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CEO Kingdom Seekers
For the entrepreneurial leaders who are called to fear & follow God.
Being a whole disciple of Jesus and leading a company isn’t for the faint of heart or the timid spirit.
Seeking God’s kingdom first in a world that gives us so many idols to bow down to is tough enough - but being called to the responsibility of stewarding the resources and following His will is a true test of faith.
Whether you’re the CEO/founder in your business, sitting at the head of the table at an organization, or making…
Episodes
CEO Kingdom SeekersEp 43: Soul Spent: How High-Capacity Leaders Can Create Margin and Find Rest — with Bret Kolman
“Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the stalwart one who takes refuge in him.” — Psalm 34:9 NABRE What happens when you are still producing…
CEO Kingdom SeekersEp 42: Seven Signs You May Have Shadow Work To Do Around Your Spiritual Gifts
“Through him was life, and this life was the light of the human race; the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” John…
CEO Kingdom SeekersEp 41: Turn Right: When Performance Becomes a Place to Hide with Matthew Wingo
What happens when the place where you’re most successful becomes the place you go to avoid what hurts? Matthew Wingo knows what it costs to choose performance…
CEO Kingdom SeekersEp 40: Who Are You Beneath the Armor? The Actual Purpose of Personal Development (Psalm 139: 13-14)
You formed my inmost being; you knit me in my mother's womb. I praise you, because I am wonderfully made; wonderful are your works! My very self you know."…
CEO Kingdom SeekersEp 39: When Suffering Exposes Self-Reliance with Dr. Carron Silva (Romans 5:3–4)
“Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.” —…
CEO Kingdom SeekersEp 38: When What You’re Best At Isn’t Your Primary Gift: How forced competence makes true success harder to discern
“All a person’s ways seem pure to them, but motives are weighed by the LORD.” - Proverbs 16:2 What if the thing everybody knows you for—the thing you’re…
CEO Kingdom SeekersEp 37: When Being Useful Becomes Your Identity with Latonya Flood (Galatians 1:10)
“Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people?” - Galatians 1:10 What happens when a gift that God gave you…
CEO Kingdom SeekersEp 36: Are You Using Your Spiritual Gifts the Way God Intended? The Love Test (1 Corinthians 12:31)
What if the thing you’re extraordinarily good at is producing results….but isn’t actually being expressed the way God wills? In the last few episodes, we’ve…
CEO Kingdom SeekersEp 35: Trusting God With the Gifts You Haven’t Fully Owned Yet with Chris Whittington (Proverbs 3:5–6)
What do you do when you know God has put something in front of you—and you’re still afraid to walk through the door? Chris Whittington knows something about…
CEO Kingdom SeekersEp 34: How Your God Given Gifts Develop...or Don't. (Romans 12:6)
You can be genuinely gifted, successful, useful to other people- and still have your gifts out of order. I've experienced this myself. There have been seasons…
CEO Kingdom SeekersEp 33: When High Capacity Becomes Self-Neglect with Justin Roethlingshoefer (Romans 12: 1-2)
“Offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.” Romans 12:1–2 What happens when you're exceptionally…
CEO Kingdom SeekersEp 32: The Leaders Who Help Everyone Else Are Still Human (Psalm 103:14)
“For He knows what we are made of, remembering that we are dust.” Psalm 103:14 What happens when everyone around you becomes so accustomed to your capability…
CEO Kingdom SeekersEp 31: Let God Scan the Places You’ve Been Trying to Heal Yourself with Vanesa Alcantara (Psalm 139:23-24)
“Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” - Psalm…
CEO Kingdom SeekersEp 30: You Are a Resource, Not the Source: The Weight of being a High Responsibility Human™
What happens when the skills that make you exceptionally good at carrying responsibility follow you into every room of your life? High-responsibility humans…
CEO Kingdom SeekersEp 29: The Fourth Watch (Part 2): The Wisdom You Can Walk On (James 1: 2-8)
The power went out while Dr. Lee was teaching about Peter taking his eyes off Jesus in the storm. At first, she thought she had lost the ending of the…
CEO Kingdom SeekersEp 28: The Fourth Watch (Part 1): When the Storm Takes Longer Than Expected (Matthew 14:22–33)
This was originally a live Regulated Roots Academy training. Right as Dr. Lee reached the final section, the power went out in the middle of a severe morning…
CEO Kingdom SeekersEp 27: The Mantle Will Not Shrink: How to Grow Into the Calling God Put on Your Life with Chantell Cooley (Joshua 1:9)
Chantell Cooley was in her mid-thirties when her father died. At the time, the online university she helped build had nearly 7,000 students (a fraction of the…
CEO Kingdom SeekersEp 26: The Will to Be Misunderstood: The Cost of Carrying Your Divine Assignment (Galatians 1:10)
There is a version of your calling that everyone around you is comfortable with. It is smaller than what God actually asked you to do. It is quieter. It is…
CEO Kingdom SeekersEp 25: When God Calls You to Leave Something Good: The Courage to Step Away with Kurt Bush (Ecclesiastes 3:1)
Kurt Bush spent years in pastoral ministry, including launching a second campus of a church on January 1st of 2020 (If you know what happened in 2020, you can…
CEO Kingdom SeekersEp 24: The Enemy Knows Your Gift: Why Operating in Your Calling Invites Spiritual Attack (Romans 12:6)
Dr. Lee did not plan to teach this one the way it came out. She had an outline. She had a whole different direction. And then for the few days beforehand the…
CEO Kingdom SeekersEp 23: The Courage to Say No: Building a Business Without Compromising Your Convictions with Jeff Kruszyna (Proverbs 16:8)
On the morning of September 11, 2001, Jeff Kruszyna was a computer science undergrad at Stony Brook University, 45 minutes from Manhattan. He was on track for…
CEO Kingdom SeekersEp 22: Stop Planting in the Wrong Season: God's Design for Business Growth (Genesis 1:14)
In this solo episode, Dr. Lee breaks down one of the most practical (and most overlooked) frameworks for building a sustainable business: the garden. She walks…
CEO Kingdom SeekersEp 21: The Code and the Coder: Finding God in the DNA of the Universe with Doug Ell (John 1:1)
He was an MIT graduate who double-majored in math and physics. He earned his master's degree in theoretical mathematics. He graduated magna cum laude from law…
CEO Kingdom SeekersEp 20: The Rest of the Story: Calling, Identity, and Courage with Pat Welsh (Jeremiah 1:5)
It is 1:00 in the morning when Pat Welsh catches a call for a 12-year-old who came home late from school. He is annoyed — the bars are about to close, things…
CEO Kingdom SeekersEp 19: Make Me Available: Surrendering Your Entrepreneurial Journey to God with Bill Nienhuis (Isaiah 6:8)
This episode will stir your spirit and challenge your perspective on trust, surrender, and the incredible ways God works through our obedience. Dr. Lee sits…
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Ep 18: The Gospel of Enough: Profit, Margin & Building a Business That Proclaims the Good News (Proverbs 3:9-10)
This episode is a little different — and honestly, one of the most personal ones Dr. Lee has recorded to date. She recorded this one in her car. No desk, no…
CEO Kingdom SeekersEp 17: Walking in Faith as a Next-Level Leader with Kevin Wayne Johnson (Proverbs 11:14)
Why is there such a massive gap between what people need from their leaders in the workplace, in the church, and in business....and what they're actually…
CEO Kingdom SeekersEp 16: Be Still and Know: Stop Spiritual Identity Theft & Lead from Who You Are with Donna Tashjian (Psalm 46:10)
What if the reason you're striving, grinding, and never feeling like enough has nothing to do with your strategy, and everything to do with your identity? In…
CEO Kingdom SeekersEp 15: He Gives Sleep to His Beloved - Rest as a Spiritual Practice with Dr. Benjamin Long (Psalm 127:2)
If you are a high-responsibility human (a founder, a CEO, a parent, a caregiver) sleep is probably one of the first things that gets sacrificed on the altar of…
CEO Kingdom SeekersEp 14: Restoring the Years the Locusts Have Eaten: Positioning Your Business for God's Double Reward (Joel 2:25)
In this episode, Dr. Lee drives deep into an unexpected dive into the Book of Joel — a short, four-chapter prophetic book that packs an absolutely powerful…
CEO Kingdom SeekersEp. 13: Holding the Weight: Preparing for God's Abundance in Business (Romans 12:6-8)
In this episode, Dr. Lee Cordell shares a profound personal revelation about preparing for the "weight" of God's blessing in business. Many entrepreneurs…
CEO Kingdom SeekersEp 12: The Stewardship of Leadership: Serving to Scale with Kurt Uhlir (Matthew 23:11)
In this powerful conversation, Dr. Lee sits down with Kurt Uhlir, known as "the king of scaling companies," to explore his unique approach to leadership rooted…
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Ep 11: The 5 Steps of Co-Creating a Business with God (Psalm 23:4)
Have you ever felt a deep, spiritual discontent with your business, even when things look good on paper? Do you desire to stop building a business and asking…
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Ep 10: How Do I Know What God Wants? A 4-Step Framework for Christian Entrepreneurs
In this short but powerful episode, Dr. Lee shares a practical, 4-step framework for discerning God's will in your business and life. Pulled from a viral…
CEO Kingdom SeekersEp 9: From Breaking Points to Building Points: Surrendering the Steering Wheel with Ryan Reichert (Phillipians 4:12)
What happens when the "Captain America" facade crumbles? For Ryan Reichert, retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel and Fortune 500 leader, the answer was a radical…
CEO Kingdom SeekersEp 8: I Surrender: Breaking the Broken Record of Leadership Sin & Complacency (Psalm 51:10)
"Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me." — Psalm 51:10 In this raw and honest episode, Dr. Lee validates the immense weight of…
CEO Kingdom SeekersEp 7: Goal Setting God's Way: Trading Worldly Resolutions for Kingdom Assignments (Proverbs 16:3)
As the new year begins, the world screams at us to set bigger goals, hustle harder, and chase a vision of success defined by worldly standards. But what if God…
CEO Kingdom SeekersEp 6: Patiently Waiting: Learning to Move at God's Speed in Business (Proverbs 3:5-6)
"WAIT." That's what Dr. Lee heard for months when she prayed about shifting her business. Not a gentle whisper, but a clear directive repeating over and over…
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Ep. 5- The Other Side of Obedience: Trading Worldly Cages for Kingdom Purpose (Esther 4:17-30)
Are you feeling confined by the world's expectations of what your leadership should look like? Do you sense a deeper calling but feel trapped in the "uptown…
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Ep 4- Christian Hope: Why Faith-Led Leadership Looks "Delusional" to the World (Romans 15:13)
Are you a leader who feels caught between the world's relentless pursuit of "progress" and the quiet call of Christian hope? In this powerful episode of…
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Ep. 3 - The Root of It All: Overcoming Spiritual Poverty for True Success (Phillipians 4:13)
In this powerful and deeply personal episode, Dr. Lee explore the often-unseen force that shapes our lives and businesses: spiritual poverty. Join her as she…
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Ep 2: Discipleship in Leadership: Learning & Growing Through God's Guidance (Proverbs 12:1)
In this episode, Dr. Lee shares personal reflections on recent life and business transformations, emphasizing the journey of prioritizing God's will above all…
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Ep 1: Discerning God's Will & Your Leadership Gifts
In the inaugural episode of C-Suite Kingdom Seekers, Dr. Lee dives into her personal testimony of rediscovering their faith amidst business challenges and…