Forgiveness: A Journey of Healing and Growth

Forgiveness is Supernatural um I'm with Pat Ginger I cannot tell you where we are or else I'd have to kill you um but we were talking about forgiveness Pat as you probably know is the CEO of Intel um one of the most visible and pressured challenges in the world right now. [00:00:36]

I was pushed out of the company uh 13 years tell that story a little bit you started in Intel when you were how young I was 18 years old I joke that I went through puberty at Intel I started so young uh with the company and this idea of uh you know becoming the CEO early in my career. [00:03:07]

I wrote my mission statement and I wrote down become the CEO of Intel and it was an audacious statement when I wrote it it's like that ain't going to happen right not in the wildest Things but you know 10 years later it became sort of this driving force for me of could I say that. [00:03:30]

And then after another 10 years it's like I'm going to make this true you know it moved from a crazy thing that was sort of just driving my own development to something that I really thought could be true and then at about 30 years with the company the then CEO Paul made it clear he did not want me part of the future. [00:03:55]

I considered it sort of like a Joseph or a Moses you know kind of experience where my vision was dead right you know this is something I was dreaming of for 30 years you know was passionate about for you wanted that with every cell in your body absolutely and it was just working and driving. [00:04:21]

It was one of those where what was meant for evil worked out for good because it began a uh 10 year 11e Journey for me of one getting over it in the first two years being out of the company I was just angry two years yeah two years so if you think you're supposed to get over something immediately it takes a while. [00:04:52]

And the deeper the hurt the longer it takes you can't microwave that and you know after two years it's sort of like okay I'm really getting on with my career my personal development but also when you lose your vision right you know that dream that you have then you got to go say you know was I successful because of Intel or was I successful because a me. [00:05:09]

I came back more mature you know more humble it wasn't about me right uh anymore it was very much about the job about the role that I could play and uh you know as you said when I first started listening to the series I realized I'm going to go back to Paul's grave can I ask what was it like when you went there. [00:05:59]

I haven't done it yet but I've now convicted as part of this series that I too have some forgiveness that I haven't finished in my heart around Paul and being pushed out and it worked out to be extraordinary for me in my own development but at the time I was just foul about this and it was really hard. [00:06:21]

And it was H very much where you know being angry about something to start with and because we're like God how did you let that happen yeah right you know and you're really questioning of his purpose and his motivation in that and again after I got over it for two years it was like two or three more years until it's like okay God you know you really might have a plan. [00:07:58]

And then I interviewed about joining the board and then you know I assist insisted that it had to be we shared this vision and it must be unanimous with the board and we made that decision in January and since then it's just been this incredible journey where you know chips sacked in the US EU chips sacked you know changing the shape of the industry. [00:10:03]

So take that to him uh and ask him for his help and if there's any steps you need to take around forgiveness at work uh maybe it's a place where you Ed to work or with co-workers it's worth doing amen it's worth doing so forgive us our debts as we forgive thank you Pat thank you John love you brother love. [00:11:28]