Welcome to Exploring the Marketplace Micos is Bob Hassan and we are creating a conversation with Christian Marketplace leaders who have careers that have been impacted by their faith.

We are also answering your questions about entrepreneurship, business leadership careers and how the Kingdom of God changes your impact in the marketplace. Come join the conversation now.

Welcome to Exploring the Marketplace. I'm Bob Hassan. I'm with my friend Sean Bulls. Sean, who do we have on today?

I always love doing our show because we're going to hear the most fascinating people in their stories about how God brings them into places that they would have never gotten to without God. That's one of our goals.

And today we have Dr. Matthew R. Coots and he's married to his best friend of the lifelong love and G together they have two grown sons, 11 Paris, Bergo, Hyal.

But he's the doctor of athletic training and a clinical professor at the program at Florida International University, but he also is focused on a new program that he has called contextual intelligence profile, which he developed and designed to assess the contextual intelligence behaviors of individuals and organizations.

And today Matt's training programs and contextual intelligence profile have been used by executives, managers, members and staff of multinational, and Fortune 500 companies, universities, professional associations, churches, governmental agencies, and NGOs in several countries.

I mean, this guy is just absolutely phenomenal. And I think one of the things I'm going to ask about is like, there's a lot of people who listen to our show who are coaches, life coaches, business coaches.

And then there's a lot of people who are like looking for that impact in their life. And the fact that he uses doctoral degree and actually had, I believe a God moment, we're going to find out on how he got this program in the first place. I think it's going to be really fascinating.

I think it's going to be fascinating also. Well, up next, Dr. Matt Coots.

Bob, you and I are passionate about people in the marketplace being equipped to hear God's voice. And so we put together a book. Tell us about it. It's called Wired to Hear. And 99% of us are out in the marketplace. We're not in the professional vocational ministry.

And this book is for you if you want to learn how to hear God in the marketplace.

And it's very practical, but it's also very in depth and spiritual with actionable steps. Great chapters about defining your process when you're trying to hear God's voice. And I just think with the expertise of my coaching and Bob's long term career and advice giving, you're going to feel the most of us together.

Something synergized that's really beautiful. And it's just for you get wired to hear at bulls ministries.com. And you're also going to get a free teaching series only available if you buy it from us at bulls ministries.com with business leaders just like you who are sharing their process of hearing God's voice, how they are wired to hear.

And it's going to so help you as Bob and I navigate these conversations. They're going to bring the book home into your everyday practice. It's your book today.

Welcome back. Matt. Welcome to the show. I'm so glad to be here. Thanks so much. Well, we're we're geeking out on your contextual intelligence profile assessment. This is pretty amazing. But we're going to hear the story before we go there. I want to talk all about this because it's so cool.

Before we go there, how did you become the athletic director at Florida International University? Like how did this happen? It's like it's on your journey. How you got involved in these spaces. Oh my goodness. So it's a long story. It's, it's an athletic trainer. So athletic trainer is a little bit different than the athletic director.

But in the athletic training world, that's the sports medicine space. So they were the people who, you know, run out on the field with somebody gets injured and we do the injury evaluation and then and then, you know, the rehab and return to play criteria and all that stuff.

It's, it's been a great ride for me and it started. I've been doing this for almost 30 years. I'm in my 28th year of being an athletic trainer as my primary profession and the interesting thing about that is I grew up a pastor's kid. So I grew up, you know, in the church. I grew up, you know, my dad was a very prophetic man and grew up at what we called the Ohio prophetic conferences back in the 80s and 90s and just that was my life.

I was going to be a pastor of profit. You know, I was going to be an international global apostolic prophetic. I mean, that's that was my dreams, prophetic. You'd be full. I don't want to name drop, but I've got prophetic words from everybody who's ever put written a book.

God, I've got a file for that's literally phone book thick of all the prophetic words over my life. And so that was what I was going to do, right. So I'm in college. It's my sophomore year in college.

And I started majoring in athlete training. I want to think my dad made me do is he says, you will not major in Bible studies, theology or anything that you're going to be able to do something when you're done, you know, with college. You're going to have something. So I remember having a conversation with my freshman or my sophomore year.

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