Certain Success™ Podcast
Welcome to The Certain Success™ Podcast, where faith, family, and business intersect to create a life of purpose and design.
Why do we call it 'Certain Success'?
-- because our only certain success is in our eternal relationship with Christ.
Join your host Matt Fagioli , a successful 7 figure seriel entrepreneur, disciple of Christ and an avid learner as we share our Holy Spirit rants and interviews with fellow business owners & entrepreneurs to explore the unique challenges and opportunities of building and operating businesses while putting God first in life.
Matt has dedicated much of his career to helping entrepreneurs become more amazing humans and win big. If you're all about living intentionally while constantly growing and learning, this is the podcast for you!
Matt brings a fresh perspective to the world of business and entrepreneurship. Don't miss out on the chance to learn from experienced entrepreneurs and grow in your faith while building your business.
Tune in to The Certain Success™ Podcast and discover the keys to living a life of certain success.
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Certain Success™ Podcast
Taking the Leap: Embrace Faith & Be Transformed Through Free Fall
Taking the leap of faith can be terrifying, yet it's often where true growth happens. As entrepreneurs, we're constantly on the brink of risking public failure, and that's where today's conversation begins. In our latest episode of the Certain Success Podcast, I recount the whirlwind experience of hosting our first grand-scale virtual event, Dream Builders Live. It was an intense, heart-pounding journey that left me feeling more alive than I've been in a decade. This wasn't just about event production; it was a profound lesson in making room for the divine, where the presence of God was tangible and transformative.
Reflecting on these recent experiences, I dive into the concept of "free falling" into faith—where we embrace vulnerability and let go of the fear that holds us back. By sharing insights and divine revelations with the world instead of hiding them away, we invite others to join us on this spiritual journey. The Dream Builders Live event was filled with unexpected gifts and lessons that went far beyond my expectations. As I share my personal story of experiencing a spiritual high and learning to trust in God's timing, my hope is that listeners will find inspiration to take their own leaps into the unknown, guided by faith and the strength of community.
Hey guys, welcome back to the Certain Success Podcast. I'm Matt Fagioli and this episode is called Free Fall. I'm going to read you something that I wrote this morning that I think pretty well came out of me from the Lord, and I'm coming off of our Dream Builders Live event last week. You're going to hear a lot more about the Dream Builders Live event, the upcoming stuff that we're going to do around that, but for today I just wanted to share Free Fall and then I'll talk a little bit about it. So here's what I wrote, and I'll probably embellish it.
Speaker 1:Maybe the greatest strength of an entrepreneur is the willingness to risk colossal failure publicly. If you learn something new from the Lord about your life but you never share it with the world, what good is it really? If you have an insight from God but you keep it to yourself? Who did you serve? If your idea is kept in the closet, it stays stuck in the realm of the meaningless. You have to take the leap of faith to go public. Fear is the only thing stopping you, and fear is a choice that you're making. So quit hiding as I yell at you.
Speaker 1:These are the thoughts I've wrestled with the last few days after our Dream Builders Live event last week. It was the greatest experience I've had in probably 10 years. At one point I thought my heart was going to jump out of my chest. I was so amped about what we were doing For me specifically. That's what he means by life to the full. When was the last time you felt like that?
Speaker 1:I think a big part of what made it so great for me was the radical risk of it all. I felt like I was flying, or more like free falling, but the risk was not careless. This risk was a direct response to God's invitation. He said jump. So I jumped. That's not some cute statement I'm making. It came from a few years of asking him and actually listening. That's not careless risk. That's the mystery of faith lived out, lived out. I was so honored to have had the chance to bleed out publicly about my effort to simply fail my way forward in the pursuit of a life and a business that might glorify him. Because we did it in public, maybe it serves someone else. I think that's the essence of what I think God has called me to do in this season to bleed out loud about the battle within me, the battle within all of us and how to walk that out for real on Monday and Tuesday and every other day of the week, every other day of the week. I've learned perhaps the biggest lesson of my life last week and that is the gift is his presence. Sadly, I can't explain that to you. Only he can explain it. But I can tell you this for certain he only speaks to me like that when I'm in free fall.
Speaker 1:So that was my facebook post this morning and it's a complete rant. It kind of moved all over the place, but it started and ended in this, me just typing words, sort of journaling with god, about God, about how I felt, about what happened last week, and if you weren't there, it was just crazy, awesome. And I say that with as much humility as I can muster, because it wasn't me that made it great. It was an event where it was live for really five days, but I don't know total hours, maybe 15 hours or something, I don't know. It was a lot. It was the biggest, longest event that I've ever produced and it was completely virtual and that's the first time I really produced a virtual event at scale like that, other than one other sort of mediocre attempt in the past, but I learned a million things. But the biggest thing we did was we just made all of the space for God to show up and I'm like wow, he showed up in me, in others. It was unbelievable to me.
Speaker 1:As I wrote in the post, maybe the greatest thing I've felt in at least 10 years. And he taught me things, gave me gifts like the one that I read about that I just couldn't have anticipated and I didn't really go in expecting those things at all. And that's completely how God works is just, you get these gifts but they aren't often aren't the things that you were specifically asking for. But they're better than the things that you were asking for and, man, it was just a lot.
Speaker 1:So what happened last week and what's happening right now and going forward if you listen into this podcast at all, is just me living out loud like failing my way forward and trying to walk out the business and life with Jesus experience, which is so impossibly difficult for all of us. Yet it's the most wonderful thing in the world. It's the willingness to jump into the abyss, into the blindness, and know that you're never in control, you're never going to be in control, and completely releasing that creates a freedom that pretty much no one else around you is ever going to have. But you can have it today. So I don't know if that was helpful, but it helped me, and so maybe this podcast is somewhat my own therapy, but I sure hope that it served somebody else, and that's the reason to do it out loud, that's the reason to fail out loud, reason to fail out loud. So take a jump and free fall. Thanks for listening in to the Certain Success Podcast and we'll see you back here soon.
