Hello and welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast the show that empowers you to wake up to your full potential and achieve your biggest goals and dreams.

I am your host Hal Elrod and I invite you to join us each week as we share

actionable strategies to take your life to the next level, as well as interview

world-class experts and entrepreneurs who have achieved extraordinary goals

themselves, and we ask them to give you a peek

behind the curtain and teach you exactly what you need to do the same.

Ready? Here we go.

Hello goal achievers. Welcome to the Achieve Your Goals podcast. This is your host, your friend

Hal Elrod and today's episode which I'm very excited about by the way before we get to our sponsor

today's episode this is a solo episode and I'll tell you I mostly do interviews on the

Cheever goals podcast because there are so many brilliant people that I am blessed to have a

connection with or be a degree or two or three or four away from and be able to bring on to the podcast and introduce to you and share their story and share their message and share what they've learned and how it's changed their life in a way that you can use it to change your life.

We do mostly interviews, right? But I'll be completely transparent with you as I always strive to be and that is that I prefer solo episodes like this and there's a few reasons for that.

Number one, interviews stress me out.

I'm always a little bit stressed out right like I've never talked

to this person or you sometimes I have sometimes I know the person but more often than not it's the first time

we're having a conversation and I don't feel like I'm the best conversationalist.

That's my own insecurity that I deal with.

So that's the one reason, or that's one of the reasons

that I don't prefer interviews, but I do them

because I feel like they're very valuable for you.

Number two is I'm a talker, like I'm a professional speaker, a keynote

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