CEO Kingdom Seekers

Dr. Lee C. Cordell
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For the entrepreneurial leaders who are called to fear & follow God.Being a whole disciple of Jesus and leading a company isn’t for the faint of heart or the timid spirit. Seeking God’s kingdom first in a world that gives us so many idols to bow down to is tough enough - but being called to the responsibility of stewarding the resources and following His will is a true test of faith. Whether you’re the CEO/founder in your business, sitting at the head of the table at an organization, or making daily decisions that majorly impact lives + livelihoods- You know that strengthening your wisdom + discernment is critical for long term success. On this podcast, Dr. Lee shares her testimony of hearing on her own initiation of moving through academia, healthcare, corporate, entrepreneurship... until one day when God fully reminded her why she gave her life to the Lord and how she was meant to build His kingdom. She also interviews other faith-led biz owners + industry leaders, and is often joined by her husband and Co-Founder of Regulated Roots Academy & Agency, T. Lee Cordell. If you’re seeking clarity, wisdom + practical advice on staying rooted in God’s will + word while you produce “good fruits” in the world — we pray this podcast will nourish + embolden you in seeking the kingdom of God and leading with faith.

  1. 12h ago ·  Video

    Ep 44: Why High Achievers Still Feel Like They’re Not "Good Enough" with Jay Judkins

    Anchor Scripture: 2 Corinthians 12:9a (NABRE)  “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in weakness.” Jay Judkins has had to learn how to walk twice. Born with cerebral palsy affecting his right side, Jay later survived a major car accident as a teenager. Then, at 35, doctors discovered a grade-three brain tumor. Surgery temporarily paralyzed his left side, forcing him to relearn how to function in a body that suddenly felt unfamiliar. As Jay and I talked, we kept returning to the deeper formation that happened alongside those physical experiences. Years later, counseling helped him uncover a belief that had quietly shaped much of his life:  “I’m not good enough.” That belief had found its way into his service, leadership, relationships, faith, and the way he used his gifts. I think this conversation will feel familiar for a lot of High Responsibility Humans™-  because fear can sit underneath a tremendous amount of competence.  We can become more useful, more responsible, more available, and more capable while barely noticing how much of that activity is tied to securing approval, avoiding rejection, or proving that we are enough. Jay and I talk about what happens when a real, God-given gift becomes entangled with an old wound, how spiritual formation helps us notice those patterns, and the freedom that begins to emerge when our identity is more deeply rooted in Christ. In This Episode, we discuss:  Faith during physical suffering and disorientationSpiritual warfare without making the enemy bigger than GodThe difference between knowing, understanding, and embodying truthThe gift-and-shadow dynamic in high-responsibility peopleHow genuinely good service can become tangled with approval-seekingMoving from external validation toward identity in ChristWhat happens when old patterns become visible in real timeSolitude and the places where isolation can become an invitation to listenLearning to receive our value apart from constant doingLetting God prepare us for the next season without rushing HimReflection Questions: What role or responsibility do you use to feel “good enough”?What happens in you when fear shows up, and how does it shape the way you respond?Is there a genuine gift you may be using to protect yourself from rejection, inadequacy, or helplessness?What would it look like to receive God’s love before you do anything useful today?Where might God be creating enough space for you to notice what has been underneath your activity? Connect with Jay - Website: https://www.epiphanyresourcesllc.com - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jay-judkins-a2b7b619/ Connect with Dr. Lee, TLC, & the High Responsibility Humans™ Community: Discover your Primary Motivational Gift: www.growinyourgifts.comJoin Our High Responsibility Humans Community: https://regulatedroots.com/hrhExplore our Agency services: regulatedroots.com/agencyFollow on TikTok: @leechelseacordell Connect on LinkedIn: Dr. Lee Cordell

    Ep 44: Why High Achievers Still Feel Like They’re Not "Good Enough" with Jay Judkins

  2. 5d ago ·  Video

    Ep 43: Soul Spent: How High-Capacity Leaders Can Create Margin and Find Rest — with Bret Kolman

    “Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the stalwart one who takes refuge in him.” — Psalm 34:9 NABRE What happens when you are still producing results, still carrying responsibility, still doing what needs to be done—and something deeper in you is exhausted? Bret Kolman calls that experience “soul spent.” After more than a decade leading hospitals, Bret began taking intentional 60-hour sabbaticals several times a year: time set apart for solitude, prayer, fasting, and listening to God. Those pauses eventually helped produce the 23 pieces of wisdom he shares in his book, Wisdom That Leads to Soul Rest. This conversation became about much more than taking time off. We talked about the order God built into work and rest, why high-capacity people need to become comfortable saying no, what happens when we create margin before we know exactly what God will put there, and how obedience, repentance, gratitude, surrender, and worship all contribute to a kind of rest that reaches deeper than physical recovery. In This Episode, We Discuss What it means to be “soul spent,” vs. fatigue or burnoutWhy a sabbatical can be five minutes, one day, 60 hours, or an extended seasonThe difference between slowing down and actually ceasingWhy talented, high-capacity people will almost always be offered more opportunities than they have capacity to acceptBret’s lesson in “losing on purpose” and what his wife taught him about choosing relationship over winningThe relationship between expectations, disappointment, surrender, and gratitudeHow repentance and repair can create greater soul restHow repeated experiences of genuine peace help us recognize when something feels out of alignment A Question to Carry With You Where are you waiting for God to give you something before you create room for it? Maybe it is more time to write. More time with your family. More space to hear God. More Sabbath time. More availability for a new assignment.  Or simply enough margin that every part of your capacity is no longer spoken for. What would it look like to create a little of that space now and trust God with what belongs there? About Bret Kolman Bret Kolman is a faith-based leader, former hospital CEO, and author of Wisdom That Leads to Soul Rest.  After years of practicing intentional sabbaticals while leading high-responsibility organizations, he now shares the wisdom those pauses helped form. Connect with Bret at www.sabbaticaltaker.com.  Wisdom That Leads to Soul Rest is available in print and audio formats. Connect with Dr. Lee, TLC, & the High Responsibility Humans™ Community: Discover your Primary Motivational Gift: www.growinyourgifts.comJoin Our High Responsibility Humans Community: https://regulatedroots.com/hrhExplore our Agency services: regulatedroots.com/agencyFollow on TikTok: @leechelseacordell Connect on LinkedIn: Dr. Lee Cordell

    Ep 43: Soul Spent: How High-Capacity Leaders Can Create Margin and Find Rest — with Bret Kolman

  3. Oct 27

    Ep 42: Seven Signs You May Have Shadow Work To Do Around Your Spiritual Gifts

    “Through him was life, and this life was the light of the human race; the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” ‭‭John‬ ‭1‬:‭4‬-‭5‬ ‭NABRE‬‬ What if the parts of yourself you have hidden reveal what you learned you could not safely afford to be? In this episode, I’m continuing the conversation from Episode 40 about costumes, armor, and the false selves we build around our God-given humanity.  This time, we’re going underneath the armor. Drawing from Richard Rohr’s Falling Upward, Scripture, trauma-informed frameworks, and the spiritual gifts work we’ve been doing throughout this series, I explore what Rohr calls the “shadow”: the qualities, needs, emotions, motives, contradictions, limitations, and vulnerable parts of ourselves that we struggle to acknowledge because they do not fit the “persona” we have learned to present to the world. I want to be very clear about how I’m using that language here. I’m approaching this through Christian spiritual formation, with our attention fixed on Christ rather than generic enlightenment or endless clinical self-analysis.  We are talking about allowing the Light of Christ to illuminate the places we have previously been unwilling or unable to see. The goal is greater wholeness and integration: allowing Christ to illuminate what has been hidden so that when we turn toward God, all of us can turn toward Him. In this episode, we discuss: Why the “persona” (aka “stage mask”) can be understood as both the costume we present and the armor we use to protect itWhat may actually be hidden underneath that armorHow the fears of being powerless, unlovable, and unworthy can shape both the diminishment and distortion of our giftsWhy defensiveness can reveal an area where identity or worth still feels threatenedWhy removing the costume can feel like an identity crisis and how our identity in Christ can make that process feel saferWhy your shadow and your sin are not the same thingWhat it means to let Christ’s light reach what we have spent years protectingThe five-question reflection practice I promised in the episode that I would put these questions in the show notes.  Do not rush immediately into fixing what you discover. Sit with your answers, bring them before God, and ask Him what He wants you to understand. 1. Costume: What version of myself have I learned is acceptable, rewarded, or safest to show to others? 2. Armor: What do I do to make sure that persona is the version other people see? How do I protect the other parts of myself from being seen? 3. Shadow: What feelings, needs, qualities, characteristics, limitations, or vulnerable experiences have I cut off or hidden so that I (and other people) do not have to encounter them? 4. Fear: What fear does that hidden part seem to confirm for me: that I am powerless, unlovable, unworthy, or some combination of the three? 5. Light: Where might God be inviting me to let His light in? What does He want me to see, receive, heal, surrender, or reorder so that my gifts can be more freely directed by Him? Scripture verses to carry with you John 1:4–5 Colossians 3:3–4 Matthew 7:3–5 Grow In Your Gifts™ This episode releases as we close the current Grow In Your Gifts™ enrollment window. If you are hearing this after October 28 and want to do this work with us, send me an email or message me on social media. As I shared in the episode, there will continue to be ways for you to grow in your gifts with us, even if you encounter this teaching later. Connect with Dr. Lee, TLC, & the High Responsibility Humans™ Community: Discover your Primary Motivational Gift: www.growinyourgifts.comJoin Our High Responsibility Humans Community: https://regulatedroots.com/hrhExplore our Agency services: regulatedroots.com/agencyFollow on TikTok: @leechelseacordell Connect on LinkedIn: Dr. Lee Cordell

    Ep 42: Seven Signs You May Have Shadow Work To Do Around Your Spiritual Gifts

  4. Oct 22 ·  Video

    Ep 41: Turn Right: When Performance Becomes a Place to Hide with Matthew Wingo

    What happens when the place where you’re most successful becomes the place you go to avoid what hurts? Matthew Wingo knows what it costs to choose performance, control, and the path that feels easier in the moment. He is the founder and president of Turn Right Ministry and author of *Turn Right: The Pursuit of Noble Things*.  His own story includes corporate success, a marriage in crisis, a prodigal season, recovery, redemption, and one literal right turn that became a picture of what it looks like to choose the noble path when your flesh wants something else. Our conversation begins at that stoplight, but it quickly becomes a much larger conversation about identity, leadership, vulnerability, family, healing, and surrender. Matthew describes how corporate performance became a place where he could still feel successful while other parts of his life were falling apart. At work, effort produced visible rewards: another project completed, another promotion, another affirmation that he was valuable. At home, restoration required slower work without the same immediate feedback. That distinction matters for high-responsibility humans. Sometimes the places where we are most capable can become places we hide. Performance can become a costume we wear because it gives us access to an identity that feels safer than admitting we are hurting, failing, afraid, or unsure what to do next. And as Matthew’s story reminds us, God is willing to meet us underneath all of it. In this episode, we discuss: The literal “turn right” that became a defining moment in Matthew’s storyWhy choosing the noble path is not usually the same as the new, exciting, or outwardly courageous pathHow worldly success and performance can hide our avoidance Why leaders need trusted people with whom they can be fully human and vulnerableThe pressure on men to build identity around performance, usefulness, strength, and successThe difference between immediate professional rewards and the slower work of faithfulness in marriage and familyWhy redemption is not limited by what happened yesterday—or by what we can imagine for tomorrowWhy surrender often sounds less like “God, bless what I decided” and more like “You already have my yes and amen”One of my favorite lines from this conversation came near the end, when Matthew said: “I’m gonna trust my tomorrow to You, and I trust yesterday to You as well.” That is such a different posture from trying to control our way into a life that feels safe. It also connects directly to what we have been exploring in this season of the podcast: the difference between who God created us to be and the identities, defenses, competencies, and performances we build around ourselves. Matthew’s story is a reminder that God’s redemption reaches the places we wish we had handled differently. We can acknowledge the scars, take responsibility for what belongs to us, and still trust that He is capable of building something beautiful from here. A question to carry forward with you from this epsiode: Where has your ability to perform well made it easier to avoid a slower, harder place where God may actually be asking for your attention, honesty, or surrender? Connect with Matthew Turn Right Ministry: https://turnrightministry.org Book: Turn Right: The Pursuit of Noble Things Connect with Dr. Lee, TLC, & the High Responsibility Humans™ Community: Discover your Primary Motivational Gift: www.growinyourgifts.comJoin Our High Responsibility Humans Community: https://regulatedroots.com/hrhExplore our Agency services: regulatedroots.com/agencyFollow on TikTok: @leechelseacordell Connect on LinkedIn: Dr. Lee Cordell

    Ep 41: Turn Right: When Performance Becomes a Place to Hide with Matthew Wingo

  5. Oct 20

    Ep 40: Who Are You Beneath the Armor? The Actual Purpose of Personal Development (Psalm 139: 13-14)

    You formed my inmost being; you knit me in my mother's womb. I praise you, because I am wonderfully made; wonderful are your works! My very self you know." -Psalm 139:13-14 What is the ACTUAL purpose of all our personal development? If you’re a High  Responsibility Human, there’s a good chance you’ve spent years learning about yourself.  You probably know your personality type, leadership style, strengths, weaknesses, attachment patterns, and even your spiritual gifts. And yet, it’s entirely possible to know an enormous amount about yourself while still living at a distance from the person God actually created you to be. Over the last several weeks, as I’ve been preparing to lead Grow In Your Gifts™, God has been taking me through my own uncomfortable process of examining that gap. How much of who I’ve become has grown from the grace-filled gifts God gave me and His formation of them? And how much developed (or got diminished or distorted) because of who I thought I needed to become in order to be loved, appreciated, respected, safe, or useful? In this episode, I’m exploring the difference between our true self, the full human being God already sees.  And this includes closely examining the false selves we construct through two key coping mechanisms: costumes and armor. The costumes are what we add: competence, usefulness, strength, low needs, impressive accomplishments, even versions of holiness that make us look like the person we think we’re supposed to be. The armor protects and conceals underneath. It walls off the vulnerable pieces of ourselves we learned to hide because allowing them to be seen once felt unsafe. But here’s the uncomfortable truth:  God can ALWAYS see underneath all of it, whether we want to lay it bare to him or not.  In this episode, we discuss: Why self-awareness and self-discovery are incomplete if they never lead us toward greater honesty and surrender before GodThe difference between a Christian understanding of the “true self” and self-actualization that centers the selfWhy authenticity requires obedienceHow high-responsibility humans construct respectable false selves around usefulness, competence, strength, knowledge, and being “low need”The difference between the costumes we add and the armor we use to coverWhy our desires deserve discernment rather than automatic distrust (or obedience)What Thomas Merton, Henri Nouwen, and Fr. James Martin have been teaching me about vocation, formation, and becoming who God created us to beWhy Jesus’ hidden years matter when we think about human development, capacity, and vocationWhy growing in holiness should actually produce more human diversity, not lessHow spiritual gifts give us language for function, contribution, motivation, and formation without becoming another identity labelWhy your Primary Motivational Gift™ should never become another costume you put onWhat self-knowledge is ultimately for: helping us surrender more honestly to GodOne of the questions underneath this entire episode is uncomfortable: Who am I when I am no longer trying to prove, protect, perform, or become somebody else? Psalm 139 reminds us that God already knows the person underneath all of it. So the invitation is to stop spending your valuable energy on manufacturing and mainatining a more acceptable version of yourself.  And then, to become increasingly willing to stand before God as the person who is actually there: gifts, desires, limitations, strengths, wounds, questions and unfinished places included. From there, we can ask Him:  What do You want to do with me? How do You want me to grow? And most importantly:  What is Your will?A question to carry with you: What have you added to yourself to feel safe, loved, respected, useful, or holy…and what have you hidden underneath the armor? Connect with Dr. Lee, TLC, & the High Responsibility Humans™ Community: Discover your Primary Motivational Gift: www.growinyourgifts.comJoin Our High Responsibility Humans Community: https://regulatedroots.com/hrhExplore our Agency services: regulatedroots.com/agencyFollow on TikTok: @leechelseacordell Connect on LinkedIn: Dr. Lee Cordell

    Ep 40: Who Are You Beneath the Armor? The Actual Purpose of Personal Development (Psalm 139: 13-14)

  6. Oct 15 ·  Video

    Ep 39: When Suffering Exposes Self-Reliance with Dr. Carron Silva (Romans 5:3–4)

    “Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.” — Romans 5:3–4 What happens when you know God has called you somewhere….and then the reality of that calling becomes much harder than you expected? Dr. Carron Silva and her husband moved to a small farm in New Mexico with a vision for it to become a place of healing. At the same time, Carron was building a forgiveness ministry and coaching practice.  Both felt meaningful.  Both felt connected to what God had placed in front of her. But eventually, the demands of carrying both began colliding with grief, physical limits, uncertainty, and the pressure to keep producing. Carron describes reaching a point where she began asking God which part He actually wanted.  Then, instead of slowing down long enough to discern, she contracted. She tried harder. She learned social media strategies she did not particularly want to learn. She looked to experts. She focused on what she needed to do next.  And over time she recognized how much self-reliance had entered a season that was supposed to be lived with God. This conversation follows naturally from Episode 38, where I talked about forced competence: the ways we can become very good at something because responsibility, necessity, pain, or professional expectations required us to. Carron’s story gives us another side of that conversation.  This episode is for you if your find your high levels of capability lead you to keep moving instead of slowing down and asking God whether He is asking you to move at all. In this episode, we discuss: How Carron’s calling to forgiveness ministry and the farm began to compete for her time and capacityWhy grief can become something high-responsibility people keep trying to work around instead of allowing themselves to experienceHow self-reliance can look like responsibility, problem-solving, achievement, or simply “doing what needs to be done”The difference between suffering that is part of faithful obedience and suffering we compound by running ahead of GodWhy Carron returned to a 40-week Ignatian spiritual practice that had accompanied an earlier season of callingHow examination, reconciliation, and forgiveness helped her recognize repeated patterns without condemning herselfWhat a bear, an electric fence, and disappearing beehives revealed about the instinct to consult experts before consulting GodWhy achievement can give us a brief sense of relief without providing the deeper fulfillment we are looking forHow forgiveness begins with telling the truth about what happened while having compassion for the human being who developed those patternsWhy Christian leaders have to be willing to go inward before we can faithfully lead other people through their own hard places Carron’s story also makes room for something high-responsibility people often struggle to permit: grief. She had experienced multiple losses while the demands of the farm and her work continued. The “doing” part of her kept functioning while the grieving part of her had very little room to be felt. Romans 5 does gives us a longer view of what God can form through our suffering, and Carron’s vulnerable share of experience is an invitation to us all  to stop treating suffering as a problem to escape,  and begin asking what God might be revealing, healing, interrupting, or rebuilding within it. Our suffering does not become valuable because we can perform well through it. We can bring it to Christ, allow ourselves to be human inside it, and let Him show us what belongs to obedience, what belongs to grief, and what we have added through our own attempts to stay in control. A question to carry with you from this episode: Where have you become so accustomed to solving the problem yourself that you may be running ahead of God—and what might change if you brought Him into the problem before deciding what to do next? CONNECT WITH DR. CARRON SILVA Dr. Carron Silva is a forgiveness coach, speaker, and host of the Forgiveness Is For You podcast. Her work centers on forgiveness, mindset, faith, and helping people take ownership of their lives. She and her husband are also developing their New Mexico farm with a long-term vision for it to become a place of healing. Website: drcarron.com Podcast: Forgiveness Is For You — Overcome Trauma Through Forgiveness - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/forgiveness-is-for-you-overcome-trauma-through-forgiveness/id1721956839 Connect with Dr. Lee, TLC, & the High Responsibility Humans™ Community: Discover your Primary Motivational Gift: www.growinyourgifts.comJoin Our High Responsibility Humans Community: https://regulatedroots.com/hrhExplore our Agency services: regulatedroots.com/agencyFollow on TikTok: @leechelseacordell Connect on LinkedIn: Dr. Lee Cordell

    Ep 39: When Suffering Exposes Self-Reliance with Dr. Carron Silva (Romans 5:3–4)

  7. Oct 13

    Ep 38: When What You’re Best At Isn’t Your Primary Gift: How forced competence makes true success harder to discern

    “All a person’s ways seem pure to them, but motives are weighed by the LORD.” - Proverbs 16:2 What if the thing everybody knows you for—the thing you’re exceptionally good at—isn’t actually centered in what most deeply motivates you? I know this experience personally. I built a career, reputation, income, and leadership role around work I was highly competent at. While some parts of my work was very aligned with my primary motivational gift, significant parts of it required me to diminish that gift, center other gifts, and develop competence in ways that eventually became depleting. That’s what I mean by forced competence. High Responsibility Humans often become excellent at things because life required it. Professional demands, painful experiences, praise, necessity, responsibility, or simply seeing a gap no one else was filling lead them to develop significant competence.  Forced competence can serve us well, and even prepare us for future work. But being excellent at something does not tell us whether that way of working should be at the center of our contribution. In this episode, I use my years as a nurse practitioner and graduate professor to show you what this looked like in my own life, including why a career that appeared closely aligned with my Professor gift still required me to operate in ways that created resistance and depletion. In this episode, we dive into: What a primary motivational gift is—and why it matters when ordering our other six motivational giftsWhy competence and calling can become tangled togetherHow “forced competence” develops through necessity, repetition, professional expectations, pain, and rewardWhy success can make misalignment harder to recognize than failureWhy restlessness, resentment, exhaustion, or depletion are information—but not automatic proof that you need to leave your careerHow internal fruit can help you discern what your external success cannotWhy intrinsic joy deserves a place in discernment without becoming the only criterionA practical two-column exercise for comparing what you’re known for with the contribution that actually brings you aliveHere’s your question to consider this week after listening to this episode:  Where have you tangled up your competence with your calling—and what might God show you if you asked Him how He designed and wants to direct you? Take the Primary Motivational Gift Assessment: www.growinyourgifts.com  Grow In Your Gifts™ begins October 21. Inside the program, we’ll move beyond gift identification to examine how all seven of your gifts are currently developed, diminished, distorted, and divinely directed—and how to order them around your primary motivational gift.  Connect with Dr. Lee, TLC, & the High Responsibility Humans™ Community: Discover your Primary Motivational Gift: www.growinyourgifts.comJoin Our High Responsibility Humans Community: https://regulatedroots.com/hrhExplore our Agency services: regulatedroots.com/agencyFollow on TikTok: @leechelseacordell Connect on LinkedIn: Dr. Lee Cordell

    Ep 38: When What You’re Best At Isn’t Your Primary Gift: How forced competence makes true success harder to discern

  8. Oct 8 ·  Video

    Ep 37: When Being Useful Becomes Your Identity with Latonya Flood (Galatians 1:10)

    “Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people?” -  Galatians 1:10 What happens when a gift that God gave you to serve other people quietly becomes the place you go to prove who you are? That question sits underneath so much of my conversation with Latonya Flood. Early in the episode, Latonya shares a vision God showed her years ago.  In it, she was building a house with her bare hands, stacking bricks and enjoying the work, when people began walking by asking whether she had a few bricks to spare. She did have extra…. so she began giving them away.  And she KEPT giving them away, again and again... until she looked around and saw a neighborhood filled with beautiful houses she had helped build, only to turn around, look at her own lot, and realize that she no longer had enough bricks to lay her own foundation. That image became one of the clearest pictures I’ve heard of what can happen when a God-given gift becomes distorted. Your gift itself is inherently good.  You may genuinely love serving, giving, teaching, encouraging, leading, solving, organizing, nurturing, or helping.  And other people benefit tremendously from what you give them through those gifts. But somewhere along the way, you began using your gifts to try and answer questions they were never meant to answer.  Questions like:  Am I valuable?Am I needed?Am I doing enough?Do people approve of me?Will they still want me if I stop being useful?Latonya and I talked about what happened when she realized she had spent years giving away bricks before tending to what God had actually entrusted to her.  We also discussed the long road between recognizing a pattern and actually learning to live differently, and how uncomfortable that gap between point A and point B can feel.  Latonya shared that God while first showed her this vision years ago, she’d only recently begun to feel that she was walking boldly and confidently in alignment. I wanted to highlight this specific part of her story, because formation rarely happens because we understand wholly the first time we “see” it. Sometimes God shows us the same truth through our work, our children, Scripture, disappointment, conviction, and ordinary moments.  He lets us hand things away, brick by brick, until we realize the COST- and the weight of that cost leads us to change the way we live. In this Episode, we discuss: Latonya’s vision of giving away the bricks she needed to build her own houseHow being generous, helpful, and useful become entangled with our identityThe difference between being a resource God uses and treating yourself like an assetWhat happens when we expect other people to replenish what we were meant to receive from GodWhy outcomes, attendance, money, applause, and response are unreliable measures of obedienceLatonya’s shift toward seeing her work as planting seeds and allowing God to determine the harvestWhy understanding a biblical principle doesn’t mean we have finished being formed by itThe difference between humility and shrinkingWhat changes when we stop making other people’s response responsible for determining our valueWhy faithful use of our gifts requires us to release control of how those gifts are receivedOne of the threads I keep returning to from this conversation is Latonya’s description of planting. She had been asking God how to separate obedience from the anxiety she felt about whether her book sold, whether people came to a coaching event, or whether the work produced visible financial results. The answer she felt God give her was to focus on planting. The coaching is a seed. The book is a seed. The conversation is a seed. Showing up is a seed. She doesn’t have to determine exactly when or how every seed will produce a harvest. For High Responsibility Humans, I think that distinction matters deeply. We are often very good at producing outcomes. That can make it surprisingly easy to attach our identity to the outcome and then use our gifts from a posture of pressure, proving, control, or fear. Galatians 1:10 gives us a piercing question: whose approval are we actually seeking? That question matters when we use our gifts- because we can obey God faithfully and still feel the pull to measure that obedience by whether people approve, attend, buy, affirm, or respond the way we hoped. Our responsibility is to follow what God asks of us faithfully. The response and outcome remain His. A question to carry with you from this episode: Where have you been giving away bricks God intended you to steward….and what might change if your usefulness no longer had to prove your identity? Connect with Latonya Latonya Flood is a licensed life coach, author, and faith-driven entrepreneur whose work centers on identity, alignment, obedience, and helping people become who God created them to be. You can connect with Latonya through her website: Latonyareneefludd.com Connect with Dr. Lee, TLC, & the High Responsibility Humans™ Community: Discover your Primary Motivational Gift: www.growinyourgifts.comJoin Our High Responsibility Humans Community: https://regulatedroots.com/hrhExplore our Agency services: regulatedroots.com/agencyFollow on TikTok: @leechelseacordell Connect on LinkedIn: Dr. Lee Cordell

    Ep 37: When Being Useful Becomes Your Identity with Latonya Flood (Galatians 1:10)
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For the entrepreneurial leaders who are called to fear & follow God.Being a whole disciple of Jesus and leading a company isn’t for the faint of heart or the timid spirit. Seeking God’s kingdom first in a world that gives us so many idols to bow down to is tough enough - but being called to the responsibility of stewarding the resources and following His will is a true test of faith. Whether you’re the CEO/founder in your business, sitting at the head of the table at an organization, or making daily decisions that majorly impact lives + livelihoods- You know that strengthening your wisdom + discernment is critical for long term success. On this podcast, Dr. Lee shares her testimony of hearing on her own initiation of moving through academia, healthcare, corporate, entrepreneurship... until one day when God fully reminded her why she gave her life to the Lord and how she was meant to build His kingdom. She also interviews other faith-led biz owners + industry leaders, and is often joined by her husband and Co-Founder of Regulated Roots Academy & Agency, T. Lee Cordell. If you’re seeking clarity, wisdom + practical advice on staying rooted in God’s will + word while you produce “good fruits” in the world — we pray this podcast will nourish + embolden you in seeking the kingdom of God and leading with faith.

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    Dr. Lee C. Cordell
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
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