When I first met Brother Henry, I knew him as a businessman. Over time, he became a business partner. Somewhere along the way, he became my friend.

But what I have come to respect most about him has very little to do with business.



It is his fruit.

I pay close attention to what happens around people. Anybody can tell you who they are. I watch how people respond when that person walks into a room, when they speak, when they ask something of somebody, and especially when there is nothing obvious for the other person to gain.

People move when Brother Henry speaks.

They listen to him. They trust him. They respond to him. And they often do it quickly.

You cannot manufacture that kind of influence for very long. Titles cannot give it to you. Money cannot buy it. Charisma alone cannot sustain it. Eventually, people discover what kind of man they are dealing with.

That is why I believe influence is fruit.

What people consistently produce around you tells us something about what has been growing inside you.

Brother Henry has become an inspiration to me in both his faith and his leadership. I have watched him carry strength without needing to advertise his strength. He is one of the few people I know who can be genuinely powerful in his own right and still remain humble enough to be a student.

That combination is rare.

He is an extremely intelligent man, but his intelligence is not limited to books. He understands people. He understands timing. He understands rooms. He understands when to speak, when to listen, when to push, and when to leave something alone.

His emotional intelligence is extraordinary.

Some people know business but do not know people. Others know people but cannot turn understanding into results. Brother Henry can do both.

He knows how to make money.

He also knows how to lose.

And that matters to me almost as much as knowing how to win.

I have seen enough life and enough business to know that you do not really know a person when everything is working. You learn who somebody is when the numbers are wrong, the plan fails, the pressure rises, or the outcome does not go their way.

I have never seen Brother Henry fold.

I have seen him absorb the loss, learn what needs to be learned, and keep moving. I have seen him win without becoming arrogant and lose without becoming defeated.

That tells me far more about a man than a résumé ever could.

We have made real money together. We have worked together across multiple ventures and opportunities. Inside my own company, he has become one of the most influential people around the platform—not because I appointed him to be, but because people follow what they trust.

A remarkable number of some of our earliest people came through Brother Henry’s influence.

That means something to me.

He did not merely tell people about something I built. His credibility transferred enough trust for people to take a look, listen, and move.

You cannot ask for a stronger endorsement of a person’s reputation than that.

There are plenty of people I can do business with.

There are fewer people I can learn from.

There are fewer still whom I can watch as a man, as a leader, as a person of faith, and say, there is something there worth studying.

Brother Henry is one of those men.

I am grateful for the money we have made together. I am grateful for the business we have built together. But I am even more grateful for the friendship that grew out of it.

Because money will tell you whether somebody can produce.

Pressure will tell you whether somebody can endure.

But people—the people who willingly gather around a man, listen to him, trust him, and move with him—will tell you something about his character.

And everywhere I have watched Brother Henry go, I have seen good fruit.

That is my testimony about him.