How to Avoid Pastoral Burnout with Alan Briggs


In this episode of Craft & Character, Steve Carter interviews leader, coach, and author Alan Briggs about avoiding burnout and finishing the race well.

Alan recently released a new book called AntiBurnout that will help you lead for the long haul by sharing practical steps that he has learned advising pastors and business leaders. This episode is so practical and will help you take a good, hard look within to see if how you are working today is actually going to work well for you in the seasons to come.

BIO

Alan Briggs helps CATALYTIC LEADERS leverage CATALYTIC MOMENTS for SYSTEMIC CHANGE. He serves businesses and nonprofits as a Leadership Coach, Sabbatical Coach, team consultant, podcaster, and speaker. He founded and leads Stay Forth Coaching to help leaders experience deep health and impact and create healthy cultures around them.

He curated the “Right Side up Journal” as a three-month journey to find healthy and proactive rhythms, and he uses it every day. His latest book, AntiBurnout; a lighter way to live and lead in a heavy world invites leaders in any field to resist the pull toward exhaustion and overwhelm and experience lighter leadership. The principles, frameworks, and tools in this book stem from 13 years of coaching leaders.

Alan’s past books, Staying is the New GoingGuardrails, and Everyone’s a Genius, focus on specific areas to be faithful to your creative wiring and unique calling.

EPISODE LINKS

@alanbriggs on Instagram

Stayforth.com

New Book: AntiBurnout

@steveryancarter

@craft_character

About Steve Carter

Steve Carter is the Lead Pastor at Christ Church of Oak Brook and is helping to champion the Preaching Institute to equip pastors on how to preach hospitable and transformational messages. Steve hosts the Craft and Character Podcast, which ignites preachers to grow in their craft while always intentionally working to have their character lead the way. He has also authored two best-selling books, Grieve, Breathe, Receive, and The Thing Beneath The Thing. Steve lives outside Chicago with his wife, Sarah, and their two kids. When Steve isn’t hanging around with his family, friends, or church community, you will probably find him watching a University of Michigan football game.

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