Manage triggers, lower irritations, wrangle your inner critic, and break stuck patterns.

First in you and then in your people.

P.S. I also help you manage annoying people and become less annoying too. :)

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In these pages, Steve Cuss, a trusted guide for many leaders, reveals the missing pieces you've been searching for.

I found myself laughing and being pierced with the truth at the same time in this fresh, practical and playful book.

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The most helpful book I've read in my thirty-five years of ministry when it comes to recognizing, naming, and bridging the gap between what we believe about God and what we experience from God.

I help you thrive in five core relationships:

Yourself. (Often the most neglected.)
Your precious people.
Difficult people. (Those you avoid or take brain space.)
People with difficulties.
God.

Working on one can improve them all.

Anxiety spreads in 4 spaces

The space that is inside you.

Assumptions, expectations, pressures and triggers.
The space between you and the other.

Catching each other’s anxiety and escalating in reactivity.
The space inside the other.

What are they thinking, what do they think of me, why did they do that?
The space between others.

When you enter a room and step on a mood, or someone changes the mood.

Resources:

Tools that are spiritual, clinical and practical.

Video courses, self assessments, workbooks, zoom cohorts and more. All resources are self paced and designed to get you unstuck, overcome recurring patterns and triggers. Info here.

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The books gives comprehensive tools to notice, name and move through anxiety for you, your faith and your people. The book Managing Leadership Anxiety focuses on your human relationship, The Expectation Gap brings relief to our faith. The Being Human podcast covers these tools and also hosts interviews with a variety of thinkers and authors.

What the kids are saying:

Chip and Jo Gaines

Magnolia, Fixer Upper
Steve's time with our Magnolia staff was WONDERFUL. He helped put words to the anxiety that so many people feel both on a personal and professional level. Since his visit, we've been able to see the practical utilization of what Steve taught, which has been invaluable. We highly recommend!
Rich Villodas

Pastor. Author: The Deeply Formed Life.
With profound depth of insight, humor, and empathy, Steve is a trusted guide for those looking to lead as a “calm presence” in the world. I highly recommend him for your personal life and organization.
Kevin Penry

Life Church Executive Team (2000 - 2017)
The time spent with Steve in his workshop is among the most informative and confirming I've spent in 20 years of Leadership. Steve equips us with tools to de- escalate and further manage that anxiety.
Glenn Packiam

Practical Theologian, Pastor, Author, Artist.
With disarming vulnerability and keen new insight, Steve invites us to look more deeply at the way we lead and the way our teams function. Through guided personal reflection and system analysis, Steve imparts wisdom that will help leaders last and teams thrive.
Annie Kardas

Chief Talent Officer, A21.
Steve arrested the attention of our 130+ Global Team members. His message crossed cultural and language barriers, and the positive feedback from our 19 office locations around the world was more than any other training we have had to date. Our team works in intense situations fighting human trafficking. Steve helped us identify our own anxiety and gave us priceless tools to more quickly identify and de-escalate it in others.
Kevin F.

MAJ, USA, Ret.
As an Army combat leader with experience in every combat theater and special operations since Desert Storm, I've not encountered better leadership training than this. This was both very humbling and very necessary.