CONVO | Feeling the Pressure

May 27, 2026
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What if the pressure you feel is actually revealing the false beliefs shaping your life? In this conversation, Steve Cuss explores anxiety, burnout, self-talk, and spiritual formation, and how the love of God can free us from carrying burdens we were never meant to hold.

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Steve Cuss is the author of Managing Leadership Anxiety, Yours and Theirs, and The Expectation Gap. He’s also a columnist and a host of Christianity Today’s Being Human podcast. 

Steve founded Capable Life to help people lower anxiety, break stuck patterns, and increase well-being in the workplace, home place, and in your faith. Steve was first exposed to family systems theory when he was a chaplain, and he later studied it in graduate school. He holds 1,600 hours of supervised ministry and clinical pastoral education and is a spiritual care professional in the ACPE.

He holds a Master of Divinity from Emanuel Christian Seminary with a thesis focusing on the dignity laws of Leviticus and Exodus and how a suburban church can move beyond charity to address systemic poverty.

Steve has served in a variety of pastoral roles for 26 years. The majority of those years as a lead pastor, he married Lisa and they have two sons and a daughter in whom they take great delight. When Steve is not working, you can find him laughing with his family, knee deep in a trout stream, or trying a a guitar that he cannot afford at a local music store.

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