Simple Money, Rich Life Just Hit 100k (Here’s the Story We’ve Never Told)

We just sold the 100,000th copy of a book I almost didn't write.

Back in school, English was my worst subject.

Teachers basically told me writing wasn't for me.

So when I felt God nudging me to write Simple Money, Rich Life, I pushed back hard.

I even hired someone else to write it for me.

But God kept saying, "You need to write this."

What came next was four years of prayer, a COVID curveball, a publisher who scrapped our whole concept, and an editing process that nearly wrecked us.

Sales started slow.

Then the ad budget got pulled.

I walked around a lake 100 times asking God if it was over.

Then things slowly started to turn.

This is the behind the scenes story of how a book about biblical money, giving, and stewardship reached 100,000 copies sold.

It is really the story of 100,000 answered prayers.

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  What We Cover

Here's a little of what we cover in this episode:

• The reader message that brought us to tears
• Why I almost let someone else write the whole book
• The prayer habit we started before any of this made sense
• The publisher demand that felt like losing an arm
• What Mark Batterson told me that changed how I measure success
• The lowest moment, and the lake I walked around 100 times
• The simple thing we started doing with every book we shipped
• What 100,000 copies really represents

  Bible Verses Mentioned

• Hebrews 11:1
• Exodus 4:10
• 1 Corinthians 1:27
• Acts 19:11-12
• Matthew 25:21

  Resources Mentioned

• Simple Money, Rich Life
• True Financial Freedom

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