Keion Henderson - Faith Leader & Visionary | How Life's Struggles Prepare You for Your Calling

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🗓️ 15 April 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Keion Henderson is a renowned American pastor, author, motivational speaker, and entrepreneur, best known as the Founder and Senior Pastor of The Lighthouse Church in Houston, Texas. Since its founding in 2009, the church has grown to serve over 15,000 members with a global online audience reaching hundreds of thousands each week. Henderson is the author of The Shift: Courageously Moving from Season to Season, a guide to navigating life’s transitions, and has also been recognized for his work in music and humanitarian efforts. With a Master of Theology and years of experience in ministry, he continues to inspire audiences through his leadership, dynamic preaching, and commitment to empowering others.

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➡️ Talking Points

00:00 - Intro

03:22 - Keion’s Life-Changing Shift

08:33 - Turning Pain Into Purpose

11:36 - Is Religion a Crutch?

14:04 - What a "Shift" Really Means

17:11 - Why We Avoid Change

21:07 - Sponsor Break

23:54 - Confronting His Pastor-Father

28:02 - You Can’t Live in the Past

32:06 - When Shifting Feels Too Hard

36:18 - The Danger of Getting Stuck

39:22 - Knowing When to Ask for Help

42:37 - Ego vs. Faith in Today’s World

45:21 - Sponsor Break

49:00 - Are We Losing Real Community?

50:35 - What His Biggest Shift Revealed

1:03:16 - Hard Lessons From Hard Shifts

1:10:12 - Spotting Daily Shifts

1:13:42 - Final Thoughts from ‘The Shift’

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Being a 12-year-old wanting to play basketball on the middle school basketball team.
0:04.8	Then when I started playing, I started having these massive chest pains, only to find out I have a hole in my heart the size of a quarter.
0:11.3	Keon Henderson is the founder and senior pastor of the Lighthouse Church in Houston, leading a community of over 15,000 members and reaching hundreds of thousands online each week.
0:19.9	My mom took me to church. Six months later, that machine was off of me and I was playing basketball.
0:24.6	God is the source, but he also leads you, as the scripture says, to paths.
0:30.6	So you still have humor responsibility in every shift in your life.
0:35.6	You just have to be a resilient person. And then you add
0:38.2	faith on it the size of a muscle seat and then you can move mountains. Starting his ministry journey at
0:43.0	just 14, he's also a best-selling author of The Shift in Lazy Love and the founder of the L3
0:48.1	conference focused on leadership, learning, and lifestyle. I get that question all the time. People
0:52.3	say, yeah, but it's hard. It is hard,
1:00.1	and that's why everybody doesn't do it. We all are born an incredible amount of talent.
1:05.2	Beyond the pulpit, he's an entrepreneur, motivational speaker, and humanitarian, recognized by the John Maxwell Institute, and nominated for a CNN Heroes Award. In this episode, we explore
1:09.5	Keon's powerful journey of purpose,
1:11.5	growth, and leading with faith. Sometimes you have to stop fighting the environment, and you have
1:16.2	to succumb to it so that you can find your barriers. If you're going to be a leader, you have to be
1:20.2	a reader. You have to feel your best physically, to feel your best mental.
1:28.8	Welcome to Success Story.
1:30.5	I'm your host, Scott Clary.
1:33.9	The Success Story podcast is part of the HubSpot podcast network.
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1:38.9	They also have great tools for entrepreneurs.
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