The episode you're about to listen to was released back when the mere Christians podcast was called the call to mastery

Now if you love mere Christians, you're still going to love these older episodes because the majority of each

conversation focuses on how the gospel influences the work of our guests. With that disclaimer out of the way, please enjoy the episode.

Hey everybody, welcome to the call to the Call to Mastery. I'm Jordan Rayner. This is a

podcast for Christians who want to do their most exceptional work for the glory of God and the good of others. Each week I host a conversation

with the Christian who's pursuing world-class mastery of their their work. Today's guests for episode 101 is Carla Hayden. She's the

C. O. Hope Writers, which is a community of writers co-founded by Emily P. Freeman, who's a friend of mine, a friend of this

podcast. Carla is a world-class leader and operator currently running a team of about 50 people at Hopewriters.

We recently sat down and talked about the one question that can help you force clarity

in meetings at work, even if you're not the boss.

Carla shared three excellent tips for showing love to remote teams, and we talked about

how a personal quarterly retreat became an integral part of Carla's life and Carla's work rhythms.

And ironically, it's kind of how Carla and I first connected was as a result of an encounter

she had at one of those quarterly retreats. I think you guys are going to love that

story. And hey, since this is episode 101, I've decided to make a couple of minor tweaks.

Don't worry, we're not changing the whole show. But this felt like the right time to make a couple of changes I've been wanting to make for a while.

So here they are. Number one, instead of talking about how the guest's faith influences their

work at the end of these episodes, we've decided to put those questions

closer to the top. Number one, because that's the content you all love the most, and number two,

that ensures that if you don't care about how a

particular person has mastered their craft you can easily skip over that

content you can listen to the first half all about how the gospel shapes their

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