Hi, everyone. Welcome today to the Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast. So good to be with you.

Very excited about today's theme, which is five relationships. Every leader needs to flourish.

Five relationships every leader needs to flourish. So last week, we talked about our last week, two weeks ago in the podcast,

I talked about the loneliness of leadership. And I ended that podcast by talking about one of

the biblical ways to address the loneliness of leadership is to get into some great relationships in that process.

And so that's such a large topic that it needed today's podcast to really unpack.

So again, five relationships that every leader needs to flourish.

So there's two biggest, big errors that leaders make in general.

The first is that we just go it alone. We don't get these key relationships in place and we suffer

for it. So proverbs written by the wisest person in the world who's ever lived talks about

to make right decisions, we need wise counsel in the process.

So we have proverbs, things like, you know, wise, a wise man listens to advice or plans fail

for lack of counsel, Proverbs 1522, or make plans by seeking advice, the wise man in Proverbs says.

Or Proverbs 28, he who trusts in himself or herself is a fool.

And in fact, 75% of the messes people get themselves in is because they did not invite

others into their process.

So we underestimate what it means to lead in the name

of Jesus, what it means to influence other people for him, especially we're pastoring,

we're leading in a church or a ministry or a parish church, and we're responding to Jesus

who says, do you love me? We say, yes, feed my sheep. And there's

nothing more important, I believe, on the face of the earth than those of us who are leading

communities, leading churches, where we're shaping places where people can not just meet God,

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