Don’t Put Your Purpose in a Holding Pattern w/ Dr Joseph Walker
Keep it Positive, Sweetie
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4.9 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Keep it Positive, Sweetie, host Crystal Renee speaks with Dr Joseph Walker III about his journey into leadership, starting from his early days in the church at 24, navigating faith, loneliness, marriage, and legacy. They discuss his new book 'Pursuit of Purpose: Peace by Piece,' which reflects on understanding life's challenges as pieces of a bigger puzzle, leading to purpose and peace. Bishop Walker shares insights on stewardship, humility, the importance of empathy in leadership, and finding purpose amidst pain. He also talks about the balance between pastoral duties, family life, and entrepreneurial ventures, emphasizing the significance of recognizing and nurturing one's unique purpose.
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| 0:00.0 | Calling all my sweeties to the forefront. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm your host Chris Renee Hazel and this is the Keep It Posit Sweetie Show. |
| 0:07.0 | Bishop Walker is widely known for his leadership, influence, and reach. |
| 0:14.0 | But today's conversation is about the weight that comes with that responsibility. |
| 0:18.0 | From stepping into leadership at a very young age |
| 0:21.1 | to navigating faith, loneliness, marriage, and legacy, |
| 0:25.0 | this is a chance to hear how he carries leadership |
| 0:27.1 | beyond the pulpit and how he continues to go through it. |
| 0:30.6 | Kids family, please give a very warm welcome |
| 0:32.9 | to the incomparable Bishop Joseph Walker, the third. |
| 0:38.7 | How are you, Bishop? |
| 0:39.8 | I'm great. I'm great. I'm here with you. Wow. You finally get you here. Oh, gosh. I'm so honored to be here. No, I'm excited. When you hit me and said, you got a new book. It was a no-brainer. I wanted to have you on. I'm excited to finally have you on with us. I know that this is going to bless |
| 0:53.5 | some people. Thank you. And your new book |
| 0:55.5 | Pursuit of Purpose, Peace by Peace, |
| 0:57.4 | is I'm excited to finally have you on with us. I know that this is going to bless some people. |
| 1:00.3 | And your new book, Pursuit of Purpose, Peace by Peace, is literally you're the one who has pursued purpose and done it very well. So I'm excited to get into that. But before we dive into |
| 1:04.9 | the book, I definitely want to talk to you about your journey. You started in the church at 24, |
| 1:09.9 | or your own church at 24 years old. But before |
| 1:13.7 | that, how did we get there? Isn't that crazy? Like, yeah, you know, so I grew up in church in Louisiana |
| 1:18.3 | in Shreveport, and I was the first musician of drums in my church. And so we introduced the |
| 1:24.7 | drum. My dad was like, you're going to have to work and do well in school to play the drum. So that was like an incentive thing for me. And so, but I've always grown up in church and understood the nuances of church, kind of a church kid. Right. And so, but I had in my mind, like I was going to be a lawyer because my, my siblings, I had, you know, two siblings. there were judges, another sibling was attorney. |
| 1:45.4 | So for me, it was about law, law, law, law. |
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