How to Supercharge Your Teenager’s Mindset with Jon Acuff

2022-09-12

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Welcome back, friends!! Today on the show, I’m delighted to have author and speaker Jon Acuff for a conversation about a soon-to-release book he recently co-authored with his two teenage daughters. Yes, you heard that right! He wrote a book with his teenage daughters! How amazing is that?! You may remember when Jon was on the show last year around the release of his book Soundtracks. Well, so many parents reached out to him after reading it asking for a version for teenagers. He knew they were on to something, but he also knew he co...

You may remember when Jon was on the show last year around the release of his book Soundtracks. Well, so many parents reached out to him after reading it asking for a version for teenagers. He knew they were on to something, but he also knew he couldn’t write a book for teenagers without it reading like an adult trying to sound cool. So he enlisted the help of his daughters! Your New Playlist is a book for teenagers by teenagers, and I’m so thrilled Jon ran with this idea.

The things we believed as teenagers can be so impactful. It is so encouraging to think about how the teens in our lives can learn to create new thoughts that lead to actions and even better results. Be sure to listen in to find out how!

Jon Acuff is a New York Times bestselling author, an INC Magazine Top 100 Leadership speaker, and host of the All It Takes Is A Goal podcast. He 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. He lives outside of Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife and two teenage daughters.

Listen in to learn more about:

How the truth grows like compound interest.
The ways our thoughts can work for us or against us and how we get a say in how they work.
The things Jon’s daughters taught him about thought patterns and what teenagers deal with today.

Favorite quotes:

~If you are a parent it is good to listen to ‘absolutes’ from your kids because it is usually the sign of a broken soundtrack.

~There’s a real joy when you as a parent help your child do a difficult thing and they realize it’s possible.

~A good friend is an archive and they store memories and moments for you that in times of stress you forget.

~Nothing gets better accidentally.

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