Healthy Leadership with Stuart and Lynley Allan

Stuart and Lynley Allan
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Hosted by Stuart & Lynley Allan, global leaders in Catch The Fire, the Healthy Leadership Podcast is conversations on topics that will empower you to lead with emotional resilience, spiritual depth, and supernatural power. Each episode offers practical tools, prophetic insight, and real talk to help you grow in wholeness and walk in your calling. Whether you're leading a church, team, or business, this podcast will strengthen your leadership from the inside out.

  1. Don’t Run From The Test That Is Meant To Perfect You

    FEB 2

    Don’t Run From The Test That Is Meant To Perfect You

    In this episode, we discuss how can someone with serious character flaws can lead a ministry that appears successful? What does it mean when gifting is celebrated, but integrity is compromised? And more importantly, how do we make sure we don’t fall into the same trap? It’s not the platform that carries a leader, it’s their character. We explore how God uses testing to shape what no one sees: your character, your integrity, and your capacity to carry responsibility without collapse. If your gifting takes you where your character can’t stand, the pain of collapse will always be greater than the pain of formation. And it won’t just touch you, it will impact everyone you lead.

    28 min
  2. Redefining Confrontation In Leadership

    JAN 12

    Redefining Confrontation In Leadership

    What happens in your heart when you hear the word "confrontation"? For many, it's immediate discomfort. Anxiety, dread, or a mental rehearsal of how to avoid it altogether. But what if confrontation isn’t actually about conflict at all? What if it’s about care, alignment, and growth? In this episode, we unpack the emotional weight around confrontation and explore how reframing it as correction, feedback, or a simple realignment conversation can transform your leadership. We discuss how unspoken expectations, assumptions, and poor timing sabotage relationships and why clarity is kindness. You’ll hear practical insights on leading with love, opening powerful lines of inquiry, and managing your own heart before stepping into difficult conversations.

    28 min
  3. Connection. Clarity. Action.

    12/08/2025

    Connection. Clarity. Action.

    In this episode, we explore a practical framework for leadership built on three key pillars: connection, clarity, and action. An aspect of healthy leadership is not always about having equal friendship with everyone on your team, but about alignment in vision, values, and mission. We talk about the importance of leaders being accessible, not emotionally overextended, and why longevity and shared experience shape the depth of relationship. We also look at the danger of placating others with half-answers and how that habit leads to obligation, frustration, and missed expectations. Instead, we. explore how "clarity is kindness" and that clear communication that will create safety and trust, even when the answer is “no.” Finally, we dive into the importance of action: doing what you said you’d do, when you said you’d do it. Because without follow-through, clarity and connection lose their impact. These three anchors might seem simple, but they’re incredibly challenging to live out. Healthy leadership is not about always getting it right, but about being real, being present, and doing what you say you'll do. And yes, you'll come face to face with your humanity along the way but that’s where growth happens.

    16 min
  4. Consensus, Control, And Everything In Between

    11/10/2025

    Consensus, Control, And Everything In Between

    What kind of leader are you on your best day? What kind of leader are you on your worst?In this episode, we explore the real-life tension between autocratic and consensus leadership. We talk about the ditches on both sides of the leadership road. The moments of crisis, where moving forward saved the day, and the times when team misalignment made even simple decisions exhausting.We unpack how decision-making changes under pressure, what happens when leaders get emotionally or physically depleted, and why defaulting to “just doing it yourself” might actually be a distress signal. We also dive into the impact of team dynamics, the importance of vision, mission, and values alignment, and how to discern when someone’s feedback is helpful… or just a roadblock.Whether you’re leading in a crisis, building a healthy team culture, or figuring out how to make confident calls without burning out, this conversation will help you find a way forward that’s healthy for both your team and yourself.

    26 min
  5. Living As People Of The Spirit

    10/13/2025

    Living As People Of The Spirit

    The real you is spiritual. We often get the order backwards – body, soul, then spirit. But Paul flips the script: spirit, soul, body. You are first and foremost a spirit being. That truth reorients everything. It means your deepest connection with God won’t happen through intellect or feelings alone. It happens Spirit to spirit. That connection is your lifeline. When Nicodemus met with Jesus in John 3, he was a man of the law, a religious teacher. Yet Jesus didn’t appeal to his knowledge, He pointed to the need to be born again, not of water only, but of Spirit. This is where real life begins.

    21 min
  6. Spotting Wolves, Guarding Sheep – The Call to Discernment

    09/08/2025

    Spotting Wolves, Guarding Sheep – The Call to Discernment

    Christian leaders are called not only to shepherd the flock but also to guard against deception and guide God’s people into truth. Among the spiritual gifts God gives, one of the most vital for leaders in today’s world is the gift of discernment of spirits. This gift is not about suspicion, criticism, or personal preferences, it is a supernatural ability given by the Holy Spirit to perceive the true source behind spiritual activity, words, actions, or manifestations.  In this era, we need to sharpen this gift to protect the flock with wisdom and confidence.

    22 min
  7. The Gift of Transformation

    08/11/2025

    The Gift of Transformation

    We are all still becoming like Jesus. I wish I could tell you I’ve arrived. That I’m now fully Christlike, patient in every trial, humble in every success, always overflowing with love. But the truth is… I’m still on the journey. And if you’re honest, so are you. Paul’s words in Ephesians 4:22–24 ring in my ears:“Put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires… be renewed in the Holy Spirit of your minds… and put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.” And then there’s Romans 12:2:“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind…” That word mind, nous in the Greek, isn’t just about intellect. It’s the whole inner landscape: your thoughts, perceptions, moral reasoning, and even the way you interpret reality. To renew it is to let the Holy Spirit rewire the very operating system you live from. It’s not about adding a bit more “Bible knowledge.” It’s a deep renovation of how you think, feel, and choose. And that renewal? It’s not a one-and-done. It’s a lifetime of partnership with the Holy Spirit. When leaders live open to the Holy Spirit’s transforming work, here’s what happens: - Teams become safer because vulnerability is normal.- Conflict becomes less toxic, because humility is modelled.- Growth accelerates because fear of failure loses its grip. I’ve watched this in my leadership. The more I’ve allowed God to address my insecurities, the more relaxed, and yet more effective, I’ve become. I’m kinder. More peaceful. And my team is healthier because of it. It’s not that the challenges go away. But when the heart is settled in God’s love, the challenges stop shaking you in the same way. If we truly long for revival that transforms nations, we can’t skip the step where God transforms us. We must keep putting off the old self. Keep putting on the new. Keep letting the Holy Spirit renew our nous, our whole inner framework. That will mean facing uncomfortable truths. It will mean repenting when He points out control, fear, or pride. It will mean letting go of the need to be admired, needed, or first. But it’s worth it. Because whole leaders raise whole people, and whole people can change the world. So here’s my challenge to you, leader to leader: Don’t hide behind your position. Don’t settle for managing your weaknesses in the dark. Let the Holy Spirit shine His light into every corner. Yes, it’s vulnerable. Yes, it’s humbling. But it’s also freeing. And freedom isn’t just for your sake, it’s for the sake of every person God has entrusted to your leadership. Sign up to the Monday Morning Moment.

    23 min
  8. Raising World Changers – How Did Jesus Do It?

    07/29/2025

    Raising World Changers – How Did Jesus Do It?

    In this episode, we unpack 5 keys from Jesus’ leadership style that empower others, multiply healthy culture, and release Kingdom impact. Presence over performanceIdentity before assignmentReal authority, not just tasks This is how revival multiplies. This is how Jesus led.

    19 min
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Hosted by Stuart & Lynley Allan, global leaders in Catch The Fire, the Healthy Leadership Podcast is conversations on topics that will empower you to lead with emotional resilience, spiritual depth, and supernatural power. Each episode offers practical tools, prophetic insight, and real talk to help you grow in wholeness and walk in your calling. Whether you're leading a church, team, or business, this podcast will strengthen your leadership from the inside out.

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