Mere Christians

Jordan Raynor sits down with Lisa Lambert, Chief Technology & Innovation Officer of National Grid, to talk about why she went into software development instead of “full-time ministry,” how to disrupt your business or career before someone else does, and the #1 thing this 20+ year veteran VC looks for when investing in startups.

Links Mentioned:

• Lisa Lambert on LinkedIn
• Janeen Uzzell on LinkedIn
• The Fifth Discipline
• The Westly Group
• Safe People
• Pat Gelsinger on LinkedIn
• Taking The Bay

Jordan Raynor sits down with Carla H. Hayden, COO of hope*writers, to talk about the one question that will help force clarity at work, even if you’re not the boss, 3 excellent tips for showing love to remote teams, and how a personal quarterly retreat became an integral part of Carla’s work rhythms.

Links Mentioned:

• Carla Hayden on LinkedIn
• Coffee with Carla on Instagram
• Hope Writers
• Jordan Raynor Website
• Jordan Raynor Bookshelf
• The Call To Mastery on Apple Podcasts
• Jordan Raynor Email

Jordan Raynor, Host of the Call to Mastery, takes the guest seat for this special 100th episode. In a conversation with one of the podcast's producers, Jordan shares 5 superlatives for the first 100 episodes including “Best Guest Nobody Has Ever Heard Of” and the “Most Underappreciated Episode,” his two biggest takeaways from reading Scripture front to back specifically looking for what it has to say about work, and how his “one thing” has become more refined.

Links Mentioned:

• Jenna Fortier
• Threshold 360
• Every Good Endeavor
• Mignon Francois of The Cupcake Collection
• Amy Downs
• Diane Latiker
• The Word Before Work
• YouVersion
• Greg Brenneman
• Janeen Uzzell
• Graham Cochrane
• Brett Hagler
• Joel Manby
• The Gospel Coalition
• Collin Hanson
• Timothy Keller
• N.T. Wright
• Missy Wallace
• Cal Newport
• John Mark Comer
• Will Weatherford
• Gisela Kreglinger
• The Infinite Game
• God and the Pandemic
• Deep Work
• Getting Things Done
• The Jesus Storybook Bible
• Ruthless Elimination of Hurry
• No Rules Rules
• Shoe Dog
• Jordan Raynor Website
• Jordan Raynor Bookshelf
• The Call To Mastery on Apple Podcasts
• Jordan Raynor Email

Jordan Raynor sits down with Tom Bancroft, Animator, to talk about what it was like being at Disney during the animation renaissance that followed The Little Mermaid, how films like Tangled can help us long for the True Myth of Christianity, and hard questions Christians must wrestle with as we work in workplaces that are increasingly hostile to the gospel.

Links Mentioned:

• Tom Bancroft on Instagram
• Pencilish Animation Studio
• Jordan Raynor Website
• Jordan Raynor Bookshelf
• The Call To Mastery on Apple Podcasts
• Jordan Raynor Email

Jordan Raynor sits down with Dr. John Delony, Author of Redefining Anxiety, to talk about how the gospel gives us the verdict before the performance, how to adopt the practice of academic “peer reviews” to your own work, and how the truth that God doesn’t need you is paradoxically freeing.

Links Mentioned:

• Redefining Anxiety
• John Deloney
• Dave Ramsey
• The Ramsey Show
• Belmont University
• Rich Mullins
• Anthony O’Neal
• Esther Perel
• I Don’t Want to Talk About It
• The Body Keeps the Score
• Lost Connections
• The Deepest Well
• Jordan Raynor Website
• Jordan Raynor Bookshelf
• The Call To Mastery on Apple Podcasts
• Jordan Raynor Email

Jordan Raynor sits down with Megan Hyatt Miller, CEO of Michael Hyatt & Company, to talk about what cutting their team’s working day by 25%—from 8 hours to 6—has done for their business, how to be mentally present at home, and how our adoption as children of God enables us to take bigger swings.

Links Mentioned:

• Michael Hyatt & Company
• Win at Work and Succeed at Life
• Full Focus Planner
• HarperCollins Christian Publishing
• Dee Ann Turner
• C.S. Lewis
• Phyllis Tickle
• The Divine Hours
• Book of Common Prayer
• Ann Voskamp
• The Loyalist Team
• Radical Candor
• Dare to Lead
• No Rules Rules
• Chip and Joanna Gaines
• Jordan Raynor Website
• Jordan Raynor Bookshelf
• The Call To Mastery on Apple Podcasts
• Jordan Raynor Email

Jordan Raynor sits down with John Eldredge, Author of Wild at Heart, to talk about his work as a janitor for four years, why “the humility of emulation” is so crucial for mastering your craft, and the unique resources Christians have to take wild risks.

Links Mentioned:

• Wild at Heart
• Wild at Heart by John Eldredge
• Captivating by John Eldredge
• Get Your Life Back by John Eldredge
• All Things New by John Eldredge
• Walking With God by John Eldredge
• Diary of an Old Soul by George MacDonald
• Phantastes by George MacDonald
• C.S. Lewis
• Gerard Manley Hopkins
• Master of One by Jordan Raynor
• Anne Lamott
• G.K. Chesterton
• Frederick Buechner
• Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
• Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis
• Edith Schaeffer
• Francis Schaeffer
• Hearing God by Dallas Willard
• The Chronicles of Narnia
• Mel Gibson
• Jordan Raynor Website
• Jordan Raynor Bookshelf
• The Call To Mastery on Apple Podcasts
• Jordan Raynor Email

Jordan Raynor sits down with Sho Baraka, Hip-Hop Artist, to talk about what we can learn from studying the work of those outside our industry—Dave Chappelle and Taylor Swift, why Sho and I delete and reinstall Instagram on a daily basis, and what Negro spirituals can teach us about creating for the Kingdom of God.

Links Mentioned:

• Sho Baraka on Twitter
• He Saw That It Was Good
• Nate Bargatze
• Dave Chappelle
• Zora Neale Hurston
• Anthony Jeselnik
  John Mayer
• Taylor Swift
• Mykelti Williams
• Song of Solomon
• Mere Christianity
• Justin Giboney
• Jordan Raynor Website
• Jordan Raynor Bookshelf
• The Call To Mastery on Apple Podcasts
• Jordan Raynor Email

Jordan Raynor sits down with Dr. Anthony Jones, Middle School Principal, to talk about how his family talks about work around the dinner table to instill a love of work in their kids, how “appreciative inquiry” can be used to develop teams, and why nobody goes to their seventh-grade reunions.

Links Mentioned:

• Sligh Middle Magnet School
• Appreciative Inquiry
• What Great Principals Do Differently
• AND Campaign
• Episode 21 with Christy Adams
• Jordan Raynor Email

Jordan Raynor sits down with Ian Morgan Cron, Author of The Road Back to You, to talk about 3 ingredients to creative breakthroughs, the incredible story of Ian “betting the farm” on his career as a teacher of the Enneagram, and how the Enneagram can serve as the road back to the gospel.

Links Mentioned:

• Ian Morgan Cron
• True You Course
• Typology Podcast
• The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery on Amazon
• Jesus, My Father, The CIA, and Me on Amazon
• iEQ9 Assessment
• Episode with Douglas Gresham
• John F. Kennedy
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer
• Taylor Swift
• Dorothy Sayers
• The Decline of Pleasure on Amazon
• Winston Churchill
• Thomas Merton
• Richard Rohr
• Timothy Keller
• Jordan Raynor’s Bookshelf
• Self-Knowledge on Amazon
• Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life
• Pinocchio on Amazon