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The Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast

Power and Wise Boundaries: What Church Leaders Must Learn

The Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast

Pete Scazzero

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8698 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2026

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Take your team through the Emotionally Healthy Leader Book. Download the FREE discussion guide: http://www.emotionallyhealthy.org/leader Let’s get honest. Power makes most of us uncomfortable. So we avoid it, minimize it, or misuse it. In this episode, Pete Scazzero shares a defining leadership failure—one that cost him deeply: relationships, trust, and a 20-year community. At the center of it? Unclear boundaries and dual relationships. You’ll discover: Why every leader must name and steward ...

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0:00.0

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

0:04.3

Podcasts. Before we get started, I want to invite you to our first emotionally healthy

0:09.8

global leaders conference that's going to be held September 30th, October 1st, 20, 26,

0:16.4

here in the heart of Manhattan, New York City. And our theme is redefining success and shifting our scorecard

0:24.9

from this kind of crushing weight we feel like we're never doing enough versus leading out of a place

0:30.9

of spaciousness, freedom, joy that liberates us, our people, and fuels long-term mission for Christ.

0:38.8

So you'll get a sense of what an emotionally healthy culture, which is the key to this,

0:43.5

feels like, looks like, and how to actually build it into your ministry and church,

0:47.9

this kind of dynamism.

0:49.0

So registration is now live.

0:50.7

It's $179 until April 1st.

0:53.6

But details and registration you can find on our website.

0:55.9

Just go to Emotionallyhealthy.org slash conference. That's Emotionallyhealthy.org

1:01.6

slash conference. We love to see you there. It's going to be a fantastic opportunity to bring

1:06.8

the whole tribe of emotionally healthy folks doing most of the churches around the world.

1:12.8

Go to Emotionally Healthy.org slash conference.

1:18.2

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

1:23.0

Podcast. So good to be with you. Our topic today is power and wise boundaries, what church

1:30.3

leaders must learn. Now, this is the most painful lesson I've learned in my decades of

1:41.3

leadership. There's so many mistakes around power and dual relationships,

1:45.5

healthy boundaries. So, I mean, it's a terrible dilemma. And I founded myself, I was a boss.

1:51.6

I was the leap after. I was people's supervisor. But I was also their friend, which is complicated.

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