You can crumble, or you can crumple. One is destruction. The other is something you can still open back up and straighten out.
In this episode, Mike sits down with Dr. Barry Corey, president of Biola University and co-author (with Dr. John Townsend) of the new book Necessary Burdens, to talk honestly about the weight every leader carries, and why almost no one talks about it.
Barry explains why the person at the top of any organization carries burdens no one else fully understands: the isolation of having no true peer, the criticism that comes with embodying an entire institution, the pull of unchecked temptation, the discipline of discretion, and the quiet fear of becoming irrelevant. Left unaddressed, these burdens can crumble a leader. Rightly carried, they can be the very thing that builds one.
Jesus said, “My yoke is easy, my burden is light” (Matthew 11:28-30) and this conversation is about what it actually looks like to carry leadership’s weight in a way that strengthens you rather than breaks you.
