No Limbs No Limits with Nick Vujicic
Are You Relying on Yourself, or on God?
Episode 8 · 55 minutes · full conversation
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Life Pulse for Christian business owners
You Know What You Believe. The Question Is What the Business Funds.
Most Christian owners do not have a conviction problem. They have a translation problem: the values are real, and the calendar, the comp plan and the Monday meeting were built by somebody else — usually the last emergency.
Life Pulse helps you realign what you say matters with what the business actually funds with time, attention and money. Not a devotional bolted onto a business plan. Fulfillment is the metric. Success is the byproduct.
- — 17-page 2027 report
- — 30-minute conversation
- — No card
Free download · new for 2027
The 2027 Christian Business Owner’s Report
Seventeen pages on what 2026 did to owner-led businesses and what to do about it next year: the measurable advantage a faith-led culture already carries, where belief and practice come apart, what retention actually costs, and the ten things to focus on in 2027. Every number is sourced.
- The engagement advantage: 61% engaged in Christian-led organizations against 31% nationally
- The belief-to-practice gap: 75% of surveyed CEOs have a Christian background, 51% say faith actively motivates their leadership
- Turnover priced honestly: $45,236 per departure, up 23% in a single year
- Owner sustainability as a business risk — 47.7% have skipped their own paycheck
- The Top 10 focus areas for 2027 — and the move for each one
- A 12-metric leader’s scorecard and a first-90-days plan
Where should we send it?
Hear it before you decide
An Hour With Nick Vujicic on Who You Are Actually Relying On.
Episode 8 of Nick Vujicic’s No Limbs No Limits podcast: Matt on self-reliance, alignment and what happens to a business when the owner’s worthy ideal and his calendar finally point the same direction.
What Christian owners tell us
The Gap Is Rarely Belief. It’s Practice.
The values are on the wall and nowhere in the operating rhythm.
You are carrying the whole thing, and calling it stewardship.
Your best people are leaving and the exit interview is the first real conversation.
The business grew into something that no longer looks like why you started it.
You are succeeding at work you are not sure you were called to do.
God designed you for more than success. Bridging the gap between where you are and where you are being called is practical work: structure, rhythm and honest measurement. People are not the problem. People have problems.
What 2026 actually did to this industry
Four Numbers That Decide Your 2027.
Engaged61%
Christian-led organizations measure 61% engagement against 31% nationally, and a 33% productivity lift tied to it. Most owners have never measured their own.
Belief to practice75 / 51
75% of surveyed CEOs have a Christian background; only 51% say their faith actively motivates their leadership. That gap — not conviction — is the 2027 development agenda.
Per departure$45,236
The average total cost of one employee departure rose from $36,723 to $45,236 in a single year, and 86% of new hires decide how long they will stay within six months.
Skipped their own pay47.7%
47.7% of owners have skipped their own paycheck and 84.4% have sacrificed health, relationships or mental wellbeing. Owner sustainability is a business risk with numbers attached.
Sources: Best Christian Workplaces 2026; CEO faith-at-work survey 2025; 2026 turnover cost benchmarking; 2026 small-business owner wellbeing study. Every figure in the 2027 report carries a numbered source.
The Life Pulse method
Bridging the Gap™
Expose → Bridge → Sustain
01 — EXPOSE
Name the real gap.
Not the surface complaint. The distance between what you say you believe about people, work and purpose and what your calendar, your comp plan and your meetings actually fund.
02 — BRIDGE
Build the rhythm that closes it.
Weekly direction, real accountability and consistent touchpoints, tied to the values you already hold instead of a plaque in the lobby.
03 — SUSTAIN
Make it survive a bad week.
Ninety days is how long a new way of working needs to hold when a customer, a market or a staffing surprise tests it. Conviction is not the variable. Structure is.
What this work looks like
Three Gaps We See in Owner-Led Businesses.
The owner who is the system
- The gap
- Everything routes through the owner: pricing calls, escalations, hiring, the occasional payroll gap covered from personal savings. Stewardship language gets used to justify a schedule nobody could sustain.
- The work
- Expose what the business actually funds, build the delegation structure and weekly planning rhythm, and put the owner’s own week back under intention instead of reaction.
- The result
- Leaders own their roles against measurable goals, the owner gets time back, and growth stops depending on one person’s endurance.
Values on the wall, not in the rhythm
- The gap
- The stated values are genuine and no operating cadence carries them. Performance conversations happen once a year, and people learn what is really valued from what gets rewarded on a bad week.
- The work
- Connect values to daily actions and measurable goals, install consistent leadership meetings, and run the Personnel Performance Gaps process so gaps get named and closed instead of tolerated.
- The result
- Employees report feeling valued and invested in, communication becomes a habit rather than an event, and culture moves from intention to practice.
Success that stopped feeling like the point
- The gap
- The numbers are good and the owner is further from the reason they started than they have ever been. The wall is real, and it is usually alignment, not effort.
- The work
- Name the worthy ideal, audit the four areas against 365 days of actual evidence, and rebuild the week around what the owner says matters — with accountability that survives a bad month.
- The result
- Clarity on what has to happen now, a plan going into each week, and results and fulfillment finally pointed the same direction.
In their words
What Clients Reported.
Grew to $750,000 in revenue after putting the system into practice.
Took the LP Planner past herself and rolled it out to the entire organization.
Accelerated the growth of his business by 50% and values the program at over $100,000.
Outcomes as clients described them, published first name and last initial, role only. These are Life Pulse clients across industries, not a faith-segmented sample.
Where to start
Three Free Things, In This Order.
- 01 — The 2027 reportSeventeen pages written for owner-led, faith-driven businesses: the engagement advantage, the belief-to-practice gap, what retention costs, and the ten things to focus on in 2027 — with the move for each one.
- 02 — The free resourcesThe “Who Is God?” workbook, the C-Suite for Christ resources, the alignment worksheets, the free assessment and the case studies. Nothing you have to sit through first.
- 03 — A 30-minute conversationThirty minutes, no card, no pitch deck. You leave knowing the gap between where you are and where you say you are going — and what would close it. Whether we ever work together or not.
More, free
The Rest of It, Also Free.
- “Who Is God?” — the workbook
Matt’s 50-to-60-day guided study: two chapters a day through John, Genesis and Acts, written to answer one question properly before you answer any of the others. Includes the exercise on how to share the gospel.
Download the workbook → - C-Suite for Christ
The faith-based track: weekly leadership insights rooted in Scripture, and the free resources for Christian leaders that go with them.
Open the faith track → - REALIGN — the seven steps
The worksheet behind the alignment process: all seven steps, R through N, with working space for the four most people skip.
Get the worksheet → - Reverse Planning — plan tomorrow today
Two pages: audit the five things a planning system needs, then build tomorrow with the three reverse-planning questions and the daily priority matrix.
Get the worksheet → - The free alignment assessment
Ten minutes, four areas, 365 days of evidence. It tells you where your calendar and your stated priorities have come apart. No email to start.
Take the assessment →
Before you book
Questions Christian Owners Ask.
Is this a Bible study?
No. It is business work done by people who share your convictions. The faith track exists because the questions Christian owners ask about purpose, stewardship and people deserve straight answers — not because the tools change.
Do I have to be a Christian to work with Life Pulse?
No. The method works on alignment, and alignment is not a denomination. This page exists because a lot of owners want the conversation held in the language they actually think in.
We are growing. Why would we do this?
Growth is rarely the problem; what it costs you is. If this year is being paid for out of your health, your family or your own paycheck, that bill comes due with or without us.
How long does it take?
The conversation is 30 minutes. The core engagement is 90 days, because that is how long it takes for a new rhythm to survive a bad week.
What do I actually get for free?
The 2027 report, the “Who Is God?” workbook, the C-Suite for Christ resources, the worksheets, the alignment assessment and a 30-minute conversation. No card, and the conversation is not a disguised sales call.
Not sure it is a fit? Take the free alignment assessment first — ten minutes, no email to start.
The deeper step
REALIGN
Two days in St. Louis, November 4–5 2026, where this work gets done live — defining the worthy ideal, exposing what stands between you and it, and leaving with the plan.
