Hi, my name is Pete Scuzaro. I want to welcome you today to the Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast.

Great to be with you. It's a beautiful day here in New York. So our topic today is planning and decision making.

Planning and decision making. And this is really a deep application of what we call emotionally healthy leader or

discipleship.

In fact, really there's two tracks that I invite pastors and leaders on.

And they both are basically interchangeable.

One of course is the leaders track, which is you, which is what this podcast is about,

developing your own integration of what we call emotionally healthy discipleship,

just basically serious discipleship in your own leadership and all the implications of that,

which we're now about to get into.

Then there's a church discipleship track, which is, you know, bringing this

to your church and those you're leading. But the reality is if you start with discipleship and your

church, you've still got to come back to the leadership because you've got to do a deep application

of this in your life if you're going to build a healthy culture. If you start with your own leadership

or your own leadership team, you're eventually have to get it to church.

And what does it look like to bring this to a church on a level that's for everybody.

And so, again, they're both interchangeable.

No matter where you begin, it's your whole life.

And the implications are great. I can say very simply leadership is high-level discipleship, high-level application of following Jesus.

So because our vision, I'm firmly convinced that we need a radically new culture for the church going to the 21st century and a counterculture.

And that's really what we're getting into here.

And as we talk about planning and decision, making a whole other way of looking at how we approach this in our leadership.

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