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This is on Daunted Life of Man's podcast.
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I'm your host Kyle Thompson.
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Let's get into it.
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All right, guys.
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Happy Father's Day.
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Father's Day is not a big holiday for most people because this is typically just a day
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to crap on fathers all over the world, but we are celebrating Father's Day by giving
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you a present.
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Right?
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I got you guys a present.
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Right?
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I didn't even get myself a present.
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This is technically my second Father's Day, but I'm not even going to get anything because
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I was working hard for you guys.
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I've got an announcement to make, and that is that we have a new devotional that we are
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launching today.
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Okay?
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It's called how to build a godly and manly foxhole, how to build a godly and manly foxhole.
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So guys, we're going to talk about that a little bit.
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This is going to be a very short episode because basically what we're going to be doing is
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we're going to be releasing every episode or every part of this devotional, every day
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of this devotional for the rest of the week, right?
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So right after the posting of this, I'm going to drop day one of how to build a godly and
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manly foxhole.
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And then every day for the rest of the week, we're going to post the next days, you know,
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whatever lesson, whatever you want to call it, and it's going to culminate on Saturday
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with day seven.
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So before I get into the content of what that is and kind of do an introduction to this
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whole thing, I do want to give a special thank you to our partners and to our donors.
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Okay?
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So back in episode 190, right?
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It is called we're going for it.
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I explained to you guys that we're really going to go for it.
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Like we're really going to do everything that we can to equip men to push back darkness.
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We're going to just try to 10x everything that we're doing, but we couldn't do it without
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you guys, right?
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So a lot of you guys stepped up.
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You stepped up and you became monthly partners with us or even just one time donors and what
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we're able to do with those funds and the focus that we're able to put on this types
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of content.
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It could not have happened without that, right?
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It just couldn't have happened without that.
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So when you guys get to see this devotional and go through this entire devotional, it's
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going to be a big deal for you.
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It's going to be a big deal for the men around you, but we couldn't do that without our partners
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and donors.
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So again, special thank you and another special thank you to some of our team members.
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So these are some of the guys that kind of help with some of the stuff with undaunted
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life.
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They were really integral in the development process of all this kind of helping me process
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the content, you know, kind of get the flow of everything.
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And so by name, Derek Edwards, Derek England, Eric Browning and Matt Grasmire, guys, I really,
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really appreciate everything that you've done for this and just believing in this project
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from the beginning.
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So I want to thank you guys.
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Now, I will go and tell you guys that you're going to be able to access this plan in several
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different ways.
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Okay.
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So the first way to access this plan is on this podcast feed.
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So wherever you're listening to this Apple podcast, Spotify, Google podcast, it or wherever,
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you can just listen to this feed, right?
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So that's going to be again, day one is dropping today and then day two tomorrow, so on and
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so forth until Saturday.
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So you guys will have it all here.
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So that's just if you just want to be able to listen to it.
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Okay.
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Now our website is also a place that you can get this content, but you will actually be
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able to download the content, right?
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We want you to be able to download this audio so that you can have it, you know, on your
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phone or on your iCloud or wherever that you have it so that you can continue listening
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to it, even if you don't have the podcast feed.
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Okay.
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So that is a special link that we'll have there later on in the show, but it'll be in the
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show notes.
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It's undaunted dot life, backslash donate, backslash foxhole.
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Okay.
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So that's a way that you can download this content for yourself.
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And the last way is to get this on the U version Bible app.
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Again, that's one of the most downloaded apps in the history of apps.
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It's the biggest Bible app by any stretch of the imagination, but I will tell you just
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kind of a little bit of a side.
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The content is slightly altered for you version.
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Okay.
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So you version kind of came to me and they're like, we want to do this plan.
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And so it's like, all right, I put this thing together.
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It's an audio plan also with a notes component and then the Bible component.
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But there are a few things that I said during the creation of this devotional that they weren't
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too fond of, right?
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They thought it would potentially be too divisive or too offensive.
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And so we had to kind of go back and forth with them for a couple of weeks.
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So there are slight alterations to the plan on you version.
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So if you do it on you version and then you come over to our website or to our podcast
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feed, just know that it will be slightly different.
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But don't worry guys, you know, I'm not just going to sell myself down the road to piece
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some people that are a little bit sensitive.
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So just know that the content, the meat of the content is still the same.
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Now I do want to talk a little bit about what this content is.
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And I guess the best place to start is why this subject, why do men need to know how
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to build a godly and manly foxhole?
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Okay.
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So we talked about the concept of the foxhole in this podcast before and we've mentioned
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it other places as well, but most men don't have one, right?
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I mean, we keep hearing all the time like, you know, men don't have any friends and men
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are lonely and men are depressed and men don't have anyone they can count on.
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And I kind of extrapolated that out further to say that, you know, a lot of men have six
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PM friends, right?
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Friends that they can call up until about six PM.
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And then after that, they're pretty much not available to you.
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But very few guys have three AM friends where you call this person at three AM.
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Your world's world is falling apart and you can already hear them getting their keys or
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you know, they're putting their gun in their, their holster, like they're grabbing the show,
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but they're assuming we're burying a body.
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They're just armed for bear.
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They're ready to go to serve you and to serve your family and whatever they need to do.
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Most guys don't have those three AM friends.
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Most guys don't have a group of men like that either.
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So we constantly talk about cultivating spiritual, mental and physical resilience.
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And the thing about that is, is it's easy to kind of figure that out for yourself.
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It's not that easy.
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You know, obviously I wouldn't talk about all that, all that much if it was that easy,
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but you can focus on you because you can control the things that you can do.
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But very few men try to cultivate a group of men that are also doing the same thing.
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Men that are surrounding them that are also cultivating spiritual, mental and physical
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resilience.
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I mean, that, that's a, that's a hard thing for most men to even fathom.
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And imagine being in a small, tight knit community of men that are all doing that same thing
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and doing it in the same direction and grounding it in, in Christ and in the gospel and all
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those things.
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That's an amazing thing that men need, but they don't have it.
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They simply do not have it.
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Another reason why I'm, I'm doing this content is because I asked guys a couple of months
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back, I was trying to get some of the guys that I know that have listened to this podcast
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from the beginning to give me some feedback like, Hey, what are like the five episodes?
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Like if you had to encapsulate undaunted life of man's podcast and they're like five episodes
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like this is our philosophy.
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This is what we do.
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This is the best that we can produce.
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And you know, which one, which episodes are those?
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Right?
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And then there were a lot of different episodes that were thrown out.
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There were several dozen suggestions, but every single person, every single one of them
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that I asked for this.
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That's a lot of guys said episode 104 of this podcast called your foxhole.
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And I knew that was an important episode, but I didn't realize it was that important to
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so many people because these are guys from all different kinds of backgrounds, different,
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you know, places in life, different stations in life.
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And all of them said episode four, your foxhole.
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So I was like, you know, why, why is that?
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I asked some guys for feedback and it was just like, man, this is just not something
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that's easy to do.
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Like it's something that's really hard, but like we're thirsty for, we want that.
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And so I just wish I knew how to do that.
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So that is exactly why we're doing how to build a godly and manly foxhole, right?
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Again, we get into all the content there.
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I don't want to kind of rush it at this point because I want you to kind of take this seven
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day journey with us.
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But guys, you need this and I'm going to show you how to get there.
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But here's my call to action.
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Again, this is a shorter episode because we've got a lot of content that we're going to be
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given to you guys over the next week, week and a half or so.
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So number one, okay, listen, absorb and apply this content immediately.
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Obviously you need to listen to it.
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If you're the type of person that likes to listen to it and take notes, I think that
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would be a great thing for you to do on the you version side.
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There are actual notes there that I kind of give you like the highlights of what I'm
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talking about here.
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But I want you to kind of take your own notes and things that are important to you.
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Absorb that kind of bring that into you internally and figure all that out, whatever that looks
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like for you, but apply it immediately.
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Don't theorize about this content.
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It's kind of like those people that never get in shape because they're constantly getting
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ready to get in shape, right?
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Like they're buying the shoes, they're reading about, you know, what types of pavement is
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best to run on and you know, what time of day and what, you know, what a climate and
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like, no, no, put on your shoes and go run, right, throw your gear on and go to class.
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Like it's those types of things.
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Listen to this, absorb it, but then apply it immediately.
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I give you very practical ways to do this.
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So apply it.
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Okay.
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So that's number one.
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Get your men and your church involved in this.
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Okay.
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So around the time that this is being released, I'm actually going to speak at a men's event
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where this is going to be the main focus.
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And this is for, you know, ages 12 and up and it's going to be this big thing.
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It's going to be great, but I'm going to be looking at these men to be like, no, no,
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this is what you need to do.
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You need to develop this type of an atmosphere.
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Okay.
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So the men that are in your life, whether you would call them a foxhole or not, right?
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And if you don't know what that means, you know, definitely take a look at this content
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once it's coming out, but for the men that are around you in your life, whether you
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have a men's group or you have that group of guys that gets together once a month to
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do this, that or the other thing, get them involved in this content.
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Go through this content together.
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If you want to get together at six a.m. and talk about it over coffee once a week, like
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go for it.
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If you want to create this and let this be a seven week plan for you in your group, a
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seven month thing, like let that be what this is also get your church involved.
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Cause as I've talked about a lot, most churches don't have a men's ministry.
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They might do men's events, right?
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Once a year they, they do a chili cook off or they, you know, bring in the retired football
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player to come talk about how you used to chase women and all that.
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Now Jesus has saved him and that's not men's ministry.
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That's programming.
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That's an event.
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So guys, if you want me to come to your church, right?
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Whether you're the pastor or you're just part of the flock, you got to hit me up, right?
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We got the content here.
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We got the ways that you can get ahold of me and get ahold of us through the website.
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Again, just shoot me an email info at undaunted.life.
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I can come to you guys and talk about this content, right?
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We can take even the seven days where I kind of elucidate all these points very tightly
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and we can expand it out even further from that.
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So that's the second part.
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Get your men and your church involved.
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Okay.
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Here's the last call to action for the day before I let you guys get into the rest of
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the content, partner with us to push back darkness.
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Again, this devotional, which we believe that God is going to do an amazing thing and amazing
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work because of the things that we're able to talk about during this devotional, right?
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The words that he gave us to use, but we were not going to be able to do that without partners.
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I said that from the top of the episode.
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Are people that are monthly partners with us are one-time donors?
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When you do those things, we can produce these things, right?
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I said from the beginning, when if you go back to episode 190, you know, we want to do
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more of podcasts.
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We want to do some more devotionals.
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We want to put together some curriculum.
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We want to do all this.
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We want to do all that.
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But when you guys give, that allows us to do those things.
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I know everyone gets a little bit weird about asking for money.
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No, no, no.
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We need your money.
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We need your buy-in because that's what you do when you give money to somebody.
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You tell them, "Hey, I really like your product.
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I really like what you do.
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I want to support it."
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So, "Oh, it's 20 bucks.
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Okay.
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Here's 20 bucks."
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But this is what we've done.
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This is important for any of you guys that are thinking about skipping over this because
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I'm asking about money.
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We did not put a price tag on this content.
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We thought about it.
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We thought about putting 10 bucks, 15 bucks, 20 bucks because we know this is valuable.
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We know this is valuable content for people that people would buy.
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They would give money to, but we don't want to limit to that.
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So if you just want to take in this content for free and just take the free ride, fine.
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I hope you'll apply the content, but we want to leave you guys with the ability to donate
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the amount that you feel like is commensurate with the impact that you've gotten from this
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devotional.
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Okay?
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So, for some of you, we're asking a minimum of $10 because we feel like what we produce
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is a quality thing.
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So that's about the price of a e-book or something like that.
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So 10 bucks.
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But we know other guys are going to go well and above that.
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We know guys are going to become monthly partners with us and we know guys are going to just
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kind of dump, you know, kind of that one time a year of money into our coffers and all
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that.
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And that's how we keep all of this going.
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So we're asking you to please help us push back darkness.
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And that's the specific way that you can do it.
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So again, the calls to action are one, listen, absorb and apply this content immediately.
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Number two, get your men and your church involved and number three, partner with us to push
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back darkness.
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So guys, the quick resilience boost here at the end, again, on Daunted Life, our mission
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is equipping men to push back darkness with content that for just spiritual, mental and
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physical resilience.
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This devotional is certainly part of that.
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The podcast is a part of that.
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So I've got two links for you.
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Number one is the audio download link.
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This is also where you go to become a monthly partner for us, right?
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So if you go to www.undaunted.life/donate/foxhole, right?
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So that's the way to get to it.
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It's going to be in the show notes.
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If you want to check it out later, we would ask that you would make a donation or become
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a monthly partner.
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And then you've got the audio download right there.
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But guys, even if you just want the audio download, you can skip right past it.
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We're not blocking it from you because we want this content in your hands, but we want
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you to partner with us.
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The other link is to the you version version.
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Okay.
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And so that is a version that is slightly altered like I told you from the beginning.
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But if you like to do your devotional through them, you can do it that way.
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All right, guys.
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Thanks so much for listening to this podcast.
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We really do appreciate it.
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Wherever you're listening to this, please subscribe, rate and review.
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If you want me to come speak live at your event or on your podcast, just shoot me an
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email to info@undaunted.life, follow us on Instagram and TikTok and like us on Facebook.
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You can also check out our website for everything else, including how to donate to keep more
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content like this coming again.
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That's just undaunted.life, www.undaunted.life.
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We also want to thank the bay at August Burns Red for allowing us to use their music for our
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content.
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The intro out to track on this podcast is our song cutting the ties, which is off their
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10th anniversary re-recording of their album Leveler.
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The links to all of this are in the description.
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I'm your host, Kyle Thompson.
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Remember, keep pushing back darkness, keep forging spiritual, mental and physical resilience.
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Keep seeking the lion of Judah.
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