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 Newhaw.

Well, hey, everybody.

Welcome to the podcast to episode 16, actually. My name is Carrie Newhoff, and I hope our time together today helps you lead like never before.

And if you're listening to this around the time of release, I hope you had a wonderful Christmas,

and I want to wish you a very happy new year.

And if you're like me, this week of release, you'll be working really hard on your goals,

or maybe you've already gotten them done for 2015 for the

year ahead and that's what I always do and I know one of my goals for many many years

has been to become a better communicator. I have been fascinated by communication since the time I was a kid, really. It was around age 12 that I sort of was listening to the radio and thought,

I would love to figure out how to do that. at 16 I actually walked into the local radio station in my hometown

Just cold called walked in one day and said would you hire me and strangely enough they did they actually gave me a job and eventually they even paid me for it. It was crazy.

And so I've been fascinated by communication. Had no idea God was going to use that to turn me into a preacher one day,

but that's what I've been doing now for, actually I've been

preaching probably for about 25 years since my early 20s I started preaching.

And it's a pretty intimidating thing as Jeff Henderson, our guest today, says in this interview,

it's one of the greatest fears in people's lives and maybe you don't think of yourself as a communicator.

I think you're going to be surprised at this interview because I think Jeff makes the point that if you're a leader it comes with a microphone

leadership just comes with a microphone and if you're going to lead anything if you're going to lead a team

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