Jon Acuff & LE - Your New Playlist

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Talk Radio

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🗓️ 21 September 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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L.E. Acuff is a freshman business major at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. In addition to writing books, she loves skimboarding, frisbee, and skiing. When she’s not behind a laptop, she’s behind a sewing machine or a piano, creating clothing or music. McRae Acuff is a high school junior in Franklin,Tennessee. She runs cross country and track, loves student government, and is somewhere babysitting right now. She’s a writer at heart and will probably write the follow up to Your New Playlist all by herself. She and her dad sincerely hope this book helps her get a college scholarship. Jon Acuff is the New York Times bestselling author of eight books, including Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking and the Wall Street Journal #1 bestseller Finish: Give Yourself the Gift of Done. When he's not writing or recording his popular podcast, All It Takes Is a Goal, Acuff can be found on a stage as one of INC’s Top 100 Leadership Speakers. 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. Known for his insights wrapped in humor, Acuff’s fresh perspective on life has given him the opportunity to write for Fast Company, the Harvard Business Review, and Time magazine. He lives outside of Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife and two teenage daughters.

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0:00.0	access more John and Ellie. I'm so glad we have you on the podcast. What a
0:13.2	treat. Hey, I think a lot of people have heard of you, John, before and they
0:19.6	get a chance to meet Ellie here in a moment. But John, give us just a quick
0:23.1	recap when people ask, like, who are you besides husband and dad and friend of
0:28.9	mine and all that. What else is going on? Yeah, so I would say I'm curious. And so
0:34.2	I find things I'm curious about that I want to change or improve or grow my
0:38.2	own life. And then I work on it for a few years. And I find out do other people
0:41.9	have that same curiosity? Can I help them with it? And then I get to turn that
0:46.5	curiosity into books. And then I get to take those books and talk to companies
0:49.8	and teams about them. So that's probably my favorite thing to do is to find a
0:54.3	question that I'm willing to spend years answering and then go share the answer.
0:58.9	Fun. And tell me, where is that taking you so far? You've got several books
1:02.8	that are out. Tell us the ones I remember when your first book came out. I was
1:06.6	like, is this guy? And then we ended up sitting on the lawn behind the house
1:12.0	together and just talking about life. And I go like, I'm going to be friends with
1:15.8	this guy for a long time. Tell us the arc of the books. And then I want to get
1:19.0	into Ellie's life. Yeah. So I wrote a book about that was a satire of silly
1:23.4	things we're doing church. That was kind of the beginning. That's where we
1:25.8	first connected. I reached out to you and said, Hey, I'd love to have coffee
1:29.6	with you at catalyst West. And you said, well, it's just flying a day early and
1:33.2	we'll get to know each other. And we did. And that's been 10 years ago. So it
1:37.2	went from there to going, okay, how do I help people figure out what kind of
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