The Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast

Embracing transitions is one of the critical leadership tasks every leader must master if we are to do God’s work, God’s way, and in God’s timing. This podcast explores the inner work we must do as leaders if we are to cooperate with God in this difficult work of endings and new beginnings.

How we do Christmas as leaders is critically important. Pete talks about the concept of a Blue Christmas, which offers permission for people to stop and pay attention to their losses, while at the same time remembering the power and goodness of God.

It is hard to be a Christian at Christmas, especially if you are a pastor or leader. Pete shares five mistakes that we often make this time of year.

In part two of this podcast, Pete shares the final 5 of 10 shortcuts that leaders and pastors need to avoid.

In part one of this two-part series, Pete Scazzero expands on 5 of the 10 short cuts that leaders and pastors need to avoid.

In part 2 of this 2-part series, Pete Scazzero continues to share a biblical perspective on growing older and the hazards of aging we should be careful to avoid.

In part 1 of this two-part series, Pete shares a biblical perspective on growing older and how this can inform our concepts of work, retirement, and calling.

How is Christian planning and decision making different from that of secular planning and decision making? Pete Scazzero touches on the dangers of making plans and decisions without God, and the four characteristics of what it means to follow God’s slow ways in planning and decision making.

Pete discusses what we can learn about leadership from the life of King Saul, and how leaders today can finish well.

In this podcast Pete talks about the unique dynamic of leadership and "dark nights of the soul," and how God uses these upheavals to transform us and bring us into a deeper communion with Him.

In part two of this series on triggers, hot buttons, and leadership, Pete Scazzero shares six steps for how leaders can become aware of their triggers and hot buttons and how they can continue to grow in discipleship.

In part one of a two-part series, Pete discusses why understanding our personal triggers and hot buttons and those of our teammates is important for our leadership and teams.

Pete Scazzero shares his own journey to emotionally healthy leadership and the 4 inner-life issues that need to be in place in order to have an emotionally healthy leadership team.

In His Sermon on the Mount Jesus describes the qualities of spiritual maturity and ends with the words: Be perfect (i.e. perfectly mature) as your heavenly Father is perfect (i.e. perfectly mature). The word for perfect refers to a person coming of age, someone who is no longer a child or minor. In this podcast, Pete Scazzero explores these qualities of spiritual maturity. Listen and consider how Jesus may be calling you to great spiritual maturity today.

Social media has become perhaps the largest universal communication platform for sharing new information, ideas, current events, discussion and, also sadly has become a forum for unhealthy conflict. Pete Scazzero shares thoughts based the Sermon on the Mount, how Jesus might have asked us to engage in social media.