Hi, my name is Pete Scazzaro. I'm here with my lovely wife, Jerry, and I want to welcome you to the

emotionally healthy leader podcast. And our title today is Four Ways to Flourish in the midst of Chaos.

So glad to be here joining Pete's podcast. Honey, good to have you here. So with the pandemic, we are now in

week three of our voluntary lockdown or stay-at-home order, and we have at least four and a half

weeks to go according to our government. And so the great problem as we talk and listen to

pastures and leaders

around the country and the world is, and our greatest struggle, has been a loss of structure.

You know, our routines have changed. There's a sense of the fear of the unknown. How long will

this actually go on, this pandemic? There's a sense of a lack of control. There's a vulnerability.

And our contexts are all very different.

Yeah, very different.

Probably the biggest difference being a household with children or a household without children.

Yep.

And some are living alone.

Some are living with roommates. And some are living alone. Some are living with roommates.

And yet all of us or most of us listening to the podcast here, we're in leadership.

We're leading churches, ministries, teams, nonprofits, for-profit, marketplace ministries.

We're leading people.

And our goal here today is to keep you anchored so that you can lead others

because it's going to come out of who you are. Yeah. And I realized for me how muddled everything

became in the last two weeks, just the loss of routine and structure and predictability.

We really lost our routine as a couple who lived alone,

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