As Catholic founders, how we build and integrate technology matters. Too many entrepreneurs fall into two extremes: using AI as a Toy (wasting time without adding real value) or building a Tower of Babel (over-engineering massive systems that create chaos instead of order).

To avoid both scenarios, our latest Catholic Founders Expert Guild Call asked our fellow Guild Member, Raffaele D’Apolito to break down a practical, Catholic Social Teaching (CST)-aligned framework for AI automation.

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In Today’s Issue:

• Intro to the Guest and Topic: Lucas & Jessica Moser — Teaching their children the value of work one honey jar at a time.

• Core Takeaway: Enduring heritage > financial wealth

• Episode References

• Select Quotes

• Key Moments

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News / Updates:

• CF Nashville had another rigorous but definitely inspiring discussion on Magnifica Humanitas. 📖🧐

• 🤝Check out our upcoming Catholic Founders events (open to all Catholic biz owners, or those seriously aspiring to be)

  • Dallas - August 22 (guest speaker ​Alex Cartwright, founder of Hotel Shift)

  • NYC - August 22 - Rooftop BBQ 🌭 Grilling party. Sounds super fun!

  • Monterrey, Mexico - August 25 - we’re growing beyond the US!

  • More coming in 📍Houston, DC, Tampa, South Bend, Steubenville, Charlotte, Kansas City, Denver, Fort Lauderdale area, Wausau Wisconsin, and more! To catch them, follow our calendar. 🗓️ If you want to lead a meetup in your area, email us at admin@catholicfounders.com.

• Last week’s guest was Eamonn Clark, where we talked about Building a Social Enterprise Accelerator and How These Help Christians in Various Parts of the World. If you haven’t yet, listen to this episode here.

• 🗣️ 🏦 Guild Call on August 11. Topic: “How Tridfi is Investing in Local Communities by Taking on Banks” is going to be on Aug 11th. (Join the guild to attend)

Today’s Topic & Guest:

Lucas & Jessica Moser | Mosermade

We’re joined by Lucas and Jessica Moser for their very first podcast appearance. They are a married couple raising five young children on an acreage in rural Virginia, building a life centered on faith, family, and hard work.

Off their property, they run Mosermade — a family venture spanning custom woodworking, a sawmill, and an apiary (look at us using fancy words) with around fifty honeybee colonies.

They have built this out slowly over time through dedication to the long-term goals of the family and Lucas’ engineering job. Yes, he still works full time, and they do this.

This conversation genuinely inspired me because seeing how they have built their business ventures to all be in service of the family is just incredible. It also has the benefit of teaching their own kids the skills of entrepreneurship.

Core Lesson:

Money AND business should be oriented to serve your family. Truly.

As I sat thinking after this conversation about what stood out most to me, it was easily this. That their business ventures clearly exist to help serve their family needs and goals. The money the business produces is ALSO in service of the business. They never sit down and plan how much they need to work in order to make x amount of dollars.

When I say I feel inspired by this incredible couple, I am not exaggerating. I really mean it.

Even though I’ve talked about things like this on the podcast and written about them in the newsletter in the past, seeing it in live action was really awesome.

Really hoping that everyone else listens with intention and focus so you can see what I’m talking about.

God Bless & Happy Building!

~Silas Mähner

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Key Episode References:

Books & Literary Works

• Leaving a Legacy by Johann Kurtz

• Catechism of the Catholic Church

Podcast Episodes

• Catholic Founders Episode: Johann Kurtz

Saints & Holy Figures

• St. Valentine

• St. Joseph

• St. Anthony of Padua

• The Blessed Virgin Mary

Bible Passages

• The Parable of the Mustard Seed (Matthew 13:31–32)

Select Quotes:

• “We really want our kids to to be successful and success to us means that they have a healthy church life and they are able to to look after themselves both financially and religiously.” - Lucas Moser

• “I don’t think I’ve ever thought of it as a financial legacy that we’re trying to leave behind so the the legacy being like how will they remember us? Like did we lead them closer to God? Did we show God’s light at all?” - Jessica Moser

• “The business is a way for us to inculcate values into them that are important to us, like hard work. ” - Lucas Moser

• “...keeping our heads down and worrying about what we’re building ourselves is a lot more helpful because when we start to look at other people, that that’s when it becomes like, shoot, I don’t feel as fulfilled right now.” - Jessica Moser

• “Having shared goals helps, and being humble enough to admit where you’re not not able to fulfill the particular business need goes a long way.” - Lucas Moser

• “And I think that in general, the point of life is really how can I serve God? And you can serve God through serving your neighbor, through serving your your spouse, through serving your children.” - Silas Mähner

• “...if I just have a little bit of faith and just put forth like I know nothing can magically happen, so obviously I have to do work myself, but like just doing that and then trusting him with the rest...” - Jessica Moser

• “You don’t need a whole lot of faith. I mean all God asks for is just a little bit.” - Jessica Moser

• “In general, the money itself is in service of their family and their business, right? The business is not in service of creating money.” - Silas Mähner
  

Key Moments: (outline)

• (03:28) - Meet Lucas and Jessica: Overview of the Mosers’
  rural Virginia home, sawmill, and apiary operations.

• (05:33) - Origins of the Business: How a small beekeeping hobby
  and practical home woodworking grew into a business.

• (06:31) - Balancing Engineering & Business: Lucas shares how
  he manages a full-time job alongside family homestead enterprises.

• (08:00) - Heritage & Family Involvement: The role of extended
  family support, heritage equipment, and custom branding.

• (12:18) - Hands-On Homeschooling: Why the Mosers chose
  country life and integrated learning into daily tasks.

• (15:19) - Passing Down Values Over Liquid Assets: Utilizing business to
  teach children virtue, stewardship, and practical craftsmanship.

• (20:21) - Finding Joy in the Daily Work: Staying present in the work
  and including young children in harvesting and woodworking.

• (27:19) - Marriage & Co-Founder Dynamics: How Lucas and Jessica
  leverage their complementary strengths and avoid envy.

• (34:10) - Purposeful Goal Setting: Measuring business growth through practical milestones rather than arbitrary financial targets.

• (40:19) - Daily Prayer & Saint Devotions: Weaving Catholic faith,
  saint feast days, and morning prayer into family routines.

• (43:45) - Cultivating Local Community: Serving neighbors through
  farm-to-table dinners and authentic local connections.

• (49:39) - True Legacy Defined: Shaping how children and neighbors remember the family’s faith and witness to God’s love.

• (55:02) - Rapid Fire Questions: Scriptural inspirations,
  saintly intercessors, and entrepreneurial role models.

• (1:00:58) - Silas’s Reflections & Outro: Summary of takeaways on
  money, family life, and the Catholic Founders Guild.

I can’t promise you much, but I can promise you today’s newsletter will be better than Nolan’s Odyssey. Just kidding, I actually liked it. I can, however, promise you this is a lot shorter and won’t blow out your eardrums.

Welcome back to Saintly CEO: the Tuesday morning newsletter for business owners whose first objective is to become a saint.

IN TODAY’S ISSUE

• Updates: My First big Speech

• Feature Content: What Humility Really Means

• Heavenly Hustlers: Spotify for Patents?

• Highlights: What CF and Sam Adams have in Common

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News / Updates / Events:

• Nashville Catholic Founders, we have a meetup tonight. 🤝 If you’re coming and haven’t signed up yet, register here.

• If you’re interested, here is the recording of the talk I gave at Catholic University of America last month. I had to tell a room full of Catholic biz school professors what they need to teach the leaders of tomorrow.

• Learn how entrepreneurship in mission territories helps Catholics fight poverty and elevate communities toward holiness and prayer through our latest podcast episode with Eamonn Clark. 🎧

• Catholic Founders in NYC had an amazing celebration last weekend. 🎉

• Check out all of our in-person events on our Luma page. Or start your own meetup; we’ll be happy to coordinate with you. Email us at admin@catholicfounders.com.

Pursue Glory. Humility Requires it of You. Let me Explain.

Humility is the basis of all virtues. A priest once illustrated this to me using the Crucifix. He said (I’m paraphrasing) the heart of Jesus — the center of the crucifix — is Charity. But holding all that up, is the cross itself — firmly planted in the ground. Without that firm root, the cross can never stand, and charity cannot be displayed.

This is an important reminder for us as Catholic builders.

We are, in many ways, living in the heart of the world. It’s the domain where we must allow our charity to shine to all those we encounter. However, as stated previously, we cannot do this if we are not firmly rooted in humility.

Now, there is something interesting about humility. I recently read 1 Peter 5:5-6, and one line really stood out to me. Here’s the passage.

“In the same way, you who are younger must accept the authority of the elders. And all of you must clothe yourselves with humility in your dealings with one another, for

‘God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.’ [quoting from proverbs]

Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, so that he may exalt you in due time.”

Perhaps this is an indictment of where the attention of my heart lies, but that last phrase stood out.

It just seems interesting to me that Peter tells us to humble ourselves, so that God may exalt us in due time.

Does that mean we are actually in fact meant to be exalted… eventually?

While I do not feel that I have in any way ‘figured out’ this passage, I have been thinking about it for a couple days, and here is what I think it means (I remain highly open to suggestions though).

We know that God desires our exaltation in heaven. This is not really glorification of us as much as it is a glorification of God through his perfected creation. But beyond heaven, I take this to mean something similar.

In this life, we can become exalted… in order to give glory to God. We can attract the praise and glory of men, but then choose to redirect that energy towards its rightful end: God.

And I believe that God is pleased by this.

His creation, using the talents and skills he has bestowed on us to do good, to imitate his goodness on earth, and ultimately to send the praise for those works up to him. Hopefully drawing more people in towards him, so that they may know his heart.

Consider the story of a musician. He’s given a talent. He decides to practice and lean into that talent. He knows it comes from God, so as he grows in popularity, he always directs that praise he’s receiving up towards God. He can only do this authentically if he actually believes that the gift is from God. When others see this authentic praise of God, they are drawn to consider it more deeply, hopefully one day, coming to know God.

The key part of this is that there is an active participation. We do put in the work. This ‘work’ is really just cooperation with the things he’s given us. The raw talent is shaped by his graces. But it requires us pursuing him.

Going back to the musician. He had the interest, the basic skill, and the resources to know about his love of music. But he had to cultivate it into a real skill. To the point where he could even be capable of receiving praise from men. If he hadn’t cultivated the gift, there would be no attention for him to redirect towards God.

We started this conversation around humility, and this is where I’m trying to get. If we are humble, we can truly recognize the gifts God has given us. Once we have done that, we must also recognize that it would be wrong, lacking gratitude, and plain sad for us not to put those gifts to the best possible use.

For goodness sake. He created us, gave us gifts, and how often do we just bury those in the sand? What if the musician just let his gift fall to ruin, or worse, what if he never cultivated it at all?

Doing this, putting these gifts to work, honing them, perfecting them, and using them to serve those around us, will undoubtedly lead to us getting attention. In a way, you could say it would lead to our ‘exaltation,’ at least in the world’s eyes.

Does this mean we should not do these things? No. Obviously not based on the reasoning we’ve followed so far.

It doesn’t mean we should not do these things; it just means that we should direct all that praise to God, where it belongs.

Again, we cannot set out in pursuit of exaltation, for to do so would be a failure to recognize the gifts are from God.

We should, however, set out to exalt God. To glorify him for the gifts he’s given us, and the things he’s done for us.

Exaltation is going to be the outcome as a byproduct… but not exaltation of ourselves. Exaltation of the Most High, King and Lord of All — God; the Creator.

So, I’m asking you, in humility, to recognize where your gifts come from, and pursue glory — glory for God. He desires that you put those gifts to work. It pleases him.

God Bless & Happy Building

~Silas Mähner

Heavenly Hustlers

These are other Catholic business owners. Nominate one (including yourself).

• 🚰 Kory Koralewski is the founder of Denver-based Optimum Field Service Solutions, a company providing specialized management software for the irrigation industry that integrates scheduling, inventory, and CRM tools for dealerships.

• 💰 Chris Da Silva is based in Armadale, Australia, and is building ‘Financial Discipleship,’ a project offering digital resources and coaching to integrate faith with personal finance. The project aims to provide financial education to institutions, including schools and their staff.

• 🪪 Art Nutter, based in Colorado Springs, leads Patent Books, a platform that helps independent inventors secure licensing compensation from major tech companies through centralized industry patent pools.

• 🚜 Michael Thomas of the Catholic Land Movement, based in Cooperstown, New York, leads an international mission to resettle Catholics onto productive, agrarian property. They promote distributist economic principles and foster community-led sustainable agricultural enterprises for Catholic families.

• 📈 Christian Esqueda operates Krux Marketing and Philanthropy based in Texas, an agency that assists Catholic organizations with advancement and fundraising. He is also piloting a SaaS product called Micro Give to help streamline donations for Catholic nonprofits.

• 🙏 Carlos Espinoza Banegas is the Founder of the PleasePray App. Through this, his goal is to create innovative faith-based solutions to connect communities.

• 🧮 Tim Thackston leads and operated a family owned accounting firm serving small businesses. He is based in Westminster, Maryland.

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Highlights: A Key Part of Sam Adams’ Success in the Revolution

A group I’m part of recently read about Samuel Adams and how he is arguably the most critical man in creating the circumstances for the American Revolution.

Without getting super far into it, there is one thing that stood out to me. And that is the network that he built called the Committees of Correspondence. The name sounds innocuous, but in reality it was a form of shadow government before the union was finalized.

Hearing about this got me thinking a lot about what we are doing with Catholic Founders. The local meetups, discussing the ideas of Catholic entrepreneurship. Our WhatsApp chat, stitching these local communities together. And a shared goal: to Make Our Country Catholic.

We all need to do our part in growing these networks and fostering true community among ourselves.

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A while back, I had the opportunity to meet . Since then, he’s been very supportive of the work we’re doing at Catholic Founders. Giving me ideas, makes intros, and, as he says, reads our newsletters every week.

If you’re interested, here is the podcast episode he recorded with us over a year ago.

Andreas’ story is incredible. Born and raised in Switzerland. He ended up joining the Swiss Guard — the pope’s bodyguards. He did this for two years during the papacy of Pope St. John Paul II. He shares about that in his book The Pope & the CEO (it’s quite moving).

After that experience, he got into business and eventually ended up becoming a teacher at the Busch School of Business at the Catholic University of America.

Now, once a year, he brings together a group of 20-40 Catholic business school professors from around the world to discuss how to better educate their students in the coming year — especially relating to Catholic Social Teaching.

This year, he invited me to address that group based on the things I’ve learned from running Catholic Founders over the past two years.

The main point of this talk was to help these professors understand what’s at stake, help them recognize their unique role in solving these problems, and then to walk them through the key areas where they need to help educate the future Catholic business leaders.

Shoutout to James Knight for helping me prepare and structure this talk.

If you have any follow-up thoughts on it, I’d love to hear them. My DMs are open, and the comments are as well.

NOTE: If you prefer to watch on YouTube, you can do so here.

Last week, the Guild gathered to discuss Investing Outside the Stock Market. The group was reminded that we were given our financial resources and entrepreneurial talents to care for those around us, build up local communities, and trust in Divine Providence. We were not called to be stewards of capital just so we could chase fast profits. Unfortunately, all too often, we allow our capital to sit passively in distant financial markets or we use it only for our own selfish gain and short-term efficiency.

All of us must reject that temptation and apply our capital intentionally—investing in tangible assets like land, supporting local businesses, and empowering our employees with financial literacy. True Catholic stewardship is about putting your money to work where it creates real, lasting impact.

If you’re committed to being a better steward and leaning into the resources God gave you, check out today’s recording (only available to paid members) to listen to the full discussion.

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In Today’s Issue:

• News / Updates

• Intro to the Guest and Topic: Eamonn Clark — Helping Pakistani Christians make a living AND… the Virtue of Magnificence

• Core Takeaway: Relieving involuntary poverty helps people have the opportunity to lift their souls in prayer.

• Episode References

• Select Quotes

• Key Moments

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News / Updates:

• 🤝Check out our upcoming Catholic Founders events (available to all Catholic biz owners, or those seriously aspiring to be)

  • NYC - July 25 (celebrating America 250 🇺🇸🎉 )

  • Nashville - July 28 (discussion on Magnifica Humanitas)

  • Dallas - August 22 (guest speaker ​Alex Cartwright, founder of Hotel Shift)

  • More coming in 📍Houston, DC, Tampa, South Bend, Steubenville, Charlotte, Kansas City, Denver, Fort Lauderdale area, Wausau Wisconsin, and more! To catch them, follow our calendar. 🗓️

• On Sunday, we dropped an amazing interview with Tim Busch 🎙️- founder of the NAPA Institute (and more). Check out how he’s managing $1.5b in hotels while keeping his faith at the center of his life.

• Next Guild Call (paid only) is Aug 28th — an AI Automation Workshop🧑🏼‍💻. Led by Raffaele D’Apolito. (Join the guild to attend)

Today’s Topic & Guest:

Eamonn Clark | Pro Fide

Today’s guest, is perhaps one of the most unique people I’ve encountered. He’s an American, who has found himself in Italy, in and near Rome, for 10-ish years, mostly studying theology. As a result, he’s built a very large network of religious and priests. Yet… deep down, he himself is an entrepreneur. He’s been suffering from a bout of academia but is finally shaking it off (sorry to my friends in Academia, we still love you).

Given his network, he’s had the chance to meet priests who live in various corners of the world… and even visit many of them. This exposure has led to him seeing the dire circumstances of many. He’s got this fascinating network.

Knows people on the ground in these places of need, has an intimate understanding of theology, and happens to have his American spirit of entrepreneurship. So… he’s decided to do the logical thing… launch a social enterprise accelerator.

Just kidding. Of course this isn’t ‘logical,’ but he’s doing it.

WIth Pro Fide, they are launching social enterprises that will help Christians in various parts of the world leverage their local resources to create products and sell them overseas. Enabling them to provide for their families, as well as support The Church in these local areas.

As a heads up, if you want to hear all about Magnificence — a virtue we seem to have forgotten about, I think you’ll really enjoy this episode!

Core Lesson:

The key value in social enterprises is to free the mind to pursue holiness, prayer, and the sacraments.

When communities are trapped in involuntary poverty, survival takes up every ounce of emotional and spiritual bandwidth. The NGO money that get’s thrown at a distant problem often leads to corruption and… ultimately destroys local work incentives.

By creating sustainable businesses on the ground, we do more than generate jobs — we restore human dignity. We’re also applying the principle of subsidiarity and building an economic foundation that allows the Church and her people to flourish.

God Bless & Happy Building!

~Silas Mähner

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Key Episode References:

• Pope Pius XI’s Social Teaching

• 1 Cor 9:22

• St. Anthony Claret

• Zuhair Madanat

• profide.io

• Bath salt pre-orders

Select Quotes:

• “Voluntary poverty is a great help to holiness. Involuntary poverty is not.” - Eamonn Clark

• “You have to know something in order to love it. […] Knowledge and love working together in a certain kind of way that gets filtered through the act of creation and imprinted in the pattern of the universe.” - Eamonn Clark

• “If you understand knowing and loving and being and doing and the relationship between those four things, you figured out the universe.” - Eamonn Clark

• “Why don't you come play a very interesting game that's meaningful, impactful, and sustainable that can really actually help save souls.” - Eamonn Clark

• “I want to free them of their temporal anxieties so that they can elevate themselves towards contemplation, prayer, the sacraments, okay?” - Eamonn Clark

• “If someone says, I don’t know what I’m doing, then they’re probably trustworthy when they say that they do.” - Eamonn Clark

Key Moments: (outline)

• (00:00) - Cold Open

• (00:36) - Episode Welcome

• (03:15) - Guest Intro: Eamonn outlines his theological
  background in Rome studying Pius XI’s social teaching.

• (04:08) - Origin Story: How living alongside international
  priests in Rome sparked Eamonn’s passion for mission territories.

• (06:14) - Theology & Enterprise: Why effective charity requires
  market knowledge and how knowing precedes loving.

• (10:44) - Pakistani Pink Salt Venture: Sourcing Himalayan
  pink bath salts directly from a parish in Pakistan.

• (13:09) - Employment Challenges in Pakistan: How religious
  discrimination restricts minority Catholics from obtaining dignified work.

• (17:21) - Why Bath Salts?: Strategy, margins,
  FDA requirements, and health benefits over sea salt.

• (22:50) - Lay-Run Mission Accelerator: Eamonn’s vision
  for scaling Catholic social enterprises in foreign mission areas.

• (27:02) - Three Core Pillars: Establishing a trusted clerical network,
  tax-effective funding structures, and operational talent.

• (34:25) - Subsidiarity vs. Foreign Aid: Why dumping NGO capital
  destroys local work incentives and how lean enterprise succeeds.

• (39:14) - The Virtue of Magnificence: Deploying excess capital
  intentionally into grand, long-term, enduring projects.

• (44:42) - Theology of Entrepreneurship: Recreating Eden through
  co-creation, voluntary vs. involuntary poverty, and spiritual freedom.

• (50:16) - Rapid Fire Questions: Scriptural inspiration, favorite founders,
  St. Anthony Claret, and Marian devotions.

• (54:23) - Outro: Silas reflects on local impact, sponsor highlights, and the calling to create.

Happy Tuesday, folks!

Welcome back to Saintly CEO: the Tuesday morning newsletter for business owners whose first objective is to become a saint.

IN TODAY’S ISSUE

• News/Updates/Events: We interviewed Tim Busch!

• Feature Content: Faith = Catalyst (aka: action!)

• Heavenly Hustlers

• Highlights

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News / Updates / Events:

• We just dropped our biggest interview yet — Tim Busch. Please check it out and give it some love. Like, comment, share around with friends. Tim’s story is really good, and he gave a lot of incredible wisdom and insights.
  

• Attention Charlotte, NC! We have a meetup happening this Thursday. Register here.

• We also have NYC this Saturday AND Wausau, WI. As well as Nashville next week.

• Check out all of our in-person events on our Luma page.

With Faith, Your Life Should Look Like an Action Movie

This past Sunday we heard the parable of the Wheat and the Darnel (weeds). Also included in the readings was the woman who mixed the leaven in as well as the tiny mustard seed growing into a great tree (where birds can dwell within).

Seed. Leaven. Growth.

The scene this paints is one of motion.

Growth... Rising… The wheat that grows to maturity. Bread rising. Mustard seed becoming a tree (and a sturdy one at that).

It’s impossible to ignore the motion.

And what is the subject of all these? Faith.

Faith. Motion. Faith = catalyst.

We know (because Jesus tells us) that the seed is the word of God. Once received, what follows immediately is growth and motion. It becomes an action scene.

The growth doesn’t take place on its own, though. It requires external factors. Sunshine, water, nutrients. Wheat, oven, heat. The external factors are God’s grace that He supplies to us (in abundance).

Growth is evidence of true faith. Actually making use of the graces God sends.

Look at your own life; do you see that type of growth? Do you feel the motion? Are you accepting the gifts of water, sunshine, and nutrients God provides?

If not… might I suggest you avail yourself of more of those graces. Maybe you don’t have faith in the first place? If this is the case, you know where to start… the (divine) word.

Okay, I’ve yapped on about the lesson and how it’s evidence of our own lives. Are we a growing, living thing — or are we a stagnant, dying thing?

But the key thing I actually want to draw out here is agency. Agency — “you can just do things” — is about taking actions. However… rather than being ‘the hero’ and saving the day, when we take action, we are simply cooperating with God’s grace.

Our action… our agency, is primarily a mental consent/assent where we choose to accept God’s graces into our lives.

• Getting on our knees to pray

• Frequent Mass & confession

• Welcoming Him in mentally

• Going to adoration

All of these things are there, but we still need to avail ourselves of them. Even if the only thing you can manage is a small prayer before work every day. That’s still something.

Practicing saying yes to those small things here and there will build up the grace. Heaping it up into your soul. Filling and filling. Until if flows over. Spilling out into the world around. Only to continue growing and flowing. One day the souls of others around will also have their cups overflowing further. The fragrance sweet, the sight wonderful. God’s grace — enough of it for everyone.

The wheat and the darnel will grow side by side to the end of time (the harvest). Will our roots be firm enough to withstand the culling of the darnel? Will our faith be mature enough that the workers could never mistake us for darnel?

Did we take agency and make use of the graces God prepared for us?

You’re an entrepreneur. I know you have agency in generous supply.

There is no excuse.

Finally, consider where God will lead you and what a beautiful, sturdy tree you can grow into if you receive these graces. If your faith leads to constant growth, how much good can you do for those around you? A branch for the birds. Shade for the traveler. Fruit for the hungry.

My prayer for you is that you allow that tiny seed to become an action scene so that you may grow into a sturdy tree — large and magnificent — firmly standing because you’re rooted in God.

God Bless & Happy Building

~Silas Mähner

Heavenly Hustlers

These are other Catholic business owners. Nominate one (including yourself).

• 🎬 John-Andrew O’Rourke is the president of Blackstone Films. Based out of the Denver area. They have produced a lot of really incredible films.

• 🎞️ Manny Marquez is the President of Remuda Pictures. He is a Tulsa-based documentary filmmaker specializing in storytelling within the Catholic and veteran sectors. He focuses on projects that aim to glorify God while supporting his family.

• 🐑 Brendan Murphy leads Leave the 99, a Florida-based non-profit organization focused on Catholic evangelization for young people through media productions, university campus chapters, and creative retreat programs.

• ⛑️ Erin Ford runs an independent health insurance business based in Frisco, Texas, specializing in customized PPO plans for individuals, families, and small businesses with fewer than 50 employees. She serves as an external HR resource, helping clients navigate insurance options while providing affordable, high-quality coverage solutions.

• 🙏 Br. Michael Seethaler is the founder of the Society of Ostians based in Beaumont, Texas (currently), a religious order that blends contemplative prayer with specialized evangelization to meet modern leadership needs. The group takes on projects focusing on internal community development and external ministry to the unchurched.

• 🏦 Louis Mayor is a financial professional at Rethink Wealth based in Houston, Texas, dedicated to serving Catholic families and professionals through stewardship-based financial planning.

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Highlights: Ice Cream in Dallas

Last week, our very own guild member, Christina Rossini, hosted a Catholic Founders meetup in Dallas at Howdy Homemade Ice Cream. Jeff Schiefelbein came and spoke about their venture. Then some discussion around Catholic Social teaching also ensued.

Don’t miss next month’s Dallas meetup (they have another amazing speaker lined up). And if you’d like to start hosting a meetup on a regular basis - or just simply one-off- reach out to us, and we’ll help you arrange it. Admin@CatholicFounders.com

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Hey folks!

As you may notice from the different format of these notes, this is not a usual episode.

It’s special because Tim Busch, legendary hotel magnate, philanthropist, serial entrepreneur, and founder of the NAPA Institute, welcomed us into his NYC apartment to record a very special episode of Catholic Founders.

Obviously, you can record these remotely, but it’s not the same as being in the room with them, or being there with the guest. Rapport increases, but so does the effect of the Holy Spirit — and I felt it with this interview.

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Why this interview matters:

Tim is one of very few Catholic business owners who runs a huge organization with thousands of employees, who is also (a) willing to be visible / interviewed, and (b) choosing to stay in the arena.

At this point in his life, he could easily retire and take it easy. But as I’ve learned from the book his daughter wrote about him, and through meeting him for this interview, he’s not planning on backing down. He’s continuing to build and influence the world towards God using his resources, his network, and his time.

We desperately need more Tim Busch’s in the world. Will you be one?

Will you firmly root God at the center of your life as you build your enterprise?

Will you put in all your effort to build a substantial business and not get lazy?

Will you start projects that require long-term time and financial commitment?

Will you fund existing projects to help transform the culture?

Will you be open about your life so others have the opportunity to be inspired by your example?

In a word, will you be a Catholic Founder?

Key Topics Discussed:

• The scale of their operation. $1.5bn in hotels w/ $400m in revenue. Busch family markets. NAPA Institute. Philanthropic work.

• Keeping his faith alive in his work. The ways he integrates the faith into his work and how he runs his companies.

• Why & What the NAPA Institute is.

• Why personal giving is better than gov’t-funded social services. Why social services lack accountability and innovation. And why we should be doing this, giving ourselves while holding those orgs accountable.

• How to treat employees with dignity. Specifically ensuring there are no gatekeepers to reach him in his company.

• How he thinks about legacy and passing the business on to his children. And specifically the importance of handing things off to his children while he’s still alive.

• Why he’s not really interested in retirement. He sees his life and success as a gift. He also really enjoys work. So he can’t understand why he would stop building. For him, with his network and track record, it’s now possible for him to do bigger and better things. He believes that in the next 10 years he’ll be able to do more than he’s done in the past 40 years of his career given the compounding.

(Among many other topics)

God Bless & Happy Building!

~Silas Mähner

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Key Episode References:

• Pacific Hospitality Group

• Busch Family Market

• Napa Legal Institute

• Catholic University of America (Bush School of Business)

• Legatus

• Fides Entrepreneurship Talks

• Leonine Forum

Select Quotes:

• “It’s [your faith] the only thing you can give away, where you have more when you get done.” – Tim Busch

• “We’re all called to co-create, but we have to do it with humility.” – Tim Busch

• “The children will be your future. They’re going to take care of you. This is the other thing we’re missing in society: the responsibility that we take care of our children, and the children take care of the parents and the grandparents.” – Tim Busch

• “Faith grows from within when you give it away because that’s what God always planned.” – Tim Busch

• “You have to run the country with virtue. And faith is part of that.”

  – Tim Busch

• “Innovation comes out of necessity. It doesn’t just happen.” – Tim Busch

• “The source of the money has to be the guide, has to be the moral compass, has to be the North Star.” – Tim Busch

Key Moments (Time Stamps):

• (0:00) — Faith as something that grows when shared: Tim reflects on teaching, evangelization, virtue, and bringing faith into public life.

• (1:03) — Host introduction and Tim’s background: Silas introduces Tim’s hospitality business, family markets, philanthropy, and work with the Napa Institute.

• (2:19) — Building a business portfolio: Tim outlines the family markets, hotel business, wine interests, law firm, and nonprofit commitments.

• (4:00) — Why the Napa Institute exists: The conversation turns to the organization’s origin, mission, and its effort to unite faith, business, politics, and community.

• (7:16) — Lay apostolates and accountability to the Church: Tim explains the role of Catholic organizations, spiritual direction, and staying connected to Church teaching.

• (9:39) — Institutions, entrepreneurship, and evangelization: A substantive discussion of why independent Catholic initiatives can move differently from institutional structures.

• (17:02) — Profit, philanthropy, and investing with purpose: Tim shares how he thinks about balancing commercial work, personal passions, and charitable giving.

• (20:27) — Local responsibility and the limits of government programs: The pair discuss homelessness, subsidiarity, accountability, and the role of local communities.

• (26:19) — Caring for employees beyond compensation: Tim talks about benefits, stability, workplace culture, and treating employees as people rather than numbers.

• (31:40) — Leading thousands of employees personally: Tim describes meeting directly with employees and using those conversations to assess leadership and workplace health.

• (34:30) — Why he hasn’t retired: Tim makes the case for continued work, purpose, creation, and resisting an aimless version of retirement.

• (37:06) — Family businesses and preparing the next generation: The conversation explores succession, giving children room to lead, and avoiding over-management.

• (43:46) — Catholic ambition, wealth, and humility: A strong section on building big things without letting success become self-serving.

• (49:04) — Legacy, stewardship, and family continuity: Tim discusses handing down responsibility, transparency in family planning, and keeping future generations united.

• (53:07) — Mentors, stories, and sharing faith publicly: Tim reflects on examples of successful, faith-driven leaders and why stories teach better than abstract ideas.

• (57:11) — The value of successful Catholics telling their stories: A clear exchange about visibility, faith, and giving younger founders models to learn from.

• (59:19) — Closing advice for aspiring entrepreneurs and young families: Tim offers encouragement about risk, prayer, family, building a business, and seeing children as part of a long-term legacy.

• (63:25) — Closing reflection on serving the people closest to you: The interview ends with family responsibility, gratitude, and a warm sign-off.

Happy Tuesday, folks! I hope your summer is going swimmingly well. Please pray that our AC unit gets fixed soon - if we don’t, we might have to go swimming as well.

Welcome back to Saintly CEO. Every Monday Tuesday, while you sip your coffee, get some tactical advice to run your business fully in union with your Catholic faith.

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IN TODAY’S ISSUE

• News/Events: NYC, Nashville, Dallas (feat. Jeff Schiefelbein)

• Feature Content: Creating Fertile Soil

• Heavenly Hustlers x 6

• Highlights: Time for Friends + Wild at Heart

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News / Updates

• NYC friends, we have a meetup this 25th of July to celebrate the 250th year of America. 🦅 RSVP here.

• Catholic Founders in Dallas are meeting up at Howdy Homemade Ice Cream on the 18th; even more exciting, Jeff Schiefelbein will be there to share about scaling this social enterprise ice cream brand across the country (you might recall Jeff came on the podcast a while back).

• ICYM the Magnifica Humanitas discussion in Nashville last June; we’re doing another one this 28th.

• We are covering exciting themes for the Topic and Expert Call for this month. Investments Outside the Stock Market and an AI Automation Live Workshop. 🫣 Join the Guild for access (upgrade to a paid subscription here on Substack).

Can Founders Turn Rocky Soil into Good Soil?

Last Sunday we heard the parable of the sower and how each of the seeds turned out depending on the soil they landed on. This got me thinking about the soil itself. What if we as business owners can actually cultivate the ground to make it into good soil, so that when the seed (the word of God) lands, it takes deep root and leads to a bountiful harvest?

Let’s dive in!

Even if you don’t go any further on this piece, I think you get the point, but hopefully you’ll stay with me and let this idea germinate in your mind (and heart) for a bit!

A while back we had Flip Howard on the show to discuss how the space you work in dictates (or at least aids) how well you work. This is a known fact. Your surroundings — your environment — shape you in many ways.

Think about a workplace, about your company’s workplace. How could you craft the work environment (physical or digital) to turn rocky, thorny, or shallow soil into fertile, nutrient-rich soil?

Can we pick the rocks, eradicate the thorns, or plough the pathway? How can we craft the environment to transform our employees’ hearts?

Let’s consider a few ways we can do this.

Let’s look at things through the lens of each ‘issue’ or ‘reason’ why the seed didn’t bear fruit.

The Path: Birds Snatched It

The seed that fell on the path was snatched before the seed could take root. I’m no expert, but this makes me think that there is something to consider about how exposed the seed was. Perhaps the seed was laid in broad daylight, in a public setting, with many people around. Maybe someone retorted just right, or the sower was too harsh in his sharing. Perhaps we need more intimate settings in order for the seed not to be snatched away. To give the seed time to take root.

What comes to mind is the overall ‘vibe’ of the environment you work in. Is it one of peace, quiet, and silence? Where there are no birds chirping away, stealing the seed.

The Rocks: No Roots

As for the seed on rocks, it was received with joy, but was unable to take root. There were rocks in the way of the roots. One might see this as some sort of large obstacle that gets in the way as the root is growing. Perhaps an attachment to sin or the things of the world.

When I hear this, it reminds me of stories my dad would tell of his childhood, how they would pick rocks for hundreds of hours to make the fields better. It feels like a lot of effort is required. To go deep with precise tools and dislodge the obstacles. Perhaps not something we are always called to do with our team, but perhaps the peace and silence of our workplace will allow for the discovery of those large obstacles, for further action to be taken.

The Thorns: Choked by Cares of The World

With the thorns, I wonder if this is the most common. The seed took root, and grew, but bore no fruit. As the scripture says, “As for what was sown among thorns, this is the one who hears the word, but the cares of the world and the lure of wealth choke the word, and it yields nothing.” (Matt. 13:22).

This feels like the challenge of our age. Maybe we know the word (perhaps intimately), but we are too taken by the desire for wealth, or knowledge of the world — sports, politics, technology, news.

What example are we giving in our companies? Are we setting the tone in a good way? Or is our desire for higher profits and more revenue telling our team exactly what matters most to us?

If you’ll bear with me a while longer, let’s consider some of the tangible things we can do to try and solve these three issues, to make way for good soil.

Watch Your Language

Do you personally use curse words, tell dirty jokes, complain, gossip… Yeah! The list of things we can do with our words is pretty long — this is a tough one for many (myself especially).

Once you’re watching your own language, then you can uphold the environment of your team. Don’t tolerate vulgar language on calls, in the office, the sales floor, and even the shop floor.

Spend Your Time Well

What do you spend your lunch time, weekend time, and free time in general doing and talking about? Are you discussing uplifting things? Are you doing uplifting things? Is that time spent in vice or in virtue?

What we discuss in this idle time is critical, especially in the workplace. For those who work in a more physical environment type of situation, there is a lot of time to talk while you work. Are you helping elevate or inspire your employees during that time?

It’s also worth noting, when you observe your normal discussion in these times, that tells you about your own heart and where it’s focused.

Do you speak, or perhaps dream of buying a yacht, living a worry-free life on the beach while others work? Or do you dream about helping your parents get out of debt, building a school, or perhaps funding a cultural project?

Spend your time well with your team as this is one of the KEY LEVERS to bringing them closer to God. Getting their focus off of the cares of the world and the pursuit of wealth. Helping them unearth those stones preventing the root. And keeping them in a quiet place where the birds won’t snatch away the seed.

Craft Your Physical Space

Do you have a crucifix up? Do you keep the space clean? Do you allow clutter? Do you ensure the outside of your building is tidy and fresh? Perhaps more importantly, do you show your team by your actions that the physical space matters? Reverencing it with meticulous care. Using that half-used paper towel to wipe a little extra dust before you toss it. Keeping the papers orderly on the desk.

If you know me well, you might be shouting “Hypocrite” through your screen because my desk is notoriously… a disaster. For now I’m going with the excuse that I have ADHD, but if someone calls me out, I’ll gladly start sending you a picture of it each day to confirm.

If you work remotely, consider having something in your background that acts as a little statement of faith. Something that puts a stake in the ground proudly proclaiming what you stand for. That little Easter egg might be the thing needed to help an employee know they can come to you with tough questions in their personal life, or perhaps even questions about faith.

Time For Prayer

If your faith is important to you, you’ll need to make time for prayer. As the boss, that can be visible — might I say, it should be visible. Don’t do it for vanity to show how holy you are. Try things like taking the lunch break to go to daily Mass, stopping to say the Angelus (use the Project Angelus extension to help you remember), saying your meal prayer before you eat, keep a prayer card as a bookmark. Pray when a special occasion arises — the passing of an ambulance, a passerby in distress, news of someone with a serious illness.

Give company holidays on important feast days and holy days of obligation.

Show them that faith comes before profit for you.

Remember, as you do any of these things, do them with proper intention. Because even when you don’t know the exact method or technique, having the right intention will get you there eventually. Plus, people usually notice intention. Something about it sticks out to those around us.

Start with that intention today; take a moment to speak your prayer to God — Lord, help me to create a work environment that transforms the hearts of those I encounter, but especially my employees, so that their hearts may be like fertile soil, that they may bear abundant fruit and one day see you for eternity in heaven. Amen.

God Bless & Happy Building

~Silas Mähner

Heavenly Hustlers

These are other Catholic business owners. Nominate one (including yourself).

• 🤖 Rafael Labuto, a Brazil-based entrepreneur, is a co-founder of Signalyze AI, a startup that leverages AI agents and massive data signals to optimize lead generation across diverse industries. He is committed to integrating his faith into his professional journey and developing human-centered business solutions.

• 🤝 Martin Arlinghaus leads a prison ministry initiative based in Cincinnati, Ohio, which utilizes a Benedictine monastic model and a for-profit hiring subsidiary to provide faith-based re-entry support for formerly incarcerated men. This organization focuses on structural solutions for prison ministry and the development of monastic-style environments for societal renewal.

• 💰 Matt Johns, based in Fulshear, Texas, leads Honeyhive Capital and Christian Alts, focusing on the private equity vertical and empowering Christian investors through curated alternative market education and strategic capital placement.

• 💻 Joey Di Nardo is an independent AI consultant and developer based in the USA, specializing in creating high-quality, Catholic-aligned MVP software and educational content. He focuses on projects that bridge the gap between AI technology and Catholic values.

• 🏎️ Spencer Steeves is a virtual design and construction professional based in the Northwest Chicago suburbs, Illinois, who operates Redline Motorsports Racing, a startup NASCAR marketing agency focused on sponsorship acquisition and race-day hospitality.

• 🦸🏽‍♀️⚕️Airriaunté Mercer is launching Auden Holistic, a Dallas-based initiative providing cohort programs focused on comprehensive women’s health integration. Her work is focused on women who feel stuck, overwhelmed, and for those who want to pursue deeper healing holistically.

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Highlights: Time For Friends + Wild at Heart

• I got to hang out with Henry Kemme last weekend. He came to visit me. This is your reminder to make time for visitors and encourage them. While I have a lot going on, we can always make time for ‘wasting time’ together with our friends. As Pope Leo has recently encouraged us to do. Not every minute has to be perfectly calendared and spent growing your business.

• I’ve been reading Wild at Heart, by John Eldredge, and I have to say, this book is powerful. It’s especially meant for men, but I think the ladies would get a lot out of reading it - perhaps to help your men become better men!

Here is a huge list of various resources that we have complied overtime: The Ultimate Catholic Founders Resource Guide.

The Catholic Founders Resource Guide

Feel free to bookmark it as we’ll continue to update it. And if you have suggestions on what to add, ping us (even if you want to promote your own stuff).

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News / Updates:

• 🤝 We host a lot of events. This July, we have a meetup in Dallas on the 18th, breakfast in Wisconsin on the 25th, and another meetup in Nashville on the 28th. Check out our events here.

• ⭐ Learn how we, as business owners, can save America and help build the next 250 Years and beyond on our last week’s special episode for the 250th 4th of July Celebration.

• 🖤 Know how to turn your heartbreak into breakthroughs. Check out last week’s episode of CF with Taylor O’Brien, founder and CEO of Candid Dating.

• 🤖 We recently launched a bot to help you learn from ALL the content we’ve produced. Join the Guild today to gain access.

In Today’s Issue:

• Intro to the Guest and Topic — Chris McMahon, Faith and Finance Synthesizer

• Core Takeaway: Just do Things

• Episode References

• Select Quotes

• Key Moments

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Today’s Topic & Guest:

Chris McMahon | Aquinas Wealth Advisors

Today we are speaking with Chris McMahon, the founder of Aquinas Wealth Advisors. I first encountered Chris back when I was living in New York City at a YCP event where he was on a panel. I just remember thinking that this guy had such a strong personality — very gregarious, frank, and possessing a really awesome attitude. I’m very glad we could finally have him on the podcast.

Chris has a wide range of topics he can cover, but we decided to narrow it down and focus on two core themes. First, how can we really align our finances with our faith? This is something a lot of people don’t consider. Specifically, the way I word it is: how do we not ROI-max? Second, Chris has a ton of amazing stories, and I made sure to ask him to share a few because they are just a lot of fun.

You’re going to enjoy this conversation, I’m sure of it.

Core Lesson:

Just Do Things!

Chris shared numerous stories in today’s short conversation of him taking action. Meeting a girl who had been away from her faith, calling a nun and putting her in touch to go with her to confession. Giving the rosary to the girl named Guadalupe, and that opening her to her faith more because she spoke with her abuela.

These are amazing things that happened all because he simply noticed, asked (forwardly), and took action.

How often could we be doing this? How often could we be just doing things?

Most importantly, how many people could have come back to their faith if we ‘just did things?’

One more example: right after our recording, Chris called two different people to introduce us and connect us. It’s things like this that we all need to be doing more as Catholics. To help each other out.

That’s your sign! Just do things!

God Bless & Happy Building!

~Silas Mähner

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Key Episode References:

Organizations & Ministries

• Sisters of Life

• Sisters of Mary

• Legatus

• Students for Life

• Mary’s Place

• Young Catholic Professionals (YCP)

Businesses & Tools

• Aquinas Wealth Advisors

• Faith and Finance Score

• Our Father Constructors

People & Saints

• Kristen Hawkins

• Father Dan Leary

• Fr. Corwin Low, O.P.

• Sister Mary Casey

• Our Lady of Guadalupe

• Father Aloysius Schwartz

Select Quotes:

• “And if people say I’m depressed, I don’t know what’s going on. I don’t know who I am. I say, shut up and go give somebody a sandwich.” - Chris McMahon

• “It frustrates me greatly when people overintellectualize Catholicism, or they weaponize Catholicism.” - Chris McMahon

• “The decision I made, I started asking myself probably later than I’d like, is how my wife would perceive the decision I’m making.” - Chris McMahon

• “If you didn't accept abortion, if you didn't accept pornography, you didn't, if you didn't accept really radical ideology around gender identity, you were thought to be, you know, evil, which isn't that so interesting? As people of faith we we went from being the people that were relied upon for charity to being the people who are thought of as evil.” - Chris McMahon

• “I think it's the evil one, certainly... forty percent of the Catholic institutions we work with own this thing. And they don't even know they own it because it's inside of an ETF. Well, guess what? We're gonna pull the back curtain back, and all of us together pull that curtain back, and we're gonna ch radically transform the world.” - Chris McMahon

• “The action component is always important. You can't just sit around and talk about how we're gonna make the world a better place. You have to go act on it, right? Our faith is a faith of action...” - Silas Mähner

• “It’s better not to wait to have anything, right? It’s better to grow up together in my opinion.” - Chris McMahon

• “And here we are six years later, and our friends have rallied around us... Everyone's looking for an opportunity to jump in the pool. They're afraid. And if we just jump in first, they'll jump in with us.” - Chris McMahon
  

Key Moments: (outline)

• (03:05) - Welcome Chris McMahon: Chris gives his background as a veteran finance guy, family man, and founder of Aquinas Wealth Advisors.

• (07:42) - The Power of a Rosary: Chris shares an inspiring story about the CEO of Howard Hanna Real Estate and the profound impact of a simple rosary gift.

• (09:12) - Encountering Guadalupe in New York: A providential interaction with a hotel clerk named Guadalupe leads to a deeper faith connection.

• (11:25) - Pulling Back the Surface in Media: Chris discusses a powerful moment at a TV studio where a simple question helped guide a grieving producer back to the Church.

• (13:42) - Befriending Priests: Chris challenges Catholic business leaders to actively support and build personal community with local priests.

• (16:50) - Aligning Faith and Finance: A deep dive into how corporate activism shifted away from Christian values and how the Faith and Finance Score tool provides transparency.

• (23:44) - Moving Past ROI Maxing: Exploring the dangers of short-term cost-cutting and shifting focus toward long-term stewardship.

• (30:11) - Radical Stories of Grace: Chris details the conversion story of Fr. Corwin Low, O.P., from Microsoft pioneer to Dominican priest.

• (33:06) - Managing Excess Income: A conversation on using business profitability for transformational philanthropy rather than material accumulation.

• (37:03) - The “Sustainability” Myth: Chris and Silas call out the cowardice of over-analyzing “scalability” instead of taking direct Christian action.

• (38:30) - Gen Z and the Future of the Church: Why the younger generation is rejecting cultural hypocrisy and packing out traditional churches.

• (43:13) - Mentorship and Marriage Advice: Chris explains why young professionals should stop waiting for perfect financial security to marry and start families.

• (46:39) - Sister Mary Casey and the “Why Not?” Mindset: A humorous and touching story about the Sisters of Life that exemplifies acting boldly.

• (48:37) - Call to Action and Outro: Chris shares where to find his book and tools at AquinasWealth.com, and Silas leaves the audience with a final reflection on stewardship.

Hey folks! Gonna have to keep this short today since I’m writing this after watching the USA forget how to play soccer entirely against Belgium. What a sad night for the US.

Please NOTE! I am going to move these posts to Tuesdays going forward. Mainly because I would often end up writing them or finishing them on Sunday nights, and I realized I need to be honest with myself that it’s not honoring the Lord’s Day. I used to say because it’s Catholic Founders stuff it doesn’t really count, but I need to stop that.

This way I can actually enjoy a restful Sunday without the looming pressure of a Monday morning newsletter. Same content though!

Each week you’ll find…

IN TODAY’S ISSUE

• News/Events

• Feature Content: On Generosity in Business

• Heavenly Hustlers

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News / Updates

• 🎆Happy 250th Birthday, USA! I released a special ‘sermon’ to Catholic Business Owners' on how we can keep building the next 250 years of our country.

• 🇺🇸If you’re a paid member, we published the recording from last week’s topic call on How to Make America Catholic. Access it here.

• 👕We’re brewing some Catholic Founders merch this quarter. Watch out!

• We are now available on Amazon Music and Audible. Please make sure to follow us on your favorite podcast app! 🎧

On Generosity in Business

Hey folks! As mentioned above, I’m going to keep this very brief. Partially because I’m sad the US lost and want to go sulk. But mostly because I should have written this a lot sooner and it’s already past 10 as I’m writing this.

Generosity is one of the most important virtues that we can cultivate, especially as entrepreneurs.

God is infinitely generous to us. Creating us in the first place is a supreme act of generosity. We now exist, and by existing have the opportunity to spend eternity in the beatific vision — seeing God face to face.

On top of that, He provides us with literally everything. The earth, family, food, clothing, etc. He cares for us. Not just once or twice a month. Every moment of every day.

If He stopped thinking about us, we’d cease to exist. And no one would remember us.

As entrepreneurs, He is extra generous towards us. Giving us the grace and skill to be someone who builds something. Someone who gets to participate in His care and cultivation of creation in a special way that non-entrepreneurs don’t.

Through us, He provides gainful employment. Inventions. Provisions for families. Excess capital to build churches and schools. The power and influence to affect change around us. The care of the less fortunate. The creation of goods for the benefit of others.

He has made us his stewards and set us over many cities.

How generous our God is!

And what are we to do? Give back. Be generous towards others. Offer employment. Give freely. Pay generous wages. Benefit our community. Take care of the poor. Put our time and influence to good use.

Pope Leo XIV often quotes Saint Augustine: “If you gave a pound of coppers and received a pound of silver, or a pound of silver and received one of gold, you would be delighted at your luck. What you give will certainly be transformed; it isn’t gold, it isn’t silver, but eternal life that will come your way” (Sermon 390, 2, PL 39, 1706). And he explains why: “It will be transformed, because you yourself will be transformed”.

We must answer to the call to generosity and take part in the sharing of our gifts.

With boldness and faith, we must be generous like God Our Father in Heaven is generous. For without generosity there is no vocation. A vocation is only begun when someone accepts the invite and gives themselves to its pursuit.

First slowly, then a bit more, and a bit more. Then suddenly, we look back, and we’ve given ourselves fully. We hardly noticed because it became so fulfilling. Leaning into God’s calling. Embracing it like a long-lost friend. Time seems to slow — or speed up, perhaps because we don’t know where it goes. We’re lost in the moment. Loving what’s in front of us. Fully present. A gift to the other.

Lord, grant us the grace to desire You above all things in life. Each day, Lord, grant that I may love You more and more. Make me like You… generous beyond measure.

God Bless & Happy Building

~Silas Mähner

Heavenly Hustlers

These are other Catholic business owners. Nominate one (including yourself).

• ☢️ Russell Goff is a nuclear engineer and recruiter based in Iowa who operates a specialized firm dedicated to placing experts within the nuclear industry. His firm, Nuclear Talent Scout, focuses on high-quality direct placement, ensuring candidates possess significant industry experience and competence.

• 🫂 Irene Kraegel, a licensed psychologist based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She operates Dwell Psychological Services, a private therapy practice focusing on anxiety, depression, chronic pain, and faith-integrated care.

• 💳 Pietro Rea is the Co-Founder and CTO of Meadow, a Virginia-based company at the intersection of education technology and financial technology that serves nearly 400 universities. They build platforms that help students understand college costs and facilitate tuition payments.

• 📚 Michael Caffrey leads Storyteller.ai, a San Francisco-based company providing AI-powered editing and production tools for independent creators making high-quality films and series. The company focuses on supporting the evolution of modern content creation.

• 💪🏻 Keoni Sablan and John Sablan lead the Serviam Institute, a coaching firm dedicated to helping men develop virtue and habits through Thomistic psychology. The team focuses on providing 12-week coaching programs to support men in their spiritual and personal development. John is also the founder and president of World Ablaze Incorporated, an apostolate focused on evangelization and discipleship within the Catholic community.

• 👨‍💻 Joseph Markey is a Newport, Rhode Island-based senior financial executive who is currently focused on his Faith and Leadership platform. He creates case studies analyzing secular entrepreneurs to bridge the gap between business success and Christian values.

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On July 1st, the CF Guild gathered to discuss How to Make America Catholic through our businesses. At the end of the day, we were not called to be entrepreneurs just so we could get rich or become famous. We were given these gifts to care for those around us and to bring others to know Christ.

Unfortunately, all too often, we allow those gifts to go to waste or we use them only for our own selfish desires.

All of us must reject that tempatation and apply these skills to care for our local communities. Most of our followers are in America, hence the disucssion. But it applies to your own country as well.

If you’re committed to doing this, and leaning into the skills God gave you, check out today’s recording (only available to paid members). You can also listen to our America 250 episode which also just came out today and is basically my ‘sermon’ to American Catholic business owners.

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Today we have a special episode. America is turning 250 years old. A monumental occasion for most of our supporters.

While I’m very proud to be American and believe it’s the best country in the world, I feel very passionately that America is at a crossroads.

What has gotten us to 250 years old is in some ways at risk of death. The only way we make it another 250 is to have a sort of re-founding. This re-founding also happens to be a unique opportunity for us to transform the heart of the culture, of what it means to be American — especially in business and commerce.

As Catholics, we have the fullness of the truth, should we choose to apply it. Meaning, that everything we do — business, sports, life— can be the best possible version of that thing because we have the truth.

But that requires effort and sacrifice.

If anyone knows the meaning and importance of sacrifice, it’s Catholics — who know the sacrifice of Jesus is what gives us hope and confidence in the future.

So let’s be willing to make that sacrifice — for the benefit of our fellow man. That he may know God. That He may join us on this journey to re-found America, on the principles of eternal truth.

So that many years from now, our grandchildren can be living in a world where love of neighbor is a guarantee. Where architecture is beautiful again. Communities are safe. Wholesome dancing and music fill our homes and communities. The poor are cared for. Charity and patience are the standard in business. Human flourishing is the motive of every business owner.

In short, where God reigns in the hearts of all men of our Nation.

Will you do your part to build this future?

God Bless & Happy Building!

~Silas Mähner

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Select Quotes:

• “The next two hundred and fifty years are not guaranteed.” - Silas Mähner

• “Work is in service of of the family.” - Silas Mähner

• “My point in all this is that I think even if you're just running a secular business, you should be unabashed about your faith. You don't have to be necessarily preaching the gospel. But I would say you should have a crucifix in your building. You should have some some Catholic imagery potentially. You should be very unabashed about upholding virtue as a core component of your your work culture.” - Silas Mähner

• “We are asked to use these assets and to manage them in a way that helps make them fruitful through our actions and then uses that fruit to benefit those who are less fortunate.” - Silas Mähner

• “We have a future in front of us that can either be very good or very, very negative, right? And I think we're kind of as a country specifically really toying with what exactly we want that future to be. And I think some people are very oblivious to the fact that going headlong into an AI future could be negative if not managed properly. unfortunately there's many technologists and financiers of our time who who don't see that.” - Silas Mähner

• “It becomes inevitable at some point that you have to start start a business and and do something.” - Silas Mähner

• “And we as Catholic entrepreneurs and business owners, we have a very large role to play in deciding that future.”- Silas Mähner

• “Let us live our lives in a way that when we reach the end of our lives, God will say to us, Well done, good and faithful steward.” - Silas Mähner

Key Moments: (outline)

• (00:04) - Intro: Reflecting on the milestone of America 250 and the uncertain future of the nation.

• (00:46) - The Core Challenge: Discussing the breakdown of the family as the primary issue in modern society.

• (03:07) - The Entrepreneur’s Role: The unique ability of business owners to prioritize human flourishing over profit-seeking.

• (04:06) - A Well-Ordered Life: Defining the hierarchy of needs: God, family, and then work.

• (05:15) - Intentionality: Emphasizing that our current calling and circumstances are by design, not accident.

• (07:23) - Strategy 1: Put God First: The necessity of living out faith through daily actions and business culture.

• (09:34) - Strategy 2: Be Pro-Family: Implementing family-first policies and wages in business.

• (11:34) - Strategy 3: Build Community: Practical ways to build community in neighborhoods and parishes.

• (14:55) - Strategy 4: Civic Engagement: How business owners can leverage their networks to influence local politics.

• (17:15) - The Parable of the Stewards: Re-framing the entrepreneurial mindset from ownership to stewardship.
  (20:53) - Outro: Closing reflections on living as faithful stewards of the nation.

News / Updates:

• 🤝 We host a lot of events. This July, we have a meetup in Dallas on the 18th, breakfast in Wisconsin on the 25th, and another meetup in Nashville on the 28th. Check out our events here.

• ⭐ Add virtue to your workout routines! Check out last week’s episode of CF with Chase Crouse, CEO and Founder of Hypuro Fit.

• 🎙️I recently got a chance to talk with Ben Black (The Dynastus Letters) on his pod, The Dynastus Podcast. Give it a listen.

• 🤖 We recently launched a bot to help you learn from ALL the content we’ve produced. Join the Guild today to gain access.

In Today’s Issue:

• Intro to the Guest and Topic

• Core Takeaway

• Episode References

• Select Quotes

• Key Moments

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Today’s Topic & Guest:

Taylor O’Brien | Candid Dating

Today’s guest has a really awesome story (you probably already knew that though; otherwise we wouldn’t have her on). Our guest is Taylor O’Brien, Co-Founder of Candid Dating. A Catholic speed dating app. They are getting people away from the swiping culture and into face to face meetings, and are having a lot of success.

But Taylor’s journey to build Candid started out rough. She ended up having to break off an engagement. This led her back to the dating market. An experience that was less than desirable.

Through the struggle, she ended up starting what is now Candid Dating. All of which started by sneaking into the computer room of a school and hosting an online speed dating session.

It’s fascinating that, had she not gone through those challenges, she would not have had the impetus to start Candid. But here she is, helping many others solve a huge challenge.

Maybe this is your sign to embrace that challenge you have in front of you. Maybe it’s preparing you for something that is to come.

Core Lesson:

Challenges are gifts that help us trust in God… if we see them that way.

From her own experience of breaking off her engagement just before the wedding, to the challenges of the dating market, to the offshore developer team issues… all of these challenges led her somewhere.

The first, to founding the company. The latter to trusting in God more.

This is what all challenges are. A moment for us to realize that God is there with us, giving us this challenge. To prepare us, to humble us, to strengthen us, and especially, to bring us back to Him… often on our knees.

Let’s start embracing these challenges to come closer to God — they are all intentional gifts.

God Bless & Happy Building!

~Silas Mähner

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Key Episode References:

• John 6

• Venerable Fulton Sheen

• Mother Angelica

• Rob Hays

• Mike Repole

• Candid Dating

• Candid Communion

• Seek Conference

• Milk and Honey Ranch

• EWTN

Select Quotes:

• “After talking to hundreds of users in Catholic singles, it comes from a very good place. It comes from a place of not wanting to use the other, which is a good noble thing we need to make sure that we're not using each other.” - Taylor O'Brien

• “Women, like you don't need, to say decade of the rosary before you decide if you can say yes to a coffee date.” - Taylor O'Brien

• “The swiping apps allow you to ghost very easily with no guilt, right? And so, bottom line, I just saw an opportunity to help see if I could solve a problem and it worked.” - Taylor O'Brien

• “We recognize that the end of this comes the sacrament of marriage, but we miss the very normal human necessary part in the middle that is being in communion with one another, getting to know one another allows us to date better.” - Taylor O'Brien

• “Lord, why did you ask me to do all of this? Why did you ask me to spend these hours if I was never going to hear from these people again? And it was going to be all a waste.” - Taylor O'Brien

• “our entire product is pushing you to stop being so in your own world online Virtually and get face-to-face with someone and have a real conversation and then from there we ask that you please go in person into the wild and experience each other in real life” - Taylor O'Brien

• “Once you're face to face with someone, I think it's very hard for you to not realize that there's someone on the other side of the line because literally you're there.” - Taylor O'Brien

• “You don't have to get on these swiping apps to find them. They're actually right here. We're existing. We just don't see each other. We can't recognize each other.” - Taylor O'Brien

Key Moments: (outline)

• (00:00) - Opening Anecdote: Taylor tackles modern dating fatigue and the trap of over-spiritualizing a simple coffee date.

• (00:46) - Intro: Silas introduces the podcast mission, options for show sponsorship, and sets up the conversation with Taylor O’Brien.

• (03:09) - Meet Taylor O’Brien : Taylor introduces her background in Dallas-Fort Worth and details the swipe-free speed-dating vision of Candid Dating.

• (04:37) - The Origin Story : An organic spark born from a broken engagement, an Instagram community page, and hosting a hidden speed-dating experiment from a school computer lab.

• (08:31) - Early Iterations : Utilizing a corporate networking tool called Wonder to establish authentic face-to-face communication for several hundred early testers.

• (11:01) - Flaws of the Swipe Culture : How unlimited profiles turn us into relationship shoppers and kill conversational discipline.

• (18:19) - The Paralysis of Over-Spiritualization : Addressing the mental traps in the Catholic dating community and encouraging casual, healthy encounters.

• (24:31) - Startup Setbacks & Offshore Teams : Facing real entrepreneurial gridlock while managing a distant tech team across opposing time zones.

• (26:38) - The Ranch Miracle : A providential encounter with Brent Phillips at Milk and Honey Ranch that provided the company with its first stable CTO.

• (35:20) - Guerrilla Marketing & Breaking Records : Stuffer cards left near confessionals, direct validation calls with parishes, and hosting a record-breaking speed dating of 2,500 singles at Seek.

• (46:55) - The Current Platform Workflow : A breakdown of Candid Dating’s onboarding algorithm and the final push into real-life encounters.

• (49:00) - Long-Term Business Models : Moving upstream into coaching, tracking user lifetimes past marriage, and creating positive demographic impacts.

• (50:40) - Rapid Fire Round : Taylor details her reliance on John 6, her fascination with brand disruptor Mike Repole, and her deep appreciation for Mother Angelica

• (53:30) - Outro : Silas shares critical concluding thoughts on weeding out utilitarian habits and anchors the final call to join the Catholic Founders Guild.

Hey folks! Hope you read this one even tho this week is the big 250 for America! If I had the ability, I’d be taking the whole week off, honestly. For those of you reading, we have something special today, specifically for America 250.

Welcome back to Saintly CEO. Every Monday, while you sip your coffee, get some tactical advice to run your business fully in union with your Catholic faith.

Each week you’ll find…

IN TODAY’S ISSUE

• News/Events

• Feature Content: Your Role in the Next 250 Years

• Heavenly Hustlers: 5 This Week!

• Highlights: CF Events

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News / Updates

• 🌐 Catholic Founders Now Has a Website. Want to actually understand what this community is about? We built it out — see it here.

  https://join.catholicfounders.com/

• 📅 Upcoming Calls (Guild Members Only) - Join the Guild!

  • July 1st: Topic Call — How to Make America Catholic 🇺🇸🇻🇦 — very excited for this.

  • July 28th: Expert Call — AI & Automation for business owners. How to use it right without losing your soul AND your team

• 🤠 Join the Dallas Recurring Meetups. Next one is on July 18th.

On America 250: Our Role to Play as Catholic Business Owners

This week is the 250th birthday of America! 🇺🇸 Just think about that. You and me get to be alive to see America turn 250 years old. Many of us will be around to see her turn 300. Well… maybe. Assuming we do our part to keep this experiment going.

As we celebrate 250 years of our country, it’s good to look at our accomplishments and the good we stand for. Taking time to recognize those things has the benefit of making us aware that they are good.

But here’s the thing. Good things don’t stay good. We need to maintain them. Positive force must be exerted to avoid atrophy. As the saying goes, if you’re not growing, you’re dying. This is certainly true of a country.

Atrophy is Winning

Unfortunately, atrophy has been winning in a lot of ways in our lifetime. America has a lot of problems. All of which could be solved by filling the God-shaped hole with… God.

Declining birth rates, increased suicide rates. Fewer marriages, more depravity. Lack of faith, over consumption.

On top of all this, we have AI ushering a huge wave of uncertainty. It’s not to say it’s all bad or good, just the uncertainty is really visceral.

Maybe this decay is here because our parents and grandparents stood idle as it happened. Blaming boomers is a favorite pastime of Gen Z, but maybe some of this decay is actually because of our own inaction?

So, how do we fix the situation? How do we ensure this country lasts another 250 years?

Most of the time, people look to someone else to solve their problems. Or rather, in the modern era, that’s what happens. The type of people who built America and held the line on her values are the type of people who didn’t look for a hero. They were the heroes.

Not one person here and there, but many people choosing to stand up for what’s right.

If we want to reverse the decay, each of us needs to do our role. We all need to be the heroes of our time.

The place to start is the family.

Society is made up of families. Period. The family is the base unit of civilization. If the family unit fails, the country fails. It’s that simple. If we want society to flourish, our guiding light must be doing what it takes to ensure traditional families can flourish.

Deep down, even the most misled people have a transcendental desire for truth, goodness, beauty, and unity. Meaning, when they see a beautiful family, living out the true calling of marriage, unified for good, they will be drawn to it.

This is the armor-piercing weapon that we have at our disposal. And we, as business owners, can make more of these armor-piercing weapons by enabling the creation and flourishing of those transcendental families. First by example in our own lives, and then by creating work environments where family is always first.

This is the core challenge of our time, and it’s no accident that you were born for this fight, in America specifically.

You were not born during the American Revolution or the Civil War. God didn’t have you born in Nigeria or Ecuador. He explicitly chose to put you here, in this exact geography, at this precise, chaotic moment in history.

On top of that, he gave you the skills to be an entrepreneur. As well as the ability to fight against the decay. You can enable family flourishing for your own family and the families who work for you.

You were put here for this exact role. Lean into it. God brought you to this society to lead. We aren’t running businesses to get rich. We are fighting to prevent the atrophy of civilization itself.

Building a Civilization of Love

A secular worldview is what got us here. Therefore, the only way to counter this is with a spiritual lens. The same spiritual lens that upholds humans over technology and families over profit.

Here’s how we do it.

• Put family first. Yours first because you set the example. Then your employees will do the same. Back up that behavior with pro-family policies. Employee has a baseball game, go. Work will be there when you get back; that moment won’t.

• Uphold Christian virtue. Even if your employees are not all Christians, pray throughout the day and don’t tolerate vulgar behavior in your workplace.

• Take political action. Give time off on voting day. Use your business to host pro-family candidates. Fund campaigns. Run if necessary. Show up at city hall to protest anti-family policies.

• Pay a living wage. Make a family-first life possible by paying a wage that covers your employee’s family needs. This is likely not ‘market rate.’

• Pray. Take your kids to daily mass, and encourage your employees to do the same. Pray together as a family. Putting God at the center of your life will bear fruit.

• Culture build. Host block parties for the neighborhood on public holidays to encourage national pride. Welcome families to company events. Have a picnic for your friends, employees, and all their families.

• Spend well. Ensure your money is spent with pro-family companies. With your extra profit, fund the local parish, schools, and pregnancy resource centers. Or build a new one if needed.

• Ensure product alignment. Do your products benefit families or hurt them in any way? You know the right thing to do, because you have your own family.

• Benefit the community. Reinvest in the community. Make your space beautiful. Hire locally when you can. Source locally. Support local projects. Volunteer.

We have a calling. Let’s be an example to the secular companies that no longer have a moral compass. All they have is ‘maximize shareholder value.’

If we want to save the country, we first need to save the family. We do this on the absolute smallest level possible first, our own, and those on our payroll.

If you love this experiment called America, resolve today to rise to the occasion, to use your business to uphold the family as the basis of society. Then determine what it is you must do in order to live that out. This is how we ensure America lasts another 250 years.

Here’s to America! May the next 250 years be better than the first!

~Silas Mähner

Heavenly Hustlers

These are other Catholic business owners. Nominate one (including yourself).

• 🏦 Matthew Gaddis leads Tridfi, a company based near Cincinnati, Ohio, that provides banking consultancy services to optimize financial operations for small businesses. The firm also utilizes residual income to fund a charitable program that assists families with mortgage grants.

• 💻 Garren DiPasquale leads Artifact, a company based in Charlotte, North Carolina, that empowers non-technical domain experts to build and maintain internal software tools using intent documents rather than traditional code. This approach bridges the translation gap between business strategy and development to facilitate stable production.

• 📨 Adam Minihan is the founder of M6 Marketing, a Tulsa-based digital agency providing high-level email, paid advertising, and consulting services to scaling entrepreneurs. His team helps many biz types (including e-commerce, service firms, and real estate investors) optimize their marketing strategies for growth.

• 🫂 Luke Johanni operates a private mental health practice in Southern Maryland that integrates Christian virtue into clinical therapy for men and couples. He is also building a professional hub to connect vetted Catholic therapists with those in need of faith-integrated care.

• 🤝 Andrew Whiskeyman is the founder and CEO of Quo Vadis LLC. A firm that does human-centric tech-savvy strategy work (exactly what we need more of). If you were like me and think with a last name like that, he might be in the wrong line of work; I’m sure you wouldn’t be the only one.

🙋‍♂️ Nominate a Heavenly Hustler (including yourself) - It takes 1 min.

Thank you to Catholic Owned for helping us find some of these folks each week. Get listed today!

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• Meetups Are Happening In Different Cities.

  Wisconsin just wrapped (happens monthly). Houston, D.C., NYC, and Dallas before that. More coming. Subscribe to our Luma to stay in the loop on where we’re showing up next.

• If you’re interested in leading one in your local city, shoot us a message at admin@catholicfounders.com (we make it easy by creating the invite, helping craft the structure, and wrangling up attendees).

Here is a huge list of various resources that we have complied overtime: The Ultimate Catholic Founders Resource Guide.

The Catholic Founders Resource Guide

Feel free to bookmark it as we’ll continue to update it. And if you have suggestions on what to add, ping us (even if you want to promote your own stuff).

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News / Updates:

• 🤝 We host a lot of events. Upcoming in Wisconsin (on saturday), and Dallas (July 18). Check out our events here.

• ⭐ Check out last week’s episode of CF with John Cannon, founder of Sent Ventures and Monk Mindset

• 🎙️I recently got a chance to talk with Ben Black (The Dynastus Letters) on his pod, The Dynastus Podcast. Give it a listen.

• 🤖 We recently launched a bot to help you learn from ALL the content we’ve produced. Join the Guild today to gain access.

In Today’s Issue:

• Intro to the Guest and Topic — Chase Crouse, Theologian turned personal trainer.

• Core Takeaway: Be fit to properly give.

• Episode References

• Select Quotes

• Key Moments

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Today’s Topic & Guest:

Chase Crouse | Hypuro Fit

Ever wonder how to build a workout plan/routine that is based on Theology of the Body rather than just in service of vanity? Well, you’re in the right place because our guest built that exact thing.

Our guest is Chase Crouse. He and his wife built Hypuro Fit. A fitness training/coaching service built on the principles of our Faith. This in itself is interesting and part of our discussion.

However, we covered a lot of other things like…

• Why they put their pricing transparently on their site… and how that leads to better customer calls.

• When he tries to do things his way, it usually doesn’t work out as well. But when it’s God’s way, it’s much better.

I have a feeling you’re going to enjoy this convo. Do us a favor, reach out to Chase and tell him he should join the Guild because he’s missing out 😆.

Core Lesson:

Being fit is important to being able to fully and freely give to others.

Chase frames fitness through a profound lens borrowed from St. John Paul II and St. John of the Cross: you cannot give what you do not have.

Too often, we look at physical health as either a vanity project or an afterthought. Instead, we should view exercise and nutrition as vital tools for building the capacity to serve our families, our businesses, and our communities with technical excellence.

Because if we are to offer our lives to the Lord and for the cause of the mission, shouldn’t we be the best version of ourselves?

God Bless & Happy Building!

~Silas Mähner

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Key Episode References:

Organizations

• Avila Institute

Spiritual Concepts, Prayers & Church Documents

• Theology of the Body

• Gaudium et Spes

• Divine Mercy Chaplet

• Litany of Humility

• Eucharistic Adoration

Books

• $100 Million Money Models

• They Ask, You Answer

Scripture Passages

• John 3:30

Select Quotes:

• “People are people to be loved not objects to be used.” - Chase Crouse

• “My coaches, they're not means to an end. They are the end, right? They're people.” - Chase Crouse

• “We're authentically Catholic while being technically excellent at the same time.” - Chase Crouse

• “A lot of this is as a founder as an owner has been just learning to manage my expectations and stay in my lane and being okay with things being done differently as long as they're still done well and managing my expectations of timeline.” - Chase Crouse

• “That perfection mentality around like, I can't get somebody to 100 % of the way I do it is I think it's personally something I've struggled with a lot. I have accepted the fact that there's going to be some variance there, but I think it's what holds a lot of founders back from growing the team” - Silas Mähner

• “Self donation or self gift is impossible without self mastery.” - Chase Crouse

• “Exercise, nutritional discipline, lifestyle, recovery, they're all tools to conquer yourself to better give off yourself.” - Chase Crouse

• “I'm not a spiritual director, right? We're not spiritual director, we're coaches, but we don't have to leave our faith at the door.” - Chase Crouse

• “I have to be okay with making less money for the sake of spending time with my family and resting.” - Chase Crouse

• “We do have to have a detachment to arbitrarily hitting a certain number goal if it means we're not living and serving our vocational state to the best of our ability.” - Chase Crouse

• “Marketing sales is inherently manipulative. But I don't want to manipulate somebody as a means to an end of making money.” - Chase Crouse

• “That fear of rejection is typically rooted in It's sneaky pride. It's subtle pride.” - Chase Crouse

Key Moments: (outline)

• (00:00) - Intro: Why entrepreneurship is a divine calling and an introduction to Chase Crouse.

• (02:45) - Embracing Family Realities: Shedding professional shyness and finding the beauty when kids interrupt your business calls.

• (03:23) - Career Background: Transitioning from full-time parish ministry into health coaching.

• (05:01) - The Flipped Gym Model: Inside Hypuro Fit’s coach-friendly contractor split and subscription framework.

• (07:10) - Company Brand vs. Personal Identity: Building a scalable company brand over a solo personal brand from day one.

• (09:31) - The Limits of AI: Why human connection—not automation—is non-negotiable for building customer trust.

• (14:14) - Decoupling the Founder from Delivery: How to handle discovery calls so clients are positioned with your specialized team instead of you.

• (19:32) - Working with Your Spouse: Navigating and integrating complementary skill sets within marriage and business.

• (21:54) - Relinquishing Perfectionism: Managing expectations and mastering the tough founder lesson of letting go of exact execution.

• (23:04) - Theology of the Body Framework: Applying JPII’s personalistic norm and using physical self-mastery as a catalyst for self-donation.

• (27:00) - Holy Leisure and Avoiding Burnout: Protecting Sundays and creating strict boundaries around rest for high-drive business owners.

• (36:56) - Upfront, Transparent Pricing: Ditching “cloak-and-dagger” sales tactics to show radical respect to your leads.

• (41:02) - Ethical MRR Commitments: Balancing long-term client retention milestones with immediate Christian charity.

• (47:08) - Turning Down Profit-Maxxing Tactics: Banning supplement affiliate loops to maintain absolute coaching objectivity.

• (52:48) - The Pride Hidden in Sales Fear: Why your hesitation around pitching and following up is actually rooted in subtle pride.

• (57:18) - Rapid Fire Questions: John 3:30, Dan Burke, JPII relics, and the power of local perpetual adoration chapels.

• (1:00:04) - Outro: Core summaries, the vision of the Guild, and a final reminder that you were created to create.

News / Updates:

• 📆 If you’re in Wausau (Central Wisconsin) this Saturday, we’re hosting a Catholic Founders meetup! Join us or check out our events page for an event near you.

• We just dropped a killer episode with the legendary Flip Howard. Check it out here! (PS: if you’re not already, pls follow us on your favorite podcast player to never miss a beat).

In Today’s Issue:

• What is this episode?

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Today’s Episode:

Usually, I’m the one asking the questions here at Catholic Founders, but recently I had the pleasure of sitting down on the other side of the mic. I joined Ben Black on the Dynastus Podcast for a special cross-post episode.

Ben runs an incredible Substack called The Dynastus Letters—honestly, it’s one of the few pieces of media I happily pay to subscribe to.

We dive deep into what it actually looks like to build an intentional, multi-generational family legacy, the raw instinct of entrepreneurship, and how our Catholic faith completely reshapes the blueprint of a successful business.

If you have not already, I recommend checking out his pod and getting in touch with him for building a family dynasty. It’s really fascinating to help understand your family's multi-generational potential.

Learn more here: The Dynastus Letters.

PS: I personally really liked the posts he did on the Johnson family from Wisconsin (here is Part 1).

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Key Episode References:

Books & Literary Works

• American Nations by Colin Woodward

• Leaving a Legacy by Johann Kurtz

• Family Fortunes by Bill and Will Bonner

• Raising Heirs by Bill Bonner

Saints & Spiritual Devotions

• Father Michael J. McGivney

• Saint Thomas Aquinas

• Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

• Exodus 90

Bible Passages

• Genesis 1:28

• The Parable of the Talents

Organizations & People

• Knights of Columbus

• Dr. Daniel Tatahe (Mercy Dental Group)

• Tim Connors

• Becoming Noble

Select Quotes:

• “We are created in the image and likeness of God. And what does that mean, right? It has nothing to do with appearances. It has everything to do with the nature of who we are.” - Silas Mähner

• “If a family wants to maintain its wealth over the long period, there has to be a a sense of continued growth and continued building.” - Silas Mähner

• “We are choosing to enter into the I the the act of co-creation so that we may become an instrument of God's will in the world.” - Silas Mähner

• “Well it's a really it's purpose versus reason, isn't it? You can come up with a million reasons but you can only really have one, maybe two purposes.” - Ben Black

• “Purpose and intention massively change the outcome.” - Silas Mähner

• “If you're an entrepreneur, you just can't help it. You have to do it. Like it's something that eventually will come out of you.” - Silas Mähner

• “He(God) doesn't promise us success financially, right? He promises us to be with us” - Silas Mähner

• “The world is incomplete when you don't live out your gifts.” - Silas Mähner

• “With a bit of unity, what your family can accomplish with that shared faith and with the shared name is immense.” - Ben Black

• “And the the idea is you are the genesis. If you aren't inheriting something or you aren't taking over something, then you are the genesis of this. And you are the person that is going to set the things in motion for the next generation.” - Ben Black

Key Moments: (outline)

• (00:04) - Intro: Silas introduces the cross-post interview with Ben Black, highlighting Ben’s work with The Dynastus Letters.

• (00:58) - In-Group Preference: Ben and Silas talk about how ethnic and religious groups historically preserve faith and wealth by doing business together.

• (03:59) - Cultural Geographies of America: Silas references Colin Woodward’s American Nations to explain the deep-rooted cultural differences across US regions.

• (05:36) - Openness and the Survival Instinct: An exploration of early Christian survival mechanisms versus modern cultural security and economic collaboration.

• (13:14) - Co-Creation and Transcendentals: Silas defines the entrepreneurial urge as an extension of mankind’s role as co-creators, filtering through truth, goodness, beauty, and unity.

• (19:58) - Purpose vs. Profit in Business: St. Thomas Aquinas’s bread-baking analogy is used to demonstrate how intent shapes customer satisfaction and organizational culture.

• (23:42) - The Calling of an Entrepreneur: Silas breaks down his personal transition out of corporate bureaucracy and reframes financial risk through divine providence.

• (33:04) - Radical Stewardship of Employees & Capital: A deep dive into modern workplace management, including living wages and treating business capital as God’s money.

• (41:28) - Doctrine and Business Strategy: Playing devil’s advocate on whether Christian moral constraints limit long-term business growth and marketplace competitive advantage.

• (47:11) - Ecclesiastical Ventures: A historical look at 14th-century business entities operated entirely to help workers achieve salvation.

• (51:37) - Rebuilding Local Communities & Families: Moving away from individualistic preservation and stepping actively into regional development and multi-generational building.

• (1:00:32) - Overcoming Individualist Meritocracy: Shifting away from isolated career paths to establish collaborative language and baseline family assets.

• (1:05:00) - The Crucial Role of the Matriarch: Silas details the irreplaceable nature of mothers as the generational glue that keeps families united over centuries.

• (1:14:31) - Letters to the Next Generation: Reflected insights on what children should inherit regarding unique spiritual callings, adventures, and the “Little Way.”

• (1:16:46) - Outro: Ben Black wraps up the cross-post conversation and points listeners toward further resources.

Hey Folks, today we’ve got a bit longer post where we are actually riffing on the key ideas discussed on our recent podcast with Juan Dominguez. The man behind the Simple Man blog (now Ad Aeternum).

It was a great episode that we thought deserved more reflection.

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There are a lot of young men out there who are very, very lonely

And desperately in need of guidance.

This has led to a concerning number of depressed men. A lot of purposelessness and a sadly high rate of suicides. In the US alone, suicide is the 2nd most common cause of death for men under the age of 45.

There are a ton of ideologies that have gained a foothold over the past couple of years that all have their roots in relativism and a selfish vision of the world.

Which we know ends up fueling this purposelessness.

I sat down with Juan Dominguez, who is actively fighting these trends. He is building a Catholic media project seeking to restore masculinity and Christian morality in the modern world, which desperately needs strong, virtuous men.

We talked about the #1 reason why men are turning their backs on God, and the 3 biggest risks modern men are facing in this century

Most Catholic men get far away from the Church because they experience some sort of hypocrisy in its local leaders.

We know that this is a misunderstanding. The goal is not to get closer to the people in the Church. The goal is always to grow closer to God, with the Church as the medium He left for us to do so.

BUT… for the people who are having their first encounters, WE are the Gospel.

The people in the Church are the Gospel.

So any signs of immorality are enough for young men to sign off.

He was not talking about claims against the Pope or the Church leaders, but the people around them who were in charge of their own Catholic formation.

In his own words:

“I’ve gotten into many conversations with atheist friends, and almost always the reason why they don’t want to go near the Church is that they saw some form of hypocrisy in the people who claim to be Catholic.

They’ll say something like, ‘I used to go to prayer groups and rosary groups, and I just saw that people leading them weren’t really good people. So I don’t want to have anything to do with them’”

This is one of the reasons why we as Catholic Founders, have a deep responsibility

Christ commands the apostles to be the light of the world and the salt of the world. He tells them explicitly, “A city on a hill cannot be hidden.” We are meant to be out there reflecting the light of Christ.

Not in a prideful way.

That’s the constant spiritual battle: not falling for the enemy’s lies and glorifying ourselves, but always pointing to Christ.

We are commanded to be out there.

In Juan’s own words:

“We have failed in presenting men with a strong, masculine image of what it means to be a devout Catholic.

If the average Catholic man were more masculine, disciplined, and strong in his virtues, I think more lost young men might be drawn to the faith. If the Church presented a more masculine alternative to the searching, disillusioned guy, he might actually be more open to trying the faith.

The problem is that, from what I have seen in myself and in many others, people do not see that in the Church. They do not see men they can admire.”

From there, we got into the 3 biggest threats driving modern young men toward hopelessness and purposelessness

And what can we do about it as Catholic Founders:

1. Negative figures are capitalizing on the attention of broken men

A young man who grew up without a father doesn’t know what a man looks like.

And what they find on the internet is very attractive, tbh. Loud, muscular, money, status, and a compelling “follow me” message.

Young men are drawn to figures like Andrew Tate because they are broken.

But we don’t think that draw is about how attractive they are, but more related to the burden they are carrying. Product of a fatherless wound and a culture that spent decades telling them masculinity was the problem.

“What they find are messages that are very selfish in nature. Messages that tell them they are entitled to that reaction, without the necessary balance that our faith provides. Without the balance of: even then, we are loved. Even then, we need to take an approach that is Christlike. Even then, we are not to cause unjust violence.”

A young man feels the fire of wanting to become something good.

But if the only example they have out there is toxic and selfish, that fire gets corrupted.

2. AI numbs our desire for relationships

This is where many people cross a line.

“In things that are relational, you cannot ask it for relationship advice. You cannot ask it for spiritual advice. It’s not qualified, because it’s not a thinking, living thing with a soul.

Where most people fail is that they end up chatting with AI as if it were a friend. As if it could give them advice. As if it knew them. If you’re using it as a tool, like Google, you’re probably safe. When you start crossing that line and developing a relationship with it, that becomes problematic.”

A man with no real community, no close friends, no one to bring his struggles to — who then finds something responsive and non-judgmental in an AI chatbot — is in a dangerous place.

It is a false substitute for what only another human being, and ultimately God, can give him.

Even the Pope recently warned us about this threat in the most recent Encyclical:

3. Young men experiencing layoffs

A man who built his identity around his job, who has no eternal perspective, who hasn’t developed his interior life or real skills that belong to him, will have very few resources if that job disappears.

“For the men who have not strengthened themselves in virtue, who do not always keep eternity in mind, and who do not rationally know that this life is not the end, it will be very difficult to climb out of the hole they find themselves in. As time goes on, it will become harder to find jobs, harder to make professional progress.

The realistic side of me says we will end up with more depressed men, more lonely men, more suicides, and more purposelessness.”

My hopeful side says something different.

I think men who can’t find their footing professionally might turn to the priesthood.

Maybe God uses this disruption to produce more vocations than we’ve seen in decades. I don’t know. Maybe I’m the only one who believes this.

But here is what I’m confident of for the men who are building now.

Human skills are becoming scarce. The man who can think rigorously, reason clearly, lead people, create things that are genuinely his, and build real relationships will be more valuable as AI becomes more capable.

So what do we actually do with all of this?

Juan’s answer was the same one I keep coming back to: become the man that other men can look up to. In every way. Virtuous men who build businesses, build families, build cathedrals. Men who are actually out there and actually visible.

And show ourselves that way.

Become industry leaders, opinion leaders, people young men can admire. Because if they don’t admire Catholic leaders, they will admire someone else who doesn’t carry the fire of Christ the way we do.

A priest told me something a while back that hasn’t left me.

He said we are judged primarily on how we respond to the challenges of our age. Not the challenges of past centuries. The ones right in front of us. And he said the two biggest challenges of this age are: 1. Faithfulness to Christ, and 2. Purity.

But he also told me: God did not put you in this time in history by accident. You have all the grace you need. Every resource, every skill, every opportunity to navigate this is at your fingertips.

Sanctity is waiting for us to accept it. Like a halo hanging from a low-hanging branch, waiting for us to recognize it and grab it.

The change has to start with us. We’ve been given the leadership role. If we act, the culture follows. If we build visibly, with virtue, with faith that is actually visible and not just private, then the men who are searching will have something to find.

That’s the fight we’re in.

And we’ve been given everything we need to win it.

Until next week, God Bless & Happy Building!

Silas Mähner

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In Today’s Issue:

• Intro to the Guest and Topic: Flip Howard, Private Office Mogul

• Core Takeaway:

• Episode References

• Select Quotes

• Key Moments

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Today’s Topic & Guest:

Flip Howard | Lucid Private Offices

Working from home is the answer for some. Most of us see it as a great way to be close to our families. But today’s guest, Flip Howard, the founder of Lucid Private Offices, thinks we should have separation between work and home via physical office space.

He has built Lucid into a thriving office space provider with 29 locations around the country. And the thing he spends most of his time really thinking about and chewing on is how he can not ruin his kids with the wealth he’s creating. So we end up talking a lot about that as well.

We also cover his perspective on ambition as a Catholic.

I’m convinced you’ll enjoy this episode, which I was able to record in person with Flip in Nashville a few weeks ago. Have a listen and let us know your thoughts. Should we work from home? How can we not ruin our children as we gain wealth? And how do you think about ambition as a Catholic?

Core Lesson:

Be intentional about the workspace that you create for yourself and for your employees.

Work is a good thing — God gave us the commandment to work even before the fall of man. God chose to create the universe. Working is, in some ways, an imitation of this.

Because this is true, it’s important for us to consider how we create our space to help elevate our souls to do good work and to keep us in a virtuous mode. A priest once told me, "A beautiful and well-ordered exterior is a reflection of a beautiful and well-ordered interior.”

Consider this for yourself, and for your employees. Can you help elevate work by making the space beautiful? Regardless of whether you’re in white-collar office work or blue-collar factory/shop work, there are ways for you to elevate your work space and help lift your soul and the souls of your workers.

Just ask yourself, does this space look like a space where humans can flourish?

God Bless & Happy Building!

~Silas Mähner

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Key Episode References:

Businesses & Venues

• Lucid Private Offices

• Augustine Institute

Literary Works & Documents

• “On Human Work” (Laborem Exercens) - St. JPII Encyclical

• Leaving a Legacy - Johann Kurtz

Places & Landmarks

• Vatican Valley, Las Colinas, Dallas

• Carnegie Library

• Library of Congress

• Franciscan University of Steubenville

Scripture

• Philippians 4:8

• John 6

Select Quotes:

• “Like, what was Mother Teresa? Clearly she was ambitious. You know, would you say she had ambition? Well, that makes it seem like it was for her, but she was clearly ambitious.” - Flip Howard

• “And humans are the only creatures who are able to actually participate in creation through work. And work is what makes us fully human.” - Flip Howard

• “And rich people are surrounded by beauty all the time. And that's really the main difference between someone who's rich and someone who's not.” - Flip Howard

• “It is important for kids to see their dad work. You know, not work too much, not love work, but work.” - Flip Howard

• “You can keep working from the beach, but you're not gonna really move the ball forward. You're not gonna be advancing the thing while you're doing it. And that to me, that's what, you know, remote work is like.” - Flip Howard

• “And the answer is hire the ones that would naturally do that kind of thing. It's not about changing adults. Like that was their parents' job.” - Flip Howard

• “But to me it's not really It doesn't come from some, like you said, heady philosophical understanding of Catholic social teaching. It comes from just trying to love in a gospelsy sort of way, in a very simplistic. I just I think that people can tell when they're being used.” - Flip Howard

• “You're not doing anybody any favors leaving someone in a job they're not thriving in.” - Flip Howard

Key Moments: (outline)

• (00:00) - Intro: Silas introduces Flip Howard and sets the stage for a discussion centered on real estate, beautiful workspaces, virtuous ambition, and family succession.

• (03:03) - The In-Person Pivot: Silas welcomes Flip to the studio in Nashville and asks for a quick breakdown of his identity and his upscale co-working company, Lucid Private Offices.

• (05:07) - From Laundry to Luxury Real Estate: Flip shares how he graduated from Franciscan University and stumbled into the executive suite industry after initially running a campus laundry business.

• (09:15) - Identity and Joy in Entrepreneurship: A conversation on how to avoid tying your identity entirely to your business and how to naturally bring a charism of joy into daily operations.

• (12:55) - Work is Good, Where You Do It Matters: Flip explains his core business philosophy, drawing inspiration from St. John Paul II’s encyclical Laborem Exercens and challenging the flaws of the remote work mindset.

• (15:59) - The Power of Surrounding Yourself with Beauty: A deep look into how human surroundings impact our interior disposition and why modern utilitarianism falls short compared to older architectural standard.

• (22:28) - Rethinking Family Legacy and Succession: Flip reveals why he chooses not to pass his business down to his seven children, prioritising healthy family dynamics over shared corporate wealth.

• (28:20) - The Mirage of Remote Work Productivity: Flip breaks down the psychological differences between working from home and collaborating in a physical workspace where true advancement happens.

• (34:16) - Protecting Family Time and Demanding Presence: Flip details how Lucid protects its employees by expecting them to switch off at 5:00 PM, and critiques the younger generation’s tendency toward “half-presence.”

• (37:27) - Building “Vatican Valley” : The origin story of Flip’s core office location in Las Colinas and how it naturally transformed into a networking hub for Catholic leaders and local ministries.

• (41:33) - Virtuous Ambition vs. Ego: Flip and Silas dissect the word ambition, clarifying how the virtue of ambitiousness stands against small-minded laziness when oriented toward the glory of God.

• (44:11) - Living Subsidiarity in Company Culture: Flip shares how empowering employees and treating them as human persons beats treating them as mere corporate assets.

• (46:38) - The Secret to Hiring Naturally Virtuous People: Why business owners should stop trying to reshape adult behavior and instead focus their recruitment efforts on hiring naturally well-aligned talent.

• (50:37) - Charitably Firing and Ensuring the Right Fit: Flip outlines why releasing someone from a role where they aren’t thriving is an act of genuine charity rather than cruelty.

• (54:01) - Rapid Fire and Devotion Shifts: Flip reveals his favorite scriptures, his business role model, and how a Lenten resolution brought him into a deeper relationship with the Holy Rosary.

• (55:46) - Outro: Silas recaps his personal takeaways regarding intentional workspaces and employer responsibility, concluding with an open invitation to join the Catholic Founders Guild.

Decoding Your Working Genius - Christina Rossini

Our latest Catholic Founders Guild Expert Call on June 10, 2026, featured Christina Rossini of Floreat Consulting, who broke down Patrick Lencioni’s Working Genius framework.

She cut through the noise of standard corporate personality tests, showing us how to map our actual energy zones—not just our behavioral styles—to build healthier, more effective teams. More than a productivity tool, Christina reminded us that identifying our areas of genius and frustration helps us honor the dignity of the person and steward the gifts God has entrusted to each of us.

You can find the full recording and transcript here: Recording and Transcript.

One-Liner Takeaway

For those who aren’t paid members yet, here’s the quick one-liner takeaway:

Using the Working Genius framework allows us to practice virtuous leadership, transforming our daily tasks into a way to act as conduits of God’s love and light.

The Working Genius framework fosters virtuous leadership by grounding you in self-knowledge, helping you identify and leverage your unique, God-given talents.

By leaning into these specific strengths, you transform your daily tasks from mere obligations into a purposeful expression of your gifts. This shift allows you to act as a conduit for God’s love and light by serving others through the work you were uniquely designed to perform.

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