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Welcome to the Carrie Newhuff Leadership Podcast.

It's Carrie here, and I hope our time together today helps you thrive in life and leadership.

Today, you and I sit down with John Acuff, and we are going to talk about the difference between high performers and high achievers,

how to make a goal and guarantee a goal, and the problem of false humility in the church.

Again, this is one of those things where John and I have, he's been on multiple rounds.

We just sit down and have a great conversation, and this is the kind of stuff we talk about that lunch in the green room and over dinner.

And if you were to have a conversation with John, it would probably go along these lines, and I hope you really enjoy it and share it with your friends.

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Well, John Acuff is a New York Times, multiple New York Times bestselling author, and he has written nine books.

We talk about the writing process. They include soundtracks, you knew playlist, the number one wall street journal bestseller finished,

give yourself the gift of done, and his latest, which we'll touch on, all it takes is a goal.

When he's not writing or recording his podcast, all it takes is a goal.

John can be found on stage. He's one of Inc's top 100 leadership speakers.

We open the conversation on this. He works so hard on his craft.

He's spoken to hundreds of thousands of people at conferences, colleges and companies around the world, including FedEx,

Range Rover, Microsoft, Nokia, and Comedy Central. Those are like fun places to talk, aren't they?

So John's back and listen, if you're brand new to the podcast, welcome. We're really delighted that you're here.

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