The Calibrate Life & Leadership Podcast is for Christ-Following leaders who have a desire to calibrate their lives and lift those they love and lead. Co-hosts David and Donna Delp journeyed through grief after the death of their spouses after three decades of marriage. Finding each other, they began a new life with their blended families. They are absolutely committed to joyful living, joyful leading, and joyful relationships. The Calibrate Life Podcast is hosted at calibrate360.com and focuses on calibrating the spiritual, emotional, intellectual, and physical aspects of a leader’s life and those they lead and love. David has invested 30 years as a life and leadership coach and mentor, organizational development consultant, a pastor, minister, and a developer of leaders. Donna has been a missionary with Convoy of Hope Europe, worked with the U.S. State Department in South Africa and Nigeria, has been a children’s minister, and a radio co-host.
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The Calibrate Life & Leadership Podcast is for Christ-Following leaders who have a desire to calibrate their lives and lift those they love and lead. Co-hosts David and Donna Delp journeyed through grief after the death of their spouses after three decades of marriage. Finding each other, they began a new life with their blended families. They are absolutely committed to joyful living, joyful leading, and joyful relationships. The Calibrate Life Podcast is hosted at calibrate360.com and focuses on calibrating the spiritual, emotional, intellectual, and physical aspects of a leader’s life and those they lead and love. David has invested 30 years as a life and leadership coach and mentor, organizational development consultant, a pastor, minister, and a developer of leaders. Donna has been a missionary with Convoy of Hope Europe, worked with the U.S. State Department in South Africa and Nigeria, has been a children’s minister, and a radio co-host.
We’ve heard people talking about a “new normal” or “when things get back to normal.” It occurred to us that sometimes “normal” gives way to a new reality full of purpose, hope, and opportunity. Having lived through a deep grief process, we’ve simply recognized a grief process at work in the world around us. In this episode we are talking […]
Embracing adversity, being willing to say “yes” to the tough stuff gives us new lenses to see things differently, it exercises atrophied muscles needed for new adventures and callings, and it deconstructs our inferior plans to make way for God’s excellent plans. In this episode we talk about saying “yes” to adversity in expectation of […]
On David’s 60th birthday, his journal entry included 7 things he will do in the next 20 years based upon lessons learned in the previous 20. In this episode David and Donna talk about reflections on joyfully living, leading, and loving. Turning 60 this week caused me to look back and to look forward. 20 […]
Those we lead have the opportunity to see who we really are when we lead them in and through a crisis. Our heart, our character, our resolve, our faith, our love, and our motivations are all revealed. In episode 148 of The Calibrate Life Podcast, we discuss 8 things for a leader to keep in focus while leading […]
If God has positioned you as a spiritual leader, he will also empower you to serve and lead. In this episode we are going to talk about the mantle and anointing that comes with God’s call and the empowerment of the Holy Spirit to lead in times of uncertainty. This episode, particularly the last 20 minutes, was […]
You can do anything you want to do but you can’t do everything you want to do. Shiny-object Syndrome is the urge to chase and engage things that get your attention. The problem is, there are too many opportunities, too many shiny objects, more interesting and compelling things than we have time or resources to […]
Margin is the blank spaces on a document that defines its borders and makes it readable and functional. We need margin in our lives. It is the spaces, the blanks, that make everything else work. REST, health, well-being, effectiveness and many other things are elusive if we don’t mind the blank spaces. In this episode of […]
We’ve declared our 2020 to be the year of learning to REST again. The “gold” of our lives comes from the ability to rest in the Presence of God, learning to zone down, learning to listen. In this episode we talk about our renewed commitment to really learn to rest, to have abiding peace in […]
How do you know when you aren’t sacrificing enough? In last week’s episode we discussed how to know when we are sacrificing too much out of the wrong motivation, and this week we look at the other side of the coin. Last week we talked about how we know when a sacrifice is TOO great. […]
Life is simply full of sacrifices. As a matter of normal course, we often give up something we care about or love to gain something we care about or love more. Sacrifice embraces change and transition as we let go of important things to gain more important things. Sacrifice: How Do You Know When it […]
Your actions, habits, and practices accomplish the things in your heart. Spiritually minded people are good at experiencing God, but often, not so good at obeying God. Obedience always translates into actions, and if you have a dream or an intention that just never gets translated into reality, what you need to work on is […]
Today’s topic is a little controversial, even to me, but we think it is on target. It’s foolish to do something negotiable without counting the cost. It is foolish to NOT do something non-negotiable whether you have counted the cost or not. This is recklessness. I have decided, I need to live life with more […]
Bandwidth refers to the amount of data that can be transmitted in a fixed amount of time. It has also come to be used as a term referring to the mental, physical, emotional, intellectual, and even spiritual capacity required to deal with a situation. In this episode of Calibrate Life we discuss how to gauge, […]
We can feel drained, rested, or energized in each of our four capacities: physical, emotional, intellectual or spiritual. In this episode we discuss how to refresh, re-fire, and replenish those four capacities and how to stay full of life and energy. This is a podcast, so there is more content in the audio than in […]
Living joyfully is about finding contentment right now. Can we just decide to WANT to be where we are right now? Can we just decide to cherish the uniqueness of this day and this moment? Can we slow down enough to touch, to taste, to really see, to listen, to feel things I may never […]
I heard someone say the other day, “you have to love what you do if you want to be good at it.” Living out our great God-adventure often involves doing things we’d rather not do. So, how to come to embrace and even love doing things we don’t like so much, and to even […]
Spiritual warfare is a real. Often, life’s obstacles come from our stupid choices or uninformed decisions, but if you are attempting obedience, if you are attempting to follow a bold God-path, if you yield yourself to be a part of the solution to some of the problems of this world — you are going to […]
Hireath is an old Welsh word describing a feeling of homesickness for something that no longer exists. In the grief journey, in major life transitions, and in almost every pursuit of the great adventure, this is a feeling with which we must grapple. Hiraeth: Homesick For Something That No Longer Exists One of my lessons […]
For a relationship to be nurturing, life-giving, and active, it has to bring some value to all of the participants. The most valuable value is love, friendship, and mutual companionship. But, particularly of those of you who orchestrate relationships, in this episode we are going to the importance of orchestrating relationships and why life-giving content […]
Persistence is necessary to the fulfillment of any mission. Talent, genius, education, and even spirituality is not enough in and of itself to be successful in your mission, the prize goes to the persistent. In this episode we talk about the necessity and the power of persistence. Persistence is the Prerequisite to Victory Persistence is […]
The Calibrate Life & Leadership Podcast is for Christ-Following leaders who have a desire to calibrate their lives and lift those they love and lead. Co-hosts David and Donna Delp journeyed through grief after the death of their spouses after three decades of marriage. Finding each other, they began a new life with their blended families. They are absolutely committed to joyful living, joyful leading, and joyful relationships. The Calibrate Life Podcast is hosted at calibrate360.com and focuses on calibrating the spiritual, emotional, intellectual, and physical aspects of a leader’s life and those they lead and love. David has invested 30 years as a life and leadership coach and mentor, organizational development consultant, a pastor, minister, and a developer of leaders. Donna has been a missionary with Convoy of Hope Europe, worked with the U.S. State Department in South Africa and Nigeria, has been a children’s minister, and a radio co-host.
