The Non-Anxious Leader Podcast

By Jack ShitamaReligion & Spirituality Christianity

The Non-Anxious Leader Podcast episodes

June 08 Episode 386: Identity Isn't Fixed - Self-Definition and Becoming
Self-definition is essential to leadership through self-differentiation. This episode unpacks the challenges and benefits.
Show Notes:
Resisting Definition — Center for Action and Contemplation by Cassidy Hall.
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12 min
June 01 Episode 385: Understanding Symmetry Can Help You Lead as a Non-Anxious Presence (Part 2 of 2)
The Family Systems Concept of Symmetry will help you understand the unseen emotional process that increases anxiety and makes change difficult. This episode explains how you can recognize it and what you can do about it to lead as a non-anxious presence.
Show Notes:
Generation to Generation: Family Process in Church and Synagogue by Edwin Friedman*
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13 min
May 25 Episode 384: Understanding Symmetry Can Help You Lead as a Non-Anxious Presence (Part 1 of 2)
The Family Systems Concept of Symmetry will help you understand the unseen emotional process that increases anxiety and makes change difficult. This episode explains it in understandable terms.
Show Notes:
Generation to Generation: Family Process in Church and Synagogue
by Edwin Friedman*
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14 min
May 18 Episode 383: Values, Ideology and Leadership through Self-Differentiation
If you want to lead through self-differentiation, you need to understand the difference between values and ideology. This episode covers that and what to do with it.
Show Notes:
The Best Decision-Makers Are Value-Driven But Not Ideologically Committed - Admired Leadership
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12 min
May 11 Episode 382: 3 Ways You Should Choose Challenge Over Comfort
Leading as a non-anxious presence is hard. This episode shows how you can increase your capacity in this and all aspects of your life.
Show Notes:
Don’t Get Too Comfortable. Your Quality of Life Depends On It by Moshe Bar
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13 min
May 04 Episode 381: How Distanced Self-Talk Helps You Stay a Non-Anxious Presence
Self-distancing is a way to better self-differentiate in anxious situations. This episode explains what that is and how to do it.
Show Notes:
Distanced self-talk changes how people conceptualize the self by Izzy Gainsburg and Ethan Cross
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10 min
April 27 Episode 380: 4 Ways Effective Leaders Increase a Group’s Capacity for Change
Relationship systems, like people, only have so much energy. This episode will help you understand how this works and what you can do about it.
Show Notes:
Why Groups Choose What Doesn't Work - by Kathleen Smith
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13 min
April 20 Episode 379: Storytime-Recognizing a Conflict of Wills
When we make our well-being dependent on someone else’s functioning we set up a conflict of wills. “Soaring” from Friedman’s Fables can help us understand why.
Show Notes:
Friedman’s Fables
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20 min
April 13 Episode 378: Another Look at Differentiation of Self (Part 2 of 2-Rebroadcast)
This episode looks at the pseudo-self vs. the basic self, as well as the three-legged stool of self-differentiation.
Show Notes:
Differentiation of Self: To Be or Not to Be? A Presentation by Mindy S. Reynolds
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20 min
April 06 Episode 377: Another Look at Differentiation of Self (Part 1 of 2-Rebroadcast)
This look at self-differentiation comes from the Bowen school of family systems theory. I give my take on how it can help you grow as a non-anxious presence.
Show Notes:
Differentiation of Self: To Be or Not to Be? A Presentation by Mindy S. Reynolds
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19 min

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The Non-Anxious Leader Podcast uses a family systems theory approach to increase your spiritual, emotional and physical well-being so you can be the best leader possible. Each episode explores…