I’m currently in Atlanta, GA live blogging the Catalyst Conference. During this time, I’ll be dropping the leadership wisdom shared by the amazing speaker lineup.

Margaret Feinberg is a self-described “hot mess,” Margaret Feinberg is a popular Bible teacher and speaker at churches and leading conferences such as Catalyst, Thrive, and Women of Joy. Her books, including The Organic God, The Sacred Echo, Scouting the Divine, Wonderstruck, and Fight Back With Joy and their corresponding Bible studies, have sold nearly one million copies and received critical acclaim and extensive national media coverage from CNN, the Associated Press, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and more.

Do Not Miss Your Moment

Margaret had been studying the Biblical implications of JOY. What it meant, how we live in it, and what it does to us.

As she was preparing to hand in her manuscript, she was hit with crushing news: She has cancer.  Read more...

I’m currently in Atlanta, GA live blogging the Catalyst Conference. During this time, I’ll be dropping the leadership wisdom shared by the amazing speaker lineup.

Trip Lee has now taken the stage. Trip’s real name is Wiliam Lee Barefield III. He was born and raised in Dallas, TX. As a child, he had dreams of being a professional athlete or famous rapper. Through this dream, he began honing his lyrical skills at the age of 12. Since giving his life to Christ at the age of 14, he’s changed his focus to serving and ministering the Gospel.

How Music Is A Part Of Your Strategy

The interesting part about movies is that the story is there, but there’s something special about the music contained within the movie.

Trip recalls a moment with his son. They were watching The Lion King.  Read more...

I’m currently in Atlanta, GA live blogging the Catalyst Conference. During this time, I’ll be dropping the leadership wisdom shared by the amazing speaker lineup.

Next up is Scott Harrison. Scott is the founder and CEO of charity:water.

2 Things You Can Use To Present Information

When you break down the ability to dissemate information, there’s only 2 ways to do so. The first is to present the facts and only the facts. The other, more effective, way is to use storytelling to present the facts and move the person to action.

Statistics don’t move people. Stories do.

Our brains aren’t wired to be moved by statistics. As we hear the facts laid out before us, it can hard to process and be moved.

Then, we move to the presentation of facts through story. Our brains are wired to hear and process stories.  Read more...

Dr. Brene Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston Graduate College of Social Work. She has spent the past thirteen years studying vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame… She is also the author of Rising Strong.

If you are brave enough, often enough we are going to fall.

The Wrong Response

When Brene Brown talks to corporations, she often hears the wrong response to falling. The typical business response is: We’re okay with the possibility of falling.

No, no, and no…

It’s not that there’s a possibility of falling. You can’t got into braveness with that mindset. You must go into braveness with the mindset that YOU WILL FALL.

And it’s okay.

3 Ways Of Managing Shame

We back away

We people please

We come out swinging  Read more...