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a scripture in Isaiah that talks people to ‘do’ and so you can consciousness of the choices
about branding and beauty produce, gives you an identity in that I’d make between desert and
(Isaiah 3:24 NKJV) And He said a title and so you miss who you green places. Many times I am
“I’m going to use you to re-define really are in God. It builds your faced with the Amazon forest
Sales and Marketing. Marketing image in the title but the inside of choice and a desert choice. It’s
is connected with branding; I will likeness or being is a vacuum. And like Abraham and Lot. But that
use you to bring out beauty in the so there’s an image to keep. So thing kept coming to me; it kept
place of branding.” And so initially when you can’t produce anymore reminding me I will make rivers
there was pressure for me do because the ‘what you do’ is flow in the desert and streams of
certain things by the wisdom of depleted you are branded a non- water in dry places, so I’d choose
men so I could become a brand performer and eventually kicked the desert. There are many times
in the market, and connect with out. And at this point most people I got international offers to go
networks. I couldn’t walk in that get into depression because they and do what I do here. The perks
path. I had a mandate to live a no longer have the image they were good, they were going to take
specific way, that contradicted had and don’t know who they are. care of the kids’ education and
with the profile. As I lived it, God God gives me a different sort of everything, but I’d look at it and see
accelerated my performance shift, to focus on ‘be this’. Be a the Amazon forest. So what would
beyond the the expected result. tree that is planted by the rivers come to my spirit would be, so how
And that would be my vindication. of water so that fruit can flow out do I take this and then short circuit
So the definition of God for me of you in season, This is how you the rivers that God wants to flow
for Sales and Marketing has been can be. And when you become, in the desert? I cannot do that. I
just live as He tells you to live so then whatever comes out from cannot become the one who will
that His unseen Value can be you can never be depleted. This is cut off God. So that then became
established through your life as an environment that enables you the thing that was foundational to
He draws people to Himself. So to become like a tree that grows my choices, and it still is till now.
that you’re presenting a different by the rivers and bears fruit in I choose places by the leading
picture of what it is to be in the its season that He gave me as a of the Spirit of God that may not
marketplace as a platform for God model to my team. So that’s the look so rosy because I understand
to show Himself in your space. switch that God has allowed me to that in that space God wants to
have is this, building blocks for the manifest Him. There’s a way that
Where is the place of God in what teams is ‘be’. But the ‘be’ is tied to God wants to do His thing. Let Him
you do, teams, management, God because they can see God at BE the source of who you are and
colleagues, those who you report work in my life. And it’s beautiful. what you’re doing.
to, planning and forecasting, day It has been said that I develop the
to day? strongest teams in the market in How do you manage it all?
I think for me, the beginning is my portfolio. And I bless God for When you have your identity in
God. I have dealt with teams of 20- His establishment. God - God is big - so the space in
25 and my relationship with them God for you to manage things is
first of all is to bring life. If you And with colleagues? broad. God’s hard disk capacity
don’t have life, you can’t produce. God allows me to approach things is unlimited, so when I take it
The corporate market space that from a vantage point, so when I from the identity I have in God, I
demands that you produce. But look at things, God allows me to don’t burn out. But when I look at
the approach God gave me was see things that people can’t see, it from myself in terms of all of
a ‘be this’ because when you ‘be to bring in perspectives that have these things laid before me and
this’, then you can produce this. not been. I think the beginning then begin to operate in them by
So my relationship with my team really just starts with finding your my strength, then I burn out. That’s
is not from the foundation of: identity in God and then standing why I say, what has helped me is
produce this target or do this so on that identity and allowing the understanding my identity in God
that you can produce. It’s from a Spirit of God to make you grow and knowing that because I am in
place of ‘be this’ because when in it. It forms the basis of your Him and He is in me there’s nothing
you are this, this flows out of you interaction with colleagues and too hard, all things are possible.
because of who you are. You won’t everyone else. We now have 2 ½ ‘teenage’ children.
have to struggle. Raising them up in the way of
I had a really dry spell and I God has been our greatest joy.
The corporate marketplace remember God telling me that He God allowed them to be exposed
is a depleting environment. It would make rivers flow for me in to Truth through our father. They
takes away from people. The the desert and streams of water have understanding of Truth as a
marketplace environment uses in dry places. This became my lifestyle and live it. They know that

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