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The Stories That Make Us podcast explores the beauty and complexity of humanity through the 9 unique stories that all human beings - real or fictional - share. Best friends, Sawyer and Scott, interview live guests about their story through the lens of their specific Enneagram types as well as dissect the motivations and types of beloved fictional characters.
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FILO Podcast continues the conversations started at FILO Conference and carries them throughout the year. Todd Elliott hosts the podcast and interviews key influencers in the world of church production to talk about ideas that affect all of us involved in pulling off weekend services.
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Todd is joined by Tim Stevens, former executive pastor at Willow Creek Church. They talk about the importance of the culture on a team and the part that each of us has to play in creating it in our own sphere of influence. Show Notes: Summer Skills Cohort: Journey with like-minded technical artists for growth and support as well as meet with an ind…
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Todd has a chat with Kirk Denson from Willow Creek Church. They talk about the importance of developing people, not just to be better technicians but better humans. Show Notes: Summer Skills Cohort: Journey with like-minded technical artists for growth and support as well as meet with an industry leader for an in-depth discussion around a topic. Th…
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Todd sits down with Brennan Wilkins to talk his journey of working at a portable church to now helping to design technical systems for some of the coolest projects around from stadiums, theaters and even large spherical venues in the desert. Show Notes: Summer Skills Cohort: Journey with like-minded technical artists for growth and support as well …
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Todd talks with Alexis Leon, Gatherings Producer at Passion City Church. They talk about being tired on Sunday morning, working long hours for a conference and showing up with confidence in who you are in Jesus. Show Notes: FILO 2024 Highlight Video FILO 2024 Parody Video FILO 2025: Live Stream and In-Person tickets are available for the lowest rat…
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Episode 114: Toby Walters, Blake Hodges and Todd Elliott
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Toby and Blake wrestle the hosting role away from Todd to talk about everything that’s happening at the FILO Conference starting tomorrow! Show Notes: FILO 2024: Conference starts tomorrow! Live Stream and In-Person tickets are still available. Learn more at filo.org/filo2024. Don’t forget, the 10% off discount code for podcast listeners is “podcas…
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Todd is joined by Alex Seeley, the Lead Pastor at The Belonging Co Church in Nashville. They talk about the story of leaving everything and starting a church in another country that focused on people who were on tour: musicians, artists, production people. This beginning has given the church a unique perspective on serving together.Show Notes:FILO …
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Whit George joins Todd to talk about transitioning from creative director to lead pastor and how his early days helped to shape where Church on the Move is currently. From production and worship culture to what's best for the congregation as a whole, they talk about how all the areas of the church play a vital role. Show Notes:FILO 2024 Price Jump:…
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Nathaniel Smith joins Todd to talk about balancing family and work, personal and professional, and being intentional with the people in our lives. Show Notes:FILO 2024 Intensives and Lunch & Learn Events: We recently opened registration for our extended learning opportunities at FILO 2024. Intensives are longer form learning environments taught by …
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Todd sits down with FILO 2024 main session speaker, Trey McKnight. Leaning on Trey's diverse experience, they discussed all the different ways that having a personal mission statement and being intentional with the time we have can help create the life we're wanting. Show Notes:FILO 2024 - The next price jump happens tomorrow, February 13, 2024! Do…
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Todd sits down with FILO Cohort Leader Alex Sawyer to talk about all kinds of topics: leading up, building trust, congregational approval, committees, mall church...and the list goes on.Show Notes:FILO Cohorts - Join other church technical artists in smaller group settings on Zoom to grow in your skills this year. The entire Cohort schedule has bee…
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Paul Johnson from Bravingbird joins the podcast. He and Todd talk about collaboration, leading up and down, and ways to create a culture of care and trust on worship and production teams.Show Notes:Bravingbird - Our guest today, Paul Johnson, is the Executive Director of Bravingbird. They are a non profit dedicated to telling stories and giving tho…
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Todd and Andrew Junge talk about how to maximize being a portable church. Especially when there can be so many expectations for production in today's church, trying to get it all done while having to set up and tear down each week can be a challenge. Show Notes:Christmas is right around the corner! Look for ways to encourage your teams this holiday…
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Dara joins Todd to talk about leading all types of volunteers, from the super committed to the "my mom signed me up to serve" variety. Show Notes:FILO 2024: Are you starting to talk budget for next year? New things are coming with the schedule and breakouts for FILO 2024, so make sure you get that added into your 2024 budget! Learn more at filo.org…
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Justin Firesheets joins the FILO Podcast to talk about dealing with change and leading through change from his experience in ministry at Church of the Highlands.Show Notes:Coaching Cohorts: Registration is open for a few more days for our final Cohort of 2023! Join this group of people just like you during this holiday season to invest in yourself …
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Todd gets to chat with Dan Johnson, the technical director at Mars Hill Bible Church in Grand Rapids, MI. They talk about how recruiting volunteers is way more than just having a ministry job fair.Show Notes:Coaching Cohorts: Our next winter Coaching Cohort will be announced in just a few days! Stick close to your email and socials to learn when it…
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Episode 103: Albin Söderström & Johan Gustafsson
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Todd is joined by the original Swedish Gurus of Tech, Johan and Albin. They talk about the importance of community within the local church technical community, whether you're Swedish or not.Show Notes:Christmas Playlist: Need a playlist for all those Christmas planning meetings you're about to have (or already having)? We've got you covered! We've …
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Dylan Hofmann joins Todd to talk about volunteers. How to develop a volunteer friendly culture from the recruiting process all the way through developing your key volunteer leaders.Show Notes:FILO Blog: New blogs have recently been released! Read about caring for volunteers, leading through transition and creating a culture of celebration. Check th…
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Part 2 of our Harry Potter Series is here, my friends! In this episode, we finish walking around the Enneagram wheel, giving you the types of all the characters that Scott and I agreed on. (Including the man himself, Harry Potter!) Next episode will begin the great debate over those characters that we typed differently (like Ron Weasley...🫣) Check …
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Our first FICTIONAL CHARACTER series is here!! We are so excited to dive into the Harry Potter movie franchise and bring you our best attempts at typing some of the most beloved characters of all time. Our hope is that we can see ourselves - the good, the bad, and the ugly! - in the characters of this series and hopefully learn more about what moti…
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Todd talks with FILO and Fusion Productions' leadership coach Neil Sternberg. They talk about how important it is to understand who we are so that we can become the most effective technical artist possible.Show Notes:Coaching Cohorts: Our next fall Coaching Cohorts will be announced soon! Be the first to know and have first dibs on the sign ups whe…
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Ep. 13 - "Everything I tried, I failed" with Luke Harwerth (Type 3)
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On this week's episode, we had Luke Harwerth (Type 3) on the show. Luke is the other half of the dynamic influencer duo called Twin Sauce, and you can follow them on TikTok and Instagram. They have over 300k followers on TikTok and over 100k followers on Instagram. Luke has had a wide variety of jobs ranging from corporate to artistic entrepreneuri…
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Episode 100: Aubrey, Todd, Nate, Chelsea
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Episode 100! Aubrey takes the reigns as the host to interview Chelsea, Nate and Todd to talk about ways to celebrate. Celebrate big wins and small wins. Celebrate individuals and celebrating as a team. Show Notes:Podcast Guests: Todd Elliott - FounderNate Parker - Technical ProducerChelsea Pribyl - Chief Operations OfficerPodcast Host:Aubrey Wentz …
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Ep. 12 - Feeling Your Feelings w/ Paul Harwerth (Type 7)
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This week we have Paul Harwerth (Type 7) on the show! Paul is half of the twin duo known as Twinsauce (300k+ followers on TikTok). After working his way through his bachelors degree in theatre as a wedding photographer, he went straight to work in the film industry. While working in and around the industry he ran a photo & video production company …
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Ep. 11 - Artistry and the Enneagram w/ The Arcadian Wild (Part II)
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Part II of our conversation with The Arcadian Wild! To round off our episode from last week, check this one out! Isaac and Lincoln offer advice for 9s and 1s who are craving more health and wholeness! Follow them on instagram @thearcadianwild For more Enneagram content follow us on Spotify, Apple Music, and anywhere else you listen to podcasts! Che…
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Todd sits down and finally talks to Arnez Bonsol instead of just talking about him on the podcast. They talk about Arnez's secret sauce when it comes to building teams and developing people.Show Notes:Summer Skills Cohort: Our next session about all things audio is coming up in just a couple of weeks! Can't make it? Jump into the August session all…
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Ep. 10 - Artistry and the Enneagram w/ the Arcadian Wild (Part I)
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Principle singers and composers, Issac Horn and Lincoln Mick, come on the pod this week! This episode was so long that we split it into two! (Part II will come out next week!) Isaac (type 9) and Lincoln (type 1) are the founders and principle singers and songwriters in Nashville-based indie-folk band, The Arcadian Wild. Over the past few years, The…
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Ep. 9 - The Story of Type Nine w/ Beth McCord
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I am so excited to share this episode that is all about nines with you, my friends! Our type nine rep this week is the one and only Beth McCord! Enneagram expert, coach, author and speaker Beth McCord is the Founder and Chief Content Officer at Your Enneagram Coach, an online platform where you can learn about and explore how to use the Enneagram a…
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Author, social media influencer and FILO Main Session Speaker, Carlos Whittaker joins Todd to talk about his new book "How to Human".Show Notes:Summer Skills Cohort: The very first session kicks off next week! Can't make it then? Jump into one of the sessions in July or August! Learn more at filo.org/coaching. We hope you can join us.Carlos Whittak…
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Ep. 8 - The Story of Type Eight with Stacy DeVries
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This epsiode is all about brutal honesty and rawness. And who better to display those virtues than an Eight! Our type Eight representative this week is Stacy DeVries. Stacy is an 8 (with a heavy 9 wing), who is a certified Enneagram coach and the principal and counsellor for an online high school in beautiful British Columbia. She also oversees a s…
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