#1 An Entrepreneur's Guide to Prayer w/ Hallow Co-Founder, Alessandro DiSanto

Entrepreneurs are fundamentally people of action. Catholics fundamentally believe that God has a specific calling. So what do we get when we put these things together?

There tends to exist, a conflict between our will and God’s will.

But there shouldn’t be! We know that we must follow God’s will. The problem is it’s often really hard to know what God’s will actually is for us.

Understanding what God is calling us to is the first step we must take in this journey.

But how can we come to a confident understanding of what that is? The answer is simple; Prayer.

Prayer is the way we talk to God. Prayer is our conversation tool with God. Imagine being married and never discussing anything with your wife. Or imagine only sharing a few words, usually of petition, 2 times a day. How could you ever know what she wants and how she’s doing? How would you have ever gotten to know her in the first place.

Sadly, this is how many of us treat God. We show up briefly, usually asking for something. We don’t often seek to hear His unique message for us. We are just in and out.

This is what we are here to discuss today.

We are blessed to be able to discuss this today with someone very appropriate for the role — Alessandro DiSanto, the Co-Founder of the #1 Prayer App in the World, Hallow.

In today’s conversation…

* (4:04) Alessandro tells us how his prayer life looked leading up to the founding of Hallow

* (7:14) How to discern the call to entrepreneurship

* (11:27) The three foundational components of prayer, Silence, Confession, and Fasting

* (18:38) Why we should see prayer as a tool kit with different tools for different circumstances, and what those tools are (Lectio Divina, The Examen, Reading the Lives of the Saints, and Aspirations)

* (25:00) Then he shares with us how Hallow integrates prayer into their daily operations and big decision-making

* (32:30) How they stay humble even in their success

* (36:30) And we finish by discussing knowing when to quit

* (40:40) Recap of what we learned

* (43:45) Teasing the next episode

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