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.

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