Today’s Topic & Guest:
Jamie Baxter: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamie-baxter-657b8a130/
Exodus 90: https://exodus90.com/

How to have true detachment from your business, without being detached from the work and from your customers.

As entrepreneurs, it’s easy to make entrepreneurship, and by extension, our company, our identity. But we know that our true identity is that of a child of God, created in His image and likeness. We also need to avoid attachment to our earthly success, recognition, or financial outcomes.

Today’s conversation does a great job of covering the different angles of this topic.

Key Moments: (outline)
03:47 — Why detachment is a prerequisite for entrepreneurial peace.
05:12 — The early years of Exodus 90 and trusting in Divine Providence.
07:32 — Viewing the business journey as a tool for spiritual sanctification.
11:26 — Discerning the line between a divine calling and personal ego.
13:14 — Seeking "daily bread": Cultivating a disposition of trust.
16:39 — Integrating faith and reason in high-stakes decision-making.
22:36 — The Catholic call to renew and fortify existing institutions.
27:37 — Scaling mission-driven impact while staying lean.
31:50 — Blue Ocean Strategy: Avoiding competition by staying true to your charism.
37:15 — Practical ways to remain detached during seasons of success.
44:14 — Balancing long-term vision with the humility of daily work.
48:12 — The strategic shift from a non-profit to a for-profit entity.
53:48 — Redefining ownership and reinvestment through a Catholic lens.
1:01:18 — Filtering secular business wisdom through traditional truth.
1:03:29 — Rapid Fire: Favorite scriptures, saints, and the power of the Rosary.
1:15:44 — Closing thoughts on purifying desires and spiritual freedom.

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Core Lesson:
We can be detached from this world while still being in it, even as business owners with a responsibility to our communities. And when we do this well, we’re simply recognizing that God is the ultimate master.

We are called to carry out God’s will in the world. That doesn’t mean we are called to make oodles of money. Or to gain the respect of men. Those things may be part of God’s will for our lives, but that will be unique for each of us.

What is not unique is that we are called to detach ourselves from this world and attach ourselves firmly and irremovably to the Will of God for us.

Attachment to money or fame is incompatible with this goal.

However, when we see all things as coming from God, we become capable of being good stewards of the things He has given to our care.

God Bless & Happy Building!

~Silas Mähner

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