Scott Maderer

Scott Maderer is a faith-driven coach, speaker, and author dedicated to helping Christian entrepreneurs and couples live fully in alignment with their calling. Alongside his wife Carrie, he co-founded Inspired Stewardship in 2011 to guide individuals in mastering their time, talent, and treasures for meaningful success. Scott is a certified Human Behaviour Senior Consultant and a proud member of the John Maxwell Team. Through workshops, coaching, and his newly released book Inspired Living, he empowers business owners to understand themselves and others so they can live with intention, serve their communities, and grow a legacy-driven business. In 2017, Scott made Inspired Stewardship his full-time mission, delivering faith-infused guidance to entrepreneurs looking to align their purpose with prosperity. His work is rooted in building the Kingdom through intentional living, spiritual clarity, and practical mastery.

In this episode of Talking with the Experts, host Rose Davidson welcomes author, coach, and Christian entrepreneur Scott Maderer to discuss how faith-based business owners can live a more inspired, purpose-driven life.

Scott is the founder of Inspired Stewardship; a business he runs with his wife Carrie to help Christian entrepreneurs align their lives with their true calling. Drawing from his new book Inspired Living: Assemble the Puzzle of Your Calling by Mastering Your Time, Your Talent, and Your Treasures, Scott shares how real success begins with self-mastery.

You’ll learn how to unlock your potential through faith, discipline, and alignment. Whether you’re struggling with time management, unsure how to channel your unique gifts, or searching for deeper meaning in your work, this episode will inspire transformation.

✅ Understand how to align your business with your values
✅ Learn strategies to master time, talent, and financial resources
✅ Discover the connection between self-awareness and living your purpose

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💡 Three Key Points from the Interview:

1. Why mastering your time, talent, and treasures is the foundation of living your purpose
2. How self-awareness and behaviour understanding create stronger relationships in business and life
3. The key to aligning faith, business success, and personal fulfillment

Scott Madera’s Background and Career Journey

• Scott Madera began a career as a medical researcher with hard science degrees but became disillusioned with the focus on grant money rather than helping people.
• After transitioning to teaching, Scott spent 16 years as a middle and high school science teacher.
• Following his teaching career, he moved into the corporate world for 11 years, working in the educational field but in the private sector.
• Throughout these career changes, Scott realized that he was most energized and successful when developing and supporting others.
• This realization, combined with personal financial struggles and a subsequent turnaround, led to Scott starting coaching part-time while still working a corporate job.
• Eventually, Scott launched Inspired Stewardship as a full-time business with his wife Kerry to help people with time, talent, and financial management. 

Finding Your True Calling as a Business Owner

• Scott distinguishes between a calling and a career or role, describing a calling as the deeper thread that runs behind various roles and assignments.
• He recommends two exercises to help identify one’s calling: A ‘looking back’ exercise involves listing all past activities and jobs, noting what aspects brought joy and energy versus what drained energy.
• A ‘looking forward’ exercise involves imagining meeting a friend after five years and describing what would make those years the best of life.
• These exercises help identify patterns and commonalities in what drives and energizes a person, potentially leading to business or career ideas.
• Scott emphasizes that finding one’s calling is an ongoing journey of discovery rather than a one-time revelation. 

Mastering Time and Money Management

• Scott explains that frameworks for managing time and money are similar because both are finite resources.
• He emphasizes that time and money problems are actually ‘you’ problems, stemming from personal behaviour and attitudes rather than the resources themselves.
• Scott suggests a language shift to improve time management, replacing ‘I don’t have time’ with ‘It’s not a priority for me to…’. This change forces a re-evaluation of priorities.
• He draws a parallel between this prioritization process and budgeting, which involves deciding how to allocate limited financial resources.
• Scott highlights the importance of accountability in implementing these management strategies, noting that understanding the concepts is easier than consistently applying them. 

Balancing Self-Investment and Service to Others

• Scott presents a fourfold framework: invest in yourself, invest in others, develop your influence, and impact the world.
• He stresses the importance of self-investment and self-care to build the capacity to help others effectively.
• Serving others from a place of abundance naturally leads to developing influence and creating impact.
• Scott relates this framework to business, describing business as solving problems for others in exchange for value. 

Scott’s Podcast and Resources

• Scott hosts the ‘Inspired Stewardship’ podcast, which started in 2018 and has produced nearly 1600 episodes.
• The podcast covers topics related to time, talent, and money management, as well as business and leadership.
• It is available on major podcast platforms and YouTube.
• Scott offers free resources, including exercises discussed in the interview, at inspiredstewardship.com/experts.
• He provides an opportunity for a 30-minute call to discuss coaching services. 

Scott’s Book: ‘Inspired Living’

• Scott published the book, ‘Inspired Living: Assemble the Puzzle of Your Calling by Mastering Your Time, Your Talent and Your Treasures,’ in July 2023.
• The book is designed as a workbook with action questions at the end of each chapter.
• Scott uses the analogy of assembling a puzzle to describe the process of discovering one’s calling.
• The aim of the book is to provide a framework for managing time, talent, and resources that anyone can apply.
• It is available wherever books are sold.

• Scott Madera shared his journey from being a schoolteacher to a corporate professional and eventually a stewardship coach, highlighting the importance of aligning one’s career with their calling.
• The discussion emphasized the difference between one’s calling and career, suggesting that finding a calling involves identifying activities that bring joy and energy, regardless of the specific role.
• Mastering time and money was discussed, with the insight that both are finite resources and the approach to handling them involves prioritizing and setting clear boundaries.
• The importance of self-investment before serving others was highlighted, with a framework suggesting investing in oneself, others, developing influence, and impacting the world.
• Scott Madera introduced his podcast, “Inspired Stewardship,” which focuses on time, talent, and money, and is available on major streaming platforms.
• Free resources, including exercises and information about Scott’s book and podcast, are available on the Inspired Stewardship website under the “experts” section.
• Scott’s book, “Inspired Living,” aims to help readers assemble the puzzle of their calling by mastering time, talent, and treasures, and is available wherever books are sold.
• The final encouragement was to pursue activities that inspire and energize individuals, suggesting that this would contribute to a better world.

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