Hey everybody, happy new year and welcome back to another year of the Andy Stanley Leadership

podcast, a conversation, as you know, designed to help leaders go further, faster.

I'm Andy Stanley.

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Today we're talking about anxiety, not clinical anxiety. We're talking about five false

narratives that leaders are tempted to believe. This is going to be an extremely helpful

conversation because we have an expert in the

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