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Is it possible for a democracy to govern undemocratically? Can the people elect an undemocratic leader? Is it possible for democracy to bring about authoritarianism? And if so, what does this say about democracy? ​​My name is Justin Kempf. Every week I talk to the brightest minds on subjects like international relations, political theory, and history to explore democracy from every conceivable angle. Topics like civil resistance, authoritarian successor parties, and the autocratic middle cla ...
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The Jihadis today root themselves theologically and ideologically in a particular movement that is exclusivist, that is militant, that is activist, and that is the movement known as Wahhābism. Cole Bunzel Access Bonus Episodes on Patreon Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox. A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com. Cole…
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In this episode, Jon and Les introduce the newest member of the EntrePastors team. Shane Odom has experienced much success throughout his career in multiple business endeavors. He’s also gained a tremendous amount of knowledge through some of the setbacks and failures he’s encountered along the way. Shane is bringing his many years of business wisd…
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If you have this model of AI, which is geniuses design machines and those machines or algorithms are going to scoop up all the data and they're going to make better decisions for you. That's fundamentally anti-democratic. Daron Acemoglu Access Bonus Episodes on Patreon Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox. A full transcript is available at…
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In this episode, Jon and Les talk with Jason Kempf. Jason serves on a pastoral team with one of his roles being that of overseeing the vision and strategy for his church along with leadership development. In addition to his pastoral role, Jason is also the founder of exANIMO Solutions, a business that helps other organizations with leadership devel…
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The fact that Ukraine can be a democracy.... presents a threat to the authoritarian regimes in Moscow and Minsk of the sort that NATO would never actually present. Serhii Plokhy Access Bonus Episodes on Patreon Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox. A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com. Serhii Plokhy is a Professor of …
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In this episode, Jon and Les talk with Justin Janowski. Justin is the founder of Faith 2 Influence, an organization that helps Christian coaches learn how to sell their services so they can make the impact they’ve been called to make in this world. Justin has spent the past 17 years mastering sales, leadership, and business development. In our conv…
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We are at a moment of very, very high risk and I'm not sure that people really know that or understand it, or if they do, if they care. Anne Applebaum Access Bonus Episodes on Patreon Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox. A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com. Anne Applebaum is a staff writer at The Atlantic and a Puli…
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In this episode, Jon and Les have a conversation with John Michael Clark, the founder of The Family Captain. John Michael has been in pastoral ministry for many years and is currently two years into the planting of Salt Church in Deltaville, VA. John Michael has a gifting and a passion for helping Christian men level-up as husbands and leaders of t…
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Rod has been in education for years! He recently became the Principal of a new elementary school, just as he came in contact with a book that links physical growth with mental growth. Come join me as Rod shares what he has learned to help his students, his family and his own life to grown physically and intellectually!…
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The thing that really astonishes me is that there's never any agency given to Iraqis, both during the war and the occupation, but also 20 years later. It always goes back to what the Americans did. There's a defeatism about Iraq's ability to do anything on its own and I think that's at the heart of why people can't see anything democratic in the co…
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In this episode Jon and Les introduce you to an amazing young entrepreneur named Karis Hortin. As a young girl, Karis was adopted from an orphanage in Ethiopia and grew up with a strong desire to eventually return and serve others in a similar place through some kind of missionary work. However, when she took part in the CEO (Creating Entrepreneuri…
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The problem in both cases is not Zuckerberg or Musk, but the idea of a Zuckerberg or Musk. The idea that, simply by virtue of owning and controlling a particular technology, someone wields arbitrary or unaccountable power which can touch every aspect of our liberty and our democracy. Jamie Susskind Access Bonus Episodes on Patreon Make a one-time D…
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While most pastors have the ability to speak boldly from the stage and preach with conviction and authority in calling for people to take steps of action toward life transformation, they can also struggle to have conversations around sales in their marketplace businesses. In this episode, Jon and Les wrestle with the question of why pastors struggl…
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Who would be a better ally than Ukrainians? These are people who are fighting so bravely and have shown so much resilience. That's what we should want in an ally. James Goldgeier Access Bonus Episodes on Patreon Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox. A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com. James Goldgeier is a a Professo…
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Ryan Steuer holds the distinguished honor of being a two-time returning guest to the EntrePastors podcast! At one time, Ryan served as a pastor of a small congregation in rural Indiana, but his pathway into pastoral ministry was not necessarily via the traditional route. Ryan came out of the world of engineering and public education and launched a …
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Lynn Fisher describes himself as an average guy. He was never the super athlete that you think of when people start talking about top performers, but Lynn has managed to do things into his 60's that are VERY above average. Hear about Lynn's journey in Cross Fit, how his mindset has been shifted, and how anyone with a desire to be more healthy could…
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The Iraqis suffered so heavily and not just because of the 2003 war. The first war in 1991 inflicted terrible damage on Iraq and then the next 10 years of sanctions immiserated the populace and inflicted an especially punishing blow on Iraqi women and children. Steven Simon Become a Patron! Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox. A full tran…
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At EntrePastors, many of the people we work with are working on adding some kind of entrepreneurial pursuit in the marketplace alongside of their current role in pastoral ministry. In this episode you will hear from our guest who is on a little different trajectory. Dan LaRock has been in the corporate world for many years, but in recent years he a…
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Democracy is a much more complicated thing than we often give it credit for and certainly speaking dichotomously about democracy being in crisis or not is an oversimplification. Larry Bartels Become a Patron! Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox. A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com. Larry Bartels is the May Werthan S…
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Recently, both Jon and Les finished reading the book, Buy Back Your Time by Dan Martell. Toward the end of his book Dan shares what he calls the 7 Pillars of Life and talks about how we need to be making investments into every one of these areas. For many pastors and entrepreneurs, it’s often easy to neglect some, or all of these pillars as we are …
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One of the things that we see happening online is sort of a democratization of propaganda. Samuel Woolley Become a Patron! Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox. A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com. Samuel Woolley is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin and the projec…
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On this episode of the EntrePastors podcast, Jon talks with Joshua Brown, also known as “The Pressure Washing Pastor.” Joshua has an incredible story of growing up on the streets of Nashville, living a life that was drifting far away from the Lord, but then being radically saved and transformed by the love of God. His passion for the Lord led him i…
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Jim Higgins, is an amazing husband, father, businessman, athlete and person! He has learned to be great by getting knocked down physically, mentally and spiritually and getting back up. He went from professional athlete to barely being able to walk and back to a pro! He has competed in Ironman competitions, started and grew a very successful busine…
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It's hard to believe what was happening in Xinjiang and most Chinese people didn't believe, but now they do. A lot of them do. Josh Chin Become a Patron! Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox. A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com. Josh Chin is the Deputy Bureau Chief for China at the Wall Street Journal and the coautho…
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For anyone who might find themselves serving in a toxic ministry culture where scarcity is the prevailing mindset, yet dreaming of a day where you could be walking in freedom and abundance, this episode is going to be a huge encouragement to you! In this episode, Jon and Les have a conversation with Eric Reploeg about his journey - from his early y…
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Democracy dies with the lies. Even that simplest form of democracy, which is that we vote on a politician or we don't and we vote on another politician depends on the truth. Because if you can lie about what you did in office or lie about what you didn't do, that sort of vertical accountability breaks down. It becomes meaningless. Staffan Lindberg …
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Lately we have been hearing a lot about “revival” from various places around the country and globe. Regardless of your opinions on everything that is happening in current events, it’s hard to deny that God seems to be up to something in our day! In this episode Jon and Les have an interesting conversation around the subject of revival. More specifi…
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It is one Putin when you see him on a calendar. It's yet another Putin when he needs to arrest a snowman. Srdja Popovic Become a Patron! Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox. A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com. Srdja Popovic is the co-founder of CANVAS, and was a founding member of the Otpor! (“Resistance!”) a movem…
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For many small business owners, getting a firm grasp on their business finances can pose some significant challenges. In addition to the day-to-day operational systems that need to be mastered, the annual tax season can be a source of real stress and often exposes some of the weak spots in the business financial picture. All of this is enough to ke…
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I do want to underscore this should not be read as a victory of the left. It's a victory of Lula and a narrow victory. And it's Lula the person. It's not so much Lula from the PT as the party that won. Wendy Hunter Become a Patron! Make a one-time Donation to Democracy Paradox. A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com. Wendy Hunte…
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EntrePastors exists to help pastors and other ministry-minded people achieve financial freedom as they learn to THINK, ACT, and THRIVE as prosperous entrepreneurs. In short, EntrePastors seeks to destroy the narrative of “the starving pastor” that seems to be so prevalent among people of faith in our culture today. Rather than trying to engage in a…
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I think voters right now, remember the circus of the convention over the substance of what it did. I think there is a bit of an amnesia over the mandate for change that existed in 2019 and 2020 that the Constitution delivered on, that voters had moved away from that mandate to change by the time the Constitution went for approval. Jennifer Piscopo …
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In this episode Jon & Les are joined by Tim Winders for a powerful conversation about the need to redefine success both in the church and in the marketplace. Tim has experienced great “success” as the world so often defines it from a financial standpoint. He has also experienced the depths of “losing it all” in a bankruptcy years ago that brought h…
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I think democracy and capitalism are individually in crisis in that they're not working very well and that the combination of the two in one political and economic system, which we have come to think of as the Western Way, is in crisis not only because the two component parts are in crisis, but because they're in crisis interactively. Martin Wolf B…
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In this episode you will hear Jon & Les share a conversation they had recently with the audience of the 95Podcast. They were invited to give an overview of the EntrePastors platform to a new audience made up largely with pastors of small to mid-size churches. Jon and Les talk about the mission and overall message of EntrePastors. They share why, in…
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While war creates the need for a state, it obliterates the capacity to deliver one. We're seeing that in Ukraine right now. That if you want to develop a state, you need peace, not war. War may create the need for a state, but peace is what allows you to build one. I think that that might be a lesson worth emphasizing, especially these days. Anna G…
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How do you balance having a strong drive or ambition to grow and succeed on one hand, with the command to be content in your current circumstances on the other? This is a common struggle for anyone who seeks to live a godly life, yet make a big impact in the world whether through their ministry or business pursuits. In this episode, Jon and Les, al…
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