WHY to Fitness
The WHY to Fitness podcast is dedicated to supporting Christians in achieving peace of mind and heart in all areas of life because every aspect of life affects our health and fitness.
Hosted by Aaron O'Connell, an IFBB Professional athlete actively pursuing a Ph.D. in Counseling and Psychological Studies, the podcast's goal is to assist Christians in discovering their divine purpose while triumphing over spiritual, mental, and physical challenges related to their well-being.
At the core of this journey is the belief that God serves as the ultimate WHY, i.e., the ultimate driving force behind existence.
In this context, fitness is our ability to overcome the obstacles standing before the goal. It extends beyond exercise and nutrition to encompass relationships, mental health, finances, spiritual growth, and life experiences.
Tune in on a biweekly/weekly to access valuable insights, mindset strategies, theological discussions, interviews, and more to achieve success, which translates into attaining peace of mind and heart across every facet of life.
WHY to Fitness
Humility and Success: Balancing Faith and Entrepreneurship with Colt King
This episode is a testament to the power of faith in entrepreneurship. Today, we welcome Colt King, a successful entrepreneur who bravely shares his transformative journey. He ventured to South Florida at the vulnerable age of 18 with nothing but the desire to build a life for himself. Colt's story is one of resilience, breaking societal norms, and discovering the power of entrepreneurship.
Colt's journey is not just about achieving success. It's about understanding God's love, dealing with misconceptions surrounding wealth in Christianity, and fighting against the deceptive tactics of Satan. This is a story of personal transformation and healing through surrendering to God. Colt’s journey weaves together faith, fitness, and business. It’s about living righteously, maintaining humility in the face of material success, and handling criticism and judgment from others.
The conversation doesn’t stop at Colt’s personal transformation. We also explore how faith, fitness, and entrepreneurship intersect. We discuss the concept of tithing, using money as a tool for good, and setting priorities as an entrepreneur. Join us as we explore these fascinating themes, reflect on the power of faith, and learn how to serve God’s Kingdom through our everyday work.
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Aaron O'Connell:Welcome back to the WHY to Fitness Podcast. I'm your host, Aaron O'Connell, and today I am with my friend, colt King. How are you doing today, colt?
Colt King:Good man. I always say I'm on the side of the ground, I have air in my lungs. God woke me up.
Aaron O'Connell:So I'm good, excellent, excellent, excellent. So yeah, today I asked you to be on this podcast because you're an entrepreneur, and a successful one at that, and I just thought in my mind wow, I haven't touched any basis on business and also humility within being successful, because there's a lot of people out there that'll call themselves entrepreneurs, but they don't have people working for them. They're probably struggling 10 times more than if they were in a normal job, which isn't you. So I'm going to bring you on here and really showcase how you can be successful as a Christian and also be a family man at the same time, because that's what you do, sure man.
Aaron O'Connell:Thank you for having me, of course, of course. So, just right off the bat, I really would love for you to just share your personal journey of your entrepreneurship and kind of how faith played into it.
Colt King:Sure, so I'll try to keep it short and sweet. But I moved down to South Florida when I was 18, had absolutely nothing. I was actually homeless. So it was pretty tough and I grew up in a family that always told me that you either have to go to college and get a degree or you better get used to saying would you like fries with that? Because you're going to be working at McDonald's. So God bless my mom. She didn't have any bad intention. Her idea was for me to go to college and get a degree, like most parents want, because she grew up in an era where if you didn't have a degree, you would struggle to find employment. You'd struggle to have a job. I don't come from a family of entrepreneurs or business people, so, anyways, I came down here with that mentality and actually got into a lot of trouble as a kid. Although I grew up in church, I never had a personal relationship with Jesus. I went to church because I was made to go to church and.
Colt King:I was always in church and saw people raise their hands and praise the Lord and I thought they were weirdos. I thought that all the kids that were in youth group and the kids were weirdos. You know it was.
Aaron O'Connell:I'm from the Midwest and I'm homeschooled as well, and it's funny me and my sisters will always point out people like you can tell they're homeschooled, and I'm thinking of the way that you're thinking of those per se, those Christians in there, and it's like you're right, they always had this. There was something different.
Colt King:Yeah, but you know, I had a judgmental spirit.
Aaron O'Connell:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Colt King:You know, like I was in public school and I wasn't the most humble kid, I definitely was like most kids, right, I was looking for the cool kid. I was looking to fit in, I was looking to be accepted and I didn't feel like I even wanted to be accepted by those kids. I felt like they were different. But anyways, when I would be in church I grew up in a church that was kind of like fire and brimstone. So I felt like I'm never going to be good enough. I'm never going to be like these kids. I'm never going to be like these people. I'm never going to be what a Christian is supposed to be or what I thought a Christian was supposed to be at that time. So it was obviously, in hindsight, all Satan lying to make us stay away from the Lord and drive a wedge. But anyways, long story short, I grew up in church but I didn't have a relationship with Jesus and I came down to South Florida, had that mentality that if I didn't have a degree I wouldn't be successful. Dropped out of school at 15, got a GED or got kicked out actually got a GED. And when I was down here I knew that I wanted to do something with my life. But I never thought that it was possible because I didn't have a degree.
Colt King:I don't really learn the way that you're supposed to learn in school, sitting in a class for hours and just listening to people lecture and taking tests. I don't learn that way. I learn by being interested in things. If I'm interested in things, I'll lock myself in a room and read books for hours. I will study and do research until I know absolutely everything there is to know about something. But sitting in a classroom learning that way, I didn't learn very well.
Colt King:So I came down to South Florida very young, saw all these guys with Lamborghinis and Ferraris and Mercedes and all this stuff and young dudes, and I started to go up and ask questions. I'm very naturally inquisitive and I like to learn, so that interested me. I went to these guys and I remember one guy who was one of my first mentors. I said dude, where did you go to college? How do you have this car and this Rolex or whatever? You're like three, four years older than me. And he goes dude, I got a GED. How did he go to college? From Camden, new Jersey? And I'm thinking in my head. I'm like this doesn't make any sense, like I was so mind boggled right, I was so mind boggled, but it was like at that moment the blinders came off and I realized that I wasn't necessarily lied to as a kid, but I was misinformed.
Aaron O'Connell:Right.
Colt King:My mother was misinformed. That was her reality, so I was misinformed.
Aaron O'Connell:Okay, so what do you do now? What is your business? What were the businesses that you first got into to where you are right now?
Colt King:So, yeah, when I finally realized I didn't need a degree, I definitely needed knowledge, so I started to be around people that had what I wanted, I was very, very humble. I wasn't not a Christian, but I wasn't really a Christian. I was totally living for the world, and the reason why I wanted to have things was because I never wanted to struggle, I never wanted to want something and not be able to have it, and I wanted to have those material things.
Aaron O'Connell:Yeah, I'll stop you right there because I'll challenge you on that and you not having that relationship, I would say, especially to listeners, if you're of this world and not actively pursuing that relationship, you may have known of God, but you didn't know God. And that, right there is where I feel so many people are falling into that safe zone where it's like, oh well, I know that Jesus is the Savior and I know he's Lord and all that stuff, but you didn't make him the Lord of your life, you're not acknowledging him. It would be like you having a wife, which you do, and it'd be like, hey, I got this wife, she's amazing, but I don't talk to her and I never see her. It's like then you don't have a relationship, which then I wouldn't be calling that a Christian. Yes, that could be a season, and I'm not the one that dictates who is Christian and who isn't, but you can identify a Christian by his fruit and at that time you had zero fruit because you never got rooted in.
Colt King:If anything, I had some seeds planted.
Aaron O'Connell:And that's the thing is that it goes right back to the four seeds. There's the seed that goes right on the path that gets plucked up right away by Satan. That's the Satanists. That's the people that are really off. Then there's the ones that go into the gravel or the shallow soil and they receive it with so much joy, but instantly it just dies off. Those aren't Christians either. Those are the ones that are like oh yeah.
Aaron O'Connell:It sounds really good. They could have been in the Billy Graham, they could have gone, they could have been around a crowd that went to church for just a little bit and because everyone was making them feel so good, they raised their hand, they said the prayer, everything was good. They went home, they didn't read the Bible and within one week they're back partying and whatever. Then there's even the third seed that goes into the thorns and all the distractions of the world and a lot of people want to say that those are still Christians. But you notice they don't talk about the fruit of those seeds. Right, they're still growing, but they're not Christians because they get their sidetracked. They're making everything else the Lord of their life, they're choked out. But the ones that fell on good soil produce that return of 10, 50, 100 fold.
Colt King:And.
Aaron O'Connell:I just wanted to just stop you right there just for a little bit, because this podcast isn't like your normal podcast.
Colt King:I call things how it is yeah, dude, I definitely wasn't with the Lord, especially now that point in time.
Aaron O'Connell:But the great thing was, as you were raised up that way, and it just speaks to how important it is for generations to be able to raise up your kids the way that they ought to go, because then, if they even do depart, they will come back because they've been instilled. And that's what we're going to be also talking about is maintaining that work-family balance.
Colt King:And I had that in me. I definitely had that in me and I had that consciousness. That is the Holy Spirit that told me I was doing something wrong. Right, like if you don't have the Holy Spirit and you don't have a God, or you're your own God, right, everybody has a God. But you don't know Jesus and you do something, you don't really feel bad about it, right? Because why would you If you don't have any negative effects in your life? If it doesn't affect you bad, nobody knows about it. Who cares?
Aaron O'Connell:You've not had them actually living in there, but he was knocking and knocking and knocking. You were hearing them from outside the house. You knew what was there. You were instilled, because that's where I was too. I knew it all, but I only used it for my advantage. She was my insurance policy. I know it's right. It was that old Testament thing. As long as I do XYZ right, I know I get blessed. But there was no grace on it. There wasn't any power about the Holy Spirit.
Colt King:I didn't understand the true gospel. The only thing that I thought was God was a judgmental God. He's up there. He's looking down at me. I have to do works, I have to be good enough. I wasn't good enough. I was never going to be good enough. I might as well. If I'm going to hell anyways, I might as well enjoy life.
Aaron O'Connell:For sure, yeah, but back to you. You found out that this mentor of yours had a GED.
Colt King:Yeah, I started to learn a lot. I started teaching myself online marketing, taught myself search engine optimization, pay per click. I started doing online marketing. Then I started learning lead generation. I started servicing some industries that had great returns. I provided a lot of value, made sure that I was making the business's money, because if you're not providing value, you're just going to cycle through clients all the time and create a bad reputation for yourself. So many people go into business to chase money. But very early on I understood that you have to compete and you have to be able to provide more value than anybody else so that eventually you don't have to compete.
Aaron O'Connell:Yeah, I actually heard it said just the other day. A lot of people like to use people. They love money and use people, but as Christians we need to love people and use money.
Colt King:Yeah, that's true. That was another thing. I was always told money is the root of all evil. Then when I actually cracked my Bible open, I realized that it's the love of money. Most people these days don't even understand what love is because they think love is a feeling. But when you read John 3.16 and it says for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, whosoever believes in him shall not perish. But the point of that is that's love.
Aaron O'Connell:It's sacrifice. We know he loves us because he loved us and he died for us while we were still sinners. That's real love. It's an action. It has nothing to do with self, all about the other.
Colt King:Right, but you don't think about love. Most people you probably do, but most people don't think of love that way. Most people don't think of love as sacrifice. How many people get divorced and say well, I fell out of love.
Aaron O'Connell:Yeah Well, just case point. Example when I first started doing the Y2 Fitness and the whole program that I have, I beta tested it with over 60 people and almost 45, 50 people dropped off on two areas A truth, because everyone thinks there's multiple versions of truth and all that. And the second one was love, and because you had to agree that love is an action. It has nothing to do with self, but a lot of people have only selfish love. I will do XYZ as long as I get ABC back. Once I don't get ABC back, I will not do XYZ.
Colt King:So it's really just an exchange.
Aaron O'Connell:It's just an exchange and that's what it's really come down to. Is that I loved. It's more about I love the way you make me feel, so I say I love you, but the moment you don't make me feel that way, I no longer love you. But that's what people do within the Christian faith as well, is I love you, god, when you are doing these things for me, but the moment you aren't, I curse you out, I stray from you or any of that. The only reason I have any relationship is because I love the way you make me feel. I love what you can do for me. I love the security you give me. It's like I don't know about you, but my Bible says you need to die to yourself and pick up your cross daily. You know it's all the disciples, except one died horrible deaths.
Colt King:Right, yeah, man, Totally, Absolutely. So I didn't necessarily. I guess you know that point in time I wasn't a Christian, although I was raised in church, because although I said the prayer as a kid, I never really wanted a relationship with him. It wasn't in my heart and I think you know a lot of churches do that right. Say the prayer and then we got 50 people saved and no offense any churches that do that, but it and that's not to say those people aren't saved. Again, like you said, we can't say who's not saved.
Colt King:But it says profess with your mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord and believe in your heart. You're right. You have to believe that, one, he died in the cross for your sins. Two, that he was resurrected or was resurrected from the grave and or, I'm sorry. Three, that he's, he's the son of God, right? First, he's the son of God. Second, that he died in the cross for your sins or he is God and human form. And then, three, that he resurrected because that's when he defeated death.
Aaron O'Connell:And but I've said this in other podcasts is so much gets misconstrued, there's so much turmoil, so much goes on because of the lack of definitions that people use. And you'd have to ask yourself okay, if you believe those things, if you believe the word of God is the best way, then the absolute truth, then you should be in it all the time. If you really believed it, if you believe that his way is better. I always say this I got a million dollars in one hand and I got a piece of poop in the other hand. Who's going to pick the piece of poop? Nobody, nobody's going to. Even if you're blind, you're going to smell it, you're going to touch it first you're going to be like no right, but that's really what it is.
Aaron O'Connell:when you become a real Christian, you understand that every other area leads to death. You start looking at it and you read scripture like if you love me, you're going to obey my commands. It's not like you're going to obey my commands. No, of course you're going to, because you realize that they all produce. They don't return void.
Colt King:Well, how many people get caught in a cycle? Right, they say I'm going to do so good, and then they rely on their self-will. Right, their flesh, their own willpower. Then they go and they sin because it gives them instant gratification. Right, whether it's sex or drugs or lie, whatever it is, it serves them and their flesh. At that point, in time and then afterwards they regret it.
Aaron O'Connell:Well, it goes back to they're doing it for themselves. I'm going to do it this way, so it helps me. But what the greatest news is is that we all suck, we all are sinners, we all fall short. And once you can sit there and get off that hum, that little prideful horse and understand, no, I can't do it If every time I try it I screw up. So now let me bring the Lord into it every single day. Say Lord, help me this day, help me do this. I don't know, just take it and be like I think I know the way. But let me just pray to the Lord first.
Colt King:Yeah Well, fast forward a little bit in my story. When I first started making good money and I was, I guess, independent, right I was in my first entrepreneurial journey. In the first industry I was in, I started to make money and I got extremely arrogant. I got the cars and the watches and the stuff, and what I thought was a lot back then was coming from my frame of reference of having nothing before.
Aaron O'Connell:How old were you?
Colt King:It's like 19 years old, 1920. Yeah, so I started to become very arrogant because I thought that everything was my own doing, Again, not understanding that everything is from God and everything is because we're stewards. I lost everything. So I got a lot of stuff built, clients built this and that, but it was like a constant, like yo-yo. It was like up and down.
Colt King:I do really good, get a lot of stuff, get very arrogant and prideful, think that everything was from me, and then God would humble me. At the time I didn't see that it was God, but I was just like why does this keep happening? And then I would go and either do something else which was inconsistency as well where I would go back and build back up again no-transcript Then it would fall and it would always be a little bit higher each time, right. So it was like, you know, I had nothing and I'm like man, if I could make $10,000 a month, that would be insane, right, $120,000 a year. And when you're 19 years old and you're homeless and you never had anything and your mom cleans houses for a living and your Dad cut grass for a living and you've never Experienced any kind of real money, you're like, oh my goodness, like this is impossible and I'm doing it.
Colt King:And then you take all the credit for yourself and you fall. And then you go back and then you know, oh wow, like 20,000 a month, that's insane, like I've never met anybody in my life. That's done that and I'm doing it. And then you know, whatever it is in the next goal, 50,000 a month and I'm not talking about like boom, I hit it one time in one month, it's like consistently every month.
Aaron O'Connell:Yeah, yeah.
Colt King:Then it's like man, wouldn't it be really cool if I could do a hundred thousand dollars a month consistently? And you know it's just every single point in time? But to go back to my point is, every single time I took all the credit and I thought that it was all me. I always wound up back where I started or in a in a worse situation. I couldn't have any consistency. And when I finally understood who Jesus really is and I understood the true gospel of grace and I fully surrendered, on my own will as an adult, my life to Jesus and Decided I wanted a relationship with him, and not just a relationship, but I wanted to Make him the Lord of my life.
Aaron O'Connell:Which truly means I have to submit to him.
Colt King:Yes, everything isn't mine, it's all his, anything that I have, even if I say, well, it's my mind and it's my actions, even if I Don't want to acknowledge God's favor, I Would still have to acknowledge that God made me and created me as an individual and the mind that I have is from him and in the snap of a finger, my mind can be gone.
Colt King:Yeah so the very last time where I started to, I Think I was making probably anywhere between like 75 to a hundred thousand dollars a month and I was very arrogant, very prideful. I thought that everything was of me, everything was from me, it was all of my own doing and my own doing alone. Before I was Surrendered my life to Jesus and and truly gave my lifetime as an adult. That actually prompted me to do that I started getting like really bad brain fog, like it was difficult for me to even have conversations and I had always been a pretty sharp guy. You know I could have high-level conversations and, and, you know, do whatever I needed to do. I didn't have any issues with with anything right, everything was my own doing.
Colt King:And I went to the doctor and realized that I had thyroid nodules. Come to find out they did a fine eat, a lot biopsy and it was benign, but there was something going on with my thyroid. At the time I didn't take any pills for it, I didn't get anything removed, but they kind of related it back to that. They're like well, this is the only explanation we can come up with, because other than that your blood works fine, everything seems fine. We don't know what it could be. So I got a real big scare because I'm like, oh my goodness, is this thyroid cancer?
Colt King:Like you don't know what to expect when they find when they do a what do they call it? A Ultrasound on your thyroid and they find nodules. You just, you just think the worst and that scared me, especially with those side effects. But when I finally realized, I hit my knees and I went to God and I said God, I Know that I've been prideful, I know that I've been arrogant and I know that I thought everything was myself and you've taken that away from me. I Want to give my life to you, I want to give my will to you, and I in that moment realized that it wasn't me, because I wasn't in control of that. There's nothing I could do.
Colt King:I try to take vitamin supplements, I try to go in the sauna, I tried to exercise more, I try to drink water, I try to eat healthier. I tried to do everything in my own flesh that I thought, you know, going on Google or whatever, just Researching like how do you get rid of brain fog, you know whatever it is, and it didn't work. But when I finally hit my knees and I went to the Lord and I said, hey, you know, I thought that everything was me and and basically All that has stopped and I've lost that and now I am Not sharp and I feel foggy and I feel tired all the time and I feel lethargic, I realized that it wasn't me, it was all God. And when I finally humbled myself before God and I acknowledged, hey, this is all from you, even my mind is, is from you anything that I have, even the fact that I woke up this morning, even the fact that I just took a breath, is all by your grace and your mercy.
Colt King:At that moment everything changed and Like literally, within like a week, all the brain fog went away and it was. It was completely gone. And it's funny because when we were in church, we got the same church people. A few weeks ago, the pastor did a, a sermon on King Nebuchadnezzar when he stood on the top of his was at the top of his palace and he looked over everything well, first, didn't?
Colt King:they sent the prophet Daniel to him and said hey look, you know you gotta stop taking credit for all this God's favors on you. You need to acknowledge God, and If you don't, this is what's gonna happen. And then I don't know whether they say a year later or whatever. I should probably know the story better. But long story short. He was up there. He said look what I built.
Aaron O'Connell:Look at what I built and instantly his mind was taken yeah, what I built with my hands and my work and my son and so instantly his mind was taken and he started having to roam the desert naked.
Colt King:Yeah, he was like. What do you think it was at donkey, he went insane he went insane, just like that.
Aaron O'Connell:and then afterwards he then got as the time went on, boom, god restored it, just like that again he's like, hey, I now understand right and it's crazy because that wasn't the first time that I've heard that story since the incident that I just told you in my life.
Colt King:But every single time I hear that story, dude, I just break down crying because, obviously I'm not King Nebuchadnezzar and I don't have a kingdom and a palace and all that, but it was almost identical. I related to that story so much because it was Just like that. For me, it's when I thought that everything was from my doing. God took my mind. I wasn't eating grass naked in the desert, but I Was. I was very humbled because the thing that I thought was all mine and all my doing was gone.
Aaron O'Connell:But you were in a desert eating all these stupid supplements. Yeah, which is probably. You were probably eating drinking grass like peeing green and fluorescent colors, and you know but, but it was.
Colt King:It was similar in the fact that when I finally realized that everything was from God and I hit my knees and humility and said, god, please remove this from me, I can't do it on my own and he took it from me, it's like that's God, like there's no denying anymore, and then that really just like set me on fire for the Lord Started attending church regularly. My wife and I we had just gotten married and we were going to have our first child, and she grew up in the church but was living completely in the world. I grew up in the church, was living completely in the world, and when we got together we both had that kind of like that seed planted in that foundation. So we said, hey, look if, if we're gonna have children and we're gonna be married in this world, like we need to.
Colt King:We need God we need to find a church, we need to have a relationship with God, because this world's messed up, this world's broken. Even though we were both in the world, we knew that it wasn't a good place to be and we knew that, raising our children, we needed to raise our children in that and first we needed to get ourselves right. So, although I had material things and success and money and all that stuff, I knew that the only way to raise a family was in the Lord. So, anyways, we started going to church, you know, really got involved, started doing groups, started going through it and I bought a Bible because, look, if you Love God, right, you have to consume his word.
Aaron O'Connell:Amen.
Colt King:What does it say? It says, though, in the beginning the word was God, the word was with God, and the word became flesh, and that was Jesus. Yeah, and that's the living, breathing word of God. So if you're gonna spend, if you love God and you're really on fire for the Lord, you have to dig into the word.
Colt King:You can't just go to Sunday or go to church on Sunday to be a consumer and expect to be fed a message. And then, god, we go to a good church that actually has wholesome, real, true Bible preaching. But a lot of churches take so many things out of context and they just tell you these inspirations, like Philippians 413, for example, for God, or what is it up?
Aaron O'Connell:I could do all things. You, christ's strength and strength. It's funny, I actually have a tattoo on me. I got a, but if you look and if you back up and 11 and 12 before that, it's saying, hey, I've learned the secret of life how to live a little like a lot, how to go hungry and how to go full. You know. So now, because I know that secret, because I've had a lot in a little, I've been humble. I've known, gone through all, that I can do things, all things. Who Christ's?
Colt King:strengthens me, right? Basically, I can be content, and also that's what it wherever the Lord takes me as a servant in humility. I can do all things, even if that thing sucks. She's my French, but yeah, even if that thing stinks like, I can do it because he gives me strength and I'm not relying on myself, I'm relying on him. So yeah, man, that definitely was a big game changer for me now.
Aaron O'Connell:Well, let me just stop you right there, just real quick. You know, I just heard the other day a great analogy and it was like okay, even if you're going to a group, christians Listen up. Even if you're going to a group, let's just say you got a group on Wednesday and you go to church on Sunday, okay, let's call you an alcoholic. Now You're an alcoholic, but you only have a drink on Sunday and you have a drink on Wednesday.
Colt King:You're not an alcoholic.
Aaron O'Connell:You just have a drink on Sunday and a drink on Wednesday. That's the same thing as Christianity. You can't call yourself a Christian and only consume God on Sunday and Wednesday.
Colt King:Right, yeah, man.
Aaron O'Connell:But that's the thing.
Colt King:There's a difference between saying and this isn't judgmental I'm not comparing myself to anybody or this isn't judgment by any sense, because everybody's at a different stage.
Aaron O'Connell:This is my platform. We can get as judgmental as we want, because we're not speaking to anybody or person. We love. But there's hard truths in the Bible.
Colt King:Yeah, but some people get saved and it's like the day of Pentecost, right the Holy. Spirit you know, they just become on fire for the Lord and they're just set free Other people. They have to go through a progression and they have to go through the fire.
Aaron O'Connell:It's just okay. There's a difference between you being able to say I just got saved yesterday, a week ago, a month ago, six months ago, eight months ago, a year Opposed to. I've been with the Lord for five years and I still struggle to be reading the Bible Right. There's a huge difference, you know, because go look at the thief on the cross. All he did was say truly, you are the Son of God. He goes, you're going to be in paradise with me, but that's because God can see the heart. We can't see the heart. But if he would have all of a sudden gotten mercy, let's just say someone was like, oh no, we just figured out something and they pulled that thief off the cross, I promise you he would have been one of the disciples. Then that probably went to death. You know, because God knows the heart.
Aaron O'Connell:It wasn't just words for him to say it, there was nothing for him to be gained there was nothing to be gained at that moment when he said that you know.
Colt King:Well, you know either, churches like to sometimes preach nothing but fire brimstone to strike fear in the hearts of people so that they do things to out of fear which don't get me wrong, we have to have a fear for God, as we know or they preach nothing but the gospel of grace, where people think they have a license to sin and they think that, oh well, I can do whatever I want to do because I'm saved and it doesn't really matter. But it's like you know, jesus died in the cross, not to give us a religion, but to give us a relationship with him. And if you have a relationship with somebody, let's say you get a girlfriend and your girlfriend says, hey, I love you and I really care about you. Jesus showed us that he loves us. He died on the cross for our sins.
Colt King:Like, even when we rejected him, even when he knew that we'd probably reject him, he still died in the cross for our sins, even when we hate, even when we're in our sin.
Aaron O'Connell:He knew all of his disciples were going to flee at that moment, and still Right. So the joy that was set in front of him.
Colt King:He did that anyway. So if you had a girl and she says I love you so much, I care about you so much, and then she never answered your phone calls, she never texted you, and she never checked on you.
Aaron O'Connell:She never wanted it.
Colt King:Yeah, she never wanted it, but the point is is that you can see somebody's hearts by their actions.
Colt King:Like there's an old saying actions speak louder than words. And also, you know, the Bible tells us you'll know them by their fruit. So one of the fruits, or one of the I guess side effects you could call it is you know, if you really love Jesus, you're going to want to consume as much of him as you possibly can. It's going to come natural. It's going to come natural. But let me tell you why. I think it's an issue for a lot of people and it's because, going back to my previous point, where churches sometimes will preach nothing but fear, fire and brimstone or nothing but the gospel of grace, if you come into a situation where you don't get told that you're a sinner, a lot of churches don't want to go up there and say like, hey, you're a sinner, because the enemy is the accuser. His job is to make you feel guilty. So if you feel guilty and you feel shame, that's from the enemy, and you know that it's from the enemy. The Holy Spirit is going to convict you. He's not going to make you feel shame and guilt, because if you feel guilty and you feel shamed, then you're going to be defeated, and a defeated Christian cannot be the light and the salt of the world. But if you feel conviction from the Holy Spirit, it leads to repentance and you do new things.
Colt King:So if you get saved because you heard a great sermon on grace and you go, oh my goodness, I love this church. I love the way this praise and worship music made me feel. I love the way this message made me feel. It's very inspirational. I'm going to raise my hand and say this prayer, but they don't understand why they're doing it. My point in saying that is, if you don't know how much, or you don't acknowledge how much you need to be forgiven for, then it's very hard to be grateful and really appreciate the gift that you've been given. So a lot of people like Satan minimizes everything. God is the Creator, satan is the perverter, so he takes sin and he twists it and he calls it something else. So instead of a pedophile, you're a minor attracted person, or instead of a.
Colt King:That's an extreme example but instead of adultery, you're a swinger. Instead of a sex cult and I can't take credit for this. This is from a pastor. I think Marcus something is a great pastor, but I heard a sermon on this. Instead of a sex cult, they call him dance clubs. So he takes things that are evil and he twists them and he makes them acceptable. So when we think that everything's acceptable because we're living by the world standards and not God standards, we don't see our sin for what it is. We don't understand our need for a savior. Therefore, it makes it very difficult for us to really fall in love with Jesus. So for me, I was able to really see my sin. The thing that made the difference for me was I was hit and convicted by the Holy Spirit. Where I'm like man, I fully acknowledge that, hey, I deserve death, I deserve to burn in hell because God is a holy, perfect God. That's just love and holiness and perfect. What do they say? There's angels flying around us throwing on holy. Holy is the.
Aaron O'Connell:Lord, god Almighty.
Colt King:So it's like, if we really understand who God is, we're not challenging God, we're not saying God isn't fair and God's not here to take the fun out of anything. He's like a good father. He wants his children to obey so that they can have a good, happy, long life. So, anyways, when you fully understand your sin and you understand that what it is that you deserve truly deserve not what the world says, that it's not a big deal you understand, by God's standard, the only judge that actually matters, that we're all going to come before, then you understand wow, I really need an attorney, I really need Jesus, because when God doesn't look at me anymore, he looks at Jesus. So Jesus, being fully God and being fully man, lived the perfect life and he died. He was the sacrificial lamb so that if we believe in Him, we can look, and God doesn't look at us anymore, he looks at Jesus. We're co-heirs of the throne.
Aaron O'Connell:What is it?
Colt King:We're the righteousness of God through Christ, so I have no righteousness, I don't deserve anything. And I think that's difficult for a lot of people who have reached some level of success, because a lot of people in the world who become successful, they become their own God. They believe that. Look what I've done, kind of like King Nebuchadnezzar and kind of like what I went through. Look what I've done, look what I've accomplished. I don't need God, everybody has a God. What is your God? Is your God? Porn Is your God? Sex Is your God? Yourself Is your God?
Aaron O'Connell:money Is it fame status? Is it stuff? Is it material things?
Colt King:So that was a lie that Satan told me for a long time. He said, basically, if you're going to be a Christian and I was a businessman and I felt this calling and the Lord was pulling me if you're going to be a Christian, you basically have to sell all of your material possessions and be this like poor guy. You need to be poor. And I've always felt like I guess they say some people have an entrepreneurial spirit, so I've always been sort of like an entrepreneur heart. I've always known that I was meant to lead and I had a calling to do the things that I'm doing today and I felt like man, it doesn't make sense because if I'm a Christian, I'm going to have to basically stop everything, I'm going to have to….
Aaron O'Connell:Which you knew that was the lie, right from the devil as well, because if you really look at it, it's like well, let's see here Job.
Colt King:Satan will do anything. Look at King David, king Solomon. King Solomon, a man after God's own heart, king David.
Aaron O'Connell:There's so many people that are blessed Right. You know, that have a lot. Go look at Abraham, go, look at all these people. It's like how much they had. God wants to reign those things down, but you said something earlier you have to be a good steward.
Aaron O'Connell:Oh, of course, which we'll talk to in just a second, but I wanted to back up because you were saying something that I really wanted to touch on, because you talk about it in the entrepreneurship world, but it's also in the fitness world and a lot of people don't get this is that you were having that success, but then, all of a sudden, you just dropped down. Then you'd have it a little bit more, and then you dropped down.
Colt King:And it always looked like a series of unfortunate events.
Aaron O'Connell:For sure, and you wanted to either blame it on yourself, blame it on other people, whatever it is. But I'm here saying that that happens so often in the health and fitness realm. You, what people, go look to the diet, they go look to the workouts, they go look down to the iron gods, the group trainer, the whatever person that is, and they follow their way and they get close. And then all of a sudden, something happens and they back up and they get close and they usually blame it on themselves, whatever it is. Or they go look to Google. Like you said, you had brain fog simply because you weren't dedicating your life to Well.
Colt King:I think it was a spiritual. Yeah, it was 100% a spiritual thing.
Aaron O'Connell:But that's because we don't fight against flesh and blood. We are fighting against the principalities of this world, the devil.
Aaron O'Connell:And that is what is happening in the fitness realm. God allowed that to happen. Well, and that's what I want to get to, is if you would have done just went into a straight trajectory to Ewan Makhs side, I'm just saying, or any, just up, up, up, up up, the likelihood that you would have repented is very low For sure, you know, because even Elon Musk said I have everything. Yet happiness seems, you know, and fulfillment seems to still elude me. That's a quote that he has said. You know, because God is so good that he will even allow the bad quote, unquote bad things to happen to you. Because he loves you so much, he gave you this brain fog to show you that you are not in alignment with his word.
Aaron O'Connell:And that's what's happening within the fitness realm. So often people go to the supplements, they go to the workouts, they go to the diets, they go to all these things. But my Bible says seek first the kingdom of God and live righteously, then everything will be at you. Offer your body as a living sacrifice. You know, holy and pleasing.
Colt King:God, I think so many people are in the carnal world, especially when they think about fitness.
Aaron O'Connell:Oh yes, and that's the thing is like. Maybe you're not getting. You're doing all the right things. Maybe you are doing the diet but you're not losing the weight. Your health issues aren't going away, they're getting worse. Your hormones are all out of whack. All these things you're doing all these things, maybe it's because God is saying hey, give it to me, stop being a glutton, stop doing these things for your own self. Because if maybe you go and do get onto those hormones, whatever it is females and males, you know you get onto those hormones because you're overweight, you're having hot flashes as a woman, or you're just always lethargic, you have brain fog, you whatever it is and you go seek these magic potions from the snake oil, the snake oil, whatever it is.
Aaron O'Connell:And I'm not saying that they can't be used, but if you ask those doctors like, okay, how long am I gonna be on these hormones, how long am I gonna be on this medication?
Colt King:Forever, Forever.
Aaron O'Connell:But they won't say it. But like they don't, there's no plan to get you off of it, so it's like wait a minute.
Aaron O'Connell:And you get off and you're worse than when you started and you're worse than when you started and because you now were reliant on it and it caused damage, all these other things. And it's like that's why I do my business, because I want to show people that there is a different way. Yes, you can be on it now great, or you could have it and be helped here. But let's get you off of that, let's get you weaned off that. But maybe you're doing everything right and you're not on the hormones, you're not seeking all these things, but you're doing it for your own benefit.
Colt King:I think some people 100% and not to interrupt you, but I think it goes a lot.
Colt King:It's the same in entrepreneurship and in business and it's the same in Christianity as well, and obviously they Christianity in business and then Christianity as well and in fitness. Right, because everybody's looking for somebody to give them a secret formula. Everybody's waiting for somebody to say there's the escalator, just hop on and it's going to take you to the top, whether that's where they want to be in their fitness goals. But, dude, if you really think about it, it's so easy. Stop eating 5000 calories a day and then extra like, if you think about it, you know what's the secret. How do I lose weight?
Aaron O'Connell:I can't figure out how to lose weight, and you know honestly, not to correct you a lot of people aren't eating 5000 calories. 99% of the people that came to me to lose weight were under eating, wow, and but that's the thing is, they don't get it. They don't understand that when you under eat five, six days a week and then binge one day a week with the crappy food or whatever, what are you doing?
Aaron O'Connell:Yeah, when you're 20, you're 20, you can get away with it. 25, you can get away with it because we have God's body. We have, we are made in God's image, we have such an amazing body. But what you don't realize is what are you turning off at that moment? Your hormones are going down, your thyroid's going down, your brain, your brainwaves are going down, your heart is getting weaker, everything is cancer, cells are starting to build up all these different things because they're under eating or there.
Aaron O'Connell:And then they say go, work out so hard, do two a day's high five. It's like well, now you're eating 1800 calories, you're burning 1400 calories, you know, in a workout and a normal body does 2000,. Like for us, we're doing about 2200, about our age and size, but a woman is, so now you're in a 2000 calorie deficit every day. Go tell me one thing in this world that operates in the deficit and keeps going Nothing. You can't do it in a budget, you can't do it in an entrepreneurship, you can't do it in a country. We're seeing that in the US right now. You know you can't do it, you can't do it. But we have God's body and so much grace. Not God's physical, you know, but what we're made in this image. We literally can make any type of drug from a placebo effect. If we believe it enough, that's how miracles happen. That's how faith can move mountains. True healing can happen.
Aaron O'Connell:But you have to have that faith, not just oh, I have faith, lord, but you're not doing anything to really do it kind of ordeal, you know, but like people don't understand that even if you're doing the right thing is, God may be holding that result back because he loves you so much, because if you do go get it, then you're going to think it's all you and then you don't have him.
Aaron O'Connell:Like those are signs that you are not doing it right. When you're not getting the results, if you know, if you only get results when you're doing something and then you go right back to it, that's more stress, you know, and that. And when you said that it was just like, wow, I need to just stop him right there, because on both sides of fitness and in entrepreneurship, but if you don't have that, that walk with Christ, you're going to be the first person that gets angry over it. You're not going to, you know, because we need to. Our weakness is made, but when in our weakness, god's power is made perfect, we can sit there and say, okay, why can't I do this, lord? What do you want me to see? Not, okay, google, tell me. Like, if you're searching Google, before you're searching the word, you got your priorities backwards?
Colt King:Sure, yeah, and a lot of people think things aren't spiritual matters that actually are, because they can't find the correlation between it.
Aaron O'Connell:Yeah, I wanted to ask you a question what are some specific challenges that you, as a Christian entrepreneur, may face in the business world, and how can you overcome those and stay true to the faith Like? Has there been any challenges that kind of come your way?
Colt King:Not anymore, definitely in the beginning. I think that in the beginning I was sort of I didn't necessarily use my business as a platform for the Lord and I just I kind of felt like I was going to offend somebody, right, like if I was doing business with somebody who wants to have that conversation when you're talking about business, right, who wants to talk about Jesus or bring it up, or what if they're a Muslim, or what if you know whatever? And you know they don't want to do business with me anymore. You know that was quite some time ago, but I'm very outspoken about my faith and, to be quite frank, if somebody has a problem with the fact that I love Jesus and that I do business in such a way that is governed by God and his rules not rules, but his guidance If I look to God for everything right in his guidance, then you don't really want to do business with that person anyways, right?
Colt King:So, just like in marriage, it tells you not to be unequally yoked. It's kind of the same in business you know, my partner and I will be in here sometimes and somebody will come in and sit down and talk with us and I'll just tell them like yeah, we're not doing business with that guy.
Aaron O'Connell:Well, you know, Proverbs 16.3 says commit to the Lord whatever you do, and he will establish your plans.
Colt King:Yeah.
Aaron O'Connell:And I love that, because you were even saying like, hey, you have a GED. Your mentor in the beginning had a GED. It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter if you're a doctor, it doesn't matter if you are in any area of your life. Whatever you're trying to achieve, whatever you're trying to do, commit to the Lord. He says commit to the Lord, whatever you do, and he will establish your plans. Maybe it's not the plan, because many are the plans of a man's heart, but God determines the steps. And that's what I feel like a lot of people don't do is they don't commit it to the Lord, when you have an understanding that everything is God, that nothing belongs to you and there's not really any attachment.
Colt King:There's not a lot of issues, right Like, even in the morning, when I wake up, the first thing I do is, as I say a prayer, and I thank God for waking me up, because I realized that a lot of people had plans for it today and they didn't wake up. So you know, I submit everything to him and it's become kind of routine now.
Colt King:It's just become the way that I do things, so there's not a lot of challenges. You know, if something doesn't go my way, I understand that nothing happens in my life unless it passes through God's hands first. And I have so many experiences where I perceive something in the physical to be a negative thing and then I realize that God was closing the door with that person or that business deal or whatever it was, and maybe it's a couple months, maybe it's a year, maybe it's two years down the road I'm able to look back and see and be like God, you're a funny guy, because he sees everything.
Colt King:So you know I have full acceptance of everything. So I don't think there's a difficult any sort of difficulty.
Aaron O'Connell:Yeah, god works all things for the good of those that love him. Yeah, he's my priority.
Colt King:man Like if something happens, I'm not really worried about it. I would have been a number of years ago, but I'm not really worried about it. Like, even if I lost everything tomorrow, I know that whatever he has in store for me, nothing can stop what God has in store. Yeah, so which?
Aaron O'Connell:leads to a nice place to shift gears, and I really want to just touch on humility within financial success, because not many people have reached financial success and a lot of people are almost scared. Like you said, I don't even consider myself financially successful.
Colt King:I hold such a high standard, like once you hang out with a few billionaires, you realize you don't have very much, which I get, that which is just your some humility starting to show.
Aaron O'Connell:you know why I've even gotten you onto this podcast to ask these questions. But you know, luke 12, 1248 says for everyone that has been given, much, much will be demanded. And I just want to ask you, how can we, you know, or you do you stay humble while still enjoying financial success in your business? Like, how do you do that?
Colt King:For me, it's putting God first. Yeah, Because if I realize that everything belongs to him, I'm just a steward. Yeah, if I, I can't lose anything because it's not mine. I can't gain anything because it's not mine. Whatever I have is by his grace and mercy, because he deemed that. You know I was supposed to have it. I like that verse because it says what is it? Whoever has much, much will be required.
Aaron O'Connell:Yep much will be demanded.
Colt King:Yeah, so you know it's when I understand that everything is God's. I use everything to further his kingdom and things aren't my God. So I think that's how you have humility, because I think ego comes from thinking that you've done everything yourself. And when I have a full understanding that even the fact that I woke up this morning was by God's grace, everything that I have is because it's God's and I'm grateful. I have an attitude of gratitude. I understand that everything that I have is from him and it's for him. Yeah, it's kind of hard to get a big head and not have humility if you don't think things are yours and even the stuff with the cars, for example, right Like which, which actually I just wanted to let me.
Aaron O'Connell:Let me almost rephrase that question just a little bit. I'm sure you get people because you're driving a Lamborghini. Now you have one, you just recently picked a one. We've talked, you've had all the cars, you sold them. You're driving your old, your old, old, old Land Rover that doesn't even look new at all for a while, you know, but now you do that. How do you handle, like people that look at you Because you're still a young guy, you know that you have this car you have. I haven't been to your house, but it's a nice house, especially comparable to the rest of the United States.
Colt King:Because it's just stuff and it's not my God. So here's the thing right.
Aaron O'Connell:How do you handle that of like any type of criticism or any of that type of?
Colt King:stuff I don't even like. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I kind of you know I keep to myself and if I'm speaking to somebody it's because I think I can add value to them. Yeah.
Aaron O'Connell:I like that.
Colt King:But for the most part, like you know, a lot of people think that being successful is stepping on people's backs to get to the top and get whatever you can. And of course you're successful because you get a lot, so you get a lot. That means you take, but really you get paid in direct proportion to the value you bring. So I just focus on being the most valuable asset I can be to the marketplace and whatever respect the field I'm in or whatever business I'm in, and success and money and those things are a byproduct. I do everything for the Lord, everything you know. The Lord knows my heart and as far as the material things, those things aren't my God. You know I like cars. I still have the Range Rover I have, I always have three or four cars and the Lambo I might drive once a week.
Aaron O'Connell:Yeah, for a date night. But you were even saying like you get the deal on the Lambo.
Colt King:Yeah, and then you get the deal. All those things are tools, that's all Well.
Aaron O'Connell:You can do good marketing deals, good meetings. People respect you because you are this young good-looking guy. You know you get that respect if you pull up to the 65, you're like who's he? He's really gonna take my five million dollar business and make me make this much more. But when you roll up in that but you and I were talking it's like you look for the deal. You get the car, you drive it for eight months and you can almost sell it for just as much as you bought it for it, or more.
Colt King:Yeah, you, just if you do things smart, I don't do anything impulsively and as far as the stuff's concerned with, like you know, cars and material things, whether it be watches, cars, houses, clothes, whatever it is those things are just marketing tools.
Colt King:you know, and if you, you buy smart and you really understand what you're doing and you do things the right way, you're not gonna lose money. So essentially, it's just parking the money from the bank account into something you get to enjoy it. And you know I have it. A lot of people go and buy those things to compensate. They feel small, they feel little or they feel big and whatever the reason is, they want to show people who they are right. They want to say hey, howard, they look at it through the lens of how are people gonna see me if I have this car, if I wear these clothes, if I have this watch? What are people gonna think of me? And they're gonna think highly of me. So that's what I want Me.
Colt King:Honestly, I could care less what somebody thinks about me. Sometimes I don't drive the car, even when I feel like driving the car, because I don't really want to sit and have an hour-long conversation, as Chevron, about something with a stranger. And that doesn't mean I love people and I love to talk to people. But sometimes I have a lot going on. But you know it's not for attention. That's not where my heart is. It's because I truly enjoy cars and if I went or not if. But when people do come up and have a conversation with me, you know what do you do. You know I'll have a conversation with them about that. It's a great recruiting tool as well. But I always talk about Jesus, I always talk about the Lord. But it's just stuff, dude. It's not difficult for me to have humility, because when I understand that everything's not mine and it's on loan from the Lord, it's not really complicated.
Aaron O'Connell:Well, I highly suggest the listeners to this and anyone watching the video to check out the book the Blessed Life. I don't know if you read that book. It's an excellent book and it talks about how God wants us to have that blessed life. And one of the examples was as he was driving down you know A1A and going by these six million dollar houses, 20 million dollar houses, and this guy is like they could just sell their house and just give so much away, and it's like and you looked over me he goes are you selling your house and giving it everything away?
Colt King:So why?
Aaron O'Connell:should they? So why should they? Just because they have this bigger game, because he who does well with a lot, because you don't know how much they're giving away, right, you know like, yes, 10% is the bare minimum of you know that opens the windows.
Colt King:Well, that kind of goes back to this as well not to get off your point to hold that thought, but also it's like everything's done off percentages right.
Aaron O'Connell:A lot of people.
Colt King:Well, most people live off of credit just to portray a lifestyle, to keep up with the Joneses, right. So they're living on borrowed money. They don't have true wealth but they're trying to appear wealthy because it goes back to wanting to be seen through that lens. They want to seem wealthy, they want to be seen that way, in that light. But everything for me is done smart and it's done off percentages. So I don't spend more than maximum 20% of my income every single month and that's like on the high end it's usually like 10 to 15%. So anything that I have, whether it's car payments, mortgage spending, whatever it is, it's no more than 10 to 20% and I never have to like stop and look at it and be like, okay, let me, because I'm always well below it. But if Most people can't afford to do what they do, but they do it because they wanna be seen a certain way Technically dude, if I wanted to, I could go buy three more Lambo's cash, 10 more Lambo's cash.
Aaron O'Connell:You know what I mean? I just have a whole fleet, but the thing is it's like for what?
Colt King:Like I?
Aaron O'Connell:don't.
Colt King:I don't like, I have one. I have what I like, I have you know and. I have other nice cars, but the point is, is you know those people? For example, with the $6 million, $20 million houses. They're buying those houses because they're wealthy and they can afford it, and those properties are probably one of 10 other properties, that's, they didn't take every single thing that they had in the bank to put town as a 3% down payment and then live, struggling, you know, sweating every single month, figuring out.
Colt King:But everybody can only see life through their own lens. So people look at you and they're like man, why would you spend so much money on a car? Or why would you spend so much money on a watch? Or why would you? Because a lot is really relative. It's all based on perception. Like if I have, if I make $500 million a month, I wish one day. But if I make $500 million a month and I spend a million dollars a month, who cares? I spent 1,500th of what I make in a month. So if somebody else you know makes a million dollars a month and they spend a million dollars a month, or if somebody makes $50,000 a year and they hear somebody and they buy a $45,000 car and they're spending $3,000 on rent, yeah, or if?
Colt King:they say somebody's spending you know. Think about it if you're making $50,000 a year and you're spending, you know, 97% of your monthly income on bills, and then you know you know struggling, living paycheck to paycheck just to keep up with the Joneses. Well, that's foolish, but again, everything's based off of percentages. So you know.
Aaron O'Connell:Well, that's the great thing about tithing is tithing literally means 10%, and that's what I was trying to say is like no one knows how much you're giving. I'm not gonna even ask you that, that's not something I'm trying to do here, but like, let's just say you're giving 30% to the church, you know, and or 10% to church, 20% to other places, type of thing. Great, it's like no one has any way to speak to anything. You could have a billion dollars, you know. You could be making 20 million, you know, a month, let's just say and if you're doing 30%, it's like you could still be affording the private jet, the everything.
Colt King:Yeah, it's not what you spend, it's what you make.
Aaron O'Connell:Because, let's be real, god can just make money up here if you wanted to, if he wanted to, he can have stones, praise him. He can just all of a sudden instill in that dumb person right there that just loves the Lord. So much boom, and I'm just gonna make you win the lottery and you're gonna be thinking I'm gonna give 98% of it away. He can just go do that if he wanted to. But he doesn't care about the materialistic things. He cares about the souls. That's what real commodity is, that's what the devil wants and that's what God wants. And so when you look at it as a tool well, a good tool is to have somebody that's chasing after his owner, a man, after his own heart it all comes back to the heart man.
Aaron O'Connell:Exactly. And he goes wow, you have a great heart, but you also have this entrepreneurship. You also have this desire to be smart with your money. Why wouldn't he bless you? A? He is, but also the moment you start drifting. We already saw what happens. Right 100 times, you know and rainfall, you know, but that's not because.
Colt King:I have fear of the Lord.
Aaron O'Connell:Well, yeah, but now you have that fear and now you've learned from those things, you're not being that stupid person anymore, and that's what I just wanted to showcase to the listeners is like you gotta handle it. Well, you got, you get. We already stated that in there. He who has a lot more will be expected of him. You know, it goes back to the parable of the talents. He distributed the talents or the money, in accordance to their abilities.
Colt King:Yeah, and listen. You can use money to fund wars and you can use money to put clothes on people's backs and you can use money to feed hungry people.
Colt King:You know money, again, is just a tool and the word currency comes from the same root word of the word current, which means to flow. So it's not supposed to just come in and be stored and saved for your own personal gain. Then it's like it coagulates like blood. It doesn't flow and then you die. So you know it's supposed to be used for good things. So if you're using you know, if you're tithing what you're supposed to tithe, then you're using, even if God's given you a platform, to use that platform to lead people to the Lord, to show people that hey, you can be successful, you can make money and still love the Lord. You know, and you can have things. You don't have to be poor and sell all your possessions to show that you love the Lord. Like the thing is, it's God judges us by our heart.
Colt King:So, going back to what I was saying earlier about the Bible, when I first, you know, got on fire for the Lord and I truly realized my sin and what Jesus did for me and I just broke down and fell in love with Jesus and had that personal relationship, I wanted to get into the Word. So I got a. I couldn't do the King James Bible at that time. The arts and the vows and the this kind of you know kind of got to me.
Colt King:But I got a new international version life application of study Bible and I started in Matthew and I said I'm just going to read through the whole New Testament. That's where I'm going to start. And it's really cool because at the bottom of every single page it breaks down each verse and if there's things that are confusing, it kind of like brings light to it and it will reference like oh, this is referring to the prophecy in the Old Testament. Then you can go back and it's not just reading the Word of God. You don't read the Word of God like a story book. The Bible's not a book. The Bible's a library full of books.
Colt King:So when you read through it and then you go back and you actually study the word and you start to, or even like the Greek, you know the original Greek, to understand where the words originated from, to have a deeper understanding. It really helps. And I started in Matthew and obviously Matthew starts with the lineage of Jesus, so it's like in the beginning, it's like Boaz and then you know, came from this, and then you're like but once you start to get into it, I told myself I'm going to read 15 minutes a night, just 15 minutes.
Colt King:I'm going to commit to that. And after like night two or three, I just couldn't put it down, like I was falling asleep because it was at night.
Colt King:I was like, I was like falling asleep in the Word and I wanted to keep myself up because I didn't want to stop reading and I didn't want to stop studying and I just, you know, I would get goosebumps and the words would start to come to life and I really started to understand who Jesus was, because I was spending time with Jesus. It wasn't just these foxhole prayers God get me out of this situation, or God help me with this, or God give me favor. My prayers started to become more intentional. I started to pray less selfishly.
Colt King:I would pray for people. You know I started focusing less on what people could do for me. I always focused on providing value in business, but in my life, okay, how can I be a blessing to somebody? Instead of asking God to be blessed, I started to pray. God put people in my path, to give me opportunities to be a blessing to people.
Colt King:Lord give me opportunities to use what you've given me to help other people, Give me opportunities to speak to people. And God showed up every time I'd be at the gas station and somebody would come up to me and just start pouring their heart out to me and I'm like what in the world is going on? Like this has never happened before, and now this is happening. And it's just crazy, man, because when you really seek after a relationship with Jesus, you get one. And like I was talking about earlier with if you had a girlfriend and she never answered your calls and she never wanted to hang out with you.
Colt King:That wouldn't be much of a relationship. But how do you spend time with God? How do you spend time with Jesus? You love Jesus. Well, first of all, you know, you meditate on His word, you play it through in your head, you pray to Him, not just these like routine religious prayers, like our Father, heart and heaven. Okay, I checked my good Christian box. I went to church and I said my prayer before bed. But you actually, throughout the day, like, you stop and you pray and you surrender and you give everything to God and you have that. It's a conversation. He's speaking to you, you're speaking to Him, and then you get in the word. Because what's the first thing you do when you get into a relationship with somebody? You have to get to know them. Or, if you wanna build a relationship with somebody, you have to get to know them before you can build a relationship with them. So you wanna get to know Jesus. Hey, I said the prayer. Now what do I do? Well, you should get a Bible and you should get to know who Jesus is.
Aaron O'Connell:You need to figure out who he is to even understand if that's what you really mean or not. Right, you know because, like you can say, I love this person. But if you don't know who they are, you know when you're down the road. It happens in marriages that people rush so often All of a sudden you find out they're crazy. Right you know they're the selfish person. They have these weird quirks da da da, da, da da da, all these things.
Colt King:Or instead of letting a pastor tell you who Jesus is, find out on your own, it's like imagine, you know, you get into a relationship with somebody just based off the merit of what her best friend told you.
Aaron O'Connell:They introduced you. She's a great person. She loves to face after, and any time that you wanna get to know her you go to her best friend, but you never ask her.
Colt King:Right, right, exactly so it's taking that time and dude, in the beginning it's gonna be, it's not gonna feel natural. Well, the devil's gonna be attacking you in the beginning, 100%.
Aaron O'Connell:So not think you understand it, all that stuff Cause like I'd even just to back up, just to challenge you. Like you said, it is a library of books written by X amount of men through the X amount of years. Yes, but like when I shredded it in 28 days.
Colt King:What do you mean?
Aaron O'Connell:When I read the Bible in 28 days, cover to cover.
Colt King:I was like you shredded the Bible. No, no, no, no in 28 days. What do you mean, marilyn Manson? Ha ha ha.
Aaron O'Connell:It came. That is when it came alive for me 10 fold, Because you would read about Noah and within a couple days you're ready in David Within another week you're already in Joel Within all of a sudden, another week you're already gotten done with the Gospels. Yeah, you know it happens this, and you see just the huge picture that it is a story just going through and all of a sudden, that's when things start becoming alive. Like I love the lineages, Not because I like reading them, and no, it just provides my faith such more.
Colt King:And then when you understand the whole purpose of it. Like Matthew was the tax collector.
Aaron O'Connell:Well, he was yeah.
Colt King:Matthew was appealing to the Jewish people.
Aaron O'Connell:To therefore talk about the lineage. The Jewish people didn't believe that Jesus was the Messiah, so he was referencing the prophecy that the Messiah was gonna come from David.
Aaron O'Connell:And then if you get to Mark, he's talking more to the Romans, you know, and you start reading those things. But I really liked what you said is you have to spend that time and be in that relationship, just as that excellent gear. Shifting to the last topic that I wanted to bring up, which is that work, family balance, because we know that you need to be spending that time with your kids, with your wife, all that stuff, cause even the Ephesians six forces fathers do not exasperate your children. Instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord, and you need to be there to bring them up, to train them All that stuff. Your wife is the one that's usually there, got the homemaker thing, but when you come back, you can't just be gone the whole time. When you come back, you have to spend that time.
Colt King:So I was really exactly.
Aaron O'Connell:So I was really wondering you know how? Do you? Could you like share strategies for setting boundaries between work and family time to ensure both are given the proper attention?
Colt King:Yeah, well, to be completely honest, obviously those lines get blurred a lot as an entrepreneur, I have to take phone calls or I have to bring out my laptop and take care of something that's time sensitive and crucial at the moment. But I think the most important thing is having priorities in your mind, because before you can make something a priority in your life, it has to be priority in your heart and in your mind. Because if I think that business is the most important thing, and I don't care what happens with anything else, because this is my God or this is my main focus, I'm not gonna be intentional, right? So first, it's truly knowing in your heart what's important, right? So me, I don't make those decisions for myself on what's important. I go to God.
Colt King:And you know the Bible tells us that our marriage is our first ministry, right? So our marriage and our family is our first ministry. And when we're raising children, it's not just to raise children who get good grades and go out and be successful people. It's children that learn to love. And it's children who You're raising, little girls, to be good wives and good, strong, powerful women of the Lord one day. And you're, if you have boys which I don't have boys yet, hopefully one day I'll see you know you're raising them to be husbands and fathers and you know, what you teach them and as children are is going to determine who they grow up and become as a man. So for the balance part I have kind of like some things are kind of sporadic, but for the most part I say hey, you know, in the morning this is my routine. I wake up at this hour, my children wake up. You know I'll have breakfast with them or I'll spend some time with them in the morning.
Aaron O'Connell:So there's a boundary you set that you're like no, I'm gonna have that time. Right, it's, it's being intentional.
Colt King:I'm gonna do this and then I'm gonna get home at this at this time. I mean, things come up sometimes there's a late meeting, this and that, but 99% of the time, hey, I'm home at this hour and as soon as I get home I'm right into it.
Aaron O'Connell:So for example, when, before that, when you do miss that, that time you say you're gonna be there, I'm gonna be home at this time, and then something happens.
Aaron O'Connell:Well, it's not usually something comes up, it's usually like I know ahead of time and I just tell my wife like hey, I'm gonna be a little bit later today but okay but specifically it's, you know, for the most part it's, it's pretty set right, yeah, cuz I know I know for me being a dad, when I say I'm gonna be there at certain time and if I have it and this rarely happens but if it did, I then go, you know I have to make up for it. Right, like not just equal, but like I need to go above and beyond. Like I missed your. I'd never missed a game. Avery's not Somebody that likes sports in the first place right.
Aaron O'Connell:But yeah, I can only imagine, because I see it all the time. Hey, buddy, I I promise you I'll be at your game, and then something happens and they're not at the game, right? Well, okay, that's cool, life happens. Well, how are you gonna make up for it?
Colt King:Well, at this phase, you know my dog, I have one daughter that's two and a half and another daughter that's about to turn ten months.
Aaron O'Connell:Yeah, tomorrow so you're not quite there.
Colt King:Yeah, they're both so young to where, even if I told them I'm gonna be home at this time, they wouldn't even like really understand it. Yeah, okay, but still like, even where I'm at with very young kids, it's just important because their development, a lot of the development, especially with the personality, happens by like three years old.
Colt King:So the most important thing in our home and the most important thing, and especially at this stage and all the time, is love, right, I? I always speak to my daughters and tell them that they're beautiful, that their children of God, that they're intelligent, that they're smart. I speak life over them because the power in life and death are in the tongue. So I'm very intentional with my words, I'm very intentional with my, my actions, and I just set times in stone and I make sure I'm there. And it's not always easy. Listen. I get invited out to things on a regular basis that are Later at night or on the weekend or the workdays, and most of the time I pass on those things because when you set something as a priority, and it's truly a priority, it supersedes anything else that comes up. So it's a very rare occasion where that happens. So I just make sure that I'm present when I'm there.
Colt King:I do my best to Be present because you can be there and be on your phone, or you can be there. So I just kind of like to set my phone away, turn everything off. I'll go back in my phone. I'll have a hundred notifications, but you know it'll, it doesn't matter, I can. I can handle that stuff and basically anybody that I do business with and anybody that knows me understands that, hey, what I'm with my family.
Aaron O'Connell:You set the tone first.
Colt King:Yeah, I mean I have. I have Anybody that that I deal with. When you get to a certain point, you kind of get to set the rules for yourself for the most part. So you know I kind of you get out of life that you accept and you basically teach people how to treat you by what you accept. So it's not in a negative light or you know to try to control everything. But the people that are in my life know me, I'm transparent, they know that. You know this time is for my family and if it's an emergency, like yeah, call me, but I'm, I just really care about that time and make sure I'm intentional.
Aaron O'Connell:Okay. Do you have any advice For Christian entrepreneurs who may feel guilty about spending time on their business when they want to be present with their families?
Colt King:Get more organized. Yeah, I mean, listen, we can always come up with a million excuses. You know how many people do you know in the fitness world? They're like I just don't have time for the gym. Brother, you can wake up an hour earlier, you can go to sleep an hour earlier and you can go to the gym.
Aaron O'Connell:Let me follow you around for one day and I can show you when.
Colt King:I'll show you right so it's like, yeah, it's difficult, but everything in life that's really good as difficult. Like most people that like, if you see somebody and goes, I want that, I want my life to be like that. Well, you know, if I give you the recipe all the way to the, the degrees the oven has to be set to, the time and the exact everything and you copy that recipe, you're probably gonna get the same result and it's the same thing, right?
Colt King:So find somebody that is prioritizing and balancing a successful business and family and watch what they do and do it. But it doesn't even have to be that complicated just Get off social media, get up. I didn't first be completely self-aware and honest. Identify what your distractions are. Identify the things that are robbing your time, that are really not that important or that you say aren't that important, but your actions show that they're more important than what you really quote-unquote want to do and Get rid of them. Cut them out, even if you have social media withdrawal or whatever. It is TV time like. If you, I don't watch TV. I don't spend a lot of time on social media. Every single second, every single minute, every single hour. I'm extremely intentional of my time because if I don't, time will just fly by.
Colt King:Yep so if I want to make sure that I have time for my family, I'm gonna make sure that I have time to Do what I need to do in the day for my businesses or With my clients, and then also have any sort of life balance for my own personal self, whether it be fitness exercise, you know just whatever it is that.
Aaron O'Connell:I enjoy to balance out.
Colt King:You know, you have to be extremely intentional and, to be quite honest, I don't have a lot of balance other than family and business, because when I, first of all when I work, I don't feel like I'm working Well you also got your buddy sitting in your office right now.
Aaron O'Connell:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Colt King:Yeah, he's my business partner, is my very close friend as well, but you know if I want to hang out with somebody, I'll have him come to the office, like I'm not gonna go out and have lunch.
Colt King:I'm not gonna go out and have lunch, and if I do, I'm gonna have my laptop on the table the whole time. But you know, most of the time just they come here. But I never really feel like I'm working, because I absolutely love what I do. You know, I heard a long time ago that if you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life. And it's very true, because I don't ever feel like I'm working. I feel like life is a game. I'm the main character, no, and it is. Whatever I decide it's going to be.
Colt King:Yeah and it takes a lot of discipline, takes a lot of self-awareness and you have to be able to manage yourself well.
Aaron O'Connell:Life's a game. You're the main character and God is the creator of the goddess God as a creator. He has all ultimate authority and the cool thing is is he gave you the user manual for the game.
Colt King:But we're made in the image of God. Yeah, god is. God has many names, obviously, right.
Aaron O'Connell:Jehovah, god, you know, but, but God is the creator.
Colt King:Yeah, so if we're made in the image of God, we are the most fulfilled when we're creating, so, like when I'm building a business, like especially as man. We were born to create exactly. So every single day I'm just creating and building, you know, and I take pride in what I do and I love what I do, so I don't really feel like I'm working. Ever so you know, my free time is what I'm working.
Aaron O'Connell:I love that, so I that's like an excellent thing. We've touched on all the topics that I really wanted to talk, and is there any advice or anything that you would just Want to depart the listeners before we're? Before we're done?
Colt King:Yeah, give everything to the Lord. Don't let the enemy tell you that you have to be in the world To accomplish anything. That's a big lie. Most of the people that do have any sort of material success that are in the world are completely miserable, and you can't have peace, joy, happiness and all the fruits of the spirit as well as financial and material success. It requires surrender. It requires Giving your heart to the Lord and testing your heart and your ways and your intentions. But put God first and Everything else would be given to you.
Aaron O'Connell:Excellent. Well, thank you again for being on the podcast. Do you want to give any information of where, how people can find your business if they're like, wow, this guy, this guy's somebody, I want to do my, have my lead gen or anything like that. Just you know, quick, quick plug for you.
Colt King:Yeah, well, for the last two years We've had a waiting list, so everything's basically like. That's why you don't see a lot of stuff in my office. It's kind of like appointment only, so I don't need to promote anything on that end. But if anybody wants to connect or Anything, my social media is Colt King official. It's my Instagram. You can follow me on Instagram or reach out to me. Excellent, I'm here.
Aaron O'Connell:Well again, thank you so much for being on the podcast. Yeah, I know, I was having and I really hope the listeners were filled up as well.
Colt King:Cool. Thank you for having me. Man, of course, thank you.
Aaron O'Connell:All right brother, God bless you. God bless you you.
