Speaking
Faith-driven entrepreneurship in the AI age.
I'm not a guru — I'm a builder, doing the work in public, sharing what actually works and what doesn't. I speak plainly, bring real workflows, and answer questions honestly, including “I don't know.”
The four talks
1. Faith-Driven Entrepreneurship in the AI Age
You can build a real business with AI without selling your soul to the hustle.
Everyone is telling you AI will 10x your business overnight. Most of it is noise. In this talk I walk through how I actually use AI to build — what I automate, what I refuse to automate, and how faith sets the guardrails. You'll leave with a clear-eyed view of what AI can do for a small business right now, and a filter for everything else.
2. Practical AI for Small Business (No Hype, Real Workflows)
Three workflows you can copy this week — no jargon, no fluff.
Forget the demos. I show real workflows from my own operations: how AI handles my content, my customer follow-ups, and my research — step by step, with the tools named and the trade-offs honest. Bring a notebook. This one is for owners who are tired of hearing about AI and want to start using it on Monday morning.
3. Building in Public — The Human + Machine Story
What happens when one person plus an AI system tries to build a real business in the open.
I build in public — the wins, the losses, the receipts. This talk is the story behind the channel: what it's like working alongside AI every day, where the machine does the heavy lifting and the human does the deciding. It's honest about what AI can't do: taste, trust, relationships, and faith. Good for anyone curious about the future of one-person businesses.
4. AI Without Selling Your Soul
A values-driven way to build — ambition and integrity in the same room.
The AI gold rush rewards speed, scale, and shortcuts. My faith asks something different: build honest things, treat people right, and don't worship the numbers. This talk is about holding both — being serious about growth while refusing to become the thing you're fighting. I share the specific decisions where I chose the slower, honest path, and why I'd do it again.
Why me on that stage
Five things that never meet in one speaker — except here.
Most speakers have one of these. I get asked on stage because the combination does something a single specialty can't: it connects the discipline of winning, the rigor of economics, the timing of a futurist, the craft of a builder, and the grounding of faith.
AAU national champion — officially the fastest high-school sophomore runner in the country. The talks carry a competitor's discipline, not a theorist's.
B.A. Economics, '06. Arguments built on incentives and evidence, not vibes.
Early crypto (2015–16), ChatGPT on day one, agentic-AI go time. I name what's next because I've seen this movie before.
AI automations doing real operational work, daily — documented in public. I speak about what I actually do.
Business as service. Audiences get ambition and integrity in the same room.
That combination is the talk nobody else can give.
If you want the full background behind each of the five, it's on the About page.
For organizers
What you're getting
What I'm like to work with: Plain words, no guru-speak. I prepare seriously, show up on time, and treat your audience like it matters — because it does. I answer questions honestly, including “I don't know.” My faith shapes how I work: no hype, no pressure tactics, no inflated claims. What you see is what you get.
Format flexibility: Talks can run as a keynote (30–45 minutes), a workshop with Q&A (60–90 minutes), or a panel seat — tell me what fits your event. If you need something shaped differently, ask — I'm happy to talk it through.
New, not seasoned: This is a new offering — I'm now booking, and I'm upfront about that. What I bring isn't a decade of stage credits; it's the work itself, happening daily, documented in public at @fastentrepreneur. If you want the polished keynote circuit, I'm not your guy. If you want someone real who does the thing, let's talk.
Book a talk
Email me at fastentrepreneur@gmail.com with:
- Your event or organization name
- The event date (or date range)
- The audience — who they are, roughly how many
I'll reply within two business days.
Download the speaker one-sheet (PDF) — the four talks, formats, and what organizers get, on one page.