Faith-Driven Leader

Faith-Driven Leader

The FDL podcast equips and emboldens listeners to build a life and career on deep trust in our good Father God. I'm Ann Eileen Thompson. I find inspiration from incredible guests who are letting their faith drive their leadership in life, family, ministry, and the marketplace. We'll hear how Faith-Driven leaders navigate leadership decisions in a world where everyone seems to be deciding for themselves what’s “right.” We’ll be encouraged by their often unexpected career paths and how God has shown up when they most needed Him. Instagram | @anneileenthompson

Episodes

November 4, 2024 44 mins

Hi friends!

Our guest today is my good friend Laura Smith. Laura has been on the show before! You can go back and listen in to our conversation about mental health here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1JKdKa65RDIFYmbsQruXhT?si=LZ4kGvKiQfOYKnJXAgtvZA!

Laura is a gifted writer, a Bible teacher, and she is so wise! 

We talk on today's episode about her New book: The Urgency of Slowing Down: Biblical Wisdom for Everyday Renewal. 

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Hi friends! I am Ann Eileen Thompson welcoming you to the Faith Driven Leader Podcast, where we equip and embolden each other to build our leadership and our careers on a foundation of deep trust in our good Father God, through conversations with incredible Faith Driven Market and Ministry Leaders who really live out their faith in their leadership, and have the stories, and the fruit, to prove it. Today's episode is a little diff...

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Our guest today is Peggy Bodde. Peggy is an entrepreneur and the founder of Sacred Work, an organization that provides free career and leadership support for Christian women in the workplace. 

Peggy spent 25 years as a corporate executive and then pivoted to start a freelance writing business. Her clients include marketing firms and major textbook publishers. 

Peggy's passions are writing about the intersection between...

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September 23, 2024 47 mins

Hi friends! Our guest today is Katie Armentrout. Katie is the founder of Peoplefluence, where she equips and supports small business owners with the tools to build trust with their employees and customers. Through workshops and training, Katie works with teams to build productive relationships, nurtures teams to work well together through a foundation of trust; and equips teams with excellence in customer service and sales strateg...

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Our guest today is Mark Whitacre. Mark is Vice President of Culture & Care and Executive Director of the t-factor initiative at Coca-Cola Consolidated, Inc. Mark has worked with Coca-Cola Consolidated since 2019. Coca-Cola Consolidated is a faith-friendly publicly traded

(NASDAQ) company with an official purpose statement “To honor God in all we do, by serving others, pursuing excellence, and growing profitably”. Ma...

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Our guest today is my good friend, Tim Metzner. Tim is a serial entrepreneur - one of a small handful of incredibly prolific and wise faith-filled entrepreneurs I’ve had the pleasure of working alongside in our community. 


Tim’s fingerprints are all over the midwest entrepreneurial ecosystem. He helped launch Astronomer, Cincinnati's first unicorn (out of Cincinnati's first Venture Studio, Differential), co-founded a f...

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Hi friends! Welcome back to the Faith Driven Leader Podcast, where we get encouraged and equipped by learning from amazing Faith Driven Leaders. 

Our guest today is Jo Saxton. Jo is a speaker, podcaster, and author. She is the founder of the Ezer Collective, an initiative dedicated to investing in women leaders around the world, equipping them to own their voice, and boldly step into their calling. She currently serves as the Execu...

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Today’s episode is extra good because we have two guests: Darrin Murriner and Kirsten Moorfield. Darrin and Kirsten are Faith Driven entrepreneurs and are the co-founders of Cloverleaf.


Cloverleaf offers a coaching tool with technology that sends personalized, meaningful coaching tips. By leveraging respected psychology data from behavioral assessments such as DISC and Enneagram, Myers Briggs, and others, the co...

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Our guest today is Mike Sharrow, CEO of C12 Busines Forums, the global leader in CEO/Owner peer advisory groups for Christians serving more than 4,000 members across the US, SE Asia, South Africa and Brazil. 

Mike leads a team in San Antonio, Texas that supports more than 190 full-time C12 Chairs who serve as “missionpreneurs” helping CEOs, entrepreneurs and key players build “great businesses for a greater purpose” to ...

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July 1, 2024 47 mins

Hi friends! Our guest today is Mike Mulcahy, Founder and President of Kings Path Partners LLC. 

Kings Path is a wealth services firm supporting individuals, families, and foundations in the stewardship of their wealth.  Started in 2015, Kings Path advises on over $1 billion in assets.  Kings Path commits 20% of its profits to charity. 

Mike is passionate about impact investing both as a mentor and with his personal investments. He...

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June 17, 2024 51 mins

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Welcome to the Faith Driven Leader podcast, where we encourage and equip one another through the stories of amazing Faith Driven Leaders!


Our Guest for today is my dear friend, Kimberly Stuart. 


Kim is an author, speaker, and one of the most genuine, funny, and beautifully real people I know. You are going to want to pick up her new book: Star for Jesus and Other Jobs I Quit. This is Kim’s first non-fiction ...

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Our guest today is Catherine Gates. Catherine is the VP of Business Partnerships for Polished Network:  Polished is committed to emboldening women in their faith and work. They have chapters around the US, with more being established quickly. 

Catherine’s passion is to help others integrate their faith into their work by recognizing God wants to be in every area of our lives. She loves to help people grow in their lead...

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May 20, 2024 41 mins

Hi friends! I'm Ann Eileen Thompson, welcoming you to the Faith Driven Leader Podcast, where we equip and encourage each other to build our leadership and careers on a foundation of deep trust in our good Father God through conversations with incredible Faith Driven Market and Ministry Leaders who live out their faith in their leadership and have the stories and the fruit to prove it.

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Our guest today is Heidi Rasmussen. 

Heidi is the Co-founder and CEO of Freshbenies, a Dallas-based company that helps employers and their employees save healthcare costs and confusion. To date, freshbenies has saved clients $100 million.

They enable employers to contain costs and increase access to virtual care, while members save hundreds to thousands each year. Freshbenies combines technology and healthcare to provide practical ...

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Our guest today is Larry Griffith. Larry is the CEO of Corporate Chaplains of America. 

Larry leads a team of over 300 chaplains who provide care and support to employees across various industries and thousands of locations.

Larry brings over 30 years of executive experience in operations, sales, marketing, and finance, and a proven track record of transforming corporate cultures, growing revenues, and developing leaders.

Larry’s m...

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Our guest today is Sonia Jackson Myles. Sonia founded The Sister Accord® Foundation intending to have one billion girls and women learn to love themselves and each other. Now in its ninth year, the Foundation works to inspire future female leaders, starting with changing how girls and women treat, support, and interact with each other. 

Before founding the organization, Sonia was an executive in corporate America with over 20 years...

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March 25, 2024 51 mins

David is a new friend of mine, and the author of the newly published book “The Just Leader: Thriving in a Fractured World."


David is the founder and CEO of 11 Ten Leadership, a leadership development company that works with executive leaders and their teams to strengthen their leadership, culture, and impact.  


Prior to starting 11 Ten Leadership, David served as the CEO of Jobs for Life, a global non-profit organiz...

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February 26, 2024 54 mins

Our Guest today is Denis Beausejour. Denis is the Author of "The Biggest Idea Ever", a business and spirituality memoir for marketplace leaders seeking next-level growth. 

He is a Former VP Advertising at Procter & Gamble, where he built a successful career, and found Jesus while on assignment in Japan. As He grew in His faith, he made a tremendous impact at P&G on not only the business, but on countless individua...

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February 20, 2024 52 mins

Our guest today is Suzy Deering.  Suzy Deering is an accomplished non-traditional marketer with experience across multiple industries, brands and disciplines. Most recently, Suzy was the Global Chief Marketing Officer for the Ford Motor Company. Prior to Ford, Deering was the Global Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer of eBay Prior to eBay and was the CEO of Moxie (renamed to Formerly Known As), a technology-led marketing agency w...

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David Kinnaman is the CEO of Barna Group, a leading research and communications company that works with churches, nonprofits, and businesses ranging from film studios to financial services. Since 1995, David has directed interviews with more than two million individuals and overseen thousands of U.S. and global research studies. He’s author of the bestselling books Faith For Exiles, Good Faith, You Lost Me and unChristian.

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