Friendship, Faith & Endurance: The Entrepreneurial Journey of Steve Fales

Friendship, Faith & Endurance: The Entrepreneurial Journey of Steve Fales

15 Sep, 2025

In this episode, you’ll learn:

  • How Steve launched, scaled, and sold a successful advertising agency.
     
  • Why consistency and persistence matter more than talent.
     
  • The endurance athlete mindset and how it translates to business.
     
  • The epidemic of loneliness — and how Loving Your Neighbor: A Practical Guide helps combat it.
     
  • Why scaling isn’t for everyone (and why that’s okay).
     
  • Steve’s best advice: it’s all about people.
     
  • His most powerful tip: define your core values and live by them.

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Key Questions

(01:21) How did you end up being where you are today?

(03:17) When things got tough, how did you keep pushing forward and not just quitting?

(04:37) Do you take some of those principles and carry it forward in some of your races and triathlons and stuff like that to be easy as well?

(05:47) You have a few books. You're also a coach and mentor and stuff like that. Is that correct?

(07:26) How do you get in front of those people?

(09:28) What are a couple of big goals that you have in the next year?

(13:44) With all the things that you want to get done in your retirement with all your spare time, what do you feel like is a roadblock? What's your biggest roadblock?

(15:33) What is the best advice that you have ever received?

(16:55) What's the best advice you've ever given?

(18:36) We've touched on a few different topics today. Is there anything that we haven't talked about that we would like to?

(20:48) Where can we learn more about you and what you're up to?

Steve Fales

www.stevefales.com

LinkedIn -- https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenfales/

Facebook -- https://www.facebook.com/steve.fales.18

Virginia Purnell

Funnel & Visibility Specialist

Distinct Digital Marketing

(833) 762-5336

virginia@distinctdigitalmarketing.com

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Virginia Purnell

Virginia lives in Northern Alberta on a small farm with her husband and three children. Virginia is a master funnel builder having been certified as an FG Society Master Marketer, Funnelytics, and ClickFunnels Certified Partner. She uses that knowledge to help businesses with their online presence, visibility, and sales.