Catholic Founders

Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Pocket Casts In celebration of 25 episodes of Catholic Founders, we’re looking back at the biggest lessons and takeaways from those 25 episodes. It was too much to put into one recording so we are breaking it up into part 1 and 2. Part 2 should be out tomorrow or Saturday…stay tuned. If you’re a newer listener, please use this as a sort of directory...

Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Pocket Casts Hey guys — today is a really really special episode for me. I meet a lot of people. And it’s rare that I feel like a changed man after. But this conversation was one of those. Tim is an incredible person who is genuinely excited by finding people who are solving their neighbors’ needs. BEFORE WE START: * Today (July 31st) at 1 pm Central...

Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Pocket Casts (Join our Catholic biz owners community for camaraderie, learning, and networking) Hey everyone! Silas here 👋 We’ve got a special episode. Today’s guest has successfully developed a large mural of St. Joseph the Worker in Detroit. He’s here to tell us how it’s done (we even created a written guide to go with it — so be sure to share thi...

Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Pocket Casts Hey folks! Thanks for stopping by again. We really appreciate your support and attention. Before we start, please share this podcast with one other Catholic who runs a business or who is considering starting a business. You sharing this is the only way we grow. Thanks for helping us out! 📣 Announcement : This coming Monday, we’re hostin...

Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Pocket Casts Hello from San Francisco! This past Tuesday, we had a great dinner discussion about the challenges and benefits of building a VC-backed business as a Catholic. It was a lively discussion — expect to hear some more thorough takeaways from it soon. Shout out to all of you who attended. Couldn’t have had it without you. Announcement! As a h...

Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Pocket Casts Hey there folks! Sorry, this is a tad late. I’m in California for a wedding, and my calendar is out of whack. But we are still here. As an FYI, we’ll be skipping The Saintly CEO this coming Monday for the same reason. I just won’t have the time to write up the newsletter. Consider it my 4th of July recess. Don’t Forget! If you’re a Catho...

Listen on:   Apple Podcasts  | Spotify  | YouTube  | Pocket Casts Guest:  Juan Acosta, Founder of Tabella  (a free app for parish engagement) and Co-founder of SENT Angels  (an angel network of Catholic investors). Episode Highlights: 04:13  Why Sending Parishioners to Facebook is a Bad Idea 10:33  From Poverty to Purpose: Juan's Miraculous Immigrant Journey 17:47  Recognizing God’s Hand in His Jo...

Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Pocket Casts Some people romanticize poverty. Nathan Crankfield is not one of them. If you're a Catholic entrepreneur looking for permission to succeed and pursue sanctity — this episode is going to hit. Hey everyone! Silas here 👋 Announcements! * On Monday night, we’re hosting a Catholic Founders Guild hangout call. If you’d like to join us, become...

Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Pocket Casts Welcome back to another discussion with a cracked engineer and recent convert to the faith. I promise you’ll enjoy the hot takes and clippable moments today. Hey everyone! Silas here 👋 We’ve reformatted the structure of the email that goes along with the pod. Have a look at let us know how you like it. Outline below. In this Email: * In...

Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Pocket Casts Marketing is part of every business. But how can we do it in a way that is fair, true, and humble? If this is a question you’ve ever thought about, this is a great episode for you. Hey everyone! Silas here 👋 Quick announcement! We recently completed the Catholic Founders Guild Directory. If you want access to the directory, become a mem...

Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Pocket Casts Happy Feast of the Ascension , everyone! Silas here 👋 Today we’ve got a mini podcast for you because all the recordings I had scheduled last week had to get rescheduled. Today’s episode is a reflection of 3 core things I like to consider on this feast. * Why Jesus had to leave the Apostles * I believe the Eucharist gave them confidence...

Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Pocket Casts As AI eats the world, it’s more important than ever for Catholics to shape and lead the discussion and practices of this technology. Thankfully, we have just the person to discuss it. Hey everyone! Silas here 👋 In Today’s Podcast: * How we are called to be the leaven of society, especially as entrepreneurs * Our unique path to God throu...

Join the Catholic Founders Guild (Peer Group): $10/month or $100/year Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Pocket Casts If you’re Catholic and often wonder if it’s okay to desire to make big money, this is a good episode for you. Hey everyone! Silas here 👋 Quick note , this weekend, we’ll be hosting a hangout call for the paid members of Catholic founders (the Catholic Founders Guild)...

Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Pocket Casts Join the Catholic Founders Guild Today - $10/month or $100/year Habemus Papam! What an exciting week for us as Catholics. Especially Americans, and especially us good ole Midwesterners. Long Live Pope Leo XIV! Hey everyone! Silas here 👋 In case you missed it, check out this week’s issue of The Saintly CEO discussing how to manage your c...

Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Pocket Casts Happy Easter! He is Risen! Super glad to be back with another incredible discussion full of wisdom. If you have not already, check out our free Monday newsletter, The Saintly CEO . Also, quick housekeeping, as you may have noticed, we’re shifting our publishing schedule of the podcast to Thursdays — posting it the day after the newslette...

Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Pocket Casts Our world used to be covered in art that lifted us up to God. Now it’s not. Today’s guest is trying to help solve this. Hey everyone! Silas here 👋 Before you dive in, ICYMI, we launched a newsletter! It goes out Mondays. It’s called The Saintly CEO. Each issue offers (1) a tactical tip to insert Faith into your business (in under 5 min)...

Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Pocket Casts Welcome back to Catholic Founders. Our mission is to help you learn how to run your business like a saint. Hey everyone! Silas here 👋 News: * ICYMI, read our latest blog post (free for all) Stop Trying to Leave Your Faith at the Door . * If you’re in Central Wisconsin, we’re hosting a Catholic Founders meetup on April 22nd. Reach out fo...

Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Pocket Casts Hey everyone! Silas here 👋 Hope your Lent is going well! If not, now’s the time to recommit to your practice. If you’re not already, subscribe to our YouTube channel to help us get closer to who wants to play it who wants to play it 1,000. This will allow us to participate in monetization. Thanks for taking 10 seconds out of your day. I...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.catholicfounders.com Hey everyone! And we’re back — this time with a CF Mini Episode for the paid subscribers. So, if you’re not a paid subscriber, this is where we’ll have to drop you off. If you’d like to become part of our paid member community, all you have to do is upgrade to paid by clicking on the top right corner of your scr...

Complete the listener survey to help us understand how to better serve you. All of us want our project to make an impact. How do we make an impact? There are many things that can help in this pursuit. One of them is certainly eyeballs. Another is a strong endorsement. So, it naturally follows that we might, as Catholic Founders, pursue the approval of our local bishop for our project. This would g...

* There are ~2.3m small businesses owned by boomers who want to retire soon * Over 60% of small businesses have NO formal succession plan * Of businesses offered for sale, 80% never find a buyer These stats give you an idea of what we are discussing today. My guest today is a former colleague from my days working as a Field Agent (Insurance Agent) with the Knights of Columbus, Zach Scardino . Toge...

Ever wonder if you could start a business in a sector that you know nothing about? Well, truth is, it doesn’t take long to learn. Colin went from knowing nothing to being an expert in less than 3 years. How can I tell he’s an expert? He’s now got his own business and he’s saved probably at least 100 families huge amounts on their travel expenses. He does that through healing them leverage their cr...

Today’s conversation is beer’y fun and insightful. Trevor Alcorn is one of the owners of the Twitter-Famous Tridentine Brewing Co . — Brewing beer for the greater glory of God. They started brewing for fun in their basement. After the brand took the internet by storm, they realized there was a real demand to grow this. Recently, they made the leap to commercial production and are selling in my hom...

In today’s episode of Catholic Founders, we’re speaking with Sondre Rasch , a convert and founder of SafteyWing . Why should you care? He’s on his second YC (Y-Combinator, for those unaware, is the most prestigious startup accelerator in the world). He’s also living in the heart of Silicon Valley so he brings a lot of insight to us about being a Catholic founder there. We’ve got a wide-ranging con...

In this episode of Catholic Founders , we continue our conversation with Alessandro DiSanto, co-founder of Hallow , the #1 Catholic prayer app. If you missed our first episode with Alessandro, go back and check it out—we focused on how to pray as a Catholic entrepreneur, how to discern your call to entrepreneurship, and how to integrate prayer into both success and failure. But today we’ve got som...