If you’re a leader, you’re contagious. By contagious, I don’t mean the tropical disease kind of contagious (although if you had a tropical disease, I’m sure that would be the case). No, what I mean is that you impact your…
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Cofounder of the Harvard Program on Negotiation and one of the world’s leading experts on negotiation, William Ury, coaches leaders on how to fire underperforming staff and handle angry church members. Plus, he…
Let’s ask an awkward, difficult, and at times piercing question: What motivates your ambition? Is it selfish? That’s an important question to ask. Why? Because if you don’t ask it, I promise everyone else around you will. Mostly I don’t…
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Matt Chandler opens up about hitting the wall in his late thirties, recovering from a dead heart and from brain cancer, lessons he learned from his leave of absence after an Instagram exchange,…
You’ve dealt with them before. At your church, as a volunteer, on your staff, and as customers. Toxic people are, well, toxic. An unhealthy person can infect your team like toxins infect the human body. After some exposure, everyone feels…
If you’re like me, you love leaders who have a bias for action. If you think about it, leadership has two kinds of personalities: So, how do you create a make-it-happen culture? A culture where your team defaults to action…
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Global investment banker, financier, and philanthropist Ken Costa talks about the 100 trillion dollar wealth transfer that’s happening over the next decade as Boomers pass on their wealth to their Millennial and Gen…
You may have noticed something. Over the last few years, church leaders have incessantly focused on “getting people back in the building.” That’s completely understandable, especially given how hard it was to rebuild churches after COVID. No one likes to…
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: 41% of Americans experience burnout after taking time off in the summer. In this episode, Carey breaks down why rest isn’t enough to sustain a leader, what’s at stake when you return from…
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: UnSeminary’s Rich Birch returns to the podcast to talk about what growing churches are doing right now, the first 100 days of a new attender’s journey at your church, whether to live stream…