Identify the subtle signs of leadership drift—and what to do now to stay aligned, humble, and on mission with God.

Welcome to the Heaven in Business Podcast, where we help you navigate the messy intersection of faith, family, and business. In this episode, Andy Mason dives deep into a sobering but empowering leadership message.

Why do wise leaders drift? Why do once-thriving businesses and ministries collapse? Using powerful real-world examples and the biblical story of Solomon, Andy reveals the seven subtle signs of leadership drift, and how to stay aligned with Kingdom purpose to build something that truly lasts.

Whether you're just getting started or stewarding decades of success, this conversation will sharpen your focus and stir you to finish well.

🔑 7 SIGNS OF LEADERSHIP DRIFT

1. You Stop Honoring People’s Time – Leadership starts with valuing others, not excusing behavior with your title.
2. You Say in Your Heart: “Look What I Built” – Pride often masks itself in success and results.
3. Your Priorities Get Blurry – Success without clarity leads to busy mediocrity.
4. You Avoid Accountability – Wise leaders invite feedback and correction—even when it’s uncomfortable.
5. You Neglect Leadership Development – If you’re not training others to go further, your vision dies with you.
6. You Protect the Brand Over the Mission – When image outranks message, decline begins.
7. You Stop Seeking God First – Drift starts subtly… and ends in disaster.

TIMESTAMPS

00:00 – Welcome + Why this message matters now
01:30 – Leadership decline at a culture-first bank
03:00 – Lessons from Martin Luther and the Catholic Church
05:00 – Solomon’s rise: humility, worship, and wisdom
09:00 – Solomon’s fall: how compromise starts subtly
12:00 – The danger of success without accountability
14:30 – What Proverbs 1 reveals about foolishness and wisdom
16:00 – Drift Sign #1: You stop honoring people’s time
18:30 – Drift Sign #2: You begin to take the credit
20:00 – Drift Sign #3: Your vision and priorities get blurry
21:30 – Drift Sign #4: You avoid accountability and feedback
23:00 – Drift Sign #5: You stop developing other leaders
24:30 – Drift Sign #6: You protect the brand over the mission
26:30 – Drift Sign #7: You lose your focus on God's presence
28:00 – Disciplined vs Undisciplined Wisdom: Key contrasts
30:00 – Final challenge: Build something that lasts

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Discover Janine Mason’s powerful revelation from Brazil: You're not missing anything—God has already given you what it takes.

Welcome to Heaven in Business – where we help you partner with God at work, build a better business, and grow your Kingdom impact.

In this powerful and raw episode, Janine Mason shares her journey through a ministry trip to Brazil where God reshaped her understanding of leadership, calling, and courage. Although she was already leading and making impact, Janine reveals how she was still internally waiting for someone else’s affirmation to move forward.

Through a mixture of supernatural healing, team challenges, and personal revelation, Janine came to a transformational realization: Nothing is missing. God has already said yes. You don't need another prophetic word to start. This episode will help you overcome hesitation and boldly step into your God-given assignment, starting today.

3 Practical Takeaways for Your Workplace:

Lead where you are: You don’t need a title or permission to influence. Start where you’re already planted.

Break the waiting mindset: If God has spoken, stop waiting for human validation. Take action.

Build with what’s in your hand: God’s already given you everything you need. Steward it with courage.

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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 – Welcome with Andy & Janine Mason
01:30 – Why Janine went to Brazil (not a HiB trip!)
04:12 – The real goal: stepping into the supernatural
06:30 – Setbacks begin: travel delays & rough starts
10:22 – Smile ministry: releasing God’s presence with a smile
14:05 – Miracles, sickness & unexpected messiness
18:47 – Wrestling with unfulfilled expectations
22:40 – “I was still waiting to be chosen…”
27:03 – The internal shift: nothing is missing
30:21 – Owning your voice and taking the next step
34:00 – Practical steps Janine’s taking (blog, writing, bold action)
38:10 – Questions to ask yourself
41:02 – Upcoming Heaven in Business events
43:00 – Janine prays for courage to move forward

Discover how to hear God’s voice in real-life decisions—career, finances, family, and calling. Andy Mason unpacks five pivotal moves shaped by God's leading.

Welcome to Heaven in Business. This channel helps Christian workplace leaders grow in identity, business, and influence by partnering with God at work.

In this episode, Andy Mason walks you through five life-defining decisions—from leaving New Zealand to launching Heaven in Business—all guided by hearing the voice of God. If you’re facing transition, uncertainty, or major decisions, this will equip and encourage you to hear clearly and act confidently with God. You’ll laugh, cry, and likely find your own story somewhere in Andy’s journey.

What You’ll Learn in This Video:

How to make high-stakes decisions by hearing God clearly, even when afraid

The key to turning adversity into intimacy with God in the workplace

How one prophetic word unlocked a 3,300-mile move (and birthed a movement)

Want more? Grab your copy of Andy’s latest book.

1. Listen Up: Hearing God at Work (Book)

2. Listen to the founder's story

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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro – Five moves that changed my life
01:00 Move #1 – Hearing God at 13: Agricultural science & missions
03:30 Move #2 – Personal faith in a hostile environment
07:00 Move #3 – Leave New Zealand: The Abraham word
12:00 Move #4 – Move to the East Coast (fulfilled prophetic word!)
20:00 Move #5 – Pruned to multiply (and move again)
27:00 Nashville: Mentoring the next generation
30:00 Final encouragement + Isaiah 43 and “Listen Up” guide

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Your daily habits shape your destiny. Learn how to reclaim your focus and purpose.

Welcome to Heaven in Business. This channel helps Christian workplace leaders grow in identity, business, and influence by partnering with God at work.

In this candid episode, Andy Mason shares a personal wake-up call on how small, daily distractions were quietly stealing his presence, peace, and purpose. From recovering after surgery to navigating a disrupted routine, Andy reveals how even good intentions can slowly lead to drift—unless we recognize the signs and make intentional shifts. This is for anyone who feels scattered, stuck, or silently slipping away from their best life.

What You’ll Learn in This Video:

How to identify micro-habits that are pulling you off course

The compounding effect of small distractions on your leadership and legacy

A 3-step re-alignment plan to reclaim focus and live fully present

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Timestamps:
00:00 Welcome + context
00:45 The cost of broken rhythms
02:00 Scrolling, numbing, and drifting
03:30 Solomon’s drift: wisdom vs. action
05:00 Real talk: My habits aren’t harmless
07:15 Habits are forming you—like it or not
08:30 Ownership vs. guilt
09:45 3 steps to realign your life
11:00 Final challenge: Who are you becoming?

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Feeling overwhelmed building something that matters? Here's how to overcome 6 spiritual attacks that sabotage your work—with truth, clarity, and God’s voice.

In this episode, Andy Mason unpacks the spiritual opposition every business builder faces—from identity to team dynamics. Learn how to identify and overcome six common battles that threaten your progress, and hear what Andy is doing right now to rebuild Heaven in Business with clarity, courage, and joy.

00:00 – Introduction: Why this message matters

02:25 – How Andy processes: God’s voice + Nehemiah

04:45 – Six spiritual attacks unpacked

Identity

Motivation

Authority

Spirituality

Strategy & Tenacity

Team & Resources

18:30 – 3 response strategies: Word, counsel, written plan

20:00 – Define real success + closing encouragement

Take 30 minutes this week to write your 60-day, 1-year, and 5-year vision.

Ask God what He’s saying—and act on it. You were born for this.

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Comment: Which spiritual battle are you facing right now—identity, motivation, or something else?

In this deeply encouraging episode, Andy Mason shares powerful testimonies that highlight how God shows up in the middle of life's delays, disappointments, and detours. With raw honesty and biblical truth, Andy walks through real stories from entrepreneurs and personal family experiences—showing how every challenge is not the end, but an incubation for increase. Grounded in Isaiah 43, this episode will inspire you to trust God's timing and lean into what He’s doing, even when it doesn't look like what you expected.

⏱️ Timestamps & Highlights:

00:00 – Welcome and episode focus: faith, family, and business collisions.

01:00 – Testimony 1: HR staffing couple navigates anxiety, church conflict, and YouTube censorship to experience business breakthrough and national influence.

02:30 – Testimony 2: Financial advisors shift strategy after 5 years of hardship and see explosive 45% growth.

04:00 – Testimony 3: Janine’s disrupted travel to Brazil becomes a miraculous business-class upgrade and fulfillment of Isaiah 43.

06:00 – Key Insight: The Word of God is tested, refined, and proven true (Proverbs 30:5).

07:30 – The egg analogy: Hardship is necessary to build strength for the next level.

08:30 – Faith challenge: It’s not death or delay—it's incubation for increase.

10:00 – Final encouragement and blessing: God is with you in the fire and flood.

🗝️ Scripture Anchor:

Isaiah 43 – "Behold, I am doing a new thing… I will make a way in the wilderness."

Proverbs 30:5 – "Every word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him."

💡 Takeaway Questions:

What situation in your life feels like delay or detour?

Could this be incubation for your next level of increase?

Are you praying from the promises God has already spoken?

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In this powerful episode, Andy Mason sits down with Marilyn Adamson, founder of EveryStudent.com, an evangelistic website that’s quietly reaching millions. Marilyn shares her journey from convinced atheist to Christ-follower and digital missionary. With no tech background, she launched a site that now reaches 75 million people annually, with over 1.5 million recorded decisions for Christ last year alone—at less than $2 per conversion.

Discover how God used Marilyn’s journalism skills, faithful friendships, and deep conviction to build a safe space where seekers all over the world—especially in restricted nations—can privately explore the truth about God and life. You’ll hear real stories of transformation and a call to be part of this global move of God.

🔗 Visit & Share: EveryStudent.com
💬 "I came across a site that answers all the hard questions about life and God. Would you be interested in taking a look?"

💸 Support the Mission:
Every $2 helps someone encounter Jesus.
👉 Donate now at: Everystudent.info/give

Timestamps:

00:01 – Introduction
Andy Mason introduces Marilyn Adamson, founder of EveryStudent.com, highlighting the explosive impact of her online evangelism strategy.

01:09 – Marilyn’s Journey from Atheism to Faith
Marilyn shares how a Christian friend patiently answered her daily questions for 18 months, ultimately leading her to Christ through a book—and a revelation about the earth’s position to the sun and the properties of water.

02:48 – Call to Media Ministry
Marilyn joins Cru (Campus Crusade for Christ) with a desire to use media to reach seekers like she once was.

03:56 – Launching EveryStudent.com
Despite no tech background, Marilyn trusted God and built a digital outreach site for skeptics. Psalm 40 was her guiding Scripture.

04:07 – Website Strategy
EveryStudent.com speaks directly to non-believers, offering persuasive content and an invitation to start a relationship with God. Follow-up site: StartingWithGod.com.

05:15 – Impact Numbers
From thousands to 75 million annual visitors.
Only ~2 cents per visitor, and less than $2 per conversion.
In the last year alone: 1.5 million people accepted Christ.

06:31 – How Conversions Are Tracked
Only specific articles/videos offer a gospel response and trackable invitation to receive Christ—correlated with follow-up engagement.

07:46 – Reaching Hard-to-Access Nations
Targeted ads reach seekers in places like Egypt, Pakistan, Indonesia, and Saudi Arabia—where the gospel is otherwise restricted.

08:48 – Testimony: Felix's Story
A powerful example of personal transformation from a site visitor who found freedom in Christ after a broken life.

10:05 – Long-Term Discipleship
The site offers 5–10 years of ongoing growth resources, with many users returning years later to thank the team.

10:34 – Incredible Return on Investment
At <$2 per salvation decision, this is one of the most effective evangelistic investments available.

11:02 – Urgency to Expand
Marilyn shares the urgency to reach more people before advertising or access is potentially restricted. Vision: double the budget to double the reach.

11:58 – How to Engage and Support
Visit EveryStudent.com, use it as a personal evangelistic tool, and consider financially supporting the work.

💥 Call to Action:

Want to be part of a global gospel movement with incredible ROI?

👉 Visit EveryStudent.info/give
📬 Scroll to the bottom for giving options and Marilyn’s contact info
💸 Every $2 reaches one person with the gospel
🌍 Every $100 can lead 50 people to Christ

Help multiply this reach while the door is open. Give now.

In this powerful follow-up to our “Samson: Cut Your Own Hair” episode, Andy Mason sits down with leadership expert Ford Taylor to unpack the real-life consequences of unchecked pride, overwork, and isolation in leadership—and the path to redemption. Ford vulnerably shares how he went from leading a $300M company to personal and professional collapse… and what it took to rebuild. This episode is a must-listen for anyone navigating the messy intersection of faith, family, and business.

Read the blog: Heaveninbusiness.com/blog/how-the-mighty-fall-and-rise-again-if-you-let-god-in

🎯 Key Takeaways:

• The 5 stages of leadership and organizational decline from How the Mighty Fall by Jim Collins

• How Ford ignored early warning signs… and paid the price

• The role of arrogance, insecurity, and needing validation

• Why Ford now teaches “bumper buddies” instead of accountability partners

• How consecration, confession, and humility brought restoration

• A leadership prayer you’ll want to bookmark and use daily

📚 Resources Mentioned:

How the Mighty Fall by Jim Collins

Necessary Endings by Dr. Henry Cloud

Relactional Leadership by Ford Taylor:

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⏱️ Timestamps:
00:00 – Intro & context from the Samson episode
03:00 – Ford’s background & business success
06:30 – Stage 1: Pride born of success
13:00 – Stage 2: The pursuit of more & hidden insecurity
18:00 – Stage 3: Denial of risk, ignoring red flags
22:00 – Stage 4: Crisis, culture breakdown, and secrets
27:00 – Stage 5: Collapse and opportunity for restoration
32:00 – How Ford cut his own hair and found redemption
36:00 – Baseball bat covenant & bumper buddies
38:00 – Leadership prayer & final encouragement

🙏 Prayer Highlight:
“Give me the courage to be humble and the humility to be courageous.”

🔗 Connect with Ford Taylor:

• Website: TransformLead.com

• Book: Relactional Leadership

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