Todd Vinson is no stranger to the Real Life Mentoring podcast. He and his wife Jeannie shared their story with us and Todd comes back from time to time to share his thoughts on effective leadership. Today, he joins Chris as they tackle the book, 5 Gears: How to Be Present and Productive When There Is Never Enough Time by Jeremy Kubicek

The 5 Gears principle is a tool Todd teaches, helping you to shift into the right gear at the right time so that you can grow in your relational intelligence. Using these gears consistently allows you to bring a new level of relational intelligence to your life that offers a competitive advantage in our task-driven world.

You won't want to miss today's discussion and hear from Todd.

Todd Vinson is the founder of Overlander Consulting.

Overlander's Goal is to be:

Rooted in insight.‍

Driven by purpose.‍

Focused on people, over performance.

To find out more about Overlander Consulting, schedule a 30 minute session or subscribe to Todd's blog click on: https://www.overlanderconsulting.com/contact

We live in a world that idolizes hustle. But what if rest was actually the secret weapon?

Todd Vinson with Overlander Consulting, is back talking about rest. Not just taking a nap or getting into some good sleep habits. The kind of rest he talks about with Chris is much more.

Physical Rest restores the body. When we sleep, we heal. Muscles rebuild. Hormones balance. Clarity returns.

Emotional Rest allows us to breathe. It gives space to name what we’re feeling instead of stuffing it down or numbing it out.

Mental Rest silences the noise. It's the margin we create when we step away from screens, plans, and the need to solve every problem.

Todd Vinson is the founder of Overlander Consulting.

Overlander's Goal is to be:

Rooted in insight.‍

Driven by purpose.‍

Focused on people, over performance.

To find out more about Overlander Consulting, schedule a 30 minute session or subscribe to Todd's blog click on: https://www.overlanderconsulting.com/contact

Have you ever sat across from a mentee who’s carrying the weight of worry—and you wish you had the right words or tools to help them find peace?

That’s what today’s episode is all about. At Fahrenheit: Real Life Mentoring, we love sharing practical tools that help bring real transformation. You’ve probably heard us talk about The Six Areas or My Life/My Story—and today, we’re adding another favorite to that list.

Chris and Christina are diving into A Tool for Peace, inspired by Philippians 4:6–7. It’s a simple but powerful way to help mentees recognize what’s causing anxiety in their lives—and then learn how to replace that worry with specific, peace-bringing prayer.

And if you’d like to follow along with the worksheet Christina mentions, she’d love to send you a copy! Just reach out to christina@fahrenheitmentoring.org

Jonathan Williams, founder of Be Transformed Fitness, joins Chris and Christina today as they dive into the topic of physical health.

Since Chris and Christina take a holistic approach to mentoring, Jonathan's holistic approach to physical health is a great fit and topic for discussion.

Jonathan has a vision for those he works with to feel comfortable with exercise by educating them and providing them with tools that will allow them to make exercise an active part of their lifestyle. He wants people to know that sustainable transformation takes place when the formation of your mind, body and soul is intertwined.

Be Transformed Fitness has a goal to help people walk through simple ways of exercising and learning how their body can move and in return they feel and look good and even get stronger moving towards living a healthier and better quality of life.

To find our more about how you can partner with Jonathan to help meet your physical health goals:

Be Transformed Fitness

I met Hans Georg over 19 years ago. He was an international exchange student from Austria, and our family had the privilege of hosting him while he attended university for a semester. What started as a simple hosting relationship grew into something far deeper—a bond so strong that I came to call him my son. This is the power of mentoring.

In this episode, Chris and Christina share personal stories—and the stories of others—that will inspire, encourage, and hopefully spark your imagination. What would it look like for you to intentionally invest in a mentee’s life?

Listen as Chris and Christina unfold these powerful experiences. And if you’re curious about how you can be trained to mentor and make a lasting impact, visit fahrenheitmentoring.org.

Rob Schrader joins Chris and Christina talking about the Kingdom of God. Sound like loads of fun? It is!

Rob describes from a theological stand point what the Kingdom of God is and how it fits into mentoring. Rob takes what can be a difficult and lofty topic and presents it in simple and practical ways.

Knowing the Kingdom of God

• helps you see the bigger picture for mentoring.
• help you see your role in a better way as a mentor.

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Once again, Rob Schrader joins Chris and Christina with his insights on prayer.

As a pastor, Rob has many people asking him many questions about prayer:

• what is it?
• how can it develop?
• how should you pray?

In today's discussion, Rob actually leads our hosts into a careful conversation about prayer touching on topics like how has prayer impacted your mentoring and what role does prayer play in mentoring.

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• It’s the core of who we are.
• It connects us with other people.
• Switch on Your Brain p. 94, It is very interesting that every cell in the body is connected to the heart and the brain controls the heart and the mind controls the brain. So, whatever we are thinking about affects every cell in our body.
• Our minds, wills, and emotions (hearts) are meant to support one another. Inner conflict is evidence something is not right.
  • Madeline Movie example
  • We speak to one another through our souls. Relationships are developed here.
  • Our souls have to be restored at times.
    • Psalm 19:7 "The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple."
    • Psalm 23:2-3 "He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul; He guides me in paths of righteousness for His name's sake."
  • Our personalities are experienced here.
• The enemy throws a thought my way to impact my mind. If I allow it to settle on my mind, that thought impacts my emotions. If I allow it to settle on my emotions, it impacts my will/desire. When my will/desire is impacted, it becomes an action.
• If we are not able to express what is inside of our souls we will not be able to be understood and known as we desire.

How Do We Take Care of the Soul

When the soul is given attention and cared for, we discover the things which are in our hearts. A mentor can help another person discover the things in his or her heart. `

Simple Comfort is a wonderful thing to receive, experience, and to enjoy.

Soul and Mentoring:

Mentoring: Strengthening the Soul of another person.

What are simple comforts?

Don’t make this complicated. What makes you tick, brings you joy, fills your cup? The things that will be simple comforts are unique to who you are.

Caring for Chris’ soul examples:

• A genuine conversation
• A good meal prepared and shared with the desires to bless others
• Sitting next to a fireplace being warmed or outside by a campfire
• A good slow rain while taking a nap or watching a good movie
• Sharing memories with loved ones around a kitchen table
• Sitting by a lake or ocean and enjoying nature
• Music

Caring for my soul examples (Christina):

• Sitting in the backyard
• Drinking Coffee and reading
• Sitting in a coffee shop
• Thinking about the future with Zion
• Imagining what I want to do to improve the backyard
• Being quiet
• Having a day to myself
• Writing

Caring for our souls is not a one time thing.

Challenge:

Take a self assessment of the condition of your soul.

What’s one thing you can do to care for your soul this week?

Caring for your soul builds resilience.

Caring for your soul is not dependent on someone else.