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When Seema Rodriguez started to work as a real estate agent, she got ridiculed for keeping the Sabbath. But shortly after, the very same people had to admit that she was serving a powerful and almighty God. Listen to her testimony and get encouraged to do (real estate) business as UNUSUAL. To learn more about Seema's business, you can go here. Sign up for our newsletter here! Scroll down and sign up for free, we share powerful resources every other week.

Many businesses fail because they try to solve insignificant problems. Others fail because they don't focus on the problem they started with. In this episode, Jonathan and Vincent talk about the art of problem solving and how to stay focussed doing one thing. If you would like to get in touch with Jonathan directly, you can do that here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-ostrowski/ Join the Hyve Business School and get 25% OFF! CLICK HERE for your yearly plan (coupon applied) CLICK HERE for your monthly plan (coupon applied) ...or use the code "HYVEPODCAST25" during checkout. Offer expires 9/30/23. Subscribe to our monthly emails and get powerful resources to scale your business!

The Model Steward Canvas is a free book about starting a Christian business with a Kingdom Purpose. It’s a one-page business plan which works through the fundamental elements of a business or product, structuring your ideas in an easy-to-understand way. The Model Steward Canvas is for those who: · Want to start a new business with a Kingdom purpose, · Want to transition from an informal business to a more formal business with a Kingdom purpose, · Want to transition from being a Christian in business to a business with a defined and intentional Kingdom purpose, · Feel God’s call to utilize their professional skills with a Kingdom purpose, · Have just begun to appreciate that they are stewards of the business God has given them. The Canvas is a visual chart with twelve elements. It describes the firm’s business, vision and mission, values, customer segments it wishes to serve, customer value proposition, business goals, stakeholders and key partners and resources, and staff management approach. The last elements are its financial approach – pricing and profit and dividend strategies. Of critical importance is the Scriptural Imperative – the verse or passage of Scripture that defines how you conduct your business and interact with your employees, suppliers, and customers. The book is available for free to encourage Christian entrepreneurs as they integrate their business and mission activities. Download your copy of the Canvas here: https://stewardship.adventist.org/model-steward-canvas-book.pdf Dr Ken Long is a business consultant who provides advice to help businesses improve their competitiveness and profitability. He has broad industry experience, having commenced his business career as a lawyer before holding senior management positions in the de-regulating electricity and gas markets and IT commercialization. Ken has also been involved as a senior consultant in developing leadership and management skills with a particular emphasis on business acumen. His business skills include business strategy development, sales and marketing management. Dr Long developed the concept of the Model Steward Canvas for a program on business, innovation and discipleship that he and Christina Hawkins, then Stewardship Director of the South Pacific Division, delivered to a group of Christian entrepreneurs in Papua and New Guinea in December 2019. The participants loved the concept but were all surprised that the worlds of business and Christianity could be combined, as their understanding was that they should be separate. This book adopts business as mission, the intentional combination or integration of two concepts – business and mission. “The idea of integration is important. This is not ‘ministry’ tacked onto the business for convenience or business tacked onto ministry. Instead, the mission is worked out in and through the business, its activities, products and services and relationships”. The life of the apostle Paul as a professional tentmaker (Acts 18:1-3) demonstrates this concept of integration. Ken has degrees in Law and Accounting and a Master of Business Administration (Marketing), and a Doctor of Business Administration (organizational innovation).

Not too long after London Lee became a follower of Jesus, he wanted to buy a 500-acre property. It seemed like all ducks were in a row, but he ended up finding out that major business development tools and principles were lacking in order to turn the property into a successful lifestyle center. Over the years, London discovered powerful protocols and methods that all successful companies use today to sell their products. And he discovered something else... Could it be that these principles and methods have their origin in God's word? What can we learn from the Bible about business principles? And what can we do, individually and also corporately as a church, to forward God's cause? Listen to his story and get inspired! Used quotes in this podcast episode: Testimonies for the Church Vol. 9, page 119. Testimonies for the Church Vol. 7, page 19. The Ministry of Healing, page 149. Learn more about Pastor London Lee: London's LinkedIn Droolees: BPA Free Quality Baby Products Ten Talents International San Diego Clairemont SDA Church on YouTube The Master's Class Challenge (Online Course) on 10x Wiser Use the coupon code "HYVE" upon checkout to receive 10% OFF the Master's Class Challenge! Just click here, then add the coupon code "HYVE"

Justin Stafford, CEO and founder of Blueshift, shares his story of how he started solving a specific problem for one client. Now he employs 30 people and runs a major software solution company in Australia.

Paul Kilroy has had three different leadership positions at J.P. Morgan Chase, the largest bank in the United States and the world's largest bank by market capitalization. He shares how Chase and other big tech firms are using our data to deliver their best products at the right time and how we can do the same by using the data we have to forward God's cause. There is a massive opportunity out there, and it's time to get together and talk about it! Reach out to Paul Kilroy on LinkedIn and continue the data conversation: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulkilroy/ Learn more about Madison and the Hyve Business School: https://www.hyveinternational.org/2022/05/06/madison/

Dr. Joyce Choe went through a series of personal trials and health issues before she started her missional business. And although it all started very small with a cookbook, the reason why she decided to start was a beautiful and powerful one: she wanted to help. Listen to the story of Wholesale Market, get inspired by Dr. Joyce's personal testimony and learn more about the Adventist health message and what it meant for Joyce and her partner Mercy to be health advocates during a global crisis. You can buy Dr. Joyce's cookbook here: https://wholenessmarket.com/ Are you interested in their online course? Click here. To register for Hyve Creators 2023 in Collegedale, TN, click here. To register for Hyve Australia 2023 in Sydney, please click here. Listen to more Hyve episodes Become a Hyve member and connect with other businesses! Sign up to get our biweekly posts on how to combine faith & business here. Do you have questions about the podcast? Feedback? A word of appreciation? Criticism? We'd like to hear it! Email us at hello@hyveinternational.org. If you want to become a sponsor, email us and we'll feature you on our next episode!

There are two major mistakes many entrepreneurs make these days. If you're a professional in your field, it's very easy for you to speak about the functionalities and features of your product. You personally care about all the little details... but does your audience care? And what if you have decided to share the gospel through your business, but you're overwhelmed by the amount of people you would like to reach? It's best to target as many as possible, right? Find out more on today's episode! Listen to more Hyve episodes Become a Hyve member and connect with other businesses! Sign up to get our biweekly posts on how to combine faith & business here. Do you have questions about the podcast? Feedback? A word of appreciation? Criticism? We'd like to hear it! Email us at hello@hyveinternational.org. If you want to become a sponsor, email us and we'll feature you on our next episode!

There are mainly two ways of doing marketing. We could call it "good" marketing and "bad markeing." Bad marketing is like going to a random person in a restaurant and asking him/her to marry you. Good marketing is more like a courtship relationship... Klinger Lurentt has studied how to do market a in an authentic and truthful way. He shares powerful principles and basics, illustrating digital marketing with a practical example. Listen to more Hyve episodes Become a Hyve member and connect with other businesses! Sign up to get our biweekly posts on how to combine faith & business here. Do you have questions about the podcast? Feedback? A word of appreciation? Criticism? We'd like to hear it! Email us at hello@hyveinternational.org. If you want to become a sponsor, email us and we'll feature you on our next episode!

What happens to your character if your business is becoming 50 times bigger than before? How do you share the good news of Jesus' love and His soon return with your employees, clients and suppliers? When Radim Passer experienced God's love, he decided to follow Him and dedicate his business to Him. In our previous episode, Radim shared parts of his personal testimony. This week, he's explaining how we can use our business to do evangelism in a very effective way. By God's grace, Radim was able to plant seeds of truth in thousands of people. Hundreds of them joined the church and many more hear the gospel month by month. Learn how you can use your missional business to do the same thing! Listen to more Hyve episodes Learn more about PASSERINVEST GROUP Watch "RADIM'D" (a documentary by the Adventist Review on Radim's life)

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. Listen to more Hyve episodes Learn more about PASSERINVEST GROUP Watch "RADIM'D" (a documentary by the Adventist Review on Radim's life)

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. Listen to more Hyve episodes here SUPPORT this podcast via OCI (put "Hyve Podcast" in the description, it's tax-deductible!)

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... REGISTER HERE and join us in Australia Learn more about the event Learn more about Julian's struggle he experienced as a wealthy Christian Listen to more Hyve episodes here SUPPORT this podcast via OCI (put "Hyve Podcast" in the description, it's tax-deductible!)

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: 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! CLICK HERE to take the free Hyve Score and find out how missional your business is! Listen to more Hyve episodes here SUPPORT this podcast via OCI (put "Hyve Podcast" in the description, it's tax-deductible!) Do you want to be a sponsor for our podcast and advertise to more than 7,000 SDA business owners? Get in touch with us and write us: hello@hyveinternational.org. We'll send you a tailored quote within 48 hours!

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: During this episode, Sebastien and Vincent talk about the exciting journey of this Kickstarter campaign and what lessons we can take from it. Check out Luminate and sign up to get notified when the app launches Listen to more Hyve episodes here DONATE to Hyve via OCI (put "Hyve Podcast" in the notes so we know it's for the podcast!)

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... To connect with him on LinkedIn, click here. Become a Hyve member and connect with other businesses! Sign up to get our biweekly posts on how to combine faith & business here. Do you have questions about the podcast? Feedback? A word of appreciation? Criticism? We'd like to hear it! Email us at hello@hyveinternational.org. If you want to become a sponsor, email us and we'll feature you on our next episode!

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. If you want to listen to more presentations on how to reach the W3's, click here. If you would like to learn more about the Nicodemus Society, visit their website. If you want to get access to the book Cynthia mentioned at the end of the episode, you can buy it here. Hyve doesn't get compensated for any links or recommendations. Become a Hyve member and connect with other businesses! Sign up to get our biweekly posts on how to combine faith & business here. Do you have questions about the podcast? Feedback? A word of appreciation? Criticism? We'd like to hear it! Email us at hello@hyveinternational.org. If you want to become a sponsor, email us and we'll feature you on our next episode!

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/ Become a Hyve member and connect with other businesses! Sign up to get our biweekly posts on how to combine faith & business here. Do you have questions about the podcast? Feedback? A word of appreciation? Criticism? We'd like to hear it! Email us at hello@hyveinternational.org. If you want to become a sponsor, email us and we'll feature you on our next episode!

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. Become a Hyve member and connect with other businesses! Sign up to get our biweekly posts on how to combine faith & business here. Do you have questions about the podcast? Feedback? A word of appreciation? Criticism? We'd like to hear it! Email us at hello@hyveinternational.org.

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! Become a Hyve member and connect with other businesses! Sign up to get our biweekly posts on how to combine faith & business here. Do you have questions about the podcast? Feedback? A word of appreciation? Criticism? We'd like to hear it! Email us at hello@hyveinternational.org.