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Welcome to the Carrie New Hof Leadership Podcast.

It's Carrie here, and it's so good to have you on this episode.

I hope our time together today helps you thrive in life and leadership.

We've got a great guest today, Tyler Staten, first time on the podcast.

I'll tell you more about that, and we're going to go into some really interesting places today.

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Well, we're going to talk about transitions.

So Tyler Staten took over for John Mark Comer at Bridgetown Church.

And transitions almost never go well.

Well, we're going to go under the hood and find out what happened.

And it's actually pretty moving how well this one went.

It's great to have good examples because we have so many bad examples of bad transitions.

I mean, you can look at everything that happened at Disney with Bob Iger coming back

to a lot of pastoral transitions that did not go particularly well.

This one seems to have gone really well and it gets moving at times as Tyler tells the story.

We're going to talk about three kinds of biblical discernment.

And why prayer is more important than sermon prep.

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