Business Will Break You || Cultural Catalysts

The Kris Vallotton Podcast

Kris Vallotton

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Register for the free Bethel Business Accelerator starting January 29th! https://www.bethel.com/calendar/bethel-business-accelerator In this week's episode of Cultural Catalysts, Kris sits down with Ahab Alhindi, a Chick-fil-A franchise owner, author, and leadership coach for a raw and inspiring conversation about entrepreneurship. Together they share vulnerable stories of their early business journeys, from repossessed cars and foreclosed homes to working 80-hour weeks with little financial return. Despite following God's clear direction into business, both faced years of struggle before experiencing breakthrough. "You're building a business, I'm building a man," Kris recalls God telling him during his darkest moments. Don't miss their announcement about the new Bethel Business Network and upcoming Bethel Business Accelerator designed to connect business leaders who understand each other's unique challenges! Connect with Kris Vallotton: Website: https://www.krisvallotton.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kvministries/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kvministries/ X: https://x.com/kvministries Additional Resources by Kris Vallotton: https://shop.bethel.com/collections/kris-vallotton About Kris Vallotton: Kris Vallotton is the Senior Associate Leader of Bethel Church, Redding, and is the Co-Founder of Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry (BSSM) and Spiritual Intelligence Institute. He is also the Founder and President of Moral Revolution and a sought-after international conference speaker. Kris and his wife, Kathy, have trained, developed, and pastored prophetic teams and supernatural schools all over the world.

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0:00.0	Hi, Chris Valleton here. Welcome to my podcast, where I hope to inspire you to transform the world
0:09.5	within you and transform the world around you. I hope you enjoyed today's episode.
0:15.0	Hi, welcome to the cultural catalyst where you teach you how to live fully live, co-labor with God,
0:19.8	and change the world. I'm your host, Chris Fallerton. And today, for the second or third time, actually, I have Ahab Al-Hendi. How did I do on the last name this time? I was thrash it all the time. You crushed it. I've known you for 20 years and still can't even pronounce your name. You say Ahab perfect. I know, that part.
0:37.9	That's in the Bible.
0:39.7	He's the bad guy in the Bible, though.
0:42.3	You know, there's only two guys historically that people recognize with the name Ahab.
0:47.1	And they're both insane.
0:48.2	Yeah.
0:50.3	Okay, glad you said that.
0:51.9	I didn't say that.
0:52.7	But you are, in case you didn't catch our first time together, Ahab actually has a franchise store with Chick-fil-A.
1:01.9	Yes, sir. You've been doing that for how long? March will be five years. Five years. Wow, time flies. Yeah, quick. And you owned several restaurants before that.
1:08.8	Yes, sir. Private restaurants. Yeah, my own, yeah.
1:10.8	Yeah. And I'm helping the Chick-. Yes, sir. Private restaurants. Yeah, my own, yeah. Yeah.
1:11.1	And I'm helping the Chick-fil-A situation there.
1:15.0	Yeah, man, you love those strips, dude.
1:16.3	And you're an author and a leadership coach.
1:18.4	And you also lead champions, which now we've changed it to Bethel business network.
1:23.3	And that's our local business people.
1:26.4	I was going to say men, but we got... No, there's plenty of women in there. We got them both. Yeah, it's awesome. So, hey, thanks for being on again. Yeah, it's my pleasure. We're going to talk a little bit about a journey because we're really... You know, the goal of this segment today is to really inspire people who are thinking about business or people who are new in
1:46.0	business. Yeah. You know, how, why did you get in business? Did you ever want to be in business?
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