James Green [00:00:02]:

You know, I have actual proof that my, my faith works. I mean, I can touch things, you know, like, hey, this really change. This really, really change.

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Shay Cook [00:00:11]:

So outside of the things you can touch and materialistic things and all that, how about relationships? Talk more to me about that. How has that affected, you know, your Buddhist tenets and that?

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James Green [00:00:20]:

Well, it's not more or less the other person. It's the way I look at things now. You know, for example, I, I have to talk about my wife. You know, I, I don't respond to my wife the way that I used to respond to her. You know what I'm saying? Because I have to check myself first.

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Shay Cook [00:00:38]:

Ever felt those awkward vibes when religion and money come up, you're not alone. Welcome to Yahweh's Money, the podcast where we tackle the crossroads of faith and finance. I'm Shay Cook, an accredited financial counselor and the CEO and founder of Crusaders for Change, LLC. Join us on our journey as we discuss topics like tithing, saving and conquering debt through religious perspectives. Let's get started.

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Shay Cook [00:01:06]:

Hey, everyone. Welcome back to another episode of Yahweh's Money. As I always say, I'm super excited about our guests today. Our season four has been full with amazing guests and we have another one and a treat for you today. But before we get to that, what does 41 years of service truly look like when you let God or a higher power direct your steps? How do you navigate the inevitable storms of a long career while keeping your faith intact? Today, we're sitting down with a very special guest. A man who has navigated a distinguished 41 year career in both the military and civil service, and a dear friend. We'll discuss what it means to build a career, serve your country, and prepare for retirement, all while anchored in faith. So, scripture for today, our main scripture is Proverbs 16:9.

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 Shay Cook [00:01:56]:

In their hearts, humans plan their course, but the Lord established their steps. This verse is perfect anchor for our conversation today. It reminds us that while we make our career plans or set our goals, it is God,  Universe, a Higher Power who ultimately guides us, protects us, and establishes our path through every season. So I'm incredibly blessed to be welcomed by our guest today, James Green. He's recently retired Coast Guard civilian or civil servant who dedicated an incredible 41 years of his life to his service. And it's an absolute honor to have you here, my friend. How are you doing, James?

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James Green [00:02:34]:

I'm great, I'm great. It's good to see you once again.

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Shay Cook [00:02:37]:

Yes, man. We've been Knowing each other for a long time, since the Coast Guard days, man. 

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James Green [00:02:43]:

Absolutely.

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Shay Cook [00:02:44]:

Tell us a little bit more about yourself.

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James Green [00:02:46]:

Oh, my God. I'm going to really date myself here. I joined the coast guard back in 1981, then did about 18 years active duty with maybe two, three years of reserve time, with a total service of about 26 years between active duty and reserve with the Coast Guard. Then I transitioned into the civilian side of the Coast Guard, which led me to about 41 years of service. And when I look back on that, it's unremarkable. If I had to do it all over again, Shay, in this climate, I would not be able to do it with faith or without faith. 

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Shay Cook [00:03:20]:

I hear you. I hear you. But you're also beyond the civil service. You are a husband and a father to Jamie Green, who's doing amazing things out there, trying to make a difference in this crazy world. 

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James Green [00:03:34]:

Absolutely. Absolutely.

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Shay Cook [00:03:37]:

And you also have a business. You do real estate too, right?

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James Green [00:03:40]:

Real estate is my bread and butter. I have been buying and selling real estate for probably 25 years or more.

 

Shay Cook [00:03:48]:

Wow. 

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James Green [00:03:49]:

Absolutely. I was buying and selling real estate while I was on active duty as a civilian with the Coast Guard. It was always my go to. Not that government paycheck.

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Shay Cook [00:03:59]:

I love that. Because you're establishing wealth, building wealth for your family, for yourself, also having that legacy. But beyond that, I mean, just. You don't see a lot of black people doing it as we should. Right. Taking advantage of one of the major asset building wealth, building opportunities in America. Still.

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James Green [00:04:16]:

If it wasn't for real estate, I would not have the wealth that I have today.

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Shay Cook [00:04:21]:

Wow. Yeah. Well, that's awesome. And I'm super proud of you for doing that and even teaching me and giving me little snippets throughout the years of great things you're doing with that and you're still doing it.

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James Green [00:04:31]:

I have to throw this out there for my wife, you know, she's a great business partner with just a great financial mind. And needless to say, without her, I wouldn't have been able to do it.

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Shay Cook [00:04:41]:

Oh, I love that. I love that. Yeah. So I gotta meet your wife one day. So where are you at right now? Are you in Louisiana?

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James Green [00:04:51]:

I'm in New Orleans right now, believe it or not.

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Shay Cook [00:04:52]:

In New Orleans. Okay.

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James Green [00:04:53]:

I have this project going on in New Orleans and it's kicking my butt right now.

 

Shay Cook [00:04:57]:

Awesome. Well, thank you again for being here. And, you know, whatever you need, I'm here to support you. And I'm just. I'm super excited for you to be on the show today.

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James Green [00:05:07]:

Thank you. Thank you. It's a pleasure.

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Shay Cook [00:05:34]:

All right, take us back when you were first starting out and on your 41 year journey and what you think about your career and what it was looking like. So can you remember a specific moment during your service where you clearly felt a higher power's guidance or just discernment in a tough decision?

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James Green [00:05:51]:

Well, you know, way back when, as a teenager, I was doing a lot of crazy things. Lot. A lot of crazy things.

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James Green [00:05:57]:

I was at a very great duty station. I was at the marine safety office in San Francisco. And I. And I was pretty much working 9 to 5 and I was doing some things that I shouldn't have been doing. Great job, great people. But the 18 year old James that I was back then, career was going downhill. You know, we did not have urinalysis at the time. And I'm gonna leave that right there.

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James Green [00:06:18]:

So it was just free fall. Pretty much. I ended up getting myself in some trouble. Not nothing criminal, but just mischievous things. And there was a commander by the name of Commander Rowe. That man saw something in me and said, you know what, we're not gonna put this young man on a 378. I will allow him to come and work for me. And that man changed my Coast Guard career.

 

James Green [00:06:39]:

Wow.

 

Shay Cook [00:06:39]:

That's amazing. When you have somebody like that in the corner that sees that in you. And hey, you're 18. We all make mistakes between 18 and some of us still make mistakes. Yeah.

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James Green [00:06:49]:

Because some of them, other folks I was working for, Shay, they were ready. Okay, you're going to a boat. You're going to uphold and you're done, brother.

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Shay Cook [00:06:58]:

Wow. Wow. Well, shout out to Commander Rowe.

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James Green [00:07:01]:

And that was 40 years ago. And I. I remember that man like he's like, we just had dinner yesterday. 

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Shay Cook [00:07:07]:

Oh, wow. Okay. So he had a true impact on you.

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James Green [00:07:11]:

That was a true intervention. That, that was. I guess that was one of those eureka moments. It was truly spiritual.

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Shay Cook [00:07:18]:

Wow.

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James Green [00:07:19]:

I did not know who this man was.

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Shay Cook [00:07:22]:

Wow. Wow. That's awesome.

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James Green [00:07:24]:

That was a turning point for me.

 

Shay Cook [00:07:27]:

All right, so what's one piece of advice you would give that young man, you know, who you knew years ago about your career or faith or family. Or

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James Green [00:07:36]:

Faith, family, God. Back then, if I had to go back to put the drugs down, it just wasn't working back then. And seek some sort of spiritual guidance. It was all about me back then. You know what I'm saying? I did not seek no sort of spirituality. I grew up in a very Catholic family here in New Orleans.

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Shay Cook [00:07:58]:

Oh, okay. 

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James Green [00:07:59]:

And I saw nothing good in that because, you know, my mother, my grandmother, they prayed every day to statues, and we still lived in poverty. Everything, you know, and it's like, if that's what your God is, I don't want anything to do with that. Not at all. Not. Not at all.

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Shay Cook [00:08:15]:

I respect that, and I hear that from a lot of Catholics and a lot of Christians and a lot of different other religious people. Right. When your family is in such turmoil and you don't see the difference, and that can really have really be a turning point for you. It sounds like it was for you too. You was like, nah, that's not for me.

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James Green [00:08:30]:

The entire family was living in poverty. You know what I'm saying? It wasn't just because of lack of education. It was more of a mindset.

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Shay Cook [00:08:39]:

Mm.

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James Green [00:08:40]:

It was a poverty mindset, Shay. And I was determined to change that.

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Shay Cook [00:08:45]:

And you did, so congratulations.

 

James Green [00:08:48]:

Absolutely. Because, you know, I kind of shifted away from religion and got into the power of the subconscious mind. And I did so much of reading on that. It was amazing. It was amazing. It was amazing. The power of the subconscious mind changed my whole outlook on life.

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Shay Cook [00:09:03]:

Wow. And how has that affected your daughter?

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James Green [00:09:05]:

You know, she went to a Catholic school for 12 years, so that's a pretty tough bridge to cross right now. Yep.

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Shay Cook [00:09:11]:

And a lot of my family. Well, my mother went to a Catholic school, and so. But I know a lot of people that have. And definitely a different upbringing and different, you know, just the way they look at life, the perspectives on life is just totally. I don't want to say whitewashed, but there. There are some things there. You'd be like, what. What is this about? And then, you know, and then if you're.

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Shay Cook [00:09:30]:

Hey, let's go there. If you're black in America and you go into this, you know, this white institution, there is some things go on there systematically, too, that I think is definitely the way they want it to be. Right. So, you know. Yeah.

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James Green [00:09:44]:

Because A, was Catholic, and B, it was all white. See what I'm saying? So she was indoctrinated into that culture, and now the only thing I can do is just let her see my. The change in my behavior through my prayer. 

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Shay Cook [00:09:57]:

No, that makes sense. All right, well, let's wrap up that rapid fire and go to main discussion. So after a 41 year journey of service. The unique path of serving in both the Coast Guard and as a civilian for over four decades. Let's talk about faith under pressure. Or just like you said, the power of the subconscious mind. I love that because I believe in that, too. Study psychology and all of that power now.

 

Shay Cook [00:10:18]:

Power this, power that there's so many things working together. How's the relationship with that? Provide for your discernment and peace needed to navigate career challenges?

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James Green [00:10:28]:

It could be challenging. One of our tenets of Buddhist practice is turning poison into medicine. So if I'm met with an obstacle, Shay, I have to look at it as if this is a test of my faith. My fate is really being tested at this point, and we just have to weather the storm and continue praying and continue chanting, and things will change. Because I'm telling you, Shay, I have seen mountains move since I've been practicing Buddhism. Mountains. Do you hear me? So it's all about taking poison and turning it into medicine.

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Shay Cook [00:11:01]:

Mm. So it's about also what the obstacle is. And I. I mean, I study religion. Buddhism, Islam, and Catholic, Christianity, Islam, all that in college. And I seen there is definitely. You got the tenants there. There's definitely those coordinating values or tenants.

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James Green [00:11:18]:

Or they cross over.

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Shay Cook [00:11:20]:

Yeah, they definitely cross over. And just seeing, you know, like you're saying from. When you say that to me, I was, like, looking at the bad and finding the good in it or moving forward towards the good. Right. So having that kind of mentality because people get stuck in that negativity and that poison. Right. Like you're saying, instead of focusing on the good.

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James Green [00:11:38]:

Without those obstacles. Right. Where's your faith tested. You grow through your faith being tested. You know, if everything was fine every day, you know, my. My fate wouldn't be growing at all. Not at all. Yeah, not at all.

 

James Green [00:11:52]:

You know, I have actual proof that my. My faith works. I mean, I can touch things, you know, like, hey, this really change. This really, really change.

 

Shay Cook [00:12:02]:

So outside of the things you can touch and materialistic things and all that. How about relationships? Talk more to me about that. How's that affected, you know, your Buddhist tenets?

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James Green [00:12:11]:

Well, it's not more or less the other person. It's the way I look at things now. You know, for example, I. I have to talk about my wife. You know, I. I don't respond to my wife the way that I used to respond to her. You know what I'm saying? Because I have to. I have to check myself first.

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Shay Cook [00:12:30]:

Yeah. I'm reading a good book right now by Mel Robbins called “Let Them”. And it goes into that. Let me. Right, so you gotta find those boundaries. And when you're dealing with relationships, there's a lot of inner work we gotta do. No matter who you serve in or religion you in, we gotta do that inner work.

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Shay Cook [00:12:45]:

We used to talk about that a lot on the phones when I was working at Coast Guard. Like, man, I'm about to go crazy on these people. And we're like, nope, we gotta look and what's going on? And Lisa Teems shout out to our buddy, Lisa Teems. She'd be like, all right, Shay, what is this mirroring whatever you're doing in the Coast Guard? It's got something to do with what's going on with you internally. So that's what it sounds like there with you. Yeah.

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James Green [00:13:04]:

Because whatever's going on with me externally in some form of fashion shape, this is what I'm attracting. Why am I attracting this? You know what I'm saying? All of these workers that I have working for me, why is everybody having issues with me? I'm putting off some sort of energy to attract these type of people to me.

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Shay Cook [00:13:22]:

Yeah.

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James Green [00:13:23]:

And that's what I have to take a real, real look at, especially dealing with family members.

Shay Cook [00:13:28]:

That's a whole nother episode when you talking about family members, man. Be like, what is going on? Sometimes I just need. I told my husband the other day, I was like, I need a break from you. These. You know who. These people, they get on my nerves. But then it's like, all right, Shay, again. Well, like we were talking about, like, what is going on with you that you make now you don't even want to be around these people.

 

Shay Cook [00:13:45]:

Like, you know, so there's something about me internally that I got to look inward. Well, that's good. That's good. So let's talk about this wisdom of weathering storms, especially right now. This is November 4th, 2025. This episode's not dropping to the end of the month, actually on Thanksgiving around that time. But we're in a government shutdown again with this dang on administration, which we ain't going to talk too much about that because I'll get really ugly and people don't want to see that.

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James Green [00:14:10]:

You don't want. You don't want the old Shay. Because you would have to complete edit your whole podcast out.

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Shay Cook [00:14:18]:

So what timeless advice can you offer those currently facing career uncertainty or how to anchor their faith or their let's go talk about the finances of it all. Because people ain't getting paid and they still working. 

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James Green [00:14:29]:

And here's the thing, you know, faith and finance, man, that's, that's a pretty tough combination because I cannot imagine working right now for a month without being paid. I just can't, I can't wrap my head around that, Shay. But one area that I'm very disciplined in is saving. I'm very disciplined in saving my money. Because as a young black officer in the Coast Guard, I've seen a lot, especially when it came down to racism, second to watching black officers being passed over and getting kicked out of the Coast Guard just with nothing. And I always say to myself, you will never catch me like that. Never. I save very religious.

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James Green [00:15:10]:

Religiously. Very, very religiously. Very religiously. And that's the only thing I can say, you know, to folks that are just coming into the government. You have to prepare yourself for these days.

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Shay Cook [00:15:19]:

Yeah. Because you were working for the Coast Guard when the next last shutdown went, right?

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James Green [00:15:24]:

Absolutely. Yeah.

 

Shay Cook [00:15:25]:

So I'm sure you saw it firsthand.

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James Green [00:15:27]:

Shut it down for six months. But you know, one of the things I stress to my daughter, you have to save, you have to save. And second to saving, you have to look at ways of generating additional streams of income. Bottom line, Shay. And I'm not saying this to be pompous or anything, probably for half of my Coast Guard career, I never depended on a Coast Guard salary to pay my bills.

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Shay Cook [00:15:50]:

That's awesome.

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James Green [00:15:51]:

My living expenses always came from my other real estate adventures, you know what I'm saying? With whatever was going on with real estate that covered my living expenses. Not that.

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Shay Cook [00:16:04]:

Okay.

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James Green [00:16:04]:

Not that government. Wow.

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Shay Cook [00:16:06]:

Yeah. Because people get so stuck on that one. And that's normal. Right. That's the majority of people in this country, usually that one major income, and if something happens, they out there and don't have no savings, like you're saying.

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James Green [00:16:19]:

I'm seeing it. I, I seen, you know, you know, young black officers, you know, even young African American enlisted kids get kicked out of the Coast Guard with nothing. Zero. And I was that young kid at one time, you know, I was that young kid, man, I could have got put out of the Coast Guard. Right. With nothing to go back to. Absolutely zero. Absolutely zero.

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James Green [00:16:41]:

And I was determined to build other streams of income.

 

Shay Cook [00:16:44]:

So you really took life lessons and said, all right. And took em to heed and was like, nah, I'm not gonna be like these Catholics over here, these black women and all in there doing that. I ain't gonna be like these other officers and these black people in this Coast Guard. You were really learning from all of that, you didn't take none of that for granted?

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James Green [00:17:00]:

True story. True story. You know, in undergraduate school, every. Everybody's getting these student loans. African American institution, HBCU, Southern University. And everybody's, you know, have all this money left over from student loans, right. All my buddies, they're going out buying cars, blah, blah, blah, Camaros and Trans Ams and all. I'm really dating myself.

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James Green [00:17:18]:

All that stuff, Shay, that money that I had left over from my student loan, I bought my first property with it. $10,000.

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Shay Cook [00:17:24]:

Wow.

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James Green [00:17:26]:

Absolutely. Absolutely. My first property I bought, I paid $60,000 for that property. Put $10,000 down from my student loan. Today, that property is worth $700,000.

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Shay Cook [00:17:39]:

Wow. That just gave me chills. Wow. That's what I'm talking about. You run it for the long game. But you. You were smart early on.

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James Green [00:17:47]:

And you know what's crazy? I didn't. I didn't know. I didn't. I really didn't know what I was doing. But it just made sense. You know what I'm saying? It made sense.

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Shay Cook [00:17:54]:

So who introduced you to real estate? Who was like that mentor or that influence or.

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James Green [00:17:59]:

My grandmother owned real estate, but she wasn't good, good with money.

 

Shay Cook [00:18:04]:

Okay.

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James Green [00:18:04]:

So I kind of saw what real estate could do for you. My mother has seven brothers and they were mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, but they just couldn't get themselves together. So I grew up around that stuff, you know, whereas my brother, you know, we both grew up around that. My brother picked up the hands on stuff from my uncles. I got the business side from them, which they could never develop.

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Shay Cook [00:18:27]:

Wow.

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James Green [00:18:27]:

They just could never develop.

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Shay Cook [00:18:29]:

Well, I'm sure they're proud of you now because you. You doing your thing. I mean, seriously. And I mean, in the time of uncertain times, you write that savings people that have those investments in real estate and stuff, that that's good for them. Even though I don't know if it's a good time to start selling anything if you need to, or pulling out some helocs and stuff because of the. The rates are outrageous.

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James Green [00:18:51]:

Another thing just shifting gears for a second. What we don't talk about much, Shay, is it's long term care. I bought long term care insurance when I was 34. It cost me like $90 a month, Shay. $90 a month. You know, my father is sick right now and I think you and I had this conversation. He needs some sort of. In home care. 

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James Green [00:19:10]:

Guess what, Shay? There's nothing to cover the gap. He does not have enough insurance to cover that.

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Shay Cook [00:19:15]:

oh, God.

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 James Green [00:19:16]:

In that generation, they were not financial savvy, you know what I'm saying? So we have to prepare for that aspect of life as well, because I don't want to be some sort of financial burden to my daughter and she would have to take care of me. Yeah, I would really be in trouble. You know what I'm saying? I would really be in trouble.

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Shay Cook [00:19:32]:

No, and that's great. And even though I always say it systematically was put that way for black people not to be savvy, but that's another conversation too. But those. We have broken that cycle and we. And now with the Internet, we got access to everything we. That we can learn. You got access to Crusades for Change. Hello, we're here to support you through that.

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Shay Cook [00:19:52]:

And people like James out there that's been doing real estate for over 20, 30 years, like that can share that knowledge with you. There's literally no excuse anymore to be ignorant about this. The information is out there. My husband and I always talk about. He's like, these kids out here, they trying to learn from TikTok and all of that. And no shame on that, but a little bit of shame on it. But, you know, they have access to this information in us and books and real information out there for them that they could really learn all of this. 34 buying, I mean, long term insurance, like man.

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Shay Cook [00:20:27]:

I know I looked at it in my. For the early 40s and it was like two $300 a month.

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James Green [00:20:31]:

And here's the thing, Shay, that will cripple your portfolio if something happens to you. And you would not. It will. It will severely hurt you. It would really, really hurt you, man.

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Shay Cook [00:20:41]:

Yeah, I was just at the Goldman Sachs summit last week and it was a. It was good around a lot of billionaires and millionaires, but they were talking about people that have built up wealth and even passed down wealth to family members. They're losing all of that because of in home care and because of long term, you know, not having insurance and all of that. So you're right. It's crippling people and breaking people. So. Wow, that's crazy.

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James Green [00:21:04]:

And another thing, you know, I, I think contributes to my success. If you take a look at my circle, you take a look at my circle, you can tell who I am. And my circle consists of people that are extremely wealthy. Extremely wealthy, Far more wealthy than what I am. You know what I'm saying, Shay? And one day, someday I do hope to get there. But my circle, I'm surrounding myself with people that, that are doing it, you know, and there's no, no jealousy there. You know, it's like we, we. We're there to uplift each other and unfortunately, it's not African Americans.

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Shay Cook [00:21:38]:

You said there is. There is a lot of African Americans. 

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James Green [00:21:42]:

No. No. I'm just saying a part of that circle. They're not African Americans.

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Shay Cook [00:21:45]:

Oh, gotcha. Gotcha. Yeah. We gotta do a better job with that.

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James Green [00:21:48]:

We have to do better than that.

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Shay Cook [00:21:49]:

Wow. All right, well, lastly, let's talk about this service to significance. What's the new season of life looks like and how you plan to continue serving in a new capacity. Now you're retired, you're doing your real estate thing.

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James Green [00:22:01]:

I'm building out real estate in Dominican Republic as we speak. That's. That's the next.

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Shay Cook [00:22:05]:

Congratulations. That's awesome. Yeah, because they gonna be probably sending us all to the islands of Africa anyway. So you might. Even though this is our country, we built it. But, but I hear you. Oh, wow. That's pretty.

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Shay Cook [00:22:20]:

So it's a good part of it because I've been to, I've been to DR.

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James Green [00:22:22]:

I took my real estate real estate game to the Dominican Republic.

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Shay Cook [00:22:26]:

Why did you choose that, that Caribbean island?

 

James Green [00:22:29]:

A, I love the culture. The real estate is still pretty cheap in this oceanfront. And C is just something different, you know, Shay. It's something different and I'm always looking for an adventure.

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Shay Cook [00:22:39]:

Wow. Well, that's awesome. The DR, once you get some property up, are you going to be like you're going to try to sell it or are you going to rent it out, you're going to do some vacation stuff or.

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James Green [00:22:48]:

I think this may be something I may hold to pass on down to my daughter.

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Shay Cook [00:22:52]:

Okay.

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James Green [00:22:53]:

That's what I'm looking at doing. You know, whatever I build there, it's just going to be passed down to her.

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Shay Cook [00:22:57]:

Okay, well, that's awesome. Well, you know, guys, when we're talking about retirement readiness in America, the federal and private sectors differ significantly. 96% of federal employees participate in the Thrift Savings Plan TSP and 86% receiving the full employer match. In contrast, on the private sector, only about 50% of workers participate in 401k and only half of those contribute enough to receive their full employer match. So talking about all the great things and lessons from long term care insurance to real estate to, you know, civil service, you know, you got to make sure you prepare for the retirement and beyond taking care of your family wealth, building legacy. So our guest journey is a powerful testament that a career built on faith is not free from storms, but is anchored in a peace that surpasses all understanding. Whether you're just starting out, facing uncertainty, or entering a new season, the promise remains the same. If you commit your plans to the Lord or your higher power universe, they will.

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Shay Cook [00:23:56]:

He will establish your steps. So, James, any final thoughts?

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James Green [00:24:00]:

Just keep doing what you do, you know, and just have the faith, man. You have to have the faith. You have to have faith.

 

Shay Cook [00:24:06]:

Exactly. Exactly.

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James Green [00:24:07]:

Without faith, your work just dead.

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Shay Cook [00:24:09]:

Amen. Amen.

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James Green [00:24:11]:

The work is dead. Just one of those things, man. Yeah, just one of those things. That's why, you know, my. I put my Buddhist practice before everything. It comes first.

 

Shay Cook [00:24:20]:

Yeah.

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James Green [00:24:21]:

Everything else is secondary.

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Shay Cook [00:24:22]:

That's good. It's guiding you, keeping you centered and not. And then keeping you away from the well that you got. We have a little bit of the ego, but keeping that spirit alive is important.

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James Green [00:24:30]:

Yeah, keeping the ego in check.

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Shay Cook [00:24:32]:

Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

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James Green [00:24:34]:

It's there, but it's in check.

 

Shay Cook [00:24:35]:

Oh, that's good. 

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James Green [00:24:37]:

I'm more conscious of it.

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Shay Cook [00:24:38]:

Yeah, yeah, yeah, me too. I agree with you. Trying more and more because sometimes it gets in the way and be like, come on, ego.

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James Green [00:24:45]:

Right, right, right, right, right. 

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Shay Cook [00:24:47]:

All right, y'all, for this week, take a moment to reflect on your career path. Ask yourself, where is God asking me to trust him more through the storms? And please join us in praying for all the military civil servants that are in the world and that feel, or would feel God's higher power universe, peace provision. And no matter the season, especially right now, government shut down. Hopefully next time we join you, the government be open again and we'll get this ish right. Because it don't make no sense what's going on in America. But thank you, James, for joining us. I appreciate your time.

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James Green [00:25:17]:

Thank you. Thank you. It's a pleasure.

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Shay Cook [00:25:21]:

A big thank you for listening to this episode. We hope you found today's chat about the intersection of religion and money insightful. We would love to hear your feedback. Hit that subscribe button or follow the podcast and please feel free to leave us a review. For the latest Yahweh's Money content, Visit us at https://www.crusaders4change.org/ or find us anywhere you listen to podcasts. Until next time, stay financially fit and spiritually inspired. And remember, it's always better Yahweh's way.

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