33 - Don’t Neglect Your Soul | Mindy Caliguire
12/06/22 • 64 min
As business leaders, entrepreneurs, employees, and even ministry and church leaders, we all, at some point, reach a period of burnout, right? The relentless drive to pursue our duties and daily tasks sometimes lead us to a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion leaving us overwhelmed, emotionally drained, and unable to clearly see our goal and our vision. But as sons and daughters of God, aren’t we called to live a life of peace and serenity while pursuing productivity in doing God’s work? Why then do we feel burned out if what we’re doing is God’s mission for us?
We explore this topic today with our guest Mindy Caliguire of Soul Care. With the realities of burnout rearing its head among people in ministry, herself once included, Mindy sees the critical need to address the issue. She suggests methods of centering oneself to avoid falling into weariness and breakdown. She details ways and programs that her organization offers help to people who are finding themselves stuck and in need of change and restoration.
Key Points From This Episode:
- An overview of Soul Care.
- Mindy’s background and the pivotal moment that led her to found Soul Care.
- How systemic the realities of burnout are for people in ministry and how this can be avoided.
- Best practices to overcome burnout.
- What changes has Mindy seen in people’s lives with the help they received from Soul Care?
- Mindy’s advice on how to slow down and be still.
- How our drivenness and busyness prevent us from hearing God.
- Surprising lessons Mindy learned from her journey of needing soul care to providing soul care.
- Ways that Mindy helps leaders through programs and Whisper Ranch.
- Mindy answers the Mentor Minute Questions.
Links Mentioned:
Discovering Soul Care by Mindy Caliguire
Spiritual Friendship by Mindy Caliguire
STIR: Spiritual Transformation In Relationships by Mindy Caliguire
Download Free ebook: Write For Your Soul: The Hows and Whys of Journaling
Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God by Dallas Willard
As business leaders, entrepreneurs, employees, and even ministry and church leaders, we all, at some point, reach a period of burnout, right? The relentless drive to pursue our duties and daily tasks sometimes lead us to a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion leaving us overwhelmed, emotionally drained, and unable to clearly see our goal and our vision. But as sons and daughters of God, aren’t we called to live a life of peace and serenity while pursuing productivity in doing God’s work? Why then do we feel burned out if what we’re doing is God’s mission for us?
We explore this topic today with our guest Mindy Caliguire of Soul Care. With the realities of burnout rearing its head among people in ministry, herself once included, Mindy sees the critical need to address the issue. She suggests methods of centering oneself to avoid falling into weariness and breakdown. She details ways and programs that her organization offers help to people who are finding themselves stuck and in need of change and restoration.
Key Points From This Episode:
- An overview of Soul Care.
- Mindy’s background and the pivotal moment that led her to found Soul Care.
- How systemic the realities of burnout are for people in ministry and how this can be avoided.
- Best practices to overcome burnout.
- What changes has Mindy seen in people’s lives with the help they received from Soul Care?
- Mindy’s advice on how to slow down and be still.
- How our drivenness and busyness prevent us from hearing God.
- Surprising lessons Mindy learned from her journey of needing soul care to providing soul care.
- Ways that Mindy helps leaders through programs and Whisper Ranch.
- Mindy answers the Mentor Minute Questions.
Links Mentioned:
Discovering Soul Care by Mindy Caliguire
Spiritual Friendship by Mindy Caliguire
STIR: Spiritual Transformation In Relationships by Mindy Caliguire
Download Free ebook: Write For Your Soul: The Hows and Whys of Journaling
Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God by Dallas Willard
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32 - Building and Leading A Mission-Oriented Office | Dr. Richard Baxter
Listen to today’s episode with Dr. Richard Baxter of Alabama Tongue-Tie Center and find some answers. Having gained an eternal perspective on his business and life mission early in his career, Richard’s dental practice was shaped and influenced by his quest to fulfill God’s purpose for him. His dental office in Alabama carries all the touches of his mission to build a Christian-based office with the primary goal of serving kids and families troubled by tongue-tied conditions as well as reaching out to unreached and unengaged people groups. Click now and be inspired by his stories.
Key Points:
- How Richard started his dental career and why he focused on tongue-tied children?
- How his mission with Tongue Tie has had global reach.
- Richard talks about the unreached people groups and how he got introduced to the call to finish the Great Commission.
- Richard describes what it is like being under David Platt’s tutelage.
- How did having an eternal perspective early on impact the way Richard planned his life and career?
- What is Reach the Rest and what impact has it created?
- What is the M Power approach and how teaching skills to indigenous groups help open doors for evangelizing?
- How Richard designs, brands, and operates his office with the intention to be Christian-based and inclusive in orientation.
Links Mentioned:
Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream by David Platt
Pray the Word Podcast with David Platt
Money, Possessions and Eternity by Randy Alcorn
The Treasure Principle by Randy Alcorn
Miracle at Tenwek: The Life of Dr. Ernie Steury by Gregg Lewis
About Richard Baxter DMD, MS
Dr. Baxter is the founder and owner of the Alabama Tongue-Tie Center. He is an internationally recognized speaker on tongue ties, instructor of the comprehensive course Tongue-Tied Academy, and author of the best-selling book “Tongue-Tied: How a Tiny String Under the Tongue Impacts Nursing, Speech, Feeding, and More.”
Dr. Baxter enjoys spending time with his wife, Tara, who is a nurse practitioner, and his three girls, Hannah, Noelle, and Molly. And, since he had a tongue tie himself, and all three of his daughters were treated for tongue- and lip-ties at birth, this field is a personal one.
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34 - Sanctifying Your Investment Portfolio | Don Simmons
Do your investment dollars serve God’s purpose? As investors, it is our responsibility to ensure that the companies or sectors that we are putting our money into are engaged in businesses and practices that reflect our moral and ethical values and promote God’s kingdom. But, avoiding “sinful investments” is not enough. Shouldn't our portfolios be holy as well?
Investment advisor Don Simmons of Steward Advisors Group joins us today to talk about sanctifying our investment portfolio by integrating faith into how we invest our financial resources. We should go beyond simply shunning errant businesses and start pursuing God’s redemptive purposes by investing in “great commission companies”, he says. Listen now and find out how you can simultaneously achieve your investment goals while fulfilling God’s purpose and making Him known in the marketplace. Start building a holy portfolio now!
Key Points From This Episode:
- Overview of Don Simmons’ endeavor to promote business as a tool for mission and ministry.
- Don explains the meaning and nature of “oikonomos”.
- Where did Don gain the perspective and understanding of God's ownership and stewardship?
- How Don defines impact investing.
- Don’s backstory of how he got involved in business as a mission and impact investing.
- Unexpected lessons that Don learned from his journey through faith-driven investing.
- What is Don’s general rule of thumb for fixed investments versus variable portfolios based on age which can also be applied to kingdom-focused investments?
- ROI when investing in virtuous companies versus vice-type businesses
- What is the best investment Don has ever made with his time, talents, and treasure?
- Don talks about Steward Advisors Group.
- An example of impactful investment in Ethiopia
- Don cites some setbacks that taught him valuable lessons.
- Don answers the mentor-minute questions.
Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:
Faith in the Halls of Power by Dr. Michael Lindsay
About Don Simmons
Don is a thirty-year veteran investment advisor and CFP® Professional managing nearly a quarter billion dollars of assets through the boutique investment firm he founded in 1988. Don knows about the power of using investment capital to build people and communities through transformational businesses. He served with a London-based economic development fund where he coordinated a global management team that deployed dozens of mentors and coaches as well as financial capital to businesses in more than twenty countries among the most impoverished communities in the world.
For individuals, Don combines his expertise in portfolio asset allocation, his diligent study of the Scriptures regarding our role as stewards of God’s money, and his passion to teach people the power their assets can have when deployed to expand God’s kingdom.
The Kingdom Investor - 33 - Don’t Neglect Your Soul | Mindy Caliguire
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EPISODE 33
[INTRODUCTION]
ANNOUNCER: Imagine taking your generosity to the next level, impacting more lives, and leaving a godly legacy for generations to come. Get ideas and strategies to do just that when you listen to these personal stories from high-level Kingdom champions.
The Kingdom Investor Podcast showcases business leaders who have moved from success to significance, sharing how they use worldly wealth for K
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