How to be an Authentic Leader: The Power of Authentic Leadership w/ Kurt Bush

Yes, 2020, beginning, was a crazy time all over the world-

Crazy.

Yeah

... and it changed a lot of people's trajectory of their lives.

Yeah.

One thing I remember about churches as well is they were forced to shut down, or were you in a part of the world where you didn't need to do that? 'Cause I remember in Chicago, a, a church across our street, and they couldn't have meetings because there was also this rule of not more than 50 people.

That's why people's weddings-

Yeah

... were not attended and things like that.

Yeah, that's a good question.

I, every state was different.

I think my trauma of that time has blocked out some of this in my memory, but I don't think Iowa was a state that required any closings.

They did have a lot of requirements in terms of how many people could be in a space, social distancing, masks, that kind of stuff.

You know, I do remember, like, we did take some time, uh, you know, in the beginning, like we were all just trying to do the best we could, and we did have a, I think it was a couple months that we did all online where, you know, those of us that were preaching and presenting would be in person live streaming, but there wouldn't be anybody present physically in the space.

Part of that anxiety was a, just a constant like, what do we do? Nobody had been there before.

None of us had, had experienced a global pandemic.

There was no guidebook.

There were no best practices.

Nobody's experienced it, and part of the anxiety was every day feels like it's a different situation, and it's literally trying to lead in a way that acknowledges every day is a different situation, but then also, like, we still have this goal that we're driving.

We're still trying to launch something.

We're still trying to care for our community.

We're still trying to do all these things even though every day feels different.

Leading people while you, the leader, are also uncertain, it's a crisis.

Like you said, there's no manual, there's no guidebook.

How do you then lead? Because you also don't know what's going on.