ServingLeaders Podcast

ServingLeaders Founder and Executive Director, Dave Wiedis, interviews Bill and Kristi Gualtiere on their brand new book on the Enneagram called, "Healthy Feelings Thriving Faith: Growing Emotionally and Spiritually Through the Enneagram." Bill and Kristi are the founders of Soul Shepherding . Both are Therapists and Spiritual Directors with decades of experience in ministering to pastor...

On this episode, Joe Watkins hosts ServingLeaders' Founder and Executive Director, Dave Wiedis, on the television show, State of Independence, and interviews Dave on the reasons for and response to leadership failure.

On this testimonial episode, Gilbert Trusty, Associate Pastor of Calvary Chapel of Philadelphia and Chaplain of the Philadelphia Police Department, shares about the importance of having a safe environment and person with whom to share one's challenges and burdens.

In this continuation of the conversation between ServingLeaders' Dave Wiedis and Netzer's Tim Doering, they unpack the healthy and unhealthy family dynamics within the church and ways to humbly work together as a community through difficult situations.

For this episode, ServingLeaders' Founder and Executive Director, Dave Wiedis, in collaboration with Netzer, has a robust conversation with Netzer's Tim Doering covering the unrealistic expectations placed on pastors, ways to identify toxic leadership, and good practices to foster healthy leadership.

On this episode, you will hear a short testimonial from client-turned-counselor Sherin Abraham. She discusses her experience with ServingLeaders and how that ultimately led her to want to join our team.

On this episode, you will hear a short testimonial from Paul Reader, Director of Ministries at Great Valley Presbyterian Church, on how ServingLeaders helped him navigate through a difficult season of ministry leadership transition.

On this episode, you will hear our keynote interview-style speech from our Annual Celebration Banquet. In this interview, Pastor Phil Carnuccio and former CRU Missions Leader Jim Rhodes discuss the heart of ServingLeaders Ministries and the many ways in which we have seen God's faithfulness through our work.

On this episode, Dave continues his conversation with Jon Sovocool and Dr. Penny Freeman about handling holiday stressors and discusses the strategies for addressing loneliness and depression.

On this episode, Dave continues his conversation with counselors Jon Sovocool and Dr. Penny Freeman about the holiday stressors and discusses the characteristics of toxic relationships and how to handle them. 

On this episode, Dave Wiedis joins ServingLeaders’ Clinical Director Jon Sovocool, and Dr. Penny Freeman, Assistant Clinical Director, for a conversation about the common stressors of the holiday season and how to find and increase our emotional capacity and set up healthy boundaries.

On this episode, Dave Wiedis, ServingLeaders' Clinical Director Jon Sovocool, and Counselor Bob Fair discuss Created for Connection, a relationship workshop for couples. They talk about the "dance of disconnection" that all relationships can get caught in, and the tools they provide in this workshop to help relationships be more compassionate and understanding.

On this episode, ServingLeaders' Communications Director, Angela Carnuccio, interviews Dave Wiedis about his three-month sabbatical: how he knew it was time to take a sabbatical, what he learned, and how he planned it so as not to squander the gift.

On this episode, ServingLeaders' Communications Director Angela Carnuccio continues her interview with Dave Wiedis about his three-month sabbatical: how he knew it was time to take a sabbatical, what he learned, and how he planned it so as not to squander the gift.

On this episode, Dave Wiedis talks with missionary Jim Rhodes as he shares invaluable spiritual lessons he has learned about finding strength in the power and grace of Christ while battling metastatic cancer. 

On this episode, Dave Wiedis talks with our new Missionary Care & Counseling Associates, the Kishbaughs, about their transition from international church planting to missionary care, counseling, debriefing, and intensives. They describe how to keep missionaries effective in ministry, and their vision for being on the ServingLeaders team.

On this episode, ServingLeaders' Clinical Director Jon Sovocool interviews Adam O'Neill of O'Neill and Associates to discuss a Biblical view of mental health concerns, holistic psychiatry, and counseling.

On this episode, Dave Wiedis interviews Sue Corl of Crown of Beauty on the importance of addressing our struggles before entering ministry and missionary work.  

On this episode, Dave Wiedis interviews Scott Sauls, senior pastor of Christ Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Tennessee. They discuss his new book, "Beautiful People Don't Just Happen," the pressures of being in pastoral leadership over a "mega-church," and lessons learned in ministry.

On this episode, Dave interviews Rick James, former Cru Press Publisher and Author, on his experience with engaging organizational change as it relates to race, justice, and the gospel while serving in Campus Crusade for Christ.

On this episode, Dave Wiedis talks with counselor and dietitian Laura Nagy about getting unstuck in your relationship with food and your body, and the ways that eating impact our emotional, spiritual, and physical health. 

On this episode, Dave interviews Rick James, former Cru Press Publisher and Author, on the concept of abstraction and how we can be more mindful of it in order to better love and serve others.

On this episode, Dave Wiedis interviews Dr. Mark Yarhouse, the Director of the Sexual & Gender Identity Institute at Wheaton College. They discuss the challenges of shepherding the church through the complexities presented by issues of gender identity and gender dysphoria. 

On this episode, Dave Wiedis continues his conversation with Rob Campbell about his transition out of, and back into ministry leadership.

On this episode, Dave Wiedis interviews pastor Rob Campbell of Bethel Baptist Church on facing the challenges of pastoral burnout and navigating leadership changes at his church.