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Dream Big Podcast with Bob Goff and Friends

Jon Acuff - Changing the Soundtracks

Dream Big Podcast with Bob Goff and Friends

Bob Goff

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Jon Acuff is the New York Times bestselling author of seven books, including his Wall Street Journal #1 bestseller, Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done. He’s an INC Magazine Top 100 Leadership speaker and has spoken to hundreds of thousands of people at conferences and companies around the world including: FedEx, Nissan, Microsoft, Lockheed Martin, Chick-fil-A, Nokia, and Comedy Central. His large and highly engaged social media following includes nearly 300,000 Twitter followers, more than 187,000 Facebook followers, more than 125,000 Instagram followers, and more than 90,000 email subscribers who look to him for his unique blend of humor, honesty, and hope. He lives outside of Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife and two teenage daughters. His latest book, Soundtracks, will be available nationwide April 6, 2021.

On the episode:
Producer : Tatave Abeshyan
Producer & Co-host : Scott Schimmel

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey folks, welcome to another episode of the Dream Big Podcast with Bob Gaffin-Friends

0:13.7

and me, Scott Shimmel.

0:14.7

I'm your host, and today I'm super thrilled to have a guy that I find both equal parts

0:20.9

hilarious and wise, John A. Cuff.

0:23.0

He's an author, he's a speaker, he's a really, really good guy, and he's got some tremendous

0:28.3

wisdom for folks that are feeling maybe a little apprehensive about the world opening

0:34.6

up again because there's this kind of a looming idea, especially if you're someone who listens

0:41.1

to the Dream Big Podcast, this looming idea that as the world opens up, it's time for

0:46.2

you to open up, it's time for you to start taking more seriously the dreams and ambitions

0:52.4

that you have.

0:54.4

As I'm talking to some friends, there's this theme perhaps that there's not as many

0:59.4

excuses anymore.

1:00.4

In the past year and change, you know, how could we move forward on ambitions?

1:05.2

We really can't.

1:06.2

The world is shut down, but now as the world starts to open up, I'm just sensing some folks

1:10.9

maybe like you who are feeling a little bit more anxiety than ever before, or at least

1:15.9

for the last year when it comes to ambitions and dreams.

1:19.0

So that's why we brought John to the show this week because he has got some really helpful

1:25.5

ideas and handles to help you and I walk through some of that stuff, to walk through some

1:31.4

of that bigger, fear failure, perfectionism, creativity, and overthinking things.

1:38.5

So he's got a new book coming out just launched yesterday and I want to go get it because

1:43.2

I got it and it's really good.

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