What actually determines how far someone can go in business?

Many founders assume success comes down to strategy, timing, or tactics. But a deeper question sits underneath it all: Who do you believe you are capable of becoming?

Markus Kaulius built a $170 million business and now mentors founders while investing in dozens of companies. His focus isn’t just business strategy. It’s the mindset and identity that shape the ceiling of leadership.

The conversation explores how limiting beliefs form early, how entrepreneurs unknowingly cap their own growth, and why the next stage of business often requires becoming a different person.

Faith also plays a central role. Markus explains how his decision-making changed when he stopped asking God to bless his plans and started asking which direction God wanted him to take.

For leaders navigating growth, pressure, and responsibility, this discussion offers a grounded look at what it actually takes to keep growing.

0:00 Intro

03:39 Why Mindset Matters in Business

06:38 Identity and Core Beliefs

10:35 Rewriting Personal Identity

13:17 Asking Better Questions

18:02 Identity Sets Your Success Ceiling

22:39 How Investors Evaluate Founders

27:29 The Biggest Entrepreneur Pitfall

33:10 Faith in Business Decisions

43:28 Gratitude as a Mental Reset

47:20 Lightning Round

Resources Mentioned:

Play A Bigger Game by Markus Kaulius

Inner Excellence by Jim Murphy

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www.markuskaulius.com

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The Bible is arguably the world’s most influential book, but do we really know what it says? Every day across social media and in homes, businesses, and public spaces, people try to cut debate short by claiming that "the Bible says so!" However, they commonly disagree about what it actually does and doesn't say, particularly when it comes to socially significant issues. For instance, does the Bible say we should be on the lookout for an antichrist associated with the number 666? Does it say women shouldn’t wear revealing clothing? Does it say it’s okay to hit your kids?
In The Bible Says So: What We Get Right (and Wrong) About Scripture’s Most Controversial Issues (St. Martin's Essentials, 2025), Dan McClellan leverages his popular "data over dogma" approach, and his years of experience in the academy and on social media, to lay out in clear and accessible ways what the data indicate the Bible does and doesn't say about issues ranging from homosexuality, abortion, and slavery to monotheism, inspiration, and even God's wife. The Bible Says So is an invaluable resource for our fractious times.

Interviewees: Dan McClellan is an award-winning public scholar of the Bible. He has over one million followers on social media and is a host on the Data Over Dogma Podcast. Dan received his PhD from the University of Exeter and is currently an honorary fellow at Birmingham University's Cadbury Centre for the Public Understanding of Religion.

Host: Schneur Zalman Newfield is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Jewish Studies at Hunter College, City University of New York, and the author of Brooklyn Odyssey: My Journey out of Hasidism and Degrees of Separation: Identity Formation While Leaving Ultra-Orthodox Judaism. Visit him online at ZalmanNewfield.com.

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Greg Koukl provides concrete ways to take a stand for our beliefs. He focuses especially on issues within the culture that cause most Christians to falter when faced with challenges from non-believers. He trains us to use questions to whittle away arguments and bring God’s truth to light.

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Brain Shelly and Pastor Whitney take on the topic of human rights.  Rights come from our Creator God.  Why is this?  Why do people in increasing numbers say we should embrace socialism?  Let's turn our hearts and minds to what history tells us the results of socialism.  Learn from bad history, don't repeat it.

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