
Leadership is complex, but it doesn’t have to be lonely.
The H2 Leadership Podcast is the place for leaders who want to be healthy and high impact.
Each week, you’ll be shaped by our coaching, our experience, and the voices of expert guests.
We ask deep questions and share practical tools to help you gain clarity, build courage, and create culture where leaders and teams thrive.
This is more than a podcast. It’s the most practical resource available to help you take your next right step toward healthy and high impact leadership.
Episodes

Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
139 - Alan Briggs ”4 next right steps you can take right now”
Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
Tuesday Oct 13, 2020
You may be asking questions like what next? How do I prepare for next year when this year was so ambiguous?
If you attended the Healthy leaders Summit last week, then you took a great next step towards leading healthy not only right now but next season and beyond.
Healthy Leaders Summit was a great starting point but if you want to keep making headway then you need to keep taking your next right step.
On today's episode, Alan unpacks 4 practical next steps you can, and should, consider taking right now so you can keep reducing overwhelm, increasing clarity, and continue pursuing leadership from pa posture of health in this season and beyond.

Thursday Oct 08, 2020
138 - Adam Weber ”How do we choose compassion in our cancel culture?”
Thursday Oct 08, 2020
Thursday Oct 08, 2020
Today, if one mistake, soundbite, hot mic moment, or tweet is off base you can lose you influence in an instant- you'll get "cancelled."
On today's episode, Alan has a great conversation about how unhealthy cancel culture has become with pastor and author, Adam Weber. Adam is a guy who seems to run towards leaders when they make unhealthy decisions instead of away.
This is a rich conversation!
About Adam
Adam is the founder and lead pastor of Embrace, a multi-site church based out of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Author of Talking With God and Love Has A Name, he also hosts a podcast called The Conversation. Adam still cheers for the Cincinnati Bengals but no longer drives a Rambler. He's married to his wife, Becky, and has four kids: Hudson, Wilson, Grayson, & Anderson. He also has seven chickens, two dogs, & three fish, but what he really wants is a sheep. You can find out more at adamweber.com
Connect with Adam
Instagram - @adamaweber
Twitter - @adamweber
Facebook - /adamaweber
Healthy Leaders Summit

Tuesday Oct 06, 2020
137 - Steve Cuss ”How do we manage anxiety in us and those we lead?”
Tuesday Oct 06, 2020
Tuesday Oct 06, 2020
On today's episode we'll be sharing a talk from Healthy Leaders Summit.
Alan sits down with Steve Cuss for a discussion about what anxiety is, what it isn't, and how we manage our own leadership anxiety as well as those we lead.
This is a phenomenal conversation.
It isn't too late to register!
www.healthyleaderssummit.com

Thursday Oct 01, 2020
136 - Hannah Gronowski ”How do we become activists in the way of Jesus?”
Thursday Oct 01, 2020
Thursday Oct 01, 2020
How tired are you right now? This has been an incredible season that has left many of us weary.
Well we wanted to share a phenomenal preview of what you can expect from Healthy Leaders Summit next week.
This conversation between Alan and Hanna Gronowski is very refreshing and encouraging.
Take some time to sit with this episode and then do us a favor and register for Healthy Leaders Summit if you haven't already.
About Hannah
Hannah Gronowski, Founder and CEO of Generation Distinct, Speaker, Preacher and Author has always been wired to abolish cultural complacency, unleash lasting justice, and join the wild adventure Jesus invites us all to live. A passionate movement-maker, social influencer and voice for her generation, is now a sought after speaker at Leadership Conferences, Churches, College Campuses and Youth Events around the globe. Hannah is also a profile speaker for The Women’s Speaker Collective and a regular writing contributor for The Global Leadership Summit. Host of The Generation Distinct Podcast and The Hannah Gronowski Leadership YouTube Channel, she has also been recognized by her community with a Leader of Youth Award for her work mentoring teens and serving refugee children through World Relief. Generation Distinct has grown to reach leaders all over the world with a 4 step Journey to discover the wrong you were born to make right, leading them to experience who Jesus really is. Hannah’s latest book, Generation Distinct: Discover the Wrong You Were Born to Make Right released on September 15, 2020.
Invest in your leadership

Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
135 - Alan and David ”Don’t forget about Jesus”
Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
Tuesday Sep 29, 2020
Ever feel like you're in a row boat in a hurricane? It's no secret that this year has been a great challenge. Disappointment and loss have been lurking around just about every corner and it's exhausting, we know. But even when you feel like you're in a rowboat in a hurricane, know that Jesus is right there in the midst of it with you.
On today's episode, Alan and David have a very refreshing conversation about Jesus, the peace that comes from focusing on Him, and why we need a daily reminder of the gospel.
Remember, who's you are is way more important than what you do.
Make a $5 investment in your leadership

Thursday Sep 24, 2020
134 - Alan and David ”Stop trying to win”
Thursday Sep 24, 2020
Thursday Sep 24, 2020
Have you been searching for a win lately? What if you have already experienced a win and just can't see it because you're frantically searching for the next one.
Maybe you should stop trying to win.
On today's episode, Alan and David have a great conversation about three areas where you just may not be able to find a win this season and how to live in the messy middle in this season.
Invest in your leadership

Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
133 - J.R. Briggs ”Living Between the Extremes”
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
As Kingdom leaders we live and lead in constant tension of overlapping spaces. As followers of Jesus, we don't truly fit in with the rest of the world, yet Jesus sends us into the world to engage with culture, to lead with compassion, wisdom, and courage so that others may be pointed to him.
On today's episode, Alan sits down with his brother, J.R for a conversation about J.R's new book The Sacred Overlap: Learning to Live Faithfully in the Space Between.
This is a very timely conversation with tons of application that is very relevant to our current climate.
Give this one a listen, and then again with someone else. You won't be disappointed.
About J.R.
Dr. J.R. Briggs possesses four passions: Following Jesus, equipping and investing in hungry kingdom leaders, growing fruit on other people's trees, and creating good kingdom mischief. In short, his calling is to partner with people who are called to follow Jesus while they lead others.
In 2011 he started Kairos Partnerships, an organization committed to serving hungry kingdom leaders through leadership coaching, consulting, speaking, teaching, equipping and writing.
For more than 15 years, J.R. served in pastoral roles in mega-churches, church plants and house church networks. Since starting Kairos Partnerships, he has served and invested in pastors and kingdom leaders in over 40 denominations throughout North America. In addition to pastors and church planters, he has also invested in a wide variety of leaders, including business owners, U.S. Olympic athletes, university administrators, athletic directors, coaches, and attorneys.
He is affiliate faculty member in practical theology at Missio Seminary and guest instructor at Friends University in the Masters of Arts in Spiritual Formation program. He has guest lectured, taught and spoken at over a dozen colleges, universities, and seminaries around the U.S.
He also serves as the Director of Leadership & Congregational Formation for The Ecclesia Network (www.ecclesianet.org) and as a National Trainer & Strategist for Fresh Expressions U.S. (www.freshexpressionsus.org)
In addition to writing, co-writing, or contributing to several books on a wide variety of topics, he has also published articles in Christianity Today, Huffington Post, Preaching Today, American Bible Society, N.T. Wright Online, Missio Alliance, and Relevant Magazine.
He co-hosts the Monday Morning Pastor podcast and posts the Resilient Leaders podcast.
J.R. and his wife Megan have been married for over 19 years and have two sons, Carter and Bennett. They live in Lansdale, PA in the greater Philadelphia area
Feeling Overwhelmed?

Thursday Sep 17, 2020
132 - Alan Briggs ”Three areas of clarity right now”
Thursday Sep 17, 2020
Thursday Sep 17, 2020
Something we say a lot at Stay Forth Designs is that in order for overwhelm to go down, clarity has to go up.
On today's episode, Alan shares three three areas where you can press in and increase clarity right now. Today is a great day to take your next right step towards increased clarity and reduced overwhelm in your life and leadership.
We encourage you to take 30 minutes and sit with the content in this episode. It could be a game changer for you.
Invest in your leadership October 5-8
