351: Matt Fagioli and Beyond Check Box Faith

Matt Fagioli coach, consultant and a serial entrepreneur. His company is called Certain Success and he works with business owners and entrepreneurs to help them grow amazing Christ centered businesses while becoming (as closely as possible to) exactly what Jesus intended for them to be. Today, Matt shares his upbringing in the Roman Catholic church, why he decided to return to church after he had children, and how the pandemic shifted his perspective. He also tells the story of discovering that there is so much more to walking with Jesus than checking the boxes on the Christian to do list. He’s found a new way of relating to the Lord. Matt’s story reminds us that wherever you are now on the journey, the Lord has more to show you.

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Stories Matt shared:

• Wrestling with how to be a Christian business owner
• Growing up in the Philadelphia area in a Catholic school
• Not thinking very much about the Lord during his 20s
• Wanting something more at a time in life when he had it all
• Asking around for a church and going to an Evangelical church for the first time
• Beginning to investigate Christianity
• Giving his life to Christ and wanting to change everything
• Believing that he did all the right things as a Christian
• Checkboxing his faith
• How Covid changed his business and life
• Business events that changed his trajectory
• How suffering has helped him grow
• Learning to ask the Lord every day who he is
• What the experience of listening to the Lord is like for him
• Leaving his bag at the airport and how God spoke to him

Great quotes from Matt:

The front door for me was worship.

I spend massive amounts of time speaking to the Lord but not a lot of words are said.

Resources we mentioned:

• Matt’s website
• Dirty Disciple by Matt Fagioli
• Living Fearless: Exchanging the Lies of the World for the Liberating Truth of God by Jamie Winship

Related episodes:

• James Bryan Smith and Loved Beyond Imagination
• Phileena Heuertz and Christian Contemplation
• Brian Zahnd and The Beauty of Christ

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