Ben Haugh doesn’t run his business like everyone else—and that’s by design. For him, entrepreneurship isn’t just about growth strategies, revenue, or leadership. It’s about faith. Not the kind you put in market forecasts or a strong team (though he believes in those too), but real, grounding, soul-level faith. The kind that’s kept him going when nothing else could.
Ben’s story isn’t polished. It’s raw. Born at home and raised in a religious cult in Waco, Texas, love and belonging were things he learned to live without. At 14, he was sent away to a boys’ home and cut off by his parents. By 16, he was emancipated. By 19, faced with limited choices and hard-earned skills in restoration work, he launched his own company—because no one else was going to offer him a seat at their table.
Ben grew up fast. He had to. And through it all, he’s held tightly to one thing: faith.
But that faith didn’t come easy. It wasn’t handed to him. “Faith took time,” Ben says. “It’s also a choice. If I didn’t choose to have faith, I’d be a leaf in the wind.”
For Ben, faith is what roots him. It’s not blind optimism. It’s intentional. It’s what gets him through the days when everything feels heavy. He believes faith is in the process—the showing up, the pushing through, the trusting there’s purpose in the hard stuff.
“Without faith,” he says, “there’s no way I could’ve handled the obstacles. No way.”
Ben Haugh isn’t immune to the chronic stress of running a business. He’s a father. A husband. And he has employees he truly cares about. The pressure isn’t just professional—it’s personal. And sometimes, he’ll admit, the stress is more than “a lot.” He’s seen what that kind of pressure can do to people. He’s watched it destroy companies, families, even lives. That’s not the path he wants.
“Finding that piece of yourself to deal with this kind of stress—it’s been a journey,” Ben says. But it’s in that journey that he’s seen where he’s been blessed. He can trace the turns in the road that saved him—and his business. Faith didn’t just help him survive those moments. It helped him make sense of them.
Business is isolating. It’s pressure most people never see: the late-night numbers that don’t add up, the weight of paying employees, the fear of letting your family down. Owning assets and leading a family doesn’t just require determination—it requires something deeper. For Ben, that’s faith.
Ben says: “If there is one thing I want to teach my three kids, is that they need faith, a faith that will carry them through the good and the bad and help them see later clearly the way that faith brought them to the place they are at.”
When you meet Ben Haugh, you don’t just get business advice. You get honesty and a real story—and a steady reminder that faith isn’t always popular in boardrooms, on TV or anywhere really ,but for him, it’s the foundation under everything.
Stay Strong, Stay Focused and Stay in Business
