Nailing It

CNLP 808 | Why Leadership Is Designed to Kill You: Nicole Martin on Leading Christianity Today in a Divided, Rapidly Changing World

The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast, 2 June 2026. The book comes up at 54 min 39 sec in.

Carey Nieuwhof, who wrote the foreword to Nicole Massey-Martin's book, discusses its central thesis that 'leadership is designed to kill you' — meaning leadership is intentionally designed to crucify traits like power, ego, speed, performance, perfection, loyalty, and scale so they can be re-oriented toward kingdom values. Nicole explains key chapters, including examples from the chapter on ego. Carey warmly recommends the book at the episode's close.

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