ATG 199: A Father, A Hurricane, & The Walk Of A Lifetime!

All It Takes Is A Goal

Jon Acuff

Self-improvement, Goal, Author, All, Is, Takes, Do, Speaker, Start, Jon, Over, Soundtracks, Acuff, It, Finish, Education, A

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🗓️ 14 October 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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I don’t usually do breaking podcasts, but this story was too incredible not to share. My guest, David Jones, reached out with a story that perfectly ties into Soundtracks. When a hurricane hit western North Carolina, David faced a series of impossible obstacles trying to reach his daughter’s wedding. But he made it—on foot, through the devastation, determined to walk her down the aisle. In this episode, David shares his unbelievable journey and how the soundtracks he used helped him keep goin...

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0:00.0	Your kid is richer than Taylor Swift. It's true right now. Your kid has an abundant supply
0:08.8	of the most valuable resource in the world. They have more than Taylor Swift. they have more than Elon, more than even Bill Gates. In fact, if Warren Buffett could get what your kid has, he would trade his entire fortune. So what does your kid have? They have time. They have 20, 30, 40, 50 years
0:28.6	more than even the most successful people have in the world right now. They have time. Now the question is what will they do with it?
0:35.2	Who will they become? What dreams will they dream? What paths will they take?
0:39.3	Give them an answer to that question and a guide that's fun, fast, and written by fellow teenagers.
0:44.7	Give them the new book I wrote with my two teenage daughters, Elly and McCrae.
0:48.4	It's called How Teens Win, The Students Guide to Acc accomplishing big goals.
0:52.8	It's by teens for teens
0:54.8	and it will radically change how you help your kids succeed in life.
0:59.2	You can find it anywhere books are sold.
1:01.6	The audiobook is read by my daughters. You might like that. We've had a lot of parents tell us, you know what, I listened to it in the carpool line with my kid. I listened to it on the way to swim practice and it started a conversation.
1:14.7	If you're curious about it and maybe want to see it,
1:16.7	visit John Aikov.com slash win to check it out,
1:20.5	but you can also buy it anywhere books are sold, How Teens Win. Hey everyone and welcome to the All It Takes of Gold Podcast. If you're new around here,
1:40.3	I'm at a late bloomer who discovered the power of goals in his mid-30s.
1:44.0	Now I'm on a furious mission to create the accelerators I wish I had in my 20s.
1:48.0	I'm your host, John Aegov, and today, today is a special episode. It really really is. This is a crazy episode. It was unplanned, 100% unplanned, but this is like breaking news, like do-do-do-do do do do most of my podcast episodes are playing three months out six months out four months out
2:08.1	But this one came across my desk this week and we got into the studio as fast as we could.
2:15.0	This one is a story about a guy named David Jones
2:18.0	who walked across miles and miles and crazy debris and traveled 27 miles in the dead of night, hitchhiking, climbing,
2:28.0	crawling to get to his daughter's wedding. So he was in South Carolina, his daughter was getting married in
2:33.9	Tennessee and nothing was going to stop him and he used soundtracks along the
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