Claire Annelise Smith, Phd

As a spiritual executive coach and mentor, author, and speaker, Dr. Claire is the person that spiritual executives turn to when navigating complex career and life transitions. She provides clarity and empowers you to make tough decisions that align with your faith and purpose. Drawing on years of experience coaching pastors and executives, and leveraging skills honed through leadership roles in diverse settings – including program development, international collaboration, and academic teaching – she offers a unique perspective on leadership that integrates faith, values, and performance. She is passionate about helping leaders thrive while staying true to their calling.

Do you see Zaccaheus?

034: Do You See Zacchaeus?

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Shownotes: Do You See Zacchaeus? It’s Easy to Miss People Have you ever returned from an event only to find out that someone you knew and wanted to see had been there, but you’d missed them? You were going to beat yourself up for missing them then you remembered—there was a crowd. That’s why you […]

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It Comes Down to Praying to Live from God's Center with Gordon Glenn

033: It Comes Down to Praying to Live from God’s Center with Gordon Glenn

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Shownotes: Episode 033 Interview with Rev Gordon Glenn, Pastor at Ward Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Kansas City, MO. Image of Living from God’s Center A target. When God is in the center of everything we do, it has a ripple effect that goes out in our community and the world. It is like dropping

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032: Could These Things Get in the Way of God?

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Shownotes: Could These Things Get in the Way of God? Check these three things that could be a screen between you and God. Church as a Screen “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith.

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031: Have You Taken Your New Year Pause?

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Shownotes: Have You Taken Your New Year Pause? It’s a new year. Did you make resolutions? Or, perhaps you made a commitment to God for the year. The transition to a new year provides a great opportunity to stop, prayerfully review the old, make confession as needed, celebrate the victories, then be still and do

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How will you come up for air this Christmas

030: How Will You Come Up for Air at Christmas?

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Shownotes: How Will You Come Up for Air at Christmas? Getting to Christmas We had our final Advent service for this season yesterday, a reminder that we are not there yet—not there at Christmas, not there at the second coming of our Lord. We still look, anticipate, hope and prepare with joy and hopefully, come

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Mom Theology: Invitation and Opportunity

Episode 029: Your Invitation and Opportunity with Mom Theology with Kendra Thompson

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Shownotes: Episode 029 Interview with Rev Kendra Thompson, Minister of Faith Formation, Edwards Congregational UCC, Davenport, IA, #Mom Theology The origin of Mom Theology Kendra Thompson was invited to be a contributor to the “Mama Bear Dares” blog by Leslie Klipsch, the author of Mama Bear Manifesto. The author believed that moms joining together can

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