The Business & Faith Podcast®
The Business & Faith Podcast® is where we learn from leaders whose experience and faith shape how they grow their organizations on purpose.
Some conversations are entirely about business. Some are entirely about faith. Most are somewhere in between, where a leader is working out how the two fit together in real decisions with real people.
These are conversations, not interviews. Wherever the conversation leads, that is where the episode goes. Nothing is scripted, and the best answers come from the hardest seasons, told honestly by the people who lived them: how they grew, why, what it cost, and what they believed that carried them through.
This show is for leaders at every stage: the ones who want to lead and have not been given the chance yet, the ones just starting, the ones growing something that has begun to outgrow them, and the ones finishing well and handing it on. That includes founders and startup teams, managers leading without the title yet, pastors and nonprofit leaders, academics and the people building new tools, and parents leading their kids through sports and through life. Whether the organization you are growing is a company or a family, this is for you.
New episodes weekly. The Business & Faith Podcast® is brought to you by Dataliction®.
Episodes
117 episodes
#117 - (Some Of) Our Favorite Lessons We've Learned So Far
Papa John was not in the pizza business. He was in the people business.Two emails reach a business owner more than any others. In this episode of The Business & Faith Podcast, John Staub and Travis Hall go back through the fir...
#116 - Welcome to The Business & Faith Podcast
The thing underneath the best answers was never a business principle.This episode has no cold open and no scripted introduction. In this episode of The Business & Faith Podcast, John Staub and Travis Hall explain why the show...
#115 - Paul Brinkman - Whose Story Is Your Data Telling
The numbers you use to grade a partner usually come straight from that partner.In this episode of The Dataliction Podcast®, John Staub talks with Paul Brinkman, president of Trans-Solutions Consulting, about what happens when a co...
#114 - Josh Eldridge - Learning to Love the Hard Work
Your circumstance and your self-worth have nothing to do with each other.In this episode of The Dataliction Podcast®, John Staub and Travis Hall talk with Josh Eldridge, a business coach at Painter Growth who owns a construction c...
#113 - John James - Nine Times Out of Ten
Most firing decisions have nothing to do with performance.In this episode of The Dataliction Podcast®, John Staub talks with John James, president and CEO of Flex Tech, the Texas staffing firm he built for the low-voltage and elec...
#112 - Gina Rogean - Treat the Root, Not the Symptom
Her doctor reached for a prescription when the answer was sitting in her lab work.Fatigue sent Gina Rogean to a doctor who offered her an antidepressant she never took. In this episode of The Dataliction Podcast®, John Staub and T...
#111 - Bruce Hoeker - Lift Your Head Up
There is only one CFO on a campus, and everyone is looking at them.Bruce Hoeker was 29 when he took a college vice president job knowing almost nothing about higher education. In this episode of The Dataliction Podcast®, John Stau...
#110 - John Porter - The Worst Time to Decide Is the 11th Hour
Most of what looks like a snap decision was made years earlier.In this episode of The Dataliction Podcast®, John Staub talks with John Porter, president of Charter Properties, the Charlotte firm developing apartment communities ac...
#109 - Parker Perrien - Hire and Fire Based on Core Values
Praying for the work to come in is not the same as knowing whether you can make payroll.In this episode of The Dataliction Podcast®, John Staub and Travis Hall talk with Parker Perrien, co-CEO of Diamond Solutions, the national as...
#108 - Wesley Mast - The Courage To Ask
Every leader carries a weight the people around them never see.In this episode of The Dataliction Podcast®, John Staub and Travis Hall talk with Wesley Mast, president of Coppes Napanee, the 150-year-old Indiana cabinet company hi...
#107 - Darren Thompson - Companies Stall Because of Leadership
Companies die because of cash, but they stall because of leadership.Darren Thompson spent his career at Eli Lilly and Company before a 2017 early retirement package pointed him somewhere else entirely. In this episode of The Datal...
#106 - Alex Melvin - Pushed Up, Not Pulled Up
Trust is a currency, and a company stops growing when the owner refuses to spend it.Eight years ago, Alex Melvin was six months into selling Rural King. In this episode of The Dataliction Podcast®, John Staub and Travis Hall sit d...
#105 - Luke Jacobs - Let Your Leaders Actually Lead
Hiring leaders is easy. Letting them lead is the hard part.Most founders hit a ceiling that has nothing to do with the market. In this episode of The Dataliction Podcast®, John Staub and Travis Hall talk with Luke Jacobs, co-found...
#104 - Jenny Vance - Your Title Is a False Positive
Your industry knowledge and your title are not a sales process.Most founders sell well long before they sell repeatably. In this episode of The Dataliction Podcast®, John Staub and Travis Hall talk with Jenny Vance, founder and CE...
#103 - Tim Jensen - Hire the Person, Not the Role
Most businesses don't fail because the idea was bad.In this episode of The Dataliction Podcast®, John Staub and Travis Hall talk with Tim Jensen, founder and president of The Veridus Group, Inc., about why culture decides whether ...
#102 - Kevin Bailey - Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Focus
Pro athletes get a coach for their mind. Founders get nothing.Most founders walk into the highest-stakes environment of their careers with no training for the one instrument they use all day. In this episode of The Dataliction Pod...
#101 - John Schnatter - Papa John's Founder on People-First Leadership
The next storm is always coming. The only question is whether your business gets stronger when it hits.In this episode of The Dataliction Podcast®, John Staub and Travis Hall sit down with John Schnatter, the founder of Papa John'...
#100 – The Data Told Us to Do This
100 episodes later, one thing is clear—growth doesn’t happen by accident.In this episode of The Dataliction Podcast®, John and Travis reflect on the journey to 100 episodes and the lessons learned along the way. From data...
#099 – Essentials: AI Always Sounds Right
AI sounds confident, but that doesn’t mean it’s right.In this episode of Dataliction Essentials®, John Staub breaks down the dangerous misconception that AI is objective and trustworthy by default. He explains how AI is d...
#098 – AI Is Lying to You
AI doesn’t just get things wrong—it can sound right while doing it.In this episode of The Dataliction Podcast®, John and Travis unpack the uncomfortable reality that AI can mislead with confidence. From bias and design li...
#097 – Essentials: Faster Doesn’t Mean Better
Faster isn’t better if you’re moving in the wrong direction.In this episode of Dataliction Essentials®, John Staub unpacks the tension between speed and clarity in the age of AI. While these tools can generate ideas and c...
#096 – AI Is Speeding Up Bad Business
AI doesn’t fix broken businesses—it exposes them.In this episode of The Dataliction Podcast®, John and Travis cut through the noise surrounding AI in business and focus on what actually drives results. They unpack the gap...
#095 – Essentials: People Still Matter
Technology is accelerating, but human nature hasn’t changed nearly as fast.In this episode of Dataliction Essentials®, John Staub explores what leadership really looks like in a world defined by rapid innovation. As AI an...