CNLP 629 | Tod Bolsinger On Canoeing the Mountains, Disappointing People At a Rate They Can Absorb, and How to Handle Sabotage and the Anxiety of Leadership
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Carey Nieuwhof
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🗓️ 6 February 2024
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Tod Bolsinger discusses why leadership is like canoeing the mountains these days, how to disappoint people at a rate they can absorb, and how to handle the sabotage and anxiety that come from leading a church.
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| 0:00.0 | The definition of leadership I like the most comes from |
| 0:04.9 | Rall-Hipitz and Marty Linsky. It is leadership is |
| 0:08.0 | disappointing your own people at a rate they can absorb, |
| 0:11.8 | disappointing your own people at the rate they can absorb. Disappointed your own people at the rate they can absorb. |
| 0:16.0 | And so what you realize is that none of us got into ministry to disappoint people, right? |
| 0:20.4 | I see there's a God we love and there are people we love. |
| 0:23.6 | We're going to introduce the people we love to the God we love by building a church |
| 0:26.8 | they will love. |
| 0:27.8 | What could possibly be disappointing? |
| 0:29.6 | Until you realize that to build a church for the people we love who do not know the God we love |
| 0:37.4 | means messing with a church that people have loved a long time. |
| 0:48.0 | Welcome to the Carrie Newhoff Leadership Podcast. It's Carrie here and I hope our time together today helps you thrive in life and leadership. And we've got a timely episode today. |
| 0:55.0 | We're going to talk about change and how to change when everything is changing. |
| 0:59.4 | Todd Bolsinger is here for a long overdue appearance. We're going to talk about canoeing |
| 1:03.9 | the mountains, disappointing people at a rate that they can absorb, and how to |
| 1:08.0 | handle sabotage and the anxiety of leadership and a whole lot more. Today's |
| 1:11.8 | episode is brought to you by The Art of Leadership Academy and a whole lot more. Today's episode is brought to you by the Art of Leadership Academy. |
| 1:14.8 | Man, I love the Art of Leadership Academy. |
| 1:17.1 | It's something I started two years ago. |
| 1:19.4 | And every month, I host a live coaching call. |
| 1:21.8 | This month, Jeff Henderson is going to join in to share |
| 1:25.0 | actionable steps you can use in your church and to answer your questions. |
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