Christ in Business

If you’re anything like me or the clients I serve, you got into business because you had a skill that you could use to solve a problem and you thought you could build a team, create more freedom, and make more money… so you jumped.

If we’re not careful, as owners and entrepreneurs, we can find ourselves looking around wondering, “Where is the team I wanted? Where did my time go? Where is the money I need?”

You may even catch yourself wondering, “Is this all even worth it?”

In today’s episode I talk about the process for making sure your business serves you (instead of the the other way around), so you can enjoy the life God has given you.

I talk about...

• A quick personal update (hint: I’m moving)
• Time, Team, and Money
• Your business is a vehicle not a destination
• My overwhelm and what I’m doing about it
• 8 F’s of a full life
• Goal setting, goal prioritizing, and freedom planning

Resources mentioned:

1. The Freedom Planning Workshop: http://TheDavidRobertson.com/planning
2. Application for Coaching: http://TheDavidRobertson.com/apply
3. Group Coaching Program: http://TheDavidRobertson.com/60days

In this week’s episode I invite Lawrence Long III, to join me as the first ever co-host of the Christ In Business Show.

Together we talk about:

• Being Christ In Business
• Answered Prayer
• Serving God or Mammon
• Biblical perspective on business profit, kpi’s, and the tactical things of business.
• Lawrence’s challenge: dare to ask God for something crazy.

Resources mentioned:

1. Lawrence’ Business: http://lvlongandassociates.com
2. Application for Coaching: http://TheDavidRobertson.com/apply
3. Group Coaching Program: http://TheDavidRobertson.com/60days

When it comes to marketing your business, most owners and entrepreneurs feel frustrated, confused, and even distrusting towards their marketing program. They’re tired of throwing money into marketing, not getting results, and not being able to tell what works and what doesn’t.

If this sounds like you, then this episode is for you... Because this week I talk about how to build a marketing system that provides an unlimited marketing budget with predictable, profitable results that you can control.

Plus I talk about how marketing may be the most powerful tool we have to influence the culture around us, lead our industry, and quickly scale our business.

In this week’s episode I talk about:

• A famous ad campaign that transformed the way every man and woman in the US looks

  at romance and even marriage... in one generation.

• How to lead your industry by aligning your customers desire with industry innovation and

  communication.

• How to uncover your unlimited marketing budget, so you can scale your profit as fast as

  your capacity allows.

• The Profit Growth FormulaTM and a free downloadable tool.

• An opportunity to join nine other Kingdom Entrepreneurs in my brand new, 60-day

  Freedom, Profit, & Impact group coaching program.

Resources listed in this episode:

1. The Profit Growth FormulaTM downloadable worksheet:

   http://TheDavidRobertson.com/profitgrowth

2. Group Coaching Program: ​http://TheDavidRobertson.com/60days

Grant Cardone has made the idea of getting 10x results famous with his book, “The 10x Rule” his 10x Conference, and many other products, videos, and training materials. But is His 10x rule the only 10x rule?

In this episode I talk with my friend, coach, and mentor, Eric Dombach. He is the founder and CEO of Coaches Coach, Amazon best selling author, and fellow Kingdom entrepreneur working to lead the world around him through a 7-mountains approach.

Together we talk about:

• Eric’s journey from pastor to entrepreneur.

• Learning the ways of money.

• The Biblical 10x Rule

• Intentionally hiring with Kingdom purpose

• Extreme mercy and love in business.

• The priority of God’s voice.

• Believing God for an excellent business.

Resources mentioned:

1. Eric’s Business: ​http://mycoachescoach.com

2. Application for Coaching: ​http://TheDavidRobertson.com/apply

3. Group Coaching Program: ​http://TheDavidRobertson.com/60days

It’s easy to start the year focused on achieving the goals, benchmarks, and plans that you’ve set for the year, but what happens when something happens and you get distracted, derailed, and disappointed about your progress?

From my son's premature birth, NICU visit, unplanned move, preparing my house for sale, and a death in the family, it was all I could do but let Q3 and over 120 days of chaos kick me around while I held on for dear life.

In this week’s episode I talk about:

• Why and when it’s okay or even necessary to give up on your goals.
• The real life application of Proverbs 16:9 which says we can make our plans, but it is God who establishes or directs our steps.
• 5 steps to renew, refresh, and refocus your business for 2019.
• How we can partner with the new season God is bringing to his body in business this next year.

There are five core systems every business must get right: Attracting Attention, Converting Sales, Delivering Results, Stewarding Resources, and Building Teams.

When you know the steps to take and the order to take them in, building a business becomes MUCH simpler. As a Kingdom Entrepreneurs and business owners we are intentional to create each of these systems to contain the fingerprint of God our Maker.

In addition to each of the five core business systems, in this episode I talk about:

• How to lead an entire community by going beyond world-class to build a kingdom-class company.
• Influencing culture through business.
• How marketing is a power tool of transformation and leadership in your community and industry.
• How to lead a sales team with a kingdom purpose.
• Being a steward over God’s business.
• How to improve the level of excellence in your business through team building
• Where you can get a checklist with a the complete list of 22 systems, tools, and strategies I help my clients install to produce more freedom, more profit, and more impact on the world around them.

As children of God, our reputation in business should not be one characterized by second-class or less than the world’s standard. Unfortunately, many times this is just not the case.

In today’s episode I share:

• The comments from a CEO of a $40MM business about feeling ripped off by “Christian businesses.”
• Where I discovered the phrase Kingdom-class as it relates to how a coaching client of mine conducted their business.
• A challenge to go beyond world-class to build a kingdom-class company.
• The five core systems every business must get right.

From the movies, news media, television shows, and education system, we’ve all been told by the culture around us to believe business is bad and profit is greed. Unfortunately, this conditioning has slowly crept into the churches and pulpits to create a version of cultural Christianity which leaves the business community feeling like a second-class citizen in the Kingdom of God.

God tells us something quite different, and this is what we’ll explore together in episode 003 of Christ In Business.

Specifically, in this episode I talk about:

• The connection between your work, wealth, worship
• The scripture where God gives us the ability to create wealth.
• God’s purpose for business, profit, and freedom.
• Why we, as entrepreneurs and business owners, shouldn’t feel like our work is a second-class calling.
• The hebrew word that ties everything together for us in business.

You are building a business because you’re passionate about it… your customers, your services or your products. But you also love God and want to serve him with your whole life.

How do you combine the two; your love for God and your passion for business?

In this episode of Christ In Business, I’m going to help you bridge the gap and help you partner with God to build a company that glorifies him.

In this episode I share:

• A story of someone who wanted to shut it all down to go into ministry, and my advice to him.
• The Sacred Secular Mindset and how there is no separation.
• How God used a strategic planning session to tell me about the miracle of my first born son.
• Four simple steps to start partnering with God in your business.

I will be diving deep into what it means to be Christ In Business in future episodes, but today I thought I would share a little bit of my story, how I got in business, and why I’m on a mission to help other people partner with God, profit with purpose, and build kingdom-class companies.

In this episode I share:

• About my childhood experiences in business
• Growing up in the family business and watching my dad close everything down.
• How this experience launched me into the life of entrepreneurship and later coaching.
• The three steps to bridging the gap between your passion for business and love for God.
• Where we will be going over the next 4 episodes.