Hi, my name's Pete Gazzaro. I want to welcome you today to the emotionally healthy

leader podcast. So great to be with you. And today is a part two of this two-part series called

Five Ways Your Family of Origin is undermining your leadership and what you can do about it.

If you haven't listened to part one, let me encourage you to go back and do that first.

As I walk through the first three ways that our families of origin undermine our leadership,

more than we realized.

We talked about number one.

It shapes your capacity

to discern or lead from your true self. Secondly, it undermines how you handle criticism,

triggers, and your anxieties. And thirdly, it limits your ability to discern God's voice clearly.

Each of those three has a lot under it.

So again, I encourage you listen to part one.

But today, I want to focus on the final two.

And then I'm going to close, actually, our time together today with a brief checklist or diagnostic on,

is your family of origin still running your leadership and to what extent? All right, a very short checklist. All right,

let's go on to number four here, which is it impacts your ability to build an alone together

community. In other words, your family of origin

determines it impacts your ability to build an alone together, a mature community.

So most leaders are pretty good at, you know, casting a vision, setting some goals,

organizing programs and and etc.

But are confused when it comes actually, how do I build a relationally mature, healthy

counterculture? And I get it. I was one of them. And the reason is because we were shaped

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