The Christian Entrepreneur

Cody & Esther Cottle
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Hosted by serial entrepreneurs Cody and Esther Cottle, the Christian Entrepreneur Podcast exists for believers who hunger for a move of God in the marketplace. After building 10 companies and walking through both success and painful failures, God called them to shut down their multi-six-figure business in 2024 — and out of that obedience, the Christian Entrepreneur Club was born and has grown into a global community of 600+ members. This podcast is an extension of our mission to equip entrepreneurs with a biblical framework to do business God's way. Each episode delivers proven business strategies, biblical principles, and conversations with top Christian thought leaders to equip you to do business God's way. Subscribe now and join a global family of Christian entrepreneurs committed to bringing revival to the marketplace.

  1. 2d ago

    "I'll Never Do Business With a Christian Again" (Here's How We Change That)

    "I'll never do business with a Christian again." If you've ever heard those words, or worse, been the reason someone said them, this episode is for you. Cody unpacks a hard truth every Christian entrepreneur needs to sit with: the way we operate in the marketplace is either pushing people toward Jesus or away from Him. There's no neutral. When you put the fish on your business card and then cut corners, lowball, or burn a client, you're not just losing a deal. You're shaping how the world sees your Father's brand. Working through Matthew 5:38-42, Cody breaks down three lessons that separate Kingdom business from business as usual: Always do what's right, even when it costs you. Cody shares the story of a man who took his system, his slides, and his training, then sent his team to poach his clients, and what his mentor taught him about taking the high road instead of settling the score. Go the extra mile. The one mile the law required built no reputation. The second mile, the one nobody could demand, is the only one that ever did. Give freely. Revival is breaking out in the marketplace, and wealth is moving into righteous hands. But it gets entrusted to the generous, not the cutthroat. The vision is bigger than avoiding a bad reputation. Imagine a world where even non-believers say, "I'll only do business with a Christian," because they know we hold ourselves to a higher standard. We play for an audience of One. And God cares how you build your business. Send us Fan Mail Support the show Get your ticket to our upcoming Revival In The Marketplace Conference ✝️ Sign up here for our FREE weekly Bible study every Wednesday  🔥 Are you looking for a community of Christian business owners you can learn and grow with? We want to invite you to learn more about our Christian Entrepreneur Club with over 600+ business owners and growing.  👉 Click Here To Join Our Intro Call 📲 Follow The Club on: Instagram  📲 Follow Cody on: Instagram 📲 Follow Esther on: Instagram Watch the video version on YouTube (Click Here) If this episode blessed you, please leave us a review and share it with 3 people who need to hear this message!

  2. 4d ago

    The Truth of Why Some People Succeed and Others Don't

    In 1956, The Strangest Secret put a number on it: of 100 people who start at 25 with the same dreams, only five build the life they imagined. The success principle Napoleon Hill and a century of teachers chased? It was God's all along. This is the framework Cody's lived by for years: why sincere Christians drift into the 95%, the one tool most believers walk past, and the four things that separate the five — awareness, desire, accurate thinking, discipline. Get honest, and go be one of the five. Chapters 0:00 🎯 The 5% Question 0:52 📉 100 Dreams, Only 5 Winners 2:36 🧠 Not Luck — Not Even Psychology 3:47 📚 The Godfathers of Success 6:00 ✝️ Borrowed From Scripture 9:42 🪞 The Part Most Christians Walk Past 11:16 🚗 Why You Suddenly See That Car 13:04 ⚓ Four Ways to Take the Wheel 15:08 🔍 An Honest Look in the Mirror 18:25 💭 Don't Believe Every Thought 20:01 🌒 What You Do When No One's Watching 21:40 🏁 Be One of the Five Send us Fan Mail Support the show Get your ticket to our upcoming Revival In The Marketplace Conference ✝️ Sign up here for our FREE weekly Bible study every Wednesday  🔥 Are you looking for a community of Christian business owners you can learn and grow with? We want to invite you to learn more about our Christian Entrepreneur Club with over 600+ business owners and growing.  👉 Click Here To Join Our Intro Call 📲 Follow The Club on: Instagram  📲 Follow Cody on: Instagram 📲 Follow Esther on: Instagram Watch the video version on YouTube (Click Here) If this episode blessed you, please leave us a review and share it with 3 people who need to hear this message!

  3. Jul 13

    You Don't need a Business Plan. You Need a God Plan with Adam & Cassie Gregg

    Everyone’s chasing the business plan — the step-by-step someone else “made it” with. But what if what your business actually needs isn’t a better plan, but a God plan? Adam and Cassie walked away from a guaranteed six-figure career with nothing but a word from God and a pile of credit-card debt — and watched Him provide at every turn. This is the honest conversation about what it really costs to build your business God’s way. Chapters 0:00 🎬 Business Plan or God Plan? (cold open)  0:35 🏷️ Meet The Collective — Building With Zero Inventory  6:12 ✨ Excellent, Not Perfect  7:27 🎖️ From Drone Operator To Apparel  20:26 ⏱️ Six Days In — Walking Away From The “Safe” Career  26:11 🙏 The Order Nobody Else Could Fill  30:24 🚪 A Favour Isn’t For You — It’s For Others  33:10 🔥 Excellence Is The Ministry  37:53 ⚙️ When You Scale Fast, Things Break  40:58 💍 Building As A Married Couple  49:42 💭 “Will You Dream With Me?”  53:22 🧭 Breaking Conformity — The Ceiling Nobody Sees  59:52 🚑 The Truck In Kuwait — A Word 7 Years Early  1:10:53 📜 The Blueprint For Blessing Send us Fan Mail Support the show Get your ticket to our upcoming Revival In The Marketplace Conference ✝️ Sign up here for our FREE weekly Bible study every Wednesday  🔥 Are you looking for a community of Christian business owners you can learn and grow with? We want to invite you to learn more about our Christian Entrepreneur Club with over 600+ business owners and growing.  👉 Click Here To Join Our Intro Call 📲 Follow The Club on: Instagram  📲 Follow Cody on: Instagram 📲 Follow Esther on: Instagram Watch the video version on YouTube (Click Here) If this episode blessed you, please leave us a review and share it with 3 people who need to hear this message!

  4. Jul 6

    How Do We Bring Revival to the Marketplace?

    You can be building a real business, on fire for God, plugged into a solid church — and still feel completely alone. Every Christian entrepreneur knows the two rooms: the church that doesn't quite understand your ambition, and the business world that leaves Jesus at the door. Cody and Esther Cottle tell the story behind the Christian Entrepreneur Club — the gap that started it, the word from God that led them to walk away from their business, and the conference it became. It's what happens when you stop trying to build alone. Chapters  0:00 🔥 The Room That Changes Everything  1:46 🏙️ From 50 People To A Movement  2:54 🕳️ Successful, Faithful — And Totally Alone  4:18 ✝️ Nobody In That Room Talks About Jesus  5:07 🌱 When Your Ambition Makes People Uncomfortable  7:08 🙏 Am I Holy Enough To Want To Build?  8:24 💍 Dream With Your Spouse — Or Crush Her Dreams  11:20 🏖️ Playing With God On The Playground  14:01 🔑 We Shut The Business Down First  17:11 🫀 A Vision For The Weary Builder  21:13 💸 "It'll Cost $100K. Be Obedient."  22:40 ⛪ An Altar, Not A Stage  24:30 💥 The Testimonies We Didn't Expect  26:55 🎟️ Come To The Mountaintop (Oct 14–16) — 👉 Revival in the Marketplace 2026 — October 14–16, San Diego, at the brand-new Gaylord Pacific Resort. Tickets are more affordable than ever, and for the first time the doors are open to leaders and pastors too. Grab yours: christianentrepreneurclub.com/conference Doing business God's way, every week. Subscribe so you don't miss an episode. Send us Fan Mail Support the show Get your ticket to our upcoming Revival In The Marketplace Conference ✝️ Sign up here for our FREE weekly Bible study every Wednesday  🔥 Are you looking for a community of Christian business owners you can learn and grow with? We want to invite you to learn more about our Christian Entrepreneur Club with over 600+ business owners and growing.  👉 Click Here To Join Our Intro Call 📲 Follow The Club on: Instagram  📲 Follow Cody on: Instagram 📲 Follow Esther on: Instagram Watch the video version on YouTube (Click Here) If this episode blessed you, please leave us a review and share it with 3 people who need to hear this message!

  5. Jul 1

    Are You Bearing Fruit? With Justin Dewing

    This episode is going to light a fire under you 🔥  Send us Fan Mail Support the show Get your ticket to our upcoming Revival In The Marketplace Conference ✝️ Sign up here for our FREE weekly Bible study every Wednesday  🔥 Are you looking for a community of Christian business owners you can learn and grow with? We want to invite you to learn more about our Christian Entrepreneur Club with over 600+ business owners and growing.  👉 Click Here To Join Our Intro Call 📲 Follow The Club on: Instagram  📲 Follow Cody on: Instagram 📲 Follow Esther on: Instagram Watch the video version on YouTube (Click Here) If this episode blessed you, please leave us a review and share it with 3 people who need to hear this message!

  6. Jun 29

    5 Steps Every Christian Must Take For God To Bless Their Business - With Lisa & Ricky McCabe

    Every Christian entrepreneur says they want God to guide their business. Most are waiting for a feeling. Lisa and Ricky McCabe turned it into a set of decisions — and built a company the numbers said shouldn't exist. An engineer who never planned to teach dance. A diagnosis that stole her voice in the same season the business was breaking out. A check written in pure obedience, for the exact amount a crisis would later take. On paper, none of it made sense. In practice, it was God running a business that was never really theirs. They walk through the five steps that moved them from striving to surrender — the concrete, repeatable moves that put God in the CEO seat. Not a vibe. A practice you can start this week. Chapters 0:00 🎬 None of It Added Up 0:40 🩰 An Engineer Walks Into a Dance Studio 8:11 🧭 Find the One Who's Ahead of You 12:25 🌱 The Unglamorous Early Days 17:44 🪂 Quitting the Safe Job 21:26 💵 The Check That Made No Sense 27:48 📉 Scaling on Faith, Not Figures 29:38 🗣️ The Diagnosis That Stole Her Voice 31:28 🤝 How Losing It Built the Team 33:56 🙏 Healing on God's Timeline 36:09 🪂 Ricky's Turn to Go All In 39:23 💍 When Marriage Meets Business 46:31 ❤️ The Questions They Didn't Expect 54:08 🪜 The 5 Steps to a God-Led Business 56:26 📲 Connect With Lisa & Ricky Send us Fan Mail Support the show Get your ticket to our upcoming Revival In The Marketplace Conference ✝️ Sign up here for our FREE weekly Bible study every Wednesday  🔥 Are you looking for a community of Christian business owners you can learn and grow with? We want to invite you to learn more about our Christian Entrepreneur Club with over 600+ business owners and growing.  👉 Click Here To Join Our Intro Call 📲 Follow The Club on: Instagram  📲 Follow Cody on: Instagram 📲 Follow Esther on: Instagram Watch the video version on YouTube (Click Here) If this episode blessed you, please leave us a review and share it with 3 people who need to hear this message!

  7. Jun 24

    Get Your Hopes Up With Mukwenda Kandole

    Are you believing too small to not get your hopes up? Are you limiting what God can and will do through your life? Listen to find out. We brought in the host of the Faith Hustle Podcast, Mukwenda Kandole, to share a powerful message, "GET YOUR HOPES UP". And it does not disappoint. Enjoy. Send us Fan Mail Support the show Get your ticket to our upcoming Revival In The Marketplace Conference ✝️ Sign up here for our FREE weekly Bible study every Wednesday  🔥 Are you looking for a community of Christian business owners you can learn and grow with? We want to invite you to learn more about our Christian Entrepreneur Club with over 600+ business owners and growing.  👉 Click Here To Join Our Intro Call 📲 Follow The Club on: Instagram  📲 Follow Cody on: Instagram 📲 Follow Esther on: Instagram Watch the video version on YouTube (Click Here) If this episode blessed you, please leave us a review and share it with 3 people who need to hear this message!

  8. Jun 10

    Do you have EMUNAH? (Listen to find out)

    This episode is going to hit a little differently. It was meant for you, and I hope it blesses you. God is moving, and the next great Revival is happening right now in the marketplace. But it starts with all of us having "EMUNAH".  Send us Fan Mail Support the show Get your ticket to our upcoming Revival In The Marketplace Conference ✝️ Sign up here for our FREE weekly Bible study every Wednesday  🔥 Are you looking for a community of Christian business owners you can learn and grow with? We want to invite you to learn more about our Christian Entrepreneur Club with over 600+ business owners and growing.  👉 Click Here To Join Our Intro Call 📲 Follow The Club on: Instagram  📲 Follow Cody on: Instagram 📲 Follow Esther on: Instagram Watch the video version on YouTube (Click Here) If this episode blessed you, please leave us a review and share it with 3 people who need to hear this message!

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Hosted by serial entrepreneurs Cody and Esther Cottle, the Christian Entrepreneur Podcast exists for believers who hunger for a move of God in the marketplace. After building 10 companies and walking through both success and painful failures, God called them to shut down their multi-six-figure business in 2024 — and out of that obedience, the Christian Entrepreneur Club was born and has grown into a global community of 600+ members. This podcast is an extension of our mission to equip entrepreneurs with a biblical framework to do business God's way. Each episode delivers proven business strategies, biblical principles, and conversations with top Christian thought leaders to equip you to do business God's way. Subscribe now and join a global family of Christian entrepreneurs committed to bringing revival to the marketplace.

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  • Creator
    Cody & Esther Cottle
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    168
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2026 The Christian Entrepreneur
  • Show Website
    The Christian Entrepreneur

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