S4 E44 | Dr. Donna Pisani | Embracing The Privilege Of Entrusted Leadership

The Alabaster Jar

In this conversation, Dr. Lynn Cohick interviews Dr. Donna Pisani to discuss her new book, Entrusted to Lead: Cultivate Your Gifts. Build Your Confidence. Discover Your God-Given Influence and share her journey of discovering her calling to preach and pastor a congregation. She emphasizes the importance of understanding leadership as a privilege and being entrusted with God-given influence. Dr. Pisani highlights the need for women to lead alongside men in churches and work environments and the power of combining unique gifts and strengths. She also encourages women to embrace their own kind of smart and not waste the grace they have been given. Later in the episode, she shares her experience overcoming a performance-driven quest for approval and finding healing through therapy and vulnerability.

Key Takeaways:

• Leadership is a privilege and being entrusted with God-given influence.
• Women should lead alongside men in churches and work environments, combining their unique gifts and strengths.
• Embrace your own kind of smart and don't waste the grace you have been given. ·
• Overcome a performance-driven quest for approval through therapy and vulnerability.

Resources Mentioned:
Dr. Donna Pisani
Entrusted to Lead: Cultivate Your Gifts. Build Your Confidence. Discover Your God-Given Influence by Dr. Donna Pisani
The Garden Within: Where the War with Your Emotions Ends and Your Most Powerful Life Begins by Dr. Anita Phillips
The Motive: Why So Many Leaders Abdicate Their Most Important Responsibilities by Patrick Lencioni
The Visual Museum of Women in Christianity

Episode Sponsor:
The Alabaster Jar is brought to you by The Center for Women in Leadership, a newly formed 501©3 nonprofit organization whose purpose is to equip women in a context that is biblically rooted, theologically robust, and ethnically diverse to thrive as leaders in the academy and the Church. Follow them on Instagram @leadershipwithoutapology.