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Steph interviews Jo on the role of sacrifice in her leadership journey. Listen in to hear Jo discuss the sacrifices she has faced since her earliest leadership, as a single in her twenties and as a woman and mother leader as well as some of the sacrifices universal to us all.
Discussion questions:
- Can you identify a time in your life when you make a healthy sacrifice in leadership and a time when you made an unhealthy sacrifice? What is the difference in your opinion?
- Think about your leadership journey. What have been the greatest sacrifices? What have been the breakthroughs that have come as a result?
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What are some of the sacrifices of leadership that you can think of? Join Jo and Steph as they share some of the sometimes necessary sacrifices of leadership and also how we can approach them so that they don’t come as a surprise to us.
Discussion questions:
- Which of the sacrifices that Jo and Steph mentioned can you most identify with? Did it come as a surprise to you?
- Where might you be sacrificing where God is not actually asking you to?
- Where might there be a reluctance to sacrifice where God is asking you to?
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Embrace the positive and avoid the negative ways to engage with personality and strengths assessments as a leader. Listen in as Jo and Steph share how they can be helpful tools for leading and working as a team, with a particular focus on how to get the best out of Myers Briggs, Strengths Finder and Enneagram.
Resources:
Myers Briggs
Strengths Finder
Enneagram
Book: The Sacred Enneagram by Christopher L. Heuertz
Ian Cron’s Typology podcast: https://www.typologypodcast.com/
Listen in to the end to hear about the new upcoming series!
Discussion questions:
- Which personality / strengths assessments tests have you found helpful? In what ways?
- Which of the negative ways these tools have been used can you identify with?
- What is your next step to engage with what God may be saying to you through these tools?
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Whether you want to find out how Jo says ‘aluminium’ or whether you would like to fine-tune your personal wellbeing this year, you are encouraged to listen in to today’s tool of the trade: the Personal Development Plan. (Click here or go to leadstoriesmedia.com/resources to get your free personal pdf download.)
Check out Christine Osgood’s wellbeing resources at: www.theurbanretreat.info
Discussion questions:
- Which of the 6 areas (spiritual, cognitive, relational, meaning, physical, emotional) do you want to make goals with for the next three months?
- Who are the people who can hold you accountable or join you in reaching your goals?
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Enjoy this new episode of Lead Voices, the companion podcast to Lead Stories, featuring our friends who will inspire, challenge, stretch and encourage you. Today's guest is Jessica Honegger, Founder and co-CEO of Noonday Collection, author of Imperfect Courage, brand-new podcaster, and mom to three littles. She is passionate about encouraging others to leave comfort, go scared, and step into a life of impact.
- Leave perfect behind and embrace risk
- Lift each other up and celebrate the success of others
- Connect to community, both at home and worldwide
- Make a meaningful impact on the world around you
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Enjoy this new episode of Lead Voices, the companion podcast to Lead Stories, featuring our friends who will inspire, challenge, stretch and encourage you. Today's guest is Jessica Turner author and blogger who lives with her husband, Matthew in Nashville, with their silly 6-year-old son Elias, spunky 3-year-old daughter, Adeline, and newborn son, Ezra. Jessica talks today with Jo and Stephanie about the challenges of juggling a full schedule of work, family, and friends.
Contact: jessicanicoleturner@gmail.com
http://www.themomcreative.com/
Books:
Stretched Too Thin: How Working Moms Can Lose the Guilt, Work Smarter and Thrive
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The Learning Circle is today’s Tool of the Trade. Join Jo and Steph to learn how you can engage with God and respond and learn from life’s ups and downs.
Video of this podcast - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kie_en4YA58&t=
Mark 1:14-15
Kairos moment: an ‘aha moment’ or an event in our lives we want to learn from.
3 parts to repentance (a change in your mind):
- Observe
- Reflect
- Discuss
3 parts to believe (step into response):
- Plan
- Account
- Act
Learning Circle developed by Mike Breen and 3DMovements:
Book: Building a Discipleship Culture - Mike Breen
Description: https://3dmovements.com/learning-to-hear-gods-voice/
Discussion questions:
- Can you identify a kairos moment in your life right now that you would like to learn from?
- Who can help you do the ‘discuss’ and ‘account’ part of the learning circle?
- Can you think of a kairos moment in your life that you didn’t process and one that you did? What difference did processing make?
Want to go deeper with the tools of the trade? Jo and Steph are holding a private SWOT Analysis training for 15 people. Sunday, January 27th, 7-8pm CST $44 Go to www.leadstoriesmedia.com/resources to sign up!
We interrupt your regularly scheduled day to let you know there are 11 new Crafted Coaching 5 week groups open for registration until January 16th!
Get your spot: www.craftedcoachingandconsulting.com
Welcome to season 6! In this series ‘Tools of the Trade’ - there will be some tools to help with the ‘how’ of leadership.
Today’s tool: SWOT Analysis: which stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. It is a diagnostics tool to help us examine our lives and be intentional going forward.
You can see this episode as a video (with whiteboard explanation) at: https://youtu.be/jCJ-O1nCYyk
SWOT axis:
Battles: Internal strength but external frustrations
Failures: Internal and external weaknesses.
Frustrations: External strength but internal weaknesses.
Breakthroughs: Where we are in a place of strength internally and externally.
How about getting together with another friend or two and doing this tool together? You can ask those hard questions and keep one another accountable!
Discussion questions:
1) Looking at your SWOT analysis, what is God’s invitation in order to more towards breakthrough in any given area?
2) How do you approach failure? Are you able to detach your identity from them and see them objectively? Are you able to take them to the cross and allow God to resurrect them?
3) Steph talked about breakthroughs starting with a breaking. Where have you been broken in the past season that you can, with faith, look for God to bring breakthrough in this season?
Want to go deeper? Jo and Steph are holding a SWOT Analysis training for 15 people.
Sunday, January 27th, 7-8pm CST $44 Go to www.leadstoriesmedia.com/resources to sign up!
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Today's episode is a re-broadcast of an Advent sermon preached by Stephanie's Co-Pastor Michael Binder this December entitled "The Light of the World Radiates".
The entire Advent series from Mill City Church can be found HERE
Going into 2019, Jo and Steph are looking to equip leaders of teams and give them tools for leadership through the podcast and the online resources at www.leadstoriesmedia.com/resources.
Today's episode is a re-broadcast of an Advent sermon Stephanie preached this December entitled "The Light of the World Orients".
The entire Advent series from Mill City Church can be found HERE
Going into 2019, Jo and Steph are looking to equip leaders of teams and give them tools for leadership through the podcast and the online resources at www.leadstoriesmedia.com/resources.
Today's episode is a re-broadcast of an Advent sermon Jo preached this December entitled "The Light of the World Exposes".
The entire Advent series from Mill City Church can be found HERE
Going into 2019, Jo and Steph are looking to equip leaders of teams and give them tools for leadership through the podcast and the online resources at www.leadstoriesmedia.com/resources.
It’s the final episode of Season 5 and Jo and Steph are looking back over 2018 and into 2019.
In this episode, they discuss some of the highlights of this year which include the ‘Breaking the mold’ series. They highlight episodes with Lisa Sharon Harper and Dominique Gilliard who wrote ‘Rethinking incarceration’ and the episode: ‘When breaking the mold breaks you’, as well as ‘Breaking the Mold as a Female Pastor’ with Mandy Smith (author of ‘The Vulnerable Pastor’).
They also discussed the series on The Pitfalls of Power and the latest series on Coaching.
Going into 2019, Jo and Steph are looking to equip leaders of teams and give them tools for leadership through the podcast and the online resources at www.leadstoriesmedia.com/resources.
You can get your free pdf diagnostic tool to help you dissect the things that have influenced your leadership and see Jo and Steph’s diagnosis too.
Also mentioned: Malcolm Gladwell: Outliers
Don’t forget to get your ‘Hello, Goodbye’ guide and check out the other resources at www.leadstoriesmedia.com/resources
Use your voice and let Jo and Steph know what you would like them to talk about next year!
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Enjoy this new episode of Lead Voices, the companion podcast to Lead Stories, featuring our friends who will inspire, challenge, stretch and encourage you. Today's guest is Katelyn Beaty author of the book "A Women's Place: A Christian Vision for Your Calling in the Office, the Home and the World" Katelyn is also the acquisition editor for Brazos Press, a division of Baker Books. She has written for The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and The New York Times and has commented on faith and culture for CNN, ABC, NPR, the Associated Press, Religion News Service, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and McClatchy Newspapers.
Listen as Stephanie and Katelyn discuss perceptions we may hold about the roles and choices for women and about finding your unique path for God's calling in your life.
link: "A Women's Place: A Christian Vision for Your Calling in the Office, the Home and the World"
Nina Barnes, Vice President of Student Life at University of Northwestern chats today with Steph about leadership, coaching and navigating conflict as a woman and a person of color.
Listen in to hear her discuss why being a person of color has been harder to navigate than being a female leader, and how she approaches situations where she may not have been welcomed as a woman or person of color.
Nina also shares her journey into spiritual directorship and what it looks like for us to use the Enneagram in conflict resolution.
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This week Jo and Steph are talking about looking forward to 2019 and being intentional about the rhythms we put in place.
Listen in to hear some of the things Jo and Steph are intentional about and be inspired to think about how you want to engage with 2019.
Sign up for the Hello, Goodbye online event (not just for women!): Sunday Dec 2nd 4-6pm Central time. You can attend live and interact or get the download afterward. The updated and improved ‘Hello, Goodbye guide’ is included as part of the $25 online event fee. This year it also includes an in-depth resource on doing the guide in groups.
Sign up now at: www.leadstoriesmedia.com/resources
Discussion questions:
1) What rhythms do you want to start or continue into 2019?
2) What things do you want to start praying intentionally into in 2019?
3) When are you going to set time aside in your calendar to do your Hello / Goodbye guide?
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It’s mid-November but Jo and Steph are beginning to look back over 2018 and into 2019 before the busyness of the Christmas season overtakes us!
Sign up for the Hello, Goodbye online event:
Sunday, Dec 2nd 4-6pm Central time.
You can attend live and interact, or get the download afterward.
The updated and improved ‘Hello, Goodbye guide’ is included as part of the online event fee ($19 special price until Black Friday!). This year it also includes an in-depth resource on doing the guide in groups.
Sign up now at: www.leadstoriesmedia.com/resources
Discussion questions:
1) Do you need visual reminders to help you process your year? What can you look at (bank statements, facebook photos, journal, etc…) to help you look back through the year?
2) How has your physical and emotional health been this year? What has contributed to the highs and lows? What intentional things can you do next year to work towards better emotional or physical health?
3) Who can you get with in the next month to share your challenges and celebrations of the year and to hold you accountable as you move forward?
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This is a brand new episode of Lead Voices, the companion podcast to Lead Stories, featuring our friends who will inspire, challenge, stretch and encourage you. Today's Lead Voice is Alli Worthington, business coach, author, speaker and podcast host. Listen in as they discuss what the Bible says about true happiness and talk about Alli's newest book, "The Year of Living Happy: Finding Contentment and Connection in a Crazy World".
More about Alli can be found at alliworthington.com. Look for free offers for devotionals, educational materials and more.
Alli's PODCAST
Click HERE for a free copy 52 Ways to be happier, healthier and enjoy life more
Ali's books:
Breaking Busy: How to Find Peace and Purpose in a World of Crazy
Fierce Faith: A Woman's Guide to Fighting Fear, Wrestling Worry and Overcoming Anxiety.
The Year of Living Happy: Finding Contentment and Connection in a Crazy World
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Chris Bates chats athletic coaching and what it means to be a high-performance leader. He shares what it means to cover others as a coach, the importance of team to succeed and reasons why we ignore our physical wellbeing as leaders.
Follow Chris at:
instagram.com/seabaits15v
Or email him directly at:
cbates@raincrosshp.com
Resource mentioned:
Ken Blanchard: Leading at a higher Level
Discussion questions:
- Who are your team? What role does each of those individuals play in your life?
- Are you willing to be a team player or are you acting like an ear or nose separate from the body?
- How is your physical wellbeing care? Give it a rating from 1 to 10.
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Check out the 5 Week Coaching Primers for November-December 2018 by registering by November 9th while spots are available:
www.CraftedCoachingAndConsulting.com
5 Week Primers Currently offered:
Starting Missional Communities with Keisha Polonio
Strengthening Your Writing with Grace P. Cho
Vision Casting and Selling the Mission: Fundraising 101 with Gwen Adams
Between Two Worlds - Leadership and Motherhood with Pastor Cyon Edgerton
Public Speaking Essentials with Pastor Steph O’Brien
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made – An Introduction to the Enneagram with Karen Johnson
Embracing Empowerment: Moving Beyond Anxious Leadership with Pastor Kim Whetstone
More about the Ezer Collective at: JoSaxton.com
Lead Stories continues its ongoing conversation around the value of coaching. Today's Lead Voice is Tyler Reagin, a husband and father and president of Catalyst as well as the Catalyst Leader podcast host.
His new book "The Life Giving Leader" speaks to the importance of identity based leadership. His desire is to help leaders become empowered and confident, and learn lead from their truest selves. Listen as Tyler, Jo and Steph talk about how coaching can help you discern and develop your unique influence as a leader.
Rachelle Gardner, Literary agent, and writing, publishing and platform builder coach talks to Jo and Steph today about what coaching writers looks like for her.
Listen in now to discover:
- What she looks for in someone she might represent as an agent,
- What writing coaching looks like and why it is worth it
- How she redirects people who aren’t ready for publishing yet
- Whether she thinks everyone has a book in them
- What she thinks the best social media platform to use is
- Her opinions on the current hot topics in Western culture.
Some questions for writers:
1) Am I writing for myself or am I writing for a reader?
2) Can I identify who my reader is and why they would want to read this?
3) Have I worked hard to become a strong writer? (Am I getting outside input, improving my craft, reading books in my genre etc.?)
4) What are your personal forms of resistance when it comes to writing? Write a list and watch out for them!
For great articles on writing, publishing and marketing and to find out more about coaching, go to:
Facebook.com/agent.rachelle
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Kathy Khang, Author, speaker and leadership consultant talks coaching and cultural competency today.
They discuss tips for people who feel they have lost their voice and ways to grow in cultural competency beyond having a friend who is from a different culture. Kathy also explains the important difference between diversity and cultural competency.
Discussion questions:
1) What are you doing intentionally to grow your cultural competency?
2) How could you be coached or mentored (directly or indirectly through things like podcasts and books) to grow your cultural competency in this next season?
Recommended Resources:
Raise your voice: why we stay silent and how to speak up - Kathy Khang
The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander
The making of Asian America - Erika Lee
The warmth of other suns - Isabel Wilkerson
Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson
The next worship - Sandra Van Opstal
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Natasha Sistrunk Robinson is an international speaker, leadership consultant, diversity and mentoring coach with nearly 20 years of leadership experience in the military, federal government, church, seminary, and nonprofit sectors. She is the author of the new release, A Sojourner’s Truth: Choosing Freedom and Courage in a Divided World (October 9, 2018 release), Mentor for Life, and Hope for Us: Knowing God through the Nicene Creed Bible study.
She is the Visionary Founder and Chairperson of the 501(c)(3) nonprofit, Leadership LINKS, Inc. and host of A Sojourner’s Truth podcast. A graduate of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Charlotte (cum laude, M.A. Christian Leadership) and the U.S. Naval Academy, Natasha has served as a Marine Corps officer and employee at the Department of Homeland Security.
Certified coach Keisha Polonio is chatting to Jo and Steph today about what it means for her to coach others. They discuss the difference between coaches, mentor, and counselors, what healthy accountability looks like and what unhealthy and healthy motivation looks like. Keisha also shares the things that are necessary to get get the most out of a good coaching relationship.
Check out Keisha’s coaching website here: Ugcoach.com
Discussion questions:
1) What would say were the differences between coaching, mentoring and counseling? Which have you experienced and which would you find most helpful right now?
2) Think about something you are working towards now. What is your main motivation? Can you identify unhealthy and healthy motivations?
3) When you lead others are you good as getting them to take responsibility for their actions by asking questions to empower them or do you naturally default to teaching and telling them what they should be doing? What steps could you take to better empower others?
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