Cultural Catalysts with George Kamel || What Does God Want With My Money?

The Kris Vallotton Podcast

Kris Vallotton

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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In this week's episode of Cultural Catalysts, Kris sits down with George Kamel, co-host of The Ramsey Show and author of "Breaking Free from Broke." George shares his fascinating journey from growing up in an Arabic evangelical Baptist church to becoming a millionaire by following the Ramsey principles. Together, they explore the biblical perspective on wealth, challenging common misconceptions about money in Christian circles and unpacking the powerful difference between stewardship and ownership. George offers practical wisdom on breaking free from debt, making wise financial decisions, and building true wealth that extends beyond just money. Ready to break free from the chains of our cultural financial system? This conversation will inspire you to take your first steps toward financial freedom! Get Georges Book: https://store.ramseysolutions.com/money/books/breaking-free-from-broke-by-george-kamel/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=1380373388&gbraid=0AAAAADHbtLcU33oMrrQ9jOgomiKCbhST1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwm93DBhD_ARIsADR_DjEHF5yDErDFkOyzSyuxov-WgdsDSaLAssWfge8uej-XlXPJSSQPeQkaApBLEALw_wcB Connect with Kris Vallotton: Website: https://www.krisvallotton.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kvministries/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kvministries/ X: https://x.com/kvministries Additional Resources by Kris Vallotton: https://shop.bethel.com/collections/kris-vallotton About Kris Vallotton: Kris Vallotton is the Senior Associate Leader of Bethel Church, Redding, and is the Co-Founder of Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry (BSSM) and Spiritual Intelligence Institute. He is also the Founder and President of Moral Revolution and a sought-after international conference speaker. Kris and his wife, Kathy, have trained, developed, and pastored prophetic teams and supernatural schools all over the world.

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0:00.0	Hi, Chris Valleton here. Welcome to my podcast, where I hope to inspire you to transform the world
0:09.5	within you and transform the world around you. I hope you enjoyed today's episode.
0:15.0	Hi, welcome to cultural catalyst where we teach you how to live fully live, co-labor with God, and change the world.
0:20.4	I'm your host,
0:21.2	Chris Valleton, and I have a really interesting guy on here, George Camel. You're the first
0:27.4	camel we've ever had on here. I want to tell you that right there. Oh, yes. And you are with Dave
0:33.0	Ramsey. You're the co-host of the Ramsey show. And you also have a show called Smart Money Happy Hour.
0:40.8	Yes. And I said earlier, like, is that where you drink so much, you don't care how much money you owe?
0:47.3	I guess that tagline didn't work. I think we get a lot more views if we did that. But unfortunately, no. It's just me and Dave's daughter, Rachel, and we have money conversations in a very casual and entertaining way. So it's kind of like the gateway drug into the Ramsey universe when you're not ready to go full Dave Ramsey and eat the rice and beans, but you're like, I'll kind of sit in the sidelines and have a drink. Oh my gosh. Well, hey, welcome to the show. Thank you so much. I've actually never met you. I've met the other couple guys from Ramsey that we've had on.
1:16.3	I missed you.
1:17.3	Yeah, thanks for being on. Hey, let's start out a little bit. What's your story? Tell us a little bit about your Jesus story.
1:24.0	Oh, absolutely. So I grew up. This is a real thing, maybe your listeners know, Arabic Evangelical Baptist.
1:31.3	I didn't know how weird it was until I moved away from the northeast where I'm from in Boston.
1:37.1	But I grew up going on an Arabic Baptist church. My parents were from the Middle East. They immigrated in the 80s.
1:43.2	And they grew up Christian. And so I kind of grew up in this weird bubble in Boston, this very Italian, Irish, you know, Catholic area in this pocket where we was just the Arabic community. The sermons were in Arabic, but a lot of the kids like me were first generation. So the Sunday school was in English. And so I had a very deep, rich faith
2:02.2	background. What's that? Do you speak Arabic? I actually do speak Arabic. You couldn't tell by my
2:07.0	pasty face, but I understand it fluently. I've lost it a bit after leaving home, you know,
2:13.8	almost 20 years ago now. It's a little bit bit crusty so did you ever have an encounter with
2:19.0	jesus and their your baptist arabic speaking church oh absolutely yeah i mean it was it was one of those
2:26.4	when you grow up in the church it's just a part of your world you're like there's no there's that
2:31.5	weird like wait is there a point where I'm saved?
2:34.9	Is there a point?
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