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CNLP 431: Chris Hodges on Being on the Doorstep of Ministry Suicide, Battling Anxiety and Depression, and Finding Resilience
Chris Hodges had a battle with depression back in 1999, but the last thing he expected was to face it again in the summer of 2020. In a very transparent interview, Chris explains his battle with anxiety, depression and panic…
CNLP 430: Amy Edmondson on How to Create a Psychologically-Safe Workplace and What to Do if You Don’t Work in One
Harvard Business School Professor and renowned business expert, Amy Edmondson, talks about the growing link between psychological safety at work and the results that high-performing teams accomplish. She details what psychological safety is, how to create a psychologically-safe workplace, and…
CNLP 427: Allison Fallon on How to Unlock Your Brain and Leadership by Writing Things Down
Author, speaker and CEO Allison Fallon has helped CEOs, Olympic gold medalists, politicians and many others unlock their brains and leadership by learning how to write things down. Allison has seen leaders get freed from anxiety, depression and past trauma…
CNLP 421: Christine Caine on the Pain of Leadership, Outrage Culture, Why She Didn’t Quit and How to Lead With Your Heart Fully in It
In an emotional conversation, A21 founder and Mother Teresa Memorial Award winner, Christine Caine, talks about the pain of leadership in a highly critical, outrage-driven culture, how it led her to rethink how much longer she wants to lead with…
How to Keep Leading (And Growing) When 10%, 20% or 40% of Your Church Disappears
One of the biggest challenges most pastors are facing right now is that a meaningful percentage of their congregation seems to have disappeared. Or at least they think that’s what’s happening. In the current climate of reopened in-person services, online…
CNLP 415: Dave Ferguson on the Future of the Micro-Church, Red Light, Green Light and Yellow Light People, and the Future of Networking
Dave Ferguson peers into the future to talk about the future of the micro-church, networks and how red light, green light and yellow light thinking will change the future. Plus, he talks about how to be resilient in the face…
CNLP 414: Tim Keller on Rethinking His Beliefs About Suffering, What Cancer is Teaching Him, How Culture is Changing and the Future of the Church
Tim Keller shares some personal reflections about his recent battle with pancreatic cancer and how it’s causing him to rethink his beliefs about God and suffering, drawing him even more deeply into truths he used to only partially understand. Tim…
CNLP 411: Ian Morgan Cron Explains How Your Enneagram Type Responds to Chronic Stress and the Difference Between Fake Authenticity and True Vulnerability
After a year of leading through constant crisis, how are leaders supposed to cope? Ian Morgan Cron and Carey catch up on how each Enneagram type reacts under stress and the difference between fake or strategic authenticity and true vulnerability.…
CNLP 410: John Ramstead on Training for Top Gun, Quick Decision-Making in Crisis and Becoming Resilient
John Ramstead shares leadership skills drawn from flight school and from the cockpit of F-14A Tomcat fighter jet and shares principles that apply to all crisis leadership. After suffering three life-altering injuries, John also talks about how to be resilient…
CNLP 409: Rick Warren Opens Up About the Coming Tsunami of Grief, Handling Personal Tragedy, and How Saddleback Grew During the Pandemic
Rick Warren opens up about the personal tragedy he’s experienced with the loss of his son, Matthew, the loss our culture has experienced and what he predicts will be a coming tsunami of grief as a result of everything people…
CNLP 406: Steve Cuss on How Anxiety Spreads in a Group, How to Diffuse Your Personal Anxiety, and What to Do with Angry and Anxious Critics
Steve Cuss returns to the podcast to discuss how to manage leadership anxiety. Steve talks about how anxiety spreads in a group, how to diffuse it, managing your personal stress during a prolonged crisis, and how to handle angry and…
5 Powerful Measures To Help You Resist the Gravitational Pull Toward Divorce
This is a guest post written by Toni Nieuwhof. Toni and Carey Nieuwhof met in law school and have been married for three decades. Toni is the author of Before You Split: Find What You Really Want For The Future Of…