The Multi $Million Mistake That Changed Everything

My Conversation with David Schmidt 🦋

Have you ever wondered what your business would look like if Jesus were the owner?

I’m thrilled to invite you to listen to my recent conversation with David Schmidt on the Redeeming Business Today podcast, where we dive deep into a question that transformed my entire approach to business: What will your God-honoring business be like when you’re gone?

For 40 years, I wore my “successful businessman” identity like a badge of honor.

But a trip to Central Asia changed everything. And it hit me like a ton of bricks. 😬

I visited entrepreneurs in a number of countries “that ended in STAN” and saw business owners living their faith through excellence.

Through the way they loved their people.

Through how they cared for employees, customers, and vendors.

I came back and sat down with my pastor and said words I never thought I’d say: “I have squandered 40 years in business, failing to live my faith.”

This was my butterfly moment. 🦋

On the podcast, David and I explore the critical question: If you’ve spent years building a business that honors God, why would you leave its future to chance?

We unpack my 7-step process for succession planning that ensures your business continues to have kingdom impact long after you’re gone:

1. Confront your fears about succession (I share my personal identity crisis)

2. Establish your succession planning team (and who should NOT be on it)

3. Define your impact that makes your business worth continuing

4. Define your niche in the marketplace

5. Develop leaders on your team (it often takes TWO people to replace a founder)

6. Pass the baton at maximum speed

7. Finish well (the question that changed everything for me)

The truth is, your business should outlast you.

The secret: The results that matter most come when you plan for your business to have impact long after you’re gone.

David’s podcast explores exactly how God would do business and how we should run our businesses in response. 

As a former pastor, engineer, business coach, and father of nine children, he analyzes business to find the root causes of success and simplifies it so anyone can understand.

So ask yourself…

Are you building something temporary or eternal? Something that dies with you or lives beyond you?

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE EPISODE

Harry T. Jones