The Difference Between Christians Who Own Businesses and Kingdom Entrepreneurs

The Difference Between Christians Who Own Businesses and Kingdom Entrepreneurs

What drives someone to seek a life that puts Jesus at the centre of both recovery and business? This conversation between host Tanya Joya and guest Jason Wilson brings together faith, entrepreneurship and identity in a way that speaks straight to anyone rebuilding life after addiction or chaos.

Jason, a former youth pastor turned real estate entrepreneur, shares how he went bankrupt twice, hit a ceiling in his career, and realised that being a Christian who owns a business isn't the same as being a "kingdom entrepreneur". He explains how a prophetic vision of himself as a "victor" in bronze and then in gold exposed his obsession with status, numbers and self-promotion.

As he puts it, "What I lost sight of was that my success came by a different set of rules. They came by faith." The chat digs into identity, with Jason saying his "identity in Christ is a dead man" and that any strength or strategy people see in him is really "the Jesus you need to meet".

He talks through hard-won lessons from real mistakes: eating large financial losses to do the right thing, choosing obedience over comfort, and letting God reshape how he sees business, money and success. For Christians in recovery, or those supporting loved ones through addiction, there’s a clear message: the same biblical principles that set you free from fixing and striving can guide how you work, trade and build community.

Jason and Tanya touch on heart issues like fear, control and the "deceitfulness of wealth", and how Scripture and honest repentance can uproot them. You’ll come away thinking deeply about whose vision you’re really building – yours, or God’s – and how your sobriety, work and faith might weave together in a much bigger story of service and freedom.