
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

Oct 18, 2023 • 34min
The Bigger God Adventure with Jeanette Bradley (S:3 - Ep 50)
Today on Exploring the Marketplace, Shawn Bolz and Bob Hasson interview Jeanette Bradley. Jeanette is an award winning author with her publication of The First 12 Days of Preschool." Jeanette received her Doctor of Divinity from the HSBN International School of Ministry her true passion in life is to help others see themselves as beautiful and to discover their true identity. Tune in as Shawn, Bob and Jeanette discuss how 14 years into her preschool career and the journey that God took her on with "The First 12 Days of Preschool'' showed her that with God, she could do the impossible. Jeanette talks about how she recorded a song, although not really feeling qualified to sing. He let her be a best-selling author and win some crazy awards, for something He downloaded to her. All of that prepared her for an even bigger God adventure. Tune in!

Oct 11, 2023 • 30min
In the Darkest Times, Our Light Shines the Brightest with Matt Neff (S:3 - Ep 49)
Today on Exploring the Marketplace, Shawn Bolz and Bob Hasson interview Matt Neff. Matt is the CEO for Sight and Sound Theater using his passion for organizational development and cultural alignment to further the Ministry to expand into new horizons. Tune in as Shawn, Bob and Matt discuss how he joined Sight & Sound as a stagehand and eventually took on the role of CEO. Matt talks about his struggle with the fear of man and how God set him free from trying to live toward others expectations and instead set his eyes and ears on how God was leading him. Matt shares how in his darkest financial year when things were greatly limited in being able to host people in their physical theaters, they were able to reach the greatest number of people in any year in their history at that point! Tune in!https://www.sight-sound.com/

Oct 4, 2023 • 34min
How to Bridge Divides in a Divided World with Dan Darling (S:3 - Ep 48)
Today on Exploring the Marketplace, Shawn Bolz and Bob Hasson interview Dan Darling. Dan is an award-winning writer, the bestselling author of fifteen books and a leader who regularly appears on networks such as MSNBC, CNN, Fox News and CBN. His work has also been featured by the Washington Post, National Review, Christianity Today, The Gospel Coalition and The Washington Times. He hosts the weekly podcast, 'The Way Home'. Tune in as Shawn, Bob and Dan discuss what’s worth fighting for, how to move beyond our profound disagreements and how to live as agents of Jesus’s love. Dan shares how to follow the Bible’s command to “stive actively for peace” even in a painfully divided church, country and world. We can live as bridgebuilders in a divided country, healers in a hurting church and countercultural Jesus-followers in a world that needs to know God's love. Tune in! https://danieldarling.com/

Sep 27, 2023 • 29min
Salt, Light, and Kids with Steve Hines (S:3 - Ep 47)
Today on Exploring the Marketplace, Shawn Bolz and Bob Hasson interview Steve Hines. Steve is an author of Salt, Light and Kids, a serial Entrepreneur that started as a CPA ,started his own Mortgage company, then started working at a Bank until he opened a sports apparel company for a short time before switching to becoming an Angel investor. Tune in as Shawn, Bob and Steve when restlessness in his career led him to seek God’s will and how God showed up in a major way in his career path. Steve shares his struggle with pride that kept him from listening to God but shifted to him needing the Holy Spirit to lead him. Steve shares when he knew the Lord was asking him to write a children’s book, why parenting is so important to him and why God chose him to write this book. Tune in! https://www.saltlightandkids.com/

Sep 13, 2023 • 34min
You Can Be Liberated From the Comparison Trap with Jordana Calit-Cruz (S:3 - Ep 46)
Today on Exploring the Marketplace, Shawn Bolz and Bob Hasson interview Jordana Calit-Cruz. Jordana is an engineering Program Manager at Google creating order out of chaos. She's led many global initiatives through the years that impact the way Googlers work. She founded a prophetic training/impartation forum for people in tech and most recently started a Christian women's movement at Google. Tune in as Shawn, Bob and Jordana share how she started working for Google and how she now loves creating safe spaces for people to connect with God and with each other in the marketplace. Jordana talks about how she had to overcome imposter syndrome working in a company of brilliant minds where your assessment is based on your performance and accomplishments. Jordana talks about how finding her true identity liberated her from the comparison trap. Tune in!

Sep 6, 2023 • 31min
It’s Time To Dream Again with Julia Gentry (S:3 - Ep 45)
Today on Exploring the Marketplace, Shawn Bolz and Bob Hasson interview Julia Gentry. Julia is the Founder of The Dream Factory and Co & author of a best-selling book in Christian Leadership, Dream-I Dare You. As a national speaker, author, business owner, growth coach, Julia knows what it takes to BRIDGE THE GAP and has used her D.R.E.A.M Framework to help thousands of dreamers to live with greater conviction, while bringing heaven to earth. Tune in as Shawn, Bob and Julia discuss how the unlearning in her faith began. It was here that EVERYTHING changed... her mindset, her heartset... the way she approached business, life, parenting... It was this moment that launched the movement she is leading now. This brough Julian and her husband to become sober, and has ushered them into what they believe is a forerunning movement to bring heaven to earth by awakening the church to dream again! Tune in! https://thejuliagentry.com/

Aug 30, 2023 • 30min
Disappointments Can Become Divine Detours with Jade Simmons (S:3 - Ep 44)
Today on Exploring the Marketplace, Shawn Bolz and Bob Hasson interview Jade Simmons. Jade Simmons is an internationally acclaimed creator of transformational experiences designed to activate audiences into becoming the biggest, boldest version of themselves possible. The world-class concert artist is also the CEO of Jade Media Global and has been nicknamed “Classical Music’s #1 Maverick” and one of the Best Keynote Speakers. Tune in as Shawn, Bob and Jade discuss the days of her first piano recitals as a kid to how God would use her gift to get in some pretty big, unsuspecting rooms, operating with authority she had no business having in the natural world. Jade talks about how she was devastated after losing Miss America and was first-runner up in 2000. Jade shares how what seemed like the biggest disappointment of her young life turned into one of the most powerful divine detours ever. The career she has today, in many ways, can be traced back to that defining failure. Today, Jade teaches people how to spot divine detours and how to re-understand what they think is happening to them in order to see what God is doing FOR them. Tune in! https://jadesimmons.com/

Aug 23, 2023 • 40min
Creator of Fairly OddParents Gives Hope For Parents with Butch & Julieann Hartman (S:3 - Ep 43)
Today on Exploring the Marketplace, Shawn Bolz and Bob Hasson interview, Butch and Julieann Hartman. Butch is the Creator of The Fairly OddParents, Danny Phantom, Tuff Puffy and Bunsen is a Beast for Nickelodeon but is now doing a new Bible-based cartoon called The Garden. Tune in as Shawn, Bob, Julieann and Butch discuss The struggles of dealing with the politics inside the entertainment industry, challenges of running several shows at once, and the miracles of massive deals that were definitely outside the scope of what animation studios were doing at that time. Hear as Butch and Julieann aspire to give hope to your families about projects that are coming that you don’t have to be afraid of! Tune in! www.gardencartoon.com

Aug 16, 2023 • 33min
Revolutionizing Business with Biblical Truths with Alex Sezer JR.(S:3 - Ep 42)
Today on Exploring the Marketplace, Shawn Bolz and Bob Hasson interview, Alex Sezer Jr. From the football field to the boardroom, Alex is the CEO of Alex Sezer Ventures which is revolutionizing businesses with biblical truths. Shortly after, Alex became the President of two multi-million dollar real estate companies and scaled his personal portfolio to 340 units creatively, using $0 out of his pocket. Tune in as Shawn, Bob and Alex discuss his journey from leading the Texas A&M football team as a captain to founding/scaling multiple multi-million dollar businesses in his early 20s. Alex combines the Bible with business, management with a mission, profits with purpose, and culture with Christ. Currently, Alex is following his calling and showing other businesses and individuals how to succeed. Tune in! www.alexsezer.com

Aug 9, 2023 • 36min
A Healing Journey Was A Catalyst For His Purpose with Chad Hawley (S:3 - Ep 41)
Today on Exploring the Marketplace, Shawn Bolz and Bob Hasson interview Chad Hawley. Chad launched a Christian-based social network called the NEXUS Mountain Network, has a Master of Business Degree to go along with his 25-year professional career that was primarily focused in the pharmaceutical industry and entrepreneurship, with prominent roles in sales, marketing, training, and management. Tune in as Shawn, Bob and Chad discuss his miraculous story of overcoming cancer that led him to find God's purpose for his life, leaving a 20-year successful career in the pharmaceutical industry and ultimately launching a Christian-based social network called the NEXUS Mountain Network after hearing from God. Tune in! www.NEXUSMountainNetwork.com