Mart Green
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120 appearances
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1 series
first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
Mart Green’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I hope people will give me a second chance. And I've had people that wouldn't give me a second chance. And it grieves my heart because I thought, oh, I could have done better if you just could have seen me differently because I made a mistake the first time. And so, but yeah, I don't think I'm smart enough to manipulate or even make those things happen. I just know that they do.
I've seen them happen.
Yeah, well, yeah, I just, through time, I just, in praying or thinking about people, I think, well, what's something symbolic? I like symbolic things. I got stuff on my body. When I run, every piece of clothing has symbolics to it. So I'm a very symbolic person. So when I give a gift, I like to think of something that's symbolic. Who's this person? What is it that I could say to them?
Mm-hmm.
Because I've been in that situation where I'm trying to figure out, is this a gift or is this an obligation that I just got into?
Great question. I've never thought of it. And I'll have to think longer about it because nothing comes to my mind at the very top. I just maybe see my family being that way. I mean, I just saw my mom and my dad always care for people. And so, yeah, probably hereditary. And they saw their parents do that. And so I've heard story about my grandmother and her gift of generosity.
My grandmother was not – had no wealth. She'd have two dresses and she'd give one away. And so – She gave her a gift. She figured out the value of it because she thought she ought to pay tithes on her increase. She just loved people. She loved the Lord. Because she understood how much she was loved, it was easy for her to love.
If I had to go back to anything, I think it was modeled for me through a couple of generations of the people that I got to see.
It goes back to the original thing I talked about, good people surrounding myself. And I'll never forget one of the quotes I steal from you, and I'm obsessed with empowering the right people. Not just people, but how do you find the right people? So professionally, I have one prayer, and it's based on Luke 10 and 2. So people say, how can I pray for you? Well, I have family issues.
I can pray for that. But professionally, there's only one prayer. The harvest is plentiful, but the harvest hands are few. Pray for harvest hands. And so I'm always praying. I mean, right now I'm looking for some board members, you know, different things.
Right people. All the time. All the time.
Yeah. Yes. Because that's... Because I love empowering people, and so I don't have to do everything myself. I've learned that a long, long time ago. Now, when I was at Mardell and I was a founder and I ran that business, there was a lot of weight to that because I was in charge and had 800 employees, all those kind of things.
Now I'm in a situation where I'm at where I'm just helping to empower, coming alongside, whether it's Bobby. here at U-verse, and how can I help him? How can I add value to him? Other projects I've started have a little bit more weight to them, but I'm usually working myself out.
I know I'm kind of working myself out of a job, so I'm always looking for people, which is so fun, because you see people, they grow and all that. Some people can be micromanagers and try to take control. That's not my natural personality, so that's fun for me.
Yeah, I do now. Cause I gave up Mardale that I'd done for 35 years to be available. And so that's kind of where I'm at. And there's some things I stay with longer Bible translation. I've been with for 15 years and I'm 2033. I'm going to be with it for at least another eight years trying to reach a goal. But yeah. So I kind of trying to figure out what's my identity.
And I try to get it down to a couple of words and through a long process, transformational unifier. So if I had to get myself down to two words, it'd be a transformational unifier.
So transformation means you got to transform something. You got to do things differently than what it was before. And you have the same time to unify. So the words are almost, seems like they're opposed to each other, but then how do you unify it? So I think of a bridge. And so a bridge, how do you bring two sides together to get something done that would not get done separately and
And I will be in it, and it will be in me, but it doesn't need me anymore, right? And so that's what I'm trying to define those projects, just like you, version. That doesn't necessarily need me, but I'm helping them to bridge, in the case, Bible translation, you know, that were needed.
Yeah, that's great. I mean, we all have different kind of personalities. So like I said, for me, it's kind of a natural deal. I saw my dad. I was 19, right? He helped me go get a loan. How many dads can help their 19-year-old son get a loan? Now I felt a huge obligation to that. And so, yeah, I think people empowering others is a huge gift. You've spoken about it in your leadership podcast.
You can't be a micromanager. You have to empower people. You've got to do that. Otherwise, you're going to choke that out. Now, some people only want a certain size. And maybe that's all it's supposed to be is a certain size. And not everything has to go to a thousand stores. So there's nothing wrong with not being an empowering of people.
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