🎙️ Doug Potvin's Faith-Driven Leadership: From Anxiety and Depression to CFO and Pastor at Trinity Logistics

Doug Potvin serves dual callings as both Chief Financial Officer of billion-dollar Trinity Logistics and pastor of a small local church, roles he's held simultaneously for nearly 20 years. Based in Seaford, Delaware, Doug shares how a God-timed email transformed his career from the seafood industry to leading financial operations at one of America's top 20 third-party logistics companies, growing from $100 million to $1 billion in annual revenue while maintaining a people-first culture that puts "improving lives" ahead of supply chain metrics.

✨ Key Insights You'll Learn:

• Career journey from federal government seafood financing to 10.5 years at a clam company, wearing every hat except sales

• Trinity Logistics growth: $100 million to $1 billion revenue with 400+ team members and 150 freight agent offices

• Third-party logistics model: arranging 2,500 loads daily with zero owned assets across truckload, LTL, intermodal, and drayage

• Speaking up in the Burris strategy meeting led to acquiring the factoring company Eagle Business Credit/Cashway

• Chief "F" Officer evolution: Financial, Fun, Factoring, and Fraud officer addressing $117 billion industry theft problem

• 2019 Burris Logistics acquisition was friendly merger between family friends with zero job losses

• Building redundant systems pre-COVID: dual internet circuits, cloud phones, and laptops for everyone enabled instant work-from-home transition

• Investment in employee education: University of Arizona online degree reimbursement after one year employment

• Bivocational pastor for 18 years preaching to himself about workplace struggles every Sunday

• Anxiety crisis understanding: went to bed at 8pm, woke at 1am unable to shut mind off, didn't want to get out of bed

• Lost 50 pounds during months-long depression while company was being sold and future was uncertain

• Faith anchors through uncertainty: reading King David's story of being anointed king while living in caves fleeing Saul

• Controller's farewell card: "God used me to get him to become a believer" became Doug's legacy focus over numbers

🌟 Doug's Key Mentors & Influences:

• Federal Government Seafood Industry Team

• Eastern Shore Seafood Products Owners (Father, Mother, Son)

• Shared Accounting Firm

• Jeff Banning (Trinity Founder/Owner)

• Sarah Ruffcorn (Trinity President): 22+ year partnership building people-centric freight solutions, only job she's ever had

• Burris Family and Donnie Burris

• Ian Varley (Eagle Business Credit President)

• Doug's Wife

• Scripture and King David's Story

👉 Don't miss this powerful conversation about leading with faith in secular workplaces, building redundant systems that proved prophetic during COVID, and why investing in people who leave for better opportunities creates the legacy that matters more than financial metrics.

🔗 Connect with Doug Potvin:

LinkedIn: Doug Potvin Email: doug.potvin@trinitylogistics.com

📄 Transcript Available: Trinity Logistics Grew From $100M to $1B Under Doug Potvin's People-First Leadership

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