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What's up guys? Welcome back to the Encounter Now podcast. My name is Nick. I'm here joined with my wife, Chelsea. Today we actually dive into a really, really cool topic that I am really passionate about, about hard work and talent. And this conversation was really interesting. It took a lot of different turns and dynamics,

but overall I think it was really beneficial for us,

and I think that it will be really beneficial for you.

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Hello, all my podcast friends.

Today, Chelsea and I are going to be talking about talent and hard work and

the differences between the two and I'm pretty excited yeah what what can happen whenever they

both can join well Nick I think it would be really interesting to hear your perspective on this

simply because you grew up on a farm you have family who really instilled the hard work aspect into you,

and you weren't always a Christian. You didn't always have the desire to preach the gospel

and stand up on stages and tell people about Jesus and see people saved. That's what Nick is really

passionate about, guys. I mean, this is just one avenue to be able to do that.

But at least as his wife, I've got to observe just how his qualities that have been instilled in him since he was young have played out in our marriage and the way that he works and everything.

So I would love to hear what you were always taught with hard work and then also

maybe like your perspective on what talent is and all of that. Sure. Yeah. I think in synopsis form,

what I was really taught growing up is that you can't choose how talented you are, but you can't

choose how hard you work. And sometimes that'll beat out other

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