After a decade running Acumen, Dan Cooper took a full month off, no email, no meetings, no contact with his team. In this episode, he sits down with David Ellis to unpack what he learned about rest, trust, identity, and leadership once the business was stripped away for thirty days, including what his team did with the authority he left behind.

In this episode of The Sharpen Podcast, host Steve Van Diest sits down with Steve Donnigan, founder of A65 Consulting and a fellow member of the Acumen community, to talk about the eight-year journey of building a boutique contract engineering firm that helps medical device companies bring life-changing products to market.

Together, they look back on the calculated leap out of a stable engineering job, the brutal test of losing major clients and income during 2020, and the slow, ongoing work of learning to trust God and trust a team rather than trying to do everything alone.

Connect with Steve on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevedonnigan/

Learn more about A65 Consulting: https://a65consulting.com/

Learn more about Acumen and Peer Advisory Teams: https://go.acumenimpact.com/why-acumen

Blake Moroney built a lifestyle business spanning landscaping, a national car dealership, and real estate — all run as divisions of one company, alongside his wife and business partner, Paige.

In this episode, Blake shares how two personal tragedies reshaped his definition of "enough," why he walked away from his longest-running business, and why he's now focused on acquiring local, family-owned Kansas City businesses instead of chasing the biggest exit.