Lead Together

In this episode we share some big news: we're moving!

We thought it would be helpful to be transparent about our process because everyone listening will experience challenge and change at some point. We also wanted to share how we incorporated our family values, purpose, and vision into the decision and have been walking through it as a family.

Here's the roadmap:

1. How’d we get here?
2. How are we navigating it?
3. What is ahead?

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On this Leader's Corner episode, we talked to author and speaker Natalie Runion about her ministry and book, Raised to Stay. In this interview we get to dig into her story, the beauty and struggle of following Jesus, in the church, leadership and marriage.

Natalie Runion is a pastor’s Kid turned Pastor. She just released her first book where she shares more of her story of the brutal beauty of being raised in the church and 42 years later still here, holding on to Jesus.

Natalie has been a worship leader, songwriter, teacher, mentor and lover of all things family, friends and Jesus.

Her ministry, Raised to Stay, is for anyone weary of God’s people but longing to keep their faith in God.

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On this Leader's Corner episode we talk to Harrison Scott Key about his book How to Stay Married: The Most Insane Love Story Ever Told

Harrison Scott Key is the author of How to Stay Married, Congratulations, Who Are You Again?, and The World's Largest Man, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor. His first TEDx talk went viral among a certain demographic. 

He holds an M.F.A. in creative nonfiction and a Ph.D. in playwriting and has worked at SCAD for quite literally thousands of years, where he’s held appointments as chair of liberal arts, professor of English, professor of writing, and executive dean. He lives in Savannah, Georgia, with three children and one wife. 

Harrison's humor and nonfiction have appeared in The Best American Travel Writing, Oxford American, Outside, The New York Times, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, Town & Country, The Mockingbird, Salon, Southern Living,, as well as a number of magazines that don't pay you anything at all, not even a little, but it was cool, because people who work at magazines are mostly poor, and helping the poor is a priority for Harrison, should he come under scrutiny.

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In this episode we talk about Purpose as a vital part of leadership both at home and work. Using examples from Bosch, Nike,  Zappos, and our own family, we look at:

1. What purpose is (and is not)
2. Examples of purpose statements
3. Tips on how to find yours

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This is our very first Situational Awareness episode. This is where we comment on current events, trends, and articles that we find interesting based around leadership and strategy and relationships.

We have three articles to discuss with you on the topics of relationship, motherhood, and marriage.

Harvard study on what makes a happy, healthy life.
Barna's insights on the state of Motherhood.
One leader's take on a new approach to weddings and marriage.

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On this Leader's Corner episode we talk to our friend David Zahl about leadership lessons he's learned in marriage and in building Mockingbird.

A few quotable moments from David: (Read all of his points over at the blog)

• "Just because something doesn't happen immediately doesn't mean it's not going to happen. Stick with it a little longer than you think you should." 
• "You can get through almost anything if you feel like you've got a partner, someone who's got your back." 
• "The demand is to be everything to everyone, which is just not feasible."
• "It's not about changing your spouse's process but learning to adapt and support it."
  
  

David Zahl is the director of Mockingbird Ministries and editor-in-chief of the Mockingbird website. Born in New York City and brought up elsewhere, David graduated from Georgetown University in 2001, and then worked for several years as a youth minister in New England. In 2007 he founded Mockingbird in NYC.

Today David and his wife Cate reside in Charlottesville, VA with their three boys, where David also serves on the staff of Christ Episcopal Church.

He is the author of Low Anthropology: The Unlikely Key to a Gracious View of Others (and Yourself), Seculosity: How Career, Parenting, Technology, Food, Politics, and Romance Became Our New Religion and What To Do About It, and Law and Gospel: A Theology for Sinners (and Saints). 

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In this episode we talk about Values as a vital part of leadership both at home and work. Using examples from Charity:Water, Southwest Airlines, Redeemer City to City, and our own family, we look at:

1. What values are
2. Examples
3. How to find yours

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Welcome to Lead Together podcast’s “Office Hours”. This is the part of the show where we answer your questions about Nurturing a Strong Marriage, Faith and Leadership, Parenting in the Modern World, leading with strategic vision, and anything else on your mind. You can submit a question for a future episode at relationalleadership.co/leadtogether

Question 1: what does it mean to be a dad in the times that we are living in?  How much do we protect our kids from the craziness of gender identity and wokeness?  What battles should we choose to fight and what battles do we steer clear of? How do we introduce our kids to the crazy un-truths they will be introduced to in a controlled environment?  How do we create a foundation of truth so that when they encounter the lies in the wild, they have a baseline of truth to defend against them?

Question 2: My current workplace is a startup environment that feels volatile - on one hand I see people get laid off for a minimal amount of underperformance and on the other hand I see real character issues get overlooked. How do I navigate an environment like this?

Question 3: How do you raise sons and daughters individually, and as whole while balancing the nuances that the two genders bring? Speaking mostly in terms of discipline, guidance, boundaries, etc.

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Chris Williams, MFT and founder of Renovari Counseling, joins Nick and Kim to discuss his Empowered Life model, the two things that keep leaders stuck in a victim mindset, the impact of fear and shame on leadership, and the roles of vulnerability and ownership at work and home.

Learn more about Chris' work at Renovari Counseling and True Increase.

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Today we’re talking about something with significant consequences for your leadership at work and home; something that if you do not have it can lead to things like strained relationships, ineffective leadership, less authenticity, and less resilience. What are we talking about? Self-awareness. The key to meaningful, impactful leadership at work and home is more than competency, you also need self-awareness.

In this episode we’ll talk about:

1. What self-awareness is
2. Five Ways a Lack of Self-Awareness Holds You Back
3. Tools to grow in self-awareness

Mentioned in this episode:
• Feelings Wheel
• Lencioni's Five Behaviors of Team
• the Relational Enneagram assessment

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