Real Stories | Real CEOs | Eternal Impact
Real Stories | Real CEOs | Eternal Impact
Impact CEO exists to inspire and equip Kingdom-minded business leaders to live fully integrated lives — where faith, leadership, and business integrate for eternal impact. Hosted by Duane Donner, Founder and CEO of Founders Advisors and Abide & Lead, each episode features authentic conversations with CEOs, founders, and industry leaders who are building companies that are making an eternal impact.
Impact CEO exists to inspire and equip Kingdom-minded business leaders to live fully integrated lives — where faith, leadership, and business integrate for eternal impact. Hosted by Duane Donner, Founder and CEO of Founders Advisors and Abide & Lead, each episode features authentic conversations with CEOs, founders, and industry leaders who are building companies that are making an eternal impact.
We invite you to join us for these transformative stories, practical wisdom, and Kingdom-centered leadership conversations about abiding in Christ, integrating faith into business, building legacy through stewardship, and turning success into significance — and significance into surrender.
We invite you to join us for these transformative stories, practical wisdom, and Kingdom-centered leadership conversations about abiding in Christ, integrating faith into business, building legacy through stewardship, and turning success into significance — and significance into surrender.
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In this special bonus episode of Impact CEO, J. Lee Ellison and Duane Donner pause the usual CEO interviews to reflect on vision, rhythms, and spiritual alignment as they step into a new season of leadership. This conversation introduces the heart behind Abide & Lead, a leadership framework rooted in John 15 and the belief that lasting impact flows from abiding in Christ before executing vision. Together, they unpack what it looks like to start a new year with clarity, margin, and intentionality without chasing wholesale change or burning out in the process.
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The Impact CEO Story
Duane Donner
Founder and CEO, Founders Advisors
Welcome to Impact CEO, where real CEOs share how they integrate faith and leadership to build companies with eternal impact. In this kickoff episode, Duane Donner, founder of Abide & Lead and CEO of Founders Advisors, shares the story behind Abide & Lead, how his faith reshaped his approach to business, and why abiding in Christ is the foundation for effective leadership. You’ll hear practical insights on servant leadership, culture-building, and what to expect from future conversations with high-impact leaders.
Life with Purpose
Chris Hodges
Founding Pastor | Chancellor, Pt. 1
In this episode, Duane and Pastor Chris Hodges, Founding Pastor of Church of the Highlands and Chancellor of Highlands College, talk about the defining moments that shaped Duane's faith. Duane shares how God used key mentors, challenges, and seasons of refining to reveal his calling and what it means to discover purpose through surrender. This conversation sets the stage for intentional living and seeing your work as worship.
Success to Surrender
Pete Ochs
CEO, Enterprise Stewardship
Entrepreneur and Kingdom builder Pete Ochs joins Duane to explore what it means to move from success to significance to surrender. Together, they unpack how honoring the Sabbath, wisely stewarding your finances, and integrating economic, social, and spiritual capital lead to sustainable impact.
Leadership That Lifts
Bobby Mason
CEO, SPOC Automation
Bobby shares about building a thriving, profitable company rooted in faith, love, and servant leadership. Bobby shares how his company's culture of "lifting others" has transformed lives, strengthened performance, and even helped save an employee's life. A compelling conversation on leadership, culture, abiding in Christ, and using business as a platform for eternal impact.
The Impact CEO Story
Duane Donner
Founder and CEO, Founders Advisors
Welcome to Impact CEO, where real CEOs share how they integrate faith and leadership to build companies with eternal impact. In this kickoff episode, Duane Donner, founder of Abide & Lead and CEO of Founders Advisors, shares the story behind Abide & Lead, how his faith reshaped his approach to business, and why abiding in Christ is the foundation for effective leadership. You’ll hear practical insights on servant leadership, culture-building, and what to expect from future conversations with high-impact leaders.
Life with Purpose
Chris Hodges
Founding Pastor | Chancellor, Pt. 1
In this episode, Duane and Pastor Chris Hodges, Founding Pastor of Church of the Highlands and Chancellor of Highlands College, talk about the defining moments that shaped Duane's faith. Duane shares how God used key mentors, challenges, and seasons of refining to reveal his calling and what it means to discover purpose through surrender. This conversation sets the stage for intentional living and seeing your work as worship.
Success to Surrender
Pete Ochs
CEO, Enterprise Stewardship
Entrepreneur and Kingdom builder Pete Ochs joins Duane to explore what it means to move from success to significance to surrender. Together, they unpack how honoring the Sabbath, wisely stewarding your finances, and integrating economic, social, and spiritual capital lead to sustainable impact.
Leadership That Lifts
Bobby Mason
CEO, SPOC Automation
Bobby shares about building a thriving, profitable company rooted in faith, love, and servant leadership. Bobby shares how his company's culture of "lifting others" has transformed lives, strengthened performance, and even helped save an employee's life. A compelling conversation on leadership, culture, abiding in Christ, and using business as a platform for eternal impact.
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