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Healthy Rhythms + Leading Jan 21, 2020

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We live in a fast paced, frenetic, and overloaded culture. Leadership only intensifies this reality. Instead of letting the demands around us to dictate our life rhythms, we need to re-engineer our lives by proactively choosing to build our life around healthy rhythms. Healthy rhythms are life giving, and give us fuel to run the marathon of life and leadership. In this episode, I lay out four categories of healthy rhythms for life and leadership.

Burnout + Leading Jan 14, 2020

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Burnout is an epidemic in our culture. Leaders are facing symptoms of burnout, and wondering how to navigate a path out of this overwhelming and exhausting state. In this episode, I talk about my story of burnout, explain what burnout is, and give a pathway to re-engineer your life toward a healthy and thriving future.

Diane Comer: He Speaks in Silence Dec 17, 2019

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All of us experience suffering. Some of us experience long term suffering. What happens when you are a leader experiencing long term suffering that reshapes your life? In this episode, Diane Comer shares her story of life altering suffering and how she found intimacy with God after losing her hearing, as well as lessons she learned through suffering and leadership.

Xavier Brasseur: Emotional Health + Leading Dec 10, 2019

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Emotional health is essential for effective leadership. How do we become emotionally healthy leaders? In this episode, Xavier Brasseur and I talk through our own stories around emotional health, discuss the anatomy of emotions, and give practical steps to becoming emotionally healthy.

Jesse Lusko: Burnout, Bipolar + Finding Hope Dec 03, 2019

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How do you navigate burnout, depression and bipolar as a leader? Jesse Lusko shares his story and the lessons he learned as he navigated burnout, depression and bipolar while leading a thriving church.

How to Support Suffering Leaders Nov 25, 2019

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How can we support leaders when they are suffering? In this episode, I talk about false expectations around leaders who suffer, paint a picture of the pressures they face while suffering, and give twelve ways that you can support a leader who is suffering.

John Mark Comer: Hurry, Stress + Leading Nov 19, 2019

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When we look at successful leaders, we often view their life through the lens of idealism. We think that they have everything figured out, which is never the case. In this episode, John Mark Comer joins me to talk about leading a mega-church, facing mental health challenges and burnout, and how he reoriented his life around healthy rhythms that he saw in the life of Jesus. This all laid the groundwork for his new book, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry.
You can find more info about John Mark here.

Shame, Suffering + Leading Nov 12, 2019

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Leadership is hard. It comes with unique complexities. Sometimes we forget that we are human as we experience the weight of stress, anxiety, depression, and suffering. In this episode, I discuss the common struggles leaders face around Mental Health + Suffering, and the shame we feel in light of these struggles. I offer a pathway forward and deconstruct the lies of shame.

Trailer 03 Nov 05, 2019

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Welcome to Better Days, Season 3. Better Days is a podcast about Mental Health + Suffering, and the hope we have for Better Days ahead.
In Season 3, we will be hearing stories from leaders who have faced suffering or mental health challenges, and glean from the lessons they learned along the way. Throughout season 3, I will also be sharing my story as a leader suffering and the lessoned I have learned.

Complexity of Suffering as a Leader Sep 03, 2019

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Being a leader or public figure and suffering has always been challenging territory. In this episode, I discuss the unique challenges leaders face when living through personal suffering or experiencing mental health conditions. I offer some encouraging thoughts that I have learned along the way.
This is the final episode of Season Two, and a preview into Season Three.

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