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

What does it take to hold onto your principles when the pressure to compromise is enormous? For former Vice President Mike Pence, the answer has been shaped by faith, failure, public service, and a willingness to stand alone when the stakes demand it. On this episode of the Going Big! podcast, Kevin Gentry sits down with Pence for a deeply personal conversation about the journey that took him from an Irish Catholic Democratic family in Indiana to the vice presidency of the Un

Some people build businesses. Others build institutions. Kip Woodward has spent a lifetime doing both. A fourth-generation business leader, investor, healthcare executive, and public policy advocate, Woodward has led organizations across retail, agriculture, healthcare, hospitality, and finance. Throughout his career, one trait has remained constant: an unwillingness to accept "that's just the way things are." On this episode of Going Big!, host Kevin Gentry explores how curi