Next Level Leaders, hosted by Dr. Joseph Walker III, lead pastor Mt. Zion Nashville, provides useful and insightful resources to help leaders RISE (Reimagine, Invest, Succeed, and Elevate). Each episode addresses the intersect between Christianity and the marketplace through conversations with successful leaders. Listeners will be mentored, inspired, and challenged to succeed at the next level. Tune in and start moving from vision to reality!
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Closed doors can be discouraging, especially when you've given it your best effort. Dr. Walker reveals that all closed doors are not bad. When you understand the possibilities that exist when doors are closed, it will help you regroup and position yourself for greater opportunities in the future. This episode will encourage, empower and enlighten y…
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Success can change any of us without us being aware it is happening. Humility and consistent character are values that assure your continued success as a leader. Dr. Walker explains how pride hinders our efforts and gives you suggestions on how to remain consistently you when things around you change.…
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How To Deal With Constant Complainers
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Nobody likes complaining people around. It can be deflating when you are constantly critique by people who always find fault in your best efforts. This episode will help you navigate through the negativity and continue to produce at a high level. You will also gain tips on how to engage complainers and invite them to participate in the facilitation…
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How To Overcome Complacency
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One of the enemies to success is complacency. In this episode Dr. Walker explains how to remain progressive in the fulfillment of your vision. You will receive practical tips on how to identify the signs of complacency and overcome them. If you are feeling a little sluggish and weary in the journey, this one is for you.…
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Tips For Personal Development
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Every leader should desire to get better everyday. in this episode, Dr. Walker shares some of his personal tips on what keeps him growing and thriving in every area of his life. This will change your life and help you reassess your habits.
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Defeating Next Level Temptation
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Every level of leadership presents new challenges. The most common is temptation. This episode helps you identify the temptation and overcome them. You will get a very clear game plan on how to defeat the intent of the enemy and excel in your career without becoming a casualty to temptation.
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Staying Right When People Go Left
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You can't always control people and their decisions to disconnect from you. What you can control is how you respond to it. This episode address the sensitive topic of broken relationships and the offense that either caused it or is manifesting as a result of it. You will learn how to remain consistent in your character and gain practical tips on ho…
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Next Level Leaders - 215th Episode - March 5, 2024 - How To Bring The Best Out Of Others
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Great leaders make others excel. When you are entrusted with a team, each person should feel the impact of your influence and example. This episode will give you guidance on how to influence others to become their best selves.
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February 27, 2023 - How To Handle Seasons Of Slumps
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Every leader experiences slumps. This episode helps you confront the source of the slump and plow your way out of it so you can produce at an optimal level. Experiencing a slump doesn't make you a bad leader, however staying in one jeopardizes your ability to lead effectively. This episode will change your life.…
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How To Manage Expectations
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Leadership is tough work. It often collides with the expectations of the people we serve. Managing expectations is about making sure you develop boundaries within your organization. This episode will help you have the necessary conversations with others so that they can reset and reimagine expectations.…
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The world of social media is vast and fast. When used responsibly, it can be one of the most effective tools for you as a leader in expanding your brand and creating awareness. This episode gives you some helpful hints on how to develop, build and create engagement on your platforms.
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Every leader must develop the capacity to bounce back after a setback. This episode is about regrouping and starting fresh. You will receive practical principles on how to start over effectively and exceed previous expectations.
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The Call Comes With Clarity
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This episode is designed to help you sort out the direction of your assignment. Whatever God calls us to comes with clarity. We should never accept random opportunities. Everything we connect to has a cause and a clear destination.
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Next Level Non-Negotiables
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This episode will give you seven critical areas that should never be compromised. Leaders must possess wisdom as they navigate opportunities. You will gain clarity on why your values matter. This is about not always winning the game but living to play again.
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How To Stay Locked In On Your Vision
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Focus is the key to victory. Avoiding distractions is the key to your success as a leader. This episode will help you avoid the pitfalls that keep so many people from achieving. When you stay locked in great things happen and they will begin now.
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Believe Big And Doing It Big
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hinking outside the box is a trait every Next Level leader should possess. This episode will push you to dream bigger so that you can accomplish more than you've ever done before. This is about SCALE. Get ready to be pushed beyond your comfort zone.
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One of the most important things leaders can do is place value on their time. This episode is designed to help you understand how to guard and steward your time so that you can accomplish what you set out to do. You will gain practical steps regarding time management.
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The Importance of Debriefing and Resetting
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Reflection is an essential part of leadership. Every organization should spend time looking back at their strengths and weaknesses and develop a strategy to improve going forward. Dr. Walker shares how this is done and gives a guide to those who are preparing to reset their vision moving forward.
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How to Manage Coveted Connections
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When you are privileged to be at certain tables or in certain rooms, it is important to know how to navigate the landscape. Relationships with influential people can be a delicate balance between knowing what and what not to do. Dr. Walker shares practical wisdom on how to steward these relationships.…
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Remaing Patient In The Process
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Waiting for your vision to manifest can be difficult. This episode will help you develop greater patience in the process. The process is necessary in order to prepare the vision for manifestation at the appropriate time. You will gain practical steps to assist in the waiting process.
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Your Finances And Your Future
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n this episode you will receive valuable principles that can help you make intelligent financial personal and professional decisions. Leaders plan! It's what we do. Dr. Walker gives very practical insight on how to prepare yourself for the future so that you labor will not be in vain.
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The Discipline Of Self-Development
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The success of any leader is connected to discipline. Discipline is required for self-development. We must work on areas of our personal and professional lives daily. Dr. Walker shares some tips that have been effective for him and gives you a blueprint on how to embrace discipline as a leader.
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Who To Partner With And Who To Pass On
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As your organization grows there will never be a lack of invitations to partner. Next Level leaders are very discerning concerning who to do business with, because all partnerships are not good for you. This episode will give you specific traits to look for when considering aligning your vision with others and how to determine if it is something yo…
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Trust is a difficult thing to earn. If leaders are going to get things done, it will require building trust with those to whom you want to engage. This is a process of intentionality. This episode will give you a few pointers on how to build trust so that your vision can move forward.
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November 7, 2023 - How To Attract Resources To Your Vision
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This episode will give you practical steps on attracting support for your vision. In order for vision to be executed, it must be properly funded. Dr. Walker will challenge you to examine your strategy as well as help you position yourself to be more appealing to potential partners.
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Don't Let Your Hurt Hinder You
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Leadership is tough business. It is inevitable that you will experience pain from unlikely sources. In this episode you discover how to effectively lead in the midst of your hurt. You will gain practical strategies on addressing your pain while simultaneously being productive. Nothing hinders a next level leader!…
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Becoming A Relational Leader
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The most effective leaders on the planet have learned the art of doing relationships well. This episode will help you develop the skills to become a relational leader. Dr Walker shares out of his personal experience how building and nurturing relationships has contributed to his success.
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Every organization experiences shifts. Leadership is about managing these shifts and recognizing the sifting process that occurs as a result. Everything will not survive shifts, but this episode will explain how to understand the sifting in the shifting.
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Letting Go of Liabilities
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This episode deals with identifying and addressing liabilities within your organization. It can take years to build your brand and only minutes for to crumble because there was no attention to risk. Dr. Walker shares some practical strategies on how to courageously release liabilities while affirming those people who are assets within your organiza…
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How To Maintain Your Creative Edge
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When you are a next level leader you refuse to become irrelevant. Maintaining your creative edge is essential to your survival. It takes courage and capacity to remain recreative. In this episode you will gain practical and proven strategies on maintaining your creative edge. This is about where you are going, not where you've been. It's about stre…
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The Right Team For Your Dream
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When you have a vision or dream it's important to have a team that can accompany the scale of it. What you are dreaming about is Big and your team matters. In this episode Dr. Walker explains the kind of people you need on your team to steward your vision to fruition. Dreamwork does take Teamwork. What matters is not just a team, but the right team…
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Slumps come with the territory. If you are a leader, you know that every season is not on the mountain. There are moments we all feel unmotivated. This episode will help you diagnose the causes of slumps as well as give you some principles to overcome them. You can regain your passion and drive again. Listen and find out how.…
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Next Level Accountability
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Every leader needs accountability, but when you enter a new level, it the demand is greater. There are necessary systems that should be put in place to protect you and your brand as you continue to go higher. This episode will give you practical advice on ways to increase accountability around you so that you are able to achieve your goals while mi…
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Have you ever why you were given the opportunities that you have? Have you ever questioned whether you were prepared or worthy of it? This episode will help you understand why you and not others. You are where you are for a purpose and there is a connection between where you've been and where you are going. Take good notes and keep winning.…
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Avoiding The Trappings Of Success
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Success is a blessing but can also be a curse to those who don't avoid the negative trappings. This episode is designed to steer you clear of those traits that have been the demise of numerous leaders. You can be successful and enjoy sustainable success if you follow these practical steps.
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Appealing To A Broader Audience
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This episode is about helping you expand your reach. So many leaders remain locked in to the familiar and miss out on greater opportunities because they have not been taught how to appeal to a broader audience. You will learn how to value what different communities offer and discover the power of engagement.…
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How To Leverage Your Influence
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The most valuable asset of leadership is influence. This episode will help you leverage it in order to get things done. When you leverage your influence you recognize the value of your voice at the table and the weight it carries in the community. You must be strategic and prayerful in order to leverage it appropriately.…
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How To Lead When People Leave
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Leaders handle the departure of staff and others differently. There are a host of reason why people leave, however you must learn the important lesson of leading in the midst of it. This podcast will give you strategic steps to move beyond the emotion of it all and make the necessary decision to steward your organization forward in the midst of tra…
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This episode is about focus and prioritizing your relationship with God in the midst of accomplishing your goals. There are many leaders who get so busy that we lose sight of the main thing. Goals are only accomplished when we are intentional about including God in our pursuits. If you have lost focus, this episode will definitely get you back on t…
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Remaining Faithful When You Are Frustrated
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Accomplishing vision is not for the faint at heart. Whenever you enact change on an organization, conflict will soon follow. Many leaders are frustrated because of the the resistance they experience while stewarding their vision. Leadership is about producing without excuse and this episode will give you practical strategies on remaining faithful e…
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Determining Who And What Is Salvageable During The Shift
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Shift happens. Whether we want it to or not. If we want to remain relevant we must be willing to embrace shifts as a part of the process. When we shift, everyone won't be able to go with us. The aim of this episode is determining who and what can. Determining what's salvageable is essential to maintaining your momentum as an organization.…
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Knowing The Right Time To Expand
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Growth is the ideal goal for any organization, however it must be properly managed. When we expand it is imperative that we do so with an understanding of the implications it will bring. This episode will highlight when you should expand and what things to consider as you expand.
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Planning For Future Success
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Leaders are forward thinkers. Planning for success requires a great deal of investment and intentionality with those you lead. In this episode you will learn how to lead your team forward and how to put yourself in position to be successful for years to come. Planning takes discipline and determination. Get ready to explore how you can be prepared …
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Growth is often viewed as a sign of success. In this episode you will discover that some growth is not necessarily success, it is swelling. When you identify the cause of the swelling you must be have the tools to remove it. Growth must be managed if it is to be effective and this episode is designed to help you do just that. If you want to grow an…
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Determining What's Essential
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Leading in a post-pandemic culture has caused many leaders to re-examine what is essential to the success of their organizations. Effective leadership requires us making difficult decisions that will propel our organization to the next level by honestly assessing what is essential and what is not. This episode will give you strategies on how to ide…
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Your Vision And Your Values
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The intercession between our vision and values is something every leader needs to understand. Values speak to the "why" and vision speaks to the "what". When vision is executed effectively, it is important that our values remain at the foundation of what we do. This episode will help you identify those values and integrate them within the life of y…
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Every next level leader should not only desire success but sustainable success. Relevancy does not happen because you are successful in one season, it occurs when you are willing to be open to positive change and strategies that can help you in seasons to come. This is one of the most important episodes in your leadership. Refuse to be a "once was"…
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The Art Of Intentionality
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When we are focused on the achieving out goals, we have positive outcomes. This is possible when our energy is harness toward intentionality. In this episode you will gain tips on how the power of intentionality and how it contributes to the the success vision manifestation.
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Getting Your Team To Think Outside The Box
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The most precious resource you have are the people connected to your vision. Getting them beyond their comfort zone is the work of leadership. Getting them to think outside the box is the work of a next level leader. This episode explores ways to encourage your team to think differently and accomplish what they had previously thought impossible.…
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Every great leader experiences loss. It can be emotional devastating to many, however in this episode we will give practical strategies on how to bounce back from a loss. You will learn that losing doesn't make you a loser, rather it should stir a something within you that is determined to reach higher levels as a leader.…
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