Welcome to the Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast. My name is Rich Velotus. I'm the lead pastor

here at New Life Fellowship Church in Queens, New York City, and I'm joined again with Pete and Jerry Scazzaro.

And today we're going to talk about leading out of your marriage part two. And last time we talked, we talked about a number of things.

And as a young leader, one of the things that impacted me most and has impacted me most over the past year in particular

has been seeing marriage as my ambition.

When I think about ambition, I typically don't associate it with marriage.

I tend to think about how can we reach more people for Christ, how can we grow the church,

how can we add more leadership.

But when I first heard about the concept of your marriage should be your ambition, it was a total paradigm shift,

so much so that I began to look at my wife Rosie differently

in the morning thinking about how can I make my goal for the day, make sure that she is loved

and feels, understand that she is lovable. And so that deeply impacted me, I'm sure,

is deeply impacting many leaders. And today we're going to talk beyond just ambition, we're going to talk about affirmation and sex.

And these two things significantly impact the leader's life.

And I'd like you to just talk a little bit about that, Pete and Jerry.

Just how does this impact the leader's life in particular?

So let's just start with that question there.

How does affirmation in your marriage in particular?

And then this idea of sex and sexuality impact what's happening on a Sunday morning

or throughout the course of the week.

Okay, good. Before I said, let me just build on that ambition points or throughout the course of the week. Okay, good.

Before I said, let me just build on that ambition points.

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