Today's guest is the author, mentor, speaker and pastor of the North Coast Church based in

beautiful Vista, California. His church has an estimated congregation of more than 13,000

people. Pastor Larry Osborne joins us today to discuss why the best speakers don't win

speaking awards, but they win the hearts of people. Why you want a best practice for the

size of your organization and not just a best practice, why you must create margin, downtime,

and space to scale your organization. Why Pastor Larry Osborne considers himself to be a beaver,

why he has all of his staff days on Tuesdays, why he believes that the people in academia

have a tendency to talk in a manner that no one understands. All this and much, much more

are interview with Pastor Larry Osborne, coming up next.

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Two men, eight kids co-created by two different women, 13 multi-million dollar businesses,

ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the thrine time show.

Yes, yes, yes, and yes, Thrive Nation. Welcome back to another exciting edition of the

Thrive Time Show on your radio and podcast download. And on today's show, we are interviewing

the pastor, the author, the mentor, the speaker of the North Coast Church based in beautiful Vista,

California. His church now is an estimated congregation size of 13,000 plus people on any given

Sunday. Pastor Larry Osborne, how are you, sir? I'm doing great. Thank you. Good to be with you.

Sir, I have to ask you this because your church is massive now and therefore I'm getting a little

nervous. It's a big church, but I would like to start off at the bottom. Where did you,

where did your ministry begin? Where did the church begin? I know if you had a church of 10 people

or a church of 13,000, you would still be doing this, but how did you start?

Well, I found a real interest in the Bible as a new Christian about my senior year, a high school,

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