Amber Butaud
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Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
But I love what you said by putting your phone down. But that's a discipline that I think that we have just so gotten out of doing as much and something we have to go back to practicing. I'm trying to do the same thing, especially at dinners, dinners with your kids or dinners with your friends, that you are presently there. And you're right. I think when you're present, you're more alive.
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
And I think you're more willing to share goodness that's within you in that time instead of being distracted.
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
Well, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks for taking the time to learn people's stories and share them. I really appreciate what you do.
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
That's good. You know, I was at this event one time and this man who's been very successful in his life gave me some really great advice. We were talking about how we donate to causes and what we give to and nod and things like that. And he said to me, Amber, the things of this world are measurable. If you do good at your job, you get a raise.
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
If you earn a certain amount of income, you buy a bigger house or you get cars. If you do good in a sport, you get an award, you win the game. All the things of this world are measurable. And we like that. We like measure. We want to measure. We have a desire in us to measure. But the things of the Lord are unmeasurable, this side of heaven. But they are measured. They're just measured in heaven.
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
So every day I wake up, I look at life and I say, okay, I've got dual currency with my time and effort. And that is I've got currency and time and effort measured here. And then I have the unmeasurable kind on this side, but is being measured up there. And everything that I touch should have both of those. So relationships, unmeasurable here.
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
I mean, I guess if you go, well, I've got a black book of so much, you could say that. But really, are those actually deep relationships? Are those just people you know? You know, time spent with somebody being present
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
at the grocery store for an additional 30 minutes because the cashier lady had a hard time maybe lost a family member or whatever and you're there to listen and give of your time and maybe some words of wisdom of encouragement because kindness is free and you can just give that away if you got it from doing that isn't measured here like no one's giving you an award nobody's patting you on the back
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
But it is measured, and it's measured in a currency that you will obtain forever, for eternity. And so if you can look at it that way, that you're storing up and that you have currency, just double currency, and that's what you choose to do with your time here and your time that you give forever, I think it's a better way to live and puts things in perspective.
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
I think if you go practical. Yeah. I think it's like, you know, that big jar that you put the big rocks in first. So you got to say daily, what are my big rocks? What are the things that are most important to me? What trumps the chaos in my life, right? Yeah. That's always going to happen.
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
If you run your own business or if you work and you are achieving and doing, you will always have chaos of the hustle. Right. So you go, what trumps that? So my kids are one of those things that trumps that. So if a kid calls in my book, we're going to take a pause for I'm going to answer. OK. So that is an important relationship to me. So I put in the very important things to me.
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Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
And I know that before I ever start my day. That's something I determine before I even start going. Because if you don't determine it before you start going, life will determine what happens. That's how that works. So there's something you got to say, okay, so my health and fitness is important to me.
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
You know, I say all the time that if you don't have something bigger than yourself to hold you into something, you'll sway always. And so for me, my because is because of my best friend. And I say this in a, you know, non-religious kind of way, but genuinely in a best friend kind of way. Jesus is my best friend. And we talk often and we share time together.
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Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
That's another big rock because only as healthy and as good as I am mentally, physically, and spiritually, that's when you bump into me, that's what you're going to get. So if I'm not doing right on that, so that's something I put in. So I think it's really sitting down and assessing practically what are
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
The things that are going to trump the chaos in your life and say those are the important things to me Those go to the top even when bad happens like I was just in a horrible wreck the other day Thank you. Jesus that I wasn't hurt but I'm devastated on the side of the road. Okay. I'm just car total terrible. But the man who hit me was completely shaken up.
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
I didn't know anything about him or nothing. I could have chose to just be like, it was his fault. I mean, well, the wheel of his car fell off and like hit the front of my car and told, and it was really bad. I could have been like, ah, you know, super upset and just frustrated with it all. But I just kind of went over to him and I was like, Hey, I'm so sorry that this happened.
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
And I'm just glad neither one of us are hurt. And my car's named the Holy Spirit. So I kind of feel like we were protected today. So we'll give thanks to that. But we do have some responsibilities we have to do by changing information and all the things. And so we did that. And he ended up being ex-military. He was on his way to his first job out of the military and was completely shaken up.
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
At that point, you have options to be kind and nice and say, you know what? This trumps what I actually feel like I want to do. Relationship and kindness and goodness trumps what I really feel like. And I think those are things that you determine before you start your day. Like I choose goodness. I choose kindness. I choose family.
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
I choose the things that are most important to me today over what could happen. And so I prayed over him and we spent time and you know, chose to say, Hey, it's a car where we can, we can work out the details right over time. And so it's just things, but I think relationships are more important than things.
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
And I think that's something that I put at the top of my, my list along with my, my business and my children and my relationship and my health and, Things like that. So I think it's starting your day, knowing what is your big rock. What are the most important things that you're going to put in front of life that happened?
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
And I think everybody looks at life a little differently. My grandmother used to tell me also when I was younger that maybe you should probably slow down and smell the roses sometimes. And I do think it's important that you enjoy. But I turned to her probably I was maybe 13. And I looked at her and I said, I think some people were created to pick the rose and smell it on the way.
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
I'm like, there may be another pasture of more roses. We can't just take the one. We got to keep moving. We got to keep going. Enjoy it as we go. And that's that integrating, I think, kind of way. As you grow, as you go, you're always kind of weaving that together as you keep moving, as you keep persevering. We started off saying, what gave you that ability?
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
What gave me that ability to keep persevering? It's that, it's that very thing. Just don't stop. Don't get stuck in something. Don't get stuck in the victories and don't get stuck in the failures. Just take all of it as an experience to keep moving forward and keep putting one foot in front of the other. And eventually you'll arrive.
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
If you just wake up and do the next right thing every day, wake up and do the next right thing that's in front of you and you'll end up in the right thing.
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
And that is the reason why, and the, because what I do, um, is because of the time that I spend with him. And, you know, I say none of us have ever tried to sell our best friend. Cause that would be weird, right? Like, like try to say so much, like,
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
So The Life of Me was a feature film that I did in Tennessee. I lived there for two months and shot and produced that there. And that was UPtv's first original feature. Great, great crew, cast, everybody. And then Multiplied is an episodic series that is super fun and so cool. It went to theaters in May. We made it into a feature just to go to theaters.
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
And then now it's a five-part episodic series that you can get on for the One Studio app. So you can go to the App Store, download the app, watch all five episodes there. There's more content coming. Taking Ground is another episodic series that we just finished. I think it will hit.
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
No, I think we were so close. You were so close for that one.
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was just shot and filmed. And so it's in post right now being edited. I think it's going to come out January. And then also we have The Delusion, which is a trilogy book series that we just did the audio drama on. It is in post-production too right now. It will also go to the app. Just super great, great projects that are coming out. Super talented people that I've...
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
Absolutely loved working with. They have been so great and so fun. I think everybody's really going to enjoy them. And, you know, everybody's like, does everything you touch have to be faith-based? And I'm like, no, but it does have to make the world a better place.
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
So if you watch anything that we do from here, I hope that you leave with a perspective that makes you want to be better and do better in this world. And so that's the criteria that has to be met in order for us to be a part of it. And all of the pieces that we have do that.
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
dude I got this best friend and she's this and she's that and you like try to sell them her like you want to buy her or something um so Jesus is just like my best friend that I don't try to like convince anybody of it's just I just live life with him and and because of that what his desires are what he wants and the things we've talked about um are kind of what I'm doing now you know and and just infuse that in everything I put my hand to on the daily so
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
Yeah, washing multiplied right now. A lot of stuff is in post. A lot of stuff's coming out. So 2025, we just launched in 24, the end of 24, we just launched the app and the content of it and stuff. And so in 25, we have a lot of projects coming out and a lot of cool partnerships of a lot of people that are wanting to put things on there.
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
But when you watch Multiply, your mind is just going to go, whoa. I mean, to see where this kid took cameras around the world, watching major events happen where millions of people show up.
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Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
not for like a raw concert, not for like some famous person, but like literally to hear about Jesus is incredible to see his miracles, to see the things that he's doing and to see that the revival is happening around the world. Whoa, whoa. Like in America, I think we get so narrow minded in a lot of ways and it just opens your mind up to a whole nother world. I love that. Like I love that so much.
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
So I think you'll be relieved.
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Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
Are the Houston Oilers. Okay, I'm going to say I grew up with the Oilers, so I would say the Oilers. But I've worked with a lot of Texan players now, so then it makes me want to say Texans.
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
Oh, most definitely. That's everybody that comes here. They're all like, okay, where do you go to get barbecue?
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
Yeah, y'all's barbecue sauce tastes weird.
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Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
Well, my son went to SMU, so we're big. SMU. Now my daughter's going to Ole Miss. That's not in Texas, though, so I don't know how I support that, but I am. I'm supportive. But, yeah, she's Ole Miss, and my son was at SMU.
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
If you're going all-time sports and stuff like that, you would have to pick, depending on what sport you were talking about, the college that was, like, best of it, right?
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
That my kids love, and it's a really funny story. We're just not going to go to the whole story, but it is a barbecue pork tenderloin. All right. And my kids, we had foreign exchange students that lived with us, and they have no idea what anything is we cook, right? And my kids told them without me at the table that I kicked chicken butt, and that's what they were eating.
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
And when I sat down at the table, they were like, this is amazing chicken butt. And I was like, what in the world are you talking about? Anyways, everybody started rolling. So now it's called chicken butt at my house, but it's a barbecue pork tenderloin.
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
I believe in you. Someone believes in you. They do. And most importantly, you got to believe in yourself. Your self-talk of what you tell yourself is important.
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
everything and the things that you've heard from other people are not facts nor truth what you believe about yourself and know about yourself and you learn about yourself is truth so talk to yourself kindly learn good things about yourself put in good words into yourself i would say you can't read enough positive books you can't listen to enough positive music you can't read the bible enough which is where i'm going to say you got to know truth
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
And the truth will set you free. Free from all the things that hold you down. So get your head in the Bible. Into a good Bible-based book. That's changed my life. There's a book called The 4-8 Principle. It's based on Philippians 4-8. And it's the verse. Think on whatever is lovely, whatever is noble, whatever is true, whatever is good. Think on these such things. Take every thought captive.
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
And I think that is where it starts. And that's where you have to start is evaluate your thought life and believe in yourself and know that there is someone that does believe in you. And I like to think it's my best friend, Jesus.
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
Okay. Yeah, like all the social medias. Every social media there is. I got a lot of young, great people around me that do that for me and tell me how to do that. But yeah, Instagram, YouTube, you know, go follow For The One Studio on all of the social media platforms, LinkedIn, and then also Amber Butoh at
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
all of them as well um so you can find us yeah websites for the one studio.com take talk even what yes what i know i know these are you doing like tip-top dances and everything i don't but they tell me i should But I mean, all the accounts we have, I have accounts on all of those.
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
And then my personal Instagram is probably the one that, you know, I'm on maybe the most, if I'm going to say I'm on one the most. There you go. But yeah, so you can find me on all the regular handles, which I'm sure will all be listed in these as well.
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
Thank you. Thank you so much for having me on. I love what you do. And I can't thank you enough from everybody that listens and watches you.
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
You know, grit's one of those things that we all want, but we maybe don't want to have to go through what we have to go through to get grit. Somewhere along my crazy little life, when I was young, I just latched on to grit to persevere. Young in my life, I, my dad was hit by a drunk driver and killed. And so very young, I learned that there isn't an option of quitting.
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Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
You know, that when pain and tragedy strikes, yeah, you're going to go through a lot. But you're going to keep going. Another day is going to come and you have the option to make it what you want it to be. And, you know, my grandmother, when I was little, who I was really close to, used to tell me, nobody has time for a pity party.
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
So we're going to get out of that and we're going to put our big girl panties on and we're going to do this thing, you know? And so young, I just chose to look at tragedy in the face and say, man, this sucks, but a better day can come. This too shall pass. And if I keep pushing on, if I keep...
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Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
trying you're so right on the other side is a beautiful sunny day is goodness is success if we just don't quit and so young I was faced with a lot of really hard tragedy and obstacles and I think when you go through something really hard and you make it you survive you realize oh I
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
okay it was just hard for a bit but there is light at the end of the tunnel there is hope there is you know goodness on the other side if I don't quit one of my favorite things to do is fly and we've I've taken some lessons and I have flown in different planes and stuff like that but one of my favorite things is
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Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
Once you take off and you pierce those clouds and you get above the clouds, you start to realize you can see for forever, one. And then two, you fly a few minutes and then there's no more clouds and you're seeing the ground again. So, you know, you may be in a stormy season. That's just really a facade. It's going to pass.
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Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
Like you're just going to go a little bit further and it's going to be bright and sunny and a whole nother thing. And then you may fly for a little while longer and you're back in the clouds. You can't see it all. You know, I just think there's just such a parallel in life and that there's up and downs of life.
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
And I choose to look on the brighter side to know that there's just on the other side of that storm is probably something really great.
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
Yeah. Yeah. I love it so much. It's like so peaceful up there. I don't know why I feel, and I guess I am a little closer to God, right? If I'm up a little higher.
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Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
Well, I could be that too. Actually, I did hear that. Part of this journey with God, I was like, what? I don't know anything about this industry. I've never been in a studio a day in my life. And he's wanting me to build this studio and do all these films and all this stuff. And I'm like, I know nothing about that. And he's like, perfect. That's perfect.
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
That means you got to lean on me and trust me the whole way through. And I was like, Right, but I kind of feel like I need to know something. And he's like, no, just trust me. Just trust me. And so I really trusted him through the whole thing and each step of the way. And that's a little bit like flying, you know? I mean, you got to jump a little bit and then trust, but...
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
Somebody once told me, if you never jump, you never soar. And so in order to fly, you've got to take that risk and you've got to take the jump and trust that something is going to catch you along the way.
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
Well, my passion is for making the world a better place. And my passion is helping others achieve what they believe they were put here to do or the message in which they have. Just like we're doing here on this show. That's what I started off saying. I love what you do. I love that you take the time to... Learn about people and share people's stories to give them a voice in this world.
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
Because I think that is very important. And having a studio to tell those stories, whether it be through a book, a podcast, a radio show, a commercial, Instagram, social medias, movies. Whatever that version of communication is, I try to help sit with people and learn about them and say, this is maybe what is the best scenario for you. So that's my passion in this.
Mick Unplugged
Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
As far as if you've ever asked me if I've thought about being a producer or director or... Nah, not so much. You know, I work with a lot of those people and I love that. And when you sit with somebody that is really talented in one of those roles, you quickly realize you are so not that, you know, that is what they were meant to do.
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Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
I'm kind of sitting in the more big picture, visionary business side of the industry and And kind of created a home for those to create from. And I'm really passionate about that. So when you come through the doors of For the One, I hope you feel like you're at home.
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Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
Not just a studio, but that you're at a home that loves you and wants to foster the God-given creativity that's been put in you to accomplish what you're put here to do.
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Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
So the name of the studio is for the one studio. And a lot of people ask me like, why did you name it that? Well, that was something that was between God and I, and this is how that came about. When I was looking to do this, I was looking at all the amount of work that it was going to take and everything to do it. And I said to the Lord, that's like so much, so much work.
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Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
And he said, would you do all of this for the one? And I was like, well, that kind of seems like a lot. I was thinking maybe more for the masses we could do this. And he's like, well, because I gave my life for the one you. And I was like, well, when you say it like that, fine, we'll do it.
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Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
It's always been about the one for me, the one person that needs to hear a message and the one person that needs to give a message. Like if you can focus on the one person that can cause a ripple that actually can change the world. But I think that we are so concerned about the millions or the masses and reaching that that we forget about the one because I am that one. You are that one.
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Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
The one person that took the time to hear your story or the one person that told you something that changed the trajectory of your life you're so thankful for that one person that took the time to do that.
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Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
And so if we can focus on being present with the one person that's in front of us or the one thing that we're supposed to do, that truly causes a ripple because then now you can't give away what you don't have. So if you gift them something, They can now give that away. And that's how the world gets changed. One person at a time, one small ripple.
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Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
Just like if you, I don't know, I grew up in the country, so we used to skip rocks, you know? And it's the one little pebble that actually makes that ripple that becomes a massive wave on the shorelines too. So it's over time that that ripple has a massive impact. And maybe you see the impact. Maybe you don't. But that's kind of not up to us. It's just ours to start the ripple.
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Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
Oh, thank you. That was so kind. I love that.
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Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
100%. I am in such agreements. But you know, that takes practice. It goes against our nature, especially now with all of our devices and all the things to put it down and be present where you are. And for years, I counseled.
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Amber Butaud | Merging Faith, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship
And that was a practice that I learned how to be present with somebody in that moment in their hardest time and just hear and listen to what they were saying and read between the lines and... And just give of your time like that to somebody. And just that alone, how comforting that is to somebody. And how it's so much more engaging and fulfilling to be present where you are.