The Axe Academy

Leadership can be measured many different ways - number of followers, success, title, pay, the list goes on and on. If we measure how good leadership is with the wrong metric or a distorted metric, we place ourselves in danger of claiming something that may be bad as good.

So what makes leadership good? What makes a good leader? How do we measure a leaders or leaderships goodness? All good questions! Let's talk about it.

Pro-life, pro-choice, and the death penalty - some of the most controversial and most debated topics in our cultural landscape today. Our stance on these is important because life is sacred - but why is it sacred, and how does this impact our view on these things.

Who is Santa and what is that goat-like pal of his with him with a birch log? Why are we okay with a mice infestation and teaching our kids how to burn down a house?

Christmas traditions and stories can muddy the water on what Christmas is really about. Even Christian traditions and stories don't reflect the real reason for Christmas.

The reason for Christmas can be found in these two words - potential and opportunity.

Christmas for many is a time of cheer, but for many others, it is a time of fear. Fear makes us think and act differently. Fear can drive us to do, or not do, certain things. Fear is real.

In Hebrew, the word for fear has two meanings: terror or awe and wonder.

I believe that fear (terror) is the gate that we must move through to move into fear (awe and wonder).

Here are 3 keys to move through fear.

What if we lived Thanksgiving as a way of life, making it no longer Thanksgiving but ThanksLIVING. Here are 8 ways to live ThanksLIVING and not just Thanksgiving.

Everybody is creative and everyone is creating - but there are creative blocks, or mountains, that we must overcome to be able to create freely. Join us for this month's podcast on the 6 mountains standing between us and our creativity.