The episode you're about to listen to was released back when the mere Christians podcast was called the call to mastery

Now if you love mere Christians, you're still going to love these older episodes because the majority of each

conversation focuses on how the gospel influences the work of our guests. With that disclaimer out of the way, please enjoy the episode. Hey everybody welcome to the call to mastery. I'm Jordan Rayner. This is a

podcast for Christians who want to do their most exceptional work for the glory of

God and the good of others. Each week I'm bringing you a

conversation with a Christ follower who's pursuing world-class mastery of

their craft. We're talking about each gets path to mastery in their career. We talk about their daily habits and how their faith influences their work.

Today you're going to hear from my good friend David Block. David is the founder of Prevenex, which is essentially Toms for

Vitamin. So buy a nutritional supplement for Prevenex and they give a packet of their

supervites, their supervitamins to malnourished children all around the world.

David's had an incredible track record of extraordinary success in his life.

He was a scholarship athlete at UCLA. He's a

graduate of Pepperdine law school. He was a hedge fund manager and a Wall Street

analyst named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the top stock pickers in all of America.

And it was there on Wall Street that David, one, met Jesus, and two, saw how the health and wellness industry was in desperate need of redemption and

Prevenex is really part of his answer to that need for redemption and part of the

Lord's call on his life. So in this episode we talked about David's leap of faith to give away vitamins to malnourous kids even before it made sense financially on paper which was a tough thing for a former Wall Street analyst to do. We talked about the wild story of how he came to

faith in Christ at the age of 30 and how three separate street preachers in three subway cars

in a row helped make this happen.

And we talked about what Abraham and Joseph

and other biblical characters

can teach us about patience and perseverance in our work.

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