The Learner's Corner with Caleb Mason

In this episode, Caleb and Todd talk with Tim Kight about why your response to events matters more than you think, ownership, how to affect culture and much more.

Tim on Twitter

Tim on Instagram

Focus 3

Focus 3 Podcast

The Bill Simmons Podcast

Event + Response = Outcome

The 20 square feet rule

What gets in the way of maximizing your 20 square feet

How to avoid becoming siloed

Self-awareness equips you for situational awareness.

Am I looking to fight or understand?

How E + R = O plays out in real life

Your habits are either default habits or disciplined habits.

Why culture eats strategy for breakfast

How you can affect your organization's culture

Don't allow frustrations on the outside, diminish your fire on the inside.

Culture builders have to outlast the cynics.

People fear failure because they are self-centered.

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In this episode, Todd talks with Caleb about what he learned at the 2018 Global Leadership Summit.

Global Leadership Summit

Danielle Strickland

Rasmus Ankersen

Craig Groeschel

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast

David Livermore

Sheila Heen

Erwin McManus

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In this episode, Caleb and Todd talk with Gerald Fadayomi about how to prepare high school students for life after high school.

Gerald On Twitter

Gerald On Instagram

Before You Go by Gerald Fadayomi

Browns Bridge Community Church

Slugfest by Reed Tucker

What high school students need to know before they graduate.

Graduation is not the finish line; it's the starting line.

What Browns Bridge Community Church does to prepare their seniors

How parents can help

What mentors and small group leaders can do

What is the faith of the next generation worth to you?

You can't feel the weight for everything, but you are responsible for doing all you can do.

Some of the best things you'll learn in life are from people you didn't expect to learn from.

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In this episode, Caleb talks with Jonathan Merritt about relearning to speak God from scratch.

[Jonathan On Twitter][1]

[Jonathan On Instagram][2]

[Jonathan's website][3]

[Learning to Speak God From Scratch by Jonathan Merritt][4]

[Stranger God by Richard Beck][5]

[Unclean by Richard Beck][6]

[Early Christian Rhetoric: The Language of the Gospel by Amos Wilder][7]

[Episode 41 with Stuart Hall][8]

[DYM Create Podcast with Stuart Hall][9]

[Wordswag][10]

7% of Americans have spiritual conversations once a week or more.

Why we don't have spiritual conversations

There is a link between the words we use and the ways we think and behave.

Every language will change or die.

How Jonathan reimagined the word, pain.

How people can begin to reimagine words

Words are essential to the Christian faith.

We have to stop just talking about things and start embodying things.

Most people are obsessed with finding the right answers, but I'm obsessed with asking the right questions.

The best teachers are often people.

If you don't take risks you're going to have to accept some regret. If you do take risks you're going to have to deal with failure.

All you can do is all you can do and all you can do is enough.

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In this episode, Caleb and Todd talk with sound and communication expert, Julian Treasure, about how become a better communicator.

[Julian's website][1]

[Julian on Twitter][2]

[How to Be Heard by Julian Treasure][3]

[The Most Beautiful Thing I've Seen by Lisa Gungor][4]

Why we are losing our ability to listen

Steps to becoming a more effective listener

Content + Delivery + Context = Impact

Having the right intentions while communicating

Always ask, "so what?"

Tips for preparing to communicate before you go on stage

Speaking to different learning styles

The Vocal Toolbox

Tips for communicating while on stage

The importance of silence.

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In this episode, Caleb and Todd talk with Sarah Bragg, host of the Surviving Sarah Podcast, about her ministry experience, the challenges she has faced, developing a posture of learning, and more.

[Sarah's website][1]

[Sarah On Twitter][2]

[Sarah On Instagram][3]

[Surviving Sarah Podcast][4]

[Are My Kids On Track? - Book][5]

[Are My Kids On Track? - Podcast][6]

[The Bible Tells Me So... by Pete Enns][7]

[The Myths of Creativity by David Burkus][8]

[Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert][9]

[Learning to Speak God From Scratch by Jonathan Merritt][10]

The story behind Sarah starting her podcast, Surviving Sarah

Advice for finding your voice

How to maintain the posture of a learner

The challenges Sarah faced in ministry

The hardest part of stepping out of ministry is still attending a church.

Maintaining your identity and remembering who you are

If you seek to find your worth in anything external, you will always feel underrated and undervalued.

The tension between leading inside and outside the home

The common theme of Sarah's guests on her podcast

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In this episode, Caleb talks with contact marketing guru, Stu Heinecke, about how to get a meeting with anyone.

[Stu On Twitter][1]

[Stu On LinkedIn][2]

[How to Get a Meeting with Anyone by Stu Heinecke][3]

[How to Get a Meeting with Anyone Podcast][4]

[Seamless.AI][5]

[Vidyard][6]

[Asana][7]

Stu's process for getting meetings with people

Tips for doing your homework on people

Don't go through crowded channels

Should you take no for an answer?

How to get a second meeting with people

Your life is a product of your choices.

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In this episode, Caleb and Todd talk with, master storyteller, Matt Dicks about how to become a better storyteller and tell storyworthy stories.

[Matt Dicks's website][1]

[Storyworthy by Matt Dicks][2]

[Speak Up Storytelling Podcast][3]

[Matt's TED Talk][4]

[Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast: Bonus Episode 20 with Danielle Strickland][5]

[Danielle Strickland Podcast][6]

When people can tell real stories they become closer.

What was the most storyworthy moment of the day?

The importance of listening to other people's stories.

The most intriguing narrative going on in society.

The mistakes people make when telling stories.

How to start a story

The difference between teaching and telling a story

Why it's better to tell the right story told wrongly than the the wrong story told well

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In this episode, Caleb and Todd talk with Matthew Soerens, World Relief's U.S. Director of Church Mobilization, about the immigration in the United States and what you can do.

Matthew Soerens On Twitter

Welcoming the Stranger by Matthew Soerens and Jenny Yang

World Relief

Episode 67 with Kara Ulmer

BBC

Christianity Today

Washington Post

Rachel Held Evans Article

Blinkist

Matthew's experience with refugees and immigrants.

The world has more refugees than ever before and the United States is accepting less than they ever have.

The toll that the immigration process can take on families.

The positive impact immigrants have on the economy.

What the average person can do.

What the church can do.

Refugees are often your brothers and sisters in Christ.

We need to think about immigration as Christians first.

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In this episode, Caleb and Todd talk with Jamie Wright, the very worst missionary, about her experience in missions and what needs to change.

[Jamie on Twitter][1]

[Jamie on Instagram][2]

[The Very Worst Missionary website][3]

[The Exodus Road][4]

[Fun Therapy Podcast][5]

The brokenness of mission is a symptom of a broken church.

How Jamie's perspective has shifted on missions

There is an arrogance to showing up and thinking you're the savior.

Why the language of missions needs to be eliminated

The benefits of being honest

Advice for people wanting to get involved in missions

The negative impact missions can have

The value of traveling around the world

Be kind to yourself

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