This is a live recording of message given in our third General Session of Initiate Leadership Conference 2024. In this session, we heard from keynote speaker, Emma Narayanan who currently serves as Lead Pastor of Avant Life Church (Vancouver, BC). In this session, Emma talks about experiencing the good news (joy) ourselves and how the Gospel itself is such good news to each of us.

This is a recording of live message given in General Session 2 of Initiate Leadership Conference 2024. In this session, you will hear a message given by one of our keynote speakers, Ben Narayanan who currently serves as Lead Pastor of Avant Life Church (Vancouver, BC).

This is a recording of live message that Jeremy Albrecht gave at Initiate Leadership Conference 2024 in Kingston, ON. In this first General Session of the conference, Jeremy talks about how this next generation needs to experience the Gospel before we try explaining it to them.

You ever had an appointment or agenda or even your schedule get hijacked by, what seemed like an interruption? This can leave us feeling very frustrated and like we've lost the most precious commodity we have...our time.  As frustrating as these interruptions can be for a leader, they can also unlock some of life's most defining moments. There are so many time management and productivity books, podcasts and resources that talk about the importance of eliminating these interruptions in an attempt to be the most productive you can be. However, what if by eliminating our ability to be interrupted, we are also eliminating moments that could completely change the trajectory of our lives and/or someone else's? If you're *curious and want to hear a little more about this idea, I encourage you to go have a listen to EP. 65 where Jeremy unpacks this idea of being an interruptible leader as well as 5 roadblocks that will keep a leader from being interruptible.

Ever been fearful of prematurely stunting your physical growth? Maybe you grew up believing one or more of the common misconceptions surrounding this idea of stunting one's growth. Regardless of whether you did or not, in this episode we will be taking a look, NOT at what stunts a person's physical growth, but what inhibits (or can inhibit) our leadership growth and development. In this episode, Jeremy discusses five areas that have the potential of stunting our growth as leaders. So, why don't you get comfortable (or uncomfortable...spoiler alert) and listen to this episode.

What makes a leader healthy? I believe one of the greatest indicators of what will come out of us as leaders, comes from the habits and rhythms we intentionally put into our lives. In this episode we discuss one of these practices and the far reaching benefits to our physical, emotional and spiritual lives when we practice this. Still wondering what this practice is...? Hit play on EP. 63 and find out for yourself...it's what a healthy leader would do!

Leaders...do you feel like sleep and/or time off no longer replenishes you like it used to? Do you feel like you're just getting through the next scheduled event in your calendar? Has it been a long time since you can remember laughing out loud?

These are just a couple of the many signs of burnout that we discuss here in EP.62 of the podcast. Despite a couple earlier episodes (EP.3 & EP.4) on this topic, in this episode we take a deeper dive into Why leaders most often burn out, What some of the signs of burn out as well as How to deal with burn out, should you find yourself in the midst of it.

This is part 2 of our series on, Disciples and The Church. In this episode we move into a more detailed look at A-What a Disciple is? and B-How Do We Make Disciples? Jeremy takes a deeper look into how we best learn as human beings and applies that to our disciple making efforts.

This episode was recorded live at our annual next gen leadership conference called, INITIATE. Our theme in 2023 for this conference was, "CALLED", and in this third general session, Mark Colwell spoke to leaders from the title, "Called to MAKE".

This episode was recorded live at our annual next gen leadership conference called, INITIATE. Our theme in 2023 for this conference was, "CALLED", and in this second general session, Jenni Colwell spoke to leaders from the title, "Called to BE".