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.
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The Business & Faith Podcast®
#116 - Welcome to The Business & Faith Podcast
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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 changed its name and what is staying exactly where it was. Travis Hall describes burning out on the build it up and sell it off pattern, and how he started choosing companies by their culture and first principles instead of their exit. John Staub traces his own path from a humanitarian aid project in Macapá, Brazil, through a decade of church work and three campus launches, into selling software to faith-based organizations. Together they reframe authenticity as open-handedness: the willingness to be wrong, and to let a good culture change you. The format, the cadence, and the guest list are not changing. The questions are getting more honest.
Chapters:
- 00:00 No Cold Open, No Intro
- 01:23 Why the Name Changed
- 02:22 The Common Thread in Every Conversation
- 04:16 You Can't Get the Real Without the Full
- 06:07 What to Expect Week to Week
- 07:49 Burned Out on Build It Up, Sell It Off
- 09:16 Choosing Culture Over the Goalpost
- 11:40 Nobody Goes In Planning to Be Changed
- 14:01 Authenticity as Open-Handedness
- 15:23 Brazil, Websites, and a Church Job
- 17:39 Selling Software to Faith-Based Organizations
- 19:16 What We Hope Leaders Walk Away With
- 22:08 I See Me, and I'm Not Alone
- 23:59 Applying to Be a Guest
Links:
- John Staub: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-staub/
- Travis Hall: https://www.linkedin.com/in/travis-m-hall/
- Dataliction: https://dataliction.com
- Apply to be a guest: https://businessandfaithpodcast.com
- Remodel Health (mentioned): https://remodelhealth.com
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