How to Find God in Unexpected Places: The Examen for Today

The Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast

Pete Scazzero

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 698 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Most of us were trained to look for God in the big moments — the breakthrough, the open door, the dramatic call. But what if God is most consistently present in the ordinary moments we rush past every day? In this episode, I want to share a 500-year-old practice that has quietly transformed my leadership, my marriage, and my relationship with God. It's called the Examen — and I believe it may be the single most underused tool in the modern pastor's spiritual formation toolkit. I'll take you t...

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Pete Scuzaro. I want to welcome you today to the Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast.
0:04.7	But before I launch into today's podcast, I want to start by sharing something with you that I see almost everywhere I go.
0:11.5	Leaders who love Jesus, we're doing meaningful work for him, but they're carrying pressure.
0:16.7	They're doing too much beneath the surface and they're tired.
0:19.9	Too much to do in too little time.
0:21.9	They're slowly losing their joy and often don't even realize,
0:26.9	even though it may externally look like they're doing fantastic and being successful
0:30.5	on the surface, inside something is not right.
0:34.8	That resonates with you even just a little bit. I want to personally invite you
0:39.5	to our Emotionally Healthy Global Leaders Conference this September 30th, October 1st here in
0:47.5	Manhattan, New York City. Just go to Emotionallyhealthy.org slash conference. This year's theme is redefining success.
0:57.6	It's helping you shift your score hard from pressure and often exhaustion to freedom, to joy,
1:03.9	and spaciousness with Jesus that actually bears fruit that remains.
1:08.1	I want to encourage you to experience it with your team.
1:10.5	Details will be in your show notes. Just go to encourage you to experience it with your team. Details will be in
1:11.2	your show notes. Just go to Emotionallyhealthy.org slash conference and check out the details.
1:17.7	I would love to see you there. It's going to be stupendous.
1:23.9	Hi, my name is Pizquezero. I want to welcome you today to the emotionally healthy leader
1:29.2	podcast. Our topic today is how to find God in unexpected places, The Examined for today. Now, this
1:38.8	practice we're going to talk about today called The Examine is so powerful. I mean, it's transformed my life over the last few decades.
1:47.2	It will change you, your ministry, your relationships, everything.
1:51.1	It's that powerful.
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