Episode 9: Doug Shiplett – Living Your Values Makes all Work Sacred

Living out your values is important to most of us. We want to align all we do with our core beliefs. It seems complicated, but it doesn’t have to be.

In this episode of the Uncommon Life Project podcast we talk with Doug Shiplett, an entrepreneur, pastor and church planter who seeks to break down false divides between sacred and secular. With vision and purpose, all of life is sacred.

Doug Shiplett has been involved in the Des Moines business community since 2005. Initially through investment real estate with his company Antioch Investments, and now with his son John and daughter-in-law Hannah at Eden and Gray Design and Build, a custom home remodeling company, plus an exciting network marketing venture.

Doug's faith based work has been extensive as he serves currently as a visionary leader of Coleo Church network, a church planting network based in Ireland, California. Prior to that focus, Doug served as Executive Vice President and Director of International Partnerships at BILD International through 2012. And after serving as a Senior Pastor of Crossroads Bible Church in San Jose for nine years. What you’ll learn about in this episode:

• Living out your values in your career path
• Aligning a faith calling with career, family, finances and everything else in life
• Do you have to choose between “church work” and “business?”
• How to move away from dividing things into “sacred” and “secular” endeavors
• Putting your energy into the things you value most
• How to course-correct when you have not thought very thoroughly about your finances
• Setting passive income goals whatever stage of life you are in
• Why network marketing could be a good secondary source of income
• The low barrier of entry to network marketing has an upside and a downside
• How to plan for the future when there’s no employer providing a “golden parachute” when you retire