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Growing Deep Leadership Roots (Alan with Jerome Daley)
Many of you who listen to this podcast are leaders in business, church, nonprofit and other organizational settings. Others of you may not have a leadership title, but you live a leadership life…a life of influence....
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Attachment and Attunement: Finding Homebase in the Heart of God (Gem with Rev. Summer Gross)
Summer is another beautiful soul that Gem has met on Instagram. Last year Gem and Summer had the treat of meeting each other in person at a conference in the Midwest. Summer is a caring and wise listener and teacher...
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The Sacred Overlap (Alan with J.R. Briggs)
We are living in a season where “us and them” thinking can be very tempting. Political differences, racial tensions, generational and even religious differences can push us to build thick walls we think will protect...
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Transforming Leaders: An Unexpected Pathway (Alan with Steve Macchia)
In my second book, An Unhurried Leader, I wrote a chapter based on Paul’s story of the thorn in his flesh that, no matter how many times he prayed, God did not remove or resolve. As leaders, there are things about us...
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Releasing Frustrations and Embracing Joy (Gem & Alan with Cindy Bunch)
Editor and spiritual director Cindy Bunch calls us to self-care through greater compassion for ourselves. She helps us pay attention to the frustrations that bug us in order to identify negative thinking about...
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Soul Care in African American Practice (Gem with Barbara Peacock)
In her new book, Soul Care in African American Practice, Dr. Barbara L. Peacock illustrates a journey of prayer, spiritual direction, and soul care from an African American perspective. She reflects on how these...
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Analog Church (Alan with Jay Kim)
In my coaching, consulting and leadership training work, I have the privilege of interacting with Christian leaders around the world. And one thing is clear: our experience of church has radically changed over the...
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Meeting God in Loneliness (Gem with Jason Gaboury)
“To be human is to be lonely.” Jason Gaboury was deeply affected by these words from his spiritual director. Most of us have experienced loneliness multiple times over the course of our lives. And in this season of...
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Attachment to God (Gem & Alan with Jim Wilder, Renovated)
Christian faith has often focused on right beliefs and right choices as the key to personal growth. But biblical evidence and modern brain science show that our character is shaped more by whom we love than merely by...
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Sustainable Leadership (Alan with Alan Briggs)
How do we live in a way that doesn’t leave us drained and weary? How do we lead from places of refreshment and vitality instead?  Alan recently enjoyed a great conversation about “sustainable leadership” with Alan...
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Christian Leadership in Uncharted Territory (Alan with Tod Bolsinger)
No one is going to argue that we have entered uncharted territory with the ongoing dynamics of COVID-19, and then with the painful wounds of injustice that are being rightly protested. It’s a season when we’ve perhaps...
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Being with God…Together (Gem with Diana Shiflett)
Many of our listeners are leaders and it can be easy for any of us to fall into the groove of teaching or leading for mere information or knowledge…and not into the deeper levels of formation and change. Of course,...
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