You were created in the image of a Creator.

So the question isn't whether you're creating something with your life.

The question is: What are you creating?

On this episode of Like It Matters Radio, Mr. Black explores how our thoughts, beliefs, choices, and internal narratives continually shape the life we're building. We can create fear, doubt, insecurity, and limitation, or we can create faith, courage, vision, purpose, and possibility.

Because we don't simply respond to circumstances. We respond to the meaning we give them.

Mr. Black examines the power of frames and reframing, the stories we construct about our past and future, and why identity sits at the center of lasting transformation. He also returns to three questions every leader needs for clear vision:

Where am I now?

Where am I going?

What will it take to get there?

Joining the conversation is Micah Fiechter, creator of Music Bible, a project turning the complete, unedited text of Scripture into music across multiple genres. What began with one chapter became a much larger mission, providing a practical example of what can happen when someone invests their time, talents, and treasure into something they believe they were created to build.

And ultimately, Mr. Black challenges listeners to begin with the end in mind.

Your choices are creating something.

Your relationships are creating something.

Your beliefs are creating something.

Your days are creating something.

One day, the dash between your birth and death will tell the story of what you did with the life you were given.

So ask yourself:

Who will be different because I lived?

What am I creating that will matter when I'm gone?

Inspiration. Education. Application.

When you live your life like it matters… it does.

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How do you measure a life?

By what you accomplish? What you earn? What you own? How many people know your name?

Or is there a completely different measuring stick?

On this episode of Like It Matters Radio, Mr. Black explores an ancient question that every person eventually has to answer: What is the measure of my life?

Drawing from Scripture and ancient Jewish wisdom, Mr. Black challenges the way we define success and examines what our choices reveal about who we are becoming.

An ancient teaching attributed to Rabbi Ilai says a person can be recognized by three things: their cup, their pocket, and their anger.

In other words, character becomes visible at the pressure points:

• The cup: Who are you when your guard is down?
• The pocket: What do your money, resources, and opportunities reveal about what you value?
• The anger: Who do you become when you're frustrated, challenged, or don't get your way?

These aren't measuring sticks meant primarily for judging everyone around us. They're mirrors.

Because the ultimate measure of a life isn't simply what we've accumulated. It's what we've done with what we've been given.

Mr. Black is also joined by Autumn Christensen, Executive Director of Her Plan, to talk about what that looks like in action. Her Plan connects women facing unexpected pregnancies with a nationwide network of practical support, from medical care and counseling to housing, transportation, job training, material resources, and community.

Their conversation provides a real-world example of a larger question at the heart of the episode:

Are we living primarily for what we can get, or for what we can give?

Our time. Our money. Our abilities. Our influence. Our relationships.

They all become part of the answer.

Because the measure of your life isn't ultimately found in your résumé, possessions, position, or applause.

It's found in your character, your purpose, and the lives that are different because you were here.

So when your life is weighed, what will the scales reveal?

Inspiration. Education. Application.

When you live your life like it matters… it does.

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The most dangerous lies aren't always completely false.

Sometimes they're just true enough to believe.

On this episode of Like It Matters Radio, Mr. Black explores the power of half truths: incomplete stories, inherited beliefs, distorted narratives, and deeply embedded messages that can quietly shape our identity and direction.

Because when you change the meaning of a story, you can change what someone believes about themselves.

Mr. Black explores epistemic drift, the gradual shift in how we determine what is actually true. In a world of endless information, social media, AI, competing narratives, and tribal loyalties, it's increasingly easy to accept something because it sounds right, feels right, or has simply been repeated enough times.

But this isn't only about misinformation around us.

It's about the stories inside us.

Our earliest experiences can create powerful beliefs about safety, belonging, failure, love, and identity. Repeated long enough, those beliefs become patterns. Patterns become paradigms. And eventually, the map we've constructed can feel indistinguishable from reality.

This episode explores:

• Why half truths can be more convincing than obvious lies
• How repetition strengthens the beliefs and patterns we live from
• Why we need to examine what we believe instead of simply inheriting it
• How early experiences can shape our personal “map of reality”
• Why old patterns may have once protected us but now hold us back
• How new truth, experiences, relationships, and repeated choices can create new patterns

And there are two important challenges at the center of this conversation.

First: Check things out for yourself.

Ask questions. Challenge assumptions. Examine the evidence. Understand why you believe what you believe.

Second: Your first half doesn't have to determine your second.

You may not have chosen the experiences that shaped your earliest beliefs. You may not have drawn the first map you were given.

But you don't have to navigate by it forever.

What was learned can be challenged.

What was practiced can be changed.

What was wired through repetition can begin to be rewired through truth, practice, connection, and grace.

You cannot live a full life on half truths.

And no matter what's already been written, you still have a second half to write.

Inspiration. Education. Application.

When you live your life like it matters… it does.

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