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Coaching to equip and empower you to grow your business and your leadership.
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About
Be the strategic, courageous, authentic leader you were designed to be
After years of corporate leadership, I took the leap to cofound, grow, and ultimately sell a professional services firm, including a visit for a few years on the Inc 500 “Fastest Growing Company” list.
Now I’m here to coach YOU to grow your business and your leadership.
LEADERSHIP COACHING
I want you to be the strategic, courageous, authentic leader you were designed to be. Let’s connect!
Coaching
After successfully scaling and selling my professional services company, now I coach others on to grow their business and their leadership.
Consulting
From setting the foundation to creating systems and strategies, I’ll partner with you to propel your business forward.
Podcasting
Conversations with Faith Driven Leaders to inspire, embolden, and equip us to lead with bold faith and abiding trust
UNLOCKING YOUR POTENTIAL
Ever wonder why you keep getting stuck in the same places? The Primal Question framework explains why you do what you do. It reveals both the origin of your triggers and your supernatural gifts. Skillfully crafted from decades of research and over 6000 hours of interviews, The Seven Primal Questions is a revolutionary model that simplifies human psychology, and can unlock your potential as a leader.
Podcast
Join the conversation on The Faith Driven Leader Podcast. You’ll be inspired, equipped, and emboldened to lead with unwavering faith and abiding trust.
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guests
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Bob Goff
Bob spent decades as an attorney, trying to figure out how to live a whimsical, impactful life. These days, he calls himself a “recovering lawyer” because after practicing law for 25 years, then becoming the Honorary Consul to Uganda, he gave up his law firm to pursue writing and speaking full time. He’s a New York Times bestselling author several times over, runs a popular weekly podcast, and recently turned farmer at The Oaks just outside San Diego, California.
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Chuck Mingo
Chuck is the founder and CEO of LivingUNDIVIDED, a program that takes participants through life-changing moments of racial healing. Part of his life’s work is to help ministry leaders stand in places where people view the church as irrelevant regarding injustice and offer them a different picture of Jesus. Chuck is the proud husband of Maria, who he has been married to for the better part of two decades. They have three children, and live in Cincinnati, Ohio.
![Jim Bechtold](https://anneileenthompson.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Jim-Bechtold-1.png)
Jim Bechtold
Jim is the Chief Innovation and Impact Officer of the CEO Forum. He has been a leader in the family entertainment industry for 15+ years, including leading key strategies designed to eliminate gender bias against women and girls. During his 20+ years with Procter & Gamble, he led multiple business units. Jim and his wife Vivienne are co-Founders of Crossroads Church, one of the fastest-growing churches in the world. Jim lives in Cincinnati, and he and Vivienne have three adult children.
episodes
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Tim Metzner | Building Companies and Cultures
Our guest today is my good friend, Tim Metzner. Tim is a serial entrepreneur – one of a small handful of incredibly prolific and wise faith-filled entrepreneurs I’ve had the pleasure of working alongside in our community. Tim’s fingerprints are all over the midwest entrepreneurial ecosystem. He helped launch Astronomer, Cincinnati's first unicorn (out of Cincinnati's first Venture Studio, Differential), co-founded a faith-based, and the longest-running startup accelerator in our region, OCEAN, and one of the region's best-funded and fastest-growing startups, Coterie Insurance. He is currently raising capital for Fireroad Ventures Fund I and actively hunting for great small businesses to acquire in the home services space. He has been in and around startups his entire career as a founder, investor, mentor, teacher, and coach. He’d say he’s been blessed to get to do work that he loves with amazing humans who make him better. Tim wholeheartedly believes that entrepreneurs can change the world by creating great jobs and culture. This belief has been a driving force behind his own entrepreneurial endeavors as well as the non-profit that I helped to start, OCEAN Programs. Other resources: Fireroad Ventures: https://www.fireroad.io/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timmetzner/ OCEAN: https://oceanprograms.com/ Coterie Insurance: https://coterieinsurance.com/ Astronomer: https://www.astronomer.io/ Differential: https://www.differential.com/ Follow us on Instagram: @faithdrivenleader.co Join our Email List: https://confirmsubscription.com/h/y/36F2DD732304055B Visit our website at https://faithdrivenleader.co/
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Jo Saxton | Dreaming Faithfully, Leading Intentionally
Hi friends! Welcome back to the Faith Driven Leader Podcast, where we get encouraged and equipped by learning from amazing Faith Driven Leaders. Our guest today is Jo Saxton. Jo is a speaker, podcaster, and author. She is the founder of the Ezer Collective, an initiative dedicated to investing in women leaders around the world, equipping them to own their voice, and boldly step into their calling. She currently serves as the Executive Director of The 25 (a leadership development initiative) at Bethel University. Born to Nigerian parents and raised in London, England, Jo now lives in Minneapolis with her husband and two daughters. She loves everyday stuff like good music, good food, and good friends. Challenge: Start dreaming again. Faithfully. With hope: Think through the exercises Jo referenced: determine the goal, the pathway, and where/how you have the agency to make it happen – these three will enable hope. If you are a female listener, consider signing up to attend Ezer Collective in Minneapolis this November! I hope to see you there!n Link in the show notes! Links from this conversation: Jo's General Website: https://www.josaxton.com/ Ezer Collective: https://www.josaxton.com/ezer-collective Lead Stories Podcast: https://www.leadstoriespodcast.com/ Jo's Books: https://www.josaxton.com/books Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/1josaxton Instagram: @josaxton Threads: @josaxton LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/josaxton/ Follow us on Instagram: @faithdrivenleader.co Join our Email List: https://confirmsubscription.com/h/y/36F2DD732304055B
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Kirsten Moorfield & Darrin Murriner | New Thinking on Collaboration
Hi friends! Today’s episode is extra good because we have two guests: Darrin Murriner and Kirsten Moorfield. Darrin and Kirsten are Faith Driven entrepreneurs and are the co-founders of Cloverleaf. Cloverleaf offers a coaching tool with technology that sends personalized, meaningful coaching tips. By leveraging respected psychology data from behavioral assessments such as DISC and Enneagram, Myers Briggs, and others, the company provides personalized coaching tips to team members directly in the communication and collaboration tools they use every day, including Google Workplace, Microsoft 365, Slack, and Microsoft Teams. Darrin & Kirsten are both such incredible leaders – within their team, the community, and their families. I’ve known them both for several years, and I’m always impressed, inspired, and equipped with new thinking each time I connect with them. In today’s episode, we talk about Darrin & Kirsten’s new book: Thrive: A Collaboration Manifesto; and their thoughts about collaboration, leadership, conflict, transparency, diversity, and so much more! Cloverleaf: https://cloverleaf.me/ Book: Thrive: A Collaboration Manifesto LinkedIn Darrin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/murriner/ Linkedin Kirsten: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirstenmoorefield/ Follow us on Instagram: @faithdrivenleader.co Join our Email List: https://confirmsubscription.com/h/y/36F2DD732304055B
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Mike Sharrow | Intentionally Harnessing Influence
Hi friends! Our guest today is Mike Sharrow, CEO of C12 Busines Forums, the global leader in CEO/Owner peer advisory groups for Christians serving more than 4,000 members across the US, SE Asia, South Africa and Brazil. Mike leads a team in San Antonio, Texas that supports more than 190 full-time C12 Chairs who serve as “missionpreneurs” helping CEOs, entrepreneurs and key players build “great businesses for a greater purpose” to “advance the Gospel in the marketplace.” I first encountered Mike when I heard him speak at the C12 conference in March of 2023, and I was blown away by his wisdom, humility, and his grasp for how we, as faith driven leaders can integrate our faith into our leadership, and the fruits that can result. Mike is an exceptional and inspiring leader, and this conversation is truly packed with practical insights you can use! C12: https://www.joinc12.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikesharrow/ Follow us on Instagram: @faithdrivenleader.co Join our Email List: https://confirmsubscription.com/h/y/36F2DD732304055B
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Mike Mulcahy | Legacy and Impact
Hi friends! Our guest today is Mike Mulcahy, Founder and President of Kings Path Partners LLC. Kings Path is a wealth services firm supporting individuals, families, and foundations in the stewardship of their wealth. Started in 2015, Kings Path advises on over $1 billion in assets. Kings Path commits 20% of its profits to charity. Mike is passionate about impact investing both as a mentor and with his personal investments. He firmly believes that CEOs have a responsibility to serve their team members and communities while creating redemptive places to work. He earned an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business and completed an Executive Program in Portfolio Management at the University of Chicago. He graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in Economics and a minor in Chemistry from Texas A&M University. He currently serves as Chairman of the Investment Committee for the H.E. Butt Foundation and is on the Boards of Second Mile Mission Center and National Christian Foundation Texas. He has also been instrumental in expanding Toolbox Ministries and Betterman ministry into his local community. Mike and I met through a mutual acquaintance, and I was blown away by his transparency, humility, and on the legacy and impact he is making while maintaining a focus on a financial finish line. Mike’s journey is inspiring and humbling, and I believe this conversation will lead you to think hard about your financial goals, and how you can be focused on generosity and stewardship. More from Mike: Books Mike mentioned: Your Work Matters to God Every Good Endeavor Praxis (Redemptive Entrepreneurship) Journey of Generosity (Weekend or online small group format by Generous Giving) Kings Path Partners (Mike’s company) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-mulcahy-5ba45813/ Follow us on Instagram: @faithdrivenleader.co Join our Email List: https://confirmsubscription.com/h/y/36F2DD732304055B
Thinking
Years of observation and practice, success and failure; collected now into wisdom worth sharing.
- On Joy
- On Faith
- On Rest
On Joy
Do you know what brings you joy? I’m not talking about happiness, nor circumstantial satisfaction. Not affirmation or validation. I’m talking about Joy. As in: deep contentment, gratitude, delight, peace – regardless of circumstances, setbacks, or seasons. Most folks I know can’t really answer that question, and neither could I.
After selling the company I’d co-conceived, birthed, and scaled,I was ready for the Lord to show me what was next. Instead, He asked me “What Brings You Joy?” and I was stumped.
Eighteen months of unplanned sabbatical led me down forgotten paths, through difficult memories, and past a Kodak roll of images from childhood antics and pastimes.
I learned to recognize and change thought patterns that were keeping me from Joy. Turns out, once noble ideas like “responsibility” and “empathy for others” had become strongholds that had overtaken my ability to even know what I wanted or needed or felt or thought. Fears, insecurities, and codependence had crept in and were keeping me from being able to feel joy.
Let’s learn to recognize the negative thought patterns that keep most of us from understanding and experiencing the true, abundant Joy that our Good, Good Father has for us. We’ll identify them, understand why they aren’t serving us anymore, repent, and then begin to learn Jesus’ truth, that can lead us to a new level of trust and Joy under His covering.
On Faith
We all have Faith. We have faith that the sun will come up tomorrow, That when we drop something, it will fall to the ground. That bad things will occasionally happen. That the magnolia tree we walk by on the sidewalk will smell delicious.
The book of Hebrews in the Bible defines Faith as confidence in what we hope for and assurance of what we do not see. Assurance. Some translations even say “evidence” of what we don’t see.
By that definition, it’s easy to see how we develop faith in gravity, the sun coming up, or relationships that disappoint us. We count on these things being absolutes, predictable, unchanging. But, how many of us operate with full Faith that we have a good, good Father? That God is who He says He is? That it’s His nature to be good? That He has a plan to prosper and provide for us? That we are who He says we are? That He gives us good gifts. That He is present with us in our trials.
Let’s explore together the ways that God has been good, faithful, trustworthy, kind, merciful, just, and loving in our own lives. We’ll look together for the evidence that produces Faith, and leads us to the lives He designed us to lead.
On Rest
“How are you?” Said any random acquaintance you run into in the grocery store or the airport or at the soccer field.
“I’m good. Pretty good. Busy, but good.” We answer, nearly every time.
It’s like we know that “busy” subtracts from the good we are experiencing. And yet, even so, we wear “busy” like the ID badge needed for meaningful life.
We boast about how little sleep we got. How much we’ve been traveling. How late we worked. How many balls we are juggling. It seems, no matter the amount of time we have in a day, it’s never enough. Our to-do list expands to fill the time.
This is not how we were designed to live. We were designed to live in peace, love, joy, goodness, kindness, patience, meekness, and self-control (Galatians 5:22). We were designed to lie down by a green pasture and let the Good Shepherd care for us (Psalm 23). Those characteristics certainly aren’t correlated with busy-ness. So many of us can quote these truths from scripture, but most of us don’t live as if we believe they are meant for us, at least not in whatever “season of life” we are in.
So, what gives?
Let’s explore the things that are keeping us from rest. The fears, the responsibility we feel for everyone and everything, the strain and striving, and the affirmation and validation of others that hits us like dopamine. We’ll identify the thoughts that are keeping us from rest, and begin to discover that the time we needed to rest was there all along.
Lead with Faith and
Let’s work together to grow your business and your leadership
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