What happens when you build a successful business, grow your influence, and gain more opportunity — but your private life is slowly falling apart? In this episode of the Faithustle Podcast, Mukwenda Kandole sits down with Joshua Broome for a raw conversation every Christian entrepreneur, founder, business owner, and leader needs to hear. Joshua knows what it looks like to build success on the wrong foundation. Before following Jesus, he became one of the highest-paid performers in the porn industry and built multiple successful careers. Today, he is a husband, father, author, speaker, and Bible teacher helping men and women around the world walk in freedom from pornography, shame, sexual brokenness, and hidden sin. But this episode is not just about Joshua’s past. It is about the danger of compromise in leadership. Because most leaders do not wake up one day and decide to destroy their marriage, reputation, business, or ministry. It usually starts small. A hidden habit. An unchecked wound. A boundary that gets moved. A secret nobody knows about. A moment of stress where you medicate instead of heal. Joshua puts it plainly: “Sin doesn’t stay where you put it.” And for Christian leaders, that truth matters. The more influence you carry, the more important it becomes to build your private life with the same intentionality you build your business. In this conversation, we unpack: • How hidden compromise grows over time • Why leaders are especially vulnerable when stressed, tired, isolated, or driven • Why pornography is often deeper than sexual desire • The connection between shame, identity, and addiction • The danger of trying to out-achieve your brokenness • Why money, influence, and success cannot heal your soul Joshua’s testimony is powerful because it proves that your worst decisions do not have to define your future. But his warning is just as important: Do not wait until everything falls apart to take your integrity seriously. If you are building a company, leading a team, growing a platform, or carrying influence in the marketplace, this episode will challenge you to ask a deeper question: Is the person behind the business healthy enough to carry where the business is going? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 JOIN THE FAITHUSTLE NETWORKFaithustle Network is a community for Christian entrepreneurs who want to build successful businesses without compromising their faith, family, integrity, or calling. Inside the Network: 🙏 Weekly Bible Studies 📈 Business Strategy & Mentorship 🤝 Community with Kingdom Entrepreneurs 🎓 Training from 7 & 8-Figure Christian Founders 📍 Monthly In-Person Events 🔥 Conversations around leadership, integrity, business, faith, and stewardship Join the Faithustle Network: https://www.skool.com/faithustlenetwork ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔥 CONNECT WITH JOSHUA BROOME Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamjoshuabroome/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📲 FOLLOW FAITHUSTLE Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thefaithustle/ All Faithustle Links: https://linktr.ee/thefaithustle ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱ TIMESTAMPS 00:00 — You Are Not Defined By Your Worst Moment 01:07 — Welcome to Faithustle 03:19 — Joshua’s Journey Through Business, Porn & Ministry 05:52 — Obedience, Momentum & Stewarding Influence 09:24 — Why Leaders Have to Move When God Speaks 13:41 — Joshua Begins His Redemption Story 15:11 — Fatherlessness, Rejection & Identity 17:29 — When Achievement Becomes Your Identity 19:07 — How Pornography Entered Joshua’s Life 20:49 — One Decision That Changed Everything 22:00 — Guilt vs. Shame 24:01 — Why Shame Keeps Leaders Stuck 26:23 — You Are Not Defined By What You’ve Done 27:36 — Grace, Identity & Meeting Jesus 30:09 — From Porn Star to Preaching the Gospel 33:41 — What Joshua’s Story Means for Business Leaders 35:10 — “Sin Doesn’t Stay Where You Put It” 37:15 — Why Leaders Are Vulnerable to Compromise 37:59 — The Deeper Root Behind Pornography 40:11 — Addiction, Connection & Confession 41:17 — Why Honest Confession Leads to Healing 43:49 — The Cost of Getting Serious About Freedom 46:27 — Do You Actually Want to Be Healed? 47:42 — Taking Ownership of Your Healing 50:55 — Why Money & Success Cannot Satisfy You 53:09 — Ambition Has to Be Submitted to God 54:19 — Removing the Lids From Your Leadership 56:49 — The Power of a Surrendered Leader 59:24 — Real Transformation 1:01:53 — Redeeming Your Gifts 1:03:00 — Freedom From Shame Is Possible 1:07:12 — Why Are You Hiding? 1:08:31 — Joshua Prays for Leaders Who Need Freedom ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #ChristianEntrepreneur #ChristianLeadership #FaithAndBusiness #KingdomBusiness #JoshuaBroome #Faithustle #LeadershipIntegrity
