Welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome to Unveiled by Grace.
This is your host.
This is your man of God.
This is your brother, Ronald Major.
Hope you guys are doing great today.
This is the first episode of the Unveiled by Grace podcast.
Wow.
It took a minute, man.
It took a minute to get here.
I guess I was trying to understand the direction
I was going with the podcast.
Neither here nor there.
We'll get more into that later.
Man, this is really happening.
Wow.
I'm excited, guys.
What can you expect?
Let's start there.
And then I'll give you guys a quick rundown or history lesson
or just my story in general.
But what can you get from Unveiled by Grace podcast?
I guess the biggest thing is a real honest assessment
through my experience, not just in life, but relationships.
Being a man, being a husband, being a father,
my relationship with God, purpose.
Just everything, man, that on my journey, I'm 34 now.
I'll be 35 in two weeks.
No, not two weeks.
I'm bugging.
I'll be 35 on June 17.
And today is May 23, which is wild because my wife's birthday
was yesterday.
She turned 35.
I told her.
I said, baby, man, I've never been with an older woman.
And I tease her all the time around this time of the year
when she had her birthday because her birthday is
a month before mine.
So she turns older first.
She doesn't like it.
So fellas, yeah, that probably won't be a good one.
Tell your wife she's older than you
when it's really just a month.
No, anyways, but yes, yesterday was my wife's birthday.
But yeah, man, the podcast, we're
going to be discussing relationships
all across the board, your relationship with God, which
comes first for everything, your relationships
if you're married, if you're looking to get in relationships,
parenting, work, purpose, business, everything, everything.
And things that I just my walk, and I'm sharing it with you
guys, we're coming together, man.
And it's going to be fun.
It's going to be, I'm actually excited because this journey
to get to this point was so much.
And I get it.
We're in 2024.
Everybody has a podcast.
Everybody is a guru.
Everybody know it, and nothing against any of that.
I think it's great.
I listened to a few podcasts as well for different reasons
and different things, man.
But we're here, unveiled by Grace podcast.
Will be, will be the podcast for young, up and coming,
not just creators, not just those in ministry,
not just the high schoolers who are going off the college.
This is for the young, for my generation.
Because I feel that there is a void there.
There's a disconnection from not just God for sure,
and the youth, which I won't say the church dropped the ball
there.
I will not say that.
But I will say that a lot of the focus, and a lot of,
I guess, what keeps the young people's voices silent.
And it's just a lot of misguidance.
And I've had or been blessed to have elders around me,
and just to help me on my walk.
So we're going to discuss so many different things, man.
I don't want to first anyone to think
that this is a ministry.
Well, it is a ministry, but I don't want anyone to.
I think a lot of youth get thrown off by that.
I think to use these labels and terms, which I am not against,
I understand it.
But there's a culture that is attached to the church
that a lot of our youth are running from.
A lot of them.
That's why it's hard for them to get our youth in the church
and consistent.
They want to hear about God.
They want to hear from God.
Some don't.
And that's what evangelism is.
But that's how we bring them in.
But some of them just don't have any understanding of what
it means to have salvation.
Who is Jesus?
What is this walk?
What is ministry?
What is what is?
And I'm not saying I have the answers.
Because when I came to Christ, when
I began my walk about truthfully maybe five years ago,
truthfully.
And I'll be 35.
So that just shows you how long and how many times
He was knocking on my door.
And I was just not ready, which we'll get into all of that.
But my focus here is definitely the youth.
Definitely the 14 to 35-year-olds.
I'm not against anyone.
Anybody and everyone can listen to the podcast.
Please chime in, join, support.
But my focus and who I really need to hear,
to hear the testimonies, to hear from me
and what God has done in my life,
I'm focused on my young brothers and sisters, man,
because they truly are.
So but I don't want to just limit the podcast to just that.
But that is my focus.
But again, I would love for any and everybody
from six months old to 135 years old to tune in, man,
and support the podcast and just go on this walk with me.
But so yes, we are going to discuss so many different things
here, man.
I'm excited.
Let me just give you guys a quick history or my story
to where I was born and where I am now, 35.
It's pretty simple, man, but complex, I'll say.
I was born in Atlanta, Georgia.
I still live in Georgia.
I've been in Georgia my whole life.
I was raised by, I don't like to say single mom,
because that is like the typical story from everybody
that you hear in the world online, on stages.
Oh, I struggled.
My mom raised six kids.
But really, my mom did.
She raised six kids with the help of course, her family.
But for the most part, it was my mom.
It was my mom raising six kids, four boys and two girls,
in which my eldest brother, he passed a couple years ago.
But my mom raised six kids.
Wow.
Now, again, there's so much substance
just in that alone that I think we
like to highlight the struggles and how, I guess, bad.
If you guys are listening, but because I haven't done video
just yet, that will come later.
But I did air quotations.
We like to highlight the bad, the bad things,
the struggles in the, which I always used to think that,
that kind of made moms look bad, you know?
Or painted this like, oh, it's just struggle, which it was.
It was definitely difficult.
But I like to speak on just how my mother's relationship
with God and her faith pushed her through a lot of the troubling
times, which built so much character in us,
me and my siblings.
But yeah, the typical story, man, a single mother, six kids
working to provide survival mode.
And of course, living in, I said,
we lived pretty in decent areas for the most part.
It was a lot of moving around.
But that's neither here nor there.
I grew up.
Wow.
This is so annoying.
Wow.
Sorry about that, guys.
My daughter literally just walked into my courting room.
She woke up.
The summer's about to start.
That's a whole other thing.
Parenting.
Oh, Lord.
Yes, we're going to definitely talk about that.
Yeah, she just got up.
So first, soon as they get up, ooh, daddy, where's my,
so which I'm going to go a little more to that, too,
just the parenting side of things, a little bit about that,
as far as my story about my wife, my children,
and all those things.
But yeah, sorry about that, guys.
I was interrupted by Imani.
She's my eight-year-old.
Let me tell you guys, OK?
You know what?
I'll save that for later in another episode,
when we go more into life as a fatherhood.
Wow.
But anyways, yeah, summer's about to start.
They just had graduation.
I'm actually off work today, so they
didn't have to go to school.
This is the last two days today and tomorrow.
So I let them stay home.
But anyways, and yes, they got on a roll.
My girls both got on a roll and high at T-Roy awards
and all types of awards.
Very, very proud to have.
Anyways, back to single mother growing up.
I'm the second oldest of six.
My elder's brother recently passed a few years ago.
But yeah, growing up, man, I was always
like the second oldest, but like the oldest.
Because me and my older brother, we were so close in age
that we both were just, you know what I'm saying?
So we were working early and helping out with bills,
the whole type of story, right?
Fast forward.
Yeah, we're going to get it in.
There's a lot and a ton of relationship problems
and trauma that has affected so many relationships growing up.
And as a man, you know what?
Let me slow down.
I can't give y'all all of it, everything
in just this episode.
But to make it short and sweet.
Yeah, man, I was the second oldest of six children.
Didn't go to college.
I've always been a man who worked with his hands
and just figuring out my way, right?
I meet my wife at 19, which I like to say I was blessed to me
at 19 because who Lord?
I was not, yeah, I was not going to be the best guy out here,
man.
I wasn't going to be the best.
So God knew what he was doing.
He was like, nah, this guy.
Because you know, my father, he got about 12, 15 kids.
Now I'm just playing.
I think it's 10 of us.
Yeah, my dad's 10.
So to not kind of go down that route,
not necessarily saying it's a bad thing, but yeah, come on.
Nah.
So I just like to say I was introduced to my wife young.
And now we're 35, man, at 19.
So we can definitely go down that path.
You know, that marriage is, yeah,
so young fellows, young men, young women,
wait on God, wait on marriage, wait on rushing
into relationships.
And I only say that because there's
a certain level of maturity that you must have to maintain
any relationship, but marriage for sure.
You know, that's compromise.
There's so much, you know.
But when God is in the head of it,
is the head of your marriage.
Men, this is where you come in.
You are the head.
You connect with God.
And your house will serve the Lord,
not just your house as in you, but your wife, your children,
your home, your house will serve the Lord.
But that is your responsibility, man.
Young men coming up.
So I would say, don't rush into these relationships.
If you can, focus on your purpose as early as you can.
I learned that from, I forgot who there was.
I know I heard Warren Buffett say it a long time ago.
He got into his world very young.
He was reading books, like just on money, the stock market,
and just business.
He was seven, seven years old.
So young men, young women.
But I'm specifically speaking to the men, the young men.
You know, find it young.
And if you don't have a father or a man around you
to kind of pull you in the direction and guidance
of discipline and certain things, man, find one.
A good one.
Find a good one that's some good man, man,
at these mechanic shops, church, I'm going to be honest.
Find something you can get into as fast and young as you can.
And that'll lead to the next thing.
But anyways, so I'll go.
That's just so much, right?
How you guys doing?
You guys ain't turned the podcast off yet.
Y'all didn't leave yet.
Y'all didn't say, man, this dude ain't.
Marriage, figuring out your purpose, understanding.
You know, what God, why am I here?
What is grace?
What does it mean to be unveiled?
Yeah, right?
What is this journey all about?
What is kingdom business?
What is your identity in the kingdom of God?
Come on now.
And we all have different paths, you know?
And my path was what it was.
And I want to share more.
I want to share more.
And you know what?
I think I'm going to stop here.
And the only reason why I'm stopping here
is because I just want you guys to get a gist of the.
Yeah, man, all the interruptions.
That was my supervisor calling.
Anyways, so finding your purpose.
But I think I'm definitely going to just stop here.
I think that was my sign to stop here.
Because I want to give you guys too much.
And this was really just a introduction,
introduction to the podcast, the platform, me, your host,
your brother, your man of God.
Just to get you guys an understanding on what to expect.
I'm excited.
This is going to be a journey.
Please guys, be patient with me.
I'm still learning as far as the production side of things.
I literally just have a mic and my phone
and my laptop for sure.
I have everything I need.
It's the putting things together and the production side
of it.
So bear with me.
If I'm too loud, if I'm this, we'll get it right.
But we are here.
We are established here on this platform.
And you can definitely find us on YouTube, the Instagram,
Facebook, everywhere, podcasts, or heard.
You will hear it if you're on Apple Music.
I definitely will get video.
Once I get my studio set up, videos will be coming.
And you won't just be getting the audio.
But you'll just get audio for now.
So just bear with me.
But I love you guys.
I really do.
I'm excited to see where this goes.
I'm excited to see us grow together.
And let's go through this unveiling process together.
I love you guys.
This is your man, God Ryan.
I will see you guys in episode number two.
This is the unveil by Grace Podcast.
And I am your host and your brother, Ron Major.
Until next time, have a blessed day.
Shalom.