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Leadership isn’t just about building something successful; it’s about building something meaningful, aligning what you believe with how you lead and using what you’ve been given to make a difference. Today’s guest is someone who has spent years helping leaders do exactly that. Justin Forman is a strategist and leader working at the intersection of faith, entrepreneurship. He’s the cofounder and president of Faith Driven Entrepreneur and Faith Driven Investor: global movements helping more than 1 million leaders integrate faith and how they lead and build businesses. Justin brings people together—entrepreneurs investors, and leaders—to move from good intentions to lasting impact. GLN President and CEO David Ashcraft recently sat down with Justin to talk about how faith, media and entrepreneurship can create meaningful change and what it looks like to build something that truly matters overtime.
INTHIS EPISODE
00:00 Intro
02:30 Justin’s background and how Faith Driven Entrepreneur got started.
12:20 What was the goal of FDE?
13:45 What does it mean for FDE to “go deeper”?
19:50 What FDE is up to now.
25:05 What are some examples of the big problems that FDE is trying to solve?
31:00 How does someone get involved with FDE?
34:00 Where Justin hopes to be in five years.
36:45 Outro
LISTEN
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STANDOUTSAND TAKEAWAYS
- There are “sliding door” moments in everyone’s journey, when you think you’re heading one way, then suddenly you’re heading in a different direction.
- So many things start out with a step of faithfulness. You think something is just a hobby, and it grows.
- Over the last twenty years, the conversation has been, “wherever you are, God’s called you to make a difference.”
- It’s not that entrepreneurs are better than anyone, it’s just that the questions they deal with are different.
- The stories that entrepreneurs share are two-way conversations that go around the world.
- Over the last twenty years, there’s an entrepreneurial wave of thinking that has permeated the United States in ways that we haven’t seen.
- The goal is to have conversations that help entrepreneurs build their businesses differently.
- Most entrepreneurs believe that their businesses have been given to them to steward for God’s purposes, but they struggle with how.
- Entrepreneurs solve problems. The conversation is about leveraging that focus and directing it towards some of the world’s biggest problems.
- The language of “solving” is used today more than ever.
- Many breakthroughs come about due to philanthropic capital.
- Faith Driven Entrepreneur is really trying to create communities of vetted intentional givers and connect with them the best-in-class places to give that could potentially solve huge problems.
- Many people have capital parked in bank accounts and they are simply waiting for the right opportunity to give.
- We are at a potentially disruptive moment where people are asking, “WHERE do I give?” and we can be data-informed and Spirit-led to places of great impact.
LINKSMENTIONED
- Website: Faith Driven Entrepreneur
- Website: Solving the World’s Greatest Problems
- Website: RightNow Media
- Website: Halftime
- Website: Team365
- Website: 2026 GlobalLeadership Summit
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