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Being Human with Steve Cuss

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From Christianity Today, Being Human with Steve Cuss is Christian counseling in podcast form. Steve Cuss, a former trauma and hospice chaplain, pastor, and leadership coach, guides listeners with a gospel-informed journey of discovery into the world of emotional health: everything from anxiety and reactivity, to triangulation, overfunctioning, and the Enneagram.
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S6E12 - Steve Cuss

Criticism is a given for leaders, but that doesn't make it less painful. Criticism comes in all forms, some from inside us, like the inner critic, and some come at us. This is the second of a 3-part series where Steve gets personal and talks about the various forms of criticism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mar 29, 202126 minEp. 100

S6E11 - Steve Cuss

Criticism is a given for leaders, but that doesn't make it less painful. Criticism comes in all forms, some from inside us, like the inner critic, and some come at us. This is the first of a 3 part series where Steve gets personal and talks about the various forms of criticism. Today: The Inner Critic and Giants On Your Shoulders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Mar 22, 202130 minEp. 99

S6E10 - Glenn Packiam

Glenn Packiam is an Associate Senior Pastor at New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and the Lead Pastor of one of its congregations, New Life Downtown. He is the author of six books, including “Worship and the World to Come” (IVP Academic, 2020) and “Blessed Broken Given: How Your Story Becomes Sacred in the Hands of Jesus” (Multnomah, 2019). Glenn earned a Doctorate in Theology and Ministry from Durham University, and is a Visiting Fellow at St. John’s College at Durham and an adjunct...

Mar 15, 202135 minEp. 98

S6E9 - Jack Shitama

Jack Shitama is an author, teacher, speaker and coach. His family systems approach to leadership helps congregational and nonprofit leaders achieve their best spiritually, physically and professionally. Jack is the author of Anxious Church, Anxious People: How to Lead Change in an Age of Anxiety and One New Habit, One Big Goal: Change Your Life in 10 Weeks . Jack and his wife of 37 years, Jodi, have four children. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...

Mar 08, 202145 minEp. 97

S6E8 - Walt Rakowich

Walt Rakowich is a leadership speaker and former executive of Prologis , a global real estate company that was near collapse when he took over as CEO in 2008. During the economic downturn, the Prologis stock had dropped from over $70 per share to approximately $2 per share in 10 months, making it the third-worst performing company in the S&P 500. After Walt joined as CEO, he quickly implemented a change in culture through transparency, orchestrating a dramatic turnaround and restoring its po...

Mar 01, 202143 minEp. 96

S6E7 - AJ Sherrill

Steve is joined by guest AJ Sherrill, as well as Capable Life coach Jimmy Carnes. We chat Enneagram, anxiety, Anglicanism and of course we survive the gauntlet together. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Feb 22, 202137 minEp. 95

S6E6 - Jared Patrick Boyd

This week's guest: Jared Patrick Boyd is a pastor , spiritual director, and founder of the Order of the Common Life , a missional monastic order for the 21st Century. He is author of Imaginative Prayer: A Yearlong Guide to Your Child’s Spiritual Formation (IVP 2017). He and his wife have 4 girls and live in the west-side neighborhood of Franklinton in Columbus, OH. Jared chats with Steve about formation in kids, how you help a kid encounter God rather than just telling them about God. They also ...

Feb 15, 202155 minEp. 94

S6E5 -Alvin Sanders

Dr. Alvin Sanders is President of World Impact and author of Uncommon Church as well as a pastor and urban leader. Dr Sanders talked systemic racism, the distraction of CRT and why a healthy, holistic local church is the best asset for an urban neighborhood. Of course, Dr Sanders gleefully submitted to the gauntlet of anxiety questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...

Feb 08, 202154 minEp. 93

S6E4 - Jenni Catron

Jenni Catron is a powerhouse because she helps people cultivate whole heart, high competence leadership. I loved this conversation with Jenni as she chatted 2021 leadership pressure, time management and of course, the Gauntlet. Jenni consults with teams and individuals to build team health and clarity. She founded the 4SiteGroup and has authored several books including her most recent, The Four Dimensions of Extraordinary Leadership. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adc...

Feb 01, 202153 minEp. 92

S6E3 - Todd Lollar

Todd Lollar describes himself as a wheelchair-rolling, speech-impeded, cerebral-palsied minister of the gospel. He is author of 'Weak Is The New Strong' and founder of mobilizeministries.com . He joins Steve to talk overcoming weakness, how he disarms people to engage them and of course he gleefully submits to Steve's gauntlet of anxiety questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...

Jan 25, 202149 minEp. 91

S6E2 - Aaron Keyes

On this episode the mics are turned as Aaron Keyes interviews Steve and two of his staff on how they integrate MLA into their staff experience and church life.' And yeah, the audio is a little funky as we're sharing the audio from the 10,000 Fathers Podcast (with permission of course) and the audio is sketchy and it has Aaron Keyes as the host wrapping it up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...

Jan 18, 20211 hr 40 minEp. 90

S6E1 - Jon Chasteen

Jon Chasteen is president of The King’s University and lead pastor of Victory Church, a multi-campus church based out of Oklahoma City. Passionate about empowering and equipping the local church through the preparation of Christlike servant-leaders, Dr. Chasteen desires to lead TKU’s faculty and administration with transparency and authenticity. Prior to arriving at TKU in 2018, his experience included seven years of pastoral leadership and six years of administrative leadership in Christian hig...

Jan 11, 202154 minEp. 89

S5E18 - Rusty George

Rusty George is the Lead Pastor at Real Life Church in Southern California; a multi-site church with campuses in Canyon Country, Lancaster, Simi Valley, Valencia and a large online community. Rusty is a global speaker, leader and teacher focusing his message on helping people find and follow Jesus. Rusty has also written several books and writes regularly on his site . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...

Dec 14, 20201 hr 2 minEp. 88

S5E17 - Wade Mullen

Wade Mullen is an advocate, assistant professor, and author working to bring clarity and freedom to the confusion and captivity that marks abusive situations. His personal experience and ongoing scholarly research enables him to write with both care and expertise. He directs a Master of Divinity program that equips future leaders to emulate the Great Servant, who came not to be served but to serve. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...

Dec 07, 20201 hr 1 minEp. 87

S5E16 - Tod Bolsinger

Tod Bolsinger, MDiv, PhD, is the Executive Director of the De Pree Center Church Leadership Initiative, a Senior Fellow of the De Pree Center for Leadership, and Associate Professor of Leadership Formation at Fuller Theological Seminary. Tod was the founder of the Fuller Leadership Platform, an innovative approach to online formation and leadership development and served as a Vice President of Fuller Seminary for six years. He is the author of four books, including the Outreach Magazine Resource...

Nov 30, 202042 minEp. 86

S5E15 - Angie Ward & Emilie Knauss

Dr Angie Ward and Emilie Knuass join me to talk about being a woman in church leadership. I learn what I need to know as a man, we talk gender dynamics and the pressure to diminish. Angie is a leadership veteran, author of I Am A Leader and Assistant Director of Denver Seminary's Doctoral program. Emilie Knauss is a preacher at our church, a former intern and is currently studying for her MDiv at Denver Seminary. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...

Nov 23, 202059 minEp. 85

S5E14 - Sean Palmer

Sean Palmer is Teaching Pastor at Ecclesia Church in Houston. He has authored several books including his most recent, Forty Days on Being a Three . A brief daily reader for Enneagram Threes. Sean took us deep into the vital topic of friendship and loneliness in ministry among other things. A delightful chat full of great wisdom. For those wanting more on these tools, Capablelife.me is now collecting interest for Beta membership. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoic...

Nov 16, 202049 minEp. 84

S5E13 - Rich Villodas

Rich Villodas, Lead Pastor of New Life Church, Missio Contributor, and author of this MUST READ book, " The Deeply Formed Life ," joins me to talk politics, leadership in COVID, the broad aspects of formation, and of course my gauntlet of anxiety questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...

Nov 09, 202052 minEp. 83

S5E12 - Steve Cuss

Steve continues unpacking the exciting announcement from last week–don't miss out on this chance to learn more about how you can get an invitation to the 2021 initiative! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Nov 02, 202029 minEp. 82

S5E11 - Steve Cuss

Steve and Brendan announce some new tools coming in 2021. They also chat genograms, second order change, and verbatims. For more info on the 2021 initiative, email steve@stevecusswords.com . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Oct 26, 202034 minEp. 81

S5E10 - Deborah Smith Pegues

Deborah Smith Pegues is a CPA/MBA, certified John Maxwell Leadership Coach and Speaker, certified behavior consultant, Bible teacher, and international speaker. She has written 17 transformational books, including the bestselling 30 Days to Taming Your Tongue (over one million sold worldwide) and The One-Minute Money Mentor for Women. She and her husband, Darnell, have been married for more than 40 years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...

Oct 19, 202045 minEp. 80

S5E9 - Carey Nieuwhof

Carey Nieuwhof is a wise guide because of the way he listens, the way he thinks and what he has experienced. He runs the most sought after podcast for Christian leaders in the world and because of the caliber of his guests, he has a front row to some of the best wisdom available. Carey is a gifted interviewer, probing to get to the heart of his guests. Carey is also a church planter, pastor and author. His recent book Didn’t See It Coming chronicles the challenges of leadership pressure and the ...

Oct 12, 202047 minEp. 79

S5E8 - Vicki and Derwin Gray

Derwin and Vicki Gray have a remarkable story of grace and redemption. Their lives are well designed for them to be the founding pastors of Transformation Church, a church which exemplifies the power of diversity. We discuss their remarkable story, how God has used their experiences and racial challenges. Derwin has written several books, his most recent being The Good Life, an excellent treatment of the Beatitudes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...

Oct 05, 20201 hr 1 minEp. 78

S5E7 - Sharon Hersh

Sharon Hersh is a Licensed Professional Counselor, author, speaker, seminary professor and recovering addict. Not necessarily in that order. Her recent book Beloved: Finding Our Way Back To One Another explores essential topics of shame, contempt, acceptance and love. On this episode Sharon takes us deep quickly and helps us see how we get in our own way and how to break free and experience true connection with each other. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...

Sep 28, 202045 minEp. 77

S5E6 - Pete Scazzero

Pete Scazzero is, in many ways, the modern Godfather of Family Systems Theory in the Church. In this episode Pete vulnerably shares about the power of genograms, differentiation of self and his own journey of emotional health. Here is access to Pete’s genogram resources. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Sep 21, 202041 minEp. 76

S5E5 - JR Rozko

JR Rozko is the Executive Director of The Telos Collective . He leads the Telos team in developing strategic vision, ministry initiatives, and relationships that reflect and extend the formational aims of Telos. After 12 years of ministry in diverse local church contexts focused on youth, young adults, and congregational formation, JR co-founded Missio Alliance , a trans-tribal, partnership-driven initiative helping thousands of diverse church leaders connect and engage in formational theologica...

Sep 14, 202042 minEp. 75

S5E4 - Scott Erickson

Scott Erickson is a touring painter, performance speaker, and creative curate who mixes autobiography, mythology, and aesthetics to create art and moments that speak to our deepest experiences. Learn more at https://www.scottericksonart.com/ For more information about group coaching or custom webinars for your organization, email chriswillis@dc2.me Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices...

Sep 07, 202051 minEp. 74

S5E3 - Wesley Hill

Wesley Hill is associate professor of biblical studies at Trinity School for Ministry in Ambridge, Pennsylvania and a deacon at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Pittsburgh. His PhD in New Testament is from Durham University in the UK. He is the author of Washed and Waiting: Reflections on Christian Faithfulness and Homosexuality (Zondervan, second edition 2016), Paul and the Trinity: Persons, Relations, and the Pauline Letters (Eerdmans, 2015), Spiritual Friendship: Finding Love in the Church as a C...

Aug 31, 202055 minEp. 73

S5E2 - Jimmy Mellado

Jimmy Mellado is president of Compassion International and is simply one of the finest leaders I’ve met. Compassion International is of course known for its incredible child sponsorship program, but it is equally a champion of church leaders around the world, including leaders in western countries. In this interview, Jimmy shared about his own journey and how his personal narrative profoundly impacts his leadership. Compassion International has churches around the world waiting for partnerships ...

Aug 24, 202054 minEp. 72

S5E1 - Dr. Henry Cloud

Dr. Henry Cloud is a leadership expert, clinical psychologist and New York Times bestselling author. His 45 books, including the iconic Boundaries, have sold nearly 15 million copies worldwide. He has lived and led in the intersection of leadership, theology and psychology longer than some of us have lived. He recently launched churchesthatheal.com to equip churches to navigate the ever increasing mental health crisis. Henry gave concrete guidelines on how to stay well in ambiguity and his wife ...

Aug 17, 20201 hr 10 minEp. 71
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