From Chaos to Christ David Pasqualone’s Remarkable Journey of Faith & Business Success – Lou Vickery’s A WISE WORD

I’ve been waiting on you. I am so excited that you have joined me. It seems like it’s been forever since we’ve been together. Do we have a special guest for you today? Are not, man. We’re so excited to have David Pasqualone join us. David is. The name of his company is Acend 2 Glory and uh, he is a widely known podcaster, but you know the best part, he’s a born again man of God.

And we are gonna ask David as we get into our questioning, we want to get to know David and get to know him in a very, very personal way. David. Thank for joining us.

Oh, it’s a pleasure to be here, Lou.

Well, I tell you what, you, you and I have had, I got to know each other over the last few weeks, and I tell you, I’ve, I’ve, the more I read about you, the more excited I’ve become and what you’re doing and your work for the Lord.

I, I just, um, I would like for you to tell us a little bit first about your background, where you know, where you came from and. Particularly, when did you get to know the Lord in a very strong and personal way?

So I was born in Milford, mass, and I was raised in a home where, you know, most of the people in my town were Italian or Portuguese.

Little bit of Irish, but we were all Americans. We’re all first generations. That’s right. We love God, we love our country and we were proud of our heritage, but we were Americans. And in my home it was my grandmother and my mom. And when my grandmother was alive, she was, she went to the Roman Catholic Church.

And then at that time, my mother went to a cult, to be honest with you. So I grew up knowing there was a God. But I didn’t know God. I didn’t have a personal relationship with him. And then my grandmom died when I was four and a half. My mom woke up because the pastor or Reverend or whatever they called him at that cult said, Hey, you should have called me sooner.

I could have resurrected your mother from the dead. So I finally, thank God, woke my mom up where she left that cult. And then we didn’t go back to church till I was about 11 and then. During that time, I had some hard, you know, things going on in the home. It was just my mom and I, we were very poor for American standards and, you know, everybody has challenges, but I had a lot of um, uh.

A lot of loneliness. A lot of chaos, a lot of things going on in the personal life. And then when I was 15, things just came to a head, and then there was always a pastor for years that would knock on our doors or be at the basketball courts weren’t playing, always inviting us to church. And when all the situation, the pressure came to a head.

I thought I was losing my mind. So I remember one day looking back, I think we had, I think I had what people refer to as a panic attack. And then about a week later, I had a second one, I was by myself at night, um, downstairs. My mom was upstairs and I remember waking her up at like 2:00 AM and I’m like, mom, I’m, I think I’m losing my mind.

And she’s like, well, what do you want me to do? And I’m like, well, I wanna go to church. And it just so happened that this was like a Tuesday night, Wednesday morning, and she’s like, fine, I’ll bring you, but I’m not gonna go in. Because her and the pastor of that church that we started going to when I was like 11, she didn’t wanna go back there anymore.

And I started going Wednesday night and I didn’t know the difference really between a Bible and a hymnal at that point. And what was really funny, looking back, it was a small church. You know, churches in New England, if you have 50 or a hundred, that’s a large church. And this was like a Wednesday night, so it was maybe like 50 people there.

And as the pastor’s preaching, I like raised my hand. As we were in school, you know that’s what you’re trained to do. You have a question, you raise your hand, right? So he didn’t say a word. Nobody in the con in the congregation said a word. And then I went back on Sunday morning, I went back on Sunday night.

I just wanted to know truth. And then finally he put his arm around me. One day when we were walking up after a Thursday youth group, this went on for like two, three weeks, just raising my hand, church, asking questions in the middle of a service on Sunday morning. And he just smiled and answered outta the Bible.

And then we were walking up this little hill and he put his arm around me. He’s like, Dave, it seems that He’s like, sadly, we don’t have a lot of men in our church. Have time. Uh, to spend with the young men in the church and help them. He’s like, however, I got a friend a couple towns over that I spoke to him and he’s willing to disciple you.

Are you interested in that? And I’m like, sure. I’m like, but what’s Disciple? I didn’t know what that meant. And he is like, basically spend some time with you and answer your questions outta the Bible. I’m like, oh yeah. So Pastor Carl Coon and his wife Bev. Bev, led that church and then a man named Tony Stefanini took the time.

Twice a week he drove to my house ’cause I earned my license, then spent time with me and my buddies and ’cause I didn’t wanna be alone with a stranger, but because of it, I trusted Christ as my savior. My best friends trusted Christ as their savior. And that was just a radical change. I mean, my whole life really, some people have immediate changes.

My end was pr peace in my heart immediately and I’d say probably within a week my behavior changed. And it’s ’cause I was trying to know God and give my life to God. But it, it all like turned around so fast.

Dave passed along as our special guest, Dave. What do you think is the most important thing in life?

Definitely your personal relationship with God. Nothing else matters. You know the, when Jesus was on the earth, they asked him what’s the most important commandments? And he is like, love God with all thy heart, soul, in mind, and love thy neighbor. And really, if we do those two things, everything else falls into place.

You know, if I would like to ask you a little bit about your company, what do you do on a regular basis? You have such a tremendous following. Tell our audience a little bit about your, your company, and what you do on a regular basis.

So for profession, marketing and sales consultant is the umbrella. I do things a little differently though.

My love is to help people. And to help him to come to know God. And people think business and and, and personal is different, but it’s not to me. So I’m very open about who I am, and if somebody doesn’t believe the same, that’s fine, but I’m gonna be the same guy with you as I am with someone who doesn’t believe in Christ.

And we’re gonna have open communications. And if we don’t, if we can’t get along and have civil conversations, like Charlie Kirk, he just passed away and everybody knows what a great communicator he was and how he could reach out to all sides. And you can have a civil conversation. So that’s kind of how I’ve always done things, because there’s no use to lie or to fake or pretend you’re someone you’re not.

So I do marketing and sales consulting. I’ll only work with moral businesses who are looking to grow to be number one. And if they have that desire, then we work together. And what we do is I look at what’s their goal? Where are they realistically at, not BS that they’re saying. You know what I mean?

They’re trying to look good. So what’s the goal? Where are you realistically at? And then we reverse engineer a marketing and sales plan. And then I kind of give ’em a handbook and I say, Hey, either here it is, go do it yourself with your team. Or usually it’s, hey. I’m gonna coach you so you guys can check in once or twice a week.

We make sure everybody stays on task. Or the third is, especially for the digital marketing. Digital marketing could be anything from building websites to social media campaigns to interactions with customers. We’ll, we’ll just plan C is do it for ’em. So they just say, Hey, you do it. Let us focus on what we love, and you handle all the marketing.

And some customers actually do the sales too. So that’s what I do. David.

Excuse me. Go ahead. I, I, I wanna make sure you, you give the contact information so people, if someone wanted to contact you, how would it do that?

Yeah, you can go to david pascal alone.com. I put all of the business, all of the podcasts, everything affiliate, uh, coupons and codes, affiliate articles, just everything to help you grow.

We have a library of hundreds of blog articles and videos. And you can go on for free and get a bunch of good knowledge to hopefully help you move forward in life and business and personal.

David, uh, the, your, your program, your podcast, a host of Remarkable People you have, uh, how long have you been doing that?

I know you reach a, a wide audience worldwide. Talk a little more specifics about it, please.

Yes, so the Remarkable People Podcast, we started just come, we’re coming on seven years, so we’ve had about 300 episodes that launched. We have a global footprint that that is large. We’ve been a top, we’ll vary.

We’re usually around a 1% podcast. Sometimes we’re in the top half percent, sometimes we drop to two. But overall, for the last six, seven years, we’ve been a top 1% podcast around the world, and it’s just like life. The whole purpose is to help people grow. So what our guests. Achieve or overcame in their life is a great story.

But we stop along the way and reverse engineer their success into practical 1, 2, 3 steps so our listeners can at least have a starting point or catalyst to get them into action to change their lives.

David Pascal, our special guest, David. Uh, if you met someone just the first time, what would you say to ’em?

What, how do you approach ’em?

Uh, for personal or business or I mean, any way? Just any, yeah, just,

just on a personal basis. Uh, and you wanna talk about the Lord. You know, it seems to be a, a real challenge for a lot of people, the ability to share, uh, information about God and where they are and their own relationship with him.

I just talk to ’em, ask ’em about themselves. And uh, I don’t ever try to be fake or use strategy, but a lot of times I just get to know him, see what’s important to him. And sometimes it’s as simple as, you know, when the time’s right, you just say, Hey, what do you believe about eternity? What do you think’s gonna happen when we die?

And then it opens a dialogue, and I don’t give my opinion, I just keep going back to the scripture in the Bible and hopefully that, you know, the ultimate goal is that they get saved, that they trust Christ as or Savior. A lot of people believe in God, but they don’t trust him, and yeah, they need to have that personal relationship with God.

So sometimes you’re just spreading seed. Sometimes you’re watering seed, sometimes you get to reap, but that’s kind of how I handle it. Just let people know who I am, what I do. In business, it’s so easy because people ask or they’ll make jokes about morals and values and I, I get comments a lot about, aren’t you afraid you’re gonna lose business?

I’m like, no. I’m like, if somebody’s so biased and bigoted that they don’t wanna work with me ’cause I’m a Christian. I don’t wanna work with them. I don’t look at people and say, I don’t want to work with you because you don’t believe the same. Now, if they had an agenda, if they had a doctrine that I know wanna believe with, I say, Hey, it’s not the right fit.

But at the same time, we’re talking about like someone who is like saying, I want to promote, and you can pick the topic that’s anti-God. Well, I’m not gonna promote that. But if they’re just making widgets. All form a relationship. Talk to him about God just like I would you. And we see where God goes, I’m not the one that wins people to the Lord.

I’m not the one that can save souls. God is. So, it talks about in the Bible how the scripture won’t re return void. You know, it won’t be worthless. It’ll always have prophet. So I’m always trying to tell people. I actually just today I had somebody, you know, those scam texts that come in. So I just wrote, I said, Hey, I’m busy at work.

I don’t have time for this. I hope you reflect on your life. You know this is wrong. You’re trying to get ahead by stealing from people. I said, I wish you the best, but you might wanna watch a movie beekeeper. And then they wrote back and they’re like, yeah. They’re like, thanks for kind of putting me in check.

They’re like, I actually like Ja, Jason Sta, and I think I’m gonna check that out. And then I wrote back, I said, more important than that is the Bible. I said, this is what it says in Revelation is gonna happen to all. Liars and Thieves, and I sent ’em the verse outta Revelation that says they’re gonna burn the lake of fire forever.

And so it doesn’t matter if you’re sitting across from somebody, if you’re getting a text message, if you’re getting a phone call, might as well we all get the same breath in life. Might as well use it for the most, most.

David, pass along our special guest, David, as we move toward a closed. Is there something I haven’t asked you that you just wanna make sure that you get a message out about?

No, I think the central theme of this is just to know Christ and you know, if you don’t believe in God, there’s no shame in that. But be searching. Be looking. ’cause there is truth. There is a truth there is. A answer and the world wants to say, oh, you know, there’s 50 ways something can happen. Or there’s, you know, there’s, you don’t have to be or believe anything, but that’s not true.

You know, if you had a disease, there’s a cure for that disease. And every man and man, meaning mankind that’s ever lived, we all have sin, we’ve all sinned and come short, the glory of God. So Jesus died as a sacrifice for our sins. So that we can be clean and go to attorney with God forever. So that’s the most important message.

You know, it says, for whosoever shall call upon, call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. That means whoever in any situation. But the difference isn’t just words or believing there is a God. It’s trusting in him. And that’s why Hebrews 11 talks about faith, by faith, by faith, by faith. And it shows how through the whole Bible.

There’s the same commonality. It doesn’t matter the generation, it doesn’t matter the dispensation, it doesn’t matter the culture, it doesn’t matter the country. Doesn’t matter the color of your skin. By faith, all men are saved through Jesus Christ.

And I add a big amen to that.

Yes sir.

Thank you, Dave.

David, thank you so very much for joining us. It’s been a real pleasure having you. And hey. We’ll see you at the top right.

That’s it. We’ll see you at the top. If for the listeners, that’s how I sign all my emails. See you at the top. And I’m not someone in business. I’m talking about an eternity. And that’s one of the things, like I said, I do that ’cause people ask a lot what that means and it’s just an open door.

Talk about Christ.

Amen. David, thank you for joining us.

Oh, you’re welcome. It’s been an honor.

Thank you. Alright. Well man, a great man of God, I tell you, I, uh, I sit down. When I sit down and visit with David. It was just a. You could just, just feel the the presence of the Lord all around. Well, that’s gonna do us for this time.

I remember the motto, keep a smile on your face. Keep happiness in your heart. Keep optimism on your tongue until we meet again, I’ll see you soon.