10Fold Founders

10Fold Founders
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Strategy, systems, and community for Christian founders who refuse to trade their values for revenue. This is where faith-driven builders connect, grow, and compound for their businesses, their families, and the kingdom.

Episodes

  1. 5 hr ago

    Better Relationships, Better Business

    Your business runs on relationships. Most owners know that. What they don't do is actually manage them. In this episode, Arthur, Josh, and Sydney walk through the five relationship categories every trade business owner and founder needs to be paying attention to: customers, employees, vendors, family, and God. Not as a feel-good exercise, but as a real diagnostic. Where are you healthy? Where are you coasting? Where is something quietly falling apart? The conversation covers how to rate each relationship honestly, what actually sours a customer relationship over time (hint: it's not the work), how to keep contractor relationships strong through the gaps, and why the most important relationships in your life are usually the ones you assume are fine. Plus: practical actions you can take this week with one customer, one employee, and one vendor, and why blocking family time on your calendar changes what you actually get from it. Arthur closes with a word on what it looks like to keep your relationship with God rich in the middle of the daily grind, and Josh and Sydney share what's been working for them. Timestamps: 0:00 — Win with relationships, win with business 3:10 — Rating your relationship health (the 1-10 framework) 7:30 — The five relationship categories every founder needs to audit 12:30 — Customers: when relationships go from dynamic to stale 18:50 — When a relationship becomes strictly transactional 22:40 — Employees and contractors: expectations, transparency, the in-between 25:10 — Family: how a growing family sharpens your priorities 31:10 — God: practices for staying aligned when the grind pulls you off 38:00 — Action items: one customer call, one employee question, one vendor lunch 43:00 — Closing prayer Show notes: What makes a trade business actually work? Not the craft. Not even the marketing. The relationships. In this episode we walked through the five categories of relationships that shape whether your business thrives or stalls: customers, employees, vendors, family, and God. And we gave you a framework to actually rate them, not just think about them. Here's the one question Arthur mentioned that will open up a real conversation with any employee: "What's the one thing I could do or change that would make you never want to leave?" Try it this week. Come back and tell us what you heard. The three actions from today: Pick one customer and call them. Not to sell anything. Just to check in.Ask one team member that question.Take one vendor to lunch or bring them a coffee.That's it. Start there. If you're not in the community yet, this is what we do here: trade owners and faith-driven founders building businesses that last, with people who will tell you the truth and pray for your business.

    45 min

  2. 5 Jun

    Scaling Trade Businesses with Purpose: Faith and Business in Harmony

    Welcome to 10Fold Founders — the podcast for faith-driven entrepreneurs who are building businesses that matter. In our very first episode, hosts Arthur Tew, Josh Staab, and Sydney Andress pull back the curtain on why they started this show, what 10Fold Founders stands for, and what it actually looks like to scale a business without compromising your values. From trade businesses to marketing strategy to the power of community, they bring real stories, hard-won wisdom, and a shared conviction that God belongs in the boardroom. This is just the beginning. If you're building something bigger than yourself, you're in the right place.

    25 min
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Strategy, systems, and community for Christian founders who refuse to trade their values for revenue. This is where faith-driven builders connect, grow, and compound for their businesses, their families, and the kingdom.

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