Podcast: The Emotionally Healthy Leader

Designing a Daily Time with God that Fits You

📥 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's the truth I've learned over…

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Power and Wise Boundaries: What Church Leaders Must Learn

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…

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The Scandal Beneath All the Church Scandals (And What to Do About It)

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…

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Family Systems: The Invisible Force Shaping Your Church

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…

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Why Some Churches Thrive and Others Split

Why do churches with sincere faith, gifted leaders, and strong theology still split? In this powerful episode of the Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast, Pete Scazzero exposes a hard truth many leaders have experienced but rarely name: church fractures are rarely about doctrine or vision—they are about formation. Drawing from decades of pastoral leadership and personal…

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Why Emotional Health is the Missing Link in the Global Church

Around the world, churches are working hard to make disciples, lead faithfully, and impact their communities. Yet many leaders are exhausted, relationships are strained, and spiritual growth feels shallow or stalled. Why? In this episode, Pete Scazzero addresses a core truth that often goes unnamed: emotional health is the missing link in the global church….

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5 Planning Mistakes That Kept Me Stuck—for Years

As leaders, we want to make wise, Spirit-led decisions that move our ministries forward. But without realizing it, we often fall into patterns of planning that keep us stuck—repeating the same mistakes year after year. In this episode, Pete Scazzero gets painfully honest about the five planning mistakes that hindered him for years—and how these…

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The Monastic Pastor: Recovering the Church’s Ancient DNA for Today

👉FREE DOWNLOAD: Craft a Rule of Life for You and Your Team – 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…

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Embracing Holy Interruptions: Leadership Lessons from the Christmas Story

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,…

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Do the Work Before the Work

In this episode of the Emotionally Healthy Leader Podcast, Pete Scazzero challenges pastors and leaders with a simple yet radical invitation: “Do the work before the work.” This is more than a productivity principle. It’s a call to integrity—where your outer leadership flows from your inner life with God. Through a compelling reflection on Jesus’…

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