.   “I should not have survived an engine failure at night in an airplane over a wooded residential area — and it gave me a seriousness about wanting to really make my life count and to use my days as best I could.” - Allen Morris   “We can lose our connection to the truth about ourselves and those around us because we've shut out our awareness of emotions.” - Allen Morris   “Old Wounds and intense emotions have a profound, lifelong influence on our lives that we may not realize.” - Allen Morris    This Week on The Wow Factor: Why Allen found his calling in the family business despite initially seeing it as a stepping stone to other opportunities How Allen's father built the Allen Morris Company How the business has grown and evolved over the years Some obstacles to a leader's personal success and what Allen has learned from his own leadership experience How Allen got burned out when he overcommitted, the physical symptoms it produced, and how he got to the heart of the issue Why our subconscious is actually outside of our everyday awareness Allen's experience of going to AA meetings and how they helped him despite him NOT being an alcoholic The value Allen finds in taking part in a circle of grace, creating a space of safety, and being honest with no judgment Why people can be so defensive about change   Allen Morris' Word of Wisdom:  Anyone aspiring to be an influential leader understands that it's got to start with you. You need to discover what is holding you back personally and where you can grow more deeply and find more freedom in your personal life because what happens there will be reflected in your business.   Connect with Allen Morris: The Allen Morris Company Website all in: how to risk everything for everything that matters by W. Allen Morris All in Leaders Website   Connect with The WOW Factor: The WOW Factor Website Connect with Brad Formsma via email Brad Formsma on LinkedIn Brad Formsma on Instagram Brad Formsma on Facebook Brad Formsma on Twitter  

What's on your bucket list? Thinking of skydiving or perhaps bungie jumping? Or maybe trying a unique fundraiser is more your speed. That's the story behind this week's Around Farm Progress podcast.Curt Arens with Nebraska Farmer share the story of a trip taken by Dick and Carolee Ourada from Imperial, Neb., to Fairbanks, Alaska. The Ouradas made the trip by tractor, specifically an International Harvester 574, traveling at the top speed of 20 mph.

When Eric Tessmer isn't on the road touring with his band, he is planning epic trips to buy and tinkering on early International Harvester light and medium duty trucks.  As a Wisconsin native, growing up in the International Harvester homeland, Tessmer developed his love affair with music and classic trucks through a kind of familial osmosis.  Both his grandmother and father played guitar and his father and uncle always drove International Harvesters and Dodge Power Wagons.  Tessmer moved to Texas straight out of high school and he quickly garnered a formidable reputation there for his fierce fretwork, explosive live performances and his collection of 1937 to 1961 International Harvester 4x4s.  In addition to his career as a successful musician, Eric chronicles his epic adventures, on Instagram @bareknucklebinder, saving early IHs from destruction after decades of neglect, getting them running and road tripping them thousands of miles back to Texas.On this episode, Eric and Chris discuss his early years growing up on a farm in Wisconsin to becoming a legendary Austin, Texas based musician.  They also discuss his early IH collection and his last two wild trips from California to Texas in rescued rare early IHs that had been sitting since the late 90s.  Follow the podcast on Instagram and Facebook @classic4x4_trucks, check out our website at classic4x4.com and reach out if we can help you sell your classic, custom and modified truck or 4x4. Thanks for listening!

This week on AgweekTV, a Danish company is coming to Minnesota to turn manure into energy. Five friends open a new business in their North Dakota hometown to take the stress out of butchering. Small growers are getting a boost from the University of Minnesota to take their business to the next level. And we'll meet a farmer who stays out of the red — with vintage red.

One thing you can count on in this world is change. At some point, things are gonna change. You're having the wrong time, going through a tough time, and having the best day, month, and year of your life. Give it a minute; it will change.In this episode of the David Spisak Show, David talks about change and why it's essential to adapt and embrace change.It might be scary to think about change. Many of us would like to avoid any kind of change, no matter how tiny. Nevertheless, change is a necessary component of your personal development path and, most importantly, should be welcomed. The change affects every aspect of life, but accepting change in your professional life, for example, can make a significant difference in your ability to grow personally.Any company in today's fast-paced world hoping for a slowdown in the rate of change will be very dissatisfied. The population is changing, consumer preferences are changing, technology is changing, and the economy is changing. Businesses that resist change risk becoming out-of-date and unable to compete in the market today, turning into dinosaurs. We see dominant companies. At some point, they were the dominant organization in the sixties, like International Harvester, where Pan American was the number one airline, but where are they today?They're gone. Maybe it's companies like Blockbuster who dominated the video rental business and sold for billions of dollars. Where are they now? They're gone. Why? They didn't change, reinvent, rethink, redeploy their resources, put their head down, and were convinced that if they just kept doing what they were doing, sooner or later, the world would adjust to them.With me not being exempted from change, I need to change, and I must embrace change because I've invested over four decades in the automotive and transportation space, and I have a lot of companies I do business with in that space, on the technology side, on the vendor solution side, and on the dealer side. And so I really want to focus sometimes. In that space specifically, because changes are not coming. Changes are here.Looking back to the last two and a half years, dealers have enjoyed some of the most significant profitability, most of them, the best profitability they've ever achieved in the history of their organizations, and it's been tremendous, which completely changed the auto industry.After 2021, a notorious year that brought about significant changes prompted by supply chain concerns and the coronavirus epidemic, the automotive industry might never be the same.Due to unusually low vehicle inventories, strong consumer demand, and a shortage of automobiles and trucks, supply chain challenges also resulted in record prices and profits.Electric vehicles, supply chains, and new competitors were among the changes in addition to the supplies and prices. As we sit here heading towards the end of the year, we're literally weeks from the end of the year, and we'll be moving into 2023. And as we do, everything is changing yet again. Everything, not one thing, not some things. Everything. The used car market is a shift. The credit market is changing. Interest rates continue to rise. Inflation continues to be stubborn. OEMs are also trying to find their footing as they go forward in 2023 and beyond. EVs will continue to have a larger and larger imprint and impact on our industry. Everything's shifted.Join me being the most exciting time in my 41 years in the retail automotive industry as we continue to enjoy some very good, solid profitability while On the other side of a razor-thin line is unprecedented uncertainty that's driven by a lot of things from EVs to autonomous, to connected car, to software servicing over the year to something called the agency model.Listen to the full episode to get insights on shifting your mindset and understan

One thing you can count on in this world is change. At some point, things are gonna change. You're having the wrong time, going through a tough time, and having the best day, month, and year of your life. Give it a minute; it will change. In this episode of the David Spisak Show, David talks about change and why it's essential to adapt and embrace change. It might be scary to think about change. Many of us would like to avoid any kind of change, no matter how tiny. Nevertheless, change is a necessary component of your personal development path and, most importantly, should be welcomed. The change affects every aspect of life, but accepting change in your professional life, for example, can make a significant difference in your ability to grow personally. Any company in today's fast-paced world hoping for a slowdown in the rate of change will be very dissatisfied. The population is changing, consumer preferences are changing, technology is changing, and the economy is changing. Businesses that resist change risk becoming out-of-date and unable to compete in the market today, turning into dinosaurs. We see dominant companies. At some point, they were the dominant organization in the sixties, like International Harvester, where Pan American was the number one airline, but where are they today? They're gone. Maybe it's companies like Blockbuster who dominated the video rental business and sold for billions of dollars. Where are they now? They're gone. Why? They didn't change, reinvent, rethink, redeploy their resources, put their head down, and were convinced that if they just kept doing what they were doing, sooner or later, the world would adjust to them. With me not being exempted from change, I need to change, and I must embrace change because I've invested over four decades in the automotive and transportation space, and I have a lot of companies I do business with in that space, on the technology side, on the vendor solution side, and on the dealer side. And so I really want to focus sometimes. In that space specifically, because changes are not coming. Changes are here. Looking back to the last two and a half years, dealers have enjoyed some of the most significant profitability, most of them, the best profitability they've ever achieved in the history of their organizations, and it's been tremendous, which completely changed the auto industry. After 2021, a notorious year that brought about significant changes prompted by supply chain concerns and the coronavirus epidemic, the automotive industry might never be the same. Due to unusually low vehicle inventories, strong consumer demand, and a shortage of automobiles and trucks, supply chain challenges also resulted in record prices and profits. Electric vehicles, supply chains, and new competitors were among the changes in addition to the supplies and prices. As we sit here heading towards the end of the year, we're literally weeks from the end of the year, and we'll be moving into 2023. And as we do, everything is changing yet again. Everything, not one thing, not some things. Everything. The used car market is a shift. The credit market is changing. Interest rates continue to rise. Inflation continues to be stubborn. OEMs are also trying to find their footing as they go forward in 2023 and beyond. EVs will continue to have a larger and larger imprint and impact on our industry. Everything's shifted. Join me being the most exciting time in my 41 years in the retail automotive industry as we continue to enjoy some very good, solid profitability while On the other side of a razor-thin line is unprecedented uncertainty that's driven by a lot of things from EVs to autonomous, to connected car, to software servicing over the year to something called the agency model. Listen to the full episode to get insights on shifting your mindset and understanding why I'm doing what I'm doing. Join David's free weekly coaching call: Visit https://linktr.ee/spisakd for all our links Updates here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/davidspisakscommunity/  Like this show? Please leave us a rating and review where you're listening right now!

Dan Hayes, Founder of the Binder Boneyard, is a preeminent International Harvester light truck restorer, builder, historian and collector.  The Binder Boneyard is a full-service restoration, sheet metal repair, and modification shop focussing on vintage International Harvester products, as well as the manufacturing home base for the Harvester Hardware line of products made specifically for IHC light duty trucks.On this episode, Dan and Chris discuss Dan's early life, the roots of his IH passion and how the Binder Boneyard came to fruition.  Also, they discuss some IH history and unique restorations Dan and his Team has built for customers. Follow the podcast on Instagram and Facebook @classic4x4_trucks, check out our website at classic4x4.com and reach out if we can help you sell your classic, custom and modified truck or 4x4. Thanks for listening!

Episode 639 - Craig Morgan is a First Class Father, US Army Veteran and Country Music Star.  Craig has had many chart hits, including "That's What I Love About Sunday", which spent four weeks at the top of the Billboard country charts.  Other Billboard top ten hits include: "Almost Home", "Redneck Yacht Club", "Little Bit of Life", "International Harvester", "Love Remembers", and "Bonfire".  Craig has a new memoir available now titled GOD, FAMILY, COUNTRY: Soldier, Singer, Husband, Dad—There's a Whole Lot More to Me.  In the book, Craig opens up about his time as an elite military operator, teaming with the CIA and more to parachute into the Central American jungle, bust up human trafficking rings in Thailand, and even run a cover operation in Iraq at the height of his career. In this Episode, Craig shares his Fatherhood journey which includes five children.  He describes his transition out of the military and into the world of Country Music.  He discusses his faith, the fatherless crisis and the need for more patriotism in America.  He talks about the tragic loss of his son and how he opens up about it in his new book GOD, FAMILY, COUNTRY.  He offers some great advice for new or soon-to-be Dads and more! God, Family, Country: A Memoir https://a.co/d/6D4n6vK FamilyMade - https://familymade.com First Class Fatherhood: Advice and Wisdom from High-Profile Dads - https://bit.ly/36XpXNp Watch First Class Fatherhood on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCD6cjYptutjJWYlM0Kk6cQ?sub_confirmation=1 More Ways To Listen - https://linktr.ee/alec_lace Follow me on instagram - https://instagram.com/alec_lace?igshid=ebfecg0yvbap For information about becoming a Sponsor of First Class Fatherhood please hit me with an email: FirstClassFatherhood@gmail.com

Join Mark Kastel, nationally prominent industry watchdog with OrganicEye, with thoughts on what we can do to protect the organic farming movement. OrganicEye is an organic farming movement located in Lafarge, Washington. OrganicEye started as a values-based industry. It was built on a loving, collaborative relationship between family-scale farmers and shoppers willing to pay for food produced based on superior environmental stewardship, humane animal husbandry, and economic justice for the people who produce our food. OrganicEye's mission is ensuring these values and commitments are not compromised in the modern food system. Mark lives on a 160-acre organically managed farm in the rugged hills of southwestern Wisconsin, near the tiny burg of Rockton, where, as executive director of OrganicEye, he continues to advocate for economic justice for family farmers and to preserve the foundational precepts of organic farming.  Tune in to hear all about how Mark and his organic movement make an impact on organic farming today! You'll hear: How Mark got interested in agriculture 1:34 Mark's first introduction to organics 4:18 Why we need a watchdog when working with organics 11:39 Mark's view on the overarching principles of organic 29:25 How we can get people to switch their focus back from healthcare to healthy food 35:52 The challenges and problems with faux milks 51:31 How Mark advises families to differentiate real organic from factory, corporate organic 55:25 What Mark has to say about buying from a grocery store versus a local farmer 59:45 Mark's favorite farming tool 1.07:25 About the Guest: Mark Kastel is Executive Director of OrganicEye, a prominent organic industry watchdog. Making the paradigm shift to organic agriculture after beginning his career with International Harvester, JI Case, and the FMC Corporation, he's been a certified organic farmer, a consultant to farmer co-ops, a lobbyist with the Farmers Union, and, since founding The Cornucopia Institute almost 20 years ago and then OrganicEye in 2019, has been recognized as the country's preeminent corporate and governmental watchdog in organics. After OrganicEye relocated from Washington DC earlier this year, he once again maintains an office on his 160-acre farm near La Farge, Wisconsin. Resources: Website: https://organiceye.org/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/organiceye.org  The Thriving Farmer Podcast Team would like to thank our amazing sponsor! At AgriGro, we know that in today's modern agriculture, our efforts can deplete life or add life. When you look for ways to add life, it's sustainable and makes everything work better. The result is enhanced plant and soil health for crops, gardens, and turf, as well as improved animal health and environment for livestock and wildlife. Our products are all-natural, easy to use, and friendly to the soil, the plant, as well as the grower. AgriGro's® formulations deliver essential plant nutrition along with an advanced prebiotic concentrate, which significantly increases the multitude of beneficial native microbial species already residing in the production environment. Through these environmentally sound technologies, we're adding life to crop production, livestock, home, turf, and wildlife markets. You don't have to be dependent on crop production efforts that deplete life… Just Add Life with AgriGro®.

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In the small quaint town of Springfield, Oh life on a normal day seems joyful and quiet. Springfield has many nicknames, like the Champion City, named after the large farm equipment manufacturer that eventually would be known as International Harvester. The city is also known as the Home City or the City of Roses, each portraying a warm and kind city in the heart of the state of Ohio. It is home to one of the country's oldest universities, Wittenburg University with it's campus of rolling hills and beautiful oak trees. Springfield has many beautiful parks for people to walk, play, and just relax. But on the night of July 9, 2007 the darkness of this quiet town hid the act of a horrible human being. That night the calm of the city was disturbed by the call of a Springfield City Police Officer stating he may have hit a person lying in the dark street of a city park. The officer had come upon the body of Miss Buffy Jo Freeman. She had been badly beaten and possibly strangled to death by a monster in the dark. Today Buffy's killer has not been exposed and they are the only one to know about her One Bad Night in the Park.Please Listen to the podcasts and where available leave a comment or suggestion. We are trying to improve everyday!!Contact Info:Springfield, Oh City Police Department - (937) 324-7680email: coldcase@masonohioschools.comtwitter: @MHSColdCaseInstagram: @coldcasemhsFacebook page: MHS Cold CaseMusic:Purple-Planet Music: purple-planet.comJenna Brant: Cold Case - produced by NoriaSpecial Thank You:Detective Lieutenant Kristopher Shultz - Clark County Sheriff's DepartmentClark County Coroner's OfficeSpringfield City Police Department

It's episode 106 and the Sinister Sisters' Wordle game is strong. Not our Quordle game though. Now that shit is hard. In today's episode, Erin travels to Colorado for the case of Adolph Coors III. The heir to the multimillion dollar Coors Brewing Company fortune goes missing on his way to work and his car is found abandoned on a bridge. The only clue detectives have is a ransom note with concise directions that must be followed that the kidnapper promises will ensure Coors' release. We bet you can't read the words International Harvester without singing them. Follow us on Instagram! (https://www.instagram.com/sinistersunrisepodcast/?hl=en) Have a personal story or a topic recommendation? Send it to our email! (sinistersunrisepodcast@gmail.com) If you are enjoying the podcast and want to show your support please leave us a rating and review on Apple Podcasts! (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sinister-sunrise/id1498268800) If you want to look into these topics yourselves, below are the sources used: (https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/-a-look-back-at-the-coors-kidnapping-case);(https://www.fbi.gov/history/artifact-of-the-month/march-2017-coors-kidnapping-ransom-note);(https://www.denverpost.com/2009/08/29/adolph-coors-murder-notorious-killers-quiet-end/); (https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/coors-brewery-heir-is-kidnapped);(https://longreads.com/2017/09/26/the-death-of-an-heir-adolph-coors-iii-and-the-murder-that-rocked-an-american-brewing-dynasty/)

Episode 29 of The Hitstreak, a podcast where we talk about anything and everything!  This week, we talk with Danny Myrick, an extremely successful songwriter, based in Nashville, TN.Danny has not only stayed relevant, but has thrived for over 30 years in the Music Industry.  Let us know in the comments what YOU want to hear about next!  About our Guest:  Muddy water Mississippi preacher's kid Danny Myrick grew up playing, singing and writing for his family gospel band in south Mississippi and had his first #1 gospel song at the age of 17.  Upon moving to Nashville, Danny had several more southern gospel and Contemporary Christian hits before founding 90's country rock band Western Flyer, with whom he had numerous top 40 hits.  Danny has gone on to have cuts on a diverse range of artists from Montgomery Gentry to Joe Cocker to Maddie & Tae and has celebrated many hits, such as Craig Morgan's “International Harvester, Tim McGraw's “Truck Yeah”, LoCash's “I Love This Life” and 2009's most played country smash, “She's Country”. In 2020, Danny released his first solo EP “King Of Jones County”, featuring the acclaimed song and video “God Is A Gun”, and produced recent #1 albums “Love Out Of Time” by The Voice Season 17  winner Jake Hoot and “Company's Comin' by Actor/Comedian/Social Influencer Leslie Jordan featuring Chris Stapleton, Dolly Parton, Brandi Carlile, TJ Osborne and more.  Follow and contact: Instagram: @dannymyrick Facebook.com/dannymyrick

Today's guest is Neil Dahlstrom, the archivist and historian for John Deere and author of Tractor Wars: John Deere, Henry Ford, International Harvester, and the Birth of Modern Agriculture. In today's episode, business wars hits the farm! Neil's book is a case study on the evolution of the tractor industry and it's importance during a time the world was experiencing a global plague, World War & food shortages.  We touch on all the major players, including a young Henry Ford. We even walk through he different strategies each company took around pricing and distribution.    As we wind down, we touch on the future of the industry with things like autonomous tractors and drone technology. ----- Follow Meb on Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube For detailed show notes, click here To learn more about our funds and follow us, subscribe to our mailing list or visit us at cambriainvestments.com ----- This episode is sponsored by AcreTrader. AcreTrader is an investment platform that makes it simple to own shares of farmland and earn passive income, and you can start investing in just minutes online. For more information on how to become a farmland investor through their platform, please visit acretrader.com/meb.

"Before John Deere, Ford, and International Harvester became icons of American business, they were competitors in a forgotten battle for the farm. From 1908 to 1928, against the backdrop of a world war and economic depression, these brands were engaged in a race to introduce the tractor and revolutionize farming." Neil Dahlstrom is the author of The John Deere Story: A Biography of Plowmakers John and Charles Deere, and Lincoln's Wrath: Fierce Mobs, Brilliant Scoundrels, and a President's Mission to Destroy the Press. Since the release of these two books he's built a career in corporate archives, agricultural and brand history. Today, Neil is the Manager of Archives and History at John Deere. Neil has appeared on The History Channel, NatGEO, PBS, and Book TV. He's a member of the Kitchen Cabinet, the Food and Agriculture Advisory Board of The Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and was recently chair of the Society of American Archivists Business Archives Section and the Illinois State Historical Records Advisory Board. Listen to this episode in which he discusses the little-remembered story described in his latest book, Tractor Wars: John Deere, Henry Ford, International Harvester, and the Birth of American Agriculture. You can learn more about this book, as well as Neil's other works at his website, www.neildahlstrom.com. Follow him on Twitter @neil_dahlstrom or connect on Facebook @authorneildahlstrom. His books are available through Amazon or other booksellers.