Being Human with Steve Cuss
From Christianity Today, Being Human with Steve Cuss is Christian counseling in podcast form. Steve Cuss, a former trauma and hospice chaplain, pastor, and leadership coach, guides listeners with a gospel-informed journey of discovery into the world of emotional health: everything from anxiety and reactivity, to triangulation, overfunctioning, and the Enneagram.
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EP 194: Brad Lomenick
Brad Lomenick is the former president of Catalyst and the author of several books including the H3 Leader. Brad is a gifted connector and developer of people. For two decades he has met with thousands of Christian leaders. In this interview, Steve g...
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Ep 193: Julie Mavis and Annika Marek-Barta
Julie Mavis is the Founder of Dream Makers Project, an organization dedicated to helping youth as they age out of foster care. Because of Dream Makers, these kids do not have to face the world, their future and their decisions alone. Julie is join...
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EP 192: William Vanderbloemen
Steve LOVED interviewing William Vanderbloemen on this week's episode. He brought so much needed wisdom for leaders today. William is the founder of Vanderbloemen Search Group. Since their founding they have placed 2500+ employees into churches and...
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EP 191: MLA Turns 5
This week, Managing Leadership Anxiety turns five! This episode has four parts:1) Why Steve launched MLA, early concepts and lessons. 2) Why Systems Theory, other practitioners, Steve's unique contribution to the field. 3) What Steve has learned...
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EP 190: Self Care For The Holidays
Many leaders and people in care giving vocations are notorious for focusing on others to the detriment of wellbeing. In this episode Steve is joined by his wife Lisa as they discuss core tools of self care as we approach the holiday season. Self care...
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EP 189: Dr Kathleen Smith
Dr Kathleen Smith wrote one of my all time favorite Systems books called Everything Isn't Terrible. The book is brilliant, clear and witty and a great reflection of Kathleen herself. Kathleen is a therapist in the DC area and her book gets us righ...
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Ep 188: Four Dynamics Part Four: Attempted Solu...
This week Steve and Jimmy look beyond problems to 'attempted solutions.' Jay Haley famously said, 'I do not address problems, I address attempted solutions.' So often we get stuck in 'more of the same' and 'try harder' because we do not see our own c...
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Ep 187: Four Dynamics Part Three: Stuck Patterns
Today, Jimmy Carnes joins Steve to continue their four part series, 'the four dynamics that infect every relationship.' They look at 'stuck' or predictable, recurring patterns. First patterns in ourselves, then in our relationships and teams. Tips to...
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Ep 186: Book Recommendations and
I often get asked about Systems Theory books to read. In this episode, I list a number of books and also offer critique or recommendation AND I also pull out of some of the books a key tool you can use in your life. So you can listen to this book rev...
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Ep 185: Aundi Kolber
Aundi Kolber is a licensed professional counselor (MA, LPC) and the best selling author of the critically acclaimed Try Softer and her new book Strong like Water. She has received additional training in her specialization of trauma- and body-cente...
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Ep 184: Four Dynamics Part Two: Reactivity
There are four dynamics that infect every relationship you have: assumptions, reactivity, stuck patterns, attempted solutions. These four dynamics infect not only your human relationships, they also infect your relationship with God. They also ...
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Ep 183: Four Dynamics Part One: Assumptions
There are four dynamics than infect every relationship: assumptions, reactivity, stuck patterns and attempted solutions. In this first of four episodes, Steve and Jimmy Carnes dig into assumptions: what they are, how to notice them and why they make ...
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Ep 182: Benjamin Windle
Steve thoroughly appreciated this chat with fellow Aussie Benjamin Windle as he brought many profound and succinct nuggets for us. Benjamin recently wrote the excellent Good Catastrophe, looking at how God turns and uses catastrophic events in our l...
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Ep 181: John and Nancy Ortberg
John and Nancy Ortberg join Steve to endure several of his Gauntlet of Anxiety Questions. Not surprisingly, the questions generated MUCH wisdom from these giants in our faith. Steve found himself doing some deep work in real time as John and Nancy fl...
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Ep 180: Put Yourself OnYour Conscious List Of R...
Today we launch a brand new tool and it is one of our favorite type of tools because it is: very straightforward and simple but is also SO obvious, we neglect it. Therefore, we can begin to practice it and revolutionize our inner wellbeing. Lisa is j...
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Ep 179 Diving Deeper with Jimmy Carnes and Lisa...
This week Steve is joined by his therapist wife Lisa and Capable Life Trainer Jimmy Carnes. They dig into Steve's morning of shame, virtues, vices and the autopilot we get into, as well as some noticing and diffusing tools. To learn more about our...
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Ep 178: Functional Theology with Renae Loring a...
We all know what to believe and what our brain believes, but what does our anxiety believe and what does ori body believe? Sometimes the gap between our belief about God and our experience of God comes down to our functional theology. On this episod...
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Ep 177: Glenn and Holly Packiam
Steve chats with Glenn and Holly Packiam about leadership transition, establishing trust as a new leader, the challenge a leader’s spouse faces in ‘second hand criticism’ and their recent book and upcoming journal, Intentional Year and the soon to be...
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Ep 176: Jimmy Carnes
Jimmy Carnes is a Capable Life trainer who has worked with Steve for over ten years. He joins Steve on the pod to chat: - What do you do when you don't know what to do.- Leadership as 'taking responsibility' rather than 'knowing what to do.'- How...
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Ep: 175: Differentiation At The Movies
Sometimes it is easier to SEE Differentiation before you TRY it! We frequently recommend first watching it, then noticing a time you're anxious and debriefing after and then trying it for yourself. To that end, in this episode Steve spends time cl...
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Ep 174: Ted Lasso and Attachment Theory
This week Lisa and Steve dive into the 4 styles of attachment, we help you locate your own attachment styles and then we talk through some characters from the show and their attachment. We also dig into differentiation, how some people mis use it and...
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EP: 172: Precious Beliefs vs Deepest Core Beliefs
We all have beliefs that lay deeper than our belief in God and these beliefs block our connection to God. In this episode, Steve is joined by his trauma and attachment therapist wife, Lisa to chat the nature of beliefs and tools to dislodge core beli...
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Ep 171: Jessie Cruickshank
Jessie Cruickshank’s new book is Ordinary DIscipleshipship - an incredible and fresh approach to the way we change and help others change. I loved this interview where Jessie digs into attachment theory, the way God wired our brains for change, the ...
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Ep 170: Nick and Christine Caine
Nick and Christine Caine are two of the most phenomenal people I know. Christine is an evangelist, gifted preacher and author. She and Nick lead Equip and Empower, an organization dedicated to helping women thrive in faith and leadership. They also l...
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Ep 169: Brave Practice and Testing Assumptions
If you'd like to get more intentional about working on these, you can join Capable Life either by yourself or with a group of peers. Some entire teams are joining together to work through these tools together. For more info on our Unlocking Faith ...
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