Welcome to the Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast, a conversation designed to help leaders go further faster.

On today's podcast, we'll explore how your leadership can last beyond your lifetime.

Andy, today's podcast is inspired by a talk you recently gave at Leadercast.

The theme of the event was beyond you and I know that idea really resonated with you.

Yeah, for the past three years, I have been invited to participate in Leader Cast.

Leader Cast is a big leadership event here in the city of Atlanta.

In fact, if you've not been a part of Leadercast and you're one of our podcast

listeners if you go to Leadercast.com you can find out more about Leadercast.

It's a dispersed learning community that takes place on one day and so what happens

is every year when Leadercast comes up with a theme, they send me the

theme and ask me to create a talk around the theme and they always come up with great themes.

And of course it's a challenge for me as a leader because I am asked to create a talk in some points and some new ideas around

their themes.

So this year, as you said, the theme was beyond you leadership and I really love the idea of thinking

through what it means to become a beyond you leader and to create a beyond you leadership culture in an organization.

Beyond you leader being a leader that thinks outside of themselves and thinks outside even their

current generation of impact. So it's something I think great leaders are

always thinking about what's my legacy. So that's what we talked about.

In your talk you define beyond your leader as a

leader who fearlessly and selflessly empowers leaders around them as well as

those coming along behind them. What did you mean by fearlessly and selflessly?

When you hear the word fearless within the context of leadership, we think new challenges, risk-taking, do something no one's ever done before.

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