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“If you have a team, they need to know you care—that’s love.”

What if the missing edge in your business isn’t more tactics—but more heart?
On today’s episode of Doing Business with a Servant’s Heart, Steve Ramona sits down with Mark, a longtime entrepreneur who blends Sufi spiritual wisdom with business practice. Their conversation begins with the quirky origin of “Heart of Business” (including a story about an erotic photographer and a name change!), then gently opens into deeper territory—how do we bring love, authenticity, and vulnerability into the hard-nosed world of commerce?

Mark and Steve talk about how love isn’t a weakness—it’s the differentiator in trust, loyalty, and lasting impact. They share stories of radical employee care (letting someone pause work to grieve, and then seeing productivity return quickly), authenticity in leadership (showing emotion in front of your team), and the challenge of letting go of a former identity (Mark once worked as a paramedic). You’ll hear how being a father reshaped Mark’s leadership style, how punk rock taught him to challenge rules and create from scratch, and how the “soft” inner work actually supports sustainable growth.

If you’ve ever felt tension between your values and your business, or worried that bringing your full self to work might hurt your bottom line—this conversation is your permission slip. Let’s start today: How will you serve? What impact will you make?

P.S. If you’re resonating with this heart-forward business approach, I’d love you to download Mark’s book Heart‑Centered Business as your next step into aligning purpose and profit.

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“Being malleable in God’s hands allows the masterpiece to emerge, even through impurity or pressure.”

Have you ever faced something so overwhelming you wondered if you’d ever return to “normal”? In today’s episode, Steve Ramona sits down with Dr. Janet Palmer, whose journey through cancer became the catalyst for a mission: guiding others into the purpose God created them for.

From the moment of diagnosis to her decision to pole‑dance in the infusion center—bringing laughter and light into the darkest room—Dr. Janet invites us into how she shifted her mindset from victim to vessel. Her story shows us that adversity doesn’t have to define us, it can refine us.

You’ll hear how she coaches clients to find and live their divine purpose, even when life says “no.” She walks us through what it means to be malleable in God’s hands, to serve first in business, and to let our “fragrance” leave a lasting impact. By the end, you’ll be asking: How will I serve today? How will I make my mark in someone’s life?

P.S. — Somewhere in your listening, God is nudging you to lean into purpose over pain. Will you say yes?

Guest Bio

Dr. Janet Palmer is a spiritual coach, mindset strategist, and survivor whose life test became her testimony. Once diagnosed with aggressive cancer, she chose to dance—in the infusion center, in heart and mind—and now serves as a “Human GPS Navigator,” helping people discover their divine purpose and walk into destiny. Rooted in faith, deeply compassionate, and unflinchingly bold, Janet’s mission is to empower others to live full, fragrant lives.

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What if your body is trying to talk to you — through fatigue, brain fog, skin, even hair — and you’ve been missing the language?

In this episode, Barton draws us into the moment when his mother’s health began to slip and how that crisis ignited his mission. From growing up in the Louisiana wilderness to pursuing chemical engineering, he found himself wrestling — literally and metaphorically — with hidden nutritional deficiencies that no standard lab test would reveal.

We journey together as Barton describes getting “confused, figuratively and literally,” despite fitness and academic success. He paints the pivotal moment when a hair analysis revealed what blood tests could not. That insight became the launchpoint for his wellness company, where he now helps people decode their biology — sometimes even for bald listeners using underarm or pubic hair samples — and empowers doctors and nutritionists to bring nutrient intelligence into their practices.

You’ll hear how symptoms can become allies, why “medication isn’t magic,” and how client recommendations sometimes go beyond his own products because serving must come before selling. Barton even teases upcoming clinical trials, he discusses bridging to functional medicine, and shares his philosophy: every human being deserves to live the life they were meant for — full of energy, clarity, and impact.

This conversation is for every entrepreneur, every patient, every practitioner who longs to do business with a servant’s heart and transform health from the inside out.

P.S. If you’ve ever wondered whether your fatigue, mood, or hair tell a deeper story — you’ll want to check out Barton’s hair analysis protocol and step into a more vibrant version of yourself.

Guest Bio

Barton is a bio‑investigator and entrepreneur on a mission to restore health from the cellular level. After earning a degree in chemical engineering, he faced a surprising truth: despite outward fitness, lingering deficiencies and brain fog haunted him and his family. When his mother’s vitality slipped, he turned to a radical tool — hair analysis — to uncover invisible nutrient insufficiencies. Today Barton co‑leads a supplement and diagnostics company that helps people and clinicians uncover hidden imbalances, craft personalized protocols, and reclaim energy, mental clarity, and purpose. He speaks, teaches, and coaches practitioners to bring this science into real lives.

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