#89 Why 1,000 Views Beats 1M For Your Business | Evan Raugust

Catholic Founders

Evan Raugust went from zero to over 240,000 YouTube subscribers in less than two years while working a 9-to-5. As the founder of Kingdom Media, he now helps top creators scale their channels to millions of views. In this episode, Silas Mähner chops it up with Evan to discuss high-stakes video production, leveraging the YouTube algorithm, finding unserved market gaps, and staying grounded in prayer and virtue amid rapid growth. In This Episode, You’ll Learn: The 5 Growth Levers: How to leverage time, money, personality, creativity, or production value. The Curiosity Hook: How to "dangle the candy" of curiosity to feed viewers deep, life-changing spiritual truths. High-Impact Strategy: Why you should stop spending 20 hours on a 10k-view video when that same energy can build a 1-million-view home run. Virtue & Holiness: How daily Rosaries, Confession, and Adoration prevent vanity in the creator economy. Timestamps: (00:18) – Intro: The Catholic Founders mission (03:07) – Evan’s background & mission to spread the Gospel online (05:46) – Evan’s conversion journey to Catholicism (07:43) – Building & scaling channels with Kingdom Media (15:30) – YouTube strategy & multi-skill demands for business owners (22:29) – Hooking viewers & delivering spiritual depth (26:28) – How content goes viral: Market gaps & outlier topics (34:08) – The 5 Growth Levers explained (43:40) – Living virtue & overcoming vanity as a creator (48:38) – Recapturing your vocation as a divine mission (55:46) – Rapid fire: Favorite scriptures, devotions & patron saints (1:00:32) – Practical reflection questions for business owners Join the Catholic Founders Guild Today Ready to launch or grow your business, master the theology of entrepreneurship, and build alongside 200+ Catholic founders? 👉 Become a paid subscriber now: join.catholicfounders.com Key Links & Resources Mentioned: Evan Raugust’s YouTube Channel Kingdom Media Agency Catholic Founders Website This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.catholicfounders.com/subscribe

About Podcast

Catholic Founders is where Catholic Entrepreneurs and Business Owners go to learn how to integrate their faith into every aspect of how they run their business and life as a Catholic AND as a Founder.

In modern times, it's become more unclear than ever how to unite our faith with our work. It's even harder when you run a business. However, just as there is a holy way to live, there is a holy way to build and run our businesses.

Fundamentally, our skills were given to us by God so that we may become instruments of His will. These skills are not for our own use. Therefore, to waste or misuse them is a grave thing. This entire project is born out of a deep belief in this truth.

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