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.

thinking and feeling illusion

028: Thinking and Feeling—The Illusion

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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSSShownotes: Thinking and Feeling—The Illusion Feeling. Driven, caught, lost in the web of illusive feeling overwhelming thinking, obscuring reality. On thinking and feeling. Could life be mediated through the screen so much that when you are faced with the real person or real […]

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Christ the King and Are You Ready for Advent

027: Christ the King and Are You Truly Ready for Advent?

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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSSShownotes: Christ the King and Are We Truly Ready for Advent? Acts 2:32–36. Jesus Christ is Lord, Christ the King. Jesus is Lord. This pronouncement has been and continues to be a death sentence for many in the face of earthly rulers who

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Are You in? Something to live for, Something to Die for.

026: Are You in? Something to live for, Something to Die for.

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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSSShownotes: Are You in? Something to live for, Something to Die for Are You In this Story? The stories of the Christian martyrs are stories of courage and selflessness. They are also stories of women and men who had their eyes on something,

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Why Letting Go Is the Beginning and Not the End

025: Why Letting Go Is the Beginning and Not the End with Patrick Moore

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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSSShownotes: Episode 025, Interview with Patrick Moore, Senior Pastor at Waynesville UMC, Waynesville, MO Image for Living from God’s Center God’s Center A heart. God’s heart center. Vast spaciousness. An ever-enlarging circle without edges. Living from God’s Center With the phrase, “living from

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3 Powerful Reasons Why You Need a Structure Today

024: 3 Powerful Reasons Why You Need a Structure Today

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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSSShownotes: 3 Powerful Reasons Why You Need a Structure Today Who cares about structure? If we were to ask a highly organized person, they will probably tell us that structure is essential. If we ask someone who finds aspects of being organized stifling,

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grounded in the source

023: Why You Must be Grounded in the Source to Live from God’s Center with Kendra Thompson

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Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Email | RSSShownotes: Episode 023 Interview with Rev Kendra Thompson, Minister of Faith Formation, Edwards Congregational UCC, Davenport, IA Image for Living from God’s Center: Grounded in the Source The image for living from God’s Center that comes to Kendra is the tree by a

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