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Financial expert Matt Bell shares biblical principles and practical tools for managing your money in a way that builds trust, peace, and purpose. From budgeting to car payments to long-term investments, you’ll discover how to make financial decisions that strengthen your faith and your marriage.

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Businesses rarely break because they lack systems.

They break because leaders carry too much themselves, priorities compete for attention, and teams lose alignment.

Hassan Bash joins Kurt and Kristen Luidhardt to explain why operational clarity starts long before SOPs, why accountability follows conviction, and how growing companies create bottlenecks when everything flows through the founder.

The conversation explores how Hassan diagnoses operational breakdowns, maps customer journeys, builds standards inside organizations, and helps founders focus on the work that actually moves the business forward.

Hassan also shares how growing up between American and Saudi cultures shaped his ability to navigate different perspectives, why caring for his mother at a young age developed empathy and responsibility, and how asking better questions changes the quality of decisions.

For leaders who feel buried by complexity, this episode offers a practical framework for creating alignment before chasing the next opportunity.

0:00 Intro

06:04 Navigating Cross-Cultural Business Relationships

12:10 Diagnosing and Mapping Business Processes

17:03 Avoiding Overcomplication in Scalable Systems

22:15 Establishing High Standards for Clients

27:41 Overcoming Ego to Foster Growth

32:51 Early Responsibilities and Leadership Lessons

36:05 Lightning Round

Resources Mentioned:

Hassan Bash

https://hassanbash.com/

Dale Carnegie

https://www.dalecarnegie.com

Tony Robbins

https://www.tonyrobbins.com

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Believers should speak of our Savior, the Bible, and our faith with the confidence of both objective truth and a changed life.

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Sexuality and gender are among the most challenging—and unavoidable—topics facing Christian families today. As cultural voices grow louder, Christian parents can no longer afford silence or uncertainty. This episode of Christian Parent/Crazy World dives deep into these hot-button issues, offering not just “what to say,” but the biblical foundation and practical strategies every parent needs.

Joining Catherine for this vital conversation is Elizabeth Urbanowicz, founder and CEO of Foundation Worldview, a leading expert in equipping children with Christian apologetics. Elizabeth’s latest book, Helping Your Kids Know God’s Good Design: 40 Questions and Answers on Sexuality and Gender, provides the centerpiece for this episode’s candid, grace-filled, and refreshingly practical approach.

What You’ll Discover in This Episode

• Clear Biblical Foundations

  • How to root every conversation on sexuality and gender in God’s intentional, loving design.

• Making Sin Understandable

  • Creative object lessons and analogies to help children grasp what sin—and sexual sin—really is.

• Talking Consequences, Not Fear

  • Strategies to address the real-life impact of sex outside God’s design without shame-based tactics.

• Navigating LGBTQ+ & Transgender Topics

  • The “sandwich approach” for addressing same-sex attraction and gender identity issues with grace and truth for kids of all ages.

• Tackling Taboo Topics

  • A straightforward, biblical framework for honest conversations about masturbation and other uncomfortable questions.

• Grace for Imperfect Parents

  • Encouragement for parents who feel late to the conversation—why faithfulness, not perfection, defines godly parenting.

Why This Matters
In a culture saturated with confusion, Christian families have the opportunity—and the responsibility—to be the “trusted voice, the go-to source” for their children on some of life’s most intimate questions. The episode empowers parents to embrace their calling, equipping them to plant seeds of truth in their children’s hearts, nurture them with love, and trust God for the growth.

About the Guest
Elizabeth Urbanowicz is an award-winning educator and the founder/CEO of Foundation Worldview, known for her apologetics curriculum designed specifically for children. Her new book, Helping Your Kids Know God’s Good Design, is quickly becoming an essential resource for Christian families navigating these complex topics.

EPISODE LINKS

• Foundation Worldview

• Helping Your Kids Know God’s Good Design: 40 Questions & Answers on Sexuality & Gender (book)

• CatherineSegars.com Resources — Email Catherine Here (for more free parenting resources)

Parents, Are You Ready?
Will you step into these conversations with both truth and grace, becoming the safe harbor your children need as they navigate a confusing world? Listen in—and equip your family to see not just what the culture says, but the beauty and goodness of God’s design.

What’s your biggest struggle or question when it comes to talking about sexuality and gender with your children? Join the conversation and share your thoughts!

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Ever since conquistadores claimed Taino land in the name of their Catholic God and New England Puritans formed their strictly Protestant “city on a hill,” religion has been central to American life. Even as some found religious freedom—Rhode Island welcomed the Quakers, Jews, and Baptists that Massachusetts expelled as dissenters—indigenous people and Africans forced into slavery struggled to protect their religious practices. With the constitutional separation of church and state, it fell to the American people to decide: would they sharpen religion’s formidable powers of division, or reimagine its creative possibilities?

In A God-Shaped Nation: Five Hundred Years of Religion in America (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2026) Brook Wilensky-Lanford follows this essential American tension from first contact through the 2024 election. This is an expansive history of extraordinary religious questions, told through the ordinary people who grappled with them. It is a story of defiance: Anne Hutchinson, preaching against Puritan clergy; Reform rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise serving soft-shell crab to his kosher guests at an 1883 banquet; and Wovoka, a Paiute man who envisioned the Ghost Dance movement, which persisted in the face of violent government repression at Wounded Knee. It is also a story of community: Millerites waiting together in vain for Jesus’s return on a rainy October night in 1844; Chinese immigrants bringing Daoist and Buddhist gods to their California temples; Mormons pushing westward to build their “new Zion” in Utah. And in the last fifty years, it has been a story of muscular political power, as the religious right has sought to shape the present and paint the past in its own image.

At a moment when religion penetrates even the most secular aspects of American life, understanding its history is more essential than ever before. “It is in history that the very human work of religion happens,” Wilensky-Lanford shows us, “and in ordinary time that even the most carved-in-stone tenets can and do change.”

Brook Wilensky-Lanford is a religion writer, editor, and teacher. The author of Paradise Lust: Searching for the Garden of Eden, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and former managing editor of Killing the Buddha, her work has been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, The New Republic, and elsewhere. Currently the Associate Director of Sacred Writes Public Scholarship, she holds an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from Columbia University and a PhD in Religion in the Americas from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she lives.

This episode’s host, Jacob Barrett, is currently a PhD candidate in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the Religion and Culture track. For more information, visit his website thereluctantamericanist.com

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