The REAL Reason Most Entrepreneurs Never Reach $1 Million | w/ Landon Rhodes

The REAL Reason Most Entrepreneurs Never Reach $1 Million | w/ Landon Rhodes

IF YOU FEEL LIKE YOU'VE TRIED EVERY BUSINESS IDEA, CHANGED YOUR OFFER TEN TIMES, AND STILL FEEL STUCK... THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU. This week on the Faithustle Podcast, Mukwenda Kandole sits down with entrepreneur and business coach Landon Rhodes. After building and scaling a multi-million dollar video agency, Landon now helps videographers, creatives, and agency owners simplify their business, scale to seven figures, and stop chasing every new strategy. But this conversation goes far beyond business. We talk about: • Why most entrepreneurs stay stuck • The "Rule of Five Ones" that helped Landon scale • Why changing your offer is hurting your business • The identity shift every entrepreneur must make • How to build with focus instead of chasing trends • How God healed Landon from cancer • What it means to truly be Spirit-led in business • Why faith is one of the greatest assets an entrepreneur can have One of the biggest takeaways from this conversation is simple: ✅ Do one thing. ✅ Make it excellent. ✅ Stay faithful long enough to see the fruit. If you're tired of shiny object syndrome, constantly pivoting, or wondering why your business isn't growing, this episode will challenge the way you think about entrepreneurship. 👇 JOIN THE FAITHUSTLE NETWORK The Faithustle Network is a global community of Christian entrepreneurs learning how to build business God's way. Inside you'll find: 📖 Weekly Bible Studies 💼 Weekly Business Coaching 🤝 Kingdom Community 🎙 Live Q&A Sessions 📍 Monthly Meetups JOIN HERE 👉 HTTPS://BIT.LY/43UZV2I ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FOLLOW LANDON RHODES Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/landonrrhodes/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ FOLLOW FAITHUSTLE Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefaithustle/ ⏱ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 Intro 03:02 Meet Landon Rhodes 05:20 How Landon Built His Video Agency 13:20 Why Niches Build Better Businesses 17:40 The Rule of Five Ones 21:45 Stop Reinventing Your Offer 29:20 The Identity Shift Every Entrepreneur Must Make 39:50 Stewarding Your Gifts Well 47:50 Landon's Healing Journey 55:00 How to Build Your Faith Daily 1:02:30 Prayer for Christian Entrepreneurs #ChristianEntrepreneur #BusinessGrowth #Entrepreneurship #FaithAndBusiness #KingdomBusiness #Faithustle

He Built an 8-Figure Company But Still Felt EMPTY | w/ Vince Del Monte

WHAT IF SUCCESS ISN'T THE FINISH LINE? WHAT IF THE VERY THING YOU'VE SPENT YEARS BUILDING IS THE THING GOD IS ASKING YOU TO SURRENDER? In this powerful episode of the Faithustle Podcast, Mukwenda Kandole sits down with entrepreneur, coach, and industry pioneer Vince Del Monte. For over 20 years, Vince helped shape the online fitness coaching industry, building multiple seven-figure businesses and eventually an eight-figure coaching company. But after years of success, God began asking him deeper questions about ambition, identity, purpose, and surrender. This conversation isn't about making more money. It's about understanding what it actually means to build God's Kingdom in the marketplace. Vince shares his powerful testimony of surrendering his business, laying down ambition, and allowing God to rebuild his identity from the ground up. He challenges the idea that bigger businesses automatically mean bigger Kingdom impact and offers a biblical framework for leadership, success, and entrepreneurship. Some of the topics we cover: ✅ Why scaling doesn't always mean Kingdom growth ✅ The difference between ambition and obedience ✅ How entrepreneurs build their own kingdoms ✅ Why success can become an idol ✅ The danger of attaching identity to performance ✅ Why God cares more about formation than outcomes ✅ The cost and reward of doing business God's way One of Vince's most powerful statements was: "You don't expand the Kingdom through scaling. You expand it through surrender." And another: "It's not add God to your goals. It's reorder your goals around Him." If you're a Christian entrepreneur, business owner, coach, creator, or leader trying to build without losing your soul, this episode is for you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 JOIN THE FAITHUSTLE NETWORK The Faithustle Network helps Christian entrepreneurs learn how to build their business God's way. Inside you'll find: ✅ Weekly mentorship calls ✅ Bible studies & prayer ✅ Kingdom business training ✅ Monthly events ✅ Christian entrepreneur community ✅ Leadership development Join Here ➡️ https://bit.ly/43uzV2i 📲 Follow Faithustle: https://www.instagram.com/thefaithustle/ [https://www.instagram.com/thefaithustle/] 🔗 All Links: https://linktr.ee/thefaithustle [https://linktr.ee/thefaithustle] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 FOLLOW VINCE DELMONTE Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vincedelmonte/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 You Don't Expand the Kingdom Through Scaling 2:15 Meet Vince DelMonte 5:30 Building an 8-Figure Coaching Business 10:00 Identity, Success & Ambition 15:00 What Does "Seek First the Kingdom" Mean? 20:00 Building Your Kingdom vs God's Kingdom 25:00 Why Success Doesn't Satisfy 30:00 The Cost of Surrender 34:00 Why Entrepreneurs Feel So Much Pressure 38:00 Fear, Relevance & Identity 43:00 Why God's Way Feels Slower 47:00 The Benefits of Building God's Way 52:00 Peace That Revenue Cannot Give 57:00 The Real Definition of Freedom 1:02:00 Final Encouragement for Entrepreneurs ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #ChristianEntrepreneur #KingdomBusiness #FaithAndBusiness #ChristianLeadership #Entrepreneurship #Faithustle #BusinessGodsWay #VinceDelMonte

She's worked with over 1,000 Startups and helped raise $200 Million | w/ Stacyann Patrice

WHAT SEPARATES STARTUPS THAT SUCCEED FROM THE ONES THAT DISAPPEAR? In this episode of the Faithustle Podcast, Mukwenda Kandole sits down with StacyAnn Patrice, startup strategist, innovation expert, and founder advocate who has helped more than 1,000 startups navigate growth, secure funding, and build companies that solve real problems. Collectively, the founders and startups she's supported have raised nearly $200 million in funding. But this conversation isn't just about raising capital. It's about building something that actually matters. Before becoming one of the most respected voices in the startup ecosystem, StacyAnn was a nuclear engineer working on some of the most complex projects imaginable. Today, she helps founders navigate uncertainty, validate ideas, find product-market fit, understand customers, raise capital, and avoid the mistakes that cause startups to fail. If you're building a startup, launching a company, raising investment, creating a new product, or trying to figure out if your idea is worth pursuing, this episode is a masterclass. We cover: ✅ How startup founders should validate ideas ✅ Why most startups fail before they ever get traction ✅ Revenue vs fundraising ✅ What investors actually look for ✅ Product-market fit explained simply ✅ Customer discovery and startup validation ✅ Why founders must stay coachable ✅ Building systems that scale ✅ The danger of chasing funding too early ✅ Biblical principles of entrepreneurship ✅ Faith, obedience, and leadership ✅ The role curiosity plays in startup success One of the most powerful lessons StaceyAnn shares is that startups succeed when founders stay curious, hungry, coachable, and committed to solving real problems—not just telling great stories. Whether you're a first-time founder, tech entrepreneur, startup CEO, or aspiring business owner, this conversation will save you years of mistakes. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 JOIN THE FAITHUSTLE NETWORK Faithustle helps Christian entrepreneurs learn how to build their business God's way. Inside you'll find: ✅ Weekly mentorship calls ✅ Kingdom business training ✅ Bible studies & prayer ✅ Christian entrepreneur community ✅ Monthly live events ✅ Leadership development Join the Network: https://bit.ly/43uzV2i 📲 Follow Faithustle: https://www.instagram.com/thefaithustle/ [https://www.instagram.com/thefaithustle/] 🔗 All Faithustle Links: https://linktr.ee/thefaithustle [https://linktr.ee/thefaithustle] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 CONNECT WITH STACEYANN PATRICE 📲 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stacyannpatrice/ 🌐 Website: https://memberup.com/entrepreneursplayground/about?p=6c7d2d91-133e-4cbe-9697-d8e63acc7b2b ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 2:00 From Nuclear Engineer to Startup Advisor 7:00 Why Most Startup Ideas Fail 11:00 Radical Obedience & Entrepreneurship 16:00 Revenue vs Raising Money 22:00 Product-Market Fit Explained 28:00 The Biggest Founder Mistakes 34:00 Why Coachability Matters 40:00 Startup Validation Framework 45:00 How Faith Impacts Leadership 51:00 Helping Founders Raise $200M 57:00 Customer Discovery Process 1:03:00 Why Great Ideas Die 1:08:00 Advice for Every Startup Founder Filmed at Lux Creative Studio: https://www.luxcreativetx.com/

Tim Ross & Touré Roberts On How to Build Without Losing Your Peace | "The Meet Up" Live Podcast

A LIVE CONVERSATION FROM "THE MEET UP" DALLAS | FAITHUSTLE X SCARY BUT BEAUTIFUL STUDIOS X THE BASEMENT What if the biggest thing holding you back isn't strategy... What if it's the condition of your soul? In this historic live podcast conversation recorded in front of 350+ Christian entrepreneurs, creatives, and leaders at The Meet Up in Dallas, Tim Ross and Touré Roberts sit down Mukwenda Kandole and Ty Headlee for one of the most powerful conversations we've ever hosted. Together, we explored the themes behind Tim Ross' new book, The Missing Peace, and Touré Roberts' new book, Knowing: The Journey to Certainty in an Uncertain World. The result was a transformational conversation on leadership, emotional health, hearing God's voice, entrepreneurship, peace, purpose, discernment, trust, and building God's way. Whether you're building a business, leading a team, starting a ministry, creating content, or simply trying to discern God's next step for your life, this conversation will challenge and encourage you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 JOIN THE FAITHUSTLE NETWORK Faithustle helps Christian entrepreneurs learn how to build their business God's way. Inside you'll find: ✅ Weekly mentorship calls ✅ Kingdom business training ✅ Bible studies & prayer ✅ Christian entrepreneur community ✅ Monthly live events ✅ Leadership development Join the Network: https://bit.ly/43uzV2i 📲 Follow Faithustle: https://www.instagram.com/thefaithustle/ [https://www.instagram.com/thefaithustle/] 🔗 All Faithustle Links: https://linktr.ee/thefaithustle [https://linktr.ee/thefaithustle] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📚 GRAB YOUR COPY OF "THE MISSING PEACE" & "KNOWING" The Missing Peace by Tim Ross ➡️ https://www.upsettheworld.com/themissingpeacebook Knowing: The Journey to Certainty in an Uncertain World by Touré Roberts ➡️ https://www.toureroberts.com/books-by-toure-roberts ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONNECT WITH TIM ROSS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/upsetthegram/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONNECT WITH TOURÉ ROBERTS Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/toureroberts/ [https://www.instagram.com/toureroberts/] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CONNECT WITH TY HEADLEE Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tyheadlee/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 WHAT WE COVER IN THIS LIVE CONVERSATION ✅ How to develop certainty in an uncertain world ✅ Why peace is more important than information ✅ Trusting God when you don't know what's next ✅ Healing from past failures and disappointments ✅ Emotional health and leadership ✅ Why provision is not necessarily God's vision ✅ The danger of good ideas vs God ideas ✅ How to hear God's voice more clearly ✅ Entrepreneurship, purpose, and obedience ✅ Finding clarity when life feels confusing One of the most powerful moments of the night came when Tim Ross shared: "You don't have to know about your future because you know who holds your future." And Touré Roberts challenged the room with this truth: "You can either be a wanderer or a knower." This wasn't just a podcast. It was a holy moment. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Peace vs Panic 1:00 Introduction & The Meet Up 3:20 Why These Books Had to Be Written 8:00 Finding Certainty in an Uncertain World 12:00 Leadership, Opposition & Perseverance 17:00 Good Ideas vs God Ideas 21:00 Business Partnerships & Discernment 24:00 How God Leads Entrepreneurs 28:00 Why Emotional Health Matters 31:00 Trust Issues & Leadership 34:00 Failure Is Not Your Identity 38:00 Developing Your Knower 42:00 Why We Fill In The Blanks 46:00 Peter Sleeping In Prison 53:00 Learning to Trust God 54:00 Being Multi-Passionate & Called 1:01:00 Finding Your Assignment 1:07:00 Advice for the Next Generation of Leaders 1:14:00 Prayer for Entrepreneurs & Builders #TimRoss #ToureRoberts #TheMissingPeace #Knowing #ChristianEntrepreneur #Faithustle #KingdomBusiness #LeadershipPodcast #TheBasementPodcast #HearingGodsVoice #ChristianLeadership #Purpose #FaithAndBusiness

The Clothing Brand Behind the Viral 2819 Church Collaboration | w/ Kingston & Sarah Davis

🔥 JOIN THE FAITHUSTLE NETWORK The Faithustle Network helps Christian entrepreneurs learn how to build their business God's way. Inside you'll find: ✅ Weekly mentorship calls ✅ Kingdom business training ✅ Bible studies & prayer ✅ Christian entrepreneur community ✅ Monthly events & networking ✅ Marketing, branding & leadership education 👉 SIGN UP FOR FREE TODAY: www,thefaithustle.com/network CAN YOU CREATE A CHRISTIAN FASHION BRAND....THAT ATTRACTS WORLD ATTENTION? In this powerful episode of the Faithustle Podcast, Mukwenda Kandole sits down with Kingston and Sarah Davis, founders of Reyna Signature, one of the most influential Christian clothing brands in the culture today. From churches to athletes, celebrities, entrepreneurs, and culture leaders, Reyna Signature has become known for creating premium products that boldly proclaim the Gospel while competing at the highest levels of fashion and design. Their signature Disciple Jersey has become an iconic piece in Christian culture and recently gained even more attention through their viral collaboration with 2819 Church and Pastor Philip Anthony Mitchell. But this conversation isn't really about clothing. It's about: * Excellence * Obedience * Stewardship * Building a Kingdom brand * Creating culture instead of chasing it * Faith when nobody knows your name * Starting before you're ready Kingston and Sarah share the full story behind Reyna Signature, how God gave them the vision, the challenges of rapid growth, the lessons they've learned building a luxury brand, and why they believe excellence is worship. They also answer questions every aspiring clothing brand owner needs to hear: ✔ How do you start a clothing brand? ✔ How do you stand out in a crowded market? ✔ Why does branding matter? ✔ How do you price products confidently? ✔ How do you build something that lasts? ✔ What does Kingdom excellence actually look like? If you're a Christian entrepreneur, creative, designer, founder, content creator, or someone who wants to build something meaningful, this episode will challenge and inspire you. 🔥 CONNECT WITH REYNA SIGNATURE 👕 Shop Reyna Signature: https://reynasignature.com/ 📲 FOLLOW REYNA SIGNATURE: https://www.instagram.com/reyna.signature/ 🔥 FOLLOW FAITHUSTLE 📲 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefaithustle/ 💵 BOOK A CALL WITH BRANCH BOOKKEEPING TODAY  👉https://www.thebranchbookkeeping.com/ [https://www.thebranchbookkeeping.com/] ⏱️ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Don't Be Realistic, Be Obedient 1:20 Meet Kingston & Sarah Davis 3:00 The Viral 2819 Church Collaboration 7:00 How God Opened the Door 10:00 Excellence Is Worship 14:00 Why They Charge What They Charge 18:00 Luxury Fashion for the Kingdom 23:00 The Mission Behind Reyna Signature 28:00 The Story Behind the Disciple Jersey 35:00 Building a Brand That Shapes Culture 41:00 The Challenges of Rapid Growth 46:00 Why Most People Never Start 51:00 Lessons for New Clothing Brand Owners 57:00 Kingdom Entrepreneurship 1:02:00 Faith, Obedience & The Future