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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:
Learn how a creator went from ZERO to over 240k YouTube subscribers — in less than two years? 🤯
Today, we get the chance to chop it up with Evan Raugust, the Catholic Mr. Beast.
Evan entered the Church in 2023 after finding Catholic apologists online, and he immediately made it his life’s mission to use the internet to spread the Gospel to as many souls as possible.
Through his own channel and his agency, Kingdom Media, Evan produces high-stakes videos himself (like traveling to where all twelve apostles died) and he helps other creators grow their channels.
He’s helped top creators like Lila Rose, Fr. David Michael Moses, and Brian DeVilla scale their channels to millions of views.
He gives us tons of YouTube growth tactics, how to find market gaps, leveraging the algorithm to get viral reach, and most importantly, his perspective on remaining anchored in virtue, daily prayer, and humility when your job revolves around capturing attention.
It can be a nasty world, and he has clearly spent time figuring out how to navigate it. We’re grateful to have him in the Guild, and to have spent some time with him today for the benefit of all you.
Is Your Money Being Stewarded — or Just Managed?
What is God calling you to build?
That’s where Tom Rooney and Matthew Mohlman start their conversations. They work with Catholic business owners to bring real stewardship to their finances across retirement plans, private markets, and wealth management.
Tom and Matthew want to extend an invitation for an estate health check with their team. Think healthcare directives, powers of attorney, risk and insurance gaps... your spouse will thank you!
PS: Tom and Matthew aren’t just advisors — they’re Catholic founders themselves, building this alongside guys like us.
Core Lesson:
If you want to win souls on the internet, bring absolute excellence to the craft and anchor every single upload in daily prayer.
Evan’s perspective is that we should stop burning twenty hours on tiny 10k-view video when that exact same energy could build a million-view home run.
Proper reach happens when your personal competitive advantage lands perfectly in an unserved gap in the market. Lean into the levers you actually possess (sounds like something we’ve said before).
Whatever your advantage and edge is… money, time, raw personality, or production value. Leverage that by dangling the candy of curiosity up front.
This allows you to feed people the good stuff. Deep, life-changing spiritual truths once they’re hooked.
Above all, stop hiding behind false humility.
Bailing on the creator space just to dodge the temptations of money or status simply leaves the battlefield wide open. It’s the same as burying your talent in the sand.
Get in the arena, embrace the daily friction, and let digital entrepreneurship forge real holiness in you.
God Bless & Happy Building!
~Silas Mähner
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Key Episode References:
Organizations & Agencies
YouTube Channels & Media
Saints, Devotions & Prayers
Notable Figures
Select Quotes:
“Get in the arena! The guy who’s not in the arena and never has these temptations isn’t better than the guy who does.” - Evan Raugust
“I’m a big believer that if you just pursue excellence, people will find you.” - Evan Raugust
“ think about it like you dangle the candy so that you can get them to eat the vegetables.” - Evan Raugust
“if you’re gonna spend 20 hours making a video, why not spend 20 hours making a video that could get a million views versus 20 hours on a video that’ll get 10,000 views?” - Evan Raugust
“every single channel under the sun is able to be profitable and be able to make you like a full-time income, even enough to like support a family.” - Evan Raugust
“I have made it my mission to use the internet to spread the gospel to the most amount of people before I die.” - Evan Raugust
“I think a lot of Catholics need to recognize that that you can't just slap Catholic on something and and assume that it's gonna be widely adopted. You need to actually be be excellent.” - Silas Mähner
“I've had some really l low points in my life and my creator journey, and all of them without fail are proportional to the lack of prayer that I have.” - Evan Raugust
“It's not what's possible for man, it's what's possible for God.” - Evan Raugust
Key Moments: (outline)
(00:18) - Intro: Silas introduces the podcast mission, newsletter updates, and creator Evan Raugust.
(03:07) - Catholic Dallas & Mission: Evan shares his background in Dallas and his mission to spread the Gospel online.
(05:46) - Conversion Journey: How online apologists like Trent Horn and Michael Knowles led Evan to Catholicism in 2023.
(07:43) - Kingdom Media Agency: How Evan consults and scales YouTube channels from scratch to millions of views.
(15:30) - YouTube Strategy for Business Owners: Multi-skill demands, short-form vs. long-form, and long-term brand building.
(22:29) - Hooking Viewers & Spiritual Depth: Why curiosity hooks allow creators to deliver substantial spiritual value.
(26:28) - How Content Goes Viral: Identifying competitive advantages, market supply gaps, and outlier topics.
(34:08) - The 5 Growth Levers: Leveraging time, money, personality, creativity, or production value to stand out.
(43:40) - Living Virtue as a Creator: Overcoming vanity, status, and fame through daily Rosaries, confession, and Adoration.
(48:38) - Recapturing the Vocation: How trials and time with the Daughters of St. Paul keep work focused as a divine mission.
(55:46) - Rapid Fire Questions: Evan shares favorite scriptures, inspiring entrepreneurs, daily devotions, and patron saints.
(1:00:32) - Outro & Practical Reflections: Silas poses three self-reflection questions for business owners.
