Hi, my name is Pete Scuzaro. I want to welcome you today to the Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast.

But before I launch into today's podcast, I want to start by sharing something with you that I see almost everywhere I go.

Leaders who love Jesus, we're doing meaningful work for him, but they're carrying pressure.

They're doing too much beneath the surface and they're tired.

Too much to do in too little time.

They're slowly losing their joy and often don't even realize,

even though it may externally look like they're doing fantastic and being successful

on the surface, inside something is not right.

That resonates with you even just a little bit. I want to personally invite you

to our Emotionally Healthy Global Leaders Conference this September 30th, October 1st here in

Manhattan, New York City. Just go to Emotionallyhealthy.org slash conference. This year's theme is redefining success.

It's helping you shift your score hard from pressure and often exhaustion to freedom, to joy,

and spaciousness with Jesus that actually bears fruit that remains.

I want to encourage you to experience it with your team.

Details will be in your show notes. Just go to encourage you to experience it with your team. Details will be in

your show notes. Just go to Emotionallyhealthy.org slash conference and check out the

details. We would love to see you there. It's going to be stupendous. Hi, my name is Pete

Kizzerra. I want to welcome you today to the Emotionally Healthy Leader

podcast. Today's title is How to Spend a Day or Half Day Alone with God and Why It Matters. How to

spend a day alone with God or half day and why it matters. All right. So I'd like to frame this podcast like this.

Your daily time with God, your morning, midday prayer each day, that keeps your relationship with God

alive and it sustains it and hopefully enables it to grow. But a day alone or a half day alone with God reorders your life. It's a deliberate

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