Hi everyone. My name is Pete Gazzar. I want to welcome you today to the emotionally healthy

leader podcast. Today's topic is the right and wrong way to navigate transitions. The right and wrong way to navigate transitions. I want to approach this, however, through four different case studies, really four very different contexts

and situations from people around the world, actually, each of which brings a fresh, unique

angle on this vast, very important topic of navigating transitions. I wrote a general chapter on this in the

emotionally healthy leader. It was actually the final chapter of the book, and it was called

Endings and New Beginnings. And it was in the final chapter because everything leading up

to it needed to be laid as a foundation for it.

And it just requires so much from us to navigate transitions well.

I want to encourage you to pick up that book and check it out.

Or go to our website.

There's a free discussion guide with some short video chapter introductions as well.

Just go to Emotionallyhealthy.org slash leader. Emotionallyhealthy.org slash leader. But before I dive into these four case

studies, let me just make a few general comments. Endings and transitions are often poorly handled in our own lives and ministries,

organizations, and teams. And as a result, we often miss God's new beginnings and the new work

which he is launching. Because we view endings and transitions as failures to be avoided,

and we disconnect the challenging nature of the process

from the fact that it's a core issue of discipleship for all of us and everybody involved.

And then we also fail to remember that transitions trigger us and touch core and deep family of origin

issues for all of us. And we forget that

very big, important biblical truth, that death is a necessary prelude to resurrection. And that to bear

long-term fruit for Jesus in and through us, there are things that must die so that something

new can blossom. And if we don't get this, we'll tend to dread endings and transitions,

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