The David Laut Show

Nick coaches the minds of MLB players, PGA pros, NFL guys, and business leaders. And the first thing he tells the pros might be the last thing you'd expect from a performance coach: "God does not care about your baseball career. Zero. He only cares about your heart. That doesn't mean He won't use your career to transform it." How does a pastor's kid end up here? Through his own suffering — and he tells the whole story. The double life: quarterback, point guard, good grades on one side; drugs from eighth grade on the other. The secret daily Xanax and opiate habit nobody knew about. And the vacation to Mexico where he prayed one of the most human prayers ever prayed: Lord, change me on this trip. Press the button in my mind that makes the addiction go away. No one has to know. God answered the prayer — with a withdrawal seizure, a Mexican hospital, his three-months-pregnant wife in tears on the floor, and a drive straight from the border to Betty Ford. "His ways are not our ways. I wanted the button pressed. He brought it all into the light. And I finally felt free." From there, a conversation that will not stay in your head — because that's literally its thesis: why intellectual knowledge doesn't transform anybody ("better a warrior of the mind than a librarian of the mind"), why the ultimate version of you only exists in the land of uncertainty, why God shares everything with us except His glory, what "pray for humility, expect to get humiliated" has looked like in Nick's year and a half of wilderness, the Michelangelo problem (chipping away everything that isn't you hurts, because you're the rock), and why Philippians 4:13 — the verse written on half the cleats in professional sports — means almost the opposite of how athletes use it.It ends with a handmade gift and the best metaphor of the season: how a mollusk turns an irritant into a pearl, one layer of grace at a time. Connect your faith and your finances → KERUXHQ.com Chapters: 00:00 — Meet Nick: mental performance coach to MLB, PGA, and NFL players — "I got here through my own suffering" 02:27 — Pastor's kid, double life: quarterback and good grades on one side, drugs from eighth grade on the other 04:15 — The Mexico trip: a secret addiction, a desperate prayer ("just press the button"), a seizure — and freedom 06:23 — Sober but struggling: the mental health crash, leaving teaching, and building a coaching career from books 14:37 — Head vs. heart: "God does not care about your baseball career. Zero. He cares about your heart." 18:33 — How truth moves 18 inches: risk, stepping out of the boat, and the client who couldn't answer "where are you risking?" 21:59 — "The ultimate version of you only exists in the land of uncertainty" — and why God shares everything but His glory 24:38 — Hot seat: David's fear of the stage, the Sac State talk, and how to tell the Spirit's nudge from pride 32:07 — Nick's wilderness season: "pray for humility, expect to get humiliated" — and the Michelangelo problem 38:44 — The destination is never fulfilling 42:46 — The verse on every cleat: what Philippians 4:13 actually means 45:28 — Closing: ruthlessly keep your word to yourself, integrity as workability — and the parable of the pearl

Quick test: what is money the root of? If you said "all evil," you just misquoted the Bible — and you're in good company, because David did too, for years. The verse says the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil (1 Timothy 6:10). And that one-word difference is the whole episode. Connect your faith and your finances → KERUXHQ.com Chapters 00:05 — Welcome: earthly success to eternal significance 05:37 — VERSE 1 — Matthew 6:24: "No one can serve two masters. You cannot serve both God and money." 12:07 — VERSE 2 — Luke 16:10–11: "Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much." 18:36 — VERSE 3 — Matthew 6:19–21: "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth… for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." 26:15 — VERSE 4 — Luke 12:15–21: the rich fool 29:22 — VERSE 5 — Mark 8:36: "What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul?" 33:48 — Outro: KERUXHQ.com + the Faith Forward framework

Scott Hanson co-founded Hanson McClain in 1993 with two sublet offices, one desk, and one assistant. It became Allworth Financial — over $40 billion under management as of the morning we filmed. He's hosted Money Matters for 31 years, run ultramarathons, raised four kids (two by adoption), and he's celebrating his 60th birthday by running 60 miles around Lake Folsom. By any scoreboard our industry keeps, he's in the hall of fame. So listen to what he says near the end of this conversation: "If you'd told me ten years ago that I wouldn't feel completely secure at the financial number I have now, I would have thought you were crazy. And I still feel like this could all be gone."In between: the phone-company pension play that launched the firm, the tree business he bought at 19 with no cash ("if you just show up on time, that's half of it"), and the story David can't stop thinking about — newlywed Scott, $7,000 in credit card debt, an empty living room, being asked to pledge $50,000 to his church's capital campaign. He prayed. He committed. God opened the floodgates — and a couple of years ago, the Hansons made a single gift 100 times that size. Plus the conversation from nine years ago that David never forgot: "If you were a cellist, would your friends tell you to quit practicing? Maybe God wants you to be the best financial advisor in the world." Connect your faith and your finances → KERUXHQ.com

Three months. Eight platforms. Three cameras (finally figured out). About 500 followers. And a plan to build a five-show media network anyway. In this behind-the-scenes episode, David and Garrett pull back the curtain on the David Laut Show itself: where it started ("follow me as I follow Christ — in business"), what's actually working on each platform, and the honest math of building an audience in 2026 — including Garrett's favorite finance YouTube channel with 700,000 subscribers… that started posting in 2006. Then the vision: why the show is becoming one channel of something bigger under Kerux — a market-outlook show, a technical financial-planning show, a big-family channel, and a "Proverbs 31 women" show led by the women on the team — modeled on the media-network playbook that took firms like Ritholtz Wealth and Root Financial from a few hundred million to billions under management. But the heart of the episode is slower than the strategy: Acts 1, where Jesus gives the disciples the biggest mission in history — and then tells them to wait. David gets honest about the difference between asking God to bless your plans and joining what God is already doing, why 7-going-on-8 kids taught him that hard doesn't mean bad, and the season of elimination he's in right now — cutting busyness, status-chasing, and alcohol — so that nothing separates him from the love of God. Plus: shout-outs to two friends whose accounts just went viral, the LinkedIn algorithm shift working in small creators' favor, and why the Jesus Christ Show was, regrettably, taken. Oh, and my friend Chris O'Brien!! We want your feedback — comment, or DM David on LinkedIn or Instagram.Connect your faith and your finances → KERUXHQ.com

Lee Fields is one of the most sought-after live audio engineers on the planet. He's toured the world, built and sold the most successful tech education platform the church space has ever seen, led worship production across twelve campuses of one of America's fastest-growing churches — and turned down an invitation to play Augusta National (there's a story, and he's not telling all of it).And at the bottom of all that success, he found a question most people in ministry never let themselves ask: was I ever actually saved — or was my faith attached to a church staff employee handbook? Connect your faith and your finances → KERUXHQ.comTimestamped Chapters:00:00 Welcome to the David Laut Show00:17 Lee Fields + the top-three golf courses question01:10 The Augusta National invitation he didn't take02:10 Peachtree on a perfect October Thursday + Tobacco Road03:20 David's three: Banff Springs, the Shores, Martis Camp04:30 The real topic: elite at your craft AND built for eternity05:15 Maryville, TN: trailer park, addiction at home, a mom who's a saint06:30 A's on tests, F's on homework — and a college career of Halo07:30 Church as the fabric of Southern life08:30 Cut from the team → marching band → turning down a UT bass scholarship09:45 "Fields, go figure out how to use this stuff" — the PA system gift11:00 Hours from taking the electrician job — the family cycle he refused12:30 The phone rings: Disciple, 200314:00 $20 a show, $5 food money: $4,400 for 200+ days on the road15:15 Sony, 3,000-seat rooms, and finding a safe place to make every mistake16:45 Scottie Scheffler has a coach: how the elite actually train18:00 Pots-and-pans drums, student-loan studio gear, hunting discomfort daily19:30 "I don't ever want to wake up and go to work"20:15 The Toy Story claw: rescued the morning after his lowest night21:45 Divine intervention AND partnership — the choices still mattered22:45 Married at 23 → first tech guy at a Knoxville church23:45 2007: Church Production Magazine, the "virtual pastor," Twitter, #CTDRT25:30 "Where was faith in all this?" — what 26-year-old Lee would've said26:15 The call west: 11 years, 12 campuses, executive worship pastor27:45 Hotel-ballroom conferences are useless → mixing consoles in a circle29:15 Saddleback 2016 → 30 events worldwide → 10,000 subscribers → the sale31:00 Tailwinds and timing: the leapfrog pattern of Lee's career31:50 2022: selling the business and a divorce in the same season33:30 The confession: "I'm not sure I was actually saved"34:30 Faith attached to the employee handbook, not the Bible35:45 "There is no ladder, bro"36:45 "When God decided what He thought about you, He didn't call a meeting"38:00 "You know what we didn't talk about today? Church."39:00 Is Sunday imperative? Church as plan A — and the shame trap41:15 The 10,000-hours math: you can't master a relationship in 90 minutes a week42:15 The Mona Lisa on the wall: "I thought I owned it — now I need it to survive"43:15 Scarcity trauma: trailer park to a million-dollar zip code44:30 "I feel like a three-year-old Christian"45:15 The engineer who can't stop mixing: wanting the worship band to be bad46:15 "Thank you for not distracting me"47:00 The fundamentals: praying daily is still hard — and that's normal47:45 Don't hire the Christian roofer + the freedom of nothing to hide48:58 Outro: KERUXHQ.com + the Faith Forward framework