LEADERSHIP

Andy Stanley offers some piercing insights on the dangerous side of leadership: how leaders get off course, what happens when you develop a court or entourage that adores you but won’t tell you the truth, why resisting being ‘special’ is so important, and how to leverage the gift of leadership well so you last in...

Philip Anthony Mitchell has the number-one book in the world, but only a few years ago, he nearly quit and nearly ended his life. In a deeply candid interview, he opens up about jealousy, depression, preaching that lands, and leading when your church stalls or explodes. Then he answers his critics head-on. 🔗 Show Notes...

Chuck DeGroat has spent years helping pastors after the crisis hits. In this conversation, he explains why shame does more damage than fear, what your nervous system is trying to tell you before you burn out or hit a crisis in ministry, and why spiritual disciplines alone won’t save you. If you’re a young leader...

If you're reading Emotionally Healthy Success with your team, start with the introduction videos and discussion guide we created to go with it at emotionallyhealthy.org/success. This episode is meant to supplement your reading and conversation. I could have written about a dozen reversals in the life of Jesus. I chose four, because they're the four...

Andrew Hopper saw his church plant grow to 1000 in two years, and almost nobody understood how hard that actually was. Especially when you planted at 28 years-old. In this conversation, he tackles church growth critics, and opens up about the tightrope of leading crazy growth in public. 🔗 Show Notes 🤖 AI and the...

Jimmy Mellado unpacks what the church growth movement got right and wrong from the 90s through 2010s, why concentrated power without governance breaks leaders, the ingredients that go into moral failure, and what scale costs a pastor. Plus, he shares lessons from his time as an Olympian. This one’s for leaders who’ve mistaken growth for...

John Ortberg, Ann Voskamp, and Toni Nieuwhof get personal about the questions faith doesn’t answer easily: what they’d believe if they weren’t Christians, why suffering isolates us, wanting to quit, and what Dallas Willard told John about painful seasons. Plus, all proceeds from HonestToGodBook.com go to empowering youth education in developing nations through Convoy of...

Pre-Order Pete Scazzero's forthcoming book, Emotionally Healthy Success, at http://www.emotionallyhealthy.org/success and get a free chapter. When I finished the first chapter of this book, I was ready to move on to the hopeful part. My editor sent it back with a hard word: “Pete, you can't get to the cure until you've told the truth...

Warren Bird and Sean Morgan bust the “8,000 multisite churches” myth with real numbers from the largest multisite study ever done (there are only 1800). Multisite churches are just 0.5% of all churches, yet they reach 10% of churchgoers, and that share is growing. Tune in for an hour of the most detailed data on...

Seth Godin returns to explore the problem with going viral, the truth about influencers, why you don’t want to play the game of gaining more and more influence online, how status and affiliation drive everything, and why you should avoid the race to the bottom in AI. 🔗 Show Notes 🤖 AI and the Future...