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Harold DeVries - Director of the Innovation Centre at Redeemer University - shares his faith and how it guides his work including coming from a “reformed tradition”; discovering a practical aspect of faith at twenty-one years old; the freedom to bring his faith to his work; Holy Spirit working through us in job interviews; God as the author and finisher of our lives; the impact of Psalm 73:23; his shoulder rubbing version of Isaac finding a wife; how God used his desire to start his own business to prepare him to teach others; the impact of the Good Samaritan; the etymology of the word entrepreneur; Christ-centered entrepreneurship; determining the reason for your entrepreneurial idea; the trampoline lesson; the importance of starting; redemptive entrepreneurship; his passion and peace found in playing French horn and other instruments; and much more!

https://www.redeemer.ca/academics/innovation-centre/

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Dr. Julie Pelletier - Therabear creator/ Child Mindset Coach Founder - Only Goodness, LLC/ Clinical Child Psychologist - shares her testimony and inspiring work including growing up Catholic and leaning on her faith in difficult times; having a son with added needs and the disappointment of the Christian school not admitting him; thinking you know or understand something until you actually live it; the need to be patient in love; the value of sensory rooms; the importance of understanding children with added needs; rock star dreams dashed; how the idea of Therabear was born; how the pandemic made the idea more necessary than ever; having to learn the business side of the idea; the desire for funding to create more customizable versions of Therabear; the emotional reaction that comes from receiving impact testimonies; finding peace in birdwatching; and much more!

https://therabear.net/

Instagram: therabear2022

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Laurie Hammer - Nutritional Therapist and Founder of the Calm Mom Academy / Host of the Take Back My Brain podcast - takes us on a journey of faith, overcoming, and calling including growing up in church but moving away from faith as her eating disorder became more pronounced; experiencing the Holy Spirit in a Baptist church as a nanny; not qualifying for eating disorder programs; how a program in California helped her through amino acid therapy; dealing with “what remained”; focusing on psychology in college; why amino acids are critical to our health; becoming an entrepreneur; the calm mom method; hearing the Holy Spirit better with a clear mind; amino acid and perimenopause; the agenda of traditional healthcare; the book of Ephesians; how her work has deepened her faith; and much more!

https://www.lauriehammer.com/

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Michael Wozniak - leadership coach/ business strategist/author/former executive with PepsiCo and the NBA - takes us on his journey of faith and work including growing up in a catholic home where faith was personal; an alcoholic father and the subconscious push to athletics; an exchange of performance for authenticity; his older brother becoming his “dad”; the idea of God owing us something; finding identity in Christ; “be, do, have”; the distraction of comparison; getting into sports marketing in Japan through God’s no; helping establish the NBA’s Japan market; the challenges of the Japanese business culture; his book “Employee Drift”; building covenants with your people; the childlike lesson of getting watermelon from red pepper seeds; shifting leadership dynamics to trust; seeing work as worship; and much, much more!

https://michaelwozniak.net/

tinyurl.com/EmployeeDriftBook

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Tia Henderson - HR Leader specializing in Employee Relations, Talent Management, Regulatory Compliance, Process Optimization, Career Development, and Mentorship - shares her story and her faith including knowing God but not following; a career transition and breakdown that brought her closer to Jesus; diving into scripture and devotionals; having an attitude of "take it or leave it" as protection; the scary act of dismantling the walls that she built up to expose a vulnerability; how she became an empath; her gift of discernment; the pivotal moment of a Meetup (app) gathering about anxiety and PTSD; how her own recovery affords her the knowledge to help others in the workplace; how her own experience with a workplace Leave of Absence brought her to her HR career; bringing others encouragement while going through a difficult season; how to express her faith in HR; and much more!

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Michael Hall - Founder & CEO of Hold The Reins, and former Navy Seal - shares his impactful intersection of faith and work including growing up Catholic and then leaving the Catholic Church as a teen; diving into scripture at a Southern Baptist church; reconnecting with his biological father; joining the Navy and fighting a “holy war”; digging through trauma compartmentalization; forgiving himself; how the military culture impacts behavior and mindsets; vulnerability hangover; “me and Jesus were bar buddies”; making peace with death; the role of disconnection in training; equine therapy’s role in connection; how a co-workers suicide and the COVID pandemic were a catalyst for Hold The Reins; how horses allow for vulnerability, breaking down walls, and self-discovery; “Through the threshold of that door, awaits the horse and the Holy Spirit.”; and so much more!

https://www.holdthereins.org/

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James Zeigler - CEO at BEHOLD! Professional Coaching/Author/Speaker - shares his practical faith/work encouragement and advice and his testimony including sexual abuse his mother experienced in the church; attempting to keep God at a distance and play rock n’ roll; the impact of a Christian “tract”; the power of obedience; the bully within is your strength; having a verbal agreement with your “bully”; equating medical and spiritual; a supernatural medical encounter in Las Vegas; capital T Truth; the importance of sabbatical; a “presence pause” incorporating SCAN 2 WIN; writing worship music; writing his book in a way that simulates stress; and much more!

https://www.behold1.com/

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Dawn Sipley - President, Sipley the Best (HR Consulting & Recruitment) - invites us into her powerful faith story and meaningful work including being born to two unwed teenagers; in and out of church growing up; the challenges of having an alcoholic mother; becoming emancipated from her mother at 16; going from working in a car lube business to managing rental properties for a jailed father to a career in Human Resources; how your upbringing informs what kind of employee you’re likely to be; what it means to be parentified; hiding her upbringing from professional peers; realizing her work accomplishments were an idol; spending her life proving that she was enough; finding herself in Boardrooms unaware of proper etiquette; having difficult conversations with empathy; the power of a water fast; teaching people how they can legally express their faith in the workplace; working on her book; her big, sentimental goal for this year; and a lot more!

https://www.sipleythebest.com/

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