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	<description><![CDATA[📥 Free Resource: Download our free guide to get started with the Daily Office emotionallyhealthy.org/dailyoffice One of the questions I get asked more than almost any other is: How do you spend time with God each day? What do you do? For how long? Is there a right way? Here&apos;s the truth I&apos;ve learned over...]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[📥 Free Resource: Download our free guide to get started with the Daily Office emotionallyhealthy.org/dailyoffice One of the questions I get asked more than almost any other is: How do you spend time with God each day? What do you do? For how long? Is the]]></itunes:subtitle>
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	<title>Power and Wise Boundaries: What Church Leaders Must Learn</title>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[Take your team through the Emotionally Healthy Leader Book. Download the FREE discussion guide: http://www.emotionallyhealthy.org/leader Let’s get honest.Power makes most of us uncomfortable.So we avoid it, minimize it, or misuse it. In this episode, Pete Scazzero shares a defining leadership failure—one that cost him deeply: relationships, trust, and a 20-year community. At the center of...]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Take your team through the Emotionally Healthy Leader Book. Download the FREE discussion guide: http://www.emotionallyhealthy.org/leader Let’s get honest.Power makes most of us uncomfortable.So we avoid it, minimize it, or misuse it. In this episode, Pet]]></itunes:subtitle>
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	<title>The Scandal Beneath All the Church Scandals (And What to Do About It)</title>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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	<description><![CDATA[Take your team through the Emotionally Healthy Leader Book. Download the FREE discussion guide: http://www.emotionallyhealthy.org/leader Church scandals don’t begin the day they are exposed. They begin years earlier—in quiet compromises, ignored red flags, and leaders whose gifting has grown faster than their maturity. In this episode of The Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast, I go beneath...]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Take your team through the Emotionally Healthy Leader Book. Download the FREE discussion guide: http://www.emotionallyhealthy.org/leader Church scandals don’t begin the day they are exposed. They begin years earlier—in quiet compromises, ignored red flag]]></itunes:subtitle>
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	<title>Family Systems: The Invisible Force Shaping Your Church</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Free Resource: The Benefits of Doing Family of Origin Work (Download Here):👉 https://www.emotionallyhealthy.org/school Churches don’t just have problems.They are emotional systems. In this episode of the Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast, I introduce one of the most powerful frameworks I’ve ever learned for understanding leadership, conflict, and why anxiety spreads so quickly in churches: Family Systems...]]></description>
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	<title>Why Some Churches Thrive and Others Split</title>
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	<title>Why Emotional Health is the Missing Link in the Global Church</title>
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	<title>5 Planning Mistakes That Kept Me Stuck—for Years</title>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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	<title>The Monastic Pastor: Recovering the Church’s Ancient DNA for Today</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[👉FREE DOWNLOAD: Craft a Rule of Life for You and Your Team &#8211; emotionallyhealthy.org/rule Most pastors today are trained in strategies, systems, and leadership models that promise church growth—but often leave the soul malnourished. In this episode, I share a deeply personal and urgent message from a live talk I gave to pastors around the world...]]></description>
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	<title>Embracing Holy Interruptions: Leadership Lessons from the Christmas Story</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Interruptions. We hate them. They mess with our schedules, our comfort, our control. But what if the interruptions in your life are actually invitations from God? In this episode of the Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast, Pete Scazzero unpacks how the Christmas story is filled with divine disruptions—from Mary and Joseph, to Herod, to the Magi,...]]></description>
	<itunes:subtitle><![CDATA[Interruptions. We hate them. They mess with our schedules, our comfort, our control. But what if the interruptions in your life are actually invitations from God? In this episode of the Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast, Pete Scazzero unpacks how the Ch]]></itunes:subtitle>
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	<title>Do the Work Before the Work</title>
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