Managing Leadership Anxiety: Yours and Theirs

Internal Family Systems, Narcissism in leaders and pastors (oh my!) and how to begin to notice the parts of yourself that need attention. Loneliness, rage, impact on others. Chuck covers a lot of ground in this fantastic interview. https://chuckdegroat.net

Geoff and Sherry join me to discuss imposter syndrome, making mistakes and tools to notice and de escalate anxiety.  

Jay joins me to dive into differentiation. What it is and how to try it. We also cover leadership anxiety and my usual gauntlet of questions

Ron has led in a high variety of contexts and brings wisdom to leadership health, triggers and how to move toward health. 

Luke discusses doubt while preaching, how pain multiplies, the danger of cynicism and mistakes he has made. 

Sources of Internal Anxiety Part 1: Public mistakes, vulnerability and blindspot knowledge. A conversation between producer Brendan Reed and Steve Cuss

Nancy talks anxiety in groups, phantom strikes and the importance of losing track of time to refresh your soul. Oh, and surfing and of course, anxiety triggers. 

Glenn Packiam joins us for an engaging chat about genograms, what they are and how they help. Glenn also discusses the impact of acute events on the life of a leader and how they affect the culture of your organization. 

Makoto Fujimura joins me to talk about how art and beauty relieve leadership Anxiety. He also discusses not just doubt in God, but betrayal and the grace that you can find on the other side of betrayal. Finally, Makoto kindly digs into my gauntlet of questions on his own anxiety triggers. 

Marshall Shelley, currently at Denver Seminary, previously at Leadership Journal and Christianity Today joins me for a rigorous discussion on leadership anxiety. Marshall brings a wealth of experience and wisdom as we cover a variety of topic and of course as he cheerfully engages my gauntlet of questions on anxiety and triggers. 

Kay Warren is our inaugural guest and she dives in deep as she covers acute anxiety, how a leader manages personal tragedy while leading, how trauma forever shifts a person and of course, my gauntlet of questions on her own anxiety triggers and what brings her life and joy. Note, I had some audio issues, so I overdubbed my questions for better audio clarity, but it can sound as if I am a little disconnected since it is an overdub. Kay was compelling from start to finish. 

Producer Brendan Reed sits down with Steve Cuss to discuss this material - how is it helpful to listeners, some example tools and general overview. They discuss Steve's early leadership encounters that began this journey and also his new book coming out in 2019.

Introduction to brand new podcast: Managing Leadership Anxiety: Yours and Theirs. Leaders face all manner of internal and external pressures to do something but often what we end up doing has more to do with quelling our own anxiety than what the situation requires. This brief episode explains what this podcast will be about and how tools to help internal triggers and relational patterns can help us in our leadership.