Ambition Ambivalence: Episode 923
The Boundless Show
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 772 Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2025
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Being salt and light when you’re mostly around Christians, plus hope for those who lack career ambition, and making career and family work.
Featured Resource: Know Your Why: Finding and Fulfilling Your Calling in Life
Featured musical artist: Danen Kane
Roundtable: Finding the Lost Around You
If you go to church and small group and have mostly Christian friends, you may need to be really intentional about seeking relationships with those who don’t know Christ. Our guests have lived in various aspects of the “Christian bubble” but have gotten creative when it comes to befriending and sharing Jesus with non-Christians. Listen in to learn from their example and gain courage to represent Christ where you live, work and play.
Culture: I Don’t Have Career Goals
You have a job but you’re not ambitious, and you can’t really think of any lofty career goals. Is something wrong with you? Ken Lane has transitioned multiple times in his career. From technology to non-profit to executive coaching, Ken answers whether you have to be passionate about your job, what it looks like to be open to opportunity, and how to trust God in the process of crafting your career, regardless of how excited you are about it.
Inbox: Do Career and Family Mix?
How do you balance a desire for a career with settling down and having a family? Bry Shirin weighs in.
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| 0:00.0 | God is at work and he's calling his people to rise in truth. Truth Rising is a powerful new documentary from Focus on the Family and the Colson Center. See how ordinary Christians choose courage in a culture that needs truth. Watch Truth Rising today and find out how you can become an agent of restoration and hope. |
| 0:24.1 | Visit truthrising.com today. |
| 0:26.9 | That's truthrising.com. |
| 0:30.1 | Bowenless shows. |
| 0:43.3 | Thank you. Well, hey, everyone. |
| 0:45.7 | Welcome to this week's episode of The Boundless Show. |
| 0:48.3 | This is Lisa Anderson here with you. |
| 0:53.7 | And I'm going to give a little preview of what is coming up so that you are ready for that. For our inbox, Bree is actually here |
| 0:56.6 | to answer a question submitted by one of you. And that is, how do I balance my desire for a career |
| 1:03.0 | with a desire for marriage and family? So because she is actually living that, we thought she would |
| 1:09.0 | be the perfect person to weigh in. And then for our |
| 1:11.6 | culture segment, Ken Lane is here to address what you should do if you don't have career ambitions. |
| 1:18.0 | Are you feeling that pressure? Do you feel like, uh, do I even care? If that describes you, |
| 1:23.3 | it's not hopeless. Ken is a great, uh, executive coach and career expert, so we're going to learn from him. |
| 1:30.9 | Okay, here we are for our roundtable, and we are going to have a conversation with this crew about evangelism when you work with believers, which currently is the experience of all of us at this table. |
| 1:46.9 | And it can be a challenge because I think this is like, I bring this up often when you feel that you don't even have to work |
| 1:52.5 | for a ministry or a nonprofit. This is like if you are doing all the churchy things, if you live |
| 1:57.9 | at home with your Christian family, if you hang out only with your Christian friends, if you are in four Bible studies, which you shouldn't be, all of those things, |
| 2:06.8 | we need to talk about how to do this because, again, we are called to be salt and light and to |
| 2:12.0 | care about those who are lost. So I'm welcoming to the table, Hope, Dan, and Dave. Good to have you guys. Thank you. |
| 2:19.4 | That's great to be here. Woo-woo. Okay. Awesome. Well, let's start out by just talking about the |
| 2:24.2 | general lay of the land as far as how Christian is your life. We're going to give away awards for |
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