Lead Stories Podcast

In part 2 of stepping into empowerment as a woman, Jo and Steph discuss 9 further ways to be intentional about embracing our callings.    5) Willingness to risk 6) embrace the season you are in and have the right expectations of the season you are in right now. 7) Building a network of relationships. 8) Network with people in your field. 9) We need to articulate it and say what we are called to. 1...

What does it mean to step into empowerment as a woman? This week Jo and Steph discuss 4 ways we can embrace our callings:   1) Embracing our identities and covenant relationship with God 2) Looking at where we have limited ourselves and made assumptions that we have nothing to offer. 3) Making our character's a priority 4) Looking for accessible role models doing what you are passionate about.   D...

Many leaders are asking how they can empower women into their callings. Today Jo and Steph discuss 5 ways:   1) Look at the assumptions we already have 2) Ask, seek, knock 3) Consider viable vehicles of discipleship and training. 4) make it visible 5) give people several tangible opportunities (and let them fail / be mediocre).       Discussion questions: 1) What assumptions do you have about wome...

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Today's episode is a practical one - how can we prepare well and find our voice as we lead others when we need to speak up? How can we prepare for a small group or a PTA meeting or to give a talk and still do it within our own personalities? Jo and Steph share their journey's into public speaking and how they prepare for those settings in different ways within their own personalities.    Discussio...

How can we grow in our leadership? What things can take us to the next level and how can we intentionally engage with them?   In this episode, Jo and Steph discuss things that have enhanced and grown their leadership, from specific people, learning about their own personalities, resources they have read and people they have observed.   They also share how God has been growing them recently in lead...

In this episode Jo and Steph discuss leadership, starting with the definition of leadership being influence.   Sharing from their own journeys into leadership, Jo and Steph highlight signposts on the way to realizing they were leaders and look at prominent biblical characters and the ways they lead others even before they came into their calling.   Being a leader is also about recognizing our own...

Follow Lead Stories Podcast to interact with Steph and Jo: Twitter: @LeadStoriesVox Instagram: @LeadStoriesPodcast Facebook: LeadStoriesPodcast Connect with Jo at: www.josaxton.com @josaxton Connect with Steph at: www.pastorsteph.com @pastorsteph Subscribe on iTunes to have the podcast automatically download to your device every week or listen at www.leadstoriespodcast.com www.leadstoriesmedia.com...

Jo's Blog on What do you see when you look in the mirror: http://www.josaxton.com/2016/02/08/what-do-you-see-when-you-look-in-the-mirror/   Follow Lead Stories Podcast to interact with Steph and Jo: Twitter: @LeadStoriesVox Instagram: @LeadStoriesPodcast Facebook: LeadStoriesPodcast Connect with Jo at: www.josaxton.com @josaxton Connect with Steph at: www.pastorsteph.com @pastorsteph Subscribe on...

Follow Lead Stories Podcast to interact with Steph and Jo: Twitter: @LeadStoriesVox Instagram: @LeadStoriesPodcast Facebook: LeadStoriesPodcast Connect with Jo at: www.josaxton.com @josaxton Connect with Steph at: www.pastorsteph.com @pastorsteph Subscribe on iTunes to have the podcast automatically download to your device every week or listen at www.leadstoriespodcast.com www.leadstoriesmedia.com...

Video: Failure of Nerve Summary:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgdcljNV-Ew Follow Lead Stories Podcast to interact with Steph and Jo: Twitter: @LeadStoriesVox Instagram: @LeadStoriesPodcast Facebook: LeadStoriesPodcast Connect with Jo at: www.josaxton.com @josaxton Connect with Steph at: www.pastorsteph.com @pastorsteph Subscribe on iTunes to have the podcast automatically download to your devi...

Continuing to answer your questions on life in the wilderness, Jo and Steph discuss the diversity of different wilderness seasons, from becoming parents to infertility, singleness, unemployment, sickness and church discord. What are ways to cope in the wilderness without community? When you see a wilderness season coming how can you be prepared? Zephaniah 3:17 - God desires to quiet you with His l...

Jo and Steph take some time to answer your questions relating to the wilderness.   Questions this week include: What do you do when the wilderness is thrust upon you? What is the balance between accepting and rejecting the wilderness? How do you handle disappointments in the wilderness?   Discussion questions: 1) When you think about different wilderness seasons in your life can you think of one w...

What does it look like to experience purpose in the wilderness?   This week Jo and Steph look at key men and women in the Bible who were given a calling and a promise and then for an extended period of time they recieved the exact opposite to what God had promised.   They also take time to look at Joshua and Caleb, faithful leaders who were ready to respond to God's invitations to enter the Promis...

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Identity is one of the areas God often puts a finger on during our wilderness seasons. We may suddenly find ourselves stripped of our identities or taking on an identity in an unhealthy way. Often wilderness seasons lead us back to the question: 'who am I actually?' and hopefully then onto finding out who God says we are: His masterpieces. Before Jesus starts ministry His identity is declared: Thi...

Jesus has two significant experiences before His ministry begins - first His baptism and then He is driven into the wilderness by the Holy Spirit to be tempted by Satan.  First he receives a declaration of love and approval from His Father before He has done anything, and then He is driven into a harsh physical wilderness.   In this episode Jo and Steph discuss Jesus' wilderness journey in Matthew...

It is the beginning of Lent, a season where the church has traditionally laid aside things in order to create space for God. The start of a new series of Life in the Wilderness, Jo and Steph discuss those times we all face but all would prefer not to - those desert times.   They discuss what the wilderness may look like and has looked like for them: times where we feel spiritually dry, where our f...

Follow Lead Stories Podcast to interact with Steph and Jo: Twitter: @LeadStoriesVox Instagram: @LeadStoriesPodcast Facebook: LeadStoriesPodcast Connect with Jo at: www.josaxton.com @josaxton Connect with Steph at: www.pastorsteph.com @pastorsteph Subscribe on iTunes to have the podcast automatically download to your device every week or listen at www.leadstoriespodcast.com www.leadstoriesmedia.com...

Jo and Steph continue on in part two of three episodes on the topic of leadership. The focus for this episode is on how leaders must look for those who will invest in them as well as live intentionally to invest in others. Who is investing in you? Who are you investing in?   Follow Lead Stories Podcast to interact with Steph and Jo: Twitter: @LeadStoriesVox Instagram: @LeadStoriesPodcast Facebook:...

In this episode, Steph has the opportunity to interview a friend of her and Jo named Gwen Adams. She is the executive director of a ministry called Priceless that helps to rescue women from sex trafficking in Anchorage. To learn more go to: www. PricelessAlaska.com .   Follow Lead Stories Podcast to interact with Steph and Jo: Twitter: @LeadStoriesVox Instagram: @LeadStoriesPodcast Facebook: LeadS...

Jo and Steph begin part one of three conversations on Leadership. The focus for this episode is on how deeply leaders must rely on their relationship with God if they are going to lead out in Kingdom ways. They ponder the questions: How do leaders hear from God? How does our relationship with God fuel our leadership and influence?   Follow Lead Stories Podcast to interact with Steph and Jo: Twitte...

A new year is a chance to step into new invitations that God has for each of us. It's time to say "hello" to 2016. To do that, we may need to say "goodbye" to some things that God is inviting us to let go of and leave in 2015. Jo and Steph discuss their process of stepping into the new year with God's purposes and direction. What are you saying "hello" to in 2016? What are you saying "goodbye" to...

A new year is a chance to step into new invitations that God has for each of us. It's time to say "hello" to 2016. To do that, we may need to say "goodbye" to some things that God is inviting us to let go of and leave in 2015. Jo and Steph discuss their process of stepping into the new year with God's purposes and direction. What are you saying "hello" to in 2016? What are you saying "goodbye" to...