Generous Business Owner

What is your one right next step?  In this episode, Jeff, Jeff, and Jeanna discuss:  Lessons on humility and overcoming pride.  Meeting the Lord through business. Transitioning from soaking in the Spirit to seeking the Lord. Building a unified team even among diverse people. Living intentionally and honoring legacy.    Key Takeaways:  People need to have a safe place. They need connection and real...

How are you using your business as a vehicle for Kingdom impact?  In this episode, Jeff, Jeff, and Mike discuss:  Successfully bridging the worlds between tech, business, and faith.  Building the Kingdom and a burned-down mansion.   Having a faith walk that includes God in your business. Returning to the true and important messages in the world of the wrong messages on social media.     Key Takeaw...

Have you started thinking about your business or ministry transition?  In this episode, Jeff, Jeff, and Steve discuss:  How Steve found Jesus with his wife at 21, turning his life around in the process. Losing focus in college and then finding success with a business career in marketing, which has become his ministry career. Building a cushion of wealth and being deliberate about both saving and g...

Are you looking for a greater purpose that will allow your assets to live on beyond you? In this episode, Jeff, Tim, and Pete discuss:  What a purpose trust is and how it may benefit your generosity beyond your lifetime.   How Farmer’s Organic Market and Patagonia are leading the way with purpose trusts.  Comparing a traditional trust with a perpetual purpose trust. Minimizing conflict and maximiz...

What is God leading you to do? In this episode, Jeff and Scott discuss:  Obedience over outcome. Generosity doesn’t happen organically. Blessings of Christian education. Creating a personal board of directors.     Key Takeaways:  God’s plan is different than yours. Ultimately, it is better than you could know.  God calls us to show up, no matter the outcome. The outcome has nothing to do with you,...

What are you willing to sacrifice or concede for the goal of healthy family dynamics?  In this episode, Jeff, Jeff, and Josh discuss:  Your kids are watching what you say, what you do, what you proclaim, and how those align.  Learning from our peers while in community.   Encouraging vulnerability.  Finding a shared common passion.     Key Takeaways:  The Gathering gives opportunities for kids and...

Do you understand your relationship with God, with money, and with generosity? In this episode, Jeff and Jamie discuss:  Understanding what it means to have a true relationship with Jesus Christ at every level of life. Recognizing God’s gift within to serve and bless others. Solving a problem for somebody versus having an impact on their change story.  Are we looking for a reason to give or a reas...

How are you balancing your attention to the callings God has given you?  In this episode, Jeff and Jenny discuss:  Finding what lights you up and lets you serve others. Serving your children to serve others. Scaling and growth with a seasonal product. Empowering mothers to help their families.     Key Takeaways:  Everyone has different paths in life. Parenthood is not a death sentence to your entr...

Have you written down the guidelines and guardrails for your family or organization’s mission? In this episode, Jeff, Jeff, and Becca discuss:  Learning from her father how a tax preparation business can be part of a Christian mission from a young age. Entrepreneurship in the mission space. Engaging your children in your family’s mission.  Discerning your mission with guidance and guardrails.    K...

Are you building a culture of generosity and significance in your life and business?  In this episode, Jeff, Jeff, and John discuss:  Three things to do every day to be a great leader. Making a difference and living a significant life. Add value to people every day, believe in them, and love them.  Understanding your personal, financial finish line.  The relationship between generosity and gratitu...

Do you know the influence your donations are having? In this episode, Jeff, Jeff, and Brad discuss: Lessons learned from growing up with four dads. Reaching communities through fundraising. The meeting of non-profit organizations and for-profit organizations. Developing a system that shows appreciation for your donors. Filtering the organizations you are giving to.    Key Takeaways: Love God, love...

Are you willing to take an honest reevaluation of your life and business?  In this episode, Jeff and Don discuss:  Having mission at the heart of all of God’s people.  Taking care of the Kingdom on Earth, not only in heaven. Changing your mindset to move beyond charity.  Rewiring the household (economy) to distribute wealth to more people.     Key Takeaways:  To preach the gospel is to marry the f...

Where is your treasure? Where are your priorities? Are there any changes that need made to measure up to God’s priority? In this episode, Jeff and Joe discuss:  Learning from a young age to organize life around the Kingdom of God. Helping Christians to think Christianly around work, wealth, and capital. Introducing God’s rest and peace into existence through our work. Using our wealth of restorati...

How are you giving back to your community in a way that matters and has purpose?  In this episode, Jeff, Jeff, and Ed discuss:  The top 3 lessons Ed learned from his parents. Standing out with a world-class point of difference. The 5 Cs of running a successful, people-focused organization. Benefits and challenges of running a family business. Building service and generosity into your company.    K...

Who are you surrendering to?  In this episode, Jeff, Jeff, and Barry discuss:  The gift of having a marriage of partnership. Changing the paradigm of how you think about work and life. Living a life of significance and a life that matters. The three things to invest in as you live your life in unity under God. The process and art of surrendering to God.    Key Takeaways:  The greatest gift of your...

What can you do to wear Christ on your sleeve a little bit more in your life and business?  In this episode, Jeff and Kip discuss:  Ministry in business.  Learning the lessons of perseverance and trust in God.  Living by values to sustain your life and your business with a strong foundation.  Building your brand as a brand that cares at its core - caring about the people within your company, your...

What are you doing with God’s whispers?  In this episode, Jeff, Jeff, and Bob discuss:  Growing up in the family business from greenhouses to fragrance. Willing to try, willing to fail.  Integrating business, family, and faith.  Building your business with a pastor’s heart.     Key Takeaways:  Growth never occurs in a straight line.  It is easy to write a check. It is harder to be deeply engaged a...

How can you minimize the regrets in your life in God’s kingdom? In this episode, Jeff, Jeff, and Isaiah discuss:  Lessons learned from youthful entrepreneurial endeavors. Creating a spiritually healthy work environment. Hiring the right people for the job. Giving generously while still building your company to better help others.    Key Takeaways:  When you hire, hire the right person for the job,...

How are you growing in intimacy with Christ as an individual, family, and community? In this episode, Jeff, Jeff, Mart, and Tyler discuss:  The generosity of women in the family. The privilege of traveling and experiencing other cultures and peoples.  Collaboration to go faster and further together.  Power in unity, person-to-person, life-to-life connections.     Key Takeaways:  Work is more than...

Are you giving time in your life to listen to God speak to you and share His love with others? In this episode, Jeff and Lin discuss:  Growing up a stone’s throw from the family business and learning the business from a young age.  Seeing God’s hand in the twists and turns of your life.  Maintaining and preserving company culture at 800 employees.  Handling the ups and downs of running a smorgasbo...

Are you saying ‘yes’ to the right things or the wrong things?  In this episode, Jeff, Jeff, and Nate discuss:  Nate’s transition from growing up in Indiana to building waterfront homes in Florida.  Leading in business and leading in ministry.  Diving roles and bringing in outsiders in a family business.  Separating leadership from ownership.     Key Takeaways:   Be open to all opportunities - you...

Who are the unseen individuals in your life? How can they be acknowledged or encouraged? In this episode, Jeff and Roger discuss:  Learning from parents as they invited others into their home and cared for people from a young age. Coming out of a struggle with self-confidence.  Starting and exiting family businesses, then using that experience to help others.  Broadening the generosity and capital...

Where do you turn when you have been knocked to your knees?  In this episode, Jeff, Jeff, Bob, and Peter discuss:  Beginning an entrepreneurial journey as a 5th-grade loan shark and a middle school bookie. How parents and grandparents inform family values.  Planting the seeds of giving back from a young age.  Painful honesty in times of feast and famine. Key Takeaways:  You can learn anything that...

How are you embracing your current situation to learn and lift where you are? In this episode, Jeff and Mike discuss:  Trying different things while searching for your calling.  Taking time while away to evaluate priorities and values.  Turning to God in the windfalls of our life.  Your work in business is a high calling.     Key Takeaways:  Run your business with a stewardship mentality. Everythi...

Do you know where your giving is going? Is it going somewhere where it can be 100Xed?  In this episode, Jeff, Jeff, and Kip discuss:  Kip’s earliest entrepreneurial ventures in bubble gum sales and water skiing and how they impacted his professional career.  Building a mission of faith and family.  Using food to help your team connect and show support.  Giving with impact and intentionality.     K...