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Win Today is a performance enhancing podcast filled with actionable insights and inspiration to come out on top in life. Through captivating interviews and solo episodes, a powerful tool is created and given to listeners to be able to push through any situation in life.
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#230 | Winning Is: Spreading God's Word & Love
What if winning had nothing to do with scoreboards and everything to do with how you love people today? Edwin Martin reframes success from outcomes to obedience, showing how one intentional conversation or courageous yes can create more impact than any trophy. He unpacks how fear of the unknown limits purpose, and why choosing what sets your soul on fire—every single morning—builds a life of momentum and meaning. Listeners walk away with practical ways to love people well, anchor their faith, and replace performance pressure with purposeful action.
You’ll Learn:
- How to shift from outcome-based success to a purpose-driven, faith-centered definition of winning.
- Simple daily practices to love people well, ask better questions, and create genuine connection.
- How obedience, presence, and small acts of courage compound into long-term impact.
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SPEAKER_02:Thank you so much for tuning in. My name is Ryan Cass and I'm your host. My purpose in this world is to help push people further and harder than they believe possible and become unshakable in what matters most to them in their lives. Every week you're gonna learn from either myself or a renowned expert in their field, and we're gonna unveil pieces of our playbook to help you win today. Please, if you love this show, subscribe and share it with somebody that will benefit from it. Let's dig in. Alright, here we are with another snippet of winning is, which is my new favorite conversation to have with guests as we're wrapping up an episode to really define what does winning mean and help create additional perspective for people in that winning isn't necessarily an outcome in life. Ed is the I'll call him the oldest young person I know just because of his wisdom and maturity at such a young age. Ed was recently on the podcast on episode 229. Go and check that out if you haven't yet. But what strikes me about his definition of winning is that I really see it as being grounded in exemplifying love. So he talks about if he can share the message of Jesus every day and really exemplify that love, the love that is shared in the good book, spread that love to at least one person, then that's winning for him. Ed is certainly one of the most grounded and mature people that I know, but more so grounded in that when you're around him, he is somebody that has this sense of comfort. He creates this sense of comfort and warmth that I believe is very defined in people, and I believe that that is a result of his faith journey and walk with the big man that he wants everyone to join him on. And he I believe there's no better person to learn from than him when it comes to that. And we're at the time now where a lot of folks are looking at what do they want to do differently in 2026, and if starting a faith journey is on your agenda, then I highly recommend uh digging more into Ed's work and reaching out to him. He is more than happy to be the catalyst for not just your fitness journey, but your faith journey. And it's my wish that you can check out more of his work and also help craft a meaningful definition for winning based off what he has to share with us today. Thank you so much. Ed, I've had this conversation with folks on the pod this year, switching things up a little bit towards the end, where I want to know what winning means to people. Because I've come to change the definition of it over the years, and it's completely removed from any sort of outcome. Meaning that maybe if you asked 15 years ago what winning was, I might have told you that it was a wrestling state title or something along those lines. Now it couldn't be further from an outcome. So we're on the win today podcast, but if I asked you what is winning, like winning is dot dot dot. What is that for you?
SPEAKER_00:Um just like you said, my answer probably 18 years ago probably would have been um some sort of accomplishment or end result that would have been for my own gain. But winning today, in my eyes, is if I told someone about Jesus um in the day. Um and if I truly poured my heart out to intentionally have a conversation with them and showing them the love of Christ every single day would be my winning. And obviously, there's no good works that is gonna they're gonna get us into heaven, but at the same time, I'm gonna do whatever I can do to go out of my way to share the love of Jesus to somebody, whether it's a homeless guy on the street or it's a person I don't know that I can bless at the grocery store by to asking them how they're doing. I'm gonna go out of my way to love someone and share them, share the show them the love of Christ that they might not have ever experienced before. And I'm gonna be that person who steps in to show them that. Um and I feel like a lot of we just kind of going back to the previous conversation. Um, a lot of times that I've seen God move the most is just to have a willing heart to say yes. Um, just say yes. You never know what is on the other side of your yes, and that's going back to saying yes to this challenge. It's just the beauty of the unknowns of the impact that you're gonna make is so beautiful because the unknown scares so many people. So many people. It'll that fear will factor in of you don't know what's gonna come. And and in my eyes, that's beautiful because that's obedience, that's stepping out of your comfort zone and doing it, and that's winning in my eyes, is being obedient, saying yes, obviously using discernment, but saying yes to the right things because you never know the impact that you're gonna make on someone else's lives or eternity, you know.
SPEAKER_02:What advice would you give somebody to craft a meaningful relationship or definition with the concept and word winning? Great question.
SPEAKER_00:I would really say to search yourself, to really find deep inside of your soul what sets it on fire, you know, and it's gonna be different for each and every person that gets them up every going, like out of bed every single day, and find that thing that sets your soul on fire and never let it lose that spark ever. Because the day that you lose that spark, you're you're done for. You just find it that literally gets you out of bed and it stirs you to keep going. And that's where when you find that thing and you have that deep down in your heart and your soul, you you can keep going in some of these tough times because you, whatever that is, your your soul is on fire for it. So I'd say if I'm recommending someone, I would say find something that you're so passionate about, whether it's your faith, which I pray it is, or your hobbies, or your job, or your relationships, or your wife, or your husband, find that thing and absolutely just pursue with all of your heart, and you'll never lose that momentum when it means that much to you every single day. Just choose it. Choose it every single day when you get out of bed.
SPEAKER_02:Amen to that. What's one book that you recommend people read in 2026 that can help them sharpen up their mindset?
SPEAKER_00:For me, mine would be The All of God by John Revere. Um, it really gives a good um just overview of what fearing God means. Um, and I don't want to spoil it for anybody, but the all of God by John Brevere and it'll change your life.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I always love to ask books, book recommendations because now I've got this massive list from guests over the years and him turning it into a little running guest list, so or running book list that we'll have featured on the on the website someday. Ed, how do we keep up with you and support you? What's the best way to do that?
SPEAKER_00:Uh it would be on socials, Instagram. My Instagram is Ironsned. Uh long backstory on that one, but yeah, that would be the main source of contact. And like Ryan previously gave us a shout-out, um, the Revitalized Podcast, we're on uh Spotify at the Revitalized Podcast and on Instagram as well for a business page.
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