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IN TODAY’S ISSUE
Updates/Events
Feature Content: It’s Okay To Hustle
Heavenly Hustlers x 6
Highlights: Weekly Mastermind Meetup Structure
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Let’s Taco ‘Bout Jesus: A Summer Social is happening tonight in Nashville. Make sure to RSVP and spread the word.
We featured Zach Scardino for the second time in our latest podcast and we talked about the Catholic Way of Buying A Business.
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It’s Okay To Hustle
A lot of Catholics think that hustle culture is not for them. To an extent this is true, but it’s largely dismissive.
The modern word hustle is associated with money, fame, and hot chicks. But that’s not the point of hustle. Hustle is about putting in the work. When a generation that has been misled on what they will find meaning in hustles, they do it for what they perceived to be the real meaning in life.
Rather than a life of reporting to HR Karens1, they want a life of freedom from rules — or at least a life played by their own rules.
The issue is, this life of supposed freedom isn’t freedom if it’s a life of sin. As we all know that’s really slavery to sin.
What’s still true is that hustling is about effort. Just because moderns hustle for the wrong things doesn’t make hustling a bad thing. Certainly it’s not a sinful thing. As with many thing, the purpose and intention also matters.
Now, for those who’s aim in life is a life well-lived according to God’s terms, why shouldn’t you hustle? Do you believe that you’ve inherited truth? Do you believe you have the true faith?
If you do, how are you not at least somewhat stirred to action. It’s a very motivating thing to realize that you are an heir to an eternal kingdom. And that same eternal kingdom is available to each and every man.
You can also consider the fact that you were given a special ability to co-create with God inside the context of marriage, bringing more souls into the world. Paying for those kiddos might be a bit challenging if you’re not hustling on the side a bit. Perhaps things are so tight that more children would feel really hard financially, but with a little bit of hustle, and putting to use those skills God bestowed upon you, you might go be able to be more generous with God and welcome more children.
So, whether your goal is to hustle in order to spread the Gospel others, or to your own offspring, hustle can be — indeed it is, a good thing.
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Consider St. Paul. Consider his life. Think about how hard he worked. How many letters he wrote. How much he traveled. Why he was so animated.
He was literally hustling all the time. On top of his ministry, he worked as a tent maker in order that he wouldn’t burden The Church. Sure he didn’t need tons of money because his goal wasn’t a life of comfort. But he had to work during the day, and then use the spare time to spread the Gospel.
In a way, this is a good way for us to see our own business endeavors. We can work to get the amount of money we need, and then allow our business to either fund other activities (our own or those of other passionate people), or to be in themselves a means of evangelizing. This can be done regardless if our businesses are explicitly/externally Catholic or if they are more subtle.
Don’t we all want to be more like St. Paul? At least a bit?
In my mind, one of they key words I’d use to describe St. Paul is a hustler. He was willing to put in the work, regardless of how tired he was. He kept going. Kept evangelizing. Kept pushing the boundaries.
So, if you think that hustling isn’t for you, that we are only called to a simple family life, that we have to have lot’s of leisure time smoking pipe and debating the Filioque with our Eastern Brothers, think again. Of course these are all fine and good things. But it doesn’t change the fact there is a lot of work to do out there in the world. Work that God gave us specific skills to carry out. Through acting, we can affect the world around us and make change.
As a final point, this plays very well with this past Sunday’s reading about the parable of the two sons. One said he’d do the work but didn’t, the other said he wouldn’t do the work, but did. The one who did the will of the father — the one who acted rightly — he’s the one Jesus asked us to be like.
So what’ll it be? Are you going sit around talking about the will of God, or are you going to do it?
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~Silas Mähner
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Highlights: Nashville 1:1 and Group Mass + Breakfast Meetups
In Nashville, we’ve started something that I think would work well for other cities.
Each week, on Thursday morning we meet for 7 am mass at the Cathedral. Afterwards we convene at a nearby coffee shop and spend an hour and a half masterminding each others’ businesses. We separate into groups of 4-6 so it’s not rushed.
We cover a recent win and a challenge + an ask. The group offers feedback with their collective experiential knowledge.
I’d like to see other cities start this too. The reason being, having this weekly cadence helps develop routine. Once it becomes routine, it helps the attendees really get to know each other. The more time we spend together, talking about hard things, the more we will have trust with each other. The more trust we have, the more willing we will be to ask for help and work together to take action in our local communities.
If you’re local to Nashville, and want to get on the recurring invite list, ping us — admin@catholicfounders.com.
If you want to start this in your area, also email us and we’ll help arrange it, and find other attendees to invite.
Here is a huge list of various resources that we have compiled over time: The Ultimate 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).
Sorry Karen - this statement doesn’t apply to you! You’re great but HR Jenny didn’t have the same effect.
St. Paul, pray for us.
I definitely agree with you. Hustling in only a problem if your purposes are wrong.