The One Skill That Will Make or Break Your Life and Leadership

The Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality

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

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

To be an emotionally healthy leader requires many skills, practices, and rhythms. Over the last several weeks, we've explored many relationship skills that are non-negotiable for leaders.

But if there is just ONE skill I'm convinced every leader must master, it's "Incarnational Listening."

David Augsberger wrote, “Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable.”

When you master this relationship skill,

Your spouse and friends will feel seen and heard.
Your staff and volunteers will feel like you get them.
Your church will experience you as compassionate and present.
Your love for others will grow exponentially.

In today's podcast episode, my wife Geri and I share more about the skill of "Incarnational Listening" that is a part of Emotionally Healthy Relationships.

I want to encourage you. This is one of the toughest skills to do well, but when you stick with it, I guarantee you it will change everything.

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0:00.0	Hi, everyone. Welcome to the emotionally healthy leader podcast. I'm Pete.
0:08.5	I'm Jerry.
0:09.6	And our topic today, or our theme today is the one skill that will make or break your life and leadership.
0:17.3	Right. As a matter of fact, there wouldn't be a podcast today. You wouldn't be listening to this podcast today. Right. As a matter of fact, there wouldn't be a podcast today. You wouldn't be
0:22.8	listening to this podcast today, actually, if it wasn't for this skill. Isn't it truth. It's the
0:28.6	skill that launched us on this whole journey 28 years ago now, almost, yeah, 20 plus years ago on
0:36.0	this journey we call E.H. Discipleship.
0:38.3	So, all right, this is the sixth, honey, of eight podcasts that was done so far.
0:43.8	And let's go, we started with the community temperature reading.
0:47.4	Then we moved into stop mind reading, clarify expectations,
0:51.9	genogram your family, explore the iceberg.
0:54.7	And now we are on what we call incarnational listening.
1:01.6	So the one skill that will make or break your leadership.
1:03.9	So all very dramatic titles.
1:06.2	But why, honey, is this one the one skill that will make or break your life in leadership?
1:11.3	Why is this like, in some ways, the most dramatic title of all?
1:16.4	I think the couple of them have been pretty dramatic.
1:18.4	That's true.
1:19.1	That's true.
1:20.4	And, you know, I know we've said this before, but if the goal of our spiritual lives, the goal of our humanity is to love well, this gets at it.
1:33.7	This gets at it.
1:35.0	It's true.
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