The Brave Podcast

What is Enough with Treveal CW Lynch

October 21, 2020 Alexis Newlin Season 1 Episode 42
The Brave Podcast
What is Enough with Treveal CW Lynch
Show Notes Transcript

In this episode of The Brave Podcast, we get to hang out with  Treveal CW Lynch. Born in Chicago and raised in Toledo, OH, he and his family relocated to southern California as an act of faith, in 2001, where he quickly discovered his gift for communicating. With extreme passion and transparency, Treveal has been captivating audiences for over 18 years.  As a trusted communicator in both the business and faith-based community, he continues to present innovative ideas that spark the imagination, inspires the soul and calls for lasting life change! As the founder of iamthepossible®, a company built on the philosophy that “everything you hope to be tomorrow, you already are today”, he is committed to communicating ideas that inspire audiences to see themselves in ways they've never imagined possible! Treveal currently lives in Los Angeles where he serves as an Associate Pastor alongside his wife and their four children at Pasadena Church, in Pasadena California. 

In this episode, we discuss:

  • Gifting/ Anointing
  • What we are made to do
  • Trusting God
  • Faith

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Alexis Newlin: [00:00:00] . [00:00:00] You're listening to the brave podcast. And my guest today is I am going to butcher your name.

Treveal Lynch: [00:00:10] Yes, 

Alexis Newlin: [00:00:11] Treveal Lynch. Alright, Treveal I'll have you introduce yourself and tell everybody why you are awesome.

Treveal Lynch: [00:00:19] Hi everyone. My name is Trevell CW Lynch. I always add the CW in there as an honor to my father who gave me the gift of writing and, and then the w four and, you know, honor to my mother who gave me the gift of speaking. so my name is Treveal CW Lynch. I am a pastor. I am a self worth specialist. and the reason that I'm awesome is because I'm made in the image of God.

He is, he's an awesome God. And so as the Bible tells me and tells us that we are created in the very image nature of God. And so I am a piece of God, a reflection of God am a unique expression of my creator. And so if I'm a piece of my God and my God is [00:01:00] awesome, then that makes me awesome. That makes you awesome.

Alexis Newlin: [00:01:03] Yes. I love that. Okay. So my question for you, my first one is I want to hear a bit about your journey as becoming a Christian. So share that with the listeners here. 

Treveal Lynch: [00:01:14] All right. Well, I don't have the year down pat. Maybe I should get that kind of written out so I can be ready when, when asked that question, but I don't know the year I know it was in, I would say 1999 ish.

I was in County jail. I was brought up on grand theft charges. I was guilty as charged, to be honest. And this was back when I was living in Toledo, Ohio. I, I now live in Southern California, but yeah. I found myself on the weekend, before going to trial in the  County jail  a Sunday morning and one of the things that they provide for.

whether it's prisoners or people who are locked up, they provide a Sunday morning service. So the bailiff came down. Yeah. [00:02:00] So the Baylor came down the hall one or not one, but it came down the hall that, that Sunday morning, and he made the announcement. He said, Hey, anyone who wants to get out of their cell block, go down here to this service, follow me lineup.

So my idea was, Hey, man, I need to get out of this cell block. I'm tired of looking at this television. Continue to play the exact same channel 24 hours a day. I'm tired of being around these guys who are totally negative and, and, you know, that I just needed a change of pace. So I said,Hey, an hour away, let's do it.

So, I attended a Sunday morning prison ministry. A prison service. and I always tell people, I don't remember exactly what these women said. It was about four women from a local church. I don't know what they said, to be honest. It, it still feels like a blur. But what I can tell you is they told me a story about Jesus.

[00:03:00] And I remember the elements of the story pretty much said, you know, he died from that. He wanted me that he accepted me. That I was loved, even though I was running the streets as I was, even though I was robbing, stealing, lying, cheating, doing some horrible, horrible things, both to other people, as well as to myself, they told me a story that at my lowest point, as low as I could go, there's this Jesus that loves me and accepts me and, you know, growing up, My self image, myself value, my self worth was completely destroyed. I had no self worth or value. So wherever I did not believe that my life was worth anything. And so I was ready to, you know, throw my life away. But hearing this, hearing this, this message about a Jesus that loves me, me, and I always emphasize the word accept, because that's a major thing in our society to be [00:04:00] accepted, not only by other people, but accepted by yourself. And so I heard that story and I remembered them saying, Hey, put your head down. And if anyone, like there was like three rows  of my table. Then we all had our head on the table. And I remember the woman was saying, if you want to accept God, if you want to accept you into your life, raise your hand.

And even as I wrote in my new book, my hand flew up off the table. Like it was one of those surreal supernatural wasn't me in control thing. My hand just flew up off the table. And before I knew it, I was down front. They welcomed anyone who raised their hand to come down front. I went down front, they said a prayer over me.

And from that moment on my life has never, ever been the same. I knew. And I experienced and I acknowledged a shift, a change in my thinking almost immediately to that at that time, I was immediately know it was like, you know, I remember being addicted to weed. [00:05:00] I was a weed smoker. I've got tattoos all over my body.

I woke up to, we went to bed, do we? And no one had to tell him, I mean, anything I had never stepped in into a church or anything. And when I got released from prison, I. I attempted to smoke weed and there was a conviction there. I hadn't read the Bible, no Christians in my life telling me no, don't do that.

Put that down. It was just a relationship. Something happened on the inside of me that said this isn't right anymore. Now I still continued to do it. But, but then when they conviction there that I, that I recognize. So, so that was my coming to God. 

Alexis Newlin: [00:05:40] Wow. And so your heart completely changed. By that ministry coming in.

Treveal Lynch: [00:05:48] Yeah, I was at a point where I think I was ready. my today wife was my girlfriend then, and she was pregnant with our oldest son. I I've got four children now, but she was pregnant with our oldest son. And [00:06:00] even though I was just a complete thug, complete reckless, in the streets, I think I was at a point where I was, I was ready to hear something different and, yeah, it was just the perfect timing.

And I didn't want to repeat the generational devastation of my past, you know, not having a father growing up, my mother, you know, addicted to drugs and alcohol. So I just didn't want that to continue. So in the back of my mind, I didn't want that to continue, but yet I was still continuing it. Perfect term.

Alexis Newlin: [00:06:38] I love that. I listened to your story. So I have family members and I'm from Ohio as well. I'm from Cleveland, Ohio. I was born there. And so I have family there and your life, your previous life is what they live now. And so listening to you kind of gives me hope, cause I pray for them. , I don't want them to continue this like generation of like crime and [00:07:00] going to jail and substance abuse and then their kids do it and then their kids do it.

And. What I'm hearing in your story is the factor that's changing all that. It was Jesus and accepting Jesus and totally turning you into a new person. So I, it gives me hope to continue praying that their story can change too.  it's all over my family and it's just, it's hard to watch. You're like, what can stop this? What can stop this change? It's truly it's Jesus

Treveal Lynch: [00:07:28] here. 

Alexis Newlin: [00:07:30] So you have this background being in prison. What led you to ministry? What led you to become a pastor? 

Treveal Lynch: [00:07:39] Yeah, well, after, you know, after being released from jail and, and, there there's, there's a much more detailed backdrop to the story, but in short, just to like summarize it, my first cousin is.

Was then Andy is now my senior pastor at my church, but he came to my [00:08:00] rescue. he came down to the ports to kind of see what was going on. Didn't know this, but for years he and a prayer team had been praying for me for years. yeah, like, so like once I got into the church and he introduced me to people and, and told me this, that they had been praying for me weekly for years.

so he came to my rescue with a lawyer friend of his from college. It was the craziest thing because he was coming from my court case down the escalator and his college friend who hates who he hadn't seen in years. what's coming up the escalator and he looked at them and, and they exchanged looks and he said, Hey man, how have you been doing?

You know, they're yeah. And the college buddy was a lawyer. And the college buddies said, Hey man, what are you doing here? And he said, yeah, well, I got my, I got my cousin up here. You know, he's brought up on some charges. Maybe you can help him up. And man, it was nothing but God to, to just orchestrate that perfectly.

So my cousin, [00:09:00] yeah, it was like, he got me the lawyer who was a man of faith and, you know, we struck a deal. and God worked through the people that I had, you know, robbed to even forgive me of. You know of doing it and work out a deal where, you know, once I got released, if I would just pay back the money that I stole, that they would drop all charges and then my record would be completely, they call it expunged.

So it doesn't show up on, on the public records. And so, God are really redeemed. They're really cleared me of that. So coming , out of that situation, I went directly into the church. and started serving, in, in a sound ministry, because at that time I still had aspirations of being like a rapper and getting into music and things like that.

So, so my pastor felt like the best place for me to serve was to be in. In their sound ministry. so long story short, he got a job here in Southern California. A pastor that was moving out, asked him to come in to replace [00:10:00] him. and he said, Hey, you know, I want to take some families with me to relocate.

You know, why don't you guys fast and pray about it? I said, okay, you know, I'll do that. so my wife and I, we fast and we prayed, and we felt that God was saying to, to relocate. So we did. And it wasn't until we got out here that people began to see my gift for speaking and, and for preaching and for writing.

And then they began to kind of share with me what they saw, which was, you know, Hey man, one day you're going to be a pastor one day. You're gonna, you're gonna, you know, be God's shepherd. And, you know, we see these things on yet. And so, for years I just rejected it and pushed it away. For finally, after having a really deep conversation with one of my spiritual mentors, I fast there for 21 days and I'm on day 21.

I woke up. I'll never forget it. Isaiah 55 five. I woke up that morning that 21st day of fasting, no food, just water. I was at my weakest point. And I think that God [00:11:00] kind of brings us sometimes to our weakest point for us to be able to really hear him well. And he said, you're, you're my guy. This is for you.

and so I accepted my call to ministry 2006, and I was ordained in 2010. 

Alexis Newlin: [00:11:15] Wow. What was it like to preach your first sermon? Like after you'd gone through all this, what was that like? 

Treveal Lynch: [00:11:23] Yeah, no, it was pretty cool because I had been given the opportunity to preach. Multiple times even prior, you know, to be honest because yeah, because one of the things that I always share on podcasts or share, you know, whenever I'm interviewed is, I believe that five words can change your life by words can literally change your life.

And the reason that I say that is we weren't in Southern California. Now I got out of jail in 2000. We were in California in 2001. So a year later, So, I mean, things move rapidly for a year later. Yeah. So a year later, I mean, [00:12:00] I'm in Southern California, the pastor who, who was here, on staff he's since passed away, but it was a pastor named Eric Brown .

I actually dedicated my new book to him. Eric Brown asked me to share a 15 minute message with a group of men. And I shared a 15 minute message Mark and one 35. I'll never forget it. My first time ever sharing, preaching, teaching anything whatsoever out the Bible. I didn't know. Nothing never went to seminary, anything.

I shared this message and, you know, I don't know if I was good or bad. I just share it from that. Yeah. So, you know, so, so if it's over with right, and I go, and I'm putting up my computer, my little laptop, and I'll put my Bible back in my bag and pass the area, it walks up to me and he says to him, he puts a hand on my shoulder.

And if any man could ever look you in the eye and you felt like God was looking at you, it was pastor [00:13:00] Eric Brown. He, he looked me. Like directly. And I like, as if he was looking through me, he looked me, I didn't say a travail. You are a teacher. And that's where I get those five words. Travail. You are a teacher.

And that was so it wasn't, it resonated, it was revelation. It was rejuvenation. It was revitalation. It was like every rib you could possibly find it. Right. Because it was, yeah, it was, it was, he told me what I was. He told me what I was. And you will find that thread in my new book, he told me what I was and no one had ever told me what I was.

Cause we fixed things much, which in his world on, you know, finding out your purpose, you know, why are you, we talk about our identity, you know, who are you? But what I'm passionate about is what are you doing? Hmm. And I find that the what of our life, I always look at me in three different components who, why and what, but the, what keeps getting [00:14:00] left out.

It keeps getting pushed it aside. And I think that that strategic, but I won't go into the whole spiritual stuff about it, but I think that's strategic because. What you are tells you your confidence point. It tells you your capacity point until you, your contribution point. If you know what you are, you know, your capacity, you know, where you can have confidence and you know what you can contribute to the rest of, to the rest of humanity.

And so he, in that moment said what I, and it, and it rocked my world and changed, changed everything. Cause at that time, I didn't know what a spiritual gift was. I didn't know, teaching. Was a five fold ministry gift. I didn't know that there was a gift called teaching that ,  God endowed upon man, you know, I didn't know those things, but he told me what I was and, that, that totally changed everything.

Alexis Newlin: [00:14:50] Can you go on to spiritual gifts a little bit for our listeners who might not be sure what that is? 

Treveal Lynch: [00:14:55] Yeah. Yeah. Spiritual gifts. Now everyone has one. So if you're [00:15:00] listening, you are never excluded. I don't want to get you because I am so big on not, Getting into like the Hollywood culture church, you know, it did not that you have to be a pastor or you have to be a prophet or you have to be an evangelist.

Listen, we are all ministers. We are all ministers. I don't like for me, I don't play that game. Like you may. Yeah. I don't get in the big grant pool, the chairs and I don't get into titles and special seating and all it is for me. It's time I fall over that. It's like, man, we are all real people. We are all real, you know, just humans.

but he does give out special gifting so that we can serve one another, a gift is always for someone else. So for those that are listening, a spiritual gift is a special endowment that God will give you that allows you to operate in a capacity that is unique. That is special. that is, a point and a place of.

[00:16:00] Power and authority. So when I speak, you know, there's been years where I didn't know how to speak in terms of, either being educated or taking classes or someone really teaching me how to speak. Yeah. But I've always from the moment I've opened, my mouth, people have told me, man, you are the person that people listen to when you speak the room is at attention.

When you're in front of a crowd, people are leaning in literally. And I say, listen, I'm glad that you see that. I pray God never shows me that because if that's the case, I don't want to, you know what I'm saying? I ain't going no big head. I'm not father, but if I can serve in that capacity, then, you know, amen.

but you know, that's what a spiritual gifted is. Just a special ability that God's given you, that , you can work toward perfecting and getting really good at. But it also comes very naturally and organic. You won't have to go to seminary. You won't have to go to college. You won't have to [00:17:00] take an online course.

It just happens. And I don't know if you've noticed, but you know, a part of my past was stuttering. So Oxford over words, I'll, I'll catch myself on words to this day. I'm 43 years old to this day. There are words that are difficult for me to either pronounce or sentences that are difficult for me to start.

And I've learned to embrace that because that's an awesome testimony. He took a dude that stuttered and said, get in front of folks, get in front of people, get on stage, get on a podcast, go live on Facebook that do that. Can barely talk. He said, I'm using you to communicate a message. And I just think that's dope.

Alexis Newlin: [00:17:41] Awesome testimony when you put it like that. Yeah your weakest point. God can still use it. Yes. 

Yeah. into, you said , you work on self work. Did I get that right? Yeah. Can you explain that a little bit to our listeners and what that is and how you do that? 

[00:18:00] Treveal Lynch: [00:18:00] Yes. So I believe, you know, cause some of our coined phrases out in society are, you know, whether it's coaching, confidence coach.

I see some of the other ones, personal development coaching. I'm a life coach is another big kind of coined phrase. So kind of in that same vein, that same spirit, I'm a self worth specialist and I believe that God gave me that title. So, so that I can communicate very specifically. self-development and what I mean by that is, is.

My philosophy is that the greatest form of self development is self discovery. . I believe that the work is always within the work is always within. I, you know, I, I teach from the position that, as my, and my brand says, I am the possible if you listen to, or if you really break that phrase down, I am, which is a present tense word the possible possible or possibilities, that's a [00:19:00] future tense words. And so I always help, you know, so I always like to help people to understand that, as our flagship, you know, slogan, you know, goals, I  and my possibilities are one and the same, everything I hope to be tomorrow. I already am today.

So it's this idea that you came into this world, all ready, everything you're ever going to be. All we ever do is increase in our capacity to be that, which we already are. And so I just want to help people to really discover what's already there because you know, in our formative years, you know, five years old, six years old, we hear questions like, Oh, so what do you want to be when you grow up?

And I always pick on that statement because it's so popular. I always ask people whenever I preach or teach, I say, how many of you know, let me get a raise of hand. How many of you have ever heard or asked the question? What do you want to be when you grow up? Right. [00:20:00] And I always say, that's a great question.

However, the underlying to that is what do you want to be? What do you desire to be one day someday, far off? And I say, Why don't we teach our children or why don't we focus more on appreciating what we already are? And we can build that foundation from what we are instead of, you know, and you're 7-8 years old.

You don't know what you want. 

Alexis Newlin: [00:20:33] No, you have no idea. You're a little kid you want to be outside. Like you have no idea what you want to do. Yeah. 

Treveal Lynch: [00:20:40] You have no idea. No, but we put ourselves and we're conditioned to be in that, you know, under that, you know, under, under the gun. So to speak of, I've got to get a dream.

We're going to get an ambition. I've got to get a goal or something. I'm like, yo, you know, we always have a level up level up level up, dude, listen, stop, leveling up. How about level down [00:21:00] and let's learn what we are. Then we can build a foundation on that. Cause think of it. If Eric never told me that I was a teacher my ambitions could have steel to this day be out of alignment. I could still be out of alignment , because society gives you this choice of pick what you want to be one day someday, instead of looking within and seeing what's already there and learning to appreciate it to accept from within.

So that's that work within that's that work within it's self discovery, the greatest form of self development is self discovery. So I know I said a mouthful right there, but it gets me excited when you ask.

Alexis Newlin: [00:21:40] I can tell. You know, it's crazy? That was the exact call I had this morning with my coach. , Oh yeah, we were talking about Psalm 139 and verses, I think it's 14 and 15 and she was basically saying, God already, when we were born, he already put everything within us. We already had it in us. [00:22:00] And then she also talks about when we were little. So , my mind was blown when you were talking, was that when we were little, people are forcing us to kind of decide what we want to do and telling us, , you can be this, you can be this, you can be this, but , what does God say?

And you're already equipped and looking within. So it's so funny that I'm having this conversation with you now, because I just talked about that. Like two hours ago about this exact same thing. I'm like, how funny that this is now coming up in our conversation. How funny,  God wants to get this known; we're already equipped.

It's weird to  think that , when you were born, that was already within you. So to be a teacher, you were already born with it. To be a speaker you were already born with it. You just have to discover it within you. So I love that 

it's eye opening.  it makes you look to  what am I, what. Like what you were saying though, like, what am I supposed to do? Look at the what instead of the who and all that as well. 

Treveal Lynch: [00:22:56] Yeah, yeah. Don't leave the what out yet. [00:23:00] And I'm working on this master class right now. One  of the things I'm really passionate about helping them to understand is that I look at it like, like a three, three puzzle pieces. The who the, who, the why and the what. And we were often trying to discuss it for who we are, meaning the identity, personality, how we are to carry ourselves, the why we are our purpose in life, right?

What is it that we're supposed to accomplish and what are we, you know, to achieve for God? But it's funny how, if you start with what, it directs you as to how or who you are to be who you are to show up as in the world. If you start with what, it shows you, what you're capable, or you have the capacity to accomplish in your why it's, it's so phenomenal that it's like, let's keep the, what tucked away.

Let's, let's keep that hidden let's not talk about that. Now go figure out who you're supposed to be. [00:24:00] Go figure out the personality that you're supposed to carry. Oh, go figure out your why. Why is it that you were born? Just go figure that out, but never, never find out what you are. It's almost like, like saying you're a car now , but you have ambitions to be a plane. Now you're never going to be a plane. You're only going to be a car. A car has the capacity to take what? Maybe four, six passably, eight passengers from here to there on four wheels. Now that's your capacity, but we say, nevermind, learning what you are, have dreams and ambitions of being an airplane that can seat 50 or 60 or a hundred people.

You don't have the capacity for that. So you'll always be unhappy because you'll be trying to do something that's not within your capacity. So I'm like, yo man, why don't we, why don't we learn? Because again, if I'm a teacher and I tried to be a doctor, I could accomplish that because God's given us great minds.

We can learn, we can apply things. We can, we can, you know, assume knowledge and we can apply it. And, you know, we can learn skills, but I wouldn't be happy. I [00:25:00] wouldn't be satisfied. So that's why I'm so passionate. We have to learn what we are because that's going to be tied directly to our fulfillment. Our happiness or joy, our peace.

And that goes back to that work within. So I'm sorry. I know they didn't ask me that. 

Alexis Newlin: [00:25:14] No, that was great. My next question is, so for someone who wants to start with the, what, how did they start with finding out what they are? 

Treveal Lynch: [00:25:22] Yes, yes. Yes. Well, if you're not fortunate enough to have an Eric Brown in your life, what I did was, I am putting together and I've already put together kind of one piece of the puzzle, but I am creating, something that's really robust to kind of include all of the elements that I, you know, utilize and things that I've done.

But to answer that question, the very first thing is I share with people the value of self observation. And that's not always a popular thing because we live in a society that's very fast paced, fast moving. Although with COVID right now, we've got some time to chill out and slow down a little bit. [00:26:00] you know, so w we're not microwaved as we once was, so it's not, you know, going as hard as we once did, but, self observation.

And what I mean by that is, the practice and the patients. Of observing what you organically naturally do is already there. Meaning, you know, some of those coined questions, what makes you cry every time you see it? What makes you laugh every time you see it? What will you hear about that thing on the news?

You're just kind of pokes you in the side. What is that thing that when you hear about it in your family, that you're like, man, I really wish that wasn't the case. What is that thing that you do that other people totally compliment you on? You didn't go to college. You didn't go to, you didn't take any, you know, online courses, but you just do it and people love it.

Maybe it's you cook a meal and just people just flock and they say, Oh, you make the best, whatever. [00:27:00] Or something that you do. that took other people years to develop, but you just do it naturally organically. When we self observe, those are what I call breadcrumbs. Those are clues that will start to lead you to what it is that that God created you to do.

I did create a, a self discovery workbook and that workbook consists of four key assessments. Some insights from my book, some other personal insights and some, some graphs and some things to kind of help you to really kind of pull everything together. but everything comes back to observation and assessment.

We must do a personal assessment, before ambition, assess. Right before we accept what the world is saying, that we are, you know, I like to say before you accept. Assess. There's some people out there they don't know you like that. When people listen, if you're listening to this, people don't know you like that.

They [00:28:00] barely know themselves. And, and, and many times they have the nerve to tell you about you and what you should be doing. And many of us, we don't even know ourselves. But we're quick to give other people advice. so I always say assess before you accept. Okay. So self assessments and self observation, I do also practice meditation.

And that's not a big, fancy word for, you know, people of different races and cultures. Meditation is found in the Bible. Meditation is simply our ability to regurgitate God's word and meditate and sit. Actually meditation comes from what, how to do with their food. They chew it, they swallow it, they bring it back up and they chew it again.

It's just the patient and the quietness and the skillfulness of being able to quiet and still oneself. And really, you know, the Bible says be still and know that he has got really being able to be still and quiet and really listen to that inner voice. Really listen to that inner dialogue that's [00:29:00] already trying to guide you.

It's already trying to lead you. But again, we're so busy and we're so loud in our world that we sometimes drown that voice out. 

Alexis Newlin: [00:29:08] Yeah. That's so true. And like you said, with what's happened with COVID. I felt like for me, a lot of people don't say this, but for me. It was kind of a blessing. No, it was a blessing because it got to slow down my world, which was rushing. And I felt like I was drowning. I was drowning and everything was gone, like all the excess. And I'm like, Oh, I can hear the Lord better. I can focus on things like this that I love to do. It just opened up this world when everything, when I was still and was able to focus on  my dreams, my aspirations, my what, to see what  God had for me. I could hear Him, because it was quiet.

And so I was like, okay  this is a good thing. I'm gonna grasp onto this time and hold onto it tightly cause it's a blessing.  it's hard that people have passed and the things that have gone on with it, but there has been a blessing in it too, to just slow down because [00:30:00] we're all so encouraged to do do do and to go, go, go and to rush. And we're going to now like kind of, but now generation like an instant gratification. Yeah. So like now that's all gone. So you only thing you have to do is just sit and rest now. It's a good thing.

Treveal Lynch: [00:30:19] That's right. I agree. 

Alexis Newlin: [00:30:23] Want to go into your book and what led you to write it and all the good stuff? 

Treveal Lynch: [00:30:29] Yeah, yeah. The book. So,  What is Enough is, is a question and an answer. I always tell people that, that it answers itself. Because the question is what is enough? And it's really written to a group of people. People like myself, who really have the belief system that unless I do enough, I'll never be enough. I also kind of put it in words of, until I do something significant, I'll never be something significant. And we live in what I call, do [00:31:00] dependency. It's, I'm dependent on doing something in order to see my significance, see my value, see my worth.

And so is written to that group of individuals. I've often been told that the book reads like a conversation. 

Alexis Newlin: [00:31:17] It does. It really does.

Treveal Lynch: [00:31:19] Okay, great. Okay, great. Awesome. So that was really my intention because I'm that guy like, I'm that guy, I'm a pastor. I'm a speaker. I'm an author and all that. Yeah, that's fine. That's cool though.

Those again, those are titles. Strip all that away. Take all that away. I'm a dude, that has to wake up every single morning. Every single morning and seek the face of God for  that assurance, man, , for that piece, again. Because  we fight it  every day. We've been conditioned for so long.

It is so ingrained. It is not an overnight. And so I'm speaking to people who are out there who are struggling. Maybe you're listening [00:32:00] to this podcast, you're struggling with seeing your significance outside of your success. If I took away all your success, if I took away all of your achievements, you know, achievements, accolades, accomplishments, attainments, you know, those are my A's.

Yep. I took it all away. I stripped you all down and I just left you. Would you feel like you're enough? Would you accept yourself? Would you truly appreciate yourself just for you, just, just for your existence, just for your existence, because the Bible says in Genesis, the last chapter, I'm sorry, last verse of chapter one, it said that we hadn't done anything.

God created us. And He looked over everything that he had created, including us. And He says, this is good. And when you translate that this is good, that's translated as being exceedingly well, exceedingly good. Excellent. Excellent. And so we're born excellent. But,  do we [00:33:00] have the ability to really believe that of ourselves, that your existence is enough evidence for your enoughness right?

That that's kind of how I phrase it , is your existence enough evidence for your enoughness? Because I've talked to psychs, I've talked to all types of professionals and they'll fight me on it. And they'll say, yeah, we hear you, man. But people got to do something. Yes, we do have to do something, but God didn't require us to do anything before He said we were good. Now yes. He's given us  things to do. Absolutely he wants us to do great things. That's a part of why he gave us gifts.  But the base level acceptance has to be,  I am. So I am enough. Then we can work from there. Then we can work from there. So, you know, again, it's a book written to those asking that question is the father, have I done enough to be a good a good [00:34:00] father, are my kids happy with me? Do they accept me?  Do they love me. It's the husband. Have I done enough to be a good husband? Does my wife love me that she accepted is to professional? You know, have I done enough for this company? Have I climbed the corporate ladder? Have I gotten high enough in the company?

Have I achieved enough? It's the guy, it's the woman. It's the child that is sitting somewhere saying, I've done everything I know to do. And it just does not feel like it's enough. . I am tired. I am emotionally exhausted. I've done everything I can. And it just doesn't feel like it's enough. And that's the problem that I want to address.

You'll never do enough to be enough. It's not within your capacity because you weren't created to. It's, not something that you earn is something that you learn. Your value is not something that you earn is something that you learn. So that's why it's impossible for you to do enough because , you weren't created to earn it.

You're trying to earn something that you already have. You just have to discover it, which goes back to the greatest form of self development is simply yourself. 

Alexis Newlin: [00:34:59] Wow. [00:35:00] All of that was just so powerful and so simple. Once you've taken away everything else and just decide that I am enough that just based foundation, it simplifies so many things.

Yeah.  That is really powerful.

Treveal Lynch: [00:35:17] Trying to get it out there, trying to get it out there, pray for me. I'm trying to get it out there, you know? 

Alexis Newlin: [00:35:24] Definetely .

Treveal Lynch: [00:35:27] So you have 

Alexis Newlin: [00:35:27] some cool things coming up. You're starting your own podcast, right? Yeah. 

Treveal Lynch: [00:35:34] Yeah. Yeah. So, right now it's called the So What, Broadcast. It's, every Saturday on Facebook. And the reason I ever call it that, so it's really an acronym.

S O seeing our what is seeing our work. Kind of goes back to tying it to that thing when you see what you are. Because again, that's the missing element is that to me, when people, people introduce me sometimes they'll say, yeah, so this is mr. I am [00:36:00] possible or Treveal CW Lynch. He is the founder of I Am Possible.

And I would say, not I am possible. I am the, you guys don't forget that the, because of the , is telling you that I am something. If you leave the out, I am possible. Well, actually to me, that's a lie. I'm not possible, I already am., so what's to come? It's the, the said I am the possible. I, and my possibilities, are one in the same.

So, I always want to include that what element. And so my podcast, is centered around, you know, learning what the are and really pushing that and not coming off of it. Because , I'm not saying that I'm the only one speaking it, but I haven't found anyone else that that's going in on, on the what, oflife.

And you know, if I find some, then, you know, we can partner or we can do some things. but yeah, that's, that's the name of the podcast. 

Alexis Newlin: [00:36:55] I love  it. And then , you have your live on Facebook. How long have you been doing that? 

[00:37:00] Treveal Lynch: [00:37:01] Well, I've been going live just in general. probably three or four years. so that that's my Monday, Wednesday, Friday, that that's my usual schedule, but if the Lord prompts something, I'll just do something off the cuff.

So just kind of go in a live video.  I post, recorded videos often and then also live videos. But, as far as starting the, every Saturday morning, you know, so what broadcast, that's only been up for two weeks. So I started in July. So yeah. Is really wanting to build some community around it.

And, I know it's a hard topic, you know, it's so, you know, trying to be on a social platform and trying to get, , you know, kind of open with, with some of these can be challenging. So again, it's, I throw myself out there, I'll see how it goes tweak it, how it needs to be tweaked. I may turn it into like a Facebook group so people can feel more safe and have a safer space so that it's not [00:38:00] public. We can make the room private. And, because, all of my small groups that I've conducted, , prior to COVID, those have always going, well, people have always asked for more can the class go longer. whenever we've done pilot groups on the book and just on this topic, People really enjoy it.

So I was trying to bring that same element in that same field, to an online space, because of our circumstance. 

Alexis Newlin: [00:38:23] what are some of your goals for a year for, what do you see for the rest of 2020?  

Treveal Lynch: [00:38:29] Yeah. Yeah. 2020 is a year of consistency. And, monetizing, because yeah, cause I I've been told that multiple times that I'm, you know, as a pastor, as a, as a teacher, you love to give you love to speak.

You love to share. but at some point, because I do have a goal of transitioning from corporate America, I've been in corporate America 14 years now. and it's been good to me. I've climbed the ladder and you know, God has absolutely blessed us financially blessed [00:39:00] me, you know, within my career, but I really want to dedicate my life to writing and, teaching.

So there has to be a transition say at some point, and I'm really believing and praying that this would be the year that I can transition out.S o really just being consistent, with my content, and , really perfecting sort of my delivery. Sort of the way that I minister through this online space and the way that I share and administer the content,  from the book.

and then monetize it really starting to put together masterclasses mindset,   people have asked me about coaching. They've asked me about mindset courses. and so I forgot where I heard it, but I was taking a course or I was listening to one of my mentors and they said that, you know, people will tell you what they'll pay for.

You know, people, people will tell you what they want from you. so coaching, mindset courses, masterclasses had been a theme, that people have been requesting, but I've not [00:40:00] truly sat down to truly package that content and to begin to sell it. So those are really my two main goals. 

Alexis Newlin: [00:40:08] And then my, one of my final questions for you is when did you decide that you were brave?

Treveal Lynch: [00:40:16] I decided that I was brave. Yeah. To be honest, it was, 2000, 2001. When we moved here to Southern California. I knew then that my, my bravery was hidden in. My faith in, in God's power. Meaning. when we, you know, again we fast that we prayed, we believe that we heard from God, but that doesn't mean family friends believed you heard from God.

Alexis Newlin: [00:40:48] Yeah, that's hard. Cause you can get that opposition cause they want what they want too and then it can make you doubt or God told you. 

Treveal Lynch: [00:40:55] Oh yes, yes. Yeah. So we had it, we had it from every, from every [00:41:00] angle family members. I'm not wanting us to go bosses telling us, you know? Yeah. We'll believe it.

When we see you on an airplane, you know, there's all types of Hayden, all types of, you know, stuff that they would throw at us. but then also our own humanity, from the Midwest coming from a small town like Toledo, that's a small town with a small town mindset. And, you know, we didn't have jobs, we didn't have careers.

I didn't go to like a part of my testimony was dropping out of college, so to move, to pick up to move and our pastor, but yeah, they told us, look, we want you to pray and, and, and to seek God's face to make this move, but we ain't got no money to support you. So if you come out of here, we're not supporting you.

Like it's gonna be so big things. So 2000 miles away, I knew I was brave. When I moved my wife and my, and my first son from Toledo, Ohio to Southern California with no guarantees, no guaranteed whatsoever. Didn't have a job. [00:42:00] We got evicted two months in. We came out here and yeah, and exhausted. Every penny we had and was evicted out of our first apartment and had to stay with friends and then stay with friends and then got kicked out of there and then had to stay with our pastors for like a month or so.

And then. Slowly, you know, from there, you know, getting on welfare and EBT cards and scrapping it together and pulling it together. And man, it has been a journey, but for me to even pick up and say, yeah, let's, let's make this move. that's what, that, that, that's when I knew that I was brave and that's when I knew that if I hunker down, if I am at my mentor, says, stay under with God.

Man ain't no, ain't no stopping me. There's no limits to what that can do. if you trust, if you trust in here, you do it in your almost rift

Yeah, [00:43:00] but if you, if, if you put all your eggs in his basket, not saying that it won't be rough and it won't get extremely taxing, but he is so faithful. He'll always see me through it. Yeah. Yeah. So my bravery is it's his bravery truly when I'm a, 

Alexis Newlin: [00:43:16] I love it. All right. Where can everybody find your book, your masterclass, all your info.

Treveal Lynch: [00:43:23] I am the possible.com. Okay. Everything is branded. if you just put it, I am the possible, whether it's Google being a whatever search engine that you have, just, I am the possible, that's going to take you there to the website on all of my social media platforms. Cause it's been branded, been trademarked.

so really wanted to make it simple to be found. So it was just one, one continual word, all lowercase, no space. I am the possible. 

Alexis Newlin: [00:43:50] All right. Thank you so much, travail. This was amazing. I appreciate having you on. 

Treveal Lynch: [00:43:57] Thank you.