Faith in Business (Without Making It Weird)

Entrepreneurship teaches you to rely on yourself. Faith reminds you that you don’t have to.

In this episode of Robert the Realist, I talk about what it actually looks like to bring Christianity into business—without turning it into a performance or a sales tactic.

This isn’t about being preachy. It’s about perspective.

I share how my faith has shaped the way I handle pressure, decision-making, stress, success, and failure. Not perfectly. Not loudly. Just honestly.

Because at some point, building a business stops being about proving something—and starts being about stewardship, integrity, and peace.

Real life. Real business. No pressure.

Transcript

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Hello, my peoples. Robert the Realist back with another episode on the podcast. I got a fun way I want to start doing the podcast. I'm going on vacation next week and I'm going to start it after that. Hopefully, it's going to be fun. It's going to be called the Spot Cast. That's all I'm going to say about it. That's it. Alright, today, guys, I'm gonna I'm not gonna preach, but I am gonna talk about faith in business and kind of how it changed the way I do entrepreneurship. So the thing about entrepreneurship is that it teaches you to rely on yourself, but Christianity teaches you that you're not meant to. So I'm gonna talk about that a little bit. Um how faith has actually changed my life personally, you know, or not just in church, but in business pressure, decision making, leadership, all those. Okay, this is not again, this is not preaching or debating, it's it's just about perspective. So faith has really shaped how I handle stress. And if you guys hear me pause, because with these podcasts, I'm not gonna edit them, you're getting the real thing, and I want to make sure that I'm speaking the right words, so I like to pause and make sure that I'm saying the right thing. So um let's talk about it. So when I first got in the business, I wasn't a Christian when uh I started the insurance side in 2015. Prior to that, I had dedicated my businesses to my church and not to my church, sorry, I dedicated my businesses to God. Um what that meant to me was that I was going to start being as God-centered in my decision making when it comes to business, how I treated people, how my business was run, and that I wanted my business to be somewhat my business is somewhat of a ministry. So I know that you know not everybody believes in God, and not everybody's a Christian, and that's okay. I think the take from that is in today's world is that we all have different beliefs and values, and we don't have to push them on each other. That's the good thing about living in America. But when I leaned in to God on the decision making and the stress, it made it easier. Now it didn't make it easy, and it didn't make it perfect, and I still stress, and and you know, I the it's called grace, right? So we got to use grace as well. But when I, you know, I dedicated all my businesses to God, I dedicated my life to God again. I'm like my businesses, I'm I'm not perfect, I still need to use a lot of faith and I still need a lot of grace, but I will say it changed my demeanor and how I looked at things. I stressed less. I my decisions weren't made. Some decisions I have to, you know, I have to make pretty quick, but some decisions I gave it time to talk to God. I listened to what he had to say, and I know that may sound strange to some of you all, but you know, if you that's our problem, we gotta slow down and we've got to listen. Uh listen for the answers. The answers it'll present itself. Things will be taken care of. Sometimes we live in an instant, not sometimes, we live in an instant gratification world, and that's not how God works. Sometimes it's in the waiting, so we wait and we decide. Sometimes it takes months and years. You know, I can say in the almost 19 years I've been at the business, I can go back and point to different times that God was there and I didn't see him. God was there and I didn't recognize him. The decisions I made that lead me up to today being an entrepreneur was all driven by him. That's my opinion. And that's not up for debate, but it's not my it's not me telling you that that's what you have to do, and I've and I've run across several other successful business owners that we have the same mindset, the same values, and they've become extremely successful. Now, I follow some people that are Christians and believe in Jesus and believe in God, and you wouldn't know it or think it. So I think a lot of times you're gonna see it approached differently. But with me, as you can see, you know, I this this was really driven around the pen I put on social media the other day, and I it kind of brought me back to when I was on Coat Street and I just started the insurance group, and I felt it was important to put a cross on the pens that I gave out. Now, could that be controversial? Absolutely, you know, everybody believes in the same. That's fine. I I respect it, I get it. But it could have been controversial, uh, may have turned people away, may not have. And then I come out with a logo for the real estate business with the cross and the flag, which is and means God and country to me, those two things are extremely important to me. Obviously, family is right after God, don't get me wrong there. But God is the center of it. My faith is the center of it. I am not perfect, I am not preaching, I'm a sinner, I make mistakes. But if we read the same book that some of us need to dust off and pick up and stay off social media, just pick up that book and start reading it. God set with sinners. God helps sinners, God heals sinners. I'm sorry, Jesus did. But again, that's what we have to remember is we gotta keep him centered in all we do, not only entrepreneurship, but also in our life. We can't have one without the other, in my opinion. And that's my belief. And since I've turned my businesses over to him, they've become more successful. Uh, you can say monetary-wise, you can say ministry-wise, because one of the things I like to do and I've done is, and it sounds weird, is give money away, donate a lot of money, a lot of times to Christian faith ministries and other things as well. So that's that to me is the successful part, is I'm able to do that and it not affect me or my family and what we're doing, you know, financially. So entrepreneurship, faith-centered, God-centered, is to me less stressful, more successful, and I'm glad I've done that. It's changed my life. Um, if any of you knew me 25-30 years ago, I think you would agree. So again, just want to pop on here a little pen that I had in my continuing ed course, kind of brought me back to the good old days and how I started when I put faith in God and leaned into them, leaned into him and it for entrepreneurship and how it changed the way I do business. So, how it's been good. So, again, not preaching, it's not debating, this is just real. I think we all can open up that book a little bit more, we can all open that app up a little bit more, we all can lean into them a little bit more and get back to the to the good principles and not the the division and and the things that this world, this this evil world part of the part of the evil world wants us to do. Because that's not what it's meant to do. It's not it's not what we're meant to do. So all right, guys. I appreciate you taking the time out, listening to this. I hope you get something out of it, and stay tuned, subscribe, add yourself, whatever you have to do. So stay with me here. Somebody kick off a spot cast while I'm on vacation. So stay tuned, guys. Robert's realist.

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