The Estherpreneur

Zippy’s, Chili, and Closing Deals

Most people wouldn’t expect a biblical business strategy to start in a busy restaurant. But sometimes the places that shape us the most... aren’t the ones we would have chosen. In this episode of The Estherpreneur Podcast, I share a story from long before consulting, coaching CEOs, or building companies. A story that began on the floor of a restaurant in Hawaii. At the time, it didn’t feel like preparation for anything significant. Just long shifts. Fast decisions. Constant movement. But looking back, something was being formed. Something that would later shape how I think about leadership, sales, and serving people well in business. This episode opens the first conversation in a new series exploring biblical business strategies but not in the way most entrepreneurs expect. Sometimes the principles that change how we lead don’t come from a boardroom. They come from moments that teach us to see people differently. If you're a Christian founder, CEO, or business owner trying to grow without compromising your values, this conversation may shift the way you think about influence, trust, and the unseen foundations of business. Because building a meaningful business was never just about closing deals. And sometimes the most important lessons start in places no one would think to look. The Estherpreneur Podcast is for CEOs, founders, and faith-driven entrepreneurs who are growing—but something feels misaligned. Whether it's your structure, your clarity, or your capacity, this show helps you identify what's off and what to focus on next. Hosted by Edna Harding, author of "The Ugly Side of Sales 2.0" and founder of Favor & Wealth, a business growth strategy firm that helps leaders scale with clarity, structure, and biblical alignment. 📖 SPECIAL OFFER: GET THE BOOK + STRATEGY SESSION When you purchase "The Ugly Side of Sales 2.0," you can book a private 90-minute strategy session with Edna for $1,111 (exclusive to book readers)! During this focused session, we'll examine: ✅ Your current sales structure ✅ Strategic adjustments to increase conversions ✅ How to align your systems with your God-given assignment 👉 https://www.favorandwealth.com/book-the-ugly-side-of-sales/ [https://www.favorandwealth.com/book-the-ugly-side-of-sales/] 🎯 TAKE THE FREE GROWTH AUDIT: Discover what's actually misaligned in your business in 3 minutes. 👉 https://www.favorandwealth.com/no-to-known-growth-audit/ [https://www.favorandwealth.com/no-to-known-growth-audit/] 🔗 JOIN IGNITE BIZ COMMUNITY: Free business directory for entrepreneurs and service-based businesses. 👉 https://www.ignitebizcommunity.com/ [https://www.ignitebizcommunity.com/] Connect with Edna: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ednaharding/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ednaharding/] Website: favorandwealth.com [https://www.favorandwealth.com/] 📲 BONUS: Download the Favor & Wealth app for free trainings and live workshops! 👉 ednaharding.com [https://ednaharding.myapp.to/]

Why Kids Hear God Faster

In this episode of The Estherpreneur Podcast, I’m sharing what the Lord has been teaching me through a surprising mentor… my four-year-old daughter. I’ve been in a season where God is restoring childlike wonder in me again, and it’s been healing in ways I didn’t expect. In this conversation, I walk you through four lessons my daughter models naturally—lessons that many adults have to re-learn the hard way: 1. Trust without demanding control 2. Ask boldly without shame 3. Find wonder in what adults ignore 4. Recover quickly and don’t camp in disappointment This episode is for the entrepreneur who feels tired, guarded, or spiritually “mature” in a way that quietly became heavy. God doesn’t want your faith hardened by life. He wants it healed. The Estherpreneur Podcast is for CEOs, founders, and faith-driven entrepreneurs who are growing—but something feels misaligned. Whether it's your structure, your clarity, or your capacity, this show helps you identify what's off and what to focus on next. Hosted by Edna Harding, author of "The Ugly Side of Sales 2.0" and founder of Favor & Wealth, a business growth strategy firm that helps leaders scale with clarity, structure, and biblical alignment. 📖 SPECIAL OFFER: GET THE BOOK + STRATEGY SESSION When you purchase "The Ugly Side of Sales 2.0," you can book a private 90-minute strategy session with Edna for $1,111 (exclusive to book readers)! During this focused session, we'll examine: ✅ Your current sales structure ✅ Strategic adjustments to increase conversions ✅ How to align your systems with your God-given assignment 👉 https://www.favorandwealth.com/book-the-ugly-side-of-sales/ [https://www.favorandwealth.com/book-the-ugly-side-of-sales/] 🎯 TAKE THE FREE GROWTH AUDIT: Discover what's actually misaligned in your business in 3 minutes. 👉 https://www.favorandwealth.com/no-to-known-growth-audit/ [https://www.favorandwealth.com/no-to-known-growth-audit/] 🔗 JOIN IGNITE BIZ COMMUNITY: Free business directory for entrepreneurs and service-based businesses. 👉 https://www.ignitebizcommunity.com/ [https://www.ignitebizcommunity.com/] Connect with Edna: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ednaharding/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ednaharding/] Website: favorandwealth.com [https://www.favorandwealth.com/] 📲 BONUS: Download the Favor & Wealth app for free trainings and live workshops! 👉 ednaharding.com [https://ednaharding.myapp.to/]

Informed Faith

You can know a lot about God and still not know Him. That might sound uncomfortable… but in this episode of The Estherpreneur Podcast, I’m drawing a hard line between the knowledge of God and knowing God personally—because in this hour, surface-level Christianity is not going to sustain you. I’m talking about spiritual distractions, busyness, exhaustion, and what it looks like to pursue quality time with God when life is chaotic. And I’m reminding you that guilt and religious pressure are not tools of transformation. If you’re building a business and you’re tired, stretched, or overwhelmed, you don’t need more information. You need intimacy. Because knowledge gives you principles—but knowing God gives you direction. The Estherpreneur Podcast is for CEOs, founders, and faith-driven entrepreneurs who are growing—but something feels misaligned. Whether it's your structure, your clarity, or your capacity, this show helps you identify what's off and what to focus on next. Hosted by Edna Harding, author of "The Ugly Side of Sales 2.0" and founder of Favor & Wealth, a business growth strategy firm that helps leaders scale with clarity, structure, and biblical alignment. 📖 SPECIAL OFFER: GET THE BOOK + STRATEGY SESSION When you purchase "The Ugly Side of Sales 2.0," you can book a private 90-minute strategy session with Edna for $1,111 (exclusive to book readers)! During this focused session, we'll examine: ✅ Your current sales structure ✅ Strategic adjustments to increase conversions ✅ How to align your systems with your God-given assignment 👉 https://www.favorandwealth.com/book-the-ugly-side-of-sales/ [https://www.favorandwealth.com/book-the-ugly-side-of-sales/] 🎯 TAKE THE FREE GROWTH AUDIT: Discover what's actually misaligned in your business in 3 minutes. 👉 https://www.favorandwealth.com/no-to-known-growth-audit/ [https://www.favorandwealth.com/no-to-known-growth-audit/] 🔗 JOIN IGNITE BIZ COMMUNITY: Free business directory for entrepreneurs and service-based businesses. 👉 https://www.ignitebizcommunity.com/ [https://www.ignitebizcommunity.com/] Connect with Edna: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ednaharding/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ednaharding/] Website: favorandwealth.com [https://www.favorandwealth.com/] 📲 BONUS: Download the Favor & Wealth app for free trainings and live workshops! 👉 ednaharding.com [https://ednaharding.myapp.to/]

Finding True Hope with Chet

What if the way you learned to protect your heart… is the very thing limiting your future? In this week’s episode of The Estherpreneur Podcast, I sit down with Chet Gladkowski to unpack a story that begins with silence, survival, and a quiet decision many don’t even realize they’ve made:  To stop hoping… so they won’t be disappointed. But what happens when that mindset follows you into adulthood, into your faith, and even into your relationship with God? And more importantly—what does it take to break it? This conversation goes deeper than surface-level encouragement. It exposes the subtle ways pain, family history, and lived experiences shape how we see God, ourselves, and what we believe is possible. If you’ve ever felt like: *  You believe in God… but still struggle with expectation  *  You’ve been in a long “in-between” season  *  Or you’ve quietly lowered your hope just to avoid disappointment  Then this episode is for you. There is a difference between surviving life… and living with true hope. And what you’ll hear in this conversation may challenge everything you thought you knew about both. If you want to go deeper into this message, you can get Chet’s book here: https://www.chetglad.org/hope-is-key [https://www.chetglad.org/hope-is-key] And if you’d like to stay connected and continue learning from him, you can find Chet here: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chester.gladkowski [https://www.facebook.com/chester.gladkowski] LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chetgladkowski/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/chetgladkowski/] YouTube: https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCXVDlTr5rfDBNJ7kKvGa8hQ/videos [https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UCXVDlTr5rfDBNJ7kKvGa8hQ/videos] Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chestergladkowski/ [https://www.instagram.com/chestergladkowski/] X: https://x.com/gladkowski19297 [https://x.com/gladkowski19297] Tune in. The Estherpreneur Podcast is for CEOs, founders, and faith-driven entrepreneurs who are growing—but something feels misaligned. Whether it's your structure, your clarity, or your capacity, this show helps you identify what's off and what to focus on next. Hosted by Edna Harding, author of "The Ugly Side of Sales 2.0" and founder of Favor & Wealth, a business growth strategy firm that helps leaders scale with clarity, structure, and biblical alignment. 📖 SPECIAL OFFER: GET THE BOOK + STRATEGY SESSION When you purchase "The Ugly Side of Sales 2.0," you can book a private 90-minute strategy session with Edna for $1,111 (exclusive to book readers)! During this focused session, we'll examine: ✅ Your current sales structure ✅ Strategic adjustments to increase conversions ✅ How to align your systems with your God-given assignment 👉 https://www.favorandwealth.com/book-the-ugly-side-of-sales/ [https://www.favorandwealth.com/book-the-ugly-side-of-sales/] 🎯 TAKE THE FREE GROWTH AUDIT: Discover what's actually misaligned in your business in 3 minutes. 👉 https://www.favorandwealth.com/no-to-known-growth-audit/ [https://www.favorandwealth.com/no-to-known-growth-audit/] 🔗 JOIN IGNITE BIZ COMMUNITY: Free business directory for entrepreneurs and service-based businesses. 👉 https://www.ignitebizcommunity.com/ [https://www.ignitebizcommunity.com/] Connect with Edna: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ednaharding/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ednaharding/] Website: favorandwealth.com [https://www.favorandwealth.com/] 📲 BONUS: Download the Favor & Wealth app for free trainings and live workshops! 👉 ednaharding.com [https://ednaharding.myapp.to/]

Why I Had to Let It Go

Letting go is not easy when you’re the kind of person who loves hard, builds hard, and stays loyal to what you started. But in this episode of The Estherpreneur Podcast, I’m sharing why I had to let it go—because I realized something: You can’t step into new fruit while you’re holding onto old weight. I talk about the emotional side of release, the difficulty of walking away from things that feel comfortable, and how pruning can feel like loss even when it’s actually preparation for expansion. We’ll also confront the tension between internal conviction and external pressure—the push to follow trends, gurus, and noise, even when the Spirit is leading you differently. If you’ve been forcing momentum, this episode will help you stop wrestling and start discerning. The Estherpreneur Podcast is for CEOs, founders, and faith-driven entrepreneurs who are growing—but something feels misaligned. Whether it's your structure, your clarity, or your capacity, this show helps you identify what's off and what to focus on next. Hosted by Edna Harding, author of "The Ugly Side of Sales 2.0" and founder of Favor & Wealth, a business growth strategy firm that helps leaders scale with clarity, structure, and biblical alignment. 📖 SPECIAL OFFER: GET THE BOOK + STRATEGY SESSION When you purchase "The Ugly Side of Sales 2.0," you can book a private 90-minute strategy session with Edna for $1,111 (exclusive to book readers)! During this focused session, we'll examine: ✅ Your current sales structure ✅ Strategic adjustments to increase conversions ✅ How to align your systems with your God-given assignment 👉 https://www.favorandwealth.com/book-the-ugly-side-of-sales/ [https://www.favorandwealth.com/book-the-ugly-side-of-sales/] 🎯 TAKE THE FREE GROWTH AUDIT: Discover what's actually misaligned in your business in 3 minutes. 👉 https://www.favorandwealth.com/no-to-known-growth-audit/ [https://www.favorandwealth.com/no-to-known-growth-audit/] 🔗 JOIN IGNITE BIZ COMMUNITY: Free business directory for entrepreneurs and service-based businesses. 👉 https://www.ignitebizcommunity.com/ [https://www.ignitebizcommunity.com/] Connect with Edna: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ednaharding/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/ednaharding/] Website: favorandwealth.com [https://www.favorandwealth.com/] 📲 BONUS: Download the Favor & Wealth app for free trainings and live workshops!  👉 ednaharding.com [https://ednaharding.myapp.to/]