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 082: Why Being Known Feels So Dangerous

Got questions or comments? Text them to me! We all want to be known, but we're often terrified of what might happen if someone really sees us. In the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve were fully known and completely unashamed. But when the serpent tempted Eve to reach for knowledge instead of trusting God, everything changed. They covered themselves with fig leaves, hid from God, and discovered something we're still wrestling with today: shame makes us feel exposed even when we've done everything ...

12 MIN

TRLP 081: My Story of Leading While Grieving

Got questions or comments? Text them to me! The finale of the "Strength in the Cracks" series — exploring vulnerability in leadership as a place of God's power, not human weakness. Episode Summary Everything this series has argued for — power made perfect in weakness, identity before performance, the difference between vulnerability and oversharing — gets tested in real life. In this finale, Paul tells his own story: leading worship through the deaths of his mother and brother within twenty d...

5 MIN

TRLP 080: Vulnerability vs Oversharing

Got questions or comments? Text them to me! Part five of the "Strength in the Cracks" series — exploring vulnerability in leadership as a place of God's power, not human weakness. Episode Summary Being "real" from the stage can go wrong — and Paul's been on the wrong side of that line himself. In this episode, he draws a clear distinction between vulnerability and oversharing: vulnerability serves the listener, oversharing serves the speaker. From there, he walks through how to tell the diffe...

5 MIN

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