Those who succeed most seem to fail most. Winston Churchill said, ”Success is moving from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.” In this podcast, Steve Backlund helps us practically live out these truths.

Cyndi Barber joins Steve Backlund on this important podcast. Cyndi shares her own experience with grief, and conveys the powerful truths and practices that have helped her and many others overcome it.

”The joy of the Lord is our strength” (Nehemiah 8:10). Our spiritual load-bearing capacity is in direct proportion to the level of joy in our lives. Celebrating progress, not perfection, is an important habit of joyful people. In this podcast, Steve Backlund expounds on five Bible verses to help activate your celebration of yourself like never before.

Both those who believe they can, and those who believe they can’t, are right. What we are experiencing today is largely the result of the beliefs and words we had in the past. In this podcast, Steve Backlund helps us break the tendency to use circumstances and feelings for why we believe what we believe.

We have beliefs to ”work out” and strengthen in five areas - beliefs about God, ourselves, other people, circumstances, and decisions we are making. In this podcast, Steve Backlund gives insights and inspiration about our beliefs about the people in our lives.

This podcast helps break off the lie that we are victims of the people in our lives. Steve Backlund shares an excerpt from his book, Let’s Just Laugh at That!, about how some of his favorite biblical characters overcame this lie and how we can do so too.

Steve Backlund shares seven fun and transformational truths from his white water rafting experiences.

In this podcast, Steve Backlund prophetically shares five things we can expect to increase in our lives because of the life and death of Charlie Kirk.

Steve Backlund prophetically speaks from Isaiah 54 and John 5 in this podcast. This message will inspire you to move forward into your dreams, plus it will give you a key if you are feeling overlooked or devalued in this season.

Join Steve Backlund as he gives you insights from his basketball coaching and applies them to life and leadership. He specifically speaks about following through on what we have committed to believe and do. This message will take you higher in life and influence.

”Show me a sign of your favor” (Psalm 86:17 ESV). God gave many of our favorite Bible characters ”signs” that confirmed they were headed in the right direction and that He was with them. In this podcast, Steve Backlund will inspire you to expect big signs of God’s favor and guidance. He also gives some practical wisdom in healthily interpreting these signs. Get ready to be inspired and equipped as you listen.

Empowering leaders are more focused on building big people than building a big organization. If we are "small" in our attitudes (i.e., jealous, selfish, insecure, competitive, etc.), we will struggle to build people and to have "big" people attracted to us. In this podcast, Steve Backlund compares Israel's first two kings (Saul and David) to defeat the self-limiting beliefs that restrict our influence. 

Steve Backlund shares some wisdom that is "a word in season" for many who listen.

We each have unlimited potential in God. In this podcast, Steve Backlund shares these four habits from Philippians 4 that will propel your life in incredible ways.

In this message, Steve Backlund uses Jesus as the example for getting people’s hopes up. In Luke 4, He proclaimed that His ministry would be one of regularly proclaiming good news to the poor, freedom to captives, and that the current year would be the year of God’s favor. This powerful podcast will inspire and equip you to be like Jesus in bringing hope to people.

All of us are tempted to be disappointed with God, ourselves, leaders, people we are leading, and life in general. In this message, Steve Backlund shares inspiring insights to empower us to overcome disappointment and move forward in our lives like never before.

Steve Backlund shares four more of the leadership principles that have greatly impacted his life and the lives of many others. This week’s pillars are: Speaking Life, Faith-filled Decision Making, the Culture of Gladness, and Empowerment - Building Big People.

”Then you will make your way prosperous and be of good success” (Joshua 1:8). In this podcast, Steve Backlund shares four of his life pillars that have revolutionized his life: 1) Inspiring and Leading Yourself, 2) Transformational Beliefs, 3) Intentionality, and 4) Healthy Relationships.

The victim mindset is a stronghold we all get to defeat. It wants us to believe we are at a disadvantage because of factors like our finances, family situation, physical appearance, our health, other people’s perceptions of us, our past, our education, our vocation, or something else. This limiting belief is almost always a bigger problem than what we feel a victim of. In this podcast, Steve Backlund exposes lies behind this belief system and gives strategies for victory over it.

Steve Backlund brings his unique perspective on speaking that will help you be more confident and effective. This message does not just help public speakers, but it gives insights into how to increase empowerment in all our communications with others.