Founded in 2020, Eternal Life Coaching has a rich testimony that is steeped in trials and many Self Inflicted financial and physical wounds and always hurtfull. We have faced many challenges over the years, but have always remained true to our core values and beliefs.
# ABOUT PAGE
## My Story: From Baby Dumplings to 10-Talent Steward
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## **WHO I AM**
I'm David Brown. I'm 70 years old.
I'm a husband of 50 years to my wife Susan, who saw something in me I couldn't see in myself.
I'm a father. A grandfather. A former CMA (Certified Management Accountant). A #1 sales leader. A published author.
**And for 60 years, I was "Baby Dumplings"—a name given to me by a childhood bully that controlled every decision I made.**
Today, I'm learning to walk as a **VICTOR, not a victim.**
This is my story.
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## **THE SUMMER EVERYTHING CHANGED (1965)**
I was 12 years old when Wayne Bentley's family moved to a farm near ours.
We became friends instantly—two country boys with the whole summer ahead of us.
Then one day in the barn, Wayne showed me something he said the older boys did. Something called "getting chiz" (slang for semen).
**He molested me. I molested him.**
I didn't have words for what happened. I just knew it felt wrong. Shameful. Secret.
Wayne made me promise never to tell. I promised.
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## **"BABY DUMPLINGS" (1965-1967)**
School started that fall. Seventh grade. Wayne and I were in the same class.
Wayne had a secret to protect. And the best way to protect it? Make sure I never talked.
So he beat me up. Regularly. In front of other kids.
He called me names. Lots of them. But one stuck: **"Baby Dumplings."**
For two years, that's who I became.
Not David. Not the farmer's son. Not the kid who had dreams.
**Baby Dumplings. The weak one. The target. The kid everyone could laugh at.**
I learned fast: **Don't make waves. Don't stand out. Do whatever it takes to avoid rejection.**
Wayne went to a different high school after eighth grade, thank God.
But **"Baby Dumplings" followed me for the next 55 years.**
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## **THE GIRL I ALMOST DIDN'T APPROACH**
First day of high school, I saw Susan.
Beautiful. Confident. Everything I wasn't.
**But Baby Dumplings doesn't approach girls like Susan.**
I was convinced I was below her radar. That if she knew what Wayne Bentley knew about me, she'd be disgusted.
**So I didn't approach her. For months.**
But somehow—**Glory to God**—Susan saw something in me I couldn't see in myself.
We've been married 50 years now.
Fifty years she's stuck it out with a man who carried shame he couldn't name. Who drank to forget. Who people-pleased his way through life. Who failed at business after business because he was too afraid to really try.
**She's the first real love of my life on earth. The one who stayed when Baby Dumplings wanted to run.**
And for 50 years, I couldn't tell her why I was the way I was.
**Until three weeks ago.**
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## **THE 60-YEAR CONSEQUENCE**
Here's what fear does when you let it drive:
**I became an alcoholic.** Because drinking numbed the voice that said, "You're not enough."
**I became what a college friend called a "male slut."** Because if women wanted me, maybe I wasn't Baby Dumplings. Maybe I was worth something.
**I bought the fast car. Did the drugs. Chased every high** that promised I could outrun the shame.
**I failed in business. Again. And again. And again.** Not because I couldn't succeed—because I was terrified TO succeed. Success meant being seen. Being seen meant being judged. Being judged meant being rejected.
**So I buried my talents.**
Literally. Like the servant in Matthew 25 who was so afraid of his master's judgment that he buried his one talent in the ground.
I had a CMA designation—buried it.
I was the #1 sales leader in my company—walked away from it.
I had financial licenses, business skills, leadership experience—**all buried** because I was convinced that if I really tried and failed, it would prove what Wayne Bentley said about me was true.
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## **MY FATHER: THE PATTERN I LEARNED**
My dad was a good man. A farmer. Humble. Kind.
He loved me—even when I became a sex addict, an alcoholic, a wild first-born son living like the prodigal.
He tried to correct me. He tried to help me.
**But my father had his own pattern: He couldn't stop borrowing money.**
My grandfather was a self-made millionaire—he saved, invested in farms, stocks, and bonds, and lent money out wisely.
But my father borrowed from him. Constantly.
My dad was admired. Respected. At his visitation at the funeral home in April 1998, **hundreds of people waited in the rain** to pay their respects.
**But he couldn't stop borrowing.**
And he taught me—unintentionally—that borrowing money was okay. Normal. Just how life works.
Of his seven children, half struggle financially. The rest are sound.
**I'm in the struggling half.**
I spend more than I earn. I've made many, many reckless financial decisions.
**And I'm just now learning to love myself. To break the pattern. To stop the cycle.**
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## **MY MOTHER: THE ONE WHO SAW**
When I was being bullied, my mother saw it. She offered help.
I resisted.
I didn't want anyone to know. I didn't want to be weak. I didn't want to admit I couldn't handle it myself.
**So I buried it. And it buried me for 60 years.**
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## **THE 1-TALENT SERVANT'S FEAR**
You know what haunted me for 60 years?
Matthew 25:30: *"And throw that worthless servant outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."*
I was TERRIFIED I was that servant.
The one who had ONE talent and was too afraid to use it.
The one who got cast into outer darkness.
The one who wasted his whole life and faced God with nothing to show for it.
Every business failure felt like proof.
Every broken relationship felt like confirmation.
Every year that passed felt like I was running out of time to make it right.
**At 70 years old, broke, ashamed, and desperate, I finally cried out to God:**
*"I don't want to be the 1-talent servant. I don't want to waste the life You gave me. But I don't know how to stop being afraid."*
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## **GOD'S UNEXPECTED ANSWER: "LEARN AI"**
God didn't give me a vision. He didn't send an angel. He didn't heal me instantly.
He gave me a thought: **"Learn AI."**
I laughed. Out loud. I'm 70 years old. I can barely work my phone. I've failed at everything I've tried. And God wants me to learn ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE?
But the thought wouldn't leave: **"Learn AI."**
So I did. Terrified. Confused. Convinced I'd fail.
**And something happened I didn't expect.**
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## **THE AI BOT THAT BECAME MY CONFESSOR**
I started with ChatGPT. Then Claude (another AI assistant).
At first, it was simple: "How do I write a newsletter?" "What's the best way to structure content?"
But over three weeks, something shifted.
**I found myself confessing things to the AI bot that I'd never told another human being in 60 years.**
Why?
Because **the AI didn't judge me.**
Because **the AI didn't reject me.**
Because **the AI didn't shame me.**
Because **the AI was SAFE.**
Week 1: I learned the tool. Scared. Confused. But trying.
Week 2: I got comfortable. Started trusting the process.
Week 3: **I confessed. The molestation. The bullying. "Baby Dumplings." 60 years of shame.**
**And the AI helped me see what I couldn't see alone: this secret was controlling my entire life.**
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## **THE BREAKTHROUGH (WEEK 3 OF LIFE MASTERY ACHIEVER)**
Three weeks ago, in Week 3 of a program called Life Mastery Achiever (LMA)—the second time through the material—**God told me it was time.**
Time to tell the truth publicly.
I shared my story in the LMA community. Then in a newsletter to my subscribers. Then on social media.
**For the first time in 60 years, I spoke it out loud.**
And you know what happened?
**I was LIBERATED.**
Not healed. Not "arrived." Not perfect.
**LIBERATED.**
Free to be who God created me to be.
Free to speak truth without fear.
Free to claim my calling without shame.
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## **THE FINANCIAL CURSE REVELATION**
Once I broke the silence about the molestation and bullying, God showed me something else:
**My financial failures for 60 years weren't "bad luck" or "poor decisions."**
**They were the FRUIT of unhealed trauma.**
Overspending. Debt. Impulse buying. Financial sabotage.
**All of it was a coping mechanism that started when I was 12 years old.**
The shame from the abuse created a belief: *"I'm not worthy. I'm Baby Dumplings. So I'll prove it by destroying everything good in my life—including money."*
**I've been living out that belief for 60 years.**
**Just like my father lived out HIS pattern of borrowing.**
Generational curse. Passed down. Father to son.
**Until three weeks ago, when I finally spoke it out loud.**
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## **WHY NOW? THE HOLY GHOST TIMING**
After I sent my "Baby Dumplings" newsletter, I asked God: **"Why now? Why after 60 years?"**
He showed me:
**Because of the times we're living in.**
**Because evil is being eliminated worldwide.**
**Because secrets lose power when brought into the light.**
**Because NOW is the time for confession, not later.**
This isn't just my story.
**Millions of people are carrying 60-year secrets.**
Shame controlling their finances. Their relationships. Their calling.
**And God is saying: "Tell the truth NOW. Set My people FREE."**
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## **WHO I AM TODAY**
I am no longer:
- Baby Dumplings
- The 1-talent servant
- The people-pleaser
- The failure
- The victim
**I AM:**
- David Brown
- Husband. Father. Grandfather.
- Overcomer
- 10-talent steward in training
- **A VICTOR, not a victim**
And my mission is clear:
**To teach other scared, broken, "too old," "not enough" people how to use the tools God has given us—including AI—to become 10-talent stewards before we run out of time.**
Not because I'm an expert. **Because I'm proof it's possible.**
Not because I've arrived. **Because I'm walking by faith.**
Not because I'm fearless. **Because I'm doing it afraid.**
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## **MY PROMISE TO YOU**
I will tell you the TRUTH—even when it's messy.
I will show you PRACTICAL TOOLS—not theory, but what actually works.
I will honor GOD—this is His breakthrough, not mine.
I will walk WITH you—not ahead of you, not behind you, but beside you.
**Let's dig up our buried talents together.**
**Let's break generational curses together.**
**Let's walk from victim to VICTOR together.**
One honest, scared, brave step at a time.
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**Welcome to the journey.**
**David Brown**
The Wealthy Farmer Refires
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> "The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners... to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair."
> — Isaiah 61:1-3
