Finding Freedom in Business and Personal Life
What happens when everything you’ve built collapses — your business, your security, even your sense of identity?
In this episode of Honest Christian Conversations, I sit down with Richard Walsh, CEO of Sharpen the Spear, to discuss rebuilding life after a devastating loss. Richard shares how the financial collapse of 2008–09 forced him to confront pride, misplaced priorities, and what it really means to succeed.
This conversation isn’t just about business growth — it’s about freedom. We explore what happens when ambition runs unchecked, how faith reshapes leadership, and why prioritizing family and spiritual alignment matters more than scaling at all costs.
Richard’s story challenges a common mindset many of us quietly carry:
What if success isn’t about doing more — but about surrendering what was never meant to control us?
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Ana is the host of the Honest Christian Conversations podcast and a prodigal saved by God’s unending grace.
She grew up in a legalistic Christian home where asking questions often felt wrong. In her early twenties, overwhelmed by confusion and hurt, she walked away from her faith. Yet even then, God’s love never stopped pursuing her. At thirty years old—and after a painful second divorce—He brought her back to himself, and she has never looked back.
As Ana returned to Christ, she began rebuilding her faith from the ground up and asked the questions she once feared to ask. Along that journey, she discovered inconsistencies, misplaced teachings, and even lies woven into the Christianity she grew up with. Instead of destroying her faith, this only deepened it. Out of that discovery, she founded Honest Christian Conversations. Ana's heart is to help others navigate the same tension she once lived with: wanting to know the real Jesus while sorting through the noise of deceptive teachings, spiritual manipulation, and “wolves in sheep’s clothing.”
Everything she creates flows from gratitude for the God who rescued her, restored her, and continues to shape her into who He intended her to be.
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