When God Writes Your Story: Marketplace Miracles with Jake Weidmann on Exploring the Marketplace (S:5 - Ep 12)
Exploring the Marketplace
Charisma Podcast Network
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 September 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Today on Exploring the Marketplace, Shawn Bolz and Bob Hasson welcome professional artist and one of only nine Master Penmen in the world, Jake Weidmann. Certified through IAMPETH in 2011, Jake holds the honor of being the youngest Master Penman by three decades—and the youngest ever to achieve the title. His peers have created works for the White House, Queen Elizabeth, and even the Pope, but Jake’s journey has uniquely blended calligraphy with fine art, painting, drawing, woodworking, and engraving.
Jake shares how faith shaped his career from the very beginning, even when industry professionals warned him not to make it explicit. Instead, leaning into his relationship with Jesus led to surprising opportunities, including his celebrated hymn series. He also opens up about overcoming struggles with self-doubt, impostor syndrome, and the “starving artist” complex, and how God has redeemed his perspective of calling.
In this conversation, Jake reveals stories of marketplace miracles—from divine provision of materials like the wood for The Old Rugged Cross, to being placed before people and companies with favor and authority far beyond what he could have imagined. His life verse, Proverbs 22:29, has marked his journey: “See a man gifted in his work. He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men.”
🎧 Join us for this inspiring episode as we explore faith, creativity, and God’s miraculous hand in the marketplace.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Explore the Marketplace, a podcast all about how faith impacts our guest careers and lives. |
| 0:05.3 | I'm Sean Bowles here with my co-host. |
| 0:06.8 | I'm Bob Hastin, and we're here to bring you unfiltered, powerful conversations with industry leaders, |
| 0:12.2 | entrepreneurs, and culture shapers for living at their faith in extraordinary ways. |
| 0:16.7 | From a billion-dollar boardrooms to creative industries, we reveal how God is moving through |
| 0:21.2 | everyday ordinary people just like you. |
| 0:24.2 | And this podcast will give you courage, which is our goal. |
| 0:27.1 | Yeah, these are the stories you don't get to hear on Sundays. |
| 0:29.2 | Plus, we get to dive deep in the latest trends and business, finance, entertainment, and politics, |
| 0:34.0 | giving you real insight from a kingdom and biblical perspective. |
| 0:37.0 | This is where faith meets influence. |
| 0:39.0 | This is exploring the marketplace. |
| 0:45.5 | Welcome to exploring the marketplace where faith meets career and calling meets culture and |
| 0:51.0 | the Holy Spirit's invited in every step of your business journey. I'm Bob Hassan. And I'm Sean Bowles. I'm so glad we're here, Bob. This is season five. We're in season five. And we have some of the most incredible guests on the show because there are every day people that you would never hear necessarily on a radio show or on, you know, like who would be speaking at the White House or something. But there are people that we get to hear their stories sometimes their breakdowns or breakthroughs their letdowns and then they're total overcoming victories and today our guest is jake wideman who's one of only nine certified master pinmen in the world and is by far the youngest as well as he's an incredible carver like a master art car. And he brings a level of craftsmanship and God honoring excellence to all of his work that's literally stunned audiences globally from TEDx stages for commissions for major, major corporations. |
| 1:37.8 | And he's going to tell us some of the journey of how he became an artist because he didn't feel inside of him that art, even though always followed him |
| 1:45.4 | as one of his, he calls it like one of his greatest passions of life, that this could be his |
| 1:49.7 | calling or career. It's so great. So today in real talk, Sean, we're going to talk about what is |
| 1:55.6 | your calling, what is your career, what's the difference, And how do we understand if God's calling us into |
| 2:03.6 | something else? It's super exciting. I know that when I was a young person, I wanted to be a lawyer, |
| 2:12.4 | just like my Uncle Lou. He was a lawyer. I wanted to be a lawyer. I worked in his law office in the summers and |
| 2:18.9 | that I was on my path. But as I got a little bit older, I realized, wow, all Uncle Lou's doing is |
| 2:26.3 | solving problems. It seems like a bummer. And then he's looking at all these law books and looking |
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