The Hyve Podcast

When Radim Passer got a loan from the bank in 1991, he bought his first property. The rest is history. Since 1996, PasserInvest has primarily been connected with the locality Brumlovka (former BB Centrum) in Prague 4. It is one of the most successful and extensive urban projects not only in the Czech Republic, but in all of Europe from the perspective of development projects built by a single investor. So far, Passerinvest Group has invested almost 16 billion crowns (roughly 691 million USD). 10% of that was invested into non-profit projects that are used by the general public (schools, public greenery, sports facilities and urban infrastructure, safety, ecology).

In this episode, Radim shares his personal journey of how it all started, what struggles he had, how he grew up and what changes he had to make in his business after finding God. A personal tragedy in 1998 changed his family's life forever and was used by God in mighty ways.  

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Startup or corporate business? Markus Witte knows both. For more than 20 years, he had worked in large corporations as a product manager. He innovated, met with CEOs and CFOs and used large assets to push the enterprise forward. But then he got the call to leave this safe environment and start his own business from scratch. Markus eventually joined Jesse and a few others, and together they founded Hyve. 
 

A corporate business with millions of dollars in revenue looks like a better deal, compared to a startup that struggles to acquire customers.  But there are pros and cons in both cases. Markus Witte explains why we might want to leave the corporate world to start our own missional business - and also why (maybe) not. He gives us practical takeaways and shares his personal journey of how God convicted him to leave a billion-dollar company. 

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The Hyve movement is coming to Australia!
If you would like to connect with fellow missional entrepreneurs, business people and ministry leaders, join us in Sydney on March 24-27, 2023. Julian Archer, serial entrepreneur and stewardship director of the South Pacific Division shares how God has led him and his family through hills and valleys. He was able to retire in his 30s, after starting multiple businesses over the course of his life. 

And there is ONE thing every young missional entrepreneur should do BEFORE he starts his business! Listen to find out more...

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If Jesus ran your business today, what would it look like? Would it be a selfish enterprise? Would it be a "good" business, advertising how well it is treating its employees and caring for the planet? Or would it be filled with complete selflessness? Is that even possible - to have a business that just cares about others?!

Jesse Zwiker, president of Hyve, shares 7 "P"s with you:

1. Purpose
2. Product
3. Process
4. Place
5. People
6. Planet
7. Profit

In each of these areas, we can either conduct our businesses the "selfish" way, the "worldly" way or the "selfless" way. Listen more to find out what he means by that and how you can practically turn your existing startup into a MISSIONAL enterprise!

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It's easy to start a crowdfunding campaign and ask people to contribute. It's not so easy to raise $156,000 in less than 8 weeks. Sebastien Braxton started a new project with his friends and was able to validate his  hypothesis: would people be willing and able to pay for an Ellen White app? 

It's not just another Ellen White app. It's a beautiful audio experience. 

Here's what Sebastien recommends:

1. make a competitive analysis 
2. figure out where you want to position yourself in the market
3. build your financial backbone on at least two models (for example revenue and investors)

During this episode, Sebastien and Vincent talk about the exciting journey of this Kickstarter campaign and what lessons we can take from it. 

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If you missional business is doing well, you might be thinking about expanding. But how? What's a smart decision, and what should be avoided? Tomasz Jesionek from Poland gives you some powerful and practical  answers. He explains in a very tangible way how to move forward and what's most important when you enter into a new state or country...

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The worldly, wealthy and well-educated are the hardest people to reach. Yet we often dismiss them because our traditional methods of evangelism don't seem to work that well. How do we effectively share our faith with this group? Cynthia Heidi, co-founder of the Nicodemus Society, explains.

Cynthia did her bachelor's in engineering and graduated from an Ivy League school with an MBA. Over the years, she came across hundreds of smart, successful and secular people. In this episode, she's sharing how we can share our faith with them. It's practical, encouraging and powerful! 

You also want to listen to this episode if you're interested in expanding your team. How do you hire the right person? How do you establish a good team? Cynthia Heidi explains.

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Monet St Juste and his family had a dream: they wanted to buy a property in Florida, open a lifestyle center and share God's love through the health message in Florida. So they decided to raise money for this lofty goal. $190,000 were needed. But when the campaign was over, they barely reached $1,000.

So Monet and his wife asked God what to do. One woman was in need of a colon cleanser, so the family developed a product from scratch to help her. This eventually resulted in a missional business that changed hundreds of people's lives and allowed the family to open up a lifestyle center - with way more impact than ever thought before. 

Listen to Monet's full story and learn how a missional business can help you work more efficiently for God's cause! 

Get in touch with Monet and his missional business and/or lifestyle center:

Eden Lifestyle: https://edenlifestyle.org/

Eden Lifestyle Home: https://edenlifestylehome.org/

Easey Series: https://easeyseries.com/

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It still seemed like a normal business day on the island of Okinawa for Tim's grandfather. His family had previously fled to the main land because of the war, but he missed them very much. A friend spontaneously told him, "there is a secret boat that leaves our island tonight. Why don't you take it and go to the main land to visit your wife and children? You haven't seen them for so long." So he left his store and took the secret boat a couple of hours later.

Little did Tim's grandfather know that that very night, Japan's WWII opponents would start a devastating bombing attack on Okinawa and entirely level the city and his business. His store was completely destroyed, but his life got saved in miraculous ways.

This story is just one of many that Tim Aka shares during this episode. His grandmother's marvelous ways of doing business, his father's journey as an Adventist pioneer in Japan and his brother's life-changing work as a medical missionary are many others. 

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When his mom was reading beautiful bed time stories about Christian missionaries, Craig Harding's secret fear was that God would also call him to go to Africa one day. He loved those stories as a kid, but growing up he realized he would never want to go the jungle to share the gospel. He wanted to do business, get a nice house, drive a good car and get involved in politics. That's what he ended up doing, and he was very successful at it.

Little did Craig know that many years later, he would actually end up in Zambia, Africa. Little did he know that God would use his business skills and real estate expertise to do ministry in a powerful, scalable way. Listen to his story and get inspired!

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