Over the last 20 years people have been leaving churches in droves, which presents the question, "Why the mass exodus?" The Mass Exodus Podcast is a series of honest and empathetic conversations with those who have left church while wrestling with topics surrounding faith and religion.
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An Unofficial Halo Esports Podcast focused on North American Players, Teams, and Tournaments.
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Each podcast happens in "real time." That means that anything can happen while the guys are leading their churches in revitalization. Real issues, problems, successes, tears, sweat and anguish.
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Growing the company. It’s the CEO’s #1 priority. And yet oftentimes a gap exists between the strategies of the CEO and the demands of customers. This strategic gap slows growth and erodes your competitive edge while exposing your organization to unnecessary risks. By gaining a deep awareness and understanding of this chasm, CEOs can lead the charge to align the strategy, promises and experience to gain customer loyalty and advocacy and eliminate the friction that can open the door for a mass ...
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What a long Sabbatical that was. Here's what has happened and a little bit of what you can expect.
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Bridging The Gap: Navigating The Digital Transformation Of Commerce With Lamees Butt
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Lamees Butt joins Betsy and Tony on this episode to delve into the topics of digital transformation and the ever-evolving landscape of commerce. She shares her insights on the challenges faced during her journey, including the importance of failing fast and adapting, which eventually led her to the corporate world. Now a key player at Zoovu, an AI …
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4 Traits For Any Leader To Build An Authentic Customer-Centric Culture With Jay Meyer
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Meet Jay Meyer. Jay is an accomplished business owner and entrepreneur who shares his personal journey of addiction and recovery on this insightful episode with Betsy and Tony. With decades of business and leadership under his belt, Jay has seen a lot change over the years, but one thing has remained: his desire to get to know his customers. Jay st…
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Episode 143: Sound of Freedom Review and Thoughts
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Here's Don and Natalie after seeing Sound of Freedom as they discuss why every church needs to watch this film.
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Episode 142: Season Preview: The Pastor Shortage
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Hear what's in store for the upcoming season. We will focus on the Pastor Shortage. We will have a panel discussing this issue already here. We will hear from pastors in the deep south, mid-west, from NAMB, and even state leaders.
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Episode 141: The Mass(achusetts) Exodus and Churches
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A recent survey shows that nearly 130,000 people left Massachusetts in 2022. This will impact churches and is starting to in smaller churches. While this will help some nearby states, we consider why and why pastors, denominations, and networks should be concerned.
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Episode 140: Jesus Revolution Review
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Last week's promised episode is lost, so Don and his church got a preview of Jesus Revolution, and he gives his thoughts on the film.
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Episode 139: Asbury, is it a Revival?
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We break into our regularly scheduled episode to discuss the topic of the moment.
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Episode 138: The Importance of Vetting
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Don and Natalie talk about why vetting is essential when having people called to ministry in our churches.
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Episode 137: Churches and Inflation
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How is the current financial crisis hurting churches? We look at this in a "lost" Practical Revitalization Podcast episode.
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Episode 136: Catching Up With Natalie and Legacy Church
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Natalie is back and catching us up on things in ministry from the pastor's wife's point of view
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New name and some other new things. We discuss why the name change and how that fits into church revitalization. Music by Coma-Media from
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Episode 134: Grass is Greener Syndrome
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Small church pastors in revitalization often look at what they perceive as healthier larger churches as being much better. However, the old saying goes that the grass isn't always greener. Today we look at the Grass is Greener Syndrome.
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In a Mashup episode, Don gives a warning about something that recently reared its ugly head in his life, as well as a preview for a future episode.
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Episode 131: A Plea to Come to the Northeast
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It's been several months, but we are back. Don gives a very raw look at things and issues a plea for people to come to the Northeast and New England to help plant, replant, and revitalize churches here. Over the last several months, we have seen and heard of churches closing their doors, and we see pockets of areas with large populations and no chu…
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Building Loyalty In Micro-Moments With Your Customers With Mark Ross-Smith
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Meet Mark Ross-Smith, CEO and Co-Founder of StatusMatch.com. Mark joins Betsy and Tony on the podcast from Malaysia. As a self-proclaimed professional frequent flyer, Mark racked up more airline points than you can imagine as he built his former businesses. After he decided to move across the world, he asked the area’s major airline for a status ma…
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Solving The Biggest Small Business Problem With Prashant Fuloria
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Join us for a conversation with Prashant Fuloria, CEO of Fundbox, a working capital platform for small businesses. Did you know that 82% of small business failures are because of a cash flow gap or a working capital challenge? That’s where Fundbox comes in: to create solutions that level the playing field for small businesses and help them succeed.…
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Don gives a heart-to-heart about his mindset and what's in store for the podcast.
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Episode 129: Chandler, Hall, and Church Discipline
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In the last few months, popular pastors have submitted to their elders in church discipline. Don discusses how these two instances show how this works, how we should react, and what we can and should do.
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Episode 128: Back from an Overdue Vacation
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Don gets back from a New Hampshire vacation to give some things going on for the future of the podcast
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A Crucial Step On The Customer Journey: Retention And Churn Management With Tony Sternberg
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Meet Tony Sternberg, Co-Founder & CEO of ProsperStack, an automated retention platform for subscription businesses. Consider this: You’ve had it up to “here” with your streaming service and you call to cancel your subscription. ProsperStack partners with said streaming service to create a unique retention strategy for what happens next after you li…
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4 Rules For Improving The Customer Experience With Gail And Bruce Montgomery
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Meet Gail and Bruce Montgomery. They are the high-energy co-founders of ExperienceYes, a truly one-of-a-kind business, set out to bring fun into organizations that want to improve trust, relationship-building, and EQ to make higher-performing teams. With similar backgrounds in professional acting, singing, and dancing in New York City, they both ma…
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Episode 127: Update: Depression and a Prayer Request
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Don gives an update as to why no new podcasts recently and also asks you to pray for him and his wife with future decisions.
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The Future Of CX Is Customer Journey Management With Jochem van der Veer
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Meet Jochem van der Veer, Co-Founder and CEO of TheyDo. His business is based on a simple yet sometimes impossible task for large organizations: breaking down processes to make it easier for C-level executives to connect with their customers. Traditionally, small and large organizations have focused on customer journey mapping. TheyDo has a strateg…
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Episode 126: A Psalm of Confidence
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From Legacy Church archives.
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In any church we often hear people quote a theologian or scholar on a particular subject of the Bible. This is an acceptable help often in getting the point across. However, when we see people quote these men more often than the Bible or on equal footing, we have to question if the person really knows their Bible. Do they idolize the theologian/sch…
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Episode 124: Thoughts on Pastors and Depression
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A brief talk about what many are seeing in the lives of the church as many churches close
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Episode 123: Thoughts on the SBC Sexual Abuse Report
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looking at the recent SBC report and why both sides need to find balance and understand that there is good and bad from both sides of the argument in the debate.
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To our loyal listeners, guests and supporters, What can we say after a long invigorating podcast journey of vulnerability, transparency, and healing? For the transformation and reconciliation of broken relationships inward and outward? For the genuine laughs and the tears? For the overwhelming love poured out? All we can say is thank you. Thank you…
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Episode 122: Fasting and Praying!! Natalie is back!!!!
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Natalie takes the lead talking about her recent time away and what she was studying and how we must be practicing this in our revitalizations.
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In our final episode of the 12 step series, we tap into the power of pausing and listening. Why is this simple practice so difficult and yet very crucial to our recovery journey? Is a spiritual awakening even possible? Steps 11 and 12 state: (Step 11) “Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood H…
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REALLY Knowing The Learning Style Of Your Customer With David Ciccarelli
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Fun fact: 30% of the population learns by listening. Not-so-fun fact: If your website only offers written content, you could be leaving behind a big chunk of your target market simply because you’re not speaking the same language. Meet David Ciccarelli, CEO of Voices, a fast-growing online platform that connects buyers and sellers of one creative s…
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As we near the end of our 12 Step series, the grief gang talks about what it is to live a life of continued inner and outer processing and why self kindness matters. In step 10 we: "Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it." Resources: www.aa.org Hosts: Rob Gregerson, Katie Pendergast, RhiAnnon Kaspar, Ian Gr…
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Episode 121: Preventing Groupthink
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As observed by Aldag and Fuller (1993), the groupthink phenomenon seems to rest on a set of unstated and generally restrictive assumptions: The purpose of group problem solving is mainly to improve decision qualityGroup problem solving is considered a rational process.Benefits of group problem solving:variety of perspectivesmore information about p…
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The Transformation Of Sales And Storytelling With Doug C. Brown
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It all starts with a story and believe it or not, Doug Brown has a lot of them. Starting with his first job at the young age of 3 when he was sweeping floors. Many years down the road, Doug is now helping companies achieve their top 1% of sales. Join us as Betsy and Tony get Doug’s unique perspective on the state of sales today. Sure, sales people …
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Episode 120: The Causes of Groupthink
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Taken from the Wiki Irving Janis identified three antecedent conditions to groupthink:: High group cohesiveness: Cohesiveness is the main factor that leads to groupthink. Groups that lack cohesiveness can of course make bad decisions, but they do not experience groupthink. In a cohesive group, members avoid speaking out against decisions, avoid arg…
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Step Eight & Nine: The Amends, Where Panda Express Makes Everything Better
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Dun, dun, dun... we've finally arrived at the long-awaited steps that has our stomach in knots: making amends. The grief gang shares personal stories while pondering if this step actually brings the greatest sense of relief in our recovery. Maybe it isn't as bad as it seems? As always, there's lots of laughs, a few gasps, and a treasure chest full …
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Episode 119: Is Groupthink Affecting Your Revitalization? Part 1
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Type I: Overestimations of the group — its power and morality Illusions of invulnerability create excessive optimism and encourage risk-taking.Unquestioned belief in the morality of the group, causes members to ignore the consequences of their actions. Type II: Closed-mindedness Rationalizing warnings that might challenge the group's assumptions.St…
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Step Seven: My Car Needs a Jump Start!
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As the dreaded "amends steps" approach, we take our 12 step series to Ian's 1930's yacht where we ponder the meaning of humility, why preparatory steps like this one are important and then ask one important question... are we actually in control? Step Seven states: "Humbly ask Him to remove your shortcomings." Hosts: Rob Gregeson, RhiAnnon Kaspar, …
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Don't Look Up: A Film About Noise, Outrage, and Figuring Out What Matters Most
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In a bit of a detour, the Mass Exodus crew explores the cultural, spiritual and personal impact of Adam McKay's Oscar nominated 2021 film, "Don't Look Up." Is there a deeper message embedded within this movie that we can learn from? Are the characters more than just set pieces to the plot? How does this film reflect our own aspirations and struggle…
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Episode 118: Short Take Discipleship Pros and Cons
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Do we do discipleship right? maybe and maybe not, but the main thing is are you looking at the makeup of your church and investing time properly with new Christians as well as integrating them into established groups? DO takes a look at this in this week's short take.
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As the 12 episodes of the 12 steps continues, we await for the emotional surgery of toxic characteristics about to take place in the next step. Patience is a virtue, as the old proverb says! Step 6 states: "Were entirely ready to have God remove all of the defects of character." Hosts: Rob Gregerson, Katie Pendergast, Ian Green, RhiAnnon Kaspar Web…
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Re-Thinking How To Invest In Your Key Customer Accounts With Denise Freier
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Meet Denise Freier. After more than 40 years of driving sales and customer relationships at IBM, Denise made her way to the Strategic Account Management Association. At its core, SAMA is focused on sharing best practices for, you guessed it, Strategic Account Managers. Whether it’s through conferences, free webinars or training services, SAMA is co…
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Kansas City Major, Open Series 7-9, and Roster Changes - Shields Down Podcast Ep. 09
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Alan and Ryan discuss the latest Halowaypoint blog post concerning the Kansas City Major, results from the Open Series 7-9, and roster changes leading up to the major event. Website: https://www.podpage.com/shields-down/ Leave us a review: https://www.podpage.com/shields-down/reviews/
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Episode 117: Why Do We Revitalize Churches?
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Bring Glory to God If We Allow All Churches to Die It Says Our God Is Weak Because It Was Once a Plant and an Established Church History We Love to Restore Other Things Cars Furniture Tools
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By this point in our 12 step series, we've admitted we're powerless, asked for the help from a higher power, and sorted through our stinky trash of toxic behaviors and misdeeds. Now comes the time to talk about it with those around us. On this week's episode, we cover step 5: "Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being, the exact nat…
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Revealing Blind Spots In Customer Experience With Gal Oron
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Meet Gal Oron. Gal is a self-described normal person who got to where he is with a lot of hard work and constant improvement. Whether it’s on the basketball court or in the office, Gal strives to keep three key things in mind: 1. Have humility 2. Exhibit strong work ethic 3. Be dedicated. At Zoomin, Gal and his team are replicating the successes th…
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Episode 116: Lost Opportunities Rant
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In this episode, Don talks about lost opportunities churches miss and also rants about how this affects the area he is in as both an Educator and Pastor in the state of Massachusetts.
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Fake HCS Organizations & Open Series Disappointments - Shields Down Podcast Ep. 08
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Alan and Ryan discuss the fake HCS organizations that exist on Twitter and their disappointment with the new HCS Open Series format. Website: https://www.podpage.com/shields-down/ Leave us a review: https://www.podpage.com/shields-down/reviews/
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Anguish, Abuse, and Ankle Length Dresses: Growing Up in a Nameless Cult
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This is the story of a woman who grew up in a cult and experienced constant oppressiveness, brain washing, and abuse at the hands of its leaders and members. Eventually, Kristin Warnaca left it all behind to become an ambassador of healing and wholeness on the other side. Yes, it's as unbelievable as you might imagine. Guest: Kristin Warnaca (www.k…
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