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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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8:26

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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10:11

Why Most Church Staff Feel Lost by Tuesday Morning

The Healthy Church Staff Podcast ·

2025/07/17

Sunday's ministry high often crashes into Monday's disorientation, leaving church staff feeling lost rather than simply tired. This emotional rollercoaster creates a "fog of unprocessed purpose" that impacts clarity, creativity, and connection to calling. • Sunday services generate adrenaline and dopamine that inevitably crash by Monday morning • The transition from visible spiritual leader to administrative staffer creates "role whiplash" • Monday's disorientation isn't laziness—it's withdr...

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8:53

What If You Staffed for Curiosity, Not Competency?

The Healthy Church Staff Podcast ·

2025/07/16

Curiosity, not just competency, may be the most underrated asset on your church staff team. Hiring curious people can transform your church culture and foster innovation from the inside out. • Curious staff members ask better questions like "why do we do it this way?" rather than settling for status quo • Skills like ProPresenter, Canva, and planning systems can be taught, but curiosity is intrinsic • In a rapidly changing post-pandemic church landscape, churches need explorers, not just mai...

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9:08

The AI Assistant Pastor: Helpful Tool or Theological...

The Healthy Church Staff Podcast ·

2025/07/15

Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping ministry tools, raising profound questions about efficiency versus spiritual discernment. We explore the theological implications of AI-powered pastoral work and why human presence remains irreplaceable in church leadership. • AI tools for ministry are proliferating, from sermon preparation to automated pastoral responses • These technologies synthesize data but lack spiritual discernment and conviction • "Proximity beats precision" - AI can quote...

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7:52

How to Lead Your Church When No One Knows What’s Real...

The Healthy Church Staff Podcast ·

2025/07/14

Ministry has never been more challenging as we navigate a world saturated with AI-generated misinformation, digital fatigue, and eroding trust. Church leaders must shift from pursuing polish to prioritizing proximity, as your authentic presence becomes the most powerful apologetic in an era where reality itself is questioned. • Deep fakes are coming for pastors, not just politicians, with AI technology soon able to create convincingly fake videos of you saying things you never said • Disinfo...

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9:56

When the Church Becomes the Pastor’s Personality

The Healthy Church Staff Podcast ·

2025/07/11

We unpack the quiet danger of churches that reflect a single personality more than the presence of Christ. When a pastor becomes the brand, culture, strategy, and draw of a church, what remains when they leave? • Warning signs include all decisions running through one person • Pastor's sermon clips outperform all other ministry content • Staff feel like background extras instead of empowered leaders • Critique is rare because it's seen as betrayal • The unspoken fear: what happens if the pas...

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7:11

Hiring in the Age of AI: Why Pastoral Presence Still...

The Healthy Church Staff Podcast ·

2025/07/10

Pastoral presence is the one thing artificial intelligence can never replace in ministry. While AI technology rapidly advances in sermon writing, administration, and spiritual formation tools, the human ability to physically show up in moments of crisis remains the true superpower of church leadership. • AI is here to stay and becoming increasingly efficient at tasks once considered uniquely human • Churches everywhere are using AI for administration, content creation, and spiritual formatio...

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6:20

Why the Church Staff Office Feels More Like Corporate...

The Healthy Church Staff Podcast ·

2025/07/09

Corporate mindsets can subtly infiltrate church staff culture through changes in language, systems, and workplace aesthetics, pulling ministry teams away from kingdom values toward business-driven approaches. Mission drift in churches typically begins with practical elements like templates and metrics rather than theological shifts, gradually transforming spiritual communities into efficiency-focused organizations. • Warning signs include when budgets become more important than people • Corp...

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7:05

Gen Z Won’t Join Your Staff for the Same Reasons You Did

The Healthy Church Staff Podcast ·

2025/07/08

Gen Z isn't rejecting ministry but redefining what it means to say yes to a church vocation. They're asking different questions than previous generations that reflect their commitment to both spiritual calling and personal wellbeing. • Mental health is non-negotiable for this generation that grew up amid social media, pandemics, and societal challenges • Churches with cultures built on burnout, guilt, or martyrdom will fail to attract or retain Gen Z staff • Financial transparency is essenti...

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8:03

Why Church Plants Can Be More Dysfunctional Than...

The Healthy Church Staff Podcast ·

2025/07/07

Church plants, despite their vibrant vision and promise of fresh starts, often recreate the same dysfunctional patterns they aimed to escape. This honest look at church planting reveals why passionate vision without healthy structure leads many new churches to repeat old mistakes. • Church plants frequently begin as reactions rather than strategies, defining themselves by what they're not • Lack of accountability systems creates vulnerability when guardrails are needed most • Culture is assu...

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8:37

Why So Many Churches Are Dreading the Retirement Party

The Healthy Church Staff Podcast ·

2025/07/04

Many churches fail to plan for pastoral succession until it's too late, creating a leadership crisis when retirement arrives. When churches center everything around a single leader and don't develop a leadership bench, they make healthy transition nearly impossible. • Succession planning should be a 5-10 year process, not a 6-month sprint • The myth of the indispensable pastor creates vulnerability in churches • Reactive succession leads to leadership vacuums, power struggles, and congregati...

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5:29

Why You Should Fire the Phrase “High Capacity Leader”

The Healthy Church Staff Podcast ·

2025/07/03

The phrase "high-capacity leader" might be one of the most spiritually misleading labels in modern church culture, masking burnout, ego, and imbalance while sounding like a compliment. Kingdom leadership was never meant to be about capacity but character—Jesus invited ordinary fishermen and tax collectors, not the high-capacity elite. • Corporate culture birthed the phrase "high-capacity leader" which the church adopted without questioning • The term often excuses spiritual immaturity or poo...

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8:04

What Happens When Your Whole Staff Is Under 35 (or...

The Healthy Church Staff Podcast ·

2025/07/02

Churches with staff teams clustered in a single age group face a "succession time bomb" that threatens future leadership stability and ministry effectiveness. Healthy church teams intentionally balance generational diversity to benefit from both the wisdom of experience and the energy of youth. • Age-homogeneous teams create significant blind spots and vulnerabilities • Churches with exclusively older staff face a generational cliff with no succession plan • Young staff teams lack institutio...

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6:45

We Told Our Staff to ‘Be Real’—But Only When It’s...

The Healthy Church Staff Podcast ·

2025/07/01

Church staff cultures often preach authenticity but practice a harmful form of toxic positivity where only positive, polished vulnerability is acceptable. This creates environments where staff learn to mask real issues with "I'm fine" responses, critique becomes spiritualized rather than addressed, and genuine struggles remain hidden behind forced smiles. • Toxic positivity manifests when complaints are labeled divisive instead of diagnostic • Staff learn unspoken rules: don't bring negativi...

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7:23

The Silent Burden

The Healthy Church Staff Podcast ·

2025/06/30

Ministry leaders know how to show up for others in grief but often struggle processing their own losses from broken relationships, failed dreams, and ministry disappointments. • Recognizing "shadow losses" in ministry—those painful experiences without public acknowledgment or closure • Unprocessed grief can calcify into cynicism, causing leaders to stop trusting and become emotionally numb • Buried grief doesn't disappear but eventually surfaces in unhealthy ways • Practical steps for healin...

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7:46

How to Tell When It’s Time to Fire a ‘Nice’ Person

The Healthy Church Staff Podcast ·

2025/06/27

Church leaders often struggle with releasing staff members who are kind and beloved but ineffective in their roles. This common dilemma creates "the nice trap" where emotional attachment overrides objective evaluation and ultimately harms your church's mission. • Nice gets confused with necessary in church environments • Kindness without competence leads to organizational dysfunction • Warning signs include frequent apologies, confused volunteers, and lack of results • The "fruit test" helps...

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7:05

What Church Leaders Can Learn from National Park Rangers

The Healthy Church Staff Podcast ·

2025/06/26

Have you ever considered the surprising parallels between National Park Rangers and church leaders? Both protect sacred spaces, guide those who wander, and remain vigilant against threats that could destroy what they're entrusted to preserve. As Todd Rhodes unpacks in this thought-provoking episode, church leaders aren't just called to preach or manage staff—they're called to be rangers in the wild. First, they must protect the sacred culture of community, holding firm to theological i...

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