What does creativity, leadership and giving back to your community have in common? Listen as we discuss:

• An upcoming art auction event to support mental health. To see silent and live auction items along with asking for an invitation to the event on this Saturday the 24th go to https://e.givesmart.com/events/iRl/
• How utilizing your network in a creative manner can help you make a bigger impact
• People are generous, all you have to do is ask!
• How accepting your awesomeness is critical to stepping into your genius!
• Putting the negative judgment of yourself to the side and realizing your inner light and power brings you joy.
• Realizing the judgement and inner light and power is a day to day choice.
• Showing how faith and quick action while using your creativity and innovation provides a way to live out your dreams.
• Wearing multiple hats in our current climate while still maintaining ease, flow and success can and does happen!
• How discipline and time blocks can help you wear multiple hats and keep your creativity alive.
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In this episode of Faith-Infused Leadership, hear how Ryan Sawyer, successful college football coach turned personal development coach, author and speaker looked fear in the eye and made lasting changes that saved his life and the life of his marriage and family!

Listen as we talk to Ryan about his story of his battle with depression and anxiety as a national champion collegiate football coach and how keeping his secret nearly cost him his marriage and family. During this episode, he shares about his journey of self-realization, some of the 8 principles of transformation he developed along with tools and practices anyone can use to shift their life. His book Choice Point: Break the Cycle of Self-Sabotage, Accelerate Your Growth, and Realize Your True Potential comes out this Thursday, August 27th on Amazon!

In this episode we discuss the necessity of having fun in being a leader and in your work, and letting out your inner child. As well as bringing joy into your life to become a better leader.

Listen as we discuss:

• What are some things that you do in your life that bring you joy?
• How can you add more consistent creativity into your life?
• How can we bring joy and humor into mundane things we do everyday?
• What are some playful things that are ALREADY incorporated into your workplace?
• How can you better incorporate more fun into your workplace?
• Especially in the world of Zoom, how can you better incorporate love and joy into your meetings?

Being proactive in your leadership perpetuates positive consequences that change and shape your leadership, how you interact with employees and those you lead and create alignment and higher productivity.

Listen as we discuss:

• How maintenance of your employees is proactive and creates higher productivity.
• Understanding that leadership is about people - how much do you know your people so you can show your appreciation with that in the best possible way.
• The importance of checking in with yourself and your people.
• Utilizing Management By Walking Around (MBWA) to keep in touch with the pulse of what is really going on in your business.
• How being proactive takes you out of reaction and allows you to have more time as a leader.
• How you can set boundaries and limits for yourself while still being proactive.
• Why intentional communication is so critical.
• Using a tool, called the Alignment Meeting to keep proactive communication in the forefront.
• Understanding your approachability quotient

Sharing your opinions as a leader

With so many things changing in both our community and the world when is the right time to share our opinions or keep them to ourselves?

Listen as we discuss:

• When is the time and place to share your opinion?
• If your organization implements a system or change you don't agree with, how can you be honest and still be true to yourself?
• When composing an opinion where we have not experienced a certain situation, how do you turn the lens of curiosity to be helpful versus harmful?
• How our words influence those we lead and how as leaders we need to provide open forums to share and truly listen.
• Ideas on creating space for an internal conversation to process through and form your opinion.
• When do you carry the flag and when do you support others to do the same?
• How can we balance the idea of "no action is compliance" and "I don't know"?

When things change, for better or for worse, how can we adapt our leadership styles, especially in times of COVID-19?

Listen as we discuss:

• How does change affect our leadership?
• How, when everything is changing and shifting, can you find purpose in your new work?
• How can you find common goals with others you work with in times of uncertainty?
• How can you find selflessness in your work while still taking care of yourself?
• The importance of grace and humanness during a crisis.
• How can you be a team player when you are moving in uncharted waters?

What is it with our tendency to overcomplicate things and create confusion? Find out if you are making things hard for yourself and your team and what to do about it.

Listen as we discuss:

• The power of mindfulness around using the words "difficult" or "hard"
• The importance of stepping out of your life and getting perspective and distance
• How we carry data from the past, and past systems, forward into patterns we repeat in our lives
• Curiosity's ability to shift the mindset from blame or guilt to examination about what is going on
• How self-love is the key to being able to do the challenging work necessary to peel back the layers and stand in love, which helps make decisions and life-direction choices easier
• We each have our own "easy button" that we access and use

Making decisions as a leader is one of the most critical skills to develop. Hear how you can improve your decision-making skills and lead with certainty. Listen as we discuss: How tapping into Source helps us remember who we are and what we love Knowing who you are, becomes your North star for decision making If you are unclear what your next step is, it's likely because you've lost sight of your bigger purpose Figuring out a path forward by stepping back and reconnecting with what is most important for you How being in the middle of making a decision is exhausting The joy of making a decision and stepping into it

Strong leaders learn how to use various perspectives when making decisions -- hear how developing the skill of perspective will increase your leadership success.

Listen as we discuss:

• How perspective impacts us as leaders and impacts those we lead
• The importance of taking a moment before making a decision to reflect upon the people it will impact and how they will feel about it
• How you need to be open to the information coming from a new perspective, even if it is in opposition to what you are trying to do
• The four stages of human development and how the larger worldview impacts perspective
• The importance of slowing down to speed up
• Embracing the polarities of fear and love based perspectives

We are managing in uncertain times. Leading through uncharted waters requires courage and faith. Learn how you can navigate trying environments and lead with your heart.

Listen as we discuss;

-How the core of leadership is to impact people and to impact people, we have to care about people.

-The importance of a leader's ability to change and how that affects an individual's and team's capacity to change.

-How to make decisions from a place of inclusiveness.

-Combining open lines of communication and a willingness to not have all the answers.

-The heightened importance of authenticity, clarity and presence in challenging times.