Welcome to the Sharp Business Growth podcast, where host Deacon Bradley shares his expertise in creating profitable, scalable growth with less stress for small business owners and leaders. This thoughtful and informative show delves into the core topics that propel businesses forward, such as online growth, marketing, hiring, management, leadership, and building high-performance teams.Each episode features in-depth conversations taking you behind the scenes with accomplished entrepreneurs an ...
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Real conversations with those living their Christian vocations in positions of influence: from bishops to business executives, activists to artists, scientists to songwriters, monks to marketers. With an intentional focus of featuring voices from diverse communities and cultures. Join Deacon Charlie Echeverry every Thursday on Living the CALL! A production of the Catholic Association for Latino Leadership. https://www.call-usa.org
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Eric is a serial entrepreneur, technologist and founder of community-based apps Catholify and Vineyard. He lives in Birmingham, AL with his wife and children. Website: https://vineyard.to/; https://catholify.com/By Catholic Association for Latino Leadership
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Ray Bradley | Sneaking Past the Watchful Dragons
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Ray Bradley is founder of Meta Narrative a film + media venture aimed at renewing culture through storytelling grounded in the Western canon. He digs on theology, narrative anthropology, and the sociocultural implications of religious practice on human flourishing in the context of postmodernity and the emerging culture of self-invention. https://w…
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John Donahue | Catholic Content That Doesn't Suck
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John Donahue is founder of Truth Charting a social media brand dedicated to conveying the great adventure and exhilaration of Catholicism.By Catholic Association for Latino Leadership
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Buchi O’Maria Akpati | A Life Without Mirrors: What Real Beauty is
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This week on Living the Call, Deacon Charlie sits down with returning guest Buchi O’Maria Akpati for a conversation about beauty. Founder and CEO of Beauty Unbound, which helps women realize their God-given beauty, Buchi shares about her background going from a professional celebrity make-up artist to a Carmelite religious. She talks about her time…
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Ryan Bethea is a producer, writer, host and creator of the world-wide #1 hit podcast, The Exorcist Files. Websites: https://ryanbethea.com/ https://www.exorcistfiles.tv/By Catholic Association for Latino Leadership
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Roxie Beckles | Leaving Christianity?
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Roxie is an International Federation of Bodybuilding pro & fitness coach. She also creates content for three YouTube channels. She currently reside in Los Angeles, CA. Website: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVzLHjmVvLE&t=1sBy Catholic Association for Latino Leadership
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The Art of Belief: AI, Animation, and the Apostolic
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Tim is an Academy Award Nominated Director, Animator and speaker. He is co-founder of Sycamore Studios and lives with his wife and children in Los Angeles.By Catholic Association for Latino Leadership
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Leo Severino is producer of Angel Studios' newest film, Cabrini. His film credits include Sound of Freedom, Bella and Little Boy, he is also Executive Producer of Kevin James' latest Netflix comedy special, Irregardless. He lives in Los Angeles. https://www.angel.com/movies/cabriniBy Catholic Association for Latino Leadership
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Jason Simon | You Can't Evangelize Someone You Don't Love (Best of)
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This week on a "Best Of" Living the Call, Deacon Charlie sits down with Jason Simon: husband, father of six and President of The Evangelical Catholic. After briefly working in engineering, Jason served as a parish Director of Religious Education and Youth Ministry. There, he saw the power of evangelization and his passion to see more lives impacted…
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Brett Attebery | A New Pro-Life Strategy (Best of)
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This week on a "Best Of" Living the Call, Deacon Charlie sits down with pro-life author and speaker Brett Attebery. After a powerful mid-life conversion to Christ that led him to seek healing for his role in the abortion of his own child, Brett left his career and devoted himself entirely to saving lives from abortion. Brett has an academic and pro…
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Deacon Dave Arms | Rites of Passage (Best of)
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This week on a "Best of" Living the Call, Deacon Charlie sits down with Deacon Dave Arms from the Archdiocese of San Francisco. Together with his father in law, he developed the “Rite of Passage weekend,” to commemorate each of his sons’ 13th birthday, and their transition from boyhood to manhood. In this episode, Deacon Dave discusses the practica…
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Christine Lacayo | Sustainable Catholicism (Best of)
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This week on a "Best of" Living the Call, Deacon Charlie sits down with Christine Lacayo, a multilingual content writer who helps mission-driven brands by using multicultural marketing. Her passion is working for a regenerative future, for our people and our planet. In this episode, Deacon talks with Christine about her education and background in …
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Chris McMahon is president and CEO of two wealth management firms in Pittsburgh, PA. He has 30 years experience in financial planning services. Chris is devoted to handling money God's way and strives to help teach his clients those same ways as well as be good stewards in today's world. Websites: aquinaswealth.com mfawealth.com Catholics at the Sh…
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Katie McCarthy is the Director of Marketing for “Protect Our Kids,” a coalition united in the belief that today’s public school’s threaten our children’s welfare through promotion of comprehensive sexuality education, critical race theory, social and emotional learning and gender theory. Katie is devoted to raising awareness about the dangers in pu…
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Jeffrey Bruno | Nothing to cling to, but God
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Jeffrey Bruno is an award winning photographer, writer and creative director who focuses on issues and stories related to the Catholic Church in the spirit of evangelization through imagery and digital communication. Website: www.jeffreybruno.com (instagram, substack, aleteia, mudrack, twitter, linked in - all linked here!) Fr. Mike Schmitz homily …
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Andreas Widmer is an entrepreneur, professor, consultant, business coach, speaker, and author, with 30 years experience in international business strategy, economic development, and entrepreneurship. Website: andreas-widmer.com The Catholic University of America: https://business.catholic.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-profiles/widmer-andreas/ind…
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Eric Patterson & Ray Bradley | Heroes & Villains
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Eric Patterson, Ph.D. is President of the Religious Freedom Institute and past dean of the Robertson School of Government at Regent University and a Research Fellow at Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs. Patterson’s interest in the intersection of religion, ethics, and foreign policy is informed by two stints…
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Louis Damani Jones | Crossing Boundaries for the Sake of Christ
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Louis Damani Jones is a “Fellow” at the Gephardt Institute for Civic and Community Engagement located at Washington University in St. Louis. Louis produced “The Ark and Dove” podcast, which investigated the complex dynamics of race and religion in America through the lens of the Black Catholic Church. In this episode, Deacon Charlie and Louis discu…
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Luke Carey | Catholic Voices or Catholic Shows?
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Luke Carey is the Chief Development Office at Spoke Street Media and the Co-Host of the podcast Catching Foxes. The podcast oscillates between a conversation with the hosts and interviews of other, “fancier” people. “Sometimes things get explicit either by being too honest or by being too stupid.” Catching Foxes can be found on any podcast platform…
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Will the Real Patrick Coffin Please Stand Up?
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Patrick Coffin is the creator and host of The Patrick Coffin Show at patrickcoffin.media. The former host of Catholic Answers Live is also the author of Sex Au Naturel, Stay Cool When the Argument Heats Up, and Once Saved Not Always Saved. https://www.patrickcoffin.media Patricks BooksBy Catholic Association for Latino Leadership
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Jason Brown | How A Family Movie Can Change The World
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Jason Brown is CEO of Called Higher Studios and Producer of Camp Hideout, a new film starring Christopher Guest (Back to the Future), Corbin Bleu (High School Musical) and Amanda Leighton (This is Us). Camphideoutmovie.com Calledhigherstudios.comBy Catholic Association for Latino Leadership
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Buchi Akpati is a former cloistered Carmelite nun, writer, speaker, photographer, digital media producer, singer, sacred artist, kickboxer and polyglot. Buchi’s writings can be found on Church pop, Catholic News Agency, National Catholic Register. Buchi Akpati on Instagram: O’MariaMedia https://www.instagram.com/omariamedia/…
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2023 NAPA Conference Series | Alex McKenna
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6 of 6: Alex McKenna of the Arch Diocese of Irbil Iraq sits down with Deacon Charlie. https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-w-mckenna/ https://adiabene.orgBy Catholic Association for Latino Leadership
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2023 NAPA Conference Series | Buchi Akpati
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4 of 6: Buchi Akpati of EWTN sits down with Deacon Charlie. https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/author/824/buchi-akpati https://www.linkedin.com/in/buchi-akpati/By Catholic Association for Latino Leadership
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2023 NAPA Conference Series | Chéri Ballinger
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3 of 6: Chéri Ballinger sits down with Deacon Charlie. https://cheriballinger.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/cheriballinger/By Catholic Association for Latino Leadership
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2023 NAPA Conference Series | Mauricio Leone
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Part 3 of 6: Mauricio Leone with Live Action sits down with Deacon Charlie. https://www.liveaction.orgBy Catholic Association for Latino Leadership
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2023 NAPA Conference Series | Nick Bezner
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Part 2 of 6: Nick Bezner from Undivided Life sits down with Deacon Charlie. https://www.undivided.life/about https://spokestreet.com/the-beatidudes/By Catholic Association for Latino Leadership
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2023 NAPA Conference Series | Samantha Kelly
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Part 1 of 6: Samantha Kelly from Fierce Athlete sits down with Deacon Charlie. https://fierceathlete.org NEXT.EWTN.COMBy Catholic Association for Latino Leadership
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Kiki Rocha | Transforming the World through the Heart of Woman (Best of)
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Kiki is a Sexual Integrity Coach and Speaker and works as a Strategist for The Women School. She uses her experience as a survivor of abortion, rape and homelessness to share the genius of femininity and the gift of integrity to audiences across the nation. The books/podcasts/organizations we mentioned on the show: Uniformity in God’s Will, By St A…
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Cristofer Pereyra | More Leaven, Less Dough (Best of)
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Cristofer is CEO of Tepeyac Leadership Initiative, an organization that provides a catalyst development experience which equips professionals to influence the culture and serve the common good through virtuous leadership. Follow Cristofer & Things We Discussed: READ: Catholic Leadership for Civil Society, authors Cristofer Pereyra and Erin Monnin p…
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This week on living the call Dcn. Charlie sits down with Matt Aujero, the founder of Fight Club Catholic, an accountability brotherhood committed to lead men to Jesus through purity of heart. His pornography recovery story has been featured by Fight the New Drug and Matt and Cameron Fradd’s book Restored: True Stories of Love and Trust After Porn. …
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This week on Living the Call, Deacon Charlie sits down with Rachel Bulman, a wife, mother, Catholic Keynote speaker, retreat facilitator and author. Rachel is a regular contributor to the Word on Fire blog and co-hosts the Youtube show “Meet the Bulmans.” She has been married since 2008 to Jason, who was recently ordained to the Order of the Diacon…
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Marcellino D'Ambrosio | What is Religion?
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This week on Living the Call, Deacon Charlie sits down with Marcellino D'Ambrosio, husband, father and Director of Marketing and Community Success for SENT Ventures. SENT empowers Spirit-Led Catholic founders & executives to build values-based teams, raise capital, & develop growth strategies so they can successfully integrate faith into their busi…
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Dr. Jennifer Nolan | Building a Catholic Epicenter in Culture
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This week on Living the Call, Deacon Charlie sits down with Jennifer Nolan, a wife, mother and the President and Co-Founder of a new Catholic STEM university called Catholic Polytechnic University. She is a former neuroscientist and homeschool mom and earned her Ph.D. in Psychology from UC Irvine's Department of Cognitive Science. She is also the E…
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Melody Lyons | What Healing Truly Is (Best of)
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Melody is a natural health educator and author, pursuing the restoration of culture through home educating, natural healing, and enthusiastic dish washing. Compelled by gratitude, she is passionate about bringing the healing power of Jesus Christ to others. She lives near Cleveland, OH with her husband and family. Follow Melody & Things We Discusse…
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Christian McGuigan | Winning The Story Wars
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This week on Living the Call, Deacon Charlie sits down with Christian McGuigan, a husband, father and CEO of Dynamite Studios: a 21st century media company that creates films, documentaries, and commercials. Dynamite has produced content for Hyundai, Microsoft, Disney, PWC, Nestle, Lego and many more. In this episode, Deacon Charlie talks with Chri…
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Martin Doblemeir | Filmmaking & Faith
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This week on Living the Call, Deacon Charlie talks with Martin Doblemeir, president and founder of Journey Films. Since 1984, he has produced and directed more than 30 films focused on religion, faith and spirituality. They explore how belief can lead individuals to extraordinary acts, how spirituality creates and sustains communities and how faith…
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This week on Living the Call, Deacon Charlie talks with J.D. Long-Garcia, a husband and father, and senior editor at America Magazine, a national news platform run by the Jesuits. At America, J.D. heads up the publication’s efforts to report on Latinos in the Catholic Church, with special attention to immigration, criminal justice and Catholic educ…
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Jason Deutermann | Catholic Design Thinking
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This week on Living the Call Deacon Charlie talks with Jason Deutermann. Jason is a husband and father and works as the Director of Innovation Design at the OSV Institute. His work focuses on helping parishes and dioceses innovate their processes and programs of ministry. In this episode, Deacon Charlie and Jason discuss fitness, diet, holistic liv…
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Martin Ford | Essential but not Necessary
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This week on Living the Call Deacon Charlie talks with Martin Ford, a graphic designer, project manager and founder of Harbor: an organization that partners with parishes to transform former convent buildings into places where young adults can live, work and grow in Catholic community. In this episode, Deacon Charlie and Martin discuss Martin’s lif…
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Jeff Schiefelbein and Nick Bezner | Undivided Life
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This week on Living the Call Deacon Charlie talks with Jeff Schiefelbein and Nick Bezner. Both are husbands, fathers and managing partners for Undivided Life: an organization that humanizes business through strategy and culture consulting. They’re also co-hosts of the BeatiDudes podcast! In this episode, Deacon Charlie, Jeff and Nick discuss what i…
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Dr. Tim O'Malley | Sympathetic Imagination
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This week on Living the Call, Deacon Charlie talks with Timothy O’Malley: a husband, father and the director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life. He’s also the academic director of the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy. Tim researches and teaches at Notre Dame in the areas of liturgical-sacramental theology, marriage and family, catec…
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Dave Plisky | Intentional Discipleship
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This week on Living the Call Deacon Charlie talks with Dave Plisky, husband, father and leader of technology at Desales Media, a company focused on modernizing the Church through products and services that together create a communications hub for dioceses, parishes, schools and ministries across the US. In this episode, Deacon Charlie and Dave disc…
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Roxie Beckles | Faith Without Fitness Is Dead
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This week on Living the Call Deacon Charlie talks with Roxie Beckles, former International Fitness and Bodybuilding Federation Pro and 2014 Olympian competitor. She is the founder of RoxStar Fitness, a company that gives women the tools they need to transform their bodies and reach their highest fitness goals through physical, mental, emotional and…
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This week on Living the Call, join us for Part 2 of Deacon Charlie’s conversation with Karl Keating. Karl is the OG apologist and a pioneer of Catholic media. He’s a full time author, with 20 books published to-date, including his most recent titled, 1054 And All That, A Lighthearted History of the Catholic Church. In this episode, Deacon Charlie a…
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A special episode from Deacon Charlie: "No Ordinary Week". Check back Thursday this week for Part 2 of Deacon's conversation with Karl Keating.By Catholic Association for Latino Leadership
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This week on Living the Call, join us for Part 1 of Deacon Charlie’s conversation with Karl Keating. Karl is the OG apologist and a pioneer of Catholic media. He’s a full time author, with 20 books published to-date, including his most recent titled, 1054 And All That, A Lighthearted History of the Catholic Church. In this episode, Karl discusses h…
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Edward Herrera | What’s Really Essential?
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This week on Living the Call, Deacon Charlie sits down with Edward Herrera - husband, father of five and Executive Director for the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s Institute for Evangelization. Previously, Edward was the Director for the Office of Marriage and Family Life, in which his focus was accompanying couples in marriage prep. In this episode, De…
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Streamline Your Business with These Workflow Best Practices
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#29 In this episode, we're discussing the importance of workflows for small business success. We'll cover the most important attributes of good workflows, and introduce several common workflow models. This is not a "how to" podcast for an operator. In fact, it's a "what to look for" episode for business leaders so you can quickly recognize if your …
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