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CNLP 376: Jon Gordon on How to Overcome the 5 D’s of Leadership and Life: Doubt, Distortion, Discouragement, Distraction and Division, and How to Improve Your Public Speaking When Speaking to a Camera
Jon Gordon helps leaders stay positive, and realized most people spend their entire lives dealing with what he calls the “5 D’s”—Doubt, Distortion, Discouragement, Distraction and Division. Jon explains how each works, how to combat them, and how business and…
CNLP 375: Rich Villodas on What’s Wrong with Western Spirituality, the Ingredients of Successful Succession for Young leaders, and How to Live a Deeply Formed Life
Rich Villodas succeeded Pete Scazzero at New Life Church in 2014. Successions like that rarely go well, but this one did. Rich explains what he and Pete did to make it work. Rich also explains what’s wrong with western Christian…
CNLP 371: Lecrae on Losing His Faith and Finding it Again, the Anxiety and Pressure of Life at the Top, and Overcoming Personal Trauma
Lecrae was topping the Billboard charts, winning Grammys and was at the top of his career when things were coming undone internally. In an open and vulnerable interview, Lecrae talks about the pressures of fame, losing his faith, dealing with…
CNLP 366: Gordon MacDonald on The View from 80, 15 Life and Leadership Lessons After Eight Decades of Life
To mark his 80th birthday, Gordon MacDonald took some time to write down the top leadership and life lessons he’s learned so far. In this in-depth interview, Gordon unpacks all 15 lessons including avoiding the evils associated with institutional life,…
New Trends: 4 Ways The Pandemic Is Negatively Impacting People
Today’s post is written by David Kinnaman. David is the president of Barna and has authored numerous books, including unChristian, You Lost Me, Good Faith and Faith for Exiles. David co-hosts the ChurchPulse Weekly podcast with Carey Nieuwhof as they…
When Christians Lose Their Minds, People Lose Their Faith
If your social feed is like mine, it looks like people are losing their minds. Christians too. As the world has become more fragile than it has been in my lifetime, my feed has gotten more and more polarized, partisan,…
CNLP 366: Gordon MacDonald on The View from 80, 15 Life and Leadership Lessons After Eight Decades on the Planet
To mark his 80th birthday, Gordon MacDonald took some time to write down the top leadership and life lessons he’s learned so far. In this in-depth interview, Gordon unpacks all 15 lessons including avoiding the evils associated with institutional life,…
CNLP 362: Danielle Strickland on Dumping the Billy Graham Rule, Why Women Speakers Don’t Need to Hit Home Runs, and Spirituality That’s Way Too Heady
In a wide-ranging conversation, Danielle Strickland joins Carey in his home studio to talk about why it’s unfair to expect women speakers to hit home runs every time they communicate and why she started the Women’s Speaker Collective. Danielle explains…
5 Addictions Pastors Need To Overcome (To Grow Their Church In the Future)
You’ve probably learned a lot about yourself in the last year. Crisis does that to you. Crisis isn’t just an accelerator, it’s a revealer, showing you some surprising things about yourself—some good, some not so good. Since COVID struck, church…
Church Attendance Is Dying. What’s Next?
As you know, long before COVID, it was already difficult to get people to attend weekend church services. Travel sports, weekends away, the death of cultural Christianity and a growing indifference and increased mobility meant that for most churches, attendance…
CNLP 353: Henry Cloud on How to Stop Taking Failure Personally, How to Prevent Burnout and Become Healthier in the Midst of a Year Like 2020, and How to Change Your Thinking for the Better
Clinical psychologist, leadership expert and NYT bestselling author, Dr. Henry Cloud returns to the podcast to give a virtual master class on how to handle the stress, anxiety and overwhelm of a year like 2020. He gives practical strategies on…
Why Your Time Off Will Never Be Enough to Truly DeStress You
Let me guess. You feel like you really need to de-stress. This season has been unreal, and almost unbelievably trying—far different than any season you’ve led through before. Every leader I talk to is tired. Well, more than just tired.…