Listen as Willie Baldwin joins Howard to unpack how beginning with the end in mind changes how you live and work. Willie touches on how this principles transforms your daily relationships with your coworkers, clients, and even your family. 

More Useful Resources From The Center

Article: ⁠Where Do You Want To Go?⁠

Graphic: ⁠Understand Your Center⁠

Book: ⁠7 Habits of Highly Effective People⁠

Our website: ⁠thecentermemphis.org

In this episode, Hamp Holcomb and Howard discuss how the ability to effectively set and achieve goals can impact the trajectory of your career. Hamp shares personable stories and practical lessons he’s learned throughout his career about how beginning with the end in mind altered the goals he set and how he went about achieving them. 

More Useful Resources From The Center

Article: Where Do You Want To Go?

Graphic: Understand Your Center

Book: 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Our website: thecentermemphis.org

Listen as Howard, Dan Butler and Drew Pera explain what it means to be proactive by making choices and taking action in some very difficult circumstances.   

You will hear how Dan and Drew were able to move from what seemed like a lack of control in their work to taking full agency by implementing very practical steps to make a difference for those in their circle of influence. 

The goal of our 7 Habits series is to help people adopt practices that allow them to grow professionally and spiritually at the same time. 

More Useful Resources From The Center

Article: Proactivity is Response Ability

Our website: https://www.thecentermemphis.org

Diagram: What a Habit is

Book: 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Healthy and successful organizations know how to leverage the means at their disposal toward their most important goals as an organization. In this short podcast, Howard outlines how organizations can know how to utilize the means at their disposal toward their goals in a way that produces value and maximizes returns.

Resources

Working For Glory | Whiteboard Session

Business is Provision For People

Venn Diagram

Andy Crouch: Money Has Power

Dyson Podcast: How I Built This

Our Website: ⁠https://www.thecentermemphis.org/⁠

This is the 1st podcast in a 3 part series where we are unpacking how business is meant to provide human flourishing, which is full of glory and joy. These podcasts are based on questions we’ve received from our recent whiteboard session. In this episode, Howard clarifies what company missions are, why they are important, and how to achieve them.

Resources

Working For Glory | Whiteboard Session

Business is Provision For People

Venn Diagram

Do you know someone in or approaching retirement? Listen as Andrew Beach, director of life planning and retirement coaching at The Center - Memphis, explains how to retire with great purpose and eternal meaning.

Over the past 9 months at The Center, we’ve been learning how to lead like Jesus. There isn’t any leadership attribute or area of we are trying to grow in as a leader that Jesus is not the preeminent example of. And, as we’ve learned what it means to lead like Jesus, we’ve learned what a privilege it is to serve others and that it is a reward. So, listen as the team — Andrew, Carter, and Howard — examines the rewards of leading like Jesus.

Resources

How Do I Get Unstuck And Move Forward With Purpose?

Know Your Working Genius

Hebrews 10:35

1 Corinthians 3:14

2 Corinthians 3:18

Matthew 5:12

John 15:5-7

Most people know it’s a good thing to be wise — especially in business. However, for most of us, there tends to be a gap between what we know to be wise and what is actually being implemented day to day in our business, daily work, and leadership. Listen as Howard and Carter discuss how to best implement wisdom in your business, daily work, and leadership.

Our lives, and especially our work, get full of competing priorities, and we frequently tell ourselves we will get more involved in God’s mission later. Listen as our guest Brian Evans, from Strategic Financial Partners, joins Howard to discuss how the time for living and working on mission is now. 

Resources

Mathew 20:1-16

Alistair Begg, The Man on the Middle Cross 

Our daily lives are full of distractions. We have a constant stream of alerts, meetings, games, fitness, our desires and fears, and even our work can throw us off track. In this podcast, Howard and Carter discuss which of these distractions can be eliminated and which ones should be redeemed.

Today’s podcast has special insights from our friends at the Grizz Den Podcast

Resources

2 Timothy 2:1-7

John 20:21-22