Hello, welcome back for season two of the Excel Stillmore podcast. I am your host, Chris

Emerson, and I'm here to encourage you with tips and strategies to help you build stronger

relationships, deepen your faith, and just get the most out of your life. Thank you for

joining. Let's get started. Welcome back to the program. I'm so thankful to get to share this topic

with you today. It's something that has shaped the way that I

preach and teach here at Lindale. I think it's shaped the way that we've interacted with others and the

results are evident. And I was just trying to figure a way to talk to you about how to empower

individuals to growth. I will say that this topic in particular feels a

little bit different than what we normally do in this program. If you look back over the past 80, 90

episodes, very rarely am I speaking to you saying, let me show you how you can change other people.

Let me give you information that can directly affect the way you shape your children, your spouse, your fellow brothers and sisters.

That's just not the way we approach things around here. Instead, as you

probably well know, these episodes are about you changing you. They're about self-evaluation,

looking at the stress in your life, trying to speak last in conversations, any number of episodes. And indirectly, it has an effect.

If you just work on you and you figure out how to get better, the people around you begin to notice that,

and usually they are attracted to that change. That's the ordinary way we do episodes, but today is

a little bit different. We are directly considering things you can do, yes, for yourself, no doubt,

but more to the point to get other people engaged. Now, what ultimately gave me some comfort to talk to you about that

was the fact that I do it with this program every week. I mean, the more I thought about it,

I researched topics for myself. I try them, pray about them, see how they work in my life.

If I notice some things that I'm proud to see, I sit down in front of this computer and I try to

empower the individual to try it as well. And the individual, of course, is you. I am speaking to

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