The episode you're about to listen to was released back when the mere Christians podcast was called the call to mastery

Now if you love mere Christians, you're still going to love these older episodes because the majority of each

conversation focuses on how the gospel influences the work of our guests. With that disclaimer out of the way, please enjoy the episode. Hey everyone welcome to the call to mastery. I'm Jordan Rayner. This is a

podcast for Christians who want to do their most masterful work for the glory of

God and for the good of others. Each week I'm talking to a

Christian who is pursuing world-class mastery of their vocation. We talk about

their path to mastering whatever their thing is vocationally, we talk about their daily

habits, and we talk about how their faith impacts their work.

Today I'm going to share a conversation I recently had with my very very good friends, William

Warren and Nege Easterbrook of the Sketch Effect. The Sketch Effect is a group of illustrators

that do work for some blue chip clients like Google,

Chick-fil-A, Nike, the NBA, you don't get more blue chip than the brands that the

Sketch Effect works for.

If you read my book called to create, if you read that

book you'll recognize Williams name. I talked about Williams story in the book.

Listen the sketch effect is one of my favorite businesses.

If you get me one-on-one talking about business, there's a 50% or greater chance I'm going to mention the Sketch Effect.

I know the business really intimately.

I actually served as an advisor to William as he was starting up

the company years ago. William is an exceptional entrepreneur and Meg who also

joined us for this conversation is a masterful operator so she's the

director of operations at Sketch Effect. William is the founder and CEO so I thought

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