Ordinary People. Extraordinary Lives.

Join Lance in this podcast and let’s avoid the toxic comparison trap by gaining insights and tips that will help us live with more joy.

Leaders process important information with others and it’s important to know who we are sharing with and what kind of conversations are helpful. In this podcast, Lance identifies four types of conversations and what we need to be looking for as leaders when we process important decisions with others.

Join Lance in exploring crucial aspects of leading at home, where authority meets empowerment. Discover the art of balancing these core truth in Leading at Home - Part 3.

Leading at home is one of the most important tasks we are given. Whether it’s with your marriage, children, friends, or blended family, healthy leadership at home will make a powerful and positive impact on others. In this episode, Lance describes three different family leadership styles and what their strengths and weaknesses can be.

In this podcast, Lance unravels the profound significance of family leadership, showing how it shapes the bonds and well-being of your loved ones. Join us as we explore the significance of family leadership.

In this episode, Lance explores the dangers of an independent attitude in leadership, identifies potential causes, and offers a healthy alternative.

Listen as Lance talks about “Mastering Delegation: Igniting Your Team’s Potential” and learn the art of delegation, and how it can help you ignite your team’s potential.

If you have been leading for very long, you will face turbulent times. In this podcast, Lance brings to the surface important topics to consider and implement, so you and your organization can flourish during turbulent times.

Episode 204 - Overcoming Personal Failure, explores how to overcome personal failures through concepts such as embracing humility, finding strength in faith, seeking forgiveness, and taking practical steps towards growth.

In this episode, Lance talks about the importance of creating and seizing small moments in a leadership environment because small moments promote mighty leadership.

Leaders are selfless people and without healthy boundaries, they can become burnt out leaders. In this episode, Lance talks about the needed and healthy tension between a selfless leader and self-care.

In episode 201, Lance encourages us to embrace the power of hopeful communication for positivity and change by offering an outline for developing hopeful messages.

Where there are people, there will be disagreements. In this podcast, Lance offers 10 helpful steps for solving workplace disagreements.

Pastor Lance shares four purposes for why leaders need to be followers first.

Healthy leaders prioritize adding value to others, In this episode, Lance emphasizes the personal benefits of leadership that empower us to navigate challenging times and remain faithful as effective and fulfilled leaders.

Leaders want to add value to others and that motivation is hindered when a leader is under the weather. In this podcast, Lance shares personal stories to identify helpful tips for how to maintain leadership responsibility when under the weather.

Leaders are consistently faced with small and large decisions. In this podcast, Lance shares five guiding principles for making good decisions.

Leadership has a great opportunity to create positive environments, but what does that mean? In this episode, Lance highlights four essential contributions every leader can make to establish and sustain a positive environment.

Following leaders who are confident is better than following leaders who are not. In this episode, Lance identifies signs that reveal diminishing confidence and shows us places where we can find confidence.

Being a kind leader matters and it’s more than being nice. In this episode, Lance talks about the secret power of becoming a kind person and how you can practice kindness as a leader.

Everyone experiences transition. In this podcast, Lance shares a personal story about a time of transition in his life and offers five tips for times of transition.

What if confrontation actually works towards the benefit of your leadership space instead of being the crazy uncle we keep locked up in the basement of denial? In this podcast, Lance shares some insight and wisdom on how you can intentionally practice connecting through confrontation.

Lance reveals an easy to overlook secret to effective leadership - a cultural glossary. In this episode, he gives seven reasons why leaders should develop a cultural glossary.

Learning to navigate conflict is essential to having an enjoyable and efficient leadership environment. In this podcast, Lance borrows a definition from author Danny Silk and helps us understand the necessary components for effectively navigating conflict.

It’s important for leaders to stay sharp, be prepared, and stay hungry. In this podcast, Lance shares 5 reasons why leaders should improve through reading.

Leaders must take their call to leadership seriously. In this podcast, Lance utilizes a famous biblical story to help us understand what serious call to leadership looks like.

In this episode, Lance reminds us of how people are facing battles that we can’t see, and that our leadership needs to add value to others. Reminding us to BE a leader, Lance offers three “BE” statements to help us.

Leadership is a process; a process that lasts a lifetime. To help us be committed to the process, have clarity, continue to develop, be fruitful, and add value to others, Lance borrows three questions from Ken Coleman.

Disappointment, delay, disturbance - these are just a few of the Killer D’s that can either work for a leader or against a leader. In this podcast, Lance encourages us to take advantage of these moments and defeat the Killer D’s by leveraging for them good.

Lance starts the 2023 podcast season by sharing four leadership hopes for the listeners. Utilize this year to help people grow, be empowered, build trust, and work together.

In this episode, Lance talks about the private issue of weakness in leadership and offers 5 suggestions for turning weakness into a leader’s secret advantage.

In a world of hurry that prides itself on busyness, Lance offers an alternative. Lance highlights the power of leading from a place of rest.

It's too easy for a leader to distance themselves from those they lead, whether it be by office location, traveling, new work styles, or personal reasons. In this podcast, Lance underscores the importance of a leader's healthy proximity in three areas with those they lead and serve.

When you plant intentionally, you can grow your leadership into what you desire. In this podcast, Lance uses a Dave Ramsey quote as a launching pad into discussing some helpful ideas to help you grow your leadership.

Sadly, too many of us are living life without mentors. In this podcast, Lance shares several ideas to help us find mentorship in a life without mentors.

Delegation is a leader’s necessary friend, and in this podcast, Lance shares with us several reasons why delegation is important and the requirements for healthy delegation.

A leader’s core values are essential to the direction and health of that leader’s sphere of influence. In this podcast, Lance identifies reasons why naming our core values is important, and ways that we can discover what our core values are.

Disruption and unforeseen situations happen to every leader, and the cost of the disruption is focus. In this podcast, Lance offers six questions to help you be proactive in maintaining focus during times of disruption.

Leadership success is measured by how many leaders we have developed, and not how many followers we have. Lance shares some needed insight to what powerful relationships look like because they are needed to develop leaders.

Leaders are known to burn the candle at both ends, and in this podcast, Lance shares with us the benefits of taking time to have a personal retreat.

In this podcast episode, Lance talks about three important postures that each leader should take - sit, walk, and stand. In part 1, Lance will define what it means to have “sitting” as the starting point for a leader, the philosophy of sitting, and some practical application points.

Giving spiritual leadership is important for every leader, and in this podcast, Lance pulls from his own growth as a spiritual leader to help others grow into healthy spiritual leaders.

What would it be like if our leadership environment was filled with the kind of hope, love, and encouragement that gave every person we lead the opportunity to be their best? In this podcast, Lance shares with us 4 tips to help that happen.

After three decades of leadership, Lance offers five helpful suggestions for us to be healthier and more effective leaders.

Learning is essential for leaders. In this podcast, Lance gives us four important questions to consider as we walk the learning path as leaders.

Trust is built through fidelity and faithfulness to the small things. A famous proverb says that it’s the small foxes that destroy a vineyard. In this episode, Lance shares with us four simple phrases that can help build trust with those you lead.

In Part 2 of “I Love Being a Part of this Team”, Lance identifies two more leadership thoughts that can help us exemplify the kind of leadership culture that people want to be a part of.

Having a team member who loves being a part of your team is a such a gift. It allows for higher team morale, greater creativity and collaboration, and a more enjoyable work space. In this podcast, Lance shares two reasons for how we can help develop this type of work place and leadership environment.

In a leadership world filled with possessions, positions, and pleasures, every leader has three important needs. In this episode, Lance shares about these three basic needs and offers a tip to cultivate each one.

Leadership finds it’s greatest power and effectiveness when the leader leads as a servant. In a time when influence is measured by likes, followers, shares, etc., we need a leadership renaissance that is captured through the vibrant colors of servant-hood. In this podcast, Lance borrows from Richard Daft’s work, ‘The Leadership Experience’, and shares four basic precepts for servant-hood leadership.

Some things in leadership never change. In this episode, Lance reminds us of the power of love in the life of a leader and why it’s important.

A leader’s attitude is so powerful. It has the ability to affect an organization’s efficiency, morale, and effectiveness. In this podcast, Lance shares two metaphors to help us understand the power of attitude and offers a few suggestions on how to manage our own attitude as a leader.

Leadership and Hardship - two ships that often co-exist within our lives at the same time. In this podcast, Lance offers some practical experience about what these two ships look like in our lives, and identifies four sources for hardship and how we can respond.

Good life-giving leadership is not confined to a certain personality type. In this podcast, Lance shares viewpoints of leadership that any person can demonstrate and in doing so, will develop, sustain, and grow healthy leadership influence.

Wise leaders know what to hold onto in their leadership and in their leadership context. Wise leaders also know why they are holding onto certain values, principles, etc. In this podcast, Lance shares six thoughts with us to help us have a healthy hold on our leadership.

Leadership is all about people and one of the leadership moments we need to consider is how do we give healthy, compassionate, and tender leadership during times of sorrow? In this podcast, Lance shares six considerations to help us give tender leadership during times of sorrow.

Courage. It’s important for every leader to be courageous, and in this podcast, Lance reminds us of the importance of courage and offers 4 spheres where courage needs application.

One of the great joys of leadership is when you and your team experience big moments, happy moments, or breakthrough moments. In this podcast, Lance offers some suggestions on how we can maximize big moments so that they become sustained momentum.

Leaders will make mistakes. What should leaders do after the mistake is made? In this podcast, Lance shares six action steps leaders can make to help them strengthen their leadership and protect their relationships.

Leadership is the long game and I want you to finish well. In this podcast, Lance shares the needed four phases for the long journey of leadership.

Leadership and Mercy - those are two words that we don’t often hear discussed together. In this podcast, Lance shares with us why it’s important to be a merciful leader and offers a couple of suggestions for what that looks like.

In this podcast, Lance highlights the importance for a leader to have a humble heart. Pulling from years of experience, Lance shares with us important ideas regarding what humility is and isn’t, and closes the podcast with four important ways you can grow a humble heart as a leader.

In this episode, Lance shares a few tips and criteria on what it looks like for us to experience personal development and healthy people development.

After leading for many years, I’ve learned that sometimes there is a version of myself that is leading and it’s not my best self. In this podcast, Lance pulls from his work with a therapist, a helpful book, and recent podcasts, to identify a list that serves as a helpful tool for making sure that our best self is showing up and leading.

The foundation of leadership is important for the longevity and health of leaders and their leadership. In this podcast, Lance reminds us to remember our leadership foundation.

A leader can often feel lonely. In this podcast, Lance clarifies the difference between isolation and solitude, and why one is helpful and the other dangerous.

When leadership is consistent and growing, it can be healthy. In this podcast, Lance offers three absolutes to help us give healthy, consistent leadership.

With remote working, constant access via technology, work place demands, and the pressure to have the perfect everything, we can experience the erosion of healthy work/personal life balance. In this last podcast for 2021, Lance offers 10 words to help us establish a healthy work/personal life balance.

Trust is essential to the effectiveness and enjoyment of working on a team. In this podcast, Lance shares four tips for having a trustworthy team.

Leaders face a natural fatigue. So in this podcast, Lance offers 5 helpful suggestions on how we can continue to give healthy leadership while overcoming fatigue.

Forgiveness is not a concept that we often associate with leadership and the health of a culture. In this podcast, Lance gives us a common, working definition of forgiveness and shares four reasons why a forgiving leadership culture is necessary.

Every leader is faced with times of sorrow during their leadership tenure. In this podcast, Lance shares five tips on how to maintain healthy, life-giving leadership while the leader experiences personal sorrow.

A relationship or friendship that sends trust and respect messages back and forth requires healthy communication. Lance draws from his personal journey and thirty years of leadership to offer practical tips for building healthy communication, leading to more enjoyable and loving relationships/friendships.

In this podcast, Lance pulls from recent personal leadership experiences and offers fours considerations that leaders should engage to serve as a helpful call to maintain healthy, life-giving leadership.

It’s possible to maintain a healthy heart, mind, and attitude when leaders we adore fail. In this podcast, Lance shares six thoughtful tips for us.

Failure is inevitable for any leader. So, how do we leverage the learning possibility found within our failing moments? In this episode, Lance shares with us the dangers of unprocessed failure and five BeAttitudes for learning from the often disliked teacher, Failure.

It’s tempting as a leader to tell people what to do rather than build up leaders through asking questions. In this podcast, Lance offers 5 reasons why leaders should be good at asking questions.

Recently, I was reminded that, as leaders, people are our product. Therefore, in this podcast, Lance offers three reminders to have a productive team.

Conflict is inevitable in the arena of leadership. So, how do we increase confidence and its exponential positive effect, while conflict is happening? In this episode, Lance shares some thoughts that can help us increase confidence through relational conflict.

It’s important in leadership to remind ourselves of the cornerstone, the fundamentals of leadership that we build upon. In this podcast, Lance reminds us of three important, yet basic questions that are relevant for every leader, in all seasons of leadership.

Leaders are faced with decisions on a daily basis. In part two of this podcast, Lance offers us the last four of seven tips to help us have higher confidence in our decision making process.

Leaders are faced with decisions on a daily basis. In this podcast, Lance offers us the first three of seven tips to help us have higher confidence in our decision making process.

It’s important for leaders, parents, team-members, and others to sustain personal growth, no matter what is happening. In this podcast, Lance offers four suggestions to help us maintain an attitude of growing.

How can leaders embrace personal development in private seasons without hindering their public leadership? In this podcast, Lance answers this question by sharing 4 tips that will help, not hinder.

Leader’s face adversity and what’s in our character and competency gets tested. In this podcast Lance shares from his personal struggles, four thoughts to help us pick up the treasures that exist during our times of adversity.

In 25+ years of leadership, Lance shares what he believes to be four of the most important qualities for healthy leaders.

Boundaries that are defined and honored within relationships are important and helpful because they help define the relationship and help establish healthy expectations within the relationship.

Practicing celebration within our relationships and leadership has a powerful and important impact upon our influence. In this podcast, Lance shares insightful reasons why we need to practice celebrating within our leadership context.

In this digital age, let’s make sure we remember the power and benefits of being physically present with those we lead. In this podcast, Lance shares with us eight benefits of being physically present when we lead.

Wisdom and compassion are powerful companions, and when a leader is compassionate and wise, amazing things can happen. In this podcast, Lance shares with us some insight into what it means to be a wise and compassionate leader.

In today’s episode, Lance shares a simple outline to help us be more intentional with our thoughts and communication so that we can be more effective as communicators and leaders. Practice during your next conversation by using this simple outline as a preparation tool before you communicate.

Hope has to be planted if you want it to grow, and in this podcast, Lance shares with us 5 needed ingredients for planting hope in your areas of influence.

Communication is so important in today’s society. With different mediums to communicate and connect, we should consider how we can be better communicators. In this podcast, Lance pulls from his 25+ years of public communication experience and shares eight practical commitments that will help you be a better communicator.

Leader’s face pressure to meet deadlines, develop people, and achieve goals, all within a specific time frame and/or budget. So, with all of this pressure, what defines a gracious leader? And, can one be a successful leader and be gracious? in this episode, Lance shares 5 realities about being a gracious leader.

Hard seasons are inevitable. So, how can we see them work to our advantage so we can lead our teams through difficult seasons, and actually grow and prosper.

In this second episode of blind-spot feedback, Lance shares with us the remaining steps, heart, and attitude needed to grow as a leader.

In any organization, feedback is important. It’s important for the giver of the feedback and the receiver, But, what about the unsolicited feedback? How do we receive that, especially if we disagree? In this episode, Lance pulls from his years of leading and shares the initial steps needed to receive blind spot feedback that leverages growth, connection and synergy.

Leaders can feel the pressure to be superheroes and be everything for everybody. In this episode, Lance shares 5 phases for us to be healthy and empowering leaders.

In this podcast, Scott Tavolacci wraps up this insightful series about what it means to be a kingdom leader.