Built from a life they almost missed.
Tentmakers exists because Brent and Erin Weidemann learned through experience that success can quietly pull you off course.
They built a company at the expense of their marriage. They chased success at the expense of their family. They said yes to everything. They worked in a way that was grinding and reactive and quietly unsustainable.
Then God interrupted everything and showed them a better way to build.
Now they spend their days in the mountains of Montana helping other couples do it too.
What Tentmakers is and why it exists.
60+ LEADERS SERVED
Every one by referral. One year.
Brent never wanted to start a ministry.
He is a strategic advisor, not a pastor. He wasn’t dreaming about launching anything like this. Then a mentor called with a simple request: a couple he knew was in one of the hardest seasons of their life.
That mentor told the couple, “If anyone has designed the life they want to live, it is Brent and Erin. Go meet with them.” So they did.
And something unexpected happened.
By the end of that first engagement, the man handed Brent a handmade axe. He was in tears. He said Brent and Erin had a rare gift: the ability to take the biggest, most overwhelming challenges and break them into clear, actionable steps that people can actually move forward to accomplish.
He told them, “You can’t stop doing this.”
So they didn’t.
They went back to their guest lodge in Montana and quietly began opening their doors, first to one couple, then another. Christian leaders feeling stuck. Married couples drifting in different directions. People carrying a sense of calling but unsure how to move forward.
And over time, something became clear.
The conversations produced real clarity. The direction held. The referrals kept coming.
What started as a simple favor gradually became the clearest assignment they had ever stepped into.
We were doing on the side what we were supposed to be doing full time.
After adopting two daughters and choosing to stop traveling, they made it official. Tentmakers became the ministry. The lodge became the sanctuary. And a couple who had built a multimillion-dollar company from nothing turned toward something that can’t be measured in revenue: lives transformed.
Brent Weidemann
Brent launched a publishing company out of their garage with no industry experience and no roadmap. He and Erin grew it into more than ten million dollars in sales before the company was acquired. That is the short version. The longer version is that Brent is a builder by instinct. Hand him a blank page and a hard problem and he finds the path nobody else can see.
He has done it again and again over the past decade: clarifying the vision, scaling the platform, and building the long-term engine for authors, speakers, founders, CEOs, pastors, and ministries. He has served as Chief Growth Officer for ministries including Gospel Patrons. He guided the writing, production, and publishing of more than eighteen books and the sale of over half a million copies. He has worked with Super Bowl champions, New York Times bestselling authors, founders, and ministry leaders, helping them turn ideas into movements and vision into reality.
But Brent’s greatest qualification isn’t what he has built. It’s what he has lived.
He has been where you are. He knows what it is to carry more than he should have been carrying. To build something real at the expense of the people who mattered most. To feel the weight of a calling without the clarity to pursue it cleanly. To wrestle with ambition, burnout, and the tension between building something significant and becoming the person God is calling you to be. He teaches from that, not from a textbook.
When Brent is sitting across from a guest, you can see him in his element. Connecting dots others miss. Asking questions nobody else is asking. Naming opportunities that have been hiding in plain sight. Erin describes it simply: “Brent is doing exactly what he was made to do, and nobody else can do what he does.”
His gift is helping people see what is possible, discern what matters most, and leave with a practical plan to execute with clarity, confidence, and purpose.
Erin Weidemann
Before Erin was a bestselling author or a voice on national television, she was a Division I softball player at Penn State. She has been competing at an elite level her whole life. She has since written thirteen books, spoken to more than a million people around the world, and appeared across national television and radio, including NBC, CBS, and ESPN. She is the founder of Bible Belles and Truth Becomes Her, and she built both from nothing.
But what makes Erin matter to the women who sit across from her isn’t the platform. It’s what she survived to build it.
At twenty-six she was diagnosed with late-stage cancer. It interrupted everything and forced her to confront faith, purpose, and mortality with no guarantees, no guarantee of marriage, of children, of living much longer at all. She remembers a moment on the bathroom floor, crying out to God with nothing certain except a hope to survive. She survived. It came back, more than once, and she beat it every time. She has been cancer free for over a decade, and she did not come out unchanged.
In the aftermath she stepped into teaching, and in the classroom she kept seeing the same quiet ache: children with no clear sense of who they were or what they were capable of. That ache became a calling. She wrote her first book to help girls connect with the women of Scripture, having never written a book before. That step of obedience became Bible Belles, then Truth Becomes Her, reaching millions of girls and women.
What she brings to Tentmakers is not just experience. It’s execution. Brent helps people discern what God may be inviting them into. Erin helps translate that clarity into something they can actually live when they get home: simple rhythms, next steps, and structure that holds in real life.
She also draws out what usually goes unspoken. In conversation with another woman, the deeper things surface: buried dreams, quiet grief, burdens carried alone. Erin names what she sees and gives it language and direction. And for leaders called to write, speak, or build a platform, she has developed a simple five-step framework for shaping a personal story into a clear, confident message.