When God Becomes the CEO
Amy Lacey on Faith, Forgiveness, Cali’Flour’s Viral Breakthrough with Soursop
Some stories remind you that business is not always business.
Sometimes it’s prayer.
Sometimes it’s surrender.
Sometimes it’s service wrapped in a product.
Sometimes it’s God opening a door you could not force open on your own.
That’s what I felt sitting with Amy Lacey on the Dharma Glow podcast.
Amy is the founder of Cali’Flour Foods and the creator behind a newer wellness brand centered around soursop, healing foods, and helping people support their bodies in a more intentional way.
But this conversation was not just about food.
It was about faith.
It was about trauma.
It was about healing.
It was about forgiveness.
And it was about what can happen when someone keeps choosing service, even when the numbers do not make sense yet.
Amy shared the story of building Cali’Flour Foods from what began as a personal need.
After being diagnosed with lupus and Sjogren’s, she started looking at how inflammation was affecting her body.
She wanted to bring back one of her family traditions: Friday night pizza night.
So she started making cauliflower pizza crust.
That simple desire to heal her body and still enjoy life with her family eventually became a business.
But before it became successful, it was deeply in the red.
Amy shared that the company was negative $269,000.
She had used her savings.
She had used the money set aside for remodeling their home.
She was pouring everything she had into the business because she knew it was helping people.
Diabetics could eat pizza again.
People who could not tolerate traditional crusts had another option.
Families had a way to gather around food without feeling like they were hurting their bodies.
But the business was still draining money.
And Amy reached a breaking point.
She got on her hands and knees and prayed.
God, either shut this business down or make it successful.
Because she could not keep going the way she was going.
Three days later, she had a dream.
Share Jessie’s story.
Jessie was a single mom whose daughter had autism. Amy had been sending their family free pizza crusts for months after Jessie reached out for support.
When Amy went to visit them, Jessie’s daughter, who had been nonverbal, ran up to Amy, hugged her, and said, “Thank you.”
Jessie had also lost over 100 pounds while eating low carb with her daughter.
Amy knew the story was powerful.
So she shared it.
And that story went viral.
In January 2017, after sharing Jessie’s story, Cali’Flour Foods sold more in one month than it had sold the entire year before.
By the end of that year, the company had done $5.3 million in pizza sales.
Amy paid back the debt.
She hired friends and family.
The business became real.
And the way she said it stayed with me:
“I made God my CEO.”
What I love about this story is that the breakthrough did not come from a sales hack.
It came through a testimony.
It came through a real person whose life had been touched.
It came through generosity that Amy had already been practicing before there was proof it would pay off.
That feels important.
Because so much of the world teaches us to lead with strategy first.
But Amy’s story reminded me that sometimes the strategy is already hidden inside the service.
Sometimes the thing that changes everything is simply telling the truth about who has been helped.
Not exaggerating.
Not performing.
Not trying to manipulate the algorithm.
Just letting the love underneath the work be seen.
That was one of the deeper themes of our conversation.
Amy’s life has not been easy.
She spoke openly about childhood trauma, illness, family patterns, forgiveness, addiction, faith, and what it has taken for her to keep healing.
And through all of it, there was this thread:
The pain did not have the final word.
The pain became part of the medicine.
Her illness led her to food.
Her food led her to business.
Her business led her to service.
Her service led her to stories.
And one story helped open a door that changed everything.
That is the kind of alchemy I love exploring on the Dharma Glow podcast.
Not success as a shiny final product.
But success as a spiritual path.
Success as surrender.
Success as listening.
Success as letting God move through the work.
In our conversation, Amy also spoke about soursop, inflammation, the food industry, forgiveness, and her relationship with Jesus as a living presence of unconditional love.
But if there is one moment I want you to sit with, it is this one:
A woman on her hands and knees.
A business hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.
A prayer of surrender.
A dream.
A story.
A miracle.
Listen to the full episode below.
And if this clip speaks to you, maybe ask yourself:
What story in your life or your work is waiting to be shared?
Not because it will go viral.
But because it is true.
