Larry O'Nan on Faith, Leadership, and Building Collaborative Entrepreneurial Teams

In this episode of Wisdom on the Front Porch, LS Kirkpatrick engages with Larry O'Nan to explore his journey of intentional faith and its impact on younger generations. Larry shares his background, university experience, and career shift, highlighting the discovery of personal faith and leadership skills. The conversation touches on embracing failure, starting a nonprofit, and developing collaborative teams. They discuss modernizing historical biblical teaching materials and teamwork for entrepreneurs, as well as management strategies like "management by wandering around." The episode delves into stewardship in life and business, the importance of partnering over donor mentality in fundraising, and personal growth through life's challenges. (0:00) Intentional faith and younger generations (0:30) Introduction to today's guest and episode (2:09) Larry O'Nan's background, university experience, and career shift (5:01) Discovery of personal faith and leadership skills (11:07) Embracing failure and starting a nonprofit (22:25) Developing teams and the collaborative nature of Wisdom on the Front Porch magazine (28:17) Modernizing historical biblical teaching materials and teamwork for entrepreneurs (32:27) Management by wandering around and team performance tools (39:56) Stewardship in life and business (44:49) Partnering versus donor mentality in fundraising (49:28) Contacting Larry O'Nan and learning from mistakes (51:43) Personal growth through life's challenges (52:48) Episode conclusion, invitation for reviews, and farewell