The David Laut Show

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Most people live compartmentalized lives. Faith over here. Work over there. Family somewhere in between. This podcast exists to help change that. Hosted by David Laut, founder of Kerux, this show equips faith-focused leaders and entrepreneurs to connect their faith, family, and work with Jesus at the center. Through honest conversations, leadership insights, and practical wisdom, you'll discover how to: • Lead with conviction • Build with purpose • Steward wisely • Strengthen family • Pursue lasting impact Because success means more when it aligns with God's purpose. New episodes weekly.

  1. 6d ago

    He Asked God to Fix His Addiction Quietly. God Said No. (ft. Nick Carlile))

    Nick coaches the minds of MLB players, PGA pros, NFL guys, and business leaders. And the first thing he tells the pros might be the last thing you'd expect from a performance coach: "God does not care about your baseball career. Zero. He only cares about your heart. That doesn't mean He won't use your career to transform it." How does a pastor's kid end up here? Through his own suffering — and he tells the whole story. The double life: quarterback, point guard, good grades on one side; drugs from eighth grade on the other. The secret daily Xanax and opiate habit nobody knew about. And the vacation to Mexico where he prayed one of the most human prayers ever prayed: Lord, change me on this trip. Press the button in my mind that makes the addiction go away. No one has to know. God answered the prayer — with a withdrawal seizure, a Mexican hospital, his three-months-pregnant wife in tears on the floor, and a drive straight from the border to Betty Ford. "His ways are not our ways. I wanted the button pressed. He brought it all into the light. And I finally felt free." From there, a conversation that will not stay in your head — because that's literally its thesis: why intellectual knowledge doesn't transform anybody ("better a warrior of the mind than a librarian of the mind"), why the ultimate version of you only exists in the land of uncertainty, why God shares everything with us except His glory, what "pray for humility, expect to get humiliated" has looked like in Nick's year and a half of wilderness, the Michelangelo problem (chipping away everything that isn't you hurts, because you're the rock), and why Philippians 4:13 — the verse written on half the cleats in professional sports — means almost the opposite of how athletes use it.It ends with a handmade gift and the best metaphor of the season: how a mollusk turns an irritant into a pearl, one layer of grace at a time. Connect your faith and your finances → KERUXHQ.com Chapters: 00:00 — Meet Nick: mental performance coach to MLB, PGA, and NFL players — "I got here through my own suffering" 02:27 — Pastor's kid, double life: quarterback and good grades on one side, drugs from eighth grade on the other 04:15 — The Mexico trip: a secret addiction, a desperate prayer ("just press the button"), a seizure — and freedom 06:23 — Sober but struggling: the mental health crash, leaving teaching, and building a coaching career from books 14:37 — Head vs. heart: "God does not care about your baseball career. Zero. He cares about your heart." 18:33 — How truth moves 18 inches: risk, stepping out of the boat, and the client who couldn't answer "where are you risking?" 21:59 — "The ultimate version of you only exists in the land of uncertainty" — and why God shares everything but His glory 24:38 — Hot seat: David's fear of the stage, the Sac State talk, and how to tell the Spirit's nudge from pride 32:07 — Nick's wilderness season: "pray for humility, expect to get humiliated" — and the Michelangelo problem 38:44 — The destination is never fulfilling 42:46 — The verse on every cleat: what Philippians 4:13 actually means 45:28 — Closing: ruthlessly keep your word to yourself, integrity as workability — and the parable of the pearl

  2. Oct 6

    What Jesus Actually Said About Money (5 Verses Christians Misquote)

    Quick test: what is money the root of? If you said "all evil," you just misquoted the Bible — and you're in good company, because David did too, for years. The verse says the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil (1 Timothy 6:10). And that one-word difference is the whole episode. Connect your faith and your finances → KERUXHQ.com Chapters 00:05 — Welcome: earthly success to eternal significance 05:37 — VERSE 1 — Matthew 6:24: "No one can serve two masters. You cannot serve both God and money." 12:07 — VERSE 2 — Luke 16:10–11: "Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much." 18:36 — VERSE 3 — Matthew 6:19–21: "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth… for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." 26:15 — VERSE 4 — Luke 12:15–21: the rich fool 29:22 — VERSE 5 — Mark 8:36: "What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?" 33:48 — Outro: KERUXHQ.com + the Faith Forward framework

  3. Sep 29

    The $50,000 Pledge He Couldn't Afford (ft. Scott Hanson, co-founder of Allworth Financial)

    Scott Hanson co-founded Hanson McClain in 1993 with two sublet offices, one desk, and one assistant. It became Allworth Financial — over $40 billion under management as of the morning we filmed. He's hosted Money Matters for 31 years, run ultramarathons, raised four kids (two by adoption), and he's celebrating his 60th birthday by running 60 miles around Lake Folsom. By any scoreboard our industry keeps, he's in the hall of fame. So listen to what he says near the end of this conversation: "If you'd told me ten years ago that I wouldn't feel completely secure at the financial number I have now, I would have thought you were crazy. And I still feel like this could all be gone."In between: the phone-company pension play that launched the firm, the tree business he bought at 19 with no cash ("if you just show up on time, that's half of it"), and the story David can't stop thinking about — newlywed Scott, $7,000 in credit card debt, an empty living room, being asked to pledge $50,000 to his church's capital campaign. He prayed. He committed. God opened the floodgates — and a couple of years ago, the Hansons made a single gift 100 times that size. Plus the conversation from nine years ago that David never forgot: "If you were a cellist, would your friends tell you to quit practicing? Maybe God wants you to be the best financial advisor in the world." Connect your faith and your finances → KERUXHQ.com

  4. Sep 22

    3 Months In: What We've Learned Building a Faith-Driven Media Brand From Zero

    Three months. Eight platforms. Three cameras (finally figured out). About 500 followers. And a plan to build a five-show media network anyway. In this behind-the-scenes episode, David and Garrett pull back the curtain on the David Laut Show itself: where it started ("follow me as I follow Christ — in business"), what's actually working on each platform, and the honest math of building an audience in 2026 — including Garrett's favorite finance YouTube channel with 700,000 subscribers… that started posting in 2006. Then the vision: why the show is becoming one channel of something bigger under Kerux — a market-outlook show, a technical financial-planning show, a big-family channel, and a "Proverbs 31 women" show led by the women on the team — modeled on the media-network playbook that took firms like Ritholtz Wealth and Root Financial from a few hundred million to billions under management. But the heart of the episode is slower than the strategy: Acts 1, where Jesus gives the disciples the biggest mission in history — and then tells them to wait. David gets honest about the difference between asking God to bless your plans and joining what God is already doing, why 7-going-on-8 kids taught him that hard doesn't mean bad, and the season of elimination he's in right now — cutting busyness, status-chasing, and alcohol — so that nothing separates him from the love of God. Plus: shout-outs to two friends whose accounts just went viral, the LinkedIn algorithm shift working in small creators' favor, and why the Jesus Christ Show was, regrettably, taken. Oh, and my friend Chris O'Brien!! We want your feedback — comment, or DM David on LinkedIn or Instagram.Connect your faith and your finances → KERUXHQ.com

  5. Sep 15

    "I Was on Church Staff for 15 Years — and I'm Not Sure I Was Saved" (ft. Lee Fields)

    Lee Fields is one of the most sought-after live audio engineers on the planet. He's toured the world, built and sold the most successful tech education platform the church space has ever seen, led worship production across twelve campuses of one of America's fastest-growing churches — and turned down an invitation to play Augusta National (there's a story, and he's not telling all of it).And at the bottom of all that success, he found a question most people in ministry never let themselves ask: was I ever actually saved — or was my faith attached to a church staff employee handbook? Connect your faith and your finances → KERUXHQ.comTimestamped Chapters:00:00 Welcome to the David Laut Show00:17 Lee Fields + the top-three golf courses question01:10 The Augusta National invitation he didn't take02:10 Peachtree on a perfect October Thursday + Tobacco Road03:20 David's three: Banff Springs, the Shores, Martis Camp04:30 The real topic: elite at your craft AND built for eternity05:15 Maryville, TN: trailer park, addiction at home, a mom who's a saint06:30 A's on tests, F's on homework — and a college career of Halo07:30 Church as the fabric of Southern life08:30 Cut from the team → marching band → turning down a UT bass scholarship09:45 "Fields, go figure out how to use this stuff" — the PA system gift11:00 Hours from taking the electrician job — the family cycle he refused12:30 The phone rings: Disciple, 200314:00 $20 a show, $5 food money: $4,400 for 200+ days on the road15:15 Sony, 3,000-seat rooms, and finding a safe place to make every mistake16:45 Scottie Scheffler has a coach: how the elite actually train18:00 Pots-and-pans drums, student-loan studio gear, hunting discomfort daily19:30 "I don't ever want to wake up and go to work"20:15 The Toy Story claw: rescued the morning after his lowest night21:45 Divine intervention AND partnership — the choices still mattered22:45 Married at 23 → first tech guy at a Knoxville church23:45 2007: Church Production Magazine, the "virtual pastor," Twitter, #CTDRT25:30 "Where was faith in all this?" — what 26-year-old Lee would've said26:15 The call west: 11 years, 12 campuses, executive worship pastor27:45 Hotel-ballroom conferences are useless → mixing consoles in a circle29:15 Saddleback 2016 → 30 events worldwide → 10,000 subscribers → the sale31:00 Tailwinds and timing: the leapfrog pattern of Lee's career31:50 2022: selling the business and a divorce in the same season33:30 The confession: "I'm not sure I was actually saved"34:30 Faith attached to the employee handbook, not the Bible35:45 "There is no ladder, bro"36:45 "When God decided what He thought about you, He didn't call a meeting"38:00 "You know what we didn't talk about today? Church."39:00 Is Sunday imperative? Church as plan A — and the shame trap41:15 The 10,000-hours math: you can't master a relationship in 90 minutes a week42:15 The Mona Lisa on the wall: "I thought I owned it — now I need it to survive"43:15 Scarcity trauma: trailer park to a million-dollar zip code44:30 "I feel like a three-year-old Christian"45:15 The engineer who can't stop mixing: wanting the worship band to be bad46:15 "Thank you for not distracting me"47:00 The fundamentals: praying daily is still hard — and that's normal47:45 Don't hire the Christian roofer + the freedom of nothing to hide48:58 Outro: KERUXHQ.com + the Faith Forward framework

  6. Sep 9

    How to Actually Hear God's Voice (Hear → Discern → Respond)

    Whispers aren't loud. Lamps aren't bright. So why do we expect hearing God's voice to be easy? In this episode, David and Garrett break the most-asked question in the Christian life into three parts: how to actually hear God's voice, how to discern whether it's really Him, and how to respond once you know it is. David shares the moment it became real for him — stretched out on a vibration plate at the gym during the COVID crash, business freshly bought, loan hanging over his head, markets in free fall — when a sentence that wasn't his own cut through the panic: "My plans for you are good." From there: why you can't hear a whisper from the back of the crowd (John 10:27), the sobering math on what one church hour a week actually adds up to (spoiler: 192 years to reach mastery), why you cannot build a relationship with God on prayer alone, what busyness and borrowed opinions do to your spiritual hearing, and why there's no God setting on ChatGPT. Then the episode's most important turn: what God's voice isn't. If the voice in your head accuses, degrades, and shames you — that's not the Shepherd. David opens up about spending his first five years as a believer flattened by self-condemnation, and how learning the actual tone of God's voice — loving, gentle, peace-giving — changed everything. Big idea: Hearing God's voice is not the end goal. Following Him is. Connect your faith and your finances → KERUXHQ.com — and yes, we're still accepting coffee sponsors. Timestamped Chapters: 00:13 Engagement and Community Building 02:37 The Importance of Proximity to God 05:03 The Role of Discernment in Hearing God 11:16 Obedience: The Key to Following God's Voice 16:39 Responding to God's Voice 22:23 Understanding What Hearing God's Voice Isn't 28:13 Final Thoughts on Hearing and Following God

  7. Sep 1

    "Being Nice Isn't Enough": Faith, Prime Day, and the $5B Testimony

    Mimi Chan was the Co-founder of Christians at Amazon which now boasts over 100 chapters and thousands of global members. Our first-ever guest worked side by side with a Christian coworker at Amazon for a full year — and never knew, until the day that coworker quit to become a missionary. That moment raises the question this whole episode wrestles with: if nobody at your job can tell you follow Jesus, is being nice actually enough? If you've ever wondered whether your work is your ministry — or just the thing that funds it — this conversation is your answer. Connect with Mimi: - LinkedIn (her new venture is in stealth — reach out and she'll share more): linkedin.com/in/mimicychan/ - Instagram: @mimicychan Connect your faith and your finances → KERUXHQ.com

  8. Aug 26

    Inheritance vs. Heritage: What You Leave TO Your Kids vs. What You Leave IN Them

    Everybody loves an inheritance — especially if you're the one receiving it. But what if the money is the least important thing you'll ever pass down? In this episode, David and Garrett dig into the difference between an inheritance (what you leave to someone) and a heritage (what you leave in someone) — and why getting those two backwards quietly ruins families. David shares the surprising phone call with the CEO of Alternatives Pregnancy Center that turned a confessed money mistake into a speaking invitation on Psalm 127 ("Children are a heritage from the Lord"), the Holocaust-survivor's-family wisdom a client shared about the one thing that can never be taken from you, and why the estate-planning advice "don't give your kids nice things" never sat right with him. Then it gets practical: the exact four-bucket money system David runs for his kids (10% giving, 20% long-term investing, 10% short-term savings, 60% spending), how his children became legitimate employees of the family business with Roth IRAs at age twelve, the "Die With Zero" debate, and the question that stops every parent cold: if your kids inherited your habits and your faith — but none of your money — would they be rich or poor? Because money doesn't change people. It magnifies them. And God doesn't have grandchildren. Connect your faith and your finances → KERUXHQ.com — and sign up for the monthly newsletter on markets, stewardship, and all things finance. 00:00 — What's our inheritance from God? Setting up the big question00:51 — Backstory: the gala sponsorship confession — and the call with Heidi Matzke of Alternatives Pregnancy Center03:00 — "Children are a heritage from the Lord" (Psalm 127:3–5) — and an unexpected invitation to speak05:20 — The key distinction: an inheritance is left to someone; a heritage is left in someone07:00 — Colossians: "Christ in us, the hope of glory" — what God leaves within us08:04 — Anne Bradstreet: wisdom without an inheritance beats an inheritance without wisdom08:56 — The Eastern European Jewish client: money can be taken away — knowledge can't11:13 — The estate attorney's advice: "Don't give your kids nice things" — and why it never sat right13:59 — When your values meet the world's: the full armor of God14:45 — Two kinds of Christianity: the kind you do vs. the kind you are16:18 — The "Die With Zero" debate: bless your kids now, or leave it all at the end?17:34 — The advisor's warning: how a few thousand a month at 65 decimates a portfolio by 9019:00 — "I'm withholding things from my kids that I could easily buy them" — and why20:00 — Bass fishing, Senko worms, and the enthusiasm gene his kids inherited21:00 — Obedience is the holy part — not the inheritance itself22:15 — How the kids watched mom and dad trust God: the business, the house, the growing family24:45 — The Greenlight system: four accounts per kid — give 10%, invest 20%, save 10%, spend 60%27:30 — "How are my companies doing?" — kids who own the NASDAQ at age 829:30 — The part the kids don't know: Roth IRAs and Roth 401(k)s as employees of the family business30:39 — Is it scary knowing they get control at 18? Why David isn't afraid32:45 — Job was a great steward and still lost everything — outcomes are God's responsibility33:59 — The big question: habits and faith but no money — would your kids be rich or poor?35:55 — Money doesn't change you. It magnifies you.37:39 — What should your money do after you're gone?38:30 — The garden they inherited — watering it by hand in the Sacramento summer39:45 — "Don't leave the world to your kids. Leave your kids to the world."40:49 — God doesn't have grandchildren41:48 — You can't coerce a legacy: surrendering outcomes without destroying the relationship42:30 — David's August calendar: marking off every day he doesn't put his kids down43:53 — Closing: ambassadors of an eternal kingdom, handling earthly things in a way that honors the Father

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Most people live compartmentalized lives. Faith over here. Work over there. Family somewhere in between. This podcast exists to help change that. Hosted by David Laut, founder of Kerux, this show equips faith-focused leaders and entrepreneurs to connect their faith, family, and work with Jesus at the center. Through honest conversations, leadership insights, and practical wisdom, you'll discover how to: • Lead with conviction • Build with purpose • Steward wisely • Strengthen family • Pursue lasting impact Because success means more when it aligns with God's purpose. New episodes weekly.

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  • Creator
    David Laut
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    19
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    Clean
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