Joy Weaver - From Being Just a West Texas Girl to "Socially Savvy"

Your past can be messy and your calling can still be real. We’re joined by nationally known etiquette, soft skills, and customer service expert Joy Weaver, and her story starts far from TV studios and corporate boardrooms. Joy shares how losing her mother at birth, growing up in rural West Texas, and navigating a divided spiritual life set the stage for a moment of surrender that changed everything. What follows is not a perfect highlight reel, but a clear picture of how God redirects a life through repentance, the Holy Spirit, and everyday obedience.

From there, we connect faith to practical excellence. Joy explains why first impressions, professional etiquette, and relationship-building are not shallow topics when you’re a Christian. How you speak, dress, listen, and handle a table can either build trust or distract from your witness. She tells the unbelievable chain of events that led her to the Protocol School of Washington, D.C., how she ended up teaching etiquette to a major construction firm, and why soft skills training matters just as much as technical skill in business and leadership.

We also talk about media moments like Good Morning Texas and a behind-the-scenes experience on The View, plus what it meant to have Zig Ziglar encourage her to write a book and then choose to highly endorse it. Joy closes by sharing what she’s building now, including one-on-one coaching that helps people sharpen communication, dining etiquette, and “dress for success” with confidence and clarity. If you want Christian encouragement with real-world tools you can use this week, press play, then subscribe, share with a friend, and leave a review so more people can find the show. Visit her website at  www.justaskjoy.com .

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Transcript

Welcome And Guest Introduction

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Thank you so much for joining me on this. Let's open the wheel and see what Jesus has to say today. Hey, welcome to Simple Discipleship Unfiltered. I'm your host, Sister Diana. It's so good to be with you this afternoon, and we're so excited to have a special guest with us today. How are you doing, Miss Joy? Very well, thank you. So good to have you. The table too. We've got Sister Audia. How are you doing? Good afternoon. Doing great. All right. I want to introduce our guest today. The bio is long. I love it. I was like, I'm kind of intimidated. But Miss Joy Weaver, thank you for being here. But you may have seen her on Good Morning Texas or perhaps on the various segments of NBC, ABC, or CBS news programs. You might have even watched her interview on the controversial television show The View. You on The View? We gotta talk about that. Or you may have heard her on various radio programs with Fox. Today we have uh with us the nationally known Etiquette Soft Skills and Customer Service expert Joy Weaver. Joy was trained by Letitia Baldrich, former social secretary to the White House and is certified by the prestigious Protocol School of Washington, D.C. Wow. She writes articles for three national magazines and has been featured in numerous publications, including USA Today, Southern Living, and The New York Times. Joy can be found polishing the world one person at a time, whether working with individuals or speaking to large audiences. Her clients range for some of the nation's largest construction, architectural, and law firms to debutante programs, national charity league groups, and churches across the country. You can connect with her on social media at socially savvy and visit her website at justaskjoy.com. And last but certainly not least, Joy is the author of How to Be Socially Savvy in All Situations, and she is highly endorsed by the legendary, definitely legendary Zig Ziggler. How are you doing, Joy? Thank you for coming and just sharing this day with us. It's such a privilege to be here. And I just love Audio. We do too. We do too. She's been awesome. She opens up her home to us to let us use for podcasts. I live here. So I owe a lot to her. So I gotta be really nice. Of course. But anyway, thank you so much. You know, we talk about all these things that you've had the opportunity to do, but you know, knowing

A Rocky Start And A Calling

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a little bit of your other bio, everything wasn't always easy. When you started out, would you kind of go back a little bit and just kind of give us a little testimony, if you will, of where you started from and how you got to where you are today. Thank you. Thank you for this opportunity because anything to for the kingdom's glory, that's what we're here for. Amen. And I always say it's not where you start, it's where you finish that counts. Somebody, maybe my mama said that, I don't even know. Probably all the programs. Maybe it's in the Bible, I'm not even sure about that. That's not a great song. Yeah, yeah, that's true. That's true. So I just it is such a rocky beginning. But when I was when my mom was expecting me, she had had had three open heart surgeries, and the doctors had told her, do not have another child. You will never make it. And she said, you know what? I'm gonna take my chances. She did. She passed away, and I lived. And I never knew my mom, but that told me a lot about her. And I was raised by my aunt. My drunk daddy dropped me off at his sister's home. Oh. And he is, I hate to say that about him, but that truly, I just want your audience to know that you it's again, your background doesn't have to match your future. And it is, it is powerful to think because so many times people get stuck and well, this is really how I was raised. No one's gonna believe me if I go on to try to do something. And that that became my story later in life that I just said, I have to forget the past. But I have I have to say that we we lived way out in the country. And when I say way out in the country, it was remote. And we would call in the South Boondogs. That's it. Far out in the boondogs. And I really didn't know any different. I she raised, she had already raised six kids and all of their kids, and they're all moved away. So it was just really us. She had a she had six kids, and one of her sons came home from the service, the Korean War, and he was not married. And he said, Well, I'm going to take care of my mother, which was her. And then she said, Well, I'm going to take care of Joy, which was me. And so we kind of had a three-generation family. And we were in church. They had me in church every time the doors were open. And we actually had the lock to the key to the lock to the church. And we opened the church on Sunday morning, Sunday night, and Wednesday before anybody could even get in. And it was a it was a very special upbringing. I never felt unloved. I thought that this is where I was supposed to be. We went to a little school out in West Texas and excelled in sports. I never had heard the word etiquette, did not know what it meant until uh many, many years later. And as I became an etiquette expert. So we lived out in the country in a farmhouse. And I'm not talking about the chip and jelly in a gangstone. Nothing like that. It was an old farmhouse. And so life went on. And one day I was about eight years old. And I was playing in the back room. And you know what a shift robe is where it has part of here where you can hang the clothes, and then it has drawers, and then it has a a place where you have the mirror. And I pulled one of those drawers out and I hopped on that drawer so I could see myself in the mirror. And the Lord spoke to me and says, I want you. Will you be mine? Oh wow. And I I didn't, I knew it wasn't my voice, and I didn't even think, I didn't even, I just knew that I wanted the Lord. And I went running in to the living room where mama was always reading the paper or the Bible. And I don't know which one she was reading, but I said, Mama, I want to get baptized. Because in so many cul, I guess even circles, it's getting saved means getting baptized. And so so I again, so I walked the aisle. She goes, You go tell the preachers what she said. So the next Sunday, I walked the aisle and told the preacher, I want to get baptized. And so I'm sure he said, Do you want to get saved? Do you believe Jesus died for your sins? The whole thing. Well, I got baptized. And forever until I was 37 years old, I just thought that it was whatever was meant to be was going to be up to me. I had no idea about the Holy Ghost. I had no idea that God had a plan and a purpose for my life. I had no idea about any of that. And I found myself doing things that I was a heather. You're in the certain thing. And I just remember thinking that I was really cool. I had an amazing job, and but I was as empty as I could be inside, just sick, thinking, this is it. This is it. And again, about I I was in church every Sunday. But then by Sunday night, I was hanging from the chandeliers. Yeah. It was just a it was it was just all right. So I found myself

From Empty Success To Surrender

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on an airplane coming back from Washington, D.C., the swamp, and I was uh swamp. And so I ended up I just had a Holy Ghost moment, but I didn't know what it was. And I had had I had been in some relationship and we broke up, oh, what's new? But we I just you know I cried out to the Lord and I said, if you'll have me, if you'll still have me, yeah, I'll be yours. And I didn't even know what that meant. In fact, I kept thinking, now I've got a tithe, and I'm not even sure what that means because I haven't even tithe. But I think it, if I did, it was like 10% out of whatever was in my purse. I mean, it was horrible. I really wasn't heather. Well, so I ended up crying on that plane, and there's some lady beside me. Are you okay? I'm sure she's telling this story somewhere. Now I'm like, Lady, I wonder whatever happened. Every time I get on the plane, I get stuck by the crazy people. And then ones that are gone. And uh so I ended up coming back to Dallas, and a friend invited me to go to a women's conference. And the lady, the speaker there that night, she said something that resonated with me, and my life changed. And I started running hard and fast after the Lord, and everything in my life changed. Yeah, everything in my life changed and it's still changing today. And I realized that obedience does equal blessings, and it is all about every single thing that we do. The answer to the question is how does it glorify God? Right. What we eat, think, do, say, where we go, what we do, everything. And I was invited to go somewhere and and Audio knows the audience. We and I, we the whole thing. The whole thing was in a big bar. Yeah. Oh wow. I go in there and the Holy Ghost was just pounding me. And the only thing I could hear was my mama saying, Don't get caught anywhere where you wouldn't want the Lord to find you. And you know, it even in a liquor store. I used to go to a liquor store. I could even hear her voice. I'm like, I gotta get out of here. Yeah, your mama's voice stays with you your whole life, right? But the Holy Ghost that night, I couldn't go. I could I I told it was a very prestigious group of people, and I said, I can't stay. I gotta go. Because you gotta be obedient to the Holy Ghost. Because we beg, beg, beg, oh Lord, make my path straight. Let's let's I want to be your very best and nothing less. But then if we don't read the word and do what it says, nothing's gonna happen. Oh, I love that you said that. I love that you said that because we find ourselves in ourselves going to places that we shouldn't go. Yes. And we just, you know, we we ministered to a group of ladies and we were just telling them the other day. Wherever you go, you take him. Yes. So it isn't that he that he kind of says, Well, I'm just gonna wait out here while you go do whatever you want to do, and then pick me up on the way out. No, you carry him and he sees what you see, he experiences what you experience. And you had that oh yes. I was sitting at my desk one day and at work, and again, I was thinking that I would be at this job forever because, well, I mean, look at me. I'm just thinking this is this, I'm just so cool. And the oh, I'll I'll tell you what happened. I was praying. And you know what happens when you I said nothing in life happens without praying. Yeah. And I had been praying, God,

Hearing God About A New Career

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if this is where you want me, I just keep me here. If you want, if this is not your best, would you please, I love to go to work. And I said, would you just take this desire away? Not really thinking he would, because I knew I'd be there for the rest of my life. I mean, it was it was I'd worked all these years to be here to to get to that position. And the Lord spoke to me. The Holy Ghost said, You're gonna become an etiquette expert. And in that moment, I just in in my and again it wasn't an audible voice. It was much louder than that. Yeah. It was much louder than an audible voice. And I just very quickly said, Oh, well, you you know my background, and well, no one's going to believe me. And just like that, he said, Yes, you will, and you'll give the credit to me. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, I got the chilies on my back. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Let's go. But again, I I wasn't even really sure how to spell etiquette. I wasn't even sure about all the things. And how in the world am I going to get certified? How in the world am I going to get certified? I had taken, and this was a big long thing, about how I found out about this little class called Pink Lemonade in Dallas. And it was this elderly lady, and she taught me enough to our our company wanted to teach some sixth graders and do some goodwill work. And I said, I'll do that because when you're in customer service, the answer's always yes. What's a question? The next thing I know, I'm volunteering for an etiquette class to teach it. And I had to go figure out what that meant. Took a little class, knew enough to be dangerous. And then I found people lined up outside my door saying, Oh, I heard you took that class. Can you tell me about just the most random things? I'm going to this event. Can you tell me how to dress? Oh, I'm going to, oh, I need to write a thank you note. Do you know about this? Or listen, how how can I do this? All of these things, and I don't know, but I'll find out. Well, then I'd start reading books, and I found out all these books have different answers. So what's the right answer? A lot of people write books and it's their opinion. So I'm watching Jay Leno one night. And you remember Jay Leno? I love Jay Leno. I was watching. Exactly. Late night told you that. And he said, My first guess is Liv Tyler. Her dad is Steven Tyler. Well, I obviously know Steven Tyler. Walk this way. And and he sang that song, Joys in the Attic. I mean, it was Toys in the Attic, but I always say Joys in the Attic. And I was like, Steven Tyler. And so she came out and he said, Are you wild and crazy like your dad? And she said, Oh no, I'm like my Grammy. She owns the Protocol School of Washington, D.C. I'm like, did anybody know he and he said, What is that? She certifies people in etiquette, international etiquette, all these different programs. And I thought that's a good thing. And Steven Tyler's herself. And so, how did anybody hear this but me? Is this just for me? The next morning I call the protocol school, speak to her grandmother. She answers the phone. We talk for an hour. The next thing you know, I'm on my way to Washington, D.C., back to the swamp, to get uh certified as an international corporate and international etiquette expert. Okay, you can't make this story up. Again, uh at the beginning of time when I was born, I just had this vision that the Lord said, Angels, you see that little role down there? She's gonna become an etiquette expert. And they're all like, no way, because how could that be? What are you burning West Texas for? It just does not make sense. Right. But nothing makes sense in God's economy unless we're in his will and obedience and watch out. Watch out. And so I came back from Washington, D.C., all certified, ready to go, and I thought, who's my first client?

First Clients And Soft Skills Impact

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And guess what? I get a call from the world's largest construction firm. And they had 600 men that they wanted me, and I think there was one one, wasn't even really sure about that, but there 600 men and they wanted me to teach them how to build relationships through first impressions and how to go out and navigate all kinds of oh, like they send them to the Chamber of Commerce meeting. How do you get business instead of getting into the holy huddle and talking about your work with all the people you work with? Right. That's what happens. Right. So how do you go out and actually get business if you're at the gym in the locker room or if you're in the restaurant or what how do you go out and make great first impressions and build relationships? And so for three whole days, they hired me for three days. I didn't know three days was not a long, I mean was a very long time. I thought it was gonna be like that forever. I still haven't had a three-day deal. Three days I taught these construction guys, and there was one guy that, well, when he first walked in, he said, I heard him right behind me. He didn't know I was the speaker. I don't need this etiquette, he called it. Etiquette. And I thought it was a mistake. I thought it was mistake, and and which I would have said the same thing a few years before that. And he he came in and he sat down, and I about 20 minutes into it, I could see the lights in their eyes coming on. And I thought, it's working. It's working. This is they're res, you know, it's resonating with them. So fast forward the end of three days, the the uh president of the company, many of them had never met, and I sure didn't know who he was, he got up and he said, This is most the best thing that we've ever done for this company because it was about building relationships. It was about the soft skills, things that they knew how to beat on boards, they knew how to go out and build buildings. But how do you get along with your teammates? How do you build relationships internally, externally? How do you navigate a table and why is that even important? Yeah. Oh, what are all the things? And so three days goes by and then a year goes by and I get a call on a Monday morning and this lady said, Could you come Thursday and teach my business? And I said, Hey, yes, let me check my calendar. So Rosa said, Yes, I will be there. Could you tell me how she told me her goals, her needs. I said, Hey, could you tell me how you found out about my little business? And she said, Sure. She said, Well, first of all, have you ever been on a cruise? And I said, Oh yeah, I'm I've been online. And she said, Do you remember the big place settings? And I said, Yes. I do. And she said, Well, my family just got back last night, late last night. And I just you were my first call this morning. She said, in uh when we got to the cruise and we saw those fancy place settings, my family didn't know which knife fork spoon was theirs, which blast was theirs, but my son-in-law did, and he stood up and said, I can give you dining 101, which is my class. And I said, Seriously, who is he? Guess who he was? The construction guy. That big burly construction guy who said, I don't need this adequate class. Again, I knew him because I had met him because he had such a big personality. So in that moment, I'll never forget sitting in my world headquarters, which is my second bedroom, looking out the window. And I just felt the Spirit of the Lord say, go. Go. I love it. Go. It's not just making all of these. This is not just making a difference in the life of one person or a company, but their families. Yes. But their families. And so that just had launched a big thing over there. Where there's a construction firm, there's a law firm, there's a CPA firm, there's an architectural firm. It became 85% male dominated. And I was like, Lord, what about those fancy ladies that I couldn't wait to talk to you, you know, me in little pink suits and the whole thing. And, you know, it was about eight years into it until that came. And finally I got invited to a country club to speak to women and I was pounding them like that. You know, it was just like I was, it was So then like one thing led to another and I had all kinds of media exposure because when you are talking, when you're an etiquette expert and you're talking to construction guys, it is a perfect media storm. They love opposite things. So you know, that they just showed up. The media just showed up and interviewed all of these men that were taking uh etiquette classes. And one thing led to another. I got this

Media Breakthrough And The View Stories

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job, I mean a segment on Good Morning Texas. I had a a really great public relations person that allowed this to happen for me. And she just worked tirelessly and because she believed in the cause. And the next thing I know, I had nine years on Good Morning Texas, once a month. We talked about whatever was timely. Could be like this month is what mate could be travel etiquette, could be wedding etiquette, could be who knows. It was always workout etiquette, could be who knows what. And then all kinds of different segments across the nation. And then one day, as she said, the view has called and they want you to be on. And it wasn't, and this is how God works. It wasn't just going on the view, it was on what's called ratings day. And I said, What's that? And she said, Ratings day is the biggest day of the year. They they bank everything that they do on that particular day, and they have the biggest, the biggest people on. So well, I mean, like not me, because I you know nobody knew. But they had Jennifer Lopez and Jane Fonda on, and it was they had done a movie together, and so they were there then. Mother-in-law. Mother monster-in-law. And it was like that's what it was. And so Jane Fonda was there, but when J Lo came in, I thought, wow, what is that sound? And her dressing room was right across from my it sounded like a huge army was coming in. And she did. She had a hundred no she had all these people coming in, like her hair person, her wardrobe person. And like I'm like, hey, had my husband with me. He carries, he carries the bags. And but so I got to sit in the green room, and she was as down home and as kind and nice as you can even imagine. Oh, like no pretense whatsoever. Very nice. Yes, very nice. That's good to know. And so then that whole ratings thing went out, and that one thing led to another and led to another, and it just I just want to remind you of what God said. You, yes, that you will be successful, and you will give the credit to me. Do you not know? I was all over that studio, ABC studio, praying on every corner. God, take out the heathens, bleed them to you. I'm in the bathroom praying on my knees. And uh it was uh oh, Barbara Walters was the she was the host. And she was so kind and so nice. The one person who was not was the one who called herself a Christian. And I thought, oh, we're gonna be like that. And it was Star Jones, or is it Star Star Jones, yes. And she was not so nice, and I was very disappointed in that. Yeah. But everybody else was so kind, so nice, and just no pretense whatsoever. Did Barbara Walters make you cry? No, but I you actually had that Barbara Walters thing about you when you were introducing me on the oh, I think I might cry. So yeah, she was. That was when I did watch the view when she was. That reminds me, I told Robin, the girl that that was handling all the public relations, I said, like, I've got a big role at church. I'm afraid I'm gonna get kicked out of the church if I go on the view. And uh so I thought, well, nobody watch, nobody in my world watches it anyway. They're too busy working, they're too busy. They're not gonna, do you know my big old church over in Prestonwood Baptist Church over in Plano? They caught wind of it and I thought, oh no. And they literally had a watching party for me and it was so funny. It was they were they were so good about it. But you know, it was a big deal, and they knew my heart. And it, I mean, again, I it it was a great experience. It was a great, it ended up being a really great experience. But boy, when you tell people you've been on the view, they already cast a judgment on who you are. Well, yeah, I mean, I would think so now. Yes. I would think then with Barbara Walters. I mean, everybody used to watch the view. I mean, just like we used to watch Oprah. That's exactly what I'm saying. That's exactly what I'm saying. It's a lot different now because now the political is so much into it, it's not as much entertainment, right? Oh well, and so much of who that person was when they started out is not who that person is today. That's right. And that makes a huge difference if you want to continue to watch what they do. That that's an excellent point. It's uh the the segment that I that they that I did for them was faux pas, in other words, I can't remember exactly what we called it, but for example, you go in to let me think. There was one that we talked about. And what they did is they had actors that acted out, and then when the faux pas came, they went, honk, and the big ex came over. And they said, Okay, Joey, what would you do in the situation? So one was the the lady's mom had passed away, and the first person to the funeral home was the realtor saying, Who's gonna sell her house? Oh my gosh, yeah, that's so wrong. And then and then what happens when you have a um oh someone your friend, your friend's husband is having an affair and so on her and so should you tell her or should you not tell her? And so the whole thing was you you better get ready because if you tell her, uh guess what, they might get back together again and then you're gonna be the bad guy. Exactly. I've lived. Oh, you have that. Maybe we need to talk about that one. Whoa. Okay, we'll circle back around. We'll circle back around. So that was, and so it has truly been God's gift to me. I you can't make this up just the way God has worked it all out, and to God be the glory.

Zig Ziglar Endorsement And The Book

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I can't even explain it. Amen. Amen. So what led to you writing your book? I mean, to be endorsed by Zig Ziggler, that's huge. That's a big thing. You know, so so how did that come about? He sat in front of me in church, two rows up, and I would always tell James, don't talk to him, because if he's not who he says he is, because I had had that happen, and in New York, I met Charlie Gibson, and he was just and I grew up watching Charlie Gibson on ABC Good Morning America. Well, I met him and he was just not Charlie Gibson. I didn't want that to happen. No, I didn't want that to happen with Jig Ziggler. And so I said, Don't talk to him. Don't spool it. Just don't spoil it. Well, a friend of mine wanted one of his books, and she said, I heard there's going to be a book signing at your church. Can you go up there and get the book signed? Well, I was really working on her, you know, with her salvation and loving the Lord. And I said, I heard myself say, yes, I will. So I stood in line, and I will tell you, when I got up there to for him to sign my book, he stood up and he came around the table and he said, Who is this for? And I told him, and and it was it was his book on a grieving parent. And he said, Would you please give this person a message for me? And he told me what to say. And I he was more than I thought. So I shuffled out of there going, Oh my goodness, he was amazing. So after that, I would talk to him at church. You know, just I just was I just on his mind. Yes, so I have to ask you, have you ever met his daughter? Yes. Um what is her name? I can't remember her name. Ginger. Ginger. Oh, ginger. Is there another daughter? Lisa. I've never met Lisa. Lisa. Ginger's the Ginger's the one we met, right? No, ginger's not his daughter. Oh. The ginger you're talking about. I thought she was. Hers is Zygler. Not Ziggler. Well, they all Stacy always calls her Ginger Ziggler. And that name is where they're not related. Oh. His daughter's name's Lisa. Okay. And so I have I met her and uh Tom and and and and then so again, he was just such an amazing man. And he didn't live too far from us, as it turns out. And a f our friend was getting married, and Zig was the ma uh the best mate. And so Don Sherman called and said, Can you all pick up Jean and Zig for us and take them to the wedding? And so we So you're just calling him Zig now. Zig. Oh yeah, he's just Zig. Okay. And so uh we ended up g really c getting to know them, having a relationship with them. And so one day I said Oh, he told me the first time he met me, he said, um you need a book. And I said, Why? And he said, Because it gives you credibility. And so all of those good morning texts and segments that I had done, I ended up putting them all together and making a tip and faux pas book for every situation business situations, social situations, and manners for minors. So if you're breathing in and out, you need this book. And it's easy to read tips and faux pas. So how to dress for success, how to dine with success, whatever you're doing, if you're going to the golf course, whatever it is you're doing, it's in that little book. And you can just keep it with you and flip to it. Called it. Well, actually I sent it to him, dropped it off at his house, the manuscript. And I I had asked him, would you consider reading this and see if you will endorse it? So he I was setting again in my world headquarters, the phone rang and he said, Joy in that deep, wonderful voice. I said, Yes, and he said, I don't want to endorse your book. And I said, Oh, that's okay. That's okay. I completely he goes, no, Jean and I want to highly endorse your book. Wow. Again, oh, I got the yeah. Okay, so I'll never forget that moment. No, I can't. Oh, sure. When I was wearing the whole thing, you're just in that moment. So to God be the glory. To God be the glory. Yes. And so you, you know, you're that book is my whole brain. So I always say, I am representing the Lord. I am representing myself and Zig Ziggler. Uh because you don't want to mess that up. You don't want to mess it out. You don't. Because his name is on it too. Forever. He loved the Lord. He was an amazing. I saw him a lot through Word of Faith. He used to do a lot of conferences out there way back in the day. Way back in the day. But he was amazing. Yes. Had a lot of his books and cassette tapes. That's right. And that that was my whole point. If he's not who he says he is, everything that I've ever studied and learned and know, besides the Bible, is him. And he better be who he says he is. Yeah, and it would you would be tainted if he was any different, wouldn't you? That's right. But isn't that what we're called to do? It is. Because if we're gonna say we're Christians and we're gonna say that we represent Jesus, shouldn't we represent him in the best way possible? Yes. Because you do get disappointed when somebody carries the label and then their fruit is just stinky, you know, because they just they don't walk it, you know. A list in my head. And it teaches you how not to be. You just say, I want to be the person that God designed me to be. And Colossians 3 23 says, Do whatever you do as working for the Lord, not for men. Yeah, you do it for the Lord. So if you're whatever you're doing, if you're speaking, if you're dressing, if you're making a great first impression or making the bed, you do it all for the Lord. I love that. I love that. Man, we could

Class On Class Coaching Launch

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go on forever. We're already almost at our time. Well, let me just tell you in just the last few minutes that we have. What are what is it that you're focusing on now? You have the book, you have, you know, you have taught all these many classes, been on all these shows, and and so what is it that the Lord has you doing at this moment? Wow, you're reading my memo. Okay, well, I will tell you. Uh so many times I've heard people tell you, they'll say, you need to have uh like you need to be either this, plug yourself into this professional audience or children or whatever. But I will tell you, every audience needs my message. And so I know this month alone, I have spoken to three sixth grade uh prep college kids, amazing. I have spoken to a bank and a CPA firm and a chamber of commerce leadership group, and and now the next one is an insurance company. So you can't tell me that I need to focus on just one thing. But over all of these years, 26 to be exact, a long time, I this is what I've always heard. Oh, do you can I just do like one-on-one with you? Or I'm like a kind I I occasionally I do that if somebody has a child that they need to ace the interview, or somebody who has a specific problem. I didn't even really know how to charge them because I'm a speaker with a book. And that's how I know how to charge. So I've never really made that, but now, and this is what I've seen, you're reading my mail, I am just about to launch my class on class program, which is a program you go on my website, you look at the calendar, you click on the calendar and you say, I'm available, that person says I'm available from three to four today, and I want to get a personalized one-on-one program with Joy, and I can do it on Zoom or we can do it in person. And so that way when people have a real need, because when I speak, it's generalized and we can go deep and wide depending on how much time we have. But basically, someone will say, you know, I really need to hone in on this, this, or this. So I have a menu, kind of like an a la carte menu. Do you want to be a better speaker? Do you want to polish up your first impressions? Do you want to know how to dress for success? Oh, you need dining? We can do that, and I can make you successful in 45 minutes to an hour. And then they pay online, they book it online, they pay online, and I will show up and it will change their life. Wow, I love that. Thank you. Yeah, I think that we need to have you come and do some segments. Just, you know, for you for to just highlight what you do. I mean, it is all important. I mean, in especially in the body of Christ. Absolutely. Because we should give our very best. Yes. I just love that. Thank you so much for being with us today. My privilege. Yeah, we're excited. I'm so excited to have you. Audio is gonna go ahead and stop the video and then we'll uh close

Go Be Jesus Today And Closing

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