Building a Business That Actually Fits Your Life | 071

A profit doesn't happen by chance, it

happens by design. Let's dig in. I have a very interesting guest

today, and we are going to be talking about lots of stuff

about alignment and how things in one part of your life can

also fit the other part of your life. We compartmentalize a lot,

but today we're going to talk about how to bring it all

together with our guest, Dale Young. Welcome, Dale.

Well, thank you so much. I'm honored to be here.

Oh, thanks. Um, let me tell you a little bit

about Dale Young. He is a coach who has spent decades as a

business and tech executive before discovering what faithful

entrepreneurs truly need, alignment between faith and

business. A six-time number one best-selling author, certified

Gallup strengths coach, and work working genius facilitator, Dale

now guides entrepreneurs to clear direction, fulfilling

results, and joyful peace. His new book, The Power of Aligning

Your Faith in Business, delivers the proven keys. His calling

proven keys, his calling is simple to inspire your calling.

Welcome, Dale.

Yeah, it's so, so good to be here.

Well, I love your the topic that we're

talking about today, because whenever I grew up and started

working in business, it was there were taboo subjects you

couldn't talk about religion, you couldn't talk about

politics, you couldn't talk about sports, any of those three

things could get you in trouble, and whenever I started

networking and getting out to know people, I noticed that the

line between spiritual and business started to blur a lot,

and I found that very interesting, because when I

worked in a business environment, in a nonprofit

office environment, you, there were certain things that you

just didn't talk about, and as entrepreneurs we have a little

bit more freedom. In fact, we have all the freedom, because

the businesses that we're building are our businesses, and

they should reflect who we are and what we believe in. And that

is a trend that is to me new. It's been going on for for a

while, but that is a change in direction, and honestly, the

younger people don't even care. They talk about everything that

they want to talk about, and old people like me, I'm like, "Oh,

can we talk about that now?

Well, absolutely, it's been getting - I call that

lack of filters for the younger generation, they just don't have

the same filters that us older folks do, you know. So, yeah, I

think I think it is, and I think it's actually a welcome change.

There's really no reason why we can't talk about these things in

business, and there's actually really good reasons why we

should talk about.

Yeah, I agree, and I think that it's important

for all business owners, especially one people who have

not, who are older, and we still have those lanes that we think

we have to stay out of, and, and some people do choose to stay

out of them, but a lot of times, and the way that the economies

are growing is that people are aligning themselves with

businesses that align with their beliefs, that align with their

morals and values. So, if you are quiet about those things,

then your people who are looking for alignment can't find you.

Absolutely, and I mean, it goes back to Simon

Sinek with the whole start with why you have to have your why

out there. Why are you even in business? And so, if you know

why you're in business, and in my case, it's my business is to

honor and glorify God. And so, if that's why I'm in business, I

have to talk about Him.

Yeah, absolutely. And I love, I love

this, that new conversations are happening around faith, around

spirituality, and and business, and they've always talked about

sports, and in business, they're not sports teams. I'm telling,

I'm one of those people, and occasionally I'll use a sports

analogy to explain something. However, I'm one of those

people. If the entire presentation is about sports, I

disconnect, because I'm just like, I'm just not that into

sports, but if you are, that's where you need to be, like be

who you are, be authentic in that.

Absolutely, be who you are, because everybody else

is taken.

That's right. Um, so Dale, talk to us a little

bit about.. well, but let's first start with your book. You

have a book coming out, and I'd love to dive into that, because

I want to make sure we have time for that.

Okay. Well, the title is The Power of Aligning

Your Faith in Business, and the subtitle is The Proven Way to

Clear Direction, Fulfilling Results, and Joyful Peace, and

that's really what I'm promising is. That you're going to have a

set of steps that will get you to that clear direction.

Everybody wants clarity, right? Everybody wants direction. Which

way do I go? How do I get there, all that sort of stuff. Clear

direction, fulfilling results. It's not just about the results

that you're getting. Maybe you're getting a million

dollars, but you're burnt out because of it, or your marriage

is about to dissolve, or something like that. You want

fulfilling results, you want results that satisfy in all

areas. And then you want joyful peace, because Jesus didn't come

here, you know, when He was leaving the disciples, He says,

"My peace I live, leave with you, and I believe joy is one of

the greatest ways to get to peace,

and by

the way, gratitude is the best way to get to joy.

So, as long as you do your gratefulness journal every day,

you're going to get you the joy, and that's going to get you to

the peace.

I love that. I love that journey in being

grateful, because when you spend all your time complaining and

everything's frustrating. I have started working on eliminating

certain words in my vocabulary, my self-talk. One of them is

hate. I hate this TV show, or I hate this flavor of potato

chips, or like.. and I just have gotten into a habit of using

that word as, you know, anything that annoys me, and I don't

really hate those things, they just annoy me. So, elevating

that kind of thing, how you're talking to yourself and the

kinds of words that you're using, and you know, looking at

your life in gratitude as opposed to in complaint is so,

so, so powerful.

Absolutely, language is so powerful, and that's what

I've learned. I've been working with a branding coach, and he's

helped me put this book together, and language is so

important to him, you know. He'll, he'll use all these

things, but it's been one of those things that I was not

aware, I was not aware of how often I use not, okay, and the

brain actually has problems processing that, not okay, so

any negatives or whatever, the brain just doesn't comprehend it

right off the bat, and so I've made an intention in the book to

write, try and rewrite all the sentences from using not to

getting rid of it, putting in the positive form.

I love that. Yeah, I, we don't have time

today to go into all the words that I'm working on eliminating.

Try is one of them, in case you hear me say working on that's my

new placeholder for try. Yeah, it's really powerful. I firmly

believe that words create our reality, and I think that's

backed up in, in the Bible, right? In the beginning was the

Word, and the Word was God, you know, right there in the very,

very beginning. So we need to, we need to be careful about what

we say.

I was

ready to go on three more rabbit trails. That's

why I hesitate.

Well, I was going to say one of the big things about

the book, and it really gets in chapter one. What's the problem?

And the problem is what I call separate worlds. Okay, lot of

people have faith and business in separate worlds. Okay, and we

can all look to the example of the entrepreneur that goes to

church on Sunday, but then doesn't think about God the rest

of the week, that's a separate world problem, right? But I call

that one, I call that the left end of the bell curve, okay?

That those are those are the tail, the long tail, so to

speak. Okay, and then there's the people in the middle that do

a pretty good job of bringing faith and work together. I think

anybody can do it better. None of us are ever going to be

perfect with that, but you know, even you know, even me writing a

book, and now I've found so many ways that I need to line my

faith in business even better all the time. But then there's

the other end, there's the right end of the bell curve, and these

are the people that are so spiritual that they never

actually focus on the business side, they're the people that,

oh, well, I gotta give that away because I can't charge for that,

you know, God gave me that gift, I can give it on, you know, type

of thing, well, maybe He gave you that gift so that you can

build a business, so that you can give that gift out to a

whole bunch of other people.

Yeah, and there is a, there is a, a truth about,

you know, your gift, when you give it to someone, you're,

you're giving away a piece of you, even if it's easy for you.

It is an energetic exchange, and you can't have an exchange

unless you accept something back, so giving all of the time

is also pouring out of your cup, and it's got to be filled back

up with something else as well.

Absolutely, you can't pour from an empty cup.

Absolutely. So, tell us a little bit more. When,

before we got on. You said you were sort of at the intersection

of two places. Talk to us about that.

Well, there's a lot of business coaches that, if you

come to them with a faith problem, they'll deal with it,

right? And there's a lot of spiritual coaches that if you

come to them with a business problem, they'll deal with it.

Okay, I don't believe that you can deal with them separate,

okay? And so I want to be setting in that intersection

between faith and business all the time, and so I treat

business problems as a faith problem, and I treat faith

problems as a business problem.

I love that. I've not heard that before.

That's amazing. So, tell us a little bit about, like, how

would, if I, if I came to you and I said, "Oh, well, I'm

struggling with sales in my business.

Okay,

how would you just roughly talk around that?

Well, first, I want to get to know you, because

first of all, I can't deal with somebody just from a, just from

a first statement, right? I need to know about you, and I believe

that you need to know about you even more than what I need to

know about you. Okay, so one of the first things I do is, I, you

know, see how your faith is grounded. You know, one of my

favorite verses is Romans 1129 for the gifts and talents of the

Lord are irrevocable. Okay, so he's given you gifts, he's given

you talents. Okay, he's not going to take them away, they're

irrevocable. Doesn't mean you're going to find them just

naturally,

okay?

Sometimes you have to look for them, sometimes you

have to dig for them, sometimes you have to mine for them. You

know, it's.. it's sometimes, and it's a voyage of self-discovery.

Lots of times, and so you come to me, I'm going to find out

where you are in that process. If you've already done a lot of

that mining, you already know your gifts and talents. We move

on to the next step, right? Okay, but maybe the sales

problem is because your marketing is non-existent. Okay,

I'll help you fix the marketing at that point. Maybe your sales

are non-existent because you don't ask for the value of the

of what you're trying to deliver. That's a worth problem,

you know. Am I worthy to ask for that kind of price? That's a

much deeper kind of issue.

I love that. I'm sorry, my brain is just

racing right now with the.. that we.. we do talk about things,

you know, that that people have money mindset issues and that

kind of thing, but that you know that it is a worth and spiritual

kind of element is not something that I've heard very often.

Well, absolutely, because if, if you don't feel

worthy, you're not going to charge what you're worth, right?

And guess what, if you're, if you're a Christian, you're a

child of the true King of the universe, what is that worth?

You know, if you're a Christian, Jesus died for you. What is that

worth? That's worth a lot, just by itself. So, just by you

existing and breathing, you're worth a lot. And hey, even if

you're not a Christian, God still created you. That's worth

a lot, right there. So, you know, you gotta get over this

worth problem one way or the other, you know. And I'm not a

mindset coach in that sense. I'll help you think through it

yourself, but I've got a plenty of mindset coaches that can get

you through that pretty quickly. Okay. So, and that's something

else. I know my lane, my lane is to help business and to help

faith, right? Yeah, and if, if you all you want is help with a

business problem, I'm probably not, you're not the right

person, but if you've gone to other business coaches and they

haven't helped you, maybe I am.

Yeah, and I think that it's really

interesting working with people, I've recently was working with

one of my clients, and every effort to sort of dig into

things a little bit deeper beyond the business side, like

what's causing this, was, oh no, no, I'm fine, oh no, no, I'm

fine, and it was really interesting that that was not

something she was willing to sort of lean into, and we still

got her through. We did the project we were working on,

however, it was just interesting to observe how much it was like

no deflection of that's not that's not part of the problem,

and I think business owners need to understand that it's all

everything. We are not like I can't cut off part of my body,

and that's the business part of my body. It's all one body, and

it's all interwoven.

Absolutely, yeah. And you can't, you can't put on

a. Ask you know, be yourself. Everybody else is taken, right?

If,

if

you're trying to be like somebody else, well, that's

not a role that you're meant to fulfill. That's not why the way

you were designed. It's not the way that God created you. I say

it's not the way you're wired, you know. If you're wired to do

these kinds of things, trying to do those kinds of things isn't

going to work very well,

right?

Okay, and so, yeah, I mean, you know, but, but if

they're convinced that they need to go do those kinds of things,

it's going to be hard to unconvince them without them

taking a good hard look at themselves.

Yeah, absolutely. I love this. This

conversation is so great, and I want to make sure that we get

your gift in, because you do have a gift for our listeners,

right? My gift is a free spiritual gifts assessment,

probably there's tons and hundreds, and probably every

church out there has them. This one is a little bit more

extensive than most of the ones I've seen, and I've seen a lot

of assessments. I'm, I actually, in 2020 wrote a book about

assessments, so I can say I wrote the book on it,

but,

but, yeah, so this is a spiritual gifts assessment.

It's got 17 different types of gifts, and I think something

like eight questions for each one, so it does take a while to

get through, but the good part about it is once you take the

assessment, I will personally look at it, and I'll record a

video with what I see about it, along with anything else I find

about you out on the internet, so if you're an entrepreneur and

I see something in LinkedIn about you, or I see something,

you know, somewhere else, YouTube or something, I'll look

at all that, and I'll give you my expert thing about, well,

this looks like it may be out of place, or it looks like maybe

you're not really using this gift in your business, or

whatever. And so I call it the first step to aligning your

faith in business, because it's kind of one of the very first

things you need to know. Who are you? It's a big part of who you

are, gifts, right? Talents then gets into I do a lot of

CliftonStrengths work, and that's a very deep dive into

actual talents. They actually call each of them a talent, and

so that's that's a more expensive, more involved type

thing. Working genius is a great intermediate between the two of

them, because it tells you how you approach work. I love this

analogy, your disc or your Myers Briggs, that that's the, that's

the noun part of the sentence. Your working genius is the verb

part.

I like that. Yeah, that's really cool. That's

actually a very generous gift. Thank you, Dale. It's not just

the tool, but you're also throwing in a video that you are

doing some research on everybody who takes this assessment, and

that's like a step further in. That's really impressive. Thank

you so much for that generous gift. And if you would like to

get that gift, here's what you need to do. You need to go to

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club. Now I have a question for you, Dale. What is the most

unexpected experience that made you adjust your approach to your

business?

I could talk about several things in the past, but

let's talk about the one that was most recent, and the most

recent was I talked about the left side of the of the bar of

the bell curve with the more secular people and I talked

about the right side when I first was writing the book I had

not considered the right side of the bell curve, okay, and

somebody was saying something about it, and I said that is a

really good point. This, what I've come up with in the book,

of the way to bring all this together, and the, the, the

destination. I named the destination the complete and

aligned success, and I explained why I named that at that in the

book, and that, whatever. But the, the destination is here, it

works for both of them, okay. It works for both sides of the bell

curve, and but I was really inspired to add another

appendix, and the title of the appendix is Jesus History's Most

Successful Entrepreneur,

I. I love that,

and that just kind of put a capstone on the book

for me. It just kind of like, okay, this is this has got a lot

more broad reach. Everybody kind of hears that title, they laugh

at it, and they kind of get it, but do they really get it? You

know, Jesus ran a funded ministry, and Jesus had a

treasure.

He did, he did indeed.

You know, so I mean, you think about that kind of

stuff. He had enough funds that somebody had to do, had to take

care of the funds part time or a full time or something. Yeah,

so,

so it's a, it's, it's something to consider,

especially for those people on the right end of the bell curve?

Yeah, and I love how that, you know, you've

brought both those concepts together, because I don't think

I've ever thought of Jesus as an entrepreneur. I'll be honest,

so, and that is exactly your, your branding, your model, that

is perfectly in alignment with who you are and what you're

doing and what you're putting out into the world, that was

beautifully done. I love that.

Well, thank you. I've not considered it was the

most surprising, but it has actually worked out really nice,

because that gave me seven appendices, I had seven chapters

already, and now I'm launching the book on the seventh.

Oh, I love that fantastic. Well, I, we wish you

all the best luck with the book. And when that is, do you know

when it's coming out?

April 7, 2026

Okay, I'm not sure when this podcast will be

released, but if it's after April 27 or April 7, April 27

seventh

seventh, april 7, it will be available on

Amazon. Yes,

yes,

alright, good. Um, it'll be available on

Amazon, and we will endeavor to go back into the portal and add

a link to that book as well. We've had several authors whose

books are coming out recently, so I'd love to add that to our

portal, so that you can find their books there as well. Thank

you so much for joining us today, Dale. This was an amazing

conversation. I really do admire where you're putting yourself in

the entrepreneur's path, and I think that it's going to

resonate with a lot of our listeners.

I certainly hope so, because God put it on my heart

to get this out, and you know, and it's like, you gotta get out

now, it's, it's, it's, it's out, it needs to be out now, type of

thing, and I'm going, okay, I don't know why, but okay, I'm,

I'm interested to see what happens after I get it out.

Well, good job on following that leading and

doing what God's called you to do. Thank you so much, Dale. And

remember, out there, entrepreneurs build with

clarity, lead with purpose. Thank you so much for joining

us. And I'll see you next time.

Bye.