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Todd Churchill: What Problem Are You Actually Solving?
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- Jun 15, 2026
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- 1700
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Summary
Join our champion program: [email protected] Attend a Thriving Leader event: https://thriving-leader-2026.lovable.app/ Instagram: @the.momentum.company LinkedIn: /momentum-company In this episode of The Intentional Agribusiness Leader , Mark sits down with Todd Churchill—social entrepreneur, consulting CFO, and founder of multiple agriculture and food businesses—for a deep conversation about land, nutrition, human history, and the systems shaping modern agriculture. Todd defines intentional leadership through one foundational idea: Understand why we do what we do. Not just operationally. Historically. Todd believes intentionality requires curiosity—digging beneath assumptions to understand how systems, incentives, and human behavior evolved over time. Whether it’s farming, food production, land ownership, or nutrition, the deeper question is always: Why did humanity build it this way? That mindset has shaped Todd’s entire career. Raised on a family farm in Illinois, Todd grew up around cattle, land management, entrepreneurship, and long-term thinking. One of the most powerful lessons passed down through generations was this: Land is not primarily how you make wealth. It’s how you preserve it. Throughout history, land—alongside gold and silver—has remained one of the few assets capable of retaining value across inflationary cycles, economic shifts, and changing currencies. But Todd also explains the emotional side of land ownership. People don’t connect to land rationally. They connect to it emotionally. And that emotional connection has shaped agriculture for generations. The conversation also explores the evolution of Todd’s work in the cattle industry. After years in finance and fractional CFO consulting, Todd became involved in specialty meat processing an…