Everyone’s chasing the business plan — the step-by-step someone else “made it” with. But what if what your business actually needs isn’t a better plan, but a God plan?

Adam and Cassie walked away from a guaranteed six-figure career with nothing but a word from God and a pile of credit-card debt — and watched Him provide at every turn. This is the honest conversation about what it really costs to build your business God’s way.

Chapters

0:00 🎬 Business Plan or God Plan? (cold open)
 0:35 🏷️ Meet The Collective — Building With Zero Inventory
 6:12 ✨ Excellent, Not Perfect
 7:27 🎖️ From Drone Operator To Apparel
 20:26 ⏱️ Six Days In — Walking Away From The “Safe” Career
 26:11 🙏 The Order Nobody Else Could Fill
 30:24 🚪 A Favour Isn’t For You — It’s For Others
 33:10 🔥 Excellence Is The Ministry
 37:53 ⚙️ When You Scale Fast, Things Break
 40:58 💍 Building As A Married Couple
 49:42 💭 “Will You Dream With Me?”
 53:22 🧭 Breaking Conformity — The Ceiling Nobody Sees
 59:52 🚑 The Truck In Kuwait — A Word 7 Years Early
 1:10:53 📜 The Blueprint For Blessing

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You can be building a real business, on fire for God, plugged into a solid church — and still feel completely alone. Every Christian entrepreneur knows the two rooms: the church that doesn't quite understand your ambition, and the business world that leaves Jesus at the door.

Cody and Esther Cottle tell the story behind the Christian Entrepreneur Club — the gap that started it, the word from God that led them to walk away from their business, and the conference it became. It's what happens when you stop trying to build alone.

Chapters 
0:00 🔥 The Room That Changes Everything 
1:46 🏙️ From 50 People To A Movement 
2:54 🕳️ Successful, Faithful — And Totally Alone 
4:18 ✝️ Nobody In That Room Talks About Jesus 
5:07 🌱 When Your Ambition Makes People Uncomfortable 
7:08 🙏 Am I Holy Enough To Want To Build? 
8:24 💍 Dream With Your Spouse — Or Crush Her Dreams 
11:20 🏖️ Playing With God On The Playground 
14:01 🔑 We Shut The Business Down First 
17:11 🫀 A Vision For The Weary Builder 
21:13 💸 "It'll Cost $100K. Be Obedient." 
22:40 ⛪ An Altar, Not A Stage 
24:30 💥 The Testimonies We Didn't Expect 

26:55 🎟️ Come To The Mountaintop (Oct 14–16)

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This episode is going to light a fire under you 🔥 

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Every Christian entrepreneur says they want God to guide their business. Most are waiting for a feeling. Lisa and Ricky McCabe turned it into a set of decisions — and built a company the numbers said shouldn't exist. An engineer who never planned to teach dance. A diagnosis that stole her voice in the same season the business was breaking out. A check written in pure obedience, for the exact amount a crisis would later take. On paper, none of it made sense. In practice, it was God running a business that was never really theirs.

They walk through the five steps that moved them from striving to surrender — the concrete, repeatable moves that put God in the CEO seat. Not a vibe. A practice you can start this week.

Chapters
0:00 🎬 None of It Added Up
0:40 🩰 An Engineer Walks Into a Dance Studio
8:11 🧭 Find the One Who's Ahead of You
12:25 🌱 The Unglamorous Early Days
17:44 🪂 Quitting the Safe Job
21:26 💵 The Check That Made No Sense
27:48 📉 Scaling on Faith, Not Figures
29:38 🗣️ The Diagnosis That Stole Her Voice
31:28 🤝 How Losing It Built the Team
33:56 🙏 Healing on God's Timeline
36:09 🪂 Ricky's Turn to Go All In
39:23 💍 When Marriage Meets Business
46:31 ❤️ The Questions They Didn't Expect
54:08 🪜 The 5 Steps to a God-Led Business
56:26 📲 Connect With Lisa & Ricky

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Are you believing too small to not get your hopes up? Are you limiting what God can and will do through your life? Listen to find out.

We brought in the host of the Faith Hustle Podcast, Mukwenda Kandole, to share a powerful message, "GET YOUR HOPES UP". And it does not disappoint. Enjoy.

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This episode is going to hit a little differently. It was meant for you, and I hope it blesses you. God is moving, and the next great Revival is happening right now in the marketplace. But it starts with all of us having "EMUNAH". 

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The world has never been more offended. Outrage spreads faster than truth, grievance builds a following, and writing people off has become second nature. It's tempting to see all that as a problem out there in the culture — but the same spirit slips quietly into your business, your relationships, and your own heart, limiting your growth long before you notice it's there.

In this episode, Cody and Esther unpack the spirit of offense: how it hardens your heart, blocks you from hearing God, and stalls your breakthrough — and what Scripture actually says to do about it.

0:00 🎬 Cold Open

0:40 ⚡ The Spirit of Offense: What It Is

1:49 🚧 How Offense Blocks Your Breakthrough

4:55 🔍 How to Know You're Living in Offense

7:21 🛡️ Be Unoffendable: The Jesus Model

9:35 ❄️ What Offense Does to Your Heart

12:45 🙏 Esther's Story: Radical Reconciliation

15:23 🕊️ Extending Grace When You've Been Wronged

16:53 ⚖️ Offense Feels Like Justice

21:10 💼 When Business Deals Go Wrong

23:02 🔓 There Is No Hierarchy of Offense

28:09 🩹 Deliverance Is Not the Same as Healing

30:39 📝 The Resentment Inventory

33:02 🎁 Leave Your Gift at the Altar

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If you've ever wondered whether your past disqualifies you, or whether the gifts you've been using in the wrong arena can still be used by God, this episode is for you. 

This is the raw, never-before-shared story of how God redeemed a drug dealer's gifts — the supply-chain instincts, the team-building, the relentless drive — and put them to work doing business God's way. The 3:33am dream. The Mercedes he had to sell. The sister's basement where he started over with nothing and surrendered everything to Jesus.

Chapters 
00:00 — What does a drug dealer and a Christian CEO have in common? 

03:05 — Selling weed at 13: when mom found the plants 

12:41 — Why drug dealers make some of the best entrepreneurs 

21:07 — $1M a year in cannabis. Then a bicycle cop. 

23:12 — "I never wanted to be anything like my dad" 

26:00 — 3:33am: the dream that changed everything 

27:34 — Selling the Mercedes, moving into my sister's basement 

31:51 — The gift is not condemned

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What if walking away from $1 billion a year was the smartest business 
decision you ever made?

Hobby Lobby has 900+ stores and roughly $7 billion in annual revenue — 
and they've never once opened on a Sunday. David Greene was fined 
$1 million a month for refusing to fund birth control. He refused to 
take the company public so no shareholder could ever force him to 
compromise. And it all started with a $600 loan and a kitchen-table 
conviction.

In this episode, Cody and Esther dig into the Hobby Lobby story and 
the principles behind it:

· The compartmentalisation mistake most Christian entrepreneurs make
· How to make God your CEO instead of trying to do it on your own
· Why integrity (not branding) is what people actually notice
· What to do when your faith costs you real money
· Why "I'll never do business with a Christian again" keeps Cody 
  up at night

We also tackle the harder questions: where IS the line between faith 
and business? Is conviction "extreme"? And why does God actually 
welcome your doubts and questions?

If you're a Christian entrepreneur trying to build without compromise, 
this is for you.

00:00 🎬 Cold open 

00:39 💰 The $1B Sunday closure 

03:30 🏪 Why Hobby Lobby is closed every Sunday 

04:48 🏛️ Fined $1M a month for their faith 

05:43 📊 Why they never took the company public 

07:13 ❌ The compartmentalisation mistake 

09:44 👑 Make God your CEO (logos + rhema) 

13:00 🔍 Plan B and the line 

16:06 ❓ The edgy question — where IS the line? 

22:12 🕊️ God invites your doubts 

26:19 😤 "I'll never do business with a Christian" 

30:10 📖 Deuteronomy 8:18 — remember the Lord 

32:34 🙏 Close

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Most Christian entrepreneurs have been told the same thing: don't mix faith with business. Keep it professional. Keep it separate. Keep it quiet.

But what if that's the exact lie keeping you from the breakthrough — and the impact — God actually has for you?

In this episode of The Christian Entrepreneur Podcast, Cody and Esther go straight at one of the most common fears in the faith-business space: the belief that being bold about your faith will cost you customers, credibility, and opportunities. Drawing on Cody's story of leading an 18-year-old to Jesus at a business event, the distinction between living your faith authentically and using Jesus as a marketing strategy, and the biblical case for why Christians have an unfair advantage in the marketplace — this conversation will challenge you to stop hiding your calling and start operating in the fullness of what God placed you in business to do.

You'll walk away with a clear understanding of what it actually means to be a Christian in the marketplace, how to know whether God is calling you to be overt or covert in your faith expression, and why obedience to your assignment — not fear of rejection — is the only metric that matters.

In this episode:

• Why the "don't mix faith and business" advice is costing Christian entrepreneurs more than they realise
• The difference between living your faith authentically and slapping Jesus on your brand as a marketing tool
• Overt vs. covert Christian business — and how to discern which one God is calling you to be
• Why being bold about your faith might grow your business, not shrink it
• The unfair advantage every Christian entrepreneur carries — and how to walk in it

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