SENT Ventures

09/02/2026

Phil Berry won an account roughly six times his revenue — and lost it 45 days later, leaving $750,000 of inventory on the shelves and a staff he had to lay off.

What he built afterward has grown 40X in seven years. In this episode he walks through the turn, why he now runs the company as a steward rather than an owner, and why he thinks nobody in a $5 trillion healthcare system is actually paid to make people healthier.

Full Episode link: https://www.sentventures.com/breaking-the-barrier/episode-13?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social_post&utm_campaign=btb-podcast&utm_content=ep13-07

08/27/2026

Meet the three founders pitching live at SENT Summit 2026

🚀 Michael Orosz-Fagen — Mesh app
🚀 Evan Miller — Esther International (Holdings)
🚀 Kasey Devine — Entravia

In less than two weeks, these three take the stage in Denver — pitching to a panel of seasoned investors, in front of 500+ Catholic founders, builders, and investors, with $10,000 on the line for the winner.

The room is not for show. Here's a past competitor:

"SENT certainly delivered on bringing high-quality investors to the room. We got at least a dozen investor meetings with top VCs and angels, and one led to an investment. Even more than that, I built rich relationships with other Catholics in the startup world." — Paddy McNamara, Founder of Allera Tech

You can join us, but registration closes today [Aug 27}.

SENT Summit 2026 | Sept. 8–11 | Denver
https://www.sentventures.com/sentsummit2026?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social_post&utm_campaign=summit-2026&utm_content=pitch-finalists

08/25/2026

The best conversations at an event don't usually happen on stage.

They happen around a small table with other leaders who understand what it means to operate where you are.

At SENT Summit we created intentional small-group circles so you can go deeper with peers who are navigating similar opportunities, challenges, and decisions.

Sometimes you don’t need another keynote.

You need to sit across from someone who has faced the same problem you’re facing and ask, “What did you do?”

And if you’re already registered for Summit, you’ll have a chance to start those connections before you even arrive.

Our pre-Summit circle on Aug 25 is designed to help you see who else will be in the room, meet other attendees, and start building relationships before the first session begins.

If you’re coming to SENT Summit, don’t just come for the content. Come for the people.

And if you haven’t registered yet, there’s still time. Registration closes Aug 27.

SENT Summit | September 8–11: https://www.sentventures.com/sentsummit2026?utm_source=meta&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=summit2026&utm_content=final_circle

08/19/2026

Most owners file AI under cost-cutting. That's exactly the wrong place to put it.

In this episode of Breaking the Barrier, Raul Hernandez Ochoa sits down with Nicholas Madden to discuss why the real AI prize is value creation, not efficiency:

➤ Augmentation, done right: "I could take those 20 hours and turn it into one" — then aim your best hours at the judgment a model can't replicate.

➤ Don't just bank the margin. Net-new value is taking a client past 'finished' — "that's where net new value lives."

➤ The economy, he says, "is just humans helping humans" — AI should push you toward people, not away from them.

When asked the one thing a machine can never do, he doesn't hesitate: "The ability to be loving."

If you're looking for a real, practical conversation about AI and human flourishing, watch the full episode, “AI Made Ex*****on Cheap. Judgment Is Now Priceless: A Catholic Founder’s AI Playbook,” here: https://www.sentventures.com/breaking-the-barrier/episode-12?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social_post&utm_campaign=btb-podcast&utm_content=ep12-07

08/13/2026

2 days left to register for SENT Summit.

If you are planning to join us you can register now: https://www.sentventures.com/sentsummit2026?utm_source=meta&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=summit-2026&utm_content=2_days_left

There are still a few hotel rooms available at the discount rate if you want to stay on sight.

See you in Denver

Join 500 Catholic founders, CEOs, investors, and mission-driven leaders at Summit Jubilee, taking place September 8-11, 2026, at Denver, CO. Connect with top Catholic entrepreneurs, gain strategic insights, and fuel both your business and faith.

08/10/2026

Most of us walk into a conference asking one thing…what will I get out of it?

One SENT Summit attendee reframed the question entirely:

"Pray to the Holy Spirit for two things. One, to guide you for what you need. And two, to use you."

The second part is what makes SENT Summit a unique experience for entrpreneurs.

You'll come and receive a co-founder, a client, a mentor, an investor who shares your faith and your sense of purpose.

And you may be asked to give. To serve and be used for someone else's mission.

If you are attending SENT Summit, show up to give and receive.

Sept 8–11, Denver. Registration closes August 15.

Join us: https://www.sentventures.com/sentsummit2026

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08/05/2026

“The one conference I attend every year.”

“Best practical Catholic business conference I’ve been to yet.”

500+ Catholic founders, executives and investors. One Room.

Three days of strategy, prayer, and relationships that compound.

Keynotes: Arthur Brooks (Harvard) · Patrick Lencioni (NYT bestseller) · Dr. Jonathan Reyes

Sessions on business exits, faith-aligned investing, Ai & human flourishing, and media.

Registration closes August 15. Register today. https://www.sentventures.com/sentsummit2026

SENT Summit 2026 · Sept 8–11 · Denver

08/04/2026

"We're not trying to win an argument, we're trying to win a soul."

On the most recent episode of Breaking the Barrier Podcast: Christopher Check, the president of Catholic Answers, sat down with Nick Madden to break down what it means to run a mission like a business and why faith and work were never two separate fields.

Three things that stuck:

► On running a mission like a business: never let the bottom line compromise the mission. Ask which path serves your mission's flourishing — and which could quietly curtail it.

► On AI and craft: the more you hand your writing to a tool, the more you lose the art — and the virtue the doing would have formed in you.

► On leadership: the people in your care become what they see you do. If your Marines see you reading, they will read.

Watch the full episode: https://www.sentventures.com/breaking-the-barrier/episode-11?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social_post&utm_campaign=btb-podcast&utm_content=ep11-07

07/22/2026

The world is being remade on every front — AI, culture, family, work.

Dr. Jonathan Reyes delivers the opening keynote — "All Things New" — at SENT Summit 2026. The question underneath all of it: what does it mean to build as if God is still making all things new?

His keynote names the disruptions reshaping business, families, communities, and culture — then makes the case that entrepreneurs are called to respond, but only after rooting their leadership in God.

The invitation: to see your business as a calling, and your leadership as a real share in God's ongoing work of creation and renewal.

He's one of many.

A few of the other voices on stage:
→ Arthur Brooks on leading in an age of emptiness
→ Patrick Lencioni on building teams around the way God wired each person
→ Lila Rose & Christopher Check on disruptions in media
→ John Heinen & Rob Hays on faith, family, and building a business
→ Taylor Black, Vincent Higgins, Matthew Harvey Sanders & Louis Kim on AI and the human person

This is the room that gets it. SENT Summit 2026 — September 8–11, Denver.

Register: https://www.sentventures.com/sentsummit2026?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=summit2026_speakers&utm_content=reyes_keynote

Join 500 Catholic founders, CEOs, investors, and mission-driven leaders at Summit Jubilee, taking place September 8-11, 2026, at Denver, CO. Connect with top Catholic entrepreneurs, gain strategic insights, and fuel both your business and faith.

07/22/2026

He built a billion-dollar company — then handed ownership back to the people who built it.

On Breaking the Barrier, Joe Pomeranke and Nick Madden get into employee ownership (ESOPs), leadership vs. management, meeting AI with hope instead of fear, and why joy beats happiness.

An honest conversation for anyone trying to build a business and a life without splitting their faith from their work.

Watch the full episode here: https://www.sentventures.com/breaking-the-barrier/episode-10?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social_post&utm_campaign=btb-podcast&utm_content=ep10-07