WE3 The Winning Team
Helping Couples Work Together To WIN At This Game Called Life!
WE3 The Winning Team
Thrive! Don't Just Survive in Marriage
Embark on a transformative journey with us as we reveal the secrets to setting and sustaining powerful intentions in marriage. Forget the fleeting fervor of New Year's resolutions and join us in embracing the "2024 Gatewood Strategic Plan," a blueprint designed for couples committed to nurturing both their individual and collective growth. Our candid conversation is a treasure trove of wisdom gleaned from 21 years of marriage, offering a fresh perspective on how to align your life goals with your partner across spiritual, financial, family, and professional, and personal realms for a thriving partnership.
We've talked the talk and now we're walking the walk, sharing the habits and strategies that have paved our path to a flourishing relationship. From the art of setting SMART goals to the essential roles of teamwork and accountability partners, we divulge the tactics that have fortified our bond and driven our success.
Our podcast is more than just a conversation; it's an invitation to join our community of motivated listeners who value authentic self-expression and mutual support. We're opening the door to deeper dialogues and accountability that extend well beyond this episode.
As we wrap up this heartfelt episode, we extend an open invitation to connect with us and become an integral part of our W3 winning team podcast community. Feel the excitement as we look forward to sharing more engaging content, and get ready to take your relationship to the next level. We close with a prayer that is both a soothing send-off and a beacon of hope for all our listeners, asking for prosperity, safety, and a brighter future for every partnership. Tune in and let's navigate the road to a successful marriage together.
Host
Eugene Gatewood
- Website - https://eugenegatewood.com
- YouTube: @Original_Mentor
- Facebook: @Eugene.Gatewood
- Instagram: @Original_Mentor
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LaTanya Gatewood
- Facebook: @LaTanya.Gatewood
- Instagram: @reddingl
Podcast Music by Micah Gatewood
Welcome to episode five of the winning team podcast. I am Eugene and I'm Latanya and we are excited about this episode.
LaTanya Gatewood:We are very excited about this episode here's the thing.
Eugene Gatewood:So we, we're at the top of 2024, you know, at the top of every single year. Everybody always start talking about resolutions. But what's a resolution? A resolution is like a firm decision about what you will or will not do. So how about you? Do you have a New Year's resolution? Personally, I don't like New Year's resolutions because statistics show that 22% of the people, by the end of January, already stopped their resolution and then, by the time you get to the end of March, more than half of people, if not almost all people, are no longer doing their resolution. But it's one of the reasons why we're doing this today, because you know, as you know, this is a marriage podcast, but not just about marriage people thinking about getting married, individuals who just trying to get it together before they start. So the next, this topic this month and even the topic next couple months, maybe, maybe, helping you to keep your momentum Amen. So here's the thing I did say amen.
Eugene Gatewood:You know, I am church boy, I can help you, you know, when you got Jesus on the inside of you. So here's what we did and here's what we were excited about. So we sat down a little over a month ago and we did what we called a 2024 Gatewood strategic plan.
Eugene Gatewood:It was fun, it was great and to be honest, it was the first time we've ever done it to this capacity. We'll talk more about that a little bit later, but then the other day I was outside shoveling some of the 18 inches snow. On how much snow we got.
Eugene Gatewood:I was shoveling and it dropped in my spirit that this is really what marriage is all about. And so when you think about the areas that we went over, like what I was thinking about, I was like this is why marriage is actually, I would say, most, or maybe not most, because I don't know, statistically it ain't proven, but I'll say in my estimation or my guesstimation is that that's the reason why most marriages are not successful is because they don't do what we did by being intentional about just regularly evaluating their not only their entire marriage, but even themselves as individuals. So I'm really excited and some of the areas. Well, first let me see how you felt about our strategic planning session, then we can go into some areas.
LaTanya Gatewood:Yeah, I absolutely loved it, I think for a few different reasons. One is that, as you mentioned, we've never done this to this extent. We have always at the top of the year, I think we've talked about like our money plan, and I've shared about how I usually felt about budget meetings and they were so focused on the budget and the money and that was all we talked about, with the exception of one year we talked about money, but then I think we prayed over it.
Eugene Gatewood:We had a whole declaration, yeah, a declaration, so we'll have to share that declaration because that was great.
LaTanya Gatewood:That was great. But usually it's about the budget what we gonna spend, what we gonna pay off.
Eugene Gatewood:How we gonna get rid of our bellies.
LaTanya Gatewood:That's usually not mine, that's always him. I don't make weight loss plans because, yeah, I'm not gonna do that. I do try to eat better. Blah, blah, blah Anyway. So I loved it. We pulled it from it wasn't? It's not an original thought. We saw a couple on Instagram and you all probably have seen that couple, who they did that and I sent it to you, I think, and said we should do this Because I believe that if we wanna do, we're at.
LaTanya Gatewood:I personally feel like we're at a stage in our marriage where A it's time to go deeper or start to look at who we are as a couple and what we wanna do differently. And I think that this was a way for us to be able to do that collectively, because we'll talk a little bit more, because it wasn't just only about us. It was about us as individuals, but then us as a couple as well. So I like to coin it it was our intentional execution plan, because the game would. We're not short of plans.
LaTanya Gatewood:I feel like if you look at your Evernote or my journal or my phone, I probably in the notes section, I got tons of plans. We could be world changes with all the plans that we wrote down, but my word for the year was execution, because I think that's where I fall short on the what's next or what we're doing, and a lot of it is. Life happens, we don't make time, we don't prioritize. And so I added intentional execution, because I think you have to plan for this and this process was such a big process. I believe that it's going to take intentional execution because it could feel overwhelming.
Eugene Gatewood:I actually think that, as you say, we do well planning individually, and then we have passive, or we've learned each other so over dinner maybe, and sometimes passively, when we're talking about usually God how the Holy Spirit works. Another just can't help it. But how the Holy Spirit works is that we'll usually steal. Whatever is deposited into me is what's deposited into you.
LaTanya Gatewood:We'll come together.
Eugene Gatewood:And then we'll be like oh yeah, I was thinking about that, oh, I was praying about that, but this time what was different is that we've even done vision board part of vision boards in the past, which was kind of sort of it. But after you say it, after we did the vision board, we didn't talk about it again. We might have put it in the corner. We looked at it a couple more times.
Eugene Gatewood:Yeah but we didn't ever. It wasn't intentional execution. We end up still doing it, except around finances, finances. We would be on one accord and that was it.
Eugene Gatewood:But for this one like we actually similar to you know, as you said, the Instagram video you know we set aside time, we picked a location, we left and we actually got up a Saturday morning, I think, and went to the library. First thing in the morning we turned off all electronics, you know, we prayed, we had a private study room inside of the inside of the library, and then we talked about many areas of our lives, of our lives as a couple and even as an individual, as individuals, and then we even decided OK, what are we going to, what areas are we going to focus on and how we categorize them. And even even one step further, as I think the reason why we're able we were in the past, because I mean, we're 21 years in now, but in the past we've been able to do this and still have had some modicum of success is because we've done this for organizations, for our churches, for our jobs. We've done strategy work and strategic planning across the board for all of these other organizations, but the intentional execution of making the strategy, the plans for the Gatewood Empire. We haven't done it, and so I was just excited about about what God is gonna do, because of because of us being intentionally focused, cause God has truly covered us all of these years.
Eugene Gatewood:And so now, when we have not only the strategy, but we'll be on one accord, walking together, cause that's the scripture, amos, three and three, how can two walk together except they agree? And that's really what we're focusing on, not only for this episode but the next couple episodes, because, when you think about that scripture, how can two walk together except they agree? How, how is it that you could be successful if you don't sit down and have a conversation about all of the areas? So you want to talk about the areas.
LaTanya Gatewood:Yeah, and before you talk about the areas, I think you mentioned some of the steps that we took to do that. So, like I want to just reiterate that again, we left the house. We left the house because there's a lot of distractions in the house. The other thing is that we went to a room that had a board, had a white board in it and we literally wrote down everything. So we wrote the areas down, we broke the board up into, we actually brainstormed first, like what are the areas? What's important to us? We did a little bit of conversation before we got there, but we also then, just before we got started, was like what are the areas? Because again, we got to be agreed, we got to be on one accord with this, and so it couldn't be. I had this thought, you had this thought, and then let's put it together. Now we brainstormed and literally took up the whole white board and once we kind of talked through what we were, identify what the priorities were. Those five I think it's five areas. Is it five areas? Five, yeah. And then literally we wrote down those five areas and even prioritized in those five areas. So brainstormed even in those five areas, because what we found is that what that area might mean to me may meant something different to you and it might meant something different for us as a couple. So we had to really hone in and kind of drill down in those five areas and then in those five areas we broke down what the priority areas would be for this year.
LaTanya Gatewood:So this plan, really we say it's a 2024 strategic plan, but really I think it's our life plan and not that it's, and so we have been unapologetic about our faith and real clear on that. So it's not our plan, it is the plan that we are committed to God and then being open enough for him to do what he does with it in that. So I think that we need to give some of the our process. Your process might be different, but have a process.
LaTanya Gatewood:The reality is that we didn't just sit down, write some stuff down and then say, all right, let's go do it. This is now where that intentionality part has come in and we'll talk a little bit later about we're still not done. There's still some more part, and if you've done any strategic planning or any kind of planning, I'm an event planner and so all of these plans and these processes become a part. Before I can execute an amazing event. You are executive pass of a church. You do planning all the time, but before these plans can come to fruition you have to spend some quality time on the process, and so I wanted to make it known kind of the process that we've gone through and that we're still going through. But I think the key for us was to write the vision and make it plain upon tablets.
Eugene Gatewood:So yes, rebecca, that's a good point. I want to make sure. You said a couple of things in there. So for me, I'm an electronic guy. I type everything out. I use my tablet, my laptop, my Evernote. I use electronics and it works for me, because I'll forget it if I write it down on a piece of paper or on a tablet. But for her to process, she has to write it down. So whenever couples, when you're coming together to do your process, for me it was like she can do it, however she wants to do it. That'll make it feasible and palatable and help her to process, and I can do it. So here's what we did.
Eugene Gatewood:I didn't argue about her wanting to do it inside of a whiteboard. While she was writing it on the whiteboard, I was transcribing it into my computer, into my Note app app, and by the time we were done for the day, we were like all right, let's take a picture of it. Is what she said. Let's take a picture of it, so we'll have it. But by the end of the day, I had already typed it all. So by the end of the day, we still took a picture. We still took videos and you'll probably see the video on social media. But we still did that and we captured the moment in the process. But again, as we walked through it, there wasn't an argument about, well, I think we should do it this way and you think I think you should do it that way. No, she did it. Which way was you know that worked for her? I did it how it worked for me.
Eugene Gatewood:The other thing that was very, very vital and evident and we didn't even talk about this really beforehand is that she had a thought when we got into the room. I had a thought when I got into the room about what our life plan should be. So that means that we had already spent individual time in prayer and thought, so that when we came to the room and we start talking about what areas we had, we didn't agree. We threw it all up on the board and we had different thoughts in different areas and we gave some explanation of why I thought it should be this area or that area, and then we came to an agreement. How could two walk together? We had to agree first and come to an agreement so that once we start walking this thing out, that then we can be on one accord.
Eugene Gatewood:So it was a I just wanted to make sure I may mention of, because I think a lot of times what we do is, when I'm having conversations with couples, the goals are the same Most of the time, the end result of what they want, what the individuals want, is the same, but what they get hung up on is the process to get there, and I think it should be done this way, and they think it should be done this way, and then you argue or spend time debating about how it should be done and then you never actually reached the goal.
Eugene Gatewood:And so I wanna make sure that it was small about her writing and me typing, but sometimes that's the hang up. So if that's it, I pray that the enemy will be revealed and a lot will be revealed, and that you'll be able to get through that. So we sat down, we talked and we came up with five areas. So I'll run through the five areas and then we can have a conversation about them a little bit. But area number one was spiritual goals, two financial goals, three family goals, four professional goals, and then five was personal goals and so spiritual. Why don't we start off with spiritual?
LaTanya Gatewood:I know I can talk forever, but Well, I think we've been, as I just said, we have been unapologetic about our faces and our faith and that we have to commit these plans to God, and I think our faith throughout our marriage has been a journey, both individually and then, I think, collectively as a couple, and so that's where the start we have. No, I feel personally like God has been the center of our marriage and that has been we three, we three, and so that has been a cornerstone of who we are. So we cannot have a plan without the spiritual component with it. It's kind of where I was. Quick story.
Eugene Gatewood:We got married in the lobby I don't know if it was outside of our reception or outside of the wedding ceremony, but there were pictures and the guests were able to write their names or inscribe whatever they wanted Blessings or just a sign that they were there around the matting of the pictures that we had. So I remember seeing a space in a corner of one of the pictures I'll take a picture of it and post it sometime, but in the corner I feel like God gave me a prayer and I wrote the prayer down. And the prayer that I wrote I don't remember the exact words, I'll have to print it later but what I do remember, that's been kind of eschewed in my heart is God, allow our marriage to be a shining example of what you would like marriage to be. And so, of course, we've made plenty mistakes individually couples but I feel like God's grace and His mercy has covered our marriage, even to the point where now, 21 years later that we're saying we're going to be on here on the internet worldwide. We're sharing who we are and overcoming the enemy by the power of little lamb in the word of our testimony. So, spiritually, as she said, we are spiritual beings and we can't do anything without Him. So we had to make sure that we put in there not only what we were going to do as a couple, but even what we were going to do as individuals, and even honestly, we both have great, strong personal devotion lives. That, I believe, has helped our marriage over the years. But a part of that plan that we've added is making sure that we do more regular devotion as a family, because that's not something that we have historically done. The personal devotion has benefited, but not necessarily together. So that was one area.
Eugene Gatewood:So next was financial. I feel like we talk about financial all the time, but again, it's so important because Jesus talked about money more than anything else. But I think that financial goals that's the number one of the number one reasons why people get divorced, and so I think that there's a lot of pressures. You have to look at what could be a trigger or a weigh in whether it's how I think about and feel about money, how she thinks about and feels about money, what she think we should be spending on or setting goals, or using the money that she's earned, what I think I should be using the money that I earned, even though statements that I just made sometimes becomes the cornerstone for what breaks down the finances.
Eugene Gatewood:So, for again, we talked about in previous episodes, but for us, whatever I make is hers, whatever she makes is mine. We put it all in one pot and then we've set our goals from the one pot that we have. So we put it all together. As we said, we're married, we're not roommates, and so we're going to throw it all in one pot Again. This is what works for us, but it makes it easier for us to set financial goals when everything is in the middle of the table. So we had lots of conversations.
LaTanya Gatewood:Yeah, and I think we can. I think even in the coming months we can talk about that, because I feel like that's such a hot topic and I think we have been on a whole lot of financial journeys over these 21 years and we made it and it's been some things that could take some folks out of this marriage game, and so I think that had to be top of mind for us, because it is something that is a staple to marriage.
Eugene Gatewood:Next was family. You want to say something about the family goals.
LaTanya Gatewood:Say something about the family goals. So I remember what the family goals are, see, that's why we have to be intentional on that. So I do feel like we have that's been one of the areas where I do feel like we've talked a lot about not here, but money, and probably family goals have been one that we have done pretty regularly One, I think, because we have a kid who we needed to keep goal setting before him, and so we've probably have done that one pretty regularly every year. But I think again, when you're talking about marriage and you're building out who you are and what you want to be, having a goal together, having a direction for your family so I think we talked about making more connections and things like we want again, we don't have to go down that road.
Eugene Gatewood:I just gave the two questions that we kind of started with. It was only two categories and because, again, when we talk about weddings and marriage, we're always talking about how do you improve your marriage. And so two questions we started with was what do we expect or need or want from the wife?
Eugene Gatewood:and what do I expect, need or want from the husband, and also, what do we expect, need or want as a husband or as a wife? And so we'll start talking through and thinking through those. And then, of course, we're also parents, and so we have. We're entering a new phase of empty nesters, and so it's great. But with every new phase in transition, it impacts and has you have to reset expectations. And so Parenting a young adult, that's different.
Eugene Gatewood:It is different. That's different. It's wonderful. But it's a new phase, it's different, so we have to adjust to that.
LaTanya Gatewood:Yeah, okay, so thank you for reminding me of that, because I kind of forgot what we. That's all right, that's what we were talking about. We still got time.
Eugene Gatewood:So the next two kind of goal. We can put them together because it's professional goals and then it's personal goals. So when you think about professional and personal, sometimes people would wouldn't compare the two, they would just put the two together when you think about professional and personal. But we thought it was important because we can develop as a professional in our job. But my job is not who I am.
LaTanya Gatewood:And I think that's been the problem. I think that's a problem. I think society often, and probably at some phase of time in our world, because we spend so much time in that professional space, you'd probably spend more time in that professional space. You spend more time at your job than you do at your house in the reality. So that becomes if you're not careful, that becomes your identity.
LaTanya Gatewood:And so I think it was important for us to separate those two, because I am not my job. I am an individual that God has created and my job is a resource. It's not my source, and so I think, but you should still continue to always grow as a professional. What are the things that you will want to do and how can you contribute to the work world and what you show up as and how you show up there? But then I think it's also where I thought the personal for me was then just around. How are the things that I'm now helping to improve me as a person, as Latanya? What personally am I doing for personal growth? And so I thought that it was important for us to separate the two, because my professional world is not my identity. I agree.
Eugene Gatewood:And the other part that we added in there was, like you know, self care, because a lot of times people talk about resting but don't necessarily talk about what are we going to do to refuel and how are we going to manage our energy well and what drains us, so that we can make sure that we are 100 percent healthy and whole. Because all of the areas that we mentioned, we have to show up as individuals and we have to show up as our best selves, and when we don't show up as our best selves, all of the things and goals that we have, they can, they can flounder and that's how they end up not being successful. So the last thing for for personal, as we talked about finding accountability, yes, that is that important.
LaTanya Gatewood:Yes, I think with any strategic plan, there has to be somebody that's going to hold you to the fire and hold you accountable. I feel like, personally, for us we are often accountability. Okay, yeah, sure, um, okay. So I'd like to thank my colleague, john, for making the contact information for me today. We thank you, thank you, partners with people, but I don't know if we and I that's I shouldn't say I was gonna say I don't know if we always had that, because that's not true, if you know our friendship circle. So shout out to the brands yeah, they don't have a problem with holding us accountable. So they speak truth In love, but they do speak truth Well they speak truth.
Eugene Gatewood:We know they love us, but I don't know if it's always.
LaTanya Gatewood:Yeah, well, they probably say that about me, because.
Eugene Gatewood:I am, I am her.
LaTanya Gatewood:I'm that girl like don't come to me, talk crazy, because I'm you're not gonna hear, you're not gonna like what I might say, and he gonna ask you 5,000 questions so you're not gonna usually like where he land. So anyway, but I think it's really important if we are going to be intentional about executing this plan. We need you can't do this alone, like you cannot execute a strategic plan alone. There is a team of folks that need to be present to help to execute this plan, and so I think that's where now, if we're going to really do this and really say how do we build out on this plan, that we need to find some iron. That's sharpening our iron, because our prayer is that, as we're now saying, hey, ex couple, will you be our accountability partner? That then we can now do that same with, with them, so that it's a.
LaTanya Gatewood:It's a. It's a give and take, but that's how we grow, that's how we become better as a couple, that's how we become better as individuals, because you can't, you can't do it by yourself, no matter if the world is selling you something different. You know, and I believe that if God wanted us to be by itself, he wouldn't have put people in. He wouldn't have made us have, or wanted us to have connections and so he said it's not good for me to be alone.
LaTanya Gatewood:No, it's not even though we think, do you? You know, we have all of these colloquialism, that's it All right. Okay, good job In that, but but really people have value. People are important and in order to execute a strategic plan well, I I believe we have to have people to help us do it.
Eugene Gatewood:Agreed. So phase two of this. So we made it through. We got strategic planning, the start of it, done, but phase two is that we're going to make sure that our goals are smart, you know, specific, measurable, attainable R and D.
LaTanya Gatewood:See how smart that is right there. Okay, I'm why you said that. I'm sorry, I'm going to look it up.
Eugene Gatewood:But I think a part of that was that one of the other things that we received from the, from the couple that we were looking at on Instagram, shout out to y'all. I'm sorry we don't know. We'll tag y'all somewhere in this, but but they had four questions that we thought were amazing, and their four questions is now we're going to take those four areas and we're going to go deeper and answer those four questions and that's going to help us to make, to help us to to create the goals that we'll have, so that we can hold ourselves accountable.
LaTanya Gatewood:Always smart, specific, specific, specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and timely.
Eugene Gatewood:That's what it is.
LaTanya Gatewood:So yes.
Eugene Gatewood:So I think that the four questions what do you want to do, what do you want to have, what do you want to be and how do you want to live?
Eugene Gatewood:So, what do you want to do, what do you want to have, who do you want to be and how do you want to live those are the four questions. So when we start thinking about all of those five areas spiritual, financial, family goals, professional and personal we're going to ask all four of those questions for each of those areas and come up with a vision for the future. For that We've already kind of started to talk about it in a couple of the areas and broke it down, but we'll come back and let you know what we came up with, because part of us doing this podcast is that you can hold us accountable Absolutely and we can hold you accountable. So put it in the comments if you want us to hold you accountable as well. But here's the thing that's most important Anything you want to say about those questions before I say it, no no, I think that you mentioned the podcast.
LaTanya Gatewood:The point of the podcast is to help us to be accountable. I think this podcast is pushing us to go go deeper. It's pushing us to make sure that we're being honest and authentic and showing up as our honest self, because what you see is what you get with the gatewoods. You know we're not, we're not trying to be something in this space so that we can have a platform or say our name or anything like that. What you see is what you get, because this is who we believe that we've been caught to show up as in that space, and it does. No one will if we're not honest, open and authentic. And so I feel like, personally, that the this, our podcast, is even going as is even causing us to have a different conversation and have deeper conversations, and, whereas you know we may not, we may not have, and so so thank you all. Y'all are already helping us be accountable, before you even knew you was helping us be accountable.
Eugene Gatewood:So thank you.
LaTanya Gatewood:It's a new. It's a new phase for us, and what's?
Eugene Gatewood:in and that's great. That's a good segue because when you think about, like, even our personal goal and you think about all of those things that we mentioned, it really boils down to your habits. And what habits do you have and what daily habits do you have that will help you to be successful at whatever goals that you set? And so I read this phenomenal book called Atomic Habits and it was talking about how your habits, you know, really shape your identity and shape your life. And sometimes we can change. And we're really talking about atomic is really talking about atomic size, very small habits, daily habits. Over time, and if you do them over time, you'll see remark, you'll make remarkable change and remarkable impact. And so there's really like three levels to a habit and he was talking about is really the outcomes, the processes and the identity. So outcomes, you're really asking what do you get? And processes, you're talking about what do you do. But the identity is all about what do you believe. And so when I start thinking about you know my identity just to give you a little snippet of the exercise that I went through, when I started thinking about my personal goals and my personal, what I wanted to attain personally, I said, you know, my identity is based in habits, is really where I had to begin. Not with outcomes, because when you think about the goal, the goal sits out there and a lot of us for resolutions, we set resolutions and we never achieve them because we don't create the habits, the daily habits, that are necessary to actually achieve it. And so I said, ok, my identity is who I am and that's where I'm going to begin. So if I am a follower of Christ, if I am a person who wants to be physically fit and wealthy, if I'm a person that wants to be financially stable, if I'm a person that wants to be a creator, a creator of income and not just a consumer, if I'm a person who wants to be the CEO of my own life, an executive pastor, you know, in my, in my vocation, then I have to say what are the habits of all of those things, of how I describe my identity, and I have to then make sure that I'm taking these two critical steps to decide what do I want to be, and then, lastly, repeat the behaviors that I say are necessary on a daily basis, so that when people see me, you'll know a tree by the fruit that it bears, so that when people see me, they'll say, oh yeah, he's doing this thing and they'll associate it with who I am. So so that's what I'll just say for you is, as we, as you start thinking about the goals that you're going to make for your individual selves, for yourselves as a couple, start thinking about all right, if this is who I am, then what habits do I have to have?
Eugene Gatewood:Like, if you want to get out of debt or you want to save money, that means that that's the opposite of spending. So that means that you have to not think about that. You have to spend less and save more. Spend less so that you can pay off more. That's just an example. Same thing about me getting rid of this belly. You know, I'm three weeks in and working out and all I said is I'm not. She has a Tendency is telling me that I overdo it. I'm like I'm gonna work out.
LaTanya Gatewood:Seven times a day, bro. Just start off. I said you know.
Eugene Gatewood:I'm gonna say I'm gonna do a Solid two days a week and if I do three I'm celebrating. But I'm three weeks in now and I've kept my habits the way that I said I was gonna do it so, and I can already feel the results. I'm a little sore right now, even as I said, but anyway. So it's been a great, a great time and we're looking forward to maybe it'll be next month, maybe it's a bonus episode that'll come later this month. We don't know, but we're excited about taking this journey.
LaTanya Gatewood:We are very excited about taking this journey with you. So cool, so you got a rapid fire question. I do have a rapid, rapid fire question for you. So question what would you do if you knew you can't fail?
Eugene Gatewood:Well what I do. If I knew I Couldn't fail. I Would like to believe that I'm doing it, but I'm not sure that that would really be truthful, and so I Believe, though, that I like. It's funny how, when people see me, I'm a calculated person, but when it comes to I really am prayerful about God. What is it that you would want me to do? And so all of the things that God, I feel like God, said go do this. Then I've done it.
Eugene Gatewood:You know, I know, that God has said hey, I'm gonna need you to mentor kids, did it. I need you to write a book, did it. But there's two more books, and there's I'm gonna say this out loud a couple movies that are, that are even, I feel like are in my I, that God is birthed in my spirit, that I have not done yet, that I'm gonna create the habits in order to get those done. You'll at least start it writing the scripts to get those movies done. This year I'm going to finish writing the trilogy of books that my son and I wrote, and then I'll also be writing the other book that you know. It was really supposed to be a parenting book, but it's turned into something more so. But that's a good question you want to answer, okay.
LaTanya Gatewood:Oh, what would I do if I knew I could not fail? That was a good question. I was like, oh, I hope you don't ask me that question because I don't know. I think, like, honestly, I think I would be like a world-renowned Motivational speaker, like I really think that's what I would love to do, like I loves speaking into people's lives, motivating, encouraging people and so like, but the thought of doing that is Absolutely Petrifying. But I think I think I would like that used to have that thought.
Eugene Gatewood:I used to be afraid to talk in front of people.
LaTanya Gatewood:But I don't think I'm afraid, but like afraid, you've always been. I don't know like this podcast even, oh. This it petrifies I used to be sweating profusely anytime.
Eugene Gatewood:I couldn't believe I was gonna be in front of the camera.
LaTanya Gatewood:I've always been a behind-the-cammer guy, but so yeah, that might be yeah, and I think movies I'm gonna settle on movies. It's gonna be mine. Okay, that's good, all right.
Eugene Gatewood:I have my question that I will ask you ready. It's not a rapid-fire one, though. You just have to answer the question about us a little bit. So these, this is the game. I don't know if y'all can see this, but this is the game. It's called the end game. It's a phenomenal, phenomenal game. You can look it up Now. As you can see, we cheat like. We take stuff from everywhere Because we can learn, you know, as you can see in here.
Eugene Gatewood:Yes, see on here. I'm sorry, but it's called the end game. But here's a question that I have for you, and it is when Were we most successful together? Oh, parenting parenting yeah, that's a good one.
LaTanya Gatewood:I, unapologetically, we, we parent well together. I think we Watch the vibe of what one another is doing, or what our son is doing, to be able to move and Intersect on who needs to. You know who needs to interject with him, who needs to be the Encourager, who needs to be the bad person, who need how do we come together? Oh, the disciplinary car, that's a good word. Who, how do we come together? You know, with him. So I think, hands down, we, we parent well together.
Eugene Gatewood:I can agree with that? I guess I would have to.
LaTanya Gatewood:Of course we'll have to ask him that 18 years in, but so we have to ask him and we get on his nerves now that we do, but you know we love everything and so that's a good one.
Eugene Gatewood:Well, this was exciting, this was a fun episode and I'm looking forward to the next episode, whenever that may be, but please follow us Instagram, facebook, on you know, like, comment, share, share this. I mean, there's many people that that could benefit from. You know what we're doing, how we're doing it, but please, we appreciate you tuning in, we appreciate you downloading. You can listen to this podcast on anywhere when you can download podcasts, and so we're just excited about the W3 winning team podcast. So pray us out.
LaTanya Gatewood:Yeah, let's pray us out.
LaTanya Gatewood:Okay, let's pray us out, god. We thank you for this day. Father, we thank you for this opportunity in this moment. God Lord, we pray over each and every person that Tuesday and then listen to this podcast. God, father, is more than just a podcast, god, but it's your words and your messaging to be transformative for lives. God Lord, thank you for every couple, every relationship, every individual that will be that will listen and have Intentional execution on the strategic plan for their lives. God, you know the plans you have for us. God plans to prosper us and not harm us, to give us a future and a hope. So we pray that same prayer, that same declaration for each and every person and us listening to this podcast. We love you, we thank you, we praise you and we celebrate who you are in our lives. God, it's in Jesus name we do pray amen and thank God. Thank you for too many years. Yes, you.
