Talent alone does not make you a great leader.

You've seen lots of talented and smart people who don't know what they don't know.

And that's why we want to remember, to be a great leader, you must first be a great servant.

If you're too big to serve, you're too small to lead.

Hey, welcome back to another episode of the Craig Rochelle Leadership Podcast.

I feel sincerely called to invest in you to help you get better in your leadership because

we know that everyone wins when the leader gets better.

And right now, we're in a series of episodes.

We're dropping one a week, which is more than normal for us.

We're doing that for the next few weeks. And what I'm doing is I want to talk about what you

want to talk about. I'm answering your questions. If you have more questions, if you have

feedback, if you have comments, if you have encouragement, you can email us anytime at

leadership at life.church. Our team loves hearing from you.

In the last episode, we talked about having developmental conversations. Today, what I want to do is I

want to answer questions from younger leaders about how do you lead when you're younger,

how do you succeed when you're younger or when you're new in leadership? And so we'll start

with Christian, I think, K-R-Y-S-T-I-A-N-K-K-E-N, emailed in and said, I'm a young professional

with few leadership opportunities. I'm struggling with tension between waiting for an opportunity

and creating my own opportunity.

How do you balance those? So Christian is a new leader and wanting to know, do I create a way or do I

kind of wait for someone to give me an opportunity? Very fair, very sincere question. And so,

Christian, I wish I could ask you questions personally before answering it,

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