Part 2 of our interview with Dr. Pete Sheild becomes even more vivid, as we pick up from the lessons Pete learned as a high school state basketball champion to the beginnings of his entrepreneurial impulse. Pete speaks of the significant impact being part of a pastor’s family had on his business practice, and his personal interactions with patients and employees. We also have the opportunity to begin a conversation regarding Pete’s new retirement venture: writing fiction that is deeply rooted in his family history and sense of adventure. To listen to this two-part conversation is—very much—to see Christ In All Things.
Recorded 13 September, A.D. 2023.
[00:00:00] I ain't got this. I can't do it myself.
[00:00:03] So that was the start.
[00:00:07] You know, we'll meet at max.
[00:00:09] We'll have what is now the journeymen.
[00:00:11] St. Paul's men's Bible study. Welcome back to Christ in All Things. I am Pastor Lance O'Donnell. I'm Pastor Jason Schochman and we're here again with for part two with our special guest Dr. Pete Child. Welcome back. Thank you do your best. There was never any pressure to get good grades or be an all-conference player or anything
[00:03:02] like that.
[00:03:04] Which you were.
[00:03:05] Which I was. It's a better look. It's a better look. Yeah, apparently. So I think out of necessity, if I wanted something like my buddy Dan and I wanted new 10-speed when Continental's, so I had a paper games, malted milks, coke's. And I remember you got, you had to buy your tray for $6.
[00:05:41] I think it was maybe a quarter a piece.
[00:05:44] Somebody put their up, man.
[00:05:45] So they made you buy your own sports and then in college, I worked for the athletic department, painting fences for the first two or three years. And then I started being two other guys
[00:07:04] went to high school with, we started
[00:07:07] Sparkle City Painters in the summer. a teacher is in charge and in front of the classroom and independent, a pastor is kind of the same thing. So maybe there was a hidden communication where it's- But he wasn't a missionary pastor. He didn't, he wasn't a founding pastor of a parish. That's correct. He was a youth pastor, but I mean,
[00:08:21] he's still his primary responsibility,
[00:08:24] he was a associate pastor,
[00:08:26] his primary responsibility.
[00:08:27] You got nothing do with it. When I was growing up, there was always somebody there at Sunday lunch. We had people traveling through the country that stated our house. I mean, it was, you know, black, white.
[00:09:44] You know, it didn you know, are living within their means, you know, but I think. That kind of like, kind of like they tell us at the seminary is we're going to give you a theological education, but the parish is where you're going to learn to be a pastor. Well, yeah, everybody graduates dental school. I think it's a little bit more of a St. Louis thing. Yeah. Oh, thanks. Oh, here we go. I don't want it. I don't want to be in the middle of that.
[00:12:23] No, I don't either. Yeah.
[00:13:25] by successes and also by failures.
[00:13:29] How does, again, without getting into necessarily into the details, how does it experiencing disappointment
[00:13:34] and failure impact your Christian faith
[00:13:37] and your further approach as a businessman going forward?
[00:13:40] I think the short answer is that it redirects me
[00:13:46] back to my faith. because of me, because of the Holy Spirit. So where were you and who were you with? I was at Vice Gerbers, on Ocachi. It's a lovely lakeside restaurant for our listeners who are not local. For a ducks unlimited banquet with Cole Brown and Les Lippert. No kidding. Yeah.
[00:15:00] We should do a men's Bible study.
[00:15:03] I think I just poured my,
[00:15:04] I didn't pour my heart out,
[00:15:06] but I was kind of like,
[00:16:02] that meets every other Saturday morning to study the Word of God,
[00:16:03] to encourage one another,
[00:16:05] to act like men,
[00:16:07] to love one another,
[00:16:08] and to be courageous in doing so.
[00:16:11] Right, and thank you.
[00:16:14] Well, but thank you for having the courage
[00:16:17] to tell somebody else what you needed.
[00:16:20] That I don't have it all figured out.
[00:16:21] Yeah, yeah.
[00:16:22] Well, I mean, yeah,
[00:16:23] that's a whole other podcast about men's inability to,
[00:17:22] We're just the tools of getting away. Right.
[00:17:23] On that note, with a relative limit and amount of time, I'm curious about the new business.
[00:17:29] Yeah.
[00:17:30] Because, I mean, the dental business and the paper boy thing.
[00:17:34] And the lemonade stands.
[00:17:35] Right.
[00:17:36] That's all great formative.
[00:17:37] It's cute.
[00:17:38] It's cute.
[00:17:39] Right.
[00:17:40] But, and it's also not the only thing.
[00:17:42] I mean, I know, right, you've invested in things outside, which has enabled you to do
[00:17:47] some other things. that type of humor. And yeah, it's a little bit of a dare to be stupid movie. Yeah, there's so much. I mean, uncle Rico, it's, oh, man, I'm sorry you can't decide that. You, that's awesome that helping hands writing on Amazon. There you go. Yeah, absolutely. And books and company here in Elkato Mall. There you go. And I grabbed 14 or 15 of his sermons, a small meditation that he gave when he was with the
[00:20:24] Christian ministry in the National Parks my head because my dad and I, over the years, our thing wasn't deer hunting or fishing. It was big and freaky in artifacts, which is a whole nother story how you got involved in that back in college, I think, working. Thomas Jefferson had invented 89 or 90 small coins or medallions with his face on one side and on the other side it had like a cavalry epilate
[00:23:02] shaking the hand of a Native American, you know, because the Oahu Dam has been built down by pier. And so the Missouri River is being dammed up and most of the Indian villages were built along the floodplain because of the fertile soil and access to water and so forth. And so there's a race against time. There's other people that are also interested
[00:24:21] in finding this particular metal
[00:24:24] and there's some vendettas involved. I also was fortunate enough to surround myself with some people that were very helpful. Him and Kavity. Pastor Lance Ladano being one of them. In directing and weaving and use this, say this, don't say this. No, that's not how it would really go. This is more appropriate.
[00:25:42] So I'm very proud of the right word. Absolutely. I like that. Um, I do, uh, uh, next year, my plan is to do a second edition because I found another box of his sermons. Oh, nice. Yeah. And so, um, I'm going to do yes. To both. Well, obviously it influenced, you know, the sermons from their protagonist Jimmy and so there's a couple of scenes where Pastor Dawson is helping Jimmy through some different Pastor O'Donnell and I have a common interest in writing in Seoul. We've been fortunate enough to share each other and I'm going to encourage him publicly to keep writing because what I've read that he's written, aside from a Sunday sermon, is very good. I don't read those. I just listened to them.
[00:31:00] I will tell on you both a little bit here.
[00:31:04] These guys, Lord have mercy. encourage one another in this business, in this hobby, business Pete for you, hobby for you Pastor O'Donnell, because you still have a full-time gig. And I think it's wonderful as Iron sharpens Iron, that you guys get to go and encourage one another along the way as you continue down these paths as yet untrodden to adventures unknown,
[00:32:23] just like the Lord led Abraham.
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