Hi, my name is Pete Scuzero, and I want to welcome you to the emotionally healthy leader podcast today.

This is part two on your integrity and your leadership.

And last week, actually, it was part one.

And I shared a sermon that I gave a couple of years ago out of Acts chapter 5 versus 1 to 11 on Anonized and Sapphire.

And it was just so important for me, and I think for you as well as a leader, to base that on a very powerful biblical

story of the implications when we don't have integrity, at least from a biblical perspective. But

today I want to expand on that and get very practical. And I'm just kind of

trying to imagine we're sitting at a table here and we're talking about integrity. And if I was going to

give you some counsel about integrity and leadership, I would focus on really four areas as the

base, as the foundation from which not only do we begin, but it's the foundation out of which

we live our entire leadership lives. And it comes out of the principle of the higher up

you go on the ladder of leadership, the less freedom you have to do whatever you want. In other

words, the more integrity is needed. You're a more public person, your actions or lack of actions have a impact far beyond you realize.

And you're unable to explain yourself because you're in a much larger sphere of influence.

And so it's everything that you're saying, doing, not doing,

not saying that impacts people. And your shadow, of course, casts a greater projection as well as

your light. So again, 1 Timothy 3, that's why it says about being above reproach if you're going

to be an elder in a church, because the impact of your integrity is so great.

And so, again, we define integrity as you're the same person on stage as off stage.

It is a congruence of your inner and your outer life, your soul and your role that you're in.

And so I have four areas of integrity for every leader that I believe are

foundational. And a little backdrop here is my journey with this has been long and hard.

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