The Buddy Foy Jr Show

Send us Fan Mail When the crowd gets loud, do you get clearer or do you get quieter? We start with a blunt question: when was the last time the crowd was right, and what does that reveal about how we lead, vote, post, hire, fire, and speak up when it costs us something. In an age of influencers, instant outrage, and workplace groupthink, crowd psychology can feel like gravity. But leadership is no...

Send us Fan Mail This is the Buddy For Junior Show — where faith, truth, and courage come together. Join us as we explore life’s deeper purpose and carry the torch of conviction. The show begins now. Follow Buddy @BuddyFoyJr

Send us Fan Mail Most leaders want two things at once: a high-performing culture and a team that feels valued. The hard part is doing both without drifting into either harshness or passivity. I’m working through that tension in real time, and I bring you into my “Jesus Gym” to ask a blunt question: can we lead with grace without lowering standards? We walk through three scriptures that keep me gro...

Send us Fan Mail Reality might be louder with God than we’ve been trained to hear. We kick things off with a deceptively simple line from Acts 9:31 and treat it like a leadership model you can actually live: peace, strength, reverence, encouragement by the Holy Spirit, and then real increase. Not hype. Not burnout. A grounded way to lead your life, your relationships, and your work from a calmer c...

Send us Fan Mail Protect your peace because your leadership depends on it. My leadership default has been loud, intense, and all about getting it done, and for a long time it worked. Lately I’m wrestling with a tougher question than any KPI: how does Jesus want me to lead when I’m trying to live in the Word, show up at church, and still operate in a business world that feels like nonstop spiritual...

Send us Fan Mail You can be a strong leader, get real results, and still walk out of the room thinking, Was that biblical. That is where we start. I’m stepping deeper into leading a restaurant team in Florida, and the old playbook of intensity, urgency, and harsh language still “works”, but it is wearing me out. The bigger question will not go away: how does Jesus actually want me to lead when the...

Send us Fan Mail This is the Buddy For Junior Show — where faith, truth, and courage come together. Join us as we explore life’s deeper purpose and carry the torch of conviction. The show begins now. Follow Buddy @BuddyFoyJr

Send us Fan Mail You can love someone without letting fear run the relationship. Buddy Ford Jr. sits down again with Brian Metzger to challenge one of the most common traps in Christian relationships: calling something “love” when it is really pressure, guilt, or control. We get specific about what unconditional love means and why it is never manipulation. The surprising takeaway is that because l...

Send us Fan Mail “Good” is a dangerous place to live as a leader. It looks fine on paper, customers still show up, the brand still has pull, and the team stays busy. But deep down you can feel it: the edge is gone, the standard slipped, and you’re no longer building toward excellence. We wrestle with that uncomfortable moment where you’ve already achieved a lot, yet your current leadership style i...

Send us Fan Mail What do you do when you can see the vision… but nobody around you sees it yet? This week on The Buddy Foy Jr Show, Buddy unpacks the story of Doubting Thomas through the lens of leadership, entrepreneurship, parenting, faith, and conviction. Thomas wanted proof before belief. And honestly? Most people do. But leadership often requires something much harder: vision before validatio...

Send us Fan Mail Politics. Family division. Broken trust. Manipulation. Forgiveness. This week on Mondays with the Monk, Buddy Foy Jr. and Brian “The Monk” Metzger unpack one of the hardest realities people are facing right now: relationships falling apart under pressure. Can you forgive someone without allowing them back into your inner circle? The answer may change how you see boundaries, healin...

Send us Fan Mail John chapter 19 disturbed me this week. Not because I hadn’t read it before… but because this time I saw something deeper: how ordinary evil can become. Jesus is being tortured, humiliated, and executed…   and nearby, soldiers casually gamble for His clothing. No outrage.   No reflection.   No grief. Just business. And maybe that’s the real danger of the human condition. Not sudde...

Send us Fan Mail Jesus stood calm in the middle of accusation. A guard struck Him.   Pilate knew the truth.   The crowd was manipulated.   And power chose self-preservation over principle. Reading John 18 and 19 today… it feels painfully current. This episode isn’t really about politics. It’s about leadership.   Fear.   Compromise.   And what happens when truth threatens power. Because the real tr...

Send us Fan Mail This is the Buddy For Junior Show — where faith, truth, and courage come together. Join us as we explore life’s deeper purpose and carry the torch of conviction. The show begins now. Follow Buddy @BuddyFoyJr

Send us Fan Mail Tim Tebow’s message hit me harder than I expected—not because it was polished, but because it was real. It made me ask myself a harder question: Am I trying to copy someone’s passion…  or am I pursuing the intimacy with God that produced it? Acts 4:13 says people recognized that Peter and John “had been with Jesus.” That’s the source. This episode is about conviction, intimacy, an...

Send us Fan Mail 🎙️Podcast Description: Where are we right now? Not just as a nation…  but as individuals. Because whether we realize it or not—  we’re becoming something. In this episode, I dive into what’s shaping us every day:  the noise, the division, the speed of information…  and how easily we get pulled into reaction instead of reflection. Drawing from Ecclesiastes and the Gospels, this isn...

Send us Fan Mail How to Find God When Your Mind Won’t Slow Down Chaos is the moment I most want to know God is real, not just true on paper, so we slow down and practice a different way of reading the Bible: not as a morality checklist, not as trivia, but as Jewish meditation literature. My guest Brian Matzker spent 21 years in a monastery, and he helps me reframe Scripture as “the quiet and conti...

Send us Fan Mail You’ve felt it before: you’re looking at something that seems undeniable, and someone else looks at the same facts and reaches a totally different conclusion. That disconnect isn’t just frustrating. It’s revealing. We’re living in an age of division, loud narratives, and emotional certainty, where people defend a position faster than they examine the truth.  We turn to the Gospel...

Send us Fan Mail If the Bible has ever felt like a battleground, a rulebook, or a homework assignment, we try a different door: reading Scripture as Jewish meditation literature. That one shift turns Genesis from something to argue about into something to practice, a way of training our attention until we can actually notice God’s presence in real life. We start in the Garden of Eden before the fa...

Send us Fan Mail What if the thing you’re trying to escape… is the very thing God wants to use? In this episode, Buddy dives into one of the most powerful mindset shifts in scripture—John 9:3: “This happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him.” Too often, we ask: “Why is this happening to me?” But what if the better question is: “What is God trying to do through me?” Through person...

Send us Fan Mail Last week we talked about intentionality—living with purpose, awareness, and direction. This week, we take it one step deeper: Timing. Because you can be intentional… and still be out of alignment. In this episode, I unpack a powerful moment from John chapter 7, where even Jesus is being pushed by those around Him to move faster—to go public, to prove Himself, to act now. And His...

Send us Fan Mail  A word that’s been pressing on me… correcting me… and honestly, convicting me. At 55, I’m realizing something I wish I had understood years ago: Life is short—but more importantly, it requires intention. In this episode, I get real about the cost of living without it. I talk about: Building a life… but not always being present in it Looking back at family memories I don’t fully r...

Send us Fan Mail Ego has cost me more than anything else in leadership. More than the market. More than competition. More than pressure. In this episode, we step into the real fight—the one happening inside. We talk about: Ego vs leadership Why ego feels justified How to recognize it under pressure And how to train against it daily The real fight isn’t out there. It’s in you. Scriptures from the E...

Send us Fan Mail Guard Your Heart (Without Closing It) What happens when pain isn’t dealt with—but stored? In this episode of The Buddy Foy Jr. Show, Buddy wrestles with one of the most sobering warnings in Scripture: “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” (Proverbs 4:23) This conversation isn’t about avoiding pain—it’s about what pain can do to us if we’re not pa...

Send us Fan Mail Short description: A man spraying sidewalks at Florida State reminded me of something powerful: you can often recognize faith by the way someone works. Full Description : While visiting his daughter at Florida State University, Buddy noticed something that stopped him in his tracks. A campus worker spraying sidewalks caught his attention — not because of what he said, but because...