Navigating Leaders
The Navigating Leaders Podcast is for leaders, entrepreneurs, and changemakers ready to grow with purpose. It’s hosted by Gabriel Griess, a retired US Air Force officer, CEO of Excel Medical Staffing and MedForceX, and founder of Navigating Leaders. Each episode explores what it takes to break through limiting beliefs, clarify your vision, and start really living. Grounded in faith and guided by hard-earned, real-world wisdom, Gabriel helps you identify what’s holding you back and take intentional steps toward lasting impact. Through authentic conversations and practical insights, you’ll gain the tools to lead from the inside out. It’s time to awaken your vision and live boldly.
Navigating Leaders
Episode 4: Wholeness
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When you look in the mirror, what do you see?
In Episode 4, Gabriel explores the journey toward wholeness, and what it means to live aligned, integrated, and at peace with yourself in a world full of noise, conflict, and pressure.
This episode unpacks the internal battle many of us live with daily: the tension between ego and spirit, between the version of ourselves shaped by fear, scarcity, and protection and the deeper self-marked by love, abundance, and purpose.
Through personal stories, spiritual insight, and practical reflection, Gabriel examines:
- How beliefs shape thoughts, thoughts shape feelings, and feelings drive behavior
- Why living from emotion alone leads to chaos rather than peace
- The moment many of us fractured from our true selves and how healing begins
- The difference between reacting and responding with intention
- How childhood wounds can silently guide adult choices
- Why wholeness is not perfection, but alignment
This episode also offers a compassionate reminder for anyone who feels “too broken,” “too damaged,” or “too far gone”:
There is nothing wrong with you.
Healing is possible. Alignment is available. And wholeness begins the moment you choose awareness, honesty, and grace.
If you’ve been living out of alignment, in your faith, relationships, work, or self-talk, this conversation invites you to pause, inventory your life, and take the next small, courageous step forward.
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Come as you are. Stay curious. And let the adventure begin.
RESOURCES
- Website: www.navigatingleaders.com
- The Results Tree (Available April 7): https://shop.harpandswordmedia.com/products/the-results-tree
- Purpose Driven Life: https://a.co/d/8NjVKPu
- Rev. Rick Warren: https://pastorrick.com
- Rev. Michael B. Beckwith: https://www.michaelbeckwith.com
- 1 Corinthians 13:11: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2013:11&version=NIV
- Atomic Habits: https://a.co/d/5eET9Iz
- Theodore Roosevelt, “It Is Not The Critic Who Counts”: https://www.trcp.org/2011/01/18/it-is-not-the-critic-who-counts/
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