{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Up Your Average","title":"102: This Top Salesman Took an 86% Pay Cut to Pastor a Church","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2086,"description":"What would you give up for the work you were made to do?\nIn this episode, Keith Tyner and Doug Shrieve sit down with Curt Edmondson, pastor of Emerge Church in Fortville, Indiana, who also runs Kona Ice of Indy. Curt traded a sales career for a pulpit and is happier for it.\nThis episode covers:\n• How Curt beat his sales region by $6 million and still got fired\n• What he prayed when he could not tell which door to take\n• When an 86% pay cut arrived two days before his fourth child\n• Where he launched a church with $4,000 in the middle of lockdown\n• Why more money would have stopped the whole story\nIf a job pays but doesn't fit what you want to do, listen for Curt's one-word answer near the end.\n⛪️ Find Curt at Emerge Church: https://www.emerge317.church\n👉 Work with us: https://www.gimbalfinancial.com\n00:00 Cold open\n02:37 How Doug and Curt met at a Christmas program\n04:52 One coffee, an invitation to Ukraine and a $1,500 bonus\n07:18 Zhytomyr, and the pastor Curt decided to become\n09:42 Fired at the top, and the resume that would not send\n10:41 The campus pastor call, an 86% pay cut and a fleece\n15:49 India, a bridge job and a church launched with $4,000\n20:47 Makeup, pickles and olives: every product is a widget\n21:48 A turn in the road versus a straight line\n23:13 How Kona Ice of Indy became the family business\n27:15 One word for anyone stuck in their forties\n28:24 When more money would have gotten in the way","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/KmuiimG1JFbZUHe-bhnPBJ0y4SJ0wy-v--_HuuSvNXc/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80NjJh/ODcyYjJiNzU5NjIz/Y2RkNWRhYjdlYjA5/ZTIyNC5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}