How can you care for the physical, emotional, and spiritual needs of your team, their families, your clients, your vendor suppliers, and your local and global community?

In this episode, Jeff and Brandon discuss:

• God’s bigger plan for generous business owners.
• The six domains of flourishing.
• The power of doubling down and not giving in to everything.
• Creating a focus card with your personal mission statement and revisiting it.

Key Takeaways:

• Bring your team and their families with you on the mission-minded values of your business. If everyone understands the reason why they’re working, it can change lives.
• Everyone in your community can be brought in and invited to participate in having a greater impact through the work God is doing and the people you’re serving.
• Your only role is to be faithful, to trust God, to do what is right, and then lay all the results and the outcomes back in His hands.
• Love people better. That is the key to being a more philanthropic leader.

"We are creating generational influence by sharing these stories and inviting our people into the work that God's doing through the companies that we get to serve." — Brandon West

Episode References:

• Rick Warren’s The Purpose Driven Life: https://www.purposedriven.com/
• Flourishing Framework: https://phoscreative.com/flourishing-framework/
• Gino Wickman’s Traction & EOS: https://www.eosworldwide.com/traction-library
• Compassion International: https://www.compassion.com/
• Randy Alcorn’s Heaven: https://store.epm.org/product/heaven
• Donate to The SAFE Global Fund

About Brandon West: Brandon West founded PHOS Creative at the age of 26 out of his home office. A strategy-first digital marketing agency headquartered in Florida, PHOS’s growth and culture have been highlighted in the Inc. 5000, Gator100, Florida Trend Magazine, and the Best Christian Workplaces Institute.

Author of It Is Not Your Business to Succeed and one of the University of Florida's 40 Gators Under 40, Brandon has shared his insights on over eighty stages, addressing topics such as purpose-driven leadership, people-first culture, business as a ministry, authentic branding, and inbound marketing.

Connect with Brandon West:

Website: https://phoscreative.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandonmichaelwest/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PHOScreative/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/phoscreative

Book: It Is Not Your Business to Succeed

Connect with Jeff Thomas:

Website: https://www.arkosglobal.com/

Podcast: https://www.generousbusinessowner.com/

Book: https://www.arkosglobal.com/trading-up

Email: jeff.thomas@arkosglobal.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArkosGlobalAdv

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/arkosglobal/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/arkosglobaladvisors

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arkosglobaladvisors/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLUYpPwkHH7JrP6PrbHeBxw

Do you have people whom you can lean on for accountability, encouragement, and exhortation?

In this episode, Jeff and Dougal discuss:

• Going all in on spiritual formation in life’s transitions.
• How Christ can heal the wounds of our past and use them to lift others.
• Three life habits: Model, Mentor, Message.
• Avoiding isolation.

Key Takeaways:

• Advice to high school seniors: When you go off to college, step it up big time. Not only will it be good for you and your relationship with the Lord, but it will be good for your grades, too.
• Spiritual formation, disciple making, and Bible studies can bring you more success in areas that are not obviously related.
• Not all men in prison are bad people. Many made stupid decisions and don’t want to continue making those decisions. Many are enthusiastic about life and are redeemed.
• A peer group, built on trust and accountability, can help you craft and understand your life’s calling and purpose.

"Do not get isolated. You must have accountability. You've got to have eyeball to eyeball accountability with other men." — Dougal Cameron

Episode References:

• Prison Entrepreneurship Program: https://www.pep.org/
• Halftime: https://halftime.org/

About Dougal Cameron: Dougal A. Cameron is President of Cameron Management. Dougal began his career as an accountant with Arthur Young & Company (now, Ernst & Young). He was an asset and project manager with Gerald D. Hines from 1985 to 1991, where he was responsible for Central Business District Class A assets, including Bank of America Center, JP Morgan Chase Tower, Pennzoil Place, and One and Two Shell Plazas. From 1991 to 1994, Dougal was an owner and principal of a local money management firm. He purchased his first building, 3000 Richmond Avenue, in 1995 when he formed Cameron Management.

Since then, Cameron Management has owned and managed buildings in Houston and San Antonio in both single ownership and joint venture partnerships.

Dougal built a firm that owns, finances, leases, and manages all of its office buildings in an integrated fashion. He enjoys mentoring young entrepreneurs and encouraging others through service in both non-profit and Christian ministry organizations. Cameron Management’s Vision is to honor God and serve people. Its Mission is to be the standard of excellence in serving its tenants with rigor. Its Values are based on integrity, teamwork, and freedom. Cameron Management is 100% owned by its employees.

Connect with Dougal Cameron:

Website: https://cameronmanagement.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dougal-cameron-243875/

Connect with Jeff Thomas:

Website: https://www.arkosglobal.com/

Podcast: https://www.generousbusinessowner.com/

Book: https://www.arkosglobal.com/trading-up

Email: jeff.thomas@arkosglobal.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArkosGlobalAdv

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/arkosglobal/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/arkosglobaladvisors

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arkosglobaladvisors/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLUYpPwkHH7JrP6PrbHeBxw

What is my role as a steward, both at home and at work?

In this episode, Jeff and Jeff discuss:

• Including your spouse in the big decisions of life.
• Serving the King of all with all our resources.
• Evolution of generous giving.
• Seeing God at work in the Middle East.

Key Takeaways:

• God will give the things that are best for us, not necessarily the things we think we want or need.
• Invite people into stewardship with you. Together, people will make a greater impact than if any one person were going at it alone.
• Don’t be ashamed of your giving or your beliefs. Even if you don’t lead with who you are, people will discover.
• Understand the purpose of what you’re doing. Every business and every action has a reason. What is it?

"That's one of the beautiful things about GROVE, is because of all these relationships, and we tell each other the stories, we get to see what God's doing to a degree that most people wouldn't get that perspective." — Jeff Latture

About Jeff Latture: Jeff Latture serves as Executive Vice President of Barnhart Crane & Rigging and has been a team member since 1997. He has participated in leading the commercial development of the company through strategic thinking and business development. He is also a key leader in the GROVE Group, which implements the purpose of Barnhart as a Kingdom generosity engine. Jeff and his wife are committed to world evangelism through strategic grantmaking. Through the GROVE process, Jeff leads the development of their investments in the Middle East and North Africa, which relies on The Strategic Resource Group (SRG) as a primary funding tool. Jeff serves as Chairman of the SRG Board.

Connect with Jeff Latture:

Website: https://www.barnhartcrane.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-latture-ba7351146/

Connect with Jeff Thomas:

Website: https://www.arkosglobal.com/

Podcast: https://www.generousbusinessowner.com/

Book: https://www.arkosglobal.com/trading-up

Email: jeff.thomas@arkosglobal.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArkosGlobalAdv

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/arkosglobal/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/arkosglobaladvisors

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arkosglobaladvisors/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLUYpPwkHH7JrP6PrbHeBxw