The Mentored Podcast with Drs. Carson Pue, Ingrid and Chuck Davis

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Step into a space where wisdom meets authenticity. Hosted by Drs. Carson Pue, Ingrid and Chuck Davis, The Mentored Podcast is your go-to destination for conversations that spark growth, inspire action, and deepen your understanding of leadership and mentorship. With decades of combined experience in guiding leaders, these seasoned mentors pull back the curtain on what it means to lead with courage, humility, and intentionality. Whether it’s navigating personal challenges, fostering healthy teams, or wrestling with the deeper questions of purpose and calling, they bring clarity, warmth, and a touch of wit to every episode. Through thought-provoking discussions and practical insights, The Mentored Podcast invites you into a dialogue that feels as personal as chatting with trusted friends, yet as rich as sitting in a masterclass. Whether you’re a seasoned leader, an eager learner, or simply someone seeking mentoring, this podcast will leave you encouraged equipped and ready to lead.

  1. 6D AGO

    Entropy and Leadership

    Everything falls apart. That’s not cynicism. That’s physics. Entropy is the tendency of any system, left unattended, to move toward disorder. Your organisation knows this. So does your marriage. So does your soul. It doesn’t happen all at once. Gradually. Quietly. A leader drifts from their calling. A team loses its sense of purpose. A spiritual life that once felt alive starts running on memory. That’s entropy. And it doesn’t announce itself. In this episode, Carson, Ingrid, and Chuck get honest about what entropy looks like in leadership, spiritually and practically. Carson shares a season of his own spiritual autopilot and what it took to find his way back. The conversation moves from diagnosis to direction, because naming the drift is only the first step. The good news? Entropy may be inevitable. Stagnation isn’t. What would it mean to lead from wholeness instead of depletion? And who around you is paying close enough attention to tell you the truth?

    33 min

  2. MAY 6

    Welcome to Season 3

    Some podcasts give you content. This one gives you a conversation. That was always the idea. Martin Sanders and Carson Pue started it at a kitchen table, really. The mentoring that used to happen on long walks or over a shared meal had no place to live in the noise of modern leadership. So they made one. Martin is gone now. But the conversation continues. Chuck and Ingrid Davis stepped in at Carson’s invitation — not to fill a gap, but because Martin had mentored them too. It felt right. It still does. Season Two surprised them. The deeper they went, the more people leaned in. Stewarding suffering. Listening. Vulnerability. Failure as formation. These weren’t polished presentations. They were honest conversations between three people who have lived long enough in leadership to know what it actually costs. And listeners noticed. A pastor’s wife who sent the episode on communicating with adult children to her neighbour. A leader who heard the word “stewarding” before “suffering” for the first time and couldn’t stop thinking about it. That’s what this is for. Season Three continues where Season Two left off. Same table. Same honesty. No masks. No performance. Just Carson, Chuck, and Ingrid thinking out loud about the things leaders rarely say in public but think about all the time. If you’re a leader who has it all together, there are other podcasts for you. If you’re a leader willing to admit you don’t — welcome. You’re in good company. Season Three of The Mentored Podcast is live now. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or find every episode right here at mentoredpodcast.net.

    8 min

  3. APR 26

    The Power of Story

    Everyone has a story. The real question is whether you know how to read yours. In this Season 2 finale, Carson, Chuck, and Ingrid dig into one of the most underused tools in a mentor’s hands — story. Not storytelling as a presentation skill, but story as the lens through which we understand our own lives, and help others understand theirs. Dan Allender puts it plainly: most people miss the deeper meaning of their own life because they don’t know how to read it. And as John McCauley adds, we’re not actually designed to read our stories accurately on our own. That’s where a mentor comes in. The conversation covers a lot of ground: the neuroscience behind why stories stick (Dr. Paul Zak’s work on oxytocin is worth knowing about), the danger of fixed narratives — those internal scripts that quietly limit us — and the extraordinary thing that happens when a mentor believes a better story about you before you can believe it yourself. They call it “borrowed belief.” It’s one of the most honest descriptions of what good mentoring actually does. Ingrid shares how she draws people’s stories out in practice. Carson brings the biblical frame — Jesus was, after all, history’s most effective storyteller. And the whole conversation ends with a practical challenge you can act on this week. To our 13,000-plus listeners: Season 2 has been something. Thank you for being part of it. Season 3 is coming.

    32 min

  4. APR 8

    The Prayer of Indifference

    Most of us walk into our biggest decisions already knowing what we want. We just want God to agree. That’s not prayer. That’s lobbying. The Prayer of Indifference is an ancient spiritual practice rooted in Ignatian tradition and the Quaker pursuit of surrender. At its core, it’s the willingness to say, “Lord, I don’t want what I want. I want what you want.” Simple to say. Genuinely costly to mean. In this episode, Carson, Chuck, and Ingrid unpack what holy indifference actually looks like in the life of a working leader. Not apathy. Not passivity. But a deep enough trust in God that you can set aside your attachments, your fears, and your preferred outcomes long enough to actually hear Him. If you’re a business leader weighing a decision that affects your team, a pastor navigating competing loyalties, an executive who suspects their ego is doing more of the talking than they’d like to admit, or a parent at home trying to discern what faithfulness actually looks like in the daily grind of family life, this conversation is for you. Most leaders don’t lack information when facing a hard decision. They lack freedom. Freedom from the fear of what others will think, from the pull toward comfort over calling, from the quiet pressure to choose the path with more applause. This practice won’t make hard decisions easy. But it may make them honest. So here’s the question worth sitting with before you press play: What would change if the outcome truly didn’t matter to you?

    33 min

  5. MAR 25

    Spiritual Authority vs. Institutional Power

    There’s a kind of leader who commands a room without raising their voice. And there’s another kind who needs a title to be taken seriously. They are not the same. In this milestone 50th episode, Carson, Chuck, and Ingrid sit down with a question that cuts to the heart of every leader’s journey: Where does your authority actually come from? Institutional power is given. Spiritual authority is grown — slowly, often painfully, through faithfulness in hidden places. But in a world that rewards platforms, metrics, and organizational rank, it’s easy to confuse the two. And that confusion has consequences — for your team, your family, and your own soul. This conversation doesn’t offer easy answers. It asks better questions. What does it look like to lead from a place of genuine calling rather than positional leverage? What happens when your title disappears — do you still have something worth following? And how do you build the kind of authority that outlasts any role you’ll ever hold? Whether you lead a congregation, a company, or a family — this episode is worth your time.

    29 min

  6. MAR 11

    Ep. 49 Self Regulation Self Leadership

    Leadership has an inside story that rarely makes the highlight reel. It’s the moment before the response. The pause before the decision. The quiet choice to lead yourself before you attempt to lead anyone else. In this episode, Carson, Chuck, and Ingrid sit with three case studies that bring self-regulation out of the theoretical and into the real — exploring what it actually costs a leader to stay authentic under pressure, to choose patience when urgency is screaming, and to take seriously the care of the body and soul that sustains everything else. These aren’t polished success stories. They’re honest looks at the interior life of leadership — and what happens when we neglect it. What is your leadership costing you on the inside? And is the person you’re becoming worth following?   The resource we mention at the close of the episode is Leading Me: Eight Practices for a Christian Leader’s Most Important Assignment by Dr. Steve A Brown.

    37 min

  7. FEB 24

    Being a Non-Anxious Presence

    Anxiety is contagious. But so is calm. In this episode, we explore what it actually looks like for a leader to be a non-anxious presence — not by pretending everything is fine, but by being genuinely anchored when everything around them isn’t. What if the most important thing you carry into a room isn’t your strategy, but your steadiness? We unpack why anxious leaders create anxious cultures, what it costs an organization when the person at the top is always reacting, and the quiet discipline it takes to lead from a settled soul. This one will make you think honestly about what you’re really transmitting to the people around you.

    32 min

  8. FEB 13

    Failure of Heart and Nerve

    What really stops leaders from leading? It’s rarely a lack of skill or strategy. More often, it’s one of two things: a failure of the heart — losing emotional connection to your mission and people — or a failure of the nerve — lacking the courage to act when it matters most. In this episode, Carson, Chuck, and Ingrid get honest about both. They explore how heartbreak shows up as disengagement, bitterness, and spiritual exhaustion, and how nerve failure hides behind indecision, avoidance, and compromised convictions. Drawing from real leadership scenarios and biblical examples — from Elijah’s despair to Saul’s fear — they unpack the ripple effects these failures have on teams, organizations, and the leaders themselves. More importantly, they talk about the way back: reconnecting with your calling, building emotional resilience, taking small courageous risks, and surrounding yourself with people who won’t let you stay stuck. If you’ve ever found yourself pulling back emotionally or hesitating when bold action was needed, this one’s for you.

    33 min
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Step into a space where wisdom meets authenticity. Hosted by Drs. Carson Pue, Ingrid and Chuck Davis, The Mentored Podcast is your go-to destination for conversations that spark growth, inspire action, and deepen your understanding of leadership and mentorship. With decades of combined experience in guiding leaders, these seasoned mentors pull back the curtain on what it means to lead with courage, humility, and intentionality. Whether it’s navigating personal challenges, fostering healthy teams, or wrestling with the deeper questions of purpose and calling, they bring clarity, warmth, and a touch of wit to every episode. Through thought-provoking discussions and practical insights, The Mentored Podcast invites you into a dialogue that feels as personal as chatting with trusted friends, yet as rich as sitting in a masterclass. Whether you’re a seasoned leader, an eager learner, or simply someone seeking mentoring, this podcast will leave you encouraged equipped and ready to lead.

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