About our Guest:
Mark Biller has been on staff at Sound Mind Investing (SMI) since 2000. He leads SMI newsletter’s overall content strategy, managing the editorial direction and writing many articles. He led the company’s efforts to create its first website, helped develop several of SMI’s investment strategies, and has been a contributing author to the Sound Mind Investing Handbook. Mark helped design and launch the three Sound Mind Investing mutual funds and has served as the Senior Portfolio Manager since the original SMI Fund was launched in 2005. He also serves as Senior Portfolio Manager to SMI Advisory Service’s Private Client managed account program.

About our Guest:
Brian Peterson, founder of Faces of Santa Ana, is an artist from Miami, Florida currently living in Santa Ana, CA. Faces of Santa Ana sets out to befriend and paint portraits of the homeless community in Santa Ana, CA. They then sell the artwork and use proceeds to help in rehabilitating their newfound friends. The mission of Faces of Santa Ana is to locally help those in need in cities around the world while also inspiring and activating creatives and supporters of the movement. They believe that the creativity they’ve been given is meant for the outward pouring of love.

About our Guest:
Neile joined Christian Credit Counselors in 2013 and has built partnerships focused on helping people achieve financial freedom and a better way of life. Neile’s passion lies in helping and serving others by creating community through collaboration, connection, and impact. 

Established in 1990, Christian Credit Counselors has helped over 300,000 Americans get out of debt and begin to enjoy the benefits of financial freedom. We are located in San Diego, California and are licensed and bonded in 36 states across the nation.

About our Guest:
Bob Lotich is a certified educator in personal finance (CEPF®) and has been named a top-20 influencer in personal finance. His award-winning website, SeedTime.com and SeedTime Money Podcast have reached over 50 million people in the past decade. Bob loves sharing the results of his experimenting with small things like budgeting hacks, money-saving apps, and big things like radical giving, year-long sabbaticals, and other timeless financial instruction from the Bible.

You can hear Bob on the SeedTime Podcast here: https://seedtime.com/podcast

Bob also wanted to share some great resources with our listeners including FREE budgeting spreadsheets https://seedtime.com/10-free-household-budget-spreadsheets/ and ways to make some extra cash https://seedtime.com/ways-to-make-money/.

About our Guests:
Damian Carson played football for and graduated from the University of Georgia. His career span includes multiple leadership roles in corporate and non-profit settings. Damian effectively collaborates with community stakeholders and financial institutions to strategically implement corporate social responsibility programs throughout Birmingham and the state of Alabama. He is currently the senior trainer and director for Birmingham’s Small Business Development division of Operation HOPE, where he is responsible for training and developing small businesses for business growth and sustainability.

James Stewart recently earned his Master of Public Administration degree at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. He has had careers with the United States Postal Service, in the ministry, and in Accounting. He currently serves as City Clerk of the City of Irondale, Alabama and is running for mayor. He has participated in government in many other capacities. James is passionate about teaching biblical stewardship. He and his wife Kimberly have been married for 30 years and have two grown children, Jade and Christian.

About our Guest:
Chuck Bentley serves as CEO of Crown Financial Ministries and is the Founder and Executive Director of the Christian Economic Forum. Chuck has authored several books on biblical finance, marriage, and family and travels the globe teaching with a relentless passion biblical financial principles to stewards from all walks of life including the affluent, middle class, poor, and ultra poor. He and his wife Ann are both graduates of Baylor University. They have four adult sons, two daughters-in-law, and five grandchildren and live in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.

About our Guest:
Barna Group’s Senior Vice President of Research, Brooke Hempell, manages the firm’s research studies, from semi-annual polls that track the pulse of Americans’ beliefs and practices, to custom studies for para-church ministries, denominations, businesses and non-profit organizations. Through this work, Barna helps leaders gain insights into faith groups and the general population’s perspectives on faith and cultural issues.

Prior to joining Barna, Brooke led market research engagements for clients in the pharmaceutical, financial services and retail industries for more than 15 years. She earned her B.S. in Business and Marketing from Cornell University. Brooke is active in church planting and racial reconciliation ministries and lives in Atlanta, GA.

About our host:
As our CEO, Chuck Bentley has a relentless passion to travel the globe teaching biblical financial principles to stewards from all walks of life including the affluent, middle class, poor, and ultra poor. He is the author of five books, with his most recent book being Money Problems, Marriage Solutions. He is also the executive producer of the God Provides™ film series, starring Dean Jones. The films are now used throughout the world in 30 languages with the potential to reach 2 billion oral and visual learners.

In addition, Chuck writes and produces a daily radio broadcast heard on over 1,200 outlets in the USA. As the Founder and Executive Director of the Christian Economic Forum, Chuck also focuses on advancing God’s economic principles through this annual gathering of select marketplace leaders dedicated to improving the world through the advancement of ideas that work. He also serves on the board of Foundations for Farming, an initiative aimed at bringing transformation to individuals, communities, and nations through sustainable agriculture and faithful stewardship of the land.

Chuck and his wife, Ann, both graduates of Baylor University, have been married since 1978. They can be found reading and spending time outdoors with their family at their home in Knoxville, Tennessee when they are not traveling the world together to advance Crown’s mission. They have four adult sons, two daughters-in-law, and five grandchildren.

About our guest:
Dr. Robi is a highly sought after, dynamic, and compelling keynote speaker, having presented to more than 1.5 million people in over 25 countries over the past 10 years. Over 300,000 people have graduated from his programs used by humanitarian organizations around the world.

He is the founder of the Australian Institute of Clinical Psychology and is the CEO of the Family Challenge Australia/Oxygen Institute Switzerland, which is developing innovative mental health service delivery models.