Stay Forth Leadership Podcast

 On todays episode, Alan talks with medical doctor, mom of four and leader of the Brave Enough Community Sasha Shilcutt about her burnout story, resilience and the joys and challenges of leading as a female About Dr.  Sasha Shillcutt Dr. Sasha Shillcutt. is a physician, gender equity researcher, speaker, author, wife, mom of four amazing kids, and Founder/CEO of Brave Enough.  Through her book, talks, courses, membership site, and in-person events, she has inspired tens of thousands of women to believe in themselves and their innate value. She has taught women to take control of their time, and in doing so, take back control of their life.  Having published over 50 peer-reviewed articles (including ones in JAMA & the NEJM), and as a TedX Speaker, her greatest passion is empowering and encouraging women to be #braveenough in their professional and personal lives. Leadership and lipstick are not mutually exclusive! Connect with Dr. Shillcutt Brave Enough Twitter Book Take your next right step Right Side Up Community Help scholarship at-risk leaders with coaching  

Leadership is challenging and not everyone faces the same challenges when it comes to navigating the leadership journey. On today's episode, Alan talks with three of our Stay Forth team about these joys and challenges and how they each navigate the challenging leadership landscape. Connect with our team. We are crazy about helping leaders and teams get healthy and reach more impact. We want to help you, your team and your organization become who God designed you to be. We are coaches, consultants, trainers and content designers. We create practical content, processes, and tools to help leaders thrive. We coach leaders through the twists and turns of the leadership journey. We help teams become more effective through consulting and training. We join teams via video calls, but we love speaking to groups, meeting with teams and sharing meals with leaders in their context. Take your next right step Right Side Up Community Explore coaching Support at-risk leaders

Each one of us has some idea or dream that we long to make a reality but sadly many of us never pursue them. There are many reasons, but chief among them is often something like this "I don't have support, or a way to get it off the ground. No one knows me." Some of the greatest creatives and innovators of our time started with nothing more than a dream, garage, and some pocket lint yet they were able to bring their creative dreams to life.  But where do you go as a Kingdom Creative?  Alan talks with Casey Casamento, founder of the new crowdsourcing platform Storehouse about huge online opportunities and how our missionary heart and business mind must intersect About Casey Hi!  My name is Casey Casamento, and I’m the founder of Storehouse.  I am so excited that you have found your way to the Storehouse community!  We really believe that God is building a community of Kingdom creatives and influencers to pursue their creative callings while bringing beauty and truth to our dark and confused world. I grew up in Wichita, Kansas and have heard too many Wizard of Oz comments over the years.  For the record, I have endured a tornado once.  I am living my dream being married to my high school sweetheart, Amy.  But that almost didn’t happen.  Our story is filled with twists and turns, and includes God miraculously moving to bring us back together.  We’ll share that with you another time.  We’re called Mom and Dad to four human beings that bring incredible joy to our lives. A few other random thoughts about me.  I believe futbol is the real football.  I could eat Mexican food every day.  I have a Ph.D. but sometimes forget that I do.  I have traveled to six countries on three different continents and am deeply curious about others’ cultures.  I scream “Rock Chalk” during college basketball season and can’t believe that I witnessed the Kansas City Chiefs winning the Superbowl. About StoreHouse We love inspiring people to courageously create, communicate and cultivate for greater Kingdom impact. Our platform enables new revenue streams for Kingdom creators to achieve greater Kingdom impact.  Connect with StoreHouse Facebook Instagram Website  Take your next right step Scholarship an at-risk leader Right Side Up Community    

Sometimes you just need to laugh a little. On todays episode, Alan chats with YouTuber Chaz Smith about his faith, what he's learning, how he handles criticism and how he would defeat Terry Crews. About Chaz Chaz Smith is an entertainer who loves the Lord and has used his platforms on Youtube, Instagram, Facebook,  and Tik-Tok. You may have seen him from his mispronunciation videos. While he is known for his funny viral videos he’s currently focusing on making music, live streaming on Twitch, AND his most recent project, his podcast called Simply Put With Chaz Smith. Leadership is hard and it's easy to get so focused on tasks at hand that we forget that leadership is actually fun and in spite of the hardships there is joy. Enjoy today's episode, laugh a little, and be inspired with the practical information shared in this conversation. Connect with Chaz https://www.instagram.com/chazsmith https://www.tiktok.com/@chazsmith https://twitter.com/simplyputchaz https://www.facebook.com/SimplyPutChaz Take your next right step. Right Side Up Community Help someone receive coaching    

Time for a reality check.  WHO you are matters more than WHAT you do. That may be tough to hear, but it's the healthy truth. It's easy to get caught up in the things we do and allow them to become our identity. What we do matters but who we are is matters way more. On today's episode, Alan gets very practical as he unpacks and explains why who we are matters more than anything else. Take your next right step Help us help leaders get healthy Join the Right Side Up Community    

We have a powerful episode for you today. Now, we don't toss the word hero around lightly but today we have the honor of sitting down with a truly incredible human being, a hero with an incredible story.  On Today's episode, Alan sits down with real life hero Charles Mully, the Hero in the documentary, Mully, about the amazing story of his life and his journey from an abandoned street kid in Kenya to prominence and prosperity, and to caring for thousands of abandoned children by starting the Mully Childrens Family. Whatever you do today, spend 30 minutes with this episode and share it with others. About Charles Mully Charles Mulli was the firstborn son of a poverty-stricken Kenyan family of ten children. By age 6 he was abandoned by his parents to live on the streets for the next 12 years. Through diligence, hard work, and faith, Charles rose to become a very successful businessman. He, his wife Esther, and their eight children lived very comfortably as Charles became a multi-millionaire. In 1986, Charles began to hear a call on his life to care for the thousands of abandoned children he encountered on the streets of Kenya, especially as he remembered his own struggles there as a child. In 1989, Charles and Esther began to take street orphans and vulnerable children into their home to be raised alongside their own biological children. Those numbers grew so that over the last 30 years, the Mully Family has given their entire lives and considerable fortune to rescue, adopt, house, feed, clothe, and educate well over 13,000 Kenyan orphans who have graduated from the program as well as an additional 3,500 in the program currently. Additionally, Mully Children’s Family (MCF) is the #1 employer, the sole source of clean water, and the main source of healthcare for the Ndalani and Kithimani Divisions in the Yatta District in which MCF resides. They have provided free education and a daily lunch for over 1,000 children in five other locations. During the 2007 post-election violence, MCF provided daily hot food for over 7,000 children in the camp and food rations for 20,000 displaced persons at the Eldoret IDP Camp as well as education for the children there. Connect with Charles Mully Website Mully Movie Mully Childerens Family Facebook Twitter Take Your next Right Step Explore Coaching Leadership Support

Something we say at Stay Forth Designs is that the abundant life isn't a unicorn. It is possible to live an abundant life and it's made possible by pursing health before impact. When we find health we naturally find happiness and begin to live out of abundance instead of scarcity. But what is happiness? On today's episode, Alan has a great conversation with Pastor, Author, and O.G podcast guest Daniel Fusco about his new book Crazy Happy: Nine Surprising Ways to Live the Truly Beautiful Life and how Daniel would beat The Rock in a fight. About Daniel Daniel Fusco is an author, a church planter, and the lead pastor of Crossroads Community Church in Vancouver, Washington. His radio program, Jesus Is Real Radio, is broadcast across the country, and his TV show, Real with Daniel Fusco, airs weekly on the Hillsong Channel. He’s written articles for CBN, Preaching Today, Relevant, and USA Today, and is a regular contributor to Roma Downey’s LightWorkers. Daniel and his wife, Lynn, have three children and live in southwest Washington. Connect with Daniel www.danielfusco.com www.facebook.com/danielfusco Take your next right step  Explore Coaching Right Side Up Community

No matter what space you find yourself leading (business or otherwise), what you do is no longer enough to reach people.  The landscape is quickly changing as people want more experiential and relational connections when it comes to how they interact with organizations.  So how do you lead in the experience economy? On today's episode, Alan and Joe Pine, co author of The Experience Economy talk about why experiences are key to engaging people and why goods and services are no longer enough.  About Joe Pine Co-author of The Experience Economy, Joseph Pine II is an internationally acclaimed author, speaker, and management advisor to Fortune 500 companies and entrepreneurial start-ups alike. In 2020 Mr. Pine and his partner James H. Gilmore re-released in hardcover The Experience Economy: Competing for Customer Time, Attention, and Money featuring an all-new Preview to their best-selling 1999 book The Experience Economy: Work Is Theatre & Every Business a Stage. The book demonstrates how goods and services are no longer enough; what companies must offer today are experiences – memorable events that engage each customer in an inherently personal way. It further shows that in today’s Experience Economy companies now compete against the world for the time, attention, and money of individual customers. The Experience Economy has been published in fifteen languages and was named one of the 100 best business books of all time by 800ceoread (now Porchlight). Mr. Pine also co-wrote Infinite Possibility: Creating Customer Value on the Digital Frontier with Kim Korn, Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want with Mr. Gilmore in 2007, and in 1993 published his first book, the award-winning Mass Customization: The New Frontier in Business Competition. Each book details Mr. Pine's breakthrough thinking as he has accurately charted many structural shifts -- from individualizing goods to today’s focus on customer experiences and many other changes in the economy and consumer sensibility. The economic competitive reality of the future is fast-paced change. Mr. Pine helps clients design strategies to leverage these new economic opportunities and create experiences that drive revenue. Since revolutionizing the way we should approach and think about business with The Experience Economy, Joseph Pine has continued to be at the forefront as a thought leader. In his speaking and teaching activities, Mr. Pine has addressed the World Economic Forum, the original TED conference, and the Consumer Electronics Show. A former Visiting Scholar with the MIT Design Lab, he is currently a Lecturer with the Columbia University School of Professional Studies, and has also taught at Penn State, Duke Corporate Education, the University of Minnesota, UCLA's Anderson Graduate School of Management, and the Harvard Design School. He serves on the editorial boards of Strategy & Leadership and Strategic Direction and is a Senior Fellow with both the Design Futures Council and the European Centre for the Experience Economy, which he co-founded. Mr. Pine's experiences prior to co-founding Strategic Horizons include holding a variety of technical and managerial positions with IBM. Connect with Joe Strategic Horizons Books LinkedIn Take your next right step Thirty Days To Thrive Practical Leadership Tweaks Leadership support

Millennial. Elder Millennial. Zennial. Those are all terms that describe an interesting generation of individuals that grew up in the analogue era, but experienced the shift to digital era. How do we care for and raise up millennials? On today's episode, Alan and Author, Pastor, and life strategist, Benjamin Windle talk about what Millennials are and are not looking for in the Church. If there is one thing you do today it should be to listen to this podcast episode.    About Benjamin “Many years ago, I made a robust life decision: instead of criticising the state of the world, I decided to engage with the conversation. I wanted to be part of the solution.  That’s what I have been doing for the last 20 years—giving my life to play a part in helping others.” Benjamin is married to his high school sweetheart, Cindi. They have 3 sons and a cavoodle (Romeo). Benjamin’s entrepreneurial spark has helped him start and develop multiple businesses, and complete his Masters in Business. In their early twenties, Benjamin and Cindi Windle moved to the City of Roses—Portland, Oregon. In 2009, they returned to Australia, where they have continued both their business and ministry endeavours. As an expression of their passion to give back to the community and inspire people to become all they were created to be, they pioneered Lifeplace. His work helping churches develop Generational Intelligence in reaching Millennials and Gen Z has grown into a range of resources, coaching, and speaking. His recent release, “Eight Innovations to Leading Millennials”, was featured globally by the Hillsong Network and reached the #1 Bestseller list on Amazon in 2 categories.  Benjamin’s ‘Life Minute’ radio program brings 60 seconds of life skills to an estimated audience of one million listeners. Connect with Benjamin Website 8 Innovations to Leading Millennials Instagram Facebook Twitter Take your next right step Thirty Days To Thrive Right Side Up Community Tuesday Tune Up  

Seasons of transition are difficult especially when they are the result of loss. While navigating seasons of transition can be difficult, it is possible to thrive through them. On today's episode of the podcast, Alan and Dale kreienkamp, president an ceo of Thriving Through Transitions, talk about what people are experiencing who are unemployed and how to better care for them. This is an eye opening conversation. About Dale   Dale is the President & CEO of Thriving Through Transitions, a consultancy focused on helping individuals and organizations successfully navigate difficult, personal and professional, transitions and become better through the process.  His professional background includes over 40+ years as a Human Resources Executive and Consultant, coaching and guiding leaders.   He is a speaker, and the author of How Long, O Lord, How Long? Devotions for the Unemployed and Those Who Love Them, written after he personally experienced a journey of unemployment twice when his positions were eliminated in organizational restructuring.  As a result, Dale developed a strong desire to help others impacted by life’s challenges and unexpected transitions. He shares his message of hope and reinvention through transformational talks, inspirational devotions and life-changing programs.   Connect with Dale Website Book Facebook LinkedIn Twitter YouTube   Take your next right step Right Side Up Community Right Side Up Journal