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Published: Jan. 3, 2021, 8:15 p.m.

I had the opportunity to meet Jesse in person years ago... and what a powerful presence... more I spoke with him and learned about him... the more I knew that he needed to be on this podcast!

As you know, I get to help people cultivate their experiences, uncover the transformational principles that are hidden beneath the surface, and convert those principles into a message they can monetize. As an author, speaker, coach, and executive producer I understand the value of an authentic message. A story that is birthed by a major test that produces transformation.

My clients desire authentic encouragement, graceful accountability, and a safe space to develop their message, free from judgment. Ultimately, they want to use their experiences to empower others.

You might not know that in addition to coaching, I am a husband, a father, and the oldest of my parents four children. I believe that my family is the true expression of my purpose and assignment in action. Over the years I’ve helped my parents launch several soul-food restaurants and plant and lead a few churches. I also worked in the field of education for 15 years. I acknowledge that these are all avenues from which God has been able to get His work done through me. So, for me, platform building has been my lived experience. But it hasn’t been an easy journey.

Head on over to Kingdom Mogul Coaching to connect with Jesse today.

Brandon Handley 0:00
54321 Hey there spiritual dope today I have a very, very special guest for us, Coach Jesse Cole. Jesse is, not only is he a coach, he's a husband, a father. He's out there he's doing. He's helped his parents lost several soul food restaurants. He's helped plant and lead a few churches. It's been in the field of education for 15 years. I mean, Jesse, you're out there. You're doing you're doing TV shows. Now. You're doing a coaching you're I mean, you got some? I know you do. You've written a couple books at least. Right? So you, you're all out there and man, I want to say it. But I know this is your line, please. I always love hearing you say What? You know, I'll make I'll make your page me Jesse. What's the first thing that says there? What do you want to become? Depends on your willingness to become always man every time makes me feel so good to hear you say. So glad to have you on. Thank you for having me. I appreciate you for inviting me. Oh, man. Yeah, absolutely. And you know, so here's how I start off every one of these. I'm so excited. First of all to have you on I know you and I we go back always now. So I feel like this one's much, much more in your wheelhouse. Not, not much morning, we'll have something last one, you were almost like fatherhood for the rest of us. Right. And

your father's that was in her wheelhouse, too. This one is also in your wheelhouse. So very excited to have you on for it. Um, I feel like, you know, God, you know, definitely got it for you. Right speaks through us, right. And he speaks through us, for other people to hear us. And in that, in that you and I are having this conversation it is for somebody who is listening today. And they can only get a message that's coming from God through you to them today. What is that message?

Jesse Cole 1:52
Learn how to wrist.

Brandon Handley 1:56
Yeah, tell me more about that.

Jesse Cole 1:57
Yeah, man, learn how to rest this is something that I've been learning how to do for about about the last year or so, you know, we are in this hustle and grind culture. Everybody's going after trying to get the bag trying to, you know, grind it out. And one thing that God has taught me is that

his grace is better than my grind.

I can get more accomplished, you can get more accomplished through me

if I learned how to how to rest and flow in him. And when I first got that revelation, or that message, or whatever you want to call it, it is it was foreign to me because you know, probably like you and a lot of your listeners. We are high achievers, we're actively engaged and, you know, trying to accomplish some goal whether you try to be a better father or a husband or a business leader or whatever, you try to do civic leader, we're actively engaged in trying to accomplish something. And oftentimes, we can lean on our own understanding our own, influence our own education or frameworks, whatever you want to call it. We try to get that done. And we forget that it's got to be has given us that talent Anyway, you know, he's given us purpose. He's given us an assignment anyway. So he knows how to do it better than we do. And so leaning into him, gives us the unfair advantage, meaning we can get more done by resting in him, then we can do by grinding it out ourselves.

Brandon Handley 3:40
Yeah, man that is perfect. Is that now? By no means? Am I familiar with Scripture? like so much right. But is that along the lines of he has ways we know not of type thing, right?

Jesse Cole 3:51
I'm the same way man. Listen, my dad, my dad is a password evangelist. But I don't mean that I'm somebody who's pulpit You don't understand. So I grew up. I grew up in that house. So I can, you know, you can sit down with my dad, he can close scripture. I know what's in there. A lot of times, I don't know where it is. I got a trip to my Bible app to find it. But I know it's in there. So I want to be I don't want to come off as one of those people. That's like super super churchy, and super, you know, bible thumper like, that is not me, right? But because I have relationship and it is growing with God. I understand that. My life can only be good by being led by him. Like, I really believe that. And so yeah, I try to stay in relationship with him. It's not It's not about religion. For me. It's about relationship, and that that's much more impactful.

Brandon Handley 4:43
Well, you know, what's pretty cool here. I mean, that's exactly how this podcast is kind of real similar to your story, right? As I as I go over and I look at your kingdom mobile coaching website, and I go to meet Jesse. There's a bit in there that says, you know, You went most of your life, just kind of on your own talents and skills. Right? And then there was a moment that you had, that you were like, life change. Let's talk about that for me, because that's a lot about what this podcast is about. So wants to share that with the listeners.

Jesse Cole 5:19
So what did you read? So I can make sure I'm telling you that

Unknown Speaker 5:23
there are a lot of you guys. I mean,

Brandon Handley 5:25
your your, your prayer walk right. Well, coming up. Yeah. Before you jumped into before you jumped into this space right now.

Jesse Cole 5:33
Yeah. So right before that, I believe I had just got fired from my job, right. As you mentioned, I'd worked with an education for like, close to 15 years. I started off as a substitute teacher making like $80 a day before taxes. And then that was how I first got into education. And from there, he was the Dean of Students, basketball coach, choir teacher, parent teacher liaison, like, almost every other year was, you know, it was I was going up. And so my last year in education, I was actually working on a college campus as a success coach, meaning I would help students pretty much not drop out of school because it was too hard. So the program was ending and the funding was coming to a close. That's what they told me. They let me go. And I was at a point where, okay, what's like, what's next? what's what's next? Because I don't want to do this anymore. So, so what's next? And so I went on this walk, one Sunday morning, I think it was like, May, somewhere around there, seven, eight o'clock in the morning, through my hoodie. And I heard, you know, heard God say, I want to talk to you, knowing God speaks to us through Holy Spirit. So it was it wasn't like an audible voice. It was, you know, God's Spirit, like God talking to my spirit. Like, that's how I heard you. Get up, I need to talk to you going this way. I went on this walk plugged in my earphones, plugged them into my phone. And as I began to walk, I began to hear, he began to give me instruction on what Kindle mobile was supposed to be, from the books, to the coaching programs, to the conferences, to everything that I'm doing right now. I heard close to two and a half years ago. And as I was hearing it, I was speaking it into my phone. And I would listen to that recording over and over and over again for weeks on end, until it got burned into my brain to where I didn't have to listen to it anymore. Now, I began to walk it out. And I haven't listened to the recording in about a year or so I actually lost it in my old phone. I don't even have it anymore. But it's so ingrained in this type

Brandon Handley 7:54
of thing you put on a Google Drive Jesse something.

Jesse Cole 7:57
Know what that's that's a different story. It's so ingrained that I'm beginning to walk it out. And I looked at my vision board because I I wrote the stuff down and looked at my vision board, and over 80% of that stuff that was spoke to me spoken to me on that morning, either I've already done it, or I'm walking in it right now.

Brandon Handley 8:20
Yeah, that's fantastic. So if on a timeline then that's 2018.

Jesse Cole 8:27
Quote, like maybe before the summer of 2017, somewhere around there, so there's that like, right about when we met then was that what was that?

Brandon Handley 8:35
That was the Crowley event. Yeah, that was like 2017 that was 16 those 17

Jesse Cole 8:40
was 17 happened around the same time.

Brandon Handley 8:44
Okay, okay. All right. Yeah, man and and you know, here's the thing that I think Yeah, I feel like after I think about seven months or so after that event, like I had something similar happen to me right like, you know, Touched by an Angel or whatever you want to call it right? Just a moment where just like, that just happened. Right? detaches happen, and you're like, it's a little it's a little unsettling because you got so much you know, you got the you got the lifeforce you got you know, God energy you filled with it. Right. And, and the thing is, is I can listen to you, I think, you know, and I can hear the difference between before and after. Right, there's a whole different Jesse, from before and after that event, right from from kind of when you were you when you when you had that message delivered to you right, and you started walking it out, talking it out and walking it out. Yeah, I mean, and and, you know, I'm just kind of bouncing off because this and similar thing happened with Father who for the rest of us, right, like I had to talk it out like the one I started talking it. It started to I started talking so much it had I had no choice. Yeah, right. So that's really cool to hear, you know, just kind of hearing your journey. Well, let's talk about now, how you're applying that to your business, right? Because that's another piece that is a challenge, right one now Now you've got that you've been touched by it. And you're like, if I lead with this, there's a lot of people that might not respect me, I might not be able to do the business, I'd like to do that kind of thing. So let's talk about like, getting through that, and then doing it.

Jesse Cole 10:30
So I'll preface it by saying this, there is no separation between my faith and my business. There isn't, yeah, one one informs the other. And without that I couldn't do what I'm doing. It actually drives my business, you know, I help people grow their faith as they grow their business. And so in the beginning, you know, when I met you, when it was new to me, I felt as if I had to, and I can say this with all clarity, I had to present myself in a certain way, whether you want to say polished or scripted, like I felt as if I had to present my way like that was that way, in order to be respected for the work that I've that I'm doing. And so the messaging hasn't changed a bit. The same thing you heard me say in that room, I still talk about that stuff. That's still my same message. Right? But the way that I show up is different. Right? One of my mentors asked me recently, she said, Jesse, I've seen a difference in you over the last year or so what's the difference? And I said, You know what? I've taken the tie off. That's it, huh?

Brandon Handley 11:37
Nice.

Jesse Cole 11:38
Nice. Oh, and you know that and that's just that the symbolism where, where I felt as if I don't have to be all buttoned up anymore. If I don't want to be I still like dressing up.

Brandon Handley 11:46
Look at you look good. dressed up. I don't know. No reason not to write.

Jesse Cole 11:50
I love it makes me feel good. Sure. But it's because I want to not because I feel like I have to go to for somebody to respect me or to receive me that. So that's the biggest prints that I've that I've had since the first time that you and I met man. And so yeah, what was your question? I think I got I went down a rabbit hole.

Brandon Handley 12:12
I went with you. It's you know, so you said it right. There's no separation between your faith and your business. The question is, though, is like, you know, leading with that, and and, you know, what? Was it a challenge for you to step into that space immediately where there's some fears? You know, let's talk about that. And how do you kind of got past them? And, and what happened? Right, let's talk about the journey.

Jesse Cole 12:38
So when I first began, when I first launched, I was trying to sign I was trying to sign up for a networking groups and go into all these networking things. And they were actually, you know, Jessie, what do you do? And I'm like, I'm a CEO of T Mobile coaching to help you grow your faith as you grow your business. Right? proud. I still am proud. Yeah. Crickets, like nobody anything. Because when people hear the word faith, they equate that to religion. Mm hmm. They equate that to, oh, I gotta go to church every Sunday. Right? Right. And maybe how I was showing up, kind of perpetuated that as well. But when I hear faith, I don't just hear, I don't hear religion. Like, it took me a while to learn how to help people understand what faith is. So if you are a CEO of a company, it requires faith for you to show up every day to lead your team. Right? If you are a salesperson, and you got to make 80 calls a day, that requires faith because out of those 80 cars, you might get hung up on 7070 times. So what's what's keeping you making those calls? What, what what keeps you motivated to make those calls every day? There's something bigger that you're thinking of. It requires faith. It requires faith for a father, to raise his children. It requires faith for a mother to stay married like it. Faith is in everything that we do, right? Yeah. And so teaching people that faith doesn't mean, I got to go to church every Sunday, or I got to pray for 30 minutes a day, or I got to read the whole Bible five times a year. If you do that, that's fine. Sure. If you feel like that's what you'd be allowed to do, that's fine. But that's not what faith is. Faith comes through relationship. Faith comes through through hearing, being able to hear what God is saying to you. And then not only that, being obedient to what what you hear you know, I'm saying so that's what that's that's how faith works. And so really trying to break down or help reframe what faith looks like to people in their in their different marketplaces like that was my biggest challenge, man. helping people understand that I'm not talking about church. Sure. Talking about relationship.

Brandon Handley 15:03
Where now so where do you feel like you kind of had the big, biggest breakthroughs on some of that, where you realized how you were being received and how to make the transition,

Jesse Cole 15:14
without watering down the message? That's right. Because Because the message is the message. I don't feel like I have to chase anybody for business. I don't feel like I have to adapt to market trends to get business. I believe that if I am just faithful to what God told me to do, if I just prosper where I'm planting, then the right people are going to find the fruit that's on my tree. You never see an apple knocking on somebody's door and saying, Hey, I'm apple. No, if you went to Apple, you got to go to the apple tree. Right. And so if you are faithful to what you've been put into your, your purpose in your assignment, right, your purpose is why you were created. And your assignment is how you demonstrate that in various environments. So I believe that my purpose in life was to encourage and equip leaders to become the better version of themselves. That's my purpose. So what is my assignment? is how I do that, as a father, how do I do that for my children? How do I do that with my wife? If you meet me in the grocery store? How can I do that? Then, like that is my assignment, right? How do I demonstrate it? And once you know what that is, you unstoppable. Stop.

Brandon Handley 16:31
So prosper. I'm planning. Nothing better than that. Right? I think that's fantastic. here's, here's a question, though. You know, you hear the messages maybe from God, right? And you want to be obedient to it? How can you be certain like when when do you get to determine that that's the right message that you're receiving? That's in alignment with like, your purpose and stuff, right? Or if it's just like another squirrel.

Jesse Cole 17:05
A lot of squirrels man, where it was right. And, um, and I fallen guilty to that I've fallen prey to that I'm candy. I'm not even gonna lie to you. It doesn't. It's not it's not a perfect journey. But it's purposeful. I like that. It's not perfect. It's not purpose. It's not perfect, but it's purpose.

Brandon Handley 17:21
It's recorded, we got you

Jesse Cole 17:24
had to remind myself that. And so how the purpose of Holy Spirit is to lead to teach, and to lead and guide us into our truth. Right. That's the purpose of God's Spirit is to teach us and to lead us into our truth. And so when I hear instructions from God, I believe that is because Holy Spirit is speaking to me. And Holy Spirit is not going to tell me anything that's opposite of what God wants to happen in my life. Right? So if I'm hearing these instruction, no matter how crazy it may seem, My responsibility is to receive it. And be obedient to demonstrating

Brandon Handley 18:12
give me a crazy one, like what? So what's a crazy one you've been obedient to? Which is like, I don't even know.

Jesse Cole 18:18
Okay, so I don't even know. So recently, so I just got done with a six week coaching program that I called Kingdom confidence, right? So typically, when you have a coaching program, you have a framework, you got a marketing campaign, you got to promote it, all this stuff. So let me tell you how this thing came to me. I was in the middle of recording a podcast. And as I'm recording this podcast, Holy Spirit says, when you get done with this, take your phone out and shoot a video and talk about Kingdom confidence. Now I like I know what Kingdom competence is. I was like writing. I have some notes in my journal that pretty much had Kingdom confidence, right? So I had I had an idea of what he was talking about. But I didn't intend on making it into a coaching program just yet, because it was just still fresh to me. He said, when you get off of this podcast, take your phone out, record a video saying that you're launching a free six week coaching program called Kingdom confidence. And this is what it's going to be about. Now, Brandon, I didn't have any marketing behind it. No graphics. No, nothing. All I had was some notes. Right, right. And a cell phone. That's right, said okay. I know what I heard. I'm about to do it. Right here. My phone. Oh, hey, I'm launching a six week free coaching program called Kingdom confidence. This was going to be about right. I didn't have anything set up as far as payment gateway. Well, it was free. So when the payment gateways, I didn't have a zoom set up to handle leads, and I had none at all I had was the instruction to do right now, after I gave after I posted that video on my social media. I said, You know what, it'd be nice if I had like, 40 people sign up for this thing. Yeah. Right. So by the end of that whole thing, 35 people signed up for it. So we almost hit the go. And every week for six weeks for 90 minutes. 22 people consistently showed up for this coaching program. That's nice, man. Yeah, right. Yeah. I didn't know that all I had was notes. Sure. I, but my responsibility was just to be obedient to what I heard, and to, and to provide the environment for God to do what he wanted to do. I was just facilitating the environment, but he already had it worked out.

Brandon Handley 20:51
Yeah. That's great. I love that. It's just like, we just like we started off the beginning this conversation, right? God speaking to you, because you got to reach those people. Right? I think it might have been you, too, when we were when we were at that event, talking about like, if you don't go and do the thing, that God's kind of speaking through you spirit universe, whatever, right? thing you're not getting, you're not getting to that other person that needs you.

Jesse Cole 21:17
Yeah, somebody needs your message. Right? And sometimes we get caught up in trying to do a perfect man. Not me, man. Or we look at what everybody else is doing. And we compare, yeah, asked, but you got to understand that you are your unique being, nobody can do it like you. Nobody can shoot this podcast like you. Nobody can. Nobody can speak like you, I believe that if you put me on the stage with the best speakers in the world, I'm gonna still stand out Why? Because I'm comfortable doing it like I do it. We can be talking about the same message, we can have the same script, but nobody's gonna do it like Jessica, nobody's gonna do it, like branded. And it's not, um, it's not a conceited or pride. It's like, no, this is what I'm called to be. There's somebody in this audience, right? Somebody in the world who needs what I have, they need just what I have to help them get a breakthrough. And if I don't show up, they wouldn't get that breakthrough.

Brandon Handley 22:16
100%. Right. 100%, I love to what you're saying is, is a really how I roll. This is my third podcast now. First one, I did not go and see kind of what everybody else was doing. I did not go check and see what everybody else is into. I knew that. If I did that, a, I go try and copy. So I ended up copying somebody by accident wouldn't be on purpose. But like, once that stuff gets seated, you got you have no choice, right? You're like, Oh, that was supposed to be done this way. And same thing with the other two, right? And all the same. And, and just like you're saying, You You're resonating, you're resonating, you're like a bell man, like I'm like a bell. We're both like bells, right? But we're gonna have a totally different sound that one or another person's gonna know be appealed to. Right. And and, you know, we're showing up. So we're showing off so other people can show up, right?

Jesse Cole 23:17
Yeah, I won't hurt somebody right now that's listening. That know, you may feel like you don't have enough or you don't have enough experience or whatever. Listen, all you have to do is just show up the best way you know how. And over time, the message is going to get clear, your methods are going to be become more quote unquote, polished, but you got to start. You have to you have to get started. No more analysis paralysis, we can look at what everybody else is doing. And we can look at our strategy. But if you don't take that first step, you never know what that first step is going to feel like

Brandon Handley 23:59
to step out in faith and step out in faith, you got to step out in faith. I mean, you gotta you gotta believe that, you know, just like Jesse, you're hearing Jesse here, talk about his message. And you know, just following some of these things that don't make the most sense. But sometimes you just do them without these crazy expectations. And those are the ones that didn't pan out.

Jesse Cole 24:20
Right? And even even if it doesn't, quote unquote, pan out, you are obedient. Because you because you learned the lesson. Like there are a lot of things that I stood I stepped out on faith. And it didn't pan out like I thought it was gonna pan out. But the lessons that I've learned in that journey, or in that experience helped me for the next thing, right. So as far as like there's in the kingdom of God, there's nothing lost. There's no there's nothing lost in the kingdom of God.

Brandon Handley 24:50
Tell me more about that. Like I don't know, I've never heard that before. What's that mean?

Jesse Cole 24:54
So if if you believe that if you believe that Jesus Christ at the center God if you believe that God is your is your is the father of everything, he's your Creator, right? he is he is the head over everything right Kingdom means God's influence in the earth, right? And so in, in God, there's nothing lost. There's like no experiences is lost, no question is too dumb No, like no hurt is, is everything is valuable. And the world, you know, we have this canceled culture where we try to devalue people. But when it comes to God, your Creator, right, you're the person who made you, when it comes to him, there is nothing lost, nothing is too small for him to work with. You know that there's a scripture says if you have faith, it's the size of a mustard seed, right? If you know what a mustard seed is, that's one of the smallest seeds that he got that much faith, you can move mountains, if you got that much belief. You can you can you can speak to a mountain and tell it to be cast into the sea. If you believe in Don't doubt there's nothing lost in the kingdom of God, every thing is valuable. There's a story about Jesus. When he was in a temple, and people were giving offerings, you have people that were rich people giving offerings, but then there's one lady walked up and all she gave was to mites was like equal to like a penny. So you got these people giving, quote, unquote, millions of dollars in offering. But you've got this poor lady coming up giving to small pennies. Right? And Jesus says she gave all she had her name will pretty much ring bells forever.

Brandon Handley 26:45
Wow.

Jesse Cole 26:46
Yeah. You know, I'm saying there's nothing too small. There's nothing lost. So if you're going through some kind of trauma, some kind of abuse, some kind of hardship, and you feel as if God can't work with that, Oh, yes, he can. I have clients right now that have gone through drug abuse, sexual abuse, molestation, lost kids in their building platforms, from that trauma, there's nothing loss.

Brandon Handley 27:15
Talk about that, you know, building from that trauma, right? Like you said, Here, everything is valuable. And I recall, you know, telling my story once upon a time, and somebody was asking me, okay, what makes you different from the rest of the groups and all the other people out there doing what you're doing? And so I got my story. And he goes, everybody's got a story. I was like, that's cold. So, basically, you know, so sounds to me, like these people have stories? What do you do with that?

Jesse Cole 27:49
Yeah. So with the kingdom platforms coaching program, what we do is, we help you identify what your story is in your trauma. And we pull the transformational principles from that, from that story. And we help you develop those principles into a book, and empowerment program, and a event, whether it's a live event or a virtual event. So we're helping you monetize your story pretty much.

Brandon Handley 28:15
What are some of those transformational principles? Jesse? Yeah.

Jesse Cole 28:18
So this is this is this is this, we talked about faith and craziness. This is crazy, right? And so everybody's story has different transformational principles. So I can't say, here's my framework for transmitting transformational principles. This is how it's gonna work. Now, I don't work like that, right, Mike? is being able to hear somebody's story and fill in the gaps, right? So you can, you can sit here we can, you can tell me your story. And then 10 minutes, we can have eight chapters for your book.

Brandon Handley 28:49
Because that 10 minutes,

Jesse Cole 28:50
that's my, that's my gift, is the gift of listening, and being able to fill in the gaps, right? For me. In this coaching program, excuse me, it's not about graceful accountability. So now that we are partnering in this coaching program, and now that I have your story, right, and when we put these principles out, now, you You're, you're accountable to developing these principles. So the whole coaching Pro, the whole coaching process is us developing the lessons in these principles, which become your book, and from that book, your coaching or your empowerment program comes from that your modules, right. And from that, now you can have any event.

Brandon Handley 29:37
Sure. That's fantastic. That's awesome. I love I love how you're, you're guiding people, right? You're helping them to see who they truly are, right? Sounds like right, like, hey, that's great. Here's your story. But here's what you really just told me. Right? And then you know, we're going to pull out of that story. These amazing things that maybe you didn't see Because you're too close to the source, right, you're too close to the source. That's not you know, those ends up becoming their pillars. They get to build everything on.

Jesse Cole 30:08
Right. Right. And the good thing about a story is, it's always unfolding, right? So as long as you're alive, you want to be able to add to that story, because you're going to be learning new lessons. Sure. never stops. That's best. Pretty cool. So

Brandon Handley 30:23
do you feel like, you know, after after your clients go through the coaching with you? Now they get to they, they, they understand how to see their own principles. Now, as they develop?

Jesse Cole 30:37
Where do you pay depends on the person, right? Depends on know where they are in life and things like that, my responsibility, my only responsibility is to show you how your story can impact other people impact the lives of others, to help you build a framework around your story, and then monetize that framework. That's my responsibility, right. And so some of some of that some of the things as far as my clients from the past, and I have right now, again, I told you, I have some people that are going, you know, overcoming certain types of abuse, right. And so the most, the the most transformational part for me as a coach is helping them to walk with them as they relive these, these these traumatic events, right? Because as they're writing it out, it's bringing back memories is bringing back hurt is bringing back these emotions, right? And so now they have a safe place to to like, filter through those emotions, and then pull those principles out through through the coaching program and like up, Grant, I love what I do, Brandon.

Brandon Handley 31:46
I know. I know you do. I know you do. That's why I love I love catching up with you. I love seeing you do your work. And I know that it's purposeful and meaningful for you. Yeah. And and it shows it shows I mean, talk about so. So again, you know, we met up several years ago, you're doing you're doing the mogul, Kingdom mogul. But now you're also got a show, right? Don't you have a TV show?

Jesse Cole 32:12
Yeah, so I work with one of the local TV stations here in my city. And so I work part time there. But I also have my own show called Kingdom platforms, right. And a podcast called Kingdom mobile podcast. But the kingdom platform show is going to choose me is going to be relaunched in January. We just got some distribution here in the city in March in the Metro Detroit area for three cable stations and like 144,000 cable subscribers, I want to be able to be able to watch the show, weekly, you know, so pretty much what I'm doing right now with you. I'll be doing that with other business leaders talking about their platforms and how they are applying faith to their business

Brandon Handley 32:55
plan. Okay. That's fantastic. And but I think that this is still fantastic that the idea that it came to you would you call this a vision, right? Where did it come to you in a vision? And now you're just kind of you're playing that out?

Jesse Cole 33:13
It came to me? I didn't I didn't see it until after I received the instructions. Sure. Yeah. It came to me through a prayer walk.

Brandon Handley 33:21
Okay, I was listening.

Jesse Cole 33:22
As I was walking, I wasn't listening. And after I got it off, then I began to see it through an act of obedience. But here's the thing, clarity plus obedience equals success. People want clarity all the time. But once you get the instruction, if you're not obedient to the instruction, you're not going to be able to receive or get the results that you desire, or that you're supposed to have clarity, plus obedience. That's what equals success.

Brandon Handley 33:50
Without when you say obedience, would you liken that to like intuition?

Jesse Cole 33:56
lunches? No,

Brandon Handley 33:58
I helped me out with because I mean, I mean, if I if I, if I get the clarity? Well, I mean, then yeah, it's not like kind of intuition or, or something like that. What does obedience mean?

Jesse Cole 34:11
Well, in the beginning of our conversation, we were talking about relationship. You have you have two sons, right? That's right. And so you're their father, right? You know, you provide for them? Yes, sir. We're creating an environment where they can thrive. standards and your household

Brandon Handley 34:32
did this, I'd like to believe to

Jesse Cole 34:34
wash the dishes, you know, right. So you give them instructions. They have. They have a choice to be obedient to those instructions or not. And there are consequences for both. Right. And so for us as believers, for those of us who believe that Jesus is the Son of God, and that God is the Father, and the Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher God has given us instruction, through Holy Spirit. Once you get that instruction, you have a responsibility to be obedient to do what you hurt. So, when I'm talking about obeyed, I'm talking about do what you hear. So this is not intuition. This is not, um, nothing else outside of being obedient to what you hear. And you can only hear if you are in relationship,

Brandon Handley 35:28
if you already tapped in, don't just saying yes. So I mean, that's important, too, because I mean, we can go all the way back to beginning where you're, you know, I'm trying to where's the piece that talks about? You? You? You did it all through talent first, right, talent and skill first, but I think that once you get tapped in you develop this relationship. It's a whole, it's a whole new relationship.

Jesse Cole 35:52
Different levels? Definitely. I

Brandon Handley 35:53
mean, it, you know, I always talk about it in terms of, you know, in terms of awareness, right, of, you know, becoming more aware of what's already kind of there, right, you're like this, is that relationship, Jessie, correct me if I'm wrong, had been available to you your entire life, yes or no? Absolutely. And it wasn't the problem comes a certain point in your life when you accept that relationship.

Jesse Cole 36:19
Absolutely.

Brandon Handley 36:20
And it's Once you accept that relationship, that there it's just like, there's this powerful merger. And, and you're You, you, you're able to kind of gain that clarity that you're talking about. prosper, where you're planted. And then like, really, really, you know, take develop that purpose, right. And you've got a comfort and walking in faith. Because, you know, this relationship is genuine.

Jesse Cole 36:51
Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely, man. So like it. I've, I've been able, I don't know, and I'm kind of leery of saying hi, because it's not about me. But what I've been able to experience over time through relationship is that I get more done. When I don't try to do it myself. I get more done. When I am getting instruction, from God, the Holy Spirit, because he sees that I can't see the end. He sees the end. And so his instruction is leading me to an intended target. But something I can't see. Sure, oh, if I'm not obedient, I won't be able to reap the benefits of that relationship, like like he would want for me to do right. Sure. Now, I've learned that I've been able to gain more or do more, with less, because I'm in relationship. Before this call, I was on a call with the client, right? We were talking about flow. And I gave her this analogy of an athlete, I played college basketball, so I can break it down this way. There were times where I may have scored 25 points, 12 rebounds, two blocks, two steals. And at the end of the game, somebody might have said, Yes, did you know that these were your stats, I'm like, not even know it. Why? Because I was in flow. I wasn't I wasn't like I'm about to score 2522. And two, it just happened. Because I was so tapped in to the flow. And because I was tapped into the flow and not trying to force it, I was able to get those statistics. That's what happens with relationships. When you are you know, you use the word tapped in when you are obedient. When you are tapped in, you're able to get more accomplished with less effort. And that wipes out the whole grinding and hustling piece,

Brandon Handley 38:49
which is which is great. Right? Which is great. You said it too early. It's funny, because I feel like I'm learning that more of myself this past year as well, right? If I step back a little bit, I can allow for the space to be filled up with what I'm looking for, right? Because if I'm standing right here, in in this space, nothing can come into it, right? I can't receive anything if I'm standing in the way, all that stuff, right? So there's this, this is kind of a catch 22, though, isn't adjusted, because if I'm in the flow, and I'm just dealing with things that are right, and they're coming to me, how can I have a goal? How can I have a plan, right? That's to me, always kind of confused, still kind of confusing to me, right? Like, I'm like, these are things I would like in my life. But I don't want to put so much pressure on them that, you know, I'm upset if they don't show up or I feel like I'm doing all the work, that kind of thing. So you know what, how do you feel about that?

Jesse Cole 39:42
Let me read you something. I'm glad you said that and read you something. Because oftentimes we try to we try to put our plans in front of God's plans. He's our Creator. He's the one who's given us purpose. Right? And so he knows what's best. For us not saying that we're not smart, and that we don't have education, and no, we have freewill. And we still have that. But his ways are not our ways. His thoughts are not our thoughts. He knows the end from the beginning, right. And so once you once we learn how to relinquish our own self control, and our own agenda, and submit to what he wants to do, then our desires become his desires. Because he knows what's best for us. Right? Let me read this to you, Thomas, Matthew 11, verse 28, through 30. And this is when Jesus was talking about flow, talked about flow. Jesus says, Are you tired, worn out, burned out on religion? Come to me, get away with me, and you will recover your life. I'll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me. Watch how I do it. Like this. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won't lay anything heavy or ill fitting on you. keep company with me. And you will learn how to live freely and lightly. I love that.

Brandon Handley 41:21
Yeah. How can you not

Jesse Cole 41:22
like that right there? And this is Jesus, the Son of God talking to his disciples, right? who are who are businessman fishermen and tax collectors in Oh, they were they were in the marketplace.

Brandon Handley 41:36
They were grinding it out. Right?

Jesse Cole 41:37
People who are used to again, yeah, grinding it out. But he's telling them listen, Take my yoke upon you, like learn from me. I want to show you how to live a life that's free and light and unforced. Right? I don't know stuff, anybody listening right now. But up until this point, I can tell you that there are some times in my life where my grind and my hustle made life hard, right? About to be 42 years old and minute. And I live in a life and free life. And Jesus says that when we follow Him, when we do it the way that he does it, that how life was intended to do it to be to be lived, then we can experience that. And then our desires No longer are our own desires. Our desires, and God's desires began to mesh there's a thread of connectivity between them both right, then we can have even more than we've ever expected. And here's, here's the issue though. Humans don't like to let go of control. Hmm. We love to have control. We've been taught, especially those of us who are leaders, you got to be in control. You got to have the authority. Right? God is saying, I'm the authority. Let me show you how to live this life. Follow me. Right.

Brandon Handley 42:59
Yeah. I think that's fantastic. Because I don't know how to create life. But here I am. And I'm alive. Right? So some pretty powerful stuff. I can't even tell you how I got here, Jesse. Right. I can't tell you how my food digests and their science and stuff. But do they really know? You? Don't I mean, so, like, I'll eat some food and it gets converted to life. Right? That's not me doing that. That's, that's a, that's a grand design that was like, sent here implemented, and it's happening. So I gotta trust. I gotta trust in something much greater than myself that it has made that happen. Right? I know. I know. You call it God. For some reason, I've got a mental block on that. So I gotta call it like the universe. I gotta call it a couple of other things. But we're saying the same thing.

Jesse Cole 43:50
I want to ask you that question. I hear that a lot. And I'm asking you not to judge. This is like, free zone. Why do you think people replace God? With the universe?

Brandon Handley 44:04
Hmm. Well, you know, for me, it's just kind of a it's really similar to you, right? Like, when you when you went to and he told people to kind of step into faith or you know, you know, I connect you with your faith and you look the way you did, you're presenting a message they're like, I'm not gonna see you. It's a big sale, Jesse. Right? Like, that's just like that. They're not having it. Right. So real similar thing. It's like a fine line with this. This it's because it's been institutionalized. Right, this word, the word has been, it's been and, and, and the meaning and the truth of it. of God. Right. And and what it's attached to it. Road is bent, corroded, it's been it's just, you know, it just hasn't. And so now, you know that so now it's like, Okay, let me try it. Let me try this other thing out. It means exactly. The same thing, right? It's it serves exactly the same purpose. But this way I can disassociate myself from these institutions. Right? Because then I think that that, that that's probably about it for me.

Jesse Cole 45:12
I get it. Um, here's here's, here's my thought on that just because something has been marketed wrong doesn't mean that it's wrong.

Brandon Handley 45:23
But I don't disagree. Like I said it's just a mental block is history it's straight mental

Jesse Cole 45:28
issues and just in not and again, this is you know, judgment free zone this this for those of us who are those of you who are listening right now, I agree with you, man, like God has been Miss marketing people have been Miss educated on who he is being we. And I know because I grew up in a in a in a house full of ministers, right. And so we we look at God as this one. No, I did in the beginning, especially as a kid, this big old monster in heaven, waiting to pounce on me when I did something wrong. That's right. Oh, I saw God as a kid. And my friend, that's

Brandon Handley 46:03
not my friend.

Jesse Cole 46:04
Yeah. That was so I was I was so afraid to go to sleep. Because I knew I did something wrong. And what if I don't wake up? What if God destroys me in my sleep? Right? And so I was taught that whether it was indirect, I was indirectly taught the fire and brimstone and that God is he's waiting on you to do something wrong. Right. And until I became older, and I began to seek him out for myself, that I began to see how God is a good father, like he wants good stuff, right? Like, he loves me. He wants to hug me and kiss me and tell me all that good stuff. He wants me to do well, and till I discovered that, that I was able to embrace where I am right now. So yes, you're right. God has been institutionalized. He's been given a

Brandon Handley 46:58
unset. I think the deal the deal is really, is if it's forced on you, you don't want it right. And Christianity is something that, you know, more often than not, people feel like it's forced on them. Right now, if you come to me, we have a conversation like you and I are having now I want to come to your house of prayer, I want to come hang out, I want to see what's going on there. Because I can feel the life coming through you. Right? I'm like, Yeah, let's go through the same thing. We're walking with the same person, we're walking with the same, you know, same life force, right. So it's when you do what you said, when you start to seek it when you start to, you know, what's, what's the line? Right, you know, and all you're seeking seek understanding. Yeah, right. And all you're seeking and seek understanding and, and that's when you begin to see that what's in that book, those stories, those lessons and all that's in there. It's all real, real good stuff. Right. That may have been misrepresented. Right. Or and again, you didn't have the level of understanding that was necessary. Don't wait, no, no, no pearls before swine, right? So you don't have you? You couldn't you couldn't understand that stuff. Because even it was right. Funny, right? It was right for your entire life. Like we talked about earlier, this relationship was open to you for your entire life. Right? And you didn't take it on until you are ready for it. You're like, you know what? Not right now. I'm not ready. This it just wasn't your time.

Jesse Cole 48:26
It for me, for me, it wasn't like not right now. I was not ready. And it was I didn't know any better. But like a certain a certain message was being put in front of me for so long. That when I finally got up got out of the environment that was perpetuating that message. That's when I'm, that's when I figured out that it was more to this than what I was what I had learned. Sure. And I call it I call it the church that killed me. Right? Because for all these years, that was at a time I went to college. I didn't know that this was available. Right? Because of the institutionalization because of the big monster God that I was. I didn't know this was I didn't know that. I could just walk with him and talk with him. Hmm, I didn't know that. He loved me as much as he does. I didn't even know that I had this thing called purpose and assignment in my life. I didn't know that until I got out of the environment that was perpetuating that once I got out of that environment, I began to search like willingly and actively figure this out for okay guy, like who are you for real 100 that

Brandon Handley 49:37
what prompted that for you, Jesse.

Jesse Cole 49:40
Um, when I when I when I set foot on a college campus, down in southwest Virginia. And it was a it was a liberal arts Christian college. And I saw how people were responding to God and it was different than what I was used to Right. And it looks genuine. Right? Well genuine. And I'm like, I wonder what that looks like for me? Sure. I don't want to do it the way that so and so and so did like, what does that relationship look like to me? right for me? And went on got on a journey. And man, I'm still discovering man, I'm still discovering this thing, right. And I'm excited that God continues to reveal Himself to me to relationship. But yeah, that's when it started, man. So I began to go to different churches, I grew up in one denomination. When I went off to college, I began to go to visit different denominations to sit like even some places where you might have might consider a cult like I've visited everywhere. I didn't join, but I've visited everywhere. And my purpose was my purpose for visiting was to see what made us the same. And what made us different. Sure. Right. And what made us different is how we worship God, the manner in which you worship God. Right? It wasn't a heaven or hell thing. It was like, okay, they do it this way. They do it this way. But what made us the same was that we all loved God. All right, that was a thread of connectivity that I began to hold on to, that I'm still holding on to this day, like, that's what makes us to say, we're all God's children, and he wants to have relationship with us. That's what I hold on to. That's, that's cool.

Brandon Handley 51:29
I think it's pretty interesting to how, you know, you grew up in a house of ministers, but you weren't able to establish that relationship. until after you left. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker 51:39
Yeah, it was, I

Brandon Handley 51:41
mean, what's that

Jesse Cole 51:43
all about doing? About being sure as a kid was about? We call them the acts of service? Right? But doing it would go into church and doing this and doing ministry? And do you know, I'm saying, like really performing, versus just being who we called you to be? I wasn't taught that. I know,

Brandon Handley 52:06
that's important to you know, how being who you were called to be? How do you feel like you discern that?

Jesse Cole 52:14
I feel as if I've always known that as a kid. Like, when I look back on it now, different memories come to come to mind where I felt as if I was, I was always walking in purpose without knowing that I was walking in purpose.

Brandon Handley 52:30
Just like the Steve Jobs line, right? You can't you can't you can't connect the dots call forward. But you can act on going backwards, right?

Jesse Cole 52:36
I remember sitting in church business meetings as a kid, like 910 11 years old, and having discernment. And knowing who was a snake and who wasn't. I knew this as a kid, right? I remember connecting with people and being able to see people's lives without them even telling me anything. As a kid, I didn't know what it was, I just knew I was different. I didn't know how to demonstrate that in real life. It's just something on the inside.

Brandon Handley 53:06
That's that's pretty cool. That ties in I just listened to your talent story a little bit earlier, from the vault on your podcast, right? So I mean, kind of like you had these talents. Initially, you kind of hit him, because you didn't know how to use them. Yeah, right, I think is kind of another way to take a look at this whole thing. And now that you've discovered what your talents and gifts are, you're cultivating them, you're sharing them, and you're using them to help shine a light on other people so they can shine their own lights on others that type of things that I'll sum it up.

Jesse Cole 53:42
Pretty much. Yeah. Just being obedient to my assignment and my purpose. And through that, all the other stuff you just mentioned, that happens.

Brandon Handley 53:53
So Kingdom mobile coaching Comm. That's where you can kind of hang out with Jesse Jesse, what's what's like, an initial session with you look like?

Jesse Cole 54:03
Yeah, so we have. So Kingdom platforms is this. We do a one hour discovery call. And that discovery call is just to see where you are. See what your vision is to see if we can help you. And if we indeed can help you, then you move on to the six month program where we help you uncover your story. Write your book, develop your empowerment program, develop your event, so begin to monetize your message. So that's it's really that simple. You get on get on the calendar. You know, we we talked for hour. I see where you are. We see if we see if it fits. If it fits, we move forward.

Brandon Handley 54:46
That's great. That's great. Jesse, I'm so I'm so proud of you, man. I mean, you know, I love I love what you've brought into this world. I love that you're walking in your purpose, right? And I just love that you're doing what you're doing and you You do it. You do it with grace. Thank you. You do it. We really do. So one more time. Where can people go and find you Jesse?

Jesse Cole 55:09
Yeah, so Kingdom mogul coaching.com. That's Kingdom like the word Kingdom mogul mo GUL coaching.com. So that's the website. You can go learn more about the story and get on the calendar. But you can also follow us on social media. So Instagram is coach Jesse Cole. And Facebook is coach Jesse Cole. And I'm just coming off from a 30 day sabbatical. So I'm just about getting back into social media. Welcome back, Jesse.

Unknown Speaker 55:39
You, man.

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