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Season 16: Episode 2 | The Most Powerful Leadership Tool: Diagnosing and Diffusing Anxiety

Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership with Ruth Haley Barton

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System Series - The Science and the Art of Paying Attention to Anxiety

system series says when somebody is anxious first calm yourself down the simplest way I think of it is the flight attendant that first put the oxygen mask on your own face before helping other people. Too many leaders are running on empty they're carried by their anxiety they're reactive and they're trying to calm everybody down anxiously whereas you look at Jesus of Nazareth and Jesus was the preeminent calm presence It's stunning you can go through the gospels and read it through the lens of system series actually a book I'll be working on in 2023 is how Jesus actually lived these principles out intuitively to spread calm presence. "It's very difficult it's almost impossible to be aware of God

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