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Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Episode 304: Lou Jarvis, Married Father of 4, Financial Setbacks

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8839 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Lou Jarvis, my long-time friend from our missions in England, joins us to talk about his business career. Lou, a business owner in Arizona, experienced financial success until 2008. Lou then bravely shares his story of making several major financial errors that led to Lou losing just about everything and total despair in an empty condo in Irvine, California in 2010. Lou talks about the cycle of looking back, ruminating, and wishing he could re-do several decisions and how he still gets triggered about these decisions even though he is very blessed. If you are living in a cycle of regret for decisions you’ve made that really can’t get undone, please listen to Lou’s podcast. He is honest and vulnerable and has insights to help all us of look forward. Thanks for being on the podcast, Lou. You are a great man, friend and someone I deeply admire and respect.

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0:00.0

Welcome to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love, hosted by Richard Osler.

0:14.0

My guest on today's podcast is my friend and former missionary companion from the England-Manchester Mission,

0:20.9

Lou Jarvis. Welcome to the podcast, Lou.

0:24.9

Hey, Richard, how are you? Good to be with you today.

0:27.9

It's good to, I never thought we'd be doing a podcast together.

0:30.7

I think of missionary visits we had in the Manchester, England mission back in 1980, 81, 82.

0:38.2

You were one of the very best missionaries that I looked up to and had this huge heart

0:42.8

and helped so many people come to Christ through our restored church.

0:47.6

And Lou and I are going to talk about a topic we've never talked about on this podcast.

0:52.4

It's about Lou's career as a business owner in Arizona.

0:59.4

And Lou has had some of the highest ties and the lowest lows as a business owner.

1:03.6

And about a week ago, he opened up to me about some of the regrets he's made in his career and just how he processes that.

1:15.1

And he was pretty open and vulnerable.

1:16.6

And I thought there's probably a lot of other men and women that have started businesses

1:21.1

or have just had careers that at times they've made decisions that are kind of undoable in the sense they can't go back and redo those decisions and how you play that again and again in your mind.

1:34.5

And Lou has made some great decisions and some did not so great decisions.

1:39.6

And I thought this would be helpful for any of you out there that just regret decisions you've made, but have to find a way to move on.

1:47.5

And they're just kind of not undoable decisions.

1:51.0

Sin sort of most of the time completely undoable that we can repent and become clean unless our choice has affected somebody else.

1:59.4

But financial decisions and career decisions sometimes are kind of undoable.

2:04.2

And so, anyway, I just thought we'd have Lou on the podcast to share his insights, and he's kind of courageous and vulnerable.

2:11.9

But Lou is married, has four children, eight grandchildren, Lou and Don Jarvis, or dear friends.

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