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 226 of the podcast.

My name is Carrie Newhoff and I hope our time together today helps you lead like never before.

Well, I am recording this, you're going to hear it a little bit later,

but I'm recording this the day after

Eugene Peterson died and I gotta tell you I'm sad I mean I'm glad for him he is

going into his great reward and experiencing so much of what he wrote about in this life while he was with us.

But I'm sad for us because, man, one of the great voices of our generation is gone and that's happened a few times over the last few years, you know,

losing Dallas Willard earlier on, you know, think about Henry Now and others who have passed on.

And I just, you know, it leaves me really thinking

like what really matters in this life.

And I just want to say to you,

I want to encourage you to really nurture your soul.

I think that's one of the things that Eugene Peterson did so well.

And I'm so grateful for.

We'll link to it in the show notes, but I had a chance a year ago

to interview him. It was one of the last interviews he ever gave it's episode

152 of the podcast

30 minutes with Eugene that was just like drinking from a deep stream and so I just hope you're nurturing your

soul taking some time to reflect and really you know focus on becoming rather than

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