Unplugging Like a Pro

Kay Daigle Julie Pierce Julie Pierce reminds all who are leaders in any position of the importance of unplugging like a pro, taking time to decompress. In this conversation with Kay Daigle, Julie schools us on why it's so difficult to do. As an experienced leader and now a coach, Julie has lots of tips for ways to unplug that work no matter what your role or leadership position entails. Unplugging like a pro is doable and so necessary for the care of your soul and those who depend on you. Other resources Julie's website juliepierceleadership.com BOW's You As a Leader page Learn more about soul care in the series with Dr. Gail Seidel: 1. What Is It? 2. How is Your Soul? and 3. Nourishing Your Soul. Learn about burn-out in this 3-part series with Dr. Michelle Pokorny 1. The Burn, 2. On the Brink of Burnout, and Beating Burnout. Sign up for Julie's newsletter and download the document with questions to consider before unplugging. Or connect through the QR code below. This episode is available on video as well. Timestamps: 00:21 Introduction 02:06 What's going on in our culture that people don't unplug? 06:05 Why do you think ministry people don't unplug? 11:25 Learning to unplug 13:46 Preparing to turn your mind off 24:08 Knowing yourself and your needs 26:57 Unplugging also matters for those whom we serve and lead. 30:42 Final tips & tools 34:12 Other resources TranscriptKay >> Hi. I'm Kay Daigle. Welcome to the Beyond Ordinary Women Podcast and video series. My guest today is Julie Pierce. Julie, we are so glad to have you back. Julie >> I am thrilled to be here. Always loved being on the podcast with you. Kay >> Well, we love having you and you have such a wealth of information. I just want to get started so that the people who are listening can learn from you and learn how to unplug like a pro, because that's what we're talking about today. Let me tell you just a little bit about Julie. Julie does have a history of working on church staffs and leading communications and marketing efforts. And Julia and I met quite some time ago now on a church staff. We were working together on a church staff and those were the roles that she had. But she's also done leadership development in churches, and she now coaches executives and teams. There's a lot more about Julie on our website, so I don't want to go into every single thing that she's done, but it's a lot and she has a lot of experience in this area. And I know that you're going to want to hear everything that she has to say. You can find out more about her on our website, BeyondOrdinaryWomen.org. Go to the dropdown menu where it says About Us and go down to Video/Podcast Contributors and you can read more about what she's done. So Julie, this is a prevalent thing that people don't unplug. How would you describe what's going on in our culture that people don't unplug? Julie >> Yeah. Well, I love this topic because I desperately needed to learn how to do this. In other words, I learned the hard way. Kay >> Yeah. Julie >> And like we do so many of our lessons, right? Kay >> Yeah, pretty much I've learned everything I know, I learned the hard way. I messed up badly and learned. Yeah. Julie >> Yes. And so this was one of those things for me. And I think particularly now, we hear these phrases all the time. We're accessible 24/7. Everything is going 24/7, whether it's the news cycle or accessibility to anything and everything. You know, places rarely closed down, whether it's Sunday or at all. You know, there's, there are so many expectations as to be accessible and available all the time. Kay >> Yeah. Julie >> And we also live in a time where little things that can be blown up into huge things and everyone has this heightened sense of urgency all the time. And so we don't have a proper understanding or proportion for what priorities really are. And so it just adds on this pressure.