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 surprise welcome to a special bonus episode of the podcast. My name is

Carrie Newhoff and I hope our time together today helps you lead like never

before. So subscribers aren't you glad you subscribe because this showed up automatically? You're like,

there's more, yeah. And we're gonna do a few of these over the course of the year.

So thanks so much for subscribing. If you're finding this through other ways, yeah, we do some cool stuff on this podcast

once in a while, well, hopefully every week.

Yeah, what we want to do is bring you some extra value.

And actually, our team was talking this week about doing something special this

summer maybe when we hit episode 200 and that's going to happen fairly soon

but in the meantime a special bonus episode with the CEO, the co-ceeo of Belay Solutions, Shannon Miles.

And Belay Solutions has been voted as one of the top workplaces in America. They won the top

company culture award from Entrepreneur magazine last year in 2017. They have made the

Inc. 5,000 fastest growing companies in America three times over the last few years

And it's just amazing to see what's happened in their lives. So I'm so excited to bring you my conversation with Shannon.

And man, we go all over the place in this conversation.

We talk about what it's like to grow up with very little.

She grew up poor, honestly, and really struggled.

Went on to college, went on to graduate with a business degree among other things,

became fairly successful as an employee in the corporate world, but then when they were in their mid-30s a few years ago,

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