From Broken Dreams to Renewed Purpose with Jeremey & Amy Houlton

“The opposite of drift is intentionality—setting your eye on something and moving toward it with purpose.”

In this deeply moving episode of Delay the Decay, Dan Harty sits down with entrepreneurial couple Jeremey and Amy Houlton to unpack a story marked by courage, calling, and costly faith. From years in vocational ministry and church planting to financial hardship, identity loss, and rebuilding from the ground up, the Houltons share what it looks like to keep moving forward when the life you thought God was building suddenly falls apart.

This conversation explores what happens when ambition collides with suffering—and how gratitude, clarity, and perseverance can reshape a life. Jeremey and Amy talk candidly about entrepreneurship, marriage strain, living with uncertainty, and the life-altering moment of Jeremey’s stroke. Through it all, they reflect on how faith gives meaning to suffering, why drifting is so easy in midlife, and how intentional living can realign both marriage and mission.