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 episode of Impact CEO, Duane Donner sits down with J. Lee Ellison to explore the powerful principle of sowing and reaping and how it shapes every area of life: faith, family, leadership, and business. Drawing lessons from nature and experiences at Heritage Farms, the conversation highlights how intentional investments of time, energy, and resources ultimately produce a harvest over time. Duane shares how this biblical principle transformed his perspective after coming to faith and how leaders can apply it by being thoughtful about what they sow and where they sow it. From building strong families to cultivating healthy cultures in organizations, the discussion emphasizes the importance of planting good seeds in fertile soil and maintaining a long-term, eternal perspective. This episode challenges leaders to examine the seeds they are planting today, the soil they are cultivating, and the harvest they hope to see in the future. With practical wisdom and encouragement for those who may still be waiting on results, the conversation is a reminder that faithful sowing, over years and even generations, can produce a harvest far greater than we can imagine.

POPULAR EPISODES

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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