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The Kingdom Investor

The Kingdom Investor

Daniel White

Imagine taking your generosity to the next level, impacting more lives, and leaving a godly legacy for generations to come! Get ideas and strategies to do just that when you listen to these personal stories from high-level kingdom champions. The Kingdom Investor Podcast showcases business leaders who have moved from success to significance. Sharing how they use worldly wealth for Kingdom impact. Discover how they grew in generosity, impacted more lives, and built godly legacies. You’ll find motivation, inspiration, and practical steps to grow as a kingdom Investor
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The Kingdom Investor - 21 - What’s Your Giving Game Plan? | Steve Kaloper
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10/25/22 • 44 min

Countless people want to give generously to causes and non-profit organizations locally and internationally but they just don’t know where to look or how to start. Sometimes, the lack of knowledge and indecision leads to unpleasant giving experiences, hesitation to give, or inability to give at all. It is therefore important for individuals, couples, families, or organizations to have a giving plan to causes and nonprofits that speak to their hearts and minds and that reflect their values and interests.

Our guest, Steve Kaloper of DoingGoodBetter, joins us today to shed some light on some issues and challenges about wealth and asset stewardship, and philanthropy. He maintains that having a giving plan is just as crucial as having a business plan for corporate and financial pursuits. If you‘re one of those people afflicted by analysis paralysis in charitable giving or if you just want to be a smarter and more strategic giver who wants to understand how your contribution makes a difference, this episode is for you. Click now and start listening.

Key Points From This Episode:

  • Steve shares his personal and family background.
  • Steve opens up about his personal mission work and shares his life's mission purpose statement.
  • Steve’s early career and early involvement in mission work.
  • Why it is important to have a family conversation about wealth and assets as well as about stewardship and giving.
  • What has been the pivotal moment that God used to change Steve’s heart about stewardship, giving, and dedicating his life to mission work?
  • What has been the most surprising thing that Steve has learned in his kingdom-centric journey?
  • How does Steve help individuals, couples, and families in identifying and crafting their giving plan?
  • What does Steve think is the biggest barrier to unlocking that kingdom capital?
  • Steve talks about DoingGoodBetter, the giving foundation he started with his wife Shannon.
  • Steve answers the lightning-round questions.

Tweetables:

"I love being able to get people together. I feel that that's what God's given me as a calling.”

“There’s an unbelievable hunger for men to figure out how to do life with their spouse and to have their wife involved in doing good and stewardship.”

“The conversation is going to take place about wealth and assets. It just depends if it's going to take place over the coffin or on the kitchen table. It's up to us to decide.”

“Recognizing that we have just been given a talent, and we should put it to good use. Recognizing that our talent is 100% God's, our resources are 100% God's and that the time that we've been blessed with is God's timing and it can be taken away at any second. And so, maximize it. That to me is the trigger, so unleash it.”

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Doing Good Better

Email Steve Kaloper

About Steve Kaloper

As founder and CEO of DoingGoodBetter & Development Services Group, Steve partners with non-profit organizations both domestically and internationally. He also serves high-capacity families with an investment banking model for philanthropy. Steve has over 20 years of experience in marketing, developing strategic relationships in the private, public and non-profit sectors having served over 600 organizations and families globally. In 2010, Steve and Shannon started their giving fund, The DoingGoodBetter Foundation. In 2015, he authored his first book, “The Journey Into DoingGoodBetter!” As Co-Founder and CEO of the Kingdom Capital Group, Steve developed the concept of Impact Philanthropy, a results-oriented approach to giving—and a key aspect of the New Wave of Philanthropy.

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Mission work needs funds in order to bring the Gospel to regions of the world where Jesus’ name isn't widely known. But what could be a source of funding that is sustainable and makes a stronger impact on the communities we are trying to reach? What if we use business ventures so that local business proprietors, communities, mission workers, customers, and everyone linked to the business can know the love of Jesus?

That’s what our guests today, Brandon and Jessica Hotz of Elevate and Activate Global, are doing - using kingdom business and its funding model to spread the Gospel. By helping start small businesses in developing countries, they are able to reach impoverished, hard-to-reach communities, teaching skills and providing meaningful jobs and steady sources of income to people in need — all while doing mission activities and sharing the word of God. Listen now and get to know how Jessica’s and Brandon’s unique business ministries are helping improve communities, building meaningful relationships, and addressing social and economic needs along with spiritual needs.

Key Points From This Episode:

  • Brandon and Jessica share their personal background and how they started their mission project.
  • The pivotal moments in Brandon and Jessica’s lives that put them on the trajectory to their mission
  • How Brandon and Jessica met and what led them to take their first mission trip
  • The springboard that launched their first nonprofit
  • How the first business was started and how they’ve since helped over 300 families start small businesses to support their ministries and their families across 20 countries.
  • What is Kingdom Business Training and why Brandon and Jessica designed a curriculum to help others replicate their kingdom business model and kingdom-building ministry?
  • Jessica shares the process and criteria for selecting partners
  • What is the most surprising thing that Jessica and Brandon learned along their journey?
  • Brandon and Jessica talk about the global church and what mission organizations and leaders are pursuing to complete the Great Commission.
  • The top challenges to finishing the Great Commission in this generation
  • Brandon’s and Jessica’s advice on how to get involved in Kingdom mission and be better stewards of God’s gifts and resources
  • Brandon and Jessica share the vision that God has given them and how they’re accomplishing that vision.

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Click to Find out more about our upcoming event: "Crafting Your Kingdom Investing Thesis"

Elevate

Activate Global

About Jessica and Brandon Hotz

In their early 20s, Brandon and Jessica Hotz started a leather goods company called Elevate to help solve the problem of sustainably funding ministries in unreached countries. Out of that successful business, they started a nonprofit organization, Activate Global, to train and equip mission leaders in over 20 countries. Through these leaders, they have started 312 businesses to fuel ministries in some of the hardest-to-reach areas in the world. When Brandon and Jessica aren't traveling the world, they find their home base in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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When it comes to being part of a group or an organization, accountability is one of the most desired traits that a member should possess. Whether you like it or not, your boss, your colleagues, your partner, your team members, and your community expect accountability as well as the responsibility from you as you fulfill your role to achieve your common goal. The same is true when you’re trying to attain your personal goals. But, it is hard to be accountable to yourself when you are alone in your journey, right?

Stuart Grazier and David Gutierrez of Storehouse Mastermind and Storehouse 3:10 Ventures, join us today to talk about helping others find, define, and live their “why” through a process of accountability that works. They help men find their highest and best through deep conversations of faith, giving, family, service, leadership, including entrepreneurship, financial literacy, real estate, and business. Listen now and learn how with partners and mentors, men can honor accountability in pursuit of an abundant life imbued by faith, family, service, and financial freedom.

Key Points From This Episode:

  • Stuart and David share their respective personal and family backgrounds.
  • How David and Stuart’s decades-long friendship translated into business partnerships.
  • Why they started investing in real estate while still on active duty in the navy
  • What’s David‘s horrible real estate investing experience that forced them to start their own business and drove them to create a better experience for their network?
  • Why they built a business model centered around core values and serving God’s purpose and mission
  • What were Stuart’s and David’s formative experiences that predisposed them to generosity and giving?
  • David and Stuart share personal stories of generosity and their chosen charitable organizations to give to.
  • How and why David and Stuart started the Storehouse Mastermind group
  • How the mastermind group helps members in various areas of life to become better husbands, better fathers, and better leaders
  • David talks about Storehouse 3:10 Ventures
  • What’s David’s and Stuart’s vision for the Storehouse mastermind group and business ventures?
  • David’s and Stuart’s advice on concrete steps that one can take to grow in generosity, in business, in pursuing God's kingdom

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Click to Find out more about our upcoming event: "Crafting Your Kingdom Investing Thesis"

Storehouse Mastermind

Storehouse 3:10 Ventures

Warriors Heart

Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth by T. Harv Eker

Gospel Patrons by John Rinehart

Giving Together by John Rinehart

The Go-Giver series by Bob Burg and John David Mann

The Wealthy Gardener by John Soforic

The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek

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Wouldn’t it be awesome if all of us would receive a roadmap from God for each of our lives? A blueprint that would tell us what His plan is for us and all we need to do is follow step by step. Alas, life and its turns always seem to leave us dazed, confused and unknowing of what to do next. But the truth is, God knows what He wants for us and he is guiding us and planting seeds in our hearts if only we ask Him. God sees, hears, and answers our prayers. All we have to do is put Him in charge of our lives, even our businesses.

Proverbs 16:3 “Put God in charge of your work, then what you've planned will take place.” proclaims this truth and who better to manifest the beautiful meaning of this passage than our guests today - Ken and Rachael Wick. Partners in business and partners in life and both life-long educators, Ken and Rachael have experienced God’s hand at work in all aspects of their lives. Now focused full-time in real estate investing that creates a positive impact in the communities they support, the Wicks, putting God in charge of their business and life, always find ways to make things work for the greater glory of God’s kingdom. Listen now and be inspired to discern the Lord’s guidance for your path.

Key Points From This Episode:

  • Ken and Rachael share their personal background as educators and as real estate entrepreneurs.
  • The formative life experiences that shaped Ken’s and Rachael’s present station in life
  • How Ken and Rachael define success in their lives
  • How God revealed to Rachael the charitable mission that they need to undertake when they started to transition to multifamily syndication and consequently, their transition from success to significance
  • How their success in multifamily business corresponded with their increasing number of child sponsorships
  • Incidents that taught Ken and Rachael lessons to be prudent in business, always trust the Lord and always work for a win-win business deal for all parties involved
  • How going into the real estate business allowed Ken and Rachael to openly and freely talk about the Lord, share their faith and help other people as well
  • How Ken and Rachael, through their life of prayer, see God’s hand at work in their business, their charity, and life in general
  • Ken’s life-transforming experience that determined and decided his life path
  • How they utilize a donor-advised fund to have a system for giving
  • Ken’s and Rachael’s advice on how to grow in generosity
  • How Ken and Rachael invest their time, talents and treasure to further God’s kingdom and how they create a legacy for the next generation
  • Why mentoring others in the real estate path has become a passion for Rachael and Ken
  • Ken and Rachael answer the lightning-round questions

Tweetables:

“God formed us. He helped us understand how to trust Him with our money. And that evolved into, being able to say, we can sponsor six children. We have no idea but God does. God will show us the way.” - Rachael Wick

“We just follow God's steps, one by one. He doesn't show us the whole picture. You know, I still probably worry too much about what the next step is. But he's always faithful to show one step after another.” - Rachael Wick

“How did you get to the point you are at? By whose grace is the blessings you receive?” - Ken WIck

“I continue to ask myself why am I still here? I had a 4% chance of surviving. It must be something. I shouldn't be here but I am. There’s a reason.” - Ken WIck

“ If you think you're going to fail, if you think you're not significant, I would encourage you to remember that in the Bible, God uses the insignificant people among us to do great things for His kingdom.” - Ken Wick

“There are tons of ways to give back that don't involve money. I encourage you to talk to God and see what he puts in your heart and fol

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Do your employees, tenants, stakeholders, and customers experience what God’s generosity feels and looks like when they deal with your business? Or do they see deceit, greed, and dishonesty? As real estate business owners and entrepreneurs, we are presented with opportunities to apply faith-driven practices and to share kingdom-focused generosity. All we need to do is step up and step out.

Our conversation today with Margaret Hartman focuses on building and leading a business steered with faith-driven principles and imbued by radical generosity as lived out by her family and practiced by the Hartman Income REIT company. She details how the company strives to make lives better for its employees, tenants, stakeholders, and beneficiaries of their foundation while reaping the rewards in their business and living a life of fulfillment glorifying God. Listen to how you can cultivate radical generosity and tell the world about God’s ownership over what we have and what we manage. Take that first step by clicking the play button.

Key Points From This Episode:

  • Margaret’s personal background and information about Hartman Income REIT, the commercial real estate investment company founded by Margaret’s father, Al Hartman.
  • The historical background of the Hartman company and the story of its founder Al Hartman.
  • How the Hartman company weathered economic recessions including the Texas oil crisis in the past 40 years.
  • Margaret tells the story of her father encountering Jesus, making a profession of faith in Christ, surrendering and realigning his life, heart, and business to God and His Kingdom.
  • How the Hartman company practices biblical principles and generosity in running the business.
  • Ways the company established charitable programs designed to help its employees, its tenants, and other institutions.
  • How Al Hartman’s personal faith and life of prayer launched prayer initiatives in the company and permeated the company culture.
  • How the company practices radical generosity led by the Hartman family who lives simply with an emphasis on the value of giving.
  • Margaret’s advice on cultivating and strengthening the practice of radical generosity.
  • The factors that influenced and deepened Al Hartman’s faith and generosity.
  • How generosity enables us to make an impact on other people’s lives while building a legacy from generation to generation.
  • Margaret shares a framework for financial stewardship.
  • Margaret answers the lightning-round questions.

Tweetables:

“One of our core values is that we honor God in all that we do by operating a company in a manner consistent with biblical principles.“

“We just do anything we can to impact these tenants with the love of Christ.”

“His (Al Hartman) life is marked by radical generosity. Instead of tithing 10%, it's keeping 10% and tithing 90%.”

“We've had the opportunity to partner with what God is doing in the world.”

“For us as a family, we just see the value in giving versus receiving, and giving it away for the sake of something so great, to see someone's face when they hear the Gospel, hear the good news of Jesus Christ.”
About Margaret Hartman
Margaret Hartman is an associate at Hartman Income REIT, a real estate investment company founded by Al Hartman, that has grown from humble beginnings into a leader in commercial real estate throughout Texas with 200 employees and over $800 million in assets under management over the last 38 years. Margaret started her career in the CRE investment industry working for a Houston-based CRE investment fund doing acquisitions, dispositions, and asset management before joining the capital markets team at Hartman focusing on raising joint venture and fund equity and heading the investor relations department. The Hartman family lives in Houst

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The Kingdom Investor - 33 - Don’t Neglect Your Soul | Mindy Caliguire
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12/06/22 • 64 min

As business leaders, entrepreneurs, employees, and even ministry and church leaders, we all, at some point, reach a period of burnout, right? The relentless drive to pursue our duties and daily tasks sometimes lead us to a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion leaving us overwhelmed, emotionally drained, and unable to clearly see our goal and our vision. But as sons and daughters of God, aren’t we called to live a life of peace and serenity while pursuing productivity in doing God’s work? Why then do we feel burned out if what we’re doing is God’s mission for us?

We explore this topic today with our guest Mindy Caliguire of Soul Care. With the realities of burnout rearing its head among people in ministry, herself once included, Mindy sees the critical need to address the issue. She suggests methods of centering oneself to avoid falling into weariness and breakdown. She details ways and programs that her organization offers help to people who are finding themselves stuck and in need of change and restoration.

Key Points From This Episode:

  • An overview of Soul Care.
  • Mindy’s background and the pivotal moment that led her to found Soul Care.
  • How systemic the realities of burnout are for people in ministry and how this can be avoided.
  • Best practices to overcome burnout.
  • What changes has Mindy seen in people’s lives with the help they received from Soul Care?
  • Mindy’s advice on how to slow down and be still.
  • How our drivenness and busyness prevent us from hearing God.
  • Surprising lessons Mindy learned from her journey of needing soul care to providing soul care.
  • Ways that Mindy helps leaders through programs and Whisper Ranch.
  • Mindy answers the Mentor Minute Questions.

Links Mentioned:

Soul Care

Discovering Soul Care by Mindy Caliguire

Spiritual Friendship by Mindy Caliguire

Simplicity by Mindy Caliguire

STIR: Spiritual Transformation In Relationships by Mindy Caliguire

Download Free ebook: Write For Your Soul: The Hows and Whys of Journaling

Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God by Dallas Willard

Renovation of the Heart by Dallas Willard

The Great Omission by Dallas Willard

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The Kingdom Investor - 53 - The Redemptive Side of Investing | Derek Kessen
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03/03/23 • 57 min

How can an investment be a tool for social or spiritual good? Investing becomes redemptive when investment capital is directed toward companies or projects that align with the investor's values and contribute to social, spiritual, or environmental causes. Redemptive investing is not just to earn a financial return but also to create a positive impact on individuals and communities through socially and spiritually responsible business practices and investing strategies.

In this episode, we hear from Derek Kessen of Heron Ventures (formerly Legacy Ventures Partners), a redemptive company that provides debt and equity investments specializing in frontier and emerging markets. Derek talks about their philosophy of redemptive investing prioritizing the common good, and making a positive impact on the world while still generating returns. Derek offers insight into the challenges and opportunities of investing in redemptive business ventures, as well as the importance of intentionality and discipleship in investments. Click now and learn how they are working to reach their goal of creating jobs, and seeing economic and social flourishing.

Key Points From This Episode:

  • What’s one thing that Derek is passionate about right now?
  • Derek talks about his background, education, and his first job dealing with mortgage loans.
  • What made Derek quit his first job?
  • How Derek landed a job with the “good guys of finance”?
  • What is a redemptive company and how did Derek grow professionally and spiritually?
  • What made Derek leave the company after 13 years?
  • Derek discusses the consulting company they’ve established, its mission, and its goals.
  • What type of investments does the company make in businesses?
  • Derek shares stories that highlight the redemptive side of investing.
  • Derek tells his personal story with the redemptive business as a backdrop, how he has grown and changed as well as his journey of generosity.
  • What is the most important thing that Derek would want to be remembered for?
  • Derek answers the mentor-minute questions.

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Derek Kessen on LinkedIn

Authentic Lives: Overcoming the Problem of Hidden Identity in Outreach to Restrictive Nations by Thomas Hale

The Steward Investor by Don Simmons

The Kingdom Investor Podcast on LinkedIn

About Derek Kessen

Derek is the Managing Partner of Legacy Ventures Partners, a venture capital firm that invests in Small & Medium Enterprises ("SMEs") in frontier and emerging markets in Africa and Asia. He also provides consulting and entrepreneurship training as the Founder of OnCenter Consulting in Chicago and a Core Team member of B4T.org in South Africa.

Derek has volunteered for the Mizzou Alumni Association for 13 years as an officer of the alumni chapter board in Chicago. As the chapter President (2011-2013, 2017-2019), Derek established a scholarship endowment, which has now grown to over $40,000. In 2013, Derek received MAA's Graduate of the Last Decade (G.O.L.D.) Award following the transformation of the Chicago chapter’s digital platform.

Derek studied Finance at Mizzou and holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

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The Kingdom Investor - 35 - How Does the Gospel Transform Us? | Kaitlin White
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12/13/22 • 49 min

What is the significance of the gospel in our lives? Is the gospel alive in the moment by moment humdrum of an ordinary day? What does having a relationship with God even mean? Will the gospel really help us transform ourselves and our lives?

We dive deep into this topic in our episode today with our guest, Kaitlin White. Kaitlin bears witness to the transformation that came about in herself, her identity and her life when she began a relationship with God and put her full trust in the gospel. She also talks about the bible being the foundation of truth and the most supportive document of human history, hence, its trustworthiness. Click now to learn more about the transforming power of the gospel and be inspired!

Key Points From This Episode:

  • Kaitlin explains what the gospel is.
  • How has the gospel changed Kaitlin’s life?
  • How does the gospel transform our identity?
  • How does the gospel shift the things we put our trust into?
  • How do we know that God is faithful?
  • What are prophecies and how do they prove God's faithfulness?
  • Why is the bible the most supportive document in all of human history?
  • Why is the bible trustworthy and is the foundation of truth?
  • What does being in a relationship with Christ mean and how does one establish it?
  • What can people invest their lives in to reach as many people with the gospel and change eternity?
  • Kaitlin answers the mentor-minute questions.

Tweetables:

“There isn't true security outside of Jesus's promise to us.”

“We have to recognize our own state of not being able to fix ourselves. Because if we keep going on and on, like, we can do it by ourselves, then we don't need the Lord. We don't need a savior.”

“Practicing spiritual disciplines is the first step.”

“If you are spending 80 hours a week at your job, and not investing in your children, then you're wrong.”

“It’s up to you to make sure your children have godly parents.”

"It's not about me."

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Send an email to Kaitlin White

The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel

Women of the Word by Jen Wilkin

About Kaitlin White

Kaitlin is Kids Ministry Director at Center Point Church leading nursery, preschool, and elementary ministries. She loves discipling volunteers, parents, and young women and helping them take another step in their faith. Kaitlin is married to Daniel and they have a daughter and a son and currently expecting their third child.

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Imagine giving away half of your business profits to charity. Not content with that, you give up ownership of your company by transferring 99% of the shares into a charitable trust. That’s what Alan Barnhart did. “I want to be good in business, and I’m competitive but I wanted to make sure that if we were successful in business, it wouldn't hurt us spiritually.” So, he balanced business success and spiritual growth by giving it all to God, the true owner of the company.

Alan Barnhart joins us today to talk about his pursuit of business with a purpose and of being called by God to use his engineering and business skills to serve the kingdom. Having led Barnhart Crane & Rigging to definitive success for the past decades, Alan never lost sight of the lessons about money he learned from the Bible early on.

Key Points From This Episode:

  • What did Alan learn about money from the Bible?
  • As the business flourished, how did Alan and his brother/business partner put safeguards in their life so that they will not fall into the trappings of wealth and affluence?
  • What are the critical aspects of business that helped Alan grow the business steadily through the years?
  • Alan’s advice to business owners on how to incorporate and structure the giving component of their business.
  • What has been the impact of 37 years of giving for Alan, for the company, and for the beneficiaries?
  • Alan reflects on the question: Is it harder to give away money than to make money?

Tweetables:

“I wanted to make sure that if we were successful in business, it wouldn't hurt us spiritually.”

“If God chooses to prosper the business, we're going to see that as an opportunity to further the kingdom as opposed to further our lifestyle.”

“People say it’s a really bad strategy to jettison 50% of our profits but we give away 50% of our profits; we take the other 50% and use it to grow the business, and God has given us plenty.”

“It's essential to include God in the equation while investing in the business.”

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Barnhart Crane & Rigging

Kingdom Companies Group

The Grove

The Kingdom Investor Podcast on LinkedIn

About Alan Barnhart

Alan Barnhart is the CEO of Barnhart Crane & Rigging. He grew up working in the steel-erecting business his father founded in Memphis, Tennessee in 1969. During high school and college, Alan and his brother, Eric, worked summers as ironworkers and crane operators learning the business from the ground up. In college, Alan studied civil engineering, coursework that would serve him well after joining the business full-time in the early 1980s. Barnhart Crane & Rigging has grown to be one of the largest Heavy Lift and Heavy Transport organizations in the United States with more than 40 locations across the country and a nationwide reputation for solving problems.

Alan, Eric, and their families decided to give 100% of their highly successful business to charity to keep wealth from taking over their lives. About 50 percent of all company earnings are donated immediately to charity. The remaining 50 percent is used to grow the business. And in 2007, they gave the entire company to National Christian Foundation. Though they still run their daily operations, the brothers will never reap its accrued value; they kept none of it.

Alan and his wife, Katherine, have six children and reside in Tennessee.

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Given the choice between pursuing a high-paying career and taking on volunteer work post-college education, what would you choose? The choice may be obvious for the majority of us. But for someone who sees the world differently, throwing oneself into volunteerism offers a unique opportunity that only those who seek godly rewards will pursue.

In the first episode of our 2-part interview with David Burton, we explore the subject of volunteering in pursuit of God’s kingdom. David brings a unique perspective to the intersection of faith and work as he has built a career as a volunteer in campus ministries for most of his life while engaging in the real estate business. Listen now and learn how a self-described “professional volunteer” who refuses to keep up with the Joneses navigated a society that puts a premium on wealth building.

Key Points From This Episode:

  • David shares snippets of his personal and family life.
  • Why David chose to work in campus ministry right out of college
  • How David branched out to real estate investing
  • Why David and his wife chose to continue volunteering full-time in campus ministry even while their real estate investments expanded to commercial real estate and restaurants.
  • David describes his and his wife’s work week and how they balance their time between business and volunteer work.
  • David’s advice on how not to grow weary of everyday mundane tasks of volunteering
  • How David got his first real estate deal despite having only a modest income from ministry work to start with.
  • How David scaled his real estate investments and expanded to other business ventures.
  • What’s the one failure in investing and business that taught David a costly lesson?
  • Key factors that changed the trajectory of David’s faith walk that led him to volunteer work and investing in God's kingdom.
  • David’s observation on how society and commercialism gear us toward discontentment with what we have and why it is crucial to be exposed to life’s realities.

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Click to Find out more about our upcoming event: "Crafting Your Kingdom Investing Thesis"

Campus Crusade for Christ

Burton Property

About David Burton

David is the owner of Burton Properties LLC for 28 years along with being a partner in several other LLCs in the Kentucky area. Born and raised in Roanoke, Virginia, he received his degree from Virginia Tech. David is a business owner and a real estate investor with a heart for ministry, with one foot in the ministry world and the other in the business world. Aside from Burton Properties, he owns restaurants and a few other business ventures.

David is married to Mary Beth for 38 years and together they have three children and four grandchildren.

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How many episodes does The Kingdom Investor have?

The Kingdom Investor currently has 87 episodes available.

What topics does The Kingdom Investor cover?

The podcast is about Non-Profit, Christianity, Legacy, Real Estate, Investor, Investing, Impact, Religion & Spirituality, Podcasts, Missions and Business.

What is the most popular episode on The Kingdom Investor?

The episode title '32 - Building and Leading A Mission-Oriented Office | Dr. Richard Baxter' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on The Kingdom Investor?

The average episode length on The Kingdom Investor is 47 minutes.

How often are episodes of The Kingdom Investor released?

Episodes of The Kingdom Investor are typically released every 3 days, 21 hours.

When was the first episode of The Kingdom Investor?

The first episode of The Kingdom Investor was released on Aug 18, 2022.

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