S1E7: Pruning Is Preparation

This one wasn't planned. Adam Weisner and McClain McKinney had a two-hour meeting, kept talking, and decided to hit record. It's a conversation about leadership. Adam on going from a 19-year-old with a lot to prove to a servant leader, and why the only real mark of success is Jesus' name growing with his influence. McClain, an Enneagram 3, on learning to be uncomfortably honest; Adam, an 8, on why he hears conflict as raw truth. Then the bank's color test ("be brief, be bright, be gone") next to the fruit of the Spirit. They get into accountability: who asks the leader the hard questions, what Adam found in C12 after Vistage, and why you might only need one person. Adam on putting the sail up and waiting: a company debt paid off in about two years instead of the five he expected, and the hire who backed out the morning of his start date. "Pruning is preparation." McClain talks through a hard season after 40 days away, and Adam tells him there are a lot easier ways to make money. Their close: you are in control of your obedience today. CHAPTERS 00:00 An unplanned episode 04:04 From proving to serving 06:16 Conflict is raw truth 09:26 The color test 13:16 Younger than the room 18:22 Who holds the leader accountable? 28:00 C12 vs Vistage 32:49 Put the sail up and wait 38:05 Manufacturing wind 42:26 Pruning is preparation 44:54 A winter you didn't expect 52:00 Why do any of this? 57:52 You never owned it 1:00:57 In control of your obedience FOLLOW THE SHOW YouTube:    / @biblicalbusinesspodcast   Instagram: instagram.com/biblicalbusinesspodcast ADAM WEISNER CEO of Sherman Research. Author of Biblical Business: Seven Unbreakable Laws of Leadership. Instagram: instagram.com/thedispensableceo TikTok: tiktok.com/@thedispensableceo YouTube:    / @thedispensableceo   LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/adamweisner Newsletter: adamweisner.substack.com Book: biblicalbusiness.com MCCLAIN MCKINNEY Founder and CEO of Chalant. Instagram: instagram.com/mcclainmckinney TikTok: tiktok.com/@mcclainmckinney YouTube:    / @mcclainmckinney   LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/mcclainmckinney Site: mcclainmckinney.com Agency: chalant.us Subscribe to Biblical Business so you catch the next episode. Scripture quotations are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.