The Mentored Podcast with Drs. Carson Pue, Ingrid and Chuck Davis

Somewhere along the way, many of us absorbed a quiet lie: I am valuable if I perform well. It rarely announces itself. It shows up in how we read our metrics, how we feel after applause, and how we feel when it goes quiet. Most leaders only notice it when burnout or a breakdown forces the question. In this episode we look at what that lie costs. Leaders lose their joy, teams lose their creativity and psychological safety, and identity shrinks down to results. Then we go back to Matthew 3:17. Be

If you're leading and nobody's ever criticised you, you're probably not leading much. This week Carson, Chuck, and Ingrid look at what separates a wound that shapes you from noise you're free to release — and why the goal was never thick skin, but discernment. Worth sitting with before you press play: think of the last piece of criticism that actually changed you, not just the one that stung. What made the difference?

Every leader has fallen. The question isn’t whether you’ll stumble—it’s what you’ll do when you do. In this episode, Carson, Chuck, and Ingrid sit down to talk about the missteps that catch even experienced leaders off guard: the desperate chase for approval that costs you your integrity; the flood of changes that leaves your team gasping; the fuzzy line between approachability and authority; the rigid grip on plans that ignores your people; and the productivity obsession that mistakes activity

Someone vouched for Paul when nobody else would. The believers in Jerusalem were frightened of him, and with good reason. Barnabas stood up and said, in effect: I know what you’ve heard. Trust me on this one. That one act of belief shaped the early church. Carson, Ingrid and Chuck walk through the friendship across Acts 9, 11 and 15 — the vouching, the partnership in Antioch, and the falling-out over John Mark. Their story isn’t tidy. Mentoring rarely is. Along the way: how to spot potential

Before leadership frameworks, there was a rabbi calling twelve ordinary men to walk with him. In this episode, we look at how Jesus mentored the Twelve: how he called them, walked with them, corrected them, and sent them out. Carson, Chuck, and Ingrid unpack what that relationship still teaches leaders today. Three lessons carry the episode. Be present, the way Jesus was fully present with the Twelve. Empower others, the way he equipped ordinary men to carry his mission forward. Model vulne

Jesus didn’t call himself a CEO. He called himself a shepherd. And if you’ve ever spent time around actual sheep, you know that’s not the flattering image we tend to make it. The Mentored Podcast is built on a biblical leadership framework and a servant leadership model, so this episode sits close to home. Carson, Chuck, and Ingrid dig into what biblical leadership actually looks like, not the version with a platform and a title, but the kind that shows up in a parking lot in a yellow vest beca