Obedience, Generosity, and the Cost of Calling with Elena Huggins on Exploring the Marketplace (S:5 - Ep 24)
Exploring the Marketplace
Shawn Bolz
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Today on Exploring the Marketplace, Shawn Bolz and Bob Hasson sit down for an honest, faith-filled conversation about obedience, generosity, and trusting God through the realities of business, money, and calling.
This episode features marketplace leader and entrepreneur Elena Huggins, who shares her powerful journey as a single mom, business owner, and believer navigating hardship, risk, generosity, and growth. From funding missions instead of going on them, to giving sacrificially when resources were scarce, to learning how obedience shapes long-term fruit—this conversation pulls back the curtain on faith lived out in real life.
Together, Shawn, Bob, and Elena explore: • How obedience and generosity shape careers and finances • Why trust is the key to long-term faithfulness • The loneliness many high-level leaders face—and why community matters • The hidden cost of entrepreneurship and the grace God gives in the struggle • How honesty, humility, and surrender lead to breakthrough • Why faith is often forged in discomfort, not ease
These are the stories you don’t usually hear on Sundays—real conversations from the marketplace that will give you courage to trust God with your career, finances, and future.
If you’ve been praying for breakthrough, clarity, or renewed faith around money and calling, this episode is for you.
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| 1:29.6 | marketplace, a podcast all about how faith impacts our guest careers and lives. I'm Sean Bowles here |
| 1:34.5 | with my co-host. I'm Bob Hasten and we're here to bring you unfiltered powerful conversations |
| 1:39.2 | with industry leaders, entrepreneurs and culture shapers for living out their faith in extraordinary ways. |
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