CNLP 763 | When Pastoral Succession Hurts: Tim Timberlake on Leading Through Pain and Finding Momentum
The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast
Carey Nieuwhof
4.8 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Summary
In a wide-ranging interview, Tim Timberlake reflects on a challenging pastoral succession and how he rebuilt momentum. Plus, he discusses getting divorced in his twenties, what he learned about leading while bleeding, and a lot more.
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| 0:00.0 | The Art of Leadership Network. |
| 0:02.9 | Did you lose friends in that season? |
| 0:05.5 | A lot of people drop you. |
| 0:06.8 | Oh, man, I lost tons of friends. |
| 0:08.6 | I lost, you know, most of them were ministry friendships, which, you know, that's a whole different podcast episode in and of itself. |
| 0:18.5 | But, you know, people who don't know you, per se, people that know |
| 0:24.2 | your gift. And yeah, and so... Oh, man. Oh, man, Tim. Yeah. They don't know you. They know your gift. |
| 0:33.2 | They know your gift. |
| 0:38.7 | Welcome to the Carrie Newhoff Leadership Podcast. |
| 0:41.2 | It's Kerry here, and I hope our time together today helps you thrive in life and leadership. |
| 0:45.2 | Today, we are sitting down with Timberlake to talk about what happens when |
| 0:49.5 | Asterole succession doesn't go well, and then leading while bleeding and finding momentum. We talk about |
| 0:56.5 | pastoral succession. Tim opens up about getting divorced in his 20s, what he's learned about |
| 1:02.3 | how to lead when it's not going well, and a whole lot more. So he serves as the Global Senior |
| 1:07.8 | Pastor of Celebration Church. One church with 17 locations. He is a popular |
| 1:12.8 | thought leader, gifted speaker, and a teacher with the ability to communicate with people from |
| 1:17.9 | all walks of life. And I'm so glad to have them on the podcast. For those of you who are brand new here, |
| 1:22.9 | welcome. We are really delighted to have you. Particularly, you know, I was revisiting some of our |
| 1:27.4 | stats. We have so many next-gen leaders listening to this, man. I'll tell you, I am so glad that you're with us. And we hope you will share this with friends and with staff or whoever. Because when you do that, the podcast grows. When it grows, we can bring you the very finest guests. So we're going to dive into my conversation with |
| 1:44.6 | Timberlake in just a moment, but first a word from our very trusted partners. And now to my |
| 1:51.6 | conversation with Tim Timberlake. Tim, great to have you on the show finally and to connect. |
| 1:57.1 | Yeah, absolutely. It's an honor, Kerry. Thank you for having me on. |
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