The Loneliness of Leadership

The Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality

Newlifefellowship, Religion & Spirituality, Leadership, Richvillodas, Petescazzero, Emotionallyhealthyspirituality, Christianity, Faith, Peterscazzero, Churchleaders, Spirituality, Emotionallyhealthy, Newyork, Pastor

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🗓️ 2 April 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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In this episode, we explore a topic that's as old as leadership itself: the loneliness that often accompanies the role of leadership.

From the slowness of change to the weight of difficult decisions, from the sting of criticism to the ache of betrayal, leadership can often feel like a solitary journey. But we can take heart because all throughout the Scriptures leaders have grappled with this very same loneliness.

And yet, loneliness can become destructive when it turns into isolation.

In today's episode, I share 4 critical steps that leaders must take to navigate loneliness while remaining healthy and whole.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name's Pete Kizzerra. Once again, with you, folks. So glad to be with you and welcome to
0:08.4	the emotionally healthy leader podcast. Our topic today is a great one. It's called loneliness
0:15.2	in leadership. Loneliness and leadership. Two years ago, it's interesting, I received a phone call
0:21.1	from a pastor who was discouraged, and he shared with me, he said, it was called, he said,
0:26.7	welcome to the club, Pete. I'm there in the club now. It's the loneliness of leadership.
0:31.0	And it began to talk to me about two people who were volunteers and his leadership had quit
0:35.6	recently, and another couple that was about to get
0:38.0	divorced. He had slowness of people changing to frustration of that. He said, I'm doing what's
0:45.2	right, but even though there are people misunderstand that what I'm doing is right and they see
0:49.8	there's something wrong, because I'm having a number of hard conversations with people,
0:53.8	I've got long hours that I'm putting into number of hard conversations with people. I've got long
0:54.8	hours that I'm putting into the crises flowing around me, and I've got some volunteers that I need
1:00.3	to let go because they're not doing their job. And again, that's being misunderstood as well.
1:04.6	I just went on with the list. And so this loneliness and leadership topic, it's actually,
1:09.2	this has been a theme of leadership since actually
1:11.4	the beginning. But in the last seven years in particular, Barna recently did a study, and they
1:18.3	discovered that there's a seven-year trend where pastors and leaders are feeling more loneliness
1:24.4	and more isolation. And in fact, they followed it and said it went from 42% of pastors feeling this way
1:31.2	to seven years later in 2003.
1:33.6	It actually grown to 65%.
1:36.1	So you can do a Google search on loneliness and leadership, and you'll find a number
1:41.6	of helpful articles and material.
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