Are you ready to stop living on hope and start building real FAITH in your goals, business, and money?

As we celebrate the one-year anniversary of The 30-Day Year Podcast, Dave and Jacq Conway sit down to talk about the one idea they say lies behind every major breakthrough, every huge leap, and every “miracle”: And that idea is FAITH.

Faith is a very specific state of mind that is filled with belief, confidence, and trust. In this episode, you’ll discover why FAITH is the number one value for Dave and Jacq’s company, the real difference between hope and faith, and why that distinction can completely change how you move toward your goals.

You’ll learn:

Why hope has disappointment and doubt baked into it, and why, as Jacq Conway puts it, "Hope wishes, Faith knows."
How persistence is the child of faith, and why you only continue when you believe…
How to think about risk and intelligent decision-making in business without freezing…
A simple three-step framework to build faith as a daily habit: study, autosuggestion, and reflective observation…
How to use your own life as proof that you can trust yourself and create new results… and much more!

You’ll find this episode both spiritual and practical. You’ll walk away with a clearer definition of faith, a clear path out of worry and indecision, and a powerful reminder that every big result began as an idea someone chose to believe in before there was any proof.

Key Takeaways

Faith and hope are not the same thing (05:08)
Dave and Jacq draw a sharp line in the sand between hope and faith. Hope has disappointment baked into it. It says, “I hope this works,” while secretly waiting to be let down. Faith is different. Faith knows. It is a confident state of mind rooted in understanding, trust, and positive expectation. Or as Jacq puts it, “Hope wishes. Faith knows.”
Persistence is the child of faith (06:45)
When someone truly believes something will happen, their behavior changes. They carry themselves differently, and they do not quit. Dave calls persistence “a child of faith” because you only continue to move forward when you actually believe you can win. Without faith, effort becomes half–hearted, fearful, or trepidatious, like inching across a frozen lake instead of walking with confidence.
You do not need faith for what you already understand (10:43)
Dave explains that faith is only required when you are doing something beyond your current level of understanding. He jokes that he does not need faith to cook eggs because he already knows how. The real gift of a big 30-Day Year goal is not the money. It is the expansion in awareness that happens as you become someone who can do what you once believed you could not.
Faith grows in the soil of daily study (16:01)
Dave describes faith as a muscle that atrophies without use. He studies every morning, often on topics like worry, confidence, and universal law. The goal is not memorization. It is understanding. When you study powerful spiritual and mindset material and then apply it, you gain feedback. That feedback refines your understanding, which deepens faith and gradually replaces worry with confidence and faith.
Autosuggestion turns faith into a mental habit! (22:22)
Dave says every human being is programmed through genetics and environment. At Conway, they call this a paradigm. Dave explains that you can change this programming in two ways: emotional impact or repetition of thought. Autosuggestion is deliberate, repeated self–talk and visualization that plants new ideas in the subconscious mind. If you lack confidence, for example, you begin telling yourself, “I am confident,” until it becomes habitual. The subconscious does not know the difference between real and imagined, so it accepts what you repeatedly impress upon it.

Dave says every human being is programmed through genetics and environment.

At Conway, they call this a paradigm. Dave explains that you can change this programming in two ways: emotional impact or repetition of thought. Autosuggestion is deliberate, repeated self–talk and visualization that plants new ideas in the subconscious mind. If you lack confidence, for example, you begin telling yourself, “I am confident,” until it becomes habitual. The subconscious does not know the difference between real and imagined, so it accepts what you repeatedly impress upon it.

At the heart of this episode is a simple idea. Faith is a habit you can build on purpose through daily study, intentional self–talk, and honest reflection. Dave and Jacq map out a three–step process for turning faith into a way of life.

Final Insight

Remember, FAITH is the habit behind every miracle, and every miracle result starts as a decision to believe in something that does not exist yet, then to walk toward it until it does.

Are you ready to shift from a life driven by worry, old programming, and external conditions into a life driven by faith, decision, and deliberate creation instead? Then tune into episode 44 now!

Your next “miracle” might already be in motion!