More Than Enough Podcast

08/24/2026

There are two things nonprofits almost always ask a business for. Brian Mavis thinks both are the wrong ask.

“99% of the time, they are asked either for money, or to close up for a day and go volunteer at your thing.”

Government is engaged. Churches are engaged. Nonprofits keep getting better. But business — an entire sector — has largely stayed unaware, partly because we keep approaching them as a checkbook or a labor pool.

So he asked a different question: “What if their vocation were part of the solution?”

Sell food? Fix cars? Run a trampoline park? Manage a zoo? Then that’s what you bring. Not a donation — the actual work you already know how to do.

That’s the conviction behind the Foster Friendly app: businesses serving foster families out of what they already are.

Brian Mavis (America’s Kids Belong) on the More Than Enough Podcast with Jason Weber.

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08/19/2026

Homelessness. Addiction. Mental health. Trafficking. We name these as separate crises.

Brian Mavis went looking for where they begin — and found ten of America’s biggest social wounds tracing back to the same place. For many young adults, the story started long before the headline: in child welfare, in aging out, in being cut off from family and community.

“If you care about these other things — addiction, su***de, crisis pregnancy, trafficking — then you care about foster care, because these kids are the leading pipeline to those social wounds.”

It reframes the question. Not why foster care instead of these other worthy causes — but what if foster care is upstream of them?

Brian Mavis (America’s Kids Belong), author of Go Upstream, joins Jason Weber on the More Than Enough Podcast.

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08/12/2026

“In 26 years, there has never been a single day where kids have not been waiting for families.”

That’s what a child welfare worker told Brian Mavis twenty years ago. Then she raised her finger and gave him a challenge:

“Help me change who waits. Help me recruit so many families, so many adults, that they’re on the waiting list — not the kids.”

He said yes on the spot. Didn’t consult anybody. And those three words — change who waits — redirected the whole trajectory of his life and ministry.

Imagine it: a waiting list of grown-ups ready to love a child, and no child waiting on them.

Brian Mavis (America’s Kids Belong) joins Jason Weber on the More Than Enough Podcast to talk about going upstream — how caring for kids in foster care reaches into homelessness, poverty, trafficking, incarceration and more.

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07/21/2026

Is your work actually meaningful? Here’s a simple test.

Jedd Schroy’s rule of thumb: fast-forward a year from your last conversation with someone you serve. Is their life different — changed — because of what you put into it?

“That’s the outcome. That’s the lasting fruit that transpires and is received.”

Activity is easy to count. Lasting change is what actually matters — and it’s worth measuring for.

On the More Than Enough Podcast, Jedd Schroy (CAFO) and David Eaton (Axis) talk about how to measure what truly counts.

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07/18/2026

Every month, smoke rose from the community. They were burning their own clothes.

Jedd Schroy was in a São Paulo favela when he learned why. Local churches gave away clothing to the needy each month — and whoever looked neediest got first pick. So families burned what they owned to look poorer than their neighbors.

The churches had the best of intentions. They still created a perverse incentive.

That’s the uncomfortable question at the heart of this episode: is the good work we’re doing actually producing the good we’re hoping for? Or are we just counting the activity?

Good intentions aren’t the same as good outcomes. On the More Than Enough Podcast, Jedd Schroy (CAFO) and David Eaton (Axis) talk about how to measure what actually matters.

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06/30/2026

Peter Mutabazi had a job that kept him on a plane 70% of the time, headed to South America, Africa, Asia. He knew there was no way to be a full-time dad from a different continent. So he changed his career. He started flipping houses in Oklahoma so he could be his own boss, with the flexibility foster kids need for visitations, therapy, and the calls from school.

That was step one. Step two was the village.

As an immigrant with no parents, no aunts or uncles, no relatives nearby, Peter knew he had to build community on purpose. So he went to friends and asked, plainly: would you walk this with me? When I need diapers at 3 in the morning, would you be there? Once he had about four people, he knew he could do it.

And he was intentional about who. A friend who’s a therapist, to tell him when to take a mental break. A friend who’s a surgeon, to talk him down in the middle of the night when he was a first-time parent and scared. He leaned on other single people, because they were available in ways married friends often couldn’t be, and because they understood the road he was on.

Nothing about Peter’s village happened by accident. He built it on purpose, from the get-go.

🎧 Hear the full conversation with Peter Mutabazi, Stacy Glass, and Laura Hutfless on the More Than Enough podcast, Ep. 38: Single Foster and Adoptive Parenting.

06/15/2026

“A kid doesn’t need a perfect mentor. A kid just needs someone who’s going to show up and share life with them.”

Zach Garza, founder of You Can Mentor, says the thing that makes mentorship work isn’t what most people fear they’re missing.

It’s not having all the answers. It’s letting a kid into your real life, the good and the bad, the fears, the doubts, the imperfections.

Because when a young person watches how you hand those things to Jesus, how you lean on community, how you ask for help, that’s the lesson. They’re not learning from a polished version of you. They’re learning from the honest one.

You don’t have to be perfect. You just have to show up.

🎧 Hear the full conversation on the More Than Enough podcast, Ep. 39: Youth Mentoring.

OrphanCare

06/10/2026

“Tell me about your father.”

That’s what Zach Garza, a teacher and coach in Dallas, asked a kid named Quan one afternoon. Quan’s head dropped. “Coach, I ain’t got a dad.”

Zach had just finished praying for the boys at his school. The kids with all the gifts and no men around to show them what it looked like to be men, to follow after God. He’d barely said amen when Quan walked up.
He told Quan he and some friends wanted to spend time with him. Teach him how to be a man. Quan said yes.

So Zach called Quan’s mom. And she started weeping. They’d just been evicted. She was in a shelter with her boys. And she’d been on her knees asking God to send someone to teach her sons how to be men.

Three people praying the same prayer, and none of them knew it.

That’s the day Zach learned something he carries to this day: father to the fatherless and defender of widows go hand in hand. You don’t serve the kid without serving the mom. If she’s doing well, more times than not he is too. If she’s struggling, so is he.

Today Zach leads You Can Mentor, equipping mentors and ministries across the country to step into stories exactly like Quan’s.

🎧 Hear the full conversation on the More Than Enough podcast, Ep. 39: Youth Mentoring.

06/02/2026