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Built With Purpose

Welcome to Built With Purpose

Built With Purpose shares thoughtful conversations with the people who design, build, and improve the world around us. Hosted by Chris Fay, the show blends experience from commercial construction and tech leadership to explore how values, systems, and steady execution create enduring companies.

Recent Episodes

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Aug. 4, 2026

Treat Your Health Like You Treat Your Business | Between The Builds

In this Between the Builds episode of Built With Purpose, host Chris Fay returns from a month off to kick off a new season, reflecting on his recent conversation with Dr. Grant Zarzour of Sperity Health and unpacking one of the most overlooked challenges every leader faces: treating your own health with the same discipline you bring to your business. Chris gets personal, sharing that a longtime member of his team was recently diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and that his own father fought and
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June 24, 2026

Diet, Data, and the Long Game: How Executives Can Add Years to Their Health Span | Dr. Grant Zarzour

In this powerful episode of Built With Purpose, Chris Fay sits down with Dr. Grant Zazour — orthopedic surgeon, entrepreneur, and founder of Sperity Health — for a conversation about health, longevity, proactive care, and what it really takes to perform at your best as a leader. Dr. Zazour shares his journey from growing up the son of an orthopedic surgeon, mowing the lawn of his father's medical practice as a kid to pay his way, to becoming one of Alabama's leading joint replacement surgeons w
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June 17, 2026

The Leadership Team You Need to Build Before Your Company Can Scale | Between The Builds

In this Between the Builds episode of Built With Purpose, host Chris Fay reflects on his recent conversation with Mark Moses of CEO Coaching International and unpacks one of the most important and most difficult challenges every growing leader faces: putting the right people in the right seats. Chris gets personal, sharing that he himself is a customer of CEO Coaching International and is currently in the middle of a major organizational restructuring. Drawing on Mark's insight that the number
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June 9, 2026

What the World's Top CEOs Understand About Growth | Mark Moses

In this insightful episode of Built With Purpose, Chris Fay sits down with entrepreneur, investor, and CEO Coaching International founder Mark Moses for a conversation about leadership, growth, entrepreneurship, coaching, and the transformative impact of AI on business. Mark shares his journey from growing up in a small mining town in Canada to building and selling multiple companies, including a painting business he launched while still in college and a mortgage company he sold just before the
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June 2, 2026

The Pressure Trap High Performers Fall Into | Between The Builds

In this episode of Built With Purpose: Between the Builds, Chris Fay reflects on a powerful leadership lesson from his recent conversation with performance psychologist and longtime mentor, Milt Lowder. As leaders, parents, spouses, and professionals, it's easy to become overwhelmed by the constant pressure of expectations. We tell ourselves, I have to, I need to, I must. But what if those expectations are self-imposed? What if we replaced them with a more intentional mindset: I choose to? Rec
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May 26, 2026

The Psychology Behind Growth, Purpose, and Fulfillment | Milt Lowder

In this deeply personal episode of Built With Purpose, Chris Fay sits down with psychologist, speaker, and performance coach Milt Lowder for a conversation about trauma, purpose, growth, anxiety, forgiveness, and what it truly means to live a meaningful life. Milt opens up about the defining moments that shaped his path into psychology — from witnessing a traumatic accident involving his mother, to struggling with grief, uncertainty, and identity during his early college years. What followed wa

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