Brooke Ligertwood-Surprised by Ambition
Dream Big Podcast with Bob Goff and Friends
Bob Goff
4.8 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Brooke Ligertwood is a Grammy award winning songwriter, producer and worship leader and is the head of Hillsong Worship globally. Brooke has called Hillsong Church home since 2004, serving the church through creativity and song whilst also enjoying a successful 15 year mainstream career under her maiden name (Brooke Fraser). She passionately asserts that all of life, for the follower of Christ, is ministry. She and her husband Scott (also a songwriter) along with their two young daughters, are based in Orange County and are part of Hillsong California. Brooke is obsessive about the marriage of theology and art, and as such has penned beloved congregational anthems like ‘What a Beautiful Name’, ‘King of Kings’, ‘Hosanna’ and ‘Man of Sorrows’ as well as devotional favorites like ‘Awake My Soul’, ‘New Wine’ and ‘None But Jesus’.
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| 0:00.0 | Access More. |
| 0:04.0 | Hey everybody. |
| 0:10.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to another episode of the Dream Big Podcast with Bob Golf and Friends. |
| 0:14.3 | I'm the host Scott Schimmel. I'm here, I'm here with Bob. |
| 0:17.9 | Yeah, you are. The first indication that you're here with Bob is that you're here with Bob and you |
| 0:25.8 | here's the crazy thing I'm here with you guys and Scott and I have just so |
| 0:30.6 | delighted for this entire three seasons that were in, spending a little bit of time |
| 0:36.5 | and inviting our friends on so that you get a peek behind the scenes, you get to know a little bit more about them and how they see the world and interact with their faith. |
| 0:47.6 | And this week we have a conversation that I'm thrilled to have particularly because if you've ever been to some sort of |
| 0:55.7 | Christian setting I'm sure you've heard her voice this is Brooke from Hill song |
| 1:00.4 | it's the album that's playing in our house all the time. So |
| 1:04.4 | Brooke has this really fascinating story where she didn't necessarily have this as a |
| 1:09.0 | dream since she was five years old. She almost discovered this as she was growing up and |
| 1:13.8 | sometimes that happens to us. There's a gift, an interest, a passion, a problem |
| 1:18.8 | kind of smacks you in the forehead and all of a sudden you're involved in |
| 1:21.8 | something and pursuing something with your whole life. |
| 1:25.2 | And I'm excited for you to listen in as Bob talks with Brooke from Hillsong. |
| 1:29.7 | Hey Brooke, thank you so much for being on the podcast. I'm looking at you over |
| 1:36.6 | Zoom and it's just so good to see your face. Oh, it's so good to see your smile. |
| 1:40.9 | The smell that lights up the world. |
| 1:43.2 | I'm just so glad to introduce friends to friends. |
| 1:46.3 | I feel like I'm like introducing another friend |
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