You've been doing this for the whole time, right?
Just to get rid of it and then get rid of it.
No, not at all. This is my safe space. You're all right, right? Yes, exactly. This is the way the story is,
which is just a story.
“The story of the job or the way the story is.”
It's not like the story is a story. The story is a story? - Save. With this story. Well, welcome Nathan Sheech to the Relatable Toddcast. And I know you'd much rather have Allie doing this.
I get it. But I'll have to be second-fiddles today. But so, thank you so much for coming on. I know you've got to limited amount of time. You're a busy man right now,
without with Governor Abbott traveling the state. But what we wanted to do, and we're interested, of course, in what's going on, right now in your candidacy. But I wanted to also give you a chance to talk a little bit
about your background, Nate. Just give us just a, you know, a couple of minutes overview of the, you know, the Nate Sheech's first early growing up story. Where did you grow up?
And maybe your parents, that type of thing. Yes, my, my dad was an Air Force pilot and said we moved every two years growing up all, you know,
always on Air Force bases of up until high school.
But my parents actually met in North Texas. My dad had just gotten out of the Air Force Academy and met my mom when he was up in Sherman in flight training. And my grandfather had been the Sherman Band Director for 55 years at the high school up there.
And so, our roots were always in Texas. I'm a fifth generation Texan. But grew up into high school and down in Hayes County, down south of Austin and went into the Navy the day after I got out of school to pay for college
and came back and went south of Texas State University and then moved up to Dallas. Yeah, we got Dallas. That's great. My dad was a band director as well.
Was he really? Yeah, in Arkansas and in fact, he turns 90 here in a couple of months. So there's 90th birthday coming up. So yes, so I'm very familiar with high school band
and all that type of stuff. And so you got out of the Navy, went to college
“and then, what did life take you right after college?”
Yes, so my moved up to Dallas. My brother and I had started a little pin and pincle company, kind of serial entrepreneur. And so I moved up Dallas and then started attending Pressed with Baptist Church where you and I actually
knew each other from and met there. But I also met my lovely wife Patty Sheets there and we got buried in 1996. But right after we got married, we had a couple things that we did that kind of set a course for life that had no idea
where it was going to take us. But one thing I did is I went on a mission trip and so when it down in Valencia, Venezuela with the ministry called E3 partners and that resulted in me spending 12 years in full-time Christian ministry.
But also right after Patty and I got married, she told me that we need a hobby together. And I think she was thinking like scuba diving, rantiques or but I wound up buying a beehive. And so that one beehive turned into what today is the largest
honey company in America called Nature Nates. Tell us a little bit about your salvation experience.
“When did you grow up in the church and did you tell us about that?”
- Yeah, so my parents were believers and so we were raised in a Christian home. And when we were at Tinker Air Force based Oklahoma City, I remember at First Baptistdale City, going down in front and fifth grade and committing my life to the Lord.
And then I'll tell you I just again, we moved every two years and so we grew up in Baptist churches, Methodist churches, Presbyterian churches, Pentecostal churches, kind of wherever my parents had relationships with friends,
because we were there for such a short period of time. But really the place where I experienced the most spiritual growth was after I got out of college and actually joined and pressed with Baptist Church. And I was in a discipleship group with some guys.
And one of them challenged me to get in this class called The Vangelism Explosion. - Yeah. - To teach you how to go share the gospel. And so that probably had the greatest impact on my life.
And you know, there's nothing, you always hear that the teacher
learns more than any student. And so just having the opportunity to really learn to be able to represent the death bear and resurrection of Christ and understanding that self-ethic experience with him, you know, really transformed my life from a maturity standpoint.
And really got brought me on that mission trip to actually go out and go learn how to do evangelism. And so that just became a massive part of my life. And tell us about, you know, it's coming out of that. You said, okay, I'm gonna join this mission
feel full time with E3, what became E3 partners. And then I want you to also tell us just a little bit about I am second and also the evangelist because I know
Those were things that came out of that as well.
And just maybe how that all, all that all happened. - Yeah, I tell you, it was such an awesome experience.
I never wanted to go to seminary.
I never even thought I'd be in full-time ministry. I was just a business guy. I went on mission trip that changed my life. And so when I wound up going on staff at E3, I was asked to come on staff.
And I guess that was in the fall of 1997. And I asked Mike Downey, who was the founder, he was also the guy that led my mission trip. When he said, hey, once you come on staff for this, I said, you guys have to raise support like a missionary, right?
And he said, yeah, I said, well, I have to think about this. So we prayed about it for, you know, a couple months.
“And we felt like that's what the Lord wanted to do.”
And so it was such a great experience for me, because I felt like I was giving to live out my personal testimony of both learning how to articulate the gospel and then mobilize some people on short-term mission trips. And so God gave us in 2000 this idea
for this one thing called an advantage, it looks like a Rubik's Cube. It's got seven pictures that represent the death bear and resurrection of Jesus. And so we started equipping believers all over the world.
It was amazing. We got an Indian train, you know, 20,000 Indian pastors and give them a vanch cubes to be able to go out in their communities and share the gospel. And then the second evangelism tool
that the Lord allowed us to create was a platform called I Am Second. Yeah. Online evangelism platform, Norm Miller had called me up and was sharing with me about--
And Norm was the president of interstate batteries at the time. Yeah, yeah. Yes, yes, he was the CEO of interstate batteries. And he was just sharing with me that he was having a conversation with the Lord
that's backyard on his 70th birthday.
“And just asking God, what do you want from me”
for the rest of my life? I got maybe 15, 20 years. And he felt like God said, well, have you ever gone for broke in your Jerusalem? And he's thinking, well, you know, I've
funded the Jesus' film project in Romania and Russia. But, and he's told me that it's on the phone. He says, but Nathan, if I was going to go try to somewhere batteries, I probably do an advertising campaign. And if I was going to do an advertising campaign in Dallas
Fort Worth, I probably use Tony Romo. And as soon as God, as soon as he said that to me, Lord put this idea in my head and I said, all right, Norm, imagine you're driving down the toll way, and you see this billboard.
And it's got dirt in your Vinsky on it. He's the man. He's number one. And that says, I am second in a drive to this website. And we show you dirt, test, dirt testimony.
Share the gospel with you and try to hook you up into a local church. And said, Norm said, all right, let's get together in a week and see. And it'll talk about it.
So I hung the phone up in this guy Adam Lydick who worked with me at E3, was sitting on the other side of my desk and Adam was a creative genius and said, man, that's huge. Walked out the room with a came back
with a white piece paper, wrote, I am second. And that was the beginning of what turned into. I am second. We went over and showed it to Norman.
He gave us 3 million bucks.
And so it was an amazing thing. - Yeah, those of you that are watching this. We haven't heard of that.
“Just all you have to do is go to the letter search for it.”
It's on there. There's some great testimonies through there. But then also during this time, your wife's still, you know, I still do in this small honeycomb business. And then you said, okay, well, the next thing was
to take that bigger. Is that right? And I know it's part of the head to do with one of your relatives that had some health issues, right? - Yeah, my mom had Alzheimer's and cancer.
So she had been negatively impacted by that. But I took that one beehive and started getting into it and you know what, Ron, I hate this. But they're Governor, they're right here. - You got it.
- I've got to go. - Okay, 10 seconds left though. I won't be pulled to, they can look at Nathan. But tell us what you're doing and public service. What's your, what's your, what's your trying to get that?
- Listen, I'm running to be a Texas agriculture commissioner
because we're losing agriculture like never before.
And we have a pandemic of health crisis related to the food that we're eating in America. And so I've come alongside to be able to run for the Texas Ag Commissioner. I've been endorsed by Governor Greg Abbott.
I wanna make agriculture great again. And we're gonna get out there and help farmers and ranchers. We lost 68 farms this week. And we don't have to continue to do that. So you can go see more at Natesheets.com
and show, and you can see how we're trying to impact Texas and help clean up the food that we all eat. - Well, thank you, Nathan. I appreciate it. Give my best to the governor and just be safe out there.
- Thank you, buddy. All right, bye, bye. - Thank you. (upbeat music) Nathan then decided that his honey business was growing
and he built that into the largest honey company in the world. Put his cell phone on every jar of honey. And he would answer his cell phone in the middle of the night I've heard him tell the stories about that.
Put a nice Bible verse on every one of those. So like Chick-fil-A like Norm Miller, he followed in the footsteps
Of those businessmen and like the greens with Hobby Lobby
that not only talk the talk but walk the walk
“in their business world to help build the kingdom.”
And then he's been called into potentially be a part of public service. Nobody knows what's gonna happen the primary elections next week. And that don't sure if you'll win or not.
You know, I'll support him.
But, you know, there's, you never know.
Sometimes God calls us into something.
“I remember when I first decided to run for public office.”
I didn't know if I would win or not, but I knew for sure that God had called me to be in the middle of it. And so I did that and it's fortunate enough to win.
I'm not sure where the name will or not,
but I know that this whole experience has probably changed him.
“And he's probably seen a lot of good and a lot of bad,”
but he's committed to trying to help Texas live a healthier life in the Department of Agriculture and Texas as a big part of doing that. But I just thought it was an interesting interview. Even though it was pretty short,
there was some real nuggets in there. So I hope you'll take those and listen to it. And we'll be able to have mate on again in the future. But thank you for supporting Ally's podcast. Don't forget to get your share of the arrows.
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