Andy takes the hot seat to answer a listener's question about starting a business and leading a team, tracing his path from sleeping on a friend's floor to running a 40-plus-person ad agency, and he and Bishop Michael land on why hard work, open eyes, and authentic relationships matter more than the money and whether God has a plan for your career or you're writing your own.

Episode Highlights:

00:31 — Charlotte's Greek festival weekend, and a review of The Odyssey on IMAX: some eternal truths, and a warning about lotus flowers

01:50 — This week's listener question puts Andy in the hot seat: any advice on starting your own business and having employees?

02:22 — Why Andy doesn't think anyone should set out to be an entrepreneur, why running a business and doing the work are two separate jobs, and the myth that owning a business makes you rich

06:38 — Arriving in Charlotte in 2000 with $500, sleeping on a friend's floor, and the odd jobs that taught him what mattered

07:26 — How relationships opened every door, from a restaurant manager's tip to Coca-Cola event marketing to employee number three at Red Moon Marketing

08:52 — Bishop Michael's three keys for any job: work hard, watch for opportunities, and stay authentic in your relationships

11:01 — The 2007 call from a former client that pushed Andy to start his own business, and learning to build a culture people want to be part of

14:27 — Climbing the ladder only to find it leaning against the wrong building, and why the real prize is loving the people you build something with

23:12 — Andy's big question: does God have a divine plan for your career, or are you the author of your own destiny?

25:27 — Bishop Michael on why we shouldn't hide behind "God's plan," and how our freedom to co-create is the real gift

About Your Hosts:

Bishop Michael is a longtime friend and mentor to Andy, with more than three decades of shared history between them. A bishop known for his straightforward, often funny take on faith, he brings decades of pastoral experience, from teaching religious studies to serving as a first responder to his own community, to every conversation on the show.

Andy is a businessman, husband, and father who co-hosts This Should Be Good, bringing the questions real people are actually asking into conversation with Bishop Michael. Equal parts curious and irreverent, he keeps the conversation grounded in the everyday realities of work, parenting, and trying to keep up.

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Bishop Michael and Andy take on three listener questions on forgiveness and confession (whether it's better to forgive or be forgiven, how to forgive someone while still drawing a boundary, and why Catholics confess their sins to a priest) and land on why forgiveness starts with humility and means letting go of the hurt, not erasing the consequences.

Episode Highlights:

00:31 - Andy tries something new, opening with three listener questions, including one from Sara, a pastor's daughter, on forgiveness and boundaries

03:49 - Andy's take on forgiveness as shedding the layers we pile on, and the bishop's case for starting with an honest look at a broken world

08:47 - Thirty years of hearing confessions, and the spouses who come in to confess each other's sins

10:26 - Forgive or be forgiven? Why it begins with asking for forgiveness yourself

11:57 - “Not transactional, transformational,” and why the dishwasher keeps coming up

15:08 - Sara's question on boundaries: forgiveness means letting go of the hurt, not the consequences, and what expelling students taught the bishop about that

19:23 - The monkey, the vase, and the date: what refusing to forgive actually looks like

21:14 - Why forgiving and forgetting are two different things

22:16 - Why confess to a priest? Hearing God's forgiveness through a human voice, and why the hard part is the point

30:20 - Why sin is the least creative thing in the human experience, the seal of confession, and a last word from Andy's dad

About Your Hosts:

Bishop Michael is a longtime friend and mentor to Andy, with more than three decades of shared history between them. A bishop known for his straightforward, often funny take on faith, he brings decades of pastoral experience, from teaching religious studies to serving as a first responder to his own community, to every conversation on the show.

Andy is a businessman, husband, and father who co-hosts This Should Be Good, bringing the questions real people are actually asking into conversation with Bishop Michael. Equal parts curious and irreverent, he keeps the conversation grounded in the everyday realities of work, parenting, and trying to keep up.

Connect & Resources:

Have a question or a topic you'd like covered? Submit it here: thisshouldbegood.show, your question could become a full episode.

Bishop Michael and Andy tackle a listener's question, inspired by a mother and daughter torn apart by politics, about how to stay close to people whose politics differ from yours. They land on why seeing past labels and choosing relationship over being right matters more than winning the argument.

Episode Highlights:

00:39 — Andy asks Bishop Michael if he's ever crushed a homily, only to find out later it fell completely flat

03:11 — Preaching to a congregation that spans newborns to 90 year olds, every political persuasion, and every kind of pain walking in the door

04:59 — The old seminary rule about crying babies, and why a silent congregation is the real warning sign

07:32 — This week's listener question: how do you stay friends with someone whose politics differ from yours, sparked by a mother and daughter who lost their relationship over it

09:45 — The studies on political division: how many Americans have lost a relationship over politics, and why people overestimate how far apart they really are

12:42 — Andy's case that most people agree on the same ten things and only disagree on how to get there, until you sit through an HOA meeting

15:51 — Choosing to love people unconditionally instead of basing it on whether they agree with you

17:48 — Why Andy thinks having friends who disagree with you, à la Lincoln's Team of Rivals, makes for a richer life and better decisions

23:20 — Practical advice for the mother and daughter: starting from “we're both made in God's image” and setting a loving boundary around political talk

27:55 — Andy on the time Bishop Michael chose unity over taking sides, and what it taught him about leadership

About Your Hosts:

Bishop Michael is a longtime friend and mentor to Andy, with more than three decades of shared history between them. A bishop known for his straightforward, often funny take on faith, he brings decades of pastoral experience, from teaching religious studies to serving as a first responder to his own community, to every conversation on the show.

Andy is a businessman, husband, and father who co-hosts This Should Be Good, bringing the questions real people are actually asking into conversation with Bishop Michael. Equal parts curious and irreverent, he keeps the conversation grounded in the everyday realities of work, parenting, and trying to keep up.

Connect & Resources:

Have a question or a topic you'd like covered? Submit it here: thisshouldbegood.show, your question could become a full episode.