Discussing how having a practice of gratitude helps me to be grateful when others get to do things I wish I could be doing! Give it a listen and if it resonates with you, leave a comment on the Insta account for this pod. https://www.instagram.com/taketheleadwithkrista/

YOU MATTER! YOU DESERVE LOVE! I am grateful you joined me here. My passion to help you lead yourself and others comes from a core belief that we are all creators! Creation can build leadership! Take the Lead today!!!

Connection is important
Humans crave it
But the way we connect
The trust that is built
Depends on listening
Asking questions
Hearing the other person more than I hear my own words!

YOU MATTER! YOU DESERVE LOVE! I am grateful you joined me here. My passion to help you lead yourself and others comes from a core belief that we are all creators! Creation can build leadership! Take the Lead today!!!

Are you like me? Striving, charging, ramming through the wall in front of you? If so, I pray this encourages you to take a breath, ask a question THEN ask again before charging forward. Don't get me wrong, this world needs those who will charge in with little regard for one's self. However, there are times when thoughtful consideration is important. I have charged in and made a bigger mess than before I entered the picture. Also, 2020 requiring me to slow way down helped me see that my own striving was not healthy. It was actually negatively impacting my mental health. Take the lead in your own health so you can be the best leader for others!

YOU MATTER! YOU DESERVE LOVE! I am grateful you joined me here. My passion to help you lead yourself and others comes from a core belief that we are all creators! Creation can build leadership! Take the Lead today!!!

YOU MATTER! YOU DESERVE LOVE! I am grateful you joined me here. My passion to help you lead yourself and others comes from a core belief that we are all creators! Creation can build leadership! Take the Lead today!!!

This episode is full of thoughts about bridges both real and metaphorical. I mention a podcast episode from In the Light with Dr Anita Phillips titled Notes in the Margin that started this whole episode for me! The sibling of control is fear!

Please consider relinquishing the power of influence out of fear of hurt or loss. Please consider listening to understand. Listening to remember that each person has hurts and stories we don’t know. Listen so that you can remember the person speaking is a creation of the Creator. Listen so you can separate the person from the action. Remember that at the base of each and everyone of us is a creation that is fearfully and wonderfully made. LISTEN TO LOVE! We need Bridges. We need love. You know that old adage… God gave us two ears and one mouth so we can listen twice as much as we speak. Oh friend what would it be like if we could all listen twice as much as we speak. If we could grow in empathy and love for each other. What a bridge we could build for 2020 and the years to come!

The Kintai bridge website. I used Google Translate in Google Chrome to convert to English. 

YOU MATTER! YOU DESERVE LOVE! I am grateful you joined me here. My passion to help you lead yourself and others comes from a core belief that we are all creators! Creation can build leadership! Take the Lead today!!!

Love your neighbor as yourself has been the theme. 
In this episode we have a chat. I imagine you sitting with me as I tell you the story of 16 year old me and the counselor, "Cecilia" and her reaction and the 5 tips of love, showing love and feeling love for your, mine, our neighbor. 
I hope a couple of these tips touch you. 
Love is the Answer! 
I love you and pray love fills your life! 

YOU MATTER! YOU DESERVE LOVE! I am grateful you joined me here. My passion to help you lead yourself and others comes from a core belief that we are all creators! Creation can build leadership! Take the Lead today!!!

Continuing with the Royal Law of "Love your neighbor as yourself" I wanted to share a few how tos in identifying who you have been made to be. I believe the power of loving ones self comes from know who God made you to be so that you can know you are unique, so that you can identify your purpose, so that you can be more confident. All these things bring confidence which is crucial in loving others better. Your identity helps you to know how you fit in the body of Christ. I share 5 how tos that I have used to know the creation God made me to be.

Scripture references: Romans 12:3-10; I Corinthians 12:8-10; Ephesians 4:11
https://brenebrown.com/podcast/brene-with-bishop-michael-curry-on-love-hope-in-troubling-times/
I am who You say I am
Clifton Strengths

YOU MATTER! YOU DESERVE LOVE! I am grateful you joined me here. My passion to help you lead yourself and others comes from a core belief that we are all creators! Creation can build leadership! Take the Lead today!!!

James 2:8 "Love your neighbor AS YOURSELF" This episode includes my thoughts about those last 2 words of the Royal Law. As Yourself is something I am certain each of us wrestle with regularly, daily even hourly. My main thought outlined is that when a person embraces the unique, wonderful, talented creation one is, it is then that we can be open to full love. We are each created in God's image. The belief of that will build confidence and strength to love our neighbor, all our neighbors, in any form or fashion that neighbor is.

Challenge #1 Write at least 3 talents, gifts, strengths given you when you were uniquely created & post them somewhere you will see daily
Challenge #2 The next time you struggle with your neighbor, remember to see them also as a uniquely made creation!

Links to referred to sources:
Race and Redemption Podcast
Cole Arthur Riley Instagram
Mark 9:24 "Lord I believe, please help my unbelief."
Psalms 139:13-14 "For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well."

YOU MATTER! YOU DESERVE LOVE! I am grateful you joined me here. My passion to help you lead yourself and others comes from a core belief that we are all creators! Creation can build leadership! Take the Lead today!!!

Season 2 has begun! On my 49th birthday! I have kept the promise I made to myself. The promise was to launch Season 2 on my birthday. Yay for a birthday and a promise kept! Now my wish is that you would open your heart, listen to me speak from the heart and consider 3 points about Loving your neighbor as yourself! 

Here are links to the podcasts I reference in this episode:

• Truth's Table   https://www.truthstable.com/podcast
• Truth's Table episode titled "Polarization" https://soundcloud.com/truthstable/truths-table-classroom-polarization-with-christina-edmondson
• Be the Bridge https://bethebridge.com/podcast/
• Made for This with Jennie Allen https://www.jennieallen.com/podcast
• Unlocking Us with Brene Brown https://brenebrown.com/podcast/brene-with-sonya-renee-taylor-on-the-body-is-not-an-apology/

The Brene Brown quote I reference is in her book Rising Strong.

The Royal Law James 2:8 "Love your neighbor as yourself"

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I pray that you are safe and healthy! That you know you are important! I celebrate the Creator and the creator in all of us!!!

YOU MATTER! YOU DESERVE LOVE! I am grateful you joined me here. My passion to help you lead yourself and others comes from a core belief that we are all creators! Creation can build leadership! Take the Lead today!!!

Sooooo much irony! The last episode I uploaded was titled I identify as a Procrastinator. If you haven't listened to that one, go ahead. It is so much about identity and shame and how we hold ourselves back. The reality of why I have gone quiet for 6 months has a little to do with what I share in that episode. But MUCH more to do with my business jumping off. What an odd time to hit my stride... Enter stage right COVID and Enter stage left a crazy RE market! I had been working for 6 months to get traction and as this finally paid off, sheltering in place became a thing! I like you had many new things to focus on. And something had to give. So I let go of a few things, one of which was podcasting.

But I am ready to get this thing going again. However, I am trying to learn and grow and develop boundaries. Season 1 was just 7 episodes. Pretty sure season 2 will be more. But I am still in the planning stages. Season 2 episode 1 will drop on 9/20/2020 which happens to be my 49th birthday. I hope to celebrate with you on that day! One of the founding concepts for Take the Lead is that each of us is created with gifts and strengths. My goal is to celebrate the Creator in YOU! 

In the meantime, you can follow me on instagram.com/taketheleadwithkrista
Hope to connect with you there!

YOU MATTER! YOU DESERVE LOVE! I am grateful you joined me here. My passion to help you lead yourself and others comes from a core belief that we are all creators! Creation can build leadership! Take the Lead today!!!