Host: Steve Macchia, Guests: Nicholas and Sheila Rowe
“We’ve been instructed to act justly, to love mercifully and to walk humbly with the Lord. We want to take the risk of extending friendship across the lines that have historically separated us.” – Steve Macchia
In Episode 03 of Season 36, Nicholas and Sheila Rowe offer their expertise in helping leaders process painful and traumatic experiences. In their book Healing Leadership Trauma, they lay out the emotional challenges of leadership and offer encouragement, prayer, and therapeutic tools to help leaders face their pain and begin to heal. Steve Macchia hosts a rich conversation with the Rowes to offer hope for leaders feeling the weight of their past trauma, present struggles, and uncertainty of the future.
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Steve Macchia (Podcast Host)
Founder and President of Leadership Transformations
Steve is the author of The Discerning Life, Becoming a Healthy Church, Broken and Whole, Crafting a Rule of Life and several other titles. Steve has over 40 years in ministry and two postgraduate degrees from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
Nicholas Rowe (Season 36 Guest)
Nicholas Rowe (Ph.D. Boston College) is the Kenneth and Jean Hansen Associate Professor of Leadership at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He has over thirty years of senior leadership roles in higher education and nonprofit organizations and is a consultant in cross-cultural reconciliation and conflict resolution in the USA and South Africa. As a historian, Nicholas reflects on cultural identity formation in marginalized communities in the Atlantic World. He also provides spiritual direction for individuals and reconciling communities. He is co-author, along with his wife, Sheila Wise Rowe, of the book Healing Leadership Trauma. Nick enjoys shared fun with Sheila, walks along bodies of water, reading mysteries and following The Arsenal Football Club. He and Sheila live in Boston and have a daughter, son, daughter-in-law and grandchild.
Sheila Rowe (Season 36 Guest)
Sheila Wise Rowe (Tufts University, Cambridge College M.Ed.) has offered counseling and spiritual direction to trauma survivors and emerging and established leaders in the United States and abroad for over thirty years. She ministered to unhoused and abused women and children in Johannesburg, South Africa, served as lay pastor and taught counseling and trauma-related courses, for a decade. Sheila is a speaker, trainer and writer for various publications and authored the award-winning book, Healing Racial Trauma and Young, Gifted, and Black. She and husband Nicholas Rowe are empty nesters, live in Boston, Massachusetts and co-authored Healing Leadership Trauma.
