
Exploring the Marketplace
Welcome to The Exploring The Marketplace Podcast. Hosts Shawn Bolz & Bob Hasson interview everyday influencers, business owners, career professionals, entertainers about how their faith has changed their opportunities and transformed their lives. These stories will be forever embedded in your memory helping you see what God can do in your life! If a picture is worth a thousand words, their stories are worth a thousand self help books, sermons, or coaching sessions. Come join the conversation!
Latest episodes

Aug 12, 2020 • 39min
Exploring the Prophetic with Michelle Lutz (Season 3, Ep 52)
On today’s episode, Shawn Bolz interviews Michelle Lutz. Michelle is a worship leader and songwriter based in Los Angeles. She has been leading worship and pastoring worship teams for over 15 years. Michelle loves the Word of God and is driven by a desire to see heaven come and be released into the city, nation and world through worship, prayer and fellowship. Michelle launched her online mentorship program called the Wholehearted Worship Leader designed to build up, impart and release worship leaders for revival and to release revival into their spheres of influence. Join the conversation as Shawn and Michelle discuss her painful journey of infertility and their story of seeing God speak and move in a miraculous way, how the Lord led them to transition from churches and the dream that God put in her heart. You will love her stories about how hearing God's voice has made a key mark in every season of her life.

Aug 10, 2020 • 60min
Exploring the Industry with Shawn Bolz and Musician Dan Lutz (Season 1, Ep. 8)
Join Shawn Bolz as he interviews Musician: Dan Lutz. Dan is a musician who plays both electric and upright bass with 15 years experience. He’s proven himself to be a seasoned and respected musician which has opened doors for him to tour the world and play with many various artists. Today we will explore how God brought Dan into his dream of being a session basis on some of the most prestigious projects in the music industry. We are also going to discover how he renegotiated his career to do marriage and family the way God showed him while doing music, and we will hear stories of What God can do through his friends in the music industry.

Aug 5, 2020 • 42min
Exploring the Prophetic with Jeremy & Ally Butrous (Season 3, Ep. 51)
On today’s episode, Shawn Bolz interviews Jeremy & Ally Butrous. After graduating from Bethel School of Ministry, Jeremy has been working with itinerant ministers, speakers, and churches for the last decade. Ally has completed two masters degrees in Psychology and she will be receiving her doctorate in September of 2020. After Jeremy and Ally met, they started a consulting business, a Podcast, they have ghostwritten 14 manuscripts for Christian authors and also have co-authored their new book coming out soon: "The Ways of Prosperity." Join the conversation as Shawn, Jeremy & Ally discuss their beautiful story of how the Lord brought them together for His greater purpose, an encounter Jeremy had that caused him and Ally to go deeper into resourcing others to flourish in their callings. Hear these amazing stories of how God has put them on a path to help unlock people into prosperity and thriving to build successful relationships and to help reshape what healthy relationships look like.

Aug 3, 2020 • 1h 1min
Exploring the Industry with Shawn Bolz and Actress, Film Director & Model Stephanie Linus (Ep. 7)
Join Shawn Bolz as he interviews Film Director, Actress & Model: Stephanie Linus. Stephanie is the most known Nigerian actress, film maker and model, she has starred in over 100 films and has received several nominations and rewards for her work as an Actress. On today's show, Stephanie is going to share her miraculous healing journey from a severe car accident that almost cost her her life, we will also explore her movie "Dry" which is changing the entire social issue throughout Africa and how God's favor has carried her through her career that has protected her from manipulation.

Jul 29, 2020 • 43min
Exploring the Prophetic with Jonathan Tremaine (JT) Thomas (Season 3, Ep. 50)
On today’s episode, Shawn Bolz interviews Jonathan Tremaine (JT) Thomas. Jonathan was commissioned by Bethel World Outreach Center as a missionary and prayer mobilizer. Jonathan has spearheaded extensive evangelism, prayer, and repentance gatherings in stadiums and cities across the nation. Jonathan directs prayer fueled evangelism, community transformation, and racial reconciliation across the globe. Join the conversation as Shawn and Jonathan discuss his encounter with the voice of God in an audible way that caused him to content for prophetic experiences for his city. These amazing encounters moved him forward and placed a prayer burden upon him for the issues of racism and racial identity. This conversation is so important to have today!

Jul 27, 2020 • 1h 39min
Exploring the Industry with Shawn Bolz and Scott Winters - Producer & Actor (Season 1, Ep. 6)
Join Shawn Bolz as he interviews Producer, Actor and Catalyst: Scott Winters. Scott has appeared in Oscar winning and Golden Globe nominated films and has appeared in over 150 episodes on TV. He has also written and directed many screenplays. Today, we will discover the amazing story of how God got ahold of Scott’s heart and what Scott is dreaming with God for the entertainment industry. Scott talks about his breakdowns and breakthroughs in his career, how God healed him from depression, helps him overcome fear, anxiety and insecurities and the biggest encounter he’s had that changed his identity.

Jul 22, 2020 • 34min
Exploring the Prophetic with Ben Kasica (Season 3, Ep. 49)
On today’s episode, Shawn Bolz interviews Ben Kasica. Ben is a Producer and Director, he began his multi-industry career in the entertainment industry as the lead guitarist for the band SKILLET. He has since launched Skies Fall Media Group, directed numerous projects including dynamic short film/music videos. Ben has a passion for inspiring and engaging audiences with media that carries purpose. Join the conversation as Shawn and Ben discuss how he heard from God that changed his world and led to him joining the band SKILLET at age 16, 10 years later the Lord transitioned him from SKILLET to launch his own media group that opened majors doors and hear what the Lord has shown him for his career and the entertainment industry moving forward.

Jul 20, 2020 • 1h 26min
Exploring the Industry with Shawn Bolz and Cammy Brickell - Comedian & Actress (Season 1, Ep. 5)
Join Shawn Bolz as he interviews Comedian & Actress, Cammy Brickell. She shares vulnerably about the trial of her life as a young musician who had just produced her first worship album and losing her voice due to a tumor, which led to battling anxiety and depression. She found her way out through her faith in God when He told her, she had the gift of comedy. Now she is selling out comedy clubs, acting, and writing comedy. In our interview we talk about not just the highs, but the season of lows and how this honest comedian got through it all into the God dream she would have never expected.

Jul 15, 2020 • 36min
Exploring the Prophetic with Micah Barnard (Season 3, Ep. 48)
On today’s episode, Shawn Bolz interviews Micah Barnard. Micah serves as a Producer at Impact Productions and specializes in long and short form formats for broadcast and digital platforms. He has produced a feature film, documentaries and episodic television across the US and Europe which have been released theatrically and on national television on ESPN, FOX and TBN. Join the conversation as Shawn and Micah discuss his journey into film and media and the doors God has opened along the way, the stretching the Lord took him through that taught him how to trust, and how God has called him as a forerunner in media and the impact around the world it has made.

Jul 13, 2020 • 1h 25min
Exploring the Industry with Shawn Bolz and Jessica Oyelowo - Actress (Season 1, Ep. 4)
Join Shawn Bolz as he interviews Actress & Producer, Jessica Oyelowo about her faith journey when they left their life in the UK behind, to pursue film and television in Los Angeles. Discover together what it looks like to be a famous family in Hollywood. Because Jessica lives a life of vulnerability, we’ll investigate her personal struggle with significance when she laid her own career down while her husband’s career soared. Now, she's living in an explosion of God activity as she and her husband are producing dozens of film and TV projects.