Healthy leadership doesn’t start with strategy—it starts with your inner life. The people you lead are constantly taking emotional cues from you, whether you realize it or not. In this episode, we explore why developing healthy leaders begins with becoming a healthier leader yourself . . . one who digs deeper spiritually, runs smarter through life-giving rhythms, and goes wider by cultivating meaningful relationships. The healthiest gift you can give your team may simply be bringing a more peaceful, joyful, and growing version of yourself to the table.

Limbic resonance:

• The people you lead are going to take on what is happening in your inner life.
• Gal 6: “Bear one another’s burdens” “bare” – “A burden too heavy for one person to carry.”
• Josh Spurlock: “We never grow out of our need to be seen, to have another nervous system resonate with our nervous system.”

The pathway to developing a pipeline of healthy leaders starts with you

• What you teach.
• How you show up inside and out when you’re around your team

Key thought: Bringing a more peaceful, joyful, and growing version of yourself to the people you lead is one of the most helpful things you can do to improve their health.

Behavior 1: Dig Deeper

• Luke 6:46-47: “I will show you what he is like who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock.”
• Practice is the bridge between information and transformation.

Behavior 2: Run Smarter

• For the lazy among us it means we need to pick up the pace.
• For the workaholics among us this means we need to slow down.
• Labor is a gift from God – laziness and workaholism are perversions of that gift.

Rhythms that help us run smarter:

• Daily – “And then there was evening, and there was morning—the first day ~ Gen.1:5.
• Weekly
• Embracing Jesus’ yoke – Matthew 11:28-30: “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

Behavior 3: Go wider

• We cannot reproduce health in those we lead while living in relational vacuum.
• Your staff and lay leaders need face-time with you.