Growing The Leader Within

Growing The Leader Within

Growing the Leader Within Podcast is about real life, loss and love issues for people who are dealing with grief. There is hope in Jesus Christ and we offer MANY helpful and practical lessons as a guide to those learning how to recover and find a new chapter in life.

Episodes

July 16, 2025 53 mins

The secrets to downsizing ones lifestyle and how to turn the 'physical page' of reality are here in Part One of this fascinating lesson of life.  Knowing when and how to change out of a home is found in the Art of Letting Go.  Dr Gayla shares her personal journey of how she began the huge process of letting go of her 'yesterday home'.  This is all about letting go of 95% of belongings and leaving a 17 room house...

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Ever hit a 'brick wall' that you could not get around or control? This interview tells the real experiences of Chaplain Lang Cassidy who found that uncrossable mountains turn into miracles in God's hands.  

From his own loss of his mother at 5 years old, to the tragic loss of his daughter to drugs and suicide, as well as he also suffered the 'widow maker' heart attack and died three times!  His miraculous st...

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Pastor Alan Latta, the Senior Pastor of Generations Church in Granbury Texas  teaches his entire congregation a valuable principal about the value and power of lamenting.  This is a transparent and open testimony of how he went through a personal and difficult experience in life and how he learned a valuable principal about life, love and loss. 

This is a live lesson... it's sure to help you in your own journey while lamenting ...

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March 4, 2025 31 mins

It's time for a self check... often we become so focused on our broken heart, we never see what the experience actually has taught us.  We can be in denial, or the ‘never agains’ decisions or the curses of retaliation, or just keep living in the bitterness of the whole wretched mess, but none of these can ever bring healing to the broken places in our lives. 

People who have been through countless losses over life and who have ...

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February 25, 2025 23 mins

"And do not turn aside after empty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are empty."  This is a  strong direction to follow in life, and here are the two words we can internally live life by each day.   Contention is a real place to live within. You are right… this unfortunate thing happened and one can choose to stay unhappy about it in that reality.  Stay right there. 

But then…. Contentment is a word too, but w...

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February 11, 2025 26 mins

I am beginning to look around me at this new place in life and realize… ‘hey wait a second… all of these things are a lot of responsibility I have to take care of all the time.’  The 45 years of history my late husband and I have lived around the world, had put it’s fingerprints all over our lives, and now all of it remains mine to take care of.  What do I really want to do with these...

Is it time to downsize my oversized life? Lis...

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February 4, 2025 41 mins

Yesterday has a powerful pull on us, and wants to keep our hearts tied to what WAS every single day.  All it takes is one passing thought, and we are looking behind us again. And we don’t often pull back to ‘today’ but instead can set down and start to stew right there… by opening cans of worms that only provoke our peace.  But here is a statement of trust and truth, that according to the Word of God…

The further one grows in progre...

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January 22, 2025 53 mins

There are certain truths to be learned about how to handle loneliness and this lesson reveals them clearly.  And also the 8 heart to heart questions to ask yourself about being lonely, will offer very helpful support to guide along the pathway after loss.  Dr Gayla shares personal details in this lesson that you will want to hear!

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January 13, 2025 45 mins

Do you realize that there are different practices once learned, that can help you along the healing journey through loss?  There are new habits to be formed that can actually stabilize the broken heart.  This lesson contains 14 such protocols that will certainly make a huge difference if practiced daily. 

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January 9, 2025 39 mins

Do you have to deal with technology issues, mechanical challenges or construction 'things' that have become messed up?  Dealing with these various troubles when you are a widow can seem like a mountain!  Listen to this very practical lesson and find some ideas about how to handle things the next time something goes array at your house.  These twelve steps include very useful information!

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January 6, 2025 26 mins

A mother/daughter conversation about discovering and using one certain word to create a theme for the entire year.  Using this skill has made a difference in both off their lives for decades!  In this personal conversation, Dr Gayla and her daughter Angela,  reveal how to find that word in life. Sooo GOOOOD! 
Oh! And here is the link to get the Vision Word Planner on Amazon.  https://a.co/d/7hzaI6F

Start your year by l...

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January 3, 2025 95 mins

We all know we need to 'turn the page' after the loss of a loved one has happened some time ago.  But how to do this?  This lesson is all about digging beneath the surface of what we usually do... and discovering a way to do just that! Take time, and write some notes mentally as well as on paper, here is a proven way that helps. 

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December 2, 2024 39 mins

There are very important gifts that can only be given by you... to you. No one can give them to you this Christmas. They are priceless and beyond worth all seven of them! Write these down... they can change your life permanently for good. 

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November 28, 2024 16 mins

Dr Gayla wrote a song, that describes a very practical way to plan a holiday that  can be  peaceful and helpful. Her own holiday plans are revealed in this short podcast!  You will smile and pick up fresh ideas how to handle your own holiday season and make it special too. 

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November 19, 2024 43 mins

How do others live day to day and keep their lives intact and 'normal'?  This Q & A lesson is a interview with real survivors of grief.  Hear how they manage day to day life and stay balanced.  A must listen for all those in progressive grief.  
There is hope!

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November 12, 2024 44 mins

Have you wondered how do others in grief handle their own private devotions?  Or how does one even get started to have a personal and quiet time daily?  This is an in depth conversation with those who have suffered personal losses, and how they use various ways of devotional SelfCare for this important daily habit.  

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October 29, 2024 35 mins

After the intensive phase of grief... and after the journey through progressive grief... there appears the last step to wholeness. It does not come through simply 'passing time' or how many years have passed before you cross the threshold of the next chapter of your life.  But rather this comes quietly into ones life bringing the amazing results of all that you have been through.  And it's life changing for those who...

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October 23, 2024 39 mins

Beyond the Insecurity denotes two things.  Beyond means … ‘to the further side of’. And Insecurity means, uncertainty or anxiety about oneself; a lack of confidence. So when I think of insecurity - it makes me ‘feel’ unsure of myself, it’s a self doubt and borders on a grey shade of fear… it’s a self fear in my opinion. 

But when I put these two meanings together it becomes a clear understanding …. Go to the further side of uncertai...

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October 15, 2024 40 mins

Beyond the Violence - when one takes the life of another is a POWERFUL lesson by Bishop Dave Dolan from New Life Church in Sullivan Illinois.  His wisdom will give direction about how to personally handle the tragic losses of our loved ones due to murder.  Bishop Dolan gives clear truth and hope thru great wisdom in this area of loss. 

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October 8, 2024 51 mins

Pastor Paul Roebuck shares sooo many valuable scriptures that are helpful and strengthening.  Listen to this lesson with a pen and paper in hand... it will build you up! 

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