The Reluctant Leader Podcast with Paul Jenkins | Podcast Guru

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Throughout the years, I've come to believe two truths: one, everyone leads someone, and two, no one really feels qualified to lead anyone. Add the pressure put on us by culture to have all the answers in a world full of confusion, and you've got a recipe for reluctant leaders. Thankfully, when it comes to leading in the Bible and in life, the most qualified aren't always the most obvious. This podcast is a conversation for all of us who want to lead well but never feel like we are. New episodes are released on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of each month.

Recent Episodes

TRLP 079: Letting Our Identity Inform Our Activity

Got questions or comments? Text them to me! Part four of the "Strength in the Cracks" series — exploring vulnerability in leadership as a place of God's power, not human weakness. Episode Summary If a bad week can quietly shrink your sense of who you are, whose identity are you actually operating from? In this episode, Paul turns the corner from diagnosis to formation, unpacking the principle "identity informs activity" — using Jesus's baptism and wilderness temptation to show what it looks l...

6 MIN

TRLP 078: What Your Brain Does When You Fake Strength

Got questions or comments? Text them to me! Part three of the "Strength in the Cracks" series — exploring vulnerability in leadership as a place of God's power, not human weakness. Episode Summary That feeling right before you walk into a hard meeting or step on stage and consciously arrange your face, posture, and tone — it's not just a mental trick. In this episode, Paul draws on his doctoral research in relational neuroscience to explain what's actually happening in a leader's nervous syst...

6 MIN

TRLP 077: Power Made Perfect in Weakness

Got questions or comments? Text them to me! This is part two of the "Strength in the Cracks" series — exploring vulnerability in leadership as a place of God's power, not human weakness. Why do we edit the "thorn" out of our bios? In this episode, Paul digs into 2 Corinthians 12 — Paul the apostle's thorn in the flesh, his three prayers for its removal, and God's answer: "My power is made perfect in weakness." This episode makes the case that weakness isn't an obstacle grace works around — it...

6 MIN

TRLP 076: Why the Bulletproof Pastor is a Myth

Got questions or comments? Text them to me! We've been taught that strong leaders don't get shaken — they absorb the chaos, keep the smile on, and never let the cracks show. But is that strength, or just armor? In this episode, Paul kicks off a new series drawn from his doctoral research in Spiritual Formation and Relational Neuroscience, naming the myth of the "bulletproof pastor" and making the case that exposure — not invulnerability — might be exactly where God does his best work. What W...

5 MIN

TRLP 075: A Tarot Reader Meets Jesus!

Got questions or comments? Text them to me! Are we expecting Jesus to change lives as much as the people who are desperately searching for Him? In this episode of The Reluctant Leader Podcast, Paul reflects on the powerful story of blind Bartimaeus in Mark 10:46-52 and what it reveals about faith, desperation, and the surprising places where God is at work today. Using the recent testimony of a former TikTok tarot reader ("Alex Reads Tarot"), who publicly gave her life to Jesus and walked awa...

7 MIN