Episode 22 begins Season 2 of Summit After the Storm with a different definition of winning.

Bart Wilbanks planned to open the season with a post–Super Bowl reflection — but instead, a fifth-grade basketball game revealed something far more important than the final score. What unfolded wasn’t about comeback plays or championships, but about sportsmanship, humility, and leadership when slowing down is optional.

In this episode, Bart reflects on a moment when a winning team chose restraint over dominance, encouraging struggling players on the opposing team to keep trying until they succeeded. The result wasn’t a victory on the scoreboard — it was dignity, confidence, and growth.

Drawing a powerful parallel to lessons learned on Mount Kilimanjaro, where pole pole (slowly, slowly) is required for survival, this episode explores the difference between slowing down because you must and slowing down because you choose to.

Anchored in Romans 15:1, this conversation challenges leaders to rethink strength, success, and responsibility — and asks what leadership looks like when advantage is already secured.

🎧 The scoreboard tells you who won. Leadership tells you who you’re becoming.

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There is a brief window before the noise returns.

Before opinions flood in.
Before predictions harden.
Before pressure tells you what matters most.

In this episode of Summit After the Storm, leadership author and speaker Bart Wilbanks reflects on the power of stillness before high-pressure moments. As Super Bowl weekend approaches and expectations rise everywhere, this conversation invites leaders to pause, recalibrate, and take stock of what pressure has already revealed.

This episode serves as the closing reflection of Season 1, integrating themes of clarity, formation, patience, and awareness that surfaced throughout the season. Drawing from lessons learned on Mount Kilimanjaro and anchored in Psalm 46:10, Bart explores why stillness is not disengagement but alignment — and why leaders who choose quiet before the noise are better prepared for what comes next.

This episode is for leaders navigating:

• Pressure and expectation

• Decision-making before high-stakes moments

• Leadership clarity and stillness

• Faith-based leadership and discernment

• Transition seasons and reorientation

🎧 Before the noise returns, take a moment to notice what this season has revealed about you.

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• Leadership and pressure

• Stillness and clarity

• Psalm 46:10 leadership

• Faith and leadership

• Decision-making under pressure

• Summit After the Storm podcast

• Mount Kilimanjaro leadership lessons

• Super Bowl leadership reflection

Pressure feels different when there is a clock involved.

When time is short, expectations are loud, and decisions carry immediate consequences, leadership stops being theoretical. It becomes revealing.

In this episode of Summit After the Storm, leadership author and speaker Bart Wilbanks explores what pressure exposes when timelines compress and margins disappear. Drawing from championship-level sports moments, leadership under deadline, and lessons learned on Mount Kilimanjaro, this conversation examines why pressure does not create character — it reveals it.

Bart also reflects on a very personal, everyday example of pressure: navigating responsibility and decision-making when his wife was out of town and the margin for error was thin. Not as a complaint, but as an honest look at how pressure builds faster when buffers are gone — and how gratitude, preparation, and formation matter most in those moments.

Anchored in Ecclesiastes 3:1, this episode challenges leaders to recognize the difference between seasons that allow reflection and moments that demand execution.

This episode is for leaders navigating:

• High-pressure decision-making

• Leadership under deadlines and time constraints

• Stress, responsibility, and compressed margins

• Preparation vs panic under pressure

• Faith-based leadership and discernment

🎧 If pressure has ever revealed something about you that you didn’t plan to see, this episode is for you.

Learn more about the podcast and the upcoming book at
👉 https://summitafterstorm.com