Ep 013 | Paying People to Pray, Then Getting Called In | feat. Bryan Elliott

You've hit the numbers and the wins keep stacking, so why does the quiet sense that you're not enough still drive everything you build? In this conversation, Colt sits down with Bryan Elliott, founder and CEO of Flō Energy Solutions, to unpack the hidden driver underneath high-performing ambition. Bryan grew a company from a $20,000 loan from his parents into specialized systems now running in roughly 2,500 stores across 35 US states, and for decades a lie that he was "not enough" ran underneath all of it. When faith started to reawaken, his first instinct was to run it like a founder: he brought a prayer team onto staff to cover the business, with zero intention of praying himself, until the conviction to join in slowly pulled him off the sidelines. You'll hear why success can't fix that lie ("it doesn't change the lie until it's displaced with truth"), how he turned an engineering mind into a supermarket market gap no competitor was solving, why he validates a problem exhaustively before building anything (Einstein's 55 minutes on the problem, five on the solution), and how his team learned to pray "we're not gonna let this customer become an idol" through years of financial storms. Bryan also shares the loss that reframed everything: waking the morning after his daughter's death with a peace he couldn't manufacture, where the heavenly reality superseded the earthly one. If you have been performing to prove something you can't quite name, this one is for you.ABOUT THE GUESTBryan Elliott, P.Eng., is the founder and CEO of Flō Energy Solutions, the only HVAC company focused solely on optimizing mechanical equipment performance for food retail, and the author of five books, including More Than Gold and As In Heaven. A professional engineer trained at the University of New Brunswick, he started the company at 28 and filed his first patents in 1999 and 2000, building specialized supermarket systems now running in roughly 2,500 stores across 35 US states, with clients including Loblaws, Sobeys, Shoppers Drug Mart, and Aldi, all from a problem-first, minimum-viable-product discipline that validates a customer's real willingness to pay before engineering a solution. He is also the co-founder and president of M46 Ministries, co-founder and chairman of Bee Me Kidz, and a board member of Transform Our World Canada and EPIC at Work, and after returning to faith at 46 much of his writing and speaking now centers on inner healing, working from rest rather than toil, and the relentless love of God that pursued him through profound loss.