How Leaders Capitalize on Chaos by Doing the One Thing Most Fear | Judah Smith (Fan Fav)
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🗓️ 7 June 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Fan Favorite: This episode originally aired on April 24, 2018. As the Chaplain for the Seattle Seahawks and pastor of a massive congregation that counts names like Justin Bieber and Tim Tebow as members, Judah Smith knows a thing or two about leadership. His messages of radical love and inclusion have resonated with hundreds of thousands around the world from all different walks of life. Judah shares the leadership principles that have helped him build a strong community on this episode of Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu.
SHOW NOTES:
Judah explains his role with the Seattle Seahawks and what it's taught him about leadership. [4:00]
Judah discusses the art of accountability and conflict. [7:46]
Judah tells the power of exposing his vulnerability to the masses. [19:22]
Judah shares why communication is the backbone of all his relationships. [29:26]
Judah reveals the impact he wants to have on the world. [41:25]
QUOTES:
"Avoiding conflict minimizes the depth of relationship that you can experience, and of course the excellence in which you can experience progress and fulfillment and live your dreams." [10:15]
"I don't think people can be who they're supposed to be without community. And community doesn't have to be 10,000 people, it can be five, it can be three, it can be the right people. Not just a bunch of people, but the right people." [14:15]
"The pain is part of being alive. We're not living a Disney cartoon, we're living real life. And the pain we feel, it makes us more human, it makes us more alive." [28:43]
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| 0:00.0 | everybody welcome to incachu you're here my friends because you believe that human potential is |
| 0:06.5 | nearly limitless but you know that having potential is not the same as actually doing something with it |
| 0:11.0 | so our goal with this show and company is to introduce you to the people and ideas that will |
| 0:15.8 | help you actually execute on your dreams all right today's guest is theplain for the Seattle Seahawks and leads a mega church attended |
| 0:23.1 | by over 10,000 people. |
| 0:25.4 | He is one of the most phenomenal public speakers I have ever seen, and he's making so many |
| 0:31.1 | waves that he's been interviewed by everyone from Maria Shriver to the Today Show. |
| 0:35.4 | Known as the millennial preacher to the Stars, he counts Justin Bieber, Russell Wilson, |
| 0:40.1 | Kevin Durant, Tim Tebow and top golfer Bubba Watson as congregation members and close friends. |
| 0:45.7 | And while I'm sure he hates any title with To the Stars in it, his impact on some of the |
| 0:50.8 | biggest athletes in the world led Fox Sports to call him one of the most |
| 0:54.7 | influential people in sports today. A pretty incredible title for someone who doesn't play or |
| 0:59.7 | even coach, but no matter what you call him, it's impossible to deny that he's tapped into |
| 1:04.5 | youth culture in a powerful way and captured the imagination of an entirely new generation of |
| 1:10.7 | people that have been moving away |
| 1:12.1 | from organized religion in droves. With over one million social followers, 50,000 people listening |
| 1:18.4 | to his sermons online, and churches in Seattle, Los Angeles, and Guadalajara, it's easy to see |
| 1:23.9 | that he's touched a nerve. And having witnessed him on stage firsthand, I can tell you |
| 1:27.9 | right now that he manages to bring together and electrify the most eclected group of people I have |
| 1:33.7 | ever seen in one space, from rabbis to diehard hipsters, celebrities and everyone in between, |
| 1:40.0 | the young, the old, the well-dressed, the underdressed, and a kid with a sequin trucker hat that |
| 1:45.6 | simply read Fuck. He welcomes everyone, regardless of faith, and captivates them with stories |
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