Catholic Founders

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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...

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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...

Please help us out by participating in our reader survey! We have heard a lot about the parable of the sower. But do we understand why Jesus only shared the meaning of the parable with His disciples? And why He intentionally speaks in parables? The gospel reading from the 29th of Jan, 2025 (new calendar) is Mark, 4:1-20 — in it, we hear the parable of the sower, delivered from a boat to the vast c...

Entrepreneurs are fundamentally people of action. Catholics fundamentally believe that God has a specific calling. So what do we get when we put these things together? There tends to exist, a conflict between our will and God’s will. But there shouldn’t be! We know that we must follow God’s will. The problem is it’s often really hard to know what God’s will actually is for us. Understanding what G...

Three things: * We’re launching the Catholic Founders podcast — here is the trailer. Stay tuned, the first episode is a banger. * Ask 1: Help us rank on Apple Podcasts for our launch * Ask 2: Share this with a Catholic entrepreneur, or aspiring Catholic Entrepreneur #1 — Launch! So… check out the teaser we’ve created for the upcoming Catholic Founders episode. Share this with your networks — let’s...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.catholicfounders.com Hey everyone! We’ve got an audio post for you today — I’ve found I much prefer creating content in audio format so let me know what you think. If you prefer to read, you can check out the transcript. I’ve also got a blog version of this below. Have a Blessed Feast of the Epiphany! To support our work, upgrade to...

Welcome back, everyone! Today I’m recapping Thursday's events and learnings from Sent. Let’s dive in. Morning Mass & Prayer The day started with Mass, the Liturgy of the Hours, and Adoration. The sermon stood out, particularly because the priest had spent seven years working in the tech industry before entering the priesthood—he even co-founded a tech company back in the '90s. The key takeaway fro...

Hey y'all! I wanted to share what I’ve been learning at the SENT Summit. What is SENT? SENT Summit is an event organized by SENT Ventures, a community of Catholic CEOs and founders who have achieved some traction in their ventures. They focus heavily on venture-scalable companies. The conference is open to non-members as well, and I’m attending as a non-member this year. The Schedule The summit ki...