Marcus Hall and Zach Garrett: Growing a Business Without Making Family an Afterthought

Okay, so what is Honor God in the Grind? We like to joke around about the word grind a little bit because that can be a little of a paradox, we think, especially for a Christian man who we think should be working hard, be ambitious, but we do it to be ambassadors for God and to be a child of God.

So, you know, the guys say we have on the panel, they work hard, they got a great story, but they're not special, right? They're not special because of their resume.

They're special because of their faithfulness in every sphere of their life.

And I think that's what we're going to discuss today as a group at our table and give a chance to learn from their testimony, learn from what God's teaching them, and then also learn from what tools they can offer us so they can help us be more honoring to God practically.

And everybody's grind looks different.

So it could be somebody who's in business, somebody who's in ministry, or somebody who doesn't even have a dog right now, and that's okay.

We all want to be here to encourage each other and lift each other up.

Welcome, Drew.

We are thrilled to have you guys.

We're going to bring up Marcus Hall, Zach Gehrke.

You guys help me welcome these two gentlemen.

So like Drew said, we try to give language to this idea of grind.

It can be an all-in-one topic, but one thing that we kept down on is that our work matters for eternity, but it is not our identity.

And while our grind refines us, it doesn't define us.

And I think that could be tempting with the scoreboards of life and how we're winning in whatever sphere that might be, or even how we're not and how that could just crush our soul.

And today we're talking about building big and starting small.

And both of these gentlemen have been at some very large companies.

with some roles of influence and have branched out and taken risks and also started their own businesses.

So we're going to, we're going to carve out time to talk about business.

We're going to talk about home, and we're also going to talk about the startup journey.

And as a parallel thinking about habit formation to the compounding effect of, of the small wins, whether that's the days of small began like, um, and Zechariah or, whether we're at a very large company or if you're an individual contributor, it's not all about starting business.

So gentlemen, today, I think just to get started, you know, Zach, you can start, you got the mic.

But when we talk about the grind, would you just, you know, we didn't do a lengthy bio here, but could you define what your grind looks like? Both at work today, at home, and whatever way you want to bring some more context to what your grind is.