The H2 Leadership Podcast

On today's episode, consultant, coach, professor and author Bryan Sims shares the REAL challenges with leading alone vs leading together and even gives Alan consulting feedback on the team challenges Stay Forth is facing. This is a longer episode, but a very practical one. About Bryan Bryan is a pioneer, coach, writer, and professor. He has worked since 2001 as a Leadership and Organizational Chan...

Leadership is hard. The challenges and questions associated with leading well are wide ranging. For example, how do you lead a team or organization that you didn't start?  On today's episode, Alan talks with consultant and writer Tyler Reagin about how to navigate the challenges of leading a team or organization you didn't start About Tyler Tyler Reagin is an author the founder and CEO of The Life...

As we conclude out series on a dozen axioms that will change your life, Alan offers a summary of each axiom in today's episode. We want to encourage you to go back and listen to these again and even share them with friends, colleagues, and those you lead. Level your leadership in 2022 Right Side Up Collective Purchase a Right Side Up Journal Schedule your FREE breakthrough coaching session  

On today's episode, Alan has a great conversation with pastor and leader Mark Johnston about disorientation and why it's part of our life and leadership journey.    About Mark   is the founder and lead pastor of The Journey. He and his wife Susie have two kids, Madeline and Conner. Fueled by a passion to reach unchurched people, Mark and Susie began The Journey in 2007, creating an engaging commun...

Leaders are constantly pulled between tasks and people. This is normal. In fact, many definitions of leadership involve the idea of getting tasks done through people. This tension between tasks and people is one of the hardest tensions leaders live in, and I believe it’s gotten harder in recent years. On today's episode, Alan digs into the tension of being accessible versus available and why it's...

Have you ever considered the ease with which you can access information or connect with someone hundreds, even thousands of miles away? Technology is an amazing tool that affords us the ability to do some pretty incredible things.  The technology landscape is changing though, and whenever we experience change, a level of fear and uncertainty comes with it.  On today's episode, Alan sits down with...

What got you into your current role? Charisma? Connections? Hard work? Competency? A head start? Brilliant ideas? Natural gifting? A great interview?  Something got you where you are, but it won’t get you where you want to go. It was helpful, but it won’t be sufficient.  Level your leadership in 2022 Right Side Up Collective Purchase a Right Side Up Journal Schedule your FREE breakthrough coaching...

On Today's episode, Alan sits down with Pastor, speaker, and author for a conversation about the power of place, stability and roots when it comes to our life and leadership.    About Daniel Daniel Grothe is the associate senior pastor at New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He is a pastor, speaker, drummer, and author of the book Chasing Wisdom. Daniel and his wife, Lisa, live on a smal...

On today's episode, we continue in our Dozen Axiom series with a conversation around the importance of consistently showing your work.  Level your leadership in 2022 Right Side Up Collective Purchase a Right Side Up Journal Schedule your FREE breakthrough coaching session

On today's episode, Alan sits down with Pastor and Author Sean Nemecek for a much needed conversation about pastoral burnout, criticism, and sabbaticals for pastors. Sean shares part of his own story about burnout and why he cares so deeply for helping pastors navigate burnout and into a place of healthy leadership.   About Sean Nemecek Sean is the West Michigan Regional Director for Pastor-in-Res...

One of the greatest challenges for leaders is discerning who should get their time. We want to help everyone, but, at some point, we all realize we cannot and should not say yes to every request.   If we are not laser focused on our discernment of time requests we find ourselves trying to chase some of those people down. Many times they have no desire to change or grow, but they want something fro...

On today's episode, Alan talks with Mark and Sarah Adams about how coaching transformed their life and leadreship and helped serve as a catalyst for their own coaching with married couples.  Next Alan sits down with Leaders from to amazing organizations, Forge America and Communitas International for a discussion about reimagining communities of faith. About Forge America From day one, we set out...

Many leaders are living muted. They are straddling these two gray zones of struggle and joy. Putting out fires. Serving the organization. Doing the same thing each week wondering if they are having an impact. Not truly living, just existing. Is this you? On today's episode, Alan comes with an invitation to do something revolutionary; pay attention to what you pay attention to. it feels unnatural,...

On today's episode, Alan sits down with Brian Sanders for an interview about life, calling, and the two are dynamic and not static.  About Brian As a social entrepreneur, Brian has helped to start hundreds of missional enterprises, including churches, nonprofits, and businesses all over the world. Most notably, Brian is the founder and former Executive Director of the Underground Network; an inter...

If you find yourself overwhelmed it turns out you’re normal, but you can’t stay there. Our culture seems to be stumbling drunk from a strange concoction of insecurity, overwork and boredom. If we don’t learn how to resist this we’ll fall in either the ditch of overwhelm or underwhelm. Without knowing it I think we’re all asking a core but silent question deep in our hearts, “How do I get whelmed?”...

It's almost March, and if you're like most people, the newness and excitement for your goals you passionately set back in January is starting to wear off.  What do you do when you start to question whether or not you can actually achieve your goals?  On today's episode, Alan Briggs and Jonathan Collier get super practical with a conversation about the importance of re-establishing your habits and...

Have you ever met one of those people who seems to live at a different frequency? They go hard in life, with their family and at work, but they seem deeply fulfilled. They know themselves, so they have a pretty good grip on saying no. They’re life seems to weave together in intentional ways, and they still have margin. These folks are living from their unique design.  On today's episode, Alan unpa...

On today's episode, Alan has a great interview with Nancy Ortberg about spiritual disciplines and why there may be a better term simply a discipline. About Nancy Nancy Ortberg served as a teaching pastor for eight years at Willow Creek Community Church in South Barrington, Illinois. During that time she led Network, a ministry that helps people identify their spiritual gifts and find a place of se...

Scripture is clear that who we are matters more than what we do (but, of course, what we do should begin to align with who we are). Ephesians says we are God’s workmanship (think poem, song, painting) before we have work to do. Jesus describes a healthy tree that bears healthy fruit because it has healthy roots. Our identity as daughters and sons is more important than our impact as leaders.  Leve...

On today's episode Alan has a great conversation speaker, author, and entrepreneur, Lathan Craft about his story, and passion to help people find meaning in the messiest seasons of life.   About Lathan At Lathan Craft, we know that you want to live a life of meaning. In order to do that, you need a way to help navigate the mess that life can throw your way. The problem is sometimes it’s too hard t...

Here’s a morbid question; how many ideas are buried in your local graveyard? Some of the best ideas, potentially life-changing ideas, die with people. Why? Fear kept them buried inside. Fear convinces us we should never start. It whispers to us, “Who are you to do THIS? What right do you have? Would anyone even care about this?” It paralyzes us into indecision and procrastination. If you’re waitin...

On today's episode, Alan has a great conversation with author, entrepreneur and leadership expert, Matt Shoup about why leading with vulnerability is important. Alan also has a conversation with  a coaching client about how coaching is helping him find health and sustainable impact in his context.  About Matt In March of 2005, Matt was laid off from a corporate banking job that he absolutely hated...

Leaders must create filters for what they let in and what they let out. This includes content we ingest, travel opportunities, tasks we accept and regular meetings. The best way to get your life back is to revisit your priorities and make decisions based on them. You will disappoint people eventually, I recommend doing it proactively. Good opportunities are everywhere, and are blocking you from am...

On today's episode, Alan and Jonathan make a big announcement that you don't want to miss.  We are helping leaders like you get healthy and reach sustainable impact. The number of decisions you have to make in the course of a week are real and things like decision fatigue and overwhelm seem to lurk around every corner. We understand these complexities and know the importance of coaching and contin...

You pop out of bed on Monday feeling frantic. You’re ten minutes behind because you hit snooze and the anxiety is pumping through your veins. The week ahead is looming over you. You scroll through your emails, pop into Instagram and scramble to pick out your clothes. You pull the kids out of bed and race around the kitchen helping them pack their lunches. After all the chaos at home you get to the...