Venture with Virtue

Chris Lowney is chairman of the board for Catholic Health Initiatives one of the nation's largest health care systems with over 100 hospitals and $16 billion in revenue. He's also a popular key-note speaker and author of 7 books including his newest that was just released called Make Today Matter: 10 Habits for a Better Life and World. Chris is a former Jesuit seminarian and former Managing Director of JP Morgan.

Chef Folse is known as "Louisiana's Culinary Ambassador to the World." Since opening Lafitte's Landing in 1978 he has cooked for Popes and Presidents and opened restaurants in over 14 countries. His other business endeavors include White Oak Plantation and a food manufacturing company that supplies products for foodservice distribution, retail sales and national restaurant chains. He's produced 10 cookbooks, is the host of the TV show "A Taste of Louisiana" and host of the radio show "Stirin' It Up".

Sam is president of Hunter Buildings the leading manufacturer of blast-resistant buildings. He started his career as an attorney focusing on environmental and safety issues. Sam's been involved with Legatus for many years and is currently a member of the national Board of Governors. He's also on the board of FOCUS (Fellowship of Catholic University Students). He and his wife Sally live in Houston, Texas and have four children.

Currently Sandy is an attorney, speaker and author of the book Humanity at Work: Encouraging Spirit, Achievement and Truth to Flourish in the Workplace. He has over 40 years of professional experience, serving as an executive in the pharmaceutical, health care and life sciences industries. He's also sat on the board for over 20 public and private companies and lives in North Carolina with his wife Jean.

Sandy shares many personal stories about the exemplars in his life that have formed him into the man he is today.

Stories of faith from his mother and wife. Stories of virtue and servant leadership from his father. Stories of humility from his uncle.

The thing is, he learned these life lessons by watching and observing the lives of others. They didn't just speak about what one should do, they lived it. They led by example. They were true exemplars.

Deacon Jeff is the host of the nationally syndicated radio show and podcast The Catholic Cafe, heard on over 750 stations worldwide - including EWTN, Guadalupe Radio, Relevant Radio and Immaculate Heart Radio. He is also a full-time Campus Minister at St. Benedict High School. He and his wife of 30 years have 9 children and live in Memphis, TN.

Are you where you're called to be? Where God is calling you to be?

Deacon Jeff is in a radically different place than when he started his career.

At the time, life didn't always make sense and there was a burning, a desire, a hunger for more that couldn't be filled.

Yet looking back, he can see God's plan at work through the various stages of his life.

We recap the last 10 episodes and identify habits and practices of our guests that could be helpful to you as you try to form your own habits that lead to virtue.

Dr. Thierfelder is currently President of Belmont Abbey College. His background is incredibly diverse. He's been a sports psychologist, NCAA Division 1 coach, Olympian, two time all American, an entrepreneur, an executive and author of the book Less Than a Minute To Go. Dr Thierfelder is also a Knight of Malta, lives in North Carolina with his wife Mary and is the father of 10 children.

You'll learn the 1 thing that leads to success and happiness & how the virtue of gratitude can help you achieve peak performance in sports, business and life & much, much more.

Brig is the founder and co-CEO of Two Men and a Truck, the 1st and largest franchised moving company in the US. He's also been involved with YPO, Legatus and Knights of Columbus. Brig lives in Michigan with his wife Francine and is the father of 3 children.

Brig came from humble beginnings and has built an impressive family business. He's certainly had his share of challenges along the way. As he'll share later…If we're aware, The Holy Spirit will help us look at something and learn from it and realize not every bad thing is a bad thing.

He had everything the world promises will make us happy, yet he suffered from depression. But the story doesn't end there. We learn about his real conversion, how he's now all in for Christ and reaping blessings on earth while building real treasure in heaven.

Jack is the CEO and founder of Portofino Pools one of the largest pool service contractors in Florida.

Jack shares his story of achieving his dream of worldly success. But then in his mid 50s he had all of those worldly accomplishments stripped away and even had to accept money from his children just to eat.

We learn how he found strength, persevered and got back up. We learn how God used this experience to ignite a faith that had gone dormant.

Today's podcast is going to be a little different. I have to be honest. I don't have a bunch of pre-recorded shows at the current time and our guest for this week rescheduled at the last minute. Instead of just skipping this episode, I thought I'd try something new just for today and keep it short.

Since we are at the end of Lent and in the middle of Holy Week, I wanted to share something personal that's recently helped me and I hope it can be of help to you as well.