Author, Speaker, Trainer, Coach

04/20/2026

Is your life a GPS-guided map or a "where-the-heck-am-I" maze?
My audiobook, Our Beautiful Mess, is officially out on all major platforms!

It’s the perfect companion for your commute, your workout, or that 3:00 a.m. "what am I doing with my life" ceiling-stare.

Grab it now on Audible, Spotify, Apple Books and all major platforms ...even if the only thing you’re currently "mapping" is the quickest route to the fridge.

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10/15/2025

Our Beautiful Mess offers an honest faith—minus the platitudes. You’ll be tethered to a new reality that refuses tidy answers and hustle-for-worth spirituality, choosing presence over prescriptions and courage to trust God in the mess and the maze.

You’ll encounter a hope that holds when life isn’t fair. Through gritty stories of loss, relapse, healing, and resilience, you’ll discover a hope strong enough for winter—with real glimpses of spring—so you can keep going.

You’ll gain a clear vision of the Kingdom that changes your Mondays. You’ll see God’s reign as near and practical—justice pursued, captives freed, relationships restored—and you’ll have language for partnering with God in ordinary life.

Finally, you’ll find a trustworthy guide and companion. You’ll travel with a seasoned leader—scars and scholarship; story-rich, theologically sound, pastorally gentle—so you feel less alone and more empowered to lead yourself and others.

Order your hardcover copy for $29.99 today toddrutkowski.com

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09/24/2025

"Todd Rutkowski leads with a powerful belief: when you build trust, culture thrives -- and performance follows.

As Chief Culture Officer at Epic Group , Todd helps create the conditions where people feel connected, accountable, and energized to do their best work. In this episode of the hashtag podcast, he shares how leaders can build strong cultures that drive both meaning and results.

🎧 What you’ll learn from Todd:

- How to cultivate trust that strengthens culture
- Why accountability fuels energy and performance
- The mindset leaders need to sustain long-term impact

🎙️ What Juices You is our podcast exploring what energizes leaders, and how that energy fuels meaningful impact."

Brady Wilson

How do you build trust and create a culture that fuels both people and performance?In this episode of the What Juices You podcast, Todd Rutkowski, Chief Cult...

08/22/2025

My new book, Our Beautiful Mess, is available on Amazon in both Kindle and softcover editions!

If you’re tired of pretending everything’s okay, if you’re craving real hope in the chaos, and if you want to see God’s grace shine in the raw, unscripted moments of life—this book is for you.

Pick up your copy today!
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I’m deeply grateful for the encouraging words of Milton Lucas—a former lawyer turned church planter in southern Brazil, who not only leads a local congregation but helped launch the Vineyard movement that has grown to over 80 churches nationwide in Brazil.

Here’s what Milton had to say about Our Beautiful Mess:

08/07/2025

For the One Who's Tired of Pretending

Are you tired of pretending everything is okay? Exhausted from trying to manage a life that refuses to stay tidy?

If so, Our Beautiful Mess offers you something radical: permission. Permission to be honest. Permission to stop trying to escape the chaos, the injustice, and the pain. This book invites you to see life’s unpredictability not as a problem to be solved, but as a maze where God’s grace and stunning beauty break through when you least expect it.

A Companion for the Journey

This isn’t a book of easy answers or spiritual formulas. It’s a companion for the weary, the questioning, and the overwhelmed. Through a rich blend of raw, modern stories and profound biblical insight, Our Beautiful Mess will walk with you through the hard questions, offering you a resilient hope that can withstand a world that is both broken and beautiful.

Find Your Place in a Bigger Story

But this book is more than just a source of comfort—it’s an invitation. It challenges you to move beyond simply surviving the mess and to partner with Jesus within it.

Discover how your own story of navigating chaos is part of a much larger, redemptive mission that bends toward justice and renewal. It’s your chance to join God in the sacred work of making all things new.

If you’re ready to find unshakable peace in the midst of life’s beautiful mess, this book is for you.

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07/21/2025

My new book has been on Amazon for 2 months now and the feedback sent my way has been very encouraging...

You can pick up a hard copy or kindle version on Amazon.ca in Canada or Amazon.com if in the U.S.

"Todd’s (autobiographical) stories make his book so powerful. So well written - they draw us in, enabling us to reflect honestly on our own journey of faith within our life context...
This book will inspire you in your life with God, in your messy reality of chaos and uncertainty, through which God's kingdom changes you from inside out, bringing you home to God’s arms of love."
Alexander F Venter
South African Vineyard pastor, theologian, author, leadership consultant

06/23/2025

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06/02/2025

'Our Beautiful Mess," is NOW available on AMAZON in paperback and ebook versions!

LR Knost said, "Life is amazing. And then it's awful. And then it's amazing again. And in between the amazing and awful, it's ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale during the ordinary. That's just living, heartbreaking, soul-healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life. And it's breathtakingly beautiful."

Most of my life, I believed the mess could be managed—
if I made enough right choices, worked hard enough, or had enough faith. Somewhere along the way, I picked up the idea that life should always make sense— that faith could be a formula to fix the mess…

The mess came anyway.

I had to find a way to live—even thrive—in a world that refused to stay tidy.

Life is a mess and a maze…with twists, turns, dead ends, and blurry paths at best. And no matter how Type A we are, we can’t out-organize the chaos. We can’t wrestle it to the ground and pin it to the mat. When we stop resisting the mess, we begin to see its beauty. And when we stop trying to force a straight path, we begin to discover God's grace hidden in the maze.

'Our Beautiful Mess' is for those who are tired of pretending everything's okay— Those navigating feeling lost, disoriented or overwhelmed thinking they shouldn’t. Those needing to know it's okay to not be okay. What we discover in this place is this messy life can be breathtakingly beautiful.

Life isn’t about escaping or controlling the mess. It’s about partnership with God in the mess and the maze. Clarity may not always come but we are not alone… that is what matters most.
This isn’t a book of easy answers. It’s a companion for those brave enough to ask the hard questions—and still believe beauty can break through the mess.

The maze isn’t meant to be solved or the mess cleaned up. It’s meant to be lived and embraced, then we see God at work within it.

And as you live it, in the Jesus way, may you discover that the beautiful mess of your life is part of a much larger story—a story that: whispers of redemption, invites you into hope, and assures you that Jesus is making all things new!

Life is unpredictable. Chaotic. Often far from what we planned.In this opening video, author and Lodestar Consulting founder and facilitator Todd Rutkowski i...

05/10/2025

"Our Beautiful Mess" is a 336 page book NOW available on Amazon in paperback and kindle

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05/05/2025

'our beautiful mess," is available on AMAZON in paperback and ebook versions starting this Friday, May 9th!!!

LR Knost said, "Life is amazing. And then it's awful. And then it's amazing again. And in between the amazing and awful it's ordinary and mundane and routine. Breathe in the amazing, hold on through the awful, and relax and exhale during the ordinary.

That's just living, heartbreaking, soul-healing, amazing, awful, ordinary life. And it's breathtakingly beautiful."

Most of my life, I believed the mess could be managed—

if I made enough right choices, worked hard enough, or had enough faith. Somewhere along the way, I picked up the idea that life should always make sense— that faith could be a formula to fix the mess…

The mess came anyway.

I had to find a way to live—even thrive—in a world that refused to stay tidy.

Life is a mess and a maze…with twists, turns, dead ends, and blurry paths at best. And no matter how Type A we are, we can’t out-organize the chaos. We can’t wrestle it to the ground and pin it to the mat. When we stop resisting the mess, we begin to see its beauty.

And when we stop trying to force a straight path, we begin to discover God's grace hidden in the maze.
'our beautiful mess' is for those who are tired of pretending everything's okay—

Those navigating feeling lost, disoriented or overwhelmed thinking they shouldn’t. Those needing to know it's okay to not be okay. What we discover in this place is this messy life can be breathtakingly beautiful.

Life isn’t about escaping or controlling the mess. It’s about partnership with God in the mess and the maze. Clarity may not always come but we are not alone… that is what matters most.
This isn’t a book of easy answers. It’s a companion for those brave enough to ask the hard questions—and still believe beauty can break through the mess.

The maze isn’t meant to be solved or the mess cleaned up. It’s meant to be lived and embraced…then we see God at work within it.

And as you live it, in the Jesus way, may you discover that the beautiful mess of your life is part of a much larger story—a story that: whispers of redemption, invites you into hope, and assures you that Jesus is making all things new!

05/03/2025

Brian is one of the founders of the modern worship movement with songs that have been sung ariunf the world like "Come, Now is the Time to Worship, Faithful One, Light the Fire Again and many more...

Brian has been a friend and fellow pastor over the last 30 years.

The softcover and ebook for 'our beautiful mess' will be available on Amazon starting May 9, 2025