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The Mark Casto Program

The Mark Casto Program

Written by: Mark Casto
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The go-to show for faith-driven entrepreneurs, messengers, coaches, and creatives who refuse to settle for hustle, burnout, or playing small.


Hosted by Mark Casto, a former four-walled pastor who built a six—and soon to be seven—figure digital product business from scratch, this podcast pulls back the curtain on what it really takes to package your God-given wisdom into income and impact online.


Each week, Mark delivers raw stories, proven strategies, and the unfiltered truth about building a purpose-driven, profitable business—without selling your soul or sacrificing the people who matter most. You’ll discover how to:


  • Build a digital product business that actually changes lives
  • Create financial and time freedom through systems, not hustle
  • Turn your message into a movement in a world chasing influence over wisdom
  • Lead with purpose, delegate with confidence, and grow from a place of wholeness



Whether you’re still working a 9–5 or running a thriving business, you’ll find the inspiration, mindset shifts, and tactical steps you need to step fully into your calling and scale with integrity.


This isn’t just another business podcast—it’s a blueprint for Kingdom-minded entrepreneurs who want to change culture, not just their bank accounts.


🎙 Pull up a seat, open your heart, and let’s get to work.

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Episodes
  • Recovering Christian Hope From Fear-Based Prophecy
    Nov 9 2025

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    Headlines keep screaming apocalypse, and Christian feeds keep decoding earthquakes, elections, and eclipses like secret messages. We’ve been taught to panic, to chase timelines, and to call it discernment. We take that on directly—naming how fear-based prophecy rose from Darby’s system to Schofield’s margins, ballooned through The Late Great Planet Earth and Left Behind, and left generations fluent in Antichrist theories but thin on resurrection hope.

    We tell a better story—the older, sturdier one. The Apostles’ Creed centers our hope in the resurrection of the body and the life of the world to come. Paul’s language in 1 Thessalonians 4 evokes a royal procession, not a secret evacuation. Revelation means unveiling, not doom; its climax is heaven descending, not believers disappearing. When our eschatology shifts from escape to renewal, fear gives way to faithfulness, and speculation turns into stewardship. We explore how that reframe fuels mission in the real world—work, art, entrepreneurship, and family—because new creation starts now.

    We also get practical and pastoral. Algorithms reward anxiety, but wisdom refuses to monetize fear. Neuroscience explains why panic feels addictive. Scripture gives us a test for true insight: peaceable, pure, open to reason, full of mercy. We put Jesus’ 70 AD warnings back in context, show how credibility returns through repentance and accountability, and offer five simple practices to rebuild trust: tell the truth, repent publicly, model calm, submit to community, and return to the resurrection. The result is a prophetic culture that carries poise over panic, clarity over clickbait, and a hope strong enough to build with.

    If this conversation helps you trade countdown clocks for courageous patience, share it with someone who’s weary of fear. Subscribe, leave a review, and tell us: how are you choosing resurrection hope where panic once ruled?

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    Links & Resources:

    • Watch Free On-Demand Training Here → https://funnels.wisebuilders.co/access
    • Support the podcast & help fund Longpath Studios → markcasto.co/donate
    • Join my weekly email for mindset and business insights → markcasto.co
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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Rebuilding Credibility In An Age Of Conspiracy
    Nov 5 2025

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    Headlines shout, feeds reward fear, and somehow suspicion started masquerading as discernment. We take a hard look at how conspiracy culture seduces with promises of belonging and secret insight while silently draining credibility, isolating communities, and hijacking the church’s public witness. Anchored in Isaiah 8, Proverbs 14, James 3, and Philippians 4, we explore how to move from panic to peace, from exposure obsession to truth embodied, and from clickability to credibility.

    We unpack the fruit test that separates heaven’s wisdom from counterfeit “insight,” and we revisit recent cycles of rumor—pandemic myths, election prophecies, and viral dates that failed—to show why humility and verification matter more than ever. Trust is the currency of authority, and clarity is the craft that mints it. You’ll hear practical ways to build a sound mind in an age of noise: slow your reactions, vet sources, measure fruit, and say “I don’t know” when you don’t. Instead of feeding outrage loops, we champion a non-anxious presence that models peace under pressure and speaks with grace, reason, and mercy.

    Hope is not denial; it is dominion. From Jeremiah’s counsel to exiles to the quiet excellence of Daniel and Joseph, we chart a path for creators, pastors, and entrepreneurs to become wise builders—people who solve real problems, design sane spaces, and restore trust one conversation at a time. If you’re ready to trade suspicion for discernment and become credible again, this conversation will hand you language, posture, and practice for the road ahead.

    If this resonates, subscribe, share with a friend who needs freedom from the outrage cycle, and leave a review to help others find it. Your calm voice may be the bridge that truth walks across.

    Support the show

    Links & Resources:

    • Watch Free On-Demand Training Here → https://funnels.wisebuilders.co/access
    • Support the podcast & help fund Longpath Studios → markcasto.co/donate
    • Join my weekly email for mindset and business insights → markcasto.co
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    46 mins
  • Christ Or Caesar
    Oct 29 2025

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    What if God truly looks like Jesus—and nothing unlike Him? We follow that daring claim to its consequences for justice, power, and public life, challenging a culture discipled by outrage and a church tempted to trade the cross for the sword. From early church witness to modern culture wars, we uncover how a Christ-shaped vision dismantles coercion and reclaims love as the most disruptive force on earth.

    We walk through the hot-button issues without the partisan fog. Abortion becomes a call to protect unborn life and uphold women’s dignity with real support, not slogans. The death penalty collides with the crucified Lord who forgives His executioners, pushing us toward restoration rather than revenge. War, often wrapped in patriotic language, is exposed as tragedy that the church cannot bless if we’re serious about the Sermon on the Mount. Along the way we revisit Revelation’s searing symbols—the beast of empire and the whore of compromised religion—to reveal how faith loses its voice when it rides on state power.

    This conversation lands where discipleship gets costly: repent of mixed allegiances, resist the algorithm’s discipling and applause for sanctified contempt, and recenter life on the Lamb who already reigns. We reflect on a national moment of grief that showcased both enemy-forgiving mercy and enemy-hating bravado from the same stage, and we ask what it means to multiply “little Christs” instead of culture warriors. If the church is the bride, not empire’s mascot, then our future is clear—embody a peacemaking, generous, resilient community that looks like Jesus in public.

    If this resonated, share it with a friend, subscribe, and leave a review. Tell us: where do you see empire trying to wear a halo, and how can we help one another live a clearer Christ?

    Support the show

    Links & Resources:

    • Watch Free On-Demand Training Here → https://funnels.wisebuilders.co/access
    • Support the podcast & help fund Longpath Studios → markcasto.co/donate
    • Join my weekly email for mindset and business insights → markcasto.co
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    51 mins
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