Gospel Driven

Tammy Weisweaver is the founder of B Present Studio, a Barre Fitness Studio in Granger, Indiana. B Present is made up of wellness experts who know and understand what a woman’s body needs for complete and total wellness. Find us online at gospeldrivenentrepreneur.com | Email us at pj@gospeldrivenentrepreneur.com

In this episode, P.J. shares what's going on with Gospel Driven Entrepreneur for the next week and a half. April 6-18.

Bryan Smith was born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma and is the owner of one of the nation's top producing insurance agencies. Bryan is the owner and CEO of Smith Insurance and Financial Services. Bryan is an award winning entrepreneur and an Amazon Best Selling Author.  Brian is married to his wife Anna and they have three children. Find us online at gospeldrivenentrepreneur.com | Email us at pj@gospeldrivenentrepreneur.com

Nate Smoyer is product manager for BeaconAds.com and manager of new products at Faithlife, a Christian media company. He’s a self-proclaimed specialist in generalizing. He’s highly skilled in outreach marketing, social media advertising, negotiating, and giveaway promotions. Outside of work you can find him sitting at the local coffee shop reading or at the skatepark riding BMX.

Bob is 49 years old and owns Desktop Consulting Inc. His wife manages the business with him, and they both live in the mountains of Colorado. Find us online at gospeldrivenentrepreneur.com

Evan Uyetake is the president of Trost Marketing, the director of operations for the Young Businessmen of Tulsa and owner of Utalkie Innovation. He is a walking example of working your way to the top. A graduate of the University of Tulsa, he used his experience in sales and street smarts to grow from a “cold-calling” salesperson to CEO and entrepreneur in less than 8 years. He has created marketing campaigns for brands like DISH Network, DIRECTV, Hughes Communications, Exede Satellite, Vivint, CenturyLink, and more. In 2013, he assumed the role of president at Trost Marketing and is focused on growing to serve a larger customer base. Find us online at gospeldrivenentrepreneur.com | Email us at pj@gospeldrivenentrepreneur.com

Mark is a driven real estate executive passionate about helping people “live a big life.” He is known for his relational and motivational leadership style and for challenging his team to grow and pursue excellence. He is a second generation real estate agent and entrepreneur. His firm, Mark Spain Real Estate, has grown to over 100 employees and sales of $282 million consistently ranking them as the #1 Real Estate Team by the Atlanta Board of Realtors for over 11 years. Mark is a sought after communicator and keynote speaker and believes in investing deeply in community-focused nonprofit organizations. Mark is a charter member and serves on the board of directors and executive committee of the Forsyth County Family YMCA. Mark is an Atlanta native and graduate of the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business.  Find us online at gospeldrivenentrepreneur.com | Email us at pj@gospeldrivenentrepreneur.com

Mike Sukraw is the CEO and Executive Producer at Reliant Studios. He started Reliant ten years ago while still in college at the University of Nebraska where he won several student awards for film and production. Through the years, Mike has built a team that is passionate about storytelling and using their skills to make a difference in the world. Mike has also worked with his team to launch Nonprofit Film School - a comprehensive online school designed to help nonprofits tell their own stories through video. As Reliant's CEO, Mike is responsible for the vision and direction of the company, also serving as Executive Producer on video projects. His wife, Kristin, is President of Reliant. Find us online at gospeldrivenentrepreneur.com | Email us at pj@gospeldrivenentrepreneur.com

Lucas Miles is a writer, speaker, life coach, film producer, and senior pastor of Oasis Granger (www.oasisgranger.com), a church community he and his wife, Krissy, planted in 2004. He is also president of the Oasis Network for Churches (www.oasnet.org), which services churches in more than ten countries. Lucas is also the principal and founder of Miles Media, Inc., and is committed to creating films with a purpose. Lucas and Krissy have been married since 2001 and reside in Granger, Indiana with their Doberman, Kenya.  To connect with Lucas or to order his new book, Good God:  The One We Want To Believe In But Are Afraid To Embrace, please visitwww.lucasmiles.org. Find us online at gospeldrivenentrepreneur.com | Email us at pj@gospeldrivenentrepreneur.com

Diane Cunningham, M.Ed. is the President and Founder of the National Association of Christian Women Entrepreneurs®, a global association for women to connect, create, and collaborate. NACWE offers training, conferences, networking, and business strategies. NACWE was launched in May 2010 and has been building and expanding since that time with members throughout the United States and Canada. She created NACWE in May of 2010 as a global association for women to connect, create, and collaborate through monthly online training, conferences, networking, and business strategies. This community and sisterhood is the premier place to learn marketing and mindset in a faith foundation, and it has members throughout the United States, Canada, and beyond. In 2014, she added the Christian Women’s Leadership Institute™ to train women to become Certified Group Facilitators and to raise up leaders around the world. Diane is also a consultant, author, video guru, artist, plane crash survivo

Matt Moore is the owner of Heartland Direct International, a company that specializes in importing wholesale products, and direct mail premiums. Much of Matt’s work is involved with for some of the nations largest non-profits and helping them find solutions for their product needs. The Wounded Warrior Project, UNICEF, The American Legion, and Mothers Against Drunk Driving are just some of the brands Matt’s company manages. Matt is also one of the most sought after individuals in Tulsa in subjects relating to young entrepreneurs and influencing culture. With his interest in leadership and being an entrepreneur, he was naturally selected to become the President of the local non-profit known as the Young Businessmen of Tulsa (YBT). Find us online at gospeldrivenentrepreneur.com | Email us at pj@gospeldrivenentrepreneur.com

Since founding Five Q in 2004, Chad has led the Five Q team to serve organizations such as Revive Our Hearts, Joni and Friends, Answers in Genesis, Voice of the Martyrs and many others. Wes serves as the vice president of Growth Strategies at Five Q and was previously with Revive Our Hearts as their Senior Director of Outreach and Media. Find us online at gospeldrivenentrepreneur.com | Email us at pj@gospeldrivenentrepreneur.com

Paul Wizikowski sees what could be and turns this vision into practical fixed points. He is a story teller at heart with an entrepreneur’s mind set. Having spent 13 years “puzzle piecing” together video & film projects for brands like Under Armour, the US Air Force and numerous energy and financial groups, Paul has served in various capacities within Production; including the camera department, various post production roles. In 2008, Paul wrote and co-developed a short story for his two young boys about Dinosaurs and their adventures in space. This narrative was the inspiration for a collaboration with Steelehouse Productions, which evolved the story into a 96-page graphic novel titled REXODUS. In 2015 the book was released in partnership with Dark Horse Comics. Rexodus as an intellectual property continues to develop. www.rexodus.com Paul is currently the owner of Social Arcs, a Tulsa based content creation company focused on developing commercial short form social-media stories. Concur

Along his journey from artist to engineer to entrepreneur, Ken Carfagno became a dad. And like many new dads, his kids inspired a long-forgotten gift. Ken could make up stories and draw his kids into them. This sparked a dream that lead to Dadnamics, the infusion of creativity, adventure, and silliness into dad time. And it lead to the Arctic Land experience. Find us online at gospeldrivenenetrepreneur.com | Email us at pj@gospeldrivenentrepreneur.com

    The path of Arlin Sorensen’s career transitions from one of mankind’s very earliest occupations to an industry that’s almost synonymous with the modern age. Having grown up on the family farm near Harlan, Iowa, Arlin graduated from Iowa State University with a degree in Farm Operations, and in 1977 — with his wife, Nancy — began farming. Then in 1982, Arlin purchased his first computer (an Apple II+) for use in his operation and the farm boy was permanently smitten by the technology bug. Arlin’s first foray into information technology for a living was as a consultant. By 1985, he had moved into the retail side of the industry and then in 1990, Arlin and his brother Brad formed Sorensen’s Computer Connection, Inc. (SCCI). That grew to become Heartland Technology Solutions (HTS), an MSP with over 80 employees, through a series of M&A activities before it was sold at the end of 2012. In 2000, he formed HTG Peer Groups (HTG), a vibrant community of IT so

Matt Heerema lives in Ames, Iowa and is a bi-vocational pastor and Web agency director, husband, father of four daughters, musician, and massive geek.  He serves with a team of six pastors at Stonebrook Church where he helps oversee corporate worship ministries (he can’t bring himself to say worship pastor, all pastors are worship pastors . . . ) and theological training. He owns and directs Mere Agency, and is very excited about their recent launch of MereChurch: effective Web sites for small churches and ministries. Matt is also working on a Master’s of Theology Degree through the Antioch School for Church Planting and Leadership Development. He posts occasionally on his blog at mattheerema.com. Find him on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and all the other places. 

Kevin McDugle is the founder of Lawyer Marketing Services, Inc. www.lawyermarketingusa.com and eXpect3 Marketing www.eXpect3.com. He is the Co-Founder of Leadership Training Team. He was the executive director and sat on the board of Soldier’s Wish www.soldierswish.org a nonprofit organization that helps grant the wishes of our active military and those that have an honorable discharge. He is an inventor and has several products in various stages of development.  Kevin is the author of "Inside the Mind of a Marine Drill Instructor" and he served 8 years in the Marine Corps. Find us online at gospeldrivenentrepreneur.com | Email us at pj@gospeldrivenentrepreneur.com

Kirk Bates doesn’t have a degree in marketing, but he has been a passionate student of marketing and entrepreneurs for more than 30 years. His first entrepreneurial venture was at the age of 14 when he hauled a garden hose, a bucket, dish soap, and a sponge through a large apartment complex, washing cars. Now, as the owner of MARKET 248, an Online marketing Company, Kirk leads a distributed team of zealous entrepreneurs that get to work from just about anywhere they want. Find us online at gospeldrivenentrepreneur.com | Email us at pj@gospeldrivenentrepreneur.com

Shelley Hitz has coached thousands of authors through her books, training programs, online events, seminars, and more.   She has over a decade of experience speaking to groups of all sizes, from small workshops to keynote presentations in front of thousands.  However, she is best known for injecting energy and enthusiasm into everything she does and inspiring those around her to take action. Find us online at gospeldrivenentrepreneur.com | Email us at pj@gospeldrivenentrepreneur.com

Jacob is a Founding Partner at GiveSendGo.com the #1 Free Christian Crowdfunding platform. He assumed the roles of Chief Financial Officer, Business Team Developer, and Media Relations Director. Prior to starting GiveSendGo, Jacob worked over 8 years as a Real Estate Investor where he personally negotiated over $5 Million dollars in residential real estate transactions. Jacob is also a military veteran having deployed twice to the middle east in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Find us online at gospeldrivenentrepreneur.com | Email us at pj@gospeldrivenentrepreneur.com