Learning to Lead is a storytelling podcast for emerging leaders navigating faith, calling, and life after college. Through personal reflections from his college years through launching and leading <a href="https://ayp.me" rel="nofollow">Adventist Young Professionals</a>, <a href="https://ayp.me/about/leadership/tim-kosaka/" rel="nofollow">Tim Kosaka</a> shares honest lessons about people-first leadership, building healthy community, and staying rooted through life’s highs and lows. Each episode blends leadership principles and spiritual grounding, designed to help you lead with purpose and build what outlives you.

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A season finale on transition as a spiritual practice. Tim shares what it means to release control with joy, mentor the next generation, protect mission essentials while releasing preferences, and lead in a way that outlasts your role.

A season finale on transition as a spiritual practice. Tim shares what it means to release control with joy, mentor the next generation, protect mission essentials while releasing preferences, and lead in a way that outlasts your role.

Passing the Keys

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This episode focuses on the quiet disciplines that keep leaders steady: Scripture, prayer, community, rest, and identity in Christ. Tim offers practical ways to recognize drift early and return without shame.

This episode focuses on the quiet disciplines that keep leaders steady: Scripture, prayer, community, rest, and identity in Christ. Tim offers practical ways to recognize drift early and return without shame.

Rooted

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Relationships aren&#39;t a side topic, they shape everything about leadership and faith. Tim reflects on friendship, dating, community, boundaries, and how to build a life that&#39;s integrated, not fragmented.

Relationships aren&#39;t a side topic, they shape everything about leadership and faith. Tim reflects on friendship, dating, community, boundaries, and how to build a life that&#39;s integrated, not fragmented.

Whole and Holy

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Spiritual gifts become a leadership strategy and a discipleship practice. Tim explores how activating gifts in others reduces burnout, strengthens community, and builds a body instead of a hero-centered movement.

Spiritual gifts become a leadership strategy and a discipleship practice. Tim explores how activating gifts in others reduces burnout, strengthens community, and builds a body instead of a hero-centered movement.


Equipped, Not Exhausted

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Purpose isn&#39;t just motivation, it&#39;s direction plus boundaries. Tim shares what he learned about guardrails, priorities, and spiritual health so leadership doesn&#39;t become pressure or identity.

Purpose isn&#39;t just motivation, it&#39;s direction plus boundaries. Tim shares what he learned about guardrails, priorities, and spiritual health so leadership doesn&#39;t become pressure or identity.

Leading With Purpose Without Losing Yourself

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A practical, real-world look at what sustains healthy community, whether you&#39;re building an AYP chapter, a small group, a team, or a local movement. Tim unpacks the rhythms, hospitality, layered connection, shared ownership, and spiritual depth that turn a good idea into a lasting community.

A practical, real-world look at what sustains healthy community, whether you&#39;re building an AYP chapter, a small group, a team, or a local movement. Tim unpacks the rhythms, hospitality, layered connection, shared ownership, and spiritual depth that turn a good idea into a lasting community.

What Makes a Community Thrive

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The story shifts from inspiration to building something that can actually hold people. Tim walks through the evolution from digital community into real pathways, including an unexpected legal challenge that forced a defining choice about humility and alignment, and how structure, values, and consistency become forms of care.

The story shifts from inspiration to building something that can actually hold people. Tim walks through the evolution from digital community into real pathways, including an unexpected legal challenge that forced a defining choice about humility and alignment, and how structure, values, and consistency become forms of care.

When a Seed Becomes a Structure

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Tim shares the post-college unknown, the two prayers that shaped his decisions, and the move that gave him spiritual infrastructure through environment and community. That provision becomes preparation as a simple seed begins to grow into something bigger than he expected.

Tim shares the post-college unknown, the two prayers that shaped his decisions, and the move that gave him spiritual infrastructure through environment and community. That provision becomes preparation as a simple seed begins to grow into something bigger than he expected.

Two Prayers and a Seed

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A candid look at early leadership formation, including the year that taught care-driven leadership and the season when intensity cost him teammates. Tim reflects on pace, trust, listening, and what it means to lead like a shepherd, not a project manager.

A candid look at early leadership formation, including the year that taught care-driven leadership and the season when intensity cost him teammates. Tim reflects on pace, trust, listening, and what it means to lead like a shepherd, not a project manager.

People First

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Tim introduces the fear/wonder tension that runs through the season and the honest questions that drive young leaders more than they realize. You&#39;ll hear the early foundations of his faith and leadership wiring, and why what&#39;s underneath the drive matters more than the drive itself.

Tim introduces the fear/wonder tension that runs through the season and the honest questions that drive young leaders more than they realize. You&#39;ll hear the early foundations of his faith and leadership wiring, and why what&#39;s underneath the drive matters more than the drive itself.

The Story Before the Story

with Tim Kosaka

Learning to Lead is a storytelling podcast for emerging leaders navigating faith, calling, and life after college. Through personal reflections from his college years through launching and leading Adventist Young Professionals, Tim Kosaka shares honest lessons about people-first leadership, building healthy community, and staying rooted through life’s highs and lows. Each episode blends leadership principles and spiritual grounding, designed to help you lead with purpose and build what outlives you.