339: Addressing the Deep Longings of Your Heart Makes You an Effective Leader

Self-awareness is important for a leader who claims to be a Christ follower. But how do you build self-awareness? Learn more from Jeff Crosby, an accomplished Christian leader and the author of The Language of the Soul: Meeting God in the Longings of Our Hearts. Jeff is President and the CEO of ECPA, the trade association of Christian publishing. 

Listen to the Audio

Listen on Apple Podcasts | Listen on Stitcher Radio  | Listen on Google Podcasts

In this episode:

• Some of the biggest changes over the past couple of years since Jeff has been at Evangelical Christian Publishing Association (ECPA) (02:58)
  
  
• The first thing is an incredible prevalence of remote workers in Christian publishing. (03:13)
• The second major change in the past two years is what seems to be a sudden proliferation of generative artificial intelligence, a technology that is now used to create content without the benefit of an author, an editor, a proofreader, a copy editor (04:03)
• Jeff introduces the concept of longing through a Portuguese word, Saudade (09:39)
• The notion of holy longing, longings that are resident in our hearts and our minds and our souls that we as human persons carry with us and which are drivers in our lives, whether we're conscious of them or not. (11:15)
•  Insights as to how we can live as whole people rather than people that are divided into different spheres. (14:23)
• Journaling as one of the ways that we can be in touch with this journey toward an undivided life. Spiritual friendships with no-holds-barred conversation. (16:49)
• The longing for friendship especially among leaders and how God might meet us there. (18:48)
• How leaders allow space for community, for conversation, for discernment around meaningful work (25:10)
• Using music to access different types of the language of the soul, and how can music help our spiritual formation (29:54)

Read the Transcript

Read a complete, word-for-word transcript of the episode.

FOLLOW OUR HOST

Follow our Host, Al Lopus, on LinkedIn & Twitter.

Email our host at info@workplaces.org