Breaking Through To New Heights: How To Find The Best Version Of Yourself With David Crank
In this episode, Pastor David Crank, founder and leader of faithchurch.com shares his journey on how he went from nothing to moving his way up in life. Pastor David’s motto is “Where the mind goes, the man follows.” This means that how we control our minds determines how our lives will turn out. With the right mindset and belief, you can find your best self and move forward having the best life! Pastor David also touches on positional leadership, overcoming losses, and understanding God’s intentions for us. Tune in now and start breaking through new heights!
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Breaking Through To New Heights: How To Find The Best Version Of Yourself With David Crank
I am so honored to have Pastor David Crank with us.
I'm glad to be here. I read your blog all the time. I remember we met several years and I'm downloading your show. It's right on my list.
Honestly, I was thinking about this on the drive over here and the backstory of how we met. I was scared spitless when I started my show and I remember reaching out to Pastor Nicole and within five minutes, she came to the studio. She is incredible. She helped jumpstart things there. I heard her back backstory of everything that she's accomplished and all the ins and outs of what you have accomplished together.
He's so legit. He would never admit this but I want to share his backstory of where he's come from. The thing that is so inspiring about Pastor David is you wouldn't think he's the pastor prototype. He cares about people that are all over the board. It doesn't matter if you have been on drugs or what your past has been. He's so accepting and willing to take you where you're at.
A little bit of back story on him. He came from nothing and moved his way up. Let me read to you what they've accomplished in Faith Church. They have a large audience on ABC, NBC in St. Louis, Fox and ABC in Florida. They've been on Christian networks. They were one of the hundred most influential evangelicals in America, according to Newsmax. He wrote a book, Solving Your Money Problems. I want to share how blessed I am to have you on so thank you.
It's funny too. I had known you for a year only to find out that your dad was with the Peters brothers. My dad was the dad that you got to burn all the albums. Back in the ‘80s, there was this thing where it's back-masking songs and your dad came to my dad’s church with the Peters brothers a long time ago. That's a backstory too as well. I love what you're doing and a lot of your audience are people who are like, “How do I take my life farther?” A better me in ‘23 is something I'm always saying.
We all went through COVID. Some people haven't gone through it but they're stuck there. You got to get past the point that the world's never going back to what they call normal. How do we take advantage of it in ‘23, ‘24, ‘25 and ’26? We've got to move forward. You move forward first in your mind. Where the mind goes, the man follows. That's why I like your show. You're always trying to tell people, “Don't give up on the real estate. It's not over.” People are saying it's got the housing bubble, which is not true because before they were giving loans to people that didn't have a job. Now it's much different. You get information and the information gives you revelation and power so you can move forward to having your best life.
Where the mind goes, the man follows.
I grew up super poor. My dad was an evangelist and had the heart to help people. If you don't know what that is, an evangelist lives in a travel trailer and takes his family from church to church. We don't have any money. We're poor. A lot of your audience is reading because they have a heart and passion and want to move their life forward progressively.
Many people share the good parts. “You built this. You did this and that.” Forget that. I want to hear about the divorce. I was married at eighteen and don’t know everything. I should have hired myself and I was married for eight years. Puppy love led to a dog's life. There's nothing wrong with her or me. We’re eighteen and don’t know anything. You get that whole thing but you're hurting. You're going through the pain. Think I'm never going to recoup that money. You worked hard, built a house, moved forward and then it's all gone.
If you'll look at every situation, it didn't happen to me but it happened for me. I don't know if you're religious or not but there's a scripture in the Bible that works whether you believe in God or not. It says, “God works all things together for your good.” In other words, the world says, “What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.” These are life lessons that set me up. This isn't a tombstone. This is a stepping stone to moving forward in my preferred future. I would say that to people reading.
God works all things together for your good. In other words, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
A better me in ‘23 is saying, “I'm not going to cry about what I don't have. I'm going to celebrate what I do have and watch people who blow a lot of smoke.” “You do this and get that.” In your show, you interview people who say, “It wasn't that easy for me.” Overnight success was a long night. Be encouraged by what God's doing in you and through you. You're not done yet.
At that point of divorce, that's so powerful that you kept powering forward no matter what. There are a lot of people on the other side that are watching this saying, “Pastor David, you're running a huge organization. You have a ton of campuses. Success is on your side. How does someone like myself get out of my funk when I'm even having a hard time getting out of bed?”
Success is not always on my side. I get what you're saying. I do have support momentum but every day I’m a little bit scared like, “If we don't get on this and that.” It doesn't just happen. You have to always adjust it. Your life is a series of adjustments. Nobody expected COVID so we had to adjust. If we're all thinking of CDs or cassette tapes, life moves forward.
We've got to move forward and realize, “I'm going to focus on not just success but making a better me.” I keep saying that. The better me part comes into it. I watch a lot of people get very successful. They got yachts. I was with a guy who bought a Bernie Madoff shot. I had lunch with him. He's a good friend. He goes to our church but that doesn’t make him successful. That means he has a yacht, which means he has a yacht of bills. He was discussing with me how I was very successful in business but I was a terrible dad and husband.
Subsequently, he's divorced. He has a little bit strained relationship with his children because he was working. A lot of people need to realize that life is a balance. I'm a dad. You are going to see my kids and grandkids running around. We're a collector set. You're not going to break up this collector set. We're all together. We have good days and bad days. We work through them. I want to encourage everybody that success might be on their side but what if it's not?
I went through that divorce and was listening to the radio depressed. This is how long ago it was. It was like, “I’m all out of love, I'm so lost without you.” I got to turn the channel and then the next song was depressing too. Also, the next one. I then came up to that song we all know, “At first I was afraid, I was petrified. Kept thinking I could never live without you by my side but then I spent so many nights thinking how you did me wrong.”
I started going up. I'm taking the church into my life. The first thing I want to do is I'm eating comfort foods and start drinking lots of water. What do you need? Drink a lot of water and do a lot of walking. It’s never even better. I'm walking, eating and feeling better. My self-confidence is coming up. I know this about you and everybody. You're too hard on yourself. You're not celebrating yourself.
Sometimes you can be too hard on yourself. You're not celebrating yourself.
You celebrate the wins like, “Look at Stef. She's got the show. She's a real estate mogul. She's always standing under her pool with a fat trout under it somewhere along the beach. I want to wake up like that.” You don't always wake up like that. You got to get your mind right because where your mind goes, the man follows. When you were born and I was born, we came out head first.
If the baby didn't come out head first and it’s a breach, we got to do something. We got to move this kid around until it comes out head first. I'm telling you, at ‘23, you got to come out head first, get your head right and say, “Everything didn't work out right. There were setbacks and problems but those aren't going to define me. This is what I learned.” You and I talked about a situation in which you invested in something and it wasn't your best investment but yet you chalked it up to education. You said, “It didn't kill me. It made me stronger. Now I know what I don't like.”
You do have to define that for yourself. Get crystal clear on, “This is what I love and don't love.” Dial into your zone of genius and outsource the rest. You are the zone of genius. I called Isaac and was like, “I don't normally do like in-person shows unless it’s at a studio. Let's figure it out because tech is not my thing.”
Having the right people around you that are going to help you take it to that next level and it's a win-win all the way around. It's been fun seeing you and Pastor Nicole stay in that zone as well. You guys are great communicators and can take people from where they are to where they ultimately want to go but you have this whole team behind you that helps you stay where you're amazing.
That is important. There's a book by John Maxwell. I know everybody has read most of his books. I had the opportunity to go on a trip with him to Paraguay and spent eight hours on the plane with him right next to him. His books are him. I realized after some time with him, three days, night and day, I thought, “I would love to be around this kind heart.” He put it all in the book so you read the book. In one of his books, he talks about the levels of leadership.
Positional leadership is what everybody always does. They're like, “Make me a leader. Put a hat on me and make people follow me.” That's a positional leader. They're not going to follow you. They’re going to say, “Supposedly that's my boss but I'm smarter than him.” A leader with a positional hat on is nothing more than a man with a hat going on a walk if nobody's following.
New Heights: Positional leadership is what everybody always does.
As you're moving forward in life, John talks about that in his books making sure that your leadership is right and you're never trying to be something that you're not. For instance, he says, “You can work like crazy to be a tech person. You can spend all your life being a tech person but you'd be a horrible salesperson and a real estate person because that's Isaac's job.” Find out what you're good at because if you work your tail off and maybe you're a 4 at something, you might get to a 5.
If you're an 8 at something, let's get you up to a 9 or a 10. They stand in line for 9s. When you do, that is part of that genius figuring out what you’re good at and not good at. I get drugs into meetings. All this stuff was just meetings. I like to keep things high level because I hopefully have hired the right people that can chase those rabbits so I keep it at a high level and move forward.
At the beginning of your journey, did you always know that you were going to be a pastor? How do people find their zone of genius?
I don't know how I knew but that doesn't mean that you're not going to be successful if you don't know early. I just happened to know early. I was four years old pretending to be a preacher. When I was playing Pac-Man, I was pretending those people came to my church but I've seen a lot of people who didn't discover who they were until later in life.
Think about Colonel Sanders. He was pretty old before he knew it. Also, Joyce Meyer, before she became an iconic leader, was one of the greatest motivational speakers and teachers in the world and has written 60 books. I've been to places and mission places around the world where she's built the entire city. I don't think she started until she was 50. When I said I discovered, I want to make sure everybody understands that I discovered who I was at a young age.
I knew in the direction I wanted to go but I don't think I discovered who I was until my dad died at 56. I was 34 years old. When my dad passed away, I realized that I got to be me. That's when I discovered this phrase where I always say, “Nobody can be a better me than me so I got to be me.” If I'm up communicating in church trying to be Joel, this is my Bible so I can't be Joel. I'm going to forget it.
I'm then Jake, Jesse and Joyce. It's all the cool J names like, “If my name was a J, I'd be successful.” The whole thing is finding out who you are and staying true to that. It is also important to say since you guys are lifelong learners, you got to find out the best version of yourself. You’re like, “This is who I am. Nobody can judge me but God.” That's not true because we're judging you.
New Heights: You need to find the best version of yourself because that is who you are. And nobody can judge you but God.
At this point in your career, you've had a lot of success in building churches. What is the next step in your ministry?
It's a matter of we're still growing. As you know, we bought a humongous movie theater in Illinois. We took our third state in Illinois. It's right off the highway. It's phenomenal. We bought a new church here in Florida. I'm still moving forward but with a plan to raise other leaders to run it. That takes a lot of forethought because I'm a builder. There's a chance that after I'm gone, the rest of the team will build but most likely they will maintain.
If I build it big enough, nobody came back and rebuilt some university. A leader is called to build and people come in to make it better and maintain it. That's what I'm doing, speaking to younger people and one being my stepson but that's a whole other story. If they look for Nicole‘s episode with you, they can go back and read that. I met this girl and after being married for eight years, divorced and depressed, I met Nicole. She's got a seven-year-old boy who’s old now and is a very important person in our organization.
He went to college. He's a genius. I didn't realize at the time that that was my son. That's where people have got to understand too. My life didn't turn out perfect. I got married, divorced and got a blended family. I told Austin when he was little, “You got a great dad. Your dad is a phenomenal human in Dallas. You got two dads.” I never tried to put him against them. As a result, he stayed with me corporately and helped run the organization. Whatever happened to you might not have happened to you but might have happened for you.
What happened in the divorce when I was depressed, if I could have seen fast forward, my grandkid and everything, I would've told that girl, “Could I help you pack your stuff?” Instead, at the time, you might be looking at this as a loss like, “This is the worst thing that ever happened to me.” Maybe it's the best thing that ever happened to you. Your friends tell you, “You deserve better.” You’re like, “I don't care. I still want him.” “Your life's going to be great.” “No, it won't. I'll never be happy again.” In reality, if you see the big picture, I bet it'll be better.
New Heights: At the time you might be looking at a loss and think, “This is the worst thing that ever happened to me.” But maybe, it's the best thing that ever happened to you because you deserve better.
What is the biggest struggle that you have had in your life? What was the biggest takeaway from that struggle?
When I took over the church, my dad dies abruptly. I found out that he got melanoma skin cancer at 56 and within 6 weeks, he was gone. I'm thrust into this position where I'm going to take over his church, which is 180 people and it's all we know. These people needed a leader and my dad had been grooming me for that for a long time. I knew that was going to be the space in place. At the same time, my mom was losing it. She started dating another guy immediately, which in the church business that's not so good.
She's acting weird and crazy. She marries a guy but she's not married to him anymore. She's been married many times since then but she marries this guy who tries to overthrow the church and trying to kill it. The church grows from 180 to 2,000 people in 2 years, which put us on the fastest-growing church list in America. We're blowing it up.
I would look out before I'd preach and there was my mom in the parking lot trying to get the new people who were experiencing life changed through my ministry and television. She's telling them, “This used to be my church. My son's bad.” She was unbelievable. I had a decision and my team said, “You need to go tell people the truth about your mom. She married this guy right away.” I never could. I remember one time my mom right then and there came up slapping and hitting me before I went on stage. I started throwing up.
Even my wife said, “You need to go tell people the truth.” I wouldn't do it. I said, “I can't.” I would go up and try to meet the needs of the people. As a result, nobody knew what was going on but it was very painful and that was a big deal. Even when my mom had to move off and the board opted, “You got to go,” and they fired her, I said, “I want to make sure I send my mom $1,000 every week to make sure she's taken care of and pay for her healthcare.” For many years, I've sent a check to my mom for $1,000 every Monday. I never missed it. I pay for all of her healthcare.
New Heights: Constantly trying to meet the needs of the people at your own expense will be painful, and no one would even know what was going on.
The Bible said, “Honor your father and mother.” I honored her when she honored me. The good part about this is I might have a big hairy audacious problem. We have some big deals come up and people go, “Why aren't you scared?” It's because nothing could be worse than that. I lost my dad. My mom is betraying me. All this stuff is happening. What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
You also honored your mom regardless of the situation and I believe that God honored you tenfold. Seeing everything that has happened in the church, that just doesn't happen.
It was interesting to give people hope. When that was going on, it was the worst thing in the world I thought could happen at the time. I mentioned Joyce Meyer. I didn't know Joyce Meyer but she knew me. She'd even watched this on television and she heard because her staff's quite large, what was going on in my life and what my mom was doing.
I got a call from the office that said she wanted to meet me at Starbucks and she's in St. Louis doing sales. I meet her at Starbucks and she says, “I know everything that's going on with your mom. I hear what they're saying. I know it's untrue. I love you and what you're doing. I'm your new mom. Here's a check for $10,000 to help you with your ministry. Here's my number.”
If I text her, she's unbelievably fast-type with emojis. She's like eight years old. It's funny. There's a scripture in the Bible that says, “No one has left houses, lands, mothers or brothers from last second. For the gospel's sake, God wouldn't give it back.” Some of the things that you lost, yes, you lost and it's painful but God's got a way of bringing it back for sure if you stay strong and positive and then move forward.
The worst thing you do is get down in the dirt. You’re like, “No, I'll never be that big.” That's going to release negative endorphins in your life instead of saying, “I'm strong.” I say this every day. “I'm courageous. I'm bold. I’m joyful,” at the end of the preaching. I say stuff about my body. I go, “My body is fearfully and wonderfully made.” I will always act, look and feel twenty years younger than I am.
New Heights: If you stay strong, stay positive, then move forward. The worst thing you do is get down in the dirt.
My hormones and testosterone are in shape. My kidneys are working fine. Everybody feels my body's going, “We're working that way.” Other people are getting early old and say, “My back goes out more than I do.” You don't want to say that. Your brain is a powerful tool. It's neuroplasticity and it will form what you think. The guy I was telling you about that I had lunch with, he's 81 years old. He goes out and plays tennis every day. That's what I want to be, instead of, “I'm 45 and my shoelaces are tied together.”
What would you say are the two things that will get you out of your way or funk? Number one is speaking the truth that doesn't sometimes feel like the truth. What would you say one other thing would be a powerful thing so that people can get out of their way?
Show me your friend and I’ll show you your future. You're going to be like the five people that you hang around. I noticed this a long time ago. Everybody in my family was big-boned. Nobody knew anything about health, nothing. We would go to these ponderous all-you-can-eat buffets. I looked around one day and thought everybody in this line doesn't look healthy.
I watched what they were eating and then I looked at other people that were healthy and started investigating what they are eating. I started asking questions and getting around people that taught me about health and nutrition. They taught me about drinking in a plastic bottle. They talk about health supplements.
There is so much stuff even on Instagram that I talk about all the time like every day how to lower your blood pressure naturally, instead of going on statin drugs that cause all other problems. If you have trouble sleeping at night, you toss and turn to bed and you don't know what to do, you're low on Lunesta but no, you're not low on Lunesta. You're stressed out all the while because you sat there as everybody else. I might be sitting there with a phone glaring light over my head until I almost fall asleep. I almost chipped my tooth because we're not shutting the light off and calming down. No negative news. Our body starts making melatonin and we sleep peacefully.
We have water. People are always drinking Diet Coke. I woke up one day and realized, “I don't think Diet Coke is the answer because everybody whom I see drinking Diet Coke is overweight and unhealthy.” Plus, it says the first three letters and they're upfront about it, which is Die in Diet. I stopped drinking that stuff. I started drinking water with electrolytes mixed in. All of a sudden, my body has all the nutrients I need.
We are going to shift gears and do the lightning round with the lady boss. 30 seconds or less, answer these questions. If you wouldn't go into being a pastor, what would you have done, do you think?
I would have a huge car slot or something else.
People would be surprised that you spend so much time doing what?
Chilling and riding motorcycles. They always ask me, “How do you do it? When do you take a time off?” I do. I take time with my kids. I'll be in the middle of the meeting, shut it down and go hang out with my grandkids.
I feel like we need to come back to that because that's a gift you can give yourself. Chipotle or Chick-fil-A?
I don't know. Both of them are great. I truly eat more at Chick-fil-A but Chipotle's a great option. It's close to the house.
What's your favorite way to spend downtime?
Chilling, motorcycle riding and hanging out with the family. It's what I do. My whole little nucleus ecosystem is either here at my house or up there. I would say up here because all the kids, my grandson and my wife are here and they are the people that matter to me. I want to be with them. Everybody matters to me but these people are my inner circle.
What are you addicted to?
Audiobooks and podcasts, which I can't get enough of.
What type of podcast?
Mostly, I love Craig Groeschel. He's amazing with a lot of church stuff and church podcasts. There's a guy named Gary. Also, John Maxwell's podcast. You and Nicole Crank. Those are the good ones.
What is your favorite book that you've read to date besides the Bible?
The one that affected me much was by a guy named Brian Klemmer who was called Compassionate Samurai. When I first saw the cover, it was weird looking at them. This is a new age. I read it and it was unbelievable leadership. From stem to stern, that's it.
I need to pick that one up because I have not read that one.
You wouldn't know this guy but he's a monster leader.
Best piece of advice you've ever received?
What I’d probably go to a lot is don't take life too seriously. None of us get out alive so it's not a big deal. What's happening that I freaked out about is going to be better. Have you ever sent a text or an email where you're mad and then you’re like, “I shouldn't have sent that?” That's a lot of times we can sleep on so we're going to make better decisions.
New Heights: Don't take life too seriously. None of us get out alive; it's not a big deal.
A most embarrassing moment?
The reason why it's tough for me is I'm not easily embarrassed. I told a joke on stage but it didn't land. It was flat. I spin it and be like, “We can all agree that didn't work so I'm going to move past it,” which made it funny. It's hard to embarrass me. It could be embarrassing.
That's a huge skill to have because I tend to take things in and overanalyze different things. How much good does that do to any of us?
I could have been mortified but I probably forgot about it.
If you could spend one day with anyone in the world, who would it be and why?
Jesus would be the obvious thing. I don't know, it's weird. These are questions that my friends ask me at dinner, which is good for you. They’d be like, “Who would you spend it with?” I always thought Ronald Reagan was an amazing leader. He's cool but on the other side, I’m like, “What about Elvis and Michael Jackson?” There are so many people.
What’s your favorite food?
I eat chicken all day long. I love chicken and sushi. What's interesting about me is I have decision fatigue. By the end of the day, I've made so many decisions so I don't like to make decisions. If you worked for me, I would tell you to order for me. People just order for me and they know what I like. I don't like to deal with it. I pretend that we're out at your house eating. If you made it, I'd eat it. I’m fine.
Who inspires you? You inspire so many people.
John Maxwell is a big one. Also, Chris Hodges. These are all pastors. It’s my field of what I do. I'm inspired by regular humans. I was at Home Depot and a person was so smart doing everything. That was inspiring to me. I looked at them and said, “I'm not kidding. I could not do what you did.” They're skewing it in. My line would be 10 miles long. It goes back to what you're saying. People are good at certain things and I admire that. I always like to tell people what they're doing is good. The cashier thinks I got a good job but I'm not that. Everybody’s doing what they're called to do. We've seen that with COVID. You go to a restaurant and there's nobody there to work. You're like, “I want to eat.” Nobody wants to do that.
New Heights: Everybody’s doing what they're called to do.
Coffee or chocolate?
Both but I do like coffee. Probably I had four cups a day. I’m a big coffee guy. I love protein bars with coffee, the solid ones.
What's your favorite type of protein bar?
The FITCRUNCH protein bar.
They sell those at Costco.
They probably do. They bring them to me and they have multiple flavors. Now, I'm wanting one.
One word that describes you best.
Fun. People always tell me I’m fun.
You run such a huge organization and a church. You are so happy-go-lucky. I was telling Isaac on the way over here, “How was he so chill?”
I run to everybody. Do you know what's cool? We’re on a plane with this very wealthy man. I knew he was busy. We spent several hours on the plane and I said, “I knew you were going to get your portfolio out and start working on stuff.” He said, “I will be here tomorrow. You're not going to be here.” This guy is an iconic leader. Sometimes I am so busy being successful that I don't realize maybe the conversation I would have with you, our facilities guy, pool guy or lounge guy could tell me one thing. I try to learn from everybody.
I had an opportunity to go to lunch with my daughter and her boyfriend. Nicole’s like, “We have an appointment in 45 minutes.” I'm like, “We're going to go.” We were fifteen minutes late for the appointment but everybody worked for me so it was no big deal. I had a Zoom meeting so I told Austin we were done but we still had to drive back. “I'm going to have one ear on you and one ear on it.” I fired it up and gave an Earpod to Nicole and an Earpod to me. I flow like that where I’m like, “I've got to be there and people got to see me. There's only so much of me. I got to make sure my daughter doesn't have daddy issues if I won't be with her.”
You've done amazing with that. I've seen the behind-the-scenes how you do life and you always make your family a priority.
Without them, I'd be lost.
If you were a superhero, whom would you be and why?
I do love superheroes like Spider-Man or Superman. It's telling me I want to be a hero like, “When do swoop in?”
At this point, you are a hero. I was raised as a PK. My dad was on the road 15 to 20 days a month with what he was doing, being an evangelist. I got burned hard in the church and I stepped away. I didn't want to do the whole church thing. I was like, “I love Jesus but I'm not about that church life.” I remember reaching out to Pastor Nicole and interviewing her.
After that interview, there was something different about Nicole. I came to your church. It was the first time since I was young that I felt at home at a church. It made a huge difference. The people behind the scenes, I've seen them too much. It's cool that you guys are the same people in front of the camera and behind the camera. To me, that's everything.
Thank you. I've seen that too. People know when you're faking. We've all watched stuff. I don't even know someone but when I watched it on television, I’m like, “That's a fake person.” I don't know who that guy is but I can tell he's being himself or the girl is being herself. People see authenticity. Whether you like Garth Brooks or not, you dislike him. If a person is like, “How great I am,” we don't buy into that. That's how we built the church. Why people around the world watch online because they feel like it's healthy. Talking to the camera, I always try to make sure people don't feel like I'm telling them. Just be you. Hopefully, you've caught that and I know all your shows are that way.
New Heights: People know when you're faking.
I want you to look up Pastor David Crank on Instagram He has the most epic stories all the time. I love it. Here are the last three questions that I want to leave you guys with because I know he's going to have such great insight on these. If someone met you and said, “Pastor David, I want to become the boss of my life and call the shots. What's my first step?”
The smartest thing you can do is get around smart people. We can't always get around smart people or even if we are, they're not in the mood to talk. Podcasts and audiobooks, I love listening to them, like you on 1.5 so I can retain them well and move forward. For sure, the podcast that you listen to and the books that you read. A lot of times too when I listen to a book, I’m like, “Is this happening to me?” Maybe a year later, you've done this where you like, “I'm answering a question and I'm answering based on that book that I read.” It does get in your head and heart and comes out of your mouth.
New Heights: The smartest thing you can do is get around smart people.
What is your definition of a boss?
You. A person who is a boss is not a person who’s like, “I'm the boss.” It's a person you look at and they have what I call total life prosperity. Some people got a pie and the money slice but they don't have the marriage slice, kid's slice or happy slice. They're depressed and are still looking for something. A boss is a person who can sit back at the end of the day and go, “I might not have everything but what I got, I’m enjoying it. I'm not looking at what I don't have. I'm celebrating what I do have.” That can mean you can have a canoe and a house on jack stands next to the river or you can be in the neighborhood where there's a $50 million home. It's not about the zeros behind it but is there peace in that hug? It’s beautiful in that business.
Any last words of wisdom?
In ’23, get your hopes up and those confessions that I said. Say stuff about yourself to be what I'm saying. Every day, have words of affirmation about yourself because there's always a recording going on in your head. “You're no good. Why did you do that? You always do that. Why aren't you married now? Why aren't you successful by now? Why?” You over-exhaust yourself instead of saying stuff about yourself as God said. God made you and created you. If you do a crime, you're going to be known because you have a thumbprint leaving an imprint.
Yours is different from mine. God had such forethought in making you. You were designed by him. He's an architect that doesn't disappoint. We're insulting God or ourselves when we're too hard on ourselves. Not that we shouldn't like and inspect ourselves but we judge ourselves too. You’re like, “I'm too short. I'm too tall. I'm too white. I'm too dark.” You need to start saying stuff about yourself. That's why I love Joel so much. He’s such a good thing. He gets up every day and says, “I'm blessed, strong, powerful and happy.” That works.
Your body starts releasing endorphins. All of a sudden, you go around happy instead of people saying, “I'm a loser. I'm no good. Something bad is going to happen. I should have been successful. Nobody loves me.” You sink because your body and emotions are triggered by your brain. The Bible says, “Renew your mind.” That's why the church is so good. Get your mind right on Sundays and go out on Mondays winning. By the time Sunday comes, you're needing again.
Who is someone else in your circle that you know would be another powerful guest on the show that you think our readers would love to know from?
There are a lot of them. I'd probably have to come back to that because I got so many people that are friends that don't do certain shows. They don't extend out. I think of a guy named Dave Martin. You would enjoy him. He’s a very successful life coach. He spoke at our Kingdom Builders. He would be a good guy. You've had Nicole. Austin, my son, is a monster leader. He leads this organization. I'll get you some. You know what you're doing.
Some people say, “I've got a podcast. How can I get people to listen to it?” Some of you could do it like the secret of sowing in the dark. You might not have ever told your fan base to follow her and watch her. When you do that, they always say, “Look at karma. Seed time and harvest.” When you sow a seed, a good deed and you make something happen for someone else, it makes happen for you.
I always try to promote people's books and do things. I believe that stuff comes around. What goes comes around. Maybe you got a podcast and you’re like, “I wish somebody listen to my podcast. I wish I had more likes the way that they do.” Get like-minded people and help them go up. Lose someone in a seat and help shoot.
On that note, I want you to share all your handles of where people can connect with you right along with the book that you've written. You guys know I am all about Money 101 and getting your financial world in order. Share those.
SolvingYourMoneyProblems.com is where they can get the stuff on that. As far as David Crank, that's an easy name. Not with a K but with a C, not Christmas With The Kranks. If you go to David Crank on social media, all the forms from Twitter, Instagram or Facebook, look out for the face because there are fake ones. I have a lot of followers so you'll know. If it’s a guy with 300 followers, it’s not me.
Thank you so much to you readers for reading. Thank you, Pastor David. You have been my spiritual daddy. I'm so grateful for the whole Crank family. You have changed the game in my life and I have no words.
It’s been fun and I know everybody loves playing along. I’m proud of what you're doing and excited to be a part of it. You got to have me back. Regarding the Chick-fil-A thing, I was too slow on that. I should have come straight up Chick.
I've had Pastor Nicole on twice so you are coming on twice. I'm going to have Austin on as well. That'll be super fun. As I always say at the end, it is your time to fire your fear, build your faith and become the boss of your own life. Let's get after it.
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About David Crank
David Crank is a dynamic, energetic motivational speaker, pastor, blogger, author, who uses his creative talents and humor to make the Bible relevant and understandable. Raised in extreme poverty as the son of a traveling evangelist, David developed his authentic “street smarts” and common-sense approach to life and ministry. His willingness to be transparent and openly share his own faults and failures is an endearing quality.
He has a refreshing sense of humor, a passionate heart for the lost, and an uncommon talent for making the complex simple. He, regularly, uses his motivational humor and inspirational wit to captivate audiences at conferences and churches around the world. David and his wife, Nicole, are co-founders and senior pastors of FaithChurch.com, with four campuses in St. Louis and two in West Palm and Royal Palm. Each week, the couple ministers to a membership of more than 18,000, alternating their time between the Missouri and Florida campuses.
Their Faith Church weekly television broadcast reaches a large audience on ABC and NBC in St. Louis, FOX and ABC in Florida, and worldwide, on The Believer’s Voice of Victory Network. David is a frequent guest on Daystar and other Christian networks. In 2017, the couple was recognized as #49 on a list of “100 Most Influential Evangelicals in America”, according to Newsmax magazine.
David is the author of the book, Solving Your Money Problems. Learn how to Escape the debt cycle and live the life of your dreams! https://solvingyourmoneyproblems.com For David and Nicole, church ministry is always a family affair. Son, Austin, and daughter-in- love, Morgan, are the Campus Pastors of the churches in Florida. Daughter, Ashtyn, is a talented musician who plays the keyboard and guitar and sings on the Worship Team.
Connect with David on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Listen to his sermons and podcasts on the Crank Ministries Channel on YouTube or faithchurch.com. Subscribe to his weekly blog at davidcrank.com.