"Where Are You In The Storm" | Episode #89 | 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

• 0:17 Framing Storms As A Model
• 0:39 Reading The Wind And Intuition
• 2:36 From Gut Feeling To Action
• 2:56 Building SOPs For Worst Cases
• 4:40 Thunder: External Signals Get Loud
• 6:10 Lightning: Impact Hits The Business
• 7:01 Rain: Riding Out The Core Storm
• 8:00 Faith, Surrender, And Rerouting

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:17

Can you talk about preparation and positioning? Yeah, you know, with my experience in, you know, Peoria, Midwest, growing up there before I came to the islands, 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 comes the rain. There's like an order there, right? And so I felt like recognizing number one, you're in a storm or a storm's coming, and then recognizing where you're at in the storm. Like, are you at tier one, two, three, or four kind of deal, right? So 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, like I was saying, it's like you 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 I really believe that there's two things that happen is just you've had enough experience in your business, trade, and life that there's an intuition that develops naturally, right? 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 win comes, I think pay attention, you know. Like I have a I have that experience all the time with, you know, 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 we're watching you, you know. Just record it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, so that would be my first indicator. And 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? Brisk awareness of what you would do, right? Business gems, yeah. Sorry, we're getting the business gems, but but I mean, be ready for every type of storm, right? If it's a tornado, where are we gonna go? And if the tornado goes right over our head, you like 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, and 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 that's what we need to do. And the and in business, we like to type out everything, man. Like you got to stand up, walk 10 feet, and I think it's a little too much information, but but when you're building these, it's very important to have these. So even when the wind kicks in and your intuition kicks in, you can 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, you know. And if that's the case, what could happen? Oh, we people could stop doing work if that happens. Okay, I need to start doing podcasts with 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 hang out on 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 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 because indicator number two is what I call the thunder. You know, it's like once you hear that rumber rumble, you're like, oh man, it's kind of official now. Like there is a storm, doesn't mean it's gonna 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 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. Yeah, it's not just an intuition anymore. Yeah, now I'm speaking to other, you know, out there with another colleague, and he's like, Man, is your permit taking a while? Because it's like taking us almost a year now. The architect starts, I see in emails and you know, and just the noise is getting real, right? Yeah. It's like, oh man, like that there is a storm out there. It's approaching or it's it's on the outskirts of me. You know, it's 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. They there's a storm, you know, just like storms do, they put the little indicators on the TV back in the day. So there's is warning or you know, or the floating banner. Yeah, 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 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 use. 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 hit it, it's a real storm now. It's touching the ground, it can hit us dead on. So, and then the last one's the rain. So, if you could be a business owner, family, 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 fearing 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? 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 then 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 their shelter, man, they're just holding each other and hope they don't blow away. You know what I mean? It's like the rain is when you're in it, but when you're in it, in it, and that's what those disciples on the boat were, they were in it, in it. And so they 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 uh in control of allowing it to pass and to stop it, like everything in the middle, as much as it sucks, it's gonna shake your foundation and all the things that need to fall off. So you know what you gotta fix. And if you're not, if it shuts you down, then praise God. Because Paul in Acts 27 was on a ship, let's call it a boat, it's going off, and that storm hit them. 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 but they they all survived. Now 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? And 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 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 we gotta go this way then. Yeah, let's dodge the sword. So sometimes it's just to pivot you, yeah, you know, and get you in a new direction.