Evan Raugust (https://www.linkedin.com/in/evan-raugust) went from zero to over 240,000 YouTube subscribers in less than two years while working a 9-to-5. As the founder of Kingdom Media (https://www.linkedin.com/company/kingdom-media-strategy/) , he now helps top creators scale their channels to millions of views.

In this episode, Silas Mähner chops it up with Evan to discuss high-stakes video production, leveraging the YouTube algorithm, finding unserved market gaps, and staying grounded in prayer and virtue amid rapid growth.

In This Episode, You’ll Learn:

The 5 Growth Levers: How to leverage time, money, personality, creativity, or production value.

The Curiosity Hook: How to "dangle the candy" of curiosity to feed viewers deep, life-changing spiritual truths.

High-Impact Strategy: Why you should stop spending 20 hours on a 10k-view video when that same energy can build a 1-million-view home run.

Virtue & Holiness: How daily Rosaries, Confession, and Adoration prevent vanity in the creator economy.

Timestamps:

(00:18) – Intro: The Catholic Founders mission

(03:07) – Evan’s background & mission to spread the Gospel online

(05:46) – Evan’s conversion journey to Catholicism

(07:43) – Building & scaling channels with Kingdom Media

(15:30) – YouTube strategy & multi-skill demands for business owners

(22:29) – Hooking viewers & delivering spiritual depth

(26:28) – How content goes viral: Market gaps & outlier topics

(34:08) – The 5 Growth Levers explained

(43:40) – Living virtue & overcoming vanity as a creator

(48:38) – Recapturing your vocation as a divine mission

(55:46) – Rapid fire: Favorite scriptures, devotions & patron saints

(1:00:32) – Practical reflection questions for business owners

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Key Links & Resources Mentioned:

Evan Raugust’s YouTube Channel (https://catholicfounders.substack.com/publish/post/214915222)

Kingdom Media Agency (https://catholicfounders.substack.com/publish/post/214915222)

Catholic Founders Website (https://catholicfounders.substack.com/publish/post/214915222)

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