Faith Driven Entrepreneur exists to encourage, equip, empower, and support Christ-following entrepreneurially-minded people worldwide with world-class content and community. Here, you'll find conversations with business leaders from around the world who will share how their faith affects their work.
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Episode 302 - Scaling an Ice Cream Empire. Overcoming Challenges. Finding God's Peace. with Blue Bell's Ricky Dickson
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Ricky Dickson, the retired CEO of Blue Bell Ice Cream, joins the Faith Driven Entrepreneur podcast to discuss his experience leading and scaling a national company through growth and incredible pitfalls. Using his new book, One Scoop at a Time, as a backdrop, Ricky shares how his 40+ year career at Blue Bell started right after college. He gives an…
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Episode 301 - How Entrepreneurs Can Develop Enduring Friendships with Dr. Bryan Lorrits
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In this episode of the Faith Driven Entrepreneur Podcast, Dr. Bryan Loritts joins Joey Honescko and William Norvell to discuss the importance of deep, long-lasting friendships in the context of entrepreneurship. Pulling from his new book, Enduring Friendships: Sticking Together in an Age of Unfriending, Dr. Loritts emphasizes the need for what he c…
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Episode 300 - The Entrepreneur’s Greatest Need: The Riff with Henry Kaestner and Justin Forman
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It’s our 300th episode! In this conversation Joey Honescko, Henry Kaestner, and Justin Forman celebrate the growth and evolution of the podcast and the entire Faith Driven Movement. They reflect on all that God has done over the past five years and dive deep into the importance of community for faith-driven entrepreneurs. The three wrestle with the…
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Episode 299 - Three Views on Layoffs with Vic Ho, Rusty Rueff, and Daniel Fong
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One of the hardest realities in the life of every Faith Driven Entrepreneur is that things often don't go as planned. Unforeseen circumstances can cause all sorts of issues in a company, and sometimes those circumstances affect the people we employ. In this episode, we're going to look at layoffs. How can we think well about these difficult situati…
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Episode 298 - Why This Founder Implemented a No-Firing Policy
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Why would a founder decide to never fire anyone? Dylan Wilk, CEO of Human Nature, joins the Faith Driven Entrepreneur podcast to share the story behind the company’s no firing policy and to explain why he believes grace and forgiveness are the greatest HR policies. He recounts a situation where an employee stole from the company and instead of firi…
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Episode 297 - A Transformation from Greed to Grace: Stories of the Movement with Human Nature's Dylan Wilk
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Imagine you’ve reached every expected height of success before you turned 25 and then God tells you to leave it behind. How would you respond? Dylan Wilk experienced incredible entrepreneurial highs at a young age. He flew to work in a helicopter, traveled by private jet, and kept Ferraris and Porches in his garage. And then, one day, a tragedy cau…
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Episode 296 - Andy Crouch, Patrick Lencioni, and Mary Miller Talk Practical Steps for Improving Company Culture
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Entrepreneurs have the ability to create a workplace where people can flourish, but we have to act on that ability in order to make that happen. So in this masterclass-style episode, we're going to dive in a little deeper on this topic. The episode is organized in three parts, heart, head, and hands. Author Andy Crouch will kick us off by talking a…
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Episode 295 - The Business of Making Baseball Fun with Savannah Bananas' Jared Orton
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Jared Orton is the President of the Savannah Bananas, a baseball team unlike any you’ve seen before. They create an entertainment experience that’s part dance performance, part trick plays, and part competitive baseball. Jared has experienced all the ups and downs that come from innovating in a space with a legacy. Since the organization’s founding…
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Episode 294 - Creating Culture Worth Celebrating: Stories of the Movement with Booster's Chris Carneal
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Culture can be a bit of a buzzword. What does it really mean for a company to have values and an identity? And how can leaders of those companies make sure those values don’t just become another page on the website or words on a wall in the office? In this episode of Stories of the Movement, we’ll hear about Booster, one of the largest school fundr…
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Episode 293 - The Riff: Fighting Identity and Idols Throughout the Entrepreneurial Journey
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In this episode, Joey Honescko, Henry Kaestner, and Justin Forman discuss the themes of battling idolatry and identity in entrepreneurship. They emphasize the importance of seeking the Holy Spirit and aligning one's identity with Christ, share personal experiences of wrestling with idolatry and the need for approval, and highlight the significance …
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Episode 292 - Three Views on Hearing From God with Nicky Gumbel, Kim Avery, and Jeremy Lin
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The best way to fight against idolatry is to seek the voice of God. So, what does that actually look like? In this episode, we're going to hear three perspectives from three incredible leaders around the world. We'll head first to the UK to hear from priest and author, Nicky Gumbel for a chat he had with Henry about a framework he has for hearing t…
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Episode 291 - How a Venture Capitalist, Serial Entrepreneur, and Basketball Team Owner Finds His Identity in Christ with Phil Chen
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What do you get when you mix a trained physicist, a seminary grad, an entrepreneur, and a Silicon valley venture capitalist? In the case of this episode, you get an awesome guest who somehow checks all those boxes. Phil Chen is the CEO of cold electric and the owner of the new Taipei Kings, a basketball team, in the recently founded Taiwanese pro l…
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Episode 290 - Stories of the Movement: Can Sacrifice be a Road to Victory?
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Imagine you're a young entrepreneur with a lot of promise. You've got grit. You've got vision. You've even read zero to one. And recently you acquired some substantial wealth. But there's still one problem. You and your partner have had some pretty strong disagreements and it's time to part ways. For the most part, you've done all the hard work. Yo…
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Episode 289 - Kids' Sports and Other Hidden Idols with Patrick Lencioni, Henry Kaestner, and Justin Forman
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In this edition of the “riff,” Patrick Lencioni joins Henry Kaestner for a short conversation about some of the hidden idols of entrepreneurship. Then, Joey, Justin, and Henry dive further in, examining how we easily turn good things into gods. Justin and Henry share how they have learned to fight against the temptation of “safe” idols by practicin…
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Episode 288 - Entrepreneurs and Pastors: More Alike or Different? with Mark Batterson, Chip Ingram, and John Mark Comer
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“For every church we plant, we need to start a business.” - Mark Batterson Can Faith Driven Entrepreneurs really partner with their churches? What would that partnership even look like? In last week’s episode, we talked about the need for partnerships between entrepreneurs and pastors. In this episode, we highlight the voices of three pastors–Mark …
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Episode 287 - What’s Stopping Entrepreneurs From Partnering with the Church? with Barna Group's David Kinnaman
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Entrepreneur: what is your relationship like with your church? (We really want to know!) Church leaders and entrepreneurs have the potential to be radical partners who influence and impact communities for the glory of God together. But often, we find a strange divide between these two groups that interferes with the good work they could be doing to…
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Episode 286 - Going Public. Staying Humble: Overcoming The Hidden Challenges of Great Success with AR/VR Innovator Renji Bijoy
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Everyone has different end goals for what they’d call ultimate success, but most of us are chasing after something. For many entrepreneurs, “going public” stands as the ultimate sign that you’ve truly “made it.” And if that’s the case, then today’s guest, Renji Bijoy, is on the verge of making it. But that’s not what keeps him going. Renji is the C…
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Episode 285 - Love and (Dis)respect at Home and at Work with Dr. Emerson Eggerichs
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Dr. Emerson Eggerichs and special guest host Mike Sharrow join the show to take a candid look at how entrepreneurs can overcome the challenges they face in their personal and professional relationships. Dr. Eggerichs is a renowned counselor and author, as well as the founder of Love and Respect, a ministry that grew from the success of his best-sel…
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Episode 284 - Entrepreneur: Are You Caring for Your Team? with Stephen Phelan of Movement Mortgage
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Do you ever feel like you're so fixated on what you're building next that you forget to look at the opportunities right in front of you? Right now people around the world are looking for meaning, purpose, and value. And many of them are searching for those things through their jobs. So that means you, as a founder, have a chance to provide these pe…
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Episode 283 - Stories of the Movement: The 2008 Turnaround
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Why would an entrepreneur start a Mortgage company in the midst of the housing crisis? In this new segment called “Stories of the Movement,” we take a narratively compelling, high-production look at the work of Faith Driven Entrepreneurs living out their call to create. The goal is to unite the movement through stories because every Faith Driven En…
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Episode 282 - Have You Made Money Your Valentine? with Andy Crouch, Randy Alcorn, and Tom Hsieh
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The middle of February is often filled with commercialized images of love. Flowers, chocolates, those little chalky tasting heart candies with sweet messages. It all revolves around Valentine’s Day. And in between booking restaurant reservations or talking about how you reject the hallmark holiday, we might stop to ask ourselves, what do we really …
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Episode 281 - How to Develop a Prayer Life (That Doesn't Stink) with Peter Greer
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Can we just be honest with ourselves and admit that, for most of us, our prayer lives stink? We all know we’re supposed to pray. We’ve read where Paul tells us to pray without ceasing. Maybe we’ve even tried instilling new habits, only to have them fall apart shortly after we test them out. It might even feel defeating at this point–as if prayer is…
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Episode 280 - Thinking Beyond the Great Commission with Jordan Raynor
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In this conversation, Jordan Raynor challenges the belief that the only way our work matters for eternity is if we use it to share the gospel, arguing that our work has intrinsic value to God. He’ll build upon half truths to make them whole by tracing the story back to what he calls “the first commission:” the command to be ambassadors for God on t…
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Episode 279 - Is the Church Winning? with Henry Kaestner and Justin Forman
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As Christians, we can easily get wrapped up in this belief that the church is on the losing side of history. We feel the shifting winds of culture blow away from us. We hear story after story of major church leaders either leaving the faith or succumbing to some sort of moral failure. It makes sense to ask ourselves: where are our wins? Where does …
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Episode 278 - Managing Anxiety, Depression, and Mental Health for Entrepreneur with Maxwell Anderson, Steve Cuss, and Curt Thompson
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Entrepreneurs are on the cusp of a mental health crisis. Anxiety. Depression. Loneliness. These are just as familiar as innovation, grit, and leadership. We feel the stress that comes from building something new. We carry the burden of our teams, knowing they and their families have trusted us and the vision we’ve been given. Entrepreneurship can b…
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