Episode 390 - Why Ego, Not Ambition, Is Killing Your Leadership | Chip Ingram

Host Justin Forman sits down with Chip Ingram, pastor, author, and CEO of Living on the Edge, for a conversation recorded at South by Southwest that reframes ambition, love, and servant leadership through language entrepreneurs actually recognize.Most entrepreneurs have felt the guilt at some point — the sense that wanting to build something great must mean you're arrogant. Chip Ingram has spent decades pastoring high-capacity leaders in Silicon Valley and beyond, and he's convinced that guilt is bad theology. In this conversation, he and Justin unpack what happens when pastors stop trying to recruit entrepreneurs into church programs and start helping them discover who God made them to be in the marketplace instead.Chip Ingram is a pastor, author, and CEO of Living on the Edge, a ministry devoted to helping believers become truly transformed followers of Christ. He's led some of the most significant turnaround churches in the country, built a discipleship process called Prime Movers to develop entrepreneurial leaders, and recently released his book, I Choose Love. Few voices have spent more time in the space between the pulpit and the boardroom.Key Topics:• Why entrepreneurs and pastors mutually intimidate each other — and what breaks the ice• The "Prime Movers" process Chip used to disciple entrepreneurs instead of recruiting them• Coining "humbition" — holding ambition and humility together without guilt• What servant leadership actually requires: leading boldly while dying to ego• God's sovereignty and human responsibility — doing your best and trusting the outcome to Him• Why sharing failure, not success, is what actually builds a team• Redefining love as a covenant choice instead of an emotionThis episode is for the entrepreneur who has felt the tension between wanting to build something great and wondering if that desire is even okay. Chip offers permission — not to chase glory, but to steward the dreams God already placed there.Watch the full episode on YouTube or continue to stream audio on your favorite podcast platform.