Are you discovering solutions to the lies that you've believed were true about you?This episode explores how the lies we believe about ourselves are often discovered within the stories we tell. Bill and Scott reveal the powerful connection between permission, trust, and the discovery of truth. Through vulnerability, questions, and grace, they invite listeners to move from false realities into a new way of seeing themselves and others.Topics Bill Thrall and Scott Boyd discuss in this episode: (00:17) Discovering lies happens through telling and hearing our stories.(01:27) How permission grants genuine access to another person’s story.(02:09) Asking thoughtful questions becomes a key way to gain trust.(05:09) The danger of “fixing” others without permission. (06:03) How shame can keep learning and asking for help out of reach.(07:39) Knowledge used humbly can build trust.(10:17) Bill shares childhood memories of false family stories that created a false sense of reality.(12:55) Discovering truth through faith in Jesus becomes a turning point for freedom and identity.This episode was brought to you by Bill Thrall, Scott Boyd, and the Living Influence team. Learn about Living Influence: https://www.livinginfluence.com/ Subscribe to the Living Influence podcast: * YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LivingInfluencePodcast * Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4kP9Mm2 * Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2F2RSvXKfU08Q5LVTCyIYI Learn about Bill Thrall’s books: https://www.livinginfluence.com/books Follow and like the Living Influence podcast on social media: * Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/livinginfluencepodcast * TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@livinginfluencepodcast * Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/61576202821527 This episode was produced by Story On Media: https://www.storyon.co/
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Healing the Lies We Believe About Ourselves
What are some of the lies you've believed? Are there some convictions that you believe in that actually might be lies?This episode explores the deep and personal lies we believe about ourselves—and how love, not effort, is what truly heals them. Bill and Scott share intimate stories of loneliness, shame, and healing through trust, friendship, and being known. Together they reveal that grace through love is the only path to freedom from the lies that once defined us.Topics Bill Thrall and Scott Boyd discuss in this episode: (01:02) How early lies can shape identity and self-worth.(02:39) The cycle of shame and insecurity. (03:55) How love, not self-effort, begins to dismantle lifelong lies.(05:31) Experiencing love for the first time. (06:45) How the fear of being hurt leads to putting conditions on love and acceptance.(09:25) The healing power of being loved without conditions. (11:19) A reflection on hiding and shame leads to the realization that safety, not effort, ends the cycle of hiding.(13:22) How vulnerability in a trusted community builds compassion.This episode was brought to you by Bill Thrall, Scott Boyd, and the Living Influence team. Learn about Living Influence: https://www.livinginfluence.com/ Subscribe to the Living Influence podcast: * YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LivingInfluencePodcast * Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4kP9Mm2 * Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2F2RSvXKfU08Q5LVTCyIYI Learn about Bill Thrall’s books: https://www.livinginfluence.com/books Follow and like the Living Influence podcast on social media: * Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/livinginfluencepodcast * TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@livinginfluencepodcast * Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/61576202821527 This episode was produced by Story On Media: https://www.storyon.co/
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The People Who Risked Everything to Influence Yo
Who in your life is taking a risk on you? Also, who in your life has influenced you?This episode explores how influence is born out of trust, vulnerability, and the willingness to take risks for someone else’s benefit. Through honest stories and reflections, Bill and Scott show how the people who have most shaped our lives are those who dared to believe we were worth the risk. Influence, they reveal, is not about control or teaching—it’s about choosing to love and trust in a way that invites transformation.Topics Bill Thrall and Scott Boyd discuss in this episode: (01:22) The idea that both positive and negative influences can shape us. (03:06) How the influence of Bill’s wife, Grace, changed his life through love and honesty.(04:35) A pivotal moment unfolds when Grace tells Bill, “You won’t let me love you.” (06:04) Many people hide parts of themselves because they fear rejection if truly known.(07:38) The myth of self-sufficiency. (09:48) How hiding our needs keeps us from experiencing true relationship and healing.(12:19) The phrase “love can handle sin” reframes what it means to be known. (15:59) How influence extends outward. This episode was brought to you by Bill Thrall, Scott Boyd, and the Living Influence team. Learn about Living Influence: https://www.livinginfluence.com/ Subscribe to the Living Influence podcast: * YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LivingInfluencePodcast * Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4kP9Mm2 * Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2F2RSvXKfU08Q5LVTCyIYI Learn about Bill Thrall’s books: https://www.livinginfluence.com/books Follow and like the Living Influence podcast on social media: * Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/livinginfluencepodcast * TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@livinginfluencepodcast * Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/61576202821527 This episode was produced by Story On Media: https://www.storyon.co/
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Risk-Taking and Its Surprising Rewards in God's Plan
Are you willing to risk trusting the influence of God in you for the benefit of others?This episode explores what it means to risk trusting God’s influence within you for the benefit of others. Through stories of business, family, and faith, the conversation reveals how courage, grace, and trust reshape how we lead and love. Bill and Scott invite you to act upon the truth that God’s influence in you is meant to influence others.Topics Bill Thrall and Scott Boyd discuss in this episode: (0:00) Risking trust in God’s influence for the benefit of others.(1:18) How fear of failure keeps people from stepping into the game of life and leadership.(4:27) Coaching children to take small risks and how it shaped leadership philosophy.(5:53) Creating cultures of trust and removing fear of mistakes in business environments.(7:19) The power of believing in others and helping them feel valued.(8:25) How trusting people transformed a company’s growth and culture.(11:45) The danger of minimizing God’s work within us through “worm theology.”(13:44) A story about leading a young Jewish man to Christ and the lessons that followed.(17:17) The lifelong influence that came from helping others grow in purpose, not just direction.(21:04) The call to act upon the reality of God’s influence in us—and risk trusting it.This episode was brought to you by Bill Thrall, Scott Boyd, and the Living Influence team. Learn about Living Influence: https://www.livinginfluence.com/ Subscribe to the Living Influence podcast: * YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LivingInfluencePodcast * Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4kP9Mm2 * Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2F2RSvXKfU08Q5LVTCyIYI Learn about Bill Thrall’s books: https://www.livinginfluence.com/books Follow and like the Living Influence podcast on social media: * Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/livinginfluencepodcast * TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@livinginfluencepodcast * Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/61576202821527 This episode was produced by Story On Media: https://www.storyon.co/
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Why Satan Can Be the Author of Opportunity
Do you live your life looking for opportunities and open doors, or do you live it based on your convictions?Bill and Scott unpack the difference between living by open doors of opportunity versus living by convictions rooted in truth. Bill shares formative stories of discovering conviction, divine interruption, and learning to trust God without knowing outcomes. Together, they invite you to consider how God’s influence shapes your past, present, and future.Topics Bill Thrall and Scott Boyd discuss in this episode: (00:24) How Satan can use opportunity to distract from God’s purpose.(01:53) Mother Teresa’s decades of silent struggle were lived through conviction.(03:59) Bill recounts being invited to Bible college after becoming a Christian.(08:43) The importance of looking back at life to see God’s influence.(10:36) How our Creator’s presence is in our hearts to trust.(11:20) Bill’s first experience sensing God’s presence as a teenager.(16:53) How God brings people through suffering when they trust Him.(19:08) Unless we experience grace, we won’t truly understand God or ourselves.This episode was brought to you by Bill Thrall, Scott Boyd, and the Living Influence team. Learn about Living Influence: https://www.livinginfluence.com/ Subscribe to the Living Influence podcast: * YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@LivingInfluencePodcast * Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/4kP9Mm2 * Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2F2RSvXKfU08Q5LVTCyIYI Learn about Bill Thrall’s books: https://www.livinginfluence.com/books Follow and like the Living Influence podcast on social media: * Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/livinginfluencepodcast * TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@livinginfluencepodcast * Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/61576202821527 This episode was produced by Story On Media: https://www.storyon.co/
O Living Influence with Bill Thrall and Scott Boyd
Discovering who God says you are may be your most important life pursuit. Imagine what our world might be like if we believed we were designed and gifted by God for each other.
Living Influence is co-hosted by Bill Thrall and Scott Boyd.
Bill Thrall is an author, mentor, public speaker, and co-founder of Trueface. He is married to Grace, who loves to mentor women and to come alongside leadership couples with Bill. They have three children, nine grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren. They live in Phoenix.
Scott Boyd founded QuesTec Companies, a mechanical contracting and HVAC service business. He is married to Aileen. Scott and Aileen both lost their first spouses to cancer. They together have five children and seven grandchildren.
No matter who you are, your influence matters. We believe your view of you may be the most critical factor in your influence.
Whatever your role, professional, pastor, parent or student, the most significant expression of your influence will be from your person.
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