Your life deserves a business plan before your organization ever gets one.
Kevin Bein never served in the military, and he says so plainly. In this episode of The Business & Faith Podcast, John Staub talks with Kevin Bein, President and Director of The Longbow Foundation, a nonprofit that helps combat veterans transition from active duty to civilian life. Kevin starts with the problem every small business owner runs into: you are the bottleneck of your own success, and growing past it means trusting people to fail inside guardrails. Then the conversation turns personal. Kevin describes the mistake of doing everything for everyone else, and the business plan for life he wrote out of Proverbs and Romans to find his way back. He explains why purpose holds steady while vision has to keep moving, why prayer sits inside his daily routine, and why there is no maintenance mode.
Chapters:
00:00 Burnout From Putting Everyone Else First
00:32 Meet Kevin Bein and The Longbow Foundation
01:17 The Bottleneck and the Guardrails
05:54 Give People the Lead on Their Own Ideas
07:17 Trust, Hiring, and the Three-Strike Rule
10:12 Your Life Needs a Business Plan
13:09 How to Tell You Are in the Wilderness
14:27 Purpose Stays, Vision Changes
18:26 Put On Your Own Airplane Mask First
20:52 Routines, Prayer, and Mental White Space
24:12 Having a Reason for Everything You Do
26:15 Leading the Horse to Water
29:55 The Hunt, the Roadmap, and the Network
31:43 There Is No Maintenance Mode
Links:
• John Staub: / john-staub
• Travis Hall: / travis-m-hall
• Kevin Bein: / kevinbein
• The Longbow Foundation: https://longbowfoundation.org
• Atomic Habits by James Clear: https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits
• Dataliction: https://dataliction.com
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