Dream Big Podcast with Bob Goff and Friends

Jeanne Stevens is the founding and co-lead pastor of Soul City Church in Chicago, one of America's fastest growing urban churches. Prior to starting Soul City Church, Stevens was on the pastoral staff at Willow Creek Community Church and North Point Community Church. A sought-after speaker, leader, and writer, Jeanne's passion is to help people wake up to their purpose as they pursue a life of who...

Paula Faris is an Emmy-Award winning journalist, speaker, best-selling author of “Called Out: Why I Traded Two Dream Jobs For A Life Of True Calling” and host of the "Paula Faris Faith & Calling podcast", where she talks to inspirational people about what they're called to do and who they're called to be.  Faris spent the last 9 years at ABC news, during which she was co-anchor of Good Mo...

Chris Brown, author of Restored: Transforming the Sting of Your Past into Purpose for Today, is a highly sought-after pastor, speaker, radio personality, and church leadership expert with more than twenty years of ministry and financial experience. He worked alongside Dave Ramsey for years and was the nationally syndicated radio host for Life, Money, and Hope, which received over ten million downl...

Chad Veach is the founder and lead pastor of ZOE Church in Los Angeles, California, a dynamic community in the heart of the Los Angeles. For the past 20 years he has dedicated his life to ministry and preaching the Gospel. In addition to leading ZOE, he is an international speaker; the author of three books, Help! I Work With People, Faith Forward Future and Unreasonable Hope; and the host of Lead...

Jordan Lee Dooley is the national bestselling author of Embrace Your Almost and Own Your Everyday and is the host of the top-rated podcast SHE. She is also the founder of the Own It Academy, a digital education company, and SoulScripts, a words company known for its phrase Your Brokenness Is Welcome Here. She has been featured in outlets such as Hallmark’s Home and Family, Forbes, Relevant Magazin...

Listen in to this new episode as Bob and actor, Mark Walhberg, talk about his starring role in Father Stu, releasing exclusively in theaters on Friday, April 13th. Based on a true story, Father Stu is an unflinchingly honest, funny and ultimately uplifting drama about a lost soul who finds his purpose in a most unexpected place. When an injury ends his amateur boxing career, Stuart Long (Mark Wahl...

Albert Tate is a pastor, public speaker, podcast host and Mississippi native who accepted a call to ministry at 21 years old. Albert graduated with his Bachelor’s degree from Wesley Bible College and is also working towards a Master’s degree at Fuller Theological Seminary. Raised in the church, Albert began to preach at revivals and lead retreats for people eager to grow closer to Jesus. Albert fo...

Fifteen years into a career that began humbly, writing songs in college and touring the southeast in his Honda Accord, Ben Rector found himself in a place where many artists did at the start of a global pandemic: reassessing his reasoning for a career in music in the first place. The internal prodding organically led to a seat back at the piano in his home studio, where Rector processed his findin...

Listen in to our conversation with my good friends and LIFE Church pastors, Steve Gambill and Maciek Liziniewicz, who are on the ground in Poland and Love Does Executive Director, Jody Luke. Steve and Maciek are assisting in providing basic needs to over one million Ukrainian refugees seeking shelter in Poland. Additionally they are supporting the logistics effort in order to help those still in U...

Tim Tebow is a two-time national champion, Heisman Trophy winner, first-round NFL draft pick, and a former professional baseball player. The four-time New York Times best-selling author, speaker, and football analyst is most passionate about his work with the Tim Tebow Foundation (TTF), whose mission is to bring faith, hope and love to those needing a brighter day in their darkest hour of need. Th...

Bill Lokey is a mentor, coach and dear friend of mine. He’s been fighting a courageous battle with cancer and shares some of his insights in today’s episode.  Together with his wife Laurie, Bill conducts workshops for groups and couple’s intensives. Their passion is to help others whose lives have been broken or impaired find the hope of a tenaciously loving God and the healing that leads the...

I want to talk with you some more about ways we can become less distracted. We can get distracted so easily because there are so many things that we don't want to miss out on. What if we spent a little more time focusing on one thing at a time rather than many things at once? Undistracted releases March 1, 2022 and I hope it helps you focus more on what matters and less on the things trying to dis...

Join me in this week's episode of the Dream Big podcast as we talk about living undistracted. I wrote my new book, Undistracted, to help you capture your purpose and rediscover your joy. I hope it feels like a reminder from a friend to filter out the parts that don't matter from the parts that do. The "Undistracted" book comes out 3.1.22 and you can preorder a copy now if you'd like to get one, cl...

Leading Christian activist, author and founder of the consulting group Freedom Road, Lisa Sharon Harper has spent three decades researching ten generations of her family history through DNA research, oral histories, interviews and genealogy. In her new book, Fortune: How Race Broke My Family and the World—and How to Repair It All (Brazos Press, February 8, 2022), Harper draws on her lifelong journ...

Zach Windahl has helped thousands of people understand the Bible better and grow closer to God. He runs The Brand Sunday and is the author of several books including The Bible Study, The Best Season Planner, and Launch with God. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with his wife Gisela and their mini bernedoodle, Nyla. Be on the lookout for his new book, See the Good, which releases in November. Yo...

Ryan O’Neal is a Chicago-based singer-songwriter, producer and composer who makes music under the name of Sleeping at Last. His music is often heard on TV and Film (Grey's Anatomy, The Twilight Saga, Ellen, The Fault In Our Stars, So You Think You Can Dance, Criminal Minds, Bones, Ads for Budweiser, Mercedes and more). After many years of making full-length albums and touring, Sleeping At Last beg...

This week on the Dream Big Podcast I am joined by my dear friend Becca Stevens. Becca is a speaker, social entrepreneur, author, priest, founder of ten non-profit justice initiatives, and President of Thistle Farms . She has been featured on PBS NewsHour, The Today Show, CNN, ABC World News, named a CNN Hero, and White House Champion of Change. Drawing from 25 years of leadership in mission-driven...

It would be hard to find a church community, group of friends, or family who haven't suffered from the breakdown of dialogue over the past couple of years. All across the country, family members are refusing to speak to one another, friends have blocked each other on social media, and people refuse to return to their churches.  It's hard to dream for peace, reconciliation, or redemption when...

There’s no escaping hardships in life. Nobody gets a hall pass on setbacks, conflict, heartache, or disappointment. How you respond, though, is a choice- it’s up to you. Certainly worrying and feeling overwhelmed are normal responses, but you don’t need to get stuck there.  Maybe you’ve been blessed to have some amazing role models who taught you how to turn your heart towards God with vulner...

When you’re going through something awful and tragic, it’s impossible to imagine the good parts that will come. You can’t see the resilience you’re building, the faith that you’re constructing, or the wrestling that turns into confident hope someday. But that’s how life works, especially when we choose to lean towards God during those difficult seasons.  Maybe you’re going through one of thos...

Anything bold you do in life requires an element of risk. People might not understand what you’re doing, or openly disagree. You might not know if it’s all going to work out- there’s risk involved.  But anything worth doing is worth taking those risks. The question is, what will you do with the uncertainty? Where will you put your trust and faith? As pastor and author Mike Todd says, “That dr...

If you're like me, then you want the story of your life to make a big splash- a meaningful impact in the world. The most important part of that, of course, is the way you live your life. The other part is how you reflect on the life that you're living. I try to do that through the stories I tell.  If you want to make an impact with your words, then you're going to want to listen to today's ne...

It's normal to be resistant about stepping out of your comfort zone and into something you aren't familiar with. Why wouldn't you be hesitant? That's where the unknown is and where the danger lies. But, as we talk about on the episode today, "You don't have to know everything about something in order to walk into it." This week we're thrilled to have our good friend, Shauna Niequist on the Dream B...

It’s a uniquely challenging time to imagine a world without barriers, not to mention racial justice and peace. The conflict in our culture seems to get more palpable and explicit every day.  Let this week’s conversation with pastor, author, and former NFL player Derwin Gray be a seed of hope and a foundation for how we all move forward into compassion and grace.  Dr. Derwin L. Gray is th...

Over the past couple of years, most of us are feeling the negative effects of a world in turmoil. It’s hard to escape, even if you do your best to avoid the news or social media. There’s almost a palpable negative energy in our world these days.  The question is, how do we learn how to be engaged in the world and yet not overwhelmed by toxicity or conflict? How can we find a way to turn to fa...