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

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 389 of the podcast.

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

Happy New Year and we thought there was no better way to kick off a brand new year than to start it with Andy Stanley. We're going to talk about decision-making and

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Well, so excited to have Andy back on the podcast

if you're a regular listener and welcome to all of you who are new

this year. Maybe you're trying a new habit. I'm a podcaster and also a podcast listener, a listener for

longer than I have been a podcaster.

And so what we try to do here is we try to break down the story behind leadership.

We tried to take you behind the scenes and ask the questions behind the

questions and interview the top leaders we know and that's what we're doing with

Andy. So we dissect the process he uses to make decisions, the limits of gut-based decision-making, but also where that really comes in handy and how to stop lying to yourself as a leader.

So Andy is a communicator, author, pastor, and founder of Atlanta-based North Point Ministries.

They now have seven churches in Metro Atlanta, a global network of a hundred partner churches,

and his teachings have been featured around the world including on NBC and CBS and as of

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