The Christian Entrepreneur

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Hosted by serial entrepreneurs Cody and Esther Cottle, the Christian Entrepreneur Podcast exists for believers who hunger for a move of God in the marketplace. After building 10 companies and walking through both success and painful failures, God called them to shut down their multi-six-figure business in 2024 — and out of that obedience, the Christian Entrepreneur Club was born and has grown into a global community of 600+ members. This podcast is an extension of our mission to equip entrepreneurs with a biblical framework to do business God's way. Each episode delivers proven business strategies, biblical principles, and conversations with top Christian thought leaders to equip you to do business God's way. Subscribe now and join a global family of Christian entrepreneurs committed to bringing revival to the marketplace.

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July 6, 202631 min

How Do We Bring Revival to the Marketplace?

You can be building a real business, on fire for God, plugged into a solid church — and still feel completely alone. Every Christian entrepreneur knows the two rooms: the church that doesn't quite understand your ambition, and the business world that leaves Jesus at the door.Cody and Esther Cottle tell the story behind the Christian Entrepreneur Club — the gap that started it, the word from God that led them to walk away from their business, and the conference it became. It's what happens when you stop trying to build alone.Chapters 0:00 🔥 The Room That Changes Everything 1:46 🏙️ From 50 People To A Movement 2:54 🕳️ Successful, Faithful — And Totally Alone 4:18 ✝️ Nobody In That Room Talks About Jesus 5:07 🌱 When Your Ambition Makes People Uncomfortable 7:08 🙏 Am I Holy Enough To Want To Build? 8:24 💍 Dream With Your Spouse — Or Crush Her Dreams 11:20 🏖️ Playing With God On The Playground 14:01 🔑 We Shut The Business Down First 17:11 🫀 A Vision For The Weary Builder 21:13 💸 "It'll Cost $100K. Be Obedient." 22:40 ⛪ An Altar, Not A Stage 24:30 💥 The Testimonies We Didn't Expect 26:55 🎟️ Come To The Mountaintop (Oct 14–16)—👉 Revival in the Marketplace 2026 — October 14–16, San Diego, at the brand-new Gaylord Pacific Resort. Tickets are more affordable than ever, and for the first time the doors are open to leaders and pastors too. Grab yours: christianentrepreneurclub.com/conferenceDoing business God's way, every week. Subscribe so you don't miss an episode.Send us Fan MailSupport the show✝️ Sign up here for our FREE weekly Bible study every Wednesday 🔥 Are you looking for a community of Christian business owners you can learn and grow with? We want to invite you to learn more about our Christian Entrepreneur Club with over 600+ business owners and growing. 👉 Click Here To Join Our Intro Call📲 Follow The Club on: Instagram 📲 Follow Cody on: Instagram📲 Follow Esther on: Instagram Watch the video version on YouTube (Click Here)If this episode blessed you, please leave us a review and share it with 3 people who need to hear this message!

July 1, 202637 min

Are You Bearing Fruit? With Justin Dewing

This episode is going to light a fire under you 🔥 Send us Fan MailSupport the show✝️ Sign up here for our FREE weekly Bible study every Wednesday 🔥 Are you looking for a community of Christian business owners you can learn and grow with? We want to invite you to learn more about our Christian Entrepreneur Club with over 600+ business owners and growing. 👉 Click Here To Join Our Intro Call📲 Follow The Club on: Instagram 📲 Follow Cody on: Instagram📲 Follow Esther on: Instagram Watch the video version on YouTube (Click Here)If this episode blessed you, please leave us a review and share it with 3 people who need to hear this message!

June 29, 202657 min

5 Steps Every Christian Must Take For God To Bless Their Business - With Lisa & Ricky McCabe

Every Christian entrepreneur says they want God to guide their business. Most are waiting for a feeling. Lisa and Ricky McCabe turned it into a set of decisions — and built a company the numbers said shouldn't exist. An engineer who never planned to teach dance. A diagnosis that stole her voice in the same season the business was breaking out. A check written in pure obedience, for the exact amount a crisis would later take. On paper, none of it made sense. In practice, it was God running a business that was never really theirs.They walk through the five steps that moved them from striving to surrender — the concrete, repeatable moves that put God in the CEO seat. Not a vibe. A practice you can start this week.Chapters 0:00 🎬 None of It Added Up 0:40 🩰 An Engineer Walks Into a Dance Studio 8:11 🧭 Find the One Who's Ahead of You 12:25 🌱 The Unglamorous Early Days 17:44 🪂 Quitting the Safe Job 21:26 💵 The Check That Made No Sense 27:48 📉 Scaling on Faith, Not Figures 29:38 🗣️ The Diagnosis That Stole Her Voice 31:28 🤝 How Losing It Built the Team 33:56 🙏 Healing on God's Timeline 36:09 🪂 Ricky's Turn to Go All In 39:23 💍 When Marriage Meets Business 46:31 ❤️ The Questions They Didn't Expect 54:08 🪜 The 5 Steps to a God-Led Business 56:26 📲 Connect With Lisa & RickySend us Fan MailSupport the show✝️ Sign up here for our FREE weekly Bible study every Wednesday 🔥 Are you looking for a community of Christian business owners you can learn and grow with? We want to invite you to learn more about our Christian Entrepreneur Club with over 600+ business owners and growing. 👉 Click Here To Join Our Intro Call📲 Follow The Club on: Instagram 📲 Follow Cody on: Instagram📲 Follow Esther on: Instagram Watch the video version on YouTube (Click Here)If this episode blessed you, please leave us a review and share it with 3 people who need to hear this message!

June 24, 202633 min

Get Your Hopes Up With Mukwenda Kandole

Are you believing too small to not get your hopes up? Are you limiting what God can and will do through your life? Listen to find out.We brought in the host of the Faith Hustle Podcast, Mukwenda Kandole, to share a powerful message, "GET YOUR HOPES UP". And it does not disappoint. Enjoy.Send us Fan MailSupport the show✝️ Sign up here for our FREE weekly Bible study every Wednesday 🔥 Are you looking for a community of Christian business owners you can learn and grow with? We want to invite you to learn more about our Christian Entrepreneur Club with over 600+ business owners and growing. 👉 Click Here To Join Our Intro Call📲 Follow The Club on: Instagram 📲 Follow Cody on: Instagram📲 Follow Esther on: Instagram Watch the video version on YouTube (Click Here)If this episode blessed you, please leave us a review and share it with 3 people who need to hear this message!

June 10, 202622 min

Do you have EMUNAH? (Listen to find out)

This episode is going to hit a little differently. It was meant for you, and I hope it blesses you. God is moving, and the next great Revival is happening right now in the marketplace. But it starts with all of us having "EMUNAH". Send us Fan MailSupport the show✝️ Sign up here for our FREE weekly Bible study every Wednesday 🔥 Are you looking for a community of Christian business owners you can learn and grow with? We want to invite you to learn more about our Christian Entrepreneur Club with over 600+ business owners and growing. 👉 Click Here To Join Our Intro Call📲 Follow The Club on: Instagram 📲 Follow Cody on: Instagram📲 Follow Esther on: Instagram Watch the video version on YouTube (Click Here)If this episode blessed you, please leave us a review and share it with 3 people who need to hear this message!

June 9, 202636 min

The Spirit of Offense Is the #1 Spiritual Block Stealing Your Business Breakthrough

The world has never been more offended. Outrage spreads faster than truth, grievance builds a following, and writing people off has become second nature. It's tempting to see all that as a problem out there in the culture — but the same spirit slips quietly into your business, your relationships, and your own heart, limiting your growth long before you notice it's there.In this episode, Cody and Esther unpack the spirit of offense: how it hardens your heart, blocks you from hearing God, and stalls your breakthrough — and what Scripture actually says to do about it.0:00 🎬 Cold Open0:40 ⚡ The Spirit of Offense: What It Is1:49 🚧 How Offense Blocks Your Breakthrough4:55 🔍 How to Know You're Living in Offense7:21 🛡️ Be Unoffendable: The Jesus Model9:35 ❄️ What Offense Does to Your Heart12:45 🙏 Esther's Story: Radical Reconciliation15:23 🕊️ Extending Grace When You've Been Wronged16:53 ⚖️ Offense Feels Like Justice21:10 💼 When Business Deals Go Wrong23:02 🔓 There Is No Hierarchy of Offense28:09 🩹 Deliverance Is Not the Same as Healing30:39 📝 The Resentment Inventory33:02 🎁 Leave Your Gift at the AltarSend us Fan MailSupport the show✝️ Sign up here for our FREE weekly Bible study every Wednesday 🔥 Are you looking for a community of Christian business owners you can learn and grow with? We want to invite you to learn more about our Christian Entrepreneur Club with over 600+ business owners and growing. 👉 Click Here To Join Our Intro Call📲 Follow The Club on: Instagram 📲 Follow Cody on: Instagram📲 Follow Esther on: Instagram Watch the video version on YouTube (Click Here)If this episode blessed you, please leave us a review and share it with 3 people who need to hear this message!

June 1, 202638 min

From Drug Dealer to Christian CEO: The Calling Was Always There

If you've ever wondered whether your past disqualifies you, or whether the gifts you've been using in the wrong arena can still be used by God, this episode is for you. This is the raw, never-before-shared story of how God redeemed a drug dealer's gifts — the supply-chain instincts, the team-building, the relentless drive — and put them to work doing business God's way. The 3:33am dream. The Mercedes he had to sell. The sister's basement where he started over with nothing and surrendered everything to Jesus.Chapters 00:00 — What does a drug dealer and a Christian CEO have in common? 03:05 — Selling weed at 13: when mom found the plants 12:41 — Why drug dealers make some of the best entrepreneurs 21:07 — $1M a year in cannabis. Then a bicycle cop. 23:12 — "I never wanted to be anything like my dad" 26:00 — 3:33am: the dream that changed everything 27:34 — Selling the Mercedes, moving into my sister's basement 31:51 — The gift is not condemnedSend us Fan MailSupport the show✝️ Sign up here for our FREE weekly Bible study every Wednesday 🔥 Are you looking for a community of Christian business owners you can learn and grow with? We want to invite you to learn more about our Christian Entrepreneur Club with over 600+ business owners and growing. 👉 Click Here To Join Our Intro Call📲 Follow The Club on: Instagram 📲 Follow Cody on: Instagram📲 Follow Esther on: Instagram Watch the video version on YouTube (Click Here)If this episode blessed you, please leave us a review and share it with 3 people who need to hear this message!

May 25, 202633 min

Why Hobby Lobby Walks Away From $1 Billion a Year

What if walking away from $1 billion a year was the smartest business decision you ever made?Hobby Lobby has 900+ stores and roughly $7 billion in annual revenue — and they've never once opened on a Sunday. David Greene was fined $1 million a month for refusing to fund birth control. He refused to take the company public so no shareholder could ever force him to compromise. And it all started with a $600 loan and a kitchen-table conviction.In this episode, Cody and Esther dig into the Hobby Lobby story and the principles behind it:· The compartmentalisation mistake most Christian entrepreneurs make· How to make God your CEO instead of trying to do it on your own· Why integrity (not branding) is what people actually notice· What to do when your faith costs you real money· Why "I'll never do business with a Christian again" keeps Cody up at nightWe also tackle the harder questions: where IS the line between faith and business? Is conviction "extreme"? And why does God actually welcome your doubts and questions?If you're a Christian entrepreneur trying to build without compromise, this is for you.00:00 🎬 Cold open 00:39 💰 The $1B Sunday closure 03:30 🏪 Why Hobby Lobby is closed every Sunday 04:48 🏛️ Fined $1M a month for their faith 05:43 📊 Why they never took the company public 07:13 ❌ The compartmentalisation mistake 09:44 👑 Make God your CEO (logos + rhema) 13:00 🔍 Plan B and the line 16:06 ❓ The edgy question — where IS the line? 22:12 🕊️ God invites your doubts 26:19 😤 "I'll never do business with a Christian" 30:10 📖 Deuteronomy 8:18 — remember the Lord 32:34 🙏 CloseSend us Fan MailSupport the show✝️ Sign up here for our FREE weekly Bible study every Wednesday 🔥 Are you looking for a community of Christian business owners you can learn and grow with? We want to invite you to learn more about our Christian Entrepreneur Club with over 600+ business owners and growing. 👉 Click Here To Join Our Intro Call📲 Follow The Club on: Instagram 📲 Follow Cody on: Instagram📲 Follow Esther on: Instagram Watch the video version on YouTube (Click Here)If this episode blessed you, please leave us a review and share it with 3 people who need to hear this message!

May 18, 202633 min

Should You Bring Jesus Into Your Business?

✝️ Join us for our FREE weekly Bible study every Wednesday 🙏Tired of building alone? Book a call with our team to learn more about our community of 600+ Christian Business Owners Most Christian entrepreneurs have been told the same thing: don't mix faith with business. Keep it professional. Keep it separate. Keep it quiet.But what if that's the exact lie keeping you from the breakthrough — and the impact — God actually has for you?In this episode of The Christian Entrepreneur Podcast, Cody and Esther go straight at one of the most common fears in the faith-business space: the belief that being bold about your faith will cost you customers, credibility, and opportunities. Drawing on Cody's story of leading an 18-year-old to Jesus at a business event, the distinction between living your faith authentically and using Jesus as a marketing strategy, and the biblical case for why Christians have an unfair advantage in the marketplace — this conversation will challenge you to stop hiding your calling and start operating in the fullness of what God placed you in business to do.You'll walk away with a clear understanding of what it actually means to be a Christian in the marketplace, how to know whether God is calling you to be overt or covert in your faith expression, and why obedience to your assignment — not fear of rejection — is the only metric that matters.In this episode:Why the "don't mix faith and business" advice is costing Christian entrepreneurs more than they realiseThe difference between living your faith authentically and slapping Jesus on your brand as a marketing toolOvert vs. covert Christian business — and how to discern which one God is calling you to beWhy being bold about your faith might grow your business, not shrink itThe unfair advantage every Christian entrepreneur carries — and how to walk in itSend us Fan MailSupport the show✝️ Sign up here for our FREE weekly Bible study every Wednesday 🔥 Are you looking for a community of Christian business owners you can learn and grow with? We want to invite you to learn more about our Christian Entrepreneur Club with over 600+ business owners and growing. 👉 Click Here To Join Our Intro Call📲 Follow The Club on: Instagram 📲 Follow Cody on: Instagram📲 Follow Esther on: Instagram Watch the video version on YouTube (Click Here)If this episode blessed you, please leave us a review and share it with 3 people who need to hear this message!

May 15, 202634 min

Is Comparison Keeping You From Your Calling?

✝️ Join us for our FREE weekly Bible study every Wednesday 🙏Tired of building alone? Book a call with our team to learn more about our community of 600+ Christian Business Owners Comparison doesn't look like an attack — it looks like inspiration. But left unchecked, it quietly pulls you off your God-given assignment and onto someone else's path.In this episode of The Christian Entrepreneur Podcast, Cody digs into one of the most effective weapons the enemy uses against Christian entrepreneurs: the trap of measuring your calling against someone else's blueprint. Rooted in Galatians 6:4–5, the Parable of the Talents, and the stunning truth that God performed 150–200 miracles in Scripture without ever doing it the same way twice — this teaching will challenge you to stop watching someone else's lane and lock back in on the one God specifically marked out for you.You'll walk away with a clear understanding of what comparison is actually costing you, why your calling can never be replicated by anyone else, and one practical action you can take this week to get your eyes back on your own assignment.In this episode:Why comparison is a stewardship issue, not just a mindset issueWhat the Parable of the Talents reveals about your unique callingThe biblical proof that God has never moved the same way twiceHow to actively throw off comparison and run your race with focus and faith"Each one should test their own actions. Then they can take pride in themselves alone, without comparing themselves to someone else." — Galatians 6:4Send us Fan MailSupport the show✝️ Sign up here for our FREE weekly Bible study every Wednesday 🔥 Are you looking for a community of Christian business owners you can learn and grow with? We want to invite you to learn more about our Christian Entrepreneur Club with over 600+ business owners and growing. 👉 Click Here To Join Our Intro Call📲 Follow The Club on: Instagram 📲 Follow Cody on: Instagram📲 Follow Esther on: Instagram Watch the video version on YouTube (Click Here)If this episode blessed you, please leave us a review and share it with 3 people who need to hear this message!