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Welcome to the Faithustle podcast, where we help young christians learn how to build their business and careers God’s way. We have a problem in the church where those who have an entrepreneurial gift do not have healthy inspirations and role models of how to be successful and not lose your soul. Our desire with the Faithustle Podcast is to give encourage, inspire and equip you with examples of real life successful business owners who love the Lord and have healthy relationships. We teach from 5 pillars that we believe are the foundation of how to build well. Being Spirit Led, having Integrity, A having a heart of Stewardship, a posture of Humility and a responsibility to Generosity. If this describes you and you want to grow with a tribe of people who are just like you in their early stages of entrepreneurship, subscribe to the podcast and YouTube channel and tell a friend about it. We’re excited to go on this journey with you.

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1 hr 5 min

How To Build A $5 Million Business With Content | w/ Omar Eltakrori

Omar Eltakrori turned content and podcasting into a business that has generated over $5 MILLION in coaching revenue. And he did it without building a business dependent on views, sponsorships or brand deals. In this episode of the Faithustle Podcast, Omar breaks down how entrepreneurs can use content to build a predictable, profitable business — turning their expertise into content, their content into trust, and that trust into customers. This conversation is a masterclass on content, sales, money, purpose and building for the long game. We talk about: • Why your content should be a business strategy, not “post and hope” • How to monetize a podcast without relying on sponsors • Why you should pursue purpose over passion • Why Christians can struggle with charging and selling • Why chasing content hacks is keeping creators stuck If you’re a Christian entrepreneur, content creator, coach or business owner trying to grow a personal brand, monetize your content, start a podcast or build an online business — get your notebook out for this one. 🔥 This is a conversation people pay thousands of dollars to learn. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 JOIN THE FAITHUSTLE NETWORK The Faithustle Network is a growing community of 550+ Christian entrepreneurs learning how to build successful businesses God's way. Inside the Network: 🙏 Weekly Bible Studies + 📈 Weekly Business Calls 🎓 Training from proven 7 & 8-figure Christian founders 📍 In-person events & gatherings 🔥 Hundreds of hours of faith + business training JOIN TODAY 👉 https://www.skool.com/faithustlenetwork ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📲 FOLLOW OMAR ELTAKRORI Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/omareltakrori/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📲 FOLLOW FAITHUSTLE Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefaithustle/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 — How Omar Built a $5M Coaching Business 00:53 — A Dream Faithustle Guest 02:47 — The New Way to Make Money From Content 03:39 — Stop Depending on Brand Deals & Sponsorships 05:58 — Building a Predictable Business Through Content 07:35 — Knowing When It’s Time to Bet on Yourself 08:48 — Solving Bigger Problems = Bigger Opportunities 11:20 — Stop Pursuing Your Passion 12:15 — Pursue Purpose Instead 18:10 — Building a Business Around Your Gift 19:44 — What Comes Easy to You Could Be Valuable 23:00 — Stewarding What God Already Gave You 25:05 — Stop Comparing Your “Talent” to Someone Else’s 26:58 — Ignorance Is Expensive 29:50 — Why Christians Need to Invest in Themselves 33:05 — Why Christians Struggle With Selling 34:13 — Selling Is Serving 38:10 — Why Free Doesn't Always Create Transformation 39:08 — The Transformation Is in the Transaction 41:17 — Why Good People Need to Learn How to Sell 44:01 — The Content Playbook for 2026–2027 44:48 — Stop Building Your Brand on Trends 45:44 — Dedicate a Decade to Your Platform 47:28 — Intentional Consistency Creates Opportunity 49:45 — Stop Looking for Shortcuts 52:37 — Do It for the Data 54:34 — Why Experience Beats Theory 56:25 — Let Your Future Determine Your Present 58:43 — Protecting Your Marriage & Relationships as You Grow 1:01:25 — Staying Grounded When Success Comes 1:03:09 — Build the Relationships Success Can’t Change #ContentStrategy #Podcasting #ChristianEntrepreneur #PersonalBrand #ContentCreator #Faithustle

35 min

Why Trusting God Feels So Hard [Faithustle Network Bible Study]

Why does faith sometimes feel so hard? You’re praying. Believing. Giving. Obeying. Trying to do everything “right”… But you’re still anxious, wondering if you’ve done enough for God to move. What if we’ve made faith harder than Jesus ever intended it to be? In this special teaching from a private Faithustle Network gathering in downtown Dallas, Mukwenda Kandole unpacks Matthew 6 and Matthew 8 and challenges one of the biggest misunderstandings Christians have about faith. We’ve turned faith into a formula: Pray enough → God will move. Give enough → God will bless me. Believe enough → I’ll get the result. But Jesus shows us something completely different: Faith is not transactional. Faith is relational. And maybe the reason you’re struggling to trust God isn’t because you need to try harder. In this teaching, we unpack worry, trusting God, transactional faith, performance, sonship, “little faith,” and what it means to relate to God as Father — especially as Christian entrepreneurs carrying the pressures of business, money, growth and the future. _____ 🔥 JOIN THE FAITHUSTLE NETWORK Stop building alone. The Faithustle Network is a community of Christian entrepreneurs, business owners and creators committed to building business God’s way through biblical teaching, business mentorship, prayer and real community. 👉 https://www.skool.com/faithustlenetwork _____ 📲 FOLLOW MUKWENDA https://www.instagram.com/mukwendakandole/ 📲 FOLLOW FAITHUSTLE https://www.instagram.com/thefaithustle/ _____ If this teaching changes how you see faith, subscribe and share it with someone who needs it. #Faith #TrustingGod #ChristianEntrepreneur #ChristianFaith #FaithAndBusiness #Faithustle

1 hr 6 min

Why Your Content Isn’t Growing in 2026 | w/ Rohn Starling

What actually works in content in 2026? According to creative strategist & content creator Rohn Starling, most creators are overthinking it. "You are the brand. You are the niche." In this episode of the Faithustle Podcast, we sat down in Rohn’s downtown Austin loft for a raw conversation about personal branding, viral content, calling, creativity and what happens when you stop forcing the timeline God has for your life. Rohn has worked behind the scenes with major Christian artists, worship movements, churches and brands (Elevation Rhythm, Transformation Church, Chandler Moore, Etc)— helping shape creative direction, content and digital strategy. And today, he also pastors while continuing to travel and create. We unpack: • What is actually working on social media in 2026 • Rohn’s “hurricane” framework for virality • Why consistency matters more than one big post • Why “you are the niche” • The difference between a content problem and an identity problem • Why creators need to stop reinventing the wheel • Waiting on God without forcing your timeline • Playing the long game with your calling • Why the Holy Spirit matters in creativity One of the biggest takeaways: Most people don’t have a content problem. They have an identity problem. If you are a Christian entrepreneur, creator, business owner or leader building a personal brand online, this conversation will give you a practical framework for creating content that actually connects. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 JOIN THE FAITHUSTLE NETWORK A community for Christian entrepreneurs learning how to build business God’s way. 👉 https://www.skool.com/faithustlenetwork ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📲 FOLLOW ROHN STARLING Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rohnstarling/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📲 FOLLOW FAITHUSTLE Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefaithustle/ All Links: https://linktr.ee/thefaithustle ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 — Can God Let You Have Both? 00:51 — Welcome to Austin 03:23 — Losing His Job, Home & Direction 05:16 — Waiting Years to Become a Pastor 07:11 — Play the Long Game 11:28 — Prayer + Preparation 14:06 — Creativity, Ministry & God’s Timing 15:17 — When People Tell You What You Can’t Do 17:55 — Stop Forcing the Timeline 19:57 — Knowing When to Move vs. Wait 21:22 — How Great Leaders Communicate 25:57 — Don’t Forsake the Fundamentals 27:47 — Learning to Receive Correction 30:03 — Play to Your Strengths 32:27 — Letting Go of Control 34:59 — Why 365 Posts Beat One Viral Post 37:58 — The Hurricane Framework for Virality 40:49 — What Works in Content in 2026 41:21 — Build the Brand Before the Viral Moment 42:58 — How Branding Shapes What People Think 44:23 — You Are the Brand 45:22 — You Are the Niche 49:06 — What to Do When the “Wrong” Video Goes Viral 50:00 — Analyze Why Your Content Worked 54:23 — Study Who Is Winning in Your Niche 55:38 — Stop Reinventing the Wheel 58:39 — You Don’t Have a Content Problem 59:30 — The Identity Problem Behind Bad Content 1:02:14 — Your Growth Is Part of Your Brand 1:04:28 — Partnering With the Holy Spirit in Creativity #PersonalBrand #ContentStrategy #ChristianEntrepreneur #ContentCreator #SocialMediaStrategy #Faithustle

1 hr 16 min

He Built a $3 BILLION Business — His Advice to Christian Entrepreneurs | w/ Michael Mcintyre

He built an insurance empire that generated more than $3 BILLION in sales. 20,000 agents. Massive profits. Jets. Cars. Houses. Success by almost every worldly measurement. Then Michael McIntyre encountered Jesus — and everything changed . In this episode of the Faithustle Podcast, Michael shares the incredible journey from building and selling a massive insurance business to giving his life to Christ, eventually serving as an executive pastor and CEO at UPPERROOM, coaching entrepreneurs and leaders, and now stepping back into the insurance industry with a completely different mission. But this isn't just a success story. It's a wake-up call for Christian entrepreneurs who have been sitting on the sidelines. Michael believes too many believers are playing small, overthinking decisions, allowing fear to disguise itself as wisdom, and saying they're "waiting on God" when God may actually be waiting for them to MOVE. His philosophy is simple: Seek wisdom. Measure twice. Cut once.Then GO. Because you can't steer something that isn't moving. Michael gets incredibly practical about what it takes to succeed as an entrepreneur: making decisions, accepting failure, seeking mentors, developing discipline, getting comfortable being uncomfortable, building wealth with purpose, involving God in your business, protecting your family, and refusing to quit when entrepreneurship gets hard. We also have an honest conversation about MONEY. Should Christians desire wealth? Is playing small actually humility? Can making more money advance the Kingdom? And what changes when Jesus truly becomes the CEO of your business? 🔥 IN THIS EPISODE: • How Michael built an insurance company that generated $3B+ in sales • Growing an organization to thousands of agents • His journey from insurance executive to CEO of UPPERROOM • What changed in Michael's leadership after meeting Jesus • Why Christian entrepreneurs struggle to make decisions • How fear can disguise itself as "wisdom" • A biblical perspective on money and wealth If you're a Christian entrepreneur who knows God has called you to more but you've been afraid, hesitant, double-minded or sitting on the sidelines... This episode might be the push you need to GET IN THE GAME. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 JOIN THE FAITHUSTLE NETWORK Stop building alone. The Faithustle Network is a growing community of 450+ Christian entrepreneurs learning how to build successful businesses God's way. Inside the Network: 🙏 Weekly Bible Studies 📈 Weekly Business Calls 🎓 Training from proven 7 & 8-figure Christian founders 🤝 Community with Kingdom-minded entrepreneurs 📍 In-person events & gatherings 🔥 Hundreds of hours of faith + business training 👉 Join the Faithustle Network: https://www.skool.com/faithustlenetwork ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚀 CONNECT WITH MICHAEL MCINTYRE Follow Michael on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/themichaelpmcintyre/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 NEXT LEVEL EXPERIENCE — DALLAS Michael's Next Level Experience is a multi-day immersive experience designed for people who are already doing well but know there is MORE available in their business, relationships, finances, faith and life. 📍 Dallas, Texas 📅 September 11–13, 2026 https://www.themichaelmcintyre.com/nle-dallas-texas ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📲 FOLLOW FAITHUSTLE Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefaithustle/ All Faithustle Links: https://linktr.ee/thefaithustle ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 — Stop Playing Small 01:19 — Welcome to Faithustle 03:25 — How Michael McIntyre & Faithustle Connected 06:47 — Why Kingdom Entrepreneurs Should Make Money 08:37 — Michael's Journey From Michigan to Business 09:49 — Getting Into the Insurance Industry 11:04 — Building a $3 Billion Insurance Business 12:40 — The Encounter That Led Michael to Jesus 15:06 — Giving His Life to Christ 15:33 — Success, Spiritual Warfare & Starting Over 17:01 — Discovering UPPERROOM 18:46 — How UPPERROOM Changed His Walk With God 20:38 — Becoming CEO & Executive Pastor of UPPERROOM 25:20 — Building Business Before Jesus vs. After Jesus 26:49 — How Michael Makes Business Decisions 29:29 — Why Christians Have to Stop Overthinking 31:01 — God Can Steer You Once You Start Moving 32:13 — Failure Is Part of Success 33:46 — When Fear Disguises Itself as Wisdom 35:22 — Why Christians Need to Stop Playing Small 37:45 — Money, Wealth & Kingdom Business 40:09 — Can Christians Enjoy Wealth? 41:00 — How Business Can Change a Family 44:04 — Faith + Work 45:59 — What Happens When Jesus Becomes CEO 48:56 — Hearing the Holy Spirit in Business 50:36 — Why Every Entrepreneur Needs Mentorship 52:57 — Why You Need Skin in the Game 53:29 — Is It Okay for Christians to Be Wealthy? 56:52 — Wealth, Stewardship & a Decided Heart 57:46 — What Holds Most Entrepreneurs Back 58:30 — Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable 1:00:25 — Why Entrepreneurship Is Creative 1:03:52 — Building a Business Without Losing Your Family 1:05:05 — Why Marriage Can't Be 50/50 1:06:45 — The Sacrifice Required to Build 1:08:12 — Failure, Perseverance & Discipline 1:09:55 — What Kingdom Business Really Looks Like 1:12:45 — Michael's Next Level Experience 1:15:01 — Final Thoughts #ChristianEntrepreneur #KingdomBusiness #FaithAndBusiness #MichaelMcIntyre #ChristianBusiness #EntrepreneurMindset #Faithustle

1 hr 13 min

He Made Millions in P*rn…Then Jesus Changed Everything | w/ Joshua Broome

What happens when you build a successful business, grow your influence, and gain more opportunity — but your private life is slowly falling apart? In this episode of the Faithustle Podcast, Mukwenda Kandole sits down with Joshua Broome for a raw conversation every Christian entrepreneur, founder, business owner, and leader needs to hear. Joshua knows what it looks like to build success on the wrong foundation. Before following Jesus, he became one of the highest-paid performers in the porn industry and built multiple successful careers. Today, he is a husband, father, author, speaker, and Bible teacher helping men and women around the world walk in freedom from pornography, shame, sexual brokenness, and hidden sin. But this episode is not just about Joshua’s past. It is about the danger of compromise in leadership. Because most leaders do not wake up one day and decide to destroy their marriage, reputation, business, or ministry. It usually starts small. A hidden habit. An unchecked wound. A boundary that gets moved. A secret nobody knows about. A moment of stress where you medicate instead of heal. Joshua puts it plainly: “Sin doesn’t stay where you put it.” And for Christian leaders, that truth matters. The more influence you carry, the more important it becomes to build your private life with the same intentionality you build your business. In this conversation, we unpack: • How hidden compromise grows over time • Why leaders are especially vulnerable when stressed, tired, isolated, or driven • Why pornography is often deeper than sexual desire • The connection between shame, identity, and addiction • The danger of trying to out-achieve your brokenness • Why money, influence, and success cannot heal your soul Joshua’s testimony is powerful because it proves that your worst decisions do not have to define your future. But his warning is just as important: Do not wait until everything falls apart to take your integrity seriously. If you are building a company, leading a team, growing a platform, or carrying influence in the marketplace, this episode will challenge you to ask a deeper question: Is the person behind the business healthy enough to carry where the business is going? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 JOIN THE FAITHUSTLE NETWORK Faithustle Network is a community for Christian entrepreneurs who want to build successful businesses without compromising their faith, family, integrity, or calling. Inside the Network: 🙏 Weekly Bible Studies 📈 Business Strategy & Mentorship 🤝 Community with Kingdom Entrepreneurs 🎓 Training from 7 & 8-Figure Christian Founders 📍 Monthly In-Person Events 🔥 Conversations around leadership, integrity, business, faith, and stewardship Join the Faithustle Network: https://www.skool.com/faithustlenetwork ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 CONNECT WITH JOSHUA BROOME Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamjoshuabroome/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📲 FOLLOW FAITHUSTLE Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefaithustle/ All Faithustle Links: https://linktr.ee/thefaithustle ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 — You Are Not Defined By Your Worst Moment 01:07 — Welcome to Faithustle 03:19 — Joshua’s Journey Through Business, Porn & Ministry 05:52 — Obedience, Momentum & Stewarding Influence 09:24 — Why Leaders Have to Move When God Speaks 13:41 — Joshua Begins His Redemption Story 15:11 — Fatherlessness, Rejection & Identity 17:29 — When Achievement Becomes Your Identity 19:07 — How Pornography Entered Joshua’s Life 20:49 — One Decision That Changed Everything 22:00 — Guilt vs. Shame 24:01 — Why Shame Keeps Leaders Stuck 26:23 — You Are Not Defined By What You’ve Done 27:36 — Grace, Identity & Meeting Jesus 30:09 — From Porn Star to Preaching the Gospel 33:41 — What Joshua’s Story Means for Business Leaders 35:10 — “Sin Doesn’t Stay Where You Put It” 37:15 — Why Leaders Are Vulnerable to Compromise 37:59 — The Deeper Root Behind Pornography 40:11 — Addiction, Connection & Confession 41:17 — Why Honest Confession Leads to Healing 43:49 — The Cost of Getting Serious About Freedom 46:27 — Do You Actually Want to Be Healed? 47:42 — Taking Ownership of Your Healing 50:55 — Why Money & Success Cannot Satisfy You 53:09 — Ambition Has to Be Submitted to God 54:19 — Removing the Lids From Your Leadership 56:49 — The Power of a Surrendered Leader 59:24 — Real Transformation 1:01:53 — Redeeming Your Gifts 1:03:00 — Freedom From Shame Is Possible 1:07:12 — Why Are You Hiding? 1:08:31 — Joshua Prays for Leaders Who Need Freedom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #ChristianEntrepreneur #ChristianLeadership #FaithAndBusiness #KingdomBusiness #JoshuaBroome #Faithustle #LeadershipIntegrity

1 hr 4 min

Why Most Christians Don't Know How to Pray | w/ Corey Russell

What if the greatest business strategy isn't another book, framework, or marketing tactic... What if it's prayer? This is one of the most meaningful conversations we've ever had on the Faithustle Podcast. After taking a Sabbath month, we knew there was only one way to begin this new season: by returning to the foundation. For decades, Corey Russell has been one of the leading voices in the global prayer movement. His books, messages, and teaching have shaped the prayer lives of leaders around the world. In this conversation, he shares why prayer isn't simply something Christians do—it's the place where leaders are formed. Whether you're an entrepreneur, founder, creator, executive, pastor, or someone simply trying to follow Jesus more faithfully, this conversation will completely reshape the way you think about prayer, ambition, success, leadership, and intimacy with God. We talk about: • Why nobody starts out "good" at prayer • How prayer transforms the heart of a leader • The difference between orphan ambition and sonship • Why the presence of God is greater than every platform • The biggest mistakes ambitious Christian leaders make • Why the secret place matters more than public success • How to finish well in leadership and business If you're serious about building something that lasts, this episode is essential. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🙏 JOIN THE FAITHUSTLE NETWORK Faithustle Network is a global community of Christian entrepreneurs learning how to build business God's way. Inside you'll find: • Weekly Bible Studies • Weekly Business Coaching • Kingdom Community • Live Q&A Sessions • Monthly In-Person Meetups • Hundreds of hours of biblical business content 👉 Join Here: https://www.skool.com/faithustlenetwork ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FOLLOW COREY RUSSELL Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brotherrussell__/ Books & Courses: https://www.coreyrussellonline.com/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FOLLOW FAITHUSTLE Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefaithustle/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Nobody Starts Good at Prayer 01:00 Why This Conversation Means So Much to Faithustle 04:30 Why Every Platform Is a Step Down From God's Presence 09:30 Orphan Ambition vs. Sonship 15:30 How Corey Russell Learned to Pray 18:45 Prayer Begins With a Person, Not a List 21:30 Living From the Secret Place 23:40 Praying Through Boredom, Shame & Suffering 27:00 What Jesus' Prayer Life Taught the Disciples 31:00 How Your View of God Shapes Your Prayer Life 40:00 How Leaders Finish Well 45:30 The Danger of Success 55:00 Why Gen Z Needs Prayer More Than Ever 1:01:30 Corey Russell Online #ChristianEntrepreneur #Prayer #FaithAndBusiness #ChristianLeadership #Faithustle

1 hr 5 min

The REAL Reason Most Entrepreneurs Never Reach $1 Million | w/ Landon Rhodes

If you feel like you've tried every business idea, changed your offer ten times, and still feel stuck ... this episode is for you. This week on the Faithustle Podcast, Mukwenda Kandole sits down with entrepreneur and business coach Landon Rhodes. After building and scaling a multi-million dollar video agency, Landon now helps videographers, creatives, and agency owners simplify their business, scale to seven figures, and stop chasing every new strategy. But this conversation goes far beyond business. We talk about: • Why most entrepreneurs stay stuck • The "Rule of Five Ones" that helped Landon scale • Why changing your offer is hurting your business • The identity shift every entrepreneur must make • How to build with focus instead of chasing trends • How God healed Landon from cancer • What it means to truly be Spirit-led in business • Why faith is one of the greatest assets an entrepreneur can have One of the biggest takeaways from this conversation is simple: ✅ Do one thing. ✅ Make it excellent. ✅ Stay faithful long enough to see the fruit. If you're tired of shiny object syndrome, constantly pivoting, or wondering why your business isn't growing, this episode will challenge the way you think about entrepreneurship. 👇 JOIN THE FAITHUSTLE NETWORK The Faithustle Network is a global community of Christian entrepreneurs learning how to build business God's way. Inside you'll find: 📖 Weekly Bible Studies 💼 Weekly Business Coaching 🤝 Kingdom Community 🎙 Live Q&A Sessions 📍 Monthly Meetups Join here 👉 https://bit.ly/43uzV2i ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FOLLOW LANDON RHODES Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/landonrrhodes/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FOLLOW FAITHUSTLE Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefaithustle/ ⏱ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Intro 03:02 Meet Landon Rhodes 05:20 How Landon Built His Video Agency 13:20 Why Niches Build Better Businesses 17:40 The Rule of Five Ones 21:45 Stop Reinventing Your Offer 29:20 The Identity Shift Every Entrepreneur Must Make 39:50 Stewarding Your Gifts Well 47:50 Landon's Healing Journey 55:00 How to Build Your Faith Daily 1:02:30 Prayer for Christian Entrepreneurs #ChristianEntrepreneur #BusinessGrowth #Entrepreneurship #FaithAndBusiness #KingdomBusiness #Faithustle

47 min

He Built an 8-Figure Company But Still Felt EMPTY | w/ Vince Del Monte

What if success isn't the finish line? What if the very thing you've spent years building is the thing God is asking you to surrender? In this powerful episode of the Faithustle Podcast, Mukwenda Kandole sits down with entrepreneur, coach, and industry pioneer Vince Del Monte. For over 20 years, Vince helped shape the online fitness coaching industry, building multiple seven-figure businesses and eventually an eight-figure coaching company . But after years of success, God began asking him deeper questions about ambition, identity, purpose, and surrender. This conversation isn't about making more money. It's about understanding what it actually means to build God's Kingdom in the marketplace. Vince shares his powerful testimony of surrendering his business, laying down ambition, and allowing God to rebuild his identity from the ground up. He challenges the idea that bigger businesses automatically mean bigger Kingdom impact and offers a biblical framework for leadership, success, and entrepreneurship. Some of the topics we cover: ✅ Why scaling doesn't always mean Kingdom growth ✅ The difference between ambition and obedience ✅ How entrepreneurs build their own kingdoms ✅ Why success can become an idol ✅ The danger of attaching identity to performance ✅ Why God cares more about formation than outcomes ✅ The cost and reward of doing business God's way One of Vince's most powerful statements was: "You don't expand the Kingdom through scaling. You expand it through surrender." And another: "It's not add God to your goals. It's reorder your goals around Him." If you're a Christian entrepreneur, business owner, coach, creator, or leader trying to build without losing your soul, this episode is for you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 JOIN THE FAITHUSTLE NETWORK The Faithustle Network helps Christian entrepreneurs learn how to build their business God's way. Inside you'll find: ✅ Weekly mentorship calls ✅ Bible studies & prayer ✅ Kingdom business training ✅ Monthly events ✅ Christian entrepreneur community ✅ Leadership development Join Here ➡️ https://bit.ly/43uzV2i 📲 Follow Faithustle: https://www.instagram.com/thefaithustle/ 🔗 All Links: https://linktr.ee/thefaithustle ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 FOLLOW VINCE DELMONTE Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vincedelmonte/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 You Don't Expand the Kingdom Through Scaling 2:15 Meet Vince DelMonte 5:30 Building an 8-Figure Coaching Business 10:00 Identity, Success & Ambition 15:00 What Does "Seek First the Kingdom" Mean? 20:00 Building Your Kingdom vs God's Kingdom 25:00 Why Success Doesn't Satisfy 30:00 The Cost of Surrender 34:00 Why Entrepreneurs Feel So Much Pressure 38:00 Fear, Relevance & Identity 43:00 Why God's Way Feels Slower 47:00 The Benefits of Building God's Way 52:00 Peace That Revenue Cannot Give 57:00 The Real Definition of Freedom 1:02:00 Final Encouragement for Entrepreneurs ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #ChristianEntrepreneur #KingdomBusiness #FaithAndBusiness #ChristianLeadership #Entrepreneurship #Faithustle #BusinessGodsWay #VinceDelMonte

1 hr 14 min

She's worked with over 1,000 Startups and helped raise $200 Million | w/ Stacyann Patrice

What separates startups that succeed from the ones that disappear? In this episode of the Faithustle Podcast, Mukwenda Kandole sits down with StacyAnn Patrice, startup strategist, innovation expert, and founder advocate who has helped more than 1,000 startups navigate growth, secure funding, and build companies that solve real problems. Collectively, the founders and startups she's supported have raised nearly $200 million in funding. But this conversation isn't just about raising capital. It's about building something that actually matters. Before becoming one of the most respected voices in the startup ecosystem, StacyAnn was a nuclear engineer working on some of the most complex projects imaginable. Today, she helps founders navigate uncertainty, validate ideas, find product-market fit, understand customers, raise capital, and avoid the mistakes that cause startups to fail. If you're building a startup, launching a company, raising investment, creating a new product, or trying to figure out if your idea is worth pursuing, this episode is a masterclass. We cover: ✅ How startup founders should validate ideas ✅ Why most startups fail before they ever get traction ✅ Revenue vs fundraising ✅ What investors actually look for ✅ Product-market fit explained simply ✅ Customer discovery and startup validation ✅ Why founders must stay coachable ✅ Building systems that scale ✅ The danger of chasing funding too early ✅ Biblical principles of entrepreneurship ✅ Faith, obedience, and leadership ✅ The role curiosity plays in startup success One of the most powerful lessons StaceyAnn shares is that startups succeed when founders stay curious, hungry, coachable, and committed to solving real problems —not just telling great stories. Whether you're a first-time founder, tech entrepreneur, startup CEO, or aspiring business owner, this conversation will save you years of mistakes. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 JOIN THE FAITHUSTLE NETWORK Faithustle helps Christian entrepreneurs learn how to build their business God's way. Inside you'll find: ✅ Weekly mentorship calls ✅ Kingdom business training ✅ Bible studies & prayer ✅ Christian entrepreneur community ✅ Monthly live events ✅ Leadership development Join the Network: https://bit.ly/43uzV2i 📲 Follow Faithustle: https://www.instagram.com/thefaithustle/ 🔗 All Faithustle Links: https://linktr.ee/thefaithustle ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 CONNECT WITH STACEYANN PATRICE 📲 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stacyannpatrice/ 🌐 Website: https://memberup.com/entrepreneursplayground/about?p=6c7d2d91-133e-4cbe-9697-d8e63acc7b2b ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 2:00 From Nuclear Engineer to Startup Advisor 7:00 Why Most Startup Ideas Fail 11:00 Radical Obedience & Entrepreneurship 16:00 Revenue vs Raising Money 22:00 Product-Market Fit Explained 28:00 The Biggest Founder Mistakes 34:00 Why Coachability Matters 40:00 Startup Validation Framework 45:00 How Faith Impacts Leadership 51:00 Helping Founders Raise $200M 57:00 Customer Discovery Process 1:03:00 Why Great Ideas Die 1:08:00 Advice for Every Startup Founder Filmed at Lux Creative Studio: https://www.luxcreativetx.com/

1 hr 32 min

Tim Ross & Touré Roberts On How to Build Without Losing Your Peace | "The Meet Up" Live Podcast

A Live Conversation From "The Meet Up" Dallas | Faithustle x Scary But Beautiful Studios X The Basement What if the biggest thing holding you back isn't strategy... What if it's the condition of your soul? In this historic live podcast conversation recorded in front of 350+ Christian entrepreneurs, creatives, and leaders at The Meet Up in Dallas, Tim Ross and Touré Roberts sit down Mukwenda Kandole and Ty Headlee for one of the most powerful conversations we've ever hosted. Together, we explored the themes behind Tim Ross' new book, The Missing Peace, and Touré Roberts' new book, Knowing: The Journey to Certainty in an Uncertain World. The result was a transformational conversation on leadership, emotional health, hearing God's voice, entrepreneurship, peace, purpose, discernment, trust, and building God's way. Whether you're building a business, leading a team, starting a ministry, creating content, or simply trying to discern God's next step for your life, this conversation will challenge and encourage you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 JOIN THE FAITHUSTLE NETWORK Faithustle helps Christian entrepreneurs learn how to build their business God's way. Inside you'll find: ✅ Weekly mentorship calls ✅ Kingdom business training ✅ Bible studies & prayer ✅ Christian entrepreneur community ✅ Monthly live events ✅ Leadership development Join the Network: https://bit.ly/43uzV2i 📲 Follow Faithustle: https://www.instagram.com/thefaithustle/ 🔗 All Faithustle Links: https://linktr.ee/thefaithustle ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 GRAB YOUR COPY OF "THE MISSING PEACE" & "KNOWING" The Missing Peace by Tim Ross ➡️ https://www.upsettheworld.com/themissingpeacebook Knowing: The Journey to Certainty in an Uncertain World by Touré Roberts ➡️ https://www.toureroberts.com/books-by-toure-roberts ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONNECT WITH TIM ROSS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/upsetthegram/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONNECT WITH TOURÉ ROBERTS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/toureroberts/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONNECT WITH TY HEADLEE Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tyheadlee/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 WHAT WE COVER IN THIS LIVE CONVERSATION ✅ How to develop certainty in an uncertain world ✅ Why peace is more important than information ✅ Trusting God when you don't know what's next ✅ Healing from past failures and disappointments ✅ Emotional health and leadership ✅ Why provision is not necessarily God's vision ✅ The danger of good ideas vs God ideas ✅ How to hear God's voice more clearly ✅ Entrepreneurship, purpose, and obedience ✅ Finding clarity when life feels confusing One of the most powerful moments of the night came when Tim Ross shared: "You don't have to know about your future because you know who holds your future." And Touré Roberts challenged the room with this truth: "You can either be a wanderer or a knower." This wasn't just a podcast. It was a holy moment. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Peace vs Panic 1:00 Introduction & The Meet Up 3:20 Why These Books Had to Be Written 8:00 Finding Certainty in an Uncertain World 12:00 Leadership, Opposition & Perseverance 17:00 Good Ideas vs God Ideas 21:00 Business Partnerships & Discernment 24:00 How God Leads Entrepreneurs 28:00 Why Emotional Health Matters 31:00 Trust Issues & Leadership 34:00 Failure Is Not Your Identity 38:00 Developing Your Knower 42:00 Why We Fill In The Blanks 46:00 Peter Sleeping In Prison 53:00 Learning to Trust God 54:00 Being Multi-Passionate & Called 1:01:00 Finding Your Assignment 1:07:00 Advice for the Next Generation of Leaders 1:14:00 Prayer for Entrepreneurs & Builders #TimRoss #ToureRoberts #TheMissingPeace #Knowing #ChristianEntrepreneur #Faithustle #KingdomBusiness #LeadershipPodcast #TheBasementPodcast #HearingGodsVoice #ChristianLeadership #Purpose #FaithAndBusiness