Resources for Journalists, Podcasters, and Event Hosts
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Booking contact: eric@ericgreid.com (If you’re on deadline, use the subject line “PRESS — Deadline.”)
What if leadership was never your calling?
Leadership Was Never the Calling is honest reflection from a leader who spent years mistaking position for purpose. Eric G. Reid traces the exhausting climb toward titles and platforms that promised meaning but delivered emptiness.
For pastors, executives, and ministry leaders tired of the next-level trap, this isn’t a how-to book or a takedown of leadership — it’s one man’s discovery that there might be something else waiting beneath all the striving.
If you wake up exhausted from performing and suspect you’re climbing the wrong ladder altogether, this book traces the journey of someone who didn’t wait for permission to step off — and what was discovered on that journey.
ERIC G. REID
Author, Speaker, Coach
“What if leadership was never your calling?”
“If you’re tired of the next-level trap, you’re not giving up — you’re finally beginning.”
Calling isn’t a ladder to climb; it’s a towel to pick up.”
“Mission before titles. Servant, period.”
“Presence over performance.”
“I’m learning the difference between serving the mission and serving the badge.”
“The best conversations happen around tables, not from stages.”
Eric G. Reid is Editor-in-Chief of Skinny Brown Dog Media and author of Leadership Was Never the Calling, writing for pastors and the platform-tired who want faithfulness in the small things.
Eric G. Reid is Editor-in-Chief of Skinny Brown Dog Media and an Author Brand strategist, ghostwriter, and editor. He is the author of Leadership Was Never the Calling (March 2026), a Scripture-rooted invitation for pastors and platform-tired Christians who are done with title culture and ready to live faithfully in the small things.
After years of leadership coaching and ministry-adjacent life, he began noticing how easily calling can drift into performance. Eric writes for people who haven’t stopped believing but are tired of performing, and he ends every chapter with one practical step that helps readers choose presence over approval in ordinary life—starting at home, where the truest work is often unseen.
Find him at ericgreid.com
Leadership Was Never the Calling
Eric G. Reid
Skinny Brown Dog Media
Hardback Digital Cloth W/ Dust Jacket
Case Laminate
Paperback
eBook
Spanish Paperback
~182 pages
5.5 x 8.5
Hardback Digital Cloth 978-1-965235-84-3
Case Laminate: 978-1-965235-85-0
Paperback: 978-1-965235-99-7
eBook: 978-1-965235-93-5
Spanish Paperback 9781970642063
March 2026 (First Readers ship March 1)
Leadership Was Never the Calling is a Scripture-rooted invitation for pastors and platform-tired Christians who are done with title culture and ready to live faithfully in the small things. It names the subtle ways “calling” can drift into approval-seeking—and then returns you to presence, integrity, and kept promises, starting at home.
Publication details:
Publication date: March 2026
Trim size / page count: 5.5 × 8.5 | 188 pages
Formats: Paperback; Hardback (Digital Cloth); Hardback (Case Laminate); eBook; Spanish Paperback
Wholesale: Available through IngramSpark (standard wholesale terms available)
How to Order:
Format
Hardback (Digital Cloth)
Hardback (Case Laminate)
Paperback
eBook
Spanish Paperback
ISBN
978-1-965235-84-3
978-1-965235-85-0
978-1-965235-99-7
978-1-965235-93-5
978-1-970642-06-3
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I’m learning that the best conversations happen around tables, not from stages — but I’m always glad to talk about this journey with people who care about it.
