[cs_section id=”entrepreneur” class=”center-text ” style=”margin: 0px; padding: 50px 0px; ” bg_image=”https://wadetmyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/wadeshakinghands.png” parallax=”true” bg_color=”#ffffff”][cs_row style=”margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; ” inner_container=”true”][cs_column style=”padding: 0px; ” fade=”true” fade_animation=”in-from-left” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″][x_gap size=”50px” class=”x-hide-xs x-hide-sm x-hide-md “][cs_text text_align=”left-text”]ENTREPRENEUR [icon type=”connectdevelop”][/cs_text][x_line style=”border-color:#1e73be;”][/cs_column][/cs_row][cs_row style=”margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; ” inner_container=”true”][cs_column style=”padding: 0px; ” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”2/3″][cs_text style=”font-size:15px;font-weight:thin;letter-spacing:1.5px;color:#ffffff;” text_align=”left-text”]Wade founded/co-founded and served as a board director of over 25 companies and has completed 55 financing and M&A transactions as part of his business building strategy. He started selling door-to-door as a boy and worked full time most of his high school and college years at many jobs and at-risk ventures to put himself through school.
His startup and business building focus has been on software and IT-enabled services companies that have high gross margins, recurring revenue, and repeatable and scalable offerings. His startups have included a firm that grew into a global IT services company that was capitalized with $75m in venture capital prior to selling to a public company and an Inc. 5000 nationwide tech-enabled real estate services company that has grown into the tenth largest firm among several thousand competitors in its industry.[/cs_text][/cs_column][cs_column style=”padding: 0px; ” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/3″] [/cs_column][/cs_row][cs_row style=”margin: 0px auto; padding: 50px 0px 0px; max-width: 650px;” inner_container=”true”][cs_column style=”padding: 0px; ” fade=”true” fade_animation=”in-from-top” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″][x_gap size=”300px” class=”x-hide-xs x-hide-sm x-hide-md “][/cs_column][/cs_row][/cs_section][cs_section id=”advisor” style=”margin: 0px; padding: 50px 0px; ” bg_image=”https://wadetmyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/wadesitting.png” parallax=”true” bg_color=”#d6d6d6″][cs_row style=”margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; ” inner_container=”true”][cs_column style=”padding: 0px; ” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″][x_gap size=”50px” class=”x-hide-xs x-hide-sm x-hide-md “][/cs_column][/cs_row][cs_row style=”margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; ” inner_container=”true”][cs_column style=”padding: 0px; ” fade=”true” fade_animation=”in-from-left” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″][cs_text]ADVISOR [icon type=”connectdevelop”][/cs_text][x_line style=”border-color:#1e73be;”][/cs_column][/cs_row][cs_row style=”margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; ” inner_container=”true”][cs_column style=”padding: 0px; ” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/2″][cs_text]ABOUT[/cs_text][cs_text style=”font-size:15px;font-weight:thin;letter-spacing:1.5px;color:#ffffff;”]Wade’s advisory skills were honed while at the Boston Consulting Group, one of the world’s leading strategy consulting firms where he consulted with clients on strategy, growth, and transformation. One of his most notable achievements was helping set the stage for the transformation of travel distribution by delivering the foundational strategy for the largest Internet-based travel agency and the strategy for the first ticketless airline process for the largest U.S. airline.Wade is an active advisor to select entrepreneurs, management teams, and corporate executives at all stages of business from startup to middle market to global 2000. His primary focus with clients is planning, financing, marketing, technology, and growth strategy. He advises clients via Boldmore Growth Partners.[/cs_text][/cs_column][cs_column style=”padding: 0px; ” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/2″][cs_text]RESOURCES[/cs_text][x_tab_nav type=”two-up” float=”top”][x_tab_nav_item title=”VENTURE ACADEMY” active=”true”][x_tab_nav_item title=”CROWN BUSINESS” active=”false”][/x_tab_nav][x_tabs][x_tab active=”true”]VENTURE ACADEMY ONLINE is a video-based faith-based entrepreneurship training program featuring lectures, Harvard Business School case study discussions and workshops designed to equip entrepreneurs with the business skills to plan, launch and manage an entrepreneurial venture or a family business.
[gap size=”10px”]
[/x_tab][x_tab active=”false”]THE CROWN BUSINESS CHANNEL was co-founded with Crown Financial Ministries and is a faith-based business and entrepreneurship destination on the internet to inspire, inform, and instruct entrepreneurs with proven practices and principles to help them grow their business for maximum impact.
[gap size=”10px”]
[/x_tab][/x_tabs][x_accordion style=”letter-spacing:2px;font-size:12px;font-color:#000000;”][x_accordion_item title=”WHITE PAPERS” open=”false”]Add some content to your accordion item here.[/x_accordion_item][/x_accordion][/cs_column][/cs_row][cs_row style=”margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; ” inner_container=”true”][cs_column style=”padding: 0px; ” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″][x_gap size=”350px” class=”x-hide-xs x-hide-sm x-hide-md “][/cs_column][/cs_row][/cs_section][cs_section id=”investor” class=”center-text ” style=”margin: 0px; padding: 50px 0px; ” bg_image=”https://wadetmyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Investor_Placeholder.png” parallax=”true” bg_color=”#207232″][cs_row style=”margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; ” inner_container=”true”][cs_column style=”padding: 0px; ” fade=”true” fade_animation=”in-from-left” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″][x_gap size=”50px” class=”x-hide-xs x-hide-sm x-hide-md “][cs_text text_align=”left-text”]INVESTOR [icon type=”connectdevelop”][/cs_text][x_line style=”border-color:#1e73be;”][/cs_column][/cs_row][cs_row style=”margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; ” inner_container=”true”][cs_column style=”padding: 0px; ” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”2/3″][cs_text style=”font-size:15px;font-weight:thin;letter-spacing:1.5px;color:#ffffff;” text_align=”left-text”]Wade manages a film fund that invests in family-friendly films in a partnership with a producer group that is producing a slate of films for major theatrical release in collaboration with a major film studio.
He also sponsors private equity investments through Boldmore Growth Partners.
Wade has been the chairman of a seed capital firm, venture partner for two venture capital firms, and board member of an $850m investment firm.
He has made over 25 angel investments in early-stage software and IT-enabled services firms.[/cs_text][/cs_column][cs_column style=”padding: 0px; ” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/3″][x_gap size=”350px” class=”x-hide-xs x-hide-sm x-hide-md “][/cs_column][/cs_row][cs_row style=”margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; ” inner_container=”true”][cs_column style=”padding: 0px; ” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″][x_gap size=”350px” class=”x-hide-xs x-hide-sm x-hide-md “][/cs_column][/cs_row][/cs_section][cs_section id=”speaker” style=”margin: 0px; padding: 50px 0px; ” bg_image=”https://wadetmyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/wadespeaking.png” parallax=”true” bg_color=”#606060″][cs_row style=”margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; ” inner_container=”true”][cs_column style=”padding: 0px; ” fade=”true” fade_animation=”in-from-left” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″][x_gap size=”50px” class=”x-hide-xs x-hide-sm x-hide-md “][cs_text]SPEAKER [icon type=”connectdevelop”][/cs_text][x_line style=”border-color:#1e73be;”][/cs_column][/cs_row][cs_row style=”margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; ” inner_container=”true”][cs_column style=”padding: 0px; ” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″][cs_text style=”font-size:15px;font-weight:thin;letter-spacing:1.5px;color:#ffffff;”]Wade has been a featured speaker at investment banking, venture capital, private equity, technology, and entrepreneurship conferences. He has also taught seminars at top business schools. Wade’s topics typically include:[/cs_text][/cs_column][/cs_row][cs_row style=”margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; ” inner_container=”true”][cs_column style=”padding: 0px; ” fade=”true” fade_animation=”in-from-left” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/3″][x_icon_list style=”font-size:15px;font-weight:thin;letter-spacing:3px;color:#ffffff;”][x_icon_list_item type=”angle-right”]ENTREPRENEURSHIP[/x_icon_list_item][x_icon_list_item type=”angle-right”]STARTUPS[/x_icon_list_item][x_icon_list_item type=”angle-right”]FINANCING STRATEGY[/x_icon_list_item][x_icon_list_item type=”angle-right”]GROWTH STRATEGY[/x_icon_list_item][/x_icon_list][/cs_column][cs_column style=”padding: 0px; ” fade=”true” fade_animation=”in-from-left” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/3″][x_icon_list style=”font-size:15px;font-weight:thin;letter-spacing:3px;color:#ffffff;”][x_icon_list_item type=”angle-right”]M&A STRATEGY[/x_icon_list_item][x_icon_list_item type=”angle-right”]FAMILY BUSINESS[/x_icon_list_item][x_icon_list_item type=”angle-right”]FAITH-BASED BUSINESS[/x_icon_list_item][x_icon_list_item type=”angle-right”]EXIT STRATEGY[/x_icon_list_item][/x_icon_list][/cs_column][cs_column style=”padding: 0px; ” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/3″] [/cs_column][/cs_row][cs_row style=”margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; ” inner_container=”true”][cs_column style=”padding: 0px; ” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″][x_gap size=”100px”][/cs_column][/cs_row][cs_row style=”margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; ” inner_container=”true”][cs_column class=”center-text ” style=”padding: 0px; ” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/2″][x_button size=”large” block=”true” circle=”false” icon_only=”false” href=”https://wadetmyers.com/#contact” title=”” target=”” info=”none” info_place=”top” info_trigger=”hover” info_content=””][x_icon type=”calendar-minus-o”]BOOK WADE FOR SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT[/x_button][/cs_column][cs_column class=”center-text ” style=”padding: 0px; ” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/2″][x_button size=”large” block=”true” circle=”false” icon_only=”false” href=”#” title=”” target=”” info=”none” info_place=”top” info_trigger=”hover” info_content=””][x_icon type=”download”]DOWNLOAD WADE’S BIO[/x_button][/cs_column][/cs_row][cs_row style=”margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; ” inner_container=”true”][cs_column style=”padding: 0px; ” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″][x_gap size=”350px” class=”x-hide-xs x-hide-sm x-hide-md “][/cs_column][/cs_row][/cs_section][cs_section id=”early-years” class=”center-text ” style=”margin: 0px; padding: 65px 0px; ” bg_image=”https://wadetmyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/wadespeaking2.png” parallax=”true” bg_color=”#ffffff”][cs_row style=”margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; ” inner_container=”true”][cs_column style=”padding: 0px; ” fade=”true” fade_animation=”in-from-left” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″][x_gap size=”50px” class=”x-hide-xs x-hide-sm x-hide-md “][cs_text text_align=”left-text”]EARLY YEARS [icon type=”connectdevelop”][/cs_text][x_line style=”border-color:#1e73be;”][/cs_column][/cs_row][cs_row style=”margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; ” inner_container=”true”][cs_column class=”left-text ” style=”padding: 0px; ” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″][x_tab_nav type=”five-up” float=”left”][x_tab_nav_item title=”BOY” active=”true”][x_tab_nav_item title=”TEEN” active=”false”][x_tab_nav_item title=”YOUNG MAN” active=”false”][x_tab_nav_item title=”SOLDIER” active=”false”][x_tab_nav_item title=”PROFESSIONAL” active=”false”][/x_tab_nav][x_tabs][x_tab active=”true”]Wade attended a small red brick elementary school in rural North Dakota with seven children in his grade and graduated from high school at the nearby county school with 33 classmates.
He started working as a roofer’s assistant after school in the sixth grade. In high school he often worked the midnight to 8 AM shift at a local truck stop. He did his homework at the counter between refueling eighteen-wheelers, changing oil, and selling tires. After clocking out when the manager arrived in the morning, he showered in the trucker’s shower and raced to school to beat the morning bell.[/x_tab][x_tab active=”false”]He was determined to go to Alaska after high school to weld on the pipeline to increase his hourly pay, but his best friend talked Wade into driving with him to college. Wade never caught the bus back home as planned after the road trip. Instead, he enrolled in college and took the first job he came to in the want ads (as a breakfast cook) to pay his tuition while crashing on a cot at his sister’s home. He ended up staying in college.[/x_tab][x_tab active=”false”]Wade graduated with honors from North Dakota State University with a Bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Economics. He worked full time during college at various jobs and entrepreneurial pursuits. His roles included computer programmer, teacher’s assistant, heavy equipment operator (during the summers – it paid the most), and as a dance and concert producer. He washed dishes for his fraternity in exchange for meals. He joined ROTC because he needed the $100 per month and he was interested in serving his country after college. He graduated with honors.[/x_tab][x_tab active=”false”]While serving as a full-time military officer, Wade graduated from Texas A&M University’s Central Texas campus with a Master’s degree in Computer Information Systems with a perfect 4.00.
After returning from fighting in the Gulf War, Wade considered an MBA to further prepare to be an entrepreneur, but he was so busy working that he did not have time to study for the GMAT. Consequently he applied to the only MBA program that did not require a GMAT that year and was accepted by the Harvard Business School where he graduated as a Baker Scholar (a designation for the top 5% of the class of 918 students). Wade worked as a consultant during school to help pay the bills.[/x_tab][x_tab active=”false”]Wade continued his affiliation with Harvard as a research fellow and worked with two HBS professors to create an executive education program in Strategic Sales Management. His role included case study authoring and helping teach the first session of the program. While Harvard’s interest in his return to the school to get a Doctorate degree and stay on as a professor was attractive, his burgeoning family and entrepreneurial pursuits kept him too busy to seriously consider the opportunity.[/x_tab][/x_tabs][/cs_column][/cs_row][cs_row style=”margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; max-width: 650px;” inner_container=”true”][cs_column style=”padding: 0px; ” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″][x_gap size=”350px” class=”x-hide-xs x-hide-sm x-hide-md “][/cs_column][/cs_row][/cs_section][cs_section id=”soldier” style=”margin: 0px; padding: 50px 0px; ” bg_image=”https://wadetmyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Soldier_Wade.png” parallax=”true” bg_color=”#606060″][cs_row style=”margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; ” inner_container=”true”][cs_column style=”padding: 0px; ” fade=”true” fade_animation=”in-from-left” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″][x_gap size=”50px” class=”x-hide-xs x-hide-sm x-hide-md “][cs_text]SOLDIER [icon type=”connectdevelop”][/cs_text][x_line style=”border-color:#1e73be;”][/cs_column][/cs_row][cs_row style=”margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; ” inner_container=”true”][cs_column style=”padding: 0px; ” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″][x_tab_nav type=”four-up” float=”left”][x_tab_nav_item title=”ARMY RANGER” active=”true”][x_tab_nav_item title=”SPECIALLY TRAINED” active=”false”][x_tab_nav_item title=”SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS” active=”false”][x_tab_nav_item title=”ACHIEVEMENTS” active=”false”][/x_tab_nav][x_tabs][x_tab active=”true”]Wade graduated from NDSU as a Distinguished Military Graduate in ROTC and accepted a regular army commission as an Engineer officer. He attended the Engineer Officer’s Basic Course in Fort Belvoir, VA where he graduated at the top of his class. While at the training he was talked into applying for Ranger training by two of his friends. During the grueling program Wade lost 59 pounds on the meager rations and no scheduled sleep (meant to simulate the rigors of combat). He probably wouldn’t have made it through the training without the encouragement of his friends and the wild berries he gobbled up during the Mountain phase.[/x_tab][x_tab active=”false”]He went on to attend several other specialized training programs including atomic demolitions and munitions training, Airborne, Air Assault, and several explosives programs. His first assignment was commanding a 30-man special weapons unit that was trained to deploy regular and atomic demolitions anywhere in the world. He also helped develop new military doctrine for atomic demolitions and developmental liquid and slurry-based explosives. His assignments included serving as an executive officer for a 120-man engineer company.[/x_tab][x_tab active=”false”]His desire to return to special operations was met with orders instead to go to Turkey and build a dam as an engineer, so he resigned his commission and headed to the corporate world.
Wade continued his military service during his stint at Mobil Chemical by serving in the Army Reserves where he commanded a 160-person combat engineer company and held several facilities engineer positions. He re-entered active duty to fight in the Gulf War and was a facilities management operations executive for 600,000 soldiers and Arab liaison officer to the Northern Arab Command. He quickly learned just enough Arabic to endear himself to close Arab friends while landing in trouble on a few occasions that thankfully turned into humorous anecdotes rather than creating an international crisis.[/x_tab][x_tab active=”false”]His military decorations include the Bronze Star, Southwest Asia Service Medal with two bronze service stars, National Defense Service Medal, Kuwait Liberation Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal, Army Service Ribbon, Ranger Tab, Parachutist Badge, Air Assault Badge, and ROTC Distinguished Military Graduate.
Wade held a top-secret security clearance with NATO cosmic atomal access privileges.[/x_tab][/x_tabs][/cs_column][/cs_row][cs_row style=”margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; ” inner_container=”true”][cs_column style=”padding: 0px; ” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″][x_gap size=”350px” class=”x-hide-xs x-hide-sm x-hide-md “][/cs_column][/cs_row][/cs_section][cs_section id=”corporate-executive” style=”margin: 0px; padding: 50px 0px; ” bg_image=”https://wadetmyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Investor_Placeholder.png” parallax=”true” bg_color=”#606060″][cs_row style=”margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; ” inner_container=”true”][cs_column style=”padding: 0px; ” fade=”true” fade_animation=”in-from-left” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″][x_gap size=”50px” class=”x-hide-xs x-hide-sm x-hide-md “][cs_text]CORPORATE EXECUTIVE [icon type=”connectdevelop”][/cs_text][x_line style=”border-color:#1e73be;”][/cs_column][/cs_row][cs_row style=”margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; ” inner_container=”true”][cs_column style=”padding: 0px; ” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″][x_tab_nav type=”two-up” float=”top”][x_tab_nav_item title=”CORPORATE LADDER” active=”true”][x_tab_nav_item title=”GULF WAR” active=”false”][/x_tab_nav][x_tabs][x_tab active=”true”]Wade left the military to climb the corporate ladder at the Plastics Packaging division of Mobil Chemical, a subsidiary of what was then the Mobil Corporation (now ExxonMobil). He held several positions starting as a territory Sales Representative for the state of Wisconsin, and was promoted to higher levels of responsibility including the roles of Regional Product Manager, Regional Sales Manager, Regional Product/Sales Manager, and culminating as a National Market Development Manager with executive marketing and product management responsibilities for a $150 million national product line.[/x_tab][x_tab active=”false”]His time at Mobil was interrupted for six months when he was recalled to active duty to serve in the Gulf War in 1991. While the pace of corporate life was intense and time consuming, Wade learned much from the comprehensive training and development programs and the five positions he held during his seven years at the company. While he was usually embarrassed to admit that he sold plastic trash bags, plastic grocery bags, and disposable foam plates, bowls, and meat trays for a living, the experience of sales, marketing, negotiation, and leadership equipped him well to be an entrepreneur later in his career.[/x_tab][/x_tabs][/cs_column][/cs_row][cs_row style=”margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; ” inner_container=”true”][cs_column style=”padding: 0px; ” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″][x_gap size=”350px” class=”x-hide-xs x-hide-sm x-hide-md “][/cs_column][/cs_row][/cs_section][cs_section id=”personal” style=”margin: 0px; padding: 50px 0px; ” bg_image=”https://wadetmyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Family.png” parallax=”true” bg_color=”#606060″][cs_row style=”margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; ” inner_container=”true”][cs_column style=”padding: 0px; ” fade=”true” fade_animation=”in-from-left” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″][x_gap size=”50px” class=”x-hide-xs x-hide-sm x-hide-md “][cs_text]PERSONAL [icon type=”connectdevelop”][/cs_text][x_line style=”border-color:#1e73be;”][/cs_column][/cs_row][cs_row style=”margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; ” inner_container=”true”][cs_column style=”padding: 0px; ” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”4/5″][x_tab_nav type=”three-up” float=”top”][x_tab_nav_item title=”FAMILY” active=”true”][x_tab_nav_item title=”GIVING BACK” active=”false”][x_tab_nav_item title=”FAITH” active=”false”][/x_tab_nav][x_tabs][x_tab active=”true”]Wade grew up on a small cattle ranch in the Badlands of western North Dakota. His father was Irish and his mother was from a German Mennonite family that moved to the area from a Mennonite colony in Indiana to take a land grant. Early family life was greatly influenced by Mennonite teachings and lifestyle.
The lack of resources and infrastructure meant he and his siblings were raised without electricity, without indoor plumbing, and without television (well there was a brief time of watching TV with a generator until Wade’s mother caught the kids watching cartoons instead of doing their chores). The family worked hard and enjoyed a simple rural life. His parents modeled a wonderful marriage, hard work, and the need for education, even though they themselves were not highly educated (8th grade and high school).
Wade was a voracious reader as a boy and his favorite summer break was sitting in the shade under a Chestnut crabapple tree munching on apples, reading adventure stories, and dreaming of one day seeing the world outside of his small, rural county.
Wade now enjoys all of the conveniences of technology and running water in his suburban home in the Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas area where he lives with his wife Andreanna their five children.[/x_tab][x_tab active=”false”]Wade and his family look for causes they can join forces with to give back in a meaningful way. Two of the family’s favorites are Pretty Purposeful and Crown Financial Ministries:
Wade and his wife Andreanna are enthusiastic supporters of Pretty Purposeful, a charity started and managed by two dynamic teen girls (their daughters, Julia and Maria). The charity is focused on providing education and medical care for girls and young women who suffer from obstetric fistula (the most widespread and painful of all childbirth injuries) in Africa.
Wade co-founded the Crown Business Channel, a part of Crown Financial Ministries, which has a global ministry with a presence in over 80 countries and publishes materials in over 100 languages which strives to equip servant leaders to live by God’s design for their finances, work, and life. [/x_tab][x_tab active=”false”]Although Wade flirted with faith earlier in life, his serious faith journey began in Dallas after graduate school where he was asked one evening by a smart, successful attorney whether or not he knew what would happen when he died. Wade responded that everyone could earn salvation through whatever religion they embraced, but he was challenged on the veracity of that response (“…how could everyone just make up their own rules about salvation and eternity and magically end up where they wanted to be?”) He was then encouraged to investigate the issue of faith with the same analytic rigor he used for clients in his work at the Boston Consulting Group.
Wade subsequently embarked on a personal journey of discovery and studied the historical, mathematical, prophetic, logical, bibliographic, archeological, and scientific evidence for the truths taught by each of the major religions. As a result, many inconsistencies with religious pluralism became readily apparent. All major religions – while embracing some common good – were vastly different in terms of what they considered true, what they taught about God, the condition of man, the basis of salvation, etc. Obviously they couldn’t possibly all be true – there were too many irreconcilable differences and it violated the law of noncontradiction. He began ruling out faith systems that failed his framework of truth: they were either logically inconsistent, lacked comprehensiveness, or lacked sufficient evidence.
Over that period of a year of intellectually-honest inquiry, Wade was reluctantly led to the answer that the Bible was uniquely true and that the historic person of Jesus Christ was real and needed to be dealt with: he could either accept Jesus or reject Jesus, but he couldn’t deny that Jesus existed and had made unique claims. Wade decided to make a commitment as a Christian. Faith, marriage, and family have become a priority that helped him be much more “others focused” with a goal of honoring God while developing high-quality, meaningful relationships. The end result is a purposeful life that is very fulfilling and enjoyable. Life isn’t any easier, but the lens through which he views the world – and the purpose for which he lives – is vastly different.
[should the faith statement be in a separate call out box – shaded, etc?][/x_tab][/x_tabs][/cs_column][cs_column style=”padding: 0px; ” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/5″] [/cs_column][/cs_row][cs_row style=”margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; ” inner_container=”true”][cs_column style=”padding: 0px; border-color:#ffffff;” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″][x_gap size=”350px” class=”x-hide-xs x-hide-sm x-hide-md “][/cs_column][/cs_row][/cs_section][cs_section id=”contact” style=”margin: 0px; padding: 45px 0px; ” bg_image=”https://wadetmyers.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/wadeprofile.png” parallax=”true”][cs_row style=”margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; ” inner_container=”true”][cs_column style=”padding: 0px; ” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″][x_gap size=”50px” class=”x-hide-xs x-hide-sm x-hide-md “][/cs_column][/cs_row][cs_row style=”margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; ” inner_container=”true”][cs_column style=”padding: 0px; ” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/1″][cs_text]CONTACT / SUBSCRIBE [icon type=”connectdevelop”][/cs_text][x_line style=”border-color:#1e73be;”][/cs_column][/cs_row][cs_row style=”margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; ” inner_container=”true”][cs_column style=”padding: 0px; ” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/2″][x_tab_nav type=”two-up” float=”left”][x_tab_nav_item title=”CONTACT WADE” active=”true”][x_tab_nav_item title=”SUBSCRIBE TO WADE” active=”false”][/x_tab_nav][x_tabs][x_tab active=”true”][contact-form-7 id=”82″ title=”CONTACT WADE MYERS”][/x_tab][x_tab active=”false”][x_section style=" padding: 20px;" bg_color="transparent"][x_row ][x_column type="1/1"]
[/x_column][/x_row][/x_section][/x_tab][/x_tabs][/cs_column][cs_column style=”padding: 0px; ” fade_animation=”in” fade_animation_offset=”45px” fade_duration=”750″ type=”1/2″] [/cs_column][/cs_row][/cs_section]