Can Purpose, Community, and Fitness Transform Under-Resourced Communities?

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We brought Ben Davis on the mix from Noble Clay Fitness because he saves lives.

Simply put, he saves lives in a, a non-conventional way, but by every point, from my perspective, he's creating a better existence in this world.

And so Ben, uh, it's a complete honor to have you on the show.

Welcome to the podcast.

Man, I'm, I'm honored.

I'm honored.

Just gonna be very grateful.

Absolutely, my friend.

So I wanna get into why you started Noble Clay, because this-

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in my opinion, is a model that more communities, m- more cities need to be embracing because of the impact you're having on the, on, on the, on the world.

So what, what's the genesis of this bad boy?

Yeah.

Now I'll give you a, I'll give you the ch- somewhat shorter version.

I could probably talk a while on it, but let's, um, I'll give it to you in this way of like, you know, first starting with the name, Noble Clay.

What does it mean? What, where did that come from, right? And it juxtaposes two realities.

One, that humanity is created with an immeasurable amount of worth and dignity as human beings.

Um, but yet there's it, there's humility in the way that we're made.

We're, you know, in the frailty of life and, you know, all that you've seen, I'm sure, as an ICU doctor.

So there's, there's this kind of juxtaposition of those two realities, um, that were really birthed from, um, a worldview that I, I took on at 25 years old.

I was on a bridge of suicide and gonna take my own life.

Um, and um, this was in November of '08, and, uh, I'm grateful that at, months prior, people had shared the gospel with me of Jesus Christ.

They shared, you know, that, um, um, uh, the reality about life, that I was made in God's image, that I had a, I had issue.