The Shepherd Leadership Podcast
by Nick Westbrook
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Cultivating Culture at the Savannah Bananas with Tucker Brooks - Director of People & Culture Development
May 1, 2026
42m 36s
Communicating for a Change - Guiding those entrusted to us!
Apr 3, 2026
23m 06s
A Shepherd to Shepherd Leaders - John Crosby
Mar 6, 2026
53m 42s
The Foundational Commitment of Thriving Leaders of Thriving Teams
Feb 6, 2026
20m 08s
Know What You are FOR - with bestselling author Jeff Henderson
Feb 7, 2025
48m 20s
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| 5/1/26 | Cultivating Culture at the Savannah Bananas with Tucker Brooks - Director of People & Culture Development | Send us Fan Mail The Savannah Bananas put on the greatest show in sports! They have created an amazing vision with a focus on Fans First in the world of sports entertainment through the show they put on with their baseball team. Their success speaks for itself. They have sold out every game they have ever played! There is a 5+ year waiting list for their season tickets! They started with 1 team and have grown to 6 teams in their organization & created their own for... | 42m 36s | ||||||
| 4/3/26 | Communicating for a Change - Guiding those entrusted to us! | Send us Fan Mail There is no such thing as a silent leader!! Leaders are always communicating something. We want it to be the things that help drive others towards their best and our best. Listen in as Nick gives some practical resources and principles for how shepherd leaders should communicate to guide those entrusted to them to thrive, and watch your team, organization, & family thrive. | 23m 06s | ||||||
| 3/6/26 | A Shepherd to Shepherd Leaders - John Crosby | Send us Fan Mail John Crosby is the founder & Executive Director of Priority Insight where he serves leaders as an Executive Coach and teacher. Priority Insight uniquely serves organizations by taking biblical principles and helping leaders apply those principles to their leadership. John and his wife Jo also are the founders of Five Stones Counseling in Savannah, Ga where they do couples counseling together. Find out more about John and his ministry at www.priorityi... | 53m 42s | ||||||
| 2/6/26 | The Foundational Commitment of Thriving Leaders of Thriving Teams | Send us Fan Mail After a long pause due to a very unexpectedly demanding 2025, we are back in full strength posting episodes in 2026 to come alongside you as we grow to be thriving shepherd leaders that help those entrusted to us thrive. Did you know there is a secret commitment of all lifelong thriving leaders? There is one foundational rhythm and habit that all great leaders that are healthy & thriving do that those that are not healthy & thriving don't do? Nick d... | 20m 08s | ||||||
| 2/7/25 | Know What You are FOR - with bestselling author Jeff Henderson | Send us Fan Mail What do you want to be known FOR? What are you known FOR? In today’s culture many people make their stand on what they are AGAINST rather than what they are FOR. This month’s guest, author, speaker, & leader Jeff Henderson talks about the power of getting really clear as a leader on what you are FOR, what you want to be known FOR, and who you are FOR. Jeff wrote the bestselling book, Know What You are FOR: A Growth Strategy for Work, An Even Bette... | 48m 20s | ||||||
| 1/10/25 | Highlight Reel - The Best of the 2024 Shepherd Leadership Podcast | Send us Fan Mail In this first episode of 2025 I wanted to recap all of the amazing things we learned in 2024. We had our BEST YEAR, receiving over 10,000 downloads of the podcast. I am so grateful to everyone that has invested your time in this content. My prayer is that it is valuable to you and your leadership growth and that not only you benefit as a leader, but that those you lead benefit as you become a better Shepherd Leader to those entrusted to you. We ... | 43m 01s | ||||||
| 10/4/24 | Leadership Lessons Part 2 with retired Chick-fil-A President Tim Tassopolous | Send us Fan Mail Listen in to Part 2 of my conversation with retired Chick-fil-A President, Tim Tassopolous, who enjoyed a 46 year career with the brand spanning 6 different decades, & led Chick-fil-A through some it's most robust growth seasons. Tim's wisdom and calm leadership style help us realize that anyone can be a leader others would follow for life by making the leadership decisions of character and care that define a Shepherd Leader. | 35m 25s | ||||||
| 9/6/24 | Leadership Lessons Part 1 with retired Chick-fil-A President Tim Tassopoulos | Send us Fan Mail What if you had the opportunity to take some one on one basketball lessons from Michael Jordan, or some vocal performance lessons from Adele, or quarterback camp with Tom Brady, or acting lessons from Meryl Streep? Incredible right?! That's what it felt like to sit with my friend Tim Tassopoulos, retired President & Chief Operating Officer at Chick-fil-A, Inc. In a 46 year career that spanned 6 different decades and countless innovations, challenges, ... | 43m 07s | ||||||
| 8/2/24 | Love Works with author Joel Manby | Send us Fan Mail Former CEO of Saab, Sea World, & Herschend Family Entertainment, Joel Manby says that leading with love is the greatest strategic advantage any organization can have. In his book, Love Works - 7 Timeless Principles for Effective Leaders, Joel talks about his history of leadership and how he found the greatest strategy for effective leadership through a very familiar biblical passage & the everyday life of the Herschend Family Entertainment owners Jack & Pe... | 49m 13s | ||||||
| 7/5/24 | Winning Begins At Home with Randy Gravitt | Send us Fan Mail If you win at work but lose at home, you still lose. Join leadership author and coach Randy Gravitt and I as we discuss what it looks like to build a foundation of winning at home first and to encourage those entrusted to you to win at home first. Randy and his team at Lead Every Day have a dream and a vision of a "world well led". He says that begins with fathers and mothers, husbands and wives, brothers and sisters, making the commitment to win at home ... | 57m 31s | ||||||
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| 6/7/24 | Being "Well" with Dr. John Delony - The impact of a leader's pursuit of mental & emotional wellness | Send us Fan Mail Have you considered that the primary thing hindering your family, your team, your church, or your organization from thriving is your own mental, emotional, & spiritual health? I have a conversation with Dr. John Delony about how a leader's pursuit of mental & emotional wellness can not only have a huge impact in their life, but an exponential impact in the lives of those entrusted to them. Dr. John Delony's 3 books have made a radical impact on the leadershi... | 45m 26s | ||||||
| 5/3/24 | Practicing Shepherd Leadership - A conversation with leaders from Chick-fil-A Hinesville | Send us Fan Mail Some things sound really good in theory, but how do you actually make them work. Listen to my conversation with 4 of my leaders from Chick-fil-A and hear how they engage with our team members as shepherd leaders, and strive to become leaders they can follow for LIFE! | 1h 00m 23s | ||||||
| 4/5/24 | Ken Coleman on cultivating a culture where your Team Members THRIVE & become their very BEST! | Send us Fan Mail Ken Coleman is a national bestselling author of the books The Proximity Principle & From Paycheck to Purpose. Ken is a dynamic personality for Ramsey Solutions where he is the host of his own nationally syndicated radio show and routinely hosts The Ramsey Show, one of the most listened to radio programs in the nation. Ken is a routine guest on shows like Fox News, Fox Business, FORBES, & yahoo! Finance. Ken is passionate about people ... | 54m 00s | ||||||
| 3/1/24 | Building Christian Men, a Business, & a Shepherding Legacy with Britt McDade, Owner/Operator Chick-fil-A Vidalia, Georgia | Send us Fan Mail Learn from Britt McDade, Owner/Operator of Chick-fil-A Vidalia, about how challenging those entrusted to you to be their best & to bring their best can help guide them to thrive and be all that God created them to be. | 40m 45s | ||||||
| 1/12/24 | Alex Vann - Multi-Unit Operator & Developer of 13 Chick-fil-A Operators under his Shepherd Leadership | Send us Fan Mail Statistically, being selected as a Chick-fil-A Owner/Operator is more difficult than being selected into Harvard or the CIA. In this episode we get to learn from Alex Vann, a veteran multi-unit Chick-fil-A Owner/Operator in Columbus, Georgia who has had shepherded & mentored 13 Chick-fil-A Owner/Operators to be selected from his team in 21 years. Alex is a shepherd leader at home as a committed husband and father. He is a leader of leaders in our fra... | 38m 08s | ||||||
| 12/8/23 | Strong Fathers Strong Daughters with Dr. Meg Meeker | Send us Fan Mail | 55m 27s | ||||||
| 11/3/23 | Know the Generations You Shepherd - Dr. Tim Elmore describes "A New Kind of Diversity" | Send us Fan Mail Have you ever wondered, "Why is this generation so different?" or "Why is my boss like that?" Do you find it difficult to lead and shepherd this next generation? Are you 'leading up' and want to know the best way to steward the relationships with your older Team Members? Dr. Tim Elmore, founder & CEO of Growing Leaders & bestselling author, shares with us amazing insights from his book A New Kind of Diversity on how we can make the dif... | 34m 22s | ||||||
| 10/6/23 | Transform your INTENTIONS into ACTIONS! | Send us Fan Mail At the end of our leadership journey, the effectiveness of our leadership will not be measured on the nobility of our intentions but on the impact of our actions! In this episode we talk about how you can fit in all of your intentions to know, guide, protect, & provide for those entrusted to you by turning them into impactful actions that help you shepherd well and be a leader others will follow for life! | 31m 52s | ||||||
| 9/1/23 | Irrational Kindness - an interview with multi-unit Chick-fil-A Operator & author Kevin Williams | Send us Fan Mail What a FUN conversation with multi-unit Chick-fil-A Operator & author of the book "Irrational Kindness", Kevin Williams. Kevin's approach to life and work is so radical in how he strives to prioritize "kindness over everything". We learn how much fun it is to engage in irrational kindness and how we can shepherd those entrusted to us well by providing them with irrational kindness & guiding them to live a life of irrational kindness. This episode c... | 35m 25s | ||||||
| 4/7/23 | A Life Dedicated to Serving Others - an Interview with David Chen | Send us Fan Mail David Chen is one remarkable Shepherd Leader! David's life of leadership proves that you can shepherd in any vocation! Beginning as a engineering graduate from Georgia Tech to working at Starbucks to going on the mission field to selecting Chick-fil-A Operators and now being a Chick-fil-A Operator - David has led a life dedicated to serving others and to influence their life for Christ. David is known for being an Operator that leads a phenomenal culture... | 33m 48s | ||||||
| 3/17/23 | PROVIDE CARE for those entrusted to you! | Send us Fan Mail We finish the 2nd part of the conversation from the previous episode of what shepherd leaders provide for those entrusted to them. In the previous episode we learned that shepherd leaders will provide for the needs of those they lead. Today we talk about how we also are to provide CARE. As Christ followers our leadership should look differently than the leadership seen across the world. The way our leadership can look differently is to provide genuine... | 31m 45s | ||||||
| 2/3/23 | PROVIDE for those entrusted to you! | Send us Fan Mail In this episode we unpack the final principle of Shepherd Leadership, to PROVIDE for those entrusted to you. If the goal of a shepherd leader is for those entrusted to them to thrive, then a good shepherd leader will PROVIDE what they NEED to thrive. We talk about those needs specifically through the lens of Abraham Maslow's 5 Hierarchy of Needs. Join in to hear how we can shepherd our families, our organizations, and our teams to thrive by doing the lov... | 31m 50s | ||||||
| 12/2/22 | PROTECT those entrusted to your care! | Send us Fan Mail The 3rd principle of Shepherd Leadership is to PROTECT those entrusted to our care. Protecting those entrusted to us as leaders seems like a natural and apparent responsibility of the leader but in today's leadership culture it can be avoided and neglected. Listen in to find how good Shepherd Leaders PROTECT those entrusted to them by their PRESENCE, ACCOUNTABILITY, BOUNDARIES, & PRINCIPLES. Shepherd well my friends! | 56m 09s | ||||||
| 11/7/22 | GUIDE those entrusted to your care | Send us Fan Mail As a leader have you ever felt as though you were spinning your wheels? Like you go in every day just hoping good things will happen for you and your teams. What about as a parent? I have felt like that. In this episode we will talk about how a good shepherd leader has a vision for those that are entrusted to them and will GUIDE them towards the actions, attitudes, and behaviors that will help them thrive and to be at their best - to show them where ... | 23m 57s | ||||||
| 10/7/22 | KNOW those entrusted to your care! | Send us Fan Mail Have you invested so much time, energy, & resources in leading people or in relationships just to feel like you are spinning your wheels and not get anywhere? You aren't connecting, they are getting results, and maybe even seem disengaged. Maybe you don't know them as well as you think you do. You cannot GROW people that you do not KNOW! The cornerstone principle of the Shepherd Leadership framework is to KNOW those entrusted to your care. List... | 36m 12s | ||||||
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