You’re Not Stuck - You’re Being Rebuilt | Scott Maderer

Many people today are exhausted from trying to “fix” their whole life overnight.

But what if real transformation happens differently?

In this upcoming episode, Scott Maderer shares how burnout, debt, leadership struggles, faith, and personal reinvention became part of discovering his deeper calling.

This is a conversation about alignment, stewardship, sustainable growth, and learning to take one small step at a time.

🎧 Full episode drops in 3 days.

In this upcoming episode of the Life & Leadership Connected Podcast, I sit down with Scott Maderer - coach, speaker, podcast host, and founder of Inspired Stewardship.

Scott shares his journey through:

• education and corporate leadership
• financial crisis and marriage struggles
• rebuilding life through faith and stewardship
• discovering calling through small consistent steps
• learning sustainable leadership and identity-based growth

One of the most powerful ideas in this conversation is this:

“You don’t need to fix everything today. You just need to take one small aligned step.”

If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed, stuck, disconnected from yourself, or uncertain about your next season in life - this conversation will encourage you.

🎧 Full episode releasing soon.

https://inspiredstewardship.com
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👤 David Dahlén D’Cruz  
Transition & Identity Coach  
Life & Leadership Connected  

📩 david.dahlendcruz@lifeleadershipconnected.com  

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Transcript

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You have the power of choice and change. Um where you are today will not be where you are tomorrow, period. Your life is always a film strip, not a photograph. So whether you're at the top of the mountain right now and everything is going fantastic, or whether you're in the deepest, darkest valley and this is the the dark night of the soul, you know, the worst time of your life, what I can promise you is a week from now, a month from now, six weeks from now, six months from now, a year from now, the future will be different. It will change. Um, and that realization means now you can step back and go, so what small action can I take today to move this in a positive direction? Not to change everything, not to fix everything, but just to take a tiny step today. Because if I take that tiny step today and I take it tomorrow, and I take it the next day, and I take it the next day, then that film, you know, a year from now will be better. It has to be. Yeah. Because I took those tiny steps to make it a little better. Uh 30 years in education. I actually started my career going into medical research uh even before I became a teacher. And I figured out that medical research was about chasing grant money, and I really didn't want to chase grant money the rest of my life, so I pivoted and that's when I went into education. Became a school teacher, did that for 16 years, loved it. Uh always had a very Socratic kind of style of teaching, asking questions, engaging with the students, uh, did a lot of what I know now is coaching, but at the time I didn't call it coaching because you know that's not the label that I put on it, but that's really what I was doing. Began developing those kind of coaching skills and how to engage. Honestly, if you want to learn how to connect to people and that don't really want to be there, go teach public school. Right. You know, it's like most of the time they're not real thrilled about being in class all day. Um, and you've got to learn to engage and entertain, but in a not in a dog and pony show way. So I began to develop those skills then, did that for 16 years, kind of going on with the corporate side, and I'll circle back to the personal side in a moment. Uh I eventually left teaching, went into the corporate world, did that for 11 years, um, worked up into a senior kind of executive position, you know, had leaders reporting to me, had a big team, on planes all the time, flying all over the country, all of the normal stuff that goes along with kind of corporate work. It was still an education. I went from teaching to testing. I went from teaching to writing tests for a living. My students said I joined the dark side, but really didn't. So I was doing all of that work uh in a testing company and again really enjoyed it. Part of the reason that I was promoted multiple times and got into a leadership position was again, I think my leadership style was much more of a coaching leadership style than it was a directive or authoritative leadership style. You know, I started doing leadership before I was in a quote leadership position. Uh, and then they notice that and they promote you and that kind of thing. All of that was going on, and then eventually I kind of climbed back down the corporate ladder and started the coaching business. I still remember one of our friends came over one day and they kind of looked around and they went, Y'all are weird. Do you think you could help us be weird? Meaning him and his wife. And I'm like, Yeah, why not? We could do that. And we sat down and started coaching and working with them, and out of that, the coaching business was born, and eventually that became inspired stewardship, and now what I do full time. Uh my wife's still part of the business, but kind of behind the scenes. And I've been doing it now since 2011. Uh, 2017 is when I went full time and worked with over a thousand clients in 20 countries and 38 states, and this is this is my calling. This is what I love to do.