Learning to Lead with Tim Kosaka
Learning to Lead is a storytelling podcast for emerging leaders navigating faith, calling, and life after college. Host Tim Kosaka draws on his college years and his work launching and leading Adventist Young Professionals to share honest lessons in people-first leadership, healthy community, and resilience. Each episode combines practical leadership principles with spiritual grounding. The show aims to help listeners lead with purpose and build things that outlast them.
Episodes
What Makes a Community Thrive
A practical, real-world look at what sustains healthy community, whether you're building an AYP chapter, a small group, a team, or a local movement. Tim unpacks the rhythms, hospitality, layered connection, shared ownership, and spiritual depth that turn a good idea into a lasting community.
When a Seed Becomes a Structure
The story shifts from inspiration to building something that can actually hold people. Tim walks through the evolution from digital community into real pathways, including an unexpected legal challenge that forced a defining choice about humility and alignment, and how structure, values, and consistency become forms of care.
Two Prayers and a Seed
Tim shares the post-college unknown, the two prayers that shaped his decisions, and the move that gave him spiritual infrastructure through environment and community. That provision becomes preparation as a simple seed begins to grow into something bigger than he expected.
People First
A candid look at early leadership formation, including the year that taught care-driven leadership and the season when intensity cost him teammates. Tim reflects on pace, trust, listening, and what it means to lead like a shepherd, not a project manager.
The Story Before the Story
Tim introduces the fear/wonder tension that runs through the season and the honest questions that drive young leaders more than they realize. You'll hear the early foundations of his faith and leadership wiring, and why what's underneath the drive matters more than the drive itself.
