So, you’ve hit a growth wall in your church: Your attendance is stuck. Every church leader I know wants to reach more people, and almost nobody in leadership (even church leadership) gets into leadership to watch things decline. But it…
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: In this episode, you’ll learn the top reasons leaders who want to grow their church or business fail to do so. And you’ll figure out how to break through the walls of growth…
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Seth Godin returns to the podcast and unpacks his creative process, discusses how not to listen to trolls, shares lessons from learning magic tricks and his hobby as a stereophile, and shares insights…
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Nona Jones talks about the impact childhood abuse and trauma can have on leaders, offers her top lessons from her time in senior leadership at Facebook and Meta, and discusses how to examine…
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: New York Times Bestselling Author Malcolm Gladwell returns to the podcast and deconstructs his writing process and habits, talks about how to reach people in a crowded world, and explains why he revisited…
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Lysa TerKeurst, #1 New York Times Bestselling author, returns to the podcast and talks about the red flags that show you can’t trust someone, how to recover from betrayal, what to do when…
Are pastors and churches imitating or innovating today? It’s a critical question, especially given that most churches aren’t growing and the ones that are experiencing a lot of transfer growth. It’s estimated that only 3-5% of US churches are growing…
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Scott Ritzheimer has helped launch 20,000 businesses, and he shares the patterns of success and failure he sees in startups and church plants, talking about the seven stages founders, entrepreneurs and church planters…
Ever have a bad day? Of course you do. You’re human. As much as you don’t like days like that (does anybody?), they’re inevitable in leadership. It happens. When I began in leadership, days like that often cost me more deeply than they had…
I don’t know about you, but as for me, the longer I serve in leadership, the more intentional I have to be in keeping my heart open and fully alive. That’s a polite way of saying that the longer I’m…
How do you know if your church is dying? It’s a question that all leaders should ask – even leaders of growing churches. As with almost everything in life, there are subtle signs your peak may be near or you…
Listen, subscribe, and leave a review on: Bayside Church Senior Pastor Mark Clark flips the mic, and joins Carey in his basement studio for a wide ranging personal conversation, covering how the podcast got started, how and why it grew,…