Episode 344

Faith-Driven Leadership Transforms Culture

February 16, 2026 · 34 min · Guest: Diane Canada
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She lost her brother to the invisible wounds of war ? and it ignited a mission to heal an entire nation. Today's guest is training Christian women to rise up and reclaim the culture.

Diane is a national TV Commentator, podcast host, speaker, and writer. Her storied journey has resulted in a fierce and unshakable faith in Jesus. Healing is the common theme in Diane?s entire body of work. She initially helped heal companies in crisis as a Consultant, with expertise in women-owned businesses. She developed and hosted a TV show, focused on songs that heal, that was syndicated in 100 million US Households and 3 countries. She ran for the Tennessee State House of Representatives in 2020 to help heal a broken system for Veterans after the loss of her brother to the mental scars of war in Afghanistan. She is now laser-focused on the healing of our American culture and its restoration to Christian conservative values. ? Diane has been honored with an extraordinary citizen award for 2 consecutive years by the TN State Legislature and the She Leads America/She Leads Tennessee organization. Her podcast has featured guests including Senator Marsha Blackburn, Riley Gaines, Lee Greenwood, Kevin Sorbo, Dr. Ming Wang (the movie SIGHT), Dr. Carol Swain, among other important voices. She?s a frequent panelist on Newsmax, News Nation, and Scripps News. She has contributed to Fox News Digital, The Washington Times, and the Washington Examiner. She is a Keynote Speaker and has been a Panelist for prominent conservative conferences, such as the American Dream Conference by Dr. Carol Swain featuring Dr. Ben Carson. ? Beginning with a tour ahead of the 2022 midterms, Diane's training techniques have reached numerous cities in battleground states and ignited thousands of women through training workshops for Republican and conservative women?s clubs across the southeast. ?She recently launched her self-guided Lady Up America Global Course, available on demand on her website, and is being translated into multiple languages. ?? Diane is a graduate of the Heritage Foundation's Political Leadership Academy in Washington, D.C., and she is the former Nashville Political Advocate for the National Association of Women Business Owners. Diane has served on the Mayor's Minority and Business Advisory Council in Nashville, is a Founders Club member of the American Bible Project, and served on the Board of the Tennessee Immigrant and Minority Business Group.? ?She authored her first book, Lady Up + Don't Quit: How To Look Any Leadership Challenge In The Eye and Give It A Little Wink, in 2020. Her second book, Lady Up America: Training Christian Moms For The Toughest Spiritual Battleground of Our Lifetime, was released in 2024.? She is currently writing her third book, Lady Up In These Last Days, to be released in the spring of 2026.

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Diane is a national TV Commentator, podcast host, speaker, and writer. Her storied journey has resulted in a fierce and unshakable faith in Jesus. Healing is the common theme in Diane?s entire body of work. She initially helped heal companies in crisis as a Consultant, with expertise in women-owned businesses. She developed and hosted a TV show, focused on songs that heal, that was syndicated in 100 million US Households and 3 countries. She ran for the Tennessee State House of Representatives in 2020 to help heal a broken system for Veterans after the loss of her brother to the mental scars of war in Afghanistan. She is now laser-focused on the healing of our American culture and its restoration to Christian conservative values. ? Diane has been honored with an extraordinary citizen award for 2 consecutive years by the TN State Legislature and the She Leads America/She Leads Tennessee organization. Her podcast has featured guests including Senator Marsha Blackburn, Riley Gaines, Lee Greenwood, Kevin Sorbo, Dr. Ming Wang (the movie SIGHT), Dr. Carol Swain, among other important voices. She?s a frequent panelist on Newsmax, News Nation, and Scripps News. She has contributed to Fox News Digital, The Washington Times, and the Washington Examiner. She is a Keynote Speaker and has been a Panelist for prominent conservative conferences, such as the American Dream Conference by Dr. Carol Swain featuring Dr. Ben Carson. ? Beginning with a tour ahead of the 2022 midterms, Diane's training techniques have reached numerous cities in battleground states and ignited thousands of women through training workshops for Republican and conservative women?s clubs across the southeast. ?She recently launched her self-guided Lady Up America Global Course, available on demand on her website, and is being translated into multiple languages. ?? Diane is a graduate of the Heritage Foundation's Political Leadership Academy in Washington, D.C., and she is the former Nashville Political Advocate for the National Association of Women Business Owners. Diane has served on the Mayor's Minority and Business Advisory Council in Nashville, is a Founders Club member of the American Bible Project, and served on the Board of the Tennessee Immigrant and Minority Business Group.? ?She authored her first book, Lady Up + Don't Quit: How To Look Any Leadership Challenge In The Eye and Give It A Little Wink, in 2020. Her second book, Lady Up America: Training Christian Moms For The Toughest Spiritual Battleground of Our Lifetime, was released in 2024.? She is currently writing her third book, Lady Up In These Last Days, to be released in the spring of 2026.

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I don't I don't believe there's any such thing as losing or failing. I think you're either, you know, you're either winning or you're learning.

She lost her brother to the invisible wounds of war and that ended up igniting a mission to heal an entire nation.

Today's guest on the show is training Christian women to rise up and reclaim the culture. Now, I know that you're

listening for stories of success. That's why you're here. Thank you for showing up. Welcome back to the root of all success. I am the real Jason Duncan.

This is episode number 344 and my guest today is Diane Canada. She's a national TV commentator. She's a podcast host.

She's a speaker and she's the author of the Lady Up America series of books that's coming out. I we're going to talk a little bit about that. She's got her

third book coming out this year. And Diane's journey has taken her from consulting boardrooms to syndicated television to the to the campaign trail.

And all of that has been tied back to one thread and that is the threat of healing. So after losing her brother to the mental scars of war in Afghanistan,

she ended up ran running for Tennessee State House. Uh she launched a national movement training Christian women for cultural leadership and she's appeared

on Newsmax, News Nation, Fox News, and her training workshops have ignited thousands of women across battleground

states. Diane Canada, welcome to the show.

Thank you so much, Jason. Glad to be here.

Well, I'm glad that you're here. And you talk, Diane, about healing as the common thread in everything that you do,

companies, culture, even even a broken system for veterans. What does healing actually look like in in a nation as divided as ours today?

The only hope we have is Jesus Christ.

It's the only hope we have. I mean e everything that ails us can be cured in our faith. That's what I've come to see.

So healing looks like you know us coming back to the core principles of what we were built on. And you know that perfect

governing structure of the nuclear family that God designed. Although my I have not h I've not enjoyed that. I've I'm like the poster child for what

happens when that falls apart. Um, but when we come back, when I look at my journey of all of the things that have

just catered to the pain and the hurt in my life, it all comes back to if we had just done it God's way to begin with, we could have saved ourselves all that. So,

it's I believe that's the that's the answer. And I know that's a very broad thing, Jason, but I've I've filtered it

down into my training program and all to get to the practical of how that looks on the ground. But it's the only it's the only hope we have.

Well, I happen to 100% agree with you on that and I know that we don't really know one another. Although we just are

new friends today on the show and we live in the same town. So perhaps we'll get to know each other.

But for the listeners to the root of all success, you know, everybody who listens knows that at the end of my show as sign off on all 344 episodes, I always say

Jesus is king. At the very end, that's what I do to sign off. And it's not a throwaway line. It's truly important.

And so what you're saying is echoing that sentiment. So you and I are in 100%

agreement, but I do I don't often do this on this show, but I'm going to do something right here at the top for the listeners who are enjoy this type of

content because today we're going to talk a little bit more about how faith and the Christian values and all that.

And that's not generally the topics we talk about on the root of all success.

But for those of you who are listening today and like what we're going to talk about today and you're want to lean into that, I have another show that I host called Chisel and Compass. And I don't

think I've ever talked about it on this show before, but since Diane is so open about her faith and how this is the healing for that we need for America, go look at chiselandcompass.com.

It's a it's a show that we release, I don't know, once a month or so, and it's co-hosted by me and a good friend of mine, Dr. Justin Mosley, and we talk about the intersection of faith,

business, and mindset. And I only throw that in there because of the way Diane opened the show. So if you're a listener of this show and you like that type of thing, we don't do this a lot on this show. So if you like this sort of thing,

there's a whole another show that you might might look at. Now Diane, forgive me for doing that little shameless plug there.

Now your brother um your brother served in Afghanistan and he came home carrying some what what I think you referred to

as invisible wounds and these invisible wounds ultimately ended up taking his life. How did that loss reshape

everything you thought you knew about purpose?

That's a great question. Um, I don't think I really had purpose until that

tragedy happened. Not deep rooted purpose. I had goals. You know, Jason, I was one of these people like in the early 90s and in the 2000s when I was

climbing, you know, in my business climbing my business ladder, I had like the Post-it wallpaper all over my office, you know, I was all into the Zig

Zigglers and the Tony Robbins and I mean, I was just on a steady diet of all of that stuff. And so I one of the

things I would notice though is none of that ever really stuck when I would when I would really find the chips down, you

know, like it would push me. it would get me through some tough days maybe,

but I mean when when the bottom drops out like losing your brother um in that way that that just changed everything

for me all of a sudden when we started to recover from that and I was about five years into

um well maybe about maybe about four years after he passed um when I started really feeling God tugging on my heart

for public service and I had never ever ever had politics on my radar like not ever the furthest thing from my mind.

But when God's calling you, when he starts to put up those road signs and point you towards something and he gets louder and louder, the more you resist

him, the more you start to lean in and go, "Okay, Lord, what are you trying to tell me?" And I and I started really going into prayer about that and saying,

"You're are you really calling me to politics?"

So when I think the to answer your question when you have I've had some devastating things happen but when that devastation happened and it was so

related to so many things going on in our culture like when I saw how we were pulled out of Afghanistan um after my brother had served there and

and the cost to our family for him serving there um things these dots just started connecting for me and I

yeah I really that's where I've really found purpose. I've never been more fulfilled in my work than I am now.

Well, before politics and and before you got into media, you were a consultant and you were helping womenowned businesses in crisis.

So, uh what patterns did you see in those companies that made you realize that leadership itself needed to be redefined?

Yeah, there I've I've had a lot of front row seats to a lot of entrepreneurs. In fact, I've been one too since the mid

90s. I had my own consulting firms and I had a staffing arm and so I've sat with and held the hands of owners since the

mid 90s to to recent I mean I'm still doing it. I'm still helping candidates that are running for office and that's very entrepreneurial in a lot of ways.

So my whole career I've been in leadership and so I've seen all the trends. I've I've learned from the best of the best. I've had incredible mentors

and the common things that I see and I've even taught entrepreneurship in the women's prison here. Um did that for four years. And so one of the things I

would go in and say to them that is relevant here. I would say to them I would never ever attempt ever again to

run a business without God right in the center of it. Because the decisions that we make, the crossroads that we come to

in business, even the the the forecasts that we make in business, we we we don't

have the perspective that God has. And we don't have I don't think we have the um stability emotionally, mentally, all

the things that come at you as an entrepreneur, all the things that you have to field and deal with and juggle.

It it is so uh it is it is so challenging that I wouldn't attempt to do it without consulting God for

everything. And how that relates now to the culture is really interesting. We'll get into more of that I'm sure. But it it's like it all goes hand in hand. I

see that everything he's been training me for my whole life, those those crossover skills, you know,

those transferable skills, they they're universal. So, we needed massive change in leadership. I think um from those

older ways of doing it like you know hustle hustle go after your goal make it happen number one all that you know all that stuff that we were sort of fed um

now the way that I lead now is so different now it's more of a follow the next breadcrumb trust God um follow the

Holy Spirit in all of your dealings when you're especially when you're making tough decisions and especially when you're deciding what you're going to do next how your business is going to evolve.

Well, you've hosted uh you hosted a syndicated TV show focused on songs that heal and that was going out to 100 million households. What So, what did

music teach you about reaching people that politics never could?

Oh, so much music. Oh my gosh. I've had this kind of this pendulum swing almost like parallel careers between the

entrepreneurial consulting side and then the professional songwriting side. And you know, it's one thing to sing, but when you're a writer, you're really

having to dig deeper. Um, say say it a different way. Say it in a way that's going to not make somebody hit the fast

forward button, right? And or the the seek button on the radio. And you it it teaches you that

we all have universal feelings. We may we may have experiences in our life that that um different roads

that we travel but it all comes back to these universal feelings. So love and wanting to belong and wanting to feel um accepted and wanting to feel successful

and wanting to feel at peace and I mean all of these things you could probably put them in a a jar right of these things that we all ultimately feel but

the roads and how we arrive at that are very very different. So music was the expression of that for me. And when you

have to go back and say, okay, there's like 10 million songs written about,

let's just say, success or 10 million songs written about love. How do you say it differently? How do you say it in a way that's new and fresh? that's really

played a big role in helping me with messaging and helping me distinguish um businesses from each other, distinguish

candidates from each other, distinguish um even messages that I want to send out, you know, podcasting, bookw writing, whatever it is. So saying a lot in a concise space, but making it count,

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make making it have impact. And uh so music has been a beautiful compliment.

For years, I didn't understand what God was doing there, but now that I'm at this season in my life, I see how he has

blended that perfectly. It's been a world-class education in messaging.

So, your phrase lady up. So, so we've all heard we've all heard man up, right?

Man up. But you said your phrase is lady up. And that's bold. It's uh it's almost confrontational. So, where did that come from? And and what does that phrase actually mean to you?

Lady up. Yeah. like the it's a it's a softer version of that man up. But so it's not a super dominant feminist type

movement. I I'm I love men. I think we need good strong men in our in our culture. And so it's not at all trying to root men out of the boardroom or

anything like that. It's more of a in in the female psyche and in our female challenges that we face. It's more of

that lady up. For me, it means grow up in your faith. For me, it means let's get off the milk and let's get on the meat. Let's lean in to God. Let's let

him order our steps. Let's let him guide us. Because at this point, I like I

really believe the only way we influence, the only way that we get ahead any of that is when we're walking out that fruit of the spirit. And the

only way that that's developed is when we are whole and healthy and healed on the inside. We're not wounded warriors out here, offended by everything, you

know, just so thrown off our our game by everything. Like, we need to be very,

very solid. And there are a lot of women that can fake that. Again, I've worked with many of them. You can fake it for a little while, but if it's not authentic,

if it's not really a part of who you are, like if God's really not got a hold of you and he's not the Lord of your life, then you know your your mask is

going to slip at some point. And when it does, it's usually pretty ugly. It's usually pretty embarrassing. So, uh,

lady up just means grow up in your faith to me.

Well, in 2020, you ran for Tennessee State House and you didn't win, but you've said it changed everything. So, what what did

losing teach you that winning might not have ever taught you?

You remember that book, Jason, Failing Forward? You know, such a great book.

Like, I don't I don't believe there's any such thing as as losing or failing.

I think you're either, you know, you're either winning or you're learning. And uh that race again, God called me to

that after my brother passed. And and I it took me a year to agree to kind of

cooperate with God and go in. And once once I pulled my papers and I was going to run and put my name on that ballot,

um the night before I was going to turn it in, I was just tossing and turning all night, sick to my stomach all night.

And I got up the next morning and I called this coach that I've been working with, Grace. She had been helping me make the decision and and she said,

"Diane, what is your problem? You know, we've been working on this for a year.

You know, this is what God's called you to do." And I said, "Grace, I just feel like I'm going into the lion's den." And she literally like busted out laughing.

She goes, "Oh, you are. You are going into the lion's den." She said, "But let me ask you this." She goes, "How did that work out for Daniel?"

And when she said that, I I just stopped in my tracks and I said, "You're you're absolutely right." And that's when I went all in. So going all in, and that

was in 2020, that was when COVID broke out. That was when all the BLM riots were breaking. I mean, it was like the most tumultuous time to ever run for office. And especially when you're a

newbie, um I at the end of that, it cost me so many things. It cost me friendships. It cost me relationship

with my adult son. Um there was such a a a significant cost to that race. And so at the end of it, I was really a little

mad and I went to God in prayer. I'm like, "Why did you put me through that if it wasn't to win like and I came in very, very, very close." Like all night

on election night, my opponent and I were neck andneck. And he was the Goliath. Like I had I literally raised 10% of what he had in his coffers. And

yet we were neck andneck all night long in a very split district. But the mailin ballots came in and put him over. And so I finished at 46%.

Um, I just licked my wounds for a little while and I'm like, Lord, you know, what was the point? And that's when he

started really working on my heart. He showed me that that was a stepping stone toward the work that I'm doing now. So,

one of the things that I always say when I'm consulting someone or or mentoring someone is that God wastes nothing. All

of it is a part of his purpose. So it may look like a colossal failure or an embarrassment or even if it's a worst case scenario, there's always life on

the other side of that when we're in faith and God uses it all for good. So I wouldn't trade that for anything because now I have so much more um connection

and understanding of the cultural issues and now I can guide women and guide people through that with the messaging and with the conversations and all that

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the work that I'm doing now. Well, I want to talk about how you're doing that, guiding women with the training workshops that are reaching thousands of

women in the battleground states. But before I ask that question, I want to circle back to something that sounds like it was a a really large cost. And

you said that that race cost you a relationship with your adult son. Would you care to kind of dig into that a little bit because I think I'm interested to know what that means?

Sure. Yeah, absolutely. I was very uh determined to help veterans when I entered that race. I really that was all

I wanted to do was help veterans. But of course, when you put your name on the ballot, you have to go on record about everything else you believe. And I had never really stopped to think about it.

I'd never stopped to think, how do I feel about abortion? How do I feel about, you know, Second Amendment? What?

So, I started studying. I'm one of these people. I go inch wide, mile deep whenever I do anything. And so, I had a binder like this thick, you know,

studying, studying, studying, and trying to get different perspectives. The same approach that I took when I was a consultant. So I thought that I had been

pretty responsible in delivering my platform and I felt very connected and very solid in my faith in delivering

that. Um when I started publicly speaking about my stand on these issues um again a lot of friends family started

coming against me but then my adult son started posting on Facebook started being very vicious on Facebook and I had no idea we were so far apart on these

issues. He and I had never talked about politics. I just had no idea that he felt so differently and I saw that the indoctrination from the schools and and

things like that had made a had played a big big role. Um certain people that he was around at the time I think were influencing him a lot. But we um we were

struggling and and he kept on posting on Facebook. I'm like and so I finally reprimanded him like a mom, like a good southern mom, you know. I called him and

I said, "Look, you can disagree and I don't mind if you have a different opinion, but we don't need this doesn't need to be playing out on Facebook.

Like, you need to call me directly and talk to me about it. We talk privately because when you when you're running for office and your opponent is watching

everything you're doing, they see blood in the water if your own family starts to fall apart in the middle of that."

And so, not only was he hurting me like personally, but it could also cost me the race. So, I was furious with him.

And I'm a Christian, but I'm going to tell you, I was so mad. I did drop a word that I wish I wouldn't have said,

but it it uh it offended him so bad that I reprimanded him like that that he

canled me from his life. And um I have I mean, we've had a couple of interactions

since then. I I flew up he lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and he's married now. um has had had a child. My

granddaughter is just turned three. I have yet to meet her. He he tells me that my conservative Christian worldview

is toxic and he he believes he's trying to protect his family. Um you know, I've I I flew up there and

invited him to a cafe and we sat and talked for a couple of hours and we start we've started to make our way back, but it's going to be a long road back. He's very very guarded.

Uh, so I'm sorry. Sorry you had to deal with that. I I know that there's lots of listeners that have dealt with similar uncomfortable and devastating financial

family or financial family breakdowns around stupid stuff like politics and this this type of thing. So, I'm really sorry that you've had to deal with that.

But it sounds like that in spite of that, you've continued to these training workshops that are helping a lot of women, thousands of women. And what you

are are referring to specifically is battleground states. I would say the question I have about that is what's the single biggest mindset shift that

you see happen when a woman goes through your program?

The biggest mind shift is that they don't have to convince people or convert people. They instead learn how to attract people to our worldview.

So I think a lot of women feel pressure because they feel fearful for their own children and their grandchildren. and they feel fearful that if they don't um

come on strong with their friends and family um about their beliefs that you know that things won't change or the other thing I see is they completely opt

out of the conversations. They just chickenen out. They don't want to have these tough confrontational conversations. So with my approach they

learn how to actually attract people to want to talk about it and then secondly how to influence without the confrontation.

So that's what they take away. Yeah.

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Diane, you're a frequent panelist on Newsmax Newswation and Scripts News. How do you how do you stay anchored in your

message when you're surrounded by people who want to pull pull you into outrage and sound bites and clickbait?

Well, I mean, thank God I teach a whole program around how to avoid that. So,

that helps. Um, you know, the last four years or so I've been building this program that it's really been training me too. You know, I had a lot of these

same skill sets when I did consulting work and you know, I I worked with a lot of companies, a lot of entrepreneurs that were in crisis. You know, they're

in complete freakout. So, my job was to be the stable, steady one that could hold their hand through it. And so,

again, God's just been developing this in me for a long time. And same thing too in the music industry, you know,

doing television and and shows for many years, you know, you've got all kinds of people that try to, you know, the haters and all kinds of people that try to pull

you in and then going through the political campaign. So, I think I'm good and and seasoned now for the news stations. One thing that is

nice is it's nice to be on the the friendly networks, the hostile ones. I just don't know if I'm going to do them anymore, Jason. I'll tell you, I did

them a lot through the presidential campaign and even through the midterms,

but I I just um I just don't know if I want to do it anymore. It's like it's one of those things. Is it really helping anybody for me to go on and be

the conservative punching bag on the the hostile networks? I don't know. I think most of those people, the base that's watching that really didn't care what I

have to say, so maybe I just won't bother anymore. Um but going on like news, even News Nation can be pretty pretty good. I I flew up to New York and

sat with um with Dan on his show and and that was fun and you know there was a lot of you know moderates and stuff on

that panel. Um you know but I really like going on Newsmax. They're we've got especially the anchors. I love Shannon.

I'm sorry Sarah and TWW Shannon. I love being on with them because we just laugh. We have a good time. I mean I think if you don't laugh you'll cry at a

lot of what's going on in the news these days. So, it's fun to be on with people who can, yes, we have serious issues,

but we don't take ourselves too seriously, and I don't end up being the,

like I said, the conservative punching bag.

Well, let's talk about something that's a little easier to talk about. Your third book, Lady Up, in these last days. Yeah. It's going to be releasing this spring.

So, what what shifted in your thinking that made you feel like this book had to be written right now?

you know, observing what's going on in our culture, being so immersed in it right now and having such a strong now

immersive faith um so much more so I'd say the last three years has been a serious growth spurt for me in my faith.

I it's very hard to deny when you look at both the culture and the faith aspects that we are in the last days. I

mean, uh it couldn't be more glaringly obvious. Jesus said we would never know the date or the time. And of course, we don't want to set dates or anything like

that, but he said, "You would know the season." And I think with AI coming on so strong with I mean, so many things in our culture that are aligned, I think we're in those last days. And so,

shifting now to everything that I've learned and experienced, shifting now into keeping the main thing the main

thing, which is what is this? What does all of this matter when it comes to eternity? and how can I, you know, maybe

it has something to do with being more middle-aged now. I'm 55. I don't know.

But I think now when I start to think about going into that throne room of God,

I don't want to ever I don't I don't want anyone that I know or love to be to not have that

experience. I'll tell you this quick story that really got me thinking about it. I heard somebody talk about how she had a dream and she said in this dream she was in the throne room of heaven.

She had obviously died and she was waiting in in line and she said two or three people behind her she saw someone that she knew and she just acknowledged

her. Well, she gets up to, you know, the girl having the dream gets up to the throne room and God looks at her and says, "Well done, my good and faithful servant." And she's like, "Oh, love you,

God. I'm so glad to be here." You know,

and he says, "Why don't you do me a favor? Why don't you sit over here beside me before you leave? And the next few people came up in line and passed on

through. And then her friend comes up to the throne. And God looks at her and says, "Away from me. I never knew you."

And her friend looked at her with this panic in her eyes like, "Why didn't you tell me? Why didn't you tell me?" And she said she woke up in a sweat and she

said she made a decision right then that she would make it her goal to tell everyone. And yes, we are witnesses.

Yes, we are disciples. All of that,

ambassadors for God. But in these last days, which I'm convinced we're in, I just really want that to be a a focus

now and try and take as many people with us as we can when he comes. all this political stuff, cultural stuff, even even business stuff, it's all temporary.

We our lives are a vapor. So, how do we how do we really um keep focused on

something eternal with all of this? We don't throw all that away. We're not like disconnecting from any of that, but how do we blend it all to into a a bigger purpose?

So, that's kind of what the book's about.

Well, and I think everybody needs to go take a look at that. Uh that's a lady up in these last days going to be coming out probably within what a couple months after the release.

Yeah. My my goal is by March. Yeah.

Yeah. So we're we're it's we're right around the corner. Um this show is called the root of all success. So I've got some signature questions I ask every

guest. And the first one is what's your one key to success that you think has unlocked success for you more than anything else?

Favor of God. No doubt. Things I could not have possibly orchestrated.

How do you how do you personally define the word success peace?

Being able to do being being right in the center of God's will and whether that's whether I'm making a lot of money or not. That's no longer my measuring

stick. It's that peace and and that ability to know that I'm doing what he has put me here to do.

Based on that definition of success,

Diane, do you consider yourself successful? Oh, wildly. Wildly.

Okay. As we get ready to close out the show, I have a few rapid fire questions for you, Diana. Are you ready? I'm ready. Okay.

All right. Uh, one book other than the Bible. You can't say that one, but one book other than the Bible that shaped your faith and your leadership the most.

Start with Why by Simon Synynic. Really? Yeah. Interesting. Yeah. Okay. Absolutely.

All right. Next one. Next one. If you could sit down with any woman from history and you could sit down with her for an hour, who would you choose?

Wow. Any woman from history. Um, I know this is rapid fire. I'm getting a little stuck. Um, maybe uh Oh my gosh, that's

hard. Maybe Margaret Thatcher. She's coming first of mine. Top of mine. Yeah. Very interesting. All right. All right.

Last one. What's one thing most people would never guess about you?

Um, I can't dive.

I jump off uh I jump off abstract high dives all the time, but I can't dive into a pool. I'm too chicken.

something about going head first physically um hurt hurts my heart more than going head first mentally and emotionally like I do all the time.

Well, Diane, congratulations on on your success. Congratulations on what you've built. Um, yeah. And I wish you the best

as you move forward, not only in all the other things that you're doing, but specifically in that relationship with your son, because I know that is a pain

that you have not yet totally revealed publicly because you're handling it really well. But I wish you the best in that because I know how important that

is to you. But but thank you for for sharing that and talking about, you know, the the loss of your brother and what you've been able to build in spite

of that and in and because of that. And uh so thank you for the difference you're making in the world. So if people are impressed with your story and

they're you know what I want to reach out and talk to this lady or at least get in touch. What's the best way for them to do that?

Yeah. Dianecanada.com and and thank you so much Jason. I really appreciate your heart for for saying that and and um I'm

praying every day for restoration and not only for mine but for everyone.

There's it's epidemic in our country right now. There there are a lot of people listening that have walked that walk too. So I pray over all of us for restoration with those we've lost like this in these u this political climate.

Thank you.

Well, thank you. Thank you, Dian. So Diane Canada.com. Well, there you have it, folks. Another very successful person sharing her story of what she's

done to become successful. And I'm I'm grateful that she was here on the show today to talk about this and to share that perspective and what she's done.

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And you know what? Maybe maybe God is calling you into the classroom. Maybe he's calling you to a foreign field. Maybe he's calling you into politics.

Let's hope not. I'm just kidding. But but maybe he's calling you into something that you need to go into. So be sensitive to that because the success

that we all seek, as she said, was peace can really only happen when we are in that quiet spot and really know that we're doing and being who we are

supposed to be and what we are supposed to do. So lean into it and uh go listen to shows like this and follow Diana. Go

check her out. But uh thank big thanks to her and her team for making this happen today. And thank you Mr. or Mrs.

Listener, whoever you are, wherever you are, for listening to the show. Until next time, I am the real Jason Duncan and as always, Jesus is king. We'll see you next time.

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