What do you do when you have spent nearly three decades building a successful business career, helped grow a technology startup into a global company, served 14 years in Congress, and then decide to step away from the United States Senate? For Senator Steve Daines, the answer begins where it always has: with faith, family, and a willingness to take the next step without knowing exactly where it will lead. On this episode of Going Big!, Kevin Gentry sits down with Daines for a

What does it take for a group of deeply divided people to create something that changes the course of human history? As America celebrates the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Dr. Jane Kamensky offers a fascinating look at the young Thomas Jefferson, the fractured group of colonists around him, and the extraordinary circumstances that produced one of the most consequential documents ever written. Kamensky, president and CEO of the Thomas Jefferson Foundat

As America celebrates its 250th anniversary, Professor Robert George offers a timely reminder: the survival of the American experiment cannot be taken for granted. The Princeton professor and public intellectual argues that republican government and ordered liberty have endured for 250 years because generations of Americans have accepted the responsibility to preserve them. Freedom Requires Virtue Dr. George challenges the modern idea that freedom simply means doing whatever

Daniel Di Martino has seen firsthand what happens when a prosperous society loses its economic freedom. Growing up in Venezuela, he watched his family’s comfortable life give way to blackouts, water shortages, inflation, crime, and scarcity. Those experiences eventually led him to the United States, where he became an economist, researcher, and outspoken advocate for freedom. Seeing Venezuela Change As a child, Daniel remembers Venezuela as a prosperous country where his fami

Memorial Day often carries ceremony and distraction in equal measure. In this episode of Going Big!, Kevin Gentry sits down with producer Drake Springer and director Meredith Danluck to discuss Why We Dream, a documentary that follows World War II veterans returning to Normandy 80 years after D-Day. Their conversation moves well beyond the making of a film. It becomes a reflection on memory, sacrifice, storytelling, and what happens when the last living witnesses to history a

Few moments test a person more than profound loss. For Amy Looney-Heffernan, the death of her husband, Navy SEAL Lieutenant Brendan Looney, in Afghanistan in 2010 changed every part of her life. At just 29 years old, she found herself planning her husband's funeral while trying to comprehend a future she never imagined. Today, Amy serves as President of the Travis Manion Foundation, a national organization that equips veterans, families of the fallen, and young people to lead