Stress, it’s one of those things that impacts us all, but all of us deal with it differently. How do you deal with stress?  Does it tear you up? Motivate you? Make you sick or excite you?  How does stress impact your walk with Jesus, your marriage, your family relationships, your workplace, and business?  Can you live a stress less life? If you run a business can you be a Stress Less Business owner? Today, Todd Hopkins talks about his book, the stress less business owner. Todd is the founder of Office Pride Commercial Cleaning Services and is formerly a stressed business owner now a Stress Less Business Owner.

Featured Guest: Todd Hopkins

Workplace/Ministry: Office Pride Commercial Cleaning Services

YouTube Video Interview

When you are out in the Marketplace, you may notice something, a change. When I first entered the marketplace, Christians didn’t make themselves known. With one exception. In MPLS where I grew up, there was a trend for people to use Christianity as an inroad to close business deals. However, most of the people who did that were people you wouldn’t want to do business with. 34 years later, that is changing on a large scale.  People don’t claim to be Christians unless they really are. And the real Christians in the marketplace rarely use Jesus to sell something, it is Jesus in them that attracts people to buy from the Christian business person.  That is a remarkable change. How did it happen, it started with guys like Howard Oakes from Garden Grove, California. He saw a need for discipleship for Christian Small business owners. Instead of asking his church pastor to do it, he started Christian Network Groups. Lets hear the story from Howard Himself.

Featured Guest: Howard Oakes

Workplace/Ministry: Christian Network Groups

YouTube Video Interview

Jesus said we were to become fishers of men.  Did he mean that literally? I don’t know but I think so but fishing.  Some people take their passion and their calling and they mesh up perfecting and “Bam” everything falls into place. For the rest of us, it is a  rocky road for 15 or 20 years until we find our God given sweet spot.  Our guest today grew up in the swampy areas of Florida.  He grew up loving fresh water and salt water, both for recreation and for fishing.  He was wildly successful in the insurance world and now is wildly successful in the fishing world. Fishing for men, you bet, the unchurched kind. www.SaltStrong.com  is his Biznistry and Joe Simonds is his name.

Featured Guest: Joe Simonds

Workplace/Ministry: Salt Strong

YouTube Video Interview

The other day I got an email from iWork4Him Friend Mike Sharrow, CEO of C12Group.com. He writes…On the topic of voting, one of the powerful areas is to encourage co-workers or teams to vote.  MANY are not even registered or ever equipped to vote.  We helped our friends at MyFaithVotes.org create a new platform called www.OurWorkplaceVotes.org which has tons of resources for employers, and then an employee web tool MyVoteWorks.com that helps folks register, find out when/where, etc.  would be a perfect resource to reference on the program.  We had a C12 Member, find out MOST of her employees had NEVER voted.  So she made it a ministry focus this summer to educate her team, equip them with resources, make a “let’s vote day,” and has a goal of helping her 200+ employees be part of shaping government for the first time rather than just complaining about it or experiencing the effects of it.

I found this story so compelling because it connects faith work and country all into one, so we invited Rachelle Reigard, President of Grade A Construction on the show to tell her story and Chris Sadler from the board of Directors for My Faith Votes dot org to fill in the blanks about how you can get this going at your workplace.

Featured Guest: Rachelle Reigard & Chris Sadler

Workplace/Ministry: Grade A Construction & My Faith Votes

FaceBook Live Video Interview

When you have been doing something for almost 30 years straight, it’s easy to get lazy and unmotivated. It’s also easy to get sloppy and unintentional.  Doing the same things over and over again, even if you are very successful can sometimes lead to boredom and disconnectedness. But not for one Tampa Bay Kingdom franchising company. Todd Hopkins is more motivated than ever to build up his teams and encourage and equip them for the decades ahead with a fresh vision with 7 pillars for a zooming ahead mindset. As always, Todd is a deeply committed Christ Follower, so these pillars are based on Todd’s walk with the Lord and the scripture he feasts on each day. #OPVirtualRetreat

Featured Guest: Todd Hopkins

Workplace/Ministry: Office Pride

YouTube Video Interview

They say that if you are growing, your contracting. If you aren’t advancing, your retreating, if you are cutting edge, you are about to go over the edge. You all know that iWork4Him was originally launched as a radio ministry, over the last 7 ½ years we have morphed into a media organization focused on unlocking Gods purpose for you in your work. Our media organization is about to enter some new media formats and we wanted to let you know about all the new resources we have for you, so stay tuned for a quick iWork4Him update.

Featured Guest: Jim & Martha

Workplace/Ministry: iWork4Him

FaceBook Live Video

When Covid hit and your ministry or business was solely built on face to face communication, then you were either in trouble and in danger of disappearing or you had to pivot. The Pocket Testament league had to pivot. The 127 year old organization had to change the way they were doing things and had been doing things since its inception. How do you do this? By the power of God using the blueprints of solution He has available for your problem. I wanted you to hear it here first on iWork4Him as David Collum and Mollie Yoder share the amazing story of the remaking of the Pocket Testament League.

Featured Guest: David Collum & Mollie Yoder

Workplace/Ministry: Pocket Testament League

FaceBook Live Video Interview

Labor Day comes but one time a year, this year our pastor is celebrating Labor Day by interviewing us to let us talk about the mission of iWork4Him. Labor was given to us by God and we should celebrate it every day. When every church in our country celebrates Labor Day and thanks God for the work he has given us, we will be a nation reformed and on fire for him. Enjoy the podcast.

Featured Guest: Steve Pruitt

Workplace/Ministry: Riverside Church in Ft. Meyers

YouTube Video Interview

Jesus called us to be shrewd stewards. What does that mean?  He also told us to be wise as serpents and gentle as doves. How do you do all this and still maintain a high level of marketplace penetration?  Take for instance the health insurance world. Their powerful lobby influences the minds and hearts of many in local state and national office. How do you fight their billions and trillions when you only have you, God, and a budget for tens of thousands?  Seems like a losing battle but with God on our side, nothing is impossible. Today on iWork4Him we are going to talk about the role of public affairs and strategy and how you can be a Christian fighting a battle among a whole field full of Goliath’s and you are David with one stone. The story of Sedera Health – Tony Dale joins us today and he has brought a powerful guest with him.

Featured Guest: Tony Dale & Jenny Aghamalian

Workplace/Ministry: Sedera Health

FaceBook Live Video Interview

Did you know that many out there listening are called to be active in our political system. Politics is not just evil – it is neutral – it depends on who is the politician in order to tell whether it is leaning evil or towards good. But I digress. Today we head into the deep south eastern United States of America to talk with AJ Swinson. She felt the call on her life to be active in the political arena and in bringing truth to her African American brothers and sisters. Stay tuned to hear about how AJ is living out her faith in her work in the political arena.

Featured Guest: AJ Swinson

Workplace/Ministry: New Journey PAC

YouTube Video Interview