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Seth McBee

Losing Our Religion

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It's funny how often the friends that you need in certain seasons tend to show up. Although I know that's not all of our stories, because there's been many seasons of hard times in my life that no one showed up. Seth was a friend that came into my life right after I left the machine (aka institutional mega-church). We've both had a lot of institutional detoxing to do over the years, and it was nice to do it together. Seth was also an elder with an Acts 29 Network church, yes the Network that Mars Hill Church started. He was drawn to this church family because at the beginning they really wanted to live out being the church as we see in the scriptures. Within communities of love and service, not with big liturgies, rock concerts, and programs. But that only lasted so long as the pressures of building an institution in America often do. He transferred from eldership to move to Phoenix because he wanted to continue to progress in the values of being the church not going to church, but the institution desired otherwise and moving on was inevitable. The institution of things often take over the heart of things and when that happens people have to move on. This is not to say that everyone in the institution is bad or evil or silent. Many helped him in the transition and treated him as family. But unfortunately, others did not. So, when your forced to move on from what you thought was family because the machine wants to institutionalize not communalize you're left with our conversation. Maybe we should start having these conversations before we are kicked out or have to move on. Website: www.LosingOurReligion.orgCounterCulture Society: http://eepurl.com/bwqMWTSeth McBee: http://sethmcbee.me/ Call and tell us your story: (206) 395-5608

It's funny how often the friends that you need in certain seasons tend to show up. Although I know that's not all of our stories, because there's been many seasons of hard times in my life that no one showed up. Seth was a friend that came into my life right after I left the machine (aka institutional mega-church). We've both had a lot of institutional detoxing to do over the years, and it was nice to do it together. Seth was also an elder with an Acts 29 Network church, yes the Network that Mars Hill Church started. He was drawn to this church family because at the beginning they really wanted to live out being the church as we see in the scriptures. Within communities of love and service, not with big liturgies, rock concerts, and programs. But that only lasted so long as the pressures of building an institution in America often do. He transferred from eldership to move to Phoenix because he wanted to continue to progress in the values of being the church not going to church, but the institution desired otherwise and moving on was inevitable. The institution of things often take over the heart of things and when that happens people have to move on. This is not to say that everyone in the institution is bad or evil or silent. Many helped him in the transition and treated him as family. But unfortunately, others did not. So, when your forced to move on from what you thought was family because the machine wants to institutionalize not communalize you're left with our conversation. Maybe we should start having these conversations before we are kicked out or have to move on. Website: <a href="http://www.LosingOurReligion.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.LosingOurReligion.org</a>CounterCulture Society: <a href="http://eepurl.com/bwqMWT" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://eepurl.com/bwqMWT</a>Seth McBee: <a href="http://sethmcbee.me/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://sethmcbee.me/</a> Call and tell us your story: (206) 395-5608

EPISODE 009: Things Being Learned After the Institution: Seth McBee

Seth McBee is lighting up the streets with inspiration and LED's. He is the co-founder of You Saw Me, a start-up concentrating on the design, manufacturing, and marketing of their first patented product: a reflective vest (The Verve) with custom-color LED lights embedded inside for athletes, police, military, and various other consumers. Its 60 custom color, waterproof LEDs can be seen from over a mile away in any direction. With engineering backgrounds and entrepreneurial bugs, Seth and his partner Kevin are putting everything they have into a strategic process wrapped with product development, market research, and future scalability. These vests are so?.f*****g... awesome. Here are the highlights of my funky conversation with Seth: 06:06 - Being a young entrepreneur, filing patents back in 2009, studying Engineering at the University of Maryland, bringing his talents to Virginia as a nuclear engineer, and finally landing in Lexington in 2013 to pursue his passion, / 10:07 - Where their idea originated and how customer feedback influenced the development of their product, / 14:21 - About their first prototype, the processes and halts it went through and the next versions which came out after their tinkering, / 17:29 - The challenges he faced including the rejections, discouragements, critics and all the ups and downs, and the things he learned and what he considers his successes so far, / 22:54 - Networking, partnering with startup incubators such as Awesome, Inc., and the support he got from the community, / 28:48 - Lessons learned from his unsuccessful Kickstarter campaign and how it led them to be featured in the Fast Company website,

Seth McBee is lighting up the streets with inspiration and LED's. He is the co-founder of You Saw Me, a start-up concentrating on the design, manufacturing, and marketing of their first patented product: a reflective vest (The Verve) with custom-color LED lights embedded inside for athletes, police, military, and various other consumers. Its 60 custom color, waterproof LEDs can be seen from over a mile away in any direction. With engineering backgrounds and entrepreneurial bugs, Seth and his partner Kevin are putting everything they have into a strategic process wrapped with product development, market research, and future scalability. These vests are so?.f*****g... awesome. Here are the highlights of my funky conversation with Seth: 06:06 - Being a young entrepreneur, filing patents back in 2009, studying Engineering at the University of Maryland, bringing his talents to Virginia as a nuclear engineer, and finally landing in Lexington in 2013 to pursue his passion, / 10:07 - Where their idea originated and how customer feedback influenced the development of their product, / 14:21 - About their first prototype, the processes and halts it went through and the next versions which came out after their tinkering, / 17:29 - The challenges he faced including the rejections, discouragements, critics and all the ups and downs, and the things he learned and what he considers his successes so far, / 22:54 - Networking, partnering with startup incubators such as Awesome, Inc., and the support he got from the community, / 28:48 - Lessons learned from his unsuccessful Kickstarter campaign and how it led them to be featured in the Fast Company website,

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