Welcome to the Carrie Newhoff Leadership Podcast. A podcast all about leadership

change and personal growth. The goal? To help you lead like never before in your church or in your business and now your

host Carrie Newhoff.

Well hey everybody and welcome to episode 166 of the podcast.

My name is Carrie Newhoff and I hope our time together today

helps you lead like never before.

And you know, I'm always interested

in talking to leaders who have gone into places that quite frankly the

church never goes. I mean I'm fascinated by innovation in the marketplace and in

industry and I love seeing people do new things but also people do different things in the church and so my guest today is Chris Durso and not only did he just release a brand new book but he's been working for a number of years in New York City

having some significant impact with young adults and I talked to him about that. I mean New York is a tough code to crack, particularly New York City.

And not only that, but he also happens to have a relationship with some of the people in the tribe that have been helping

out Justin Bieber these days and has met with Justin and the whole deal.

So I even get to talk to him about that because you know my background in law

before I went into ministry was like who's going to reach these people so I've always had a heart for

People who kind of have everything but on the inside they're just kind of empty and the church is

historically really really great at ministering to the broken and the lost and we

need to keep doing that but like who's gonna minister to the broken and the lost who seem to have everything.

That's sort of really close to my heart and that's why one of the reasons I love this

conversation with Chris Durso today. I mean anybody who can reach people in

New York City hats off and then even

get into the entertainment community that is so important and Chris has done a

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