From Striving to Shepherding: Tyler Frick's Path to Empowering Ministry-Minded Entrepreneurs
Tyler Frick, founder of the King's Company, shares his transformative journey from a lucrative career in the oil industry to becoming a ministry-focused entrepreneur. He emphasizes that true success is not merely defined by financial milestones, but rather by the strength and connectivity of the community one builds. Throughout the conversation, Tyler reflects on the challenges of stepping away from a stable job and the sacrifices he made, including downsizing to an RV with his family to minimize expenses while building his business. He discusses the importance of prioritizing mental and emotional health to avoid burnout and highlights the necessity of rest for sustainable productivity. With a focus on equipping ministry-minded leaders, Tyler illustrates how fostering genuine relationships within a community can lead to greater impact and fulfillment in one’s purpose.
Tyler Frick's journey from a stable career in the oil field to becoming the founder of the King's Company is a testament to the transformative power of purpose-driven entrepreneurship. In his conversation with Jim Burgoon on Grace in the Grind, Tyler recounts how his initial pursuit of financial success evolved into a deeper calling to nurture and equip ministry-minded leaders. He articulates the importance of community, revealing that his definition of success has shifted from achieving a six-figure income to fostering an environment where individuals feel seen, heard, and connected. This theme of community building is central to Tyler's mission at the King's Company, where he provides coaching and educational resources tailored to leaders seeking to integrate their faith with their entrepreneurial endeavors.
Throughout the episode, Tyler shares the inception and growth of his platform, discussing the unique challenges and triumphs he encountered along the way. He highlights the significance of building a coaching school that addresses the gaps often present in traditional ministry training, allowing individuals to step into their divine callings with confidence. His insights into the entrepreneurial process are both practical and spiritually grounded, encouraging listeners to embrace their journeys with faith and intention.
Moreover, Tyler opens up about the personal sacrifices he made during his transition to entrepreneurship, including living in an RV with his family to minimize financial burdens. This candid reflection on the realities of entrepreneurial life provides a relatable perspective for listeners who may be grappling with their own fears and uncertainties. Tyler emphasizes the importance of mental health, rest, and establishing boundaries, offering practical advice for maintaining balance in an often chaotic world. His story serves as an inspiring reminder that true impact comes not only from financial success but from the relationships we cultivate and the lives we transform along the way.
Takeaways:
- The King's Company focuses on equipping ministry-minded leaders to step into their calling and entrepreneurship.
- Success is measured by the strength of community connections rather than just financial milestones.
- Transitioning from a stable job in oil to ministry involved significant sacrifices and lifestyle changes.
- Maintaining mental and emotional health is crucial for entrepreneurs to prevent burnout and exhaustion.
- Building a supportive community of friends within your business can lead to deeper connections and shared missions.
- Establishing boundaries in work hours helps prioritize family and personal well-being over business demands.
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Companies mentioned in this episode:
- The King's Company
Transcript
Welcome to Grace in the Grind, the podcast where we dive deep into the journeys of heart centered and purpose driven leaders and entrepreneurs. We'll pull back the curtain to explore the stories behind success.
How people have navigated the toughest challenges, overcome their obstacles and found their way through the grind to build something truly impactful. Whether you're a Christian leader looking for guidance or an entrepreneur seeking inspiration, we're here to equip and encourage you on your journey.
So let's get started it and find the grace within the grind. This is Grace in the Grind. And now your host, Jim Bergoon.
Jim Bergoon:So I want to welcome my friend Tyler Frick to the show. Tyler, welcome my friend.
Tyler Frick:Hey Jim. Thanks for having me.
Jim Bergoon:So first and foremost, let's talk about what you and let the audience know who you are.
Tyler Frick:Yeah. So I'm the founder of the King's Company.
The King's Company is an online, we call it a maybe an online community, but it's an online platform of education and coaching and business where we focus on helping ministry minded leaders learn how to step into their calling, step into entrepreneurship, things of that nature.
Jim Bergoon:Awesome. And so you're saying it's an education platform now.
So if somebody was going to say I want to be equipped by you, I want to learn from you, what are some of the things that you teach?
Tyler Frick:Sure, there's a variety of things. We're very kingdom focused and the King's Company started as ministry training. That quickly led into us building a Kingdom Life coaching school.
So one of the things people can do is go through our schooling, our programs to get certified as a Kingdom life coach and to get equipped for ministry in a lot of ways that just to be frank, most local churches aren't going to teach on and so that's a big chunk.
me to teach it? And so about: And since:So really it's education for the ministry minded leader, whether they're wanting to get equipped on the ministry side and the spiritual side or to step into their calling and build their business and know how to do those things.
Jim Bergoon:Awesome. So going off of that, so coaching training and you mentioned when we got successful, what does success look like for you?
Tyler Frick:That's A great question. I used to think it would be money and that money would be the thing that would be successful. Before I ever started, I was in the oil field.
So I came out of money and I didn't grow up with money. But when I went into the workforce and started building my family when I was young, I was in the oil field.
The job that I had before I stepped out in faith into entrepreneurship was 120 plus K a year job. I had great benefits, five weeks vacation. I think they matched 2 to 1, up to 15% on my 401K.
So I was set if I just stayed in that career, stayed with that job. I was already with them for many years and so I had good thing going but I just knew it wasn't my calling.
When I stepped out, I thought I want to make that six figures. And I think that was probably initially the success marker for me. Let me hit that six figures.
The reality is I've never had a year under six figures as an entrepreneur. But that's not the successful part. You asked, well, how do I measure success?
I would actually measure success by how well we can grow a community that is well connected. So if meaning if I grow a community of 10 people, I want everybody to be connected, that's probably not that hard.
But if I grow a community of a thousand people, I would want those thousand people to be just as connected with each other as the 10.
And so success for us looks like when there's abundance in both people and operations and all that we're able to steward it in a way that everyone gets shepherded so that everyone feels seen, everyone is heard, everyone is known and it's real. We, we're intentional with relationship.
Jim Bergoon:So you opened up a couple tracks of thought. I'm very interested in first and foremost, success used to be six six figures. Now it's connected community. What was the struggle like to get to that?
Because I man the thing of letting go Six figures to get to if 10 people are connected, I'm good. Unpack that.
Tyler Frick: ears under our belt. And then: So by May:I decided I was going to put on this big challenge online, teach a five day class and then bring people into our school. And we did. The problem was we brought a lot of people into the school and in about 45 days.
We generated over 400,000 in revenue and brought up like 170 ish people into our Kingdom life coaching school at one time. And so I had a new opportunity and a new situation on my hand that wasn't normal. Right.
But going from experiencing, okay, if I'll put these strategies together and I'll work the ads this way, then maybe we'll hit our, you know, our monthly target and get to six figures. Okay. That was what I had been used to because that's what we had done for the first couple years.
And I felt like I was striving to get, not too much striving, but striving to earn so that we could keep the business open. But when abundance hit through an influx of people, money was no longer like an, an object of like it wasn't a problem anymore.
It wasn't something that I needed to maintain in that moment. It was like, we have more than enough.
So the focus immediately shifted to, okay, now that money's out of the problem, what's the real, what's really going on and what, how are you really going to steward this money aside? And the first thing was these people need to be shepherded.
We can't bring 170 people through a 12 month program and them go through pre recorded courses. Meet with a group every once in a while and just hope that they're getting built.
I want every individual person to have a coach and I want them to be able to meet in core teams and I want people to be able to really be a part of community. So we built that way.
I think that's probably where I realized that chasing the money or the figures doesn't matter because if you'll do people well, that'll bring favor. More people will come. And with people come money.
Jim Bergoon:Yeah, absolutely. So then how did you get from oil to ministry? That's a huge jump. Like blue collar to online education. Help me understand that journey.
Tyler Frick: hurch back in, I think it was:The first time I ever taught, but quickly fell in love with it. And people started showing up to our living room every week.
And so when we would host these home churches, we'd have like 20, 30 people in the room every week. And the Lord started moving. We begin to see miracles, we begin to see people healed, we see people get equipped. Evangelism was happening.
And so God just put this stirring in me to want to minister and I Didn't want to go back to work. I wanted to do that full time because I had good vacation time. I was able to travel, and we would go put on conferences.
I've been invited to go minister on things and teach at Ivy League University. So I did that a few years in a row.
But I told the Lord, because right there at the end of the oil and gas grant, my job was literally to optimize the flow of oil out of 385 wells in the Permian Basin. I would look at the well, and if it went down, I would redesign how we would rebuild the well when we fixed it so that it would produce the most oil.
But I told the the Lord, I said, God, I don't want to pull oil out of wells. I want to pull oil out of people. And that was my prayer that I prayed. And it took me a few years of praying it, but I would pray.
ould jump. And it was in July:And when we jump, there was grace on it. But I did have to wait. But that was the heart posture we were ministering. That's what I wanted to do full time. It's what I knew God called me.
To do full time, I had to make that transition. And entrepreneurship was a scary leap, but I'm really glad I made it.
Jim Bergoon:So let's take that to a different level, because I know a lot of the listeners will have that fear, like, you left a very lucrative thing made the jump. And transitioning to that is scary. So unpack those feelings for me. Unpack that. And, like, how did you get through that?
Tyler Frick:So one of the things we had to do was we had to just accept that if I stepped out of that job, we were going to lose a lot of things if everything from insurance to paychecks, regular, all that kind of stuff. And we didn't know what that would look like. We knew that we could trust the Lord, but we didn't know what it looked like.
So to keep things practical, we said, let's sell everything we have and minimalize to where we don't have anything to maintain, Right? If we can have minimal to maintain, then we can build the business and get ourselves in a position.
So what we did was we sold everything we had and we bought an rv. We sold our house, we sold our couch, we sold our TVs, we sold everything and we moved into a big class A motor coach that we got for 35 grand.
Bought it off of Craigslist or something in New Mexico. I don't remember how we got it, but it was about 35 to 40 grand maybe at most with all the slides open, maybe 320 square foot.
And we lived in that for the first year of building the business because it was a way to shrink down expenses. And we home, our kids were little. They. We only had one that was about school age really at that time. But we had littles.
We had our rv, I had WI fi and my computer and that's all we needed. And so that was the first thing we had to do was just we had to take sacrifice.
We can't just keep the same, keep living the same lifestyle that we were with that we had the old job until we get to that place where we could do that. And so we had to wait. But we made sacrifices and we committed to a season that was going to be potentially more difficult. But we actually enjoyed it.
It was fun. It was fun living in the RV with those kids. On a mountain. Oh yeah.
Jim Bergoon:Especially on a mountain. Dude, that's awesome. So that brings another question up though, like you're a pioneer. You had mentioned that first and foremost in the intro.
But like how did you help like your wife, who needs stability in your kids now? Obviously the Littles were probably too young to really know what was going on.
But how did you, as a leader of your house, as a business leader, help your wife and kids get through some of this and the struggle of that.
Tyler Frick:Yeah, first and foremost, I never jumped until we were 100. Agreement. So even the thought of should I step out of my job? If anyone's listening and you're not on the same page with your spouse, don't do it.
Because you got to be in agreement. So first things first. We were in agreement.
Briar agreed that the destiny on my life and her life is to take the gospel to the nations, not to pump oil for a multi billion dollar company that could just replace me in a second Anyway. So instead of. And really the father told it to me this way. He said, I have an inheritance to give you, but I'm not going to give it to that company.
You don't create a place for me to put it, I can't give it to you. That's why I opened the business bank account. He literally told me to open the business bank account so he could give me my inheritance.
He said, your inheritance is going to come from me and I'm going to give it straight to you. I'M not going to pass it through anyone else's hands.
He does pass it through people's hands to get to it, but he's not going to pass it through another company or another vision or another person's destiny, really, to get it to me. He wanted me to pioneer something fresh and create a space for him to bless and hand that to me.
And so that's why I opened the business originally and in agreement with her, so she's been faithfully beside me the whole time, and it's just been easy. But I think we have a pretty. Pretty easygoing relationship, too. My wife and I do.
Jim Bergoon:How long you guys been married?
Tyler Frick:13 years, man.
Jim Bergoon:Congratulations. 13 is a good number. So. Yeah, man. So did you guys ever.
During that time of building the business in the rv, did you guys have any breakdowns, like, where you were just, like, ready to quit?
Tyler Frick:I got cabin fever up on the mountain. Because think about this. Two spouses and three Littles under 10, living in 300 square foot. And I work from home. So it was.
I'm going to get up, I'm going to set up my computer somewhere in that RV with every. Whatever's going on there and then work. So there were some seasons where it's like I was in.
It felt like I was in a cave, literally, in that rv, working, getting things done, building the business. I got to a point where my blood pressure actually started to rise because literally I was having cabin fever.
And the Lord, I'm like, what is going on? Like, this is not healthy. And the Lord said, go fishing. And he taught me.
So I literally went and got a fishing pole and went to the river, sat by the river. I did that for three days, one week, and it broke the blood pressure problem. Everything settled back to normal. And he taught me principles of rest.
So the. Yes, we had breakdown, men, a little bit of mental emotional breakdown.
That was God's way of teaching us the principles of rest as entrepreneurs so that we wouldn't have to fight that battle for too long. He did it in the first year. Amen.
Jim Bergoon:Amen on that, man. Some people take years to learn that, if they ever learn it. So I. So you just said a very loaded thing right there. And I think.
And I don't want the listeners to miss this. I worked a lot. High blood pressure. Lord broke that and taught me rest.
Talk to me about burnout, and talk to the listeners about the realities of burnout as a Kingdom entrepreneur.
Tyler Frick:Yeah. I think the number one thing that any entrepreneur needs to maintain and invest in is mental and emotional state.
Because, and I'm not saying invest in it even, yeah, maybe therapists or maybe coaches, but I'm just saying just intentionally investing in yourself every day to check on yourself, make sure your mind's right, make sure you're good. And if you're not good, get help, talk to somebody.
Because it's crazy trying to believe a vision that to come to pass that you've seen in your heart, but maybe not in the physical. And everybody who has a business is still living in the realm of God's imagination.
They've seen what could be if their business comes to fruition and if it, if what they saw and what they planned was, is to come about, they'll experience what they hope to experience.
And I think a lot of business owners are in that place of hopeful expectation, but it's also a place of torment because at the same time you're hopefully expecting that what you're doing with your hands is going to result in some kind of amazing result. There's going to be warfare, there's going to be day to day things, there's going to be even normal life hiccups that get in the way.
And if we don't maintain our mindset, it's hard to continue carrying the vision. And so I think that.
I don't even know if I'm answering this right, but overall, like we got to take care of ourselves and if we don't prioritize that, it's so easy for the burnout or just to get completely exhausted to overwork. Even biblically, there's the principle of Sabbath. God who created everything, when he got done working, he rested from his work.
In the same way we gotta find rest and if we don't, then it's, it can get pretty chaotic.
Jim Bergoon:You're right, you're right about that. So what about your routine? What does your rest routine look like now? Do you still fish or has it changed?
Tyler Frick:Every chance I get I fish, but not as often as I'd like to. Routine looks like this. I set my schedule of availability between 9 and 3:30 and I don't take calls after 3:30 and I don't Take calls before 9.
The reason for that is my routine. A lot of the work I do is going to be digital. So I'm building things, creating things, writing things, putting together lessons or whatever it is.
I need to do that with my music on and I'm in the zone. So that's my morning. I also have of course the word. I have an hour of study. Every morning with a friend.
And I have another hour of teaching the word every morning.
So if my, if I have the word every morning and I have that quiet time with, with him working before I ever start talking to people, then I know that number one, I'm going to be my best for people. Also going to be my best for myself and for my family. But then I'm cutting it off at 3:30. Of course I'm terrible at this. I'll just submit it.
But I try. I don't let people book after 3:30, but I do my best to stop and to disconnect as often as I can after 3:30.
And the reason for that is because I have four boys that need a father. And just because I'm providing or working for them or whatever is not enough.
They need me to look them in the eyes just like I need to my father to look me in the eyes. You know what I'm saying? So they need me, my wife needs me. Business is secondary to family.
So I don't want to major in the minors and minor in the majors. When it comes to family. I want to make sure that home is first, business is second. And the re. The way I do that most practically is schedule.
Just don't allow things. It's boundaries really.
Jim Bergoon:So was it always like that or is the scheduling thing a newer thing?
Tyler Frick:It's newer, yeah. I would say probably last couple years.
There was a time probably:Do you want to learn how to be a coach and build online and not leave your faith behind? And people are like, yeah, so we would have $1 leads coming in and I'd be spending money.
So we'd have the calendars full and I'd be on the phones all day. We would make money. We were building the community, we were growing things. But it's too much work.
And these are patterns that the Lord had to break out of me. Because I am a worker. I don't know anyone who can outwork me on the things that I'm working on.
I'm saying that's probably why I'm an entrepreneur is because I can be self motivated and I can get in there and I can work as hard as I can. But yeah, I would say that stuff.
Jim Bergoon:So with the patterns, how did you become self aware of those patterns or just is that something you've just always recognized and didn't really care to change until the Lord told you to change? Or is that something that self awareness had to come in at some point?
Tyler Frick:Yeah, it. The Holy Spirit told me, but I had to ask him like, what do I need to do? Why do I keep getting in this situation? And he had to teach me what's once.
Because you keep putting yourself in this situation when you overwork and when you're doing all these things. And I think also I'm 32, so just also learning how to be an adult still and, and shape the way that our family has routine.
Our dynamic is completely different than the family dynamic. When I was growing up. When I was growing up, my would lived in the house with my grandparents.
My granddad was an accountant for 43 years at the same copper refinery. My grandma was a teacher for 30 years at the same school. But we had a routine that was built around their life and their work routines.
Me, I can do whatever I want, whenever I want because I'm a work from home entrepreneur. And so to figure out the patterns of rest and the patterns of work has it was something I had to learn for the first time organically originally.
And I think it's just a process that everyone's gonna have to walk through.
Jim Bergoon:Sweet. This brings up another interesting question. Workaholic family and all that.
Do entrepreneurs have friends and should they maintain those friendships or is your friends basically your family?
Tyler Frick:It's interesting, I would say that entrepreneurs do have friends, but also the closest friends, the friends that are real, will feel like family because the other acquaintances are usually just trying to sell you something or partner with you or get a JV going.
Jim Bergoon:Oh yeah, absolutely.
I just think it's funny because entrepreneur, as an entrepreneur myself, it's like having friendships is a struggle because it's like you have your family and you have your business and it takes up 95% of your time because you got family business. Of course, time with the Lord and then friendships beyond that.
So I was a question, I was really curious about what your thoughts are on that and yeah, yeah.
Tyler Frick:What I love is the way that we've built. I've built all my friends. I bought them.
Sounds crazy, but I did pay for ads and these, all these people came from the ads and came into the King's company and now they're my best friends. And so I'm like, I just went and bought all my friends. I needed them. So I went and bought them.
But over time we ran ads, we found people, we built community. And so today, like even right now, we have 30, 40 people on our team. There's some of the best friends I've ever had.
And we talk all throughout all of our days because we work together, minister together, lead together. And those are the strongest bonds and friendships that I've built. But they are partnered with me in the work. So it's. There's.
Those are friends that are in the work, not friends that are out of the work. Yeah.
Jim Bergoon:That's awesome though. Like, that's the quote of the day I bought my friends.
Tyler Frick:It's funny too. Bryce says that in the original. She reminded me this the other day.
She said that I always do the when I or in the beginning I would target infjs because I want one. It's not a target infj. And all the people who came in into the original group were like me and it was funny.
Jim Bergoon:Oh, that's awesome. How many? I'm on the little on the other end of the spectrum. And what's interesting is like ENFPs around each other tend not to like each other.
Tyler Frick:Yeah. So yeah, inside we can hang.
Jim Bergoon:So you jive man. ENFPs were just a bunch of herding cats, dude. And we just, it's like crazy.
So tell me what you got going on now as we start landing the ship of this episode and probably have you back on in a future episode at some point. What are you doing now?
Tyler Frick:Yeah, so we're definitely still taking people through our school, getting certifying coaches, getting people equipped for ministry.
The other side of it is that we have really over the last year to two years developed a full on marketing, AI and sales branch of the King's company to where we provide systems, we train, we do business coaching, teach those people. And the reason we do that is because all the people who come to our school, we get equipped for ministry and coaching.
But I don't want them to then go, okay, great, I have, I'm now equipped to go sit in my chair at home and do nothing.
No, I want to teach people how to launch courses or like you launch podcasts, how to take coaching programs and create them, how to build mentorships. And all of this is okay, it's the things that we see other people doing, but what is really going on.
The reason I want to te people to teach courses and build communities is because it's making disciples. That's what making disciples is, getting students. The disciple and student is the same word. So a Learner, how do you get learners?
You have to have something to teach. So if you're teaching something, you can get learners. And if you have learners that you're teaching, you're probably making disciples.
That's part of the call.
And if ever, in my perfect world, if everyone who came through our school launched and built in similar ways than I did, then in the same way, I've been able to teach over 20,000 people, what if all the people I equipped also were able to do that? That's impact. So that's what we've been doing lately. And it's a mix of both.
Jim Bergoon:That's incredible. So if somebody, if the listener wants to find you, how would they do that?
Tyler Frick:Good way to find me is Facebook. Just look up Tyler Frick on Facebook. A second one would probably be just to go to. A great way to connect is our Mind Traffic mentorship.
It's a free group people can be a part of to get connected on the ministry side. And that one is available at thekingscompany us/mindtraffic.
Jim Bergoon:And for the listener, we're going to make sure that all of that is in the show. Notes for easy access to be able to click and head on over there, which I highly recommend. I've known Tyler for a few years now.
Definitely top quality, top tier entrepreneur and good person all around. So definitely hit those links, head over to his thing and connect with them. As we end today's show, what is I do the wisdom bombs.
Hey, if you follow me on Facebook, you see them like every other day. Every day. So what's a wisdom bomb that you would love to leave our audience to chew on?
Tyler Frick:Yeah, I would say that I would encourage everyone to take a moment to consider if they've assumed their purpose or if they've received a revelation of their purpose. Because I think there's so many believers who look and say, that looks like what I ought to do.
So let me just assume that role and people begin to do what's easy or do what's comfortable or do what's familiar. And that's not always what we're called to.
And for me, if I would have just kept going through the motions, it probably would have seemed like things were right. I was taking care of my family in the oil field. Everything seemed right.
Provision was there, we had friends, we doing things, even ministering on the weekends and stuff. Dude, that was destiny.
Jim Bergoon:That was powerful. Oh, do you assume you're a purpose or have you received it? Dude, like, heart ripped out, thrown, Dude.
So listener, definitely send the emails and just go check him out. Man, that was great. So, first and foremost, I want to thank you for being on the show today. This has been an incredible conversation.
Tyler, thank you so much for hanging out with us. And for the listener, thank you for making it this far in the episode.
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