Welcome to the Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast Reverb, a conversation that digs deeper into

this month's podcast topic. All designed to help leaders go even further faster. I'm

Susie Gray and I will be your host. Before we jump into today's podcast, Andy has a message

for all our listeners.

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This month, we're reflecting on the last 15 years of the Andy Stanley leadership

podcast with Andy highlighting some episodes that really stood out to him. Andy, can you

believe it's been 15 years? No, and when Lane and I were talking about this last week,

we both just looked at each other like, how old are we and how long have we been doing

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