Kingdom Entrepreneur

Kingdom Entrepreneur is for Christian business owners and leaders who know they were made for more; more purpose, clarity, and impact. Hosted by Ray Young, entrepreneur, leadership coach, and follower of Jesus, this podcast blends biblical leadership with real strategy to help you scale, lead teams, steward money, and build a business that reflects God’s heart. His Kingdom. Your calling.

Kingdom Entrepreneur is a business podcast hosted by Ray Young, with 30 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Ray Young hosts Kingdom Entrepreneur, a business show with 30 episodes published.

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  Why Your Faith Should Never Be Separate From Your Business

  Aug 13, 202653 min

  What does it really look like to put God first in business when you’re dealing with employees, competition, failure, growth, difficult decisions, and the daily pressure to succeed? In this episode of Kingdom Entrepreneur, Scott Hicks shares how his faith in Jesus has shaped his journey from farming to building and operating successful car wash businesses. This conversation goes beyond simply calling yourself a Christian entrepreneur. Scott explains why your relationship with Christ cannot be separated from the way you lead your company, treat customers, develop employees, respond to failure, or define success. If you’re a Christian entrepreneur, business owner, leader, or marketplace minister trying to build a kingdom business without compromising your faith, this episode is for you. You’ll hear practical lessons on biblical business principles, servant leadership, company culture, customer service, integrity, prayer in business, handling setbacks, competing against larger companies, empowering employees, and trusting God when plans don’t work out. Scott also reveals why relationships may be one of the greatest opportunities God gives business owners, and why true success is about far more than revenue, locations, or growth. Highlights: → You’ll discover why separating your faith from your business creates a false divide and how Matthew 6:33 can reshape the way a Christian entrepreneur approaches leadership and decision-making. → Scott explains how failure, setbacks, and unexpected circumstances can become part of God’s larger purpose, and why Romans 8:28 has become foundational to the way he approaches business challenges. → You’ll learn practical ways to create a strong company culture through customer service, relationships, employee development, consistency, integrity, → prayer, and leading by example instead of simply talking about Christian values. → You’ll also hear how a small business can compete against national brands by refusing to race to the bottom, continually improving the customer experience, building community trust, and focusing on relationships bigger competitors may overlook. Learn more about Ray Young -  Covenant Leadership Group - Rayyoungspeaker.com Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/share/171rsYQV1E/?mibextid=wwXIfr Kingdom Entrepreneur Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/share/1Eg9qzQYDS/?mibextid=wwXIfr Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/4ray2/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ray-young2/ Ray Young Leadership Development - Rayyoung.net TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@rayyoung.2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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  You Don’t Need More Strategy, You Need More Clarity

  Aug 6, 202636 min

  You do not need another complicated leadership system. You may simply need enough quiet to hear God clearly, make the next right decision, and lead your people with greater confidence. In this episode of Kingdom Entrepreneur, leadership consultant Kerri Thompson explains how overwhelmed leaders can create clarity in the middle of business chaos. She shares why successful leaders often carry too many decisions, how obedience can matter more than security, and what it looks like to prepare responsibly when God calls you into a new season. This conversation is for Christian entrepreneurs, executives, business owners, and team leaders who are dealing with burnout, difficult conversations, organizational conflict, decision fatigue, or uncertainty about their calling. You will learn how emotional intelligence builds trust, why healthy companies do not avoid conflict, and how servant leadership changes the culture of an organization. What You’ll Learn: → Clarity before execution: Why even the best strategy can fail when responsibilities, communication, and next steps are unclear. → Faithful entrepreneurship: How Kerri prepared to leave a secure executive career without confusing obedience with carelessness. → Healthy conflict: How to check your story, regulate your emotions, ask better questions, involve the right people, and rebuild trust. → Sustainable leadership: Why delegation, active listening, boundaries, rest, and quiet time with God help leaders escape overwhelm. Learn more about Ray Young -  Covenant Leadership Group - Rayyoungspeaker.com Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/share/171rsYQV1E/?mibextid=wwXIfr Kingdom Entrepreneur Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/share/1Eg9qzQYDS/?mibextid=wwXIfr Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/4ray2/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ray-young2/ Ray Young Leadership Development - Rayyoung.net TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@rayyoung.2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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  Your Business Is Ministry, Even Outside the Church

  Jul 30, 202651 min

  Your business can become one of your greatest opportunities for ministry. What does it really mean to build a business that honors God? In this episode of Kingdom Entrepreneur, Jonathan shares how he moved from corporate leadership to pastoral ministry and eventually into real estate, without abandoning his calling. This conversation is for Christian entrepreneurs, business owners, leaders, real estate professionals, and anyone struggling to connect their Sunday faith with their Monday work. Jonathan explains why your calling is not determined by the title on your desk, the organization that pays you, or whether you work inside a church building. You’ll discover how servant leadership, biblical business principles, personal responsibility, integrity, family priorities, and genuine relationships can create lasting influence. Jonathan also shares why he sometimes encourages clients to buy less house, how relationship-based business creates trust, and why success should never come at the expense of your marriage or family. Your workplace can become a mission field. Your business decisions can reflect the character of Christ. Even ordinary tools, houses, basketballs, coffee conversations, volunteering, and acts of service, can help people experience the kingdom of God. What You’ll Learn: → You’ll learn how to integrate faith and business without becoming forceful or inauthentic. Jonathan explains how Christian entrepreneurs can lead through kindness, forgiveness, integrity, and service instead of relying only on authority or sales tactics. → You’ll hear the four core values guiding his family and real estate business: following God’s Word, taking personal responsibility, pursuing personal and relational growth, and practicing selfless ambition. → You’ll also discover why servant leadership requires putting a client’s long-term well-being ahead of your immediate commission, how relationship-based marketing creates genuine trust, and why the home should strengthen a family rather than place it under unnecessary financial pressure. → Finally, Jonathan shares lessons about overcoming disappointment, walking with God through uncertain seasons, developing future leaders, protecting your marriage, and building a spiritual legacy that continues through the people you serve. Learn more about Ray Young -  Covenant Leadership Group - Rayyoungspeaker.com Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/share/171rsYQV1E/?mibextid=wwXIfr Kingdom Entrepreneur Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/share/1Eg9qzQYDS/?mibextid=wwXIfr Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/4ray2/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ray-young2/ Ray Young Leadership Development - Rayyoung.net TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@rayyoung.2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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  The LLC Mistake That Can Destroy Your Legal Protection

  Jul 23, 202645 min

  You can spend decades building a profitable business and still lose everything because of one lawsuit, one poorly written operating agreement, or one legal decision you did not know you were making. Forming an LLC is not always enough. Your company must be structured, operated, documented, and protected correctly if you want its liability shield to hold up when it matters most. In this episode of Kingdom Entrepreneur, Ray Young talks with business and estate-planning attorney Keith Shelton about LLC asset protection, business legal structures, operating agreements, piercing the corporate veil, succession planning, commercial liability, and the legal mistakes that quietly expose owners and their families. Keith explains why business owners should place a legal entity between themselves and the public, why he prefers manager-managed LLCs, how commingling personal and company money can weaken legal protection, and why documenting important business decisions matters. This conversation is for entrepreneurs, family-business owners, contractors, real-estate investors, and kingdom-minded leaders who want to become better stewards of what God has entrusted to them. Learn how proactive legal planning can help protect your business, your assets, your family, and the legacy you are working to build. This episode is for educational purposes and does not constitute legal advice. What You’ll Learn: → Why simply filing an LLC may not provide the protection you expect → How operating agreements, manager authority, distributions, meeting minutes, and consent resolutions can affect your liability shield → Which behaviors, such as mixing personal and business funds, can increase the risk of piercing the corporate veil → How asset-protection planning, succession planning, insurance, and a 90-day legal health checkup can help you protect and eventually transfer the value of your business. Learn more about Ray Young -  Covenant Leadership Group - Rayyoungspeaker.com Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/share/171rsYQV1E/?mibextid=wwXIfr Kingdom Entrepreneur Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/share/1Eg9qzQYDS/?mibextid=wwXIfr Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/4ray2/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ray-young2/ Ray Young Leadership Development - Rayyoung.net TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@rayyoung.2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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  If Your Business Needs You, You Built a Job

  Jul 9, 202612 min

  Are you building a business that creates freedom, develops leaders, and leaves a legacy, or have you built a job that cannot survive without you?  In this episode of Kingdom Entrepreneur, Ray continues the Builder’s Blueprint series with the fifth pillar of building a successful company: legacy and multiplication. Many entrepreneurs focus on growth, revenue, systems, and success, but few intentionally prepare their business to outlive them. If your company depends completely on your personality, your decisions, and your daily presence, then your impact has a ceiling. But when you develop people, document values, delegate responsibility, and build leaders before you need them, your business can multiply far beyond you. This episode is for Christian business owners, founders, entrepreneurs, and leaders who believe their company is a God-given responsibility. You’ll learn how to build a business God’s way, lead with faithfulness, create a leadership pipeline, and measure success not only by dollars earned but by lives changed. Highlights: → You’ll learn why a business built around one person has a limited future, while a business that develops leaders has a multiplying future. → You’ll discover the difference between success and legacy, and why your greatest accomplishment may not be the company you build but the leaders you develop. → You’ll hear practical leadership lessons from Moses and Joshua, Elijah and Elisha, Jesus and the disciples, and Paul and Timothy. → You’ll walk away with a simple exercise to identify your five most influential team members and begin intentional development conversations this week. Learn more about Ray Young -  Covenant Leadership Group - Rayyoungspeaker.com Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/share/171rsYQV1E/?mibextid=wwXIfr Kingdom Entrepreneur Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/share/1Eg9qzQYDS/?mibextid=wwXIfr Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/4ray2/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ray-young2/ Ray Young Leadership Development - Rayyoung.net TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@rayyoung.2 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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