Description

As business owners, we often get caught up in the thick of things, chasing after larger profits, attracting more clients, keeping up with the latest marketing trend to build a bigger and better business. Why don’t we take a pause and ask ourselves, what are we pursuing by doing what we’re doing? Is it really our priority to achieve worldly success at all costs?

We talk to Jeff Thomas of  Arkos Global Advisors today to help us gain some perspective on setting our business and life priorities. Recounting highlights of his successful professional career, Jeff reveals that he eventually found himself putting God in the backseat while he focused on the little gods of material wealth and worldly success. Let’s listen and discover more insight into Jeff’s journey of discovering God’s purpose for him, his shift to running a God-centered business, and his vow to put the Big "G" first in everything that he does.

Key Points From This Episode: 

• Jeff shares his family background and growing-up years.
• Jeff talks about his 30-year professional career in accounting, finance and wealth management and how it eventually led to dissatisfaction and feeling unfulfilled.
• The genesis story of Arkos Global Advisors, Jeff’s nontraditional wealth management firm.
• Jeff’s journey of discovering God’s purpose for him.
• Jeff’s shift of focus from pursuing worldly success to God-centered pursuits
• What made Jeff realize that he was putting “the little ‘g’ god” above God?
• The setback of losing the culture war in a big public company as Jeff obeyed God’s bidding to scale.
• Why and how did Jeff start a podcast?
• Jeff’s big failure that taught him a great lesson.
• What’s the greatest investment that Jeff ever made?
• Jeff shares his vision for his business.
• Jeff answers the mentor-minute questions. 

Tweetables:

"You can't take it with you but you can send it ahead." - Randy Alcorn

“The greatest investment is generosity. It goes for eternity and you get joy today.”

“Why isn't there a Chick-fil-A of wealth management? Private, scaled, unbelievably profitable, great people want to work there, amazing service. And they're unapologetic where their principles come from.”

“There's a lot of noise on the consumer side so we need to make some more noise on the generosity side because it leads to a lot more joy.”

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Arkos Global Advisors website

Generous Business Owner Podcast

Trading Up: Moving From Success to Significance on Wall Street by Jeff Thomas

The Wow Factor Podcast

Timothy Keller's Sermons Podcast

About Jeff Thomas

Jeff Thomas is the Founder/CEO of Arkos Global Advisors and the author of Trading Up: Moving from Success to Significance on Wall Street. He is passionate about helping clients connect their money with their purpose. His vision is to scale a God-honoring wealth management company where advisors who share common values collaborate to help families thrive across generations.

Jeff and his wife, Dolly, live in Houston and have two daughters. Jeff and Dolly stay very involved in their church, as well as several non-profit endeavors.