Hi everyone. I'm Pete Scazzaro. I want to welcome you today to the Emotionally Healthy Leader

podcast, our final one of 2021. And we are calling this the five most listened to podcasts of

2021. Now let me begin by thanking all of you who listen, You know, what started out as a, you know, someone

sending me a $99 Yeti microphone, setting me up on garage band on my Mac computer to begin doing

this podcast a few years ago, has now mushroom quite a bit.

I mean, at this point, even for this year, 2021, we've had over 2.3 million downloads of

podcasts.

I mean, that's a lot of downloads.

And we've seen it increase quite a bit, especially the last two years. Now, many of the

topics and the themes that I talk about each week come from you. People sending in questions and

or case studies or topics for future podcasts. I mean, I have a list two pages long that I keep in front of me that I

ponder and pray through that of different topics. So let me invite you to send me any kind of

topics or questions you're carrying or case studies that may perhaps be a seed for a great

podcast. Just send it to Ask Pete at Emotionally Healthy.org. That's Ask Pete at

Emotionally Healthy.org. So our team has chosen the top five most listened to podcast of this

year. And so what they've done is chosen a three to five minute section from each one of them. Now, they are, the first one we'll

do is, will be called Follow the Crucified, not the Americanized Jesus. The second was a new

leadership scorecard for success. The third, how God's absence is a form of his presence.

The fourth was skills to revolutionize your prayer life, part one, and finally,

finding God in the fog of massive transition. That's finding God in the fog of massive transition.

So let's begin now with the first most listened to podcast of 2021. Follow the crucified, not the Americanized Jesus, and you'll listen to a four to five minutes section on rejecting popularity.

Here it goes.

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