The Chris LoCurto Show

Self-assessment time! Are you a driven leader? With most driven leaders, what often gets neglected are those soft skills that focus on different personality styles, creating culture, and especially the deeper, personal work that needs to be done inside the heart of a leader. These skills are necessary not only to be successful and to sustain that success, but to lead others well all along the way....

Fear is a phenomenon that all of us deal with at some level and, left unchecked, it can subtly begin to dominate our thoughts, decisions, and actions. While fear can be a healthy warning system, especially when getting chased by a lion, it can also be an unhealthy way of dealing with our stress and circumstances in life. Fear becomes a habitual response and even a defense mechanism we get conditio...

Hey leaders, What’s your measure, what are you made of, and where are you coming up short? You’ve probably heard the Latin maxim, "know thyself", which in ancient Greek literally meant "know thy measure". In today’s episode, Joel Fortner, VP of Leadership Development & Next-Level Life Facilitator sit down to talk about three ways in which leaders can overestimate their measure with regards to lead...

As a leader or parent, are you more apt to avoid, rather than engage, in tough conversations with those you lead? Well, you’re not alone! In fact, you’re actually pretty normal. Do you realize that the majority of leaders (and parents) have never been taught how to take on difficult conversations? And certainly not with sufficient tact, grace, or courage! So, what usually happens? Well, to be blun...

On today’s episode, what we’re really talking about is leading, teaching, and helping others - this could be at the office with team members or at home with your family - to take responsibility and grow (up). ​​​We discuss how to accurately assess your capacity as a leader, not to mention that of your team, and avoid falling into the traps that hold businesses back from scaling successfully. To st...

On today's episode we go over why worth really matters. Worth is the value that’s assigned to or associated with a person or thing. What you’ve accepted about who and what you are, no matter where that information came from, is one of the biggest factors in how you see yourself. It can be the very thing holding us back from living life to the fullest or propelling us forward towards our dreams and...

Are you overestimating your knowledge or capacity and setting yourself up for failure and burn out? This is one of the reasons that leaders get trapped in The Leadership Crazy Cycle by being task saturated and over committed. Listen now to learn how to accurately assess your capacity as a leader, not to mention that of your team, and avoid falling into the traps that hold businesses back from scal...

Self-sabotage refers to behaviors or thought patterns that hold you back and prevent you from doing what you want to do, getting on with your life, your family, your mission and ministry. Listen now to learn how to identify self-sabotaging tactics, address them and then shift your mindset to getting yourself unstuck to be truly authentic!

The last few months on the podcast we’ve talked about clarifying direction, personal responsibility, and living authentically in life and leadership. We want to pause and bring you up to speed on how we’ve been living these things out in our own lives – behind the scenes – at a place we call The Ridge at Leiper’s Creek. A place that’s meant to serve people physically, emotionally, spiritually and...

Do you have a shepherd's heart? Today you will find out: what being a shepherd really means and why it's so important, key characteristics of leaders who shepherd others, and how you can have a similar heart and mindset. You're going to learn keys to grow and develop leaders who love God and love people. This starts with who YOU are as a leader, because that’s who you're ultimately going to replic...

On today’s episode the coaches gather together to discuss the most listened to episodes of 2021. Joel, Aaron and I, will go over what the most important takeaways from those episodes were, and what we need to carry with us into 2022. Find out on today's countdown, what our most listened to episode of 2021 is!

Learn how to grow success and master how to lead remote team members, navigating the challenges of multiple time zones, cultural differences, and even mild language barriers.  On today’s episode, my VP of Leadership Development Joel Fortner will help us identify and navigate the various challenges of leading remote teams and how to lead them to success. Also one of our own remote team members, Bri...

In part 1 of Strengthening Your Emotional Stability, we discussed how to recognize your current condition, as well as your daily contribution to your emotional health, and how different personality styles respond to feeling out of control. Now I want to dig into some things you can do to take control of your stability. In this episode, we go over the five emotional stability boosters that you need...

Strengthening your emotional stability may be your best defense against the craziness of the world we live in. In order to gain that strength, you must use self-awareness as a valuable tool to assess your condition and improve it. Today's three key points will help to analyze yourself and the role you play in your own emotional stability. What does the structure of your life look like? Are you eat...

Do you ever feel like you're just trying to keep up with the speed of tasks and "fires" that come your way? Or the number of decisions you have to make every day? This is no way for a leader to live! It's critically important for leaders to get out of, what we call, "The Leadership Crazy Cycle," so they have more time to concentrate and lead people to success in their roles. Leaders who have TIME...

Today’s episode is part 2 of "Personal Responsibility in the Age of Entitlement". We’re going over how to change your inner dialog, complain less, and move towards taking responsibility for everything that we have control over in our lives! So while you listen today, think about what Jordan Peterson says, "Treat yourself like someone you’re responsible for helping."

Our theme for the month is Personal Responsibility, and today we’re focusing on how entitlement can easily make us play the role of victims and refuse to accept responsibility for our lives and actions. The person with a sense of entitlement believes: everything that happens should somehow benefit them. Anything unfavorable or unfortunate that happens in life is happening “to” them. The person wit...

Today's episode is part 2 of "3 Ways to Avoid Mission Drift". This week we continue with what happens when you've found yourself drifting away from your mission and how to get out of that "crazy cycle". It’s ok to force a culture of accountability if you want to avoid drift. Part of forcing culture is teaching your team what is right. Learn how to rehearse your vision with your team. If you don’t...

Navigating Life with Courage You’ve got clarity on your purpose and who you are in life, but what now? Learn how to maintain your course with confidence! Today we dive into the three keys to courage in times of trial. • Take courage- You can choose to be discouraged when setbacks come, or you can choose the courage to move forward with confidence. -Anonymous • Follow your instruments- Find out wha...

Have you ever found yourself drifting away from your mission? Where you're just trying to survive the "crazy cycle"? It's easy to get off track and "drift" from your original plan and purpose. Drifting happens one decision at a time and eventually, your decisions start to drift away from the direction you had set. We decide our way into drift and we can decide our way out of it... Today we dive in...

Many leaders stumble and fall because of dis-ordered lives, but God wants us to live well-ordered lives. What do you need to do and/or change today, in order to gain perspective and clarity? Beginning with a goal or purpose in life is a great start but in order to discover your purpose you must know who you are at your core. Today we go through the 4 important questions to ask yourself for more cl...

You are not here by accident! You were created on purpose for a purpose! Making sure you have a a clear purpose might be just what you need to propel you to the next level in life and business. In this episode, we discuss the path of finding out what that purpose is, and how it will help launch you into your potential. We also go over what type of effects may occur in your life when you do not hav...

What’s the number one obstacle that I see when it comes to personal relationships? You guessed it, bad communication. That’s why we revisit this subject so often, because it’s something we have to continually work on. Cultivating healthy communication is a lot like gardening; no matter how much time and attention we invest in the garden of our communication, we’ll always have to deal with the weed...

What are the influences that you're currently choosing in your life? You know, we all have various influences that are currently at work in our lives, shaping our thought patterns, habits and behaviors, and ultimately our character. The tricky part can be discerning the effect they’re having on us, and what to do about them! The theme for the month of September has been influence, and in this fina...

What’s the number one obstacle that I see when it comes to personal relationships? You guessed it, bad communication. That’s why we revisit this subject so often, because it’s something we have to continually work on. Cultivating healthy communication is a lot like gardening; no matter how much time and attention we invest in the garden of our communication, we’ll always have to deal with the weed...