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The Healthy Church Staff Podcast

We"re all about helping create a healthy, positive, and spiritually positive environment for church staff members and leadership teams.

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8:59

Silent Alarm: The Interim is Not a Pause Button

The Healthy Church Staff Podcast ·

2025/08/28

The interim period between church staff members isn't just dead space to endure—it's a strategic inflection point that shapes your church's future. Todd Rhodes explains how this critical time either heals what's broken or hides it deeper, with no neutral middle ground. • Churches often treat staff transitions like a pause button while redistributing roles and waiting for a new hire • The interim isn't about holding down the fort—it's a formative period that will make or break your next hire ...

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8:45

Silent Alarm: The 1997 Church Isn't Coming Back

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2025/08/27

The church of 1997 isn't coming back, and that's actually good news for ministry leaders willing to adapt their staffing approach. Many churches are still hiring for positions that made sense decades ago, using outdated strategies, and wondering why they're struggling to gain traction in today's rapidly changing ministry landscape. • Culture shifts that once took generations now happen almost daily • Economic realities have changed dramatically, with living costs making 1990s salaries unsust...

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Silent Alarm: The Quiet Quitters of Ministry

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2025/08/26

We're exploring why promising ministry leaders are quietly leaving church jobs without returning to ministry elsewhere, examining this growing trend that's draining the church leadership pipeline. This "invisible exodus" includes gifted mid-career leaders who still love Jesus but find ministry unsustainable for various reasons. • Five key reasons for quiet quitting: chronic disappointment with ministry realities, unsustainable family costs, disillusionment with church leadership, inadequate ...

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10:28

Silent Alarm: We Don't Have a Hiring Problem - We...

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2025/08/25

Your staffing problem isn't really about hiring—it's about discipleship. Most churches have shifted from raising up leaders internally to importing candidates, creating a leadership development vacuum that threatens the future of ministry. • Churches have forgotten that disciple-making is leadership development • The pipeline for ministry leaders is drying up as fewer young adults consider ministry careers • Too many churches wait passively for fully-formed candidates rather than developing ...

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9:39

Silent Alarm: Why Even 'Healthy' Churches are...

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2025/08/22

Even healthy churches with solid theology and stable leadership are struggling to fill open staff positions due to fundamental shifts in the ministry landscape. The talent pool of potential church staff has shrunk dramatically, creating intense competition for fewer candidates who are more selective than ever before. • Church health is no longer a sufficient magnet for attracting staff—it's just the baseline • The candidate pool is smaller, especially at mid-career levels, creating higher co...

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8:13

Silent Alarm: The Myth of 'Just Find the Unicorn'

The Healthy Church Staff Podcast ·

2025/08/21

We tackle a harmful church hiring myth: the fantasy of finding the "unicorn" or perfect candidate with impossible qualifications at a modest salary. While churches wait for this mythical person, positions remain open, current staff get overloaded, volunteer morale drops, and the congregation suffers. • Churches waste months or years holding out for candidates with conflicting qualifications (seminary trained but relatable, visionary but administrative) • The perfect candidate is not coming, ...

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7:20

Silent Alarm: The Pain You Don't See on Resumes

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2025/08/20

Ministry staff are carrying unprecedented emotional weight from difficult experiences, and hiring churches must learn to address the pain behind every resume to build healthy teams. • The last five to six years have been incredibly difficult for ministry staff • Many candidates have experienced being ghosted, micromanaged, caught in power struggles, or laid off without warning • Unprocessed pain turns into baggage that will show up in a candidate's next role • Instead of just reviewing crede...

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8:11

Silent Alarm: The Disappearance of Mid-Career Leaders

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2025/08/19

We're facing a growing crisis in church staffing—the quiet disappearance of mid-career ministry leaders who should be stepping into senior leadership and mentoring younger staff. This exodus creates a dangerous vacuum where churches lose experienced leaders in their 30s and 40s who have accumulated valuable ministry wisdom. • Mid-career leaders represent the backbone of church staff teams, bridging veteran leadership and the next generation • Former youth pastors, worship leaders, associates...

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8:22

Silent Alarm: The Pipeline is Quietly Breaking

The Healthy Church Staff Podcast ·

2025/08/18

The church staff pipeline in the US is quietly cracking beneath us, systematically changing in ways that threaten our future leadership. This episode introduces Todd Rhodes' new book "Silent Alarm" which addresses the diminishing flow of qualified, healthy, experienced candidates in the church hiring pool across all roles. • The pipeline of leaders entering full-time ministry is slowing dramatically • Churches continue posting openings with unrealistic expectations about candidate availabili...

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7:28

The Courage to Lead When It's Easier to Coast

The Healthy Church Staff Podcast ·

2025/08/15

The most dangerous season in leadership might be when everything feels fine, leading to comfortable coasting rather than courageous direction. Leadership fatigue often comes not from crisis moments but from the slow, steady grind of keeping everything afloat when courage is needed to disrupt stagnation. • Warning signs of leadership coasting include avoiding overdue decisions • Relief when your team stops asking questions indicates potential problems • Not initiating tough conversations for ...

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9:28

How to Know if Your Church is Scaring Candidates Off

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2025/08/14

We explore why promising candidates often disappear during the church hiring process and how to stop unintentionally scaring away top talent. Your hiring process communicates volumes about your church culture, and candidates assume how you hire is how you lead. • Disorganized processes communicate disorganized churches and staff • Today's candidates consider multiple churches simultaneously, not just one at a time • Long delays between communications often cause candidates to lose interest o...

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7:13

You're Not Burned Out. You're Bored.

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2025/08/13

Ministry leaders often confuse burnout with boredom, but these conditions require completely different solutions. Recognizing the difference can help you take the right steps to reignite your passion and purpose in ministry. • Burnout is about depletion while boredom is about stagnation • Warning signs of boredom include scrolling during meetings, minimal sermon prep, and lack of dreaming • Both conditions can make you question your calling, but they need different approaches • Boredom doesn...

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7:22

The Staff Meeting You Should Probably Kill

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2025/08/12

Not every meeting adds value, and some are actively damaging your church staff's energy, creativity, and morale. We examine which staff meetings you should eliminate and what to replace them with to boost team productivity and happiness. • Three telltale signs of toxic meetings: nobody prepares, people stop contributing, and staff leave discouraged • Many church leaders keep unproductive meetings because it feels like leadership • Common misconception: sitting around a table equals moving mi...

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7:48

The Ministry Unicorn Myth

The Healthy Church Staff Podcast ·

2025/08/11

Many churches waste time searching for perfect ministry candidates that don't exist. This unrealistic quest for a "ministry unicorn" leads to extended vacancies, team burnout, and missed opportunities to hire promising leaders with potential to grow. • Churches often create impossible job descriptions seeking candidates with every qualification imaginable • Warning signs of unicorn hunting include searches lasting over nine months with no frontrunner • Search committees frequently disqualify...

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7:38

Why You Shouldn't Be the Smartest Person in Your...

The Healthy Church Staff Podcast ·

2025/08/08

Pastors who need to be the smartest person in the room unintentionally silence their team and hinder collaboration, eventually causing creative staff members to leave or stop contributing. • Insecurity often drives leaders' need to have all the answers • Dominating meetings with answers tells staff "you're here to execute my brilliance" • When people don't feel invited to contribute, they check out mentally • Creative staff either leave or stay and become silent • Leaders should invite input...

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6:50

What Ministry Leaders Can Learn from Emergency Room...

The Healthy Church Staff Podcast ·

2025/08/07

Ministry today resembles an ER room more than a boardroom, requiring church leaders to adopt skills similar to emergency medical professionals to navigate chaos effectively while preventing burnout. • Learning proper triage - treating the most urgent issues first rather than reacting to the loudest voices • Understanding that compassion means prioritizing what truly matters, not treating everything equally • Recognizing not every idea needs immediate implementation or every email an instant ...

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6:57

The Lie of the Calling Card Resume

The Healthy Church Staff Podcast ·

2025/08/06

Have questions or comments? Send to podcast@chemistrystaffing.com Be sure to subscribe to The Healthy Church Staff Podcast wherever you regularly listen to podcasts. - - - - - Is Your Church Hiring? If your church is searching for a new staff member, reach out to Todd for a conversation on how he might be able to help. Are You Looking for a New Ministry Role? If you are open to a new church role in the next few months, add your free resume and profile at ChemistryStaffing.com.

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6:47

Your Ministry Team Isnt a Family... Its a Jazz Band

The Healthy Church Staff Podcast ·

2025/08/05

Calling your church staff a "family" might be undermining your team's effectiveness by normalizing dysfunction and avoiding necessary accountability. A better metaphor might be a jazz band, where diverse talents work together with rhythm, trust, and excellence toward a shared mission. • Families often tolerate dysfunction in the name of loyalty • The family model leads to keeping toxic staff and avoiding hard conversations • Jazz bands require each member to bring unique skills while working...

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7:53

What the Enneagram Isn’t Telling You About Your...

The Healthy Church Staff Podcast ·

2025/08/04

Personality assessments like the Enneagram can provide valuable insights into how staff members process the world, but they fail to reveal character issues that often emerge under pressure. Todd Rhodes explores why churches must look beyond personality typing to build truly healthy teams. • The trap of putting people in boxes based on their personality type • Why personality tools describe behavior but don't diagnose dysfunction • How a person with a "perfect" personality score can sti...

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10:03

The Addiction to Momentum_ Why Some Churches Cant...

The Healthy Church Staff Podcast ·

2025/08/01

Church leaders often confuse constant motion with progress, using momentum to mask deeper issues that need addressing. Slowing down isn't failure—it's a faithful choice that allows space for healing, growth, and sustainable ministry that Jesus himself modeled. • Momentum feels like growth but can actually be directionless motion • Constant activity often hides anxiety, unhealed trauma, or unresolved conflict • Churches fear pausing because silence might surface pain or inadequacies • Warning...

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