Cole Permenter spent six years in MMA cages, 11 years pastoring a small-town Louisiana church, and built a fitness brand to keep ministers physically ready for the gospel. In this episode, Cole joins Addison Williams to talk about what it looks like to live on mission in a secular world, whether you work in a fab shop, run an HVAC business, or lead a congregation.

Episode Highlights: What is Base 1520? Cole founded Base 1520 to help ministers, missionaries, and marketplace Christians become better stewards of their bodies. The name comes from Romans 15:20, where Paul describes his ambition to take the gospel to those who have never heard it. Cole asks a direct question: if a hundred-mile trek over a mountain range is what it takes to reach people, are we physically ready to go?

Your workplace is your mission field. Cole shares two stories from his congregation. One man works in HVAC and has more gospel conversations each week than most pastors ever will. Another works in a fab shop and now leads a Sunday morning small group that functions as a full worship service. Cole's point is clear: God knows your address. Be faithful where you are.

Know what you believe, and know why. Cole argues that theology drives behavior. If your view of God is wrong, your life will reflect it. He encourages anyone wrestling with faith to start with one question: did Christ resurrect? He tried to disprove Christianity in his twenties and could not. No one in 2,000 years has.

The discipline of prayer. Cole draws a direct comparison between physical training and spiritual disciplines. Prayer is not about asking God for things. It is an expression of dependence. He recommends reading Scripture systematically and points listeners to the story of George Mueller, who ran an orphanage for 60 years by prayer alone, never once making a public financial appeal.

Pushing past comfort. Cole trains for HYROX races, takes ice baths with his seven-year-old, and competed in MMA to build relationships with people who would never enter a church. His framework is simple: stress produces growth. That applies to your body, your faith, and your willingness to have hard conversations at work.

Cole Permenter leaves marketplace believers with one practical question to carry into the week: how can I leverage my life, my job, my family, and my resources to make God known? The answer does not require a mission trip or a seminary degree. It starts with where you already are.

Learn more about Base 1520 at https://www.base1520.com/ Connect with Cole Permenter here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cole-permenter-45a6962b7/

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Rick Johnson started RC Fasteners and Components right after 9/11 with no money, no customers, and a word from God: "I won't let you fail." Twenty-four years later, his company sells aerospace and industrial fasteners, but Rick calls it "a ministry working undercover as a fastener company." In this episode, Rick shares how losing three family members in 11 months broke him down, led him to surrender everything to God, and transformed his business from the inside out.

Episode Highlights Rick felt called to start a fastener company months after 9/11, when no planes were flying, and aerospace demand had collapsed. He and his wife had almost no money. That first year brought constant failure, but Rick held onto the promise he received in prayer.

For the first 11 years, Rick ran the business his way. He worked 14 to 16-hour days, seven days a week, and put God on the shelf. Then in 2007, he lost his father, mother, and sister within 11 months. He went through three and a half years of severe mental health struggles before surrendering everything, the company, his family, his finances, back to God.

After that surrender, everything shifted. Rick moved into a bigger building right after losing his second largest account. The building owner remodeled the entire space for free. Within four years, God paid off the building.

Rick and his team began documenting answered prayers on six-foot rolls of craft paper and posting them on the warehouse walls. Eight or nine years later, they fill three aisles. Customers, vendors, and employees all see the evidence.

RC Fasteners holds Bible studies on company time. Employees who initially opted out started showing up after hearing the joy and energy coming from those gatherings. Rick watched people transform, take that change home to their families, and restore broken relationships.

Rick walked away from a half-million-dollar account because it was damaging his team's well-being and culture. When a separate client mistreated his staff, he pulled RC out of that contract too. One of those clients called them back to the table and committed to doing things differently.

Rick hires based on who God leads him to, not always the most qualified candidate. One hire was a former pastor whose church had fallen apart. Over five years at RC, the man was restored, his children returned to faith, and he eventually went back into ministry.

Rick has completed 25 Follower of One virtual mission trips. He credits the organization with helping him take workplace intentionality to another level and encourages anyone, not only business owners, to get involved.

Rick Johnson's closing challenge to listeners: spend time with God daily. That is the most important appointment on your calendar. When you seek Him first and go after the root, loving God and loving people, He takes care of the fruit. Rick's team started with a Monday prayer meeting. Today, something is happening at RC Fasteners every single day.

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Larry Tribble spent years feeling alone in his faith at work. In grad school and in corporate leadership, he struggled to find the right way to talk about what he believed without alienating the people around him. Then he found Follower of One and a different model for living out faith in the marketplace. In this episode, Larry sits down with host Addison Williams to talk about what changed, how he brought his entire church on board with a marketplace mission trip, and why loving people well is the most effective form of evangelism.

Episode Highlights Larry shares how he picked up the electric bass at age 50 after asking his worship leader how he could serve more at church.

He describes the isolation he felt in grad school and corporate environments where faith conversations felt unwelcome or risky.

Larry explains why fear holds more people back than actual opposition. He points out that telling your own story is something no one can argue with.

The conversation covers why traditional evangelism models felt uncomfortable for Larry and how the Follower of One approach gave him a practical alternative.

Larry talks about organizing a marketplace mission trip through his church, helping members realize God placed them in their workplaces on purpose.

He highlights a key insight from the Follower of One community: loving people means being willing to be inconvenienced on their behalf.

Larry breaks down why building relationships first creates the trust needed for deeper conversations about faith.

The episode closes with Larry's encouragement to start each workday with a simple prayer of availability, surrendering the day to God's direction before walking through the door.

If you feel alone in your faith at work, Larry's message is simple: join a community of people trying to do the same thing. Follower of One exists for this purpose. Visit the Follower of One website to connect with the community, join a marketplace mission trip, or find Larry on LinkedIn. His book, Thinking For a Living: The New Model of Knowledge, Work and Success, is available on Amazon.

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Most Christians in the marketplace carry pain they have never talked about out loud. That silence shapes how they show up at work, in relationships, and in their faith. This episode asks what becomes possible when you stop managing your story and start letting it serve others. Lynne Farrell joins Addison Williams to share how her faith journey moved from a small homeschool classroom to a video Bible study now reaching thousands of women in prisons, anti-trafficking restoration programs, and pro-life centers.

Lynne Farrell is the author and keynote speaker of the women's video Bible study, "SEEN: Discovering the Freedom to be Authentically You," which is featured on RightNow Media. Her study is also reaching thousands of women in prison, in anti-trafficking restoration groups, and pro-life centers. Lynne also speaks at women's retreats and events and has authored the children's book, "Bennie's Forever Gift." She's been married to her husband, Paul, for 35 years, and has two adult children.

Key Discussion Points Lynne wrote her Bible study ""Seen"" during COVID and discovered her hardest personal stories were the parts that most impacted other women. Her study is now available on tablets for incarcerated women through a prison ministry partnership, with no prior prison ministry experience on her part. She shares openly about healing from abortion at 17 and how telling that story from a place of healing removes shame's power in the room. The Follower of One Marketplace Mission Trip helped her slow down and create actual margin in her daily schedule to be available to the people around her. She explains why forgiving others and refusing to keep pain hidden are the practical starting points for people who want freedom but do not know where to begin.

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Rob Stein grew up in a culturally Jewish home where God was rarely discussed. He built multiple businesses, competed as a professional bodybuilder, and leaned heavily on his own abilities. Then his wife started going to church, and everything shifted. In this episode, Rob shares how he went from mocking Easter services to getting baptized, selling a business on God's terms, and building a real estate training platform used by over 13,000 agents, all through prayer and relationships. Rob is one of North America's leading authorities in real estate education, mindset coach, former professional bodybuilder, husband, father, follower of Jesus Christ, and creator of Earth to Orbit. Leveraging his Masters in Education, he's spent the last 20 years working tirelessly to help others create successful businesses and lives for themselves. His expertise as an educator sets him apart from other coaches and mentors because he's able to explain the many complex aspects of building an incredible real estate business in a way that's easy to understand…and even fun. Rob's passion for bodybuilding and the lifestyle that goes with it has also been a major contributing factor in developing his teaching method. As a result, Rob has developed a turnkey online coaching system that has enabled agents nationwide to generate consistent, six-figure income. After deciding to create financial prosperity for himself, Rob transitioned from an underpaid, overworked middle school teacher to a top-producing agent and team leader, and became one of the Top 5% of agents nationwide. Over the course of his career, Rob has worked with over 400 organizations and spoken to over 25,000 people on mindset and improving performance. Today, he combines his passion for teaching with his mastery in real estate to help aspiring and experienced real estate agents achieve the financial and time freedom they deserve. Key Discussion Points Rob ended his business meetings with prayer and blessing for the first time, expecting to lose clients. His business grew instead, and new clients told him his faith was the reason they signed up. After spending $150,000 and six months failing to sell his real estate training course, Rob prayed and heard God say "relationships." The next day, a phone call led to the corporate partnership that became his entire business model. Rob grew up culturally Jewish with no relationship to God. His wife started attending church in Texas, and the visible change in her opened a door he never expected to walk through. A pastor told a room of business owners: "Ministry does not have to be your ministry." Rob learned that how you treat employees, how you forgive, and the ethics you hold in your workplace all communicate the gospel. Rob connects the delayed gratification of competitive natural bodybuilding to the daily discipline of obedience. Both require doing hard things now for results you won't see for a long time. Rob Stein's journey is a reminder that God works in the marketplace, not only in the church building. Whether you run a company or sit in a cubicle, prayer and obedience open doors that no marketing budget or business plan ever will. Learn more about Rob and connect with him through the links below. Connect with Rob Stein Here; https://www.youtube.com/@rob_stein

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If you call yourself a Christian but struggle to articulate what you believe and why, your faith will feel shaky when life gets hard. Knowing who God is and who He says you are changes how you show up at work, in relationships, and through crisis. This episode walks through what it looks like to rebuild your identity on a biblical foundation after everything you believed gets turned upside down.

Katie Anne Green is the founder of Katie Anne Coaching in Salt Lake City, Utah, where she coaches divorced Christian women rebuilding their lives after betrayal and loss. She left the Mormon church in late 2022 after a faith journey that began during her own divorce and is completing a dual degree in biblical theology and business leadership. Her experience navigating a complete identity shift makes her a grounded voice on what it means to truly know what you believe.

Key Discussion Points Katie Anne shares how reading Christ's direct words in Matthew about marriage in heaven caused her to question Mormonism for the first time after a lifetime of belief.

She explains why knowing what you believe is the most important of the five Follower of One pillars, and why you cannot follow someone you do not actually know.

She describes the practical reality of building a relationship with God during her divorce, starting with five minutes of honest conversation when she had no one else to turn to.

She breaks down how understanding your identity in Christ frees you from seeking validation from other people, and how that shows up in coaching, parenting, and daily relationships.

She connects the story of Gideon's army of 300 to the idea that God equips you for what He calls you to, even when you feel unprepared.

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Many Christians separate their faith from their work without even realizing it. You tithe, you attend church, and you assume that covers your part in the Great Commission. But what if your everyday job is exactly where God wants to use you?

In this episode, Addison Williams sits down with Heather Trumpfheller, Head of Partnerships at Switchboard.io, to talk about what it actually looks like to stop compartmentalizing your faith and start living it out Monday through Friday, right where you already are. Heather is Head of Partnerships at Switchboard.io, a free platform that connects believers with missionaries based on professional skills rather than geography.

What You Will Hear in This Episode Why Heather quit an 11-year career after writing one prayer journal entry, and what that decision taught her about identity and worthiness

How she launched a Christian employee resource group at a tech company as a brand new believer, and why it worked

The difference between talking about faith at work and actually letting God move through your work

Why prayer is the hardest spiritual discipline for high achievers, and how one woman tithing 10% of her workday to prayer changed everything

How Switchboard connects Christians in secular jobs with missionaries who need their professional skills, completely free

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In this episode of Follower of One, host Addison Williams sits down with Becky Kowall, the founder of 22 North HR, to discuss integrating faith into the workplace. Becky shares her journey from a corporate HR executive to a purpose-driven entrepreneur, emphasizing the importance of serving others and maintaining grace and dignity in professional settings.

Discover practical insights on being a marketplace missionary and learn how you can pursue your purpose relentlessly while navigating challenges in secular jobs.

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In this episode of the Follower of One podcast, Addison Williams hosts Drew Schmitz, the executive director of Little Cloak. Drew helps leaders care for their teams better. As a creative strategist with extensive leadership experience, Drew spearheaded an organization to provide professional, accessible care to every employee. Using his experience as a pastor for over twenty years, Drew develops people and programs to care for others authentically, designing initiatives to improve organizational cultures around people. As a writer, Drew has co-authored hundreds of resources and articles. Known for his strategic vision and personal care, Drew is dedicated to fostering meaningful communities that foster growth.

Drew joins Addison to discuss the importance of integrating faith into the workplace and how Little Cloak provides virtual chaplaincy to companies across the United States. Drew shares insights from his experiences as both a pastor and a business leader, exploring the parallels between traditional mission trips and the Marketplace Mission Trip initiative by Follower of One. Listeners will gain practical advice on how to intentionally live out their faith in their everyday work environment, whether remote or in-person.

00:00 Introduction to the Follower of One Podcast 00:11 Meet Drew Schmitz: Executive Director of Little Cloak 01:28 The Mission and Growth of Little Cloak 04:35 Faith in the Marketplace: A Pastor's Perspective 09:08 The Marketplace Mission Trip Explained 15:07 Practical Tips for Remote Workers 20:06 The Importance of Appreciation and Connection 30:26 Final Thoughts and Encouragement 33:15 Conclusion and Next Steps

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In this episode of Follower of One, host Addison Williams welcomes executive coach and author Robert Hunt. They discuss Robert's unique journey of weaving faith into his professional life and how he helps others do the same through initiatives like 'Be One' and 'Follower of One.' The conversation explores practical ways to live out Christian values in the marketplace, emphasizing the importance of appreciating others, self-awareness, and knowing your 'why.' Robert also shares personal stories and insights on the transformative power of surrendering to God and living authentically as a Christian at work. Tune in to learn how you can become a marketplace missionary and bring your faith to work in meaningful, impactful ways.

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In this episode of Vision Cast, Mike Henry Sr. delves into the purpose and impact of marketplace mission trips, inspired by Hebrews 10:24. He recounts the milestones achieved since the inception of these trips in 2018 and shares his vision for the future, which includes involving a thousand churches globally in these mission trips. Mike highlights the importance of living out faith in everyday actions and how local churches can support this initiative. He also invites listeners to pray, participate, and provide feedback on this ambitious vision.