Rob Schrader joins Chris and Christina talking about the Kingdom of God. Sound like loads of fun? It is!

Rob describes from a theological stand point what the Kingdom of God is and how it fits into mentoring. Rob takes what can be a difficult and lofty topic and presents it in simple and practical ways.

Knowing the Kingdom of God

• helps you see the bigger picture for mentoring.
• help you see your role in a better way as a mentor.

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Once again, Rob Schrader joins Chris and Christina with his insights on prayer.

As a pastor, Rob has many people asking him many questions about prayer:

• what is it?
• how can it develop?
• how should you pray?

In today's discussion, Rob actually leads our hosts into a careful conversation about prayer touching on topics like how has prayer impacted your mentoring and what role does prayer play in mentoring.

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• It’s the core of who we are.
• It connects us with other people.
• Switch on Your Brain p. 94, It is very interesting that every cell in the body is connected to the heart and the brain controls the heart and the mind controls the brain. So, whatever we are thinking about affects every cell in our body.
• Our minds, wills, and emotions (hearts) are meant to support one another. Inner conflict is evidence something is not right.
  • Madeline Movie example
  • We speak to one another through our souls. Relationships are developed here.
  • Our souls have to be restored at times.
    • Psalm 19:7 "The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple."
    • Psalm 23:2-3 "He makes me lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul; He guides me in paths of righteousness for His name's sake."
  • Our personalities are experienced here.
• The enemy throws a thought my way to impact my mind. If I allow it to settle on my mind, that thought impacts my emotions. If I allow it to settle on my emotions, it impacts my will/desire. When my will/desire is impacted, it becomes an action.
• If we are not able to express what is inside of our souls we will not be able to be understood and known as we desire.

How Do We Take Care of the Soul

When the soul is given attention and cared for, we discover the things which are in our hearts. A mentor can help another person discover the things in his or her heart. `

Simple Comfort is a wonderful thing to receive, experience, and to enjoy.

Soul and Mentoring:

Mentoring: Strengthening the Soul of another person.

What are simple comforts?

Don’t make this complicated. What makes you tick, brings you joy, fills your cup? The things that will be simple comforts are unique to who you are.

Caring for Chris’ soul examples:

• A genuine conversation
• A good meal prepared and shared with the desires to bless others
• Sitting next to a fireplace being warmed or outside by a campfire
• A good slow rain while taking a nap or watching a good movie
• Sharing memories with loved ones around a kitchen table
• Sitting by a lake or ocean and enjoying nature
• Music

Caring for my soul examples (Christina):

• Sitting in the backyard
• Drinking Coffee and reading
• Sitting in a coffee shop
• Thinking about the future with Zion
• Imagining what I want to do to improve the backyard
• Being quiet
• Having a day to myself
• Writing

Caring for our souls is not a one time thing.

Challenge:

Take a self assessment of the condition of your soul.

What’s one thing you can do to care for your soul this week?

Caring for your soul builds resilience.

Caring for your soul is not dependent on someone else.

We believe people are comprised of The Six Areas: physical, mental, emotional, relational, professional and/or educational and spiritual. Today, we will focus on the spiritual component talking about the soul.

Our souls are meant to be cared for but get overlooked many times. Some people are never taught about their souls and what you don’t know or understand, cannot be cared for.

Direction of the Podcast:

• What is the Soul?
• Why is the Soul important?
• How do we take care of it?

You'll want to continue listening and watch for part two as they continue their discussion of how to care for the soul!

John, a senator in the Indiana state legislature for two full terms, chose to end his career in politics. John takes a thoughtful and insightful look into the reasons why he chose to step out of politics and redirect his career.

Out of his passion for leadership development, John began pursuing places of influence that would make a positive impact on society by seeking “upstream” change. One question he began to ask himself was what was the best use of his giftedness to affect real change.

Transitioning with the loss of his father and his turning 50, he began to realize most of his life was now in the rearview mirror. Legacy leadership became his focus. He began asking leaders if they could attend their own funeral, what would they want others to say? The point he was and still seeks to make in developing engaging leaders is that what are you doing today matters. You are building a brand that will affect others around you.

To find out more about his insightful look at effective leadership, listen to the entire podcast. And to find out how you can connect with John, you can find him at craneleadership.org. Hit the contact tab and let him know you heard him on the Real Life Mentoring podcast.

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You've heard Chris and Christina speak about The Six Areas that comprise a person:

1. Physical
2. Relational
3. Emotional
4. Mental
5. Spiritual
6. Professional/Educational

Today they jump into the topic of what it looks like to talk to a mentee about their spiritual life. Using a tool they have developed called My Life/My Story, they use the same principles of this tool to begin authentic conversations about a persons spiritual life.

What sort of memory, experience or encounter have you had in the past with God. Allow time for a mentee to sit and reflect with that question.

Then, move onto the present and ask what is their spiritual life like right now. Help, if needed, the mentee discuss what they are currently experiencing in their spiritual life.

Finally, move on towards questions that inquire about hopes and dreams a mentee may have for their future in regards to their spiritual life.

As always, great conversations take intentionality. A good question about your mentee's spiritual life may open up deeper wells than you expected - and that's a good thing!

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Your name denotes who you are. Certain names, when said out loud, elicit a certain reaction: Elvis, Queen Elizabeth, Mother Teresa. A name identifies a person.

Knowing God's character helps us to know our identity. Why is it important we know God's character and our identity? Simply put, it impacts how we see ourselves, others and the world. It also impacts our thoughts, words and actions. Finally, it impacts our relationships!

Chris and Christina go into deep discussions about the importance of knowing God's character, trusting His character and how that helps us know our true identity.

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Recently, Chris and Christina experienced the loss of a man they did not know well however, their daughter was especially close to. As they watched their daughter and her friends navigate grief, they share some practical ways in which you can support others as they go through grief.

There are all kinds of grief, but today Chris and Christina will focus on the grief of losing a loved one to death.

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Why is mentoring so important? Chris goes solo today as he talks about why it's so important for a trusted mentor to open up conversations to discover what people are really dealing with!

So the question begs to be asked, what are people really dealing with:

• depression, sexual identity, anxiety, insecurity, fear of the future, shame from the past, stress in the present
• unhealthy expectations in work, church, education or family can play a part as well.

Most of us deal with things in our own way. However, many of us don't have a trusted mentor to discuss those things that we are dealing with that we may never open up about.

Chris gives some practical tips and suggestions on how to approach people to get them to open up about what they are really dealing with.

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Most people work or volunteer on some sort of team and as a team, we want to work well together and have success. In today's episode, Chris talks with Nate Brewer. He helps TEAMS in Businesses that are unproductive and feeling drained find out what kind of work brings them the most joy and energy so they can work better together.

In this episode Nate will talk about the importance of understanding tensions in teams and how to discover balance and unity so teams are healthy and strong.

He will discuss what is called the Five Fold Training and how each role is necessary and significant: Teacher, Shepherd, Evangelist, Prophet, Apostle.

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