Men's Leadership Network Podcast

What We Heard:  The call to be a dad is a hard but incredibly important calling that will have a lasting impact on your family for generations to come. Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk...

What We Heard:  After the death of his father at a young age, Pat was blessed by the entrance of other men including a baseball coach/scout master who invested in his life. While serving in the Air Force, Pat was put in contact with an insurance sales manager to help his own long-term planning. That manager inquired about Pat’s post Air Force plans and the rest was history. His own father’s strate...

What We Heard:  Rodney Wilson, Pastoral Counselor at LifePoint Church in Smyrna, TN, reminds us that marriage takes work! There WILL be conflict. It’s not a question of ‘if’ it will happen but instead ‘how’ will we respond when it does happen. Married couples will face issues on many fronts. Some will seem very small and others will appear unresolvable. Are we prepared for the conflict? Rodney, wh...

Wouldn’t it be nice if we always got our worth from the right place? Throughout the course of our day we interact with our spouses, go to our jobs, lead meetings, meet with clients, hang out with friends, play games with our kids, coach soccer and the list goes on and on. Each of these arenas of our life are areas where we can get our value and worth. However, each of these areas have something in...

What We Heard:  Even in the face of devastating personal tragedy, Bill continued to learn about spiritual leadership. One developing growth curve for Bill was learning that if the leader isn’t in a good place personally, overall leadership suffers.   Leading others starts with leading yourself. For Bill, the goal of leadership isn’t just leading people to Christ, but loving well. When we love well...

In sports (as in life’s other arenas) there are extreme highs and extreme lows. Proper perspective concerning what’s next keeps you going through the emotional ups and downs. Great games and bad moments never mean the ones that follow will be the same. Winning and losing are not constants. God is. “You handle the effort; God handles the results.” We don’t have the control we think we do. What It M...

Being a dad is job number one for me. We work hard to learn and excel in our workplace / vocation but what about our primary roles. Part of our passion for fatherhood must be derived from God’s call on our life to serve Him by loving and leading our kids well. The other part of that passion is sheer delight. Derek’s dad always delighted in Derek and that’s a valuable lesson Derek employs in his ow...

The daily monotony of life can get in the way of investing in your marriage, but the truth is, every relationship deserves time and dating your wife shouldn’t end after your wedding day, or be limited to anniversaries and Valentine’s Day. What It Means: Make every moment matter. Showing your spouse you care doesn’t always mean making the most romantic grand gesture. Simply taking time out of your...

Williamson County Mayor Rogers Anderson talks about his career in public service and how his faith has shaped how he leads and considers the upcoming elections.

Joel was gifted a leadership lesson as an eight year old on a soccer team that formed him. From his coach/father, he learned that a leader should never require something he himself isn’t willing to do. he learned that true leadership begins with service and setting an example. Leadership is also collaborative. Approaching problems and looking for solutions is better together when multiple perspect...

Jason Crockarell, Owner of Flavor Catering, talks about keeping Christ, his family and his staff as top priorities while operating and growing one of the most successful catering companies in Nashville.

What We Heard: As men we are bombarded with the ideas of being more, earning more, doing more, achieving the next thing, keeping up, measuring up and winning. Whether it is our jobs, family or other obligations, who among us has not stopped and wondered “is this it?” Do I have to be defined by all these things or is there something more? Granted, our jobs and demands are all things we should and n...

Isaac Meek, the founder of Five Daughters Bakery, motivated each of us today as he spoke about his business and transition from the corporate world into starting a bakery. But more than the story of fast growth and creating awesome products, we all walked away with a better understanding of what it really means to succeed. Success is not measured in just revenue or expansion but in the way you tre...

Success in the business world is measured by achievements or metrics, predominantly financial in nature. Individual goals are tied to a person’s contributions to overall business goals. Viewing those goals with a spiritual lens begins with the recognition that you don’t accomplish any of your goals on your own. Whatever support system exists at home shares the credit. Whatever team you lead or ser...

Growing up in a home with Christian parents, Mike accepted Christ at a young age. He grew up playing hockey, like most young boys in Canada, and early in his career he found success. But, with success came temptation. After several years of living a life of access and excess, but feeling empty inside, God opened Mike’s eyes to see how He sees and used several key encounters to point him back to Ch...

Our role as husband is one of the greatest blessings we get to experience as men. It can also be one of our greatest challenges. Lets face it, men and women are wired differently. We like to distance ourselves emotionally and, when things do go wrong, our natural response is to fix it and move on. But, as we learn in this interview with Bobby Gibbs, Director of Medical Communications Planning for...

Jeff Simmons talks with Steve Norris about what the goal in life is. Steve Norris is the President and Board Chair and full-time volunteer of 4:13 Strong, an organization that exists to help disadvantaged men find full-time employment in the construction industry.

Jeff Simmons talks with Tim Burke about how every day matters. Tim Burke, after having been diagnosed with stage four cancer, decided to use his platform to share the power of Christ. Circumstances can often negatively impact the way we lead others, but we have the opportunity to rise above our circumstances and choose to lead well.

John Felkins, is EntreLeadership Director of Coaching and Community. Listen in this episode as he addresses the importance of passing leadership on. He works every day with business leaders from across the country, helping them generate improvements to their companies by applying the EntreLeadership way of doing business. He is passionate about small-business owners becoming warriors in the market...

Former University of Tennessee Athletic Director and current Executive Director of Show Hope, Mike Hamilton, discusses the importance of being vulnerable in the way you lead. He challenges us to speak truth in all circumstances, even when it's not easy or popular. 

In this episode we talk with Richard Perko, President and CEO of Lee Company, a $160 million mechanical contracting, facilities and home services company with more than 1000 employees, and is one of the largest mechanical contractor in Tennessee.

In this episode, we hear from Charles Overby, Chairman of  Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics as he discusses how we might better navigate what has become the most important presidential election in the past 70 years.

Jeff Simmons talks with Matt Largen about understanding our community. Matt Largen serves as President and CEO of Williamson, Inc. Previously he served as the Director of the Williamson County Office of Economic Development where he managed and directed countywide economic development strategies.

Recently, Jeff Simmons' father, Lamar Simmons, passed away. He was a wonderful man of God, husband, father, and grandfather. During this podcast, Jeff shares with Nic Allen what he learned through this experience of loss and his dad's legacy.

We interview Tom Atema, President and CEO of Atema Partners, about how he plans not only for work, but for life; and how you can too.