"Where Are You in The Storm"| Episode #87 | Builder of All Things | Author’s Cut: Chapter Six 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. 

In this episode, “Where Are You in the Storm,” we talk about positioning and preparation — because recognizing you’re in a storm is one thing… but knowing where you are in it is what helps you respond with wisdom, not panic.

🌬 Storms don’t just show up. They come with signals: the wind shifts, the clouds darken, thunder rumbles, lightning strikes… and then the rain hits. The same is true in life and business. If you can learn to discern the indicators, you can prepare, pivot, and protect what matters most.

💡 In this episode, we unpack:
* The four stages of a storm: the wind, the thunder, the lightning, and the rain
* How to recognize early indicators — both practical and spiritual — before the storm hits
* What it looks like to build “shelters” in business, leadership, and family
* Why preparing SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) for worst-case scenarios matters
* How storms reveal what’s solid and what needs to be strengthened or surrendered

📖 “Peace doesn’t come from the absence of the storm — it comes from the presence of the Builder of all things.”Whether your storm is still on the horizon or you’re in the thick of it, this episode is an invitation to slow down, pay attention, and ask the question: Where am I right now — and how is God using this?

🤍 From spiritual discernment to strategic business decisions, this conversation is for leaders, builders, and believers who don’t just want to survive the storm… but come out stronger on the other side.

👇 Drop a comment: What’s one way you’ve learned to recognize a storm early — before it fully hits?

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Chapters

• 0:00 Recognizing the Wind of Change
• 2:51 Creating SOPs for Storm Preparation
• 4:52 Thunder: When Problems Become Visible
• 6:17 Lightning Strikes and Rain Falls
• 8:25 Finding Peace in Life's Storms

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:16

can you talk about preparation and positioning? Yeah, um know, with my experience in you know, peoria, midwest, growing up there before I came to the islands, uh, and those things I shared with you know about, you know, recognizing the wind and then hearing the thunder, and then you see the lightning and then it comes the rain. There's like a order there, right, and so I felt like recognizing number one you're in a storm or a storm's coming and recognizing where you're at in the storm, like are you at tier one, two, three or four kind of deal, right? So, um, what I've naturally, you know I've done this, but now I'm just trying to like define it is through. There's two parts to the wind. You know, the wind is first, is first, like I was saying, it's like a feeling. You feel wind. You don't see it, but you feel it. Yeah, you know, and there was the moisture change and there's just something you could feel and I really believe that there's two things that happen. It's just you've had enough experience in your business, trade and life that there's an intuition that develops naturally, right, and an intuition that develops naturally right.

Speaker 1: 1:27

And I would say when the wind happens, like when I was a kid, pay attention doesn't mean run back in the house, you know, like we're playing a game. But be aware, don't ignore it. You know, and sometimes it's actually God speaking to you too. It's not just you may have no experience in that situation, and God will give you that same feeling, that same kind of intuition. That's what we call the Holy Spirit. Right, so he'll speak to you that way as well. But, yeah, that wind comes, I think. Pay attention. You know, like I have. I have that experience all the time with you know, uh, in a lot of situations where I can just feel like we need to email the client, I just nothing else says why do it right now? Or like before the day ends. But follow those leadings. You know, there's this little like can't explain it, you can't pinpoint it, it's just pay attention. So that would be my first key is recognize if, if you feel something, there's a reason why and doesn't mean you have to have the answer yet but go ahead and note it. Pay attention and be aware that's good. That's like number one. Don't. Don't just throw it off, like when the moisture changes the wind and you kind of see the clouds doing a little something different. Then okay, we're watching you. Yeah, just record it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that would be my first indicator.

Speaker 1: 2:39

And, um, typically, like when that kind of thing happens and you don't really have any processes in place, I would take worst case scenarios, work backwards and create sops for risk limitations, right? Risk awareness for what you would do, right? Business gems yeah, sorry, we're getting into business gems, but I mean, be ready for every type of storm, right? If it's a tornado, where are we going to go? And if the tornado goes right over our head, have a vision of worst-case scenarios and already put tactics and SOPs. Sop just really means instructions and a process to get from A to Z. That's all it means. Right, it's just okay. A is stand up. You know, that's a procedure. Actually, what we really want to do is get over there to that shelter, open the doors and get in. That's what we need to do. And in business, we like to type out everything. Man Like you got to stand up, walk 10 feet. I think that's a little too much information, but when you're building these, it's very important to have these.

Speaker 1: 3:38

So, even when the wind kicks in and your intuition kicks in, you could sometimes determine what kind of storm could be. Yeah, you know, and then you're already kind of okay if this just kind of taking that mental note and that, okay, like, if it is the you know, I feel like the permitting is taking a little bit longer than usual, and if that's the case, what could happen? Oh, people could stop doing work. If that happens, okay, I need to start doing podcasts with people that are connected to making decisions, with bills that have to do with DPP. That was an intuition thing. I don't have to sit there with the mayor and certain people, but I made an intuition. I feel it coming and want to be a part of the solution, not just to hang out in the problem. I'm already doing some work based on intuition, right, and so that's what births those things, you know. It's like why, would you know, am I doing, trying to, you know, create scenarios of surviving outside of I'm pivoting now, okay, what kind of projects where we don't need permitting, you know. And scenarios of surviving outside of I'm pivoting now, okay, what kind of projects where we don't need permitting, you know. And so you gotta you just gotta think, okay, worst case scenario even everything's all good now, everything might not be all good in the storm, right.

Speaker 1: 4:47

So indicator number two is what I call the thunder. You know, I was like, once you hear that rumble, rumble, you're like oh man, it's kind of official now, like there is a storm Doesn't mean it's going to hit you, but there's definitely a storm now. Yeah, right. So hearing it is like is it affecting you yet or is it just noise, that it's out there but not affecting you? And so when you hear the thunder, it's like when I read, you know, a magazine article about the DPP is taking longer than usual. I'm now hearing the noise. It's not just an intuition anymore. Now I'm speaking to other. You know, I'm out there with another colleague and he's like man, is your permit taking a while, cause it's like taking us almost a year now.

Speaker 1: 5:31

The architect starts I see in emails and you know, and just the noise is getting real, right, it's like oh man, like there is a storm out there. It's approaching you. It's approaching or it's out on the outskirts of me. You know it's not affecting me yet, but it's on the outskirts. So when that starts happening, that's when you know we just start doing our preparation at tier two. Now Like a little more. You know it's real. Give the team heads up Like, hey, projects might not start. You know, it's okay to integrate a little bit of that awareness. There's a storm. You know, just like storms do.

Speaker 1: 6:04

They put the little indicators on the TV back in the day, so there's warning, or you know. Or the floating banner, yeah, yeah, yeah, so same kind of thing in business and how you approach certain things. But then when you see the lightning, it's collectively. It's something you could see now, and that's when the lightning is when you actually start seeing it affecting you. So it's not in the outskirts anymore. Lightning is like, okay, it's hitting ground. Yeah, you know what I mean. It's no longer just in the sky, it's touching the earth. You know it's like and, and then it's approaching too right, and so now that it's affecting you, maybe your profit margins are losing a little bit, maybe your sales aren't hitting what they.

Speaker 1: 6:42

You're starting to see it, yeah, like affecting you, and so when those indicators happen, it's time for shelter, it's time for protecting your business, it's time to stop investing, it's time to stop, it's time to kind of like let the team know, like, hey, things like this is, this is a storm. It could still like pass us, but it could like it's a real storm. Now it's touching the ground, it can hit us dead on, so um, and then the last one's the rain. So if you could be a business owner, family, uh, marriage could be in the middle of this right now. That's when you're in the storm, you know, and if you didn't prepare for those indicators, that's, it is what it is and you're free in the storm right now. It's not too late, like you still can wake up the builder of all things. It's not too late. You know what I mean.

Speaker 1: 7:24

So sometimes you it's good to have these indicators and and to like pay attention and then start you know prepping teams to understand it could be, and when it is happening, just start putting your processes in place and get your shelter and ready for the storm. But when the rain comes and you're in it, man, that's when it's all fate that you can imagine, like in twister. When the storm was hitting it was just once. They're at the shelter, man, they're just holding each other and hope they don't blow away. It's like the rain is when you're in it, but when you're in it in it, and that's what those uh disciples on the boat were. They were in it, in it. And so they.

Speaker 1: 7:58

They had to make a choice on whether to try to control it from there or to wake up the builder of all things, to just kind of seize the day. And so, just going back on what I said, man, that peace doesn't come from the absence of the storm, it comes in the presence of the builder of all things is where you get to really rest peacefully and understanding that he is in control of the storms that come. He is the one that's in control of allowing it to begin in the first place. So if he's in control of allowing it to pass and to stop it, like everything in the middle, as much as it sucks, it's going to shake your foundation and all the things that need to fall off. So you know what you got to fix. And if you not, if it shuts you down, then praise God. If it shuts you down, then praise God, because Paul, in Acts 27, was on a ship, let's call it a boat was going off and that storm hit them.

Speaker 1: 8:50

That boat didn't survive, but not one person was injured on that ship. Every single one. I shouldn't say injured. I'm pretty sure they had scratches and broken arms, but they all survived. Not one died, for sure. They all made it to land. They had to swim, but they all made it. Every single one accounted for yeah. So sometimes even the boat will sink, but you weren't meant to do a business at that time or that type of business in that time, and that's acceptable, right, that's good. So, either way, at the end of the day, god, when there's a storm, he is shaking you, trying to see what you need to work on, and sometimes it's not to destroy or to to shake, sometimes it's just to reroute. Yeah, you know. Redirect, like sometimes the storm's right there and you just can't go forward. No more, right? You know, like, oh, that we got to go this way. Then, yeah, let's dodge the sword. So sometimes it's just to pivot you, yeah, and get you in a new direction.