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The Center - Memphis
by The Center Memphis
The Center Memphis is a weekly podcast to help leaders define reality and offer hope through the truth of God’s Word applied to everyday life and work.
Episodes
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Way to Work Podcast — Using Gifts for the Benefit of Others | Part 2
Rebekah Payne joins Howard to discuss how she uses her gifts for the benefit of others in all of her growing roles. Rebekah is a wife, mother, and Sr. VP of Marketing Services for VML. VML is a leading global branding and customer experience agency. Listen as Rebekah shares how she uses the core...
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Way to Work Podcast — Using Gifts for the Benefit of Others | Part 1
Rebekah Payne joins Howard to discuss how she uses her gifts for the benefit of others in all of her growing roles. Rebekah is a wife, mother, and Sr. VP of Marketing Services for VML. VML is a leading global branding and customer experience agency. Listen as Rebekah shares how she is using…
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7 Habits Series, The Center Of Habits — Accounts For Life Effectiveness
Will Walker joins Howard to discuss entrepreneurship, working with your spouse, and how to keep relationship accounts full. WIll is the president and founder of Walker Financial Management. This episode is full of practical ways for entrepreneurs and business leaders to keep full accounts with...
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Finding The Working Genius In Motherhood
Lisa Moak joins Howard on The Way To Work Podcast for a Mother’s Day special! Lisa is the mother of 3 children, and, today, she joins us to talk about how the Working Genius intersects with the wonderful work of motherhood. Her Working Genius is Enablement / Wonder. You’ll hear practical examples...
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7 Habits Series, Competition — How Seeking To Win Is Good For Everyone
Brian Moak from Irby Utilities — just back from the Masters and Talladega — joins Howard to discuss how competition creates Win/Win situations not just for our customers but also for our competitors. You’ll hear how reframing how we view competition — in every day sports and work based scenarios…
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7 Habits Series, Synergize — Collaborate To Create Solutions
Sharda Collier from YoungLives joins Howard to discuss how synergy between people with different gifts and viewpoints can create impactful solutions. You’ll hear how synergy has brought Sharda to where she is in her career and how she is changing the lives of pregnant teen mothers in Memphis.…
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7 Habits Series, Seek First To Understand, Then To Be Understood
Taylor Strickland joins Howard to discuss the transformative power of empathetic listening. You’ll hear how seeking to understand the needs, wants, and desires of your coworkers and clients before projecting your needs, wants, or desires onto them creates deep relationships built on character and...
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7 Habits Series, Think Win/Win — Working With An Abundance Mentality
This week Tom Fowlkes joins Howard to discuss how winning in business doesn’t mean that someone else is losing. We live in a world of abundance, not scarcity. You’ll hear how approaching daily decisions at work with this abundance mentality facilitates relationships of mutual benefit with clients...
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7 Habits Series, Think Win/Win — Pursue What Lasts
Matthew Gant joins Howard to discuss how to create long term victories in the insurance business and in all of life and work. On this special Good Friday release, you will hear how this principle has the potential to reshape your relationships with your clients as well as your coworkers —…
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7 Habits Series, Put First Things First — How To Do What’s Most Important
In this episode, Rob Thompson joins Howard to explain how to go from knowing what is important to accomplishing the most important things in our lives and work. You’ll hear how to put in place a practical routine that helps ensure the important things get done — all while staying flexible enough…
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7 Habits Series, Begin With The End In Mind — Remember Why You Are Here
Listen as Willie Baldwin joins Howard to unpack how beginning with the end in mind changes how you live and work. Willie touches on how this principles transforms your daily relationships with your coworkers, clients, and even your family. More Useful Resources From The Center Article: Where Do...
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7 Habits Series, Begin With The End In Mind — Work For What Lasts
In this episode, Hamp Holcomb and Howard discuss how the ability to effectively set and achieve goals can impact the trajectory of your career. Hamp shares personable stories and practical lessons he’s learned throughout his career about how beginning with the end in mind altered the goals he set...
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7 Habits Series, Be Proactive — How To Take Initiative
Listen as Howard, Dan Butler and Drew Pera explain what it means to be proactive by making choices and taking action in some very difficult circumstances. You will hear how Dan and Drew were able to move from what seemed like a lack of control in their work to taking full agency by implementing...
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For More Glory - Utilize Means
Healthy and successful organizations know how to leverage the means at their disposal toward their most important goals as an organization. In this short podcast, Howard outlines how organizations can know how to utilize the means at their disposal toward their goals in a way that produces value...
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For More Glory - Mission Matters
This is the 1st podcast in a 3 part series where we are unpacking how business is meant to provide human flourishing, which is full of glory and joy. These podcasts are based on questions we’ve received from our recent whiteboard session. In this episode, Howard clarifies what company missions…
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How To Retire With Great Purpose
Do you know someone in or approaching retirement? Listen as Andrew Beach, director of life planning and retirement coaching at The Center - Memphis, explains how to retire with great purpose and eternal meaning.
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The Rewards of Leading Like Jesus
Over the past 9 months at The Center, we’ve been learning how to lead like Jesus. There isn’t any leadership attribute or area of we are trying to grow in as a leader that Jesus is not the preeminent example of. And, as we’ve learned what it means to lead like Jesus, we’ve learned what a…
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3 Steps To Implement Wisdom At Work
Most people know it’s a good thing to be wise — especially in business. However, for most of us, there tends to be a gap between what we know to be wise and what is actually being implemented day to day in our business, daily work, and leadership. Listen as Howard and Carter discuss how to best...
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Working On Mission — Can’t It Wait Until Later?
Our lives, and especially our work, get full of competing priorities, and we frequently tell ourselves we will get more involved in God’s mission later. Listen as our guest Brian Evans, from Strategic Financial Partners, joins Howard to discuss how the time for living and working on mission is…
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Redeeming Distractions
Our daily lives are full of distractions. We have a constant stream of alerts, meetings, games, fitness, our desires and fears, and even our work can throw us off track. In this podcast, Howard and Carter discuss which of these distractions can be eliminated and which ones should be redeemed....
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How Do I Get Unstuck And Move Forward With Purpose?
Regardless of whether you know the deepest truths of life or not, we all know the feeling of being paralyzed and not knowing how to move forward. Sometimes we find ourselves stuck at work, in relationships, and countless other scenarios. Listen as Howard and Carter discuss what to do the next…
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Debunking The False Dichotomy Of High Standards vs Generous Grace At Work
Almost everything in business operates by a standard — whether it's production quotas, revenue targets, success rates, etc. People, however, run on love, grace, and forgiveness. Often, in business, high standards and forgiveness are treated as if they are separate and opposed. Nothing could be...
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The Value Key — For Safety And Flourishing In Our City
What are steps we can take to help make our city safer — to see more people flourish? Listen as Howard and Carter discuss how life is a response to the gifts we’ve been given... and doing the very same things for others that God has done for us — this is where we will find the highest meaning and...
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Feeling Unsafe Or Overwhelmed by Crime? God’s Word Has Practical Answers!
We all have to make complex decisions that involve our safety, even little decisions like where we pump our gas or shop for groceries. Listen as Howard and Carter discuss how God's word informs our decisions about safety.
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Should I Quit My Job If I'm Not Making A Difference?
The organizations we are a part of are constantly changing — whether it is a company, a nonprofit, a church, or otherwise. Sometimes we are able to influence them to change for good, but other times we are not. Listen as Howard and Carter discuss whether you should leave your job if you cannot…
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How To Lead Others Out Of The Performance Trap
People change, and it is our job to help them. However, some of the ways that we help people change are not as helpful as we think. Listen as Howard and Carter discuss how to help people change with grace and truth. Resources Lay Aside Your Misplaced Fear The Three Secrets of the One Minute…
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Share Your Wisdom And Gifts To Grow
When we put our gifts to the needs of the world, we grow faster personally and professionally. Listen as Howard and Carter discuss how giving away what you have - rather than accumulating it for yourself - creates professional growth and personal satisfaction. Resources Audio Transcript Arthur...
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The Power Of Presence To Fight Doubt And Worry At Work
When work is difficult because of people or circumstances, it can quickly become discouraging and can seem like there is no benefit to doing things The Way Jesus prescribes and modeled. Listen and Howard and Carter discuss how the incarnation encourages us in the midst of doubt. Links Audio...
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How Much Should You Give?
Ask 10 people how to give and you will get 10 very different answers. Join Howard and Carter as they discuss how God’s word informs our giving practices, and most importantly, our motives for giving. Links Audio Transcript 1 Chronicles 29:11–13 The Way To Give Andy Crouch
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Conflict Reconciliation Is The Mission
As leaders, we all have conflict in our lives. You cannot be in a relationship without conflict, and conflict — left unresolved — leads to broken relationships. As followers of Jesus, we have a specific role in every conflict we face. Listen as Howard and Carter discuss how Jesus resolved the...
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To Lead — Know What People Want
People pursue what they want — even to their own detriment. Listen as Howard and Carter discuss why understanding the wants and deeper needs of those you lead — including customers and coworkers — is of vital importance for impactful leadership. Links Audio Transcript Lead With Questions What Do...
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A Promise To Guide Your Promises
The world runs on promises. Yet, we often have trouble making and keeping commitments. Join Carter and Howard as they discuss the best ways to make and keep promise as they pull from some classic writings on promises (from Harvard Business Review and Lewis Smedes) and some perfect wisdom given by...
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Build Trust — Lead With Action
We have all been let down by leaders who say one thing and do something else. The best antidote is to be servant leaders who act in love. Listen as Carter and Howard discuss how Jesus led and how He calls us to go and do likewise. Links Audio Transcript The Center - Memphis Edelman Report Trust...
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Use The Trust Equation — To Grow
We can all grow in trust. If we use trust equation — the factors that make up trust — we can break down barriers to trust. Join Howard and Carter as they discuss some very specific scenarios about how to evaluate the trustworthiness of others and grow in trust as leaders. Links Audio Transcript
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Connect For Good In The 901
Memphis is a well connected city that needs more connections for good. This week our guest is John Carroll, the founder and Executive Director of City Leadership — the organization that created #choose901, #serve901, #teach901, #give901, and so much more. He has made connections to recruit,...
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Transforming Your Ambition
Ambition should be a catalyst for good, yet too many of us set our ambition and goals on things that don’t last. Join Brantley and Howard in this podcast to learn how to best inform ambition, how ambitions change as our hearts change, and what to do with ambition. You will also hear practical…
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You Can’t Cancel Culture
You can’t cancel culture. You can’t change culture. You can only make new culture. As Andy Crouch says, “The only way to change culture is to create more of it.” Join Brantley, Dan, and Howard as they share how people in business are making culture new. You will hear practical ways you can do the...
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Mission Trumps The Business Model
Sometimes the best thing we can do is bust the business model in order to better fulfill the mission of an organization. Brantley, Dan, and Howard discuss principles that drive innovation and business model transformation. They include real examples of how and when to make changes to business...
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Evaluating Partnerships
We accomplish nothing alone. Partnerships are part of being human. Yes, we are designed for partnership, but how do we know when we should partner with others and what factors make for a good partnership? Brantley and Howard discuss what organizations and individuals should consider when they...
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Evaluating Jobs
Everyone wants a good job. Today, people are considering changing jobs at record rates. Why is this, and what makes a job “good”? Brantley, Dan and Howard discuss what individuals should consider when they evaluate an opportunity. They also cover how it’s critical for leaders of organizations to...
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Putting Your Purpose To Work
Your true purpose must be put to work. In this episode, Brantley, Dan, and Howard discuss how those who follow Jesus have a distinct advantage in making their purpose practical for everyday life and work.
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The Theology of Purpose
Everybody is talking about purpose. Harvard Business Review says we must have a purpose behind our purpose. In this week’s podcast, Brantley, Dan, and Howard discuss where true purpose comes from, and how our purpose is designed to be life-giving fuel for all of our life and work.
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How To Have Your Heart’s Desires
In this week’s podcast, Brantley, Dan, and Howard discuss how God shapes our hearts to desire exactly what He wants for us. The discussion is practical and revealing about how we may not want what we currently desire, and how God uses our imperfect desires to shape us so that we may know His love...
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How to Know God’s Will For Your Work
In this week’s podcast, Brantley, Dan, and Howard discuss how we can know God’s will for our work. They have an in-depth discussion about how God’s will applies to both big and small decisions in life and at work. They also share examples of good work, broken work, and finally how God calls us to...
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Bringing Glory To Work
In this week’s podcast, Brantley, Dan, and Howard discuss how every moment is spiritual and an opportunity to worship God. Many of us will spend 90,000 hours of our lives at work. Knowing how to glorify God at work is essential to being who God made us to be. thecentermemphis.org
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Love, Forgiveness and Gratefulness at Work — Really?
In this week’s podcast, Brantley, Dan, and Howard discuss how love, forgiveness, and gratefulness fuel healthy lives, relationships, and organizations. You will hear real examples of how to best use these life giving powers at work. The Center Memphis: thecentermemphis.org
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Use Money, Not People
In this week’s podcast, Dan and Howard discuss how too often we as leaders can treat people like objects — or means to end — as we try to achieve personal and corporate goals. At the same time, we can be tempted to treat money as a personal god as we desire independence and control. You will hear...
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Bearing Fruit In Business
In this week’s podcast, Dan and Howard discuss how we are made to bear fruit in business. You will hear how God cares about maximum fruit production and gives us everything we need to be fruitful. You will also learn about a new book from Praxis, Redemptive Business, that is a an excellent guide…
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You Are A Witness
In this week’s podcast, Dan and Howard discuss how everyone is a witness to something. We are all made to be witnesses. You will hear real life examples of the struggles of being a witness and truth from God’s word about how to be a faithful witness. You will most importantly hear what it means…
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Winners are Disciplined and Dependent
In this week’s podcast, Dan and Howard discuss how it takes discipline and dependence to achieve any prize worth having. You will discover life examples and solutions as we look to God’s word to define winning, discipline, and dependence.
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The Center Memphis is a weekly podcast to help leaders define reality and offer hope through the truth of God’s Word applied to everyday life and work.
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