The Saintly CEO: Prevent Hurry from Stalling Your Spiritual Growth
Learn to Imitate God Through Regular Reflection and Introspection
Pentacost is upon us! Let’s use this as a chance to recommit to our confirmation promise to be an active part of the Church Militant.
Welcome back to The Saintly CEO. A free weekly newsletter from Catholic Founders.
Each week, get (1) tactical ways to integrate your Faith w/ your business, (2) a curated list of Catholic biz owners, and (3) misc. resources to help you with your business.
In Today’s Email:
CF Role Model: How this founder is building the Catholic Disney and hosts mass in his office frequently.
+ 7 more Catholic entrepreneurs (Heavenly Hustlers)
Prevent Hurry from Stalling Your Spiritual Growth
Miscellaneous Resources (groups, events, content, and services)
[read time: ~7 min | word count 1,512]
Heavenly Hustlers
Looking to find more Catholics who share your ambition? Each week, we curate a short list to do just that.
Huge shout-out to Catholic Owned for partnering with us to aid in this curation experience. Catholic Owned is building the Catholic Economy — currently it’s a huge database of Catholic business owners, so we can buy from each other.
Some of those listed each week were discovered through Catholic Owned.
We encourage you to get listed in Catholic Owned today if you’re not already.
CF Role Model:
🎥 Rob Kaczmark, the founder of Spirit Juice Studios (and past podcast guest) is someone we can all look up to.
One, for his ambition. He wants to build a company that has the impact of Disney. Having ambitious goals like this is what all of us should strive for because we have God on our side.
Two, he often has mass celebrated in their office. Things like this are what we should all aim to implement in our businesses.
If you’ve not already heard the episode we did with Rob, I’d highly recommend checking it out. This episode is especially good for anyone thinking about quitting. He’s got a crazy story about almost quitting.
Other Heavenly Hustlers:
🥊 Tommy Duquette is working on something new after building FightCamp
✝️ Dominik Tarolli is building DOMINUS Labs to make 1000 Christian AI Startups.
💘 Marc Reaume is building Zelie to solve Catholic dating. Launching February of next year, although they have the waiting list open currently.
🚭 Scott Weeman is building Catholic in Recovery.
💰 Matt Meeks is a partner at Catholic Ventures along with Patrick Thornton and Forest Toney III.
🙋♂️ Nominate a Heavenly Hustler (including yourself) - It takes 1 min.
[sponsored content]
Executive Search
For those of you who know me, to pay the bills I run a recruitment consultancy. I’ve been doing this for over 5 years.
If you’re looking for specialized talent, I’d love to support you. Reach out today to learn more.
Overseas Talent
If you’re looking for support from overseas talent, we have a large network of talent across various skillsets in places like the Philipines and Latin America.
Interested in sponsoring this newsletter? Reach out today —> DearCFPod@gmail.com
Prevent Hurry from Stalling Your Spiritual Growth
Last weekend, Fr. Mike Schmitz mentioned something about hurry in his daily minute homily.
He referenced Corrie ten Boom’s quote about the topic.
“If the devil can’t make you sin, he’ll make you busy.”
This struck me personally because of my tendency to work when there is nothing else going on. It’s a challenge for most entrepreneurs I’ve met.
Don’t get me wrong. It’s in our nature to work hard. And as we recently discussed, it’s good to lean into our God-given desires and skills. But let’s be real, if we are not careful, we could easily overdo it.
Let’s discuss why we need time to slow down, especially as Catholic business owners.
Why we need to avoid hurry
As we go through life, worldly matters pile up. Even when you’re not an entrepreneur.
Bills. Insurance. License renewal. Managing your inbox. Trying not to be made obsolete by AI.
As if the challenges of everyday life weren’t enough, entrepreneurs have it 10x worse. Keep up with the things of life AND keep advancing your business, testing out new ad campaigns, and dealing with staff challenges. The list of possible things to do is even longer.
Each item isn’t so bad on its own, but together they add up.
The most challenging part is recognizing that our lives are slowly being taken over by these tasks.
They continue to demand more and more from us. Before you know it, we become slaves to these daily tasks.
Leaning into our godly nature
In the same way we lean into our co-creator nature to become entrepreneurs, we must lean into our introspective nature to break free from slavery to the world.
Look at the Holy Trinity.
The very nature of God (the Trinity) is one of introspection in silence. The Father knowing Himself generates the Son (ie, the Son = the Father knowing Himself). And the Love of self (love shared between Father & Son) = the Holy Spirit (Spiration).
The key to breaking out is leaning into this part of our nature and taking time for silent reflection.
Slowing down helps us find direction
When we make time for silent reflection, we come to know ourselves better. Including what our unique gifts, skills, and desires are.
Once we identify those, we can understand our unique mission on earth.
As entrepreneurs who believe God has called us to use our God-given skills for good in the world, this time to reflect is critical. Without it, how can we ever come to know God’s specific calling to us?
Possible solutions
Each person will have a routine that works for them, but here are a few things to try.
Start your morning with 10-15 min of silent contemplation time. You can just sit and contemplate your purpose, looking at the crucifix.
Say the Angelus at 6, noon, and 6. This is a great way to slow down during the day. Pro tip: my friend Dan just made a Chrome extension that rings the Angelus bells throughout your day. 🔔
Take an evening walk to pray the rosary.
Go to daily mass. I like to go to midday mass because it forces me to slow down.
Create an anchor point to think about God. It could be before every meeting, or when you sit down at your desk — you say a simple “Jesus I love you, help me to love you more and more.”
Go on a silent retreat. Once a year, you should take the time to do a silent retreat and reset. It’s kind of like spring cleaning.
Spend time in adoration at least once a week. Even just 15 minutes in adoration is super powerful. If you can make a full holy hour during the week that’s an incredible way to stay close to God.
There are so many ways we can pause throughout our day and week to come closer to God.
Take Action: Pick one of these examples to start doing this week. Comment with your selection below and we’ll check in next week. By stating your goal publicly, you’re 76% more likely to achieve it.
God Bless & Happy Building
~Silas Mähner
PS: If you’re thinking, “That’s a nice idea, but I can’t afford the time away from work to do those things” — consider this. Eternity is at stake. Are you sure you really can’t spare 15 minutes a day?
AND, I can’t recall where or from who I heard this, but prayer is a multiplier. It never takes away time from your day. It will multiply your day. By giving God some time, He might help shorten some of your meetings or cancel ones that would waste your time. Trust in Him.
Misc. Resources:
Groups:
Events:
Sign up for the SENT Summit (Sep 8-11, 2025, in Notre Dame, Indiana)
CEDE — A summer course for Catholic high schoolers to learn entrepreneurship (actually launch a business) taught by the Catholic University of America
On July 31st at 1 pm Central Time I’ll be part of the Dominus Ideas event. Stay tuned for more details.
Content:
Services:
Hire a Catholic Virtual Assistant through ParacleteVA (email us: dearcfpod@gmail.com)
Reach out to Sherwood Fellows if you want to hire a marketing agency that has true taste.
[Become a sponsor today AND support the show while doing]
How did we do? Reply with 1 (Great 😄), 2 (Mid 🫤), or 3 (Needs Work ☹️)