Kory Miles, Columbus, OH (2025)

08/20/2025

“The church can determine what parts of me they want. You can’t determine all I can be.” – Dharius Daniels

As a tri-vocational leader, I’ve felt the pull of people deciding what’s “allowed” for me. Most of the loudest opinions come from those who don’t build what I build, but feel free to critique how I build it. I’m careful not to close my ears to what I haven’t examined because Insight doesn’t ALWAYS come from experience. However I’m always aware when I need to let it roll off my back.

God isn’t anti-wealth. He’s anti-manipulation. Jesus didn’t flip tables because He hated the marketplace — He flipped them because the marketplace lost its integrity. Let’s not forget: He had a treasurer.

Rick Warren said it best: “Criticism is the cost of influence.” The greater the call, the greater the critics.

Keep building. Keep leading. The assignment is bigger than their approval.

– Kory Miles ✍🏽

08/18/2025

“Sometimes your only crime is outgrowing someone else’s mind. Growth will always offend comfort. And the truth is, some people are only willing to love you at the level they met you.

Don’t shrink. Don’t apologize. Keep building, keep becoming. ✊🏽

08/12/2025

“Experience isn’t the only way to insight.”

I may have never shot a jump shot or hit a baseball.
But by studying those who have, I can see things even the players themselves miss.

That’s the power of insight over experience.

In Moneyball, Jonah Hill’s character Pete Brand — based on Paul DePodesta — proved that insight could change the game.

“Your goal isn’t to buy players.
Your goal is to buy wins.”

He never played in the majors.
But his wisdom reshaped baseball.

As a 3‑sport athlete, I grew up under the rule: “If you never did it, don’t speak on it.” But I’ve learned that isn’t true.

Proverbs 4:7 says, “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting, get understanding.”
It doesn’t say get experience — it says get wisdom.

Doing and learning from aren’t the same thing.
Insight sees what tradition misses.
And sometimes, the outsider has the clearest view.

— Kory Miles

Save this if it challenged how you see wisdom.
Drop a 🧱 if you’re building with me

07/30/2025

The Gospel vs CCM debate isn’t really about music.
It’s about mission vs economics.

This generation doesn’t want less Spirit. They want clarity and charisma. Wisdom and worship.

Here’s my take — swipe through.

🔁 Save this if it built you.
🧱 Drop a brick if you’re building with me.

— Kory Miles

07/26/2025

“If you can’t be challenged, you won’t be growing.”

Every stage of authentic growth requires confrontation.

A seed must break its shell.
A s***m must press into the egg.
A child must stretch to walk, teeth through pain, and eventually think for themselves.

We don’t grow through ease, growth comes through resistance.

Even spiritually, we are pruned to be fruitful.

Many avoid challenge because they associate it with rejection or discomfort. But truthfully, challenge is the very environment that cultivates maturity. It’s not violence in the traditional sense but pressure that produces transformation.

You are built through pressure. Through pain. Through tension.

Embracing pain is having a mind that understands growth. Use the pain, get your growth

Save this for when you’re feeling burdened by growths process.
Drop a 🧱 if you’ve ever grown through a challenge you didn’t choose.

07/23/2025

Everyone tells you “just start.”

But some visions are too weighty for premature exposure.

Nobody talks about refinement. About the emotional tension. About the patience it takes to sit with something big, because building it right comes with speed.

We love to repost “write the vision and make it plain,” but forget the part that says,
“so that they who read it may run.”

They can not run if they don’t understand it.
And they won’t understand it if you don’t refine it.

Refinement requires patience.
Patience requires self-mastery.

And yes…tension. Emotional friction.
The fear that people won’t get it. The temptation to shrink it. The desire to quit when who you thought would support becomes anti.

But this isn’t about “them.”

This is about you holding the weight of what you saw long enough for it to gain clarity, quality, and power.

The weight of your vision will match the capacity of your patience.

Sit with it. Shape it. Then show it.

’tRushTheRefine

07/16/2025

“Whatever you’re chasing… is running away from you.”
– Kory Miles

I used to wear “grind mode” like a badge.
No rest. No pause. No patience.
Just vision + pressure + movement.
And the world clapped for it—until I realized I was running on fumes.

See, most of us aren’t struggling from a lack of ambition.
We’re struggling from unrefined urgency.
We’ve been taught to chase everything instead of sit long enough to get clear about anything.

God isn’t anti-work or anti-wealth.
And pro rest is not pro lazy but clarity builds better than adrenaline ever could.

I’m not telling you to stop running.
I’m telling you: run different. The vision needs the BEST you, not what’s left OF you.
Because if it’s really for you—it won’t run from you.

🔁 Sit with your vision.
🔥 Then move when it’s real.

07/15/2025

“There comes a point where the capacity of your patience must match the weight of your vision.”

In a world full of Insta-gurus selling 8 steps to clarity and 12 steps to launch, nobody’s teaching refinement.
They’ll say “just start,” but some visions aren’t meant to move fast—they’re meant to mature.

Refinement is the lost art of sitting with tension long enough for clarity to form.
It’s not just about what you see—it’s about whether others can understand it enough to run with it.

“Write the vision and make it plain, so they may run…”
But no one runs toward what’s not been made clear.

You don’t need 100 graphics or the perfect rollout.
You need to sit with what you see until it’s ready to be carried.

Because vision has weight.
And the heavier the vision, the more capacity your patience must have.

You are not being gatekept.
You’re being grounded.
You’re not behind.
You’re being built.

Trusting the process is more than pushing through—it’s mastering restraint.
It’s saying, “What I see is real. But until I can explain it clearly, I will refine it privately.”

The culture may sell speed, but God teaches formation.

Refinement doesn’t feel like movement.
But it is forward.
It’s what separates a trend from a blueprint.

So if you’re in that in-between, where nothing’s launching and everything feels stuck—pause and ask:
👉🏾 Am I being delayed? Or am I being developed?

Because if the vision has weight, then your patience is your power.

’tRushTheRefine

06/27/2025

“You’re only a guru in your experiences and opinions.” — Kory Miles

We all speak from experience but experience is not absolute truth.
And sometimes, what we call “experience” is really just ingested insecurity that we’ve mistaken for wisdom. Hurt internalized becomes logic misapplied. You’re not being discerning you’re just being defensive.

Just because they couldn’t, doesn’t mean you can’t. And just because you did, doesn’t mean you know the only way.

blanket statements don’t make room for grace, nuance, or growth.
“All men are…” “All women are…” “Everybody always…”
These phrases aren’t just lazy they’re loud lies.
When you respond in bulk, you bypass discernment. And when you assume the worst of others, it usually reveals the unfinished work within.
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Every trigger isn’t a red flag. Sometimes, it’s a reflection.

This is where healing separates from hiding.
Before you cut people off, burn bridges, or shut down ask:
“Am I healed, or am I numb?”

Because numb people don’t just run they call it “a sign.”
They feel and flee.
But healed people? They feel, dig, and choose.

That’s what makes room for communication. And communication is the risk and reward system of fulfillment. If you can’t talk about what hurt, you’ll keep building walls where there should be windows.

No closure. No clarity. No healing. Just a loop of unfinished moments and spiritual shutdowns.
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Ask yourself: Am I communicating to heal or cutting off to cope?
Have I made my decisions from pain or from peace?
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06/24/2025

FAT WITH INFORMATION, STARVED OF EX*****ON.

In the realm of people development whether spiritually or corporately there is a concerning trend that I see that is a danger to you and I. In our quests of seeking “more” whether efficiency, optimization, or overall development. We can end up ingesting more than we can process and that nutrients of that information can’t be broken down and distributed.

Getting better everyday consists of a combination of desire, information, and ex*****on and without the proper systems in place we can end up fat with information and starved of ex*****on. I’ve found myself in situations where I had the answer for someone else’s situation but could have used the application of that information myself. You may have said something like “I need to be taking my own advice”.

Here’s what I’ve learned:

Getting better every day isn’t about access.
It’s about application.

You can be fat with information and starved of ex*****on.
The gap between knowing and doing is where growth either lives or dies.

Here are 3 signs you’re in input overload:
1️⃣ You always feel overwhelmed even after learning something new. Overthinking yourself from starting.
2️⃣ You’re inspired, but rarely follow through.
3️⃣ You’re getting through day 1, but fade on day 2.

If you felt this, drop a 🧱 and let me know you’re building through it.
Save it for the next time you’re tempted to just take notes instead of take action.

02/13/2025

Exits are apart of life. At some point you will leave some place, something or someone and In fact your birth was an exit. Before the exit that birthed you there was a process that prepared for it. Nobody was caught off guard for that exit, in fact there were prepared for it. It was a joyful time and not a stressful time (regarding the process) because it wasn’t not a surprise. There were signs, frameworks, advisors, and a plan, that accompanied that exit. As a leader, planning is apart of the process. Exits aren’t endings. They are actually beginnings.

02/13/2025

If you live long enough, you will at some point say a final goodbye to someone who didn’t pass away. They didn’t pass away, you didn’t pass away, your connection did. This doesn’t have to be a bad thing, but it is a reality thing. The natural course of life when studied when reveal beginning, middle, and end of all things as a natural recourse. This doesn’t have to be accompanied by hard feelings, shade or even pettiness. Maturity would let people leave to go to what they feel best fits them. Pay attention to who people tell you they are, who they want to be, and what they ultimately see you as. If this doesn’t work with your self awareness then allow the dissolving. You cannot grow yourself if you do not know yourself.

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