The Dr Pompa Podcast
Dr. Pompa Solo: Bible Success Secret: The David Protocol for Modern Men
24 Jan 2026
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Chapter 1: How do false identities affect our success?
Is your identity the key to your destiny? I would argue the answer to that is absolutely. Here's the problem. Many people are living their lives with a false identity, meaning somebody along the way, typically people who love you the most, gave us a false identity. So it could have been a teacher, a parent, a sister, brother, loved one, coach, go through the list.
But what I mean by a false identity is they told us things Our subconscious recorded those things and something in our subconscious believed it. And then we become that reality because, by the way, you've heard it said, your perception becomes your reality and your perception is your reality. How we view the world is how the world becomes around us.
So I would argue when we see an adult that has a messed up life, if you will, or a troubled life, or maybe even a teen with a troubled life, I promise you at the core of that,
Chapter 2: What is the significance of true identity in personal growth?
is an identity problem. They believed something that wasn't true about themselves because here's what I believe and here's what hopefully you believe and maybe you're watching this and you're going to send this to your teenager hopefully or even anyone that you love because by the way, we all suffer from some false identity and I believe that our level of success and even happiness
is proportional to how much we walk in our true identity. Because I do believe, and I didn't finish the point, is that God created us perfect, and He created us with a true identity. And as we go through life, our goal is to obtain and walk as close into that real and true identity as God created us to be. And when we do, we become happy. When we do, we are successful.
Things just seem to happen for us. I'm not talking about just financial success, because many people are financial success, they get there because of a great insecurity in their life, and when you really examine them, they're very unhappy and their life's very incomplete. I'm talking about success
Chapter 3: How can we identify our false identities?
from all i call 12 pillars of success relationships and yes finances is a pillar right but you know all of these things even health would reflect success in a way meaning you look at someone's life and it's very balanced in every area and yes they're typically very happy content and they're typically making a difference on this planet
But I can argue that those people are walking very closely to their true identity. If you're wondering or asking the question right now, Dr. Pompa, are you functioning 100% in your true identity? The answer is no, I'm not. But I can tell you this, because I purposely choose to get closer every year to my true identity. Every year, I do get closer. Now, I don't say that to brag or boast.
I say that because that is an intentional goal that I believe all of us can do, that we can walk absolutely closer to who God created us to be and create that happiness. Okay, so what do we do? Meaning, let's talk about some of these false identities. I'll talk about mine because I always say every bad behavior as an adult came out of me thinking I'm stupid.
Many of you look at me and be like, how possibly could you think you're stupid? Well, what you don't know is I am dyslexic. You don't lose dyslexia. dyslexia, but I couldn't read until about the seventh grade. I can tell you this. If you can't read in the sixth, seventh grade, even the fourth grade, you're considered stupid. Okay.
And in any aspect of measurement, you're going to believe anyone that would call you stupid because you kind of put the pieces together yourself. So I believe my false identity was absolutely created more from my perception of how I fit into the class around you.
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Chapter 4: What lessons can we learn from David's story?
So these false identities, they don't even have to be told that you're stupid. Oh, I've had people say I'm stupid and make fun of me. And guess what? I overcompensated with my physical abilities. Now, you'd look at me and think that I'm no brute. But back then when we're kids, we're all about the same size.
But I always say I was a little faster and I was a little stronger just genetically than other kids. So I punched some kids up a few times. Matter of fact, I remember punching a sixth grader square in the nose, but I was only in fourth grade. On the playground. And back then, you know, they sent you to the principal's office and say make up, you know, but he said the wrong thing to me.
And again, I don't say that to brag. I say that to show you that that insecurity was bred then. And as I pointed out, every bad behavior as an adult really came out of that.
That said, now my perception is all of my superpowers, honestly, and this I'll brag about, all of my superpowers, ability to read a book and remember what page everything's on and put all this information that I gathered over years, put it together and create new things and thoughts, all of that is because of my dyslexia. It was my superpower. It wasn't stupid at all.
Okay, now, many people don't have that opportunity. And my son, Simon, who's also dyslexic, thought he was stupid, even though his parents are saying, no, no, no, your brilliance is there.
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Chapter 5: How do our childhood experiences shape our identities?
Your brilliance is there. But you know what? They don't want to hear mom and dad. Fact is, he's comparing himself to his classmates going, man, I can't read. I can't pronounce words, et cetera. But I can tell you now, I told him, wait for it. In your 20s, you're going to start walking into it. In your 30s, you're going to start recognizing you have superpowers because of your dyslexia.
And here my son Simon is walking into an understanding of, wow, you mean everyone can't do that? That's exactly what I said. You mean everyone can't read a book and remember exactly where it is on the page? And you know, yeah, no, that came much later, you know, but unfortunately I lived a lot of my life with those insecurities and now functioning from a superpower.
That said, I would still argue that there's still insecurities about when I have to read out loud in public. Maybe I've done it on the show and I stumble because I can't read out loud. I have little techniques that when I read to myself, but reading out loud, it just I stumble on it. And if you asked me to spell a word, forget it. I will get very embarrassed.
Or if I type something, the spell check, I can't even get close. It has no idea what I'm trying to say.
Chapter 6: What practical steps can we take to reclaim our true identity?
Oh, and by the way, words that I can spell today, tomorrow I might not be able to spell. Isn't that bizarre? But that's the way my brain works. The word patient, I had to use all the time. The I, the E, I know there's rules, yet they don't apply, they don't work. Point is, is I guess, protein, I guess how to spell protein. Every day, I still don't know how to spell protein.
I throw down the letters. The word view, is it the E, the I? I mean, simple four-letter word. Why can't I remember it? I can remember everything I read. My point is, I'm just bringing you into my world and my false identity of stupid and dumb. I probably have others. I do. Of course I do. Right. But that one I share.
But the point is, is that the false identities, the adversary, the enemy, whatever you want to call it, Satan himself uses against us and can take our life the way off the rails, I should say, of the will that God has for us.
And my goal, even in this short little podcast teaching here, is to get you, perhaps your children, you know, to understand that we can come back to the real identity, our true identity. I want to tell you a story, and it's about this book. And David perceived he was king.
because if you understand that this happens to everybody david oh you have to understand i love the story of david in the bible it's not a story it really is it's reality it's history david arguably the most important king that ever walked the face of the earth why because the king of kings came from david's lineage right jesus himself came from the lineage of david and that's god had purpose and the identity of david was ultimately that yet he would usher in that lineage
From his seat in his kingdom will be the kingdom of Christ. And how more important is that? But that's not where David's life started. David's life started as a shepherd boy, insecure. He was born out of wedlock. His own brothers mocked him, teased him because he never fit in and honestly didn't really even like him.
So David was absolutely more of an outcast, if you will, especially in his own family. Well, one day Samuel, he was the prophet of the day, old in age at this time, I would say, but Samuel at this time, every time Samuel showed up, Israel would just be like, oh no, now what? Because they were always in trouble. He wasn't prophesying good things.
Well, so Samuel steps up and God tells him to go and anoint the next king of Israel.
Well, he ends up at a man named Jesse's house.
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Chapter 7: How do victories in life contribute to understanding our identity?
No, next. He had seven before David. And he says, that's all. I don't have any more. Well, there has to be, Samuel says. Well, maybe David? See, even think of David as a potential son. Imagine that false identity, is he didn't even think of him as a son. So he had a lot of wounds and a lot of false identities from his brother and his father.
See, I said many of them come from the people who love us. And his father did love David, of course. But David brought a lot of potential shame on the family because he wasn't born in wedlock. So fact was, as he said, go get them, bring them back. We're not sitting until David comes. David shows up and he's anointed as king. And of course, his brothers despised him even more after that.
But, you know, David had some victories in his life. David did, in fact, kill a lion and kill a bear and from protecting the sheep. And that gave some wins to David, a confidence. So David knew he was really good with the sling. David knew that he was good at certain things that his brothers couldn't do. So he had a confidence.
However, he still had a lot of insecurities from obviously this false identity that was put on him. And his brothers are off. fighting because they're the soldiers, right? They're the masculine ones in the family. And they go off to war. And David wanted to go off too, but his father said, no, no, no, you have to tend to my sheep.
And David goes off to the, or I'm sorry, his brothers go off to the front lines. And one day, Jesse, his father says, take this to your brothers on the front lines, some food and some things that they may need. So David goes and he sees them all cowering over this giant Goliath, who's basically taunting all of Israel. saying, send your best man. I'll fight him so we don't have to go to war.
And if you win, you win. But if we win, you're our slaves, right? He was making it very simple. And every day this man would come out, this giant who was probably at least nine feet tall, coming out and taunting Israel, taunting their God, challenging them, saying, if your God's so good, let your best come out and fight me. And David says, Wait a minute. Are you kidding?
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Chapter 8: What role does support from others play in overcoming false identities?
It's like, why isn't anyone stepping up to this man? I'll deal with this man. See, because David had a perception that it wasn't a battle between his might and his little sling or him. It was a battle between his God and his God. And David knew he served the one and only true God. So David stepped up with what I say a matzah. And he had a lot of courage because his courage wasn't in him.
But remember, he had some victories with the sling, right? But David stepped up, and you know this story. He takes down Goliath and becomes the hero. Well, his brothers, what did his brothers say when he even showed up before he stepped up? What are you doing here? He said, go back to your lowly sheep. You're here just for your own ego. You're here just to watch the battle. I know why you're here.
I see your heart, he said. He's like, gosh, you know... I'm just questioning why everyone's afraid of this guy. But see, David stepped up with a different confidence, a confidence in God. He saw this guy really criticizing the God that he knew because when he was in the field, he spent a lot of time with this God, right? He spent a lot of time there.
So his confidence was there and he saw it differently. He saw it that this was a battle, not between flesh and blood. It was not a battle between Goliath in Israel or Goliath in a man, but it was a battle between Goliath Goliath, this giant, and his God that protected him. See, his perception was very different than his brothers in all of Israel. And David stepped into that.
Okay, hold on to that thought. But here's the thing. David literally becomes king one day. But even before that, as he was already anointed king, he was running from Saul for many years. David made a lot of mistakes. And even when David became and was anointed finally king over Israel, he made a lot of errors and mistakes. He fell into many different sins, right? Even had a man killed.
Obviously, adultery was one of his sins, but David had all kinds of other insecurities, and he wasn't leading Israel well until David perceived he was king. David really perceived, and I have a mark in my Bible where David started functioning differently. See, because David walked in to further into his true identity. He realized what he really was.
He realized the anointing and what it meant, that God chose him, just like he chose us for something very special, right? And he did. He created us. David stepped into that knowing. And not only did it change David, but it changed all of Israel, the nation of Israel. And I believe it changed really history as we know it.
And I believe even on David's deathbed, he walked even closer into that, really an understanding of his true identity. I think he had a better vision, what would actually come when God gave him a vision talking about how his ancestors would multiply. And I think he had a greater vision of what God was doing beyond just his family that he saw.
But that was a better understanding of his true identity, meaning he was called to something much bigger than anything. And he lived that out in his latter years and walked closer in that true identity. And David became the king that he really, God intended him to be. So true for us. Okay, how do we get there? Well, here's what I'm going to give you a little instruction on.
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