How the advice to “follow your passions” can lead to an unbiblical sense of entitlement, how to follow “the true, good, and beautiful” today to find your calling tomorrow, and how God uses pain and trauma to steer us to our callings.

Links Mentioned:

• Dr. Karen Swallow Prior
• Dr. Karen Swallow Prior on X
• Dr. Karen Swallow Prior on Instagram
• Dr. Karen Swallow Prior on Facebook
• You Have a Calling
• Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More
• The Priory Newsletter
• Hannah More | Britannica
• Moana
• Moana 2
• Cal Newport
• So Good They Can’t Ignore You
• Master of One
• Dr. Amy Wrzesniewski on LinkedIn
• ‘Jobs, Careers, and Callings: People's Relations to Their Work’
• ‘The Secret of Effective Motivation’
• Why Work?
• Five Mere Christians
• Amusing Ourselves to Death
• Makoto Fujimura
• Episode 130: Makoto Fujimura (Artist)
• Episode 147: Haejin Shim Fujimura (Attorney)
• Kaleigh Cox on LinkedIn
• Aaron Sorkin
• Redeeming Your Time
• Called to Create
• Jordan Raynor

How Wilson came to be the shoe industry’s first Black shoe designer, how work can be a form of prayer, and why he chose Philippians 2 to be printed in his Nike shoes.

Links Mentioned:

• Wilson Smith on LinkedIn
• Wilson Smith on Instagram
• University of Oregon | College of Design
• Wilson Smith | IDSA
• Nike
• Five Mere Christians
• Air
• Tinker Hatfield
• Shoe Dog
• Reebok
• Chariots of Fire
• Bono
• Bill Bowerman
• Phil Knight
• Designing for Diversity: Wilson Smith at TEDxUOregon
• Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story
• Questlove
• The Wonder of Stevie
• 12 Notes: On Life and Creativity
• Tobie Hatfield on LinkedIn
• Episode 205: Bobo Beck (Realtor + Author of Wisdom Calling)
• Jordan Raynor

How to find joy in your work—even when it sucks, how Will’s “trailhead practice” can lead you to “Spirit-led self-awareness,” and how to stop limping towards God’s throne and start running towards it.

Links Mentioned:

• Will Acuff on LinkedIn
• No Elevator to Everest
• Corner to Corner
• BAM Global Events
• Thomas Merton
• The Return of the Prodigal Son Anniversary Edition
• Joe Mazzulla | NBCA
• Annie Dillard
• Jordan Raynor