On today's episode we go over why worth really matters. Worth is the value that’s assigned to or associated with a person or thing. What you’ve accepted about who and what you are, no matter where that information came from, is one of the biggest factors in how you see yourself. It can be the very thing holding us back from living life to the fullest or propelling us forward towards our dreams and destiny. Romans 12:2 says Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform ...
Feb 01, 2022•47 min
Are you overestimating your knowledge or capacity and setting yourself up for failure and burn out? This is one of the reasons that leaders get trapped in The Leadership Crazy Cycle by being task saturated and over committed. Listen now to learn how to accurately assess your capacity as a leader, not to mention that of your team, and avoid falling into the traps that hold businesses back from scaling successfully.
Jan 25, 2022•33 min
Self-sabotage refers to behaviors or thought patterns that hold you back and prevent you from doing what you want to do, getting on with your life, your family, your mission and ministry. Listen now to learn how to identify self-sabotaging tactics, address them and then shift your mindset to getting yourself unstuck to be truly authentic!
Jan 18, 2022•37 min
The last few months on the podcast we’ve talked about clarifying direction, personal responsibility, and living authentically in life and leadership. We want to pause and bring you up to speed on how we’ve been living these things out in our own lives – behind the scenes – at a place we call The Ridge at Leiper’s Creek. A place that’s meant to serve people physically, emotionally, spiritually and bring healing to those who need it most. Today you get the pleasure of hearing my amazing and beauti...
Jan 11, 2022•53 min
Do you have a shepherd's heart? Today you will find out: what being a shepherd really means and why it's so important, key characteristics of leaders who shepherd others, and how you can have a similar heart and mindset. You're going to learn keys to grow and develop leaders who love God and love people. This starts with who YOU are as a leader, because that’s who you're ultimately going to replicate. Listen now to become a leader who shepherd's their team to success and creates the kind of lead...
Jan 04, 2022•38 min
On today’s episode the coaches gather together to discuss the most listened to episodes of 2021. Joel, Aaron and I, will go over what the most important takeaways from those episodes were, and what we need to carry with us into 2022. Find out on today's countdown, what our most listened to episode of 2021 is!
Dec 28, 2021•57 min
Learn how to grow success and master how to lead remote team members, navigating the challenges of multiple time zones, cultural differences, and even mild language barriers. On today’s episode, my VP of Leadership Development Joel Fortner will help us identify and navigate the various challenges of leading remote teams and how to lead them to success. Also one of our own remote team members, Brian Alex, is on the show and shares keys to leading remotely from the perspective of the team member. ...
Dec 21, 2021•45 min
In part 1 of Strengthening Your Emotional Stability, we discussed how to recognize your current condition, as well as your daily contribution to your emotional health, and how different personality styles respond to feeling out of control. Now I want to dig into some things you can do to take control of your stability. In this episode, we go over the five emotional stability boosters that you need to be tapping into for your health.
Dec 14, 2021•46 min
Strengthening your emotional stability may be your best defense against the craziness of the world we live in. In order to gain that strength, you must use self-awareness as a valuable tool to assess your condition and improve it. Today's three key points will help to analyze yourself and the role you play in your own emotional stability. What does the structure of your life look like? Are you eating well? Getting enough sleep? How about the amount of negative versus positive influences you have...
Dec 07, 2021•41 min
Do you ever feel like you're just trying to keep up with the speed of tasks and "fires" that come your way? Or the number of decisions you have to make every day? This is no way for a leader to live! It's critically important for leaders to get out of, what we call, "The Leadership Crazy Cycle," so they have more time to concentrate and lead people to success in their roles. Leaders who have TIME to lead move businesses forward! Get your free assessment tool that we’ve developed to help leaders ...
Nov 30, 2021•32 min
Today’s episode is part 2 of "Personal Responsibility in the Age of Entitlement". We’re going over how to change your inner dialog, complain less, and move towards taking responsibility for everything that we have control over in our lives! So while you listen today, think about what Jordan Peterson says, "Treat yourself like someone you’re responsible for helping."
Nov 23, 2021•24 min
Our theme for the month is Personal Responsibility, and today we’re focusing on how entitlement can easily make us play the role of victims and refuse to accept responsibility for our lives and actions. The person with a sense of entitlement believes: everything that happens should somehow benefit them. Anything unfavorable or unfortunate that happens in life is happening “to” them. The person with a sense of responsibility believes: it’s their duty to deal with whatever comes up, to be accounta...
Nov 16, 2021•30 min
Today's episode is part 2 of "3 Ways to Avoid Mission Drift". This week we continue with what happens when you've found yourself drifting away from your mission and how to get out of that "crazy cycle". It’s ok to force a culture of accountability if you want to avoid drift. Part of forcing culture is teaching your team what is right. Learn how to rehearse your vision with your team. If you don’t catch your team doing it right, they’ll forget what right is. Catch them doing it right, rehearse it...
Nov 09, 2021•30 min
Navigating Life with Courage You’ve got clarity on your purpose and who you are in life, but what now? Learn how to maintain your course with confidence! Today we dive into the three keys to courage in times of trial. • Take courage- You can choose to be discouraged when setbacks come, or you can choose the courage to move forward with confidence. -Anonymous • Follow your instruments- Find out what instruments God has given you to help you navigate through life. • Refuse to get off course- you’v...
Nov 02, 2021•26 min
Have you ever found yourself drifting away from your mission? Where you're just trying to survive the "crazy cycle"? It's easy to get off track and "drift" from your original plan and purpose. Drifting happens one decision at a time and eventually, your decisions start to drift away from the direction you had set. We decide our way into drift and we can decide our way out of it... Today we dive into these 3 ways to avoid drifting away from your original vision: • Decision making • Constant accou...
Oct 26, 2021•49 min
Many leaders stumble and fall because of dis-ordered lives, but God wants us to live well-ordered lives. What do you need to do and/or change today, in order to gain perspective and clarity?Beginning with a goal or purpose in life is a great start but in order to discover your purpose you must know who you are at your core. Today we go through the 4 important questions to ask yourself for more clarity on who you are before leading others.
Oct 19, 2021•21 min
You are not here by accident! You were created on purpose for a purpose! Making sure you have a a clear purpose might be just what you need to propel you to the next level in life and business. In this episode, we discuss the path of finding out what that purpose is, and how it will help launch you into your potential. We also go over what type of effects may occur in your life when you do not have a clear purpose. Find out today how to set clear goals that will lead to obtaining your personal m...
Oct 12, 2021•28 min
What’s the number one obstacle that I see when it comes to personal relationships? You guessed it, bad communication. That’s why we revisit this subject so often, because it’s something we have to continually work on. Cultivating healthy communication is a lot like gardening; no matter how much time and attention we invest in the garden of our communication, we’ll always have to deal with the weeds that easily and frequently crop up. There are habits, or learned behaviors, that we all have that ...
Oct 05, 2021•21 min
What are the influences that you're currently choosing in your life? You know, we all have various influences that are currently at work in our lives, shaping our thought patterns, habits and behaviors, and ultimately our character. The tricky part can be discerning the effect they’re having on us, and what to do about them! The theme for the month of September has been influence, and in this final episode of the month (wrapping up the 3rd Quarter of 2021) the coaches get together to reflect on ...
Sep 29, 2021•54 min
What’s the number one obstacle that I see when it comes to personal relationships? You guessed it, bad communication. That’s why we revisit this subject so often, because it’s something we have to continually work on. Cultivating healthy communication is a lot like gardening; no matter how much time and attention we invest in the garden of our communication, we’ll always have to deal with the weeds that easily and frequently crop up. There are habits, or learned behaviors, that we all have that ...
Sep 21, 2021•23 min
We talk an awful lot about leadership in-person with our clients and on this podcast, and that’s for good reason. Leadership is a major form of influence in our modern world! As leaders, we’re interested in helping to shape and impact others in a positive way. Think about this as a parent. You exert “influence” on your kids, because you want to train them well and prepare them for life; you want them to have a good future. But, when you think about it, there are many different kinds of influence...
Sep 14, 2021•35 min
What’s your knee jerk reaction when facing discomfort or pain? If you’re like most people, it’s to seek to avoid pain and seek comfort. But, that could be the very thing holding you back from growing deeper roots and producing sweeter fruit. It tends to be the hardships in life that either make us or break us. But, focus for a second on that first part. That tough break in life could make all the difference to you achieving the destiny that God has called you to. How is that? Most people don’t u...
Sep 07, 2021•30 min
It’s a little counterintuitive to think that the things currently causing us pain or stress in life could actually be working in our favor. I mean, we generally tend to avoid discomfort, rather than embracing it, am I right? Well, let’s spin that around a bit. Lots of people pay good money every month to go to a gym where they workout, sweat, toil, have to endure hardships, and for what? Because they know that where there’s “no pain”, there’s “no gain”! In today’s podcast, we’re going to dig dow...
Aug 31, 2021•23 min
As a business owner, can you imagine a day when you start meeting and/or exceeding your target projections because your financial engine is so well-tuned? Well, I have to tell you that I can, and so can our clients! Over the last few weeks we’ve been diving into the world of economics, and this week we’ll continue looking at how to build predictability into business finances. Predictability, scalability and dependability are the order of the day. This is your future, if you want it! If you haven...
Aug 24, 2021•22 min
Hey folks, Have you ever wondered what it would look like to catch a glimpse of a business just as it hit its stride and then catapulted towards success? Do you think it's possible for any business to just take off like a rocket at any time? Or, is there a natural growth process, a leadership journey, that makes that kind of success possible? Well, those are some great questions, and I think you’re going to love today’s episode! I had the pleasure of sitting down with a long-time client and a gr...
Aug 17, 2021•1 hr 12 min
Hey folks, For you small and medium sized business owners out there, can you imagine a day when you start to meet and/or exceed your target projections, because your financial engine is so fine-tuned? I can, and so can our clients! Over the last few weeks we’ve been diving into the world of economics, focusing on the personal side of that equation, but this week we’ll start looking at how to build predictability into our business finances. Predictability, scalability and dependability are the or...
Aug 10, 2021•30 min
Hey Folks! I don’t know how you feel about it, but it seems to me that problems just never go away. Right? I mean, every day, no matter how many problems you solve, even more seem to crop up. In fact, the problems that we encounter today are likely more difficult to solve than they were before - ever more complicated! Life is like that, it’s as if it were training us for something. On today’s episode, we’re going to take a look at the mindset we need, to not just “survive” in this complicated wo...
Aug 03, 2021•30 min
Hey folks, who out there has experienced something that you didn’t predict or anticipate financially in the last … oh … say 12-18 months? Ha! I think maybe we all did. 2020 gave the word unprecedented a run for its money! Well, here’s some good news. You can actually start building stability and predictability into your personal finances right now - and it doesn’t require Big Government bailouts or Low Finance loans. Does that sound good to you? Do you want to know how? On today’s episode, we’re...
Jul 27, 2021•27 min
Today we continue our discussion about money and what really matters in life, as we seek to redefine what financial success looks like. Here’s something that you may have heard me mention before: Money is the leverage in your decision-making that helps you execute your mission well. How does that hit you? What goes through your mind when you think about your mission? It doesn’t matter if you’re a business owner, a stay-at-home mom, a college student or a retiree… think about it: what’s your curr...
Jul 20, 2021•1 hr 3 min
426 | Redefining Financial Success, Part 1 by Chris LoCurto
Jul 13, 2021•47 min
