Spending time with Dr. Christina
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About
Spending time with Dr. Christina is more than a conversation—it’s an opportunity for growth, clarity, and transformation. Through insightful discussions and thoughtful commentary, she addresses today’s most pressing leadership challenges, equipping you with perspective and practical wisdom you can apply immediately. Her life coaching sessions are designed to help you live with intention and purpose—guiding you to align your goals, values, and daily actions for a more fulfilling life. For those seeking to deepen their spiritual journey, Dr. Christina also offers a focused 5-minute Bible study, providing encouragement and practical insight to help you build a stronger relationship with God. What You’ll Gain: Fresh perspective on modern leadership issues Purpose-driven life coaching and personal development Practical tools for growth and decision-making A simple, meaningful way to stay connected to God daily Start Your Journey Today Take the next step toward purposeful living, stronger leadership, and spiritual growth with Dr. Christina.
Episodes
- The Christian Leader: The power of visualization
This episode from "Spending time with Dr. Christina" discusses visualization in Christian leadership. It explores how visualization can strengthen leaders by helping them envision, plan, and guide others, drawing on biblical examples and e…
- The Christian Leader: God should be the loudest voice
This episode discusses the importance of Christian leaders being guided by faith and divine principles instead of ego or public pressure. It highlights how seeking God’s guidance fosters integrity, accountability, and a focus on serving co…
- The Christian Leader: Forgiveness
This episode discusses the importance of forgiveness in Christian leadership, highlighting its role in reflecting Christ's character and promoting healing, unity, and spiritual growth within ministry, leadership teams, churches, families,…
- The Christian Leader: Our words matter
This episode discusses the significance of words for Christian leaders, emphasizing their power to influence and guide. It explores how leaders can use their words to strengthen faith and build unity, aligning with biblical teachings on co…
- The Christian Leader: Dealing with Jealousy and Betrayal
Christian leaders face workplace jealousy and betrayal by responding with wisdom, integrity, and grace, emphasizing humility, forgiveness, and servant leadership. They address conflict with honesty and compassion, balancing forgiveness wit…
- The Christian Leader: Managing Peace
Dr. Christina discusses how Christian leaders manage peace by fostering open communication, emotional intelligence, and fairness. Effective leaders build trust, address conflict constructively, and create a respectful environment, enhancin…
- The Christian Leader: Servant leadership style
This episode explores servant leadership within a Christian framework, focusing on leading through humility, compassion, and selflessness. It examines how leaders can mirror Christ-like character to empower others and fulfill a stewardship…
- The Christian Leader: Handling workplace mobs
This episode discusses how Christian leaders can handle workplace 'mobs' by responding to group pressure and hostility with faith and integrity. It covers demonstrating courage, setting boundaries, seeking guidance, and addressing issues w…
- The Christian Leader- Dealing with the toxic work environment
This episode discusses how Christian leaders can handle toxic work environments by balancing faith and well-being. It emphasizes responding with patience and grace, while using wisdom to set boundaries and discern when to speak up or leave.
- The Christian Leader: What’s it like?
This episode discusses the role of a Christian leader, emphasizing service, humility, integrity, and faith. It covers the challenges and rewards of leading by example, balancing personal faith with public responsibility, and staying true t…
- Leadership series: The thought life and value of a leader
This episode discusses how a leader's internal thought process is crucial for decision-making, responding to pressure, and influencing others. It emphasizes that a leader's value is tied to their thinking quality and impact, not just resul…
- Leadership series: The leader and Human Resources (HR)
This episode discusses the crucial collaboration between organizational leaders and Human Resources, highlighting its importance for a healthy workplace. It emphasizes the need for trust, open communication, and shared goals, while undersc…
- Leadership series: Establishing boundaries
This episode discusses the importance of leaders intentionally managing access to themselves to ensure organizational effectiveness. It explores the balance between open access and structured boundaries, emphasizing prioritization based on…
- Leadership series: Why employees quit their managers
Employees often quit their managers due to unmet needs for respect, clarity, growth, and trust. Common issues include poor communication, lack of recognition, micromanagement, limited growth opportunities, unfair treatment, toxic behavior,…
- Leadership series: Managing workplace conflicts
This lecture covers essential skills for managing workplace conflicts, emphasizing identifying root causes, effective communication, various conflict styles (favoring collaboration), emotional intelligence, and the leader's role in creatin…
- Leadership series: Choosing the right protege
The episode discusses key qualities for selecting a protégé, emphasizing coachability, initiative, character, reliability, and alignment with the mentor's values and goals. Effective mentorship requires viewing it as a strategic investment…
- Leadership series: The tone of a leader
Dr. Christina discusses how a leader's tone sets the emotional standard for a group, impacting everything from trust and communication to performance. Key aspects include tone being more than words, emotional contagion, consistency, and ad…
- Leadership series: Aligning with the right culture
Dr. Christina discusses how choosing the right organizational culture is crucial for leaders. A well-aligned culture enhances productivity, employee well-being, engagement, and talent retention, ultimately driving innovation and sustained…
- Leadership series: Aligning with the right people
This episode emphasizes that team alignment begins with a clear mission and defined values, not just selecting talented individuals. It discusses the importance of shared values for cohesion under pressure, hiring for positive energy, cont…
- Leadership series: Leaders do have issues
This episode explores the human side of leadership, revealing that leaders, like Abraham Lincoln and Elon Musk, face common issues such as stress, burnout, isolation, and imposter syndrome. It highlights that acknowledging struggles can le…
- Five Minute Bible Study: Peace
This episode defines biblical peace as a deep sense of wholeness and trust in God, distinct from the world's view. It explores Jesus as the source of peace, how to receive it through prayer and trust, and the importance of being a peacemak…
- Five Minute Bible Study: We’re Never Alone
This episode discusses the biblical assurance of God's constant presence, citing scriptures like Deuteronomy 31:6 and Matthew 28:20. It highlights that God is near during difficult times, lives within believers through the Holy Spirit, kno…
- Five Minute Bible Study: Trials and Tribulations
This episode of Five Minute Bible Study explores the purpose of trials and tribulations, explaining how they test and strengthen faith, produce spiritual growth, and refine believers. It emphasizes trusting God, staying faithful, praying h…
- Five Minute Bible Study: Holiness
This episode defines holiness as being set apart for God, emphasizing inward transformation, the role of the Holy Spirit, and practical daily steps. It clarifies that holiness is a response to God's grace, not legalism, and encourages refl…
- Five Minute Bible Study: Forgiveness
This episode defines biblical forgiveness as releasing others from wrongdoing, akin to God's mercy. It contrasts forgiveness with overlooking hurt and emphasizes its role in spiritual and emotional well-being, citing relevant scripture and…
- Five Minute Bible Study: Part 2 Prayer
This bible study, "Five Minute Bible Study: Part 2 Prayer," from "Spending time with Dr. Christina," emphasizes praying in the "secret place" to cultivate a deep, authentic relationship with God. It explains that this practice, rooted in J…
- Five Minute Bible Study: God’s love
This episode explores God's love as demonstrated through action, citing Romans 5:8 and 1 John 4:9-10. It emphasizes that God's love is unconditional and everlasting, with compassion renewed each morning, referencing Lamentations 3:22-23.
- Five Minute Bible Study: Prayer
This episode explains prayer as a conversation with God, including honoring Him, asking for needs, seeking forgiveness, and requesting guidance, emphasizing its role in strengthening one's relationship with God and bringing peace. It intro…
- Five Minute Bible Study: Salvation
This episode discusses the biblical concept of salvation, defining sin as separation from God and presenting Jesus Christ's sacrifice as God's gift. It explains that salvation is received through faith, not works, leading to forgiveness, r…
- Five Minute Bible Study: Faith
This episode defines faith using Hebrews 11:1, explaining it as confidence in what is hoped for and assurance in the unseen. It emphasizes trusting God's promises regardless of visible evidence and encourages listeners to identify areas wh…