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Emily Lex: Identity in Christ

Emily Lex: Identity in Christ

On this episode of By His Grace, I interview artist and author, Emily Lex. Emily believes our passion and purpose   play out over the seasons of our life.  Our conversation centers around, the importance of knowing our identities in Christ, and tells us about the freedom and lightness that is found in Christ.She shares her journey of becoming an artist and working with watercolors. She believes the job of an artist is to look into the world, find God’s beauty and capture it, and share it with the world. At the end of this episode, Emily offers a beautiful prayer for the weary woman. 

Emily shares about her journey of spiritual formation,She explains spiritual formation begins with acknowledging the way that you’ve been doing things is no longer working and letting go of the external things. So you can live open-handed to allow God to put back into your hands the things that are from Him.. Living open-handed allows her to give the good things that she’s received back to the world.

Acknowledge there is a problem. Let go of the things that are keeping you bound, and keep you looking for your identity in places it can never be found. Learning to trust that God is good and accept the good gifts that he has for you so that you can give those to the world.

In her newly released book, Freely and Lightly:God’s Gracious Invitation to a Life of Quiet Confidence chronicles her of journey waking up to the ways she was searching externally for validation  and significance in external places it could  never be found, and the beautiful way God invited to live the life of quiet confidence. 

Key Takeaways 

  • “The Christian faith is all about allowing Him to continually transform us.” 
  • “When God looks at us, He sees His son.” 
  • “If you are tired, you can come to Him.” 
  • “As I follow Him, He will continue to offer freedom and lightness.” 

Resources

Connect with Emily on social media! 

The Harmon Brothers on Entrepreneurship

The Harmon Brothers on Entrepreneurship

In this episode of By His Grace, I interview three of the Harmon Brothers. We had a powerful discussion on God and business. They shared insight into the strategy that helps them to work together as brothers, where they find their value and success, and how to handle failures in business and in life.

VidAngel Co-Founders Neal and Jeffrey Harmon discuss success with their projects Dry Bar Comedy and The Chosen, the largest crowd-funded television series in history. There new global brand Angel Studios is crowdfunding a film studio platform that helps creators come together with viewers to create high-quality TV and film without Hollywood.

Harmon Brothers are the Provo, Utah-based ad agency behind the greatest viral ad in internet history. Since 2013, the company has created numerous groundbreaking, distinctive social media spots, which collectively have over 1.3 billion views and have helped their clients to sell over $350 Million in products and services. 

Key Takeaways 

  • “Relationships are more important than business and money.” 
  • “Nothing sells better than the truth.” 
  • “Each Christian has our own cross to bear and call on Christ for His help to bear.” 
  • “Our value doesn’t come from success or failure, our value comes from the growth that we have as we fail and as we learn from our failures.” 
  • “Eventually, we will succeed. That’s our destiny as children of God.” 
  • “We don’t derive our value from the fact that our business failed or the fact that our business succeeded.”
  • “I do think it’s possible to maintain your values and remain in business at the same time.” 

Resources 

Connect with the Harmon Brothers on Social Media! 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/harmon.brothers/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/harmonbrothers

Twitter: https://twitter.com/harmonbros

Harmon Brothers Bios

Jeffrey Harmon is the Chief Content Officer at Angel Studios, the new platform for community-backed film making. In this role, Harmon has led the development of the hit series The Chosen as well as Dry Bar Comedy and will work to help creators with more than 300 new projects over the next five years. He was co-founder of VidAngel, a streaming platform empowering parents to remove distasteful elements from movies and TV shows streamed on Netflix, Amazon, and HBO on Prime, and also a co-founder at Harmon Brothers, one of the world’s leading creative advertising agencies known for hit campaigns like Squatty Potty, Chatbooks, Lume, and Purple. 

While still a student at BYU, Harmon earned a reputation as an early digital marketing pioneer when he emerged as the primary architect of a YouTube campaign advertising a product called Orabrush. With more than 50 million views, that campaign was ranked in the top ten social media campaigns of all time and catapulted the Orabrush Tongue Cleaner from zero retail presence to being stocked on shelves in more than 30,000 stores in 15 countries, proving that products could be marketed digitally to consumers.

Daniel Harmon is Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Harmon Brothers, a Provo, Utah-based ad agency behind the most viral ads in internet history. Under Harmon’s creative direction, the agency’s groundbreaking ads have collectively driven more than 1 billion views and over $350 million in sales.

While receiving his degree in Advertising, Harmon learned from his door-to-door sales job that the key to successful salesmanship was truly believing in the product. Harmon then started his ad career as a copywriter at DDB Chicago and VSA Partners where he worked on campaigns for global brands such as McDonald’s, Dell, Caterpillar, Harley-Davidson, Avery Dennison, and GE Healthcare. Following this, he transitioned from business to business sales manager for an interstate battery franchise, where Harmon learned how to develop and nurture long-term relationships with customers.

But it was his work on a breakout campaign for Orabrush that paved the way for the definitive work that would follow. In 2013 as a co-founder of Harmon Brothers, he helped write and creatively direct a campaign for Poo~Pourri that revolutionized the way products are marketed. Harmon Brothers have produced internet advertising blockbusters such as Squatty Potty, Purple, Chatbooks, FiberFix, and Poo~Pourri.

He is also the host and creative teacher at Harmon Brothers University, a new school for creators seeking to learn the Harmon Brothers method.

Neal Harmon is CEO and co-founder at VidAngel. Prior to VidAngel, Neal served as Co-founder, COO, and Board Member at Orabrush as well as co-founder at Harmon Brothers, a marketing services company responsible for a variety of viral ads, for clients such as PooPourri and Squatty Potty.

As CEO of VidAngel, Neal has led the company through a variety of challenges and successes, including major lawsuits from Hollywood studios, bankruptcy, the development of VidAngel Studios, the creation of Dry Bar Comedy, and distribution and growth of The Chosen.

Neal is proficient in 10 computer programming languages and has a bachelor’s degree in American Studies and a master’s degree in Instructional Psychology and Technology.

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Ginny Owens: Walking Through Darkness in Faith

Ginny Owens: Walking Through Darkness in Faith

On this episode of By His Grace, I interview Ginny Owens. Ginny became a household name as the Gospel Music Association’s 2000 New Artist of the Year. Growing in notoriety as both a singer and a songwriter, winning 3 Dove awards and multiple ASCAP Awards along the way, Owens has sold over a million records over the course of her career. A top performer on the Christian radio charts with hits like “If You Want Me To,” “Free” and “I Wanna Be Moved” among others, Owens has released no less than 11 full albums and 3 EPs, and her music has also impacted mainstream audiences at Lilith Fair, the Sundance Film Festival and the White House.

Ginny and I discuss the importance of holding on to faith despite our circumstances. In the face of hardships outside of her control, Owens adapted and overcame. She relies on the truth in scripture and the songs sung in seasons of darkness to inspire and encourage others. In the interview, she drives home crucial points about the strength we find in a relationship with Jesus, our response to life’s challenges, and the sufficiency of the Lord to meet our every need.  

Key Takeaways 

  • “Jesus is our best friend.” 
  • “Believe His strength is our only hope.” 
  • “His voice has to be the loudest thing in our hearts.”
  • “His song has to be the thing that’s on repeat.” 
  • “Being honest about our weakness helps us to form true strength.” 
  • “Whether you can see or not, we all face some sort of darkness.” 
  • “Who do we want more than God and why?” 
  • “What does it mean for us to look to Him as our true source and to praise Him no matter what is going on?” 
  • “I will keep saying what my mind knows is true and finally my heart is going to catch up.” 
  • “Come to Him. He is everything we need.” 
  • “No matter what kind of fire we’re walking through, He wants to hold us through it.” 

Resources 

Ginny’s website: https://ginnyowens.com/home/

Ginny’s new book: https://www.amazon.com/Singing-Dark-Finding-Songs-Scripture/dp/0830781870/

Connect with Ginny on Social Media! 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ginnyowensofficial/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GinnyOwensMusic

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ginnyowens

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Brittany Hebert Franklin: A Journey To Help End Childhood Cancer

Brittany Hebert Franklin: A Journey To Help End Childhood Cancer

On this episode of By His Grace, I interview Brittany Hebert Franklin. Brittany is the founder of Sky High for Kids. She shares her testimony of obedience and faithfulness and her journey to help end childhood cancer. We speak about trusting in God and His sovereign plan and we hear the story of how God has worked in her life and through her nonprofit.

Key Takeaways

  • “There is a light at the end of the tunnel and He will expose that if you will listen.”
  • “He will do far more than anything we can ask or think.”
  • “If you have a passion, it’s time to put it into action.”
  • “The answer is always no unless you ask.”

Resources

Sky High for Kids: Skyhighforkids.org

Connect with Brittany and Sky High on Social Media

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Katy McCown: Confidently Choosing Faith over Fear

Katy McCown: Confidently Choosing Faith over Fear

In this episode of By His Grace, I interview Katy McCown. Katy is a homeschooling mother of six, a wife, conference founder, and a writer. We discuss the importance of spending time with the Lord, the necessity of walking in faith over fear, and some practical tips for living out faith during difficult times.

Key Takeaways 

  • “I need to spend less time doing and more time being with Jesus.” 
  • “Nothing else that we do will be accomplished as effectively unless it flows from the place of us being filled up in the presence of the Lord.” 
  • “We sit in the presence of the Lod and He pours into us and then what we pour out is the overflow from Him.” 
  • “We’re allowing for God to pour into us so that we have the strength to do what He has called us to do.” 
  • “When we can’t see God’s will working in our lives, we can still trust that He is good.” 
  • “God is good and His purposes are good.” 
  • “He will meet you in His word.” 
  • “Sometimes what I think that it should look like isn’t want He sees.” 

Resources 

Katy’s Website: https://katymccown.com

Katy’s Conference: http://shelaughsconference.com

Katy’s Bible Study: https://katymccown.com/shesmileswithoutfear/

Proverbs 31 Ministries: https://proverbs31.org

Connect with Katy on Social Media! 

Instagram: https://instagram.com/katymccown

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/katymccown7

Twitter: https://twitter.com/katymccown7?s=21

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