If you want your parish to actually reach people beyond your parish walls in 2026, listen to this podcast! In this episode, we unpack why evangelization is often the first thing leaders abandon—and what it actually takes to build a culture that brings people to Christ. 👉 To go deeper, grab a copy of Road to Renewal—a practical guide built from real parish transformation stories: https://a.co/d/05iLF4Rm

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Most pastors and parish leaders believe evangelization is essential. But in practice, it’s often crowded out by more immediate demands.

In this conversation, Ron sits down with leadership coach Rob McDowell to explore why that happens—and what it actually takes to build a parish culture where reaching people becomes normal. Drawing from real ministry experience, research, and hard-won lessons, this episode offers a grounded and practical vision for evangelization that leaders can begin applying immediately.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why evangelization is often the first priority leaders abandon
• The difference between valuing evangelization and building a culture for it
• What “conversion communities” are—and why only a small percentage of churches become them
• Why most people are more open to faith conversations than we assume
• How to normalize evangelization without making people feel awkward or forced
• The role of leadership in modeling—not just teaching—mission
• Practical ways to begin shifting your parish culture toward outreach

About Rob McDowell: Rob McDowell is a leadership coach who works with pastors and ministry teams across North America. He served on the senior leadership team at Saint Benedict Parish and has worked in churches in Wisconsin, Maine, and Nova Scotia. He now coaches leaders around the world and lives in Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia with his wife Julie and their three sons. Relevant Links: Rob on X: https://x.com/mcdowell_rob Road to Renewal (Book): https://a.co/d/05iLF4Rm

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Feeling stuck, forgotten, or behind in life while waiting for what you desire? Listen to this conversation.

Explore Maria’s work: https://www.theintentionalsingle.com

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In this episode of the Huntley Leadership Podcast, Ron Huntley sits down with Maria Spears Mumaugh, co-founder of The Intentional Single, to talk about one of the most common—and least talked about—realities facing women today: the experience of singleness. Drawing from years of coaching, ministry, and personal experience, Maria shares the patterns she sees across thousands of women navigating the “space between” where they are and where they hope to be. This conversation goes beyond surface-level advice and addresses the deeper questions of identity, healing, and purpose.

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In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why so many single women feel stuck, forgotten, or behind

• The biggest lies women believe about singleness

• Why “just pray more” isn’t enough

• How to move from waiting → living intentionally

• The role of identity and healing in relationships

• Why community and sisterhood are essential

• How to prepare for marriage without putting your life on hold

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Connect with Maria

The Intentional Single Website: https://www.theintentionalsingle.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theintentionalsingle/

YouTube: @theintentionalsingle2342

Maria Spears Mumaugh

Website: https://www.mariaspears.com

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mariaspears/

YouTube: @TheMariaspears

Podcast: Thriving in the Space Between

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6xTorQrSlbq7gJUbdI8B97

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About Maria

Maria Spears Mumaugh is a Catholic mindset and life coach, speaker, musician, and author, and the co-founder of The Intentional Single. She helps women grow in confidence, pursue deep healing, and thrive in their single and dating years. She is also the co-host of Thriving in the Space Between, where she guides Catholic women to live fully in the present while holding hope for the future.

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Frustrated by church meetings that waste time and go nowhere?

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In this episode, Ron Huntley explains why many parish meetings fail—and how leaders can fix them by building a clear meeting structure that develops people and strengthens mission. Drawing from real coaching conversations with parish leaders, Ron walks through the four key meeting platforms that help healthy churches multiply leadership and maintain alignment:

• Leadership team meetings

• One-on-one meetings

• Team meetings

• All-staff meetings

When these meetings are structured well, they build prayer, trust, clarity, and accountability across the parish. But when meetings lack purpose, they waste time, frustrate staff, and stall renewal. If you want your parish to grow in leadership and fruitfulness, your meeting structure matters more than you think.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why most parish meetings fail

• The difference between leadership meetings and team meetings

• How one-on-one meetings prevent leadership bottlenecks

• What all-staff meetings should actually accomplish

• Why administrative teams are critical for healthy ministry

• How leadership teams maintain alignment and vision

• Why great meetings multiply leaders and strengthen mission

Resources mentioned:

Road to Renewal: https://glnk.app/go/NVe_rIO7sLzF

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Frustrated that your parish is strong in one area but weak where it matters most?

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In this episode, Ron Huntley explains the problem of lopsided parishes—churches that are strong in certain areas (like discipleship or ministry) but weak in others (like evangelization, fellowship, administration, or support). The result is predictable: burnout, stagnation, low invitation, and fewer stories of transformation. Ron walks through the framework behind the Parish Missional Health Assessment (PMHA) so you can identify what’s missing and why your parish may feel stuck.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

- The 5 systems of parish life: worship, ministry, fellowship, evangelization, discipleship

- The 2 foundations that sustain mission: administration and supporting key people

- The 4 missional skills that accelerate growth: invitation, quality, leadership culture, vision

- Why “more teaching” doesn’t automatically produce evangelization

- Why weak support systems create burnout and constant volunteer turnover

- How poor administration quietly blocks engagement and leadership development

- Why quality matters if you want people to invite their friends

- How vision unifies a parish and turns activity into stories

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Links & resources:

Parish Missional Health Assessment (PMHA): https://dpc4olay0gt.typeform.com/MissionalHealth

Road to Renewal: https://glnk.app/go/NVe_rIO7sLzF

Contact Ron: ron@huntleyleadership.com

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In this episode, Ron Huntley is joined by Melissa Wilkinson, host of the Rebuilt Podcast, to talk about what she’s learned after interviewing leaders across the parish renewal space.

Melissa shares the patterns she sees in parishes that are truly moving. From building a leadership team and layers of leaders, to the powerful link between message series + small groups, to the non-negotiable role of prayer in leaders who last.

You’ll also hear why Rebuilt coaching is not about making parishes copy Nativity, it’s about helping each parish become the best version of itself in its own community.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

- What surprised Melissa most about renewal after hosting Rebuilt

- Why renewal feels “unduplicable” to many leaders—and why it’s not true

- The myth of becoming a “mini Nativity”

- The hidden engine behind sustainable parish change

- Why leadership teams and layers of leaders prevent burnout

- How message series + small groups can unify a parish across campuses

- Why prayer is the price of admission for renewal leadership

Links & resources

Road to Renewal: https://glnk.app/go/NVe_rIO7sLzF

Called to Coach?: https://courses.huntleyleadership.com/courses/calledtocoach

Ron on the Rebuild Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKH_ss_9310

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What if the leadership you’re building has vision, principles, and process—but is quietly losing its foundation?

In this solo episode, Ron Huntley unpacks a pattern he’s seen derail renewal again and again: when process becomes the priority instead of serving love. Drawing from Scripture, lived pastoral experience, and decades of leadership observation, Ron challenges leaders to examine the relational foundations beneath their structures. This is a practical, pastoral conversation about presence, trust, and why renewal never begins with a perfect plan.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

- Why renewal always starts with imperfect people, not perfect systems

- How process-first leadership slowly erodes trust and credibility

- What Jesus’ foot-washing in John 13 reveals about true authority

- Why you can’t outsource relational leadership

- How Alpha creates the proximity renewal depends on

- The difference between delegation and investment

- A simple framework to assess the health of your relational foundation

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Key Scriptures referenced:

John 13:1–14 1

Thessalonians 2:8 2

Timothy 4:6

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Chapters:

00:00 The Foundation of Leadership

04:48 The Role of Love in Leadership

12:10 Assessing Relational Foundations

13:49 Renewal Begins with Presence

Looking for a real-life blueprint for leading costly vision in the Church? Listen to this podcast.

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What happens when your values and your options stop lining up — and you realize you can’t just critique the problem anymore? In this episode, Ron sits down with Eric Myatt (Director of Canada for Divine Renovation, former CCO missionary, and co-founder of Frassati Academy in Halifax) to unpack the discernment, courage, and leadership required to build something that doesn’t exist yet.

This is a conversation about conviction under pressure, shared leadership, and what it costs to step into vision when families, finances, and the future are on the line.

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In this episode, you’ll learn:

How “background noise” becomes a leadership decision you can’t avoid

What it looks like to discern quickly when your values and options no longer align

How to win people to a vision before it’s real (and keep moving through uncertainty)

Why shared leadership is the only sustainable way to carry big mission

How Frassati Academy moved from idea to reality — and what’s still fragile today

What donors and leaders of means need to hear about funding mission

How to build a culture where faith is normal, celebrated, and non-negotiable

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About the guest:

Eric Myatt is the Director of Canada for Divine Renovation, a former missionary with Catholic Christian Outreach, a worship leader and musician, and a husband and father. He and his wife Angie are co-founders of Frassati Academy in Halifax.

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Links & resources

Frassati Academy: https://www.frassatiacademy.ca/

Divine Renovation Canada: https://divinerenovation.org/canada/

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In this episode of the Huntley Leadership Podcast, Ron sits down with Chris Westlake, Director of Evangelization at Holy Family Catholic Church in Rockford, Illinois, for a deep and honest conversation about leadership, healing, and parish renewal that actually lasts. Chris shares his remarkable journey—from growing up in a broken home, to atheism, to an encounter with Jesus, and eventually coming home to the Catholic Church. Along the way, he unpacks how interior healing, prayer, Scripture, and the sacraments have shaped not just his faith, but his approach to leadership, teamwork, and organizational health in parish life. This conversation explores a truth many leaders intuitively know but rarely name: lasting fruit in ministry flows from who we are becoming, not just what we are doing.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

- Why interior life and emotional healing are essential for sustainable leadership

- How Scripture, prayer, fasting, and silence formed Chris’s conversion and vocation

- What parish leaders can learn from sports culture, teamwork, and organizational health

- Why values and culture matter more than tactics when leading renewal - How the Eucharist, confession, and daily Mass shaped Chris’s return to the Catholic Church

- What it really takes to prepare a parish to receive the people God wants to send

About our guest:

Chris Westlake is the Director of Evangelization at Holy Family Catholic Church in Rockford, IL. A convert to the Catholic Church, Chris brings a unique blend of lived conversion, deep interior prayer, organizational insight, and pastoral sensitivity to his work. He lives in Rockford with his wife Gina and their son Joshua.

Connect with Chris Westlake:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswestlake10

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chris.westlake.849352/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-westlake-83b85427/

Learn more about Holy Family Parish: https://holyfamilyrockford.org/

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