Generous Business Owner

Have you given your “why” to God to see the impact that you can make on His kingdom?  In this episode, Jeff and Allison discuss:  How Allison’s health contributed to the start of Branch Basics.   Leaning on God and trusting in the gifts He has given. The power of purity.  Understanding your why and building your business with God.    Key Takeaways:  Just bec...

Have you ever thought about what it would be like to bring your kids along with you on your business journey? In this episode, Jeff and Blake discuss:  Integrating family and business for a life of less conflict and less chaos.  Living outside the work identities that people place on us. The benefits of having your children with you at work. Raising future adults, not parenting for your...

Are you wondering how you can start or increase your giving?    In this episode, Jeff and Tom discuss:  Learning from unexpected challenges in business.  Trusting in God and allowing Him to protect you.  Involving your spouse and family in the giving process.  Using a donor-advised fund to support your giving.  Leaning on God as you run your business and in how y...

Are you letting your money fertilize in God’s Kingdom, or is it stinking up stagnant in your accounts?   In this episode, Jeff and Jess discuss:  The dangers of prioritizing business over relationships.  Lessons learned during catalysts of life.  Changing your mindset from success for me to success for us. Take inventory - where are you on your balance sheets in business, as a...

How is the Lord asking you to fulfill the invitation to come follow Him?    In this episode, Jeff and Jon discuss:  Sitting in the crockpot of Jesus’s plan.  Aligning your will to God’s.  Discernment in knowing how to steward God’s resources.  Living for an audience of one.    Key Takeaways:  God will lead your way - but it will take prayer and patience...

Where is God asking you to carry the lemonade? In this episode, Jeff and Jeff discuss:  Learning to trust in the Lord in times of plenty and times of struggle.  Maintaining your own stones of remembrance.  Running your decisions through your personal filters. Advancing the Kingdom of God in all you do.   Key Takeaways:  Keep a journal of blessings and tender mercies the Lo...

What assets do you have (non-monetary) that can contribute to your capacity for meaningful action? In this episode, Jeff and Dave discuss:  What entrepreneurship means to the Kingdom of God.  The power of a Christian-led business.   Admitting, then confronting, exploitation in business to rid yourself of those ways of working. Fully surrendering to God and all that He is. ...

Who are three people that you can pour into today who can bring the Light of Christ into their lives?  In this episode, Jeff and Bill discuss:  The value of work and making it work. Building your marital relationship to be better together than separate. Seeing yourself in the reflection of God. Building the Kingdom and transforming people through work and leadership.   Key Takeaways...

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you just started saying “yes” to the opportunities in front of you, even when you aren’t sure how it is going to work out?   In this episode, Jeff and Dave discuss:  Taking strength from bankruptcy lessons learned young.  Utilizing your time for God.  Just saying “yes” to the next right thing and trusting that God will make it okay. G...

Have you ever wondered how prayer can change your life, your business, and the world? In this episode, Jeff and Ryan discuss:  Ryan’s experience watching the Book of Acts come to life in China.   Serving in tough places as defined by the three “Un’s” Submitting your entrepreneurial spirit to God. What it really means to be meek before God. Reframing prayer as time with your friend J...

What if the path from secret addiction to lasting freedom became the foundation for how you build and run your business? In this episode, Jeff and Joe discuss:  Living in such a way that the adversary cannot sideline us from God’s team. Vulnerability, accountability, community, and love. Channeling the talents and gifts God has given you while giving honor to Him.  Developing a biblical worldview...

God gives us the freedom ; are you using that freedom to seek Him or hide from Him?  In this episode, Jeff and Krue discuss:  Empowering those around us to find freedom of their own. His journey from dropping out of Vanderbilt (more than once) for auto-mechanic school and construction to marriage, travel, and graduate school. Lessons learned from Martin Luther King, Jr.’s speeches. How education l...

Have you considered the relationship between joy and your standard of giving?  In this episode, Jeff discusses:  How the world views success versus how God views success.  Five Biblical truths about wealth.  Jeff’s turnaround moment.  Modern and Biblical stories of Kingdom Generosity.     Key Takeaways:  If you’re making $65,000 per year, you’re in the top 1% of earners worldwide.  We are stewards...

Right now, we're in the greatest transfer of wealth in human history. How do we facilitate that transfer in a way that best allows for our families and legacies to flourish?    In this episode, Jeff and Cale discuss:  Looking beyond the KPIs to the FPIs.   The six Ps of the Flourishing Performance Indicators (FPIs).  How the FPIs can look different from person to person.  Recognizing the gaps in o...

Who are the mentors in your life that you are learning from? Are they leading you to God or down the wrong path? In this episode, Jeff and Mark discuss:  Doing the right thing even when nobody else is. The importance of following the compass of the Lord, not of mammon. Seeing the miracles of God in the worst moments of our lives. Introducing God to others through your business.    Key Takeaways: ...

What can you do to answer the calling that is tugging on your heart?  In this episode, Jeff and Stephen discuss:  Restarting from zero with faith and motivation.  Nerding out on the word of God and honoring Him in all things. The founding and growth of Truly Free and Truly Free Home.  Anti-slavery mission work and broader vision for conscious, freedom-centered business.  The evolution of social co...

What keeps a multi-generational business from collapsing by the third generation? In this episode, Jeff and Spence discuss:  Building family relationships from a young age. The origin story of Holiday Inn and how it was built out of necessity.  Growing a business with customer service and going above and beyond, even when nobody else does.  Leading and guiding with questions, not commands.     Key...

When God sees you, what does He think? In this episode, Jeff and Tom discuss:  Why being needs to be grounded in identity and doing needs to be grounded in your being. What having an abundant life means and how it may change. Building abundance from the Father’s perspective, not the world’s perspective. Coming to understand that the results belong to God. The spiritual battle we are in every day. ...

Have you thought about how your business will continue to serve four generations in the future?  In this episode, Jeff and David discuss:  Why loving and serving people is the secret to success.  Starting a business young and making every mistake three times.  Scaling even without planning to sell.  Multi-generational businesses in multiple industries.  Multiplying every tool you’ve been given.   ...

What if the real measure of your success isn’t the size of your business, but how intentionally you leverage your wealth for generosity, family harmony, and impact that outlasts your lifetime? In this episode, Jeff and Russ discuss:  Separating the business finances from the personal. Intentional communication around wealth. Teaching and learning biblical financial principles for decades. Integrat...

What is the goal and assignment you have received from God? In this episode, Jeff and Chuck discuss:  God can find you wherever you are, even if you aren’t expecting it.  Humbling and honestly handling struggles. Ministry outside of church employment. Beginning with moderation on business ministry.    Key Takeaways:  Your work matters to God. He can have an impact through you no matter what indust...

What if all of the nos and disasters of your life are the start of the exact path God is using to build something bigger?  In this episode, Jeff and Jacob discuss:  Discovering entrepreneurship through networking. Seeing the world how Jesus asks us to. Operating from a place of faith, not fear, regardless of our memory of fear. Learning something every step of the way.    Key Takeaways:  Take the...

Which of the five money habits do you need to strengthen in your life? In this episode, Jeff and Ron discuss:  Hiring for quality to build the culture you’re looking for in your organization. Understanding where God stands in your life and path of success. Planting and watering people and allowing God to give the increase. The 4H Tool for a financial foundational framework. The five money habits e...

When it feels like everything in your life blows up, what do you do next?  In this episode, Jeff and Tim discuss:  Praying the dangerous prayer with intention. Finding joy in making a difference. How God refines us through loss. Discovering the global giving imbalance and the founding of ROI Ministry.   Key Takeaways:  God programmed us to desire to serve others, not to serve ourselves. Serving ot...

What is God leading you to uniquely do in the discipleship of Him? In this episode, Jeff and Steve discuss:  Developing leaders and allowing God to sow the seeds for what will happen later.  Creating IBAM and the Tiger Medical Institute. Keeping the gospel as the core, no matter the tool of your business.  Realigning with the Kingdom Path.    Key Takeaways:  The outside of something can look fanta...