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Episode Eight: Edward Vaughan and Leigh Hatcher on the Ultimate Blunder Bus Journey!
Nov 23, 2022
23m 16s
Episode Seven: Kylie Butler on Leading With A Mask
Oct 28, 2022
21m 21s
Episode Six: Megan Powell du Toit on When The Church Goes Wrong
Oct 16, 2022
22m 31s
Episode Five: Peter Mayrick and The Injustice Of Treating Everyone The Same
Jul 17, 2022
17m 58s
Episode Four: Tim O'Neill and The Values Clash
Jun 14, 2022
16m 38s
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| Date | Episode | Description | Length | ||||||
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| 11/23/22 | Episode Eight: Edward Vaughan and Leigh Hatcher on the Ultimate Blunder Bus Journey! | Yes folks, this is quite literally the ultimate Blunder Bus journey. After travelling thousands of kilometres around Australia, talking to some of the finest leaders in the land, the time has come to park the bus. So this episode is a bit special. I've invited Leigh Hatcher, one of Australia's most respected experienced journalists (he even has his own Wikipedia entry!) to chat to me about the whole Blunder Bus journey. Leigh asks me about why I started doing this podcast in the first ... | 23m 16s | ||||||
| 10/28/22 | Episode Seven: Kylie Butler on Leading With A Mask | Kylie Butler was previously the Managing Director of Christian Coaching Institute (CCI) prior to CCI combining with Arrow in 2022. She is now the Executive Leaders Program Director and Coaching Director for Arrow Australia. And she is an Enneagram Three! For those who are unfamiliar with Enneagram, it's a tool with an ancient background that helps you understand your core motivations in life and leadership. 'Threes' make great leaders! They love achievement, loving being seen as succes... | 21m 21s | ||||||
| 10/16/22 | Episode Six: Megan Powell du Toit on When The Church Goes Wrong | What do Christian leaders do when the church goes wrong? Megan Powell du Toit is a pastor, editor, writer, preacher, teacher, speaker, podcaster, poet, perhaps best known for co-hosting the podcast With All Due Respect (one of the finest podcasts in the southern hemisphere not specifically about leadership failure and not recorded on a bus!) Megan reflects on how we can create Christian community in which power is safe, and how we can deal with the issues of systemic and cultural power. We a... | 22m 31s | ||||||
| 7/17/22 | Episode Five: Peter Mayrick and The Injustice Of Treating Everyone The Same | Peter Mayrick is Director of Partners in Ministry and the Centre for Ministry Development. Previously he was involved in the leadership of (a now very famous!) pharmaceutical company. Peter's passion is leadership development, and he is a great advocate for excellence in delegation. And yet, here he is on The Blunder Bus! Peter shares how he thought what he was doing was developing a coaching mindset, and a coaching culture in his organisation, only to find that his key report hadn't n... | 17m 58s | ||||||
| 6/14/22 | Episode Four: Tim O'Neill and The Values Clash | Tim O'Neill is Director of Exponential Australia and also heads up A2A (the Acts 2 Alliance) network of churches. With his wife Sharon, he also leads Tailrace Community Church, a church that they planted 27 years ago. In this episode, Tim brings his 'prophetic gift of hindsight' onto The Blunder Bus, to talk about a great episode of leadership failure. Tim talks about the critical issue of developing culture (in this case, in a church planting situation). Totally without realising it, ... | 16m 38s | ||||||
| 5/30/22 | Episode Three: Liam Glover on Leading With A Busy Brain | Liam Glover has been the Executive Director of the Arrow Australia Leadership Program for ten years. He is passionate about raising up leaders for churches and Christian organisations. And Liam has a 'busy brain'! Or to be more precise, he has ADHD. Liam shares what this has meant for him in leadership and the impact that it has in the way he leads. He talks about the challenges of focusing on just one thing, and how hard it can be to regulate that. And the time when he realised his ADHD was... | 20m 26s | ||||||
| 5/23/22 | Episode Two: Karina Kreminski on Leading People Not Programs | Karina Kreminski is Co-Director of Neighbourhood Matters, based in Sydney's Surry Hills, and proudly claims to be a leaf-blower hater and flâneuse. On this episode she shares her reflections on her role as pastor, and on how she became 'program-based' as opposed to being people focused. It's a wide ranging conversation; we talk about the importance of building trust, the issues of the mega-church model and the potential for the pastor's role to be de-humanising for those who are in it... | 21m 47s | ||||||
| 5/13/22 | Episode One: Cath Tallack and Doing It All | Cath Tallack has been the Emerging Leaders Program Director with Arrow Australia since 2017. She began pastoral ministry at Gateway Baptist Church as the Children’s Pastor in 2009 and moved into the role as Generations Pastor (overseeing kids, youth and young adults as well as leadership development of the church). In 'Doing It All' Cath shares very vulnerably about a recent experience of burn-out, which she describes as coming from her (understandable!) desire to do excellently in all the r... | 17m 22s | ||||||
| 2/20/22 | Episode Five: The Failing Five: Silvia Fragiacomo and the Anxiety of Failure | Why does failure make us feel so anxious? Often it's because we can remember experiences in the past which scarred us, and even now as adults, continue to have an impact. Today the Blunder Bus travels to Sydney's inner west, where Dr Silvia Fragiacomo shares an experience from primary school that left a mark for decades to come. You've probably worked out by now that the magic secret when it comes to failure is the ability to reflect on mistakes and learn. And that’s what I do in my wo... | 10m 52s | ||||||
| 2/13/22 | Episode Four: The Failing Five: Marbz Diaz and How (Not) To Be A Cultural Imperialist | Marbz Dias is the National Church Relations Manager for Baptist World Aid. Coming from a Filipino background, Marbz knows personally what it's like to live in a society that is deeply scarred by the impact of a culturally insensitive colonial past. So settle back and listen as Marbz shares with us how he made exactly that same mistake, in his dealings with an Indigenous church leader here in Australia. Marbz shares how he realised that he was bringing his own agenda into a conversation with a... | 12m 13s | ||||||
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| 2/6/22 | Episode Three: The Failing Five: Jill McGilvray and Staying Human | How do you share your heart with people in ministry, and still protect your life? How do you be friendly towards the people you care for, without becoming every single persons best friend? How do you care for your soul and stay human? Jill McGilvray, Chair of the Langham Partnership, shares what she got wrong, and what she learnt along the way. You’ve probably worked out by now that the magic secret when it comes to failure is the ability to reflect on mistakes and learn. And that’s what I d... | 14m 39s | ||||||
| 1/30/22 | Episode Two: The Failing Five: Stuart Robinson, Church Killer | Bishop Stuart Robinson is one of Australia's best church planters and evangelists. So how did Stuart manage to kill a church plant stone dead literally overnight? This episode is one of the most listened to Blunder Bus episode of all times. And with good reason. It's a heart breaking story of listening to bad advice, and the consequences that come with that. You’ve probably worked out by now that the magic secret when it comes to failure is the ability to reflect on mistakes and learn. And ... | 11m 50s | ||||||
| 1/24/22 | Episode One: The Failing Five: Keith Condie and the Blessing of Failure | In this season we revisit some of our best blunderers. And this episode from Keith Condie is a perennial favourite. Keith shares with incredible vulnerability about a mistake that he made over a long period of time, one which had a significant impact on the people he loves the most. He also shares how it was that he realised what was going on. You’ve probably worked out by now that the magic secret when it comes to failure is the ability to reflect on mistakes and learn. And that’s what I do... | 12m 36s | ||||||
| 11/23/21 | Episode Eight: James Duff on When The Bus Breaks Down | James Duff is Senior Pastor at The Common in Willagee in WA, and Perth Catalyst for City to City. James is very honest and very vulnerable in telling the story of how he experienced a time of breakdown. For six months, he didn't get out of bed. He wrestled with what he believed about God. Indeed he wrestled with whether he believed in God at all. So what turned it all around.? Well, best to listen to James describe what has brought healing to his life and power to his ministry. It's a great ... | 20m 08s | ||||||
| 11/8/21 | Episode Seven: Shebu John and The Fear Of Man | What could possibly be wrong with trying to keep the peace and keep other people happy? Turns out, a lot! This week's guest is Shebu John, Lead Pastor of Canterbury Gardens Community Church in Melbourne's eastern suburbs. Shebu is also Lead Melbourne Catalyst with City to City Australia. Shebu speaks very vulnerably and honestly about his 'Fear Of Man'; the fear of other people's disapproval and disappointment. And he speaks very wisely about the 'heart-work' that is required to apply the go... | 15m 57s | ||||||
| 10/11/21 | Episode Six: Pete Greenwood and the Fear of Abandonment | Pete Greenwood is planting Inner West Church in Flemington in Melbourne. His church is using a 'Missional Church Model', a very popular approach to church planting which requires a high investment from all those on the team, but one which can produce some great results. In this episode Pete, (who is also City to City Catalyst for Melbourne West) reflects on a key blunder that he made in planting this church. It has to do with his expectations of his team. Pete calls it 'an overly realised 'v... | 19m 14s | ||||||
| 9/27/21 | Episode Five: Julie-Anne Laird, The Woman of Power! | What do you do when you realise you are powerful? When you realise you have influence on people's lives? In fact, when you realise that people pretty much can't say no to you! Welcome to the world of this week's Woman of Power, Julie-Anne Laird. JA says she rarely actually feels powerful, but has come to realise that this is not the way that other people experience her. Julie-Anne is Director of Missional Engagement for City to City Australia, and Canon for Church Planting in the Anglican D... | 13m 49s | ||||||
| 9/13/21 | Episode Four: Steve Boxwell - What We Have Here is a Failure To Communicate | How do you know when you have failed to communicate? When people start shouting at you and leaving your church! Steve Boxwell, Pastor of Renew Anglican Church in Canberra and City Catalyst with City to City Australia, shares how his failure to communicate about the importance and need for church planting led to some really painful results. Steve has learnt that you need to communicate clearly, passionately and often, because 'Vision Leaks'. This series is brought to you by City to City Austr... | 13m 33s | ||||||
| 8/30/21 | Episode Three: Yvette McDonald and Shadow Politics | Managing change well is one of the trickiest things a leader does. So if you work for a global corporation which is introducing change across its entire system, you would be wise to carefully think about the politics involved. Especially the 'shadow stakeholders' who lurk in the darkness. Unless, of course, you want to jump on the Blunder Bus! In this episode we welcome Yvette McDonald, Director of Elixan Consulting and Developer of the Christian Leadership Framework. Earlier in her ca... | 15m 00s | ||||||
| 8/16/21 | Episode Two: Steve Gardner: What A Great Guy! | Jerry Seinfeld once said, 'Maybe my Mom was right! I am a great guy!'. Steve Gardner, Rector of St Paul's Anglican Church in Canterbury NSW and Sub-City Catalyst with City to City Australia, talks about being a really nice guy- and the problems it can cause. Steve talks about not confronting issues (and people) swiftly enough. It can make small things get bigger, and can also be confusing for people as well. Steve is learning the virtue of trusting his gut, and stepping in earlier. This ser... | 11m 57s | ||||||
| 8/2/21 | Episode One: Andrew Katay and the Crisis of Identity | If you are going to be the leader of national church planting and revitalisation organisation, you'd better have made a few mistakes along the way! That's why Andrew Katay, CEO of City to City Australia and Rector of Christ Church Inner West Anglican Church is on The Blunder Bus this week. Andrew tells us about the time when he was involved in the planting of a new congregation. Which is a great idea, but the blunder was not clarifying the identity of this new churc... | 15m 40s | ||||||
| 6/21/21 | Episode Eight: Kelly Crawford on Being The Expert | Kelly Crawford is the Public Engagement Officer for the Baptist Association of NSW/ACT. Her role is all about community engagement and sensitivity to issues of power and privilege. And her episode of The Blunder Bus is all about...you guessed it! Not being sensitive to issues of power and privilege (amongst other things!). Kelly's story relates to a previous role she had in the USA, and her reflections are about feeling the pressure to be the expert, instead of listening carefully to her stak... | 11m 14s | ||||||
| 6/15/21 | Episode Seven: Christine Redwood on Making The Same Mistake | You can see the Blunder Bus coming down the road on this one! Christine Redwood is the Pastor of Seaforth Baptist Church in Sydney's northern beaches. But her episode of failure goes back a few years, to when she was a student minister. Christine is passionate about social justice, and is aware of how much needs to change in our world. The lesson is all about knowing how much you can achieve, building a coalition of supporters and being able to prioritise key issues. And Christine 'fesses up ... | 11m 34s | ||||||
| 6/8/21 | Episode Six: Andrew Palmer and the Festival of Failure | Andrew Palmer is on the Leadership Team of the Baptist Association of NSW/ACT. Today on The Blunder Bus he shares about a time when he was involved in organising a Christian festival that became 'a Festival of Failure'. Andrew reflects with painful honesty how he and the team failed to communicate their vision for the festival, which led to an inability to build the kind of coalition they needed to pull it off. And they tried to go too big too quick. Before too long, they had a real test of... | 12m 11s | ||||||
| 6/4/21 | Episode Five: Melissa Lipsett and Being a Fiercer Leader | Melissa Lipsett is the Chief Operating Officer for Baptist World Aid Australia. In her ministry life she has been aware of forging a path for herself a female Christian leader. She is passionate for the Church to do better at hearing women's voices, and to make space for women at the leadership table. Melissa's blunder? She feels she hasn't been fierce enough! She assumed that once she paved the way, other women would jump in behind her. She believes she hasn't been intentional enough in rea... | 13m 47s | ||||||
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