How We Are Leading Our Family Team

05/11/21 • 27 min

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The L3 Leadership Podcast with Doug Smith

In this episode of the L3 Leadership Podcast, Doug Smith shares how he and Laura are leading their family team.
ABOUT DOUG SMITH:

Doug is the Director of Development at Light of Life Rescue Mission and Founder and CEO of L3 Leadership. He is the author of his eBook, “Making the Most of Mentoring”, a step by step guide to help you build and cultivate relationships with mentors. He blogs at dougsmithlive.com, he is the host of the L3 Leadership podcast, and he is sought after public speaker. He is married to his high school sweetheart, Laura, who currently works as an Account Executive at Ivalua. Together, they love family, personal growth, travel, working out, and serving others.

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6 Key Take-Aways From Episode 276.

Doug shares the concept of the Family Team. We Find our identity in our family team first. Everything we do contributes to the family team. We’re a family team on Mission... we want to have generations of Family Teams that live for God and make a difference for Him.
Doug teaches the legacy of Jonathan Edwards and Max Juke.
Doug discusses Stay-at-home parenting vs. parents who go to work.
We try to be as consistent as possible! “Day to day intensity, week to week consistency builds champions!” – Jim Rankin
8 Things that Doug & Laura implement to help their children grow.
Doug shares the importance of having fun as a family.

LINKS MENTIONED IN EPISODE 276:

Intentional Parenting - Phil and Diane Comer

Family Revision - Jeremy Pryor

Tech-wise Family by Andy Couch

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In this episode of the L3 Leadership Podcast, Doug Smith shares how he and Laura are leading their family team.
ABOUT DOUG SMITH:

CONNECT WITH DOUG:

6 Key Take-Aways From Episode 276.

Doug shares the concept of the Family Team. We Find our identity in our family team first. Everything we do contributes to the family team. We’re a family team on Mission... we want to have generations of Family Teams that live for God and make a difference for Him.
Doug teaches the legacy of Jonathan Edwards and Max Juke.
Doug discusses Stay-at-home parenting vs. parents who go to work.
We try to be as consistent as possible! “Day to day intensity, week to week consistency builds champions!” – Jim Rankin
8 Things that Doug & Laura implement to help their children grow.
Doug shares the importance of having fun as a family.

LINKS MENTIONED IN EPISODE 276:

Intentional Parenting - Phil and Diane Comer

Family Revision - Jeremy Pryor

Tech-wise Family by Andy Couch

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The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry with John Mark Comer

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Episode Summary

In this episode of the L3 Leadership Podcast, Doug Smith interviews John Mark Comer, Author of The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry and pastor of Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon. In the episode, you’ll hear Doug and John Mark discuss the importance of the sabbath, how to work from rest, and having a proper view of success.

6 Key Takes From Episode 275

John Mark discusses “pleasure-stacking” on the Sabbath and his journey toward making the weekly sabbath a lifestyle.
Comer talks about how painful it was for him to live the life of hurry.
The levels of belief:
1. What we say we believe
2. What we think we believe
3. What we really believe (Our true/core beliefs)
Proper decision-making: Don’t make decisions from exhaustion, but with much rest and waiting. Comer also discuss how decisions should be made in community.
John Mark shares his thoughts on success - what it looks like.
In the digital age, we have to take digital Sabbath very seriously.

About John Mark Comer

Author John Mark Comer lives, works, and writes in the urban core of Portland, Oregon, with his wife, Tammy, and their three children, Jude, Moses, and Sunday.

He is the pastor for teaching and vision at Bridgetown Church soon to be transitioning to lead a new non-profit Practicing The Way.

Prior to planting Bridgetown, John Mark was the lead pastor of a suburban megachurch. Before that, he played in a band. John Mark has a master's degree in biblical and theological studies from Western Seminary and is the author of The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry, God Has a Name, Garden City & Loveology. His next book is due out 9/28 entitled Live No Lies: Recognize and Resist the Three Enemies That Sabotage Your Peace.

For more of John Mark's teachings on the Scriptures, Jesus, and life, go to bridgetown.church and sign up for the podcast or visit www.johnmarkcomer.com.

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Links Mentioned

The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer

Loveology by John Mark Comer

Garden City by John Mark Comer

God Has a Name by John Mark Comer

Bridgetown Church

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Why Every Leader needs a Life Plan and a Coach with Daniel Harkavy

In this episode of the L3 Leadership Podcast, Doug Smith interviews Daniel Harkavy, best-selling author and Founder & CEO of Building Champions, an international life and leadership coaching company that serves some of the world's greatest organizations.

About Daniel Harkavy:

As a coach to some of the country's highest-profile executives, Daniel Harkavy has witnessed the transformation--both professional and personal--that comes when leaders utilize coaching to turn their paycheck-driven teams into vibrant and successful growth cultures. Since founding his company in 1996, Harkavy and his team have coached thousands and shared their knowledge by certifying coaching leaders across the country. Now, in this strategic and thought-provoking guide, he shares his proven strategy for improving your team's performance while raising quality of life inside and outside of the office. You'll learn the core four foundations to every coaching strategy, the most powerful leadership tools you can and should leverage, and the key behaviors and disciplines of successful coaching leaders. Coaching makes developing people a high-payoff activity. Complete with quick leadership quizzes and a quick-reference road map for implementation, Becoming a Coaching Leader shows you how to leverage coaching techniques to equip tomorrow's leaders and pave a lasting leadership legacy.

5 Key Takeaways from Episode 277:

Daniel discusses the importance of having a Life Plan.
- A Life Plan is a business plan for your life. It’s a GPS for your life that causes you to live intentionally.
Daniel talks about how coaches can gain confidence in their coaching and fight insecurities.
Harkavy shares the importance of self-care and personal wellness. “People who think well, live well, love well, etc, will naturally make better leaders.”
Great leaders consist of three things: influence, good decision-making, and intentional curiosity.
Daniel emphasizes the importance of investing in the next generation.
- “Transferring hope and belief into a young person’s life is one the best things that an older person can do.” -Daniel Harkavy

Links Mentioned:

Living Forward by Michael Hyatt and Daniel Harkavy

Building Champions

SetPath.com

7 Perspectives of Effective Leadership by Daniel Harkavy

Quotes:

“Better humans make better leaders” -Daniel Harkavy

“People need genuine, healthy leaders” -Daniel Harkavy

“Transferring hope and belief into a young person’s life is one the best things that an older person can do.” -Daniel Harkavy

The L3 Leadership Podcast with Doug Smith - How We Are Leading Our Family Team

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Hey, podcast, family, and welcome to another episode of the [inaudible] leadership podcast, where we are obsessed with helping you grow to your maximum potential and to maximize the impact of your leadership. My name is Doug Smith and I'm your host. And today's episode is brought to you by my friends at bear tongue advisors . If you're new to the podcast, welcome, I'm so glad that