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Dr. Joyce Choe went through a series of personal trials and health issues before she started her missional business. And although it all started very small with a cookbook, the reason why she decided to start was a beautiful and powerful one: she wanted to help. 

Listen to the story of Wholesale Market, get inspired by Dr. Joyce's personal testimony and learn more about the Adventist health message and what it meant for Joyce and her partner Mercy to be health advocates during a global crisis. 

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Rob Bertholf has worked as a marketer and SEO expert for many years, helping Silicon Valley companies make dozens of millions of dollars. He can easily break down complicated and technical procedures and make them easy for amateurs & beginners to understand. In this episode, Rob shares to what SEO (search engine optimization) is, why it's important, and how we can rank all the way at the top of the first page of Google. It's not an easy or quick matter, but a solid foundation on this topic helps us to estimate how we can use search engines & rankings to showcase our businesses and win people to Christ.

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Jared Thurmon pastors the Adairsville Seventh-day Adventist Church in Georgia. Chris Matts is an online marketer, passionate about reaching souls. When these two got together, they started ideating, brainstorming and dreaming about a new concept of evangelism. How can we share the powerful story of the Great Controversy with a secular audience? How can we use the power of online marketing to reach individuals who might never step a foot into a church? 

They ended up publishing  a 10-part series called Love & War. And it went viral. Millions of views, thousands of Bible studies, baptisms and so much more. Today, they're sharing how they did it. They're also sharing why they did it. 

As missional entrepreneurs, we face the same challenge they faced. How do we reach our customers with the good news? How do we share the Great Controversy with our clients? How do we tell them about God's incredible love?

Watch the 10-part series here.

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Daniel Bruneau, PhD is the co-founder of Experience Foundry, an experience design and innovation studio based in Atlanta, Georgia. Before starting his own business, he worked for numerous billion-dollar companies, such as AT&T, Delta Airlines and Yahoo. 

During this episode, Daniel answers the following questions:

• What is Design Thinking and why is it important for our missional business?
• What role is human behavior playing in this process?
• How do we better understand human behavior?
• How does this "design thinking" process practically look like?
• What do I need to focus on when I am starting my missional business?
• How do I ideate and think about new ideas?
• Do I need to be intelligent to be innovative and creative?

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PS: You're not sure about that title? Daniel Bruneau makes it clear towards the end of the episode... Do NOT stop brainstorming when you think you ran out of ideas. At that very moment, you will actually come up with the best ideas. 

Born in a ministerial family and saved from death by successive miracles until his third year of life, Marcos Bomfim started his pastoral ministry in 1986 as a district pastor in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Since October 2015, he has been the General Conference Stewardship Ministries director, following his 16 years of work in the Stewardship and the Family Ministries departments at different institutional levels in the South-American Division. Currently a DMin candidate, his educational training includes a Bachelor in Theology, M.A. in Pastoral Theology, and a specialization in Family Therapy.

In this episode, Pastor Bomfim shares what the Bible has to say about stewardship. It is more than just giving X% of your income. Beyond that, he gives us practical and powerful reasons why we should change our paradigm and move towards a more systematic way of giving back to God. He calls that the "promise."

There are several resources that were mentioned during this episode.
1. Ellen White's book: Counsels on Stewardship, chapters 11 (p. 58-60) and 62-64 (p. 323-335)
2. Podcast episode (Spotify link): "Why and How I Became a Promisor" - The word "promise" stands for regular and systematic, or percentage-based offering.
3. Podcast episode (Spotify link): "Struggling to Trust - Why I Raised My Promise Percentage"  - Why Marcos Bomfim decreased his regular offering percentage, and how God mercifully and patiently led him and his wife to increase it again.

Additional podcast episodes by Pastor Marcos Bomfim & other presenters:

• The “Promise” Concept
• What is a Steward and Stewardship?
• Nurture and Heart Retention
• Sacrificing for God’s cause – Alberto R. Timm
• The doorknob of heaven: A fresh look at money and spirituality – Julian Archer
• Isaac: Relational Generosity and Material Prosperity
• Integrity and Finances in the Time of the End

Note: All links are external podcasts, uploaded on Spotify. 

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As missional entrepreneurs, we use our businesses not for selfish gain, but to win other people to Christ. In this episode, Jesse Zwiker illustrates how you can practically do that. The Spiritual Journey Canvas can be divided into two parts:

1. Finding common ground between your customer and your company 
2. Designing a "spiritual" customer journey

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In Matthew 5, Jesus told us to be meek. To walk the extra mile. To turn the other cheek. Yet He didn't call us to be a doormat. With this context in mind, negotiating as missional entrepreneurs seems like a difficult thing to do. How can we negotiate as Christians, not compromising on divine principles?

Geeta Chopra explains. She is a TV host, serial entrepreneur, real estate investor, landlord and top negotiator. There are some key elements we can include. By mirroring the last few words the other person speaks, we show empathy. By being silent and pausing long enough to let the other person talk, we show humility and respect. Labeling a high price or a pain point right at the beginning also sets a bench mark for the rest of the conversation. And there is one question you should always ask at the end if you're not quite happy with the way the negotiation went...

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To automate a transaction, email or service can help save you a lot of time and money. Lyndon Sweeney, CEO of Ark Digital Agency, explains the basics of automation and how we can integrate it into our missional business. 

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How do we solve conflict? Is there a good way how to deal with it? What can we do so it doesn't even occur?

Ron Price is the owner of Productive Outcomes, Inc. and helps others address difficult and challenging situations by providing successful and satisfying solutions. He has a Masters Degree in Counseling and speaks for startups, enterprises and churches around the country. In this episode of The Hyve Podcast, he gives us valuable tools how to prevent conflict before it happens:

1. Push the "pause button." When you're going to work but your day didn't start that well, take some time to push the pause button and relax for a few moments. Remember you're getting paid to deliver results. Don't take your bad mood into your work place!
2. Assume good intent (AGI). Very often, individuals hurt us without really wanting to do that. A simple statement and question like "That sounded like an attack. Did you really mean it this way...?" helps us discover the true intent behind the action — and usually, the other person did not mean it like this.

Furthermore, Ron Price shares powerful insights how we can deal with conflict once it occurs, and what we can do to become more productive at work.

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Get in touch with him: ron@ronprice.com

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Around 1900, the population of San Francisco  was doubling every few years. Tens of thousands of people came to the city - and Adventists were ready to help out. They established a network of restaurants, shops and treatment centers. They provided homes for orphans, gave jobs to unemployed people and shared the love of God with them. They were working for God full-time, in a self-sustainable way. They were missional entrepreneurs.

Ellen White referred to this work a few years later and called it a "beehive". She repeatedly said that we need to take this method and reproduce it in other cities. But unfortunately, we lost sight of it. Jesse Zwiker, founder of Hyve, explains why he started Hyve and how we can bring this beehive vision back to life.

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Researchers estimate that we make thousands of decisions every day. As entrepreneurs, we often have to make big decisions and decide quickly. Did you know that your brain — in order to save energy — plays tricks on you when you want to make a good decision? How do they look like, and how can we avoid them?

Listen to Steven Grabiner, founder of Percepta Coach. He explains how we can make better decisions, avoid biases and get rid of subtle prejudices that become stumbling blocks. 

To get in touch with Steven, visit his website: https://www.percepta.coach/
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In this episode of Brewing Thoughts, we explore Andrew Yang's talk about Universal Basic Income as a way to invest in people so they can in turn invest in their communities. This inspired the idea of being Missional Entrepreneurs; a faith community that invests in people who in turn invest in community.