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Life, Leadership, and Legacy by pray.com features the world’s most passionate and devoted leaders. In these mini-podcast series we get an exclusive look into the stories, experiences, and lessons learned that make these people some of the

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most influential leaders on earth. Join us as we discover how these respected leaders overcome vast obstacles and defeat the odds by turning massive challenges into success. Learn from their experiences and apply them to live a better life. If you enjoy our podcast please leave a rating and review.

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  1. 169Christian Aranza – Life - “You Can’t Avoid God’s Calling”Christian Aranza is the Head Pastor at Valley Rise Church. Raised in southern Louisiana, he moved to Detroit Michigan for high school. After graduation, Christian served as a medic in the airforce, and later earned his degree from Oral Roberts University. After some challenges, Christian began his life of service at Church of the Highlands in Birmingham, Alabama. In January 2018, he launched Valley Rise Church in Houston, Texas, where he continues to build an open and inviting community.Please leave us a rating and subscribe so that you never miss an episode. For more inspirational content visit: https://www.pray.com/pray-bible-experience28 min
  2. 170This week on PRAY: Pastor Christian AranzaChristian Aranza is the Head Pastor at Valley Rise Church. Raised in southern Louisiana, he moved to Detroit Michigan for high school. After graduation, Christian served as a medic in the airforce, and later earned his degree from Oral Roberts University. After some challenges, Christian began his life of service at Church of the Highlands in Birmingham, Alabama. In January 2018, he launched Valley Rise Church in Houston, Texas, where he continues to build an open and inviting community. “When I went in I went in, I had just started dating my now wife, and heard all these horror stories, you’re going to go off to war and she’s going to find someone else. . . . And I said God if you let me not deploy I’ll be a preacher. Not because I was scared, I just didn’t want to lose the person that I knew I was going to spend my life with." Please leave us a rating and subscribe so that you never miss an episode. For more inspirational content visit https://www.pray.com/pray-bible-experience3 min
  3. 171Pray Bible Experience on Pray.comStart Your FREE trial today at https://www.pray.com/pray-bible-experience Stay tuned for Episode 1 of our all-new season of Life, Leadership, and Legacy coming out on April 22nd.1 min
  4. 172Season 2 is coming soon...Pray.com is back with Season 2 of Life, Leadership, and Legacy. Every week we bring you the stories, values, and actions, that drive the world's most passionate leaders - and may just inspire you to follow your passions, too. On this podcast, we’ll hear about the lives of pray.com’s most devoted leaders through detailed discussion across 3-part episodes. Listen to all the episodes at https://www.pray.com/discover3 min
  5. 173David Meltzer - Legacy - "Res ispa loquitur"David Meltzer is a speaker, best-selling author, award-winning humanitarian, and the CEO of Sports 1 Marketing a firm he founded with Warren Moon. He was honored by Variety as “Sports Humanitarian of the Year” and is a recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor. David also has his own podcast called The Playbook Podcast which features a series of conversations with celebrities, athletes, and entrepreneurs who share their professional and personal playbook to success and how they made themselves successful. “Understand the theory of relativity and oneness. When we understand that we’re all connected, that we’re all relative to one another, some people are more relative to us than others... John Daly gave me an interesting answer, he said, Legacy is BS, it’s what I do now.” For more episodes of Life, Leadership, and Legacy please visit pray.com/podcast. Call (323)521-9791 to leave a voice message about how this podcast has impacted your life. Links mentioned in this episode of Life, Leadership, and Legacy: Pray app for iOS Pray app for Android Music by Jon Schneider Pray.com26 min
  6. 174David Meltzer - Leadership - "Radical Humility"David Meltzer is a speaker, best-selling author, award-winning humanitarian, and the CEO of Sports 1 Marketing a firm he founded with Warren Moon. He was honored by Variety as “Sports Humanitarian of the Year” and is a recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor. David also has his own podcast called The Playbook Podcast which features a series of conversations with celebrities, athletes, and entrepreneurs who share their professional and personal playbook to success and how they made themselves successful. “In order to have clarity on what we want in order to be a leader we need to have balance of our values and we have to have prioritized balance not equilibrium balance. That then allows us to have focus which gives us confidence. And confidence is something that allows us to lead.” For more episodes of Life, Leadership, and Legacy please visit pray.com/podcast. Call (323)521-9791 to leave a voice message about how this podcast has impacted your life. Links mentioned in this episode of Life, Leadership, and Legacy: Pray app for iOS Pray app for Android Music by Jon Schneider Pray.com26 min
  7. 175David Meltzer - Life - "Be More Interested than Interesting"David Meltzer is a speaker, best-selling author, award-winning humanitarian, and the CEO of Sports 1 Marketing a firm he founded with Warren Moon. He was honored by Variety as “Sports Humanitarian of the Year” and is a recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor. David also has his own podcast called The Playbook Podcast which features a series of conversations with celebrities, athletes, and entrepreneurs who share their professional and personal playbook to success and how they made themselves successful. “Giving is not easy, giving is not trading, I don’t give to get. But eventually what happens is you’re a vessel and when things happen through you you become an appreciator.” For more episodes of Life, Leadership, and Legacy please visit pray.com/podcast. Call (323)521-9791 to leave a voice message about how this podcast has impacted your life. Links mentioned in this episode of Life, Leadership, and Legacy: Pray app for iOS Pray app for Android Music by Jon Schneider Pray.com25 min
  8. 176Dr. Philip Zimbardo - Legacy - "An Educator's Legacy"Dr. Philip Zimbardo is an American psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He became known for his 1971 Stanford prison experiment and has since authored various psychology books, textbooks for college students, and other notable works, including The Lucifer Effect, The Time Paradox, and The Time Cure. He is also the founder and president of the Heroic Imagination Project. “We started a shyness clinic to help people who were shy or inhibited. We are almost 100% effective because we know how to treat shyness and that clinic is still continuing to this day in Palo Alto University.” For more episodes of Life, Leadership, and Legacy please visit pray.com/podcast. Call (323)521-9791 to leave a voice message about how this podcast has impacted your life. Links mentioned in this episode of Life, Leadership, and Legacy: Pray app for iOS Pray app for Android Music by Alexander Mark Pray.com15 min
  9. 177Dr. Philip Zimbardo - Leadership - "Sociocentric Leaders"Dr. Philip Zimbardo is an American psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He became known for his 1971 Stanford prison experiment and has since authored various psychology books, textbooks for college students, and other notable works, including The Lucifer Effect, The Time Paradox, and The Time Cure. He is also the founder and president of the Heroic Imagination Project. “There was always a few kids who were the leaders. They set the agenda, they told us what things that we should do and things that we could do. And most people ended up agreeing. I guess I was 12 and at that time I figured out that the world was filled with a few leaders and many followers.” For more episodes of Life, Leadership, and Legacy please visit pray.com/podcast. Call (323)521-9791 to leave a voice message about how this podcast has impacted your life. Links mentioned in this episode of Life, Leadership, and Legacy: Pray app for iOS Pray app for Android Music by Alexander Mark Pray.com14 min
  10. 178Dr. Philip Zimbardo - Life - "Hope Came from Praying"Dr. Philip Zimbardo is an American psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He became known for his 1971 Stanford prison experiment and has since authored various psychology books, textbooks for college students, and other notable works, including The Lucifer Effect, The Time Paradox, and The Time Cure. He is also the founder and president of the Heroic Imagination Project. “My hope came mostly from praying. I was 5 and a half years old and I began to pray every morning when I work up. I’d pray to Jesus Christ to make me strong and brave and healthy and be able to go home as soon as possible.” For more episodes of Life, Leadership, and Legacy please visit pray.com/podcast. Call (323)521-9791 to leave a voice message about how this podcast has impacted your life. Links mentioned in this episode of Life, Leadership, and Legacy: Pray app for iOS Pray app for Android Music by Alexander Mark Pray.com14 min
  11. 179Billy Heather - Legacy - "Being Loved by God"Pastor Billy Heather is the youth and young adult pastor at Destiny Church in Indio, California. Pastor Billy reminds us of all the simple things in life and why to cherish every day of life. His motivational speeches and preaching inspires people to live a better life. From praying for people at the hospital to watching a Muslim accept Jesus, Billy teaches us to live a Jesus-centered life. In this episode Pastor Billy Heather talks about the genuineness of discipleship, following Jesus, and invigorating your faith. Leadership is about what has been done for others. Pastor Billy explains how to truly be great in leadership by doing the little things first. “When Jesus isn’t just a part of my Sunday morning experience when he’s a part of my life every single moment that’s when people really tap into who he is.” For more episodes go to Pray.com/podcast. Download the Pray app and start praying with your community today.11 min
  12. 180Billy Heather - Leadership - "Discipleship"Pastor Billy Heather is the youth and young adult pastor at Destiny Church in Indio, California. Pastor Billy reminds us of all the simple things in life and why to cherish every day of life. His motivational speeches and preaching inspires people to live a better life. From praying for people at the hospital to watching a Muslim accept Jesus, Billy teaches us to live a Jesus-centered life. In this episode Pastor Billy Heather talks about the genuineness of discipleship, following Jesus, and invigorating your faith. Leadership is about what has been done for others. Pastor Billy explains how to truly be great in leadership by doing the little things first. “When Jesus isn’t just a part of my Sunday morning experience when he’s a part of my life every single moment that’s when people really tap into who he is.” For more episodes please visit pray.com/podcast. Links mentioned in this episode of Life, Leadership, and Legacy: Destiny Church Pastor Billy Heather Pray app for iOS Pray app for Android Music by Alexander Mark Music by Jon Schneider Pray.com19 min
  13. 181Billy Heather - Life - "What God Saved Me For"Billy Heather is the young adult pastor at Destiny Church in Indio, California. He is a son, husband, brother, and friend. At the age of 21 he was diagnosed with stage four testicular cancer and was told he had a limited amount of time on this earth. After developing a passion for Jesus and a love for people he encountered the truth and simplicity of the gospel. Today he’s an author and cancer survivor who lives with his wife Randie in Palm Springs, California. “Just to see those moments develop in your life there is nothing truly like it. I look back today and I just think man like this is the story that reinvigorates my life. When I go through seasons of ups and downs and leadership when things start to get mundane or I start to feel bored with my routine… I have to remember what God saved me for.” For more episodes please visit pray.com/podcast. Links mentioned in this episode of Life, Leadership, and Legacy: Destiny Church Pastor Billy Heather Pray app for iOS Pray app for Android Music by Alexander Mark Music by Jon Schneider Pray.com24 min
  14. 182Roma Downey - Legacy - "The Bible Series"Roma Downey is a producer, author, and actress known for her starring role in the television show “Touched by an Angel” and for developing The Bible television series on the History channel. Along with producing The Bible she played Mary, mother of Jesus, on the series. Then Roma and her husband Mark Burnett started a production company called Light Workers to create engaging, uplifting, and inspirational content. “Last year I launched a digital platform called Light Workers. God is the light and we are the workers. It’s designed to bring inspirational content to create inspirational content. For more episodes of Life, Leadership, and Legacy please visit pray.com/podcast. Call (323)521-9791 to leave a voice message about how this podcast has impacted your life. Links mentioned in this episode of Life, Leadership, and Legacy: Pray app for iOS Pray app for Android Music by Jon Schneider Pray.com16 min
  15. 183Roma Downey - Leadership - "Touched by an Angel"Roma Downey is a producer, author, and actress known for her starring role in the television show “Touched by an Angel” and for developing The Bible television series on the History channel. Along with producing The Bible, she played Mary, mother of Jesus, on the series. Then Roma and her husband Mark Burnett started a production company called Light Workers to create engaging, uplifting, and inspirational content. “For the most part I have felt the call in my life to tell stories that inspire or that encourage people. Some of the shows that I’ve been directly involved with have also told the story of God’s love. And I have felt God’s love works so actively in my life that I really felt the call to tell that to the world through story.” For more episodes of Life, Leadership, and Legacy please visit pray.com/podcast. Call (323)521-9791 to leave a voice message about how this podcast has impacted your life. Links mentioned in this episode of Life, Leadership, and Legacy: Pray app for iOS Pray app for Android Music by Jon Schneider Pray.com12 min
  16. 184Roma Downey - Life - "Comforted by Faith"Roma Downey is a producer, author, and actress known for her starring role in the television show “Touched by an Angel” and for developing The Bible television series on the History channel. Along with producing The Bible, she played Mary, mother of Jesus, on the series. Then Roma and her husband Mark Burnett started a production company called Light Workers to create engaging, uplifting, and inspirational content. “Prayer was a tremendous comfort and guide to us. My father would pray nightly with me and with us. Our faith in the resurrection in the gift that Jesus gave to all of us is that the finality of death was not something that had to be feared and that the passing of time would be brief.” For more episodes of Life, Leadership, and Legacy please visit pray.com/podcast. Call (323)521-9791 to leave a voice message about how this podcast has impacted your life. Links mentioned in this episode of Life, Leadership, and Legacy: Pray app for iOS Pray app for Android Music by Jon Schneider Pray.com19 min
  17. 185Fern Nichols - Legacy - "Faith & Prayer"Fern Nichols is the founder of Moms in Prayer International. She leads a prayer movement that mobilizes women from around the world. She helps moms turn their fears into faith by using the power of prayer. Moms in Prayer International’s mission is that every school in the world would be covered with prayer. “My mother left me a legacy of faith & prayer. That is the legacy I want to leave with my children and my grandchildren. Legacy is what we’ve past down from generation to generation. What are the most important things we can pass down? Is it treasures down here on earth or is it treasures in heaven?” For more episodes of Life, Leadership, and Legacy please visit pray.com/podcast. Call (323)521-9791 to leave a voice message about how this podcast has impacted your life. Links mentioned in this episode of Life, Leadership, and Legacy: Moms in Prayer Pray app for iOS Pray app for Android Music by Alexander Mark Pray.com19 min
  18. 186Fern Nichols - Leadership - "Lead with Grace & Truth"Fern Nichols is the founder of Moms in Prayer International. She leads a prayer movement that mobilizes women from around the world. She helps moms turn their fears into faith by using the power of prayer. Moms in Prayer International’s mission is that every school in the world would be covered with prayer. “We need to think about blessing a person and not cursing a person with the negative. But how do you do that when the truth needs to be shared? Jesus was so masterful with that how he could speak such truth but with such love and such grace. For more episodes of Life, Leadership, and Legacy please visit pray.com/podcast. Call (323)521-9791 to leave a voice message about how this podcast has impacted your life. Links mentioned in this episode of Life, Leadership, and Legacy: Moms in Prayer Pray app for iOS Pray app for Android Music by Alexander Mark Pray.com22 min
  19. 187Fern Nichols - Life - "Moms in Prayer"Fern Nichols is the founder of Moms in Prayer International. She leads a prayer movement that mobilizes women from around the world. She helps moms turn their fears into faith by using the power of prayer. Moms in Prayer International’s mission is that every school in the world would be covered with prayer. “My mom was not raised in a Christian home but I believe that somebody prayed for her. As I think about how God created me and each one of us, he had us in mind before the foundation of the world.” For more episodes of Life, Leadership, and Legacy please visit pray.com/podcast. Call (323)521-9791 to leave a voice message about how this podcast has impacted your life. Links mentioned in this episode of Life, Leadership, and Legacy: Moms in Prayer Pray app for iOS Pray app for Android Music by Alexander Mark Pray.com23 min
  20. 188Izu Aginwa – Legacy – “Helping People Find Purpose”Izu Aginwa is the leader of The Vibe, a new and expanding tribe of young adults in Southern California’s Inland Empire at Abundant Living Family Church. He also serves as the Director of Southeastern University of the Inland Empire, a fully-accredited college at Abundant Living Family Church. Izu was born in Atlanta, Georgia but spent most of his young life growing up in Nigeria. Growing up with missionary parents, Izu Aginwa was raised in a Christian household by the word of God. He also served as the Student Life Director for SEU’s extension campus as well as a Youth Director in Central Florida. “I want people to remember me for being somebody who was intentional and just relentless in helping people find purpose. Strength is for service not status.” For more episodes of Life, Leadership, and Legacy please visit pray.com/podcast. Call (323)521-9791 to leave a voice message about how this podcast has impacted your life. Links mentioned in this episode of Life, Leadership, and Legacy: Abundant Living Family Church Pray app for iOS Pray app for Android Music by Alexander Mark Pray.com22 min
  21. 189Izu Aginwa - Leadership - "Learn Leadership by Imitation"Izu Aginwa is the leader of The Vibe, a new and expanding tribe of young adults in Southern California’s Inland Empire at Abundant Living Family Church. He also serves as the Director of Southeastern University of the Inland Empire, a fully-accredited college at Abundant Living Family Church. Izu was born in Atlanta, Georgia but spent most of his young life growing up in Nigeria. Growing up with missionary parents, Izu Aginwa was raised in a Christian household by the word of God. He also served as the Student Life Director for SEU’s extension campus as well as a Youth Director in Central Florida. “I’ve learned so much from imitation. When you first start out submit to some leader. Commit to serving them, like really commit and ask yourself how can I offer value?” For more episodes of Life, Leadership, and Legacy please visit pray.com/podcast. Call (323)521-9791 to leave a voice message about how this podcast has impacted your life. Links mentioned in this episode of Life, Leadership, and Legacy: Abundant Living Family Church Pray app for iOS Pray app for Android Music by Alexander Mark Pray.com25 min
  22. 190Izu Aginwa - Life - "Prayer in Nigeria"Izu Aginwa is the leader of The Vibe, a new and expanding tribe of young adults in Southern California’s Inland Empire at Abundant Living Family Church. He also serves as the Director of Southeastern University of the Inland Empire, a fully-accredited college at Abundant Living Family Church. Izu was born in Atlanta, Georgia but spent most of his young life growing up in Nigeria. Growing up with missionary parents, Izu Aginwa was raised in a Christian household by the word of God. He also served as the Student Life Director for SEU’s extension campus as well as a Youth Director in Central Florida. “We were playing these Bibles every night. And the crazy thing is that people that were bedridden were able to get up and walk and listen to the Bible. The thing is our houses were fenced so we didn’t see these people, they were outside of our fence, but these people would congregate around our fence to listen to the Bible and people were getting healed.” For more episodes of Life, Leadership, and Legacy please visit pray.com/podcast. Call (323)521-9791 to leave a voice message about how this podcast has impacted your life. Links mentioned in this episode of Life, Leadership, and Legacy: Abundant Living Family Church Pray app for iOS Pray app for Android Music by Alexander Mark Pray.com31 min
  23. 191Sally Burke - Legacy - "A Legacy of Prayer"Sally Burke is the President of Moms in Prayer International. Sally grew up in Coco Beach, Florida. She graduated with a degree in business and quantitative analysis and started working at Rockwell International to work on the space shuttle program. She married her now husband Ed Burke who was also an engineer. Through church fellowship and bible study God really deepened her faith. Now Sally leads a worldwide prayer ministry with Moms in Prayer. “I have the responsibility of tens of thousands of leaders, I’m going to point them to God, I’m going to point them to his word. And as we read it together we grasp what God is saying and how to follow him.” For more episodes of Life, Leadership, and Legacy please visit pray.com/podcast. Call (323)521-9791 to leave a voice message about how this podcast has impacted your life. Links mentioned in this episode of Life, Leadership, and Legacy: Moms in Prayer Pray app for iOS Pray app for Android Music by Alexander Mark Pray.com17 min
  24. 192Sally Burke - Leadership - "The Bible is the Greatest Leadership Book"Sally Burke is the President of Moms in Prayer International. Sally grew up in Coco Beach, Florida. She graduated with a degree in business and quantitative analysis and started working at Rockwell International to work on the space shuttle program. She married her now husband Ed Burke who was also an engineer. Through church fellowship and bible study God really deepened her faith. Now Sally leads a worldwide prayer ministry with Moms in Prayer. “I have the responsibility of tens of thousands of leaders, I’m going to point them to God, I’m going to point them to his word. And as we read it together we grasp what God is saying and how to follow him.” For more episodes of Life, Leadership, and Legacy please visit pray.com/podcast. Call (323)521-9791 to leave a voice message about how this podcast has impacted your life. Links mentioned in this episode of Life, Leadership, and Legacy: Moms in Prayer Pray app for iOS Pray app for Android Music by Alexander Mark Pray.com18 min
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