Latest Ballard Podcast Episodes
Podcast #379: How Strong & Clear Is Your Communication?
No More Excuses! Monday Motivation - August 07, 2023 10:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsHAPPY MONDAY MOTIVATION! Welcome back to my podcast, No More Excuses! Today and this week I want to focus on COMMUNICATION! Yes, as a DiSC® certified business coach, communication is always in the agenda for a session with a client. Strong, clear communication can make or break a sale, an ...
Podcast #378: Do You Have the Three D's for SUCCESS?
No More Excuses! Monday Motivation - July 31, 2023 21:50 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsHAPPY MONDAY MOTIVATION! Welcome back to my podcast, No More Excuses! Today I want to discuss the THREE D's For SUCCESS. Why? Well, here in Huntington Beach, CA, the US Open of Surfing! Being dubbed as “Surf City USA” means there’s always some sort of surfing going on, and this week is a f...
Montreal Spotlight | A Conversation with David Pothier of La Chapelle
Canadian Church Leaders Podcast - July 25, 2023 19:47 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsIn a span of just a few decades, Montreal underwent a remarkable transformation, shedding its once-revered title of "city of a hundred steeples" to become one of Canada's most secularized urban centers. Today only 0.7% of Montreal's population identifies as evangelical Christians. Nevertheless, ...
Podcast #377: Are You Motivated?
No More Excuses! Monday Motivation - July 17, 2023 19:19 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsHAPPY MONDAY MOTIVATION! WELCOME BACK the the WEEKLY PODCAST, No More Excuses! I am your host, Sandi Ballard, The BADASS Business Coach! Last week I did a LIVE video from a golf outing my colleagues and I sponsored a hole at. It was fun to get everyone’s opinion on what MOTIVATED them....
Montreal Spotlight | A Conversation with Patti Miller of Evangel Church
Canadian Church Leaders Podcast - July 10, 2023 12:00 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsIn just a few decades, Montreal has undergone a remarkable transformation, evolving from the once-revered "city of a hundred steeples" to becoming one of Canada's most secularized urban centres. As a result, the percentage of Montreal's population identifying as evangelical Christians stands tod...
Podcast #375: What Do You EXPECT?
No More Excuses! Monday Motivation - July 03, 2023 22:51 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsHAPPY MONDAY MOTIVATION! Welcome back to my podcast, No More Excuses! This week I want to discuss EXPECTATIONS! YES! We all have them, and we've all had them given to us. We've probably all been disappointed at some point in our lives, businesses, or careers. And, well, I'm pretty sure w...
Podcast #374: JUNE'S DONE... are you?
No More Excuses! Monday Motivation - June 26, 2023 18:14 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsHAPPY MONDAY MOTIVATION! Welcome back to my No More Excuses Podcast! We are officially in the last week of the month, and are now half-way through the year. You know what’s coming next! YES! Me asking you where are you with your GOALS! I started at the beginning of the month asking you t...
John’s Story: How a Pastor’s Journey to Health Transformed Him and His Family
Canadian Church Leaders Podcast - June 26, 2023 12:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsIn 2020, John Lamos sat down next to his wife Jessie after a long day at the church, and she expressed with great fatigue and honesty: “John, if this is what ministry is like, I can’t keep doing this.” John was leading on reserves at the time — he knew it and so did his family. He was lonely, re...
Podcast #373: How Do You Feel?
No More Excuses! Monday Motivation - June 12, 2023 22:33 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsHAPPY MONDAY MOTIVATION Welcome to the weekly podcast No More Excuses! Which one sounds like your day? Frustrating, stressful, exhausting? Boring, unfulfilling, endless? Energizing, fulfilling, profitable? Obviously there can be a mix of days and sometimes even a few days in a row, b...
Podcast #372: What Are You Willing to Do?
No More Excuses! Monday Motivation - June 05, 2023 11:42 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsHAPPY MONDAY MOTIVATION Welcome back to the weekly podcast No More Excuses! Last Monday I challenged all of you to dig a LOT deeper the next 30 days and to focus on ONE goal or habit to make sure you finish the first half of the year STRONG AF! If you didn’t decide what you want to focus ...
Special Episode: Mark Sayers On Discipleship as Perseverance, Giving God Your Reputation & Recalibrating the Church’s View of Revival
Canadian Church Leaders Podcast - May 29, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsWhat might it look like for us to match the complexity of our time with courageous and creative responses for discipleship? Join pastor and thought leader Mark Sayers as he seeks to answer this question amongst many others in this long-form conversation for pastors. In this interview, Mark marri...
Ken Shigematsu on Seeking to Bless Those We Envy, Practicing Confession as a Pastor & How We Can Survive Shame
Canadian Church Leaders Podcast - May 16, 2023 05:46 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsInto a revolving door of senior pastors, Ken Shigematsu arrived to lead a struggling community in Vancouver, BC by the name of Tenth Church in 1996. After over two decades, Ken is still at the helm, having led Tenth to become one of the largest and most diverse city centre churches in Canada. Bu...
Podcast #370: Do You Have a STRONG Team?
No More Excuses! Monday Motivation - May 15, 2023 11:52 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsHAPPY MONDAY MOTIVATION! Welcome back to the weekly podcast, No More Excuses I am your host, Sandi Ballard, The Badass Business Coach. And a DiSC® certified coach. I’ve spoken at conferences and facilitated hundreds of team building workshops across the U.S. I just got back from facilitati...
265 - Goodbye
Like I'm A Six-Year-Old - May 11, 2023 19:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsOh hello. As the title suggests, this is my little way of letting you know that I'm wrapping up Like I'm A Six-Year-Old once and for all. I've loved doing it - and thanks so much for listening to it and supporting it over the years! Bloody hell! - but I feel like after eight years, hundreds of...
264 - Ben Abbatangelo
Like I'm A Six-Year-Old - May 08, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 10 ratingsBen Abbatangelo is a proud Gunaikurnai and Wotjobaluk man and a social commentator. He’s the former deputy CEO of global non-profit AIME, has appeared regularly on The Project and the ABC and has written for The Guardian and The Saturday Paper. Based on some of his recent work, I’ve sensed th...
Podcast #369: Is Your Communication Hurting You? What about Others?
No More Excuses! Monday Motivation - May 02, 2023 00:09 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsHAPPY MONDAY MOTIVATION Welcome back to the weekly podcast, No More Excuses I am your host, Sandi Ballard, the badass business coach. And a DiSC® certified coach which means I am a personality and communication specialist! I’ve spoken at conferences and facilitated hundreds of team–building...
Jonathan Tremaine Thomas on Engaging the Gospel Amidst Unrest, Seeking Righteousness and Distinguishing Between a Biblical and Secular View of Justice
Canadian Church Leaders Podcast - May 01, 2023 13:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratings“You will love the guns out of their hands.” These are the words that Jonathan Tremaine Thomas sensed the Lord say to him in his junior year after he led a violent drug dealer to Jesus on the curb of a McDonalds in North Carolina. Since that moment, Jonathan Tremaine has given his life to seeing...
263 - Larissa Baldwin-Roberts
Like I'm A Six-Year-Old - May 01, 2023 00:54 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 10 ratingsLarissa Baldwin-Roberts is a proud Widjabul Wia-bal woman from the Bundjalung Nations and has been a progressive activist since forever. She's a co-founder of the First Nations climate pressure group SEED Mob and is the current CEO of GetUp!. In this conversation I ask Larissa about where her ...
Podcast #368: Is Your Growth Hurting You?
No More Excuses! Monday Motivation - April 24, 2023 22:48 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsHAPPY MONDAY MOTIVATION Welcome back to the weekly podcast, No More Excuses I am your host, Sandi Ballard, The Badass Business Coach. I’ve been talking a lot about inspiration and motivation. It’s what helps you get things done both short and long-term. There are so many things about ru...
262 - Professor John Quiggin
Like I'm A Six-Year-Old - April 19, 2023 19:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsJohn Quiggin is a widely-respected economist and professor at the University of Queensland. He's a former member of the Australian Government's Climate Change Authority, and he's written widely about the scourge of neoliberalism and privatisation. I wanted to get John on the show to discuss th...
Podcast #367: Inspiration Will Carry You!
No More Excuses! Monday Motivation - April 17, 2023 22:48 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsHAPPY MONDAY MOTIVATION Welcome back to the weekly podcast, No More Excuses I am your host, Sandi Ballard, The Badass Business Coach. And a DiSC® certified coach which means I am a personality and communication specialist! I’ve spoken at conferences and facilitated hundreds of team–building ...
Albert Chu on Church Planting as a Discipleship Engine, Resurrecting Dying Churches & How a Second Chance to Pastor Changed Him
Canadian Church Leaders Podcast - April 17, 2023 12:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsAlbert Chu has spent decades leading in the same community, in the same area, with the same mission – creating room for people to discover and grow as disciples of Jesus. With his pastoral experience planting and leading a multisite community, alongside his missional passion as the current Direc...
Podcast #366: There is Always Something!
No More Excuses! Monday Motivation - April 10, 2023 17:47 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsHAPPY MONDAY MOTIVATION Welcome back to the weekly podcast, No More Excuses Thank you for being here and for investing in YOU! Running a business is hard work, but it doesn’t have to suck! We make it suck! And what comes with that… excuses! And yes, this is the No More Excuses pod...
Brett Landry on Contextual Church Ministry, Healing After Burnout & the Difference the Gospel Makes for Pastors
Canadian Church Leaders Podcast - April 03, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsWhen Jason, Chris and Jeremy set out to plant the Way Church in 2020, they found in the Vancouver Church many allies – one of them being Brett Landry. With Brett’s own history of planting in one of Canada’s most secularized cities and his desire to see more life-giving churches join its neighbou...
Podcast #364: What's Ending and What's Next?
No More Excuses! Monday Motivation - March 27, 2023 11:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsHAPPY MONDAY MOTIVATION! Welcome Back to the Weekly Podcast: No More Excuses Thank you for being here and for sharing the podcast with others, and for investing in YOU! THANK YOU for SEVEN years! YES! Last Tuesday, March 21st 2016 was the launch of this podcast and the release of my very...
Podcast #363: Which Way is Your ENERGY Flowing?
No More Excuses! Monday Motivation - March 20, 2023 22:22 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsHAPPY MONDAY MOTIVATION! Welcome to the weekly podcast, No More Excuses! Thank you for listening – or watching – and investing in YOU! ENERGY! We need it to get shit done, don't we? Yes, MOTIVATION, but energy will help us sustain the motivation, make progress and succeed. But, sometim...
261 - Alison Pennington Returns
Like I'm A Six-Year-Old - March 15, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 10 ratingsShe's back! Economist, comrade and now author Alison Pennington returns to the show to discuss her debut book Gen F'ed? How Young Australians Can Reclaim Their Uncertain Futures. We discuss how all the good jobs disappeared, our massively cooked housing market, replacing intergenerational warf...
Henry Schorr on Prayer as the Starting Place, Choosing Generosity Over Ingrowth & His Reflections on 40+ Years of Pastoring
Canadian Church Leaders Podcast - March 13, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsStudies have shown that a pastor typically stays at one church for an average of 4 years. For Dr. Henry Schorr however, that is far from the case. With 43 years of pastoring under his belt at Centre Street Church alone, Henry sets an incredible example of both faithfulness and fruitfulness in th...
Podcast #362: Just Do It
No More Excuses! Monday Motivation - March 13, 2023 11:55 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsHAPPY MONDAY MOTIVATION! Welcome back to the weekly podcast, No More Excuses! Thank you for being here, listening, watching, and sharing with others! Most importantly, for investing in you! Today’s podcast title – and theme – came from my own personal lack of MOTIVATION! So, you’re welcome...
260 - "I, Millennial" Event LIVE in Warrnambool
Like I'm A Six-Year-Old - March 08, 2023 18:00 - 1 hour ★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis week's episode brings you the conversation I had with some other generational voices at a live event at the public library in my home town, Warrnambool. Alongside Zoomer and journalist Sharna Rogers, Xer and psychologist Dr. Jodie Fleming and Baby Boomer and celebrated aid worker Bob Han...