Embracing Leadership and Community in Fitness: A Conversation with Zach Coleman

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a brand new episode. Now, let's dive into the

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show. Yeah, that's my week today. And let's just

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welcome Matt before I get on a rant of something

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else. Which I probably will still get on a rant

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of something else, too. Here we go. Hey, Zach.

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Hey, what's up? Thanks for having me on the cast

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today. Definitely. So before we get started,

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can you tell us a little bit about who you are,

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what you do, how you got started, and why you

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got started? Yeah, definitely. Well, like you

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said at the beginning here, my name is Zach Coleman

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and I actually own a motivation and grit focused

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agency called Gym Mark. I actually help leaders

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in the gym space build their brand and understand

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the premise of leadership and how branding is

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leadership in a nutshell. And we have a plethora

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of packages that we kind of work with with these

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gym owners. But for the most part, it's all about

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branding and how branding in itself is not just

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about the tangibles. It's not just about a logo.

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It's not just about a color scheme or a font

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or a voice. It's all of those, but it's really

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the leadership team and the evolving aspect of

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the people in the organization that end up making

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the impact that the brand really needs to take

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as they continue to grow their gym. That's amazing.

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So my first question for you is, why do you think

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most brands and gyms fail? This is an interesting

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question. You know, when it comes down to it,

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I actually talk about this in one of my speeches.

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You know, they do say, you know, about 90 percent

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of businesses fail. I mean, I think that's a

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pretty common statistic. We all hear it as businesses

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continue to grow. But if you actually go into

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that case study a little bit deeper, you'll actually

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see that 90 percent of those businesses fail

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due to the well -being of the business owner.

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They either get to burn out. They either. They

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just don't know their why anymore. They lose

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their why. That tends to be a very big common

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one because they kind of have a, what gets them

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there won't get where they got to, won't get

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them to the next phase. And really it's that

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sense of belonging and community. I think a lot

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with, you know, you kind of brought it up earlier

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with using a tool. You know, I think that in

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today's commonality, everyone just kind of gets

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to this place where they kind of start grasping

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at things. trying to build validation for what

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they're trying to do. And then they get to a

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point where they're either doing too much of

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the wrong things or they lose their why and they

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use tools and they hire out and they get into

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this transactional type mindset to try to get

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them to the next level. And that in itself isn't

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necessarily what's going to get them to that

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next stage. And so they completely have burnout

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and they lose their sense of belonging and community.

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And so. I've tended to see that that sense of

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belonging and community is really kind of the

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underlining factor, especially for gym owners

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and gym leaders that they tend to lose and that

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they tend to need to kind of bring back and understand

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that, hey, why are you doing this to begin with?

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What is the main reason why you came to build

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this gym? And I'll say 99 % of it is because

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they want to help people like me, like you, like

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other people. grow mentally and have a space

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where they can come and they can actually build

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their own community of people that they can work

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alongside to become better people, if it be from

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a physical level, if it be from an emotional

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level, if it be from any sort of level to help

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them stay grounded and move forward in their

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life. And so going back to the question there

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of why do 90 % of businesses fail? It usually

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comes back to that business owner just being

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overwhelmed and not really having a sense of

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how they can kind of take it to the next level.

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And unfortunately, a lot of them quit due to

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that reason. I definitely like your answer, especially

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because there was multiple times where I have

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been burnt out. And I have to say. lately i've

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been kind of feeling a little burnt out but not

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due to the business aspect it's just because

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of my course at the moment that i've been taking

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and uh me and math and numbers do not work together

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whatsoever i mean i can do math but when i have

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to play figure What the professor is trying to

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have me learn and what the software is asking

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me to learn, I'm like, this is two separate things.

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I can't figure this crap out. And so I've been

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literally trying to strike a balance between

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creating new content, repurposing content, and

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then also how much I want to handle so I can

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then continue to move forward. build up my brand

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because I'm not getting to the other aspects

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of my business and so I've been playing like

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I have a content schedule and I'm like and like

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next the following week I'm supposed to release

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something and I was like I might just take this

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thing out of my content schedule because it's

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the same thing as my my my articles that I write

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and have guest articles so I was like This is

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too much. Just putting out boom, boom, boom,

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boom. I'm not going to do anything else. It's

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interesting that you say that because I think

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especially in today's modern society, we kind

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of get to this point where we think that what

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is the terminology? What do they say? They call

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it hustle culture. I think it's very similar

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to that. It's all about, hey. push push push

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push push push and i think that that's that's

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part of that burnout right you kind of get into

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this point i think right now you're seeing a

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lot of businesses especially uh especially larger

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ones um within we'll just say like you know it's

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still kind of a medium -sized business but we'll

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say 5 million to 10 million kind of cutting back

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and saying all right like do we really need all

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this complexity in here and back to your statement

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of you know dropping out certain things i'm not

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a fan of uh the hustle culture when i went through

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my actual period myself where i was like i'm

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burnt out i don't know what to do and i'm not

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saying people don't have small taylor spots of

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burnout i mean it's common especially as uh people

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that really have a determination to to help a

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certain help people is that they they there's

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never really this end and so there's this premise

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that you think you have to work like 60 70 hours

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a day and i've always really been really big

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into a the grit culture i'm more of like perseverance

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like try stuff test stuff do stuff and now i

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have a family Now I, you know, during that time,

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I was a complete burnout myself. Like I was no

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longer going to the gym. I wasn't going on the

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runs like I used to go on. And I actually had

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to come back and look at myself and say, hey,

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what are the things that I'm missing that I can

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bring back in and actually work less and start

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working smarter? And so. Instead of trying to

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push out, like I was in a very similar situation

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as you. I'm like, all right, we're going to have

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a podcast. I mean, I have a team. And so it was

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still hard, right? I'm like, I have to put out

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a podcast, put a podcast. We're going to take

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that podcast. We're going to make it a podcast

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video, a YouTube video. We're going to break

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it up into three segments. We're then going to

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break it up into 30 shorts. And then we had our

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normal YouTube schedule. I had to kind of step

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back and say, really, at the end of the day,

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I'm like. Once I started to go back to the gym

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and started to connect with myself and slow down

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a little, actually slow down, it actually helped

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me really think creatively on, well, what is

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really going to move the needle? Is doing all

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this content going to help me go where I want

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to go? And is it the direction I even want to

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go? And so as I started to look at that and started

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to contemplate that with myself, I kind of started

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to see that like, hey i'm i'm not he i'm not

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in the in the content you know i'm not in the

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content game yes we still put out content we

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still put out a decent amount of content but

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um i'm in the help the the leaders in the gym

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space game you know and so i had to find myself

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enough to be like oh i can connect with these

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people in a more confident way not just sitting

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behind a desk and creating content. Like what

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are other ways I can start connecting with my

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audience? How can I start finding a way to confidently

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provide how? And that's where my confidence pillar

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comes into the word branding is, you know, how?

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You know, like I thought sitting behind the desk

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and doing all that stuff was going to work and

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push all that stuff out. But I was kind of masking

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who I was and not allowing myself to confidently

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go out there and be like, well, I love working

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with these people. Why am I not just, you know,

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going to events and talking to them? or um building

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relationships with them in different spots where

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we actually are you know and so i know that's

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a little different and i'm got off the subject

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there a little bit but for the most part i think

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that you know that grit culture and really being

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able to find that perseverance and say hey like

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i'm gonna try something for like two three months

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I'm going to do it slow. I'm going to take my

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time and not by take my time, take the years.

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But, you know, I'm just going to make sure I'm

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learning and I'm going in the right direction.

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And I'm taking risks that I think are going to

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be good for me in my time as I continue to evolve

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as a brand. I love that you said that because,

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you know, just to reiterate, like I. like for

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me i'm trying to like put i'm also like for instance

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i felt like i've been stuck behind the scenes

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too much not go not uh Not really looking for

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my speaking engagements lately. And I haven't

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seen myself going on any podcast interviews.

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Not because I don't want to, but I've just been

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wrapped up in school, wrapped up in business.

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And on the backside of things, I've been loving

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interviewing more guests more, which is great.

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But I also need to find time for other stuff.

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And so I was like, if I take away this one thing,

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Think anybody's going to know. And I was like,

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I'm still churning out great content. And it's

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not about the quantity. It's about the quality.

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And so I was like, I don't think anybody's going

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to know. And if they do, it's going to be the

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people who's been watching the brand since day

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one. And I'm sure they're not going to care because

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they know that I'm only one. person and it's

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like if i didn't have the screen on behind me

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that uh on the screen i would be in my bedroom

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at the moment and it's like i don't have a studio

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trust me i as i don't have a group of team members

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i'm one person now someone can clone me eight

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different times and i can have eight different

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me and that'd be great yeah and i would i would

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have put yourself down i think you answered your

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own question there because I think it goes to

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show you that even though you love being on podcasts,

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because I love being on podcasts. I love talking

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to people as well. It brings up my the side of

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me, my creative side and my speaking side a little

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bit, but it doesn't outweigh my main purpose.

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And, you know, back in the day, back in the day,

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I would do the same thing. You know, I'd be like.

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oh well you know i'm doing this it's not really

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doing anything and yeah there's a difference

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between doing something and um there's a difference

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between doing something and then knowing if something's

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working or not you know and so i think when it

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comes down to you knowing hey like this isn't

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i don't think someone's going to watch this if

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you i think it really comes to your gut and you

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knowing why am I still doing this? If I know

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it's not having any, if it's not having effect,

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you tried something, you gave it a shot and you're

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like, let's simplify, let's bring it back. And

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let's start focusing on something that something

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else, especially you're speaking. Um, you, I,

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you know, when reading your bio and what you've

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done, you know, I'm very similar person. Like

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I love to go out and speak. Um, I love to go

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out and talk. It really makes me, it builds me

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up and actually makes me perform better. Um,

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I'm a consultant at heart. You know, when I grew

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my business, you know, it started getting really

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deep into the weeds where I was behind the desk

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a lot, even with having a virtual team, you know,

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and doing a lot of work. And that was part of

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my burnout. And that's when going back to the

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gym and stuff helped me start to bring back my

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my aliveness of, oh, you know, I want to speak

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like I need to get in my uncomfortableness. I

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need to start speaking. And that's in itself.

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was a leadership move on my part because it helped

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me actually start to lead by example for my team

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members to see the efforts and the things that

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we're trying to do to move the needle within

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the business so what is your definition of leadership

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and what does it look like my definition of leadership

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is really you know i look at branding as leadership

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And so if I go into the three C's, which I don't

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want to go into them too much because we only

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have 30 minutes here and we have 10 minutes left.

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But, you know, a leader is someone that doesn't

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just lead by example, isn't just someone that's

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able to sit down and be like, hey, I've done

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this. I've gone through the hardships and I've

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done this before they start to, you know, bring

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it on with someone else. But they actually they

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actually work with a team. And they actually

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are able to work with people and actually help

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motivate them to want to help more people. You

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know, it's this commonality that people think

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that leadership is all about just, oh, I need

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to hire people, you know, or I'm doing work and

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I'm a leader. I'm like, no, that's a delegator.

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You know, you're a manager. You can be a manager

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and a leader. It's really an evolutionary process.

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But I think a leader actually looks at the common

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good and the common bad of everyone and kind

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of sets a straight tone of how can I really motivate

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and help other people motivate more people. And

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so that's why I really relate it to branding

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is because branding is really this essence of

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how you're portrayed to other people. You know,

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how are you betrayed to other people? How is,

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you know, your logo is great. You know, when

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I have clients come to me and I'll use it. This

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is actually quite a good example. I had a prospect

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come to me last week. In this prospect, we got

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on a call. We were talking about the growth of

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her business. She was in marketing as well, owning

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an e -com brand. in the in the gym space and

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she was like hey you know we're we're getting

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to grow this brand blah blah blah we kind of

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started going through pricing a little bit and

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i told her i'm like yeah our first our our budget

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for for this is a certain price you know i told

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her around 20 grand for us to start building

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this out and to start doing that stuff and she's

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i'm like how does that sound to you I'm very

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open. I live by my values. And I think most leaders

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live by the values of what they try to portray

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to the world. And she was like, oh, that sounds

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great. And so I was like, all right, let's set

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up a call next week. We're going to go a little

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bit deeper into this before we can actually go,

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you know, before we actually finalize anything,

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because I'm big on relationships. And she said,

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OK, we picked a time. And then after the call,

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about 30 minutes later, she canceled. And I never

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heard from her again. I wrote her, I'm like,

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did we pick the wrong time? What's going on?

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Never heard from her again. And from my perspective,

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I look at someone like that and I'm like, okay,

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she's not really leadership material yet. I'm

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not saying she won't be, but she isn't yet because

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she didn't have enough leadership skills to be

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just a straightforward person with the person

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on the other line of the phone. She wasn't like,

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oh, you know, that's not good. That price range

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doesn't work where we're at. She didn't want

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to talk about the business. She didn't want to

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talk about how they're trying to build this vision

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and do all this stuff. And so I was like, huh,

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like she wasn't a good fit for me as a client

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because I knew that she wasn't ready. She wasn't

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ready as a leader yet. to make those decisions

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and to be upfront and real and straight, positive

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or negative, right? And so I like to use that

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as an example off the top of my head because

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I get that all the time with prospects and with

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actual clients I have. You can tell the ones

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that are in it to help other people and usually

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leaders. Even if things happen badly, leaders

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usually are more successful than delegators.

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I agree. And my definition of leadership is you

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lead by example. You're not one of those leaders

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who, not like you personally, but as a whole,

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where it's not do what I say and not what I do.

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No. As a leader, i i work out six times a week

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now i mean that sometimes i do take two days

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off depending on like if i'm really hurting from

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crying like oh my goodness since i i hurt my

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wrist and whatnot and i was like oh i did overkill

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in karate class and whatnot because i do that

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three times a week plus whatever else i work

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out at home with and i so so But that's like

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once in a blue moon that I did that. But other

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times I do work out six times a week. So, but

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there's a point of being, it's like be consistent.

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But my point is that I always like to lead by

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example. I can't stand readers who say, do what

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I say and not what I do. And it's like, yeah,

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yeah, yeah, blah, blah, y 'all talk. I can't

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stand readers like that. And I'm like you. I

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can't stand people who can't show up to their

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designated times. uh that's why i have multiple

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email communication with people just make sure

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we're on the same page because it's like it's

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like for instance you know in this calendar tools

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like google calendar or academy they give you

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those thumbs up i'm coming or the check mark

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and it's like that means squat to me and it's

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like because because like the people's like i'm

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i'm coming three minutes before doesn't show

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up or five minutes before I'm waiting and waiting

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and waiting and waiting and it's like okay and

00:23:01.220 --> 00:23:03.559
it's like I'm getting this people people free

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promotion on my show and it's like you don't

00:23:06.099 --> 00:23:09.660
pay me to come on your my show and it's like

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come on people and I just can't stand those kind

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of people and uh and To me, that speaks to me

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that those people are not serious about representing

00:23:22.359 --> 00:23:25.519
their business and then not representing what

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they do. It's like, well, you're ashamed of what

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you do and you don't want to come on. Well, I

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think that brings up a very good point. And that

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point is that we are all brands. You know, I

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think that the way you act and the way you do

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things is going to be portrayed in everything

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that you do. for instance someone that someone

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that um you know who knows you never know they

00:23:51.319 --> 00:23:53.640
could have been bad at technology something could

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have came up um you know there is a huge thing

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that we can't really get into now but the psychological

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of different types of personalities you know

00:24:02.220 --> 00:24:04.440
my wife's a family trauma therapist so we got

00:24:04.440 --> 00:24:06.099
to go through this color wheel where i can kind

00:24:06.099 --> 00:24:09.710
of see what i can i can tell what kind of color

00:24:09.710 --> 00:24:12.490
anyone is just by talking to them for like three

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minutes. It's very business leadership type thing

00:24:15.109 --> 00:24:19.549
to understand personality types. But besides

00:24:19.549 --> 00:24:23.089
that, everything that you do, like I, for instance,

00:24:23.829 --> 00:24:28.410
I will not, if I am going to miss a meeting,

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if I am going to miss a meeting. Even today during

00:24:32.240 --> 00:24:34.059
this call, I told you I had to get up. My kid

00:24:34.059 --> 00:24:36.700
cried at the last second, which I had no control

00:24:36.700 --> 00:24:39.319
over. I waited until you jumped on before I was

00:24:39.319 --> 00:24:41.859
like, hey, can you give me a minute? Because

00:24:41.859 --> 00:24:43.900
I didn't want to be disrespectful and just be

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gone when you turned on and be like, what the

00:24:45.559 --> 00:24:49.400
heck's going on? It portrays who you are. And

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that same kind of concept, especially if you

00:24:52.619 --> 00:24:55.480
want to look at it from the three C's that I

00:24:55.480 --> 00:24:57.559
talk about, you think about confidence and how

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you portray yourself to the world. is that branding

00:25:02.720 --> 00:25:06.640
in itself is going to be portrayed by, they say,

00:25:06.740 --> 00:25:09.400
your voice, your tone, your energy, not just

00:25:09.400 --> 00:25:11.839
your colors and your logo. Those are all part

00:25:11.839 --> 00:25:14.480
of it. But the way you are and you represent

00:25:14.480 --> 00:25:17.779
you and your brand is how your business is going

00:25:17.779 --> 00:25:20.859
to be run. It's just common. And people are going

00:25:20.859 --> 00:25:24.980
to see that. And your business will start, you

00:25:24.980 --> 00:25:28.039
as the leader will start to portray these types

00:25:28.039 --> 00:25:31.559
of personality traits. within your hiring processes,

00:25:31.859 --> 00:25:34.240
within what you do, within how you do stuff.

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And there's nothing wrong with having certain

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personality traits. And maybe you're just not

00:25:39.380 --> 00:25:42.859
good at following through on scheduling and you

00:25:42.859 --> 00:25:46.180
need an assistant. Totally fine. But the premise

00:25:46.180 --> 00:25:48.619
of what I'm trying to come down to is you need

00:25:48.619 --> 00:25:51.160
to lead by example yourself and how you want

00:25:51.160 --> 00:25:54.220
to be treated to others. And that is also going

00:25:54.220 --> 00:25:57.180
to be represented in the way that people see

00:25:57.180 --> 00:26:00.400
you. And the people, the way they see your business

00:26:00.400 --> 00:26:03.880
run, they see your brand run, they see them as

00:26:03.880 --> 00:26:07.079
a customer to you. And you just usually back

00:26:07.079 --> 00:26:10.660
to that connection type of, of mythology of my

00:26:10.660 --> 00:26:12.920
three C's is you're, you're going to start feeling

00:26:12.920 --> 00:26:17.480
like those similar type people, very similar

00:26:17.480 --> 00:26:19.460
to you saying, Hey, I'm like you, like I get

00:26:19.460 --> 00:26:22.200
mad at this or do this. Those connections start

00:26:22.200 --> 00:26:25.509
to. find each other their value they have similar

00:26:25.509 --> 00:26:28.029
values they start to connect with like -minded

00:26:28.029 --> 00:26:30.789
individuals and that's that's in a sense part

00:26:30.789 --> 00:26:33.329
of branding right you want to target market you

00:26:33.329 --> 00:26:35.569
want to be able to market to those target markets

00:26:35.569 --> 00:26:38.630
that's branding and that's positioning it's just

00:26:38.630 --> 00:26:42.289
really getting those those things down and understanding

00:26:42.289 --> 00:26:44.269
all right this is who i am this is how i'm going

00:26:44.269 --> 00:26:47.849
to do it um for who you are and this is how the

00:26:47.849 --> 00:26:50.839
business is going to be run that really determines

00:26:50.839 --> 00:26:55.700
um so that you can start to build that infrastructure

00:26:55.700 --> 00:27:01.480
around you as a leader if that makes sense yeah

00:27:01.480 --> 00:27:07.000
like i want to bring up a point uh that you said

00:27:07.000 --> 00:27:12.579
that you know people will perceive you by your

00:27:12.579 --> 00:27:17.059
brand and voice and whatnot and because like

00:27:17.690 --> 00:27:22.809
The other day, let's just say my Facebook account

00:27:22.809 --> 00:27:29.130
got blocked, so to speak. And I was like, what

00:27:29.130 --> 00:27:31.549
did I do? I didn't do anything. I was like, all

00:27:31.549 --> 00:27:36.509
I did was post a link from my website to my personal

00:27:36.509 --> 00:27:40.410
page. And it's like, okay. I was like, how wrong

00:27:40.410 --> 00:27:45.119
was this? and what really bugged me about it

00:27:45.119 --> 00:27:48.059
and it's like i got the high login it's like

00:27:48.059 --> 00:27:50.079
we want to make sure this is you and it's like

00:27:50.079 --> 00:27:53.000
who else can it be and it's like my password

00:27:53.000 --> 00:27:56.279
is like a million characters long it's like to

00:27:56.279 --> 00:27:59.960
give a crack in that and then and then when i

00:27:59.960 --> 00:28:04.720
found out And this is where, with my brand, I

00:28:04.720 --> 00:28:08.539
love to be transparent with everyone. And I'm

00:28:08.539 --> 00:28:10.839
just going to shift gears real quick from that

00:28:10.839 --> 00:28:15.440
point, is that when my website was down a period,

00:28:15.619 --> 00:28:21.299
one time for maybe an hour or two, it was because

00:28:21.299 --> 00:28:24.559
I was removing an ad network from my website.

00:28:24.799 --> 00:28:28.460
And it was just an ad network that uses a content

00:28:28.460 --> 00:28:32.210
delivery network, et cetera. All based on DNS.

00:28:32.390 --> 00:28:35.230
I'm getting a little nerdy. I get it. And then

00:28:35.230 --> 00:28:39.849
they, but then, so while I was down, I shared

00:28:39.849 --> 00:28:42.549
with everybody, hey, we're down. I'm not leaving

00:28:42.549 --> 00:28:45.150
anywhere. You can't get rid of me that quickly.

00:28:45.509 --> 00:28:49.970
And then, and then, and then I posted an update.

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00:29:33.440 --> 00:29:37.039
back to my point about Facebook. So, yes, when

00:29:37.039 --> 00:29:39.059
I was experiencing these problems with Facebook,

00:29:39.180 --> 00:29:41.440
saying my account was locked and I had to unlock

00:29:41.440 --> 00:29:45.819
it multiple times, well, I found out they were

00:29:45.819 --> 00:29:48.640
down for 30 days, not even 30 minutes, and I'm

00:29:48.640 --> 00:29:51.049
like... huh, and you're telling me I have suspicious

00:29:51.049 --> 00:29:53.230
activity. I was like, how about you go check

00:29:53.230 --> 00:29:55.849
your own stuff, Facebook. I was like, take a

00:29:55.849 --> 00:29:59.910
look in the mirror. I was like, I wish that they

00:29:59.910 --> 00:30:02.529
were actually transparent on their public pages

00:30:02.529 --> 00:30:05.670
and say, we're experiencing issues, but they

00:30:05.670 --> 00:30:09.410
don't tell anybody that. They just wait until

00:30:09.410 --> 00:30:11.569
somebody else figures it out and that person

00:30:11.569 --> 00:30:14.970
reports it to the whole world instead. I was

00:30:14.970 --> 00:30:17.569
like, they're not very full of transparency.

00:30:19.069 --> 00:30:22.069
They're not. And that that transparency is a

00:30:22.069 --> 00:30:23.809
real thing. I think that goes back to what we

00:30:23.809 --> 00:30:27.170
said earlier. And but I think there's also a

00:30:27.170 --> 00:30:33.089
commonality of, you know, and to get off the

00:30:33.089 --> 00:30:36.190
subject of Facebook a little bit and more towards,

00:30:36.190 --> 00:30:39.009
you know, not just leaders in the gym space,

00:30:39.210 --> 00:30:41.650
but anyone that's that's trying to grow a brand.

00:30:42.410 --> 00:30:46.269
It's this the scaredness of. allowing yourself

00:30:46.269 --> 00:30:49.190
to grow and try to make it to that next level

00:30:49.190 --> 00:30:51.670
you know no matter where that level be you know

00:30:51.670 --> 00:30:54.329
and we could use it on a money scale on the size

00:30:54.329 --> 00:30:57.329
of business we could you know I could come in

00:30:57.329 --> 00:30:59.369
and talk about like the stages of growth and

00:30:59.369 --> 00:31:01.230
what I've seen with different individuals and

00:31:01.230 --> 00:31:03.710
their mindsets and their shifts don't really

00:31:03.710 --> 00:31:07.950
have time for that but uh is that ability that

00:31:07.950 --> 00:31:10.930
it really comes down to it really comes down

00:31:10.930 --> 00:31:15.069
to that we all are living in this world now of

00:31:15.519 --> 00:31:20.319
of media and technology, what we're all missing

00:31:20.319 --> 00:31:24.180
is community. What we're all missing is our ability

00:31:24.180 --> 00:31:28.240
to interact with other people, build relationships.

00:31:28.640 --> 00:31:31.779
And it's not that it's missing per se, it's that

00:31:31.779 --> 00:31:36.700
it's masked by the sense of, hey, everything's

00:31:36.700 --> 00:31:38.980
just transactional now. Let's go online and let's

00:31:38.980 --> 00:31:40.240
just build this and this. And there's nothing

00:31:40.240 --> 00:31:42.319
wrong with promoting your brand, promoting your

00:31:42.319 --> 00:31:45.759
business. But at the end of the day, We need

00:31:45.759 --> 00:31:48.160
to get back to our relationships. We need to

00:31:48.160 --> 00:31:52.839
get back to going to have a coffee, having a

00:31:52.839 --> 00:31:56.180
gym partner. And when it comes to gym owners

00:31:56.180 --> 00:32:00.799
specifically, community is almost missing now.

00:32:01.039 --> 00:32:04.819
I mean, getting geeky myself and talking about

00:32:04.819 --> 00:32:07.640
digital marketing, every single company that

00:32:07.640 --> 00:32:10.579
I have either talked to out of the eight years

00:32:10.579 --> 00:32:13.230
I've been in business, There's a couple that

00:32:13.230 --> 00:32:15.750
weren't like this. A couple of my great clients

00:32:15.750 --> 00:32:17.910
aren't like this and they're my ideal clientele.

00:32:18.049 --> 00:32:22.109
But a majority of them are like, just show us

00:32:22.109 --> 00:32:26.029
a price or just, you know, like, what is the

00:32:26.029 --> 00:32:28.849
cost of this? And it's like, well, I don't know.

00:32:29.670 --> 00:32:33.250
Like, I want you to be, I want to build a relationship

00:32:33.250 --> 00:32:36.069
with you. I'm not here to just make you more

00:32:36.069 --> 00:32:39.529
money. Like, I'd be willing to help you help

00:32:39.529 --> 00:32:43.400
other people. And an aspect of that is building

00:32:43.400 --> 00:32:45.759
more money. And that goes the same for gyms.

00:32:45.779 --> 00:32:48.400
There's a sense of community that's lost because

00:32:48.400 --> 00:32:51.000
they spray the wall and they just think that,

00:32:51.039 --> 00:32:53.200
hey, we need to just grab every single person

00:32:53.200 --> 00:32:56.819
from our local area, bring them here, and make

00:32:56.819 --> 00:33:01.319
as much profit as possible. And in reality, what's

00:33:01.319 --> 00:33:04.319
really going to build them up is... building

00:33:04.319 --> 00:33:07.640
that sustainable, building a much more sustainable

00:33:07.640 --> 00:33:10.740
lead flow, building a much more solid community

00:33:10.740 --> 00:33:15.720
that's going to just keep growing is one, position

00:33:15.720 --> 00:33:19.039
yourself off of who you are as a leader, position

00:33:19.039 --> 00:33:23.259
and a team, position yourself visually in a way

00:33:23.259 --> 00:33:26.380
that's going to start attracting the type of

00:33:26.380 --> 00:33:30.529
members that you want to be attracted with. Two,

00:33:30.710 --> 00:33:33.170
start building an experience. Start building

00:33:33.170 --> 00:33:37.109
that experience around, you know, like, why are

00:33:37.109 --> 00:33:39.349
people coming to the gym? Why do you go to the

00:33:39.349 --> 00:33:41.349
gym? Why do I go to the gym? What are the things

00:33:41.349 --> 00:33:44.329
at the gym that make that my safe place to want

00:33:44.329 --> 00:33:47.710
to go and work on myself? And then three, that

00:33:47.710 --> 00:33:50.509
reputation will start building itself. You know,

00:33:50.569 --> 00:33:52.410
you're going to start getting advocates. They're

00:33:52.410 --> 00:33:54.049
going to start bringing other people to the gym.

00:33:54.190 --> 00:33:56.269
It's going to start building an actual community.

00:33:57.259 --> 00:34:00.099
of like -minded individuals and that's what that's

00:34:00.099 --> 00:34:02.359
what gym owners really need leaders in the gym

00:34:02.359 --> 00:34:05.799
space really need to get back to and you could

00:34:05.799 --> 00:34:08.139
say that about a lot of businesses to be honest

00:34:08.139 --> 00:34:12.739
with you i i like that you said that people that

00:34:12.739 --> 00:34:16.500
there needs to be community around business etc

00:34:16.500 --> 00:34:20.769
because one thing i love about Well, I mean,

00:34:20.769 --> 00:34:22.829
I love many things about karate, and I could

00:34:22.829 --> 00:34:25.329
literally sit here and have a whole episode of

00:34:25.329 --> 00:34:30.630
karate. But my most favorite thing about karate

00:34:30.630 --> 00:34:36.130
is that I get to meet amazing people. They're

00:34:36.130 --> 00:34:40.750
all likable. They're friendly, community -based.

00:34:41.429 --> 00:34:46.269
I met so many people at karate. Like, hey, like...

00:34:46.519 --> 00:34:49.039
For instance, I have two friends, multiple friends

00:34:49.039 --> 00:34:53.500
at karate. Like they got to know me and for who

00:34:53.500 --> 00:34:57.539
I am, et cetera. And I was like, hey, I'm looking

00:34:57.539 --> 00:35:02.130
for recommendations. do you know anybody uh any

00:35:02.130 --> 00:35:07.130
doctors who works on necks etc just to monitor

00:35:07.130 --> 00:35:10.070
my neck issue and it's like yeah i got you and

00:35:10.070 --> 00:35:13.190
i was like yeah i can get you a look at guys

00:35:13.190 --> 00:35:16.030
name uh are you gonna be here in uh such and

00:35:16.030 --> 00:35:18.519
such the next day and it's like yeah, I will

00:35:18.519 --> 00:35:20.800
be. And there's like, yeah, great. And I was

00:35:20.800 --> 00:35:22.800
like, I'll send it to you or I'll send you a

00:35:22.800 --> 00:35:26.659
message on Facebook, et cetera. And so it's that

00:35:26.659 --> 00:35:29.019
kind of stuff that I like because, I mean, not

00:35:29.019 --> 00:35:31.780
just that kind of stuff, but to be able to say,

00:35:31.900 --> 00:35:33.900
hey, you know, I have another community I can

00:35:33.900 --> 00:35:36.840
reach out to, to, hey, I need help with this

00:35:36.840 --> 00:35:39.960
versus I have to go do this all on my own and

00:35:39.960 --> 00:35:42.860
trying to figure out, no, does this doctor take

00:35:42.860 --> 00:35:46.119
my insurance? Where can I find this doctor? And

00:35:46.119 --> 00:35:50.230
it's like, One thing I've been learning these

00:35:50.230 --> 00:35:53.630
days is that unfortunately you can't go just

00:35:53.630 --> 00:35:58.369
get in to see a doctor because they're all booked

00:35:58.369 --> 00:36:01.150
out for months in advance. But if you know somebody

00:36:01.150 --> 00:36:03.969
who referred you to this person, it's like, oh,

00:36:03.969 --> 00:36:05.969
Ray, I know that person. I really like him. Yeah,

00:36:06.070 --> 00:36:09.389
you can get him in. It's all about referral.

00:36:10.690 --> 00:36:13.809
Well, and I'm not saying that everything has

00:36:13.809 --> 00:36:16.429
to be referral within a business. I mean, referral

00:36:16.429 --> 00:36:21.210
is great. You know, I'm in marketing, but I'll

00:36:21.210 --> 00:36:25.110
tell you right off the bat that, you know, and

00:36:25.110 --> 00:36:27.570
I have the sense, I don't know how many people

00:36:27.570 --> 00:36:30.929
have this, but I pretty much, it's just because

00:36:30.929 --> 00:36:34.550
it's ingrained in me. My magic powers, I can

00:36:34.550 --> 00:36:37.989
see a business, the front facing side of a business,

00:36:38.150 --> 00:36:40.469
I can see that business. And the first thing

00:36:40.469 --> 00:36:44.530
that I will go is I will know how good the customer

00:36:44.530 --> 00:36:47.789
service is, how good the organization is handled,

00:36:47.969 --> 00:36:50.869
if I'm going to get my stuff in time, like all

00:36:50.869 --> 00:36:53.489
this stuff based off of just first appearance.

00:36:53.650 --> 00:36:56.070
They say people don't judge a book by its cover.

00:36:56.650 --> 00:36:58.469
Don't judge a book by its cover, but everyone

00:36:58.469 --> 00:37:01.389
does. And I think no matter what, it's just a

00:37:01.389 --> 00:37:04.630
subconscious. And that is part of branding. Like,

00:37:04.730 --> 00:37:09.510
hey, I value the marketing. I'm valuing how I'm

00:37:09.510 --> 00:37:12.449
going to portray myself to the world. I value

00:37:12.449 --> 00:37:16.730
me. I value what I am doing. I value myself enough

00:37:16.730 --> 00:37:19.610
and I value our company enough because I'm confident

00:37:19.610 --> 00:37:23.369
that we're going to solve issues. And that's

00:37:23.369 --> 00:37:27.179
what people see. That is why people come to you

00:37:27.179 --> 00:37:28.659
and want to work with you because they're going

00:37:28.659 --> 00:37:32.260
to be like, huh, like I can see this organization.

00:37:32.420 --> 00:37:34.900
I can see this from a subconscious level. I'm

00:37:34.900 --> 00:37:36.260
like, they got it together. I want to build a

00:37:36.260 --> 00:37:38.340
relationship with this guy. Yes, we can go into

00:37:38.340 --> 00:37:42.039
the values and stuff. But that's from the first

00:37:42.039 --> 00:37:44.119
appearance. That's what it really comes down

00:37:44.119 --> 00:37:46.940
to. I had a client I was talking to earlier and

00:37:46.940 --> 00:37:50.940
he owns a gym in the Chicago area. And he was

00:37:50.940 --> 00:37:54.469
like, he was like, hey, like. We had great growth

00:37:54.469 --> 00:37:56.289
last year. He's like, I don't know how much of

00:37:56.289 --> 00:37:58.929
it's coming from our reputation management and

00:37:58.929 --> 00:38:01.090
our SEO stuff that we do for our clients, which

00:38:01.090 --> 00:38:02.869
is search engine optimization, if you don't know.

00:38:03.369 --> 00:38:07.409
And I basically told him, I'm like, he's like,

00:38:07.489 --> 00:38:09.849
we had a gym closed down down the street. And

00:38:09.849 --> 00:38:12.449
that gym, a lot of their members came here. And

00:38:12.449 --> 00:38:13.610
he's like, I just don't know how much it came

00:38:13.610 --> 00:38:15.550
from your efforts compared to them just coming

00:38:15.550 --> 00:38:18.889
here. And I'm like, listen, I'm like, one, I'm

00:38:18.889 --> 00:38:22.030
like, you are now at this point where that is

00:38:22.030 --> 00:38:25.219
branding. If those people, just because that

00:38:25.219 --> 00:38:28.300
gym down the street closed does not necessarily

00:38:28.300 --> 00:38:30.699
mean that they were going to choose you. They

00:38:30.699 --> 00:38:32.820
could have easily gone to a different gym. They

00:38:32.820 --> 00:38:34.559
could have easily not gone to a gym. They could

00:38:34.559 --> 00:38:37.619
have easily done at -home gym. And it's the fact

00:38:37.619 --> 00:38:41.099
that you are able to build your reputation and

00:38:41.099 --> 00:38:43.619
have advocates and have that experience that

00:38:43.619 --> 00:38:46.699
I've been preaching on here, that you have that,

00:38:46.719 --> 00:38:49.960
that made them choose you. So, yes, those that

00:38:49.960 --> 00:38:53.019
is part of what we are doing for you is getting

00:38:53.019 --> 00:38:56.960
them and those non numbers of people coming in

00:38:56.960 --> 00:38:59.500
that you can't track like that. That probably

00:38:59.500 --> 00:39:01.780
wouldn't have been as successful without without

00:39:01.780 --> 00:39:03.920
these efforts that we're doing with you. And

00:39:03.920 --> 00:39:09.820
so I just say that because I want people to I'm

00:39:09.820 --> 00:39:11.679
really ingrained to get people to understand,

00:39:11.860 --> 00:39:17.440
like, yes. You are often the who you are as a

00:39:17.440 --> 00:39:21.699
person. You are a brand and you have the right

00:39:21.699 --> 00:39:25.500
to build your brand however you want. Just know

00:39:25.500 --> 00:39:29.340
that the way you portray yourself to the world

00:39:29.340 --> 00:39:31.940
is how other people are going to see you. If

00:39:31.940 --> 00:39:35.690
you're not, if you're. If you're not a nice person,

00:39:35.849 --> 00:39:37.630
people are going to see you that way. I had a

00:39:37.630 --> 00:39:39.809
client once that owned a health company and he

00:39:39.809 --> 00:39:42.369
was very egotistical and I didn't know until

00:39:42.369 --> 00:39:45.190
about three months into our contract. He just

00:39:45.190 --> 00:39:48.449
displayed very differently than when we are valued.

00:39:52.130 --> 00:39:54.210
But it's now that I know him as a person because

00:39:54.210 --> 00:39:59.150
if he acts like this as a person, I think it

00:39:59.150 --> 00:40:04.119
just is a common cycle. That people just think

00:40:04.119 --> 00:40:05.780
that, hey, we just need to go out and build a

00:40:05.780 --> 00:40:09.539
logo and build this website. Those are important,

00:40:09.699 --> 00:40:11.820
but it's really the experiences and the positioning

00:40:11.820 --> 00:40:14.500
that you set, that foundation, that groundwork

00:40:14.500 --> 00:40:20.420
of who you are that help teach you how to be

00:40:20.420 --> 00:40:26.199
a better business leader. Exactly. So my last

00:40:26.199 --> 00:40:30.079
two questions for you, who's your favorite podcaster

00:40:30.079 --> 00:40:33.750
and why? And feel free not to say me. You know,

00:40:33.769 --> 00:40:38.190
honestly, funny enough, funny enough, I could

00:40:38.190 --> 00:40:41.130
say being in this field, I could say Alex Hermosi.

00:40:41.710 --> 00:40:45.469
But at the end of the day, I'm very big into

00:40:45.469 --> 00:40:48.530
Chris Do. Um, I'm very big into Chris Doe and

00:40:48.530 --> 00:40:50.570
watching his cast because he talks a lot about

00:40:50.570 --> 00:40:54.610
value. Um, and a lot of my C's, uh, I'm, I'm

00:40:54.610 --> 00:40:56.610
developing, I continue to develop and improve

00:40:56.610 --> 00:40:59.929
on myself and stuff. Value is a common term that

00:40:59.929 --> 00:41:03.170
keeps coming up in my mind that I'm, um, continuing

00:41:03.170 --> 00:41:08.210
to try to grasp on the different volumes of how

00:41:08.210 --> 00:41:12.269
value pertain to branding, um, from different

00:41:12.269 --> 00:41:15.809
aspects of self. to connection, to contribution,

00:41:15.869 --> 00:41:19.929
to confidence. And I love what he's doing with

00:41:19.929 --> 00:41:24.030
his brand and teaching, really teaching other

00:41:24.030 --> 00:41:26.809
people how to find more value in themselves.

00:41:27.130 --> 00:41:32.070
And so I would say Christo. Anyway, I'm going

00:41:32.070 --> 00:41:36.690
to add another C to your list of Cs. Christopher,

00:41:36.909 --> 00:41:42.039
that's fine. See what I did there? I'll do that.

00:41:42.159 --> 00:41:45.920
I'll do that. Confidence, contribution, connection,

00:41:46.260 --> 00:41:49.940
and crazy fitness guy. Exactly. See what I did

00:41:49.940 --> 00:41:52.900
there? And that's smart branding. That's smart

00:41:52.900 --> 00:41:56.139
branding right there. And my last question for

00:41:56.139 --> 00:41:59.539
you, oh my gosh, if I can speak, blah, blah,

00:41:59.559 --> 00:42:02.659
blah, blah. Where can people follow you, find

00:42:02.659 --> 00:42:04.480
you, and learn more information about who you

00:42:04.480 --> 00:42:07.730
are and what you do? Definitely. So as of right

00:42:07.730 --> 00:42:10.969
now, we have built a private podcast. And within

00:42:10.969 --> 00:42:13.929
this private podcast, we help people learn how

00:42:13.929 --> 00:42:16.289
they can start building that leaders in the gym

00:42:16.289 --> 00:42:18.750
space start to build that sustainable lead flow

00:42:18.750 --> 00:42:22.929
in just five minutes a day. It's a three series

00:42:22.929 --> 00:42:25.469
private podcast, we go in a little bit more in

00:42:25.469 --> 00:42:29.349
depth into the positioning the experience share

00:42:29.349 --> 00:42:31.110
and the reputation management and then we kind

00:42:31.110 --> 00:42:33.929
of show them how they can take advantage of those

00:42:33.929 --> 00:42:36.630
to start really making it to that next level

00:42:36.630 --> 00:42:39.849
um and so if anyone wants to find me go to that

00:42:39.849 --> 00:42:42.349
podcast go to leave that mark leave that mark

00:42:42.349 --> 00:42:45.489
.com sign up for the private podcast and take

00:42:45.489 --> 00:42:48.699
a listen you'll really enjoy it Awesome. And

00:42:48.699 --> 00:42:52.960
I want to definitely have you back later on this

00:42:52.960 --> 00:42:57.260
year because we have probably a thousand more

00:42:57.260 --> 00:43:00.500
other topics to cover, and we can make a part

00:43:00.500 --> 00:43:04.360
two. Yeah, let's do it, man. Let's do it. I'm

00:43:04.360 --> 00:43:08.940
definitely down. Awesome. In the meantime, I'll

00:43:08.940 --> 00:43:11.119
talk to you later, and I hope you have a good

00:43:11.119 --> 00:43:13.480
rest of your day. Or is it nighttime? I don't

00:43:13.480 --> 00:43:16.579
know. It's only 4 .40 here, so it's getting there.

00:43:17.219 --> 00:43:20.659
Ah, well, you're lucky you got more hours. That's

00:43:20.659 --> 00:43:23.679
not done here. Damn. Good luck on your task,

00:43:23.739 --> 00:43:26.780
my friend. Thank you. Have a good rest of your

00:43:26.780 --> 00:43:29.420
day. You too. So that's all the time we have

00:43:29.420 --> 00:43:32.500
for today. Remember, stay healthy, stay safe,

00:43:32.519 --> 00:43:34.679
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