by Dr. Deanna Shrodes | Oct 29, 2025 | Leadership
This is a busy week for me. Every week is busy, but this one is extra because I’m preparing for vacation, which means double the prep if I truly want to unplug. Even so, I had a very early doctor’s appointment today to establish care with a new physician. My former...
by Dr. Deanna Shrodes | Oct 7, 2025 | Leadership, Ministry, Work
For most of my life, I’ve gotten high on work. I used to plan events like a woman running a relay with no baton, white-knuckling the very thing I’d begged God to bless. If something was off, I felt it in my spine. If a volunteer missed a beat, I replayed it while...
by Dr. Deanna Shrodes | Sep 30, 2025 | Influence, Leadership, Mentoring, Ministry, Uncategorized
I’ll never forget the morning I opened social media and saw photos of my long-time mentee — not just a poor choice, but something shocking and public. For a moment I wanted to believe her account had been hacked. It wasn’t. It was real. She had gone off the deep end....
by Dr. Deanna Shrodes | Sep 24, 2025 | Business, Entrepreneurs, Leadership, Relationships
I have never met anyone who doesn’t want to be liked. Most people I’ve met also want to be successful. (Believe it or not, a few have admitted they could care less about success.) Many of us want both. But what if the pursuit of one compromises the other? What if the...
by Dr. Deanna Shrodes | May 27, 2025 | Christian Living, Leadership
God is calling us to a deeper kind of gratitude—one that doesn’t depend on our circumstances or whether things go our way, or not. It doesn’t hinge on whether our circumstances change. It is quite literally gratitude for every little thing…all the time....
by Dr. Deanna Shrodes | May 8, 2025 | Business, Conflict, Leadership, Ministry
Have you ever noticed how one moment of hurt or disappointment can change the way you see someone—especially a leader? My husband Larry and I were on staff at several churches in our first years of our ministry before we were lead pastors — he as a youth pastor...
