James & Becky Zheng had the Bentley, the Audi, the million-dollar home — then lost 80% of it in a single year and filed for bankruptcy. The problem was never their work ethic. It was what they'd quietly started worshipping.

They walk through how ambition and accolades became the idol — and what broke open when they stopped measuring their worth by the fruit. The month James stopped working entirely became the highest-earning month of an eight-year career, and they went on to #1 in the world out of 400,000.

Chapters

0:00  🎙️ Meet James & Becky

5:14  💔 From abandonment to a Father

6:37  🎓 “I thought I was too smart for God”

10:00  🍇 Chasing the fruit, not Jesus

12:17  ❓ The question that changed his career

18:13  🌱 Why growth is the design

25:30  💌 The least romantic recruitment ever

28:31  📋 Rick Warren & the 11-point list

30:51  🙏 True faith feels like nothing

33:56  😭 Six months of crying — the vision board

41:49  🏎️ Bentley to bankruptcy

47:05  ⚒️ Work ethic isn't enough — the soil, not the seed

53:10  🛑 “Take a Sabbath” — a month, not a day

58:39  📈 The turnaround year

1:03:23  🔥 Revival won't start in the church

1:07:00  🙌 The prayer & sign-off

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Half the church calls AI the mark of the beast. The other half runs their whole business on it. Cody and Esther think both camps are dodging the question that actually matters — and the answer cuts closer to home than either side expects.

This is the line between good stewardship and spiritual laziness: why refusing to use AI might be the real failure, the danger nobody names (it's built to agree with you), the one thing that decides whether it's pulling you toward God or away from Him — and what a Christian must never, ever hand to a machine. Faith and strategy in the same room, as always.

⏱️ Chapters

0:00  🤖 Mark of the Beast, or Better Tool?

1:06  ⚙️ Tool or Threat?

5:18  🎯 The One Line AI Can't Cross

6:45  📖 A Better Tool for the Word

8:26  🪞 AI Is Built to Agree With You

11:49  😴 Stewardship or Spiritual Laziness?

15:36  🚜 Multiply It, or Dodge the Work?

19:03  🙅 What You Must Never Outsource

20:55  🔥 Build Better Than the World

22:12  🙏 Submit It to God

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"I'll never do business with a Christian again."

If you've ever heard those words, or worse, been the reason someone said them, this episode is for you.

Cody unpacks a hard truth every Christian entrepreneur needs to sit with: the way we operate in the marketplace is either pushing people toward Jesus or away from Him. There's no neutral. When you put the fish on your business card and then cut corners, lowball, or burn a client, you're not just losing a deal. You're shaping how the world sees your Father's brand.

Working through Matthew 5:38-42, Cody breaks down three lessons that separate Kingdom business from business as usual:

Always do what's right, even when it costs you. Cody shares the story of a man who took his system, his slides, and his training, then sent his team to poach his clients, and what his mentor taught him about taking the high road instead of settling the score.

Go the extra mile. The one mile the law required built no reputation. The second mile, the one nobody could demand, is the only one that ever did.

Give freely. Revival is breaking out in the marketplace, and wealth is moving into righteous hands. But it gets entrusted to the generous, not the cutthroat.

The vision is bigger than avoiding a bad reputation. Imagine a world where even non-believers say, "I'll only do business with a Christian," because they know we hold ourselves to a higher standard.

We play for an audience of One. And God cares how you build your business.

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In 1956, The Strangest Secret put a number on it: of 100 people who start at 25 with the same dreams, only five build the life they imagined. The success principle Napoleon Hill and a century of teachers chased? It was God's all along.

This is the framework Cody's lived by for years: why sincere Christians drift into the 95%, the one tool most believers walk past, and the four things that separate the five — awareness, desire, accurate thinking, discipline. Get honest, and go be one of the five.

Chapters
0:00 🎯 The 5% Question
0:52 📉 100 Dreams, Only 5 Winners
2:36 🧠 Not Luck — Not Even Psychology
3:47 📚 The Godfathers of Success
6:00 ✝️ Borrowed From Scripture
9:42 🪞 The Part Most Christians Walk Past
11:16 🚗 Why You Suddenly See That Car
13:04 ⚓ Four Ways to Take the Wheel
15:08 🔍 An Honest Look in the Mirror
18:25 💭 Don't Believe Every Thought
20:01 🌒 What You Do When No One's Watching
21:40 🏁 Be One of the Five

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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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