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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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9:28

How to Know if Your Church is Scaring Candidates Off

The Healthy Church Staff Podcast ·

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.

The Healthy Church Staff Podcast ·

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

The Healthy Church Staff Podcast ·

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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9:19

The Real Cost of Putting the Wrong Person in the...

The Healthy Church Staff Podcast ·

2025/07/31

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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9:13

The Church Staff Role No One Wants (But Everyone Needs)

The Healthy Church Staff Podcast ·

2025/07/30

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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10:37

The Succession Plan Youre Afraid to Write (But Your...

The Healthy Church Staff Podcast ·

2025/07/29

Every leader has an expiration date, and creating a succession plan is a spiritual responsibility that demonstrates wisdom rather than weakness. Great leaders prepare for their eventual departure, ensuring their ministry continues seamlessly when they're no longer present. • What would happen if you disappeared tomorrow - would your church staff know what to do? • Most pastors wait too long to think about succession planning • If you can't hand off your role, you haven't led, you've just occ...

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7:37

The Real Reason Your Meetings are Useless (And No One...

The Healthy Church Staff Podcast ·

2025/07/28

Most church meetings suffer from silent dysfunction—they're over-controlled, under-prepared, or merely performative, leaving staff secretly wishing they were emails instead. We crack open this uncomfortable truth and provide practical solutions to transform your team gatherings into meaningful, productive experiences that staff actually want to attend. • Three hidden reasons church meetings don't work: they focus on reporting instead of relating, lack clear purpose, and push real conversatio...

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7:23

What Ministry Leaders Can Learn from Marriage Therapists

The Healthy Church Staff Podcast ·

2025/07/25

The key to better ministry leadership might be borrowing wisdom from an unexpected place - the marriage therapist's office. We explore three powerful insights from counseling that can radically improve how church leaders listen, lead, and love their staff and congregation. • Learning to listen to understand, not just respond - pushing past our "fix-it mode" to truly hear others • Creating space for honesty by asking open-ended questions rather than leading questions • Recognizing that someti...

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8:54

Why High-Capacity Volunteers Sometimes Make Terrible...

The Healthy Church Staff Podcast ·

2025/07/24

Turning your best volunteers into staff members can either be a dream come true or create significant challenges when expectations don't align. This transition often fails because the intrinsic motivation of volunteering gets replaced by the obligations of employment, creating an identity crisis for the previously celebrated volunteer. • High-capacity volunteers don't always make great staff members • The transition from volunteering to employment changes relationship dynamics dramatically •...

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8:26

The Hidden Cost of Being The Fixer on a Church Staff

The Healthy Church Staff Podcast ·

2025/07/23

We explore the hidden emotional toll experienced by "the fixer" on church staff teams - that go-to person who handles every crisis but rarely receives support themselves. This episode unpacks how well-intentioned problem-solvers often become emotional dumping grounds, leading to burnout and potential ministry casualties if left unchecked. • Most church staffs have a designated "fixer" - the person everyone turns to with problems • The fixer trap starts as a compliment to competence but evolv...

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7:45

How Ministry Leadership Is More LIke Farming than...

The Healthy Church Staff Podcast ·

2025/07/22

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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11:37

The Silent Gender Gap on Your Church Staff Org Chart

The Healthy Church Staff Podcast ·

2025/07/21

We tackle the uncomfortable reality of women hitting glass ceilings in church leadership, even in organizations that preach equality and respect. This episode explores why churches often say they value female leaders while keeping them stuck in roles with limited authority, inadequate titles, or no seat at the decision-making table. • Many churches verbally express value for women leaders but don't demonstrate it in their org charts or pay scales • Four major theological divides in churches:...

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8:25

Staffing for the Valley, Not the Mountaintop

The Healthy Church Staff Podcast ·

2025/07/18

Church staffing often prioritizes Sunday celebrations over everyday discipleship moments. We need to rethink how we build ministry teams that can thrive not just during mountaintop experiences but also in the valleys where real ministry happens. • Most churches unintentionally hire for big moments like Easter and Christmas but struggle with everyday ministry • Jesus did most of his work not on mountaintops but in margins—homes, back alleys, and ordinary places • The valleys—hospital rooms, c...

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