Chapter 8: Power and Wise Boundaries

The Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality

Newlifefellowship, Religion & Spirituality, Leadership, Richvillodas, Petescazzero, Emotionallyhealthyspirituality, Christianity, Faith, Peterscazzero, Churchleaders, Spirituality, Emotionallyhealthy, Newyork, Pastor

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🗓️ 30 July 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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It was the lessons learned from pain around “Power and Wise Boundaries” that initially served as the impetus for the writing of The Emotionally Healthy Leader. Almost every church, nonprofit organization, and Christian community bears deep scars and hurt due to a failure to steward power and set wise boundaries. In this podcast Pete gives many examples of ways we can do this in a healthy way, attempting to nuance the different situations in which we find ourselves.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, great to be with you. My name is Pete Scuzero and I want to welcome you to the
0:09.3	Emotionally Healthy Leader podcast. Our theme today is power and wise boundaries. Power and wise boundaries.
0:17.8	So as you know, in these previous weeks, I've been moving through each chapter
0:21.8	of the book, The Emotional and Healthy Leader. And actually, I spent eight years writing that book.
0:27.7	But the most difficult section of the book and chapter by far was this one on power and
0:34.5	wise boundaries. Actually, this is the reason I wrote the book. I remember the publisher
0:38.5	telling me, we do not need another book on leadership. And I just said, listen, there's some things
0:44.9	that I learned over some decades. I don't care if anybody reads it right now, but at some point,
0:49.9	this stuff has to be written. And it was this chapter in particular that I was thinking about
0:53.5	power and wise boundaries. And the reason it was so difficult to articulate with some clarity
0:59.7	was there's not very much written about it. And it's rarely discussed beyond one-liners and
1:07.6	tweets and in talks and in generalities. But I think I can say this with, at least in
1:13.4	my experience, every church and every nonprofit organization and Christian community that I have
1:19.1	talked to bear scars and hurt from a failure to steward well, this issue of power, and set healthy set healthy wise boundaries and i was no exception to that
1:33.2	my understanding of power and boundaries was so inadequate for years and i was a i was confused am i a good
1:40.8	friend am i brother in christ i'm the pastor. I'm their boss. I lost
1:46.5	relationships that I spent years building, and this was by far my most painful lesson of
1:53.5	my decades as a leader, as a pastor. And it's often one of the first questions I'll get
1:59.4	in a mentoring conversation with the young leader, some manifestation of that, this issue of how it works out in their daily life.
2:07.0	So I'm going to really revolve this whole podcast around the two central concepts around power and wise boundaries.
2:14.4	The first is stewardship.
2:15.9	I'm going to call it stewardship of power.
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