The Work Ethic

The Work Ethic

By jon denglerBusinessEntrepreneurship
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The Work Ethic episodes

  • Ep. 38 Juhi Kore | Legacy, Systems, & The End of Social Entrepreneurship

    Juhi is such a joy to speak with. Juhi Kore is the Author of You Got This!, a guide for college students, she is a masters student at Oxford, she is the host of #JuhiApproved, a video series on Facebook, and she is also deeply invested in both the development and the end of social entrepreneurship. This is an incredible conversation for many reasons not least of which is how her family's story and journey has been richly invested in her and how this legacy shapes how and why she invests herself today. I hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did. Enjoy

    2 hr 3 min
  • Ep. 37 Ryan Polonio | Teaching, Curiosity, & Embracing the Process

    Recently got to catch up with my buddy Ryan Polonio who is always fun to chat with. This conversation explores his passion for teaching, the beauty of learning, our discomfort with confusion, the value of curiosity, and valuing the process over 'the answer.' We discuss how his thoughts on our internal obstacles to learning and growing apply to faith, child rearing, as well as his profession as a trainer for an e-learning company. Enjoy this conversation with my old friend Ryan.

    1 hr 50 min
  • Ep. 36 Sarah Combs | Family, Calling, and Helping Others

    Sarah Combs is the CEO of the University Area Community Development Corporation (UACDC), a wife, a mother, and she is studying to get her PhD in Business Administration at USF. I so admire this woman and her leadership. It was a privilege to have a chance to catch up and dig a little deeper into her history, her relationship with work, her sense of calling, her intentionality with family, and also to hear about how she, and her organization, have been handling everything with the COVID-19 pandemic.

    1 hr 13 min
  • Ep. 35 Tommy Preson Phillips | Our Vocation, Authenticity, and Living Well

    Tommy is the senior Pastor at Watermark Church and a recording artist known as Preson Phillips. This dude is both a great student and teacher with a deep love and commitment to placing the Bible in its 1st-century Palestinian Jewish context, and then bringing its meaning to the surface for modern application in a way that is engaging and enlightening. This strange time we are in makes for some interesting reflection for the life of the church as gatherings have needed to stopped all together. Tommy shares about standing alone in his yard to preach an Easter message to his iPhone at sunrise, his observations about how his community is adapting, and also how those same ancient stories serve as a guide for today. Any conversation with Tommy is something of a Bible study and his passion and gifting are quite clear. Whether you are a Christian or not I am sure you will find this conversation interesting and engaging. enjoy. 

    1 hr 51 min
  • Ep. 34 Jason Sowell | Charity, Dignity, and Hope
    Jason is the Founder of Current Initiatives, a Tampa based non-profit that annually runs Affordable Christmas, occasionally runs Hope for Homes projects, and regularly runs Laundry Project. The Laundry Project is the most regular program and has also drastically increased in frequency in response to Covid-19 needs. This episode digs mostly into that project and how they have been adapting to the current situation. Jason does a good job of fleshing out his conviction that how we do things matters just as much as what it is we do. There is a lot of good thinking behind Jason's work and I hope you find this conversation valuable. Enjoy.
    2 hr 33 min
  • Panel Discussion with Business Classes from UT & HCC

    Jason Sowell, Vinny Tafuro, and I were invited to do a panel discussion with a Social Entrepreneurship class at UT. The panel had been on our calendars for some time but since the schools were closed and we were prevented from gathering in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak the panel moved online. This made it possible to open up the conversation to a few of Tammy Charles' other classes. The Zoom call ended up with students from her Management class as well as her Intro to Business Class and had students from both the University of Tampa as well as Hillsborough Community College. We had a great conversation and I wanted to share that with you here. enjoy

    1 hr 39 min
  • Ep. 33 Checking in with Taylor McCall since COVID19
    Jumped on a call with Taylor from episode 24 to catch up on how life is going since the COVID-19 outbreak and sheltering in place. It was a cool follow up on some of the ideas he shared in our first discussion. His ideas about the city and "what's pass-on-able' are made all the more vivid as he reflects on them in our current context. This recording was done via zoom and he was sitting in his car outside his house, as the house was to full of kids to be able to have this conversation. He told me that has been his office lately. There are a few times the signal breaks-up. It's never too bad and I just left it in rather than editing it out as I appreciated the authenticity of the actual experience. I am sharing the conversation as it occurred. enjoy
    2 hr 4 min
  • Ep 32 Fulei Ngangmuta | Value, Identity, & Purpose

    Fulei is the entrepreneur behind both #BlackGirlsAre_ & Live Unapologetically. She is a friend who colead the Work & Creation class that inspired me to actually start The Work Ethic Podcast. In the upcoming episode they discuss Fulei's experience in the Covid_19/quarantine world as well as her work to see black women realize their value, embrace their identity, and discover their purpose. Fulei is a strong leader and while the intended audience of her work is the black female, her voice and her message is universally important. Enjoy and be impacted by this conversation with Fulei Ngangmuta.

    2 hr 5 min
  • Spy Wednesday, Holy Waste & The Poor Will Always Be With You

    One of the things that I have been reflecting on is how this time of quarantine overlaps with the season of lent, both in time and in practice. Quarantine actually means, in Latin, 40 days, which is in reference to the 40 days Jesus spent fasting in the wilderness, the story Lent is modeled after. It's a time leading up to Easter, which is this coming Sunday. That means this is Holy Week, and today is Spy Wednesday. There is story associated with this day in the Holy Week that is a very special story to me. The story is found in the fourteenth chapter of Mark's gospel. In Jerusalem on the high holy days of Passover we see political and religious leaders seeking and scheming to arrest, condemn and kill Jesus. Then in the end of this vignette we see Judas, one of the twelve, a man from Jesus own community and one under his leadership conspiring to betray Him. Between the tension of these book ends we hear those familiar words of Jesus "The poor will always be with you"


    Below is the text of that story from Mark. This is a talk I gave 7 or 8 years ago on this important passage. enjoy.

    Mark 14 Now the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread were only two days away, and the chief priests and the teachers of the law were scheming to arrest Jesus secretly and kill him. 2 “But not during the festival,” they said, “or the people may riot.”3 While he was in Bethany, reclining at the table in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure nard. She broke the jar and poured the perfume on his head.4 Some of those present were saying indignantly to one another, “Why this waste of perfume? 5 It could have been sold for more than a year’s wages and the money given to the poor.” And they rebuked her harshly.6 “Leave her alone,” said Jesus. “Why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful thing to me. 7 The poor you will always have with you, and you can help them any time you want. But you will not always have me. 8 She did what she could. She poured perfume on my body beforehand to prepare for my burial. 9 Truly I tell you, wherever the gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her.”10 Then Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went to the chief priests to betray Jesus to them.11 They were delighted to hear this and promised to give him money. So he watched for an opportunity to hand him over.
    45 min
  • Ep. 31 Changa Bell | Mindfulness, Curiosity, & Patience

    Changa is the founder and Executive Director of the Black Male Yoga Initiative, the author of Affirmations for Dads, Host of Conversations with a Yogi, as well as an active homesteader and practitioner of Permaculture. This conversation covers many things and Changa is quite consistent, regardless of the topic, in his childlike curiosity, humility, and a posture of patience. Please enjoy this conversation with my brother Changa.

    2 hr 1 min

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Everybody longs for meaningful work. Beyond the immediate financial concerns, the question of work is really a question about what we value, what we will sacrifice for, and what we believe in. Join…