Jo and Steph pull the curtain on Season 3 of Lead Stories by looking back over the past season and forward to the next one. Listen in to find out more!
Check out the new hello-goodbye resource and the feedback tool: https://www.leadstoriesmedia.com/resources/
Steph’s article on Imposter Syndrome at Christianity Today:
http://www.christianitytoday.com/women-leaders/2017/october/beat-imposter-syndrome.html
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Writer and podcaster Osheta Moore is talking shalom with Jo and Steph today as they discuss what it means to be intentional about wholeness and peace in our relationship with God, others and the world and its broken systems.
Listen in to here Osheta’s dramatic testimony and her manifesto to help women pursue shalom in their lives and make a difference in the world around them.
Check out Osheta’s book: Shalom Sistas: Living wholeheartedly in a broken world.
Podcast: Shalom Sistas
Instagram: @OshetaM
Discussion questions:
1) In which areas of your life are you experiencing wholehearted shalom and which areas are lacking?
2) Where are you angry about injustice right now and what practical steps can you take to do something about it?
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Steph and Michelle Steffenhagen are talking about becoming more aware of where our thoughts automatically go when we are anxious or stressed and how to take greater control over our reactions.
In this episode they discuss 5 types of self-defeating thoughts and how we can identify them and stop them in their tracks:
1) All or nothing thinking
2) Catastrophizing
3) Unrealistic thinking - oughts and shoulds.
4) Fortune telling
5) Mind reading
Listen in to also hear why scheduling your worry and mind dumping can be helpful tools for anxiety as well as meditation and breath prayers.
Guide to the ‘be still’ breath prayer:
https://gravitycenter.com/practice/be-still/
Check out Michelle’s website:
Www.lifecoachingwithmichelle.com or find her on Facebook: Michelle Steffenhagen.
Discussion questions:
1) Do you let other people help you put your oxygen mask on? Who do you expect to help you when they themselves may be struggling? Who else could you ask for help?
2) What do you think about scheduling your worry? How can you be intentional about taking time this week to examine and sort through some of your worries and to action plan what you are going to do?
3) The next time you identify the physical effects of stress or anxiety in your body stop and identify the thoughts you are thinking. Are any of the 5 self-defeating thoughts listed above present? What is the truth you need to embrace?
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Sarah Bessey is chatting to Steph about the reality of leading on in the midst of difficulty, failure and seasons on healing and resurrection.
In a candid interview, Sarah shares how this year started with a major car accident and how that has impacted her ability to work, write and lead, has led to failures and meeting with God in a new way in the midst of it.
You can find Sarah over at www.sarahbessey.com where you can sign up for her regular ’Field Notes’ as well as check out her latest gift and book list to empower women and girls.
Check out Sarah’s books: ‘Jesus Feminist’ and ‘Out of Sorts’.
Discussion questions:
1) Be honest. Where are you not ‘okay’ right now? Do a post-mortem on the reasons why and make a self-care plan. Be accountable with someone about it.
2) Where do you need to ask for help? Who are the people God has positioned around you in this season to partner with you towards wholeness, renewal and redemption?
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Daniel Hill from Chicago is talking white supremacy, racism and his own awakening to his white cultural background. Listen to understand:
- why people so often congregate with their own racial groups even when given many positive opportunities to interact with others.
- What makes white people so oblivious to white culture
- What we can all do to be less ignorant and make race relations better
Discussion questions:
1) Where have you believed the lie of white supremacy (the unconscious or conscious belief that white people are more valuable) in your own life?
2) Think about an occasion where you now recognize you minimized racism as just ‘insensitivity’. Do you need to repent? What would you do differently next time?
3) Do you surround yourself with people from a variety of cultures and backgrounds? What steps can you take to become more culturally aware? (Develop new friendships, follow people from different cultures on social media, read books from a variety of different backgrounds.)
Check out Daniel’s book: White Awake.
@Danielhill1336
Other helpful resources:
Eji.org - Bryan Stevenson
“Why do all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?” - Beverly Daniel Tatum
Check out Sacred Holidays for Advent resources.
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Dorcas Cheng-Tozun is a writer and speaker Author, writer and columnist and is talking to Jo and Steph today about anxiety, marriage and her new book, Start, Love, Repeat: How to Stay in Love with Your Entrepreneur in a Crazy Start-up World.
Listen in to hear how Dorcas and her husband have cultivated their marriage through international moves and juggled family life and their careers as they have sought to love and support one another well.
Check out Dorcas’ new book now: Start, Love, Repeat: How to Stay in Love with Your Entrepreneur in a Crazy Start-up World
Find Dorcas Cheng-Tozun on Twitter and Facebook.
Other resources mentioned:
The Good Marriage - Judith Wallerstein & Sandra Blkeslee
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How can we access whether the feedback we get (and give) is worth investing time and energy in or not? That’s where the feedback assessment tool comes in. Looking in depth at the 4 spectrums, Jo and Steph examine how we can filter our feedback and invest our energies where they should be - in growth and learning, no matter how the feedback is presented.
The 4 spectrums:
1) Kind of feedback it is
2) Kind of person
3) Clarity of the feedback
4) Relevance to our call, context and community
If you do not see the free resource attached to the show notes you may use this link:
Discussion questions:
1) List 3 people you know who are trusted experts or mentors. Do you respond well to and ask them for regular feedback?
2) Whose feedback do you find yourself spending more brain energy on than you should?
3) What have you learned in this podcast that can help you give good feedback to others?
Check out Sacred Holidays for Advent resources.
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Please note that this book is NOT written by our Lead Stories Jo Saxton: Snail Trail: In Search of a Modern Masterpiece. It is a lovely book for your kids so you may want to check it out, but any positive feedback needs to be sent to the real author and not our Jo Saxton. Thank you.
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Amena Brown is laughing with Jo and Steph on the podcast today as she shares about her new book and what it means to be a businesswoman offering the service of poetry, the spoken and written word. Listen in to hear her journey in growing in confidence in her calling and her laugh-out loud stories!
Check out her new book: How to Fix a Broken Record out now!
Books Amena recommends:
- Business Plans for Dummies
- ‘Awakening the entrepreneur within’ by Michael E. Gerber
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When you lead you will be criticized. So how can we lead on in the midst of criticism? Jo and Steph talk from personal experience about how they have received criticism and how to filter negative feedback without getting bitter or discouraged.
Discussion questions:
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There is a take-over on Lead Stories today!
To celebrate the 100th Episode, Keisha Polonio and Sally Breen have taken over the mics and are quizzing Jo and Steph on some very important questions:
Listen in to hear their answers and celebrate with Lead Stories Live the 100th episode!
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Don’t miss today’s podcast as Christine shares her journey into leading A21 an anti-trafficking organization which is dedicated to abolishing this century’s modern day slavery and ’holocaust’. She also shares about her heart with the two other strands of her ministry - Propel and Equip and Empower Ministries.
In a passionate and profound conversation with Jo and Steph, Christine challenges us to live fully in the world as carriers of God’s Presence and to be leaders who seek Him and His Presence more than our platforms or pleasures.
Discussion questions:
1) Christine talked about feeling called but totally unequipped and under-resourced but walking by faith. Where do you feel called but have yet stepped out in faith?
2) What practices do you have in place to get deep into His Word and allow it to penetrate your inner being in the midst of life’s storms?
3) What does it mean for you practically to be a leader who doesn’t minimize others’ pain and suffering but who continually points people to Jesus and His hope and redemption and healing?
Check out Christine’s New Book: Unshakeable, 365 devotions for finding unwavering strength in God’s Word.
Propel http://www.propelwomen.org/
Equip and Empower Ministries http://christinecaine.com/content/equip-empower-ministries/gjqe7s
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Lead Stories is Live at Awaken Community Church in St. Paul where listeners are getting a chance to ask their questions about leading in the midst of anxious times. Listen in to hear how Jo and Steph answer the following questions:
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We need practical tools to help us thrive in a world of comparison and competition, which so often begins with our minds!
This week Jo and Steph talk about internal and external struggles with comparison and competition and how we can practically face them head on, changing our mindsets, practice and culture.
Discussion questions:
1. Where is your biggest struggle with comparison and competitivity right now? Internally or externally?
2. How easy do you find it to affirm and encourage others who are doing what you want to be doing? Who can you encourage today?
3. How clear are you on your vision and what God has called you to do? You could start by writing out a list of the things you are clear on - your gifts, calling etc. Knowing what we are called and gifted to do can help us not to compare so much with others.
4. Jo said: “In a competitive mindset, you have just given others something God has given you, but in a God-given mindset you have just multiplied”. Jesus desired his disciples to go further and do more than he did. How do you feel about discipling others who may do more and go further than you will? Is there a mindset you need to repent of? What practical things can you do going forward to encourage, release and celebrate your disciples?
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Steph is chatting to Steve Wiens about his new book Whole: Restoring What Is Broken in Me, You and The Entire World.
Listen in to hear their conversations about 5 Biblical questions and what it means to engage with them as leaders:
‘Where are you?’
‘Am I my brother’s keeper?’
‘What are you seeking?’
‘Where are you going?
‘What will you bring?’
Should we embrace mystery or mastery as leaders? Is it possible to stay somewhere God has sent you for too long? Why was Bono unhappy with the song ‘Where the Streets have no name’? Listen in hear Steve and Steph discuss these questions and much more!
Check out Steve’s new book: ‘Whole: Restoring What Is Broken in Me, You and The Entire World’ at Indiebound or the other places you get books.
Also look out for Steve’s podcast: This Good Word.
Also Recommended: Brian Zahnd - Sinners in the hand of a Loving God
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Comparison and competition are as old as Cain and Abel. Rachel and Leah struggled with it and the disciples too. This week Jo and Steph discuss the difference between a scarcity and an abundance mindset and ask how we can create cultures where people can flourish rather than strive or withdraw.
Discussion questions:
1. Can you think of a time when you compared yourself to someone else and then gave up or withdrew from a situation? Where did you have a scarcity mindset?
2. Can you think of a time when you compared yourself to someone else and it made you want to strive to compete and be the best? What suffered as a result?
3. As a leader do you prepare for abundance or fear scarcity? Can you give some specific examples?
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Last week Jo and Steph discussed the Imposter Syndrome and this week they show you how to overcome it!
Using the letter A (because Jo has loved Sesame Street since childhood) they are going to discuss 8 points which use the letter A.
1) Admit this a problem and begin to address it.
2) Assess your strengths and your weaknesses
3) Asking for feedback
4) Awareness of spiritual warfare
5) Accept an accurate view of yourself.
6) Acquiring a healthy community
7) Acknowledging that you are a work in progress
8) It is not about arriving - it never was.
Discussion questions:
1) Where can you identify the Imposter Syndrome influencing your ability to move forward?
2) Which of the steps above do you feel God is highlighting to you to focus on as you take Imposter Syndrome on?
3) Do you regularly take time to assess your strengths and weaknesses and make a plan moving forward? Is there someone else you can invite into this journey to do together?
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Jo talks leadership today with Tyler Reagin, the President of Catalyst, which runs events to support and empower leaders.
Listen in to hear them practically discuss leadership, millennials, grace and what it means to steward our influence.
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Jo and Steph discuss the ‘Imposter syndrome’ today, the feeling that many people have, even high achievers, that they just got lucky and are not as able as it appears. ‘Imposter syndrome’ is an internal insecurity and a fear that eventually they will be figured out and exposed for who they really are. It can cause anxiety, depression and fear.
Listen in to hear Jo and Steph share their personal struggles with the imposter syndrome, and how important language is to help us own the callings God has given us.
Parable of the Sower - Luke 8
Song by The Brand New Heavies, ‘Fake’:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nMvh0LLt5G8
Articles on the Imposter syndrome:
https://www.thecut.com/2017/01/25-famous-women-on-impostor-syndrome-and-self-doubt.html
http://www.paulineroseclance.com/pdf/ip_high_achieving_women.pdf
Check out Jo's new book and preorder: The Dream of You
Discussion questions:
1) Where have you felt the imposter syndrome present in your life?
2) Where have you held back in a meeting or pursing the vision God has given you because you don’t feel worthy yet?
3) Can you accept a compliment by saying ‘thank you’ rather than dismissing it?
4) What words are you afraid to use to apply to what God has called you to step into (I’m a pastor, leader, teacher, writer, mother,…)
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Jo and Steph present the new series: Lead On…Leading in the Midst of Anxious Times. In this series you will be equipped to step into the fray and keep moving when everything around you is telling you to stop and give up.
Resources mentioned:
Sarah Bessey www.sarahbessey.com
Lead On resource guide - available free to new subscribers at www.leadstoriesmedia.com
Pre-order: The Dream of You - Jo Saxton’s new book. You can sign up this week to be part of the launch team at www.josaxton.com
Discussion questions:
1) Think back to the last time you wanted to give up as a leader. Why was that? Did you?
2) What is the difference between taking a break and giving up?
3) What might it mean for you to keep leading in the midst of current anxious times?
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Today Jo and Steph are talking to the Turquoise Table lady, Kristin Schell. Listen in to hear how she unexpectedly found herself leading a movement of people around the world just by putting a turquoise table in her front yard!
Buy the book: The Turquoise Table
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Season 3 is here!
Jo and Steph are back and are sharing what they have been doing over the summer, including some exciting news!
In this episode Jo and Steph discuss what they have been up to personally over the summer, and also reflect on the cultural implications of the big news events, in particular Charlottesville, and what it means to respond as leaders in changing times.
Jo is looking for people to help her launch her book next year - if you are interested in being part of the launch team please go to www.josaxton.com and join the mailing list to keep up to date in the coming months!
Check out the new resource guide: Lead On - Leading in Anxious Times - available as a free download to Lead Stories subscribers and for a small cost at www.leadstoriesmedia.com/resources.
Questions to consider:
1) Are you ready to respond to whatever God is doing, especially when things happen that you don’t expect? What practical things can you do to build spiritual strength in this season?
2) One ex-extremist said that all extremists are looking for three things: purpose, community and identity. Does this help you to understand the church’s role (and need) to address these three areas in their local communities?
3) Look back on your summer (or winter if you are southern hemisphere) - what things have you learned? What has impacted you?
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It is the end of Season 2! Jo and Steph reflect over the different series which have been part of this past season and the podcasts that have impacted them personally. They also discuss what life looks like for them right now as Summer begins - from horse camp to baseball and book writing.
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In this episode Steph chats with Patrick Lambertz from Men Against The Trafficking Of Others (MATTOO), an organization working to educate men and stop the source of human trafficking.
Listen in to discover how you can help be a part of stopping human trafficking by helping to create stigmas against it.
Check out:
Www.mattoo.org and their course: ‘Extinguishing the flames.’
Discussion:
1) Think about the quick decision someone makes to view pornography or go to a strip club for a bachelors party. What does the web of human trafficking look like behind those decisions?
2) How can you intentionally help those around you (and yourself) make better decisions to not support human trafficking, bearing in mind that doing nothing is often helping a fire to spread?
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Continuing the series on Stigmas, Jo chats to Kaitlin Curtice, a native-american Christian about her re-discovery of her heritage and how that has impacted her faith and relationship with God.
Listen in to hear how God has revealed himself in new ways to Kaitlin as she has researched her heritage, and Kaitlin’s ideas of how the church could be blessed by recognizing and learning from certain cultural values from native americans tribes.
Discussion:
1) What did you learn about native american tribes as a child? Were they positive or negative influences?
2) Kaitlin mentioned that teaching her children traditional ways may mean they are made fun of. Are there parts of your heritage / ideals you hold to that you are afraid to influence others with for fear of what they may say /do? How can you make sure it is not the enemy who is silencing you?
3) What positive things could/should the church embrace from native american cultures?
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Check out Kaitlin’s book ‘Glory Happening’ coming November 7th
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