CNLP 660 | Steve Cuss On How to Recognize if You Have Chronic Anxiety (or Anxieties), How To Handle People Who Get Their Kicks Out of Kicking the Leader, And The Complex Job Description of Lead Pastors
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🗓️ 2 July 2024
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Steve Cuss talks about how to recognize if you have chronic anxiety (or anxieties). Steve and Carey discuss how to handle people who get their kicks out of kicking the leader and the problem with the complex job descriptions of Lead Pastors.
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TIMESTAMPS:
Wearing multiple hats as a pastor (00:06:41)
Dealing with criticism and anxiety (00:13:10)
The complicated job description (00:16:14)
Compassion fatigue and news exposure (00:19:36)
Unique challenges of pastors (00:21:33)
Lead pastor mistakes and learning (00:30:20)
Health assessment of younger leaders (00:35:59)
Generational differences in anxiety (00:36:55)
Understanding anxiety types (00:42:04)
Managing chronic anxiety (00:45:59)
Trauma and the body (01:00:39)
The importance of self-care (01:04:09)
Synchronizing emotions with the gospel (01:07:05)
Challenges of leadership and unrealistic expectations (01:08:30)
Perpetuating well-meaning legalism in the church (01:09:47)
Focus on self-improvement and well-being (01:13:26)
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| 0:00.0 | The Art of Leadership Network. |
| 0:03.0 | Chronic anxiety has a gospel, and one of its messages are, |
| 0:06.7 | you can worry your way to peace, and it's all on me. |
| 0:09.7 | I must, I must, I must, I must I must. |
| 0:18.0 | Welcome to the Carrie Newhoff Leadership Podcast. It's Carrie here and I hope our time together today helps you thrive in leadership. |
| 0:22.0 | I do not think you are going to be |
| 0:24.0 | disappointed. Steve Kess is on the podcast. Oh my goodness, holy guacamole that man. |
| 0:29.9 | This one goes. Okay we're gonna talk about how to know whether you have chronic anxiety or anxieties. |
| 0:36.9 | There's more than one, did you know that? |
| 0:38.8 | How to handle people who get their kicks out of kicking you and the problem with the complex job description of most lead |
| 0:44.5 | pastors and church leaders and this one is great from the get-go I think you're |
| 0:49.2 | going to love it today's episode is brought to you by my preaching cheat sheet. |
| 0:53.8 | You know, over 10,000 leaders have downloaded this. |
| 0:56.9 | It's 10 simple prompts with examples |
| 0:59.6 | that you can use to see whether your sermon is ready |
| 1:01.9 | before you deliver it. You can download |
| 1:03.8 | your copy for free at preaching cheatcheech.com that's preaching cheatcheechet.com and by |
| 1:08.7 | Belay for an inside peek at how a virtual assistant can transform your life and work. |
| 1:13.4 | The lay is offering a free download of 25 things a pastor can delegate to his assistant. |
| 1:18.5 | Simply text my name, Carrie to 55123, that's C-A-R-E-Y to 5-1. 1.23. That's C A R E Y to 5. 1.23. Hey, a couple of listener notes. Thank you to Stark |
| 1:27.2 | 2.67 from Spotify who said, I love this. Your 90 minute fun time has |
| 1:31.7 | resonated with me. That was some feedback on my solo episode. By the way, we're going to do more of them |
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