"The Ocean vs The Stream"| Episode #69 | Builder of All Things | Author’s Cut: Chapter Three w/ Richie Breaux

Welcome to the Builder of All Things Podcast—where we go beyond the pages of the book and explore into the Author’s Cut! 🔥 Join Richie Breaux and Ray Bisnar as they break down each chapter in micro-episodes, giving you the behind-the-scenes insights, deeper wisdom, and real-life applications—just like a Director’s Cut for a book.

There’s a major difference between striving for success — and flowing in your calling.In this powerful conversation, we dive deep into the shift from living for the world’s expectations to living anchored in purpose, integrity, and God’s direction.

In this conversation:
* ⚡ The difference between making decisions based on feelings versus purpose.
* 🛡️ Why aligning every choice with God's standards builds a foundation that lasts.
* 🎯 The cost of chasing success for appearances — and the freedom of staying in your God-given lane.
* 🌊 The "stream" of life: Trusting that God’s hand is guiding, even when bumps and setbacks come.
* 📖 How past losses, closed doors, and painful moments were actually God's way of preparing you.

This is for anyone who’s tired of surface-level success and is ready to build something with eternal value.

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Chapters

• 0:18 Ocean vs Stream Decision Making
• 1:31 Living Beyond People's Expectations
• 3:23 God's Plan: Finding Your Stream
• 5:10 Life's Bumpers in Your Lane
• 6:15 Ambitions and Divine Purpose

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:18

On a practical level, what are the major differences on how you live, uh, your life as a business owner? When it when it was, um, not in that stream, uh versus uh. When you chose to be in that stream, like what? What was the difference in the between those two?

Speaker 2: 0:39

um, I think I was making decisions and choice. Okay, being in the ocean, I was making decisions and choices based on what I seen and feelings. So, like you know, I see something and like we need to be like that, you know, or we need to do that, so I would make decisions that I think were were more led to trying to establish who we are compared to how the world would want to see us or how the client would want to see us or how. So I was making decisions to almost dress us to look like a certain thing, right. And so when I'm in the stream now, the practicalness of it, does it align with? You know the, the destination we're headed to? You know those decisions aren't based on how we're dressing ourselves, because I have a destination determined with God and a purpose to establish a new standard of excellence. So if I'm going to this is like an example is if we're trying to establish a new standard of excellence in what we do. That means every decision we make has to align with integrity. Every decision we make has to align with integrity, with anything that aligns with God.

Speaker 2: 1:48

And people were to dig in and look, and even if the surface didn't look and you dug in. You're like, oh man, these guys are operating in truth and integrity and honesty and all these things and hard work. And so we had to push to, you know, make decisions based on those things, versus the destination so, or how we're going to look, you know. So sometimes we don't look. There might be a moment you might look at us and like complain, but if you were to dig in and saw, you'd be like, oh man, they're just holding integrity, they. They didn't do those things for this reason. And that can really shift on a decision making for somebody. You want a homeowner look at you like a certain way and you have a way to present it, to sell yourself, but then you're going to have to lie a little bit to do it. I'd rather not lie and lose the job and then somebody goes well, you know, you guys, this isn't this.

Speaker 1: 2:38

And then boom, you know so um, is it difficult to knowing that people don't know?

Speaker 2: 2:46

You know it is man it's. It's the constant battle, but you know it's. You live for people's expectations. You, you die by their rejection. So that's a Lecrae quote and I live by that, you know, as much as I can because I used to really live for people's expectations, and that's what the ocean is. But if you do that, as soon as they reject you, man, it hurts. And so not that I don't want to serve people, but I'm not serving them for their reaction or their expectations. You know I'm serving him, and so, at the end of the day, what is God's going to see is what matters, man.

Speaker 1: 3:26

Come on.

Speaker 2: 3:28

Yeah, it's hard. It's hard, like I just want to tell everybody, especially employees and the decisions we make. We can't tell them everything, because not that we can't, we can. But you know we've had great examples of you know trying to be super transparent with everything and then everybody thinks they have the better way, and sometimes that's okay too, because then they just they, they end up leaving you know not not agreeing with you know our way of establishing a new standard of excellence, but, um, that's what we're going to do, man.

Speaker 2: 3:59

We want to be the best at what we do, and every business owner has that desire to be the best, and there's nothing wrong with that. But when you dig under what is the best, you want to see God.

Speaker 1: 4:10

That's crazy, because I'm thinking, yeah, people do want to be the best, but what was the cost to get there, was it?

Speaker 2: 4:17

Yeah, you nailed it, man. Are you going in the ocean trying to look for whatever shortcut you can? It's more of a heart thing, man, about all this. I mean there's a lot of practicalness, but it's a heart thing, at the end of the day, that I want to be in a position of trusting him being the builder of all things and not trusting me, God knows. I mean he's already forming you in the womb of your mother.

Speaker 2: 4:45

I think that's when the stream starts, you know, in all our lives and then you're born and the things you go through some could be traumatic, some could be fruitful. Whatever it is, god is there, you know, and he's parenting and watching and trying to parent you through life to prepare you for this calling. So the stream's constantly happening and I just encourage people to look back and say what was the stream of my life? And sometimes we look at man. When I lost my scholarship in college football, I could look back and whine all day or I could say what was God doing? Why did he allow that All things work together for good? Why did my best friend die? Why did I? Can just keep doing these whys, right. But then now, looking back, when I shifted my perspective, man, I know that my calling and what God has for me.

Speaker 2: 5:38

You know there's fruit along the way as well, and he's constantly had signs and bumpers, you know, like on bowling alley for kids, you put the little bumpers and they've been there my whole life bumping me and and, yeah, you can get out of the bumper. If you're not in the stream, you're in the ocean, man it's. You can drown out there, you know, and you can die. So but when you're in the stream and your heart is with god, and he's got you, you know, at least you know you're in a lane with bumpers, and you know. And so he's preparing you for something, and and that's what I mean by that, and with the ambition to calling is like the ambitions are birthed. You know, he gives you desires for a reason. He's giving you skills through them for a reason, preparing you constantly for this, this, this, you know, this stream is what I call it. You.