Good News - March 2019

LIFEWORK LEADERSHIP GoodNewsFL.org 19 MARCH 2019 cho your of sue is het in an ,meat anyp com now OG our o inj and iends, fr fi eneb,4yaM,ydaur Sat tpemco is S NEWDOOG coatno ifdAn e! ic CEREHTKEARBUOYIF d sua forMTEA SWENDO aearcerst fo in ens et ngitt aet gest arl het have togin tear lilts but meateat por r FR a you give , DRO yda edtirspi -meat per f un- abgr So .ht you kisr-atdn GiB histat er evm TRHI SAMETOMST a CU and ,NTET snreamea truonoS RM BE ME +05 snreamea truonoS RM BE ME +02 CA T BIG AAYDOT TER ISGRE t ges rla he ADEGAP½EE your m for , OR ! and yilmaf our y on ent Ev dio arC ! AME TEE a FR su COLOR AMEa T su GR IO.O RD IN!W ANMOWR O AN T M Y THE BES AM! , GO TSE,YDREA , KO s!t ffor e ing uit ecr r heir t for ABLET TE FRE an ai apt C eamThet give , OA – The guy who is going to be coming…Chuck Bengochea, former president and CEO of Family Christian Stores – interesting guy. You talk about the chances he took. This guy had a big job at CocaCola and he gave it all up andwent toHoney Baked Ham and then he left that to go to a business that went south. He lost everything yet today because he knows he’s led by God…That guy has taken hits. He’s been at the top and he’s been down, but he understands one thing – I gotta keep on plowing for the Lord. And that guy is a guy I look up to. GN - Why did you become a sponsor of Lifework Leadership? OA – When you take into consideration all that I said, it is a no brainer to become a sponsor. I owe that organization…The same thing asGriefShare – I’ve been inGrief- Share since Cheryl passed, and now I do all of the devotions. After eight years you’d think, man you’remarried. You are happy. Why are you still in GriefShare? I owe Grief- Share a tremendous amount. When I was at my lowest, they heldme. They pickedme up, and I sawwhat they could dowithmy life. So if I could do the same things for others on Saturdays, that’s what it’s all about. Lifework Leadership helped me to institute a new life. It’s a no brainer to be a sponsor, and I truly believe in the product. I believe in Lifework Leadership and so what do I do? I invest. By being a sponsor of Lifework Leadership, I’mbeing a part of something I believe in. I believe inHeart2Heart. I believe in CBMC. I believe in Hope Haven. And you know what? We trust it, so that’s where we put what God gives us. JA –And what we give is really just a very small token of our expression of love to Jesus, so we always just pray, multiply like the little boy’s lunch, and if this little can just bless somebody, we are happy. GN - You’ve had a comparison to what you thought was leadership at TIU and what Lifework teaches as leadership. What have you learned? OA – When I taught organizational leadership at Trinity International Univer- sity, we used a text book and we used the Bible. As much as you try to personalize it by using characters in the Bible pursuant to leadership, they are still characters in the Bible. What Lifework Leadership gives you is live successes and failures. It is not on a page anymore. When I look at the successes and failures of people around me in Lifework Leadership, there is something that really hits me because now I can smell their breathe; I can see the pain in their face. I can see when they got divorced, when they became alcoholic and they lost everything, that they were down and they picked themselves up. That to me brings leadership and the whole idea that when you have failed at leadership and the results of that come to light – the things I taught and learned – this is a lot at Lifework leadership. Life- work Leadership gave me a live Moses and a live Sampson, and it gave me a live Luke, and the life of all these people who to some may not be that important until you sit across the table from them. GN –Of the various nonprofits you are involved with, did that come about through Lifework Leadership? OA – I think Lifework was very instrumental in this, but not Lifework itself, the folks I met at Lifework. All of the charities that I serve and or fund come through connections I made at Lifework Leadership, whether it’s CBMC (Christian Businessmen’s Connec- tion), Heart2Heart (senior outreach) or HopeHaven (international wheelchair ministry). GN – Who is the right person to go through Lifework? OA – I think it’s a person who is digging for answers in their life. Who is at a point in life where they know they don’t know it all. They are looking for not training – but they are looking for different ways in which to do life. I think Lifework Leadership is for people who consider themselves to be leaders… Lifework Leadership allows you to have a very intimate look at different kinds of lead- ership ventures: successful and unsuccessful. Most people see leaders within the con- fines of their own industry. In other words if you are a lawyer or a doctor, that’s all you see. Lifework Leadership brings together a myriad of different leaders from different places that allows you to compare not only your industry but all the other industries that come into play when you come into Lifework Leadership. You learn more about yourself simply because you see leadership not just from your perspective and your business and your professional circle now you are touched by other professional circles that allowed to give you awider scope intowhat you should be able to tweak your own leadership qualities. For me – my professional life, my social life, my entertainment life and my spiritual life – if I were to put themall together, it’s all based on people I’vemet at Lifework Lead- ership. Visit lifeworksouthflorida.com for information.